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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 THULQADA 29, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Gas stations Fight against Singer Chris Serena starts jam-packed Egypt sexual Brown freed strong in bid on eve of harassment after standoff for seventh price hike3 bearing 7fruit with37 LA police US20 Open title Kuwait to sue drug kingpins, Min 30º open more anti-drug offices Max 48º High Tide 00:18 & 11:37 MoI foils attempt to smuggle hashish from Iran Low Tide 05:52 & 18:46 40 PAGES NO: 16980 150 FILS By A Saleh and Hanan Al-Saadoun

Kuwait ranks KUWAIT: Kuwait intends to sue drug kingpins in some for- eign countries, accusing them of tirelessly working to last in world smuggle drugs into Kuwait with the help of their accom- plices in both Kuwait and some neighboring countries, high-ranking Interior Ministry official sources said. The expat index sources added that Kuwait has official and firm evidence linking these drug lords to the narcotics seized in Kuwait, By Aakash Bakaya and stressed that lawsuits would be filed in each drug traf- ficker’s respective country. KUWAIT: In the latest list from Expat Insider, Kuwait, Moreover, the sources highlighted that as part of coordi- along with Greece and Nigeria, made up the bottom nation with other countries to exchange classified informa- three nations, while Taiwan and Malta topped the tion, Kuwait intends to establish its own anti-drug offices in list of the world’s friendliest countries for expats. The key countries to place drug dealers under close surveillance Expat Insider survey from InterNations group pro- and foil their attempts to smuggle drugs into Kuwait before vided an in-depth analysis of everyday expat life in they actually arrive. Notably, Kuwait does have two such more than 60 countries around the globe. The offices in Lebanon and Pakistan, while a third is pending to results looked at everything from quality of life to open in Iraq, the main country through which drugs are ease of settling in. In Kuwait, foreign recruits made smuggled into Kuwait and other GCC states. up the greater majority of the survey population at 6 Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday it percent. Kuwait has remained at the bottom of the foiled an attempt to smuggle 160 kg of hashish from Iran into Kuwait. The Drugs Control General Department was list for more than three years running. tipped off that a drug trafficker was planning to bring in a The GCC states’ rankings in the Quality of Life large amount of cannabis into the country by sea, the min- Index are, for the most part, among the worst in the istry’s security information department said in a statement. world: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait rank 55th, A task force was formed and investigations confirmed the 63rd, and 65th out of 67 countries, with the UAE and information. Oman standing out at 23 and 32 respectively. Under The trafficker, who holds a Gulf nationality, was arrested the Quality of Life index, respondents were asked with the narcotics, and he confessed to his crime. questions about their satisfaction with their leisure He led security bodies to the residence of his two part- options, travel and transportation, health services, ners, both stateless (bedoons), who were found to be regis- safety and personal happiness. (See Page 5) tered offenders. The three suspects and the drugs, worth KUWAIT: Three suspected drug smugglers are seen with the haul of hashish that was busted. — MoI KD 300,000, were referred to the prosecution. Rousseff stripped of presidency BRASILIA: Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency yesterday in a Senate impeach- ment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. Rousseff, 68, was convict- ed by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office. However, in a surprise twist, a separate vote to bar Rousseff from holding any public office for eight years failed to pass, meaning she could in theory reenter political life. Cheers - and cries of disappointment - erupted in the blue-carpeted, circular Senate chamber as the impeachment verdict flashed up on the electronic voting screen. Pro-impeachment senators burst into a rendering of the national anthem, some waving Brazilian flags, while leftist allies of Rousseff, who BRASILIA: Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff is pictured at the claims she has been the victim of a right-wing coup Alvorada presidential palace after she was stripped of the d’etat, stood stony-faced. country’s presidency in a Senate impeachment vote yes- Continued on Page 13 terday. — AFP Wealthy Qataris taste austerity DOHA: Fly economy class, share an office, cancel lost their jobs as the government has sought to journal subscriptions: These are some of the requests shield its citizens from the impact of austerity. being put to government employees in Qatar, as low But the world’s top liquefied natural gas exporter energy prices force austerity even among the world’s faces a $12.8 billion budget deficit this year, its first wealthiest citizens. With huge offshore gas reserves, a deficit in over a decade, and has halved its forecasts small population and billions of dollars of foreign for economic growth. Now even the 300,000 citizens assets, Qatar has weathered the global oil price of the world’s richest nation per citizen are feeling slump since mid-2014 better than many of its Gulf the pinch in a shakeup of state entities, which Arab neighbors. employ about nine out of 10 Qatari workers. “Your But the decline in state energy income comes at a responsibility in light of the falling oil prices is big- time when Doha is pursuing a $200 billion infrastruc- ger,” Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim said in a November ture upgrade for the 2022 football World Cup and speech that warned against “waste and extrava- building ports and hospitals, squeezing finances and gance”, and said the state could no longer “provide leading to budget cuts. The foreign workers who for everything” as the country diversifies its economy make up the bulk of Qatar’s 2.3 million population away from oil and gas. have borne the brunt of cutbacks; thousands have Continued on Page 13 Duterte warns returning workers: Don’t do drugs

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, heavily their thousands by Saudi employers during the king- criticized for a brutal anti-narcotics drive in which hun- dom’s economic slump, are fighting to claim back wages dreds have been killed, yesterday welcomed home more and benefits. “I lost my job so my children were forced to than 100 Filipinos abandoned in desert camps in Saudi drop out of college and they were mad at me but what Arabia with a warning - don’t do drugs. The Southeast can I do?” Ronie Surilla, 47, a construction worker living Asian nation’s war on drugs has gained some popular for almost a decade in Saudi Arabia, told Reuters, adding support but the wave of killings has shocked rights that he had not been paid for eight months. groups and brought expressions of concern from the Filipinos living and working outside the country United States, a close ally of Manila. sent home a record $13.2 billion in remittances, a Duterte railed against the United Nations this month major driver of the Southeast Asian nation’s house- after it called for an end to the killings. “Avoid drugs at hold consumption, in the first half of 2016. For the all cost because it could cost your life too,” Duterte told returning overseas workforce, the president commit- the workers after an almost 10-hour flight from ted to boost the economy and provide jobs. The Dammam. The number of drug-related killings in the Philippines’ economy grew at 7 percent in the second Philippines has reached 2,000 since Duterte became quarter from a year earlier, its highest level in three president two months ago on a pledge to wipe out the years. It made the Philippines the fastest growing drug trade. among all countries that have reported so far for the Migrant oil and construction workers, abandoned in second quarter. — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with His Highness the Prime His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Sheikh Faisal Al-Saud Al- MinisterAmir Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.receives — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Sabah.top officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah received His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness the Amir also received His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah. Moreover, His Highness Sheikh Sabah received First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His Highness the Crown Prince received, Sheikh Faisal Al-Saud Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Hamad Al- Sabah, as well as Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Bader Al-Essa. In other news, His Highness the Amir sent a cable of con- dolences to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, con- veying his deepest sympathies over the loss of life in a car bomb attack in Mogadishu. In his cable, His Highness the Amir condemned the attack that targeted a hotel in the vicin- ity of the Somali presidential palace, expressing his condo- lences for the families of the deceased and wishing swift recovery for those wounded. Moreover, His Highness the His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Crown Prince and His Highness the Prime Minister sent simi- with Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Bader Al-Essa. with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al- lar cables of condolences to the Somali President. — KUNA Hamad Al-Sabah.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives credentials of the newly- assigned Bulgarian Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Boris Borissov.

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Sabah receives credentials of the newly-assigned Armenian Ambassador to the State of Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives credentials of the newly- Kuwait, Manvel Badeyan. — KUNA photos assigned Yemeni Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Ali New ambassadorsMansour Bin Sefaa. deliver credentials

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and tials of new ambassadors appointed in Kuwait. Bulgaria Boris Borissov and an Austria Zigord First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- They include the ambassadors of Armenia Bakher. The ceremony was attended by ranking Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives credentials of the newly- Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday the creden- Manvel Badeyan, Yemen Ali Mansour Bin Sefaa, ministry officials. — KUNA assigned Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Zigord Bakher. Ambassador’s statement during the Turkish Embassy’s ‘Victory Day’ ceremony oday, we are celebrating the and accomplish to save its independ- concrete manifestations of our deter- united their forces around our com- country into its knees. 94th anniversary of the Great ence and its dignity when confronted mination to carry on this struggle. mon values and defeated the mem- Turkey is determined to take all TVictory, which marked the re- with the choice “Either Independence Our efforts will continue in unity, bers of FETO terrorist organization, necessary steps within both its sanctification of Anatolia as our Or Demise”. togetherness and solidarity and who were disguised themselves in boundaries as well as the neighbor- homeland, together with our people On August 30, 1922, the Turkish defeat the gangs of treachery and military uniforms. ing countries where the terrorist and brothers in the Turkish Republic nation announced to the whole overcome the obstructions and The epic spirit displayed in organizations are active in order to of Northern Cyprus in great pride and world that it would never bow to vicious attacks of terrorist organiza- squares and streets of our cities on 15 ensure the security of its citizens, excitement. oppression and forego its independ- tions who desire to impede the aus- July rose to a new height with the without discriminating among the I would like to congratulate ence in any way. picious progress of our country. historical Yenikapi Meeting, in which terrorist organizations. wholeheartedly August 30 Victory Today, we still posses the same Victory of August 30 should be a 5 million people participated on 7 The Jarablus operation, initiated Day of millions of our citizens who will-power proven 94 years ago in lesson particularly today for the ter- August 2016. Turkey is exposed also on 24 August in cooperation with the live in Turkey as well different coun- Dumlupinar with the epic struggle rorist organizations and evils target- to the attacks of the terrorist organi- International Coalition, is a reflection tries around the world. and the blood of our holy fallen. ing the unity, welfare and existence zations apart from FETO, such as of our resoluteness and will. The torch of independence light- We are exerting our utmost efforts of our country in these lands. DAESH and PKK targeting civilians, Our operations will continue until ed in 1919 under difficult conditions so that our Republic stands forever, The stance displayed by the security officials, children and inno- the terrorist organizations such as and deprivations was crowned with and raise our country above the con- Turkish people during the bloody 15 cent people during this period. DAESH, PKK and its Syrian affiliate KUWAIT: The Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey the Battle of Commander-in-Chief on temporary civilizations in economic, June coup attempt is a vivid display The single aim of all these terrorist YPG cease to become a threat to our Murat Tamer hosted a reception on the occasion of his August 30 under the leadership of social and political aspects. of the vitality of the “Great organizations under different names citizens. Our greatest source of confi- country’s Victory Day, at Jumairah Messilah Beach Ghazi Mustafa Kemal and his com- Pride projects of our country, such Offensive” spirit. but directed by the same center is to dence is the solidarity displayed by Hotel and Spa yesterday. Higher officials, diplomats, rades. as Osman Gazi Bridge and Yavuz At that night, all Turkey along damage the “New Great Offensive the Turkish people on the night of 15 media persons and Turkish community members August 30 is the most obvious Sultan Selim Bridge, which have been with Turkish, Kurdish, Laz, Spirit” which manifested itself on 15 July and thereafter as well as the sup- attended the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat proof of what a nation can venture completed this year, are the most Circassian, Sunnites and Alawites July and 7 August, and bring this port of our friends. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Drivers queue up to fill their cars with fuel at petrol stations in Kuwait City yesterday on the eve of increased petrol prices. The Kuwaiti cabinet decided on August 1, 2016 to raise petrol prices by more than 80 percent from September 1 as part of economic reforms aimed at countering falling oil revenues. These are the first increases in heavily subsidized petrol prices in the OPEC member for almost two decades. The oil-rich Gulf state liberalized the prices of diesel and kerosene in January 2015 and revises their prices monthly. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Gas stations jam-packed on eve of price hike Co-ops union warns against wholesale prices’ increase

By Meshaal Al-Enezi ers reported that demand for petrol skyrock- Case to court the court would look into the immediate higher costs due to the higher fuel prices, eted before the new prices went into effect, Meanwhile, a lawyer yesterday filed a case demand to scrap the new prices in a hearing Saad Al-Shabo, the union chairman, said in a KUWAIT: Thousands of citizens and expats with most stations overcrowded with at the administrative court demanding scrap- due to be held on Wednesday, Sept 7. statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). rushed to gas stations in all six governorates motorists queuing to fill up according to the ping the decision to increase petrol prices. Traders must abide by the rates set by the to fill up yesterday, before petrol prices go up old prices for the last time. However, as a Having filed the case only 12 hours before the Unjustified increase federation, he said. He urged societies’ stake- from today. The melee witnessed clashes result of some social media campaigns decision takes effect, the court is not expect- Separately, the Union of Cooperative holders and consumers to report about con- amongst customers who tried to jump the against non-KNPC gas stations, demand was ed to have enough time to order its annul- Societies urged the stores yesterday to reject troversial high prices of commodities. The line, and some stations stopped operating expected to drop because many customers ment. In his case, the lawyer argued that the any unjustified increase of commodities’ union was established in 1971, signaling after they ran out of petrol. Gas station work- plan to boycott them. new prices would overburden all consumers prices by wholesale traders. Some goods’ launch of the cooperative businesses in the including himself. Informed sources said that importers may hike the rates at pretext of country. Kuwait applies new fuel pricing today

KUWAIT: The new fuel prices will be applied today as follows: Octane-91 (Premium): 85 fils per liter, Octane-95 (Super): 105 fpl and Octane-98 (Ultra): 165 fpl. The Cabinet has approved the raising decision on August 1, by recom- mendation of the economic committee. The price increase is expected to cre- ate a change in consumption of Octane- 91 and Octane-95, as more consumers will tend to use the Octane-91, Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) Mohammad Al-Mutairi said yesterday. KNPC has already prepared its fueling stations for such changes and provided sufficient amount of fuel to cover the ris- ing demands in the local market, he KNPC’s CEO Mohammad Al-Mutairi added. He noted that Al-Ahmadi and Al- Shuaiba refineries produce about 1.84 The pricing decision was made to million liters of Octane-91, 9.39 million rationalize subsidies and improve the liters of Octane-95 and 270,000 liters of country’s budget deficit. Statistics show Ultra 98, which is a total of 11.5 million that after the raise, fuel prices in Kuwait liters of Gasoline daily. will still remain the lowest among the As for the daily consumption of all Gulf States. The Cabinet has tasked a three types, Al-Mutairi said it is 1, 833 special commission to re-examine the million liters of Octane-91, about 9,135 State subsidies and the fuel prices every liters of Octane-95 and 267,000 liters of three months, to be in harmony with Ultra 98, with a total of 11,235 million the global rates. liters of average daily consumption. The Meanwhile, His Highness the Prime growth of gasoline consumption in the Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- past five years in Kuwait is about four Hamad Al-Sabah has previously stressed percent, he said. that the decision was an ‘extreme neces- In 2011, consumption rates were sity’ for Kuwait to follow up with the eco- recorded at over 3,531 billion liters, nomic changes in the world. After the about 3,682 billion liters in 2012, 3,810 raising decision, the Ministry of billion liters in 2013, 4,006 billion liters Commerce and Industry announced it in 2014 and over 4,122 billion liters in will not accept any raise in food items’ 2015. The new pricing is close to inter- prices. Saudi Arabia raised fuel prices on Taxi fares lowest in GCC national rates, said the official, noting December 28, 2015, Bahrain on January that Octane-91 and Octane-95 are 11, 2016, Qatar and Oman on January 15, state-subsidies. and UAE on May 29, 2016. — KUNA even after increase: Ministry

By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahd Al-Shuwaei said the amended taxi and public transport fares are the lowest in the Arabian Gulf even after hiking them. He said dur- ing a press conference yesterday the decision aims at organizing the process and set transport prices commensurate to operation costs. He said the Interior Ministry, as the body concerned with deciding transportation prices and protecting the parties involved, made a preemptive move ahead of some who may use the decision to raise prices, and what may follow in problems between the service presenter and receiver. Shuwaei said it is important for taxi drivers to stick to the new tariffs and use the meter. He added that the tariff department will strictly monitor transport means and issue citations to violators, which allows impoundment of the KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major vehicle for two months. General Fahd Al-Shuwaei (center) speaks during a press conference yesterday. Meanwhile, Director General of the Relations and Security Information Department Brigadier the details of the decision and its goal. He called inform about any case of noncompliance by taxi Adel Al-Hashash said the department will launch on citizens and expats to call the complaints drivers, and a patrol will go to the site and deal an awareness campaign in all media to explain number (999 - 888 - 777 - 25583666) or 112 to with the situation.

Travelling from the Traffic General Department’s Travelling from the Traffic General Department’s building in Shuwaikh to Kuwait City (Sharq) building in Shuwaikh to Kuwait City (Sharq) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 , 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Khaled Ahmad Al-Jassar and other officials tour the site of water pipelines connecting Doha to Al-Mutlaa. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KD 1 billion to be collected in energy bills: Minister

KUWAIT: The bills of electricity and water are expected to reach KD 1 billion early 2017, Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Khaled Ahmad Al-Jassar said yes- terday. The ministry collected KD 850 mil- lion worth of bills so far, Jassar told jour- nalists during his tour of water pipelines connecting Doha to Al-Mutlaa. The minis- ter noted that the total production rate of water in Kuwait is currently up to 550 mil- lion gallons, while reserve rate is at four billion gallons. Doha station is now running a project to produce 60 million gallons of distilled water daily, with four pipelines to transfer water to Al-Mutlaa reservoirs, he said. The cost of the project is KD 22.6 million and it is set to be completed by September 2018, said the minister. Meanwhile, the project’s supervising engineer Talal Al- Mulla said the pipelines provide service to Al-Mutlaa, Jaber Al-Ahmad, and other nearby areas. — KUNA Domestic helpers’ court cases 5,293 citations issued exempted from litigation fees in traffic campaign

By A Saleh and Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: The director of the comprehensive court recently informed all departments in various gover- norates that all cases filed by domestic helpers would be exempt from litigation fees.

Salwa’s bachelors The Municipal Council’s deputy chairman Meshal Al- Juwaisri urged relevant authorities to fight the presence of bachelors in Salwa and warned that many of them have moved from other areas like Khaitan and Jleeb. In a press statement, Juwaisri said that Salwa residents are complaining and expressing fear for the safety of their children, especially since many bachelors have rented apartments amongst families.

Shrimping season KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahd (center) and Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahd Al-Shuwaei On the occasion of the commencement of the (right) are pictured during the campaign. shrimping season at territorial waters today, Kuwait Fishermen Union Chairman Thaher Al-Sowayyan urged all fishermen to fully respect the Amiri decree and the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources’ (PAAAFR) resolutions concerning the timings of various fishing seasons in Kuwait territorial waters. Sowayyan also stressed that violations will not be toler- ated. He also hoped that this year’s shrimping season would be better than earlier ones to make up for some of the previous losses.

Embassy closely

following Damage left by a fire reported in Farwaniya yesterday.

suspended By Hanan Al-Saadoun caught driving without licenses. The campaign was led storey building in Farwaniya yesterday morning. It said by Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lieutenant General that operations center received a call about the fire, so KUWAIT: The traffic department launched a campaign Suleiman Al-Fahd and accompanied by Acting Assistant Farwaniya, Ardiya, Salmiya and technical rescue respond- students’ case that covered Kuwait’s six governorates. The campaign Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahd Al- ed, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said. The build- resulted in issuing 5,293 traffic citations, 273 vehicles Shuwaei. ing was evacuated and the fire was controlled and put WASHIGNTON: Kuwait Ambassador to the US were impounded, a man was arrested on suspicion of out. The basement was being used as a carpenter shop Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah con- carrying drugs, three were held without residency per- Farwaniya fire and contained wood and flammable materials. No firmed Tuesday that the embassy is closely follow- mit, 18 others were detained and 27 juveniles were Firemen dealt with a fire in the basement of a nine- injuries were reported. ing the case of Kuwaiti students, who were sus- pended by the US immigration authorities, in coordination with the Kuwaiti Consulate General in Los Angeles, California. The embassy is working tirelessly with the US Ministry to Departments of State and National Security, in addition to the Kuwaiti foreign ministry in order to lift the suspension of the students and return develop secure them to Kuwait as soon as possible through diplo- matic channels and in accordance with US laws banking system and regulations, Sheikh Salem said. The United States follows specific unchange- able regulations and procedures ruled by federal KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry and laws, the Kuwaiti senior diplomat said, adding that Kuwait Banking Association (KBA) have signed a memo- work is currently underway to speed up the return randum of understanding to share electronic information of the students to their country. and provide security for users of the KBC system. The The Consulate General in Los Angeles has met agreement aims at developing the role of local and for- with the suspended students and is continuous eign banks in Kuwait in sharing information, the min- contact with their families in Kuwait to assure istry’s undersecretary Khaled Al-Shamali told journalists them about their safety and inform them about yesterday. the latest on their case and status, said Sheikh Depositing capital was previously made through paper- Salem. The Kuwaiti students’ case is of the work, which created several security problems, said embassy’s top priorities as part of the First Shamali, adding that running the process electronically Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister was the best solution. The agreement states that compa- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah’s nies must deposit capital to banks through KBC system, directions, he noted. — KUNA KUWAIT: Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Kuwait Banking Association (KBA) are pictured during the signature said the official, adding that it also provided rules and reg- ceremony. — KUNA ulations between the two sides. — KUNA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 , 2016 LOCAL Photo of the day

KUWAIT: An expatriate worker arranges items on top of a moving pick up truck’s bed - a violation to Kuwait’s laws. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

GCC States: Dynamic Economies with Downsides

INTERNATION’S EXPAT INSIDER 2016 SURVEY

he Arab Gulf region is surprisingly varied, and it can Hot Climate the most numerous. The most likely explanation would be Arabia, where only 16 percent of expats are less than hap- be quite attractive for people seeking higher wages. The results among the various destinations in the Ease the availability of jobs, often with higher wages than in py with the cost of living. In that specific case, government THowever, there are some serious downsides to be of Settling Index vary greatly: Oman and Bahrain feature in their home countries, coupled with the relative proximity subsidies may help to keep living expenses affordable. taken into consideration. the global top 15 while Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait of the Gulf region to South Asia. rank 61st, 66th, and 67th out of 67, respectively. In fact, expats in the region say their top three reasons Family-Friendly Few Leisure Options Unsurprisingly, the responses to individual questions for relocation are all financial or work related, with the In the Family Life Index, all Gulf States rank in the bot- The GCC states’ rankings in the Quality of Life Index are, cover a wide range of reactions, ranging from a mere 35 exception of the UAE, where an improved quality of life tom 15 out of 45 destinations, with the UAE coming in at for the most part, among the worst in the world: Qatar, percent of expats saying the locals are friendly in Kuwait, was another deciding factor. However, respondents are not 33rd and Saudi Arabia at 44th. Also, please note that Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait rank 55th, 63rd, and 65th out of to an overwhelming 87 percent positive ratings in Oman. particularly satisfied with the career prospects offered in Kuwait is not featured in the ranking since the number of 67 countries, with the UAE and Oman standing out on Qatar and Saudi Arabia are also below the worldwide aver- the region; only the UAE and Bahrain outperform the respondents with families was too few to be statistically place 23 and 32, respectively. age of 69 percent, with a respective 47 percent and 38 per- worldwide average of 55 percent positive ratings, with 62 significant. Firstly, expats are generally dissatisfied with leisure cent of positive respondents. percent and 57 percent, respectively. When it comes to the available childcare options, only activities available in the region: only the UAE does better Furthermore, 21 percent of expats in Oman and Bahrain Bahrain (48 percent) and the UAE (51 percent) outperform than the worldwide average, with 38 percent of expats say that making local friends is very easy, compared to the the global average of 46 percent positive ratings. Oman, expressing complete satisfaction with local leisure options. worldwide average of 12 percent. However, all the other however, has the lowest percentage in the region, with In comparison, only 5 percent of respondents in Saudi Gulf States have below-average ratings for this question, only 23 percent of expats saying they are satisfied with the Arabia say the same. and it seems that the language might also be a contribut- availability of childcare. Political instability in the Middle East is a major problem ing factor. Furthermore, childcare options seem to be both too few at the moment, and the Gulf States are also affected by it, In fact, the survey respondents across every country of and too expensive: nearly a quarter of the expats in Qatar according to the survey respondents. In fact, fewer expats the region find learning the local language less than easy: (24 percent) think that childcare is very difficult to afford. in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia are satisfied with the for example, only 5 percent of expats in Qatar consider it The UAE (17 percent) and Saudi Arabia (15 percent) also do political stability in their country of residence than the very easy to learn, compared to 11 percent globally. worse than the worldwide average of 11 percent for those global average of 61 percent. On the other hand, Oman However, most expats in the region (between 56 percent who are completely dissatisfied with the cost of childcare; and the UAE perform a lot better than the worldwide aver- and 74 percent) agree that it is not necessary to speak Gulf however, only 3 percent of expats in Bahrain say that child- age: 85 percent and 81 percent, respectively, are generally Arabic in order to get by in everyday life, especially in care is very expensive. happy with this factor. Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE, where Arabic and English are Expats in the region are generally as satisfied as the However, this instability does not lead to issues with the main business languages. The only exception to this global average among expat parents when it comes to the personal safety, with the region having a fairly low number rule is Saudi Arabia, where only 43 percent of the respon- quality of education (64 percent positive ratings world- of crimes. Most of the expats living in the region agree dents think it’s easy to get by without speaking the lan- wide): Bahrain and Saudi Arabia stand out, though - the with this: for example, 63 percent feel very safe in the UAE, guage, exactly the same proportion as the global average. Furthermore, the work-life balance (or lack thereof) one in a positive way, the other less so. In fact, more than compared to a global average of 38 percent. Only Kuwait seems to be a problem: in most of the Gulf States, expats two-thirds of expat parents in Bahrain (69 percent) are (27 percent) and Saudi Arabia (28 percent) perform worse Job Market work on average more than 45.2 hours a week, except for generally satisfied with the quality of education, while only than average in this regard. In the Working Abroad Index, the best-ranking Gulf those in Oman, where the average work week is 43.3 38 percent say the same about Saudi Arabia. Not surprisingly perhaps, the region is less attractive countries are again Oman and Bahrain, both featuring hours, still more than the global average of 41.4 hours. Even though the quality seems to be on par with the to expat women than to men. For example, there are among the top 20 worldwide. The UAE comes in just above Moreover, in the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar, more than 50 worldwide average, expat families say that there are not only 15 percent of female expats in Saudi Arabia, and 33 the global average, on 36th place, while the rest (Kuwait, percent of expats also state that they are dissatisfied with enough options for their children’s education across the percent in Qatar, compared to the global average of 49 Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) are all in the bottom 20. the cost of living, compared to less than a third worldwide region. Again, Saudi Arabia fares worst, with only 24 per- percent. Three of the GCC states (Qatar, Kuwait, and An interesting fact about the region is that Indian (32 percent). This surge in the cost of living can be attrib- cent of parents agreeing that education options are Saudi Arabia) are also among the ten worst-rated desti- expats constitute the largest nationality in terms of num- uted to the region’s impressive economic growth in the numerous and easily available (globally: 49 percent). — nations for expat women. bers, except for Saudi Arabia, where Pakistani expats are last three decades.3 The notable exception here is Saudi InterNation’s Expat Insider 2016 survey THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Anbaa Report Ultimate Kuwait Football Man stabbed in mall brawl Association disappointment KUWAIT: Three bedoons stabbed another, who was admit- ted to Jahra Hospital’s ICU, following a fight in front of a By Qais Al-Usta mall. The bedoon, who left a barbershop in Jahra, was sur- prised by three men who attacked him with knives. do not blame most National Assembly members, Policemen and paramedics rushed to the scene, and the and I do not blame members of the Cabinet, victim was taken to hospital in stable condition, but had to because their ability for true reform and hanging be transferred to ICU as his condition was deteriorating. I the bell waiting for what is coming is limited and Detectives are looking for the three men. timid, and it is clear that influences from outside the two are bigger and deeper, and they decide the path of all political and economic issues. Domestic violence But I blame political personalities who abandoned An argument between a man and his wife led to him their national role in recent years, and we no longer beating her and ripping some books that belong to her hear any opinion or any political activities from them, including a diary. A security source said a citizen in her though they are the best from whom we learned that 20s told Fintas police that a heated argument took place being interested in the country’s affairs and its people between her husband and her, so he beat her severely, is not a privilege that we leave or work with, like it or then tore up some of her books and her diary. Police are not. Rather it is a natural duty that must be performed investigating. Separately, a woman accused her bedoon so we hand the banner to those who come after us, as husband of beating her and causing her the injuries stat- we received it from those before us. ed in a medical report. She said she was beaten because I know that the element of initiative has been lost she went out at night without his permission. The in this country, communications are almost non-exis- woman had a bruised eye, nose, head, back and shoul- Al-Jarida tent, and the exclusion policy is what is being followed ders. She had a swollen left eyelid and scratches on the in recent years. Yet, I also know that the country is not cornea. X-rays showed that her nose was broken. the property of a certain person, sect, tribe or family - the country is for us all, and it is our right to express our opinion within the limits of the constitution and Fugitives caught the law, and according to my humble experience, A citizen was found wanted on a civil case when he was Kuwait’s constitution is built on the freedom of the arrested while drunk. The citizen caught the attention of individual and faith, and allows us wide-ranging politi- police when he was roaming in Rumaithiya at dawn, and cal freedoms. they asked him for his ID. They found an imported liquor Where is Meshari Al-Anjari, Yaqoub Hayti, bottle with him, so he was taken to the police station. He Abdelwahab Al-Haroun and many other? Why are we was found wanted on a KD 60,000 debt. Separately, an no longer hearing their opinions, except in some bash- Indian man was sleeping on the pavement in Hadiya, and ful political gatherings and press statements that may when police checked on him, he was found drunk, in viola- be read or not? Are they hit by the adopted exclusion tion of the residency law and reported absconding by his policy? Why did we hand the country’s and people’s sponsor. Pedestrians called police to report the drunken assets to a political team that lead us to disappoint- man, so a patrol went to the site. The man attempted to ment and bad management. escape, but ran unsteadily. He was taken to Hadiya police Those who believe we are exaggerating and that station and charged with drunkenness, and is being the situation is good is living in another world, and processed for deportation. one who thinks that we are making gains doesn’t know that is everything is either inoperative or tempo- rary, and is not following the latest United Nations Enticing crime reports which indicate Kuwait is in low places on the lists of development in the region. Ahmadi prosecutor charged a citizen in her 50s for We are acting with lost time, and rescuing the encouraging to commit a crime. A security source said country is the responsibility of all, and there is no a citizen was arrested for attacking a girl, and said he excuse for anyone not to participate in changing the did it at the request of a woman he had a relation with. current situation to a better one, even if relatively. We Police called the woman, who denied this at first, so write and hang the bell, so someone may read, hear or the prosecutor made them face each other, and the ask. Was the message delivered? I hope so. man insisted on his claims. —Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) welcomed a team from New Mowasat Hospital, who —Translated by Kuwait Times gave medical checkups and health advises to staff members. Top sixteen qualifying players to travel to Real Madrid with VIVA

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- becoming professional football play- A judging committee from RMSS ing and most developed telecom ers.” He added: Real Madrid Soccer chose the top 16 players. Each of operator, announced that the top 16 School “RMSS” is one of the initiatives them were judged based on their qualifying players will be travelling to that VIVA aims to support the youth foot-balling capability and talent, Madrid in Spain, to practice at Real through it, enhance their skills and physical fitness, discipline, their com- Madrid Academy’s ground in grant them the opportunity to learn munication skills amongst each other Valdebebas sport city, from 31 August and communicate with international as players and their general conduct until 7 September, 2016. and professional coaches to earn the on and off the field. The training pro- Commenting on this occasion, needed experience that lead them to gram focused on different technical Abdulrazzaq Bader Al-Essa, Director of fulfill their dreams.” areas, such as dribbling, short passing, Corporate Communications at VIVA Players were selected from over turning and finishing. The programs said: “We are looking forward to an 400 participants who joined the RMSS were also designed to develop young exciting trip with this group of young tryouts, held in last May, and will get players in other fields, such as tactical players (between 13 and 16 years old), the opportunity to travel to Madrid to understanding, and mental, physical as they have shown great potential join a training camp to get trained by and social growth. Players’ daily train- and are keen to learn more. We are famous soccer team coaches. A team ings will be covered through VIVA’s very pleased to have been able to from VIVA in addition to professionals official social media platforms on support these young athletes in and coaches will accompany the play- Snapchat “VIVAtelecom” and bringing them closer to their dream of ers to ensure their safety. Instagram “VIVAtelecom.”

Gulf Bank announces winners of Red, Salary accounts monthly draw

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has announced Salary Account and Red Account draw 1,000 each. In addition, the quarterly winners of both monthly Salary prize for this month, each of the two car draw will be for one lucky winner Account and Red Account draws, winners received cash draw prize of who will have a chance to win a new which took place on Tuesday, 30 KD 1,000. Cadillac CTS. August 2016. The Salary and Red New Red Account or Salary For further information about Gulf Account have a cash draw prize of KD Account customers who open an Bank’s red and Salary account and 1,000 for each account. account and transfer their student other prize draws, visit one of Gulf Anwar Nawaf Marzouq Alhussaini allowance or salary will also be eligi- Bank’s 56 branches, call the Customer and Mneef Nayef Mneef Almutairi ble to enter the monthly cash draws Contact Center on 1805805, or go who are the lucky winners of the for a chance to also win up to KD online at www.e-gulfbank.com.

KFH sponsors plastic bottles recycling environmental project

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House its keenness to increase the aware- in cooperation with the industrial (KFH) has announced sponsorship of ness of having a clean and healthy authorities in an attempt for the lat- plastic bottles recycling environ- environment. ter to produce grains of plastic used mental project (Omnia) as an envi- In collaboration with Omnia, KFH to manufacture plastic bottles or ronmental partner and the first will contribute in the efforts of pro- new packaging materials. sponsor for this national project. viding collection points for plastic The project is based on an array KFH is the first bank to embrace this bottles in different governorates in of successful experiments and stud- idea that aims at increasing the Kuwait. The project has 3 stages to ies in several countries in the world. awareness of the importance of recycle bottles that include spread- It is the initiative of a group of ambi- recycling the plastic bottles in ing the awareness of trash sorting, tious Kuwaiti youth who participate Kuwait. KFH’s partnership stems distributing carton boxes at schools, in raising the environmental aware- from its commitment to assume the houses, universities, hotels, hospitals ness while assuring protecting and corporate social responsibility, and etc. and recycling the plastic bottles preserving the environment. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 Prayer or politics? US evangelist rallies ‘Day of the Disappeared’: South Asia’s torturous wait for the missing Christians in Boston Page 12 Page 9 Fight against sexual harassment bearing fruit 99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced at least one form of harassment

CAIRO: Eight years after the first Nazra for Feminist Studies, a leading woman in Egypt won a conviction women’s rights group. against a man for sexual harassment, activists and lawyers see progress in Sisi’s ‘message’ transforming attitudes and more Hassan said her organization has harassers being jailed. In 2008, Noha won more than 50 sexual harassment Elostaz broke social taboos by dis- cases, mostly involving prison terms, closing details of an assault as she since authorities directly criminalized pushed for her harasser’s conviction. sexual harassment in June 2014, days Sherif Gebreel had reached out from before President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s his vehicle, groped her, hit the accel- inauguration. One of the worst of erator and dragged her along. As she these attacks happened in June 2014, fell, she saw him laughing. during celebrations marking Sisi’s Her defiance, a landmark three- inauguration. A widely shared video year sentence for Gebreel and years showed the bloodied naked body of a of campaigning by volunteers have woman as a mob pulled and pushed now shifted the tide from the days her to the ground and policemen when authorities and the public treat- tried to rescue her. Shortly after- ed harassment as trivial, isolated inci- wards, Sisi visited her in hospital dents usually blamed on women. bearing flowers, apologized and “Now I hear about so many cases, vowed to crack down on harassment. girls who take men to police stations, The following month, seven men and people now have a sense of were sentenced to life and two to 20 familiarity with this act,” Elostaz, 34 years over assaults around Tahrir. For said. “In daily life, things have Sisi to visit the victim “was a message improved. I can personally feel it on to the state that this is no longer the street.” According to a 2013 UN acceptable,” Hassan said. Michael study, 99.3 percent of Egyptian Raouf, a lawyer with the El Nadeem women have experienced at least one Centre for the Management and form of harassment, and 82.6 percent Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, said they did not feel safe in the said he realized the impact of such rul- street. ings when he overheard young men Public debate over the problem commenting about the clothing of a intensified in the aftermath of the nearby woman. “One was saying ‘Look January 2011 uprising against former what she’s wearing. Her brother or president Hosni Mubarak. The father let her leave the house looking CAIRO: Noha Elostaz, the first woman in Egypt to have won a conviction against a man for sexual harassment, speaks to journalists in her protests centered around Cairo’s like that, and if you say anything they apartment in the Egyptian capital Cairo. — AFP Tahrir Square, where constant media put you in jail’,” Raouf recalled. From coverage also highlighted sexual the very beginning, anti-harassment front of public debate in 2006, when 2011 uprising, anti-harassment graffi- Even those who make excuses for fast enough. She tried to report attacks and helped to uproot public efforts sprang from the grassroots. throngs of men assaulted women in ti spread around downtown Cairo, harassers can change their minds harassers but without success. Even denial of the phenomenon. “Of central Cairo during a public holiday. volunteers organized to rescue when volunteers discuss it with them, at home, she says her older brother course there is progress,” said Mozn Public debate Newspapers ignored the incident, but women from mob attacks, and more said Alia Soliman, a spokeswoman for harasses her. “This thing with my Hassan, the executive director of The issue was brought to the fore- bloggers reported it. Following the women shared their own stories pub- anti-harassment group brother, I used to tell no one. Now I licly. In February 2013, women took HarassMap.”When we approach them tell everyone and write about it on to the streets brandishing knives in a little by little, with awareness they Facebook,” Abdelaziz said. She has symbolic protest against sexual vio- reconsider their convictions,” said now found some peace and let go of lence. Soliman. the guilt and shame, and is looking “Those who recall Noha’s case, HarassMap organised talks at uni- for her own apartment so she can those who remember 2006 and peo- versities, trained Uber drivers and lead an independent life. “Imagine if ple calling us crazy, those who recall broadcast anti-harassment campaign we weren’t standing up to it, what the 2013 with people saying ‘No, these advertisements on television and situation would be like,” said Elostaz. things do not happen in Tahrir’, now radio. But for 22-year-old Yosra “In the end, what’s happening here is there is a difference,” said Hassan. Abdelaziz, the change is not coming resistance.” — AFP

CAIRO: Mozn Hassan, the executive director of a leading women’s rights group Nazra for Feminist Studies, is filmed as she speaks to a journalist at her office in the Egyptian capital Cairo. — AFP North Korea regime executes vice Premier for ‘disrespect’

SEOUL: North Korea has executed a other senior figures were forced to cials executed during Kim Jong-Un’s vice premier for showing disrespect undergo re-education sessions. One of rule at over 100. The most notorious during a meeting presided over by them was Kim Yong-Chol, a top official case was that of Kim’s uncle and one- leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea said in charge of inter-Korean affairs and time No 2 Jang Song-Thaek, who was yesterday, after reports that he fell espionage activities against the South. executed for charges including trea- asleep. The regime also banished two The 71-year-old Kim is a career military son and corruption in December other senior officials, Seoul said, the intelligence official who is believed to 2013. In April 2015, it was reported latest in a slew of punishments Kim is be the mastermind behind the North’s that Kim had his defence minister believed to have ordered in what ana- frequent cyberattacks on Seoul. Kim is Hyon Yong-Chol summarily executed lysts say is an attempt to tighten his also blamed by the South for the sink- with an anti-aircraft gun. Cheong grip on power. “Vice premier for edu- ing of a South Korean warship in 2010 Seong-Chang, a senior researcher at cation Kim Yong-Jin was executed,” near the disputed sea border with the the private Sejong Institute, said the Seoul’s Unification Ministry North in the Yellow Sea. “reign of terror” that is characteristic spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said at a Kim was banished to a farm in July of a Stalinist state showed no sign of regular briefing. for a month for his “arrogance” and abating under Kim. “But the intensity Kim was killed by a firing squad in “abuse of power,” the ministry official of the reign of terror depends on July as “an anti-party, anti-revolution- said. The spymaster, who was reinstat- changes to the internal and external ary agitator,” added an official at the ed this month, is likely to be tempted political environment”, Cheong said. ministry, who declined to be named. to prove his loyalty by committing Reports of the latest execution coin- “Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for his provocative acts against the South, the cide with a series of high-profile bad sitting posture when he was sit- official said. “Therefore, we are keeping defections from the North. ting below the rostrum” during a ses- close tabs on the North”, he said. North Korea’s deputy ambassador sion of North Korea’s parliament, and Professor Yang Moo-Jin at the to Britain sought refuge in the South then underwent an interrogation that University of North Korean Studies with his family, the unification min- revealed other “crimes”, the official told said the vice premier’s execution could istry said earlier this month. Thae reporters. The mass-selling JoongAng be indirectly verified when Yong-Ho was driven by “disgust for Ilbo reported on Tuesday that top Pyongyang’s state media reveals the the North Korean regime” and con- regime figures had been punished, names of attendees at the govern- cerns for his family’s future, it said. but identified the education official by ment’s anniversary ceremony on Twelve waitresses and their manager a different name. “He incurred the September 9. That confirmation will be who had been working at a North wrath of Kim after he dozed off during important; Seoul in February said Korea-themed restaurant in China a meeting presided over by Kim,” it North Korean military chief of staff Ri also made headlines when they quoted a source as saying. “He was Yong-Gil had been executed-only for arrived in the South in April as the arrested on site and intensively ques- Ri to turn up at a party rally in May. largest group defection for years. tioned by the state security ministry”. About 10 North Korean diplomats Uncle made it to the South in the first half of Fall of spymaster South Korea’s Yonhap news this year alone, Yonhap said, quoting The unification ministry said two agency put the number of party offi- informed sources. — AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Elderly Japanese among 11 dead in typhoon onslaught

TOKYO: Heavy rain from Typhoon Authorities found two more bodies in Lionrock flooded towns across Japan’s Iwate - one in the same town and the north and left at least 11 people dead, second in another town of Kuji, accord- most of them elderly residents at a nurs- ing to the Fire and Disaster Management ing home who could not escape rising Agency. Footage on NHK showed the floodwaters, officials said yesterday. The nursing home partially buried in mud, home in the town of Iwaizumi, which surrounded by debris apparently only had the ground floor, included peo- washed down in the swollen river. A car ple suffering from dementia who were in by the home was turned upside down. their 80s and 90s. Police discovered nine At another nursing home, a rescue heli- bodies there yesterday while checking copter was perched atop a flat roof, air- another facility in the inundated neigh- lifting residents, each wrapped in a blan- borhood. As floodwaters rapidly rose on ket and carried by their helpers. “We’re Tuesday night, all 85 elderly residents making a government-wide effort to and staff at a three-story facility next assess the extent of damage,” Chief door were rescued uninjured after evac- Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told uating to the top floor, said Iwate prefec- reporters. The government sent troops tural official Reiko Ouchi. to help in the rescue and cleanup effort. A caretaker at that facility notified the Farther north, on the island of town office about their evacuation to Hokkaido, at least two rivers broke the third floor, noting that the nine resi- through their banks. The disaster man- dents next door were stuck, NHK TV agement agency said at least one per- reported. Ouchi said officials are looking son went missing in a car that went into if and how town officials responded down with a bridge torn away by the to the call. An evacuation order was not flood. Authorities in the town of issued. Hiroaki Sato, a senior official at Minamifurano reported hundreds of the company that runs the nursing people trapped in houses and shelters homes, said floodwater poured into the by flooding from the Sorachi river, the compound in a matter of 10 minutes, agency said. Hundreds of others were making it impossible for the nine elderly also trapped in buildings and isolated in residents to escape. The water was at several towns in Iwate. Typhoon chest-high Tuesday evening. Lionrock made landfall Tuesday evening SHIMIZU, Japan: Photo shows a house swept down a river at the town of Shimizu in Hokkaido prefecture, after Typhoon Lionrock Despite earlier warnings of the near the city of Ofunato, 500 kilometers struck overnight. —AFP approaching typhoon, only one of the northeast of Tokyo on the Pacific coast eight staff was on overnight duty, Sato and crossed the main island of Honshu told Kyodo News, adding that a tele- before heading out to the Sea of Japan. phone line was cut off due to flooding It was the first time a typhoon has Turkey post-coup purges and she could not reach police or fire- made landfall in the northern region fighters. “An overnight staff attended the since 1951, when the Japan residents, but in the end they all died, Meteorological Agency started keeping including one in (her) arms,” Sato told records. The scene of large parts of shake higher education nationally televised NHK news. “I’m so northern Japan covered with muddy sorry we could not help any of the nine water was a shocking reminder of the residents,” he said, as he bowed deeply major tsunami that struck the same Fifteen universities, 1,000 secondary schools shut in apology, his teary voice trembling. region five years ago. Iwate prefecture, The identity of the victims and other the hardest-hit by the typhoon, is one of details, including the whereabouts of the areas still rebuilding from the March ISTANBUL: With the summer holiday final year at Mevlana University in the initially saw the cleric as useful in taming be close to home,” said another student their caretakers, were not immediately 2011 tsunami and earthquake, which almost over, computer science student central city of Konya before the coup. “I the influence of the military and secular from Konya’s Mevlana University. “As a known, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, a pre- left more than 18,000 people dead along Hande Tekiner should be gearing up for have doubts if I will be able to finish my elite who had dominated Turkey since girl, my family would never allow me to fecture disaster management division. Japan’s northeastern coast.—AP a year of cram sessions and late-night studies,” she said. Tekiner said she and the founding of the modern republic. study in another town.” The Council of homework. Instead, she may have others were harassed on social media, For years Gulen’s followers have run Higher Education, known as “YOK” in nowhere to return to, as her university labelled by anonymous accusers as sup- schools across Turkey and as far afield as Turkish, provoked widespread outrage was shut after Turkey’s failed coup. porters of the coup because they attend- Africa and the United States, blending when it said students would be placed at Authorities have closed 15 universities ed Gulen schools. Islam with an emphasis on science and new universities based on exam scores, and around 1,000 secondary schools President Tayyip Erdogan and the interfaith dialogue. meaning they could end up at a school linked to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based government say the cleric’s network The schools helped to open up on the other side of the country. It later Muslim cleric blamed for the July 15 used the schools to recruit followers who higher education to Erdogan’s voter relented following a number social attempted putsch. then infiltrated the military, civil service base - the pious masses often from media campaigns, including one under Gulen has denied involvement in the and judiciary. Gulen, who has lived in poorer regions who were traditionally the hashtag “#YOKbizimagduretme” or plot and condemned it. The closures Pennsylvania since 1999, denies the shut out of elite universities in Istanbul “YOK, don’t victimise us”.

Purges Roughly 80,000 people in the mili- tary, civil service, and judiciary have been sacked or suspended in the purges. Around half of those have been in education, according to state media. Teachers’ unions and some opposition politicians say authorities are targeting educators based on evidence that is ten- uous at best - such as having opened a savings account at Bank Asya, a now defunct lender founded by Gulen’s fol- lowers. The government has said the investi- gations and other measures are neces- sary to prevent another coup. But JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) chairs the Kamuran Karaca, who heads one of weekly Cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem. —AFP Turkey’s biggest teachers’ unions, said the wrong people were being targeted. Since the coup, 88 members of his Israel approves 466 Egitim-Sen union have been suspend- ed. “All of our members who have been suspended, rather than being support- settlement homes ers of Gulen, are on the contrary people who strive for secular education and a secular life,” said Karaca. “We believe JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities approved 135,000 of the eight million population, they were blacklisted because they 466 settlement homes in the occupied called for police commissioner Roni deposited their rent in Bank Asya, or West Bank yesterday, settlement watchdog Alsheich to be sacked after his comments took a loan from it, or a relative took a Peace Now said, despite growing interna- on Tuesday. “Ethiopian Jews are Israeli Jews ISTANBUL: People hold Turkish National flags as they march from Kizilay to Anitkabir, loan from it.” tional criticism over such projects. The in every way,” Alsheich told a lawyers’ con- Mausoleum of Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during a parade, celebrating Gaye Usluer, a lawmaker from the approvals mostly involved new housing ference in Tel Aviv where he was asked the 94th Anniversary of Turkey’s Victory Day in Istanbul on August 30, 2016. —AFP opposition Republican People’s Party, units, but a retroactive green light was also about police violence against Ethiopian- criticized what she said was a “sweep- granted to 179 existing homes in the Israelis. “But every criminology study world- have left about 200,000 students in charges. Turkey has asked the United and Ankara. Erdogan, himself a gradu- ing” crackdown that has also harmed Ofarim settlement. Around 50 new units wide shows that immigrants are more Turkey in academic limbo, wondering if States to extradite him but Washington ate of a religious school, has fought to people who may be innocent. Candan received final approval, while others were involved in crime than others.” they can continue their studies and wor- says only a federal court can make that bring religious education into the Badem, a Marxist historian, was briefly given preliminary authorization at different He said that young people too were ried about the black mark of a Gulen decision. Since the coup, in which at mainstream of constitutionally secular detained for possessing a book by stages in the review process. more often implicated in crimes and, that school on their college record. Tens of least 240 people died, Turkey has Turkey and worked to overturn a ban Gulen in his home, his lawyer told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin when the two factors were combined, thousands of academics and school detained about 40,000 people and for- on the headscarf in parliament and Reuters. He was later released. Badem Netanyahu’s government “continues to police “naturally” suspected them more teachers have also been purged, deep- mally arrested half of them. Rights universities. But the closure of Gulen signed an “Academics for Peace” peti- plan and build all over the West Bank, while than others. Alsheich also mentioned Arab ening concern about curtailment of aca- groups and some in the West fear schools is troubling for students in tion this year that criticized military also giving settlers the message that any Israelis, who account for more than 17 per- demic freedom and free speech. Erdogan is using the purges to stifle dis- towns where there are no other univer- action in the largely Kurdish southeast. construction done without planning will be cent of the population. He accepted, how- “As students at universities that have sent and tighten his grip on power. sities. Those from modest backgrounds Erdogan denounced the more than retroactively legalized,” Peace Now said. ever, that there was “over-policing” of been shut, we are being victimized, even - and female students from pious fami- 1,000 signatories, which also included Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Ethiopian Israelis that must be addressed. though those schools were opened with Pious masses lies - cannot afford, or may not be US linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, coordinator for the Middle East peace The subject is particularly sensitive among state approval,” said Tekiner. The 23-year- Until a public falling-out in 2013, allowed, to live away from home. and some Turkish academics were process, told the UN Security Council on Ethiopian Israelis, who have protested old had been due to start her fourth and Erdogan and Gulen were allies. Erdogan “The reason I chose my university is to detained over it. —Reuters Monday that Israeli settlement expansion against what they see as discrimination has surged in the two months since a key and abuse by police. report called for a halt. A spokeswoman for the Israel The report by the diplomatic Quartet- Association for Ethiopian Jews called for IS leaders killed in Iraq and Syria the European Union, Russia, the UN and Alsheich to resign, saying his comments the United States-said construction of set- were “intolerable.” “Not only are we not BEIRUT: US-led air strikes have killed several ‘Omar the Chechen’ Abd Ar-Rahman Mustafa Al-Qaduli tlements on land earmarked to be part of a immigrants as he says, but he also only senior figures in the Islamic State group since On July 13, Amaq announced the death of On March 25, US Defence Secretary Ashton future Palestinian state is killing off reinforces stereotypes that portray all April, the latest being Abu Mohamed Al-Adnani, senior IS commander Omar Al-Shishani, also Carter announced that Abd Ar-Rahman Mustafa Al- prospects for a peace deal based on a two- young people from our community as described as the “principal architect” of jihadist known as “Omar the Chechen”, near Mosul in Qaduli, believed to be number two in the IS leader- state solution. In response, Netanyahu’s delinquents and criminals,” Hanna Elazar attacks on the West. Coalition aircraft have also northern Iraq. The Pentagon confirmed that ship, had been “eliminated” during a US operation in office called criticism of Israeli settlement said. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan targeted Al-Nusra Front, the former Syrian coalition aircraft had targetted the IS leader, but Syria. Carter also referred to Aqduli as Haji Imam. The building “absurd”, particularly related to defended Alsheich in a statement, saying branch of the jihadist group Al-Qaeda, rebrand- not that he had been killed. Known for ruthless US Justice Department had offered a bounty of up east Jerusalem. The Palestinians see east his comments did not defend “over-polic- ed in July as Fateh Al-Sham Front. Here is a short tactics and his thick red beard, Shishani, whose to $7 million for information leading to Qaduli, iden- Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967 and ing” or racial profiling of Ethiopian-Israelis. list of departed warlords: Georgian name was Tarkhan Batirashvili, was tified as the group’s finance minister and a key fig- later annexed, as the capital of their future “He did exactly the opposite and coura- one of the most sought IS leaders in Syria, ure behind some foreign plots. On March 31, the state. Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its capi- geously said that there is a problem that Abu Mohamed Al-Adnani described by US officials who put a $5-million Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a US tal. “The claim that it is illegal for Jews to the police are addressing,” Erdan said. On Tuesday, the IS announced via its news bounty on his head as the group’s de facto drone strike had killed Abu al-Hija, a high-ranking build in Jerusalem is as absurd as saying “We are working with members of the service Amaq that Abu Mohamed Al-Adnani, a defence minister. Tunisian IS leader who was heading to Aleppo Americans can’t build in Washington or the community and their leaders to address Syrian national, had died in Aleppo province of province on orders of IS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, French can’t build in Paris,” Netanyahu the errors of the past.” Police spokeswoman northern Syria and pledged to avenge his death. IS Anbar chief Abu Wahib for whom the US has offered a $10-million reward. spokesman David Keyes said in response to Meirav Lapidot however told army radio Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook, used an alter- On May 6, another airstrike killed Abu Wahib, Mladenov’s comments. that the sensitive topic “should have been native name for IS, said an air strike near Al-Bab “military emir” of IS for the vast western Iraqi Al-Nusra spokesman explained differently.” Of the 135,000 had targeted Adnani, describing him as the province of Anbar, near the town of Rutba. Abu On April 3, Al-Nusra Front spokesman Abu Firas Comments on minorities Ethiopian Jews in Israel, some 50,000 were “principal architect of ISIL’s external operations Wahib, a former Al-Qaeda militant and three oth- al-Suri, also known as Radwane Nammous, died Meanwhile, Israel’s police chief faced a born in the country. The community is the and... ISIL’s chief spokesman.” A US defense offi- er IS jihadists died when their vehicle was hit, and when US planes attacked a training camp in the whirlwind of criticism yesterday after he result of Israeli authorities eventually offi- cial who declined to be named linked Adnani to Pentagon spokesman Cook said he was consid- northwestern Syrian province of Idlib. In late July, suggested officers would “naturally” sus- cially recognizing the Ethiopian Jewish attacks in Brussels, Istanbul and Paris, and said ered “a significant leader in ISIL leadership overall, the former Al-Qaeda affiliate announced it was pect minorities, including Israelis of community as Jews, leading to two waves that if true, his death was “a very significant blow not just in Anbar province”. Wahib had appeared breaking ties with the jihadist network, and that it Ethiopian descent, of crimes more than of immigration in 1984 and 1991. They for ISIL”. The US had offered $5 million for infor- in chilling IS execution videos and did not mask would now call itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (Front of others. Members of the Ethiopian commu- have alleged discrimination and other mation that led to him. his identity despite the clear risk to his security. the Conquest of Syria). —AFP nity in Israel, who account for more than types of mistreatment.—Agencies INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 Rubio and Murphy secure Florida’s Senate primaries

TALLAHASSEE: Republican Sen Marco Rubio down his campaign ahead of the primary. and Democratic US Rep Patrick Murphy each “I voted for Marco only because I’ve been easily won their Senate primaries Tuesday, a longstanding supporter,” said Diane setting up a November showdown that’s Martin-Johnson, 66, after voting early guaranteed to be nasty as each party grap- Tuesday in Pinellas Park. “It’s unfortunate he ples for a majority in the chamber. Rubio, didn’t do his job fully in Washington this who decided at the last second to seek a sec- term. I do think he deserves another chance. ond term, easily fended off millionaire home- He thought he was doing the right thing (by builder Carlos Beruff and Murphy used the running for president). That’s my only com- backing of President Barack Obama and oth- plaint against him. He’s a good man.” er Democratic leaders to defeat US Rep Alan Murphy, a former Republican, quickly Grayson, who was counting on his party’s earned party support and raised significant- most faithful liberal voters to overcome ly more money. He was also backed by Vice Murphy’s money and establishment support. President Joe Biden and Senate Minority In other races, US Rep Corrine Brown lost a Leader Harry Reid. Grayson, a fiery liberal primary as she faces felony fraud charges. She known for brash comments and hamstrung was one of the first African-Americans elected by a difficult divorce, relied mostly on small to Congress from Florida since donors and feuded with party leaders. Reconstruction. US Rep Debbie Wasserman Todd Martin, 53, and his 18-year-old Schultz, who recently resigned as Democratic daughter Haley, voted together in National Committee chair, won her primary - Tallahassee, where they recently moved as the first tough race since being elected to she starts college. They both chose Murphy, Congress in 2004. Rubio’s and Murphy’s victo- in part because they like his efforts to get ry speeches set the tone for the Senate race. government to address algae outbreaks “Marco Rubio is the worst of Washington near their former home in Vero Beach. “I because he puts himself first every time. He grew up on the river and it’s a shame what gave up on his job. He gave up on Florida. He they let happen,” Todd Martin said. “I like earned the worst voting record for any Florida where Patrick Murphy stands on the algae. senator in 50 years,” Murphy said shortly after It’s very important to me.” More than 1.75 polls closed. Rubio spoke about an hour later million Floridians already cast ballots by and said Murphy has lied about his education mail or at early-voting stations before polls and his career and is only successful because opened Tuesday. of his wealthy father. This year’s primary turnout could top ones “How can someone with that kind of held in 2012 and 2014- a sign that competi- record think he can be elected to the US tive races for Congress and the Florida Senate? The answer is he has a sense of enti- Legislature could be driving up turnout this tlement, because when everything you’ve time around. Wasserman Schultz easily beat BOSTON: Ernestine Cuellar, of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, raises her hands ever had in your life is given to you, you think Tim Canova, a Bernie Sanders-backed law in prayer during a mass prayer rally on Boston Common held by evangelist Franklin you deserve it all,” Rubio said. Rubio had professor who was able to raise more than $3 Graham (inset) as part of a tour to urge evangelicals to vote. Graham’s rally is a stop declared during his failed presidential cam- million in a primary colored by leaked emails on his 50-state “Decision America” tour. — AP paign that he would not run again for Senate. revealing that DNC officials had worked But he nearly cleared what had been a against Sanders to favor Hillary Clinton in the crowded GOP field with his last-minute turn- presidential race. Brown lost to longtime about. Beruff rolled the dice to see if the anti- state lawmaker Al Lawson, who has previous- establishment mood powering Donald ly run for Congress. Democrats hope to gain Prayer or politics? Trump’s presidential campaign could send seats in Florida’s heavily Republican House him to Washington as well. But after spend- delegation after court mandated redistricting ing $8 million of his own money and going chipped away the advantages of some Evangelist rallies Christians in Boston nowhere in the polls, he essentially shut incumbents. — AP BOSTON: The son of evangelist Billy Graham Island, and Hartford, Connecticut. New England need the grace of God.” Daniel Hamil and his urged a gathering on the historic Boston is believed to have proportionately fewer evan- wife, Sarah Hamil, retirees from Bolton, said Common on Tuesday to vote in the November gelical Christians than many other parts of the they had decided who to vote for but preferred election but stressed he was taking no sides country. Less than 10 percent of Christians in not to say. They cited the nation’s “moral publicly in the US presidential race. The event Massachusetts identify as evangelical, accord- decline” as their main concern. Speaking in the was the latest stop on the Rev Franklin Graham’s ing to recent estimates. shadow of the Massachusetts Statehouse, 50-state Decision America tour, during which he Boston Common, established in 1634 by the Graham did not directly criticize state politi- asked Christians to take a pledge to support, Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay cians but railed against progressives who he whenever possible, candidates who uphold bib- colony, has often been called America’s first argued were taking away individual rights to lical principles. public park. It has occasionally hosted religious- religious expression. Making no direct reference in his remarks to style events, including the first US Mass cele- Massachusetts was the first state to legalize Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary brated by Pope John Paul II during his 1979 vis- same-sex marriage, and its current leaders are Clinton, Graham said the nation was in trouble it. While a smattering of Trump signs were evi- strongly pro-abortion rights. The pledge calls spiritually, economically and politically and nei- dent Tuesday, many in the crowd echoed on voters to support politicians who uphold the ther major party could turn that around. “I have Graham’s largely non-partisan theme. “This for “sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage.” no hope in the Democratic Party all right, zero me is spiritual, not political,” said Robbie Graham met with Trump last week during the hope,” Graham said to some applause, adding McNerney, a Massachusetts native who was tak- Republican’s visit to flood-ravaged parts of quickly that before Republicans in the audience ing a break from missionary work in Vietnam. Louisiana. After the rally, Graham, who said he “high-five each other, I have no hope for the McNerney, who attended with his had known Clinton longer than he had known Republican Party.” Vietnamese-born wife, Mihlloan McNerney, and Trump, repeated his assertion he was not Organizers of the event estimated the crowd their two young children, said he had not cho- instructing people who to vote for. “Both par- FLORIDA: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks with supporters as he stops to at about 3,400 on the balmy late summer day. sen between Clinton and Trump. “Neither of the ties, Democrat and Republican, have turned thank volunteers at a phone bank on the final day before the Florida primary elec- No official count was available. Similar rallies political candidates can solve our problems,” he their backs on God and embraced secularism,” tion in Miami, Florida. -—AFP were scheduled this week in Providence, Rhode said. “I think whoever is our next president will he said. — AP Jitters in rebel heartland over peace in Colombia

PLANADAS: Esperanza Rivera, who grew Not even a hen difficult because there is a lot of pover- up in the same mountains that gave In Planadas “the bandits greatly ty and unemployment,” he said. birth to the FARC guerrillas, is happy feared the guerrillas, so they wouldn’t Negotiations are fine, but there will about the Colombian peace deal-but steal even a hen because there was be no peace if those issues are not also worries about what comes next. After someone to punish them.” Rivera hopes included in the bargaining, he said. nearly four years of negotiations, the that with peace they will also get “more Jimenez’s prediction: “more blood will Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia help from the government, which has be spilled.” According to Jimenez, there and the government of President Juan abandoned us.”Another local, 59 year- are “more people under arms than Manuel Santos reached an agreement in old Jorge Ardila, said that he also wants working in the field.” A life-long farmer, Havana yesterday to end 52 years of war- peace but has doubts about what was Jimenez knows well the mountains sur- fare. The deal needs to be ratified in an negotiated. “I don’t think that there is rounding Planadas, which for decades October 2 popular vote. anyone in the universe that doesn’t have been key corridors the FARC to “What we want is for the peace deal want peace,” he said. “But before taking reach other rural areas. to be signed and for the plebiscite to a stance I should know what was win,” said Rivera, 41, a farmer inter- agreed upon.” Power vacuum viewed in the town of Planadas, where Ardila claims that his father, Pedro Many locals are silent about their a 1964 armed peasant uprising gave Antonio Ardila, was a nurse for FARC true thoughts about the future, wary birth to the FARC. Rivera warns howev- founder Manuel “Tirofijo” (Sureshot) of what could happen if they speak er that “another conflict, which no one Marulanda, who died in 2008 of appar- out. They conflict, which has left talks about,” is emerging, in a country ent natural causes. Ardila said that his 260,000 dead and 45,000 missing, has where drug gangs have also fueled the father became Marulanda’s nurse soon forced them to hone their survival violence. “As long as the guerrillas were after the FARC was formed while work- skills. “Here there are eight, nine sets of here, criminals were kept away,” Rivera ing at the same time as an army nurse. laws: those set by the guerrillas, the said. “But now, since the criminals will “He would perform his medical services paramilitary groups, the gangs ... “ a have no one to fear, we will be unpro- in the army and then, in a clandestine local who preferred to not identify tected.” Police “do not come out to the way, also help the guerrillas,” Ardila himself said. Experts say the power countryside, there is no security force said. Eustacio Jimenez, 75, is even more vacuum that will emerge when the to defend us from common criminals,” skeptical about the peace accord. FARC demobilizes might be filled by she said. “Reaching peace in Colombia is very other illegal groups. — AFP California’s farmworkers on edge over overtime bill

MENDOTA: Many California farmwork- Central Valley for more than two can’t leave,” Najera said. “They can’t take ers who make up the backbone of the decades and says he could make anoth- their dirt with them.” The 35-year-old nation’s No 1 agricultural state were er $60 weekly. That would give him father of four also has parents back in praising historic legislation that brings more purchasing power to buy better Mexico, who rely on money he regularly them closer to receiving the same over- food and clothes for his wife and three sends. He earns about $33,000 a year time pay as the rest of the state’s work- children and ease his stress over paying and said he has worked seven days a ers who are paid by the hour. If signed down bills. “For me, it’s discrimination,” week since March this year. into law by Gov Jerry Brown, a new over- said Reyes, finishing up Tuesday’s har- The added overtime pay he expects time bill would put California at the fore- vesting of green tomatoes near the to receive will correct a longstanding front nationally of farm labor pay and town of Mendota. injustice so farm workers are no longer mark a victory in the fight to improve But other farmworkers are nervous treated as second class California farmworkers rights in the decades old about California farmers’ claims that the employees, Najera said. Under the cur- movement launched by Cesar Chavez, higher overtime pay could hurt them rent law, California employers must pay the legendary co-founder of the economically and outprice California time-and-a-half to farmworkers after 10 National Farm Workers Association who products from the marketplace in favor hours a day or 60 hours a week. fought for higher farm worker pay. of crops grown in other states and coun- Lawmakers in Sacramento on Monday Brown, a Democrat, has not said tries. Gonzalo Najera, who drives a trac- sent the legislation to Brown that would whether he will sign the law that would tor on Salinas Valley’s lettuce, carrots and give them overtime after eight hours in be the first of its kind for the United broccoli fields, said some farmers are a day or 40 hours a week. It is backed by States. Florentino Reyes, 48, has been saying the extra overtime payments the United Farm Workers, which Chavez picking tomatoes and working a wide could drive them out of the state, but he helped found in 1962, more than three variety of crops in California’s fertile doesn’t buy the argument. “The growers decades before his death. — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Mother Teresa: A saint despite spiritual ‘darkness’

VATICAN CITY: When Pope Francis canonizes pain and suffering of being unloved, lonely. She Ferdinand Perier. “There is so much contradic- Mother Teresa on Sunday, he’ll be honoring a would be able to share that empathy because tion in my soul. Such deep longing for God, so nun who won admirers around the world and a she herself was experiencing it.” deep that it is painful, a suffering continual, and Nobel Peace Prize for her joy-filled dedication to Tens of thousands of people are expected yet not wanted by God, repulsed, empty, no the “poorest of the poor.” He’ll also be recogniz- for the canonization ceremony Sunday for the faith, no love no zeal,” she wrote. “Souls hold no ing holiness in a woman who felt so abandoned tiny, stooped nun who was fast-tracked for attraction. Heaven means nothing, to me it by God that she was unable to pray and was sainthood just a year after she died in 1997. St looks like an empty place. The thought of it convinced, despite her ever-present smile, that John Paul II, who was Mother Teresa’s greatest means nothing to me and yet this torturing she was experiencing the “tortures of hell.” champion, beatified her before a crowd of longing for God.” “Pray for me please that I keep For nearly 50 years, Mother Teresa endured 300,000 in St Peter’s Square in 2003. Francis has smiling at him in spite of everything.” In another what the church calls a “dark night of the soul” - made the canonization the high point of his letter, she acknowledged that her smile was “a a period of spiritual doubt, despair and loneli- Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong emphasis on the big cloak which covers a multitude of pains.” ness that many of the great mystics experi- church’s merciful side. Francis has an obvious Revelations that the smile was a mask to enced, her namesake St. Therese of Lisieux interest in highlighting Mother Teresa’s mercy- inner doubts about God’s presence fueled included. In Mother Teresa’s case, the dark night filled service to outcasts on the periphery, given criticism of Mother Teresa - spearheaded most lasted most of her adult life - an almost unheard that her life’s work exemplifies the priorities of famously by the late Christopher Hitchens - of trial. No one but Mother Teresa’s spiritual his own pontificate. that the Balkan nun was something of a fraud. directors and bishop knew of her spiritual Kolodiejchuk, though, says she was no hyp- agony until her correspondence came to light Saints can be imperfect? ocrite. He said that the smile was a genuine during her beatification cause. The letters were But Francis is also sending a more subtle and heroic attempt to hide her private suffer- then made available to the general public in a message to the faithful through the canoniza- ings, even from God, and prevent others from 2007 book, “Come Be My Light.” tion of the ethnic Albanian nun: That saints can suffering more. “You can be joyful even if be imperfect - they can suffer as Mother Teresa you’re suffering because you are accepting, CALCUTTA: Pope John Paul II (right) holds his arm around Mother ‘Unloved, uncared for’ did and even feel unloved by God, said Ines and you are working and acting with love that Teresa as they ride in the popemobile outside the Home of the Dying in For the Rev Brian Kolodiejchuk, the Angeli Murzaku, a professor of church history at gives meaning to the suffering,” he said in the Calcutta, India in this February 1986 photo. —AP Canadian priest who published the letters and Seton Hall University in New Jersey and herself courtyard of one of the Missionaries of Charity spearheaded Mother Teresa’s saint-making a native Albanian. “That existential periphery houses on the periphery of Rome. recalled being in awe of the revelation and souls who do not know, we stand before a campaign, the revelations were further confir- which is suffering and being marginalized, he The revelations nevertheless shocked even not being able even today to fully understand mystery.” Asked if she was in that latter group, mation of Mother Teresa’s heroic saintliness. He wants to bring that to the attention of the Mother Teresa’s closest confidants and friends, the depth of Mother Teresa’s pain. “It took me the German nun paused and said quietly: said that by canonizing her, Francis is recogniz- world,” she said in a telephone interview. the original sisters who joined her some time, and it still takes me time, to reflect “Yes.” Kolodiejchuk, the postulator for the ing that Mother Teresa not only shared the Mother Teresa “is so real. She’s not remote. She’s Missionaries of Charity after she was inspired about it and to understand it more deeply,” cause, says that in retrospect, Mother Teresa’s material poverty of the poor but the spiritual not a perfect, perfect saint.” That said, her blind to found the order in 1946. Kolodiejchuk said she said in an interview. “darkness” was actually a critical part of her poverty of those who feel “unloved, unwanted, faith in enduring the “darkness,” as she called it, several sisters wept when he first read them “I think a soul who has not experienced it vocation, kept hidden from the world that uncared for.” “That was her experience in her and persevering through it seems almost her letters after he acquired them in 1998 (the darkness) will not be able to understand only saw a firm but loving mother superior relationship with Jesus,” Kolodiejchuk said in an superhuman to outsiders. from the archives of the Jesuits and archbish- what it is about. This is some mystery of the who was the first in the chapel each morning interview. “She understood very well when Take the Feb 28, 1957 letter she wrote the op in Kolkata. Sister Prema, the current superi- spiritual life which souls who know about it and often worked herself to exhaustion at people would share their horror stories, their then-archbishop of Kolkata, Jesuit Archbishop or general of the Missionaries of Charity, can connect with and associate with, but night tending to society’s most unloved. —AP

News Montenegro border deal in brief

Taiwan jails 14 over stirs tensions in Kosovo railway sex scandal TAIPEI: Taiwan has jailed 14 people for up to 17 years in a corruption scandal which saw railway officials accepting sex services and visits to hostess clubs in exchange for Nationalists protest; mountain dwellers worried business contracts. In the biggest ever graft case to hit the state rail sector, seven Taiwan Railway Administration offi- RUGOVA MOUNTAINS: High in the Cursed Mountains ing a rocket-propelled grenade at parliament and poverty are rife, and a gradual improvement in relations cials were convicted and sentenced for corruption. They that span Kosovo and Montenegro, lumberjack Rame nationalist lawmakers have released tear gas inside with Serbia, mandated by the EU, is fraught with set- were found to have received perks as a reward for helping Elezaj and his family have earned a living from their the chamber several times in protest. The opposition backs. EU officials have used a policy of ‘carrots and firms secure contracts for eight rail projects, worth more trees for decades. But if Kosovo’s parliament approves says the agreement hands over some 8,000 hectares of sticks’ to guide governments both in Pristina and in than Tw$1.1 billion ($34.7 million), in the past six years. A a border deal with Montenegro today, all 4.5 hectares territory to Montenegro, a claim the government Belgrade towards closer integration with the EU, with the construction broker and six businessmen-including the of Elezaj’s land will designated to be in another coun- denies. Montenegro border deal just the latest requirement. head of a construction company and the head of a plastics try, while his house will remain in Kosovo. “We have “Kosovo is losing 8,200 hectares ... it is losing water But EU diplomats say Kosovo may have to wait longer company-were also jailed for up to five years for bribing always used this land and Montenegro never had any sources and lakes,” said Donika Kadaj Bujupi, a lawmak- to win visa-free travel, even if the agreement is ratified in officials. All were convicted and sentenced by Taichung dis- issues, and now our government wants to give it away er from the biggest opposition party, Vetevendosje, time for a September debate in the European Parliament. trict court in central Taiwan on Tuesday. for free,” the 61-year-old said. and someone who has herself released tear gas inside The bloc’s attention is focused elsewhere, diplomats say, For decades after World War Two, villagers never parliament. “We will defend the land with our blood,” with some hoping to lift visas for Georgians ahead of an viewed the administrative lines that criss-crossed Elezaj said. Vetevendosje has said it will do everything election there in October, while others want to focus on Monk on the run: ‘Killer’ Yugoslavia as anything but notional boundaries that it can, both inside and outside parliament, to stop the Turkey, crucial to stemming migrant flows to Europe. becomes temple abbot had little impact on everyday life. But years after that assembly approving the border deal. The government “Nobody really talks about Kosovo all that much,” one EU communist state was ripped apart by the Balkan wars also faces objections from a number of its own law- diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity. BEIJING: A suspected murderer on the run for 16 years in the 1990s, border disputes remain one of many dif- makers who have said they will not back the deal. The huge numbers of Kosovars claiming asylum in the in China found refuge in Buddhist temples, eventually ficulties in untangling the former Yugoslavia, along EU - from where they are invariably deported - does not rising to become an abbot, state media said yesterday. with ethnic hostility, violence and political gridlock. Attention elsewhere help its case to get visa-free travel and it is the last of the Zhang Liwei was detained by police earlier this month With no border markers in the craggy 1,700-metre Kosovo broke from Serbia in 1999 when NATO former Yugoslav republics still to win that privilege. In on suspicion of stabbing three people to death with mountains, Elezaj believed all his land was in Kosovo, bombed for 11 weeks to halt the killing and expulsion of the first quarter of 2015, nearly 50,000 Kosovars claimed accomplices in 2000, the Beijing News reported. After but has no documents to prove it. ethnic Albanian civilians by Serbian forces trying to crush asylum in the EU, mostly in Germany, more in that period the killings in his home province of Heilongjiang, deep Western allies have told Kosovo that clarifying bor- a two-year insurgency. After almost a decade as a ward than Syrians fleeing their civil war. EU countries consider in northeastern China, Zhang fled nearly 2,000 kilome- ders with its ex-Yugoslav foes, including Montenegro, of the United Nations, the majority-Albanian territory most of them economic migrants, ineligible for asylum. ters south to Anhui, changing his name and finding is a prerequisite to getting closer ties with the declared independence in 2008. It has been recognized Border issues between Yugoslav republics remain unre- work as a temple cook and ticket-seller, it said. Later he European Union, in particular securing visa-free travel. by more than 100 countries, including the major Western solved 17 years since nearly a decade of wars ended in moved to the Longxing temple in Fengyang county, But the deal between the two governments has powers, but not Serbia and its big-power ally Russia or 1999. Even two EU member states-Slovenia and Croatia- shaving his own head and proclaiming himself a monk. sparked violent protests throughout Kosovo. Six peo- several EU members such as Spain. still dispute over one part of the border going through He became a member of a local political consultative ple were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of launch- It still struggles with the legacy of war. Corruption and the Adriatic Sea. —Reuters congress-an organ of the county government-and two years ago the monks elected him abbot on the recom- mendation of his predecessor, according to the report.

Romania to expel Pakistani ‘Only weeks left’ for Boko over ‘jihadist propaganda’ BUCHAREST: A Pakistani national in Romania has been declared persona non grata for allegedly spreading “jihadist propaganda” in online forums and will be expelled from the Haram, Nigeria army says country, authorities said yesterday. The suspect, who entered the European Union country illegally in late 2015, is “in police custody and proceedings are under way to send MAIDUGURI: Nigeria’s army expects to push into Sambisa after abandoning an him back (to Pakistan),” an immigration official dealing with seize Boko Haram’s last few strongholds attempt due to torrential rain, he said. the case said. The man will be banned from re-entering in the northeast over the next few weeks, “Earlier on this year we had a major oper- Romania for 10 years, the official added. In a statement the commander in charge of crushing the ation in the Sambisa,” he said. “Gains were released late Tuesday, secret service officials said the man jihadist group’s seven-year insurgency made but unfortunately the weather con- had drawn attention after spreading “online propaganda said yesterday. The army missed a ditions became such that we to pull out backing several terrorist groups active in his home region, December deadline set by President waiting for more favorable conditions.” supporting Islamist extremism, and calling for global jihad”. Muhammadu Buhari to wipe out the He said the army had rescued some group, which wants to set up an Islamic 20,000 people from Boko Haram, a frac- caliphate in the area around Lake Chad, tion of the 2.2 million UNICEF said last but has retaken most of its territory - at week remained trapped in the region one point the size of Belgium. around Lake Chad. Major General Lucky Irabor, command- er of the operation, said the jihadists Leader ‘wounded’ were now holed up in a few pockets of Irabor’s base on the outskirts of the Sambisa forest - where more than 200 Maiduguri, a sprawling military complex BANGKOK: A man walks past a government building adorned with a girls kidnapped from the town of Chibok with rows of residential blocks for officers, poster of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his wife Sirikit as clouds in 2014 are believed to be held - and two is the most visible sign of a shake-up move over Bangkok yesterday. —AFP areas near Lake Chad and would be introduced by Buhari, a former military flushed out “within weeks”. Despite the ruler. Under his predecessor, Goodluck Thailand embarks on a program set-backs, Boko Haram still manages to Jonathan, the army had a reputation for stage regular suicide bombings in Nigeria being poorly equipped and running away to ensure citizens speak English and neighboring Chad, Niger and in the face of Boko Haram assaults. Britain An overturned bus lays in the middle of the Cameroon. Since 2009, more than 15,000 and other countries have recently people have been killed, 2.3 million dis- increased military assistance, and two Khmouda open air market, in the Kasserine BANGKOK: With just one hour of English class- out around the country to 18 English-teaching district, western Tunisia yesterday. At least 14 es per week in primary schools, it’s no surprise facilities where school administrators and educa- placed and the local economy decimated. Westerners wearing flat jackets could be that most Thais have little to no ability to speak tors in the nearby area can receive training from “Almost all of the locations held by the seen jogging in the compound. US offi- people were killed and 15 cars caught fire the language. The government wants to change the centers. Boko Haram terrorists have been cials told Reuters in May that Washington, after a truck crashed into a public bus near an that. The Ministry of Education has embarked The millions of tourists who visit Thailand reclaimed. We are talking only of a few which blocked arms sales under Jonathan open-air market. —AP villages and towns,” Irabor said in an amid concerns about rights abuses, wants on a program to ensure that all primary school- each year usually face little difficulty in communi- Tunisian road accident children are able to speak enough English to cating because they mostly interact with hotel interview at his base in Maiduguri in to sell up to 12 A-29 Super Tucano light handle everyday situations within 10 years. staff, salespeople in malls and markets, and other Borno state, birth place of the insur- attack aircraft to Nigeria although leaves at least 14 dead Deputy Education Minister Teerakiat tourism-related staff who would have learned gency. Much of the success is down to Congress needs to approve the deal. TUNIS: At least 14 people were killed and another 51 Jareonsettasin unveiled a plan this week that the language on the job. Some Thais who work better military cooperation with Nigeria’s Irabor has set up a human rights desk injured yesterday when a lorry crashed into a bus in central calls for drastic changes to the English language for foreign companies also pick up English over neighbours, especially Chad, whose to address the issue. “The code of conduct Tunisia, the interior ministry said. Those killed in the dawn curriculum in schools, including more classes, the years. But the vast majority of Thais, especially forces have been attacking Boko Haram is quite clear. Human rights issues are tak- accident near Kasserine included the lorry driver, the min- new textbooks and an intensive training pro- in government offices, have virtually no English fighters fleeing across the border. “There en quite seriously,” he said. He said that istry said, adding that around 15 cars also caught fire. Initial gram for top teachers who will become “master language skills. are joint operations. My commanders Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had findings showed the truck driver was unable to brake and trainers” for other teachers. Among 16 Asian countries surveyed, Thailand have an exchange with local command- recently been wounded, but backed off his vehicle hit the bus and several cars as he sped out of A ministry official confirmed to The is ranked 14th in English abilities and 62nd out of ers across the borders. Because of the an Air Force statement this month sug- control before slamming into an electricity pylon. Dozens Associated Press the details of the plan, pub- 70 countries worldwide, according to the collaborations we’ve had Boko Haram has gesting he had been killed in an airstrike. of injured were taken to hospital in Kasserine, as emer- lished in Thai media. The official cannot be identi- Education First Language Institute’s 2015 English been boxed in and in a few weeks you “Shekau was wounded. That’s what I can gency crews worked to extract others still trapped in the fied under government rules. Teerakiat was not Proficiency Index. This poses problems for will hear good news,” he said. confirm, but as to whether he is dead that wreckage. Photos shared on social media showed columns immediately available for comment. “We picked Thailand as it seeks to achieve greater integration He said the jihadists, who pledged loy- I cannot at the moment confirm.” Boko of thick black smoke rising from the scene of the accident, 350 teachers who are considered to be the cream with the ASEAN Community, which was alty to Islamic State last year, were still Haram, which normally communicates via and national television broadcast images of burnt cars. As of the crop for English boot camp training,” said launched earlier this year and aims to increase controlling Abadan and Malafatori, two video or audio clips posted on the of the end of May, 528 people had died in road accidents in the official. From there, the best 28 teachers will business, social, cultural and employment oppor- towns near Lake Chad, apart from their Internet, has said nothing since the Aug the North African country of some 11 million inhabitants be chosen as master trainers and will be spread tunities among Southeast Asian countries. —AP main base in the Sambisa forest, south of 24 Air Force statement about Shekau since the beginning of the year. Maidguri. The army was planning a new being hurt. —Reuters

INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 Indonesians keep pride in Obama link even as high hopes dim

JAKARTA: As Barack Obama’s presidency first of two visits to the country as presi- in attending the school where Obama nears its end, Indonesians still speak with dent was in 2010, taking Obama-mania to once studied. Nine-year-old Mentari pride of the childhood years he spent in new heights that included an Indonesian Malarangeng, a third-grade student, said their country, though much of the enthusi- lookalike becoming a national celebrity. Obama is her idol. “I heard from my grand- asm has faded along with the impossibly Gondokusumo fondly recalled how a mother that Obama was a good student, high expectations of what the first African- young Obama played at his house and loud and confident when he talked,” she American president would achieve. A fan joined him in Muslim prayers wearing a said. Her classmate Abdilah Kurdi said the club, books, a statue, a cafe and even a traditional Indonesian sarong that kept school became famous because of Obama movie were all part of the mania for Obama falling off, causing much laughter. and gets many visitors who want to see in the world’s most populous Muslim nation “Initially, we expected Barry will make a where he sat. “I want to be a president like after he was elected president in 2008. difference,” Gondokusumo said. “To be him,” he said. “I’m so proud of him.” The Many Indonesians believed he would honest, there is no significant contribution school’s principal, Edi Kusyanto, said about change the world and their country, with to this country.” Widiyanto Cahyono, 40 to 60 mainly foreign tourists visit the its deep-seated problems of poverty, cor- another of Obama’s former classmates, school every month. ruption and communal conflict. Obama is nodded in agreement. He said he initially A picture of an adult Obama standing still known here by his childhood nick- had believed that Obama’s emotional con- beside an American flag is displayed name Barry and as the “Menteng Kid,” a nection to Islam through childhood prominently in his former third-grade reference to the upscale Jakarta neighbor- friends and a Muslim stepfather would classroom, with current students pointing hood where he lived with his mother and lead to a world of greater tolerance. But to a desk in the next-to-last row as Indonesian stepfather from ages 6 to 10. now he realizes he had naively projected Obama’s. Two big photos of the president all his hopes onto Obama. adorn the school’s lobby. Kusyanto said JAKARTA: A man opens the gate of the former house of US President Barack Menteng 01 elementary “Obama has a better understanding of the statue of a young Obama, erected in Obama in Jakarta, Indonesia. — AP “We had great expectations about him Islam and his religious tolerance is gen- 2010, is a permanent fixture, because he is that were not realized,” said Sonni uine,” said Cahyono, who sat next to A sense of pride a child now stands outside the Menteng part of the school’s history. Gondokusumo, who was one of Obama’s Obama in fourth grade. “But it is a pity Even though the sky-high hopes for school, intended as an enduring reminder “The statue inspires and motivates the classmates at Menteng 01 elementary nothing has changed,” he added, pointing what Obama would achieve have faded, of the school’s one-time pupil. Back in children every day,” said Kusyanto, who has school and a neighbor, and is now a to American policy in the Middle East. He there is still a sense of connection in 2008, students watched the US election high hopes that Obama will visit the lawyer in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. recalled Obama attending Islamic study Indonesia to an important individual who results on television and erupted into school after his presidency ends. “He tried,” Obama is set to travel to Asia for the last class at the Menteng school, but said that helped shaped the world in the formative cheers when they learned Obama was Kusyanto said when asked of Obama’s time as president, visiting China for a instead of listening to the teacher, the years of the 21st century. “With Obama, headed to the White House. legacy. “Unlike his predecessor’s legacy of Group of 20 meeting and Laos for a future president acted cool by doodling a there’s a sense of pride,” Cahyono said. “He Eight years later, students chatter war in Iraq, Obama tried to change the regional summit, but not Indonesia. His superhero in his notebook. is very special for us.” A statue of Obama as enthusiastically about the pride they take world to be a better place.” — AP News in brief ‘Day of the Disappeared’

Gabon opponent cries fraud as poll count favors Bongo South Asia’s torturous wait for the missing LIBREVILLE: A count by Gabon’s electoral commission yes- terday suggested incumbent Ali Bongo had narrowly beat- en challenger Jean Ping in a presidential election that Ping’s NEW DELHI: Shova Bhatta vividly remem- tants, former militants, civilians and camp denounced as fraudulent and said the Gabonese will bers the morning 16 years ago, when five Kashmiris working for security forces, not accept. A senior source in the commission and a mem- men came to her grocery shop on the out- activists say. Families gather every year to ber of the body allied to Ping’s camp confirmed the com- skirts of the Nepali capital and took her mark the International Day of the mission numbers gave Bongo a 49.85 percent share of the husband Shyam. “They asked him to Disappeared, said Parveena Ahanger, vote to Ping’s 48.16 percent. The electoral commission was accompany them and promised that he founder of the Association of Parents of scheduled to release the results of Saturday’s poll on would be back after answering some ques- Disappeared Persons (APDP), whose son Tuesday evening, but by 11.15 am the following day, the tions,” said Bhatta. “My husband told me went missing in the early 1990s. “It gives us panel was still in a closed-door meeting. “This is a masquer- not to worry and that he would return soon some solace when many of us get together ade,” a commission member for Ping’s party, Paul Marie because he had not done any harm to any- and listen to each other.” Gondjout, told Reuters outside the commission. The oppo- one.” But 29-year-old Shyam never came sition demanded a recount of one province that showed a back. His wife insists he was kidnapped by Lack of political will turnout of 99.98 percent. The party yesterday claimed to Maoist rebels fighting to topple the feudal Experts say there is a lack of political will have an independent tally showing Ping won 59 percent of monarchy during the Himalayan nation’s to address the issue, often because govern- the vote versus 38 percent for Bongo, with only one decade-long civil war which ended in 2006. ments are implicated and investigations province left to count-a claim the government condemned The mother of two is left in limbo, fluc- can be biased, flawed and lengthy. In Sri as an effort to destabilize the country. tuating between the hope of seeing him Lanka, some 65,000 people are missing alive and the agony of believing he is dead. from its civil conflict with separatist Tamil “I still don’t know if they killed him. I don’t Tigers which ended in 2009 as well as a know if he is still alive,” she said. “If he is Marxist insurrection between 1987 and dead, I want his body as proof so I can carry 1989, according to government figures. The out our traditional last rites.” Hundreds of government has set up an office to investi- thousands of families around the world on gate but families accuse Colombo of not Tuesday marked the “International Day of doing enough. In Nepal, almost 1,400 peo- the Disappeared” - aimed at drawing atten- BOGOTA: Aide Murad holds a photo of her brother William Murad, missing since ple are missing, says the National Network tion to people gone missing amid conflict, 2001, during an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Bogota, of the Families of the Disappeared and disasters, migration or state oppression. Colombia. — AP Missing, accusing both state forces and Despite the vast numbers of missing, bers of missing people is high in South 287 people have disappeared after being Maoist rebels of committing abuses. humanitarian workers say scant attention is Asia, which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, picked up by men claiming to be law The war ended in 2006 under a United given to the plight of their families who Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan enforcement over the last seven years. Of Nations-brokered peace deal in which both spend years seeking the truth. “This is a and the Maldives and is home to one fifth these, 38 were found dead, 132 surfaced sides agreed to address war crimes within tragedy affecting millions, but it remains of humanity, say activists. alive and the fate of 117 people remains six months. The government only estab- vastly unacknowledged and underreport- The region is vulnerable to earthquakes unknown, it said. lished two panels last year to investigate dis- ed. Such indifference is extremely disturb- and floods which force hundreds of thou- appearances. The panels have collected LIBREVILLE: A supporter of the opposition candidate ing,” said Peter Maurer, president of the sands from their homes annually, and it has Missing young men thousands of complaints and have until Jean Ping sleeps at the party headquarters after having International Committee of the Red Cross witnessed violent conflicts. These include In Wunigam village in Indian adminis- February to finish their work. “I am in total spent the night waiting for the Presidential Election (ICRC). “Disappearances are often a sensi- Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long war pitting ethnic tered Kashmir’s Bandipore district, Hajra confusion about his fate,” said Ruby Shrestha result in Libreville. — AFP tive social and political issue, but that is no Tamils against state forces, a crackdown by Begam, 70, hopes her missing son Bashir whose husband went missing more than 13 excuse for inaction. Governments must India forces on people in the disputed will knock at the door one day. “When my years ago. “I don’t think he is alive. But there Woman charged with generate the political will necessary to pro- region of Kashmir and alleged state viola- son was taken by the army from his bakery, is no evidence of his death either.” biting off officer’s ear vide answers.” tions against people in Pakistan’s Baloch he had still had flour stuck to his hands,” Humanitarian workers say governments SALEM: A Massachusetts woman charged with biting region. There are also disappearances of said Begam, adding she and her husband must step up their responses, develop legal off a portion of a rookie police officer’s ear during her Child soldiers, migrants, prisoners political activists, human rights defenders, were dependent on Bashir’s earnings. “The frameworks and procedures to account for arrest outside a Salem bar has been held without bail. There are no accurate figures on the journalists and lawyers who criticize or army told us later that he ran away from the missing and provide support to fami- Emma Wiley pleaded not guilty Monday in to charges number of people missing but the ICRC, voice dissent against regimes, corporations their custody, but we don’t believe them. lies. “Those with influence and in a position including mayhem, assault and battery causing serious which works in more than 60 countries, or other powerful players. The army did not take only our source of to help should take the opportunity of the bodily injury, assault and battery on a police officer and estimates there are likely hundreds of thou- This month, rights groups accused living, but also our Bashir.” International Day of the Disappeared to resisting arrest. Prosecutors say Patrolwoman Jessica sands of victims. They include combatants Bangladesh of illegally detaining sons of According to activists, more than 8,000 recommit themselves to this issue,” said Rondinelli responded to reports of a fight outside a city missing in action and children separated members of two main opposition political people have gone missing in this volatile Maurer. “To remain in the dark, not know- bar at about 1 am Sunday. The police report says while from their families when fleeing their parties. Authorities claim they do have no region bordering Pakistan, where security ing what has happened to someone you Rondinelli was putting the 19-year-old Wiley in a cruis- homes or forced to join armed groups as knowledge of the disappearances. forces are battling a separatist insurgency. love,” Maurer said. “Imagine the pain this er, Wiley bit off a piece of the officer’s ear. Doctors were well as prisoners and migrants. The num- Bangladeshi rights group Odhikar says Almost all young men, they include mili- must cause.” — Reuters unable to re-attach it. Wiley’s attorney said his client is a Salem State University student who suffers from depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Graft-busting grandma jailing Myanmar’s delicate peace Rondinelli’s first police shift was July 1. corrupt Philippine politicians process: 4 things to know

Teenager killed in fresh MANILA: The Philippines’ top graft-buster, a courage and commitment to justice in taking NAYPYIDAW: After almost 70 years of vio- foreign businesses pile into the emerging fearless grandmother who has sued politi- head-on one of the most intractable prob- lence, Myanmar’s new civilian government nation, seeking a slice of the pie. Indian Kashmir clashes cians from the president down in her quest to lems in the Philippines,” is set to be recog- SRINAGAR: A teenager was shot dead in Indian-adminis- is holding a major conference this week rid her country of corruption, laughs in the nized when she will be awarded the Ramon aimed at brokering peace with ethnic The main roadblocks tered Kashmir yesterday as thousands of protesters engaged face of death threats-literally. Ombudsman Magsaysay Award-Asia’s version of the Nobel. in fresh clashes with security forces after weeks of deadly groups that have fought the state since its After decades of fighting and tortuous Conchita Carpio-Morales, 75, chuckled as she “She is, quite simply, an inspiring public ser- birth. Here are four things to know about debate, it is still unclear what a federal violence, police and witnesses said. Paramilitary troops fired recounted to AFP how she was reluctantly vant,” the judges said. live rounds as residents demonstrated against an earlier raid the talks: Myanmar would look like. Several insurgent obliged to put up a higher fence around her groups refused to commit to eventual dis- by soldiers searching for protest leaders in the northern vil- house after a grenade with her initials on it Indict ‘sacred cows’ lage of Nadihal, a police officer said on condition of What are the talks about? armament ahead of the conference, as was discovered by her property in 2012. Born into a family of honest lawyers, Since its 1948 independence from British demanded by the military, while others are anonymity. “The boy died in the firing. Five other protesters “I’m not scared,” she said, her eyes flashing Morales had a slow and tricky rise through also received bullet injuries,” the officer, who is not author- colonial rule, Myanmar has been locked in still actively locked in combat with state as she thumped her hand on the desk in her the ranks due to her incorruptibility, but final- simmering warfare with a diverse cast of troops. The army’s legacy of brutal warfare ized to speak to the media said. Locals said he was aged 18. office. The people she investigates “are the ly made it to the Supreme Court, where she Protesters also clashed with troops who fired shotgun pel- ethnic rebels fighting for control over their and repression has left many ethnic minori- became the first female magistrate to swear lands. By getting all the main players to the ties wary of the generals, who still control lets and tear gas in other areas of the northern Himalayan in a president in 2010. A tireless worker, she table-rebel leaders, lawmakers and the top powerful branches of the government and region including in the main city of Srinagar, another senior now puts in 12-hour days, six days a week at army brass-Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung economy. Many fear the Tatmadaw, as the police officer and witnesses said. “We have reports about 50 the Ombudsman-Sundays are reserved for San Suu Kyi hopes to reshape the former Myanmar army is known, will renege on protesters were injured in Anantnag, mostly with pellets,” the the grandchildren-and her discipline is credit- military dictatorship as a federal democracy. any deal that hurts its interests. Meanwhile, police officer said of the southern town. ed with boosting the office’s conviction rate The conference is also personal for the some powerful rebel militias that run the to 75 percent from just 41 percent when she Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi is looking to chan- lawless border regions, have shown little Australia’s Turnbull hit took office in 2011. nel the spirit of a 1947 agreement signed by interest in any deal. over same-sex marriage Despite progress under Aquino, fighting her independence hero father that granted “endemic” corruption in the Philippines is an CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm autonomy to several ethnic minority states. The wider repercussions uphill battle, she said, adding that corruption Turnbull came under pressure over same-sex marriage This week’s peace summit has been dubbed Ending the fighting would not only be flourishes when people think they can get and from within his own party yesterday as parliament the ‘21st Century Panglong’ in reference to an extraordinary feat for the fledgling away with it. “We file cases against top gov- returned for the first time since a poor showing by his that deal, which fell apart after Suu Kyi’s democracy, but a significant step towards MANILA: Philippine Ombudsman ernment officials,” she said. When the “so- coalition government in elections last month. Conchita Carpio-Morales reacts, whilst father was assassinated, but which remains opening up Myanmar’s poor but fast- Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition was reduced to a called sacred cows are indicted, that should the closest modern Myanmar has come to growing economy. A peace deal could holding some paperwork at the Office of give a signal to people to be more cautious,” razor-thin one-vote majority in the lower house after the Ombudsman in Manila. — AFP being a unified state. pave the way for foreign players to bring an early poll to break a deadlock in the upper house she added. Her biggest frustration came billions of dollars in aid to the conflict Senate backfired. The centre-left opposition Labor ones who are intimidated-that’s why they are when the Supreme Court freed ex-president Why are they happening? zones and provide the basic services now Party immediately dug in its heels over the govern- trying to scare me”. Fighting corruption is Gloria Arroyo and powerful former senator Suu Kyi has stressed that peace is vital to lacking in many areas. Peace would also ment’s proposal to hold a national plebiscite on same- dangerous work in the graft-plagued Juan Ponce Enrile despite what Morales the political and economic revival she hopes open up the north of the country to sex marriage, which it considers expensive and unnec- Philippines, where witnesses-even judges-are insists was solid evidence of graft.The pair will take root in a nation pummeled by 50 regional behemoth China, which has been essary. Labor, which wants a vote on the issue in parlia- gunned down and convicted politicians are had pleaded ill-health for years and were years of military repression. Many people in pushing several vast energy and infrastruc- ment, has garnered enough support to block the freed and re-elected. detained in government hospitals but it was conflict zones live in grinding poverty, ture projects. But this might be a double- plebiscite. “We would not be true to ourselves if we After four decades in the country’s notori- all an act, Morales said: “after you are free... despite the rich reserves of jade and tin, and edged sword. The concern is that many of said ‘we think this is a terrible idea but, all right, have a ously corrupt judiciary, Morales was looking you swagger!” Her tenaciousness has earned huge forests of prized teak wood that cover these, particularly planned hydroelectric plebiscite’,” Labor Party Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen forward to retirement when former president her many enemies, including former vice their lands. Control over these lucrative dams in Kachin and Shan states, could dev- told Sky News. “We can recognize marriage equality, Benigno Aquino asked her to head a special president Jejomar Binay, who called her “stu- resources lies at the heart of many of the astate local communities and severely that’s our job.” body to prosecute corrupt officials as part of pid” after she charged him with taking huge battles, and could be further complicated as damage the environment. — AFP his centrepiece anti-graft crusade. Her “moral kickbacks when he was mayor. — AFP NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

SANTA CLARA, Cuba: Airport workers receive the JetBlue flight 387 holding United States and Cuban national flags on the airport tarmac yesterday. — AP Rousseff stripped of presidency Wealthy Qataris taste austerity Continued from Page 1 Rousseff before finally splitting, will be president until the Continued from Page 1 cies that have been plagued by inefficiencies for years. next scheduled elections in late 2018. The 75-year-old, An economic adviser to the government, who also asked “I will not associate my name with this infamy,” read a known more as a backroom wheeler-dealer than street The austerity measures may be light compared with to remain anonymous as he is not authorized to speak sign held up by one senator. “Coup plotters!” others chanted. politician, took over in an interim role after Rousseff’s ini- those felt by expatriate workers and poorer energy-pro- publicly, said there was a freeze on recruitment in some Renan Calheiros, the Senate president, rejected tial suspension in May. He immediately named a new gov- ducing countries, but they have nevertheless unnerved government departments and more scrutiny on spend- Rousseff’s claim of a coup, saying her impeachment ernment with an agenda of shifting Brazil to the right some locals for whom affluence and stellar economic ing. He said reducing inefficiencies, while painful, would might not have been perfect, but had “the DNA of after more than a decade of leftist rule that saw 29 million growth have been the norm. A merger of several min- benefit the state in the long run, even once oil prices democracy, the DNA of the constitution”. Brazil’s first people lifted from poverty, but became bogged down in istries early this year did not affect the salaries or bene- rebounded. female president, holed up in the presidential palace on corruption and the economic slump. Temer has earned fits of Qataris - which are still viewed as sacrosanct - but Many Qataris are drawn to public-sector positions the outskirts of the capital Brasilia with close aides, was plaudits from investors. It remains uncertain whether he did entail sharp cuts in “discretionary” spending, accord- which typically involve more favorable working hours expected to make a statement. Her vice president turned will have voters’ support to push through the painful aus- ing to three government ministry officials. and better salaries and benefits than private companies. bitter political enemy, Michel Temer, was to be sworn in terity reforms he promises. “We stopped receiving a daily paper,” said one of the It is not yet clear how successful the efficiency drive has as her replacement, the Senate president announced. About 50 leftist demonstrators gathered outside the officials, who said colleagues had been encouraged not been, although in the 2016 budget “minor capital Temer, a veteran center-right politician, was then to leave presidential palace to show their support for Rousseff. “We to fly business class and to cut back on trips abroad for expenditure”, an area of discretionary spending that tra- for a G20 summit in China. are protesting against the coup and fighting for democra- overseas conferences. “Journal subscriptions were can- ditionally includes smaller building projects such as Rousseff, from the leftist Workers’ Party, is accused of cy,” said 61-year-old farmer Orlando Ribeiro. In the center celled. Some who had their own offices were moved into refurbishments, fell by 70 percent year-on-year. taking illegal state loans to patch budget holes in 2014, of the capital, extra security and the closing of avenues shared offices.” The economy, finance and labor min- Salaries account for 50 billion riyals ($13.7 billion) - masking the country’s problems as it slid into its deepest near the Senate caused massive traffic jams. Police said istries did not respond to requests for comment. about a quarter - of Qatar’s expenditure. Previous auster- recession in decades. She told the Senate during a they were preparing for large protests later in the day. ity steps in Qatar, such as utility bill rises in late 2015 and marathon 14-hour session on Monday that she is inno- On the Senate floor, emotions crackled in the run-up Overseas Travel a reduction in fuel subsidies earlier this year, have fallen cent and that abuse of the impeachment process put to the vote, then overflowed as senators made final Another official, from the labor ministry, said as a hardest on poorly paid foreign construction workers - as Brazil’s democracy, restored in 1985 after a two-decades- speeches on what both sides of the debate agreed was result of the merger hundreds of Qatari government will a 5 percent sales tax on consumer goods and servic- long military dictatorship, at risk. history in the making. Senator Aecio Neves, Rousseff’s employees had been left with no work since January as es planned for 2018. This trend risks increasingly polariz- Recalling how she was tortured and imprisoned in the narrowly defeated center-right opponent in her 2014 re- the government scrambled to find them new positions ing the country between wealthy Qataris at the top and 1970s for belonging to a leftist guerrilla group, Rousseff election, pronounced triumphantly: “The constitution while continuing to pay their salaries. Staff in the labor Asian blue-collar workers at the bottom. urged senators to “vote against impeachment, vote for won. Brazil won!” But Senator Vanessa Grazziotin was ministry were told that travelling abroad for further edu- However Syed Bashar, a former economist with democracy... Do not accept a coup.” However, huge anti- scathing in her summing up of an “illegal process that is cation while working for the government - an appealing Qatar’s central bank, said Qatari workers could increas- Rousseff street demonstrations over the last year have called impeachment but is a coup”. “Temer does not have aspect of the job for many Qataris - was now limited to ingly feel the weight of austerity as the government tar- reflected nationwide anger at her management of a coun- legitimacy to govern this country,” she warned. “This is a those pursuing technical or vocational degrees, the offi- gets state entities to narrow the deficit. “The govern- try suffering double-digit unemployment and inflation. farce, a farce, a farce,” shouted another pro-Rousseff sena- cial said. He and the other officials declined to be named ment will not be able to provide the vast majority of The once mighty Workers’ Party, meanwhile, has struggled tor, Lindbergh Farias. Shaking his fists at the majority as they are not authorized to speak publicly. Qatari jobs indefinitely,” he added. “Nor can it guarantee to stage more than small rallies. backing impeachment, he cried: “They’re going in the Qatari authorities say the oil price slump provides an that salaries keep rising as they did. This will be upset- Temer, who was in an uncomfortable partnership with garbage can of history.” — AFP opportunity to curb the excesses of government agen- ting for some nationals.” — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 ANALYSIS

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By Paul Handley

S President Barack Obama’s two most ambitious trade deals appear increasingly in trouble, victims of Uelectoral politics at home and in Europe and a tick- ing clock on his administration. Neither the Trans-Pacific Partnership nor the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is dead, but analysts say the hurdles to getting either completed by the end of Obama’s term next January 20 are now almost insurmountable. For the TPP, already negotiated with 11 other Pacific Rim countries and only needing ratification by the Congress, the political atmosphere has been soured with both presi- dential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, pitch- ing for votes, saying they are opposed to it. As for TTIP - a treaty with the entire European Union - negotiations are Death of IS tactician comes at critical moment stuck on the toughest issues and European politicians, fac- ing elections next year, are likewise declaring opposition. French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that By Samia Nakhoul and Angus McDowall against Aleppo. It pledged to avenge his death but did not who are also fighting each other, have squeezed IS’ once TTIP talks “will not lead to an agreement by the end of the disclose details on how he died or who was killed with him. expansive tracts along the Turkish border and Euphrates year,” and hours earlier his junior minister for trade Matthias he US air strike believed to have killed Abu A US defense official told Reuters the United States targeted basin. These advances have all but cut off Islamic State from Fekl called for an end to the talks. “There is no more politi- Mohammad Al-Adnani has deprived Islamic State of Adnani on Tuesday in a strike on a vehicle travelling in the its last foothold on the Turkish border, its link to new foreign cal support in France for these negotiations,” he said. And in Tthe architect of its attacks on the West, as it faces the Syrian town of Al-Bab. He stopped short of confirming recruits, while a steady push from the north has brought its Germany, vice chancellor and economy minister Sigmar loss of swathes of its heartlands. One of the last survivors of Adnani’s death, however. Such US assessments often take enemies to within 30 km of its Syrian capital Raqqa. Gabriel said the talks “have de facto failed”. the Al-Qaeda militants who originally formed Islamic State days and often lag behind official announcements by mili- But these strategic setbacks are not Islamic State’s only While negotiators from both sides quickly respond- last decade in Iraq, including its self-appointed caliph Abu tant groups. interest in the Aleppo countryside: Just 30 km northwest of ed that the talks were certainly alive and making Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Adnani had risen to become one of its Adnani’s presence in the Aleppo countryside may reflect its Al-Bab, where Adnani was reportedly killed in an airstrike after progress, analysts said both TTIP and TPP would likely most influential leaders. strategic and symbolic importance to Islamic State. The north- arriving to tour the battlefield, is the village of Dabiq. A few be stalled to at least 2018. “The clock has basically run “It’s a major morale and propaganda blow to the group west has become both the most active theatre of Syria’s war streets surrounded by fields, it will be the site, says Islamic out,” said Gary Hufbauer, a trade expert at the Peterson because it shows that their top leadership is being targeted and an arena for competing regional and global powers. The prophecy, of a final battle between Muslims and infidels that Institute for International Economics in Washington. “I by an effective and organised chain,” Brig Gen Yahya Rasool, government and mainstream rebel groups, which between will herald the apocalypse. So important is this event in agree more with the ‘more dead than alive’ camp in this spokesman for the joint operations command of Iraq’s army, them hold most of Syria’s western, most populous, regions, Islamic State propaganda, of which Adnani was the chief, that debate,” he told AFP. told Reuters in Baghdad. Not only did Adnani orchestrate have focused on their battle for control of Aleppo, Syria’s Dabiq was the name chosen for its online magazine that Not a big free trade advocate before he was first elect- Islamic State’s propaganda effort, an undertaking at the biggest city before the war, and a strategic prize. sought to inspire new recruits to its militant cause and ed in 2008, Obama has strongly pursued what he has heart of its quest to lay waste modern nation states, but he But to the north and east, a secondary conflict has played instruct them in the ways of global jihad. called “trade deals for the 21st century”. Each would dwarf also served as one of its principle military planners. If his out as US-backed Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed rebels, any previous free trade treaty, going beyond cutting death is confirmed, those skills will be hard to replace, even HAMMERED goods tariffs to establish rules governing data trade, in a group as resilient as Islamic State, after a series of territo- Hammered by two years of US-led coalition air strikes and investment rights, intellectual property rights and other rial losses and killings of top leaders. military losses on the ground, Adnani increasingly called in issues not covered in past deals. Both deals were set up to In recent months Islamic State’s losses in Iraq have audio messages for attacks against the United States and be negotiated largely in secret and be presented to mounted. Fallujah has fallen in the west and Iraqi forces have Western countries. His group said it was behind deadly attacks respective governments and legislatures as completed captured key approaches to Mosul, the ancient Tigris city in Paris, Nice and Brussels. The shift was partly born of tactical deals for up-or-down votes. whose fall in 2014 signalled the group’s lightning rise. necessity after Western and regional governments made it Meanwhile, advances by a US-backed coalition in Syria have harder for would-be militants to travel to Syria or Iraq to join Hot Issue all but cut Islamic State off from the Turkish border, after the the group. “If the tyrants close the door of migration in your The 12 TPP countries reached agreement in Oct 2015, loss of the key town of Manbij, and started to press into its faces, then open the door of jihad in theirs and turn their and the main challenge to implementing it is ratification Euphrates valley heartland. actions against them,” he said in an audio clip. by the US Congress. But with opponents arguing that pre- Few people expect further advances against Islamic State Born in 1977 as Taha Subhi Falaha in Syria’s Idlib Province vious trade deals have cost US jobs, TPP has become a hot to be rapid or straightforward, but the group’s enemies have southwest of Aleppo, he pledged allegiance to Islamic State’s issue ahead of the US presidential and congressional elec- built a clear momentum in both Iraq and Syria that has predecessor, Al-Qaeda, more than a decade ago and was once tions coming on Nov 8. TTIP has not figured much in the pushed it to adopt a strategy of attacks overseas. Adnani was imprisoned by US forces in Iraq. He left Syria to travel to Iraq US campaign, but this week’s comments show it will in the man behind that policy, demonstrating an ideological to fight US forces there after its 2003 invasion, and only the French and German elections next year. “Election peri- and tactical flexibility that allowed the group first to capi- returned to his homeland after the start of its own civil war in ods are always not good times for trade agreements,” talise on its seizure of land, and then to adapt as it was 2011, a person who knew his family said. A biography posted Hufbauer told AFP. forced to retreat. on militant websites says he grew up with a “love of mosques” Moreover, relative to TPP, the TTIP talks have been rushed, In doing so, Islamic State has made a switch in emphasis and was a prolific reader. and have been tripped up by Britain’s June vote to withdraw from its dreams of unifying all Muslims under a single, militant A US counter-terrorism official who monitors Islamic State from the European Union, potentially removing a key US ally caliphate, to an older jihadist strategy of striking terror into its said Adnani’s death would hurt the militants “in the area that from the deal. “It was never going to be easy between the US enemies by attacking them in their own countries. But it has increasingly concerns us as the group loses more and more of and the EU because basically you have the two elephants (of done this partly by harnessing shock tactics and social media its caliphate and its financial base ... and turns to mounting global trade) negotiating with each other,” said Frances to inspire and guide attacks by radicalized amateurs, rather and inspiring more attacks in Europe, Southeast Asia and else- Burwell at the Atlantic Council. Obama has a chance to move than rely solely upon the highly trained but cumbersome mili- where”. Hisham Al-Hashimi, a Baghdad-based security analyst both deals forward before leaving office. He could submit tant cells of an earlier era. This, in part, was Adnani’s legacy. that advises the Iraqi government on IS affairs: said: ‘As a mili- TPP to Congress for ratification after the election, and before tary target, Adnani is less important than (ex-war minister the new Congress takes office in early January, when legisla- Apocalyptic Prophecy Omar) Al-Shishani...(killed earlier this year in Iraq). His death tors could vote with less political pressure. Islamic State said on Tuesday Adnani was killed “while ismainly a blow to their morale, he is the one who inspires the But Daniel Ikenson, a trade expert at the Cato Institute, surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns Abu Mohammad Al-Adnani fighters to join in Syria.” — Reuters gives that “about a one percent chance” of succeeding. “I think the votes are really not there,” he said, with the nor- mally pro-free trade Republican Party deeply divided. Obama could also drive his chief trade negotiator, Michael Froman, to finish a TTIP deal before he exits. But that could Lone children seeking UK asylum rising require big US compromises, which coud create a political firestorm for his successor. “There is some chance that we will be very close to what is known as a political agreement By Lin Taylor family being killed or arrested. They might have hundreds of child migrants have ended up liv- just some of the dangers faced by children by the end of Obama’s term, but it’s dicey. It’s not a sure been trafficked. They’re all traumatized when ing in squalid camps, Kent is on the frontlines travelling without their parents, the UN chil- thing,” said Burwell. hen Alan, a British foster parent, first they get here,” he said. of refugee arrivals in the UK with 825 unaccom- dren’s agency, UNICEF, says. Given the risk of Both deals, then, are almost certain to be left to the next took in a teenager who had fled panied minors in its care as of Aug 22, com- abuse, UNICEF said Britain should do more to president, widely expected to be Clinton. As Obama’s sec- Wpoverty and political repression in Overstretched pared with 730 last September. Under the resettle lone children stranded in Calais and retary of state she supported the negotiating effort but has Eritrea, the boy was so scarred by his journey to As Europe grapples with its worst refugee Children Act 1989, British councils have a legal across Europe. “There should be more reset- opposed TPP on the campaign trail. Never mind that, said the UK that he barely spoke. Then 16, the boy crisis since World War Two, the need for British responsibility to care for children who arrive tlement places for those children whose best Ikenson. “Presidential candidates tend to be more populist was smuggled into Britain underneath a truck foster carers and support services is greater from abroad, seeking asylum. interest is to be in the UK, along with legal and more anti-trade. Presidents themselves see the light... nursing a broken arm, having fallen from the than ever, charities and government officials Though new arrivals have dropped, Kent routes like family reunion,” said Melanie Teff, Clinton will find a way to support it.” Trump is more of a vehicle somewhere in France. Five years on, the say. In 2015, nearly 96,000 lone children sought council says it is struggling to support the chil- policy advisor at UNICEF UK. “We’re not say- cipher, with his campaign advisors including some anti- traumatized teenager was now a 21-year-old asylum in the European Union, almost four dren they have in their system, and has urged ing the UK should take every unaccompa- trade ideologues, noted Ikenson. But even then, existing man with a home of his own in Kent, southeast times as many as the previous year, according other local authorities to take in some minors nied child in Europe but ... we’re dealing with laws and industry pressure could force a president Trump England. And when Alan walked into the to the European Asylum Support Office. In through a voluntary dispersal scheme a global refugee crisis and the UK needs to into supporting the deals, he posited. —AFP young man’s housewarming party, it was one Britain alone, 3,472 children applied for asylum launched in July. With around 20 young people step up and play its part in responsibility of the proudest moments as a foster parent. in the 12 months to June this year, an increase dispersed so far, and very few councils express- sharing for that.” “We all went to his moving-in party and it of 54 percent compared with the previous year ing interest to resettle them, Peter Oakford, For Joanne in Kent, fostering a child asy- was fantastic,” said Alan, who declined to give which had 2,252 claims. The highest number of Kent’s councillor in charge of children’s services, lum seeker for the first time in November his full name to protect other foster children in claims came from children arriving from said the scheme should be mandatory. “The was a natural response to the refugee crisis. All articles appearing on these pages his care. “When they arrive, they’re so anxious Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran. dispersal program really isn’t any good. We “I just don’t think there’s enough people will- are the personal opinion of the writers. and frightened. And to see them feel more at Foster carers hosted 2,630 asylum-seeking can’t even get a list of local authorities from ing to open their homes within the UK to the home and making friends, that is so rewarding. children in 2015, a 29 percent increase on 2014 government that have signed up to partici- real problems that are out there,” said Kuwait Times takes no responsibility They are the standout moments,” Alan said in a (2,030) and a 35 percent increase on 2013 pate,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Joanne, who spoke on condition of for views expressed therein. Kuwait phone interview with the Thomson Reuters (1,940), according to government data. But the head of the local government’s anonymity. “There’s a lot of ignorance. I do Foundation. Although the number of people wishing to fos- refugee taskforce, David Simmonds said the believe that a lot of people have no under- Times invites readers to voice their The British father of six and his partner have ter child asylum seekers continues to grow, interests of the child would be better served if standing of these children - and they really opinions. Please send submissions via been fostering unaccompanied asylum-seek- there are not enough legal aid, mental health councils were not forced to take them in. don’t understand that they’ve had an horrif- ing children in Kent for nearly seven years, services or schooling for new arrivals, charity Simmonds, who recently returned from his first ic journey coming here.” email to: [email protected] or looking after teenagers from Iran, Iraq, workers said. “The social services are greatly visit to Calais, said British local authorities were Alan said despite the challenges, he will via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Vietnam, Albania and currently a 17-year-old stretched. The whole situation is a bit difficult in doing a reasonable job with limited resources. continue to take in unaccompanied children boy from Afghanistan. As difficult as it is to gain Kent for young people and for the council as “The big challenge is if there’s going to be a as long as there is a need. “We’re embracing Kuwait. The editor reserves the right to their trust and to support them as they adjust well,” said Asma Salah, a British Red Cross case- very significant increase in numbers,” he added. them and giving them a big cuddle, so to edit any submission as necessary. to a new life in Britain, it is nothing compared worker in one of the main arrival points for speak. We want to guide them, show kindness with the journey these children have taken, migrants crossing the English Channel. Best Interest of the Child and let them know that they’ve got some- Alan said. “Some witnessed a member of their As the closest British county to Calais, where Rape, forced labor, beatings and death are body here that they can rely on.” — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

‘Impossible’ to improve Police fire teargas at Bony joins Stoke on Madrid squad: Perez Sri Lanka cricket fans loan from Man City MADRID: Real Madrid president Florentino Perez insists the European champi- DAMBULLA: Sri Lankan police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of fans trying LONDON: Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony has joined Stoke City on a season- ons’ squad is “impossible to improve” after an uncharacteristically quiet transfer to force their way into a stadium where the home team were playing their fourth long loan from Manchester City, the two Premier League clubs announced yes- window. Perez, known for splashing hundreds of millions of euros in previous one-day international against Australia yesterday. About 300 fans tried to force terday. The 27-year-old joined City from Swansea City for a reported fee of 25 years on the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez, has their way into the 18,000-capacity Dambulla stadium after the authorities million pounds ($32.8 million, 29.5 million euros) in January 2015, but has limited his spending to just a 30-million-euro ($33.5 million) buy- announced that all tickets had been sold and asked anyone without tickets to made only 46 appearances since then, scoring 10 goals. “#SCFC back of Alvaro Morata from Juventus. “We have won the leave the area, a police official said. “We asked them to go, but they tried to break delighted to announce the season-long loan signing of @wil- European Super Cup and the first two games in La Liga,” Perez in while some blocked the main road by sitting down,” said a police official in friedbony from @ManCity,” Stoke wrote on their official said of Real’s 100 percent start to the season. “We have a Dambulla, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Colombo. “The situation Twitter page. Bony was pictured holding a club shirt at spectacular squad and it is impossible to improve.” Madrid was quickly brought under control,” added the official who spoke on condition of Stoke’s training ground. He had earlier tweeted: “It’s a new appealed a one-year transfer ban imposed by FIFA to allow anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media. There were no day and I look forward to a new exciting challenge.” Bony them to sign players this summer, but they could be barred immediate reports of casualties. There were also chaotic scenes during the third has made 44 appearances for Ivory Coast, scoring 13 goals, from registering new players after Wednesday’s deadline until ODI at the same venue on Sunday when fans without tickets broke through bar- and was a member of the team that tasted glory at the 2015 January 2018 should their appeal fail. Zinedine Zidane ricades and entered the stadium en masse, dislodging thousands of ticket-hold- Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea. He was signed by inspired a remarkable turnaround in Madrid’s for- ers from their seats. Sri Lankans are cricket-crazy, but interest in the game has City to provide back-up for Sergio Aguero, but young tunes after being hired as coach in January, lead- soared to new heights since Angelo Mathews and his team recorded a historic Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho moved ahead of ing Real to an 11th European Cup. — AFP whitewash in their recent three-match Test series against Australia. — AFP him in the pecking order. — AFP Vera Caslavska, Czech gymnastics great dead

PRAGUE: Vera Caslavska, a multiple Czechoslovakia to crush the reforms in Olympic gymnastics gold medalist who August. Facing a possible persecution, stood up against the 1968 Soviet-led inva- Caslavska went into hiding and was allowed sion of Czechoslovakia, has died. She was 74. only just before the Mexico Olympics to join The Czech Olympic Committee yesterday the national gymnastics team. said Caslavska died in Prague late Tuesday. She triumphed in four disciplines, win- Caslavska had cancer of pancreas and ning the Olympic gold in the vault, the underwent surgery on May 15 last year, the individual all-round, the floor exercises and committee previously said. She had later the uneven bars. With another two silver undergone chemotherapy treatment. medals at the 1968 Games, she became the Born on May 3, 1942 in Prague, top medalist and was later named the Caslavska claimed her first Olympic medal - world’s best female athlete of the year. a silver - at the 1960 Rome Games. Her For many, she will be remembered for golden era began three years later. She her silent protest against the Soviet inva- won three Olympic golds in Tokyo in 1964 - sion. Standing on the top of the medal in the vault, the individual all-round and stands alongside Soviet gymnast Larisa the balance beam - to establish herself as a Petrik, with whom she shared the gold in major force in her sport. the floor exercise, Caslavska turned her head down and to the right when the Soviet national anthem was played. Combined with her gymnastic perform- ances, the gesture made her the star of the games. At home, Caslavska faced persecu- tion from the post-invasion hard-line Communist regime. It wasn’t until 1974 that she was allowed to work as coach in her country and later, in 1979-81, in Mexico. After the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel ended more SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands smiles prior to the third practice session at the Belgian Formula One than 40 years of communism, Caslavska Grand Prix circuit in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. — AP became Havel’s adviser and was elected the president of the Czechoslovak and later of the Czech Olympic Committee. In 1995- Verstappen in focus as 2001, she was a member of the International Olympic Committee. She Vera Caslavska received the UN’s Pierre de Coubertin Prize for promoting fair play in 1989 and was Hamilton eyes hat-trick Four years later, Caslavska became an also awarded the Olympic Order. outspoken supporter of Alexander Dubcek’s In a personal setback, her marriage with liberal reforms meant to lead toward Josef Odlozil, an athlete whom she married MONZA: Formula One is braced for the next (at Monza), but I think he first has to realise what around are starting to think twice how to over- democratization of communist during the Mexico Games, ended in the episode of the Max Verstappen show as Red he did in turn one.” Raikkonen, the 2007 world take him... I just fear that it might end up in the Czechoslovakia, an era known as the Prague 1980s. Her son, Martin, was found guilty of Bull’s teen sensation heads for Ferrari’s home cir- champion for Ferrari, warned afterwards that wall heavily one day. For me it is refreshing but Spring. She signed the Two Thousand assault that led to his father’s death in 1993 cuit only days after making the Italian team’s Verstappen’s late block that forced the Finn to dangerous.” Wolff will be hoping his drivers are Words manifesto published in June 1968 and was sentenced to four years in prison. drivers see red. brake on the straight at Spa could have trig- safely out in front, with Hamilton seeking to that called for deeper pro-democratic Although he was soon pardoned by Havel, While triple world champion Lewis Hamilton gered a big accident. Monza is even faster, with extend his nine-point lead over Nico Rosberg in changes. That document angered the Caslavska had to undergo treatment for is aiming for his 50th grand prix win on Sunday, the turbo hybrid cars hitting 360 km per hour on the last European race of the season. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who depression and withdrew temporarily from to become the first since Argentine Juan Manuel the straight, and Sunday’s race promises another The Briton took a hit at Spa, starting at the ordered the Warsaw Pact’s troops to invade the public life. — AP Fangio in the 1950s to win three years in a row at battle between Ferrari and Red Bull to be best of back after taking engine penalties, but still fin- Monza, Verstappen will be the talk of the town. the rest behind leaders Mercedes. ished third behind his team mate and now has a “I told him not to tell anyone where he is stay- plentiful supply of fresh power units to last him ing in Monza because there might be a few ELBOWS OUT the rest of the campaign. “The speed, the history, angry fans,” team boss Christian Horner joked While Verstappen has thrilled fans, with the the atmosphere... it’s just so iconic in every way,” after a controversial Belgian Grand Prix last youngster busy rewriting the record books he said of the ‘Pista Magica’ outside Milan. weekend. The 18-year-old tangled with Kimi after winning in Spain and starting on the front “Standing on that amazing podium, looking Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel at the start row in Belgium, there are those who feel limits out over a sea of fans on the straight, has to be before aggressively defending against the for- need to be set. up there as of the most incredible experiences a mer later in the race and then refusing to accept “He comes in here, no fear and no respect,” sportsman can have,” he said., any criticism. said Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff in “I had a perfect weekend on track there last “I think they should be ashamed to cause a Spa. “He puts the elbow out and it reminds me year. If I can repeat that it would be amazing... crash like that with their amount of experience of the great ones. It reminds me of Lewis and it It’s game on for me now with the penalties out and then complain about me,” the unrepentant reminds me of Ayrton Senna. of the way and fresh engines ready to use. I can’t Dutchman said. “Vettel can come and talk to me “And you can clearly see that some guys wait to get back out there.” — Reuters Golden Rose backs Ryder rookie Pieters

HONG KONG: Olympic gold medallist Justin Rose gave Ryder Cup rookie Thomas Pieters a ringing endorsement yesterday after the big-hitting Belgian was picked for the biennial match against the US next month. “The really difficult decision was choosing Thomas Pieters over Russell Knox, two guys who are in form, two guys who deserve their place in the team,” Rose told a news teleconfer- ence, as he confirmed he would defend his Hong Kong Open In this Oct., 1968, file photo, Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia holds her four title in December. “Choosing one of them was always going to Olympic medals, three gold and one silver which she won in the gymnastics competi- be very, very difficult but I think what Thomas has shown Darren tion. Caslavska, multiple Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics and the most famous (Clarke) in the last few weeks has been incredible,” added Rose. Czech sports woman of all times who stood up against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke announced of Czechoslovakia. — AP England’s Lee Westwood, Germany’s Martin Kaymer and Pieters as his three wildcards on Tuesday. Clarke had been widely expected to turn to experienced Brazil’s Braz to rain on Ryder Cup campaigners Westwood and Kaymer, but Pieters was picked ahead of Scotland’s Russell Knox who was the Lavillenie’s parade again highest ranked player not to qualify automatically. “The phone call to Russell was one of the hardest I have ZURICH: Brazilian upstart Thiago Braz Da adding: “As a professional athlete, Renaud ever had to make,” admitted Clarke as he announced his choic- Silva has already rained on Renaud should have prepared for everything. es for the match at Hazeltine National in Minnesota. Lavillenie’s parade once this season, steal- Personally I couldn’t change anything.” But Rose, who will be making his fourth Ryder Cup appear- ing the Frenchman’s thunder to take a Braz, whose winning 6.03-metre vault in ance, said he fully backed his captain’s judgement. shock gold at his home Olympics in Rio. Rio was his personal best, added: “I don’t Rose noted that Pieters had made a bold statement for While Lavillenie already has a record go out wanting to beat Renaud or the inclusion with a stunning opening round of 62 playing along- seventh consecutive Diamond Race title in French vaulters, but simply to go as high as side Clarke on his way to victory at last week’s Made in the bag, Braz is ready to push for a symbol- possible.” In potential bad news for Denmark tournament. ic season-ending pole vault victory over Lavillenie and his French cohorts, however, Two weeks earlier Pieters had just missed the podium in France’s 2012 Olympic champion at Braz signalled his intention to up his level Rio. In between he was runner-up at the Czech Masters. Thursday’s Diamond League meet. of competition next season, when the “He finished fourth in the Olympics and then second and Lavillenie was reduced to tears at Rio’s world athletics championships will be held first in his last two events,” said Rose. “And the style and man- Olympic Stadium as the raucous, partisan in London in August. “In 2017, I want to ner in which he won over the weekend I think really impressed crowd got behind local hero Braz and vault more often after a season focused on the captain.” jeered the Frenchman both during compe- the Olympics,” said the Brazilian, who has Rose believes the 24-year-old Pieters has the type of game tition and when he collected his silver had just eight competitions this year. that can suit the team format of the Ryder Cup, where players medal on the podium. “Next year I’ll be more present in need to adapt to foursome (alternate shot), fourball and sin- He was later consoled, among others, by European meets, a dozen or so of them to gles play over three days of intense competition. IOC president Thomas Bach and IAAF chief give a continuity to my results.” “I think Thomas is a great young talent. He’s good for the Sebastian Coe. “He remains an opponent,” Braz said he had been slightly over- dynamic of the team,” said Rose. Braz said of Lavillenie Wednesday, with the whelmed by the reactions in Brazil to his “He’s very long off the tee and has a great short game so I two vaulters enjoying somewhat frosty gold medal-winning performance. think maybe the captain has the option of playing him in relations. “In Brazil, there’s no real culture of ath- many different formats with many different players.” “Whether he wins or not, that doesn’t letics, of pole vaulting. But kids have Rose promised he would bring his Olympic gold medal to change anything for me. I have to do my come up to me in the street to ask me Hong Kong when he defends his title in December. job. Now I wish we have good relations. “I how to do pole vault,” he said. “It’s odd to There he will come up against Masters champion Danny tried to calm down the public when the have this sudden celebrity. I saw famous Willett, who also confirmed his participation Wednesday in FARMINGDALE: Olympic gold medal winner, Justin Rose of England, tees off from jeering started, but they carried on,” Braz sportspeople on the television before and the co-sanctioned European Tour and Asian Tour event at said of the hostility shown Lavillenie, now it’s me. —AFP the first hole during the final round of The Barclays golf tournament in Fanling from December 8-11. — AFP Farmingdale, NY, — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS Rejuvenated Webster relishes Castleford return

LONDON: Despite almost quitting a year Friday. “Last season I was looking at age in my arm, which was a bit of a scare. favour from Hull FC, the table-toppers Leigh. The 32-year-old former Hull KR co- ago, Jake Webster believes he has up to some easier options, perhaps not play- This year I damaged my ankle ligaments and newly minted Challenge Cup win- captain had another year left on his con- three years left in him as he prepares to ing full-time anymore, but then pre-sea- so it’s been a bit of torture having to ners. Black and Whites coach Lee tract with Saints, but has not played for return to action with Castleford Tigers son gave me a bit of hope,” said Webster, watch the guys. “But I’m getting back Radford believes the best is still to come them since April and will return with his this week. who signed a new deal with the Tigers and hopefully will be good to go against from his squad. “That’s the togetherness family to Australia. The former Melbourne Storm veteran, earlier this season. Wakefield.” Friday’s clash is a must-win we have in this team,” he said. “We have “It is the right time to move back 32, sat out the end of last season with “I’ve really found a new lease of life at for the Tigers if they are to maintain any the ingredients there to go on from this. home and take up a new challenge,” said nerve damage in his shoulder and was the club this season. I got my chance hope of making the Super League play- We have the foundations in place to go Burns. “My wife and kids have followed beginning to question whether to move because of injuries and now I’m loving it offs. Currently sixth, they must win all and achieve more. “There’s the League me around Australia and the UK for sev- on from professional rugby altogether. again. “I feel I’ve got a least another year four of their remaining games and hope Leaders’ Shield to still play for and then eral years and now it’s time to put them But a 45-mile (72-km) move from Hull in the legs and hopefully two or three. that St Helens in the fourth and final we could be only 80 minutes away from first.” Wigan kick off the round by wel- to Castleford to be closer to the Tigers, We moved to Castleford with my wife, spot lose all of theirs. a Grand Final.” coming Widnes today, while Challenge along with a successful pre-season, has which took 45 minutes off my journey, Saints this week announced they are Cup runners-up Warrington will aim to rejuvenated him and he is raring to go and that helps the legs as well. BURNS HOMEWARD BOUND releasing Travis Burns, their Australian bounce back at Catalans Dragons on against Wakefield in the Super 8s on “The injury last year was nerve dam- This weekend, therefore, they need a stand-off, who is currently on loan at Saturday. — AFP Three Russians fail retroactive Beijing dope tests

LAUSANNE: Three more Russian Olympic psoitive for turinabol and stanozolol. medallists have tested positive for banned Moldovan Alexandru Dudoglo and Azeri substances in retroactive dope tests origi- Intigam Zairov, who lifted respectively in nally taken at Beijing 2008, Games organis- the -69kg and -85kg divisions, are also sus- ers the IOC said yesterday. Six sportsmen- pended. Weightlifting has a sorry history five weightlifters and one track and field when it comes to doping with five athletes athlete-four of whom won medals, were excluded from the Rio 2016 Games earlier named on Wednesday as doping con- this month due to positive tests. trollers use new methods to analyse sam- Just days after the Olympics in Brazil ples taken from both Beijing and the came to an end, the International London 2012 Games. The other three ath- Weightlifting Federation (IWF) revealed the letes were from the former Soviet names of 15 more athletes, including three Republics of Armenia, Moldova and Beijing gold medallists, to have failed Azerbaijan. reanalysed Games dope tests. Russia’s 4x400m women’s silver medal- Around 100 athletes have failed retested list Tatiana Firova, the only athlete, tested Olympic doping samples from Beijing and positive for the banned steroid turinabol London, including many Russians as the and testosterone. Russian weightlifters IOC grapples with numerous drug scandals Nadezda Evstyukhina, who was third in the that rocked the build-up to the Rio Games. women’s -75kg, was found to have turin- The plethora of doping scandals result- abol and the blood booster EPO in her sys- ed in around a third of the Russian delega- tem, and Marina Shainova, who was sec- tion being prevented from taking part in ond in the under 58kg category, had traces Rio as various international sporting feder- of turinabol and stanozolol, another ations punished the country in the wake of steroid. a damaging World-Anti-Doping Agency Armenia’s Tigran Martirosyan, who won report accusing Russia of state-sponsored bronze in the under 69kg category, was doping. — AFP Russia to hold alternative event for banned athletes

MOSCOW: Russia will hold a two-day appears to have exhausted all legal alley- competition next week for its Paralympic ways to get back into the Paralympics squad banned from Rio, a top sports offi- before they start on September 7. Kuwaiti athletes leave cial said yesterday after Switzerland’s fed- Last week Russian President Vladimir eral court rejected their final appeal. Putin lashed out against the ban, calling “We’re planning to hold on September 7- the decision “outside the law, morality, 8 a series of tournaments for the coun- humanity”. But Putin vowed to give for Rio 2016 Paralympics try’s Paralympic athletes at the training Russia’s banned Paralympians a platform bases in the Moscow region,” R-Sport “to show all their skills”. news agency quoted Russia’s Paralympic A Kremlin spokesman said yesterday By Abdellatif Sharaa athletes win Olympic medals to have Kuwait’s Committee head Vladimir Lukin as saying. that it was still to be decided if Putin flag and anthem there. He said the club pre- Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court would attend the event. Russia’s Olympic KUWAIT: Kuwait’s disabled team will head to Rio pared its six players through foreign training on Wednesday rejected an appeal aimed squad narrowly escaped a total ban from de Janeiro today to participate in the camps the last of which was in Turkey for the at overturning a blanket ban on Russia the Rio Games, although all of their track Paralympics to be held there from Sept 7 until athletics and in Germany for shooter Al-Dousary. from the Paralympics over allegations of and field team except US-based long- Sept 18. Al-Hajiri appreciated the attention Kuwait’s state-run doping. jumper Darya Klishina were prevented Kuwait Disabled Club President Shafi Al-Hajiri disabled sports are receiving from Information The ruling-which followed an earlier from competing due to the allegations of said the team will participate in Athletics with Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh rejection by the Lausanne-based Court of state-sponsored drug cheating and cor- five players, Hamad Al-Adwani, Ahmad Naqa, Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Arbitration for Sport-means that Russia ruption. — AFP Nasser Saleh, Abdallah Al-Seif and Mohammad who provided all types of support to the club to Mijbel, in addition to shooter Atif Al-Dousari. enhance the players’ level. He also thanked Al-Hajiri said the team will participate under Director General of Public Authority for Sports the Kuwaiti flag as per laws of the International Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah for Disabled Sports Federation, and hoped Kuwait his continued support. Anti-doping group seeks reform of ‘deeply damaged’ system

COPENHAGEN: Top officials of the IOC and oth- er sporting bodies would be banned from being members of anti-doping agencies under new proposals for tackling drugs in sports. Leaders of 17 anti-doping organizations met in Copenhagen this week to consider ways of fix- ing a “global anti-doping effort that has been deeply damaged” and to “ensure that the dis- turbing events of recent years are not repeated.” Among the group’s aims was to remove the “fundamental conflict of interest that exists when anti-doping decisions are controlled by sports organizations” - a shot at the current ties between the World Anti-Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee. The president of WADA is Craig Reedie, a sen- ior IOC member from Britain whose dual role has come under scrutiny during the scandal over state-sponsored doping in Russia. Reedie served as an IOC vice president and member of the poli- cy-making executive board until his term expired during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He is now a regular IOC memberThe Copenhagen summit proposed a rule that would forbid officers, directors, employees and all decision-makers of anti-doping bodies from also holding a top position in any international federation or “major event organization.” President of WADA Craig Reedie The Institute of National Anti-Doping the country entirely from the Rio Games. as well as cover-ups of doping tests across Organizations said the proposal would “prevent The anti-doping leaders meeting in Denmark dozens of summer and winter sports. the inherent conflict of interest that exists when represented countries that included the United The leaders called for “increased protection a sports organization is tasked with both pro- States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany and and support” for whistleblowers, including Yulia moting and policing itself.” Britain. They said WADA should be strengthened Stepanova and her husband, Vitaly, who helped The IOC set up WADA in 2009 and provides and given the independence and authority to expose the doping culture in their homeland. Kuwait Disabled Sports 50 percent of the agency’s funding, with nation- impose sanctions for “large scale subversions of “All relevant organizations should do every- al governments covering the other half. the anti-doping system,” such as the state- thing in their power to protect and ensure safe- IOC President Thomas Bach has proposed backed system in Russia. WADA currently has ty, security and sustainable future for Yulia and Club honour Naji Al-Haii making the anti-doping system independent had no power to impose sanctions against a Vitaly and the other whistleblowers,” the state- from sports organizations and called for the cre- sport or a country, leaving that to the IOC and ment said. The IOC rejected Stepanova’s bid to KUWAIT: Kuwait Disabled Sports Club lauded izing committee of the winning work. ation of an independent agency to carry out other bodies. “WADA must have authority and compete in the Rio Games after the IAAF recom- the achievement of Kuwait’s formative artist Naji Al-Azmi said, the club under the leader- global drug testing. The IOC has scheduled a capacity to investigate and to impose propor- mended the 800-meter runner be allowed to Al-Haii at the London innovative Arabs gather- ship of Shafi Al-Hajiri is keen on supporting its meeting for Oct. 8 to consider ways of improving tional sanctions and consequences for all participate as a neutral athlete. ing, which witnessed the participation of a large members in all fields and allow them to inno- the international system. instances of code non-compliance,” the officials Stepanova and her husband have been living number of Arab innovators in many fields. vate, and asked all disabled innovators to uti- The exposure of widespread doping in Russia in Copenhagen said in their final statement. in the United States. She said recently that she KDSC Secretary General Abdallah Al-Azmi, lize their energy to hoist Kuwait’s flag high in has led to a crisis in confidence in the entire They also expressed “unequivocal support” fears for her safety and has switched residences during the reception of Artist Al-Haii, that his the field of formative arts. global anti-doping fight. IOC members blamed for the completion of the investigation into after hackers breached a WADA database that win of two prizes, the first for his work He dedicated this achievement to HH the WADA for not acting early enough to deal with Russian doping by Canadian lawyer Richard records her whereabouts. Bach said in Rio that through competing with other artists, and Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- evidence of Russian doping, while the IOC was McLaren. His report detailed manipulation of the IOC was “not responsible for dangers to the second was in appreciation of the organ- Sabah and Kuwait people. accused of being soft on Russia by not banning drug samples at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, which Mrs. Stepanova may be exposed.” — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

BALTIMORE: Baltimore Orioles’ Manny Machado flips his bat as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run in the fifth ningin of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Baltimore, Tuesday. — AP Wieters’ homer leads Orioles past Blue Jays

BALTIMORE: Matt Wieters hit a tiebreaking two- hitter for his 31st save as the Cubs improved to Daniel Norris, who allowed three runs in five run homer off Jason Grilli in the eighth inning, 21-6 this month, one win shy of the best August innings. Todd Frazier homered for Chicago. Matt leading the Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 victory in franchise history set in 1932. Rizzo belted a Albers (2-6) got the loss. Lawsuit pending, Bouchard over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. The two-run homer off Chad Kuhl (3-2) in the first and Orioles pulled within three games of the first- Miguel Montero added an RBI single as the Cubs CARDINALS 2, BREWERS 1, 10 INNINGS out, Serena, Venus win place Blue Jays, who had won four in a row. improved to 84-47. Kuhl allowed four hits in five Zach Duke stranded the bases loaded with a Michael Saunders tied it at 3 with a two-run innings as the Pirates lost their second straight strikeout in the 10th after Randal Grichuk hit an NEW YORK: Eugenie Bouchard wrung her 23rd major title by showing zero signs of trou- homer against Orioles starter Ubaldo Jimenez in after winning four in a row. RBI single in the top half of the inning, lifting St. hands at her post-match news conference. ble from a right shoulder she’s said was sore, the seventh. Jonathan Schoop walked with two Louis to the road win. Seung Hwan Oh (4-2) She rubbed her lower lip. She squeezed her hitting 12 aces in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over outs in the Baltimore eighth and Wieters fol- RANGERS 8, MARINERS 7 pitched out of a jam in the ninth to get the win. left arm. While her body language screamed Ekaterina Makarova. Also under the lights: lowed with a drive to right off Grilli (4-2) for his Rougned Odor hit a game-ending two-run Duke got his first save with the Cardinals by strik- discomfort Tuesday, when the main topic of Andy Murray got off to a similarly easy begin- 12th homer of the season. Brad Brach (8-2) homer, sending the AL best Rangers to the victo- ing out pinch-hitter Manny Pina after Matt discussion was Bouchard’s ongoing lawsuit ning to his attempt to become the fourth man picked up the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings. ry. Odor’s 25th homer was a drive to the hill in Bowman walked three batters. The Cardinals’ against the US Open rather than her first- in the Open era to reach all four Grand Slam Zach Britton got his league-leading 39th save. center field on a 2-2 pitch from Edwin Diaz (0-3), Jhonny Peralta led off the 10th with a single off round loss, her words were measured. The finals in a single season. who had converted his first 11 save chances of Corey Knebel (0-2) and moved to third on Yadier once rising star answered every question. The 2012 champion at Flushing Meadows METS 7, MARLINS 4 the season. Adrian Beltre also homered for the Molina’s ground-rule double. Jeremy Hazelbaker, A year ago at Flushing Meadows, Bouchard and seeded No. 2 this year, Murray beat Lukas Curtis Granderson came off the bench and Rangers, who won their fourth straight game and who ran for Peralta, scored the winning run on got a concussion from a fall at the facility and Rosol 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Murray lost to No. 1 Novak homered twice, powering the Mets to the victory. have a 10 1/2-game lead over third-place Seattle Grichuk’s flare to right. St. Louis’ Adam withdrew before playing in the fourth round, Djokovic in the finals of the Australian Open Asdrubal Cabrera extended his recent tear at the in the AL West. Houston remained 8 1/2 games Wainwright and Milwaukee’s Wily Peralta dueled and then missed most of the rest of the sea- in January and French Open in June, and then plate, hitting a two-run homer in his return to the back after winning earlier Tuesday against for seven innings, leaving a 1-1 game for the son. She filed suit against the US Tennis won his second Wimbledon title last month. lineup after missing one start due to a sore left Oakland. Matt Bush (6-2), who yielded a go-ahead bullpens. Association in US District Court in Brooklyn in Earlier, Williams’ sister Venus got through a knee. Rookie right-hander Seth Lugo (2-2) sacrifice fly to Robinson Cano in the eighth, came October, and that case is still pending, putting tougher-than-expected 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 win pitched six effective innings and Jeurys Familia back for the ninth to finish the game. ASTROS 3, ATHLETICS 1 the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up in the odd against Kateryna Kozlova. “It was great to be earned his major league-leading 43rd save as the Collin McHugh threw six scoreless innings for position of competing this week at an event challenged and to be pushed,” said the 36- Mets won for the eighth time in 10 games. By INDIANS 5, TWINS 4 Houston, and Colby Rasmus and Evan Gattis whose organizers she is suing. year-old Venus, a two-time U.S. Open champi- taking the first two games of the four-game Francisco Lindor drove in the go-ahead run in homered. Rasmus put Houston up 1-0 with a “If I sit down and think about it, yeah, it’s on, “because I had to get in those situations series, New York (68-64) moved ahead of slump- the fifth inning and Cleveland extended homer in the second inning in his first at-bat definitely a strange situation. But it’s some- that you know you’re going to face in the ing Miami for second place in the NL East. Minnesota’s losing streak to 12 games. Lindor’s since returning from the 15-day disabled list. thing that’s so far in the back of my mind. I tournament.” Christian Yelich hit a two-run homer for the double off Alex Wimmers (0-1) snapped a 4-4 tie Rasmus went on the DL on Aug. 5 with a cyst in don’t think about it on a daily basis, at all. I There were various upsets around the Marlins, who have dropped four straight and six and helped the Indians maintain their lead over his right ear. Gattis hit a solo homer in the sev- have people, lawyers, working on that side of grounds during the afternoon, including 19- of eight overall. Tom Koehler (9-10) got the loss. second-place Detroit in the AL Central. Rajai enth to make it 3-0. McHugh (9-10) allowed four it,” Bouchard said. “So it’s really not something I year-old American Jared Donaldson’s 4-6, 7-5, Davis hit a three-run homer and Jason Kipnis hits and struck out five. Ken Giles pitched the think about much at all. Obviously, being 6-4, 6-0 elimination of 12th-seeded David NATIONALS 3, PHILLIES 2 added a solo shot for Cleveland, which trailed 4-1 ninth for his sixth save. Houston remained two here, it’s crossed my mind. But besides that, I Goffin, and a loss by No. 29 Sam Querrey, who Max Scherzer struck out 11 in eight innings, in the second after the Twins knocked around games behind Baltimore for the second AL wild mean, it has nothing to do with my day-to-day stunned Djokovic at Wimbledon. Three seed- helping Washington to the road win. Scherzer (15- Josh Tomlin. Dan Otero (4-1) pitched 2 2/3 hitless card. Oakland’s Kendall Graveman (10-9) allowed life.” Her 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 exit against 72nd-ranked ed women departed, including former No. 1 7) allowed two runs and three hits. Mark Melancon innings, Bryan Shaw worked out of a jam in the three runs and four hits in seven innings. Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic, a and 2008 French Open champion Ana pitched a scoreless ninth for his 37th save. Phillies seventh and Andrew Miller got five outs for his player who only once has been as far as the Ivanovic. When she was at her peak, and a starter Jerad Eickhoff (9-13), who had walked just third save since joining Cleveland. Minnesota’s RAYS 4, RED SOX 3 third round at a major tournament, was filled seeded player, an early major loss by six batters in his last eight starts, issued three walks current slide is the third longest in club history. Evan Longoria broke a tie with a solo homer in with 46 unforced errors by Bouchard, who also Bouchard was rather newsworthy. Her up- and yielded five hits and three runs through six The Twins lost 13 straight in 1961 and a team- the eighth inning, clearing Fenway Park’s “Green was treated for blisters on her feet. It repre- and-down 2015 and 2016 have changed that, innings. Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer in the record 14 consecutive games in 1982. Monster” and rallying Tampa Bay to the victory. sented the latest early loss for a 22-year-old in part because she is ranked only 39th now, seventh for Philadelphia, which has dropped six of Tampa Bay’s Luke Maile hit a two-run drive with Canadian who reached three Grand Slam after a best of No. 5. She lost 14 of 17 matches eight to fall 12 games below .500. TIGERS 8, WHITE SOX 4 two outs in the seventh for his second career semifinals two years ago - and none since. leading into the 2015 US Open but, after Ian Kinsler homered and drove in four runs, homer. Enny Romero (2-0) pitched a scoreless sev- In other first-round action on Day 2 at the working a bit with Jimmy Connors, appeared CUBS 3, PIRATES 0 helping Detroit rally for the win. Kinsler came enth for the win and Alex Colome got three outs year’s last Grand Slam tournament, Serena to be back on the upswing in New York by Kyle Hendricks threw seven dominant innings into the game hitting .085 (4 for 47) in his last 13 for his 29th save. Hanley Ramirez hit his 18th Williams started her bid for a record-breaking reaching the fourth round. —AP to lower the majors’ best ERA to 2.09 and games, but he hit a two-run homer in the fifth homer and drove in two runs for Boston. Clay Anthony Rizzo homered in the Cubs’ 21st victory and added a two-run single in Detroit’s four-run Buchholz (5-10) took the loss, pitching the eighth in August. Hendricks (13-7) allowed three hits sixth inning. JaCoby Jones had two hits and two and allowing Longoria’s 31st homer. and walked one. Carl Edwards Jr. worked the RBIs for the Tigers in his major league debut. eighth and Aroldis Chapman finished the four- Bruce Rondon (5-2) picked up the win in relief of BRAVES 7, PADRES 3 Julio Teheran won for the first time in 10 starts, and Braves rookie Dansby Swanson drove MLB results/standings in three runs. Teheran began the night with the lowest run support in the major leagues, but the two-time All Star used a rare offensive outburst Baltimore 5, Toronto 3; Washington 3, Philadelphia 2; Detroit 8, Chicago White Sox 4; Ny Mets by Atlanta to earn his first home victory since last 7, Miami 4; Cleveland 5, Minnesota 4; Atlanta 7, San Diego 3; Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3; Chicago Oct. 2, a span of 14 starts. Oswaldo Arcia home- Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 0; Texas 8, Seattle 7; Houston 3, Oakland 1; St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1 (10 red for San Diego. Edwin Jackson (3-5) was innings); NY Yankees 5, Kansas City 4 (10 innings); LA Angels 4, Cincinnati 2; Arizona 4, San charged with five runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 Francisco 3. innings. Teheran (4-9) allowed two runs and American League National League struck out eight in seven innings. Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Washington 77 55 .583 - ANGELS 4, REDS 2 Toronto 75 57 .568 - NY Mets 68 64 .515 9 C.J. Cron hit two home runs to help the Los Boston 73 59 .553 2 Miami 67 65 .508 10 Angeles Angels beat Cincinnati. Mike Trout went Baltimore 72 60 .545 3 Philadelphia 60 72 .455 17 3 for 4 with two doubles and he scored on Cron’s NY Yankees 68 63 .519 6.5 Atlanta 49 83 .371 28 home run in the first inning and on Andrelton Tampa Bay 56 75 .427 18.5 Central Division Simmons’ bloop single in the eighth. Cron Central Division Chicago Cubs 84 47 .641 - homered in the third inning to give the Angels a Cleveland 75 56 .573 - St. Louis 70 61 .534 14 3-0 lead. It was his fourth multi-home run game Detroit 71 61 .538 4.5 this season and brought his total to 14. Jered Kansas City 69 63 .523 6.5 Pittsburgh 67 63 .515 16.5 Milwaukee 56 76 .424 28.5 Weaver (10-11) limited the Reds to two earned NEW YORK: In this Sept. 4, 2015, file photo, Eugenie Bouchard, of Canada, takes a Chicago WSox 63 68 .481 12 runs and eight hits, walked none and struck out Cincinnati 55 76 .420 29 break between games against Dominika Cibulkova, of Slovakia, at the US Open ten- Minnesota 49 83 .371 26.5 five. Weaver pitched into the seventh inning for Western Division nis tournament in New York. Bouchard won that match. Bouchard fell at the facility Western Division the first time since July 17, but ran into trouble LA Dodgers 73 58 .557 - and suffered a concussion, and withdrew before her fourth-round match. Bouchard Texas 79 54 .594 - after getting the first out. Eugenio Suarez hit a San Francisco 71 60 .542 2 missed most of the rest of the season. She filed suit against the US Tennis Association Houston 70 62 .530 8.5 two-run homer to make it 3-2 and Jose Peraza Seattle 68 64 .515 10.5 Colorado 63 68 .481 10 in US District Court in Brooklyn in October, and that case is still pending, putting the hit a line drive single to right field. Mike Morin 2014 Wimbledon runner-up in the odd position of competing this week at an event LA Angels 58 74 .439 20.5 Arizona 56 76 .424 17.5 relieved and retired the next two batters to Oakland 57 75 .432 21.5 whose organizers she is suing. — AP San Diego 55 76 .420 18 strand Peraza. — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS Stokes set for first T20 start since final trauma LONDON: All-rounder Ben Stokes is set to World Cup final to seal an unlikely victory side all-rounder Moeen Ali and Alex Hales. has an exciting feel with exceptional and through the England Lions, that there play his first international T20 match since for the West Indians. All three were rested for the Sri Lanka talent throughout. is a depth of quality pushing the nucleus his traumatic experience in the World Cup Stokes is joined for the game at Old match earlier in the summer. “We are delighted to welcome back of the current group.” final earlier this year after being named in Trafford by Durham county team-mate “It is excellent to see the progress Ben Stokes and Mark Wood into the the squad for next Wednesday’s match Mark Wood in a squad that includes nine we are making in white ball cricket squad. Both are world-class players and Squad against Pakistan. of the team which beat Sri Lanka in their across both formats,” said national are an important part of our long-term Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam The 25-year-old has not played T20 previous T20 match in July. selector James Whitaker. “The IT20 plans to become the best side in the Billings, Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, Chris international cricket since the West Indies’ Captain Eoin Morgan can also call on international against Pakistan will give world. Jordan, Tymal Mills, Liam Plunkett, Adil Carlos Brathwaite smashed him for four the experience of prolific batsman Joe the squad another opportunity to “It is testament to the excellent work Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, successive sixes in the final over of April’s Root, who is named in the squad along- measure their development. “The squad being nurtured in the county structure David Willey, Mark Wood. — AFP Match-winner Steyn hungry for more

CENTURION: Fast bowler Dale Steyn set up guys took it on board,” he said. “We’ve a series-clinching 204-run win for South found our passion again.” Africa on the fourth day of the second and It looked as though it would be easy for final Test against New Zealand at the hosts when Steyn and Vernon SuperSport Park on Tuesday, then said he Philander ripped through New Zealand’s was still not quite at his best after a lengthy top four batsmen for seven runs inside the injury lay-off. first four overs of the innings. Playing in his first Test in eight months But the left-handed Nicholls, playing in after recovering from groin and shoulder his sixth Test match, displayed courage and injuries, Steyn took three wickets with his concentration in making his second Test first 11 balls of the innings and finished half-century and highest score to delay with five for 33 as New Zealand were South Africa’s celebrations. bowled out for 195 despite a defiant He found a similarly determined partner innings of 76 by Henry Nicholls. in BJ Watling, who made 32 in a two-hour, “I’m still a long way from where I want to 68-run fifth wicket partnership, while be,” said Steyn, 33. Mitchell Santner, Doug Bracewell and Tim “There was a lot of assistance in this Southee all provided varying degrees of wicket and I put the ball in the right spots resistance. enough times to ask questions. But I want Nicholls was last man out for 76, scored to get the pace up a bit more. “Overs under off 140 balls with 12 fours. the belt and a little more strength work and Williamson said that sending South I’ll eventually get there.” Africa in after winning the toss had been Steyn took his total of wickets to 416 in based on their expectations of a well- 84 Tests, going past Pakistan’s Wasim grassed pitch. “They played very well to get Akram into 11th place on the world all-time 450-plus but there was enough in the wick- list, only five behind ninth-placed Shaun et to perhaps bowl them out for a below- Pollock, South Africa’s leading wicket-taker. par total,” he said. But he said going past Pollock and set- “It was a good toss to lose and unfortu- ting records did not motivate him. nately I won it. Credit does go to the way “It really doesn’t bother me,” he said. “I’m they applied themselves with the bat. Their not going to sit on my couch when I’m 70 first innings was the winning of the match.” and go, I was the leading wicket-taker. “I’ll Batting on a pitch which deteriorated remember tonight, I will remember beating more quickly than expected had been diffi- Australia in Australia, I will remember win- cult. “Steyn and Philander are world-class ning in England and hopefully I will bowlers. Throw Rabada into the mix, who is remember winning a World Cup. I just love young and extremely talented and it makes this game.” an extremely tough challenge but one that NOTTINGHAM: England’s Alex Hales bats watched by Pakistan wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed during the third one day international cricket Stand-in captain Faf du Plessis said it all the batters were excited to come up match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England, Tuesday. — AP had been an almost perfect Test for South against. In terms of experiences there’s Africa. “If I had written a script it would nothing better for you as a player to move have been almost like this.” your game forward.” England hit world record He said South Africa’s plunge from top He singled out Nicholls. “For a young of the Test rankings to number seven they cricketer starting his career to come up climbed two places after Tuesday’s win - against an attack like that on a tough sur- had prompted some soul searching. “We face is a great experience to have. He 444-3 to crush Pakistan had some real good discussions and the showed a lot of character.” — AFP Records galore as England win series

NOTTINGHAM: England amassed a world record one-day international total of 444 for SCOREBOARD three as they crushed Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge on Tuesday to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. NOTTINGHAM: Scoreboard Tuesday at the end of third one-day international between England Jos Buttler struck the last ball of the innings and Pakistan at Trent Bridge:England Innings for four to take Eoin Morgan’s men past Sri England Innings Pakistan Innings Lanka’s 443 for nine against Netherlands in July Jason Roy c Ahmed b Hasan Ali 15 Sami Aslam c Moeen Ali b Woakes 8 2006. Hales plundered 171, the highest individ- Alex Hales lbw b Hasan Ali 171 Sharjeel Khan c Stokes b Woakes 58 ual limited-overs score by an England batsman, Joe Root c Ahmed b Nawaz 85 Azhar Ali c Rashid b Woakes 13 before Buttler reached his fifty off 22 deliveries, Jos Buttler not out 90 Babar Azam c Morgan b Stokes 9 another record for his country. Eoin Morgan not out 57 Sarfraz Ahmed c Root b Rashid 38 The hosts passed their previous highest total Shoaib Malik c Buttler b Plunkett 1 of 408 for nine, made against New Zealand last Extras (6b, 8lb, 3w, 9nb) 26 year, while captain Morgan got to his half-centu- TOTAL (for 3 wickets) 444 Mohammad Nawaz c Morgan b Rashid 34 ry off 24 deliveries as he and Buttler shared an Overs: 50. Hasan Ali b Moeen Ali 4 unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 161. Fall of wickets: 1-33, 2-281, 3-283 Wahab Riaz lbw b Wood 14 “Quite a monumental knock from Alex Hales,” Yasir Shah not out 26 said Morgan. “To score 171 in any form of the Bowling: Mohammad Amir 10-0-72-0 (1w), Mohammad Amir c and b Woakes 58 game is remarkable and our innings was based Hasan Ali 10-0-74-2 (3nb), Wahab Riaz 10-0- Extras (4b, 2lb, 5w, 1nb) 12 around that. “Records are hugely important, it 110-0 (2w 6nb), Mohammad Nawaz 10-0-62-1, TOTAL (all out) 275 emphasises we’re not just a chasing side. We Yasir Shah 6-0-48-0, Azhar Ali 1-0-20-0, Shoaib Overs: 42.4. probably have 17 or 18 players who have played Malik 3-0-44-0. Result: England won by 169 runs. — AP HWASEONG: In this Sept. 3, 2015, file photo, South Korea’s Son Heung-min cele- in the last year and a half and could come into brates scoring a hat-trick against Laos during the Asian zone Group G qualifying soc- this side.” Hales flayed four sixes and 22 fours in cer match for the 2018 World Cup at Hwaseong Sports Complex Main Stadium in his 122-ball knock to surpass Robin Smith’s 167 with Joe Root, who fell soon after for 85, but the Khan hit 58 but wickets fell at regular intervals Hwaseong, South Korea. The third round of the Asian region World Cup qualifiers not out against Australia in Birmingham in 1993. pain was far from over for the Pakistan bowlers. until Mohammad Amir smashed 58 in 28 balls to begins today, with 12 teams still in the running for a place at the 2018 FIFA World Caught off a no-ball on 72 and dropped on Buttler hammered six sixes and three fours to share an unlikely last-wicket stand of 76 with Cup in Russia. — AP 114, the 27-year-old right-hander passed Smith’s get to his half-century and finished 90 not out Yasir Shah (26 not out). score by pulling Hasan Ali to the mid-wicket off 51 balls while Morgan ended unbeaten on Amir’s half-century was the first by a number boundary. 57. Hales and Root’s partnership was also 11 in ODIs. “It was very tough today,” said China out to prove England’s third-highest in one-day internation- Pakistan skipper Azhar Ali. “I think they were PAKISTAN PAIN als. Pakistan, in reply, were bowled out for 275 in exceptional innings from Hales and Buttler. “On a The bowler trapped him lbw with the next 42.4 overs with paceman Chris Woakes the chief wicket like this you really need to support the W Cup run no fluke delivery to end a second-wicket stand of 248 destroyer, taking four for 41. Opener Sharjeel bowlers and that didn’t happen.” — Reuters SEOUL: Ambitious China are out to prove their potential. “They are the best role that reaching the third round of 2018 World model for us, and we have been inspired Cup qualifying was no fluke when they take greatly by them. Now it is our show.” on bogey side South Korea today. Five British players China scraped through thanks to their CHINA RISING shock 2-0 win over Qatar and the Some 30,000 Chinese fans are expected Philippines’ almighty 3-2 upset of North at Seoul World Cup Stadium but hosts Korea on the last day of round two. It South Korea will start as strong favourites who played in Italy means that China, who boast Asia’s most after they breezed through the second expensive league and whose tycoons are round. snapping up football assets around the “There are no easy teams in the final LONDON: Frozen out by new manager Pep from Aston Villa in 1961 and did not return to PAUL GASCOIGNE (LAZIO) globe, are within shouting distance of the round,” warned Korea’s coach Uli Steilike, Guardiola at Manchester City, England goalkeeper England until 1969 following subsequent spells at Gascoigne first caught Italian eyes by starring World Cup in Russia. according to Yonhap news agency. “China Joe Hart completed a season-long loan move to Torino, Atalanta and Cagliari. When he was named for England at the 1990 World Cup, capturing The top two in each of Asia’s two groups have recently pulled up their FIFA rankings Italian side Torino on Wednesday. in England’s squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile, hearts with his tears in the semi-final against West of six will qualify for the World Cup, while and they are a competitive team.” Asian AFP Sport recalls five British players who went he became the first English player to represent his Germany after receiving a booking that would the third-placed sides will face each other champions Australia open with a tricky to Italy seeking fame and fortune. country while playing for a club overseas. But man- have kept him out of the final. for the right to play an intercontinental assignment against Iraq in Perth before fly- ager Alf Ramsey’s preference for domestically He was due to join Lazio in 1991, but the trans- play-off. ing to UAE, where they will play Mahdi Ali’s JOHN CHARLES (JUVENTUS, ROMA) based players meant Hitchens won only seven fer was delayed by a year after he suffered a serious Perennial under-achievers China have talented side on Tuesday. Nicknamed ‘Il Gigante Buono’ (‘The Gentle international caps, scoring five goals. He died at knee injury playing for Tottenham Hotspur against only ever reached one World Cup, in 2002, “We kind of pride ourselves on being Giant’), Wales international Charles joined Juventus the age of 48 after suffering a heart attack during a Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup final. The madcap but they have set their sights on hosting already prepared for the challenges, then from Leeds United in 1957 and would go on to charity football match in North Wales. ‘Gazza’ endeared himself to Lazio’s fans with an and even winning the competition. nothing is a surprise,” said coach Ange become one of the Turin giants’ greatest foreign 89th-minute equaliser against hated city rivals First they will need to upset the odds Postecoglou, according to the Socceroos signings. The strapping striker, who could also play DENIS LAW (TORINO) Roma in his first season. But injuries prevented him against South Korea, who have reached website. at centre-back, scored 93 goals in 155 appearances Law was 21 and a Scotland international when making a sustained impact and he returned to nine World Cups-and have lost just once to “We’ve trialled this kind of scenario of over five years at the club, helping Juve to three he joined Torino from Manchester City in 1961 for Britain with Rangers in 1995. China in the past 30 years. playing in Australia and going into the Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia crowns. a fee of 115,000 pounds ($151,000, 135,610 Coach Gao Hongbo said underdogs Middle East a couple of days later. We know Formidable in the air, he was also renowned for his euros). But his time in Italy was dogged by prob- ASHLEY COLE (ROMA) China were taking heart from their exactly what works, we know exactly how sense of fair play. He came third in the Ballon d’Or lems from the start, with Inter Milan attempting Following eight glittering seasons at Chelsea, women’s volleyball team, who upset Serbia our players adapt.” voting in 1959 and was in 1997 elected Juve’s to hijack his move to Turin before it had been former England left-back Cole surprisingly pitched to win the gold medal at the Rio Olympics. UAE, organisers of the next Asian Cup, greatest foreign player by the club’s fans. Charles completed. Law struggled to get to grips with the up at Roma in 2014. He was praised in Britain for “Everyone in Korean football thinks that also have a globe-trotting schedule as they also spent time at Roma, scoring four goals in 10 defensive nature of Italian football and in seeking to broaden his horizons, but the move within Chinese football we lack fighting play Japan in Saitama on Thursday before Serie A games during the 1962-63 season. He died February 1962 he was injured in a car crash with proved a disaster. The early signs were ominous, spirit and we give up easily,” Gao said, heading home to face Australia. Also on aged 72 in 2004. Scottish team-mate Joe Baker. After being sent with Cole mocked on social media after a photo- according to the ESPN FC website. Thursday, Iran take on 2022 World Cup off in a match against Napoli, he flew home to graph showed him lurking conspicuously on the “But I’m hoping this time we can show hosts Qatar in a heavyweight clash in GERRY HITCHENS Aberdeen and managed to force through a move edge of a squad photo during pre-season. He an improvement in this area. “China’s Tehran. (INTER MILAN, TORINO, ATALANTA, CAGLIARI) to Manchester United. He would form part of a played 11 league games in his first season, none in women’s volleyball team won the Olympic Thursday’s games kick off a series of A largely unheralded figure in his homeland, ‘Holy Trinity’ alongside George Best and Bobby his second and had his contract terminated by gold medal as an underdog in Rio. They home and away fixtures which finishes in Hitchens enjoyed the most enduring success in Charlton at Old Trafford and remains United’s mutual consent in January this year after just 18 fought with solidarity, and realised all of September next year. — AFP Italy of any British footballer. He joined Inter Milan third-highest goal-scorer with 237 goals. months. — AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

World Cup hero Milutinovic urges Qatar to ‘seize’ chance DOHA: For a country which craves World role in Qatar, Milutinovic is regularly seen group and automatic passage to the World perennials, South Korea. Cup winners versus the 2014 team, his Cup experience, it is fitting that one of the at matches in Doha and travels to see Cup finals. “I think in this group there are A poor start could crush Qatar’s dream footballing brothers, wearing a bullet tournament’s greatest ever coaches, Bora games across Asia. two favourites, South Korea and Iran,” says of avoiding becoming the first side since proof vest in Baghdad, Hugo Sanchez and Milutinovic, now calls Qatar home. Who then better to ask if Qatar can Milutinovic. But, he adds, if they falter, Italy in 1934 to host a World Cup without Tom Jones. The “Miracle Worker” is the man who realise a nation’s - and World Cup 2022 Qatar is the team best placed to take ever before playing in a finals. A good start Milutinovic scribbles furiously on nap- was a penalty shootout away from taking organisers - dream and reach the finals for advantage. “Qatar in qualification, they though and Qatar will have the backing of kins, drawing penalty areas and showing Mexico to the semi-finals in 1986, saw his the first time in Russia in two years’ time? were the best team. They only lost once. the public. Milutinovic says Qatar should positions he would like his players to take Costa Rica team beat Scotland and On Thursday, Qatar begin the Asian Qatar has a new coach, a new team and learn from Iceland’s example during the up. He speaks a mixture of English, Spanish Sweden in 1990 and watched his USA side Football Confederation’s third round of they have the players who can adapt. Euros and make sure the team and the and French. He interrupts himself to take progress to the knockout stage in 1994, qualifiers, having powered through the “The minimum should be third; Qatar supporters make “a connection” for the calls from Serbia, bumps into a Chinese helping kindle fresh interest in football in second round, topping their group win- needs to seize the minimum.” One con- home matches. family and speaks Mandarin. the States. ning seven games out of eight. cern he has though is the schedule. The He turns 72 on September 7, but has Alongside Brazilian Carlos Alberta Now they are playing with the AFC big first game is in Tehran, away to the ROD STEWART, HUGO SANCHEZ the energy of a man half his age and Perreira he is the only person to have boys and have been drawn in Group A, group favourites and in front of its for- The Serb is engaging company. An invi- would clearly relish a return to internation- coached five different sides at World Cup which contains Iran, South Korea, China, midable crowd. tation for a quick chat about Qatar’s World al football. Asked if he would have taken finals. He guided Nigeria at the 1998 finals Uzbekistan and Syria. “Iran has an advantage-the stadium. It Cup dreams quickly turns into several cof- the recent England or Belgium vacancies, and China in 2002. Qatar are 80th in the FIFA world rank- is the most difficult stadium in Asia,” he fees, tea, lunch and lots of talk. he says: “I would have gone like this,” point- A cult hero, Milutinovic’s name is ings. Their seeding suggests Qatar should says wistfully, because of the atmos- Ground covered includes Rod Stewart, ing to his t-shirt and shorts. almost as much part of World Cup folklore finish fifth, form means a chance of finish- phere.A home game against Uzbekistan the 1991 Soviet coup, Eric Wynalda, And despite talking for four hours, he as Franz Beckenbauer, Mario Kempes, ing third and forcing themselves into a follows five days later, then in October England’s last disastrous World Cup cam- says he has happily given little away. “I’ve Johan Cruyff and Zinedine Zidane. play-off for Russia, and hope equates to Qatar find themselves away to the second paign, a deadly explosion at a Northern done my job. I spoke a lot but said noth- Although he has no official coaching securing one of the top two spots in the seeded team in the group and World Cup Irish checkpoint, Germany’s 1974 World ing,” Milutinovic says with a smile. — AFP Premier League riches fuel transfer scramble

LONDON: International stars Mario Balotelli, Moussa Sissoko and Jack Wilshere were all reportedly poised for moves yesterday as the clock ticked down towards the European trans- fer deadline. Spending by English Premier League clubs has broken through the one billion pounds (1.17 billion euros, $1.3 billion) barrier in one window for the first time, fuelling transfer activity across the continent. Balotelli, Liverpool’s wayward Italian striker, was on the verge of joining French club Nice on a season- long loan, having spent last season on loan at former club AC Milan. “If the situation works out, maybe late in the day it will be done,” an official from Nice told French sports daily L’Equipe. “If we don’t agree with Liverpool, he will leave again.” Newcastle United midfielder Sissoko was given permission to leave France’s Clairefontaine training base in order to complete a transfer. Newcastle, relegat- ed from the Premier League last season, were reported to have rebuffed an initial 16 million pounds bid for Sissoko from Tottenham Hotspur. Sissoko, 27, was France’s stand-out player in the hosts’ loss to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final and had expressed a desire to join Real Madrid. Arsenal midfielder Wilshere, 24, was reportedly NYON: Newcastle United’s coach Rafael Benitez looks on next to a picture of Argentinian for- mulling over loan offers from Bournemouth and ward Lionel Messi after a meeting of the Elite football Club Coaches Forum at the UEFA head- Crystal Palace after slipping down the pecking querters in Nyon, yesterday. — AP order at the Emirates Stadium. last season, were reported to be closing in on 13 goals in 34 league appearances last season, Arsenal spent around 50 million pounds on deals for Sporting Lisbon pair Islam Slimani and will heighten competition in the Barcelona front- Tuesday to sign German defender Shkodran Adrien Silva. Both deals would be expected to line already led by Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Mustafi from Valencia and Spanish striker Lucas eclipse Leicester’s 16.6 million pounds club- Suarez. Analysts predict European spending will Perez from Deportivo La Coruna. record move for Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa easily be the highest yet when the two-month Wilshere’s England colleague Joe Hart, mean- last month. Elsewhere, Inter Milan and transfer window closes, between 1600 GMT for while, is due to complete a loan move to Italian Barcelona paid top dollar for Brazil’s Olympic the Bundesliga and 2200 GMT for the Premier side Torino after being frozen out by new gold medal-winning striker Gabriel ‘Gabigol’ League. Flush from the proceeds of a new 5.14 Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Barbosa and Valencia forward Paco Alcacer billion pounds domestic television rights deal, The blond-haired goalkeeper was pictured respectively. English clubs have led the way. posing with a Torino shirt on Tuesday. City striker Inter confirmed the signing of Barbosa on his Manchester United set a new world record Wilfried Bony, who has also failed to win over 20th birthday late on Tuesday. “Gabigol is an with an 89 million pounds deal to bring French Guardiola, was pictured at Stoke City’s training Inter player,” the Serie A giants said in a state- midfielder Paul Pogba back to the club from ground. ment, announcing a five-year contract. Juventus. Christian Heidel, sporting director for MONCHENGLADBACH: Germany’s midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger reacts during Bony tweeted: “It’s a new day and I look for- Inter did not release financial details, but the German club Schalke, said the Premier League the ceremony marking his last match for his country prior to the football friendly ward to a new exciting challenge.” Samir Nasri, Gazzetta dello Sport website reported Inter had has forced up prices everywhere. “If English match between Germany and Finland in Monchengladbach, western Germany another City outcast, was thought to be close to paid Santos 27.5 million euros for ‘Gabigol’, who managers are on the phone, then the sums are yesterday. — AFP joining Sevilla, while Eliaquim Mangala was has drawn comparisons with his countryman automatically higher,” Heidel said on a talk show reportedly due to sign for Valencia. Neymar. Alcacer, who turned 23 on Tuesday, for Kicker magazine. Germany swansong Schweini joined Barcelona from Valencia in a 30 million “If the negotiations are within Germany, then INTER SNARE ‘GABIGOL’ euros, five-year deal, the Catalan side it is often difficult to exclude the higher sums clings to Man Utd dream Leicester City, England’s fairytale champions announced. The Spain international, who scored from England.” — AFP BERLIN: Bastian Schweinsteiger will wear the the semi-final defeat to hosts France, the only Samir Nasri joins Germany jersey one last time, insisting he has Euro 2016 game Schweinsteiger started. not given up on his dream of playing for Following his celebrity wedding to tennis star Sevilla on loan Manchester United despite Jose Mourinho’s Ana Ivanovic in July, new-arrival Mourinho snub. “My absolute dream is still to play for made it clear Schweinsteiger’s Old Trafford MADRID: French midfielder Samir Nasri has Manchester United,” Schweinsteiger said on honeymoon was over. The German was one joined La Liga side Sevilla from Manchester City the eve of Germany’s friendly against Finland of nine players told to clear his first-team on a season-long loan deal, both sides confirmed in Moenchengladbach, which serves as his locker and train with the Under-23s. yesterday. farewell on his 121st - and final-Germany But while others transferred out of Old Nasri scored 27 goals and won two Premier appearance. Trafford, Schweinsteiger insisted on staying. League titles in five years in Manchester, but “I have no personal problems with Jose Mourinho’s snub of Schweinsteiger led to after an injury-plagued 2015/16 season, new City Mourinho, he has explained his side of the sit- outrage in Bavaria. Bayern chairman Karl- boss Pep Guardiola had criticised his condition uation to me. “One thing is for sure: I’m not Heinz Rummenigge said such treatment when he returned to pre-season overweight. going to stop playing football and I still showed “a lack of respect for a worthy player”, “The attacker arrives on loan from Manchester believe in my own ability. but Munich’s new head coach Carlo Ancelotti City until June 30 2017 without an option to buy,” “I could still help Man United if given a fair said Schweinsteiger “was not part” of their Sevilla said in a statement. “@ManCity it’s been a chance,” he added at the German FA press plans. pleasure thanks to everyone in the club and the conference in Duesseldorf. “We have to wait fans for the 5 amazing years and wish you best of to see what happens in September and ‘VERY DIFFICULT’ luck for the season,” Nasri posted via his official October and how things will develop.” Last Friday, Mourinho effectively closed Twitter account. After making a strong impres- United’s coach Mourinho has echoed the door on Schweinsteiger playing for the sion as a substitute for the last 15 minutes of Schweinsteiger in insisting there is “no prob- seniors this season, saying it would be “very City’s 3-1 win over West Ham on Sunday, lem” between the pair, but the midfielder’s difficult” for the German, given competition Guardiola even opened the door for Nasri to stay plea for a “fair chance” with Manchester hung for midfield places at United. “We have a deci- and fight for his place at the Etihad. “Samir in the air in Duesseldorf. sion completely made about Paul Pogba, arrived overweight but after seven days, 10 days, The vastly experienced 32-year-old has Ander Herrera, Morgan Schneiderlin, it was fantastic how he trained. His quality is on captained Germany since Philipp Lahm stood Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick,” said another level,” said Guardiola. “It depends on down as die Mannschaft’s skipper after the Mourinho. “We have five players for two posi- him. If he wants to help us and stay to be part of pair helped win the 2014 World Cup. His tions. It’s very difficult that an opportunity something, it depends on him.” However, Nasri United contract expires in June 2018, leaving will arrive.” With speculation rife that faced stiff competition from the likes of David him facing the prospect of spending the next Schweinsteiger’s Old Trafford exit was immi- Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and new two years languishing in United’s reserves, all nent, he took to Facebook last week to insist signings Leroy Sane and Gabriel Jesus for a place the while reportedly being paid �160,000 United will “be his last club in Europe”. in Guardiola’s new-look side. (187,672 euros, $209,338) per week. Ex-Germany coach Rudi Voeller, who gave Instead, the 29-year-old has opted to try and Schweinsteiger joined United in 2015 after Schweinsteiger his international debut back relaunch his career in Spain with Europa League 17 years with Bayern Munich, which saw him in 2004, said the United midfielder still has “at winners Sevilla also offering the lure of win every major title available to the Bavarian least two years playing at the top” left in him. Champions League football. giants. And in Tuesday’s press conference, Nasri becomes Sevilla’s 11th signing of the Schweinsteiger admitted the North American window with the huge turnover sparked by OUTRAGE IN BAVARIA MLS might be a future option, should things coach Unai Emery’s departure to Paris Saint- His high-profile transfer to Old Trafford not improve in Manchester over the course of German with the notoriously attack-minded meant he linked up with ex-Bayern manager the season. Argentine Jorge Sampaoli now in charge at the Louis van Gaal. The Finland friendly is a chance for Sanchez Pizjuan. “This is the last piece that the But a knee injury in January flared up Schweinsteiger to show Mourinho what he coach asked from us,” said Sevilla sporting again on Germany duty in March, so he can do, but is the first to admit that with no director Monchi. “We have found the player we played just a handful of minutes in the sec- first-team football under his belt, he may have been looking for practically since the mar- ond half of the 2015/16 season. struggle for fitness. ket opened. Germany coach Joachim Loew allowed “I’m so happy that I was able to make it to “A player who can play as a false winger and Schweinsteiger a late cameo off the bench in 120 games for Germany,” said Schweinsteiger. inside, a player with quality, capable of maintain- the opening 2-0 win over Ukraine at the “I haven’t played a game yet (this season), so I ing the ball and generating important posses- European championships. don’t know how the lungs will hold up.” sion in the opponent’s half.” Sevilla lost in both He scored with only his third touch of the The transfer window closes at midnight GOLD COAST: This file photo taken on July 18, 2015 shows Samir Nasri of Manchester City con- the Spanish and European Super Cups to ball, but was back on the bench for the yesterday. United’s directors must be hoping troling for the ball during the friendly football match between English Premier League side Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively, but have remaining group stage games and the open- an overseas offer emerges in the January win- Manchester City and A-League side Melbourne City at Cbus Super Stadium on the Gold Coast started the La Liga season under Sampaoli ing fixtures of the knock-out rounds. dow so their expensive asset does not spend on July 18, 2015. The French midfielder Samir Nasri, is now on loan for the season Sevilla FC brightly with four points from their opening two Manuel Neuer captained Germany until the next two years with the reserves. — AFP have announced the two clubs yesterday. — AFP games. — AFP Vera Caslavska, Germany swansong Czech gymnastics Schweini clings great dead15 to Utd19 dream THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 2016

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DAMBULLA: Australian cricketer George Bailey (R) plays a shot as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper Kusal Perera looks on during the fourth one day international (ODI) cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia at The Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla yesterday. — AFP Australia crush Sri Lanka, clinch ODI series

DAMBULLA: John Hastings claimed six wick- carried the momentum forward as he nought. ets before Aaron Finch and George Bailey’s anchored Australia’s chase with his 85-ball Man of the match Hastings soon got Kusal attacking half-centuries powered Australia to knock, laced with 11 fours and a six. Mendis caught behind for one. The on-field SCOREBOARD a series clinching six-wicket win over Sri Lanka “Tough to muscle your way out of a form umpire gave the batsman not out before in the fourth one-day international in slump. Couldn’t be happier for George Australia successfully reviewed the decision. DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka: Final scoreboard of the fourth one-day international between Sri Dambulla yesterday. (Bailey), has had to play out of his skin. He’s Scott Boland, who replaced Josh Lanka and Australia in Dambulla yesterday: Australia rode on Finch’s 19-ball 55 and an been innovative, he’s been our backbone and Hazlewood in the Australian starting XI, Sri Lanka Boland 10-1-36-1, Faulkner 10-0-39-0, Zampa 8-0- unbeaten 90 from Bailey to chase down 213 in rock in the middle,” said Warner. joined the pace charge to dismiss previous D. de Silva c Finch b Hastings 76 30-1, Head 2-0-5-1 A. Fernando b Starc 0 31 overs and take an unassailable 3-1 lead in Bailey got the perfect partner in Travis match centurion Dinesh Chandimal-caught K. Mendis c Wade b Hastings 1 Australia the five-match series. Head, who scored 40, as the duo put on 100 behind to leave Sri Lanka reeling on 31 for D. Chandimal c Wade b Boland 5 D. Warner b Pathirana 19 Earlier Hastings’ career-best bowling fig- runs for the fourth wicket. three. De Silva and Mathews then started a A. Mathews c Bailey b Hastings 40 A. Finch lbw b Pathirana 55 ures of 6-45 helped bowl out Sri Lanka for 212 Head was trapped lbw off Dilruwan Perera rebuilding act, mixing caution and aggression A. Perera c Wade b Zampa 7 U. Khawaja lbw b Pathirana 0 after electing to bat first despite Dhananjaya but Matthew Wade, who remained unbeaten against a persistent Australian attack. K. Perera c Warner b Head 6 G. Bailey not out 90 T. Perera c Finch b Hastings 13 de Silva’s fighting 76. on eight, joined Bailey at the crease to hit the Mathews, who was badly shaken after T. Head lbw b D. Perera 40 S. Pathirana c Faulkner b Hastings 24 M. Wade not out 8 In reply, Finch’s opening blitz gave winning six. being hit on the back of his helmet off a D. Perera c Wade b Hastings 18 Australia a rocket start against a Sri Lankan The victory comes as a welcome relief for Boland bouncer, made a gritty 28 before retir- A. Aponso not out 1 Extras (b 1, lb 1, w 2, nb 1) 5 attack that missed skipper Angelo Mathews’ the visiting side after they suffered their first ing hurt with a calf injury that hampered his Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 15) 21 Total (4 wickets; 31 overs) 217 medium pace after the all-rounder hurt his series whitewash against Sri Lanka in the footwork and running between the wickets. Total (all out; 50 overs) 212 Fall of wickets: 1-74 (Finch), 2-74 (Khawaja), 3-97 calf while batting. three Test matches. De Silva, whose maiden ODI half-century Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Fernando), 2-18 (Mendis), 3- (Warner), 4-197 (Head) Finch, who equalled the record for the “Very very pleasing. Thrilled to win the included nine boundaries, looked a little edgy 31 (Chandimal), 3-115* (Mathews, retired hurt, Bowling: T. Perera 3-1-24-0, Aponso 8-0-59-0, D. not out), 4-121 (de Silva), 5-130 (A. Perera), 6-134 Perera 7-0-69-1, Pathirana fastest fifty-in 18 balls-by an Australian, struck series, hard-fought effort. Conditions here are after Mathews’ departure and soon departed (K. Perera), 7-165 (T. Perera), 8-199 (D. Perera), 9- 8-0-37-3, de Silva 4-0-21-0, A. Perera 1-0-5-0 eight fours and three sixes as he carted the Sri quite challenging,” said Warner, who was after spooning a catch to mid-wicket off 200 (Pathirana), 10-212 Did not bat: J. Faulkner, J. Hastings, M. Starc, A. Lankan spinners to all parts of the ground. appointed captain after the second ODI to Hastings. (Mathews) Zampa, S. Boland Left-arm spinner Sachith Pathirana’s triple give Steve Smith some rest. Australia’s spinners then got in on the act Bowling: Starc 10-1-51-1, Hastings 10-0-45-6, Result: Australia won by 6 wickets. strike in the space of five deliveries checked as Adam Zampa and Head took two more the visitors’ surge but only for a brief while. HASTINGS’ HEROICS wickets to land Sri Lanka in deeper trouble. A limping Mathews, who scored a gut- through the series. We didn’t do well,” Pathirana got the wickets of danger man Sri Lanka suffered from a lack of partner- Pathirana chipped in with a crucial 24-run sy 40, returned to bat in that same over said Chandimal, who led the the side in Finch and Usman Khawaja for nought in his ships as their innings ran out of steam as they cameo to help Sri Lanka pass the 200-run to add some useful runs to the Sri Mathews’ absence in the Australian opening over of the innings. He then bowled folded on the last ball of the 50th over. mark from a precarious 165 for seven. Lankan total, which in the end proved innings. skipper David Warner for 19 on the first ball of Australia’s pace spearhead Mitchell Starc Hastings’ double strike in the 48th over insufficient for the rampaging visitors. The fifth and final match of the series his next over. struck in the very first over to have debutant brought him his maiden five-wicket haul in “Really disappointed with the way we is scheduled on September 4 in Bailey, who registered his 21st ODI fifty, batsman Avishka Fernando trapped lbw for ODIs. played, didn’t click as a batting unit Pallekele. —AFP Murray, Serena power into US Open second round NEW YORK: Wimbledon champions Andy Murray and Steffi Graf and close in on Margaret Court’s all-time Romanian Simona Halep also eased through with a 6-0, Serena Williams powered into the second round of the mark of 24 major titles. While Williams has struggled 6-2 victory over Belgian Kirsten Flipkens. US Open as the stars came out on Arthur Ashe Stadium since Wimbledon, Murray went from claiming a second Men’s third seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, a court on Tuesday night. title at the All England club to a successful defence of two-time semi-finalist, reached the second round with Williams, launching her latest bid to rewrite the his Olympic gold in Rio. a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-4 win over Spain’s Fernando Verdasco. record books, started strong and didn’t let up in 6-3, 6- Vying to become the fourth man in the Open Era to Kei Nishikori, who became Asia’s first men’s Grand 3 victory over 29th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova. reach all four major finals in a calendar year, Murray, Slam finalist in New York in 2014, when he fell to Marin The US world number one appeared untroubled by too, produced a dominant service performance in a 6- Cilic in the final, also advanced, downing German the balky right shoulder that has hindered her in recent 3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol. Benjamin Becker 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. weeks, delivering a dozen aces and 27 winners overall “I don’t think I had any break points against me, in the 63-minute contest. which is very good,” the Scot said. Before the flood- A LOT OF ACES “I knew today I needed to be focused because I’ve lights came up, Serena’s elder sister Venus claimed a Eighth-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria needed played her. She’s gotten to the semi-finals. She goes Grand Slam record of her own as her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victo- five sets to secure his second-round spot, downing deep in majors,” Williams said of the Russian left-hander ry over Ukraine’s Kateryna Kozlova marked her 72nd Australia’s John Millman 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. who beat her in the fourth round of the 2012 Australian appearance in the main draw of a major. Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion Open. The 36-year-old Venus, enjoying a resurgence in a whose career was nearly ended by three wrist surger- “She knows how to play big matches on big courts. 2016 season that includes a WTA title in Taiwan, sur- ies, advanced with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victory over fel- She’s not intimidated. I knew I had to really come out vived 63 unforced errors against the rising 22-year-old, low Argentine Diego Schwartzman. today. It was my only option really.” Williams said she although she was pleased that her aggressive There was a little record-setting on the men’s side as wouldn’t know until she’d slept on it how her shoulder approach also yielded 46 winners. well, with Croatian Ivo Karlovic belting a US Open might respond to the effort. “The good part is I’m playing the game I want to record of 61 aces in a 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), “Every day, I’ll just see how it goes,” said Williams, play, I’m playing aggressively and moving forward,” 7-5 win over Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun. NEW YORK: Serena Williams of the US reacts to a point who is chasing a record seventh title on the hardcourts Venus said. “It’s just about making a few less errors and Karlovic, 37, beat the previous best of 49 aces for against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during their 2016 of Flushing Meadows where she first triumphed in it’s a completely different story.” Fourth seed Agnieszka one match in New York established by Richard Krajicek US Open Women's Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean 1999. Radwanska of Poland, trying to make it to the quarter- in 1999. “I knew there were a lot of aces because there King National Tennis Center on August 30, 2016 in New A victory would see her break the Open Era record finals in New York for the first time, breezed past US was a period when almost every serve was an ace,” York.— AFP of 22 Grand Slam titles she now shares with German qualifier Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-1 and fifth-seeded Karlovic said. — AFP IPO China may open share markets to Saudi Aramco Page 23

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NEW YORK: Specialist Jason Hardzewicz (right) works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as a thin batch of earnings gave investors little to get excited about. — AP ME funds become more wary of bonds: Poll Saudi, Kuwait and Bahrain set to issue global bonds

DUBAI: Middle East fund managers have instruments, in line with emerging market to increase their allocation to Middle East at a 33 percent premium to the mean fair val- Arab Emirates equities. Talal Samhouri, head of turned negative towards fixed income for the bonds in general. Meanwhile, supply of GCC equities and 14 percent to reduce them, a low- ue of 29.19 riyals estimated by six analysts sur- asset management at Qatar’s Amwal, cited rel- first time since January because of the debt has been surging as governments cover er net positive than last month’s rates of 43 veyed by Reuters. atively strong corporate results in the UAE and prospect of US monetary tightening and a budget deficits caused by low oil prices, with percent and 14 percent respectively. Funds have also turned less positive its diversification away from oil. flood of bond supply expected from govern- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain expected to Sentiment has on balance turned negative towards Saudi Arabia’s stock market with 29 Egypt’s stock market has not benefited ments in the region, a monthly Reuters poll issue international bonds in coming months. towards Qatar, where 43 percent now expect percent expecting to increase allocations and much from Cairo’s preliminary agreement ear- found. The poll of 14 leading fund managers, Mohamed Eljamal, managing director of capi- to reduce equities allocations and 21 percent 21 percent to cut them back, compared to last ly this month to obtain a $12 billion loan from conducted over the past week, found 21 per- tal markets at Abu Dhabi’s Waha Capital, said expect to increase them - the most bearish month’s rates of 50 percent and 14 percent. the International Monetary Fund. Fourteen cent expect to cut back allocations to Middle yields of most of regional benchmark names balance since April. Last month, 14 percent Riyadh’s bourse has lagged its peers over percent of funds now expect to increase equi- East fixed income in the next three months were trading at year-to-date lows, and antici- anticipated a reduction and 36 percent an the last month because of factors including a ty allocations and 21 percent to decrease while 14 percent expect to raise them. Last pated supply would weigh on returns. increase. sharp economic slowdown due to low oil them; last month, the rates were 28 and 43 month, 21 percent anticipated reducing their “For the remainder of the year, a strong Qatar’s stock market has been supported in prices and government austerity steps, and percent. Foreign investors are reluctant to fixed income allocations with 29 percent pipeline of bond supply from the region - both recent weeks by anticipation of index compiler political tensions linked to Saudi Arabia’s mili- move back into Egypt in a big way until details increasing them. One reason for the shift is sovereign and corporate - is anticipated north FTSE upgrading the bourse to emerging mar- tary intervention in Yemen. “Weaker third- of the loan agreement are known. Sebastien statements by Federal Reserve officials sug- of $30 billion, which should cap performance ket status in mid-September. But several fund quarter earnings expectations, as the fiscal Henin, head of asset management at Abu gesting an increased chance of a US interest until the supply clears.” managers think many Qatari shares are now tightening bias continues, are another major Dhabi’s The National Investor, said that once rate hike by the end of this year. trading at or above fair value, leaving the mar- concern for the near-term outlook,” Eljamal of the deal was approved and the government Also, the last couple of months have seen a SELECTIVE ON STOCKS ket vulnerable to a correction. Islamic lender Waha Capital said. adopted ambitious economic reforms, foreign strong rally in Gulf Cooperation Council debt The poll found 36 percent of funds expect Masraf Al Rayan, trading around 38.90 riyals, is Funds are most bullish towards United interest would revive. — Reuters G20 to go long on rhetoric, OPEC output hits record; Gulf gains counter African losses short on economic policy LONDON: OPEC’s oil output is likely in OPEC excluding Gabon and Indonesia, at August to reach its highest in recent histo- 32.54 million bpd, is the highest in Reuters BEIJING: G20 leaders will meet in China this week- needed to meet the growth pledge,” said Tristram for global growth in 2016 to 3.1 percent. It is a far ry, a Reuters survey found on Wednesday, survey records starting in 1997. end in a climate of economic uncertainty and slug- Sainsbury and Hannah Wurf of the G20 Studies cry from the sunny pledges of the Brisbane Action as extra barrels from Saudi Arabia and oth- In August, Saudi Arabia is expected at gish global growth-but the absence of an urgent Centre at Australia’s Lowy Institute in a report. Plan two years ago, when G20 leaders set a goal of er Gulf members make up for losses in least to match July’s record of 10.67 million crisis means the forum will be short on break- Despite repeated promises to achieve the G20’s lifting collective GDP an extra 2.1 percent beyond Nigeria and Libya. Production in top OPEC bpd, sources in the survey said. Other throughs, analysts say. Eight years after the first G20 mission of strong, sustainable, balanced growth, baseline IMF predictions by 2018. Leaders said at exporter Saudi Arabia has likely reached a industry sources told Reuters a new record summit in Washington, when countries coordinat- members are “not achieving any of those three the time that doing so would add $2 trillion and fresh record, sources in the survey said, as as high as 10.90 million bpd was possible ed a response to the financial meltdown, Beijing terms”, Sainsbury told AFP. millions of jobs to the world economy. it meets seasonally higher domestic in August. There is no sign of any deliber- has set a modest agenda for the Hangzhou gather- Every year since 2011 the IMF has revised “The best way to think of the forum is a dinner demand and focuses on maintaining mar- ate cutbacks. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid ing-focusing on making the world economy “innov- downwards its economic forecasts made at the party that happens to include leaders of 85 percent ket share. Al-Falih told Reuters last week that August ative, invigorated, interconnected, and inclusive”. beginning of the year as hopes for recovery have of the world economy around the table making Other big Middle Eastern producers, production had remained around July’s But as countries’ economic needs diverge-the disappointed. This summer it again cut its forecast pledges,” said Sainsbury. — AFP except Iran, also boosted output. Supply level, without giving a precise figure. The US is mulling a rate hike, Japan is toying with fresh from the Organization of the Petroleum United Arab Emirates continues to expand easing, Germany is skeptical of fiscal stimulus, Exporting Countries has risen to 33.50 mil- output, hitting 3.0 million bpd in August Chinese overcapacity remains huge, and Britain lion barrels per day (bpd) from a revised for the first time in the Reuters survey. Iraq has voted to quit the EU-the prospects for major 33.46 million bpd in July, according to the and Kuwait pumped slightly more than in unified action are dim. survey based on shipping data and infor- July, the survey found. “At the moment there’s simply not a lot of com- mation from industry sources. Supply in Iran, OPEC’s fastest source of mon overlapping interests between the major The gain could add to scepticism about production growth earlier this year after economies,” Christopher Balding, professor of eco- renewed OPEC talk of freezing output to the lifting of Western sanctions, has held nomics at Peking University HSBC Business School, support prices. Oil has risen towards $48 a steady this month as output nears the pre- told AFP. The G20 is made up of the world’s leading barrel from $42 at the start of August, sanctions rate. Iran is seeking investment industrialised and emerging economies, which helped by such speculation, but these to boost supply further. Of countries with together account for 85 percent of the world’s hopes have waned in recent days. “OPEC lower output, the biggest drop came from gross domestic product and two-thirds of its popu- does not really want to freeze production,” Nigeria as militants attacked oil facilities. lation. said Olivier Jakob, oil analyst at The Qua Iboe stream, the country’s largest, But its failure to deliver on past pledges has Petromatrix. “But it dreams of freezing was under force majeure for the whole raised questions about the credibility of future prices at current levels.” month, reducing exports. promises. Compliance with vows made in 2015 has Supply has risen since OPEC in 2014 Libyan output slipped further and fallen to a low of 63 percent, according to analysis dropped its historic role of fixing output to another decline occurred in Venezuela, hit by the University of Toronto. prop up prices as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and by an economic crisis. The Reuters survey Iran pumped more. Production has also is based on shipping data provided by Disappointing growth climbed due to the return of Indonesia in external sources, Thomson Reuters flows “Ongoing economic malaise has been accom- 2015 and Gabon in July as members. The data, and information provided by sources panied by the unwillingness of G20 members to HANGZHOU: Helicopters hover around the main venue which will hold the upcoming G20 membership changes have skewed histor- at oil companies, OPEC and consulting sustain their commitment to the structural reforms summit in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province. — AP ical comparisons. August’s supply from firms. — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS Africa’s biggest economy News in brief

OPEC basket price officially enters recession remains at $45.25 pb VIENNA: OPEC daily basket price stood at $45.25 per barrel yesterday, compared with $45.44 the previous Nigeria records ‘record’ low foreign investment day, said OPEC yesterday. The new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: ABUJA: Nigeria’s economy nosedived into a “It’s really, really grim,” John Ashbourne, what they view as Buhari’s scattershot there are advantages to the liberalization Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente recession, official data showed yesterday, Africa economist at research firm Capital efforts to kickstart a recovery. “We are look- that we’ve seen so far, it’s no panacea”, Khan (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra with oil production hammered by militant Economics, told AFP. “Investors want to see ing at a likely low point,” said Razia Khan, said, “the question now is how drawn out Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), attacks on pipelines and foreign investment some direction from Buhari, there is a sense Africa economist at Standard Chartered will the recovery be?” Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab at a “record” low. that the policies they have implemented so Bank. The Nigerian government is optimistic. Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE) and Merey Output in the three months to the end of far aren’t working,” said Ashbourne, in a One benefit of abandoning the currency “It is likely the second half will be better (Venezuela). June was -2.1 percent with the oil sector telephone interview from London. curbs is that for every dollar earned from oil than the first half of 2016,” said presidential reporting a double-digit decline following a “Nigeria is very dependent on foreign exports, it makes for more naira to spend in economic advisor Adeyemi Dipeolu in a wave of attacks by rebels in the oil-producing investment to improve the infrastructure Buhari’s expansionary budget. “A lot of the statement. “As the emphasis on capital Telecom Egypt acquires south. The slowdown was recorded across and get the economy back on track, we recovery momentum has been stored up expenditure begins to yield results... the 4G mobile license many sectors in a sign that Africa’s economic need investor confidence,” he said. “People for the second half of the year,” said Khan. growth rate of the Nigerian economy is like- giant is wrestling with deeper structural are staying away because they don’t have Yet, even if the oil price rebounds and ly to improve further.” Nigeria’s gross CAIRO: Telecom Egypt, the state-owned landline issues than just the low price of crude. any faith that things are turning around.” rebels stop sabotaging oil production, domestic product could contract by 1.8 per- monopoly, said it acquired the country’s first 4G mobile During the oil boom, sales of oil at high Nigeria has to revamp its decrepit infra- cent in 2016, reported the International license yesterday at a cost of 7.08 billion Egyptian prices had made Nigeria the biggest econo- No ‘panacea’ structure and start producing more electric- Monetary Fund, in what would be the coun- pounds ($807 million). Egypt is selling four 4G licenses my in Africa. Nigerian officials are under pressure to ity to diversify its economy and embark on try’s first full-year contraction since 1991, as part of a long-awaited plan to reform the telecoms But when the price of crude crashed deliver as economists increasingly write off a path of sustainable growth. “Though according to Bloomberg News. —AFP sector. The Egyptian telecoms regulator approved from more than $100 a barrel in June 2014 revised terms for 4G mobile broadband network licens- to below $50 today, Nigeria’s economy col- es earlier this month and offered them to Telecom lapsed. The crisis was compounded by Egypt and the country’s three current mobile providers. President Muhammadu Buhari’s unortho- Telecom Egypt was the first company to accept the dox decision to prop up the naira at 197- terms. 199 to the dollar causing foreign currency reserves to tank. International investors, wary of the con- Saudi British Bank board troversial currency peg, avoided putting OKs dividend distribution money into the country, leading to a DUBAI: Saudi British Bank (SABB) , the kingdom’s “record” decline in capital importation, fifth-largest bank by assets, said yesterday said its reported Nigeria’s National Bureau of board of directors approved payment of cash divi- Statistics. The $647 million worth of capital imported into Nigeria in the second quarter dends for the first half of the year. The bank’s board represented a “fall of 76 percent” compared approved a dividend of 0.35 riyals ($0.093) per share to 2015. on August 7. “This provisional figure would be the lowest level of capital imported into the economy on record, and would also repre- Abu Dhabi’s TAQA sent the largest year on year decrease,” said says CFO Gillon exits the statistics agency. ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Company “There was considerable uncertainty sur- (TAQA) yesterday said it had appointed a new acting rounding future exchange rate policy which chief financial officer to replace the outgoing finance may have deterred investors,” it added. head. Mohammed Al-Ahbabi, currently the deputy CFO, ‘Really, really grim’ has been appointed acting CFO effective from Sept 1, Reacting to a spike in inflation and grow- the energy firm said in a statement. Ahbabi will be ing discontentment, Buhari’s government replacing Grant Gillon, the statement said without cit- finally devalued the naira in June. But ing a reason for his departure. In June, TAQA’s chief Nigeria’s policies have yet to inspire any real operating officer Edward LaFehr left the company for confidence at a time when inflation is hov- personal reasons. ering around 17 percent and there is still a dollar shortage. The country’s oil sector- which accounts for the majority of Nigeria’s Saudi Electricity to government revenues-is still under siege by privatize assets militants in the Niger delta, who are attack- NEW DELHI: An Indian customer looks on as he peruses goods in a shop in the old quarters of New Delhi. India’s eco- DOHA: Saudi Electricity Co plans to privatise its assets ing pipelines in a bid for greater control of nomic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of the 2016-17 financial year, official data showed yesterday, miss- by the end of the year, its chairman said yesterday, the resource and more political autonomy. ing expectations but raising hopes of an interest rate cut. —AFP part of a drive to increase efficiency in the Kingdom’s utilities. “We expect to complete the planned privati- zation of assets this year,” Saleh Al-Awaji told Saudi- Egypt’s GASC receives Oil prices dip before owned Al-Arabiya. Saudi Arabia’s utility regulator said in February that SEC would be split into several firms only one wheat offer by the end of 2016 to increase efficiency. Awaji said US inventories data demand for power in the country had declined for the ABU DHABI/HAMBURG: Egypt’s accordance with an agriculture first time in the company’s fifteen year history after a state grains buyer GASC received ministry decision, the tolerance for LONDON: Oil fell further yesterday as dealers meeting with Russia in September may not removal of government subsidies. only one offer yesterday at its first ergot fungus in imported wheat awaited the latest update on crude reserves in result in a deal that would boost prices. wheat purchase since reinstating a should be zero percent. Ergot can the United States. At around 1145 GMT, US Zangeneh said Iran needed to raise its out- zero-tolerance policy on ergot fun- lead to hallucinations if eaten in benchmark West Texas Intermediate for deliv- put to regain the market share lost while it was gus, a near complete boycott that large quantities but is considered ery in October declined 36 cents at $45.99 a under international sanctions, which were lift- Asia’s July Iran oil underscores the difficulty of sourc- harmless at low levels. barrel. Brent North Sea crude for October lost ed only in January. ing grains under the rule. A ban on GASC, which has in the past 54 cents to $47.83 a barrel compared with the Iran has struggled to raise production above imports rise 61% the common grain fungus caused used the common international close on Tuesday. four million barrels per day since the sanctions huge disruption to Egypt’s massive standard of 0.05 percent ergot Prices also fell on the back of the stronger were removed, according to the report, which TOKYO: Imports of Iranian oil by four major buyers in wheat imports earlier this year, content, made no immediate com- greenback, which makes dollar-denominated said it is currently producing 3.8 million. with global trading houses declin- ment. “My impression is that Egypt Asia in July jumped 61.1 percent from a year earlier, commodities more expensive for buyers using “Many speculators are now just waiting to ing to take part in its tenders. is testing to see if it is possible to marking the biggest percentage gain since April weaker currencies. find out whether Saudi Arabia and other The lone offer on Wednesday undertake a purchase tender with 2014, reflecting Tehran’s aggressive moves to recoup members of OPEC will agree next month to a was submitted by trading house zero ergot content,” one European “In the short-term, oil is likely to find direc- tion from the latest US oil stockpiles report production freeze deal with some non-OPEC market share, lost under international sanctions. Venus for 55,000 tons of Ukrainian trader said. “Those who offer today Iran is regaining market share at a faster pace than would be fully aware of the risk if and ... the direction of the US dollar,” said ana- producers, led by Russia,” added Razaqzada. wheat at $179.32 a ton on a free- analysts had projected since sanctions were lifted in on-board basis, they said. Traders the zero content is confirmed.” lyst Fawad Razaqzada at trading firm City “Both Iran and Iraq have come out in recent said that GASC may be forced to A reversal to zero could mean a Index. days, stating that they support the idea of an January, and Iran’s senior government official said it cancel the tender because of the majority of suppliers shun GASC Later, the US Department of Energy (DoE) output freeze... as long as it doesn’t impact sees its oil production at 4 million barrels per day by poor response, though it is not tenders on worries their shipments was to publish its report on commercial oil their own pursuit of market share. year-end. legally required to do so. would be rejected on arrival at inventories for the week ending August 26. “If these important OPEC members go The four countries, South Korea, Japan, China and Having lifted the previous ban Egyptian ports. The numbers are a major focus for oil traders into the meeting with that sort of mentality, I because the United States is the world’s top would be very surprised to see any sort of India, imported 1.64 million barrels per day (bpd) in in July, Egypt announced on GASC normally falls under July, government and ship-tracking data showed. Sunday that it would be imposed Egypt’s supply ministry but is crude consuming nation. Ahead of the weekly agreement being achieved.” Traders are now once again despite suppliers’ insis- being run by trade minister US data, the market was roiled once again by awaiting the release this coming Friday of US Japan’s trade ministry on Wednesday released tence that it is virtually impossible Tarek Kabil since the resignation oversupply worries after Iran’s oil minister jobs figures, which will give a fresh handle official data showing its imports jumped 61.8 per- to guarantee zero ergot content. of supply minister Khaled Hanafi reportedly stated that his country planned to on the US economy and could guide the cent from a year earlier to 256,651 bpd last month. A document outlining wheat amid a government investiga- boost output. Fed’s decision on when to hike rates. The Imports by South Korea jumped more than fourfold specifications for the tender clos- tion into corruption in the wheat The comments by Bijan Zangeneh, carried non-farm payrolls data release is a crucial last month, while India’s imports more than dou- ing on Wednesday stated that, in sector. —Reuters by Iran’s official news agency on Tuesday, indicator of the strength of the world’s added to a feeling that an informal OPEC largest economy. —AFP bled from a year ago. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Sterling Pound 397.400 Malaysian Ringgit 75.510 Indian Rupee 0.004259 0.004648 Canadian dollar 233.180 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.675 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Turkish lira 103.080 Thai Bhat 9.730 Japanese Yen 0.002852 0.003032 CURRENCY BUY SELL Swiss Franc 310.630 ASIAN COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 102.445 Kenyan Shilling 0.002978 0.002978 Australian Dollar 230.540 Japanese Yen 2.964 Korean Won 0.000261 0.000276 US Dollar Buying 301.350 Indian Rupees 4.513 Bahrain Exchange Company Malaysian Ringgit 0.071019 0.077019 Pakistani Rupees 2.889 Nepalese Rupee 0.002809 0.002979 GOLD Srilankan Rupees 2.081 Pakistan Rupee 0.002699 0.002989 20 Gram 265.930 Nepali Rupees 2.824 CURRENCY BUY SELL Philippine Peso 0.006307 0.006607 10 Gram 135.880 Singapore Dollar 223.120 Europe Sierra Leone 0.000051 0.000057 5 Gram 68.790 Hongkong Dollar 39.009 British Pound 0.389705 0.404705 Singapore Dollar 0.216485 0.226485 Bangladesh Taka 3.857 Czech Korune 0.004466 0.016466 South African Rand 0.014836 0.023336 Philippine Peso 6.525 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Danish Krone 0.041251 0.046251 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001641 0.002221 Thai Baht 8.776 Euro 0.0331946 0.0340946 Taiwan 0.009414 0.009594 Norwegian Krone 0.032268 0.037468 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Thai Baht 0.008417 0.008967 Romanian Leu 0.075610 0.075610 GCC COUNTRIES US Dollar 302.900 Slovakia 0.009018 0.019018 Saudi Riyal 80.723 Canadian Dollr 231.725 Arab Swedish Krona 0.031427 0.036427 Qatari Riyal 83.152 Sterling Pound 397.795 Bahraini Dinar 0.796216 0.804716 Swiss Franc 0.301266 0.312266 ani Riyal 786.253 Euro 338.920 Egyptian Pound 0.023748 0.028866 Turkish Lira 0.097608 0.107908 Bahraini Dinar 803.910 Swiss Frank 298.565 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 UAE Dirham 82.416 Bahrain Dinar 800.735 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Australasia UAE Dirhams 82.700 Jordanian Dinar 0.422712 0.431712 Australian Dollar 0.219217 0.231217 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyals 83.910 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 New Zealand Dollar 0.212884 0.222384 Egyptian Pound - Cash 29.550 Saudi Riyals 81.495 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.458 Jordanian Dinar 426.815 America Moroccan Dirhams 0.019618 0.043618 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.215 Egyptian Pound 34.013 Nigerian Naira 0.001248 0.001883 Tunisian Dinar 138.020 Canadian Dollar 0.225725 0.234725 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.081 Omani Riyal 0.779684 0.785364 Jordanian Dinar 427.150 Georgina Lari 0.136691 0.136691 Indian Rupees 4.513 Qatar Riyal 0.082319 0.083769 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.017 US Dollars 0.298550 0.303250 Pakistani Rupees 2.886 Saudi Riyal 0.079620 0.080920 Syrian Lira 2.0157 US Dollars Mint 0.299050 0.303250 Bangladesh Taka 3.854 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 Morocco Dirham 31.614 Philippines Pesso 6.502 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.133987 0.141987 Cyprus pound 159.645 Bangladesh Taka 0.003289 0.003873 Turkish Lira 0.097608 0.107908 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 3.955 Chinese Yuan 0.043702 0.047202 UAE Dirhams 0.080975 0.082675 US Dollar Transfer 302.550 Syrian Pound 2.405 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036926 0.039676 Yemeni Riyal 0.001368 0.001448 Euro 339.610 Nepalese Rupees 3.815 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS

Zain launches Hajj roaming promotion for free

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- part of its keenness to keep customers customers can simply activate the pro- tomers’ expectations and needs during munications company in Kuwait, connected to each other and to their motion by sending DATA ON to 99990 their travels, and to keep them con- announced the launch of its special loved ones during Hajj season and to enjoy their local Internet caps. The nected to their loved ones and busi- promotion for customers traveling to without any additional charges from limited time offer starts from 1 nesses with more convenience and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to per- their part. The offer allows postpaid September 2016. Additionally, when around the clock. form Hajj. The new promotion enables smartphone customers to use their customers exceed the limit of their By launching this exciting offer, postpaid smartphone users to enjoy existing local Internet caps over Zain Internet capacity, they can visit con- Zain continues to reinforce its leader- their existing local Internet cap in the KSA’s network with no additional nect.kw.zain.com to get additional ship position and its pledge in offering Kingdom without any additional charges. Internet caps at the same local rate. the best services and offers to meet charges. Upon arrival to the Kingdom of Zain continuously offers services customers’ professional and personal Zain’s latest promotion comes as Saudi Arabia, postpaid smartphone that are tailored to match its cus- telecommunications needs. IPO China may open share markets to Saudi Aramco Aramco appoints new vice president

KHOBAR: China has shown interest in open- have estimated the company’s total value giant for more than three decades, industry ing its stock markets to Saudi Aramco when at over $2 trillion. sources said yesterday. Ghawar oilfield, the the national oil giant conducts an initial pub- Officials have said Saudi Aramaco might world’s largest onshore oilfield is under the lic offer of its equity, the kingdom’s energy obtain multiple listings in Riyadh and other southern area’s operations. The Arabian minister Khalid Al-Falih said yesterday. markets such as London and New York. The Sun, Aramco’s weekly magazine reported on “For sure, all the stock markets in every Saudi bourse alone might be too small to the retirement of Hussain, who joined country we visit, and every country whose absorb such a giant offer. Aramco as petroleum engineer in 1978 and officials visit us, are very keen and wish the Falih told Reuters last week that Riyadh has had many roles including vice president most valuable and most important company hoped to conduct the IPO by early 2018 and of drilling and workover. BEIJING: Canadian Minister of Finance Bill Morneau adjusts a microphone as in the world to be listed on their markets,” that an international listing had not yet The magazine did not say who will Falih told the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya televi- been decided. There are no plans for replace Hussain, but industry sources told he sits with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Jin sion channel during a visit to China. Aramco to take on a strategic partner, he Reuters that Khalid Al-Buraik, vice presi- Liqun (right) during a news conference at the Asian Infrastructure “It is normal that China discusses these said. Yesterday, he said the IPO was still dent of petroleum engineering and devel- Investment Bank in Beijing yesterday. —AP options and for sure we will take it into being studied carefully. “All I can say is that opment will assume this role, replaced by consideration,” he said, adding that no it is under study and it will be the most suc- Nasir Al-Naimi. Naimi’s last post was vice details had been discussed so far. Under cessful and best listing in the world.” president of corporate planning. That was Canada applies to join sweeping economic reforms, the Saudi Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco has appointed taken over by Motassim Al-Maashouq. government plans to offer up to 5 percent a new vice president for its southern area Saudi Aramco did not immediately China-backed AIIB of Saudi Aramco for sale, possibly raising operations replacing Zuhair Al-Hussain, respond to an e-mailed request for com- tens of billions of dollars; Saudi officials who retired after working at the state oil ment. —Reuters BEIJING: Canada will apply to join the Canada was only applying to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure bank now. “We believe the bank is clearly Investment Bank (AIIB), the bank’s presi- showing that it’s going to be a highly dent Jin Liqun said yesterday, making it effective multilateral institution,” he the latest ally of the United States to join added. the new international development bank. Morneau is on a trip to China with The multilateral institution, seen as a rival Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the Western-dominated World Bank seeking to deeper ties with the world’s and Asian Development Bank, was initial- second-largest economy, a distinct ly opposed by the United States but change from his predecessor Stephen attracted many US allies including Britain, Harper who was more cautious in his Germany, Australia and South Korea as approach to China. founding members. “The Canadians’ decision to join this Japan and the United States are the bank will greatly strengthen the manage- most prominent nations not represented ment of this institution,” Jin told reporters. in the bank. The United States said in April “We can see that the US’s attitude towards it is not presently considering an invest- AIIB is showing signs of changing, as it’s ment in the AIIB. encouraging the World Bank to cooperate “This is really for us, as a new govern- more with the AIIB,” Jin added. ment, the earliest possibility at which we Canada will submit its application to could indicate our interest,” Canadian join the AIIB by the end of 2016, said finance minister Bill Morneau said in David Lauzon, a Canadian finance min- response to a question asking why istry official said. —Reuters Russian oil privatization saga points to limits of Putin’s authority

MOSCOW/UFA, Russia: Russia’s decision to sources said. “With Bashneft it’s clear it’s a postpone the privatization of a mid-sized oil political story,” said one source close to talks company has sent a message to investors: on the company’s privatization. “Bashneft is for all his power, President Vladimir Putin a good company, which is worth some- has failed to stop political infighting getting thing, and which one of the Russian players in the way of business. would buy. But it’s clear there is no political Foreigners have long been wary of buy- decision on who can buy it.” Foreign ing assets in Russia because of concerns investors are concerned the same fate that the state has little respect for owner- might await other assets the Kremlin is ship rights, but the tussle between compet- planning to privatize, including a 25 percent ing clans over control of Bashneft has been stake in shipping firm Sovcomflot, which particularly fierce. Economy Minister Alexei the government has said was worth 24 bil- KARLSRUHE: Boxes with commissions for a citizens’ lawsuit against the free trade agreement CETA are transported to the Federal Ulyukayev said the delay in the sale of the lion roubles ($368 million). Constitutional Court via a human chain in Karlsruhe, Germany yesterday. More than 125,000 German citizens have joined the government’s majority stake in the provin- lawsuit. —AFP cial oil firm, announced on Aug. 16, reflect- FAMILY FEUD ed market conditions and investor readi- There is a sense of deja vu in the ness for the deal. Bashneft saga for long-term investors in But the battle over Bashneft is a Russia. Reflecting on how Bashneft has Eurozone inflation reminder for foreign investors that winning changed hands repeatedly in the last three one camp’s backing is no guarantee of pro- decades, a source at a western bank said: tection for an investment because interests “The only one way to sell Bashneft is to sell and influence can shift rapidly in the it to Russian oligarchs. Foreigners see lots of Kremlin. “Foreign investors ... all understand risks.” still stubbornly weak what is happening, which is an internal bat- Named after the region of Bashkortostan tle they are not involved in,” Chris Weafer, a where its oil is extracted and where it oper- senior partner at Macro-Advisory Ltd, a con- ates three oil refineries, Bashneft produces BRUSSELS: Eurozone inflation and jobless easy money, has promised to do whatever it “largely disappointing news for the ECB.” sultancy that advises investors on Russia, around 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day- data yesterday fell short of analyst forecasts as takes to prevent deflation. Deflation-when “Adding to ECB concerns, there are signs told Reuters. about the same as Vietnam produces and the economy bumps along amid speculation prices fall outright-can be fatal as consumers that the eurozone labour market is faltering in On one side, sources close to the govern- about 4 percent of Russia’s output. After the the European Central Bank will have to adopt put off purchases to wait for cheaper goods. reaction to recent slower growth and uncer- ment and Bashneft say, is Igor Sechin, head collapse of communist rule in 1991, more stimulus measures. Doing so, however, undercuts demand and tainties over the outlook being magnified by of state oil firm Rosneft and a Putin lieu- Bashneft was in the hands of the The official EU statistics agency Eurostat then investment, hitting employment and the UK’s vote to leave the EU,” Archer said. “It tenant. Opposing him are economic liberals Bashkortostan regional government based said eurozone consumer prices rose 0.2 per- putting the economy into a dangerous down- looks to be a very tight call as to whether or in the government who believe Bashneft in the city of Ufa and there was little over- cent in August, the same rate as in July. ward cycle. not the ECB acts on 8 September or decides to should be in private hands. sight from Moscow, leaving regional leader Eurozone unemployment meanwhile was Analysts said the data will disappoint the maintain a ‘wait and see’ stance,” he added. Putin has avoided taking sides, the Murtaza Rakhimov to hold sway.—Reuters unchanged at 10.1 percent in July. ECB but they were divided on whether it will Recent economic data has been mixed, with Analysts surveyed by financial services take additional action at its meeting next week Britain’s shock June vote to quit the European company Factset had expected inflation at 0.3 or choose to wait and see. Stephen Brown at Union hitting sentiment as feared but not to percent and unemployment at 10.0 percent in Capital Economics said flat inflation in August the disastrous extent some had warned of. the 19-nation eurozone. Inflation is a key indi- “highlights the fact that price pressures in the On Tuesday, the European Commission said cator as it reflects underlying consumer eurozone remain weak and boosts the case for its Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) for the demand in the economy and the figures have more monetary easing from the ECB.” eurozone dropped one full point to 103.5 in been well off the ECB’s target of around 2.0 The jobless figures meanwhile show “there August. Last week, however, data monitoring percent for several years. is still a large amount of spare capacity in the company Markit said the economy continued The ECB, which has so far pumped up the labour market,” Brown said. Howard Archer at to prove resilient, with companies still ready to economy with more than one trillion euros in IHS Markit said the inflation report would be invest in their business. —AFP UAE bankruptcy law may be finalized by end-2016

ABU DHABI: The United Arab reporters. “It is in the process. It This has proved problematic for Mansouri also said the UAE’s Emirates may finalize a long-pend- should be finalized by the end of smaller companies in particular as new investment law might be final- ing bankruptcy law by the end of the year, that is my estimate.” The some executives of troubled firms ized by the end of 2016 as a draft this year, the economy minister said UAE does not have modern bank- have fled the country, leaving would soon be presented to the yesterday, a move that could help ruptcy regulations, making it diffi- behind bad debts. The UAE Banks cabinet. Among other reforms, the smaller companies in particular as cult for companies to restructure or Federation, an industry body, has investment law is expected to allow PARSI: France’s former Minister of the Economy Emmanuel Macron speaks as the economy slows because of low wind themselves up. Under exist- been lobbying the government to majority foreign ownership of com- he hands over power to French Minister of Finance and also current Minister oil prices. “The need for a bankrupt- ing legislation, unpaid debt or the expedite the new insolvency law, panies in some sectors where it is of Economy Michel Sapin in Paris yesterday following his resignation as cy law is there, as soon as possible,” issue of a bounced cheque can lend chairman Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair said currently limited to 49 percent or economy minister. —AFP Sultan Saeed Al-Mansouri said businessmen in jail. in March. less. —Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS Stocks mixed in listless trade ahead of US data

LONDON: Global stocks were mixed in list- the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates nition to raise interest rates either at its “Both German retail sales and improvement in the world’s biggest less trading yesterday ahead of key US jobs again this year - possibly as soon as September meeting or later this year. employment data came in better than economy. Figures showing US consumer data later this week that could help deter- September. Comments by Fed Chair Janet expected, however their impact on the confidence at its highest level in almost mine how soon the Federal Reserve raises Yellen and Vice Chair Stanley Fisher at a con- European stocks diverge markets should be only temporary as a year provided further evidence of a interest rates. ference last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, European stock markets diverged yester- they will neither herald a change in brighter outlook. Focus is now on France’s CAC 40 rose 0.6 percent to 4,484 signaled that the Fed is ready, though they day with traders reacting to mixed regional direction by the ECB nor indicate a Friday’s US jobs creation report, which and Germany’s DAX inched down 0.1 percent gave few clues to the timing. data ahead of key US jobs numbers due later major acceleration in economic activity,” could be pivotal in the Fed’s decision- to 10,649. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.1 percent The next key piece of US economic data is in the week. Around 1030 GMT, London’s said Markus Huber, a trader at City of making ahead of next month’s policy as well, to 6,814. US shares were also direc- coming on Friday with the August jobs report. benchmark FTSE 100 index was 0.3 percent London Markets. Eurozone inflation and meeting. tionless, with Dow futures slipping 0.1 per- Economists expect employers added 182,500 lower. In the eurozone, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 jobless levels have fallen short of analyst Economic data out of the eurozone cent and S&P 500 futures roughly jobs in August and that the unemployment lost 0.2 percent and the Paris CAC 40 gained forecasts, official data showed yesterday, was relatively downbeat, suggesting the unchanged. rate fell slightly to 4.8 percent. A strong jobs 0.5 percent compared with the close on amid speculation that the European currency bloc’s central bank could soon Investors continue to wait to see whether report would give the Fed additional ammu- Tuesday. Central Bank will have to adopt more do the opposite of the Fed: give more stimulus measures. stimulus, rather than tighten rates. The official EU statistics agency Inflation in the eurozone was stuck at a Eurostat said eurozone consumer prices low 0.2 percent annual rate in August rose 0.2 percent in August, the same and unemployment also showed no rate as in July. Eurozone unemployment improvement at a high 10.1 percent. meanwhile was unchanged at 10.1 per- Earlier, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 cent in July. gained 1.0 percent to finish at 16,887.40, In foreign exchange yesterday, the cheered by a stronger dollar that boosts euro dipped against the dollar, which the earnings of Japanese exporters. however fell versus the British pound. South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.3 percent to Analysts pointed to data showing a 2,034.65. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was recovery in British consumer confidence down nearly 0.2 percent to 22,976.88, following a post-Brexit vote slump as while the Shanghai Composite gained handing a boost to sterling. 0.4 percent to 3,085.49. “After recording its largest monthly Tokyo stocks rallied as the yen fell fur- fall in 26 years in July, the GfK/NOP com- ther against the dollar on US interest posite index of consumer confidence rate talk-but most other Asian markets picked up from minus 12 to minus 7 in struggled. Adding to yen weakness was August,” noted Ruth Gregory, economist another poor indicator on Japan’s facto- at Capital Economics research group. ry output, which fuelled expectations the nation’s central bank will widen its US jobs eyed monetary easing program to kickstart Despite the pound’s rise yesterday, the economy. demand for the dollar has intensified The softness in the yen once again since Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen helped Japan’s exporters and the Nikkei on Friday hinted at a possible hike-as ended one percent higher, while data indicate continued economic Shanghai also edged up. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS

New 2016 Captiva ‘Elite Edition’ Stylish and elegant Chevrolet vehicle from Yusuf Ahmed Alghanim & Sons Automotive

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Back To School: Special Qatar falls before FTSE list, Egypt up promotions for teachers MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Gulf shares retreated yester- 0.9 percent. The market’s main index provider in Egypt. El Sewedy Electric, KUWAIT: Kuwait Automotive day, with Qatar’s main stock index closed down 0.8 percent in this year’s which rose 2.1 percent on Tuesday dropping 2.9 percent as investors thinnest trading volume. after reporting a 68 percent jump in Imports Co WLL (Al Shaya & Al booked profits across the board, Consumer discretionary stocks second-quarter profit, added a further Sagar), the exclusive dealer of though Egypt’s main index climbed as were among the top losers because of 3.8 percent yesterday. Parliament has Mazda, Peugeot and Geely cele- investors welcomed economic reforms Saudi Arabia’s economic slowdown. approved several reforms this week brates the Back to school season. by the government. After Wednesday’s Retailer Fawaz Alhokair, which owns including a plan to introduce value- On this occasion we would like to market close index compiler FTSE is franchises such as Banana Republic added tax and steps to make settling express our sincere appreciation to expected to release a list of Qatari and Starbucks, lost 3.2 percent. Dubai’s tax disputes easier. stocks to be included in its emerging index edged down 0.3 percent after Wafik Dawood, portfolio manager the contribution of teachers in the market index from mid-September. rising in early trade. GFH Financial fell at Cairo-based Mega Investment development of the future genera- But Qatari blue chips had already 1.0 percent, erasing some of its 4.3 Securities, said such reforms were cru- tion and in the progress of the risen over the last few weeks in antici- percent jump in the previous session. cial to attracting foreign funds. “The nation. pation, taking them to levels many Blue chips dragged Abu Dhabi’s proactive steps taken will show just KAICO is pleased to share with fund managers see as at or above fair index 0.5 percent lower. Union how serious the government is about Kuwait teachers the special offers value. Such stocks were sold on National Bank dropped 3.0 percent fixing the problems which have been Wednesday, with Islamic lender Masraf and National Bank of Abu Dhabi hindering the country over the last customized to the need of the Al-Rayan falling 2.4 percent and Qatar declined 1.9 percent. five years,” said Dawood. Teachers. Teachers can lease from a National Bank losing 3.8 percent. He said investors were keen to range of comfortable and stylish A monthly Reuters poll of leading ECONOMIC REFORMS know how authorities would handle cars from Mazda, Peugeot or Geely Middle East fund managers showed By contrast, Cairo’s main index rose Egypt’s next currency devaluation. and get the best deal ever. sentiment has on balance turned neg- 1.0 percent with a little over half of “All eyes will be on the mechanism They will enjoy a free unlimited tional driving license can be Kuwait Teachers are invited to ative towards Qatar for the next three traded shares gaining. Telecom Egypt , of the devaluation, which this time months because of valuation issues. the state-owned landline monopoly, around will come with fiscal reforms Mileage, free insurance, car insured too. look around our website, or visit Elsewhere in the Gulf, markets were hit advanced 2.7 percent after saying it - unlike the March devaluation, replacement if needed, delivery at Because we value the work they our showroom in Al Rai area, meet by Brent oil’s drop below $48 a barrel. had acquired the country’s first 4G which was just a change in the price door step, very attractive referral do. We will offer the right car for our leasing team and enjoy test All traded petrochemical shares in mobile licence for 7.08 billion Egyptian of the currency. “Bottom line, a bonus, moreover even interna- them with very attractive prices. driving one of our cars. Saudi Arabia retreated, with bell- pounds ($797 million), paving the way devaluation will be good for the wether Saudi Basic Industries falling for it to become the fourth mobile stock market.” —Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS Ooredoo announces winner of Mini Cooper KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait announced their lifestyle. Shamel plans allow cus- more freedom and flexibility in use. For Vara Prasad Doddamani as the lucky tomers to freeze contracts for up to more information about the unique winner of its first Mini Cooper draw yes- three months when traveling, so they Shamel packages, please visit any one of terday, in collaboration with Al Babtain, wouldn’t have to pay for a service that Ooredoo’s branches or official dealers. the authorized seller of Samsung devices they don’t use. Ooredoo in Kuwait is a member of in Kuwait. The draw comes in line with Customers can also enjoy unlimited Ooredoo Group. Commercially Ooredoo’s exclusive summer promotion local voice calls on Ooredoo network, a launched in December 1999, the com- on Shamel postpaid packages with feature included in all packages. They pany provides mobile, broadband Samsung’s latest S7 edition. can also transfer contracts at any time internet and corporate managed serv- A second draw will take place on and carry forward unused Internet data ices tailored to the needs of customers September 24 for all customers who to the following month, which will pro- and businesses. Ooredoo is guided by subscribe to any of Shamel packages vide customers with more freedom to its vision of enriching people’s lives starting from KD17.5 with Samsung S7. use the web. and its belief that it can stimulate The offers come with all the exclusive Customers can also get the latest human growth by leveraging commu- benefits for Shamel, giving customers device from Ooredoo, even if they have nications to help people achieve their flexibility in their usage depending on existing contracts, which allows them full potential. Gulf Bank achieves PCI-DSS 3.1 level one certification

Recognition of bank’s efforts in applying security standards

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announce that it has received the Payment Card Industry (PCI)-Data Security Standards (DSS) 3.1 level one certifica- tion for the second consecutive year. PCI-DSS is the global industry standard for compliance and security for personal payment card data, to which vendors and businesses must conform to in order to protect cardholders’ personal data and prevention from credit card fraud. SISA the leading payment security specialist and informa- ABK announces winners of 18th tion security firm presented the certification to members of the Gulf Bank team recently. ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draws Commenting on this accomplishment CÈsar Gonz·lez-Bueno, Gulf Bank CEO, said: “Gaining KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) held New customers who transfer their salary PCI-DSS certification underlines our commit- its 18th ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draw to ABK receive KD 100 and will automatical- ment to internationally recognized security on 30th August, 2016 at the Bank’s Head ly be entered into the weekly draws to dou- standards. These standards are some of the most Office in the presence of a representative ble their salaries. Existing customers who stringent in the world, they are designed to pro- from the Ministry of Commerce, announc- are already transferring their salary to ABK vide enhanced protection of customers’ card ing the names of the winners for this week. are entered into a separate draw. information. Gulf Bank is committed to offering The promotion includes weekly draws, with The next ‘Double Your Salary’ draw will its customers the best services possible com- two winners per draw and is running until be held on 6th September, 2016 where two bined with the utmost in safety and security”. 30 September, 2016. new lucky winners will be announced. All Gulf Bank met six separate security pillars to The winners this week are: winners will be contacted personally and a achieve the PCI-DSS 3.1 compliance. The pillars 1) Anoud Hussain Khaled Al-Zayed, weekly announcement will be made are: building and maintaining a secure network, Ahmadi Branch through the media with the winners’ protecting cardholder data, maintaining a vul- Dharshan Shanthamurthy CEO of SISA gratulate them on this achievement. When 2) Mikhail Debeyev, Ahmadi Branch names. nerability management program, implementing Information Security WLL, the renowned inter- organizations go through the time and expense strong access control measures, regularly moni- national specialist payment security company of achieving such compliance, we understand toring and testing of networks and maintaining which carried out the formal assessment said: how much they value the security of their cus- Agility recognized as a leader an information security policy. “We are glad to work with Gulf Bank and con- tomer’s data.” in Magic Quadrant for 3PL Providers, worldwide India’s top woman banker

KUWAIT: Agility, a leading global logistics understand the market and customer provider, has been recognized for the third needs and translate those into well-execut- sees cracks in glass ceiling year as a Leader in the Gartner Magic ed service offerings. They are formidable at Quadrant for Third-Party Logistics logistics execution across the service lines MUMBAI: The first female head at one of India’s Sharma head the private ICICI and Axis banks. Providers, worldwide, May 2016. and run highly professional, very large biggest banks says a ruling forcing firms to Bhattacharya, named the world’s fifth most Gartner recognized Agility as a leader in logistics businesses. Leaders also have well- appoint women directors to boards has eased powerful woman in finance by Forbes Magazine, 3PL logistics based on its ability to execute structured strategies and business models chronically lopsided gender ratios-but warns too has won praise from investors for bringing about and completeness of vision. Agility is client- to continue to expand their capabilities, many firms are still failing to embrace diversity. a digital transformation at the 210-year-old for- focused and provides flexible, customized regional coverage and industry specializa- State Bank of India chairwoman Arundhati mer Imperial Bank of India. solutions to respond to specific needs. In tion. They invest in mechanisms and capa- Bhattacharya told AFP that the regulator’s addition to its expertise in emerging mar- bilities to advance the art of logistics in the moves to get rid of the “old boys’ network” and Alarm bells kets, Agility is known for having an entre- industry. Leaders are trusted and relied on demand women were appointed to boards had However, she has faced criticism, too, notably preneurial and open management team, by many of the largest global corporations led to posts being filled by family members. over the problem of bad loans weighing down supported by a proactive organizational to help them execute worldwide com- However, she said she was fine with that if they India’s lenders, seen as a core threat to the stabil- structure, which customers find appealing. merce.” Evaluated companies are defined as have the ability. ity of the fast-growing economy. She has also “We believe the recognition by Gartner “challengers,” “niche players,” “visionaries” India changed its laws in 2013 to force pub- led a public fight against disgraced businessman demonstrates our commitment to provid- and “leaders” within the Magic Quadrant. licly listed companies to have at least one Vijay Mallya, who became a symbol of the bad ing customers with seamless access to a Gartner (www.gartner.com) is the woman among their board directors-around 96 loan problem after fleeing the country in March depth and breadth of service offerings, world’s leading information technology percent of whom were men at the time. After owing $1.34 billion. The SBI branded the defunct State Bank of India chairwoman highly seasoned competency and tailored research and advisory company. “The Magic the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Kingfisher Airlines founder a “willful defaulter” Arundhati Bhattacharya solutions,” said Tarek Sultan, Agility CEO. Quadrant evaluates third-party logistics regulator issued a comply-or-be-fined deadline and called for his arrest before going to court to According to the report, “leaders rate providers’ ability to be a global preferred in March 2015, firms scrambled to act, drafting Organization, which ranked India 120th among try to recover its dues. Yet Raghuram Rajan, the well on the highly weighted criteria of exe- provider. Logistics executives can use this in wives, daughters or other relatives to fill the the 131 nations on female labor participation in outgoing governor of the central Reserve Bank cution and vision. This means the leading research to better understand these 3PLs spots. “A lot of women who are getting inducted 2013. “Seventy-five percent of these appoint- of India, has continued to sound alarm bells over providers have extensive service offerings and their capabilities when evaluating and after SEBI’s rule are family members. And this ments are non-independent and drawn from public banks’ mountain of soured assets. “The and infrastructure to make them available selecting the right set of providers to meet isn’t a problem as long as they understand the family members, thereby failing to bring any process of cleaning up bad loans from Indian across an expansive global territory. They their global logistics needs.” business. “But we believe it is important to get diversity to corporate boardrooms,” Pranav banks is a welcome move,” Bhattacharya said. an outsider’s perspective,” said Bhattacharya, Haldea, managing director of Prime Database, a “However, we need sufficient means of resolving who joined SBI in 1977 and rose through the firm that compiles capital markets data, said. these. Resolving them and putting them on Emaar mandates banks ranks to the top of the country’s largest and old- Bhattacharya cites the challenge of changing track is not an easy task.” est commercial lender. attitudes in a society that still largely views Some say the plague of bad loans, which As hiring managers complain about a lack of women as primary caretakers and says having have dented SBI profits, led Bhattacharya to miss for possible USD sukuk talented women candidates for board-level jobs, children leads many to fall off the corporate lad- out on replacing Rajan as RBI chief, a post ulti- her view is that they simply have not looked der. To address the problem, in 2014 she mately awarded to insider Urjit Patel. DUBAI: Dubai’s Emaar Properties has Bank as joint lead managers and hard enough. brought in two-year sabbaticals to allow women The question on investors’ minds now is mandated banks for a possible US dollar- bookrunners, it said in a statement. to take career breaks without falling out of the whether Bhattacharya, who reached the retire- denominated Regulation S senior sukuk, The banks will arrange fixed-income Changing attitudes workforce. “We want to ensure that men also ment age of 60 this year, will stay on at SBI after it said yesterday. It had selected Standard investor meetings in Asia, the Middle “Even today I find many people saying we take up their portion of responsibilities during her term ends in September. Chartered as sole global coordinator and East and Europe starting on September don’t find properly qualified women. What child care and women continue working from Either way, she says, over the course of her Bank ABC, Dubai Islamic Bank, Emirates 4. A sukuk issue may follow under they’re saying is they are not networked home, so they don’t face drawbacks or fall career, the notion that women could not be NBD Capital, First Gulf Bank, Mashreq, Emaar’s $2 billion Trust Certificate enough.” The problem is not only at the top- behind,” she said. As the only woman chief of a trusted with an organization’s future has been National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Noor Bank, Issuance Program, subject to market con- across the country only 27 percent of women public sector bank, Bhattacharya cuts a lonely firmly buried. “That is a thing of the past. Things Standard Chartered and Union National ditions, it added. — Reuters work, according to the International Labor figure, although Chanda Kochhar and Shikha are changing now.” — AFP ECB money-printing exposes weakness of German banks

FRANKFURT: European Central Bank money- of capital to protect the bank on a rainy day. account when local rivals increase fees. decade ago saw No. 2 lender Commerzbank, Barten said. Slashing costs - branches, staff printing has exposed the fault lines in The pressure is expected to lead to mergers “Fees can go up somewhat but you cannot a clutch of state-owned landesbanks and and product offerings - is the main lever banks Germany’s banking system, forcing its sprawl- and closures over time but in the meantime, completely offset the negative margin,” ING property lenders rack up billions of euros in still have at their disposal but using it requires ing network of lenders to rethink their busi- banks are trying new strategies. Earlier this Vice-Chairman Koos Timmermans told losses. The government bailed them out, skill. UniCredit’s HVB has closed about half its ness models and slash costs. Profits at one- month Bavarian bank Raiffeisen Gmund - one Reuters, adding that the German ING unit had upsetting taxpayers and briefly raising pres- branches and Deutsche Bank is pruning rapid- time flagship banks of Europe’s largest econo- of more than 1,000 German co-operative no plans to scrap cost-free status for its sure for reform. ly. Total bank branches fell by about 1,300 last my are near the bottom of the pile among lenders - broke a long-held taboo. It said it accounts. Over the last five years, however, the year to 34,000, Bundesbank data show. But their regional peers. Germany’s nearly 2000 saw no alternative but to start charging banks have shaken off state support and severance payments boost upfront costs and commercial, mutual and government-owned wealthy clients to deposit their money, as it BERLIN HELPLESS largely put their finances in order, removing branch closures can poison relations with lenders have some of the thinnest margins in did not want to cut back services or merge The German government is aware of the urgent pressure for consolidation and leaving employees and clients. the region. with other lenders. banking sector’s steady decline in earnings. the fragmented and low-margin market little Mergers and controlled closures of failed For years, most German banks’ strategy “The only way we could really save on costs But the decentralised political and economic changed. banks are expected to winnow down the play- was based around winning new business by would be to reduce our presence in the mar- structure, which gives a strong role to federal The finance ministry says that the mix of ers in the German market over the next few offering fee-free accounts and cash bonuses ket,” the bank’s head Josef Paul said. Postbank, state governments, means Berlin is unable to international and regional lenders of different years. The ranks of public sector savings banks for switching lenders. They used the margins one of the pioneers of free customer accounts, force through wholesale reform of the finan- sizes proved its worth in the financial crisis. have fallen by a few a year but still number on their lending businesses to subsidize the this month introduced a 3.90 euro monthly fee cial sector. Smaller banks played a major role in ensuring more than 400. cost of their retail operations and payment for the “vast majority” of its 5.3 million current “We see it but what are we supposed to unfettered lending to local businesses. The co-operative bank network is making systems. account holders. do?” asked a high-ranking government offi- “German banks must find their own way to faster progress - shrinking by around 50 banks When rates were higher that model cov- Other banks are investing more in their dig- cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity. surmount the challenges facing them,” a min- per year - and is expected to fall below 1,000 ered up inefficiencies in their businesses. ital offerings, but are still reluctant to give up Regional politicians enjoy the prestige and istry spokeswoman said. this year. German banks’ costs ate up around 73 percent their labour-intensive bricks-and-mortar power to influence the local economy Local shareholders of four cooperative of their earnings compared with 64 percent in branches. Michael Kemmer, head of German through public-sector savings banks and the FRAGILE FUTURE banks in a region north of Stuttgart voted in the rest of the euro area in 2015, according to banking association BDB, said such steps landesbanks that provide them with whole- There is no letup to competition on the June to create VR-Bank Neckar-Enz to better credit ratings agency Moody’s. This cost-to- makes sense but the number of lenders in the sale funding. “Politicians have traditionally horizon, regardless of whether banks are suc- face mounting regulatory and digital costs. income ratio has been above the bloc’s aver- fragmented market means ones that take the looked at the German banking system as a cessful in making account charges stick. “At the same time, we predict a prolonged age for the last five years, the data show. But lead on fees and charges may end up losing utility to serve retail, and more importantly, “Each bank is pursuing some growth strate- period of low interest rates that will succes- negative ECB interest rates have exposed a business without reaping the benefits. “The SME and corporate clients to support the gy but considering the saturation of the mar- sively reduce our most important source of dependence on interest margins and throttled question is whether competition will allow it,” German economy,” said Katharina Barten, ket and low demand, this is not something revenue: net interest income,” the banks said earnings needed to invest in improvements he said. Online bank ING-Diba says it tends to bank analyst at Moody’s. that would point to any recovery of margins; in explaining the need for the four-way and make sure they have the required amount see an uptick in regional demand for its free The financial crisis that started nearly a that’s going to remain a problem,” Moody’s merger. — Reuters technology THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 Historic Dell and EMC transaction set to close

ROUND ROCK, Texas: Dell Inc and with approximately 98 percent of vot- world, will give us unmatched scale, addition to a newly issued tracking EMC Corp yesterday announced that ing EMC shareholders casting their strength and flexibility, deepening our stock linked to a portion of EMC’s eco- they intend to close the transaction to votes in favor of the merger, represent- relationships with customers of all nomic interest in the VMware business. combine Dell and EMC on Wednesday, ing approximately 74 percent of EMC’s sizes.” Based on the estimated number of September 7, 2016. Dell Technologies, outstanding common stock. “I am proud of everything we’ve EMC shares outstanding at the close of the name of the new combined com- “This is an historic moment for both built at EMC - from humble beginnings the transaction, EMC shareholders are pany, will begin operating immediately Dell and EMC. Combined, we will be as a Boston-based startup to a global, expected to receive approximately following the close of the transaction. exceptionally well-positioned for world-class technology company with 0.111 shares of new tracking stock for The announcement follows regulatory growth in the most strategic areas of an unyielding dedication to our cus- each EMC share. Upon close of the approval of the Dell and EMC transac- next generation IT including digital tomers,” said Joe Tucci, chairman and transaction, EMC shares under the tick- tion by China’s Ministry of Commerce transformation, software-defined data chief executive officer of EMC. “The er symbol “EMC” will be suspended (MOFCOM), which has granted clear- center, converged infrastructure, combination of Dell and EMC creates a from trading on the New York Stock ance for the companies’ proposed hybrid cloud, mobile and security,” said new powerhouse in the industry - pro- Exchange. Shares of the tracking stock, combination. MOFCOM approval was Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell viding the essential technology for the trading under the ticker symbol the final regulatory condition to clos- Technologies. “Our investments in R&D next era in IT.” “DVMT,” are expected to begin trading and innovation, along with our At closing, EMC shareholders will on the New York Stock Exchange on ing the transaction. EMC shareholders EMC’s Jon Tucci approved the transaction on July 19, 140,000 team members around the receive $24.05 per share in cash in Wednesday, September 7. Drones helping California farmers save every drop Technology paving way to efficient use of resources

LOS BANOS: A drone whirred to move that could spur even greater driest four-year period on record crops or using infrared cameras to life in a cloud of dust, then shot use of such aircraft on farms. before a relatively wet and snowy spot color variations in the plants hundreds of feet skyward for a winter this year overflowed some that can signal a problem. Few bird’s-eye view of a vast tomato ‘Only way to stay in business’ reservoirs in the northern part of have used technology and invest- field in California’s Central Valley, Michael is descended from the state. Southern California, ed in it to the degree Michael has. the nation’s most productive farm- Henry Miller, a renowned cattle however, remains dry, and the This year he began using the ther- ing region. Equipped with a state- rancher, farmer and Western statewide drought has not ended. mal camera, which can cost up to of-the-art thermal camera, the landowner who helped transform Beyond California, drones are $10,000 and can show moisture drone crisscrossed the field, scan- semi-arid central California into becoming fixtures on farms in variations in soil. He also created a ning it for cool, soggy patches fertile farmland 150 years ago by places such as Canada, Australia, new management position at his where a gopher may have chewed building irrigation canals, some South Africa and Latin America as company dedicated to overseeing through the buried drip irrigation still flowing today. Six generations they become more affordable and drones. line and caused a leak. later, Michael farms a 17-square- easier to use, said Ian Smith of Recently, Danny Royer, the new In the drought-prone West, mile portion of that same land, DroneDeploy, a San Francisco- vice president of technology at AUCKLAND: Live streaming equipment is seen during the third day of inter- where every drop of water counts, growing melons, carrots, onions, based industry leader in drone Bowles, stood at the tailgate of his net mogul Kim Dotcom’s extradition appeal at the High Court. —AFP California farmers are in a constant cotton and almonds, while carry- software development. A farmer pickup studying live images trans- search for ways to efficiently use ing on in the same pioneering can order a commercial-grade mitted to the screen of his tablet as the increasingly scarce resource. spirit as Miller. “I’ve always been a drone online for $2,000 and a drone buzzed 300 feet overhead. Dotcom’s battle to Cannon Michael is putting drone big fan of technology,” said receive it in the mail days later, he Rows of mature tomato plants technology to work on his fields at Michael, 44, mindful of how cli- said. Its video camera is then appeared on the screen in glowing avoid trial goes live Bowles Farming Co. near Los mate change is making water paired up with a smartphone or burnt orange, indicating warmer, Banos, 120 miles southeast of San more precious. “I think it’s really computer tablet that is used to drier areas, while dark patches of AUCKLAND: The protracted battle to have States of piracy, which US authorities say Francisco. About 2,100 companies the only way we’re going to stay in control the drone. “Hook it up to a purple showed the cool moist soil Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom face cost copyright owners hundreds of mil- and individuals have federal per- business.” smartphone. Boom. Take off and hidden below the plants. video piracy charges in the United States lions of dollars. He was first arrested nearly mission to fly drones for farming, On his 2,400-acre tomato crop you’re in business,” Smith said. After taking the images back to broke new ground yesterday with live- five years ago during a police raid on his according to the drone industry’s alone, Michael estimates that this his office to analyze them, he streaming of his appeal against extradi- mansion near Auckland after the FBI shut Association for Unmanned Vehicle year his leak-detecting drones Full potential decided there were no leaks to tion. Dotcom won approval to live-stream down Megaupload’s servers. Systems International. Federal reg- could save enough water to sus- Many farmers, however, have repair, but the soil needed to be his bid to avoid leaving New Zealand after After several legal battles, a court ruled ulators Monday relaxed the rules tain more than 550 families of four yet to grasp the full potential enriched in places to help the field successfully arguing that global interest in December last year there was “over- on small, commercial drones, a for a year. California endured the beyond capturing video images of grow evenly. On Monday, the required more than standard brief televi- whelming” evidence to support extradition Federal Aviation Administration sion clips. of the 42-year-old and three other eased the rules so that operators The case, in the Auckland High Court, is Megaupload founders. However, the case of commercial drones that weigh expected to last six to eight weeks and could rumble on for several more years less than 55 pounds will no longer while the verdict in at least one previous with Dotcom vowing to continue legal need to go through the long, New Zealand trial has been broadcast live, challenges if he loses this appeal. The pros- expensive process of earning an this is the first time a hearing has been ecution has argued that Megaupload wil- airplane pilot’s license. live-streamed in full. “Show me a short fully breached copyright by hosting illegal- Instead, they will have to take a video or picture of how you are watching ly created movie, music and software files. written test - but not an actual fly- the live stream right now. Here’s mine,” Dotcom claimed Megaupload was a Dotcom tweeted during the lunch genuine file-sharing site that did its best to ing test at the controls of a plane - adjournment with a photo of himself police copyright infringement but had 50 and will be issued a drone license watching his lawyers on TV. million daily users and could not control for $150. The rule change and Judge Murray Gilbert ruled the case every aspect of their activity. Dotcom has emerging technology could make could only be streamed with a 20-minute denied any wrongdoing and accused US drones more attractive tools for delay, to allow the court time to prevent authorities of pursuing a vendetta against farmers, said Brandon Stark, direc- any restricted material from being pub- him on behalf of politically influential tor of the University of California’s lished, and all footage was to be removed Hollywood studios. The FBI alleges Center of Excellence for Unmanned from the internet when the hearing ends. Megaupload netted more than US$175 Aircraft Systems Safety, based at the Dotcom, a German national with perma- million in criminal proceeds and cost copy- Merced campus. However, he said nent residency in New Zealand, faces right owners more than US$500 million by that until federal regulators clarify decades in jail if convicted in the United offering pirated content. —AFP parts of the new rules, commercial drones must continue to fly below 400 feet, limiting their use on very large fields. Berlin’s IFA tech fair dons Stark is seeking what he calls the Holy Grail of drone use in agriculture virtual reality headsets - enabling them to directly diagnose what ails a tree, whether it’s deficien- BERLIN: Virtual and augmented reali- Germany’s federation for consumer cies in water or nutrients, or a pest - ty gadgets are expected to hog the and home electronic firms. without having to send a person limelight at Berlin’s mega consumer into the field. “We’re just getting electronics show IFA this week, as ‘Very early market’ LOS BANOS: In this photo taken July 25, 2016, Danny Royer, vice president of technology at started,” Stark said. “The research is Pokemon Go gave a tantalizing pre- Goldman Sachs predicted earlier this Bowles Farming Co, prepares to pilot a drone over a tomato field near Los Banos. —AP really still in its infancy.” —AP view of the appetite for reality-alter- year that the virtual reality and aug- ing technologies. VR headsets and mented reality markets would reach $80 cameras will jostle for attention, billion by 2025. The difference between while analysts expect smartphone the two is that while virtual reality Cisco Middle East appoints Shukri Eid makers to also unveil new models blocks the user’s view of the real world compatible with the latest in such through special glasses, augmented technologies. reality blends real life with virtual reality. as East Region’s Managing Director The annual IFA show, which began For IHS Insight analyst Ian Fogg, “VR is as an exhibition on the new medium very much a trend of the moment, a DUBAI: Cisco Middle East has announced our strategic priorities and drive continued of digitization and there is greater need of radio more than 90 years ago, is trend of what’s happening.” “The really that Shukri Eid has been appointed growth.” In addition to his focus on develop- from our partners, customers and govern- today a massive showcase for con- interesting thing is how big is the mar- Managing Director of its East Region effec- ing and delivering on business strategy, ments across our markets to help accelerate sumers to touch and feel the latest in ket, what role do smartphones play in tive immediately. In his new role, Shukri will Shukri will champion people development their journeys towards becoming smarter, technological innovations. Over six this, what kind of concept will work on lead the Cisco’s business in the UAE, Oman, and build on the momentum achieved in more competitive and more connected in days from Friday, tech giants will be VR and what kind of consumers will Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and work making Cisco one of the most attractive the new economy,” said Shukri Eid, seeking to grab consumers’ attention embrace VR,” he said. Fogg said the closely with partners to support private and Managing Director - East Region, Cisco with novelties as diverse as the latest industry was still testing the waters. public sector customers in their efforts to Middle East. “Our talented team and in high definition resolution televi- “A lot depends on Google digitize and transform their operations. expanding portfolio of solutions place us at sion screens to 3D printers to fitness Daydream initiative, whether they’re Shukri is a Cisco veteran of nearly 10 years the forefront of their efforts to capture this gadgets. going to talk about that around IFA, or and has worked in multiple leadership immense potential.” Being the last major show before whether they are going to wait until a capacities across the organization. Over his A Cisco Leadership Pipeline Program Christmas, it has a large influence date in the autumn,” he added. 20-year career he has led high-profile strat- alumnus, Shukri most recently held the posi- over the critical European holiday gift Daydream is essentially a mobile store egy, business and technology transforma- tion of Senior Director of Country giving season. Smartphones and for VR games and apps. Once that is up, tional engagements, working with senior Digitization Acceleration (CDA) in Cisco’s tablets have in recent years dominat- it could potentially spur consumers to officials and executives across emerging EMEAR region, working with government ed the headlines at the show, but purchase headsets or motion con- markets. and industry leaders to accelerate national faced with a maturing market, manu- trollers that are compatible with Commenting on Shukri’s appointment, digitization strategies. Prior to that he was facturers are struggling to find new Daydream. It is unclear when Mike Weston, Vice President for Cisco Middle the Director managing Cisco Consulting innovations to persuade consumers Daydream will launch, but a key hurdle East said, “This is a dynamic time where we Services in the same region, where he led a to swap their already fancy phone was cleared last month when Google are experiencing fast-paced changes and team advising large customer organizations with an even fancier one. But virtual released the Nougat update of its evolving trends across industries. As a tech- across public sector and enterprise as well reality and augmented reality may be Android operating system that is capa- nology leader, our focus is on accelerating as telecom service providers. Prior to joining the next cash cow. ble of running the platform. our ability to respond to our customer and Cisco, Shukri held a number of senior con- Gaming app Pokemon Go, which Beyond VR, major smartphone and partner needs in support of their aspira- sultancy roles at leading blue chips, includ- combines both, has been a runaway smartwatch makers have all lined up to tions. Shukri Eid is a passionate leader with ing IBM Global Business Services and hit, sending millions of people young unveil new offerings. Annette an extensive track record of achievements Pricewaterhouse Coopers, with engage- and old out into the streets to catch Zimmermann from research agency digital monsters. “The game gives a Gartner Deutschland believes that the under his belt, and I am confident of our Managing Director Shukri Eid ments involving local and federal govern- ability to capture the tremendous opportu- ment, education, financial services, and preview of how fascinating reality South Korea’s Samsung and Chinese nities that exist across our markets with him places to work for top talent in the technolo- defense. He holds a master’s degree in busi- technology is for many people. giant Huawei are likely to roll out new at the helm of the East Region. His manage- gy sector. ness administration from Strathclyde Virtual reality has the ability to turn smartwatches, while Japanese group ment expertise and profound appreciation “I look forward to my new role during University and a bachelor’s degree in electri- our daily habits upside down,” said Sony may well present its latest Xperia for the opportunities presented by digitiza- what is an exciting time for Cisco and the cal and computer engineering from Jordan Hans-Joachim Kamp, who heads gfu, smartphone. —AFP tion position us ideally to execute against region. The time is ripe to harness the power University of Science and Technology. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Hospital, hepatitis C outbreak victims reach legal settlement

BISMARCK: Trinity Health and its hospital in Minot told The Associated Press that the settlement still Trinity’s outpatient laboratory service reused nee- of at least three people. have agreed in principal on a legal settlement with needs to be finalized, but that his side told the court dles and didn’t follow infection control practices, ManorCare alleges that Trinity fraudulently 21 victims of the largest hepatitis C outbreak in an agreement had been reached in principle. He causing the outbreak. State and federal health offi- blamed the nursing home for the outbreak, hurting recent US history, though Trinity’s legal fight with a declined to comment further. Hepatitis C is a viral cials suspect the outbreak might have been associat- its business and leading to the sale of the nursing nursing home where most people were sickened will infection that can cause serious liver damage or ed with blood services provided to ManorCare resi- home to a Wisconsin-based partnership last year at a continue. Trinity attorneys filed a request asking death. Fifty-two people were sickened in the out- dents, though they never pinpointed an exact cause. price far below its true value. Trinity disputes that. state Judge Todd Cresap to dismiss the lawsuit, say- break that began in August 2013, including 48 resi- Trinity has rejected the notion that it’s responsi- Trinity, which operates medical facilities in 10 north- ing Trinity recently reached a confidential settlement dents or former residents of ManorCare. It was the ble and asked Cresap to dismiss the lawsuit earlier ern North Dakota cities, maintains in court docu- resolving the plaintiffs’ claims. They asked Cresap to nation’s largest outbreak in 13 years, according to this year. Attorney Randall Hanson did not immedi- ments that its battle with ManorCare is best suited allow a connected legal dispute between the hospi- the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ately respond to a request for comment Tuesday on for federal court, where it began and which “has a tal and the former ManorCare nursing home to be Victims began suing in federal court in April 2014, why the hospital decided to settle. The victims greater familiarity with the parties’ dispute.” It asks resolved in federal court, where it originated. Cresap seeking unspecified money damages. Last March, 21 sought compensation for expensive drugs used to Cresap to allow the matter to play out in federal has not yet ruled. victims and the nursing home joined in a separate treat the disease and unspecified damages for eco- court once the individual victims are no longer Behdad Sadeghi, an attorney for the plaintiffs, lawsuit in state court alleging that an employee of nomic harm, personal injury and the wrongful death involved in the case. — AP

Ebola virus lasts in semen for up to 565 days: Study

CHICAGO: The largest analysis yet has found gram, male survivors aged 15 and older can Ebola virus particles present in semen as long enroll for monthly tests of their semen. as 565 days after recovery from an infection, Participants also get counseling on safe sex highlighting the potential role of sex in spark- and condoms at each visit. ing another outbreak, researchers reported on “This program provides important insights Tuesday. The study, published in the Lancet into how long Ebola remains in semen, a key Global Affairs, involved 429 men seen between component to preventing flare-ups of the dis- July 2015 and May 2016 who were part of the ease and protecting survivors and their loved Liberian government’s Men’s Health Screening ones,” Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the US Program (MHSP), the first national semen test- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ing program for Ebola virus. which is collaborating with the ministry. Other Of the participants, 38 men tested positive partners include the World Health during the study period. Within this group, 24 Organization, and the Academic Consortium men, or nearly two thirds, had semen samples Combating Ebola in Liberia. that tested positive for Ebola fragments a year Semen samples in the study were tested for after recovering from disease. Ebola tended to genetic fragments known as the viral RNA, but linger longer in men over age 40, the the tests could not tell if the virus was capable researchers said. In one case, Ebola was detect- of spreading disease. Sexual contact with an ed at least 565 days after a man recovered from Ebola survivor in March 2015 resulted in the his illness. infection and eventual death of a woman from “Before this outbreak, scientists believed Monrovia, even after Liberia had been declared that Ebola virus could be found in semen for free of Ebola. Tests of the man’s semen showed three months after recovery. With this study, the presence of Ebola virus 199 days after he we now know that virus may persist for a year first became ill. The World Health Organization or longer,” said Dr. Moses Soka, coordinator of advises that all male Ebola survivors should be the Ebola Virus Disease Survivor Clinical Care at tested three months after the onset of symp- the Liberian Ministry of Health, who worked on toms and then monthly until they know they the study. As part of Liberia’s monitoring pro- have no risk of passing on the virus. — Reuters Peaceful Singapore suburb becomes Zika battleground WEST KALIMANTAN: This picture taken on August 4, 2016 shows three orphaned orangutan babies hanging on a tree whilst attending “jungle school” at the International Animal Rescue centre outside the city of Ketapang. — AFP SINGAPORE: Homemaker Sulaiha Ngatiman hunkered indoors as the scent of mosquito repellent lingered in her second- Jungle school helps rescued storey flat. The 30-year-old, who is seven months’ pregnant with her fifth child, lives in Aljunied Crescent, a sleepy eastern sub- orangutans return to wild urb at the heart of Singapore’s recent Zika outbreak and the scene of a war against the Aedes mosquito that carries the virus. World has never been more perilous for these primates Downstairs, fog-like smoke billowed as pest control crews armed with thermal machines KETAPANG, Indonesia: Ignoring the shrieks of his near death and nurtured back to health with baby They are the victims of fire, an annual scourge that’s fumigated drainage canals and other poten- rowdy, wrestling classmates, baby orangutan Otan bottles in a tranche of protected forest outside the evolved into a major threat to the future of the tial mosquito breeding spots. practices swinging alone at his “jungle school” on city of Ketapang. But hundreds of thousands of species. “I’m very concerned because I’ve read Borneo island, switching hands and hanging upside their kin have died in the past four decades across Every dry season across Indonesian Borneo-an that a lot of the symptoms can’t be seen,” down as he builds confidence high above the forest Borneo, slaughtered by hunters, burned in land- island shared with Malaysia and Brunei-fires are ille- Sulaiha told AFP from her living room, floor. The three-year-old is learning to fend for him- clearing fires or starved to death by habitat loss. gally lit by land owners to quickly and cheaply clear where mini bottles of mosquito repellent self since being found wandering a palm oil planta- Rampant logging and the rapid expansion of forest for new plantations. The fires often get out of lined a table. The smell of citronella-a natu- tion, alone and suffering smoke inhalation, at the commercial-scale paper and palm oil operations hand, tearing through forest and smoldering relent- ral mosquito repellent-hung heavy in the height of fires last year that razed huge swathes of across the island has reduced the species’s habitat lessly on Borneo’s compact, carbon-rich peatlands. air. “All a mother really wants is for your child SINGAPORE: Sulaiha Ngatiman is rainforest in Indonesia’s part of Borneo. by at least 55 percent in two decades, says environ- Last year’s blazes were among the worst on record. to be healthy,” added Sulaiha, who now lim- seen during an AFP interview at her Otan and the other orphans must build nests, mental group WWF, driving them into ever-closer Fanned by a prolonged dry season, fires tore its her outdoor exposure. Zika, which has home in the eastern suburb of find food and avoid predators especially man-to contact with humans. The result has been wild through 2.6 million hectares (10,000 square miles) been detected in 58 countries including Aljunied. — AFP prove they’re ready to “graduate” and return to the orangutan populations in freefall. In the mid 1970s, of Indonesian forest, laying waste to prime orang- hardest-hit Brazil, causes only mild symp- ing the stillness. wild, but life in the real world has never been more nearly 300,000 of these great apes roamed Borneo. utan habitat. toms for most people, such as fever and a Local shopkeepers reported a surge in perilous for these primates. Last month, for the first Today, just a third of that number remain. The The smoke turned skies yellow in Indonesian rash. But in pregnant women, it can cause sales of mosquito repellent patches, sprays time in history, Bornean orangutans were declared International Union for the Conservation of Nature- Borneo and blanketed neighboring Singapore and microcephaly, a deformation in which and devices. “I’ve sold out all my mosquito critically endangered-one step away from total which changed the species’s threat level to critical- Malaysia, forcing schools to shut and causing thou- babies are born with abnormally small coil but people keep asking to buy patches extinction. Experts warn these majestic tree estimates a mere 47,000 will be left in the wild by sands to fall ill. Conservationists fear a repeat disas- brains and heads. and other things which I don’t have,” store- dwellers-who could once cross Borneo without ever 2025. Those working at the coalface are under no ter of that scale would ring the death knell for the keeper Haranachia Mansoor, 30, told AFP. In touching the ground-could vanish entirely from the illusions that efforts to arrest this decline have not Bornean orangutan. “I think we’re all pretty scared... Insecticide and torch lights spite of the increased infections, life was island within 50 years as the ancient rainforest succeeded, said Chris Wiggs, a conservation adviser whether the species can take another hit like that,” As of Tuesday Singapore had confirmed normal for a number of residents. “Most of they’ve inhabited for centuries is felled and burned at IAR’s forest outpost in Ketapang. “I think people Wiggs said. 82 locally transmitted cases of Zika infec- us living here are old people so there are at alarming speed. “It’s heartbreaking,” said Ayu on the ground working in Borneo have known for a tion.The initial cases were reported at the not many pregnant people anyway,” said Budi, a veterinarian who heads the orangutan long time that the orangutan situation was pretty ‘Restore, rehabilitate’ weekend from the Aljunied area and since resident Chew Ah Gek, 72. “The government health clinic at the International Animal Rescue cen- desperate,” he told AFP, as a wheelbarrow of baby Under international pressure, Jakarta has prom- then, the neighborhood has been in the people come and check for mosquitoes all tre in West Kalimantan province. “When you see orangutans passed on its way to the nursery. ised action. This month an Indonesian company spotlight. Environment agency inspectors the time. There’s no need to get worked up.” them, it’s really sad. They’re supposed to be with linked to the 2015 fires was slapped with a $80 mil- armed with cans of insecticide and torch Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious diseases their mothers in the wild, living happily, but they’re Fear of fire lion fine-a record for slash and burn activities, a lights, as well as pest control teams, have specialist at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth here.” The number of great apes at the centre has spokesman for the environment minister said. become a daily sight. On a visit by an AFP Novena Hospital, said people are not pan- grown nearly tenfold since 2009 as ever-increasing Indonesian President Joko Widodo in April pro- reporter Wednesday afternoon, the whine icking because they trust the government’s Situation ‘desperate’ amounts of forest is cleared by industry. Two of the posed a halt on granting new land for palm oil plan- of thermal fumigators joined the roar of jets mosquito extermination efforts. — AFP The 101 orangutans under Budi’s care-including school’s newest pupils are Vijay and Moli who were tations, urging producers of the edible oil to use from a nearby military air base in punctur- the 16 playful infants-are the lucky ones, rescued found without their mothers near burned land. better seeds to increase their yields. — AFP Novartis OK for biosimilar US to host world’s largest version of Amgen’s Enbrel BASEL: US regulators on Tuesday approved the launch of Erelzi. Both companies refused conservation climate meet the first lower-cost version of Enbrel, a to discuss how long that injunction will last. blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug from Morgan Stanley analyst Matthew Harrison Amgen that is among the top-selling drugs said the agreement indicates that a trial MIAMI: Some 8,000 heads of state, policymakers Monument in the northwestern Hawaiian islands, vation and climate change as we face an increasingly in the world. The Food and Drug would not begin until April 2018. Under that and environmentalists convene in Hawaii this week making it the world’s largest marine protected area. severe threat of climate change in these parts of the Administration cleared the near-copy of the timeline, a near-term launch of lower-cost for the world’s largest gathering aimed at forging a In Honolulu on Wednesday, Obama plans to address world,” said Brian Deese, Obama’s senior advisor. Ben drug, dubbed Erelzi, developed by Swiss Enbrel “is off the table,” he states in a recent path forward on the planet’s toughest conservation the Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the IUCN Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security advisor, drug giant Novartis, which would not dis- note to investors. Erelzi is Novartis’ second problems. US President Barack Obama is expected World Conservation Congress, before departing for described the event as “an important opportunity to close the planned list price for the drug. competitor to an Amgen drug. Last March to be among the world leaders in Honolulu as the Midway Atoll the next day. bring together not just Pacific island leaders who A month’s supply of Enbrel costs roughly Novartis won approval for a biosimilar ver- International Union for the Conservation of Nature “The President will be discussing the role that have been a motivating factor around the urgency of $4,000 or more in the US, according to fig- sion of Amgen’s drug Neupogen - the first (IUCN) opens its World Conservation Congress, held remote islands play in the climate context, but also action against climate change, but also conservation ures from GoodRx, a drug pricing website. biosimilar approved in the US Pfizer won every four years in a different location around the the importance of the intersection between conser- advocates from around the world.” — AFP Enbrel was the fourth best-selling prescrip- approval to market a second biosimilar in globe. tion drug in the world for 2015, according to April, a version of Johnson & Johnson’s This year, the conference theme of “Planet at the health data firm IMS Health. The FDA Remicade. Crossroads” is aimed at exposing the plight of island approved Novartis’ drug for the same dis- Enbrel was Amgen’s top-selling drug nations that are at risk of disappearing in the coming eases listed on Enbrel’s label, including last year with $5.1 billion in US sales and decades due to rising seas. It is the first major envi- rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and other $5.4 billion worldwide. The injectable med- ronmental meeting of global leaders since the Paris immune system disorders. The announce- icine was first approved in 1998, part of a climate talks last year. The September 1-10 confer- ment marks the third FDA approval of a so- class of multi-billion dollar drugs that ence also marks the first time the IUCN World called biosimilar drug, the industry term for reduce inflammation and help control the Congress has been held in the United States since generic biotech medicines, used to indicate immune system. The class also includes the meeting was first convened in 1948. they are not exact copies of the original Remicade and AbbVie’s Humira, which is Arguments are expected on hotly debated issues products. Already available in Europe, the also facing potential competition from bio- such as what to do about domestic ivory markets drugs have the potential to generate billions logic versions in development. Biotech which lead to the killing of elephants for their tusks, in savings for insurers, doctors and patients. drugs are powerful, injected medicines and how to feed the world’s growing population But savings from Enbrel could be delayed for produced in living cells that are typically without exhausting its natural resources. “There years due to an ongoing legal dispute over much more expensive than traditional, should be a fair amount of fireworks,” John Robinson, the drug, according to analyst reports. chemical-based drugs. In 2015, six of the the head of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s global Under a court order dated Aug 11, 10 top-selling medicines globally were conservation program told AFP. Amgen Inc. and Sandoz, a unit of Novartis, biotech drugs, with more than $56 billion Obama’s visit-if it is not disrupted by Hurricane Madeline-comes on the heels of his move last week agreed to a preliminary injunction blocking in combined sales. — AP NEVADA: This April 12, 2012 file photo shows the clarity of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. President to expand the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Barack Obama plans to speak at the 20th annual environmental summit at Lake Tahoe. — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Green Climate Fund needs new ideas with low-carbon

BARCELONA: The Green Climate Fund, which goal” to commit $2.5 billion this year - a goal would attract investment into its chosen forms of growing work load, and putting in place the right aims to channel billions of dollars to help poorer observers say will be tough to reach. In the rush to clean energy on a large scale, Cheikhrouhou said. procedures and systems to enable the fund to run nations tackle global warming, is not yet backing get the first projects approved before the Paris cli- Merely constructing a bigger wind farm or get- smoothly. Those efforts still need to be accelerat- the right kind of projects to bring about a sea mate talks in December last year, and to hit the ting business involved in ongoing government ed so that the fund has a firm foundation to change in low-carbon development, said its 2016 goal, some proposals given the green light efforts to reduce carbon emissions might not expand its activities. “There has to be a lot of hard recently departed executive director. Hela have been criticised as “business as usual”. make the grade, she explained. “If (the fund) work,” she said. The board plans to appoint a new Cheikhrouhou, who was appointed as Tunisia’s They include a plan to develop solar energy in became all things to all people, we would have executive director after interviewing candidates at minister for energy, mining and renewables in its Chile and another to support World Bank climate very limited impact in the greater scheme of its next meeting in October. Javier Manzanares, new government on Friday, urged the $10.3-bil- action in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Cheikhrouhou, things. So we need to find ways to signal clearly the fund’s chief financial officer, is acting as inter- lion fund to provide clearer guidelines on what it who left the fund after one three-year term, said what is a project that would change the game,” im head until the new leader takes over, which the is seeking to finance in areas such as water, urban the agencies eligible to request its cash “need to she said. board hopes will be by early next year. development, energy and transport. help us to respect our mandate, and should make Cheikhrouhou, in her new role as Tunisia’s ener- “Now our rules are very broad... the net that a bigger effort to bring us things that are not just Paris building block gy minister, said she would seek to promote exists is very wide, so anything goes,” ready and have been lying around for a while”. The Despite this challenge, Cheikhrouhou said the investment in the north African country’s energy Cheikhrouhou told the Thomson Reuters fund, for its part, is working to produce technical fund had achieved a great deal in its first three sector, with the aim of achieving “a cleaner and Foundation in an interview from Tunis. “We can’t notes to help its partners understand what kind of years, and had been an important building block more efficient energy mix” over time. Renewable continue like that; we need to invest the money things it defines as “paradigm-shifting”, she added. for the new global climate change deal sealed in energy now accounts for only around 3 to 4 per- wisely to meet the mandate of the fund.” The For example, where a growing city is struggling Paris last year, giving developing countries “extra cent of electric power generation, she noted, even Green Climate Fund has a specific objective to to supply enough water to residents, simply pip- confidence” to sign up to that agreement. “It was though Tunisia has significant wind and solar promote a “paradigm shift towards low-emission ing in extra water could make things worse by one of those fast sprints where you have to jump resources. “That is not where we want to be 10, 20 and climate-resilient development pathways”, and attracting more people. Instead urban planning over hurdles,” she said. The main hurdles were years from now,” she said, adding that the coun- aims to use its money to achieve “transformational could be changed to spur development in regions hammering out the fund’s business model, raising try’s democratic transition meant the time was impact”. with better water resources. Or, in a country that $10 billion from governments, and approving the ripe to start shifting that situation. Tunisia has set Since November 2015, the South Korea-based wants to boost the share of renewables in its ener- first projects in time for Paris, she added. targets for raising the share of renewable energy fund has approved investments of around $424 gy mix, the Green Climate Fund could back efforts This year, she focused on boosting staff num- in its electricity production to 14 percent in 2020 million in 17 projects and has an “aspirational to change regulations or build institutions that bers at the fund’s secretariat to cope with its and 30 percent in 2030. — Reuters Pakistani team creates menstrual game app to break gender taboos Belief that periods are ‘evil’ still persist

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani entrepreneur has developed a mobile game app intended to break taboos surrounding menstruation in the developing world, including beliefs that periods are “evil” or make women impure. “MoHim”, an acronym for Menstrual Health Management which also means “effort” in Urdu, arms players with a pair of panties which they use to catch sanitary pads while avoiding items unsuited to absorbing period flow such as leaves and newspapers. As players complete levels they are award- ed keys which unlock “myth-buster” doors that dispel deep-seated prejudices against menstruation in much of the developing world-such as the idea that women should In this May 27, 2016 photo made available by SpaceX, their Falcon rocket booster not cook or bathe while having their periods. lands on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a satellite into orbit. The The app is the brainchild of Mariam Adil, a company says it can save considerable time and money by reusing the big, expensive World Bank analyst in Washington, DC. She parts. — AP also heads a small Pakistan-based startup called GRID that aims to use games to pro- SpaceX gets taker for 1st mote social change. flight of recycled rocket ‘Shame’ Adil told AFP yesterday of the stigma she CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX has a taker for parts normally left to sink at sea. This combo screenshot handout received from the social enterprise GRID on August 31, 2016, encountered around menstruation in shows the game “MoHim” levels on their website, in Islamabad. — AFP the first flight of one of its recycled rockets. The first-stage, 15-story rocket - Pakistan, such as “when girls skip school for a The Luxembourg-based company SES - a equipped with nine engines - is what week every month out of ‘shame’ till they longtime SpaceX launch customer - said launches everything to space. It separates 2 drop out from secondary school, and when Tuesday it will send its next communica- 1/2 minutes after liftoff, and the second women suffer from serious infections tions satellite up on a previously flown stage takes over to get the payload into the because they were told they can’t bathe dur- Falcon rocket. It will be the first true reuse proper orbit. This second stage, for now ing their period”. “Video games can target of a rocket previously used for an orbital anyway, is still discarded. Since December, these social constructs and prompt individu- mission. The launch will take place some- SpaceX has recovered six boosters follow- als to challenge them in a fun way,” she time this fall from Cape Canaveral. “Thanks ing liftoff, landing them upright on an added. for the longstanding faith in SpaceX,” ocean barge or back at Cape Canaveral Air Menstruation remains a taboo subject in SpaceX chief Elon Musk said via Twitter. Force Station. It hopes to expand its Florida Pakistan, with studies showing a widespread “We very much look forward to doing this inventory this weekend, as it attempts to lack of education for women on menstrual milestone flight with you.” launch an Israeli communications satellite. hygiene. Marginalized girls in Pakistan also The chief technology officer at SES, SpaceX’s single attempt to land a leftover end up missing roughly two to four school Martin Halliwell, said SpaceX’s testing for booster launched from California, back in days a month due to menstruation, according the upcoming mission gives his company January, failed. to UN-Habitat. A prototype version of Mohim “full confidence.” SES was the first commer- The first recovered booster now stands was launched for iOS earlier this month, and cial satellite operator to launch with outside the company’s Southern California GRID will be partnering with NGO Femme SpaceX, back in 2013, he noted, and the headquarters. The one used in a space sta- International to implement use of the app in satellite operator is excited to team up with tion supply run for NASA in April will be slum communities in the Kenyan capital SpaceX for another first. “We believe used in the fall SES flight. Another private Nairobi. If successful, the team hopes to reusable rockets will open up a new era of space company, Blue Origin, has been refly- release it on the Android store, including in spaceflight,” Halliwell said in a news release. ing a recovered rocket from Texas for Pakistan-though Adil conceded they have SpaceX said it can save considerable time months but these have been suborbital faced resistance from policymakers. — AFP and money by reusing the big, expensive test flights. — AP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 , 2016

Millennium Hotel launches exciting entertainment program for Eid

illennium Hotel & Convention Individuals seeking quiet environments, Centre Kuwait, one of the most are urged to experience the comfort and Mmodern and luxury hospitality charming feeling of Library CafÈ, which venue in Kuwait, announced that it will offers a relaxing ambience for the guests launch a wide range of entertainment to enjoy their personal times as well as activities for its guests to celebrate Eid Al their cold and hot drinks with main dishes Adha. The hotel’s program includes a num- or light meals while reading their favorite ber of top hospitality services that aim to book. Library Cafe is also offering a special provide comfort to all guests and to posi- sweet and drinks assortment to mark the tion the hotel as the ideal destination for upcoming Eid holiday including Arabian the upcoming holiday. The hotel’s program coffee, Moroccan Tea, as well as special aims on drawing a smile to everyone’s face cocktails to escape the summer heat. by catering families’ needs specially chil- Area General Manager of Millennium & dren as they will enjoy fun-filled games, Copthorne Kuwait, Dani Saleh said, “Eid is face painting, gifts and balloons. a special occasion that reflects festive cel- Moreover, for families wanting to spend ebrations and unique moments that fami- memorable times and enjoy sumptuous lies plan to spend together and as such, meals across the hotels’ outlets, LAMAR we are committed to provide the best international restaurant offers a unique possible services that allow our valued buffet selection with a wide range of plat- guests to celebrate those special ters from various cuisines around the moments in a unique setting which world as well as exceptional delights that includes a joyful atmosphere, special food are in line with the overall theme of the and family entertainment. Across, its Eid. For more privacy, LAMAR offers its exclusive offers, the hotel provides its guests to enjoy their meal at the restau- services through a dedicated and qualified rant’s special hall which accommodates 25 team that enjoys strong expertise in the people. hospitality sector.

IIS observes India’s Independence Day

ndia International School, Mangaf recently observed the 70th Independence Day of India Iwith great patriotic fervor and excitement. The National flag was hoisted by the Vice Principals Saleem and Sophy John who addressed the gather- ing. Homage was paid for the great freedom fighters and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for making our nation’s freedom possible. Patriotic songs were sung in honor of our great nation followed by the distri- bution of sweets.

Dubai gears up for 9th ‘Eid in Dubai - Eid Al Adha’ celebrations

he Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment Shamma Hamdan on 13 September and Mohamed (DFRE), an agency of the Department of Abdo on 16 September; a performance by Pakistani TTourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai singer and Sufi maestro Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan; Tourism), has unveiled the highlights of its annual a Looney Tunes show featuring Daffy Duck and Bugs ‘Eid in Dubai’ celebrations aimed at further enhanc- Bunny, spectacular fireworks shows and numerous ing Dubai’s position as the holiday destination of events for families and children hosted by malls choice for families and tourists from Kuwait during across Dubai. In addition to the entertainment offer- the joyous occasion of Eid Al Adha. ing, Eid shoppers can avail themselves of the oppor- Held for ten days from 8 -17 September and fea- tunity to win prizes up to AED 1.5 million in the turing a diverse range of events and activities, the ‘Shop. Spin & Win’ promotion run by DFRE in collab- ninth edition of ‘Eid in Dubai - Eid Al Adha’ will bring oration with the Dubai Shopping Malls Group. together people from different communities and In addition to the ‘Eid in Dubai’ calendar, resi- cultures from within and outside the emirate to dents and visitors can also enjoy numerous other showcase the true spirit of Dubai’s multicultural attractions that make Dubai a ‘must-visit’ year round experience for visitors from Kuwait who will be in tive of their cultural background. The festivities also environment under the theme, “United in destination, including the mega theme park, IMG Dubai during this year’s ‘Eid Al Adha’ celebrations. In offer a wonderful opportunity for visitors from Celebration”. Worlds of Adventure. each edition of “Eid in Dubai” we ensure that the cel- Kuwait who are one of our most important target Highlights of this year’s ‘Eid in Dubai - Eid Al Commenting on the ‘Eid in Dubai - Eid Al Adha’ ebrations reach out to the widest possible range of audiences to explore and discover Emirati customs, Adha’ celebrations include live concerts featuring celebrations, Laila Mohammad Suhail, CEO of DFRE, people, in every nook and corner of Dubai, as we cuisine and culture through social, cultural and some of the iconic Arab singers, Rabeh Saqer and said: “Eid in Dubai will add to the overall holiday want everyone to experience the joy of Eid irrespec- entertainment events.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 31, 2016 information

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18:30 Ed Stafford: Into The Unknown 16:35 Fatal Attraction 19:20 Running Wild With Bear 17:30 Planet Carnivore Grylls 18:25 Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys 20:10 Storage Hunters 19:20 Sharkatraz 04:05 Doctors 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 20:10 Expedition Wild 20:35 Dallas Car Sharks 04:35 Eastenders 03:20 Calimero 21:00 Fatal Attraction 04:00 Life In Pieces 21:00 Dark Woods Justice 05:05 The Musketeers 03:35 Zou 21:50 Planet Carnivore 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Eastenders 21:50 Ed Stafford: Into The 03:45 Loopdidoo 22:40 Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys Jimmy Fallon 06:30 Death In Paradise Unknown 04:00 Art Attack 23:30 Shark Men 06:30 The Bill Engvall Show 07:30 Death In Paradise 22:40 Mega Shippers 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 00:20 Top Cats 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 08:25 Call The Midwife 23:30 Fast Nʼ Loud 04:35 Calimero 01:10 Animal Intervention 08:00 Life In Pieces 09:25 The Musketeers 00:20 Kindig Customs 04:50 Zou 02:00 I, Predator 10:30 The Bill Engvall Show 10:20 Doctors 01:10 Dark Woods Justice 05:00 Loopdidoo 02:50 Dr. Kʼs Exotic Animal 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 10:55 Eastenders 02:00 Ed Stafford: Into The 05:15 Art Attack Jimmy Fallon Unknown 11:25 Death In Paradise 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 12:30 Life In Pieces 02:50 Mega Shippers 12:20 Call The Midwife 05:50 Calimero 13:30 The Bill Engvall Show 13:15 The Musketeers 15:30 Fresh Off The Boat 06:00 Zou 14:10 Doctors 16:00 Grandfathered 14:45 Eastenders 06:20 Loopdidoo 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 15:15 Death In Paradise 06:35 Art Attack 03:50 Science Of Stupid 18:00 Two And A Half Men 16:10 Call The Midwife 07:00 The Hive 04:15 Science Of Stupid 18:30 Two And A Half Men 17:05 The Musketeers 07:10 Zou 04:45 Incredibly Small World 19:00 Angie Tribeca 18:00 Doctors 03:00 Mega Engineering 07:25 Loopdidoo 05:40 Money Meltdown 19:30 Angie Tribeca 18:30 Eastenders 03:48 Smash Lab 07:40 Jungle Cubs 06:05 Money Meltdown 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 19:05 Death In Paradise 04:36 Secret Space Escapes 08:05 Sofia The First 06:35 Hacking The System Jimmy Fallon 20:00 Holby City 05:24 How The Universe Works 08:30 Miles From Tomorrow 07:00 Hacking The System 21:00 Fresh Off The Boat 06:12 How Do They Do It? 21:00 Friday Night Dinner 08:40 PJ Masks 07:30 Brain Games 21:30 Grandfathered 06:36 Food Factory 21:30 Rev. 09:10 Doc McStuffins 07:55 Brain Games 22:00 South Park 22:00 Stag 07:00 How Do They Do It? 08:25 UFOs: The Untold Stories 22:30 South Park 07:26 Smash Lab 09:40 Doc McStuffins 22:55 Hebburn 09:55 Minnieʼs Bow-Toons 09:20 Incredibly Small World 23:00 Family Guy 23:25 Doctors 08:14 How The Universe Works 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 10:00 Sofia The First 10:15 Machine Impossible 00:00 Eastenders 09:02 Mega Engineering 00:30 Fresh Off The Boat 10:30 Sofia The First 11:10 Cosmos: A Spacetime 00:35 Holby City 09:50 How Do They Do It? Odyssey 01:00 Grandfathered 01:35 Friday Night Dinner 10:14 Food Factory 11:00 The Lion Guard 12:05 Fly Me To The Stars: Japanʼs 02:30 Family Guy 02:00 Rev. 10:38 Secret Space Escapes 11:30 Jake And The Never Land Space Challenge 02:35 Stag 11:26 Smash Lab Pirates 13:00 UFOs: The Untold Stories 12:14 How The Universe Works 12:00 Jake And The Never Land 14:00 Brain Games 13:02 How Do They Do It? Pirates 14:30 Brain Games 13:26 Food Factory 12:30 Gummi Bears 15:00 Hacking The System 05:00 Good Morning America 13:50 Mega Engineering 13:00 Sofia The First 15:30 Hacking The System 14:38 Secret Space Escapes 07:00 Bones 13:30 Doc McStuffins 16:00 Machine Impossible 15:26 Smash Lab 08:00 Once Upon A Time 14:00 The Lion Guard 17:00 Cosmos: A Spacetime 10:00 Chicago Med 16:14 How The Universe Works Odyssey 03:00 Nathan For You 17:02 Mega Engineering 14:30 Aladdin 11:00 Bones 03:25 Nathan For You 14:55 Jake And The Never Land 18:00 Mission Pluto 12:00 Once Upon A Time 17:50 Smash Lab 19:00 Science Of Stupid 03:50 Impractical Jokers 18:40 How The Universe Works Pirates 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 04:15 Impractical Jokers 15:05 Goldie & Bear 19:30 Science Of Stupid 15:00 Live Good Morning America 19:30 Battle Factory 20:00 Machine Impossible 04:40 Ridiculousness 15:30 Miles From Tomorrow 16:00 Shark Tank 19:55 Battle Factory 20:50 Cosmos: A Spacetime 05:05 Ridiculousness 20:20 How Do They Do It? 16:00 Doc McStuffins 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Odyssey 18:00 Once Upon A Time 05:30 Tosh.0 20:45 Food Factory 16:25 Doc McStuffins 21:40 Mission Pluto 05:55 Tosh.0 21:10 Industrial Junkie 16:55 Sofia The First 19:00 Containment 22:30 Science Of Stupid 20:00 The Family 06:20 Tattoo Disasters 21:35 Industrial Junkie 17:25 Sofia The First 22:55 Science Of Stupid 22:00 Battle Factory 21:00 Chicago Med 06:50 Tattoo Disasters 17:50 The Lion Guard 23:20 Money Meltdown 22:00 Heartbeat 07:15 Hungry Investors 22:25 Battle Factory 18:15 Jake And The Never Land 23:45 Money Meltdown 22:50 How The Universe Works 23:00 The X-Files Pirates 00:10 Machine Impossible 08:05 Ridiculousness 23:40 Smash Lab 00:00 Bones 08:30 Ridiculousness 18:45 Jake And The Neverland 01:00 Cosmos: A Spacetime 01:00 Chicago Med 00:30 How Do They Do It? Odyssey 08:55 Nathan For You 00:55 Food Factory Pirates 02:00 Heartbeat 09:20 Nathan For You 19:00 PJ Masks 02:00 Mission Pluto 01:20 Battle Factory 02:55 Hacking The System 09:45 Impractical Jokers 01:45 Battle Factory 19:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 10:10 Impractical Jokers 02:10 How The Universe Works 20:00 Doc McStuffins 10:35 Key And Peele 20:30 Sofia The First 11:00 Workaholics 21:00 PJ Masks 11:25 Lip Sync Battle 21:30 Aladdin 03:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:50 Lip Sync Battle 22:00 Jungle Cubs 03:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 03:48 Henry Danger 03:45 Hidalgo 12:15 Nathan For You 22:25 Gummi Bears BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE ON OSN MOVIES HD COMEDY 06:15 Faster 22:50 Zou 04:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 12:40 Nathan For You 04:36 The Haunted Hathaways 08:00 Ladder 49 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 10:00 Dracula Untold 13:05 Impractical Jokers 06:00 Fashion Bloggers Feasts 12:10 Ant & Decʼs Saturday Night 05:00 Max & Shred 23:20 Calimero 11:45 Batman Unlimited: Monster 13:30 Impractical Jokers 06:25 Keeping Up With The 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives Takeaway 05:24 Henry Danger Mayhem 13:55 Ridiculousness 03:15 The Hive 23:35 Zou Kardashians 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 13:25 Emmerdale 05:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 13:30 Faster 14:20 Ridiculousness 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 23:50 Loopdidoo 07:20 Keeping Up With The 23:00 Iron Chef America 13:50 Coronation Street 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:15 Ladder 49 14:45 Tattoo Disasters Teenage Witch 00:05 Art Attack Kardashians 00:00 Ace Of Cakes 14:20 Coronation Street 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 17:15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 08:20 E! News 00:30 Ace Of Cakes 14:45 Murdoch Mysteries 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15:10 Tattoo Disasters 19:00 The Hobbit: The Battle Of Teenage Witch 00:45 Calimero 09:15 Keeping Up With The 01:00 Andy Bates Brazilian Street 15:35 The Chase: Celebrity 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15:35 Lip Sync Battle The Five Armies 04:10 Hank Zipzer 01:00 Zou Kardashians Feasts Specials 07:48 Winx Club 16:00 Lip Sync Battle 22:00 We Still Kill The Old Way 04:35 Binny And The Ghost 01:15 Loopdidoo 10:15 Keeping Up With The 01:30 Andy Bates Brazilian Street 16:30 Donʼt Tell The Bride 08:12 Harvey Beaks 16:30 Nathan For You 23:45 Wolves 05:00 Violetta Kardashians Feasts 17:25 Autopsy: The Last Hours 08:36 Breadwinners 16:55 Nathan For You 01:30 Art Attack 01:30 Sharknado 2: The Second 05:45 The Hive 11:10 Keeping Up With The 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives Of... 09:00 Get Blake 17:25 Workaholics 05:50 Mouk 02:00 Calimero One 02:15 Zou Kardashians 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 18:20 Emmerdale 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 17:50 Impractical Jokers 06:00 Hank Zipzer 18:45 Coronation Street 02:30 Loopdidoo 12:05 Keeping Up With The 09:48 Henry Danger 18:15 Impractical Jokers 06:25 Jessie Kardashians 19:10 Coronation Street 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 02:45 Art Attack 18:39 Key And Peele 06:50 Disney Mickey Mouse 13:05 E! 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Dirija! 08:00 Cities Of The Underworld 01:00 Ant & Decʼs Saturday Night 14:36 Henry Danger 16:00 Bubble Boy 09:00 The Universe Takeaway 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 18:00 Under The Tuscan Sun 10:00 World War II: Lost Films 02:30 Murdoch Mysteries 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 20:00 Out Cold 11:00 World War II: Lost Films 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:00 Please Give 12:00 Ancient Aliens 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:00 A Night At The Roxbury 13:00 Dogfights 16:36 The Loud House 02:00 Under The Tuscan Sun 14:00 Cities Of The Underworld 17:00 Sanjay And Craig 15:00 The Universe 17:24 Harvey Beaks 16:00 World War II: Lost Films 03:45 Zoo Confidential 17:48 Breadwinners 17:00 World War II: Lost Films 04:40 Expedition Wild 18:12 Henry Danger 18:00 Ancient Aliens 05:35 Asiaʼs Deadliest Snakes 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 19:00 Patton 360 03:00 The Imitation Game 06:30 Planet Carnivore 19:00 100 Things To Do Before 20:00 Cities Of The Underworld 05:00 Ricki And The Flash 07:25 Zoo Confidential High School 21:00 The Universe 07:00 Believe 08:20 Expedition Wild 19:24 Game Shakers 22:00 America: The Story Of The 09:00 The Imitation Game 09:15 Animal Armory 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants U.S. 11:00 Ricki And The Flash 10:10 Planet Carnivore 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 23:00 Ultimate Guide To The 13:00 Interstellar 11:05 Dangerous Encounters 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Presidents 16:00 Miss You Already 12:00 Shark Men 21:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:00 Ancient Aliens 18:00 Hot Pursuit 12:55 Top Cats 21:24 Breadwinners 01:00 Patton 360 20:00 Taken 3 13:50 Animal Intervention 21:48 Breadwinners 02:00 Cities Of The Underworld 22:00 I Lived 14:45 Sharkatraz 22:12 Sanjay And Craig 02:50 The Universe 00:00 Wild Card 15:40 Expedition Wild 22:36 Sanjay And Craig 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 02:00 Pressure

03:40 Big Rig Bounty Hunters LADDER 49 ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 04:05 Big Rig Bounty Hunters 04:30 Pawn Stars 19:03 Workaholics 06:55 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 05:00 Time Team 19:27 TUT 14:05 Botched 06:00 Shipping Wars And Cat Noir 15:00 WAGs 20:13 TUT 07:20 Dog With A Blog 06:25 Shipping Wars 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 16:00 WAGs 06:50 Swamp People 07:45 Bunkʼd 17:00 Keeping Up With The Noah 08:10 Austin & Ally 06:00 Boyster 07:40 Mountain Men Kardashians 08:30 American Restoration 21:30 Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus 08:35 Shake It Up 06:10 Super Matrak 18:00 Keeping Up With The Comedy Equals Time 09:00 Hannah Montana 06:35 Super Matrak 08:55 Big Rig Bounty Hunters Kardashians 09:20 Big Rig Bounty Hunters 22:18 Inside Amy Schumer 09:25 Hannah Montana 07:00 Pokemon Bw: Adventures In 19:00 E! News 09:50 Wizards Of Waverly Place Unova 09:45 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 22:42 South Park 20:00 Hollywood Medium With 10:35 Alone 23:05 Underground With Dave 10:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place 07:25 K.C. Undercover Tyler Henry 10:40 Good Luck Charlie 11:25 Time Team Attell 07:50 Supa Strikas 21:00 Keeping Up With The 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 12:15 American Pickers 23:30 The Daily Show With Trevor 08:15 Danger Mouse S1 Kardashians 11:30 Jessie 08:40 Camp Lakebottom 13:05 Storage Wars Noah 22:00 Botched 13:30 Storage Wars 11:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 09:05 Counterfeit Cat 23:00 E! News 00:00 TUT 12:00 The 7D 09:10 Gravity Falls 13:55 Counting Cars: Best Of 00:50 TUT 00:00 Famously Single 14:20 Car Hunters 12:15 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 09:35 Lab Rats 00:55 Famously Single 01:40 The Daily Show With Trevor And Cat Noir 10:00 Rocket Monkeys 14:45 American Restoration 01:50 Botched 15:10 American Restoration Noah 12:40 Hank Zipzer 10:25 Ultimate Spider-Man 02:20 E! News 02:05 John Mulaney: New In Town 13:05 Star Darlings 10:50 Boyster 15:35 Shipping Wars 13:10 Austin & Ally 11:20 Boyster 16:00 Ax Men 13:35 Austin & Ally 11:45 Pair Of Kings 16:50 Mountain Men 14:00 Liv And Maddie 12:10 Pair Of Kings 17:40 Swamp People 14:25 Liv And Maddie 12:35 Lab Rats 18:30 Time Team 14:50 Dog With A Blog 13:00 Lab Rats 19:20 American Pickers 15:15 Hank Zipzer 13:30 Phineas And Ferb 03:00 Man Fire Food 20:10 Pawn Stars 15:40 Bunkʼd 13:55 Phineas And Ferb 03:30 Man Fire Food 20:35 Pawn Stars 04:00 Chopped 21:00 Criss Angel: Mindfreak 03:15 Wheels That Fail 16:05 Star Darlings 14:20 Kickinʼ It 16:10 Gravity Falls 05:00 Guyʼs Grocery Games 21:25 Criss Angel: Mindfreak 03:40 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 14:45 Pokemon Bw: Adventures In 16:35 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 06:00 Man Fire Food 21:50 Pirate Treasure Of The Edition Unova And Cat Noir 06:30 Man Fire Food Knights Templar 04:05 Storage Hunters 15:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 17:00 Backstage 15:15 Supa Strikas 07:00 Chopped 22:40 Britainʼs Bloody Crown: War 04:30 Dallas Car Sharks 17:50 Girl Meets World 08:00 Barefoot Contessa: Back To Of The Roses 05:00 How Stuffʼs Made 15:40 Supa Strikas 18:15 Bunkʼd 16:05 Lab Rats Basics 23:30 Criss Angel: Mindfreak 05:30 How Do They Do It? 18:40 Mako Mermaids 16:30 Danger Mouse S1 08:30 Barefoot Contessa: Back To 23:55 Criss Angel: Mindfreak 06:00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 19:05 Austin & Ally 16:55 Kirby Buckets Basics 00:20 Pirate Treasure Of The 06:50 Kindig Customs 19:30 Jessie 17:25 K.C. Undercover 09:00 The Kitchen Knights Templar 07:40 Fast Nʼ Loud 19:55 Violetta 17:50 Annedroids 10:00 The Pioneer Woman 01:10 Leepu And Pitbull 08:30 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 20:45 Good Luck Charlie 18:15 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty... 10:30 The Pioneer Woman 02:00 Swamp People Edition 21:10 H2O: Just Add Water 18:40 K.C. Undercover 11:00 Chopped 02:50 Mountain Men 08:55 Storage Hunters UK 21:35 H2O: Just Add Water 19:05 Counterfeit Cat 12:00 Guyʼs Big Bite 09:20 Dallas Car Sharks 22:00 Binny And The Ghost 19:10 Gravity Falls 12:30 Guyʼs Big Bite 09:45 How Stuffʼs Made 22:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A 19:35 Pickle And Peanut 13:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 10:10 How Do They Do It? Teenage Witch 20:00 Lab Rats 13:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 10:35 Mythbusters 22:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 20:25 Supa Strikas 14:00 Man Fire Food 11:25 Worldʼs Top 5 Teenage Witch 20:55 K.C. Undercover 14:30 Man Fire Food 12:15 Worldʼs Top 5 23:10 Hank Zipzer 21:20 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty... 15:00 Chopped 16:00 The Kitchen 03:25 Vera 13:05 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 23:35 Binny And The Ghost 21:45 Guardians Of The Galaxy 05:15 Eggheads Edition 00:00 Violetta 22:10 Marvel Avengers Assemble 17:00 The Pioneer Woman 17:30 The Pioneer Woman 05:45 Ant & Decʼs Saturday Night 13:30 Storage Hunters 00:45 The Hive 22:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 18:00 Chopped Takeaway 13:55 Dallas Car Sharks 00:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 19:00 Guyʼs Grocery Games 07:05 The Chase: Celebrity 14:20 Alaska: The Last Frontier Teenage Witch Specials 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 20:00 Ace Of Cakes 15:10 Kindig Customs 20:30 Ace Of Cakes 08:00 Vera 16:00 Fast Nʼ Loud Teenage Witch 09:50 Murdoch Mysteries 01:40 Hank Zipzer 21:00 Andy Bates Brazilian Street 16:50 How Stuffʼs Made 03:15 WAGs Feasts 10:45 Eggheads 17:15 How Do They Do It? 02:05 Binny And The Ghost 04:10 WAGs 11:15 The Chase: Celebrity 02:30 Violetta 21:30 Andy Bates Brazilian Street 17:40 Dark Woods Justice 05:05 WAGs Specials INTERSTELLAR ON OSN MOVIES HD Classifieds

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SHARQIA-1 BLOOD FATHER 1:00 AM THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3:45 PM MORGAN 11:30 AM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 5:45 PM MORGAN 1:30 PM FANAR-1 MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 8:00 PM SKIPTRACE 4:00 PM AKIRA- HINDI 12:45 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 10:15 PM MORGAN 6:30 PM AKIRA- HINDI 3:45 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 12:30 AM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 8:30 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 3:30 PM MORGAN 10:45 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 6:45 PM AVENUES-1 JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 3:30 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 10:00 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 1:00 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 6:30 PM AKIRA- HINDI 10:00 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 3:15 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 9:45 PM BLOOD FATHER 1:15 AM ABU SHANAB 5:30 PM MORGAN 1:00 AM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 8:00 PM FANAR-2 JAHEEM FI ILHIND 10:15 PM CHANGE OF NAME SHARQIA-2 MORGAN 11:30 AM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 12:30 AM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS -3D 11:30 AM MORGAN 1:45 PM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS -3D 1:45 PM MORGAN 4:00 PM Old name: Shaikh Imam BLOOD FATHER 4:00 PM SKIPTRACE 6:00 PM AVENUES-2 Saheb, sur name: Shaikh BLOOD FATHER 6:00 PM MORGAN 8:15 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION-2D-4DX 12:15 PM Madar, Passport No: BLOOD FATHER 8:15 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 10:15 PM THE BFG -3D- 4DX 2:30 PM P0377626, date of birth: MECHANIC: RESURRECTION-2D-4DX 5:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 10:15 PM MORGAN 12:30 AM 01-01-1954, place of birth: BLOOD FATHER 12:15 AM THE BFG -3D- 4DX 7:15 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION-2D-4DX 9:45 PM Bhagam Palli, A.P., Civil ID FANAR-3 No. 254101101142. SHARQIA-3 KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 11:45 AM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION-2D-4DX 12:05 AM HELL OR HIGH WATER 1:00 PM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 2:00 PM Change of name, surname: MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 3:15 PM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 4:15 PM AVENUES-3 Pathan, given name: KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 5:15 PM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 6:30 PM HELL OR HIGH WATER 11:30 AM Haroon Khan, S/o Pathan KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 7:30 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 8:45 PM SKIPTRACE 1:45 PM Azeez Khan. Door No: MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 9:45 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 10:45 PM AKIRA- HINDI 4:00 PM HELL OR HIGH WATER 12:05 AM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 12:45 AM 28/83, Bhavani Nagar, HELL OR HIGH WATER 7:15 PM Bethol Colony, Rayachoty, SKIPTRACE 9:30 PM MUHALAB-1 FANAR-4 SKIPTRACE 11:45 PM Cuddapah (Dt), A.P. HANDS OF STONE 11:30 AM BLOOD FATHER 11:30 AM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 4:00 PM (C 5209) HANDS OF STONE 1:45 PM BLOOD FATHER 1:30 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 7:15 PM 1-9-2016 HANDS OF STONE 4:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 3:30 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 6:15 PM BLOOD FATHER 5:30 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 10:30 PM MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 8:15 PM BLOOD FATHER 7:30 PM I, Mukilarasan Lingesan HANDS OF STONE 10:15 PM BLOOD FATHER 9:45 PM 360º 1 S/o Lingesan, holder of MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 12:30 AM BLOOD FATHER 12:05 AM BLOOD FATHER 12:00 PM Indian Passport No. JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 4:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 2:00 PM G9180281 and Civil ID No. JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 7:15 PM MARINA-1 BLOOD FATHER 4:00 PM 287070104885 has THU+FRI+MON MORGAN 12:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 6:00 PM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 10:30 PM SKIPTRACE 2:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 8:15 PM changed my name from MORGAN 4:15 PM BLOOD FATHER 10:30 PM Mukilarasan Lingesan to MUHALAB-2 SKIPTRACE 6:45 PM BLOOD FATHER 12:45 AM Abdul Rahaman, here- KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 1:00 PM MORGAN 9:00 PM inafter in all my dealings MORGAN 1:30 PM MORGAN 11:00 PM 360º- 2 and documents I will be KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 3:30 PM MORGAN 1:00 AM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 1:15 PM known by name of Abdul KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 5:45 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 3:30 PM MORGAN 8:00 PM MARINA-2 JAHEEM FI ILHIND 5:45 PM MORGAN 10:00 PM BLOOD FATHER 12:15 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 8:00 PM MORGAN 12:05 AM BLOOD FATHER 2:15 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 10:15 PM PRAYER TIMINGS BLOOD FATHER 4:15 PM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 12:30 AM MUHALAB-3 BLOOD FATHER 6:30 PM Fajr: 04:03 BLOOD FATHER 11:30 AM JAHEEM FI ILHIND 8:30 PM AKIRA- HINDI 1:30 PM BLOOD FATHER 10:45 PM 360º- 3 Shorook 05:25 AKIRA- HINDI 11:30 AM JANATHA GARAGE - Telugu 1:30 PM BLOOD FATHER 12:45 AM Duhr: 11:48 KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 4:45 PM AKIRA- HINDI 2:30 PM BLOOD FATHER 7:00 PM MARINA-3 MOHENJO DARO - Hindi 5:30 PM Asr: 15:22 BLOOD FATHER 9:00 PM THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 11:30 AM AKIRA- HINDI 8:30 PM BLOOD FATHER 11:00 PM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 1:30 PM AKIRA- HINDI 11:30 PM Maghrib: 18:12 Isha: 19:31

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Arrival Flights on Thursday 1/9/2016 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 Departure Flights on Thursday 1/9/2016 FDK 802 Damascus 13:15 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:55 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 Airlines Flt Route Time BON 101 Sarajevo 13:55 Airlines Flt Route Time FEG 932 Alexandria 13:55 MSC 415 Sohag 00:10 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 THY 772 Istanbul 00:10 BBC 044 Dhaka 00:10 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 KAC 672 Dubai 14:05 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 KAC 178 Vienna 14:15 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:10 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 MSC 404 Asyut 00:10 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 PAL 669 Dubai/Manila 14:45 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 JZR 1540 Cairo 00:20 DLH 635 Doha 01:00 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 AXB 394 Kozhikode 14:45 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 KNE 382 Taif 14:55 QTR 1086 Doha 01:15 KAC 742 Dammam 14:55 FDB 072 Dubai 00:30 JZR 539 Cairo 01:20 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 KLM 411 Amsterdam 01:05 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:00 SAI 441 Lahore 01:30 OMA 645 Muscat 15:10 MSC 416 Sohag 01:05 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 KAC 1802 Cairo 01:30 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 15:10 JZR 502 Luxor 01:15 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:40 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 THY 773 Istanbul 01:40 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 DLH 635 Frankfurt 02:00 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 NIA 251 Alexandria 15:50 SAI 442 Lahore 02:30 QTR 1079 Doha 15:15 THY 1464 Istanbul 01:50 RJA 640 Amman 16:00 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:00 AXB 395 Kozhikode 01:50 FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 THY 765 Istanbul 02:45 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 KKK 6506 Istanbul 02:00 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 AXB 396 Kozhikode 02:50 BON 102 Sarajevo 16:05 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 JZR 535 Cairo 16:20 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 OMA 646 Muscat 16:10 KAC 418 Manila 02:15 JZR 257 Beirut 16:25 KKK 6505 Istanbul 02:55 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 KAC 177 Vienna 02:55 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:45 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:20 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 KAC 562 Amman 16:55 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 THY 769 Istanbul 03:45 NIA 252 Alexandria 16:50 KAC 118 New York 17:00 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 OMA 643 Muscat 03:05 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 OMA 644 Muscat 04:05 KAC 675 Dubai 17:00 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 FDB 052 Dubai 17:00 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 FDB 8053 Dubai 17:45 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 JZR 266 Beirut 17:10 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 THY 1282 TZX 17:50 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 PGT 860 Istanbul 03:30 PGT 861 Istanbul 04:30 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 JZR 188 Dubai 17:35 KAC 544 Cairo 03:40 KAC 678 Muscat/Abu Dhabi 17:50 QTR 1077 Doha 04:35 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 LMU 510 Cairo 04:00 QTR 1080 Doha 17:55 RBG 552 Alexandria 04:45 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 RBG 551 Alexandria 04:05 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 AVV 653 Alexandria 04:30 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 18:20 LMU 511 Cairo 05:00 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 FEG 931 Alexandria 05:00 AVV 654 Sohag 05:30 MSR 620 Cairo 18:30 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 THY 1414 TZX 05:05 FEG 934 Sohag 06:00 KAC 774 Riyadh 18:35 JZR 538 Cairo 18:30 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 THY 1465 Istanbul 06:00 FDB 8054 Dubai 18:40 THY 770 Istanbul 05:15 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 RJA 643 Amman 06:25 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 KAC 1801 Cairo 18:55 QTR 8511 Doha 05:25 QTR 1087 Doha 06:30 KAC 563 Amman 19:00 JZR 529 Asyut 06:00 JAV 621 Amman 18:45 THY 771 Istanbul 06:45 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 THY 1283 TZX 19:05 JZR 555 Alexandria 06:00 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 QTR 1081 Doha 19:05 PAL 668 Manila/Dubai 06:25 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 JZR 240 Amman 06:55 KAC 104 London 19:00 JZR 124 Bahrain 19:20 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:30 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 MSR 621 Cairo 19:30 BAW 157 London 06:40 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 KAC 285 Dhaka 19:40 JZR 1541 Cairo 07:10 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 QTR 8512 Doha 07:25 FDB 5061 Dubai 07:15 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 FDB 5062 Dubai 07:55 JAV 622 Amman 19:45 IRA 673 Ahwaz 07:15 KAC 614 Bahrain 19:10 IRA 672 Ahwaz 08:15 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 JZR 503 Luxor 07:25 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:15 BAW 156 London 08:25 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 ABY 124 Sharjah 19:55 KAC 346 Ahmedabad 07:35 KAC 674 Dubai 19:45 KAC 173 Munich 08:35 FDB 060 Dubai 20:30 KAC 204 Lahore 07:40 KAC 154 Istanbul 19:45 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:40 FDB 059 Dubai 19:50 JZR 256 Beirut 09:05 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:05 KAC 671 Dubai 09:30 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:45 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 ABY 121 Sharjah 20:10 JZR 534 Cairo 09:30 DLH 634 Doha 20:50 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 KAC 619 Doha 09:30 ABY 122 Sharjah 20:50 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:15 OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 KAC 353 BLR 20:55 KAC 344 Chennai 08:15 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:45 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 KAC 352 Kochi 08:20 QTR 1088 Doha 20:35 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 KAC 351 Kochi 21:00 KAC 362 Colombo 08:20 KNE 231 Riyadh 20:50 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 KAC 543 Cairo 21:00 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 FDB 5053 Dubai 20:55 KAC 101 London/New York 10:00 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:00 KAC 174 Munich 20:55 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:05 OMA 648 Muscat 21:15 KAC 284 Dhaka 09:00 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:05 IRA 668 Mashhad 10:05 MSR 619 Alexandria 21:30 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 RJA 649 Amman 10:15 QTR 1089 Doha 21:45 IRA 667 Esfahan 09:05 ALK 229 Colombo 21:20 QTR 1071 Doha 10:35 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 QTR 1070 Doha 09:20 KLM 417 Amsterdam 21:25 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 FDB 5054 Dubai 21:55 RJA 648 Amman 09:30 SAW 704 Damascus 10:45 THY 764 Istanbul 21:30 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 21:55 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 KAC 676 Dubai 21:35 KAC 677 Abu Dhabi/Muscat 10:50 SAW 703 Damascus 09:45 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 QTR 1082 Doha 21:55 KAC 381 Delhi 22:25 SYR 341 Damascus 10:05 GFA 219 Bahrain 22:00 KAC 153 Istanbul 11:00 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 SYR 342 Damascus 11:05 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 NIA 151 Cairo 22:10 KLM 417 Dammam/Amsterdam 22:25 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 KAC 561 Amman 11:20 MEA 404 Beirut 11:00 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:25 THY 1401 ADB 22:25 JZR 189 Dubai 22:10 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:30 JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:15 KAC 741 Dammam 11:35 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:30 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:00 AIC 981 Chennai/Ahmedabad 22:25 GFA 220 Bahrain 23:00 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 MSC 501 Alexandria 22:30 MEA 405 Beirut 12:00 JZR 238 Amman 23:05 AVV 651 Alexandria 12:05 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 FDK 801 Damascus 12:15 JZR 554 Alexandria 23:05 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:05 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 RBG 554 Alexandria 12:10 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:05 MSC 403 Asyut 23:10 JZR 241 Amman 12:30 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 NIA 152 Cairo 23:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 FEG 933 Sohag 12:55 JZR 513 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:30 AVV 652 Asyut 13:05 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:25 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 MSC 502 Alexandria 23:30 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JAD 301 Amman 23:45 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 stars34 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

CROSSWORD 1360 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) Unexpected changes can disrupt the usual order and routine of your life. This is a time to take risks and dare to be a little unconventional. You will You may want more creative expression in your work, but those in control tend to be prosper through new insights, inventions and an independent point of view. Your profes- unsympathetic. In time you will be able to set examples on how to improve business, sional life gains notice through your achievements. This in turn pulls in business that may particularly when your co-workers follow your example. Your common sense is called surprise you. Learning and knowing a little about a lot of things, staying in touch and on for this afternoon when someone wants to involve you in a fantastic deal! Considering top of the latest developments satisfy a need for mental stimulation. This afternoon would you may have a young person that could learn from your insights-you find a clever way be a good time to take in a good movie. Ideas and thoughts will be gained because of the to disclose the real truth of what really sounds like a fantastic deal. Loved ones that sur- company you keep or something that will be discussed. That creative project you have round you this evening gain from your presence. You are amused tonight. A movie, a been working on at home will get a big boost tonight-take notes. Sharpening these cre- friend or some event that takes place finds you full of chuckles and smiles. ative skills of yours may also help your psychic insights.

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

This may just be mid-week but you will probably want to begin your You are very sensitive to the slightest emotional change today. You have all plans for a fun gathering this weekend. Your workday can be slow from time to time the talent needed to teach most any subject and there may be a bit of psy- and this may be one of those days. It may occur to you that there are ways to update or chology today. Putting effort into a small amount of time will bring you some great results. improve the quantity of incoming work and this afternoon you will pick up a few extra Writing, music and cooking are just some of the areas in which you excel. Writing poetry, clients. You seem to have a magic tongue and your enthusiasm in your communication computer software, games, robotics, are also enjoyed. A sense of support makes this a about your work can be contagious. This afternoon you could gain insight from young good day. It seems the most important class you could teach now would be cognitive read- people. Just being with all that energy is electrifying. Guiding, advising as well as just ing. All indications show that if there were all-year schools the classroom would still be full having a plain old good time is in order now. A sports activity out-of-doors can be of young people hanging on your every word. This afternoon you might consider some enjoyed as things cool down later today and may even involve some play in water. physical pursuits. Friends may want to take you bowling or skating.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Some sort of temporary obstacle may appear this day but if you can look This is a good day to solve problems and make important decisions-at work beyond the situation you will get past the problem quickly. You will find the or at home. You find your way around almost any obstacle and are in control and able to guide yourself with ease. Your sense of inner direction is good and should lead formed a big band (including Black as well afternoon full of opportunities to be creative. Expressing yourself with a flair comes to ACROSS mean a lot to you. Adding your name to an invention is quite a mark of accomplishment. A to opportunities. Quantum physics, anti-gravity and many other expanded thinking or sci- 1. A mercantile establishment for the retail as White musicians) and introduced a kind get-together with friends can prove rewarding this evening. You work with real imagina- entific news items become subjects of involvement for you. You look forward to the next sale of goods or services. of jazz known as swing (1909-1986). tion and understanding in areas of the mind that are the most personal or private: in-depth new invention. You may encourage others to think outside the realm of what they think is 5. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with 83. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants. psychology. You are like a midwife of the spirit, assisting at the birth of each individual possible and dream about what could be. Here is an opportunity to get some insight into caraway seeds. going through a spiritual or rebirth process. You accept the natural process of birth, spiritu- some future educational and professional possibilities. Life is an exciting adventure but it is 12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit DOWN al and physical, and have dedicated yourself to helping it along from time to time. good that your sharp mind remains aware of political trends. juice. 1. Someone who works (or provides work- 15. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus ers) during a strike. and Demeter. 2. A member of a North American Indian 16. The most direct route. people speaking one of the Hokan lan- Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. An acute inflammatory disease occurring guage. It’s a sleep late, catch up on chores and a goof off type of day. A co-worker A lighter workload of late leaves you with a better forecast this weekend. You 3. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and in the intestines of premature infants. may want your help today but unless help is really needed, you may find actually have the time to plan some last-of-the-summer party for the week- 18. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and Sumatra having arboreal habits. yourself moving away from any stressful activity for now. If you do decide you will help this end. After the noon break there may be some demand on your time to speed through a the Ivory Coast. 4. A member of the majority people of person, you will be working with him or her for most of the day. It is important to take a lit- customer’s request. This could be a mistake so stop and double-check your work before 19. Designed to incite to indecency or lust. Punjab in northwestern India. tle time to refurbish your energies. Later today, you will have an opportunity to have a spe- you sign off on the job and you will be glad of the outcome. This evening is a time of sur- 20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals 5. A dark-skinned member of a race of peo- cial time with someone you love. You have new insight into home, possessions and the prises-good ones. Party plans for the weekend are approached once more and go without used in Morse code. ple living in Australia when Europeans whole domestic scene. Financial independence gains your attention and future plans are in a problem. There is a good response to your request for help-add more volunteer helpers 21. A stringed instrument of the guitar fami- arrived. the making. You discover freedom in steady, predictable growth-like a growing plant. anyway. Possessing good common sense, you are very down-to-earth-nurturing and pro- ly that has long neck and circular body. 6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on There are good feelings and harmony. tective to all. Others appreciate you more than you realize. 23. Goddess of criminal rashness and its a skewer usually with vegetables. punishment. 7. A man's sleeveless garment worn under- 24. Australian clover fern. neath a coat. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 8. Type genus of the Alcedinidae. 26. A conspicuous disparity or difference as There could be levels of existence as well as technology that are far beyond You seem quite happy to be with others in an atmosphere of teamwork. between two figures. 9. Compete for something. our current status here on this earth. You and a co-worker may be working You may be chosen to lead the group in some project that will help speed work along at a 27. Any of several small ungulate mammals 10. A hotel providing overnight lodging for on some new project today. Enjoying some current-day invention you may remember a more acceptable speed. Others accept you-they sense you are a leader and admire your of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors travelers. past science fiction story or movie that used the same invention. You have a knack for regal manner. All parts of your life are touched by your sense of originality and spontaneity. and feet with hooflike toes. 11. The time of life between the ages of 12 always finding assistance in your interests. You have ideas of your own and they fit quite Everything hangs on the innovative approach to things and people that mark your style. 30. The blood group whose red cells carry and 20. nicely on paper inside a hard cover called a book! You may want to write a science fiction Questions of independence are absolutely essential to your way of life-you are quick to book or just record your thoughts on some new technology. Handicapped people need both the A and B antigens. 12. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having revolt when anything is distracting. Relaxing this afternoon after work may mean you take new technology and this is an area about which you may want to write; there is success. 32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits. time to shower and change clothes. Activities with young people, neighbors or friends add You will find good results on the work you do at this time. metallic element. 13. No longer having or seeming to have or to those feelings of wellbeing today. 34. The lower house of the parliament of the expecting to have life. Republic of Ireland. 14. The persistence of a sound after its 37. Former name for the order Crocodylia. source has stopped. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 41. The wool of a sheep or similar animal. 22. An organization of countries formed in Pisces (February 19-March 20) 43. An agency of the United Nations affiliat- 1961 to agree on a common policy for the You can be dramatic and exhibit warmth to all who meet you and today is Your community spirit may come into play today. There is a drive to work ed with the World Bank. sale of petroleum. one of those days. You are gregarious, outspoken and independent. There are plenty of with others on projects that concern humanitarian interest. Your work may involve charity 44. A white metallic element that burns with 25. An officer who acts as military assistant opportunities to use your communication skills this morning. You communicate with great organizations and with your professional comrades you are able to help build up an organi- a brilliant light. to a more senior officer. skill and it is stimulating to be with you. When you are feeling emotional, you use that feel- zation that does grand things for others. This may be health drives or equipment for the 47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) 28. A silvery ductile metallic element found ing as a key to look for truths. This is how you help others. This afternoon is a time for rela- handicapped or animal rescue care, etc. There is an urge to find a way to make your dreams that was responsible for research into atom- primarily in bauxite. tionships, studies, hobbies, travel and communications. There is a human resource poten- a reality and this, as well as your work, keeps you moving in a forward direction. There is a ic energy and its peacetime uses in the 29. An overland journey by hunters (espe- tial in all you meet and you just naturally move to encourage the enthusiasm for inven- feeling of being a part of the bigger picture-you are very communicative, not just a little United States. cially in Africa). tions, discoveries and all sorts of creative expression. Today you enjoy the old and the new. curious-conversations come easily. Study, research and investigations of all kinds may 48. Cloth covering that forms the part of a 31. A dagger with a slender blade. Relax, enjoy this special time. come into play at this time. garment below the waist. 33. A soft silvery metallic element of the 51. Any of various aromatic herbs of the alkali earth group. genus Monarda. 35. Someone who cuts and delivers ice. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 54. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilo- 36. Any of several plant glycoproteins that grams. act like specific antibodies but are not anti- 55. A liturgical headdress worn by bishops bodies in that they are not evoked by an on formal occasions. antigenic stimulus. 56. True mosses. 38. An Indian side dish of yogurt and 57. Of or relating to or characteristic of chopped cucumbers and spices. Thailand of its people. 39. A radioactive element of the actinide 59. A genus of tropical American plants series. have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy 40. Russian physicist (1895-1971). compound fruits composed of the fruits of 42. Having leadership guidance. several flowers (such as pineapples). 45. A bachelor's degree in naval science. 62. (astronomy) A measure of time defined 46. A workman who laces shoes or footballs by Earth's orbital motion. or books (during binding). 63. A parallelogram with four equal sides. 49. Income from capital investment paid in a 65. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who series of regular payments. has not yet begun to walk or talk. 50. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 68. A collection of objects laid on top of 1950s. each other. 52. Angered at something unjust or wrong. 71. A town in central Kansas. 53. Immeasurably small. 74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 58. Dressed in a habit. from aba cloth. 60. (Greek mythology) One of the three 77. A distinct part that can be specified sep- Gorgons. arately in a group of things that could be 61. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur. enumerated on a list. 64. A city of central China. 78. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity 66. In bed. equal to 10 decibels. 67. With no effort to conceal. 79. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows 69. (prefix) Within. in New Zealand. 70. The inner surface of the hand from the 80. An edge between a sidewalk and a road- wrist to the base of the fingers. way consisting of a line of curbstones (usu- 72. A student who studies excessively. ally forming part of a gutter). 73. A platform raised above the surrounding 81. A condition (mostly in boys) character- level to give prominence to the person on it. ized by behavioral and learning disorders. 75. Call upon in supplication. 82. United States clarinetist who in 1934 76. A unit of length of thread or yarn.

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This undated image provided by Bialetti shows an This undated image provided by the Indianapolis Museum of Art shows a conti- This undated photo provided by the This April 19, 2016 photo shows a coffeepot on the left in a original Moka Express coffeemaker. — AP photos nental coffee service from the 1930s with a tall, sleek cylindrical pot, vertical lines Indianapolis Museum of Art shows a cof- display from the contemporary design wing at the decorating the top and horizontal lines at the bottom. feepot designed by Aldo Rossi and is on Indianapolis Museum of Art. display in the museum’s contemporary design wing. Flowery teapots in museums, sure, but how about a coffeepot?

t’s not unusual to see teapots on display in museums, cele- er by Aldo Rossi called “La Conica.” The museum’s notes com- Alessi, a high-end Italian manufacturer. Another item on dis- gant, less angular version of an espresso maker designed for brated for their beauty and craftsmanship. Often they’re pare its sleek design to a building made of “simple geometric play at IMA is a continental coffee service from the 1930s with Alessi by Alessandro Mendini in 2011. Selim says that contem- Icenturies-old artifacts, with fussy floral designs or painted shapes (a sphere, a cone, and a cylinder). ... The design plays a tall, sleek cylindrical pot, with vertical lines decorating the porary coffeemakers are emblems of their time in the same scenes on porcelain or china, or silver teapots with intricate with the idea of architectural form, reducing it to its simplest top and horizontal lines at the bottom. Anyone who owns or way that a 17th century silver teapot represents the era of engravings or metalwork. But what about coffeepots? They elements.” has seen an ordinary, old-school stovetop espresso maker will global sea trade that put tea and coffee within everyday reach tend to be more utilitarian than decorative, the workhorses of Rossi’s own comments about La Conica recall a youthful be delighted to know that the iconic Bialetti Moka coffee mak- of European consumers. our morning routines rather than the centerpieces of an after- interest in coffeepot design: “As a child, I spent hours drawing er, originally designed in the 1930s, is in the permanent collec- “What’s really interesting about these designed objects is noon ceremony. And unlike a pretty teapot that steeps and coffee pots ... these fantastic geometric forms represented my tions of several museums, including the Museum of Modern how they embody material cultural trends from the time they serves tea after a stovetop kettle has done the actual work of idea of beauty. I saw in them domes, towers, minarets, and Art in New York. were made,” said Selim. “Objects that are contemporary now boiling the water, a coffeepot is more likely to do double duty, other buildings.” “It’s fascinating to think of how the culture of The Moka, as coffee-lovers know, is a marvel of engineer- will have a totally different meaning in a museum ... as part of used for both making and serving coffee. architecture can be incorporated into the design of a tiny ing as well as design: It makes coffee by forcing boiling water a long historical thread as we move into the future.” — AP So it’s a nice surprise - especially for those of us caught up household object,” said Shelley Selim, associate curator of up from the bottom chamber through the grounds basket in the current wave of coffee-mania - to find coffeepots in a design and decorative arts at the Indianapolis museum. into a pot with a pouring spout. The simple aluminum museum. The contemporary design wing of the Indianapolis machine with eight sides has three screw-together pieces and Museum of Art has several in its collection. One of the most Continental coffee service a hinged cover with black plastic handle and top knob. striking is a 1980s three-piece steel-and-copper espresso mak- The Rossi design was part of a series commissioned by The Indianapolis Museum of Art has a slightly more ele-

This file photo shows an advertising banner in front of the heritage-protected Prora Complex that is being turned into luxury apartments in Prora, near Binz, north-eastern An aerial view of the recently created luxury apartments at the site of the heritage-protected Prora Complex in Prora. Germany. — AFP photos Nazi beach resort ruin transforms into luxury playground ne of the biggest relics left behind by the Nazis “On the one hand there’s an interest in maintaining it “This is a place where 20,000 people were to be is undergoing a radical transformation on a as a memorial,” said sales representative Werner Jung groomed to work and wage war,” she said. Misgajski OGerman island, harnessing a property boom to of Irisgerd real estate, which is building the neighbour- added that witness accounts indicate that between become a luxury tourist destination. Developers are ing 270-flat Neues Prora (New Prora). 500 and 600 forced laborers worked on the complex now bringing to life the hulking grey ruin at Prora “And on the other there are the interests of the under the Nazis. The two museums hope to merge in where Adolf Hitler failed to realize his dream of a giant investors who have put a lot of money into this and a permanent space to ensure that Prora’s history is not beachfront indoctrination camp. The planned resort want to see something for it. I think it’s a pretty good whitewashed or forgotten. But the plan will depend has once again entangled economic interests with his- compromise.” The company bought its block for 2.75 in part on the outcome of an election on September 4 torical memory in Germany, where the past looms million euros ($3.1 million) in 2012 and put about 88 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state, Chancellor A construction site of luxury apartments as part of transformation of the heritage-pro- large at evocative sites across the country and a gener- million euros into the renovation. Ninety-five percent Angela Merkel’s home district, as to whether they can tected Prora Complex. ation of survivors is dying off. The original complex of the apartments have been sold, thanks to tax count on government support. The right-wing pop- was intended for up to 20,000 Germans as part of the breaks afforded to investors in listed buildings, a ulist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling at around Third Reich’s so-called Strength Through Joy propa- healthy economy and record low interest rates. 20 percent with an anti-migrant platform-within strik- ganda program, whose other lasting achievement was the Volkswagen Beetle “people’s car”. Recreation and hearty exercise would have been coupled with on-site ideological teaching to build loyalty to the Nazis and strong racial identity among the “Aryan” working class. Building started in 1936 but halted with the onset of World War II in 1939, leaving a concrete skeleton known as the Colossus of Prora stretching 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) down one of Germany’s most stunning beaches. Under East Germany’s communist state, the camp served as mili- tary barracks so secretive that they did not appear on travel maps.

Eerie relic “This is a site that quintessentially stands for both Katja Lucke, chief historian of the heritage-protected Prora Complex. the Nazi and the communist eras, where you can gain An aerial view of the recently created luxury apartments. a more complete picture of how both systems worked,” the director of one of two Prora museums, Prices range between 350,000 euros for a 100- ing distance of Merkel’s conservatives. “Of course it Susanna Misgajski, said. “Military conscripts, prisoners square-metre (1,000 square foot) ground-floor flat and isn’t a Nazi party but the AfD has grown strong of war, forced laborers, refugees-they were all in Prora 650,000 euros for a penthouse with a spectacular sea because the refugee problem has scared people, par- at various points.” Since the regime’s collapse in 1989, view. “It is basically the last new complex in Germany ticularly those without much contact with foreigners,” the complex continued to crumble. After years of false where you have direct access to such a gorgeous Misgajski said, noting that Prora’s youth hostel was starts, four of the eight original uniform six-storey beach,” Jung said. used to house asylum seekers last winter. blocks are being developed. A fifth went to the cash- She said the resurgence of extremism was yet strapped regional government, which allowed a youth Enduring awe another reason why Prora needed to be preserved to hostel to open in 2011 and now aims to sell it off But opinions are divided about the dramatic bear witness. The complex belongs to a small group of entirely. Blocks six and seven belong to a shadowy changes, which are expected to be completed by mammoth Nazi relics including the Nuremberg party company from Liechtenstein. The Soviets blew up 2022. “We have enough memorials in Germany,” said rallying grounds and Berlin’s grandiose semi-circular block eight. Karsten Rarrasch, 50, a postman from nearby Tempelhof airport terminal. Lucke noted that the The Prora Solitaire complex opened this summer Stralsund who was building a sandcastle with his Nazis’ architectural ambition was intended to inspire complete with a cream-coloured facade, glass-fronted grandson. “So many years have passed, it’s time to awe, an effect that endures to this day and demands balconies, swish apartments and an on-site spa. The make something beautiful out of Prora.” However sensitivity of developers. “Of course people see this new look is targeted at moneyed urbanites, with a Katja Lucke, chief historian at another private museum gigantic complex and are fascinated by it. But you can- ramshackle art gallery and the down-at-the-heel on site, said that while developers have rescued the not afford to make it banal. You have to put it in con- A construction site of luxury apartments as part of transformation of the heritage-pro- “Miami” nightclub now gradually giving way to a hip- building from disintegration, they should do more to text.”— AFP tected Prora Complex. ster burger joint and a bakery serving latte macchiato. own up to its murky origins. lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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(Third left) US actress Emma Stone poses with US director Damien The jury of the 73rd Venice Film Festival (from left) Italian writer Giancarlo De Cataldo, French actress Chiara Mastroianni, US artist Laurie Anderson, Venezuela’s Chazelle (second left) during the photocall of the movie ‘La la Land’ pre- director Lorenzo Vigas, German actress Nina Hoss, director and president of the jury Sam Mendes, Chinese actress Zhao Wei, British actress Gemma Arterton and US sented in competition at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, yesterday at director Joshua Oppenheimer, pose with Venezia International Film Festival director Alberto Barbera (right) during a photocall, yesterday at Venice Lido. Venice Lido. — AFP ‘La La Land’ musical masterpiece dazzles Venice film fest bewitching musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma ‘Brand new start’ sun-kissed yellows and rich reds and blues dancing on their musical will be competing with an array of dystopian love sto- Stone whipped up a frenzy on the opening day of the The film pays homage to classic musicals, with nods to cars. Chazelle said he had brought the love story into the ries, period dramas, adventure epics, revised Westerns and sci- AVenice film festival yesterday as it kicked off the race for scenes from “Singing in the Rain” (1952) and “Grease” (1978) as modern day by setting it in LA, a metropolis he has lived in for fi thrillers at the festival. the Golden Lion. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land”, a tribute to well as old-timers “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) and “Top Hat” almost a decade and which called “a city of loneliness when The beachside extravaganza has restored its reputation as the Golden Age of American musicals, reunites the stars, who (1935). Stone plays Mia, a wide-eyed romantic who goes from you first live there, not a city that offers itself up”. an awards-season platform by premiering the last two Best appeared together in the 2011 romcom “Crazy, Stupid, Love”- audition to failed audition in her quest to make it big, while Picture Oscars: “Spotlight” (2015) and “Birdman” (2014), in a but with oodles of singing this time. The world’s top film crit- Gosling is Sebastian, a jazz pianist with a mission to save the ‘Absolutely loved it’ challenge to the mammoth Toronto film festival. All eyes will ics, gathered on the glamorous Lido di Venezia for the 10-day medium, but who struggles to pay his bills. The pair meet-in “The idea was to build from all the cliches we make fun of; be on the jury, led by British film director Sam Mendes, for fest, cheered loudly as Chazelle and Stone met the press fol- one of LA’s famous traffic jams and then at a bawdy celebrity the traffic, the terrible parties, the celebrity culture, the shal- hints about the next Academy Awards. Mendes told journal- lowing the screening of the joyful, quirky film which won party-before wooing each other in tap- and ballroom-dancing lowness. But then see what was beautiful beneath the surface, ists Wednesday he had no pre-conceived ideas but would hearts from the opening shot. sequences reminiscent of American icons Fred Astaire and and reconcile the two,” he said. “It had to feel like a dream, but “know excellence when I see it”. This world premiere of the tale of a struggling jazz pianist Ginger Rogers. “We talked a lot about how to justify doing a one that took place in a real place,” he added, explaining that “One of the most difficult things is to cut yourself off from and his actress girlfriend in Los Angeles is the first of 20 films musical today. We went back to the old traditions and tried to to get the light right, filming only took place between 6pm the white noise on social media, commentaries, and meet a in competition at the 73rd edition of the world’s oldest film make it as simple as that. and 7pm each day, “much to the frustration of the producers”. movie with as little knowledge as possible.” The man behind festival. “Now more than ever we need hope and romance on No-one breaks into song unless it’s emotionally justified,” Stone said she “absolutely loved” the experience. “I went to “American Beauty” (1999) and “Road to Perdition” (2002) said the big screen,” said the American director, 31, a former jazz Chazelle said. In an auspicious start for the Golden Lion bid, see Les Miserables when I was eight. Bursting into song has directing was a lonely experience. “You’re at the top of the musician whose second feature film “Whiplash” (2014) the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera described “La La always been a dream of mine,” she said. Although the actress pyramid, but you don’t speak with many about what you love. received five Academy Award nominations. “There’s some- Land” as a movie “that does not merely reinvent the musical from “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Birdman” recognized her I’m looking forward to talking to others, I’m here to learn, I’m thing about musicals, they are movies as a dreamland, genre, it gives it a brand new start”. The picture bursts with own early experiences in some of Mia’s disastrous auditions, relishing the opportunity to be a student again.”— AFP expressing a world in which you break into song, in which you enthusiasm and happiness from the opening scene: a big she said “I don’t feel like I was ever quite as brave as she is”. can violate the rules of reality,” he said. dance number on a freeway with men and women dressed in Despite the rave reception, it is early days to cry victory: the

Brazilian musician Gil hospitalized again

razilian music star Gilberto Gil was hospitalized Tuesday in Sao Paulo to be treated for a kidney Bproblem, a medical source said. It was the lat- est in a series of hospital visits this year for the 74- year-old singer and former culture minister. A source at the Syrian Lebanese Hospital told AFP that Gil was admitted there on Tuesday. Brazilian media citing sources close to Gil said he was in hospital for tests and ongoing treatment. Three days ago, he cancelled a concert in Rio de Janeiro due to his illness. His representatives said This 1928 photo provided by Christie’s from their upcoming baseball memorabilia auction shows legendary Negro Leagues slugger This undated photo shows legendary Negro then that he would “soon be back on stage.” Gil was Josh Gibson, fifth from the left, when he was a 16-year-old player with the Pittsburgh Crawfords semi-pro baseball team. — AP photos Leagues slugger Josh Gibson. discharged from hospital in July in time to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio on August 5. Gil is one of the seminal figures of Brazilian music. He fused traditional samba with jazz and rock to help create the unique tropicalia sound during the 1960s. He served as Brazil’s culture minis- ter from 2003 to 2008. — AFP

This undated photo shows a Hillerich & Bradsby bat with the signature name upon the This undated photo shows ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson’s game bat. barrel of Jackie Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947-1956, coincid- ing with the labeling period of the offered bat. Trove of baseball memorabilia, photographs to be auctioned

early 500 baseball artifacts including a “Shoeless” banned from the sport. “He’s a legendary figure and to is at an all-time high,” because there’s a scarcity of items Joe Jackson game bat and material from the Negro have an actual object that he touched and used in a game, and an increase in the number of collectors. NLeagues will be auctioned off by Christie’s this fall in it’s a very special piece,” said Simeon Lipman, Christie’s pop The Christie’s sale also includes other items and photog- New York. The items come from the National Pastime culture specialist. The auction record for a game-used raphy related to the Negro Leagues, including a 1907 book Museum, an online museum based on a private collection baseball bat is a 1923 Babe Ruth bat that sold for $1.2 mil- that chronicles the history of black baseball from 1885 of baseball artifacts, photographs and memorabilia. lion in 2004. through 1907. The “History of Colored Base Ball” was writ- Shoeless Joe’s “Black Betsy” bat is one of only two known to The sale also has a game bat used by Negro Leagues ten by Sol White, captain of the Philadelphia Giants and survive from his career, and the only one with his full signa- slugger Josh Gibson when he played for the Pittsburgh future Hall of Famer. The auction house thinks it might sell ture in script, according to Christie’s. It is signed on the bar- Crawfords from 1932 to 1936 and a Jackie Robinson bat for between $15,000 and $20,000. Christie’s says the total rel and has the scars of game use, including ball and cleat that could sell for $300,000 to $400,000. Robinson, who value of the auction items could top $5 million. The sale is marks and a handle crack. Christie’s experts think it might played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, gave scheduled for Oct 19 and 20. The museum selling the items sell for $500,000 to $700,000. the bat to a collector and signed it for him at a 1955 game did not return an email request for comment. — AP Jackson was accused with other Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium. Steve Costello, a teammates of accepting payments for throwing the 1919 baseball historian and former executive vice president of World Series. The Major League great was acquitted but Steiner Sports collectibles, said “collecting of vintage items Gilberto Gil

Tokyo puts Tsukiji fish market move on ice lans to move Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish government, which chiefly runs the costs but Koike said she wants to wait market-the world’s largest-were market, is responsible for telling the for the results of water testing in Pput on ice yesterday over fears world: ‘It’s safe.’” Critics of the move January. about toxic contamination at the new cite contaminated soil found at the Koike would not say if she would facility, as the cost of the move soars. former gas production site. The local consider scrapping the relocation The megacity’s new governor, Yuriko government paid a whopping 86 bil- altogether if the test results are bad. “I Koike, said she would postpone the lion yen ($833 million) in cleanup want to wait for the examinations move set for November until at least being done by the project team,” she early next year, as she awaits final said. Koike also questioned the 588 groundwater testing results at the billion yen in relocation costs, 36 per- new site, a former gas plant. Plans to cent higher than earlier estimates. uproot the more than 80-year-old These costs include relocating the market, a popular tourist attraction, market to a less-central location sev- have been in the works for years, with eral kilometers away and building a advocates citing the need for upgrad- modern facility about 40 percent larg- ed technology. er with state-of-the-art refrigeration. But Koike, a former TV anchor- Japanese media have reported woman elected last month as the that postponing Tsukiji’s move would Japanese capital’s first female gover- cost about seven million yen a day, nor, had pledged to reconsider the and could delay construction of a plan. “Needless to say, it is a market highway connecting the current site that handles fresh food,” Koike told a Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike answers with an athletes’ village being built for press conference as she announced questions during a press conference the city’s 2020 Olympics. — AFP The picture shows a general view of Tsukiji market in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP photos the delay. “The Tokyo metropolitan in Tokyo yesterday. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES Singer Chris Brown released from jail on $250,000 bail

os Angeles police have released singer The Los Angeles Police Department earlier said Regional in a beauty pageant this year, identi- gun as well as drugs. Police have not confirmed Chris Brown from custody after arresting that officers from the homicide and robbery fied herself as the caller as she also took to the report. The R&B singer, who topped the US Lhim on suspicion of assault with a deadly division, which deals with celebrity cases, head- Instagram. She also spoke to the Los Angeles singles chart with “Run It!” and “Kiss Kiss,” has weapon, jail records show. He was arrested on ed to Brown’s palatial home after the woman Times, saying she and a friend went into a hot had years of run-ins with the law. Most notori- Tuesday following an hours-long standoff after a called for help at 3:11 am. tub at Brown’s house and that the singer ously, he was convicted of beating then-girl- woman alleged he pointed a gun at her, and Brown, 27, took to social media to deny any became angry when she admired the jewelry of friend Rihanna before the 2009 Grammy Awards, freed on $250,000 bail at 11:19 pm local time wrongdoing, daring police to get a search war- a member of his entourage. forcing the pop singer to miss the music indus- according to Los Angeles County jail records. rant to enter his home in a series of videos post- She said she fled in fear, then refused to sign try’s annual gala. He is set to be arraigned in Prosecutors have not formally charged him. ed on Instagram. After the lengthy standoff, a nondisclosure agreement before she escaped court on September 20. — AFP “Chris is out and well,” Brown’s attorney Mark police by early afternoon had obtained a search from Brown’s house. The gossip website TMZ Chris Brown Geragos tweeted yesterday. “The allegations warrant and entered the singer’s home. Baylee reported that Brown had thrown a duffel bag against him are demonstrably false,” he added. Curran, who was crowned Miss California out of a window and that police had recovered a

Gomez takes a break from music Frankenstein 2.0: due to Lupus side effects Hollywood’s obsession fter travelling the world for her Revival port. You know how special you are to me, but I tour, Selena Gomez is taking a break from need to face this head on to ensure I am doing with ‘playing God’ music to focus on her health. A year after everything possible to be my best. I know I am A idley Scott’s son Luke steps out of his father’s she revealed her Lupus diagnosis, Gomez on not alone by sharing this, I hope others will be shadow this week with his directorial debut Tuesday released a statement that she’s taking encouraged to address their own issues.” “Morgan,” a modern take on the “mad scientist” some time off due to complications of the In a 2015 interview with Billboard, Gomez R trope that has preoccupied Hollywood for more than a autoimmune disease. She cites “anxiety, panic revealed that she had underwent chemotherapy century. Ever since inventor Thomas Edison’s company attacks and depression” as side effects. “As many for Lupus in 2013, during a break in her Stars made the first Frankenstein motion picture in 1910, film- of you know, around a year ago I revealed that I Dance tour. She cancelled the Asian and makers have been telling cautionary tales about the folly have lupus, an illness that can affect people in Australian legs of the tour in late 2013 and early of mankind “playing God” to create life. Setting aside different ways,” she said in a statement to People. 2014. During the break, rumors emerged of sub- more than 70 movies featuring Mary Shelley’s monster “I’ve discovered that anxiety, panic attacks and stance abuse. “I wanted so badly to say, ‘you guys itself, numerous other films have tackled the ethics of depression can be side effects of lupus, which have no idea. I’m in chemotherapy. You’re a- bio-engineering, from “Metropolis” in 1927 to last year’s can present their own challenges.” holes,’” she said in 2015. “I locked myself away “Jurassic World.” Related Selena Gomez Does ‘Carpool until I was confident and comfortable again.” A “I think the appeal of ‘Man playing God’-themed films Karaoke’ With James Corden “I want to be proac- source told People that Gomez’s current break is endures largely because of human nature,” Shawn tive and focus on maintaining my health and “absolutely not related to alcohol or substance Robbins, a senior analyst at movie data website happiness and have decided that the best way abuse,” and that she “hadn’t felt like herself” in Boxoffice.com, told AFP. “Cinema, and fiction at large, are forward is to take some time off,” the statement the past couple of months. — Reuters escapist art forms, but characters believing they can goes on. “Thank you to all my fans for your sup- Chris Perez, from left, Suzette Quintanilla and AB Quintanilla attend the unveiling of a wax figure of Selena Quintanilla at Madame Tussauds Hollywood on Tuesday in Los achieve the impossible through the ultimate power of Angeles. — AP creation can inspire thought-provoking stories that stick with you after leaving the theater.” Modern retellings of the Frankenstein story-known in academic circles as “synthetic biology” (SB) movies-are Wax figure of late Selena big business. Researchers in Vienna looked at 48 SB movies from 1920 to 2010 for a study entitled In this April 7, “Frankenstein 2.0: Identifying and characterizing syn- 2016, file photo, Quintanilla unveiled thetic biology engineers in science fiction films.” They Selena Gomez counted a combined inflation-adjusted worldwide box office of around $14 billion for the films. arrives at WE Day adame Tussauds Hollywood unveiled final studio album. The Mexican-American California at the its latest wax figure double on singer died aged 23 after she was shot and Forum in Paranoia MTuesday - a statue oflate pop star killed by the president of her fan club, The genre arguably had its golden age in the 1990s Inglewood, Calif. Selena Quintanilla. Dozens of fans watched Yolanda Saldivar, at a Texas motel on March — AP with such films as “Species,” “The Island of Dr Moreau” the unveiling of the life-size figure alongside 31, 1995. — Reuters and “Alien Resurrection” reflecting American fears about the singer’s relatives, which marked the 21st cloning. “Jurassic Park” broke opening weekend records anniversary of “Dreaming Of You”, Selena’s from Mexico to Britain and markets across the Far East, going on to take $914 million worldwide, with Steven Spielberg reportedly pocketing more than $250 million personally. “Since the 1990s, a number of pioneering research outcomes such as the cloning of a sheep in 1996 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 1999 have been generating an increase in public inter- est in bio-technologies in general,” the Vienna study said. “Morgan”-the latest iteration of Shelley’s “modern Prometheus” myth-hits theaters on Friday with a stellar cast fronted by Kate Mara, best known as reporter Zoe Barnes in the Netflix political drama “House of Cards.” She plays a corporate troubleshooter sent to a top-secret location to investigate a violent incident involving “Morgan,” a bioengineered being with synthetic DNA. Director Luke Scott, whose highest profile work so far has been as a second unit director on his father’s films “The Martian” (2015) and “Exodus: Gods and Kings” (2014), says he was intrigued by the big themes raised in Seth Owen’s script. He knew he had his “Frankenstein’s monster” when he stumbled across 20-year-old Argentine-British actress Anya Taylor-Joy, whose per- formance in her debut feature “The Witch” earlier this year dazzled critics. Mourners gather around a statue depicting Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel during a mass in Mexico City’s Garibaldi plaza, Tuesday. — AP/AFP photos ‘Familiar tale’ “I got a preview copy and I saw ‘The Witch’ and I was blown away by that movie anyway,” Scott told AFP. “But then there’s this kid in it called Anya Taylor-Joy and I was Mexico to pay tribute like ‘she’s amazing.’” Setting out as an intriguing morality tale, “Morgan”‘s third act kicks into high-octane action as the bodies pile up and Mara and Taylor-Joy lock horns in a series of increasingly tense and violent set-pieces. “We laughed a lot, just out of relief of getting through certain to singer Juan Gabriel takes, which are really brutal and challenging, mentally and physically,” Mara said. exico will hold a tribute to the legendary issued a statement saying a memorial service would The strong support cast includes Toby Jones (“Harry singer and composer Juan Gabriel in the cap- be held over the weekend in his home city Ciudad Potter,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Hunger Games”), Jennifer ital city next week, officials said on Tuesday. Juarez in northern Mexico followed by “a public cele- Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight, “Single White Female”) M and a delicious cameo by the prolific Paul Giamatti (“12 The singer known as the “Divo of Juarez,” who bration of the life of our father and his musical career.” touched millions with wrenching ballads of love and The singer’s remains were cremated in the United Years A Slave,” “Straight Outta Compton”). Big names and loneliness, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home States and will arrive over the weekend in Ciudad an enduring theme don’t always translate into commer- in Santa Monica, California during a break in his latest Juarez, officials said. An old-school idol some liken to cial success, however, and some industry insiders have tour. He was 66. Mexico’s Elvis Presley, Gabriel wrote hit songs, sold been pessimistic about the film’s chances of finding an “Tribute to Juan Gabriel will be held next Monday tens of millions of records, received six Grammy nomi- audience. in Fine Arts,” the culture minister Rafael Tovar y de nations, and had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame “‘Morgan’ will very under-perform at the box office,” Teresa tweeted, referring to the Palace of Fine Arts, in a barrier-busting career that won him admirers one told AFP. Early reviews have been mixed, with critics Mexico City’s premier cultural center. It’s not clear around the world. His hits included “No Tengo Dinero” agreeing that what starts out as a smart, if derivative, whether President Enrique Pena Nieto will attend. He (“I Have No Money”), “Hasta Que Te Conoci” (Until I Met thriller begins to lose its edge as suspense gives way to A priest blesses the statue depicting Mexican songwriter and singer Juan is set to travel to China Friday to participate in a G20 You) and “Amor Eterno” (Eternal Love). — AFP generic action. “This is a familiar tale: man creates mon- Gabriel. summit from Sunday to Monday. Gabriel’s family ster, monster runs amuck, man regrets playing God,” the online news portal The Verge concluded. “It’s just never remotely clear what Scott and Owen found so com- pelling about this story that they wanted to tell it again, without meaningful variations, and in the immediate wake of better, smarter, more thrilling versions.” — AFP

This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows A woman holds a picture of Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel. A woman holds a poster of Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel. Kate Mara in a scene from ‘Morgan.’ — AP lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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Persian carpets’ weaving.. An ancient art, craft

eaving carpets is an old art and craft which dates back to the dawn of human civilization. Persian Wcarpets, known worldwide for their value, beauty, and durability, are one of the most prestigious items pro- duced by Iran. Carpets are an essential part of any Iranian household and some pieces are so expensive that people would usu- ally present them as valuable gifts during weddings and other joyous occasions. — KUNA

Photos shows Persian carpets in Iran. Omani Women’s Fashion Trends event

Models display dresses created by Brazilian designer Lucas Anderi during the Omani Women’s Fashion Trends event, in the Omani capital Muscat, yesterday. — AFP photos

Models display jewelry designed by Oman’s Deema brand. Models display dresses created by Omani designer Sahar Al-Aufi. lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

FEATURES Tips and tricks to get thicker eyebrows

e all look back at our photos and realize much damage that your hair won’t grow back Soak a cotton ball with castor oil, and apply it white part and beat the yolk till you get a thick how horrible our eyebrows were, and out as it used to and the shape you used to hate on to your eyebrows and massage it on the area creamy consistency. Apply it on your brows for Whow we ever thought over plucking to is now nearly impossible to achieve again. The for a couple of minutes. For the best result keep about 15-20 minutes then wash off using cold that point was ever okay or even considered as thing is, thicker and fuller eyebrows will always it overnight and repeat daily for a month. water. Repeat this once or twice a week. cute. There comes a point where you’ve done so be a classic, and myself, I’m as guilty as most of Always make sure you stop using any ingredi- the girls for over plucking my eyebrows! It took Coconut Oil ent if the area turns red or starts to become irri- me years to have them grow back, and I’ve tried For thicker and fuller brows use organic tated. so many ways to have all that hair back! coconut oil for its Vitamin E and iron. It’ll help you Keep in mind that every time your I always looks up for ways to help me grow achieve that full brow look. Apply a few drops to pluck/shave/thread your eyebrows your most back my eyebrows and even my own hair and I’ve your eyebrows and massage it in every night and likely not going to have your hair grow back the come to realize that there’s no other way than to keep overnight. Repeat daily for a month or two same way it used to be. The full eyebrow look use natural ingredients and oils for your body. depending on how full you’d like to go. has always been a classic and I think it will con- Here are a few tips and tricks on how to do so! tinue to be a classic as having thinner brows The most common and effective way is to Onion Juice with age can make you look even older, and if shave your eyebrows ONLY in the areas that you If you’re willing to go this extreme and don’t you had fuller brows it’s known to make you feel that you want your hair to grow thicker, and if mind getting your stink on, then onion juice will look younger. Other than that, in the fashion you’re worried that you’ll have bad looking brows, be your new best friend! industry having strategically fuller brows are you can always fix them up using make up. Extract the juice from one small onion and always a plus for any model, even in the makeup apply/massage it on your eyebrows till it dries world! Play it safe and have your brows as natu- Castor Oil up. Do this daily for a few weeks till you notice a ral as you can, unless you naturally don’t have Castor oil is one of the most effective reme- difference as it won’t be harmful, unless it gets thick or full eyebrows, then these tips and tricks dies to boost the growth of your eyebrows. It into your eyes! are perfect for you! contains protein, vitamins, fatty acids and antioxidants that nourish the hair follicles and Egg Yolk help with hair growth. Plus, it is helpful in resist- Your eyebrow hair is made out of Keratin pro- ing any microorganisms that hamper eyebrow tein and eggs are the perfect source for protein. hair growth. All you have to do is separate the yolk from the A plus-size challenge to S Korea’s beauty ‘norm’ n a country with beauty ideals that pre-makeover “People hate it when a ‘fat girl’ like me parades her sizes in magazines or fashion catalogues is still a for- Barbie would struggle to meet, South Korean body without looking ashamed ... they say I should eign concept in South Korea. “The beauty ideal Iplus-size model Vivian Geeyang Kim is facing not be seen in public or on the media,” Kim said. among many of our customers is being thin ... and down online trolls in her defiant campaign to per- Her public stance has triggered an online back- we have to cater to that demand to sustain sales,” suade curvy women they have nothing to be lash that has included death threats and vicious Lee said. Gong Ji-Woo, head of Seoul-based New ashamed of. Kim has modeled for US firms, but at abuse that, in some cases, she has responded to Face Model agency, said demand for plus-size mod- 165 centimeters (5.4 ft) tall and weighing 70 kilo- with lawsuits. “Despite all this, I love my job,” she els was “non-existent”-with the exception of some grams, she was described as “too skinny” for some said. “I wanted to send this message to girls like me TV shopping channels where they are shown eating full-figure fashion show work in America. But in her out there that they are not alone and they are beau- food products or trying exercise machines. “I do feel looks-obsessed homeland, she is constantly mocked tiful no matter what.” the need for more development in plus-size model and ridiculed on social networks as “flat-out fat” or runways and programs,” Gong said. “But in order for “disgusting.” No opportunity this to happen, Korean clothing companies and the “In South Korea, the ideal weight for women is 50 After a failed bid to compete in a local modeling fashion industry must change to accept them... kilograms, and many women who weigh more than TV reality show, she left for the United States in rather than for a one time event or our amusement,” that think they are fat,” the 30-year-old said. “That is a 2010, where she eventually worked a number of full- he added. ridiculous, impossible standard that cripples many figured shows. On her return, she searched for simi- South Korean women’s self-esteem. And that has to lar opportunities in the South Korean fashion scene- Going it alone change,” she told AFP after a recent photo shoot. only to realize that there were none. Shut out of the mainstream, Kim set up-and South Korean plus-size model Vivian Geeyang Kim posing for a photo shoot in order to Kim, who is a US size 10, runs an online clothing According to Lee Chung Chung, a prominent models for-her own quarterly magazine which offers update her online clothing shop at a studio in Seoul. shop and publishes a fashion magazine specifically Seoul fashion designer, using models of varying fashion and styling tips for plus-size women and for plus-size women in South Korea-a first in a coun- well as advice on how to deal with bullying. “I hear try where beauty is defined by rail-thin teenage K- heartbreaking stories from so-called ‘fat girls’ all the pop stars and TV actresses whose diets are strictly time-being constantly abused and mocked by their controlled by their management. own families, bosses, friends and strangers on the street or on the Internet,” she said. “Honestly, some Radical surgery of them are not even that fat. But here, the standard The pressure to conform is such that many turn of ‘thin’ is just way too cutthroat and only women as to the country’s $4.6-billion plastic surgery industry slim as K-pop band members can satisfy that norm,” which offers everything from a nose-job to radical she added. Among her many fans and clients is double-jaw surgery. In a 2013 study by Samyook Baek Soo-Jung, 31, who said Kim had created a sore- University in Seoul that surveyed 154 female univer- ly-needed safe refuge. sity students in the normal weight range-a body Also a US size 10, Baek said she had been mass index between 18-23 — almost 95 percent mocked by her own mother, who once refused to said they were unhappy with their bodies. More take the same bus with her because of the shame of than 60 percent felt they needed to lose weight. The being called “mom” in public by a chubby daughter. sort of weight-loss advert that was banned earlier Baek said Kim’s store was the first to produce pretty, this year in Britain for its image of a bikini-clad well-fitting clothes, instead of the “dull, baggy, ill-fit- woman and the slogan “Are You Beach Body Ready?” ting sacks local brands call plus-size clothes.” would barely raise an eyebrow in South Korea. “Regardless of my size, I am a human and a woman Similar products are promoted on posters pasted who wants to feel pretty and to love myself...and on subway walls and women’s toilet stalls, showing Kim is the person who started this conversation in models mocking “lazy girls” or asking questions like: this country,” the 31-year-old said. “She took a big, “How long are you going to roll around like that?” It brave step for all women like me.” — AFP is precisely this type of widespread, casual body- shaming that Kim is seeking to tackle head-on. A peek inside the world of color forecasting arlier this year, in a Manhattan conference room littered the forecasters were deep-diving into color decks, field more concrete,” said Allison Heape, a color team leader from For instance, she said, “After 9/11, soft pink, a compassion- with half-eaten lunches, water bottles, laptops and research reports, magazines, books and each other’s heads. Long Beach, California. At the end of the session, the group ate color, and chocolate brown, a grounding color, bubbled to Eeasels, a group of color forecasters from PPG Brands was The easels were covered with inspiration swatches, photos prepared an extensive file of themes, colors and finishes from the surface in home decor because they resonated with how wrapping up a week of work. They came up with recommen- and descriptive phrases. One “mood board” listed the words which designers and manufacturers can draw. people were feeling at the time.” A few years later, grays dations that will influence the colors and finishes we’re likely “timeless,” “memories,” “diamond patterns” and “ticking stripes” Dee Schlotter, senior color marketing manager for PPG’s became popular and dominated the neutrals category, she to see in 2017 on a wide variety of products, including appli- under the header “Nostalgia.” paint brands, in Pittsburgh, oversaw the forecast session. “We said, “because with the state of the economy and of the world, ances, cars, phones, airplanes, paints, beverage cans, even hol- Small groups sprawled on the carpet with card-filled recipe draw inspiration from global influences,” she said. “The team the hue felt right.” The forecasters also consider lifestyle and iday ornaments. They also picked a color of the year. boxes. They brainstormed, laying out arrays of coordinating considers what’s happening in society, fashion, nature and demographics. A Texas Baby Boomer may want different paint PPG Brands - which makes paint, coatings and materials for colors that looked like mosaics, or game boards. Cards were elsewhere, and delves into things that resonate with con- colors than a Millennial in Oregon does, for example. The team industries ranging from architecture and aerospace to auto- edited in and out, until the palettes came together and there sumers. “For example, did a significant event take place this also develops palettes around popular hues. — AP motive and consumer products - is just one of many compa- was a universal nod of satisfaction. “We start really loose and year, and are there colors that connect with it that capture the nies that produce color forecasts. At this Manhattan meeting, abstract, then we take those organic concepts and make them feelings it may have created?”

This undated photo provided by PPG Paints shows their A color forecaster of PPG meeting in New York, while This undated photo provided by PPG Paints shows color forecasters Daniella Nicolelli, left, Jane Harrington, Meredith Violet Verbena color on the wall, which the company brainstorming with a mood board for the 2017 PPG color Mullins, Dee Schlotter and Anke Bodack of PPG meeting in New York, while brainstorming with mood boards for the chose as their 2017 color of the year. palette for paint, coatings and materials for the architec- 2017 PPG color palette for paint, coatings and materials for the architecture, automotive, aerospace and consumer ture, automotive, aerospace and consumer products products industries.-AP photos industries. Persian carpets’ weaving: An ancient art, craft

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Spanish towns seek to repeat success of Tomatina festival

pain’s Tomatina festival, dubbed “the world’s The town holds the “Boloencierro”, a combination of the biggest food fight”, has given the small town of Spanish words for “ball” and “bull run”, every August. SBunol a huge economic boost-and now other Mirroring the example of Bunol, Mataelpino is helping Spanish towns with quirky fiestas are seeking to mimic six other Spanish towns to hold their own versions of the its success. At the annual Tomatina fiesta yesterday 160 Boloencierro this year. The goal is to draw more visitors tons of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a to its own event. crowd of over 22,000 half-naked revelers who packed “The municipality is trying to use this festival as a the streets of Bunol for an hour-long battle. Locals and tourist draw,” said Mataelpino mayor Javier de los Nietos. visitors pelted each other with tomatoes, leaving the The town of Haro in the northern La Rioja wine-making streets of the eastern town which is home to just 10,000 region began the process this year to have its annual people awash with red pulp. “wine fight” declared a “Festival of International Interest.” The Tomatina started in 1945 when local youths The event sees thousands of locals and tourists celebrate brawling in the street seized tomatoes and other pro- St Peter’s day in June by throwing thousands of liters of duce from a greengrocer’s stall and let loose. Cash- wine at each other, with buckets, wineskins or water pis- strapped local authorities in 2013 began charging an tols. — AFP entry fee and hired a private company to sell tickets. The colorful event has been featured in several movies, such as the 2014 British romantic comedy “Walking on Sunshine” and the 2011 Indian road movie “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, as well as in television ads for global brands. “It’s an honor but also a great responsibility because everyone has their eyes fixed on us,” said Bunol mayor Rafael Perez.

Export product Bunol registered the festival as a brand in 2002. As a result the village collects rights from firms that have used the Tomatina for its adverts, such as South Korean tech giant Samsung and Australian travel insurance provider Cover Moore. Each film shooting generates Giant ball around 300,000 euros ($335,000) for the town from the Other Spanish towns with unusual festivals are seek- rights, as well as from providing housing and food for ing to copy Bunol’s success. The tiny town of Mataelpino the visiting film crews, according to the official web page near Madrid registered its annual fiesta, dubbed the of the Tomatina. “Boloencierro”, which involves pitting daredevils against Bunol city hall cooperates with other cities which a giant 200-kilo (440-pound) polystyrene ball as it gath- want to hold its own version of the Tomatina for free ers steam heading downhill towards the village bullring. because it provides publicity for the town and its festival, The ball - three meters (nine feet) in diameter-has since said Perez. “At the end of the day what everyone wants is 2010 replaced bulls used in a traditional bull run in to go to the original version, which is ours, so it is to our which daredevils raced ahead of a pack of half-ton fight- advantage,” he added. Versions of the Tomatina have ing bulls along a similar route. The risk is real the ball has been held annually or as one-off events in Colombia, injured several participants. Chile, Cuba, India, South Korea and the United States. The switch was motivated by Spain’s economic “We always try to cooperate with anyone who wants, so downturn which forced towns like Mataelpino to cut that the image of the Tomatina is reinforced abroad,” said costs on its annual festivals and it has proven popular. Perez.

Revelers covered in tomato pulp participate in the annual “Tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia yesterday. Yesterday at the annual Tomatina fiesta 160 ton of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a crowd of 22,000 half-naked revelers who packed the streets of Bunol for an hour- long battle. — AFP photos