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KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh yesterday issued a decision setting the minimum monthly wage for workers in the private and oil sector at KD 75. This is the first time ever that Kuwait sets a minimum wage for laborers in the private sector. The move apparently comes in line with demands from international rights organizations. The decision means that the lowest salary that can be given to laborers in the private sector should be KD 75. Laborers who are paid less than this salary can sue their employers. The measure comes after the Interior Ministry last year set a minimum wage of KD 60 for domestic helpers. The amount must be mentioned in the work contract. According to the minister’s decision, the new BANDA ACEH: Indonesian Muslims pray at a mosque in Banda Aceh during the wage limit applies to new or renewed work permits and holy month of Ramadan. — AFP contracts both in the private and oil sectors. Around 1.5 million people are working in the private sector, the over- whelming majority of them are expatriates. In the meantime, MPs yesterday expressed deep sor- Amir lauds Interior row at the developments among the Gulf Cooperation KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh panied by His Highness the Crown Prince Council (GCC) members after Saudi Arabia, United Arab Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emirates and Bahrain, all GCC members, along with expressed satisfaction at the Interior singled out the crackdown on “elements Egypt yesterday severed their diplomatic relations with Ministry’s successful clampdown on terrorist with connections to terrorist groups.” He also GCC member Qatar. The lawmakers utilized the groups, but urged for greater readiness to lauded the successful pre-emptive security Assembly’s special session to discuss budgets of gov- foil plots aimed at undermining Kuwait’s operations that resulted in decreasing ernment bodies and called for restraint among the GCC security. His Highness the Amir Sheikh crimes. Addressing the officials attending states and also called on Kuwait to mediate a peaceful Sabah Al-Ahmad, in a statement he made the ceremony namely the Deputy Premier solution between them. during a visit to the Interior Ministry head- and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah MP Abdullah Al-Roumi said he was deeply con- quarters, expressed felicitation on the Al-Sabah, he highly appreciated the cerned over the turn of events between the GCC states blessed month and praised the significant Ministry’s campaigns to raise awareness of but added that he was confident in the wisdom of King KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah wel- security achievements made by the Ministry negative phenomena namely youth vio- Salman of Saudi Arabia and the Amir of Kuwait who will of Interior and its apparatuses recently. lence, narcotics and breaches of laws name- comes Prince Khaled Bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Advisor of the Saudi help resolve the crisis. King yesterday. — KUNA His Highness the Amir, who was accom- ly the traffic laws. — KUNA (See Page 5) Continued on Page 13 Qatar in diplomatic storm

RIYADH: Arab nations including Saudi Trump visited Saudi Arabia to cement Arabia and Egypt yesterday cut ties with ties with Riyadh and called for a united Qatar, accusing it of supporting extrem- front among Muslim countries against ism, in the biggest diplomatic crisis to hit extremism. It also followed weeks of ris- the region in years. Bahrain, the United ing tensions between Doha and its Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Maldives neighbors, including Qatari accusations Moderation joined Saudi Arabia and Egypt in sever- of a concerted media campaign against ing relations with gas-rich Qatar, with it and the alleged hacking of the Qatar Riyadh accusing Doha of supporting News Agency. By Teresa Lesher groups, including some backed by Iran, The Gulf states and Egypt said they n these days of Ramadan, we refrain from eating “that aim to destabilize the region”. were severing diplomatic ties and clos- in daylight, instead eating at night. Some people Qatar reacted with fury, denying any ing transport links with Qatar, which indulge excessively in food and drink all night support for extremists and accusing its relies on imports from its neighbors. The I Gulf neighbors of seeking to put the Gulf states banned their citizens from long, which is counterproductive to the lessons of Ramadan. It is not so we can learn to turn our sched- country under “guardianship”. The crisis traveling to Qatar and ordered Qatari citi- was likely to have wide-ranging conse- zens to leave within 14 days. Saudi ules upside down, but to learn to control our desires quences, not just for Qatar and its citi- Arabia also closed its borders with Qatar, so that we can lead a pious and balanced life. zens but around the Middle East and for effectively blocking food and other sup- In the context of Ramadan, the Quran says “God Western interests. Qatar hosts the largest plies exported by land to Qatar. intends for you ease, and He does not want to make US airbase in the region, which is crucial Supermarkets were besieged by shop- things difficult for you.” (2:185) By behaving moder- to operations against Islamic State group pers yesterday as many rushed to buy ately after we break fast, we can benefit from the les- jihadists, and is set to host the 2022 foot- food, leaving shelves bare and resulting sons of Ramadan throughout the year. Overall, Islam DOHA: Photo shows pigeons flying above the corniche in Doha. Arab nations ball World Cup. in queues up to 25-people deep at some promotes a life of moderation and ease. God says in including Saudi Arabia and Egypt cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting Yesterday’s announcement came less major stores in central Doha. the Quran (2:143), “We have appointed you (Muslims) extremism, in the biggest diplomatic crisis to hit the region in years. — AFP than a month after US President Donald Continued on Page 13 a moderate nation.” This general statement can be applied specifically to consumption, which, if we consider our actual needs, should be little. ex-worker kills 5, then himself The Quran says, “And eat and drink but do not Trump lashes out waste; certainly He does not like the extravagant.” ORLANDO: A disgruntled former employee opened fire vans, motor coaches and sports utility vehicles. Gov Rick (7:31) Whether we cook at home or eat in restau- yesterday inside a Florida awning manufacturer, killing Scott said he had been briefed by law enforcement and at London mayor rants, we should be moderate in consumption and five workers before killing himself, authorities said. that he and his wife, Ann, “are praying for the families WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump for a sec- avoid wasting food. So cook only what you will use, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings described the who lost loved ones today.” “I ask all Floridians to pray ond day lashed out at London’s mayor on Twitter in put on your plate only what you intend to eat, use shooter as a 45-year-old man who had been fired in for the families impacted by this senseless act of vio- the wake of a deadly terror attack in the city. Trump leftovers for another meal, and ask for takeaway con- April and had been previously accused of assaulting a lence,” he added. — AP tweeted yesterday morning that London Mayor tainers for leftover food at restaurants. co-worker. The attacker was not believed to be a mem- Sadiq Khan had offered a “pathetic excuse” and “had Moderation extends to other kinds of consump- ber of any type of subversive or terrorist organization, to think fast on his ‘no reason to be alarmed’ state- tion as well, such as for clothes, perfumes, cars, he said. The man was not charged when he was accused ment.” Trump’s tweet renews his mischaracterization phones, homes and vacations. The Quran sets the of battering the co-worker in June 2014. of Khan’s statement to London residents following a standard: “And those, who when they spend, are nei- That co-worker was not among the victims yester- vehicle and knife attack that left seven people dead ther extravagant nor stingy, but hold a medium day, the sheriff said. Shelley Adams said her sister, Sheila and dozens injured. The mayor had told London (way) between those (extremes).” (25:67) By practic- McIntyre, called her from the company’s bathroom dur- residents not to be concerned by a stepped-up ing moderation, we engage in an easy-going ing the shooting and was upset. She kept repeating “My police presence in the city after the incident. lifestyle. When we are stingy, we suffer unnecessary boss is dead. My boss is dead,” Adams said after state In a Sunday tweet, Trump mischaracterized hardship, and when we are extravagant, we squan- and federal law enforcement officers converged on the Khan’s remarks by suggesting the mayor had said der resources and usually end up broke by the end of industrial park in Orlando. Police were called around 8 there was “no reason to be alarmed” about the the month or in serious debt. am by a woman who ran from the awning business, attack itself. Khan’s spokesman said he was too busy All matters of life need moderation: in relation- Fiamma Inc, saying the gunman had told her to leave. to respond to Trump’s “ill-informed” tweet. Trump’s ships, in work, in play, in spending, even in religion. She used the phone of a tile business across the latest missive at Khan was part of several yesterday Allah said in the Quran that “He has not placed upon street to call 911, said Yamaris Gomez, the tile store’s morning tweets from the president. Trump also you in the religion any difficulty” (22:78). That is not owner. The sheriff said officers were dispatched within lashed out at his own Justice Department for seek- to say that if we shouldn’t strive to fulfill our obliga- 45 seconds and arrived two minutes later. Special ing a “watered down” version of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a broader directive that tions, even when they seem difficult, but that with Agent Danny Banks of the Florida Department of Law was also blocked by the courts. the right attitude and approach, all the obligations Enforcement said that while five people were killed, The war of words was the latest episode in a long are easy. For example, it is not difficult to wake up for “seven others’ lives were saved due to the quick actions simmering feud between Trump and Khan, a dawn prayer if you go to bed well before midnight. of the officers who arrived on the scene today.” The basic requirements of faith are few, as out- Muslim who was elected as London’s mayor in May Banks and Orlando Mayor Teresa Jacobs both said 2016. After his election last year, Khan tweeted criti- lined in the Quran: “And they were not commanded the attack shows why people need to alert authorities if except to worship God, [being] sincere to Him in reli- cism of then-candidate Trump’s rhetoric, saying that they learn of anything that could lead to violence. “If his “ignorant view of Islam could make both our gion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to people see something that seems abnormal, they need give alms. countries less safe. to say something,” the mayor said. Fiamma Inc calls itself ORLANDO: Law enforcement and media respond to a Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 one of the largest manufacturers of awnings for camper shooting at Fiamma in Orlando yesterday. — AP LOCAL TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with leader of the Islamic His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with the President of Iraq’s Supreme Council of Iraq Sayyed Ammar Al-Hakim. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Islamic Supreme Council Ammar Al-Hakim. Amir meets leader of Iraq’s Islamic Supreme Council Crown Prince affirms Kuwait’s commitment to Iraqi unity

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Sayyed Ammar Al-Hakim and the accompanying delegation. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah. Later yesterday, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah received Hakim, and the two dis- cussed the latest developments in Iraq as His Highness expressed optimism during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan that the efforts of the Iraqi leadership and other fac- tions would contribute to the stability of Iraq. He also believed these efforts would do much to wipe out terror and help achieve national reconciliation. Sheikh Nawaf went on to affirm Kuwait’s commitment to Iraq’s unity and its efforts to regain security and stability, achieve the aspi- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets with the President of Iraq’s Islamic rations of its people and regain its role in the the President of Iraq’s Islamic Supreme Council Ammar Al-Hakim. Supreme Council Ammar Al-Hakim. region. The encounter was attended by Amiri Diwan advisor Mohammad Abdullah Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah as well as visiting and the OIC’s upcoming agenda. Furthermore, Mello Rapesta to Deputy Minister of the Abulhassan, Crown Prince’s Diwan head of cer- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah also received Secretary General of the Organization of His Highness the Amir received a written letter Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al- emonies and protocol Sheikh Mubarak Sabah Hakim and his delegation. Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr Yousef A Al- from Brazilian President Michel Temer focusing Sabah. Separately, His Highness the Crown Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah and the Iraqi In other news, His Highness the Amir Othaimeen. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled later held on bolstering ties on all possible domains. Prince met National Security Apparatus Ambassador to Kuwait. National Assembly received First Deputy Prime Minister and talks with Othaimeen which discussed the lat- The letter was handed by Brazilian (NSA) Chairman Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al- Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and His Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al- est regional and international developments Ambassador to Kuwait Norton de Andrade Salem Al-Sabah. — KUNA Kuwait remembers Al-Sadeq Mosque suicide bombing

Exhibition marks 2nd anniversary of Imam

Sadeq Mosque terror attack KUWAIT: Deputy Minister of Amir Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al- Businessman Jawad Bukhamseen speaks during the ceremony. Sabah speaks during the ceremony. — KUNA photos KUWAIT: An exhibition opened yesterday to mark the anniversary of the terror attack which hit the Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque two years ago on the ninth day of Ramadan. The exhibition contained photos docu- menting the heinous terror attack, images of people who have fallen, as well as the visits car- ried out by senior offi- cials to the site of the bombing. The photo exhibition Former assistant undersecretary of the Former minister of public works and former min- Mohammad Al-Khawaja, the son of martyr also put on display the Ministry of the Interior for public security ister of state for municipal affairs Fadhel Safar Jassem Al-Khawaja damage caused by the affairs Abdulfattah Al-Ali attack as well as the KUWAIT: Kuwaitis of all walks of life remem- sedition. He recalled His Highness the Amir’s wise Ahmad Al-Rifai, the son of the martyr funeral ceremony and bered the deadly terrorist attack on worshipers reaction and notably his immediate presence at Abdulhamid Al-Rifai, said that the anniversary of prayers held in the at Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque two years ago. As the scene. He reemphasized the importance of the bombing of Al-Sadeq Mosque has become a Grand Mosque. — KUNA they commemorate those who lost their lives in unity and solidarity among Kuwaiti people. symbol of Kuwaitis’ unity and solidarity to the terrorist attack, Kuwaitis never forget that Last year, His Highness the Amir was keen to defend their country. Al-Rifai said that His the tragic incident was as a symbol of the attend the reopening of Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque Highness the Amir’s visit to the site of the explo- strength of their social fabric. after renovation and to pray in it, he said, adding sion was a gesture of humanity and fatherhood. A ceremony was held Sunday and attended by that the assault’s anniversary has become a sym- Mohammad Al-Khawaja, the son of martyr Deputy Minister of Amir Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali bol of Kuwait’s unity. Jassem Al-Khawaja, said that the terrorist attack Jarrah Al-Sabah to mark the second anniversary of In his turn, head of Al-Baghli charity Ibrahim has showed Kuwait as one united family. He said the incident. They emphasized that His Highness Al-Baghli echoed the same view. The incident of that His Highness the Amir’s speech following the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque is a symbol of national the incident had touched the hearts of families Sabah’s visit to the mosque after the attack was a unity as it brought together all segments of soci- and relatives of the victims. relief to families and relatives of the victims. ety, he said. He went on to say that this day has Hussein Abu Zaid, one of the victims of Al- “The second anniversary of the incident embodied the national unity in words and Sadeq Mosque, said was wounded in the bomb- reminds us about the unforgettable stances of deeds. Meanwhile, former assistant undersecre- ing and received treatment at the hospital for 15 His Highness the Amir and noble Kuwaiti people tary of the Ministry of the Interior for public days. Abu Zaid expressed gratitude to His who stood firm against those who wanted evil security affairs Abdulfattah Al-Ali said the tragic Highness the Amir describing him as the father for their country,” former minister of public incident embodied the solidarity and unity of all Kuwaitis. His Highness the Amir’s words works and former minister of state for municipal among people of Kuwait. He stressed that the were a cure for the wounds of the victims, he affairs Fadhel Safar said. He called on Kuwaiti unity among all Kuwaitis is the driver of devel- said, adding that he will teach his children and people to stay as united as they were at the time opment in all fields. grandchildren His Highness’ speech after the of the incident. Ali said that the incident brought together incident. A Saudi suicide bomber blew himself Businessman Jawad Bukhamseen said that the Kuwaitis and proved their original strong up at the Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque in Kuwait City Kuwaitis’ reaction to the incident gave the most unity in the face of adversities. He noted that on June 26, 2015, corresponding with the ninth remarkable examples of the heroic stand against this unity has foiled the malicious schemes of day of Ramadan, killing 26 worshippers and those who sought to create chaos and instigate those who wanted evil for the country. wounding 227 others. — KUNA LOCAL TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

Social security institution considers Audit remarks

KUWAIT: The Public Institution for Social but refused its final account. The KISR and Security (PIFSS) is seriously taking into con- PIFSS final accounts and budgets, previous- sideration remarks made by the Audit ly rejected, were finally approved after the Bureau and other State supervisory institu- two relevant ministers vowed to settle the tions, the Minister of Finance said. Anas Al- notices on them, head of the committee MP Saleh, also the Deputy Premier, made the Adnan Abdulsamad told reporters after the assertion on Sunday as he emerged from a meeting Sunday. The Minister of Education meeting of the parliamentary budgets and and Higher Education Dr Mohammed Al- final accounts committee on turned-down Fares has vowed to remedy the irregulari- budgets including that of the PIFSS. ties and the notices on KISR. Deputy Prime “We are serious with respect to cooper- Minister and Minister of Finance has also ating with the commission and the explained the notices that were settled by National Assembly to heed the remarks the State Audit Bureau and the financial and tackle the flaws,” he said, however, he controllers on the PIFSS budget, as well as indicated that some controversial matters the measures to be taken to handle the rest could not be tackled because they were of of remarks, Abdulsamad added. a purely investment nature. Minister Saleh The committee discussed, voted on and added that he presented the committee approved the state budget, as the last in with the PIFSS replies to the remarks, this parliamentary session. Yet, the state’s KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting on Sunday. — KUNA including those related to decline of the final account was rejected. This is a mes- institution’s profits from KD 1.5 billion in sage to the government to remedy the the fiscal year 2014-2015 to KD 21 million notices and the irregularities found in the Cabinet hails gaining UNSC in the fiscal year 2015-2016, “which we budgets or final accounts of the ministries have alluded to international indexes.” and other official bodies, he noted. The institution, in the end of the fiscal seat as historic achievement year that ended on March 31, posted earn- Budgets approved ings higher than those made in the fiscal Separately, the National Assembly gave year 2014-2015, “and this a good matter the thumbs up yesterday to the Public KUWAIT: The Cabinet, during the regular session Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah pensations. It also addressed liabilities, namely and we cannot assess performance of an Authority for Communications and held on Sunday, welcomed electing State of since independence. The State of Kuwait through the public treasury liabilities for the Public investment institution independently from Information Technology’s budget for the Kuwait to occupy a non-permanent seat at the this membership affirms its keenness on devot- Institution for Social Security (PIFSS), projected the markets.” fiscal year 2017/2018 and its final account United Nations Security Council for a two-year- ing care and concern for the Arab and Islamic liabilities for development projects, the treasury On criticisms that the institution main- for the year 2015/2016. During the voting term starting January 2018. This came during causes, the Cabinet statement said. Kuwait, it bonds, realty loans’ pardon, capital of the public tained the expenditures despite decline of process, 44 out of 48 MPs voted in favor of the session, held at Bayan Palace under chair- added, will work with the other member states to housing institution, due liabilities according to the earnings, he explained that this was approving the budget and four voted manship of His Highness the Prime Minister activate the role of the UNSC for preserving inter- the military armament law and end of service due to the fact that the investment spend- against it, while 33 MPs voted to okay the Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. national peace and security, alleviate tension and payments for non-Kuwaiti civil servants. ing is related to the value of the portfolios Communication Authority’s final account. Minister of State of Cabinet Affairs and the conflicts. Moreover in this respect, the ministers The ministers were assured about sound capi- and not the proceeds thus the value of the Moreover, the Communication Acting Minister of Information Sheikh lauded great efforts that had been exerted by talization of the national economy, its crediting portfolio has not changed.” Authority’s expenditures for the fiscal year Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah read minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled and officials of the strength, reserves’ solidity run by the Public As to lack of high academic qualifica- 2017-2018 amounted to KD 23 million, the cabinet statement, saying the session kicked Foreign Ministry to make that grand accomplish- Investment Authority, giving instructions to all tions of the expatriates who work at the while revenues totaled out to be KD 68 mil- off with the First Deputy Premier and Foreign ment, also expressing appreciation for sisterly relevant authorities to maintain the financial and institution, he said that their job is restrict- lion. Meanwhile, during the Cabinet’s rou- Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al- and friendly nations that supported Kuwait’s economic reforms. They examined recommen- ed to settlements and data entry. A special tine meeting on Sunday, Minister of State Sabah briefing the ministers about outcome of nomination for the UNSC seat. dations by the legal affairs committee with treasury has been set up to ensure solidity for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of his participation in the latest UN General respect of a bill approving the treaty between of the banks, he said. “There are no worries Information Sheikh Mohammad Al- Assembly session for electing non-permanent Financial status the Kuwaiti Government and the NATO about about the local banks because they are Mubarak Al-Sabah spoke of “some notes members in the Security Council for 2018-2019. Meanwhile, the executives were briefed by establishing and operating the NATO regional ensured by the government,” he stressed. regarding the Communication Authority’s During the UNGA session, the State of Kuwait the Undersecretary Finance Minister Khalifa center, as part of the Istanbul Initiative for budget.” The Minister of State for Cabinet was elected to occupy a non-permanent seat in Musaed Hamadah and Managing Director of the Cooperation, as well as a bill approving the Paris Final accounts Affairs pointed out that it was “completely the UNSC for two years effective January 2018. Public Investment Authority Farouk Ali Bastaki Climatic Change Agreement. The two bills were Meanwhile, the National Assembly’s untrue” that the Communication Authority The Cabinet welcomed the election of the about the State financial status (13/3/2017), endorsed by the Cabinet and referred to His budgets committee has endorsed the final had been assigned the Fiber Optics project. State of Kuwait, whereby gaining a non-perma- pending submission to the National Assembly, Highness the Amir, pending submission to the accounts and the budgets of the Kuwait He also underscored that a parliamentary nent seat in the UNSC with a majority of votes based on the Constitutional Article 150. parliament. The Cabinet examined recommen- Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and committee tasked with studying govern- amounting 188. The government praised this his- The presentation tackled assets’ comparisons dations by the draft decrees committee concern- the Public Institution for Social Security ment budgets will work to remedy any toric achievement which depicted the State of with the previous fiscal year-represented by the ing accords between the Kuwaiti government (PIFSS). It also approved the state budget, shortcomings detected. — KUNA Kuwait’s eminent international-regional status state general reserves, the next generations’ and governments of a number of countries. The and the nations’ confidence in its moderate and reserves, the oil reserves, the state transferrable draft decrees were approved and referred to His balanced policies, drawn up by His Highness the assets, the state realty properties and the com- Highness the Amir. — KUNA Cucumber and egg prices drop

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Turkish Deputy Minister of National Defense Suay Alpay. — KUNA photos Defense Minister discusses cooperation with Turkish official

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister Forces’ Chief of Staff Lieutenant General By Nawara Fattahova ops on a weekly basis. These items are the eggs. Kuwait Times will be monitoring the prices and Defense Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdallah Nawaf Al-Sabah, Director of most popular, whose prices usually hike dur- of these products to check if any increases Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah discussed Armament and Procurement Major General KUWAIT: Last April, Kuwait Times started a cam- ing Ramadan. This year we also added eggs, occur until the end of the holy month of cooperation with Turkey’s visiting Deputy Ahmad Al-Ameeri and the Turkish paign to investigate the price changes of some milk and frozen chicken to the earlier list of Ramadan. Follow Kuwait Times next week to Minister of National Defense Suay Alpay yes- Ambassador to Kuwait Murat Tamer. basic commodities. Starting a month prior to minced meat, chicken, tomatoes, lemons and read our next report. Prices are the same in all terday. The two discussed issues of mutual In other news, Kuwaiti Deputy Minister of Ramadan, the weekly campaign runs through cucumbers. co-ops for the same kind and brand of product, importance, particularly in relation to mili- Foreign Affairs Khaled Al-Jarallah met with the holy month. Comparing the price registered last week but may differ in other supermarkets. Also, co- tary aspects, and means to boost and devel- UK Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge The survey compares the prices per kilo of with the prices registered this week, we noticed ops hold weekly food festivals with discounts op these matters, according to a statement to discuss bilateral ties. The two sides also five different kinds of commodities sold at co- a significant drop in the prices of cucumber and on fruits and vegetables. by Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense. discussed preparations for the upcoming Furthermore, the Turkish official deliv- meeting of the joint Kuwaiti-British steering ered a handwritten letter from his Minister group in London next July. The meeting was Co-ops union decries of National Defense Fikri Isik to Sheikh attended by Assistant Foreign Minister for Mohammad Al-Khaled. The talks were held the Deputy Foreign Minister’s Office Affairs attempts to undermine in the attendance of the Kuwaiti Armed Ambassador Ayham Al-Omar. — KUNA its reputation

By Meshaal Al-Enezi and A Saleh

KUWAIT: Kuwait Union of Consumer Co-operative Societies (KUCCS) yesterday issued a statement in which it strongly con- demned what it described as attempts to undermine the union’s reputation. The statement also urged the information minister to take proper measures to undo the harm done and warned that the union might take legal action. A report on Sunday had indicated that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) recently referred 15 co-op soci- eties to the Public Prosecution over suspicion of manipulating the quantities of subsidized consumer goods. Notably, MCI started using a new system last year by which subsidized goods are only given through the new magnetized civil IDs, which helps having more control over the goods and make sure they were only given to citizens. MCI auditing showed The National Bank of Kuwait Pediatric Hospital. that some branches had been cutting down citizens’ shares of Kuwaiti Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled Al-Jarallah meets with UK the goods actually given to them, while charging them for the Minister Al-Harbi inaugurates stem Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge. whole share, the report charged. cell unit at NBK Pediatric Hospital Mutlaa City ‘Dhaman needs constant The Mutlaa residents’ committee stressed that the Turkish KUWAIT: Minister of Health Jamal Al-Harbi the stem cell unit a good step forward in construction company’s 270 new machinery equipment have inaugurated Sunday a unit for cancer treat- the treatment of children blood diseases support to be a success’ been released by the customs department and allowed into ment using stem cells for transplant at the and cancer. — KUNA Shuwaikh Port pending their transportation to Mutlaa City. National Bank of Kuwait Pediatric Hospital KUWAIT: The Health Assurance Hospitals get enlisted at the Kuwaiti stock The committee added that the second company working on at Al-Sabah Medical Area in Shuwaikh. Company (Dhaman) project needs con- exchange (Boursa Kuwait) in line with the the project will also start working on the site by surveying the Speaking at the inaugurating ceremony, tinuous support on all levels to be a suc- rules and systems in force, he said. land and preparing the laborers’ dormitory. Minister Al-Harbi pointed out that the unit cess, considering the economic chal- Meanwhile, company CEO Ahmad Al- was built on an area of 7,000 square meters lenges and financial stability in the coun- Saleh said that Dhaman would spend Cooperation at total cost of KD 7 million (roughly $23 try, board chairman Mutlaq Al-Sane said KD 180 million ($588.6 million) for infra- Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi million). He lauded the unit as a great addi- on Sunday. Dhaman will always be keen structure projects to promote its health described cooperation with the World Bank as a role model to tion to the integrated healthcare system for on preserving the major role of the services. He added that the company is be followed by other ministries and government establish- cancer prevention and treatment among Health Ministry, he added. The compa- looking into many of the medical ments. Manfouhi stressed keenness on making the World children. ny’s assets have hit KD 118.8 million investment opportunities available on Bank witness the development that Kuwait Municipality is wit- Al-Harbi said the three-storey building ($388.4 million), Sane said, noting that all the local market. Saleh noted that nessing by putting an end to bureaucracy and red tape. includes nine outpatient clinics, an isola- the used cash flow used was in line with Dhaman and the Ministry of Health Further, Manfouhi said that according to the World Bank’s tion unit, a six-room parenteral nutrition the company’s strategic plan for the FY have formed a committee and tasked it annual report made about business environments in 190 unit and three chemotherapy rooms. The that ended on December 31. As a public with setting the basis and the regula- countries, issuing a construction license in Kuwait has become stem cell unit will give patients two stem shareholding company, Dhaman is tions of the sustainable partnership one of the fastest worldwide, as licenses that used to take cells monthly at 48 cases per year, the min- preparing the necessary documents to between the two sides. — KUNA KUWAIT: Minister of Health Jamal Al-Harbi months to be issued are now issued within 24 hours only. ister said. He described the inauguration of (right) is honored during the ceremony. 4 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

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Nedal Casanove Cycling for a cleaner environment By Nawara Fattahova

ach of us can contribute to making Kuwait a better place for all of us to live. In our daily Edeeds and actions, we can find - if we choose to look - opportunities for improving Kuwait’s envi- ronment. From not littering on the streets, to choosing to be kind and helpful to others, each individual here can have a positive impact on the society as a whole. Kuwait Times wants to know what can you do?

***** Nedal Casanove is a 41-year-old French national who has lived in Kuwait for 10 years now. He has two main points that he is practicing and thinks may improve live in Kuwait, in addition to other ideas This picture depicts Kuwait during the early post-oil discovery era: Newly-constructed homes surround a mosque in Kuwait City, replacing old mud houses that were that will significantly improve the environment. He removed to make way for concrete buildings connected with electricity and water. The low-income homes seen in the picture were built by the government and distrib- answered to the question of how he can improve uted to citizens. (Source: ‘Kuwait, Miracle on the Desert’ by David Cooke, New York, 1970. Prepared by Mahmoud Zakaria Abu Alella, heritage researcher at the Ministry this country as following: of Information) “I use the vehicle less and go to work on my bicy- cle instead. I do this to reduce pollution and decrease traffic. I am trying to spread this among my coworkers. In fact, I use this way of transportation to Zain shares Ramadan iftar meal reach the office even now in the summer, and it only takes me 10 minutes to reach my work place. None of my colleagues use this way of transportation, thus I think if there were real cycling roads in Kuwait, with Contact Center (107) agents more people will use the bicycle. I think that traffic is one of the worst problems in Kuwait, and if more people used the bicycle, it would definitely improve Executive management recognizes their efforts during Ramadan traffic conditions. “My second idea is clean eating and I mean con- KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunica- in its workforces and ultimately results in is key to allowing them to discover new bonding between individuals. The compa- suming organic food especially from local farmers. If tions company in Kuwait, shared the providing better services to Zain customers. areas of creativity within themselves. ny further affirmed its Corporate we encouraged local farmers through buying their Ramadan iftar meal with its Contact Center Zain’s executive management expressed Zain stressed that it has always been Sustainability and Social Responsibility products, this will motivate them to produce more (107) agents to recognize the efforts they their pride in the big role employees play in keen to organize a number of social and campaign during the holy month of exert during the holy month of Ramadan. maintaining the leadership position the humanitarian initiatives during Ramadan to Ramadan, which includes an extensive organic products, which is better for our health. This The event witnessed the attendance of Zain company enjoys in the Kuwaiti telecom support the various sectors of the Kuwaiti array of programs that cover different will also improve local economy as we will import Kuwait’s Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al- market. The company believes that Human society, and the company is keen on areas. The initiatives and programs include less with the increased local supplies which will Roudhan along with Chiefs and Directors Resources is considered the powerhouse of reflecting the religious as well as traditional humanitarian, voluntary, cultural, religious, affect the price in favor of the consumer. from across the company’s divisions. any organization’s success, and providing humanitarian values and principles to sports, and recreational activities to cater “One of the things I would try to change is the This annual event comes under the an ideal work environment for employees enrich the art of giving and to increase to the different segments of society. Kuwait road rage and I believe one of the ways umbrella of Zain’s strategy to recognize and would be to build a train or metro network. That highlight the tireless efforts and hard work would considerably reduce traffic jams which occur of its contact center agents, especially every day. Another good side of it would be reduc- those who work around the clock all week ing pollution especially due to old vehicles, as low long to provide the highest standards of and middle class workers will not be obliged to customer service to Kuwait’s largest family drive to commute. Finally, that would most proba- of subscribers. bly decrease the number of accidents by decreas- Zain’s executive management, headed ing the number of vehicles and stress on drivers by Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al- due to traffic. Roudhan, was extremely keen on being “The other thing I would do is to push solar elec- present in the Contact Center (107) opera- tricity production instead of oil burning central tions hall with the employees to share the which I believe is already in the pipeline but still I blessings of the Holy Month of Ramadan would accelerate the process. This will decrease the with them. The company’s Chiefs and pollution in Kuwait considerably. Furthermore, for a Directors were keen on motivating the agents to highlight the most outstanding more sustainable development of the country, I efforts that contribute to the excellent serv- believe the country should change its policy in ice quality Zain customers enjoy today. terms of residency and ownership protectionism Through such initiatives, Zain aims to for Kuwaiti mothers and long term resident. A big encourage its employees to give their best chunk of this population revenue is transferred by uplifting their spirits during the working abroad due to the difficulty to own or to ensure a hours of the holy month of Ramadan. The long-term residency in the country. This would company believes that such recognition benefit the GDP as well as high qualified popula- strengthens the workflow mechanism with- tion dedicated to Kuwait.”

KUWAIT: The Voluntary Work Group distributed iftar meals to motorists on their way home before Maghreb Prayer’s Azan. The campaign was carried out in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, and held in presence of Chairperson of the Voluntary Work Group Sheikha Amthal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. 5 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

KUWAIT: (From left) His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah speaks during Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photos the gathering. MoI personnel determined to confront extreme ideologies: Undersecretary

KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) quarters, said the ministry was following the tributing to promoting human rights and Arab Gulf countries to boost capabilities of Sabah, Director of His Highness the Amir’s Undersecretary General Mahmoud Al-Dousari instructions of His Highness the Amir to pro- rights of the child. Dousari said the MoI’s pre- personnel. office Ahmad Al-Fahad, Undersecretary of underlined that security personnel were tect public order and boost rule of law, as ventive security eliminated many terrorists His Highness the Amir was accompanied His Highness the Crown Prince’s Diwan determined to confront all threats emanating well as coordinating with security and mili- and foiled many attacks. by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sheikh Mubarak Faisal Al-Sabah, Sheikh from extreme ideologies and terrorism. tary institutions to confront extremism and The MoI’s 2015-18 plan, he added, aimed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Majed Al-Sabah, Sheikh Abdullah Nasser Al- Dousari, in a speech before His Highness terrorism with the objective of strengthen- at improving education and training, and Head of Kuwait National Guard (KNG) Sheikh Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Nasser Al-Sabah, the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber ing national unity. providing a database related to crimes, and Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Sheikh Duaij Fahad Al-Sabah and Sheikh Al-Sabah during his visit to the MoI’s head- The Interior Ministry, he added, was con- cooperated with security authorities in Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- Fahad Nasser Al-Sabah.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah greets Senior Interior Ministry officials in attendance. Interior Ministry officers attend the gathering. officials in attendance.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other top state officials pose for a group photo withuwait K Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) staff. — Amiri Diwan photos Amir pleased with firefighters’ devotion

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh bership in the UN Security Council (UNSC) Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has for 2018-19, which was a result of His expressed deep satisfaction at the firemen Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad’s leader- efforts in saving lives and preserving prop- ship. Mekrad, who highly appreciated His erties. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Highness the Amir’s support of firefighters, Al-Ahmad, accompanied by His Highness said the visit was significant because it the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Head of establishment of the first fire station in National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad State of Kuwait. He said 90 percent of fleet Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime and equipment of the KFSD has been Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- modernized and this process would reach Hamad Al-Sabah, visited headquarters of the 100 percent mark by end of 2018. He Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD), added that development of human expressing congratulations on the holy resources was happening in parallel with month of Ramadan. “I begin my statement modernization of equipment. by praising your efforts for preserving KFSD, said Mekrad, has been keen on (From left) His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Deputy Head of National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al- souls and properties and dealing with dan- cooperating with military and civilian insti- Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and gerous accidents with utmost sincerity and tutions on how to deal with crises and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah. devotion,” he said, also lauding the fire- accidents, citing a protocol with Kuwait fighters’ great sacrifices. National Guard on using KFSD’s vehicles His Highness the Amir, who began his and equipment. He said KFSD’s preventive statement by addressing officials attending sector has been issuing permits for new the ceremony, namely the Minister of State buildings to facilitate their construction, for Cabinet Affairs and the Acting Minister and the directorate has been firm in penal- of Information Sheikh Mohammad Al- izing all buildings failing to abide by safety Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Khaled and security conditions. Al-Mekrad, the KFSD Director, affirmed his His Highness the Amir was accompa- deep admiration towards the firemen for nied by Director of His Highness the Amir’s promoting safety procedures in accidents office Ahmad Al-Fahad, Undersecretary of such as fires. Moreover, he lauded the His Highness the Crown Prince’s Diwan department’s recent inauguration of the Sheikh Mubarak Faisal Al-Sabah, Sheikh first laboratory to analyze remains from Majed Al-Sabah, Sheikh Abdullah Nasser KFSD Director Khaled Al-Mekrad (left) presents a memento to His fires and accidents’ scenes. Al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Nasser Al-Sabah, Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (center) His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Mekrad, in his speech, congratulated Sheikh Duaij Fahad Al-Sabah and Sheikh as Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah pose His Highness the Amir for Kuwait’s mem- Fahad Nasser Al-Sabah. — KUNA Abdullah Al-Sabah looks on. with officials. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Jarida Report Brothers beat up ‘misbehaving’ sister Ramadan The Pearl Mubarak! KUWAIT: A divorced woman reported that her own broth- ers had beaten her up and kicked her out of their mother’s By Mohammed Al-Owaissi house, said security sources. However, on summoning the brothers, they justified their actions by saying that they he Famous Kuwaiti media icon, Mohammed failed to put up with their sister’s behavior. A case was filed Nasser Al-Sanousi presented a TV show in the and further investigations are in progress. Tbeginning of the 1970s on Kuwait TV under the title of ‘The Message.’ In one episode, Sanoussi spoke Robbery at gunpoint about housemaids and described them as pearls An Egyptian cashier working in an Omariya Co-op because a maid is actually as precious, dear and indis- Society branch reported that a person wearing a woolen pensible as a pearl, especially in modern ages where Bisht barged into the store waving a gun at his face, and women leave their houses to work, leaving household robbed KD 550 cash from the cash box. A case was filed. duties to maids who do very minute detail for them. Separately, an Egyptian man working for a charity organi- I recall an incident proving this. A mother of five; zation reported that an unidentified robber smashed his three girls and two boys was married to a rich man vehicle’s window and stole a box containing 32 copies of who brought her two housemaids, a cook and a driver to help her out at home. These many number of ser- the Holy Quran. The man said that the robber probably Public funds drain thought the box contained something else. vants turned into a curse instead of a blessing. All fam- Al-Anbaa ily members completely depended on the domestic helpers. The eldest daughter got married and had to Boy released accompany her husband on a business trip to a Following up the case of the young Egyptian who had European country, where the couple fought a lot been reported missing and found later on, security sources because the wife knew nothing about household said that he was released after conducting proper investi- duties. She could not cook. They had food delivered gations and making sure he was not affiliated to any terror- every day. She could not do the laundry, iron clothes, ist groups and that he had only left the house because of Al-Anbaa clean the apartment or tidy it up simply because she some family problems. had not learnt that when she was young as her mother had wrongly brought her up to become an irresponsi- Harasser caught ble person who only depended on maids without Following up the case where a young man chased a Two cops and a woman thinking about possible future problems that her chil- girl who had rejected him in a Salmiya Cafe, and caused dren might face. her to collide with a cement barrier, security sources By Saleh Al-Shayeji I wonder how many houses suffer from the same said that the suspect was arrested as the girl had pro- problem. I can say, most of the houses. However, the vided with his vehicle registration number. n Arab lady living in a Western country gets back plaints,” she said. “Are you sure you do not need any question I wish to direct to all mothers is this: Why home after work. She was busy doing some medical attention? Do you want us to call you an don’t mothers take care of their children since child- Ahousehold errands when the doorbell rang. She ambulance?” they said making her more anxious. “No I hood, and bring them up to be responsible instead of Suicide attempt was skeptic about the sudden knocker because she was am perfectly alright but allow me to ask you,” she said depending on maids for everything? This will help An Asian housemaid was rushed to the hospital when not used to receiving anybody at this time of the hour. before they interrupted and asked her to hear them them successfully manage their houses in the future her sponsor found her in pain after she swallowed some She approached the door with fear and checked through out before she asked, which was her right. “Well, the without any problems and disputes that might even- detergents in an attempt to commit suicide. A case was the peephole and saw two policemen. She was reas- reason we are here is to make sure you are alright and tually lead to a divorce. filed for investigations. sured at first, but soon enough got more worried about help you if you need any assistance, and that is I have a valuable advice for all mothers. The sum- what she might have done to have cops come knocking because you were caught on road camera crying while mer vacation is a golden opportunity to teach your at her door. driving,” they said. boys and girls some self-reliance; to teach girls how to ‘Terrible’ results She opened the door. “Good morning Madam,” said “Yes, I was crying,” she said. “Well, we are here to make do household errands such as cooking, cleaning, A female citizen in her thirties filed a complaint the two policemen with a smile, and she returned the sure you are alright and offer help if you need any and washing, tidying and ironing; to teach boys how to against a plastic surgeon, noting that she had paid him greeting. “Is that your car parked by the house there, warn you of the danger of crying while driving,” the buy groceries from a co-op society instead of staying to operate on her to make her slimmer and look better Madame?” asked one of the policemen. “Yes, it is mine,” policemen said. The woman thanked them as they up late and sleeping over till noon, which leads to obe- but the result was ‘terrible.’ The woman said that when she answered. “Were you driving it twenty minutes ago walked away with a smile leaving her overwhelmed with sity and laziness. Just remember that during the Iraqi she talked to the doctor, he showed her an affidavit she on road number.....?” he asked, and she said yes while still a feeling of tranquility as she grew more confident that invasion in 1990, most domestic laborers left and we had signed asking the features she did not like. in shock and bewildered about the reason behind the she had made the right decision by choosing to live in managed to live without them for seven months. So, — Translated from the Arabic press question. “Are you alright, Madame?” he asked. this Western country and preferred it on her own. do you know what I mean? “Yes, I am, and as you can see, I have no com- —Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated by Kuwait Times Gulf Bank welcomes new red account winners to head office KUWAIT: Gulf Bank was pleased to welcome the new win- sion of Ministry of Commerce and Industry. ners of the fifth monthly red account draw on Wednesday , Gulf Bank’s red is an account for high school students, 31st May 2017, and present them with their Apple prizes. college and university students aged between 15 and 25. Al-Jazy Musaed Farah Al-Farhan Al-Nawayem, winner of Eligible customers will get the chance to enter the draw the iPhone 7 Plus- red product, Malak Salamah Saod Al- automatically and on a monthly basis, upon transferring Bathali, winner of the iPad Pro, and Bader Tareq Bader their student allowances. Fadhl, winner of the Apple Watch, all visited Gulf Bank Each month, an iPhone 7 plus, an iPad Pro, and an Apple Head Office where Manal Barakat, Manager of red and Watch will be gifted to three lucky winners monthly and Nassour - Consumer Banking, and Aisha Al-Nasrallah, until January 2018. The next draw dates are announced as Relationship Officer, greeted them and handed them the follows: prizes. Gulf Bank’s red account draw was held in the bank’s - July 13, 2017 head office on Monday, May 22, 2017, under the supervi- - July 24, 2017 - August 21, 2017 - September 28, 2017 - October 23, 2017 - November 20, 2017 - January 11, 2018 In addition to the Apple prizes, students will have the opportunity to win a Fiat 500c -Model 2017 at the annual KUWAIT: A group photo taken during the signing ceremony. car draw, upon transferring their allowance! Also, movie tickets at all Cinescape theatres will be available for only KD2 seven days a week by simply being a red account hold- KFAS renews agreement with er; not to mention the exclusive offers from Edfa3ly, which is an international internet shopping services company. Gulf Bank invites all students to take part in its red account London School of Economics draws, as they might be the lucky winners for year 2017! KUWAIT: The Kuwait Foundation for created a new agreement modality sentatives of the private sector.” To take part in the red account draws, prospective cus- the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) that highlights the local benefit from Mazeedi added that “looking ahead, tomers can open an account at any one of Gulf Bank’s 56 and the London School of Economics international agreements and has the renewal agreement takes on a branches, transfer online using the Bank’s App or through and Political Science (LSE) signed an worked hand-in-hand with LSE to more directed local view and creates KUWAIT: Gulf Bank’s representatives with one of the the bank’s website at www.e-gulfbank.com, or call the agreement at KFAS’ headquarters last ensure that there is mutual benefit more research opportunities for local winners. Customer Contact Center on 1805805. week renewing their successful long- from the 5-year renewal agreement, researchers focused on calls for joint term agreement (2007-2017) for and that critical knowledge and skill are research, fellowships as well as Warba Bank targets the Kuwaiti society another five years with an aim to pro- cultivated through this partnership.” opportunities for Kuwait-based vide opportunities for training and In signing this agreement, KFAS researchers from public and private with events centered on inspiration, creativity research organizations in Kuwait to aims to develop the research capaci- universities to spend time at LSE, a better serve local needs. ty in Kuwait through improving the dynamic program to engage the KUWAIT: Warba Bank congratulates and its bright future. The ad will be on screen. In addition, the bank’s social The signing ceremony was attend- quality of research produced in addi- wider research community of LSE its customers and the entire Kuwaiti broadcast extensively through various channels also feature a number of ed by Professor Hussain Al-Ansari, tion to supporting researchers and with Kuwaiti institutions that requires community on the holy month of media platforms including ‘Shahid.net’ videos based on fasting tips provided President of Kuwait University, Dr policy makers with the resources experts in specialized fields like Ramadan, the month of forgiveness and Warba Bank’s social media chan- by leading specialists, focusing on fast- Khaled Mahdi, Secretary General of they need. Energy, Housing, Healthcare, Fiscal and mercy. On this occasion, the bank nels, including its YouTube channel. ing ethics, dietary advice, and religious the Supreme Council for Planning “The agreement has evolved over Policy, etc.” offers a series of events inspired by advice. This is in addition to a series of and Development (SCPD), and the last two years under the director- As a manifestation of KFAS’ role in the fact that it has built its way with Mall 360 information and videos that shed light KFAS Director General, Dr Adnan ship of Professor Toby Dodge to gen- informing public policy, the renewal perseverance and has become the dis- As a culmination of its mission, on Kuwaiti and international inventors Shihab-Eldin, in addition to uinely serve the research needs of agreement will provide opportunities tinguished bank that enjoys the trust of Warba Bank will meet its customers whose achievements and creativity are Professor Toby Dodge, Director of Kuwait” said Manager of International for KFAS to collaborate with the customers and shareholders alike. Since and all segments of the community in worldwide recognized. the Kuwait LSE Program. Programs at KFAS, Engineer Yousef Al- Kuwait Centre for Public Policy, both creativity is the characteristic of the the middle of the holy month for The bank’s activities in Ramadan On this occasion, Director of Mazeedi, “and has created valuable in terms of programs directed at Bank in all its operations, its activities three days in Mall 360, where its inter- also include a series of activities for its International Relations and opportunities for debate and capacity building and those directed for the month of Ramadan this year are active booth will offer unique tech- employees who the bank deems as marked by a spirit of creativity and nologies in line with the Bank’s objec- partners in its success and it is keen on Knowledge Management at KFAS, Dr exchange of knowledge with local at creating a body of knowledge suit- inspiration aimed to guide the entire tive to be a leading institution in digi- sharing with them the teachings of the Amani Al-Bedah stated that “KFAS has researchers, policy makers, and repre- ed for policy making. community to persevere and strive to tal progress. The Bank’s three-day holy month that promote communion achieve their aspirations, and to over- social activities are based on three pil- and mercy. In this context, the bank come all obstacles and difficulties. lars: innovation, motivation, and sup- has a number of activities during the Accordingly, the bank offers a con- port. In the field of creativity, Warba holy month which will enhance the sistent set of social events during the Bank offers a series of videos during relations between them. This includes month of Ramadan, first of which is a the day to the time of iftar telling suc- a Ramadan ghabga (a Kuwaiti ban- distinctive TV advertisement under cess stories of a range of Kuwaiti cre- quet) inspired by the Kuwaiti tradi- the slogan ‘How wonderful man is!’ ative persons. In the evening, in terms tions, including generosity and hospi- which highlights the wonders of of support and motivation, the Bank tality, and a football tournament. human ability to overcome difficulties hosts in its booth a number of Kuwaiti Through these activities during the and confront them to innovate and innovators to share their achieve- holy month of Ramadan, the bank find solutions. The ad also highlights ments and motivate them to achieve aims to disseminate a constructive the experiences of global and Kuwaiti more successes, and to encourage social message inspired by its proven inventors who persevered and strived young people to unceasingly and tire- experience. It focuses on the impor- to make their inventions see the light. lessly move forward with their tance of inspiration in transforming Through this ad, the Bank sends an dreams. In its booth, the Bank also the dream into reality and that difficul- encouraging message to the ambi- gives a number of social institutions ties can be overcome by finding solu- tious Kuwaiti youth to inspire them to the opportunity to communicate with tions as long as man is empowered by believe in their abilities. Faith is the visitors and highlight their achieve- faith, ability, and patience, which are way to innovate, no matter how diffi- ments, including CAN Foundation cornerstones in the teachings of Islam. cult the circumstances are. In this way, that raises awareness about cancer. Islam promotes perseverance and the Bank completes its message trust in the potential Allah bestowed launched last year under the slogan Competition on man. Inspired by its strife, the bank ‘We are distinguished by solutions’ in In order to motivate the next genera- is keen on inspiring the Kuwaiti society a TV ad that highlighted the most tion to develop their mental and cre- and encouraging it to cling to innova- prominent Arab creative works ative skills, the bank organizes an inter- tion and creativity, especially as it is a throughout the ages in a modern way active competition for children visitors banking institution that has emerged that targeted the Kuwaiti youth since based on intelligence and ability to con- in this society, gained its confidence KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) celebrated the graduation of batch 2 of customer service - commu- they are the backbone of the society nect different elements to solve puzzles and owes it all kinds of support. nications center employees who underwent training at CBK Academy in Faiha. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 It won’t be from sea-to-sea; how US, Australian officials warn of returning foreign fighters long will wall be? Page 12 Page 8

ST PETERSBURG, Russia: In this June 3, 2017 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Megyn Kelly during an interview with NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly”. — AP Putin dismisses US involvement claims Russian president denies knowledge of Kushner proposal

WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir nonsense,” Putin said. “Where would we get thing significant he would have reported it to block him from testifying. The public hearing tions about possible obstruction of justice. The Putin says claims about Russian involvement in this information from? Why, did we have some the minister. The minister would have reported is expected to shed light on his private conver- Senate intelligence committee also has invited US elections are untrue, and says the United special relationship with him? We didn’t have it to me,” Putin said. “There weren’t even any sations with Trump in the weeks before his dis- the top spy of the US and law enforcement offi- States actively interferes with elections in other any relationship at all.” reports. There’s nothing to even talk about. missal, including any discussion about the cials to testify Wednesday at a hearing about countries. And he is dismissing as “a load of Putin again denied any Russian involvement There wasn’t even any kind of specific discus- Flynn investigation. There’s been no final deci- the federal law governing foreign intelligence nonsense” the idea that Russia has damaging in the US presidential election and any knowl- sion about sanctions or anything else. For me, sion as to whether Trump would invoke execu- collection. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe information on President Donald Trump. “I nev- edge of Russian contacts with the Trump cam- this is just amazing. You created a sensation tive privilege, and the matter remains under and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein er met with him. We have a lot of Americans paign. A special counsel appointed by the out of nothing.” Putin suggested that skilled discussion, according to two administration also are expected to testify. who visit us,” Putin said in an interview with Justice Department and congressional com- hackers anywhere, including the US, could shift officials who spoke on condition of anonymity For Thursday’s hearing, Trump could invoke NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.” He mittees are investigating. Former FBI Director the blame for hacking onto Russia. He also to discuss private deliberations. Trump is executive privilege by arguing that discussions added: “Do you think we’re gathering compro- James Comey, whom Trump fired after alleged- alleged that the US actively interferes with known to change his mind on major issues. with Comey pertained to national security and mising information on all of them right now or ly asking him to drop an investigation into for- electoral campaigns of other countries. “Put On Sunday, lawmakers from both parties that he had an expectation of privacy in get- something? Are you all - have you all lost your mer national security adviser Michael Flynn your finger anywhere on a map of the world, urged Trump not to stand in the way of ting candid advice from top aides. But legal senses over there?” and his Russian contacts, is scheduled to testify and everywhere you will hear complaints that Comey’s testimony. “Clearly, it would be very, experts say Trump likely undermined those US intelligence agencies have concluded Thursday before the Senate’s intelligence com- American officials are interfering in internal very troubling if the president of the United arguments because he publicly discussed the that Russia meddled in the presidential elec- mittee. In the NBC interview, Putin was asked electoral processes,” he said. As far as the find- States is interfering in investigations that affect conversations in tweets and interviews. tion to hurt the bid of Democrat Hillary about reports of Trump adviser and son-in-law ings of US intelligence agencies, Putin said, potentially the president and his closest associ- Trump’s argument in favor of privilege also Clinton. Trump himself has been dogged by Jared Kushner’s attempt to set up a secret com- “They have been misled.” ates,” said Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat may be overcome because the investigation is questions about any business dealings with munications channel with Russia. Putin said he on the Senate intelligence committee. focused on corruption and possible obstruc- Russia - he says he has none - as well as reports knew nothing about it and that he had not dis- Comey testimony Sen Roy Blunt, a Republican member of the tion of justice. Warner spoke on CNN’s “State of of a Russian dossier of damaging personal cussed with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak any As the Senate prepared for Comey’s intelligence committee, said Comey’s testimo- the Union” and CBS’ “Face the Nation”. Blunt information. “Well, this is just another load of meeting with Kushner. “Had there been any- appearance, Trump appeared unlikely to try to ny would be critical to address mounting ques- appeared on “Fox News Sunday.” — AP

Lawmakers ask court Trump assails Justice Dept to nullify martial law

MANILA: Philippine opposition lawmakers petitioned the court strategy on travel ban Supreme Court yesterday to review and nullify President Rodrigo Duterte’s imposition of martial law in the southern third of the country. The petition filed by six House law- WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump his first week in office. The second order long,. “This bloodshed must end, this blood- sination of President Abraham Lincoln. makers led by Rep. Edcel Lagman said there was no revolu- lashed out at his own Justice Department removed Iraq from the list of banned coun- shed will end,” he vowed. “America sends our thoughts and prayers tion or invasion where public safety required the declara- Monday for seeking the Supreme Court’s tries. An indefinite halt to entry from Syrian Trump was commenting Sunday evening and our deepest sympathies to the victims of tion of martial law and suspension of the writ of habeas backing for a “watered down, politically cor- refugees was replaced by a temporary pause. on the vehicle and knife attack that killed at this evil slaughter and we renew our resolve, corpus. It said the proclamation contained “fatal inaccura- rect version” of the travel ban he signed in Trump’s criticism came a day after he said he least seven people in London at the conclu- stronger than ever before, to protect the cies and falsities.” March. In a series of early morning tweets, would do whatever is necessary to protect sion of a Sunday night fundraiser for Ford’s United States and its allies from a vile enemy The petitioners said Congressional leaders and the Trump urged the Justice Department to ask the United States from a “vile enemy” that he Theater, scene of one of the most famous acts that has waged war on innocent life, and it’s majority of lawmakers allied with Duterte were derelict in for an “expedited hearing” at the high court said has waged war on innocents for too of bloodshed in American history: The assas- gone on too long,” Trump said in an appear- their constitutional duty by refusing to convene a joint ses- and seek a “much tougher version” of the ance at a Ford’s Theater event, his first com- sion of Congress to vote whether or not to revoke the mar- order temporarily blocking entry to the US ments in public on the attack late Saturday in tial law proclamation. Duterte made the declaration May from a half-dozen majority Muslim countries. a busy section of London. He previously had 23 after extremists allied with the Islamic State group laid He called the courts, which have blocked two commented via a series of Twitter posts siege to Marawi city. The declaration lasts through mid-July versions of the travel ban, “slow and political”. Saturday. “As president, I will do what is nec- but could be extended with the consent of Congress. It’s unclear whether the president has con- essary to prevent this threat from spreading The martial law proclamation said the militants openly veyed his requests to the Justice Department, to our shores and work every single day to attempted to remove that part of the country from its alle- which he oversees, in a forum other than protect the safety and security of our country, giance to the Philippine government by taking over a hos- Twitter. The president criticized the legal strat- our communities and our people,” he said. pital, establishing several checkpoints in the city, burning egy in the wake of the vehicle and knife attack Trump said he had spoken with British Prime down certain government and private facilities, and flying in London that left seven people dead and Minister Theresa May to express America’s the flag of the Islamic State group in several areas. But the dozens injured. The Islamic State has claimed “unwavering support” and offer US assistance petitioners said even the military admitted the conflict in responsibility for the attack. Last week, the as the British government works to protect its Marawi was precipitated by troops’ operation to neutralize Justice Department formally asked the citizens and bring the guilty to justice. or capture Isnilon Hapilon, a high-profile militant com- Supreme Court to let a ban on visitors from six After more than 20 people were killed in a mander. They also said the claim that militants took over a mostly Muslim countries and refugees from bomb attack last month at a concert in hospital and Duterte’s claim that a local police chief was around the world to be put in place. The high Manchester, England, Trump condemned the decapitated both turned out to be wrong. “The President’s court also is being asked to uphold the consti- assault as the act of “evil losers” and called on proclamation of martial law in Mindanao has no sufficient tutionality of the Trump travel policy, which nations to band together to fight terrorism. factual basis as it is feebly based on mostly contrived lower courts have blocked because it shows Earlier Sunday, Trump had criticized London’s and/or inaccurate facts, self-serving speculations, enumer- anti-Muslim prejudice. mayor after the mayor sought to reassure res- ation of distant occurrences and mere conclusions of fact The directive that would go before the idents about a stepped-up police presence and law on the purported existence of ‘rebellion or inva- Supreme Court is a narrower version of the WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and US first lady Melania Trump leave following the attack, the third in the country sion’,” the lawmakers said. — AP executive order the president signed during after Ford’s Theatre’s annual fundraiser on Sunday. — AFP in past three months. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 US states move to expand age kids must be in school

LAS VEGAS: A dozen states are trying to deficient schools. states requiring children to be in the likely in unstructured programs at home even more good,” Whitehurst said. keep children in school longer, from “I believe every child deserves a fair classroom for as many as 13 years, from that aren’t registered with the local “Nothing seems irrational. It’s not that it’s making kindergarten mandatory to rais- and equal shot at the American dream age 5 to 18. This year alone, at least six school districts and that not every child a bad thing to do. But if you expect to ing the legal drop-out age. But it’s not an and that starts with school,” said Diaz, bills were proposed in Mississippi to is suited for a paper-and-pencil class- see graduation rates zooming, you’ll like- easy sell. Nevada is among the states this the bill sponsor who is also a Las Vegas- expand the years that children must be room confinement. ly be disappointed.” year that have or are considering pro- area teacher. “I just think it’s going to be in school. All of them have failed. “I can appreciate it and I can appreci- That seems to be the case in South posals to stretch the compulsory atten- a philosophical argument and we’re just Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, ate the need for it, but if it’s available, I Dakota, which has expanded the manda- dance age. A bill that would require chil- going to have to agree to disagree. As a Iowa, Indiana, New Jersey, South don’t see why it needs to be mandatory tory school age on both ends. In 2006 dren in Nevada to start school at age 5 teacher, and as an assemblywoman who Carolina, Montana, Mississippi and North for people like me because you’re taking and 2007, lawmakers approved bills that was met with such resistance that it was represents a very at-risk population, this Carolina also have considered the issue away my rights,” said England, the mom made the compulsory age 5 to 18. The amended to age 6. Current state law sets is fundamental.” this year. against the Nevada bill. England is plan- state’s secretary of education, Melody the age at 7. The proposal is likely to go The conversation among advocates is Nearly all states require free education ning to teach her children at home near Schopp, said the graduation rate is about nowhere, as the Nevada legislature was often tinged with this kind of anxiety to be offered by age 5, though in half the Reno because she said she doesn’t have the same but said the total number of set to adjourn yesterday. about economic disparity. Their debate country, children don’t have to start confidence in the local school district. dropouts is down. She said the law “If you’re really concerned about kids is centered as a moral imperative, school until they’re 6 years old. There’s “Nevada is literally 50th in the country helped incentivize schools to create new dropping out, I don’t think making extolling research on the importance of mandatory kindergarten in several states, for school so I wouldn’t say we’re doing it career-focused programs to keep older kindergarten mandatory is really the access to education, particularly for poor while Pennsylvania and Washington right, right now,” England said. teens engaged. heart of the issue,” said Maggie England, and disadvantaged children. Lately, edu- don’t require attendance until age 8. Grover “Russ” Whitehurst of the So while not everyone gets a diploma who opposes the Nevada bill and wants cation access has also seen a height- These state laws - some more than a cen- Brookings Institution’s Center on in four years, many of those who were to homeschool her three children. ened, urgent interest on the national tury old - began as a tool to fight truancy. Children and Families says the flaw in likely to leave school with nothing are Supporters admit that it wouldn’t have stage, ranging from college tuition to The status quo generally has been to this movement is its emphasis on quanti- now getting GEDs or certifications to do much of an impact on enrollment num- daycare and pre-kindergarten. The com- allow teens to drop out at age 16. ty, not quality, with lawmakers too fre- other kinds of jobs. And she’s also not bers - and therefore school budgets. pulsory school age issue gained peak quently operating on their gut. The edu- bothered by the lack of measurable State officials estimate that about 95 per- momentum when then-President Barack Critics cation policy expert says compulsory improvements academically for the cent of 6-year-olds are already learning Obama in his 2012 State of the Union The critics are advocates of home- laws can produce some small effects but younger children who have gone in a formal capacity. What’s to be gained, address urged states to raise the dropout schooling and limited-government who it’s not quite the grand vision lawmakers through the mandatory kindergarten then, said Nevada Assemblywoman age to 18. say that parents should have ultimate push. His research has found that raising programs. “Being fed and kept warm. Olivia Diaz, is the message that the state In the past decade, both Republican authority over their children, including it to 18 doesn’t actually increase the School is where there is a caring adult,” sometimes mocked as the “Mississippi of and Democrat lawmakers have pushed when and how their kids are educated. graduation rate. “It’s intuitive in the Schopp said. “There’s other benefits you the West” is taking seriously its mission for changes that would stretch the com- Homeschoolers contend that the chil- sense that you would think if school can’t measure on an academic scale that to turn things around in its glaringly pulsory school attendance age, in some dren who are not going to school are does us any good, more of it would do us are really important to me.” — AP It won’t be from sea-to-sea; how long will US wall be?

WASHINGTON: The White House insists that fied exactly what he wanted, but his words sug- seeing bids for the wall, have said repeatedly plans for US President Donald Trump’s border gested a wall stretching from Brownsville, Texas, they don’t know yet the length of the wall the wall are on track despite resistance from on the eastern end of the border, to San Diego at administration will ultimately want to build or Congress. What it’s not saying is how it envisions the western end. At times he suggested the wall how much it will cost. the wall these days. Trump’s promise to build a would be at least 30 feet (9 m) high, even prom- Kelly has said the administration wants to “big beautiful wall” and have Mexico pay for it ising to add an extra 10 feet (3 m) after former start by building at least 119 km of wall in Texas was a campaign rallying cry. It conjured images Mexican President Vicente Fox used an expletive and near San Diego, though 23 km of that con- of an imposing structure spanning the 3,200 km to say that Mexico wouldn’t pay for the program. struction would be a replacement for fencing of America’s southern border, too tall and strong that’s been in place for years. He has said new for foreigners to dare cross illegally. What the administration construction will be planned for areas where But since Trump took office, his top aides says about the wall now border officials say it’s most needed. He told a have made clear that’s not on their drawing Days after taking office on Jan. 20, Trump Senate budget panel last month that some of boards. It won’t be “from sea to shining sea,” signed an executive order calling for a “physical the new construction may be a see-through Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told wall along the southern border.” But the order fence, similar to barriers built by the Bush and lawmakers. So how long will it be? And how didn’t include specific details or say how it Obama administrations. much of it will be a thick new wall as opposed to would be funded or how much it might cost. In patching up existing fences and other meas- recent months, leaders of the departments that Paying for the wall TOLUCA, Mexico: Alfredo Del Mazo, Mexico state gubernatorial candidate for the rul- ures? The answers aren’t clear. A look at what is will have the biggest roles in whatever is built Mexican officials have flatly rejected paying ing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and his wife Fernanda Castillo greet sup- known about the state of the wall. have hedged their boss’ campaign comments. for the wall. US lawmakers haven’t been enthusi- porters at the party’s headquarters in the capital of Mexico state on Sunday. —AP Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke acknowledged astic about paying for it either. Trump’s request What candidate Trump said about the wall in March some of the complications a border- for $2.6 billion to start the work on an unspeci- From the start of his campaign, Trump said long wall would face. He said physical and geo- fied stretch of border wall was swiftly denied as Mexico ruling party claims building a wall at the Mexican border and hav- graphic challenges would make building a wall Congress approved a spending package to keep ing Mexico pay for it was a priority. His campaign “complex in some areas,” including along parts of the government running through the end of the win in state, rivals cry foul website said his administration would “begin the Rio Grande and in a remote and mountain- current budget year in September. Instead law- working on an impenetrable physical wall on the ous national park in Texas. Officials from the makers approved $772 million for border securi- TOLUCA, Mexico: Mexico’s ruling party challenges possible. Morena, which has southern border on day one.” Trump never speci- Homeland Security Department, which is over- ty, including the upkeep and planned replace- narrowly held onto the governorship of the never held a governorship, was never sup- ment of old stretches of border fencing, some country’s largest state Sunday, according to posed to come this close in the key central built almost two decades ago. Still, the adminis- preliminary election results, but a fiery left- state, which cups Mexico City. The PRI has tration promoted this as major progress toward ist hoping to ride the race to the presiden- ruled there for more than 80 years. But the building the wall. cy cried foul. The election in the state of campaign in the state of 16 million people Trump’s first full budget request, which would Mexico, President Enrique Pena Nieto’s turned into a chance for Mexicans to vent fund the government for the 2018 budget year, home state, was closely watched as a bell- their long list of frustrations with the PRI, asks for $1.6 billion to pay for roughly 95 km of wether ahead of presidential polls next the party that has ruled the country for 76 new wall along two stretches of the border in year. It was a must-win race for Pena Nieto of the past 88 years. South Texas and 23 km of wall to replace fencing and the Institutional Revolutionary Party Del Mazo comes from a long line of for- near San Diego. It’s unclear whether Congress (PRI), which had to fend off a fierce chal- mer state governors, including not only his will approve that request. Democrats and some lenge from an upstart leftist party, the father and grandfather but also Pena Nieto, Republicans have questioned the need for new National Regeneration Movement his cousin. To critics, that smacks of the barriers as arrests of people caught sneaking (Morena), and its founder, presidential nepotism and backroom deals they say dog across the border fall to record lows. hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. the PRI, a broadly centrist party that has The PRI’s candidate, Alfredo del Mazo, been plagued by corruption scandals, vio- Current construction leads Lopez Obrador’s protegee, Delfina lent crime and a lackluster economy since There is a flurry of construction going on at Gomez, by about two percentage points, Pena Nieto ushered it back to power in 2012. the Mexican border. To the naked eye, it looks like according to a rapid count released by the Del Mazo, 41, faced a radically different kind Trump’s wall is underway. But it’s not. The fencing electoral authority. It said Del Mazo won of candidate in Gomez, 54, a schoolteacher being built along brief stretches of border in between 32.75 and 33.59 percent of the who played up her humble background as a Sunland Park, New Mexico, and Naco, Arizona, is vote, against a score of 30.73 to 31.53 per- construction worker’s daughter. part of a long-planned effort to replace old chain- cent for Gomez. It called the difference link fencing that in some cases is decades old. between them “statistically significant”, ‘PRI not dead’ TIJUANA, Mexico: A piece of art with a reflective surface hangs on the border fence as the “Tear Later this summer, construction is expected to with a confidence level of 95 percent, His apparent win shows that “the PRI is Down This Wall” concert is held in Friendship Park on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico bor- start on prototypes of new kinds of walls, both based on a sample of polling stations. not dead”, political analyst Fernando Dworak der on June 3, 2017. — AFP see-through and solid, in San Diego. — AP told AFP. But the party is still unlikely to win Battle looming? next year’s presidential election, he added. Lopez Obrador immediately rejected Lopez Obrador remains “the candidate to the result. “According to our results, Delfina beat” next year, said another analyst, histori- won,” he said in a video posted online. “We an Hector Aguilar Camin, in comments to Brazilian president lashes will accept no fraud.” He vowed to chal- Televisa TV. The firebrand populist, whose lenge the outcome, though he said his par- enemies say he would lead Mexico down ty would do so peacefully. Gomez echoed the same path as Venezuela, has a history of out ahead of court verdict his rejection. “We won the election,” she fighting long after the voting is done. After said. But Del Mazo was quick to deliver his his unsuccessful 2006 presidential bid, he BRASILIA: President Michel Temer guilty”. “We are very worried that the on Rousseff. Since she is already out Janot’s next step could also be to victory speech, promising “a government of proclaimed himself the “legitimate presi- and Brazil’s chief prosecutor were in prosecutor general of the republic is of the picture - having been request formal charges against inclusion, of unity”. The fight may be far dent” as his supporters camped out for open warfare yesterday on the eve using all the apparatus that he has to impeached for breaking govern- Temer, leading to a trial in the from over, with street protests and court weeks in central Mexico City. —AFP of a court verdict that could lead to attempt to pressure” the court, he ment accounting rules in 2015 — Supreme Court. Adding to that the scandal-plagued president’s told Folha newspaper. the expectation was for the TSE rul- threat is the likelihood that more removal from office. The front pages The accusation ramped up the ing to allow Temer to finish his man- suspects in the corruption scandal NJ holds gov primaries under of major newspapers were dominat- tension in the capital Brasilia ahead date through 2018. However, the will strike plea bargains with prose- ed by accusations made by Temer’s of the court hearing. The panel of eruption of the hush money allega- cutors and testify against him. shadow of unpopular Christie lawyer that Prosecutor General seven judges is scheduled to meet tions against Temer have led to Chief among those potential new Rodrigo Janot is pressuring the Tuesday and Wednesday before hopes among his opponents that witnesses is a former Temer aide, PRINCETON, New Jersey: New Jersey opponents based on her association with Supreme Electoral Tribunal to rule reaching a verdict Thursday - unless the TSE will seize the opportunity to Rodrigo Rocha Loures, who was Governor Chris Christie is barred by state the unpopular Republican incumbent. As against Temer when it meets to an adjournment is called. bring him down. caught with a suitcase containing law from running for a third consecutive a result, Guadagno, 58, has tried to exe- deliver a verdict, starting today. Even if he survives the TSE, Temer 500,000 reais ($152,000) of alleged four-year term this year, but the unpopular cute a balancing act, distancing herself former Republican presidential candidate Temer has been hanging by a Converging crises still faces the intensifying corruption bribe money. He was placed under from Christie on some issues like his $300 remains a central figure in the campaign to million proposal to renovate the aging thread since the revelation of a The TSE had previously been probe being led by Janot. Brasilia is arrest Saturday but has not yet sig- replace him. Voters head to the polls today statehouse in Trenton while taking credit secret audio in which he is allegedly considered unlikely to declare Temer swirling with rumors that Janot nalled whether he will agree to to choose Republican and Democratic for the state’s low unemployment figures. heard giving his blessing to pay- illegitimate. At most, the court was plans soon to release new secret cooperate with prosecutors. For nominees to succeed Christie, whose “In most situations where you have a ment of hush money by a meat- expected to put the blame for use of audio recordings and other evi- now, Temer still has several escape approval ratings have hit historic lows. He second-in-command, that person will packing tycoon to a top politician dirty campaign money exclusively dence compromising the president. routes. If found guilty by the TSE, he has been accused of spending too much enjoy some incumbency advantage,” said jailed for corruption. But starting could appeal, potentially staying in time out of state during the 2016 presiden- Brigid Callahan Harrison, a political science today, he faces the separate, more office while the process plays out. tial campaign and tarnished by the so- professor at Montclair University in New immediate challenge of the And even if the Supreme Court called Bridgegate lane closure scandal. Jersey. “In fact, what we see is the exact Supreme Electoral Tribunal, known accepts an indictment filed by Janot, The lieutenant governor, Kim opposite. His enormous unpopularity is an as the TSE. The TSE is deciding two-thirds of the lower house of Guadagno, is the frontrunner in the pri- albatross around her candidacy.” At a whether abuse of power - principal- Congress, where Temer still retains mary election on the Republican side, recent debate, Guadagno sparred with her ly the use of corrupt campaign mon- significant support, would also have while Phil Murphy, a former Goldman main Republican rival, Assemblyman Jack ey - fatally undermined the validity to approve the motion. Sachs Group Inc executive who served as Ciatterelli, over the latter’s plan to hike tax- of the 2014 election in which Temer In the meantime, the economic US ambassador to Germany under former es on millionaires. Guadagno has vowed was reelected vice president with austerity reforms that Temer has President Barack Obama, holds a solid not to raise any taxes. then president Dilma Rousseff. campaigned hard to push through lead in polling among the Democrats. Ciatterelli, 55, has criticized Christie, When Rousseff was impeached Congress, calling them key to rescu- Guadagno, who won election as the and by extension Guadagno, for the last year, Temer took over. If the TSE ing Brazil’s economy after two years state’s first lieutenant governor alongside state’s repeated credit rating downgrades judges Temer to have been responsi- of recession, appear to be increas- Christie in 2009, was Monmouth County’s in the face of budget problems. The latest ble for abuses in 2014, the court ingly doomed. Eurasia Group con- first elected female sheriff and, like Stockton University poll, released last could then annul the election results, sultants issued a note yesterday Christie, served as a federal prosecutor. week, gave Guadagno 37 percent sup- throwing Brazil into even deeper declaring Temer’s chances of survival With Christie absent frequently during port among primary voters, with political chaos. On Sunday, Temer’s at 40 percent and the outlook for the presidential campaign, Guadagno has Ciatterelli trailing at 18 percent. About a lawyer Gustavo Guedes claimed that pension reforms “dire”. “As such, we already spent months as acting governor. third of those polled, however, said they Janot is leaning on the TSE “to pres- still bet that Temer won’t finish his But she has also faced criticism from her remained undecided. — Reuters sure the court and find the president Michel Temer mandate,” Eurasia Group said. —AFP

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Candidates aim to ride Macron wave to parliament

PARIS: The leaflets make no mention of tary elections. “These days, what counts in top Sacre Coeur church that attracts bottom of Khomri’s campaign poster and ambitious reform agenda. Many of his the candidates’ party, just a splash of color a pot of yoghurt is the taste, not the label,” crowds of tourists. the party’s trademark rose has disap- rivals scoffed when the supremely confi- and pledges carefully calibrated to fit with said Pierre-Yves Bournazel, who is running At 39 - the same age as Macron - peared, replaced by a Macron-style blue dent former Rothschild banker vowed he those of the new centrist president. for a seat in Paris for the conservative Bournazel echoes the desire of France’s slick. Explaining her position, the politician and his fledgling party would blaze a new Welcome to campaigning in Emmanuel Republicans in the two-round vote taking youngest ever president “to promote new behind last year’s highly contested reform political trail. Yet having handed him the Macron’s France, where moderates of the place on Sunday and on June 18. ideas and a new type of political behavior”. of the labor code insists that while she is a presidency in a May 7 runoff against far- left and right are hitching their wagons to Bournazel is campaigning in the His leaflets says he wants to help form a “woman of the left” she also has “a real right leader Marine Le Pen, voters are now the new president’s star in the hope of Montmartre area to the north of the “presidential majority”, meaning that understanding of what a culture of com- changing their voting habits of a lifetime winning a seat in upcoming parliamen- French capital, in the shadow of the hill- although he is running on the promise means”. to back REM and its allies. Republicans ticket Bournazel would sup- The attempts by the candidates to ride An Ipsos Steria survey of nearly 15,000 port many of Macron’s reforms in parlia- on the coattails of the president and his voters last week showed Macron’s camp ment. His stance - that of dozens of candi- fledgling Republique En Marche (Republic taking 31 percent in Sunday’s first round dates from the Republicans and rival on the Move or REM) party has bemused of voting for the National Assembly, well Socialists - reflects the tectonic political some voters. “The most amazing thing is ahead of the Republicans on 22 percent. shift engineered by Macron, which has to see each of them explain to us that they Another poll showed him going on to win left the two major post-war political are more ‘En Marche’ than the next person, an outright majority of seats at the second groupings fighting for survival. when they have been part of their own round. REM is fielding candidates - many parties for some time,” said Olivier, 49, a drawn from outside politics, including a Riding Macron’s coattails Macron supporter in Montmartre. former fighter pilot and female bullfighter Macron has dismissed the traditional - in almost every one of the 577 con- left-right divide as old hat, saying the new Unblocking France stituencies. faultline in French politics is between “pro- Khomri’s reluctance to fly her own par- But in constituencies like Montmartre, gressives” and those opposed to change. ty’s colors is understandable. The where the frontrunners are supportive of To drive home that point he has given Socialists’ presidential candidate, Benoit the president’s agenda, it has hung back. politicians from the Socialists and Hamon, scored a humiliating six percent “We are seeing a new polarization of the Republicans jobs in his new government, and the former governing party has every French political landscape which is replac- deepening the rift within the parties reason to fear another rout in the parlia- ing the old left-right split in favor of a bloc between those who oppose Macron and mentary elections. Another 15 Socialist which is more ‘elite’ and another that is those seduced by his pragmatism. In candidates are also running under the more ‘working-class’,” political scientist Montmartre, Bournazel’s main opponent - “presidential majority” banner, irking their Jerome Sainte-Marie said. “The most liber- Socialist former labor minister Myriam El- party which has accused them of “oppor- al candidates on the left and right see in PARIS: Former Labour minister and French leftwing Socialist Part (PS) can- Khomri - is also running as someone who tunism”. Macron the solution to bogged-down didate for the upcoming legislative elections in the 18th district of Paris, would work “with Emmanuel Macron, for a Macron, who had never run for office reforms,” he said. “This ideological coher- Myriam El-Khomri, gestures as she delivers a speech during a meeting with (parliamentary) majority of progress”. until he became president, needs a majori- ence is where Macron’s strength lies,” he supporters of the Republique En Marche party on June 1, 2017. —AFP The Socialist logo is tucked away at the ty in parliament if he is to implement his added. —AFP Turkey stands firm over ban on German visits to Incirlik Berlin to find another location for its troops

ANKARA: Turkey and Germany yes- light of Turkey’s decision, Gabriel of finding another base,” he said. “I shelter in friendly country terday failed to reach an agreement said that Germany would soon start believe that we cannot solve the Germany,” he said, referring to a over visits by German politicians to the process of finding another loca- problem with Turkey now.” Turkey movement led by US-based Muslim a key airbase used for raids against tion for its troops. Berlin had previ- justified preventing the German preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed the Islamic State group in Syria, ously indicated that it would move parliamentary group from visiting by Ankara for orchestrating the with Ankara standing firm on its the personnel elsewhere in the the base by accusing Berlin of hav- failed coup. ban. The Incirlik base in southern region, most likely Jordan. ing offered political asylum to Gabriel said asylum cases were Turkey has been at the center of a Gabriel said that he regretted Turkish nationals who took part in handled by an independent dispute between the NATO allies Turkey’s decision, adding that the July 2016 attempted coup. German authority, and “in the end it since Ankara blocked a visit by Ankara must understand “for is courts which decide, and not the German parliamentarians last domestic political reasons we will ‘Conditions not ripe’ government”. Cavusoglu hinted month. “Right now it is possible to then need to transfer our soldiers”. Cavusoglu said yesterday that that visits to Incirlik could be possi- visit the NATO base in Konya (in But he added there was not yet Turkey had no problem with ble in the future if unspecified joint steps were taken, but that “Conditions are not ripe right now to visit Incirlik,” he said. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim can- LONDON: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick (second left) and celled a planned meeting with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (third right) are shown across London Bridge yes- Gabriel because of scheduling rea- terday to see the site of the June 3 terror attack near Borough Market. —AFP sons, an official from the Turkish premier’s office said. “The meeting could not take place time-wise,” the Police make more arrests official told AFP on condition of anonymity. over London terror attack But Gabriel met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presi- LONDON: Police carried out fresh raids they were holding 11 people, all arrested dential palace. Relations between and arrested “a number of people” yester- in raids on two addresses in Barking in Turkey and Germany have been day after the Islamic State group claimed suburban east London. tense since last July’s failed coup an attack by three men who mowed down The Islamic State group claimed respon- but deteriorated over a referen- and stabbed revellers in London, killing sibility. “A detachment of fighters from dum campaign this year to expand seven people before being shot dead by Islamic State carried out London attacks,” Erdogan’s powers. Ties were officers. Saturday night’s rampage at a said the Amaq news agency, which is affili- strained further after Turkish popular nightlife hub around London ated with the militants. One Canadian authorities imprisoned a German- Bridge by men wearing fake suicide vests national and one Frenchman were among Turkish journalist with Die Welt, was the third deadly terror attack in the fatalities and seven French citizens Deniz Yucel, on terror charges. Britain in less than three months and were among the injured. No details have Cavusoglu said that the accusa- came only days before a general election. been released about the perpetrators, who tions against Yucel were “not “A number of people have been were shot dead within eight minutes of about journalism but terror,” and detained,” police said in a statement after the first call to the police. Eight officers that the “independent judiciary” two early morning raids in east London, as fired an “unprecedented” 50 rounds at the was leading the investigation in commuters returned to the scene of the three attackers, according to Mark Rowley, ANKARA: German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (left) and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut the Yucel case. attacks after some security cordons were head of national counter-terrorism polic- Cavusoglu shake hands before talks yesterday. —AP Amid worsening relations, removed. “A very high priority for us is to ing, who said that a bystander had also Erdogan has repeatedly accused try to understand whether they were suffered a gunshot wound. central Turkey), not Incirlik,” Turkish any decision or a concrete plan for Germany, which is a major trade German Chancellor Angela Merkel working with anybody else,” London Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu the relocation of the German partner, adding: “If Germany takes of “hiding terrorists” in Germany and police chief Cressida Dick told BBC televi- ‘Copying one another’ said at a news conference with his troops from Incirlik. Speaking later one step forward toward us, we will claimed that Berlin was not sion. Dick said police had seized “a huge The prime minister said the attack was German counterpart Sigmar to journalists at the German always take two steps further.” But responding to 4,500 dossiers sent amount of forensic material” after going driven by the same “evil ideology of Gabriel in Ankara. embassy, Gabriel said Germany he said that some facts could not by Ankara on terror suspects. Turkey through the van used in the attack “very, Islamist extremism” behind the May 22 Germany has 250 military per- could not station its soldiers at a be ignored, claiming that more is an important country for Berlin, in very carefully”. “We will change and adapt Manchester suicide bombing that left 22 sonnel stationed at Incirlik flying base where deputies were not able than 400 Turkish diplomatic or offi- part because of the roughly three to what appears to be a new reality for us,” people dead, and the Westminster attack Tornado surveillance missions over to visit them. cial passport holders had sought million ethnic Turks in Germany she said. in March, which killed five. The assailants Syria and refuelling flights for part- “Therefore, I think we will begin asylum in Germany. “We would not after a “guest worker” program in British Prime Minister Theresa May on ran people over on London Bridge before ner nations battling IS militants. In this week or next week the process like to see members of FETO take the 1960s and 1970s. —AFP Sunday blamed “evil” Islamist ideology and lunging seemingly at random at the vowed to crackdown on extremist content crowds gathered around Borough Market, online worldwide, warning that attackers which is full of restaurants and bars. were “copying one another”. National cam- Gerard Vowls, 47, said he saw a woman Cyprus leaders to push on paigning for Thursday’s general election repeatedly stabbed, and threw chairs, resumed on Monday after a one-day sus- glasses and bottles at the attackers in a pension out of respect for the victims, bid to stop them. “They kept coming to try who included 48 people treated in hospi- to stab me... they were stabbing everyone. with reunification talks tal for injuries. Of those, 21 are still in a Evil, evil people,” he told The Guardian critical condition. Police said on Sunday newspaper. —AFP

UNITED NATIONS: Greek and Turkish ing union with Greece. The Greek Cypriot that the conference should focus on broad- Cypriot leaders agreed Sunday to return to side demanded that the withdrawal of er issues of power-sharing, property rights the negotiating table later this month in a Turkish troops be discussed at the confer- and territory for the creation of a new feder- Questions whether Israel new bid to clinch a historic deal on reunify- ence in Geneva as part of security arrange- ation. Turkey maintains some 35,000 troops ing the island. UN Secretary-General ments. But the Turkish Cypriots maintained in the north of the island. —AFP considered atomic blast Antonio Guterres announced the new round of talks following a four-hour dinner JERUSALEM: Research suggesting Israel Yitzhak Yaakov, a retired Israeli brigadier gen- meeting with the two leaders at UN head- may have considered detonating an atomic eral who had been head of weapons research quarters in New York. Guterres had invited device on the eve of the Six-Day War 50 years and development. Yaakov, who died in 2013, Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades ago to deter its Arab neighbors sparked told Cohen that in 1967 he came up with a and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart debate and denials yesterday. Israel’s pre- plan called “Samson” or “Shimshon” in Hebrew Mustafa Akinci to salvage a two-year diplo- sumed status as the Middle East’s sole that would involve detonating an “impro- matic effort aimed at achieving a settle- nuclear-armed nation remains a highly vised” atomic device purely as a warning. ment in Cyprus. taboo subject for the country, which neither Yaakov stressed that Israel had not yet devel- Flanked by the two leaders, Guterres told confirms nor denies such capability. The for- oped a nuclear bomb. The plan called for it to reporters after the lengthy meeting that all eign ministry declined to comment, but one be detonated atop a mountain in the eastern minister who has also written a book on the Sinai Peninsula some 20 km from the Abu three had “agreed on the need to reconvene Six-Day War dismissed the claim. Ageila Egyptian strategic military complex. the conference on Cyprus in June”. No firm Research by Avner Cohen, a historian who Cohen wrote that “a small paratroop force date was announced, but Guterres said he specializes in Israel’s nuclear program, would have diverted the attention of the would consult with Britain, the European sparked the debate coinciding with the 50th Egyptian army in the area to allow the team Union, Greece and Turkey on the timing. anniversary of the Six-Day War, fought from to prepare the nuclear demonstration upon The UN-led talks hit a wall nine days ago June 5-10, 1967. The research was published an order from both the prime minister and after the sides failed to agree on the terms yesterday on the website of the US-based the chief of staff”. to advance the reunification talks toward a Wilson Center think tank, whose work The blast would have been seen “for many final summit. includes tracking nuclear proliferation. tens (of) kilometres throughout the Sinai and The eastern Mediterranean island has Findings were also published over the week- the Negev” desert, he wrote. “Look, it was so been divided since 1974, when Turkish NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes a statement after hosting end in the New York Times. natural,” a transcript on the Woodrow Center’s troops invaded its northern third in talks with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci (left) and Cypriot President Nicos Cohen’s research includes interviews with website quoted Yaakov as saying. —AFP response to an Athens-inspired coup seek- Anastasiades at the UN headquarters on Sunday. —AP TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Afghan army fights on as US weighs troop increase

CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan: From his mud-walled compounds dotted with which would see more trainers at times official totals, leaving front-line troops tions, morale is sapped by political cor- sandbagged command post outside the poppy fields ready for harvest. The occa- move out of Corps headquarters down to increasingly stretched. ruption that persists despite President eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, sional rattle of machine gun fire can be brigade-level operations such as the one “It was very dangerous and busy last Ashraf Ghani’s efforts to stamp it out, Brigadier General Mohammad Nasim heard from the fighting a couple of kilo- being carried out by Sangin’s men in year but this year, it’s been busier,” said leading some soldiers to ask what they Sangin says he needs more troops and metres away but he says the operation Chaparhar, increasing the likelihood of Assadullah, a sergeant who, like many are fighting for. equipment to beat the Taleban and hold has gone well, with the district center their being drawn into fighting. Afghans, goes by one name. “We were in In Chaparhar, where the poppy fields on to ground his soldiers take. But one now clear at the cost of only a handful of Despite assurances from foreign and Achin and when that operation we were reach into the district center, powerful thing he does not want is foreign troops casualties. However, experience has Afghan officials about progress in in Torkham and now we’re in Chaparhar interests follow operations closely. “We returning to frontline combat in shown that there is no certainty of hold- improving leadership and tackling cor- without any break.” “I haven’t been home are not fighting for the nation, we are Afghanistan. “We know our own country ing on to the gains. ruption, security forces have struggled to in seven months. I go from one position fighting for a mafia,” said one officer, who better and we can defeat our enemies “We launch operations, we carry out contain the insurgency and now control to another. We’re tired but there’s no spoke on condition of anonymity. “We’ll ourselves,” he says. “NATO can help searches and push the insurgents to the no more than 60 percent of the country. alternative.” arrest some insurgents during an opera- Afghan forces with training, they can mountains. Later, I have to take my Most of the issues the troops talk about - tion and soon we get a call from power- provide more equipment but we will forces to other places for operations and lack of reinforcements and equipment, Questions ful figures inside government to let them recruit Afghans.” as soon as we leave the area the insur- endless tours of duty - are well known Even in Nangarhar, where Islamic go. We are soldiers and we have to obey As US and NATO officials contemplate gents return,” he said. US officials are despite promises of improvement. State has established a foothold but is orders. But the next day, when we go to the way forward in Afghanistan, govern- preparing plans that have been expect- At the same time, security forces have otherwise a relatively stable province, the another operation, our soldiers do not ment soldiers face a resilient enemy and ed to see some 3,000-5,000 more mili- suffered what the US Congressional army is conducting active operations in fight the way they were fighting previ- an array of problems from lack of equip- tary trainers sent to Afghanistan and watchdog SIGAR described as “shocking- nine districts, compared with just three ously. They believe that this is a fight for ment, poor leadership, political interfer- fears have grown that this could be a ly high” casualties. Official figures are last year, officers said. In other parts of no reason,” the officer said. ence and chronic corruption. While high- prelude to the United States being patchy but at least 807 soldiers and the country, like the opium-rich Taleban It is hard to know how widespread profile attacks in the capital Kabul, such sucked back into the war. police were killed in the first six weeks of heartlands of Helmand and Kandahar in such feelings are but soldiers have con- as the truck bomb that killed more than the year after 6,785 in the first 10 months the south and Badakhshan and Kunduz tinued to fight and die in numbers that 80 people last week, grab headlines, a Overstretch of 2016. Privately, many officials say the in the north, the situation is much worse. underline the resilience of the troops, grinding conflict in the provinces is cost- Sixteen years after the US-led cam- real numbers are even higher. The heavy Although General Sangin and his however battered their morale. Despite ing the lives of hundreds of soldiers and paign that ousted the Taleban, more than casualties have also contributed to the commanders say morale is good among the setbacks, they have held up. Sangin, a police a month. 13,000 foreign troops remain in other persistent problem facing the their men, several of whom have the red, stocky, confident figure with thick black A soldier since his teenage years with Afghanistan, down from a peak of more army, maintaining the strength of the black and green of the Afghan flag eyebrows and a salt and pepper beard the anti-Soviet mujahideen in the 1980s, than 100,000, but NATO officials have said units doing the fighting. A third of the strapped jauntily around their magazine says that after more than three decades, Sangin has been leading his brigade in a repeatedly they will not resume the com- security forces’ personnel does not re- clips, it does not take much effort to hear warfare has become a way of life. “I’ve clearing operation to drive insurgent bat mission they ended in 2014. However, enlist every year and the actual number other points of view. As well as high casu- always been at war. All the time. It hasn’t fighters out of Chaparhar, a district of officials say plans are being considered of troops available for duty is far below alties and the relentless tempo of opera- been comfortable.” —Reuters Tenants paying 30¢ rent oppose revamp of homes Mumbai chawls set to be redeveloped

MUMBAI: Madhuri Dewar remembers her wedding Now, the buildings are so dilapidated that they them pick a developer, instead floating tenders in 1981 in the tenement building where she had lived must be knocked down, officials say. “The buildings without informing them. Also, only tenants who can all her life: Guests sat in the colorful tent in the court- have outlived their life spans,” said SD Lakhe, vice prove they lived there before 1996 are eligible for a yard, packed the corridor and squeezed into the one- chairman of state agency Maharashtra Housing and new flat. Anyone who owns property elsewhere in room home she shared with her parents. Today, Area Development Authority (MHADA). “These peo- Mumbai is barred. Several residents’ associations Dewar, 65, lives with her husband in the same room ple deserve safer, bigger homes with better ameni- have filed petitions against MHADA’s plans and in a Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) “chawl” - ties,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. have threatened to protest. a building divided into small rooms with shared toi- “MHADA did not take us into confidence and are lets - in Naigaon in central Mumbai. Her two sons and Random Cut-Off going ahead without our consensus. This is a viola- their families live in two rooms across from her, and India has a shortage of around 20 million urban tion of our rights,” said Raju Waghmare, a the families walk into each other’s homes all day. homes, according to consultancy KPMG. In financial spokesman for residents in the Naigaon chawl. But after four generations, their way of life is under hub Mumbai, about 60 percent of the 18 million “Everyone who lives here deserves a home; the cut- threat as city officials are set to redevelop the colo- population live in crowded slums and other infor- off date is random. And those who bought a prop- nial-era BDD chawls in four locations in south and mal homes. States are rushing to meet a ‘Housing erty are being punished for prospering,” said central Mumbai. “We have lived here for so many for All’ target by 2022, which aims to create 20 mil- Waghmare, who estimates about half the residents SRINAGAR: Indian government forces search a car in central Srinagar years. My family is here, all my neighbors are friends,” lion new urban homes and 30 million rural homes. may not be eligible under these conditions. Public yesterday. —AFP said Dewar. “We would like to have bigger homes, The plan for the BDD chawls is to give tenants two- hearings were held for chawl residents, and con- become owners, but we do not know if our lives are bedroom flats measuring 500 sq ft (46 sq m) each in tracts were given to builders Larsen & Toubro and Indian troops in Kashmir going to be the same after the redevelopment, if we high-rise towers. A third of the land will be devel- Shapoorji Pallonji following a “transparent and thor- will all be together like we are now.” oped and sold commercially to help meet the proj- ough” procedure, Lakhe said. A cut-off date is essen- About a third of India’s 1.25 billion population lives ect cost of more than $1 billion. tial to ensure only legitimate tenants get new apart- kill 4 ‘suicide’ attackers in cities, with the numbers rising every year as tens of Residents say MHADA reneged on a vow to let ments, he said.—Reuters thousands of people leave villages to seek better SRINAGAR: Indian paramilitary forces Vaid. The foiled attack in the northern prospects. Up to 37 million households - a quarter of killed four suspected suicide attackers Sumbal area came amid renewed ten- the country’s urban population - live in informal hous- India launches fraud probe who tried to storm their camp in the sion in Kashmir following the killing last ing including slums and chawls because of a critical disputed Kashmir region early yester- month of a top rebel leader, which shortage of affordable housing, according to social into leading news channel day. The gunmen lobbed grenades and sparked fresh protests against Indian consultancy FSG. fired automatic weapons outside the rule. Kashmir has been divided between NEW DELHI: Indian federal investigators nels sometimes test the boundaries of Shared Courtyard Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) India and Pakistan since the end of launched a fraud probe yesterday into the responsible journalism and prime-time talk Mumbai’s BDD chawls were built in the 1920s to camp in Indian-administered Kashmir British rule in 1947, but both claim the founders of news channel NDTV, in a step the shows are often rowdy and contentious. house textile mill workers. Some were built as pris- before dawn, a spokesman said. “They territory in its entirety. channel denounced as an attempt to muzzle Police conducted raids at Roy’s residence in ons, then converted into military barracks and low- tried to storm the camp but they were Rebel groups have since 1989 been free speech in the world’s largest democracy. New Delhi and at two vacation homes. cost housing for migrant laborers. More than 16,500 not even allowed to enter the gate,” fighting roughly 500,000 Indian sol- Two senior officials at the Central Bureau of Neither of the couple were available for com- families live in the four BDD chawls spread across CRPF spokesman Bhuvesh Choudhary diers deployed in the region, demand- Investigation (CBI) said it had registered a case ment but NDTV presenter Srinivasan Jain said more than 93 acres of land in prime sites. They pay a told AFP. ing independence or a merger with against NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and his the “message is clear”. “Any independent voic- monthly rent of about 18-20 rupees (about 30 US Choudhary described the men as Pakistan. The fighting has left tens of wife, Radhika Roy, for causing an alleged loss es in media will be bullied and shut down. cents) each. The rooms, measuring 160 sq ft (15 sq “heavily armed fidayeen”, a term com- thousands dead, most of them civil- of 480 million rupees ($7.45 million) to a bank. Black day,” tweeted Jain. m) each, have been modified by families over the monly used to mean suicide attacker in ians. Dozens of local youths have The company refuted the allegations and The CBI said the investigation had no link years, some carving out a kitchen and a toilet as their accused the CBI of “concerted harassment of to the editorial line of NDTV, India’s oldest Kashmir. “All the four attackers were elim- joined the rebel ranks since last year means improved. NDTV and its promoters based on the same English-language all-news channel. “We have inated in a clean and wonderful opera- when the killing of a popular rebel There is a shared open courtyard where children old endless false accusations”. “NDTV and its nothing against NDTV’s news coverage ... they tion. There were no injuries on our side,” commander sparked wide-scale anti- play and festivals and weddings are celebrated. In promoters will fight tirelessly against this are accused of a financial fraud and it’s our he added. Four assault rifles, grenades India protests that left more than 100 the corridors, washing is hung and children’s bicycles witch-hunt by multiple agencies. We will not duty to investigate,” a senior CBI official said. and other ammunition were recovered civilians dead and thousands wound- parked. The chawls - in close proximity to offices, succumb to these attempts to blatantly India slipped by three places to 136th in this from the bodies of the slain attackers, ed. India regularly accuses Pakistan of schools and public transport - are rare enclaves of undermine democracy and free speech in year’s World Press Freedom Index compiled whose identities were not known. No arming and training rebels and sending affordable housing in a city with some of the most India,” NDTV said in a statement. by Reporters Without Borders, which high- group has claimed the attack. them across the heavily militarized Line expensive real estate in the world. Plans to redevelop The investigation comes at a time of often lighted concerns that Hindu nationalists were “They were carrying huge amounts of of Control (LoC) that divides the terri- the chawls in the space-starved city have been made heated, polarizing debate in India’s fiercely “trying to purge all manifestations of anti- and shelved repeatedly over the years as govern- ammunition and did not appear to be tory to attack its forces. Islamabad competitive TV news industry, where chan- national thought”. —Reuters locals,” said director general of police, S P denies the allegations. —AFP ments changed and residents opposed the plans. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Indonesian farmers befriend soil to protect harvests PEMONGKONG, Indonesia: In early more resilient to the effects of El Nino, the method for two planting seasons, say rainfall and weak agricultural productivi- during extreme weather conditions, said 2016, when fellow farmers were despair- harvesting about 70 percent more than yields have risen. Alongside lower costs ty, said Ageng Herniato, the agency’s Herniato. Yet Hamdi, who enjoyed two ing over plummeting yields linked to a those using traditional methods, accord- for fertilizers and labor, they have more assistant representative in Indonesia. successful planting seasons, has no seeds major drought, Hamdi was busy harvest- ing to the United Nations’ Food and money in their hands. “The biggest challenge we faced was left. He sold them all, partly because the ing maize from his land. He got 5.6 tonnes Agriculture Organization (FAO). changing their mindsets,” Herniato said. price of maize was so good, and partly instead of the usual 4 tonnes from his “Conservation agriculture is about renew- Better Diets Conventional farming requires heavy soil because he was worried yields would fall one-hectare plot, despite living in West ing the life of the soil,” said John Conservation agriculture is being preparation and burning of unwanted if he continued to use composite seeds. Nusa Tenggara, one of Indonesia’s driest Weatherson, an advisor to the FAO. “It’s adopted in other places, including Siberia biomass, which releases the carbon stored For the coming season, he plans to provinces where agriculture is at the mer- about stabilizing yield so when the shocks which has millions of hectares of degraded in it, contributing to climate change - revert to hybrid seeds, which cost cy of extreme weather such as that come, the farmers are sitting pretty.” cropland and Canada, where crop rotation none of which happens with conservation between 50,000 and 65,000 rupiah ($3.76- brought by the El Nino climate pattern. The method has always been around, has added organic nitrogen to the soil and agriculture. The FAO partnered with the $4.89) per kilo. Farmers say about 30 kg “El Nino did not affect those practicing but rising pressures from a changing cli- broken cycles of pests and diseases. In Indonesian Agency for Agricultural are needed per hectare. “With hybrids, I conservation agriculture, but those who mate, growing population and shrinking Indonesia, growing nutritious plants as Research and Development, and used know I will have to buy them every year weren’t suffered a lot,” the 38-year-old told arable land have prompted “a search for cover crops has improved the diets of demonstration plots to show farmers the and I will spend more money,” he said. “But the Thomson Reuters Foundation on a more sustainable, ecologically conscious Pemongkong villagers, with many now new approach. It has now been taken up hybrids are easier to find in the market sunny afternoon in Pemongkong village practices”, said Catherine Chan-Halbrendt, eating long beans, soya beans and mung by nearly 13,000 farmers, and the FAO is and more resistant to pests.” on Lombok island. Hamdi, who goes by an expert on the issue at the University of beans regularly. Saimah, 50, a rake-thin working with the Indonesian government This highlights how much needs to be one name only, was among the first in his Hawaii. In conservation agriculture, soil farmer whose two-hectare plot was affect- to incorporate it into national agricultural done for farmers to grasp the pros and cons village to adopt the natural farming disturbance is kept to a minimum, using ed by El Nino, used to have just one meal a policy, the UN agency said. of different seed varieties, said FAO advisor method in Oct 2015, just before El Nino hit. permanent planting holes fertilized with day, but her crop yield has nearly doubled Weatherson, who practices conservation He was initially attracted by talk of possi- compost instead of chemicals. The soil with conservation agriculture. “Now we eat Challenges agriculture in Swaziland where he lives. ble savings because conservation agricul- surface is covered with crop residues as eggs regularly and meat once a month. I Yet challenges remain, especially Hybrid seeds have very high yield potential ture requires less fertilizer, as well as less mulch, and farmers rotate crops or inter- can finally have savings,” she said. because many farmers are so used to con- but require irrigation, or at least predictable labor for weeding and preparing land. crop between cereals and legumes. Despite its benefits, the concept was ventional practices. The FAO provided rainfall and good fertilization, he said. “I But the greatest benefit so far has These practices help reduce erosion alien to many farmers when the FAO Pemongkong villagers with high-quality think what the farmers need more than been its ability to help Hamdi weather and water run-off, and increase soil fertili- introduced it in West Nusa Tenggara and composite maize seeds produced anything else is... to be given all the techni- the long drought. Lombok farmers who ty and crop yields, experts say. East Nusa Tenggara, two eastern through open pollination, which can be cal advice they need to be able to make practiced conservation agriculture were Pemongkong villagers, who have tried provinces with high food insecurity, low reused several times and perform better informed decisions,” he said. —Reuters US, Australian officials warn of returning foreign fighters Tillerson tells China to ‘step up’ on N Korea

SYDNEY: Top US and Australian officials warned the agenda at yesterday’s annual talks. militarizing islands in the South China Sea or fail- yesterday that battle-hardened and angry for- Australian officials say they have prevented 12 ing to put appropriate pressure on North Korea.” eign fighters may return to Southeast Asia from terror attacks on home soil since 2014 with more He said China and other regional partners the Middle East and take up arms in their own than 60 people charged. In the Philippines, hun- should “step up” efforts to help solve the North countries. The warning follows the weekend ter- dreds of civilians are trapped by fighting Korea situation, because it presents a threat to ror attacks in London, which were claimed by between the military and Islamist militants who the “entire world”. the Islamic State group, and comes amid a grow- have overrun the city of Marawi on the restive China claims nearly all of the South China Sea ing jihadist threat in the Philippines. IS fighters southern island of Mindanao. Separately, despite partial counter-claims from Taiwan, the will “come back with battlefield skills, they’ll Tillerson said a decision on whether to send Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam. It has come back with hardened ideology, they’ll come additional troops to try to stabilize the security rapidly built reefs into artificial islands capable of back angry, frustrated, and we need to be very crisis in Afghanistan was still under review. hosting military planes. Tillerson reiterated US and aware of that,” Australian Defense Minister Australian commitment to freedom of navigation Marise Payne said. North Korea in the South China Sea to “ensure unimpeded flow She was speaking at an Australia-US ministe- Meanwhile, Tillerson said China and other of lawful commerce in a rules-based order”. rial summit also attended by Pentagon chief Jim nations must strengthen efforts to curb North But reporters asked Tillerson if America was Evacuees from Marawi City rest at the Saguiaran Townhall in Lanao del Sur on the applying a double standard in telling countries southern island of Mindanao yesterday. — AFP to adhere to the international order while simul- taneously pulling out of a trans-Pacific trade deal Militants in Philippines city and the Paris climate accords - moves that prompted even longstanding allies to question dug in for protracted battle whether America was retreating into isolation- ism. “That’s why we’re here, that’s why we travel MARAWI, Philippines: Islamist militants 500-pounder cannot destroy.” He said that to the region, that’s why we engage with our holed up in a southern Philippines town days before seizing Marawi City the militants counterparts,” Tillerson said, standing alongside stocked weapons and food in mosques, tun- placed supplies in mosques and madrasas, Mattis, Bishop and Payne. We “travel to the nels and basements to prepare for a long the religious schools of a town whose popula- region to meet with our counterparts and talk siege, officials said yesterday as the battle for tion of over 200,000 is overwhelmingly about all the issues that are important to them control of Marawi City came to the end of its Muslim in a country where the majority of and hear from them concerns about where the second week. Their comments underlined the people are Christians. (Trump) administration is positioned”. level of organization among fighters linked to Responding to Tillerson’s comments, China’s the Islamic State group, whose ranks of sever- Trapped Civilians Low on Food and Water foreign ministry urged “relevant countries” to al hundred included foreigners from The area of the town occupied by the mili- support efforts by regional nations “to maintain Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, tants had shrunk to less than 10 percent, mili- peace and stability of the South China Sea, and Chechnya and Morocco. tary spokesman Brigadier General Restituto play a constructive role in this regard rather than The battle for Marawi City has raised con- Padilla told a news conference, adding that the opposite”. Spokeswoman Hua Chunying, cerns that the ultra-radical Islamic State is build- the army was pressing on to meet Duterte’s speaking at a regular Beijing briefing, also cited ing a Southeast Asia base on the island of deadline but it was not easy. “Complications China’s “enormous efforts” to reach a peaceful Mindanao at the southern end of the have been coming out: the continued use of settlement of the North Korea nuclear issue. Philippines. Parrying questions on why the fight- civilians, potential hostages that may still be ers had been able to resist an onslaught from in their hands, the use of places of worship ... ‘Remain united’ the Philippines army for so long, senior officers and other factors that complicates the battle SYDNEY: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (second left), Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Addressing the situation in the Gulf, Tillerson said the main problem was that 500-600 civilians because of its urban terrain,” he said. Bishop (left), US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (right) and Australia’s Defense Minister called on countries there to stay united and were still trapped in the urban heart of the town. Military choppers made combat sorties Marise Payne (second right) take a garden walk at Government House during the 2017 work out their differences. “We certainly would Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said and machinegun fire rattled and smoke bil- Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) yesterday. —AFP encourage the parties to sit down together and on Saturday that Marawi City would be fully lowed in a neighborhood of the town on Mattis, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Korea’s nuclear weapons program, while also address these differences,” he said. “If there’s any liberated within three days, but yesterday, Monday, Reuters correspondents said. A four- Australian counterpart Julie Bishop. Reacting to calling out Beijing over its South China Sea activ- role that we can play in terms of helping them officials were more circumspect on the timing hour ceasefire to evacuate residents was the London attacks, Mattis said: “We are united... ities. America’s top diplomat, speaking after talks address those, we think it is important that the and gave conflicting estimates of how many marred by gunfire on Sunday, leaving hun- in our resolve, even against an enemy that thinks in Sydney, also gave a brief response to the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) remain united.” combatants were holding out. Major General dreds of civilians who had hoped to flee the by hurting us, they can scare us. Well, we don’t unfolding crisis in the Gulf, where Saudi Arabia, Riyadh cut diplomatic relations and closed bor- Carlito Galvez, head of the military command fighting stuck in their homes. Padilla said that scare.” US President Donald Trump has instructed Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt ders with its neighbor Qatar to “protect its nation- in Western Mindanao region, said as many as 1,467 civilians had been rescued so far, and the Pentagon to “annihilate” IS to try to prevent have all announced they are severing ties with al security from the dangers of terrorism and 200 fighters from the Maute militant group the 500-600 still trapped were low on food foreign fighters from escaping and returning gas-rich Qatar. extremism”, the official Saudi Press Agency said. and others were still inside the town, and had and water. “There are places which we use as home as they lose ground in Iraq and Syria. In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States Tillerson and Mattis both said they did not made preparations in advance for a drawn- passageways to enemy territory - when we The aim is to encircle and kill as many mili- has spent recent weeks trying to reassure allies it anticipate any impact on efforts by a US-led out standoff. “In houses we take over, we see reach those areas, sometimes we see old peo- tants as possible in place, rather than letting can maintain a tough line against China’s “milita- coalition to battle the Islamic State group in Iraq .50 calibre, .30 calibre, and the ammunitions ple who are weak, cannot move on their own, them exit a city and targeting them as they flee. rization” of the South China Sea while at the same and Syria. The coalition currently conducts are huge. And the Maute, even if they fight because of lack of food,” he said. A presidential This reflects an increasing urgent attempt to time seeking help from Beijing. Trump - who fre- much of its operational planning and coordina- two months they will not starve here,” he told spokesman said 120 militants have died in the stop the fighters bringing their military expertise quently denounced China on the campaign trail - tion from Al-Udeid air base in Qatar. a news conference about one kilometre from battle, along with 38 government forces. The and ideology back to the West. “Before, we were has turned to Beijing to help rein in ally North “I am confident there will be no implications the fighting. “If you look at it, there are under- authorities have put the civilian death toll at shelling them from one town to another,” Mattis Korea’s weapons program, prompting concern coming out of this diplomatic situation at all, ground tunnels and basements that even a between 20 and 38. — Reuters said. “We now take the time... to make certain among Asian allies that America might go easy on and I say that based on the commitment that that foreign fighters do not stay to return to the South China Sea territorial dispute. each of these nations... have made to this fight,” Paris, France, to Australia, to wherever they came “We desire productive relationships,” Tillerson Mattis said. The US defense secretary blasted from, and bring their message of hatred and said after annual discussions with his Australian Iran for its “various destabilizing efforts” in the their skills back to those places and attack inno- counterpart Julie Bishop in Sydney. “But we can- region, referring to Iranian support for Syrian cent people.” not allow China to use its economic power to President Bashar Al-Assad and Tehran’s involve- The issue of countering terrorism was high on buy its way out of other problems, whether it’s ment in the Yemen war. — Agencies Australia police kill hostage-taker SYDNEY: Australian police yesterday shot dead a man who had taken a woman hostage in a Melbourne apartment and said they were investigating whether the incident was terror-related. Police responding to reports of an explosion at the apartment block in the suburb of Brighton had earlier found the body of another man in the foyer. The siege ended when the suspect exit- ed the apartment complex and opened fire. The woman escaped YANGON: Reporters of The Voice Daily work in their newsroom at its office yesterday. —AP safely but three officers were injured by gunshots. Police returned fire and killed the man. Myanmar journalists Authorities have yet to determine whether the incident in the affluent beach-side suburb was terrorism-related but Victoria state police said it was one line of inquiry. “We do have our arrested over satire counter-terrorism command working on it with our crime department investigators,” deputy police commissioner Andrew YANGON: Police in Myanmar have arrested plan to wear armbands in protest of the Crisp told reporters yesterday night. “It’s early days and it’s one a newspaper’s chief editor and a columnist arrests. The lawyer, Khin Maung Myint, said line of inquiry.” for allegedly defaming the military by pub- the trial of the editor and columnist Ko Ko Australian officials are growing increasingly concerned at the lishing an article mocking its role in the Maung would begin Thursday. Article 66 threat of militant attacks. Officials say they have prevented 12 country’s efforts to reach a peace agreement (D) of the Telecommunications Law, which such attacks on home soil since the threat level was raised in with fractious minority groups, one of their targets anyone “extorting, coercing, Sept 2014, with 61 people charged. But four have gone ahead, lawyers said yesterday. The lawyer for The restraining wrongfully defaming, disturb- including the murder of a Sydney police employee in 2015 by a Voice Daily editor Kyaw Min Swe said that ing, causing undue influence or threaten- 15-year-old boy. In the latest incident police responded to a the two were not released after being called ing to any person,” had been used by the phone call to emergency services, advising that a man had been in for questioning Friday over a lawsuit filed repressive former military government to killed and a hostage was being held. Witnesses recalled a fright- by the military under the country’s punish its critics, particularly members of ening situation with multiple shots fired in the suburb. Telecommunications Law. A broadly defined the country’s pro-democracy movement. “I got told there was an explosion around 4:00pm. I hung offense under the law sets a prison term of To the surprise of many who expected a around for a while and I heard gunshots, about 10 shots, and we up to three years for material judged defam- new era of freedom of expression, prosecu- got told it was a hostage situation,” local resident Will Reid told atory that is transmitted over any telecom- tions have continued under the govern- MELBOURNE: An armed police officer walks at the scene in the bayside suburb the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “It was frightening: You munications network, including online. ment of pro-democracy leader Aung San of Brighton yesterday after a woman was held against her will in an apartment wouldn’t expect that in Brighton at all.” The injuries to the police Free speech advocates have criticized Suu Kyi, whose political party took power block. —AFP officers were not life-threatening. —AFP the law, and several journalists said they last year. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 Jihadist-linked terror attacks across Europe

PARIS: A London terror attack claimed by the Islamic ror attack, when suicide bombers strike several targets, State group has left seven people dead and 48 wound- killing 130 people and wounding 350. ed after men mowed down and stabbed revelers on The sites include the Bataclan concert hall, bars and Saturday night. It is the latest in a deadly series of strikes restaurants, and the Stade de France stadium just north linked to radical Islamists against European targets in of the capital. The IS group claims responsibility. In June the last two years. 2016, a policeman and his companion are killed at their France has been hit the hardest, with 238 deaths home west of Paris by a man who swears allegiance to since early 2015. The first attack comes on January 7, IS. On July 14, the national holiday, a man rams a truck 2015 when two brothers who claim allegiance to Al- into a crowd in the Mediterranean resort of Nice, killing Qaeda gun down 12 people in an attack against the 86 people and wounding more than 400. He is shot satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The next day, a dead by police. IS claims responsibility. Twelve days lat- MEDAN: Students sit in circles as they read the holy book of Quran during Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah man linked to the Islamic State group (IS) shoots dead a er, two jihadists slit a priest’s throat in his church in Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic policewoman in a Paris suburb. Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy. They too are shot calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. — AP He takes hostages in a Jewish supermarket near Paris dead. IS claims that attack as well. the following day, killing four people. All three gunmen On March 22, 2016 suicide attacks claimed by IS kill 32 are killed by police. In April 2015, a woman is killed by a people and wound more than 340 at Brussels airport and Trump lashes out at London mayor radical Islamist, in June a delivery firm boss is killed and Maelbeek metro station, near the European Union head- Continued from Page 1 in England had tried to inform authorities about the terrorists then decapitated, and in August a man opens fire in the quarters. On August 6, a machete-wielding man attacks before the attacks happened. “If you’re going to see something and Thalys train between Amsterdam and Paris before he is two policewomen in Charleroi, southern Belgium, slicing say something, it has to be followed by, do something,” she said. overwhelmed by passengers. Two people are wounded. the face of one before being shot dead by a third officer. It risks alienating mainstream Muslims.” Trump later challenged “And this president is trying to do something to protect the On November 13, 2015 France suffers its worst ever ter- The IS group claims responsibility. — AFP Khan to an IQ test during an interview on ITV. Senior White House people of this country.” Trump said he had spoken with British adviser Kellyanne Conway on Monday condemned what she Prime Minister Theresa May to express America’s “unwavering sup- called the media’s “obsession with covering everything he says on port” and offer US assistance as the British government works to Twitter and very little of what he does as president.” protect its citizens and bring the guilty to justice. British authori- In an appearance on NBC’s “Today Show,” Conway said people ties say that have identified the three attackers but have not Qatar in diplomatic storm should pay attention to what the president is doing, saying people revealed that information publicly. — AP Continued from Page 1 region’s busiest-also faced major potential problems after Saudi civil aviation authorities said the country’s airspace The Qatar Stock Exchange tumbled eight percent on would be closed to Qatari planes. Kuwait government sets KD 75 as minimum... opening and eventually closed down 7.58 percent. Riyadh Speaking in Sydney, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Continued from Page 1 GCC states is taking place on June 5, which marks the 50th said in a statement its measures were the result of “gross said he did not expect the announcement to have “any sig- anniversary of the Arab countries’ defeat in the 1967 war violations committed by authorities in Qatar”, accusing nificant impact... on the unified fight against terrorism.” He MP Waleed Al-Tabtabai said he was saddened with the against Israel. The lawmaker called for restraint. The Assembly Doha of harboring “terrorist and sectarian groups that aim encouraged Qatar and its neighbors to “sit down together”, developments among GCC states, adding that the Arab then approved the budgets and final accounts of 10 govern- to destabilize the region. adding that Washington was ready for “any role that we nation has two enemies: Israel and Iran. MP Abdulkarim Al- ment departments amid strong criticism of several bodies. can play” in helping to overcome divisions. Iran’s Foreign Kundari said Kuwait should not become a party in the con- Those bodies include Public Authority for Housing Welfare, Amir calls Qatar leader Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also urged Qatar and its flict and instead should preserve unity with our Gulf the Fire Department, Kuwait University, Public Authority for Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- neighbors to talk. “Neighbors are permanent; geography brethren. Youth and others. The Assembly meets again today until Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has urged Qatari Emir Sheikh can’t be changed. Coercion is never the solution. Dialogue MP Ali Al-Deqbasi regretted that the divisions among the Thursday to approve the state budget. Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani to exercise self-restraint and is imperative, especially during blessed Ramadan,” Zarif refrain from steps that would escalate the tension. His tweeted, referring to the Muslim month of fasting. Highness the Amir, in a phone call with the Qatari Emir, Moderation hoped Sheikh Tamim would give a chance to the efforts ‘Unprecedented tensions’ aimed at “containing the tension.” His Highness the Amir The crisis is the worst to hit Gulf Arab nations since the Continued from Page 1 ments that push us in one direction or the other. But God reiterated importance of bolstering common Gulf action to creation in 1981 of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) offers us a handle by which we can remain on course: the serve the “interests of the GCC countries”. grouping Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman And that is the correct religion.” (98:5) Although we should Quran and the living example of His Prophet, Muhammad and Qatar. There was no immediate word from Kuwait strive to perfect our conduct, faith and attitudes, Prophet (PBUH). With these handholds, we will safely reach our Flights cancelled and Oman yesterday on their ties with Qatar. Last week, Muhammad (PBUH) warned us against extremism when he goals. Economic consequences were already emerging, with the Qatari emir traveled to Kuwait to meet Amir Sheikh said, “Ruined are those who insist on hardship in matters of UAE carriers Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Air Arabia, as Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in what was widely seen as an religion. Ruined are those who insist on hardship in matters of Courtesy of the TIES Center, whose mission is to empower well as Saudi Airlines, announcing the suspension of all attempt at mediation by the Kuwaitis. “This certainly rep- religion. Ruined are those who insist on hardship in matters of Kuwait’s expats through social and educational services that flights to and from Qatar as of today morning. Egypt said it resents an unprecedented uptick in tensions within the religion.” (Muslim) This is not an editorial error or typo - he promote a positive and productive role in society, and to facili- would also suspend air links with Qatar from today and GCC,” said Adam Baron, visiting fellow at the European actually repeated it three times. tate opportunities for intra- and interfaith interactions that gave Doha’s ambassador 48 hours to leave the country. Council on Foreign Relations. “Qatar has long had an Sometimes adhering to moderation feels like walking a promote social solidarity. For more information, please call Qatar Airways said it had suspended all flights to Saudi independent streak that’s led to resentment from its tightrope, because it is easy to get off balance from the ele- 25231015/6 or e-mail: [email protected]. Arabia with immediate effect. The airline-one of the neighbors.” — Agencies TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 ANALYSIS

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Focus Will election call prove nightmare for Theresa May?

By Florence Biedermann

hen British Prime Minister Theresa May on April 18 called a snap general election, the smart Wmoney said she would be handed a crushing victory. May was deemed to have two massive advan- tages-the chance of portraying strong leadership for Brexit and, a rival, Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, scorned by many voters as weak and fumbling. In such light, May was predicted to see her slender majority of 17 in the 650-seat House of Commons surge, quite possibly to triple figures. But as the clock ticks down to polling day on Thursday, these expectations have become clouded by uncertainty. “She thought she was going to win com- fortably, easily, and without much effort. She has been disabused of that,” said Iain Begg, a professor of politics London terror attack: The victims at the London School of Economics (LSE). “She was expecting a very substantial increase in her majority. By Robin Millard unarmed London police officer who was having a drink tried to help a bouncer who was being attacked but was Anything short of 50 seats is going to look a very bad after work rushed to help but is now in hospital in a serious stabbed in the throat himself. The martial artist was wear- performance for her.” Campaign trail missteps and a bet- even people were killed in Saturday’s terror attack in condition, London police chief Cressida Dick said.”Without ing his British Lions shirt after watching the rugby match ter-than-expected performance by Corbyn have com- central London and 48 taken to hospital, including 21 hesitation, wearing his normal clothes, he dived in and on television and was filmed being led away from the bined to melt May’s commanding lead. Speople who were critically injured. Three attackers in tried to assist and I’m afraid was severely injured but utterly scene by a policeman, clutching his neck and with his shirt a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge before heroic,” she told BBC television. off. “Don’t know whether it was stupid or noble to jump in ‘Strong and stable’ going on a stabbing rampage in Borough Market. They A uniformed British Transport Police officer was one of and break up the fight outside the Southwark Tavern, but Now, with just a few days of campaigning left, she were shot dead by police. Those killed and wounded were the first on the scene after responding to calls for help from two a***s trying to do over the lone bouncer on the door may also face awkward questions about why Britain’s from countries around the world. Here is what we know the public. He was stabbed in the face, head and leg and isn’t happening on my watch,” he wrote on Facebook. security services seem unable to thwart a string of terror about the victims: taken to hospital but his injuries are not thought to be life- Sunday Express editor Martin Townsend said: “We are all attacks. In the past three months, three assaults in threatening. A further two London police officers were hoping and praying for a speedy recovery.” London and Manchester have killed 34 people and Canadian killed on bridge wounded: A plain clothes officer received stitches to a Oliver Dowling, 32, from Christchurch in New Zealand, injured more than 200 others. On Sunday, pollster Christine Archibald, a 30-year-old Canadian woman, died head injury and a uniformed officer sustained an arm was stabbed in the face, neck and stomach and his girl- Survation gave the ruling party just a one point lead in her fiance Tyler Ferguson’s arms after being hit by the van injury. Geoff Ho, a business editor at the Sunday Express friend was also injured, newspaper reports said. He was put over Labor on June 4. Another poll, released a few days newspaper, was outside the Southwark Tavern pub. He into a coma for four hours of surgery. — AFP earlier by YouGov, even suggested the Conservatives on London Bridge. “My baby brother lost the love of his life could fall short of a majority and require the support of on the London Bridge,” Cassie Ferguson Rowe wrote on another party to govern-a so-called hung parliament. Facebook. “In a split second his entire life was ripped away As last year’s referendum on Britain’s EU membership from him. Hearing his painful sobs on the phone while he’s showed, opinion polls can be hugely unreliable. Even alone trying to deal with this tears me apart.” Newspapers so, talk of how Labor might be wiped out in some said she was a charity worker. Archibald’s family said in a Brexit-backing seats has subsided, and some statement: “We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving Conservative campaigners are saying candidates are daughter and sister. She had room in her heart for everyone struggling on the doorstep. May’s mantra of “strong and and believed strongly that every person was to be valued stable leadership” as Brexit looms has been the center- and respected. “She lived this belief, working in a shelter for piece of the Conservatives’ campaign. But the monolith- the homeless until she moved to Europe to be with her ic image has cracked in the face of an embarrassing pol- fiance. “She would have had no understanding of the cal- icy U-turn and May’s starchy public manner. lous cruelty that caused her death.”

‘Liar, Liar’ French bistro worker May backtracked on a manifesto policy on capping A Frenchman was killed in the attack, Foreign Minister elderly social care, after a backlash from voters who Jean-Yves Le Drian said. The man has not yet been formally feared they would have to sacrifice their wealth as they named by officials or his family. He had family links in the aged. The tabloids stingingly called it a “dementia tax”. “It Brittany port town of Saint-Malo on the northwest French has affected perceptions,” Paul Howell, a Conservative coast but was not from the town himself, local mayor Claude candidate in northeast England, admitted to AFP after Renoult said. Local newspapers said the man lived in London the premier made a visit there last week. May has also and worked in Boro Bistro, a Breton-run restaurant in come under fire for refusing to join a head-to-head Borough Market. Flags in Saint-Malo are flying at half-mast. debate with Corbyn-and when she does address the pub- Le Drian said that in addition seven French nationals lic directly, has been accused of offering only pat slogans. were taken to hospital, four of whom were in a critical con- She has sought to steer debate towards the question dition, while another French national was unaccounted for. LONDON: People leave flowers at a police cordon in the London Bridge area of London yesterday in tribute to vic- of who is best suited to get Britain through the arduous ‘Heroic’ officer, journalist among wounded - An off-duty, tims of terror attack on London Bridge and the nearby Borough Market. —AFP negotiations for Brexit. May likes to contrast her six years’ experience as interior minister with Corbyn’s life- time of left-wing protest. But Brexit-for many a toxic and divisive issue-has featured far less in the campaign than UK election: What you need to know might have been expected. Instead, the biggest issues have been concerns By Robin Millard the Brexit talks. Each constituency is won party leaders, voters are not directly choos- tion must be held by June 2022 at the latest. about cuts to school funding and the overstretched on a first-past-the-post basis, meaning the ing their prime minister, only their local MP. National Health Service (NHS). Both heavily benefit arred by two terror attacks during candidate with the most votes in that seat A parliament is elected for a maximum of Voting Labor. Corbyn has promised a large increase in funding the campaign, Britain’s snap gener- becomes its MP. Despite the focus on the five years, meaning the next general elec- The polls are open from 7:00am (0600 for public services, paid for by higher taxes for the rich Mal election is set to go ahead on GMT) until 10:00pm (2100 GMT) on June 8. and for businesses-an antidote to seven years of Thursday and will decide who shapes the British, Irish and Commonwealth residents Conservative austerity. The state of the public services, United Kingdom’s future as it leaves the aged 18 and over can vote, plus British citizens and May’s U-turns, also feature heavily in a ska protest European Union. Conservative Prime What the polls say and Irish citizens from Northern Ireland living song, “Liar, Liar”, which reached number four in the UK Minister Theresa May, who came to power abroad who have been registered to vote in charts on Friday. without a national vote last year after ith just a few days to go until neck, suggesting neither party would be the UK within the last 15 years. Citizens must David Cameron’s resignation, called the Britain’s general election, opinion able to form a government alone. But the register to vote and voting is not compulsory. ‘Comfortable in his skin’ election three years early after just one Wpolls reveal the outcome could be Conservatives, who had been in a coali- Just a few months ago, more of their supporters year in charge. a lot tighter than had been predicted when tion government with the smaller Liberal The options backed May as prime minister than Corbyn, a veteran Prime Minister Theresa May announced the Democrat Party, secured a majority in the The main parties across the whole of socialist viewed as unelectable by a majority of his own Why is the election important? vote six weeks ago. Although surveys show 650-seat House of Commons. Britain are the Conservatives (centre-right), Labor MPs. But he has put in a number of assured per- The vote will determine who gets to the gap between the main two political A year later, polls also failed to correct- led by May, and Labour (left), led by Jeremy formances on television. “He has looked and sounded negotiate Britain’s departure from the EU parties narrowing, May’s position as prime ly predict the outcome of the Brexit refer- Corbyn, followed by the Liberal Democrats comfortable in his skin, in stark contrast to a prime min- over the next two years, and the strength minister seems secure. endum, expecting the “In” vote to win. (centre-left), the UK Independence Party ister who is brittle when she is not absent,” a Times of mandate that the government will have “One of the things that happened in (populist) and the Greens (left). The columnist observed. He is a divisive leader, however, and in parliament for five years. Britain’s new What the polls say 2015 is that the polls underestimated the Scottish Nationalists (left), Welsh national- some Labor candidates have said they are going out of leader will also have to deal with the after- May surprised the country in April by age difference in turnout,” John Curtice, ists Plaid Cymru (left) and four parties from their way not to mention his name to voters, stressing math of a terror rampage in a night-life hub calling for the snap election, seeking to professor of politics at Strathclyde Northern Ireland also won seats at the last their own credentials. As the election appears increas- in London on Saturday night, the third increase her majority before Britain University said. That underestimated general election in 2015. Polls suggest the ingly to be a two-horse race, smaller parties are being Islamist attack in the country in less than enters into two years of gruelling negoti- Conservative support among older vot- Conservatives are on course for victory. squeezed out-except in Scotland, where the nationalist three months. Britain takes a leading role in ations over its departure from the ers. Pollsters have therefore adjusted However, Labor might be able to form a SNP is expected to retain most of the 56 out of 59 seats it global anti-terror efforts and is a key mem- European Union.Polls initially supported their methodologies by widening their government with backing from smaller left- won in 2015. The smaller Liberal Democrats look on ber of the US-led coalition bombing Islamist her gamble, giving her Conservative pools of respondents, asking them more wing parties. The main issues are Brexit, ter- course to make little progress, despite presenting them- State group positions in Iraq and Syria. It Party a double-digit lead over its nearest questions and weighing the result with rorism, the state-run National Health selves as the main anti-Brexit party. —AFP holds veto power at the United Nations, rival, the main opposition Labour Party. high-quality academic research done Service, immigration and the economy, where it is one of the five permanent mem- However, the Conservatives’ advantage since the last election, explained Curtice. according to polls. Some 3,303 candidates bers of the Security Council along with has eroded over the campaign, with poll- Why are predictions so tough? are standing. A £500 deposit is required to China, France, Russia and the United States. ster Survation giving the ruling party just stand, which is refunded if candidates get All articles appearing on these pages are It is a NATO member with a nuclear a one point lead over Labour on June 4. Part of the reason is five percent of the votes cast. the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait weapons deterrent, the world’s fifth-biggest Another poll, released a few days earlier Britain’s electoral system. economy by gross domestic product and a by YouGov, even suggested the “There is no automatic relationship What happens afterwards? Times takes no responsibility for views member of the G7 group of leading indus- Conservatives could fall short of a majori- between votes cast at the national level The vote-counting begins immediately expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites trial powers and the wider G20. ty, meaning they would need the sup- and seats won,” because of the first-past- after the polls close and by dawn on June 9 port of another party to govern. the-post constituency system, Curtice the picture of who has won should be clear. readers to voice their opinions. Please send How does election work? said. The system makes it especially diffi- As soon as possible, the head of state, submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- There are 650 constituencies across the Can the polls be trusted? cult for smaller parties with support Queen Elizabeth II, asks the person most UK, meaning 326 MPs are needed for an Pollsters got the outcome of the last evenly spread nationally to increase their likely to command the confidence of the times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 absolute majority in parliament’s lower general election, held just two years ago, share of seats in parliament. But smaller Commons to become prime minister and Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right House of Commons. May had a slim work- very wrong. In the months leading up to parties whose support is concentrated in form and administration. This will typically ing majority of 17 at the dissolution of the the May 2015 ballot, polls consistently put key constituencies-such as the Scottish be the leader of the largest party and would to edit any submission as necessary. last parliament and called the election in a the Conservatives and Labor neck-and- Nationalist Party-can do very well. — AFP happen only once the likely nature of the bid to strengthen her position going into government is clear. — AFP p15_Layout 1 6/5/17 6:02 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 SPORTS

Berdych splits Scandal-hit BWF deputy FC Goa name Lobera with Ivanisevic president steps down as Zico replacement

PRAGUE: Tomas Berdych yesterday parted ways with coach Goran KUALA LUMPUR: The Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) deputy MUMBAI: Indian Super League side FC Goa announced yesterday that Ivanisevic, the former Wimbledon champion, in an effort to rescue his president has stepped down as he fights corruption allegations in his unheralded Spaniard Sergio Lobera would replace Brazilian legend Zico faltering career. Berdych, the Czech world number 14, only teamed up home country of Peru, a statement said yesterday. Gustavo Salazar as their new head coach. The ISL team said that 40-year-old Lobera, with Ivanisevic in August last year. However, a second round exit at the Delgado, the sport’s number two official behind president Poul-Erik who recently coached Moroccan side Moghreb Tetouan, had French Open prompted the 31-year-old to seek a new direction. “Goran Hoyer, asked to be “excused from his duties”, the BWF said. “In his com- signed a two-year deal and would take up his role in July. and I will not be working together anymore,” Berdych wrote on munication to BWF, Salazar indicated he would step aside for the time “I see FC Goa as the ideal step in my career and hope to Facebook. “I enjoyed the ride and we will remain great friends.” “Wish being so as not to cause any reputational or undue damage to the BWF achieve the best results for the club,” Lobera said in the him all the best in the future and I am committed to go after my goals while the investigation is in progress,” the Kuala Lumpur-based body club’s press release. In 2012 Lobera was briefly an with current team,” said Berdych, who bowed out of Roland said. The BWF said the accusations against Salazar related to “personal assistant to the late Tito Vilanova at Spanish giants Garros after a straight sets loss to Russian youngster Karen business matters” and are entirely unrelated to badminton and Salazar’s Barcelona before leaving to take charge of Las Palmas. Khachanov. Ivanisevic previously coached fellow Croat role as BWF deputy president”. Various reports said Salazar, 52, was Zico was head coach of Goa for the ISL’s first three sea- Marin Cilic, a partnership which yielded the US Open title under investigation over a bribery and money-laundering case linked to sons before leaving at the end of the last cam- in 2014. And Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon finalist, hired Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. Bribery scandals linked to paign. The ISL is a franchise-based tournament Ivanisevic in August 2016 with a view to a first-ever Grand Odebrecht have swept up scores of Brazilian politicians and span sever- whose club owners are largely Bollywood film Slam title. He won the Shenzhen Open under Ivanisevic’s al Latin American countries. In April, a federal court in New York fined stars and cricketers. The season takes place guidance in October, but soon slipped out of the top ten for Odebrecht $2.6 billion, part of what US authorities describe as a one of towards the end of the year and lasts around the first time in more than six years. — AFP the largest-ever corporate settlements for international bribery. —AFP three months. —AFP

PREVIEW Coach Gatland urges Lions to get creative

WELLINGTON: Coach Warren Gatland has starter in Whangarei-on the bench. given the British and Irish Lions free rein to “We have a few work-ons from last express themselves under new captain Ken weekend and we know we need to be Owens as he seeks a much improved per- more clinical,” Gatland said. formance against the Auckland Blues “We created some good opportunities tomorrow. against the Barbarians but didn’t see them Gatland was not impressed by what he through and that is something we want to saw during the Lions’ first fixture, a 13-7 improve on.” Owens was unavailable for win over a team of relatively unknown New the tour opener because of the ankle injury Zealanders lumped together under a which also kept him out of the Scarlets’ Provincial Barbarians banner. Pro12 final win against Munster last month. The Blues, with eight All Blacks in their But Gatland said he was fit to take over ranks, may be the weakest New Zealand from tour captain Sam Warburton for what Super Rugby side but they will be a more will be the Lions’ first test against a Super formidable opposition than the Barbarians. Rugby team. Gatland, when he named his all-new “We have stated from the off that we line-up to play the Blues, said he was look- want to give every player a start in the first ing for players with “ X-factor and that three games, and Wednesday is an oppor- means an offload or something that is a lit- tunity for this set of players to show what tle bit outside the box”. they can do in a Lions jersey,” Gatland said. He has totally overhauled the starting “We have made 15 changes to the start- XV from the Barbarians game, including ing XV and we are excited to see what this giving the captaincy to a fit-again Wales team is able to do against the Blues.” hooker Owens. Jared Payne, a late scratching from the While he said the Lions “need to be Barbarians because of a thigh injury, will more clinical”, Gatland rejected suggestions also start, partnering Ireland team-mate they will play to a set formula. Robbie Henshaw in the centres. “What do you mean by one type of Lions (15-1): Leigh Halfpenny (Wales); game?” he responded when asked if he had Jack Nowell (England), Jared Payne only one coaching style-the familiar Wales (Ireland), Robbie Henshaw (Ireland), Elliot physical direct play. Daly (England); Dan Biggar (Wales), Rhys “The message to the players is that we Webb (Wales); CJ Stander (Ireland), Justin want to play positive rugby and move the Tipuric (Wales), James Haskell (England); ball and create chances,” he said. Courtney Lawes (England), Maro Itoje “The players have to back their ability. (England); Dan Cole (England), Ken Owens We don’t want to be prescribed and play by (captain, Wales), Jack McGrath (Ireland) numbers. They have been encouraged to Replacements: Rory Best (Ireland), demonstrate their level of skill and hope- Joe Marler (England), Kyle Sinckler fully we can do that on Wednesday.” (England), Iain Henderson (Ireland), Peter PARIS: Toulon’s Daniel Johannes Vermeulen is tackled by Clermont’s Arthur Iturria during the Top 14 finalrugby match between Clermont Wales pair Dan Biggar and Rhys Webb O’Mahony (Ireland), Greig Laidlaw Ferrand against Toulon at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, Sunday. — AP will fill the crucial halves roles, with Ireland (Scotland), Johnny Sexton (Ireland), Liam fly-half Johnny Sexton-an unimpressive Williams (Wales). —AFP RUGBY Toulon flop Goromaru Clermont win Top 14 to set to return to Japan TOKYO: Japan’s Rugby World Cup star Goromaru enjoys a cult following back put chokers tag to bed Ayumu Goromaru will return to Japanese in Japan, where life-size statues of the play- Top League side Yamaha Jubilo after a frus- er are sculpted, zoo animals are named trating spell at French Top 14 club Toulon, after him and he has even been made a PARIS: Clermont finally held firm when it Clermont were playing with a zest and to within three points but a Parra penalty the full-back said yesterday. “ninja master”. mattered most, beating Toulon 22-16 in Paris intensity that Toulon simply couldn’t manage made it 16-10 at the break. Clermont had The 31-year-old, who played just a Despite his celebrity status, however, on Sunday to win the French Top 14 final. but New Zealand great Nonu managed to scored a combined 59 points to 15 in the handful of games in France since making Goromaru struggled in Super Rugby and Having lost 11 of 12 previous finals, Clermont stem the yellow tide with a crucial intercep- last two meetings between these sides but his Toulon debut last November, also subsequently in France, departing with had earned the unwanted monicker of peren- tion off Parra inside the Toulon 22. Barring an Toulon were a different proposition this announced on his official website that his club president Mourad Boudjellal’s com- nial “chokers”. But Morgan Parra kicked 17 Anthony Belleau penalty, all the team in red time. It was a brutal game with Clermont contract would begin on July 1. ments ringing in his ears. points as the favourites delivered for once could manage in attacking terms were some locks Sitaleki Timani and Arthur Iturria both “Unfortunately I wasn’t able to achieve “We don’t want him either,” the outspo- after so many disappointments, including los- testing up-and-unders for full-back forced off following head knocks, leaving the results I wanted in France,” said ken businessman told RMC Sport. “We ing European Champions Cup finals to Toulon Abendanon. That was until a reckless high Fijian back rower Peceli Yato to come on in Goromaru. “After a year and a half challeng- won’t be keeping him, he doesn’t want to in 2013 and 2015, and Saracens earlier last tackle from Clermont No.8 Fritz Lee knocked an unfamiliar position. ing myself overseas I will return home and stay.” Current Japan coach Jamie Joseph month. Two years ago, they were also beaten Australian full-back James O’Connor uncon- Belleau and Parra traded penalties and the go into the season with refreshed spirits has expressed his frustration at not having and a new attitude.” the likes of Goromaru playing in Japan. Top 14 finalists by Stade Francais. “I’m proud, scious. Samoan Lee was perhaps a touch former could have levelled the scores but saw Goromaru shot to fame at the 2015 The Brave Blossoms missed a step after we’ve had some years of struggle but I’m lucky to be shown only a yellow card but two penalties hit the uprights. World Cup when Japan, then coached by their swashbuckling World Cup campaign, proud of everyone-the players, the fans, no- Clermont were soon made to pay. Toulon’s rugged, relentless power play was current England boss Eddie Jones, won their momentum stalling because of delays one ever gave up,” Parra told France South African prop Marcel van der Merwe starting to wear down Clermont and a Francis three matches, including an astonishing in bringing in a successor to Jones. Televisions. Coach Franck Azema added: “This made ground up the middle and quick ball Trinh-Duc penalty nine minutes from time had 34-32 shock over two-time champions When Joseph eventually took over, he team deserves it. On that last (Toulon) line- spread wide allowed the bulldozing Tuisova them back to within three points. But these South Africa in their opening game. complained that the team’s blueprints for out, honestly, we thought we’d lose out again. to take revenge on Raka, flattening his coun- were not the Clermont chokers of old and Japan’s talisman moved to Australia to their dazzling run at the England tourna- “It was really tough but so good and intense tryman in contact and then holding off a Parra responded immediately with a kick of his play Super Rugby for the Queensland Reds ment were lost and that he was forced to that you quickly forget it.” Having played scin- double tackle from Penaud and Abendanon own before the yellow shirted warriors held after impressing at the World Cup, but his start from scratch. tillating first half rugby, without getting the to touch down in the corner. Belleau’s con- out close to their own line as Toulon launched season was prematurely cut short by a Japan host the next World Cup in 2019, reward their dominance deserved, Clermont version from the flank brought Toulon back one last-ditch attack, but in vain. —AFP shoulder injury. the first to take place in Asia. —AFP doggedly held firm in the second period as Toulon, beaten finalists last year by Racing 92, came storming back. “Two years in a row where we come up short at the same stage- Wallabies ‘ready for the fight’ European Cup quarter-finals and league final, it’s tough to swallow. We’re going to have to to restore morale: Cheika pick ourselves up,” admitted Toulon captain Guilhem Guirado. After an immaculately- SYDNEY: Coach Michael Cheika has vowed we’ve got to enjoy the challenge as well... and respected minute’s silence in memory of the the Wallabies will lift the spirits of the get stuck into it. “I’m a strong and passionate victims of Saturday’s London attack, Clermont Australian game amid a demoralising Super believer in rugby in this country. Yeah, there’s Rugby campaign in this week’s start to the some tough times on and off the field but it’s made a blistering start and only a knock-on international Test season. what you get from those and how you by captain Damien Chouly a yard from the Australian rugby is in the doldrums with respond.” Cheika added that Australian rugby line prevented them from opening their its five franchises struggling and one, as yet fans were looking to the Wallabies to put account early doors. unnamed, facing the axe when Super Rugby things right on the field. reverts to 15 teams next season form the cur- “We’ve got to play with a certain attitude ZEST AND INTENSITY rent 18. New Zealand teams are currently that says we’re here for the fight,” he said. Toulon were restricted to some desperate, unbeaten in their 23 Super Rugby matches “The Australian team will be playing with last-ditch-and at times barely legal-defending against Australian opposition this year. no fear and having been well prepared to go with one Ma’a Nonu tackle resembling a Cheika said Sunday the Wallabies’ first five out there and have that positive mindset.” shoulder charge. Under pressure, Toulon col- Tests of 2017 were going to be “like Everest While Cheika believed that Australia had lapsed a scrum and Parra kicked a sixth for us”, but added that the players were ready “punched above our weight so far... even to minute penalty to give Clermont the lead. for the fight. be where we are now-third in the world”, he On 10 minutes, Clermont held firm against Super Rugby takes a back seat for the next wanted to set the team’s sights even higher a wave of battering Toulon attacks before three weeks as the Wallabies take on Fiji, ahead of the 2019 World Cup in Japan. Nick Abendanon ripped the ball from Romain Scotland and Italy at home. Also ahead in “But maybe we’ve been satisfied at that Taofifenua’s grasp and the Jaunards launched August is the Bledisloe Cup, which Australia level instead of going to the next step. You a counter from deep inside their own 22. has not been able to win back from the All got to start believing and dreaming that. “For Damian Penaud did brilliantly with a mazy Blacks since 2002. the next generation of players, that’s the run to scamper 50 metres upfield before “These first five games of our season, the mindset we want to put in their head.” passing to Fijian wing Alivereti Raka, who three June Tests and the two Bledisloe Cup The Wallabies kick off their 2017 interna- matches, are going to be like an Everest for tional campaign against Fiji in Melbourne on hitch-kicked and side-stepped inside compa- PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hand with Clermont’s Peceli us,” Cheika said on the Australian Saturday, followed by Tests against Scotland Yato as he kneels before him the Top 14 final rugby match between Clermont triot Josua Tuisova before strolling under the Broadcasting Corporation’s Offsiders pro- in Sydney on June 17 and Italy in Brisbane on Ferrand against Toulon at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, posts. Parra converted and added a second gramme. “We’ve got to be fully prepared and June 24. — AFP Sunday. — AP penalty to give the Vulcans a 13-0 lead. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 SPORTS

SAN DIEGO: Colorado Rockies’ DJ LeMahieu, right, slides in late to home and is tagged out by San Diego Padres catcher Austin Hedges during the fourth inning of a baseball game Sunday, in San Diego. — AP

BASEBALL Astros beat Rangers to register 10th win in a row

ARLINGTON: George Springer hit two of hitter Jon Jay drove in the go-ahead run in BLUE JAYS 3, YANKEES 2 consecutive conversions to start a season. drove in four runs and Eduardo Nunez also Houston’s four home runs as the Astros the seventh with a single as the Chicago Justin Smoak hit a tying two-run homer Hunter Renfroe hit his 11th homer for San connected for San Francisco, which has lost matched their state rival for the longest Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals to com- off Luis Severino in the sixth inning while Diego and Jarred Cosart (0-2) allowed three seven of 10. winning streak in the major leagues this plete a three-game sweep. Happ staked Josh Donaldson homered against Tyler runs and six hits in four-plus innings. season at 10 games, beating the Texas Chicago to a 6-4 lead with a solo homer in Clippard (0-3) in the eighth as Toronto BREWERS 3, DODGERS 0 Rangers 7-2 on Sunday. The Astros scored in the third and a three-run drive in the fourth gained a four-game split despite going 0 for BRAVES 13, REDS 8 Zach Davies (6-3) pitched three-hit ball all four innings pitched by Martin Perez (2-6) against Michael Wacha. Jay, batting for 24 in the series with runners in scoring posi- Ender Inciarte tied his career high with into the seventh inning while Eric Thames and tied a club record from 1989 with their reliever Pedro Strop (2-2), broke a 6-6 tie tion Matt Holliday hit an RBI double in the five hits and drove in a career-high five runs. hit his 15th homer as Milwaukee averted a 10th straight road win. Houston’s first sweep with his two-out single off Matt Bowman (1- fourth off Marcus Stroman and a run-scor- Atlanta set a season high for runs. Danny three-game series sweep. Corey Knebel of Texas since July 2014 dropped the 2) in the seventh. Anthony Rizzo had three ing double-play grounder in the sixth. Joe Santana had four hits and three RBIs, includ- struck out the side in the ninth around a Rangers to 3-11 since their 10-game streak. hits and scored the go-ahead run as the Smith (2-0) struck out two in a perfect ing his first home run since being acquired walk for his fifth save. Kenta Maeda (4-3) Defending AL West champion Texas (26-31) Cubs (28-27) moved back over .500 with eighth and Roberto Osuna pitched a 1-2-3 from Minnesota on May 8 and Matt Adams threw 92 pitches in working just four is 15 games behind the division-leading their 10th home win in 12 games. Stephen ninth for his 13th save. homered for the third time in two games. innings, allowing two runs and two hits. Astros, who have the major leagues’ best Piscotty hit a three-run homer in the fourth Cincinnati lost for the fifth time in six record at 41-16 - and six wins in seven off Kyle Hendricks. The Cardinals tied it with MARLINS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 5 games. Zack Cozart homered twice and INDIANS 8, ROYALS 0 games against the Rangers. two in the sixth against Hector Rondon, A.J. Ellis hit a tiebreaking single on the drove in five runs but Amir Garrett (3-4) Roberto Perez and Daniel Robertson hit only to lose for the eighth time in 11 games. 14th pitch of an at-bat against Archie gave up nine runs and seven hits over 2 2/3 two-run doubles off Eric Skoglund (0-1) in TIGERS 7, WHITE SOX 4 Bradley in the seventh. Tyler Moore hit a innings in his first start since May 23 after the second inning before a 1-hour, 50- Justin Upton hit a game-ending, three- NATIONALS 11, ATHLETICS 10 three-run homer and Derek Dietrich had a being sidelined with right hip inflammation. minute rain delay in the bottom half. Dan run homer as Detroit overcame Justin Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking three- pair of sacrifice flies for Miami, which fin- Otero (1-0) replaced Cleveland starter Verlander’s groin injury to beat the Chicago run homer in the eighth inning, sending the ished an 8-2 homestand. Nick Wittgren (1-0) PIRATES 11, METS 1 Trevor Bauer after the delay and allowed White Sox for a sweep of their weekend Nationals to the victory. Matt Wieters and got two outs around a walk in the seventh. David Freese drove in three runs, includ- one hit over 2 1/3 innings to earn his first series. Nicholas Castellanos was hit by a pitch Michael Taylor added back-to-back homers A.J. Ramos pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to remain ing an RBI single. Andrew McCutchen hit a win since Sept. 22, when he also got the from David Robertson (3-2), and second off Frankie Montas during Washington’s perfect in eight save chances. three-run homer, got three hits and scored decision in relief against Kansas City. Jason baseman Yolmer Sanchez then misplayed a five-run ninth, helping the NL East leaders three times to back rookie Trevor Williams Kipnis homered and drove in two for the potential double-play ball and was only able improve to 5-1 on their nine-game West ROCKIES 3, PADRES 1 (3-3), who gave up one run in a career-high Indians. Robertson finished with three RBIs. to get Miguel Cabrera at first. J.D. Martinez Coast trip. But the Nationals nearly blew an Jeff Hoffman cruised through seven seven innings. Freese and Francisco Cervelli was intentionally walked, and Upton hit his 11-4 lead in the ninth, highlighting their innings for Colorado while Trevor Story had each had three hits. The Pirates turned four TWINS 3, ANGELS 2 11th homer. Martinez also connected for the continued trouble with closing out games. two hits and two RBIs. Hoffman (3-0) struck double plays and took two of three at Citi A video review overturned Ben Revere’s Tigers, who have won four straight. Justin Koda Glover allowed the first five batters to out nine after being called up from the Field, their first road series win since late stolen base and changed the call to a Wilson (3-1) pitched a scoreless inning. Todd reach before he was replaced by Shawn minors to fill in for Tyler Anderson, sidelined April in Miami. caught stealing for the final out with the Frazier led off the third with his eighth Kelley, who surrendered a grand slam by by a left knee injury. The rookie right-han- replay determining he overslid second as homer, lifting the White Sox to a 2-0 lead, Matt Joyce with one out. Kelley then retired der allowed a run and San Diego’s only RED SOX 7, ORIOLES 3 shortstop Ehire Adrianza tagged him on his and Verlander left after a four-pitch walk. the next two batters for his fourth save in six three hits as Colorado took three of four in Chris Sale (7-2) struck out nine in six left foot. Miguel Sano hit a go-ahead, two- tries. Chris Davis had three hits and two RBIs the series. Greg Holland pitched the ninth innings to win his sixth straight decision as run homer in the sixth Ricky Nolasco (2-6), CUBS 7, CARDINALS 6 for Oakland, including his 17th homer. for his major league-leading 21st save in 21 Boston split the four-game series. Andrew who lost his fourth straight start. Revere’s Ian Happ hit two homers before pinch chances, extending his franchise record for Benintendi had his first multihomer game. RBI single in the fourth off Jose Berrios (4-1) Boston broke a sixth-inning tie by scoring had given the Angels a 2-1 lead. Brandon two unearned runs on a throwing error by Kintzler pitched the ninth for his 15th save catcher Francisco Pena, and Benintendi’s second homer made it 6-3 in the seventh. MARINERS 7, RAYS 1 Ariel Miranda (6-2) pitched a four-hitter, PHILLIES 9, GIANTS 7 struck out a career-high nine and walked Maikel Franco hit a tiebreaking solo one in his first big league complete game as homer in the eighth off Derek Law (3-1) and Seattle finished a series sweep. Nelson Cruz Freddy Galvis homered from both sides of hit a two-run homer and Mike Zunino the plate. Odubel Herrera also went deep as picked up two more RBIs in Seattle’s sev- Philadelphia earned its first series victory in enth win in eight games. Jarrod Dyson also six weeks. Brandon Crawford homered and drove in two runs. — AP

MLB results/standings

Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 6; Colorado 3, San Diego 1; Seattle 7, Tampa Bay 1; Washington 11, Oakland 10; Minnesota 3, LA Angels 2; Houston 7, Texas 2; Cleveland 8, Kansas City 0; Milwaukee 3, LA Dodgers 0; Boston 7, Baltimore 3; Philadelphia 9, San Francisco 7; Miami 6, Arizona 5; Atlanta 13, Cincinnati 8; Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 4; Pittsburgh 11, NY Mets 1; Toronto 3, NY Yankees 2. American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Washington 35 20 .636 - NY Yankees 32 22 .593 - Atlanta 24 30 .444 10.5 Boston 31 25 .554 2 NY Mets 24 31 .436 11 Baltimore 29 26 .527 3.5 Miami 24 31 .436 11 Tampa Bay 29 30 .492 5.5 Philadelphia 19 35 .352 15.5 Toronto 28 29 .491 5.5 Central Division Central Division Milwaukee 30 27 .526 - Minnesota 29 24 .547 - Chicago Cubs 28 27 .509 1 Cleveland 29 26 .527 1 Detroit 28 28 .500 2.5 St. Louis 26 28 .481 2.5 Kansas City 24 31 .436 6 Pittsburgh 26 31 .456 4 Chicago White Sox 24 31 .436 6 Cincinnati 25 30 455 4

Western Division Western Division Houston 41 16 .719 - Colorado 36 23 .610 - LA Angels 29 31 .483 13.5 LA Dodgers 35 23 .603 0.5 Seattle 28 30 .483 13.5 Arizona 34 25 .576 2 Texas 26 31 .456 15 San Francisco 23 35 .397 12.5 MIAMI: Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Daniel Descalso (3) leaps over Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon (9) after tagging the base for Oakland 24 32 .429 16.5 San Diego 23 35 .397 12.5 an out as he attempts a double play during the eighth inning of a baseball game, in Miami. — AP TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 SPORTS Warner says ‘no contracts, can’t play’ in CA dig

SYDNEY: Vice-captain David Warner has on the front foot, claiming the governing “It is only what we hear in the media that he remains hopeful a new But the ACA is equally resolved to keep attacked Cricket Australia’s handling of a body had prosecuted its argument prima- and that’s how CA have been driving it Memorandum of Understanding can be revenue-sharing, saying the system does pay dispute and once again raised the rily through media briefings. “If we are the whole way,” he said. struck between now and June 30. not need fixing. ithW no end in sight to the spectre of an Ashes series boycott by play- unemployed, we have no contracts, we “They have been using the media as a “It is a big thing that we could be impasse, the ACA has disclosed plans to ers later this year. The feisty opener has can’t play,” he told Fairfax Media Monday voice and we get the message from there.” unemployed, but from us, our job is to form a new business to help male and not backed away from claims he made in England at the Champions Trophy. “We Warner again pledged his “full support” to play cricket, focus on winning the female players directly negotiate sponsor- last month of a potential players’ strike are pretty sure that they will come to an fellow players and affirmed he is “100 per- (Champions Trophy) tournament and not ship deals. Establishing “The Cricketers’ during the showpiece home series agreement. But, as you know, we are cent” behind the Australian Cricketers’ let our country down,” he said. Brand”, designed to manage and commer- against England, starting in November. going to be unemployed come July 1. So Association (ACA). “They are doing a great CA is determined to scrap revenue- cialise player’s intellectual property (IP) CA has threatened not to pay contract- we have to wait and see.” Warner said job for us,” he said of the players’ union’s sharing after 20 years, saying more funds rights, was necessary due to “the uncer- ed players beyond the June 30 expiry of beyond “a couple of emails” CA manage- efforts in the dispute. were needed for the game’s grassroots, tainty of all parties regarding IP matters their current financial deal if they do not ment had not engaged with its contract- “From a players’ point of view, we are and that the offer it has on the table pro- should the players be unemployed post accept a new offer. But Warner has gone ed players. pretty vocal and upbeat.” Warner added vided handsomely for players. June 30,” it recently said. —AFP

PREVIEW Steven Finn eager to seize Champions Trophy chance

BIRMINGHAM: England fast bowler Steven little bit frustrating.” England’s Joe Root, Finn hopes to make the most of his late another of the world’s leading batsmen, call-up to Champions Trophy duty when made a century too in his first innings of the tournament hosts face New Zealand in the tournament against Bangladesh. But Cardiff on Tuesday. Finn was left out of while the sometimes excitable Root can be England’s original squad for a tournament goaded into error, Williamson rarely looks featuring the world’s top eight one-day anything other than serene at the crease. international teams. But the 28-year-old “He’s arguably the calmest man alive,” said Middlesex quick was recalled Sunday after New Zealand seamer Trent Boult of pace bowling all-rounder Chris Woakes Williamson. broke down with a side strain after during “He gets more flustered on what to wear England’s opening eight-wicket win over on a dinner date with his missus than he Bangladesh at the Oval on Thursday. “It’s does on the field.” always frustrating when you are left out of The last time these two sides met in a squads, but you have to roll with the 50-over International Cricket Council event, punches,” Finn told reporters in Cardiff on New Zealand inflicted a humiliating eight- Sunday. “If you get too down-hearted it wicket defeat upon England in Wellington can affect you more. “I just focused on during the 2015 World Cup. Not content keeping my head up and fighting my way with dismissing England for 123, the back into the team.” Blackcaps raced to their target in a mere He added: “It’s obviously very sad for 12.2 overs, with then skipper Brendon Chris Woakes, who is a good friend of mine, McCullum hitting 77 off just 25 balls, but I am glad that I’ve got the call.” including seven sixes. Finn could well go straight into One consolation for England is that England’s XI in Cardiff if, as happened McCullum has since retired from interna- against Bangladesh, they opt to play just tional cricket. the one spinner. He sealed his return to Today’s match takes place against the international duty on the back of taking backdrop of a terror attack in London on two wickets in front of the selectors for the Saturday that killed seven people and second-string England Lions in a 144-run injured dozens more England pacemen win over South Africa A at Northampton on Mark Wood and Liam Plunkett had to Saturday. head down to Cardiff by bus after their cars were parked in a police exclusion zone near BIRMINGHAM: India’s Yuvraj Singh bats during the ICC Champions Trophy match between India and Pakistan at Edgbaston in Birmingham, ‘PRESSURE’ their London hotel. England, Sunday. — AP “I knew James Whitaker and Mick Finn insisted England were determined Newell were there watching me,” said Finn. to play on following terror attacks that CRICKET “You feel that pressure, I suppose, knowing have struck both Manchester and London they’re watching you to call you up for this in the past two weeks, amid security re- game. “But that is no different from every assurance from the International Cricket time I pull on an England or Lions shirt.” Council. “We have been briefed on how we New Zealand endured a frustrating are going to be protected, so we’re very Kohli and Yuvraj lead washout in their Group A opener against comfortable that there is a ring of steel Australia when seemingly well-placed for around us and everyone who is in the victory. “The nature of this tournament is ground will be safe,” said Finn. that every game is basically knockout,” said “We are obviously sad about it, and send India rout of Pakistan New Zealand captain Kane Williamson our condolences to those affected by it. It is whose superb hundred was ultimately a sorry state of affairs. trumped by the rain. “But we will keep playing cricket and be BIRMINGHAM: India captain Virat Kohli and “We played some good cricket and we defiant in the face of it and hope to put a Yuvraj Singh made Pakistan pay for fluffing SCOREBOARD can’t control the weather, although it is a smile on people’s faces here today.” — AFP catches with quickfire fifties as the holders launched their Champions Trophy title- BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Completed scoreboard in the Group B Champions Trophy match between India defence with a 124-run thrashing of their and Pakistan at Edgbaston on Sunday: Pakistan overhaul urged arch-rivals at Edgbaston on Sunday. After India Babar Azam c Jadeja b Yadav 8 India made 319 for three in 48 overs, the R. Sharma run out (Babar Azam/Sarfraz Ahmed) 91 Mohammad Hafeez c Kumar b Jadeja 33 third rain stoppage of the match left Pakistan S. Dhawan c Azhar Ali b Shadab Khan 68 Shoaib Malik run out (Jadeja) 15 after ‘shameful defeat’ with a revised target of 289 in 41 overs when V. Kohli not out 81 Sarfraz Ahmed c Dhoni b Pandya 15 play resumed in bright sunshine. Yuvraj Singh lbw b Hasan Ali 53 Imad Wasim c Jadhav b Pandya 0 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan faced calls for a total turies-including captain Virat Kohli’s 81 — But Pakistan, rarely up with the stiff run- H. Pandya not out 20 Shadab Khan not out 14 overhaul yesterday after slumping to a before Pakistan, chasing a rain-revised tar- rate, finished on 164, with injured last man Extras (lb2, w2, nb2) 6 Mohammad Amir c Jadhav b Yadav 9 “shameful defeat” against arch-rivals India get of 289 in 41 overs, stumbled to 164 in Total (3 wkts, 48 overs) 319 Hasan Ali c Dhawan b Yadav 0 Wahab Riaz unable to bat as India won with at the Champions Trophy in England. 33.4 overs. India have never lost to Pakistan Did not bat: MS Dhoni, K Jadhav, R Jadeja, B Kumar, U Wahab Riaz absent hurt - The highly anticipated match at in 11 World Cup and World Twenty20 meet- 44 balls to spare. Kohli, who on Saturday had Yadav, J Bumrah Extras (lb2, w6) 8 Edgbaston proved anti-climactic as ings over the years. They have not suc- dismissed reports of a rift with India coach Fall of wickets: 1-136 (Dhawan), 2-192 (Sharma), 3-285 Total (all out, 33.4 overs) 164 (Yuvraj) Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Shehzad), 2-61 (Babar), 3-91 Pakistan were thrashed by 124 runs, cumbed since the Asia Cup in March 2014. Anil Kumble, was equally contemptuous of Pakistan’s attack during a blistering innings Bowling: Amir 8.1-1-32-0; Wasim 9.1-0-66-0 (1w); Ali 10- (Azhar), 4-114 (Shoaib), 5-131 (Hafeez), 6-135 (Wasim), 7- extending their winless streak against India The Indian Express called the triumph 0-70-1 (1nb); Riaz 8.4-0-87-0 (1nb, 1w); Shadab 10-0-52- 151 (Sarfraz), 8-164 (Amir), 9-164 (Hasan) to three years. the “Mother of all Mismatches”, while The of 81 not out off just 68 balls that included 1; Shoaib 2-0-10-0 Bowling: Kumar 5-1-23-1 (2w); Yadav 7.4-1-30-3 (1w); While Indian media rejoiced in the Times of India said it was an “Opening six fours and three sixes. Left-hander Yuvraj, Bumrah 5-0-23-0; “Mother of all Mismatches”, Pakistan news- Statement” by the reigning title-holders. named man-of-the-match for his game- Pakistan (revised target: 289 in 41 overs) Pandya 8-0-43-2 (3w); Jadeja 8-0-43-2; papers held nothing back in their criticism. The Hindu headlined with “India knocks changing innings, smashed a rapid 53 while Azhar Ali c Pandya b Jadedja 50 Result: India won by 124 runs (DLS method) “Pakistan suffers shameful defeat at the the stuffing out of Pakistan”, and said the helping Kohli add 93 for the third wicket in Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Kumar 12 Man-of-the-match: Yuvraj Singh (IND) hands of India in Champions Trophy, Green recent cricketing rivalry between the two just 59 balls. Shirts fail in every department,” said Jang, neighbours was “anything but competitive”. That was not the end of the run spree, Pakistan’s highest-circulation newspaper. “India’s batsmen pounded Pakistan into with Hardik Pandya hitting sixes off the first killed seven people. round at long-off, dropped the two-handed Former captain Shahid Afridi was the ground,” The Hindu article said. Cricket three balls of left-arm spinner Imad Wasim’s Sharma was fortunate on 21 to edge Amir catch off Shadab. Hasan eventually had among several ex-players to call for a major writer Osman Samiuddin slammed last over of the innings. India smashed 72 off just beyond the grasp of diving slip Azhar Ali. Yuvraj lbw on review but it was all too late. shake-up in the wake of the humiliating Pakistan’s demoralising loss, suggesting their final four overs as Pakistan’s attack wilt- Pakistan were donated a wicket, however, Kohli had made 43 when he was missed by defeat. “The gap between Indian and they were not up to the challenge. “India ed. Rohit Sharma (91) and Shikhar Dhawan when Dhawan hoisted a full toss from substitute Fahim Ashraf who grassed a top- Pakistani teams is bigger than ever! India arguably didn’t get out of 3rd gear and still (68) laid the platform for a big total with an teenage leg-spinner Shadab Khan straight to edged hook off Wahab. has evolved & we are way behind now,” he never looked like doing anything other opening stand of 136. “I got lucky and got Azhar at deep midwicket. Sharma went 43 A blizzard of boundaries followed, with said on his Twitter account. “We need to than winning v v comfortably,” he wrote on dropped and I capitalised,” said Yuvraj at the balls without a boundary in the face of tight Kohli flat-batting Hasan down the ground for overhaul approach, mindset & work on Twitter. Others used humour to cushion presentation ceremony. Meanwhile an Pakistan bowling before cover-driving and six to complete his fifty. Pakistan opener improving our stagnating skills and play the blow. “Pakistan got its tactics wrong admiring Kohli, one of the world’s leading pulling Wahab for a four and a six off succes- Azhar make exactly 50 before he was caught with clear minds.” Hundreds of millions of today imo, the way to stop India from get- sive deliveries. at deep square leg by Hardik Pandya off left- fans in the cricket-mad neighbouring coun- ting to 300 was to bat first and be bowled batsmen, said of Yuvraj: “I felt like a club bat- ter next to him. He’s a game changer with But eyeing what would have been his arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja to leave his side tries tuned in to watch Sunday’s game. out for 150,” wrote social media user 11th ODI hundred, Sharma was run out when in trouble at 91 for three. India’s top four batsmen all scored half-cen- Haseeb Asif. —AFP the bat.” Mohammad Amir was the pick of he just failed to beat Babar Azam’s throw to No member of India’s attack leaked runs Pakistan’s attack with none for 32 in 8.1 Sarfraz after Kohli’s call for one. the way Wahab had done, with paceman overs. But fellow left-arm fast bowler Wahab Sharma’s 119-ball innings included two Umesh Yadav, who took three for 30 in 7.4 was hugely expensive, his wicketless 8.4 sixes and seven fours. Yuvraj should have overs, ending the match when he dismissed overs costing 87 runs. been out for eight but Hasan Ali, sliding Hasan for a duck. —AFP Wahab’s day was summed up when he was unable to complete his ninth over after Champions Trophy table falling awkwardly in his delivery stride. Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed said he had “no regrets” over his decision to field first. BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Champions Trophy table after the Group B match between India and Pakistan at Edgbaston on Sunday (played, won, lost, tied, no result, points, net run-rate): ‘LOST THE PLOT’ Group A Pakistan 1 0 1 0 0 0 -3.02 “We were in control for 40 overs but we England 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.40 lost the plot in the last eight overs,” the wick- Australia 1 0 0 0 1 1 n/a Results et-keeper added after what was the opening New Zealand 1 0 0 0 1 1 n/a Jun 03, The Oval: South Africa bt Sri Lanka by 96 runs Group B match for both the Asian giants in a Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.40 Jun 04, Edgbaston: India bt Pakistan by 124 runs (DLS) tournament featuring the world’s top eight one-day international teams. Results Remaining Fixtures “The worrying thing for me, and it has Jun 01, The Oval: England bt Bangladesh by 8 wkts Jun 07: Pakistan v South Africa, Edgbaston (1230 GMT) Jun 02, Edgbaston: Australia v New Zealand, no result been for a period of time, is we just do the Jun 08: India v Sri Lanka, The Oval (0930 GMT) basics wrong,” said Pakistan coach Mickey Jun 11: India v South Africa, The Oval (0930 GMT) Remaining Fixtures Arthur. “We dropped simple catches, we Jun 12: Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Cardiff (0930 GMT) don’t run well enough between wickets,” Jun 05: Australia v Bangladesh, The Oval (1230 GMT) Jun 06: England v New Zealand, Cardiff (0930 GMT) added the concerned South African after his Jun 09: New Zealand v Bangladesh, Cardiff (0930 GMT) Semi-finals first direct involvement in an India-Pakistan Jun 10: England v Australia, Edgbaston (0930 GMT) Jun 14: Winner A v Runner-up B, Cardiff (0930 GMT) match, world cricket’s most high-profile fix- Jun 15: Runner-up A v Winner B, Edgbaston (0930 ture. Before play, the teams officials and a Group B GMT) crowd of 24,156 — a record for an Edgbaston BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir winces in pain after an injury during the India 1 1 0 0 0 2 +3.02 ICC Champions Trophy match between India and Pakistan at Edgbaston in ODI-observed a minute’s silence for the vic- South Africa 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.92 Final Birmingham. — AP tims of Saturday’s London terror attack that Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.92 Jun 18: The Oval (0930 GMT) TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 SPORTS Oklahoma beat Oregon 4-2 to reach softball title series OKLAHOMA CITY: The Women’s College she said. “Again, we’re going to have to before unraveling. Oklahoma got its rally said. “There’s been so many games decided right side, and just give my team a chance World Series dream matchup is set. Shay play really, really well, give all we’ve got, started when Lea Wodach reached on an by some calls that could have gone - I think to score.” Nicole Pendley followed with a Knighten singled in two runs in the fifth and we’re looking forward to it.” Paige error. She bunted, and though the ball were incorrect calls to be quite frank, and double to score Knighten and chase Kleist. inning to help defending champion Parker (26-5) earned the win and Paige was moving towards foul territory, that made a big difference. This game is Lowary closed the deal with two perfect Oklahoma beat Oregon 4-2 on Sunday in Lowary got the save against Oregon. Oregon catcher Gwen Svekis picked it up played at a high speed. Umpires are human. innings to claim her 10th save of the season. the semifinals. The Sooners (59-9) will play The Ducks would have needed to beat and made an errant throw to first. Wodach You should have the ability to challenge a Now, Oklahoma, the No. 10 seed, has the top-seeded Florida tonight to start the Oklahoma twice on Sunday, and for a ended up on second. call.” Pinch runner Raegan Rogers stepped chance to defend its title. The Sooners view best-of-three championship series. The while, it looked like they might at least Oregon coach Mike White thought the in for Wodach and scored on a fielder’s themselves as underdogs. “They really are teams have combined to win the past four force a second game. Danica Mercado’s ball went into foul territory, and he thinks choice. Knighten then dropped the ball getting into their groove,” Gasso said. “We’ve national titles, but are meeting for the first two-run homer in the top of the fifth put there should be a way to find out. “One lightly into right field to score Nicole wasted about eight weeks of trying to figure time in the championship series. the Ducks (54-8) up 2-0. Oregon’s Megan thing I’d like to see going forward, and I Mendes and Kelsey Arnold. Knighten had this out, and I think we’re making up for lost Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso has great Kleist (21-4), who earned a win and a save think this tournament has really illustrated hoped to make better contact. “I’ll take it,” time, and they are relaxed, they’re playing respect for Florida’s program. “They’re in elimination games Saturday, took a it, is the need for an instant replay, a need she said. “It worked. All I wanted to do was their best softball, they’re having a blast. good, well-coached, very complete team,” shutout into the fifth against Oklahoma for the ability to make a challenge,” White just put the ball in play, come into the They don’t want it to end.” — AP

GOLF Dufner bounces back to win the Memorial

DUBLIN: Jason Dufner spent quality time a playoff on the 18th hole by making birdie, on the practice range that played in a big instead made bogey after Dufner ended it role in his victory at the Memorial. with his big par putt. Fowler shot 70 and It had nothing to do with his swing. This tied for second with Lahiri, who closed with was about beating balls to burn off the a 65 before both of the two rain delays that anger from a 5-over 77 in the third round lasted a combined 2 1/2 hours. that looked as though it might cost him the Justin Thomas missed consecutive short tournament. His pulse back to normal, birdie putts that stopped any momentum which for Dufner means barely beating, he he had. Matt Kuchar fell back with three bounced back in a big way Sunday. bogeys on the back nine. They finished He stayed in the game during a wild another shot behind. Daniel Summerhays, stretch early, and then hit the ball so pure who began the final round with a three-shot that he hit every green until the 18th and lead, began the back nine with two straight only once had a birdie putt over 12 feet. And bogeys, and he finished with a double then he capped off his 68 with a 30-foot par bogey for a 78 to tie for 10th. putt for a three-shot victory. Dufner got back into the mix quickly “Yesterday was not my best day,” Dufner when Summerhays lost his three-shot lead said. “But I had to get over it quick. It’s a 72- after four holes. Over the next five hours hole tournament, there’s a lot of things that because of the rain delays, four players had can happen out there. I knew I was still in at least a share of the lead and seven players the mix.” were in the hunt. The recap shows what an up-and-down week it was for Dufner. He set the 36-hole CLOSE TO PERFECT record at Muirfield Village on Friday and Dufner had one stretch on the front nine built a four-shot lead. The 77 on Saturday of bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey. He dropped him four shots behind. And he played the front nine in even par, and then wound up winning by three shots over he came to life. He is better with the putter, Rickie Fowler and Anirban Lahiri. though his strength remains his iron play, “It was important for me not to leave this and it was close to perfect. golf course angry and upset,” Dufner said. “I “I feel like if I wanted to have a chance to needed to leave it at the golf course yester- win today that I needed to hit it close,” he day, I felt like, and to move on. It would be said. He stuffed his approach on No. 10 to 4 best for me today. It wasn’t something that I feet and holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the BELLE ISLE: Graham Rahal holds the trophies from the IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix auto race doubleheader on Belle Isle, Sunday, in Detroit. planned or that I thought about, it’s just par-3 12th. Rahal completed a doubleheader sweep in the race to become IndyCar’s first two-time winner this season. Rahal’s Honda-power carfinished that’s what I felt like I needed to do. After missing a pair of birdie chances in 1.17 seconds ahead of Josef Newgarden’s Chevrolet, a day after getting to the checkered flag six-plus seconds ahead of the competition. — AP Dufner finished at 13-under 275 for his the 12-foot range on the next holes, he hit fifth PGA Tour victory, and he earned men- the par-5 15th in two and two-putted for tions with Jack Nicklaus and Nick Faldo. He birdie from 40 feet to take the lead. MOTOR RACING joined Nicklaus as the only Ohio-born win- Fowler fell back when he missed the 14th ners of the Memorial, the tournament green long and took bogey, and then hit his Nicklaus created in 1976 and won twice. fairway metal into the gallery on the 15th Rahal sweeps Detroit And not since Faldo in the 1989 Masters had and failed to make birdie. Dufner gave him- anyone shot a 77 in the third round of a PGA self a cushion on the 17th with his best drive Tour event and still gone on to win. of the day and a wedge to 3 feet. He made it more exciting than he pre- Grand Prix doubleheader LARGEST PAYCHECK ferred on the 18th by driving into thick He was happier about the first reference. rough just short of the bunker, and hacking “I’ll always have a close place in my heart out into more rough. He put his third shot to DETROIT: Graham Rahal is relishing a remark- ahead of Josef Newgarden’s Chevrolet, a day 500, finished sixth to stay atop the points list for this event, being a champion now,” just over 30 feet on the 18th. Fowler, who able run - this weekend in the Motor City and after getting to the checkered flag six-plus sec- with 303 followed by Helio Castroneves (295), Dufner said. “It will be very special for me to pulled his wedge left of the green, had over the last two-plus seasons. Rahal completed onds ahead of the competition. Sato (292), Simon Pagenaud (278), Newgarden look back and know that I’m part of an Dufner go first to make sure Fowler would a doubleheader sweep at the Detroit Grand Prix “I couldn’t pull anything too risky because I (259) and Rahal (251) making quite a climb from event that Mr. Nicklaus put on out here on have needed to hole the birdie chip to have on Sunday and became IndyCar’s first two-time didn’t have any grip on the tires,” Newgarden No. 15 the standings at the start of the weekend. the PGA Tour.” a chance. Dufner ended the suspense with a winner this season. said. Will Power of Team Penske was third “I think he probably likes this one better putt and a rare show of emotion, slamming Driving for father and former racing star Sunday, giving Chevy a better showing than on CLIPPED than Augusta right now,” Nicklaus said. “It’s down his fist. “I made the swings and could- Bobby Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Saturday when Honda swept the podium near Castroneves finished ninth, ending a race that paying a little better,” Dufner replied. He n’t convert and make the birdies,” Fowler team, Rahal has six career victories, five in two- General Motors’ world headquarters. “We didn’t included one of his tires getting punctured by earned $1,566,000, the largest paycheck of said. “But to see him make the putt on the plus seasons during a stretch of success that fol- get the win, but it was a good showing,” Power Marco Andretti’s front wing. His winless streak his career. Fowler, in prime position to force last was cool.” — AP lowed a six-year winless streak. said. “Honda has definitely found something, but extended to 52 races. “Through the ups and downs of my career, it’s not reliable.” when you get a chance to win a race, you never Rahal became the first to sweep in Detroit CONTRACT TALKS take it for granted,” he said. “So, it’s pretty special since it began hosting doubleheaders in 2013. The Detroit Grand Prix has one year left on its for me.” He became the first to win two IndyCar races in a contract to hold the race on Belle Isle and event It looked like a given Rahal’s Honda-power weekend since Scott Dixon pulled off the feat chairman Bud Denker said he is confident the car was going to finish first easily, for the second four years ago in Toronto. deal will be extended until at least 2021. straight race, until there was a single-file final His team won consecutive races for the first “My expectation is that we’ll be agreeing with restart with two laps to go in the 70-lap race. A time since Kenny Brack drove pulled off the feat the state over the next several months,” he said. red flag stopped the race for 18 minutes after 67 in Japan and at Milwaukee in 2001. Rahal, who is The open-wheel series shifts to Texas Motor laps because Spencer Pigot’s car had a mechani- from New Albany, Ohio, became the first Speedway, where Rahal is the defending cham- cal failure. American to win in Detroit on Saturday since pion, for a race under the lights Saturday night. The Ed Carpenter Racing driver got out of his Michael Andretti in 1996. Indianapolis 500 win- Rahal beat James Hinchcliffe last year by eight- smoke-filled car after a yellow flag came out ner Takuma Sato earned the pole earlier in the thousandths of a second in the closest finish for because James Hinchcliffe’s car stalled. day and finished fourth with his Honda-powered an IndyCar race at Texas. That wasn’t enough to let the competition car for Andretti Autosport. “I think it’s going to be a crazy race once close in on Rahal, who pulled away for victory on POINTS RACE: Scott Dixon, with an injured again,” Rahal said. “It should be a track that will the Belle Isle course. He finished 1.17 seconds left foot from his crash in last week’s Indianapolis suit the Honda package very well.” — AP

SWIMMING Phelps joins board of Aussie mental

SYDNEY: Michael Phelps, the most decorat- He isn’t the only swimming great to suf- ed Olympian of all time, yesterday joined fer mental problems: Australia’s Ian Thorpe the board of an Australian mental health has also struggled with depression, and company, a subject close to his heart after received treatment in 2014 after being DUBLIN: Jack Nicklaus, right, hands Jason Dufner the trophy after Dufner won the his struggles with depression and sub- found disoriented on a Sydney street. Memorial golf tournament, Sunday, in Dublin, Ohio. — AP stance abuse. Fellow Australian Grant Hackett also sought The American, who won 28 Olympic help this year-including from Phelps-after ATHLETICS medals, quit swimming last year and he his arrest following a family bust-up, the lat- said joining Medibio met his aim to raise est in a series of unsavoury incidents involv- awareness of mental health problems. ing the troubled star. S Africa’s Van Niekerk “I personally suffered from mental health “I want to help others who are dealing challenges from my teenage years on, and with these challenges and make the only fairly recently-after reaching a point of process for them to take action easier and wins 200m in Boston desperation-did I acquire the understand- more understandable,” Phelps said as part ing, treatment, and support I needed, which of Medibio’s announcement to the stock BOSTON: South Africa’s Wayde Van not be listed in 2017 International has truly changed my life,” he said. market. Phelps is widely seen as the great- Niekerk and Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) “For me, self-awareness, from a mental est swimmer ever to compete, but it came Bahamas each captured their 200 metre records. “I still have a lot of work ahead of health standpoint, is empowerment.” at a price. races on the second day of a track and field me,” said Van Niekerk, of Cape Town, who Medibio has developed a test to help diag- After winning four gold medals and event in Boston on Sunday. will run the 200m next weekend in nose depression, chronic stress and other two silvers at the 2012 London Olympics, The 24-year-old Van Niekerk, who is the Kingston, Jamaica. “But it is a positive disorders, using circadian, sleep and other he revealed he was “haunted” by knowing reigning World and Olympic champion in result.” information such as blood pressure. he failed to prepare as well as he could the 400m, clocked a winning time of 19.84 The reigning Olympic champion in the Phelps, who was diagnosed with have. A comeback in 2014 ground to a on a temporary built track to beat run- 400m, Miller-Uibo, won the women’s 200m Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder halt within months when his personal nerup BeeJay Lee (20.17) at the Boston with a time of 21.76. She beat the American (ADHD) when he was nine, is already an demons caught up with him and he was Boost Games. Natasha Hastings (22.50) and Kimberlyn ambassador for the Child Mind Institute’s caught speeding while under the influ- GOLD COAST: A file photo taken on August 24, 2017 Because the competition was run on a Duncan (22.81). Miller-Uibo’s time was also #MyYoungerSelf social media campaign to ence of alcohol. The incident launched shows Michael Phelps of the US reacting during the straight line instead of the traditional boosted because the race was run in a help end the stigmas associated with men- him on a “brutal” personal journey that medal ceremony following the men’s 100m butterfly final curved track and field surface the time will straight line. — AFP tal health and learning disorders. included a stint in rehab. — AFP at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in Gold Coast. — AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 SPORTS Italy’s comeback kids stun Zambia to reach semis

SEOUL: Italy recovered from going a goal and a man But Riccardo Orsolini scored five minutes after the goal from a Dimarco corner in the 110th minute. after half-time but England had to survive a nervy down to beat Zambia 3-2 in extra time and set up an restart and even when Fashion Sakala struck in the The late strike finally knocked out Zambia, who finish when Josh Onomah received his second yellow Under-20 World Cup semi-final against England yes- 84th minute, substitute Federico Dimarco’s 88th- stunned Germany in the round of 16, and sent last card with 18 minutes left. terday. Things looked bleak for the Azzurri, who had minute free kick sent the game into extra time. year’s U19 European finalists into a meeting with Thursday’s other semi-final will be between gone behind to Patson Daka’s early goal, when Kenneth Kalunga narrowly missed after skilfully England, who downed Mexico 1-0. Uruguay, who edged Portugal 5-4 on penalties, and Giuseppe Pezzella was sent off for a shove following juggling the ball past Italy’s defence, before another Dominic Solanke, who is Liverpool-bound after Venezuela, who beat the United States 2-1 after extra a video review just before half-time. Italian substitute, Luca Vido, headed the decisive coming through the ranks at Chelsea, scored just time in another tight game on Sunday. — AFP I was ashamed over Miami behaviour, says Halep

PARIS: Simona Halep admitted yesterday when I finished Stuttgart, he said he had she was “ashamed” that her on-court seen enough, and he’s ready to come back. behaviour prompted respected coach “I asked him if he wants to come back Darren Cahill to call a temporary halt to before Madrid. He said yes, because I their partnership. improved a lot, and he saw that I really Australian Cahill quit in frustration at the wanted to change that. “Now I’m happy Romanian’s negative demeanour after she that I can be positive.” surrendered winning positions to Britain’s Halep, the third seed, made the quarter- Johanna Konta in Miami in March. Cahill finals at Roland Garros yesterday for the called it quits until the duo were reunited first time since 2014 when she went on to just in time for the build-up to the French finish runner-up to Maria Sharapova. Open where the 26-year-old reached the She needed just an hour to coast to a 6- quarter-finals yesterday. 1, 6-1 win over Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro. During the changeover before the final It was her first win over Suarez Navarro on set in Miami, Cahill spent the best part of clay in six attempts. “I played my best three minutes sitting next to Halep, desper- match of the tournament. I served well and ately trying to coax her out of her negativi- opened up the court,” said Halep, who will ty. “You can give up on yourself, but I’m not,” become the new world number one if she said Cahill. It didn’t work as Halep slipped to wins the title on Saturday. a dispiriting defeat. “I didn’t like it when I The 25-year-old Halep will tackle saw the video (of the Cahill pep talk), I felt Ukraine’s fifth seed Elina Svitolina for a ashamed about what I did,” said Halep. semi-final place. “But now I’m happy that I can be posi- The two met in the Rome final on the tive on court, and I will never be negative eve of Roland Garros when Halep suffered like I was in Miami.” an ankle injury which threatened her Halep said she had reached out to the appearance in Paris. 51-year-old Cahill who has worked with Svitolina ended the dream run of world likes of Andre Agassi, Andy Murray and Ana number 290 Petra Martic with a 4-6, 6-3, 7- Ivanovic in his time. 5 win. But Martic, who came through quali- PARIS: Britain’s Andy Murray returns the ball to Russia’s Karen Khachanov during their tennis match at the Roland Garros 2017 French Open “He told me we will talk after Paris. But fying, threw away a golden chance to make yesterday in Paris. — AFP then he liked how I was in Fed Cup and the quarter-finals after leading 5-2 in the TENNIS then in Stuttgart,” she explained. “So I think final set. — AFP Emotional Murray in French Open q-finals with 650th win

PARIS: Andy Murray racked up his 650th career dropping a set or breaking sweat. both a first time major winner and the new win to reach the French Open quarter-finals yes- Third seed Halep, who can become the new world number one, faces Veronica Cepede Royg terday before paying an unscripted, emotional world number one if she wins the title, claimed in her last-16 tie. tribute to the victims of the London and her first win on clay in six attempts against the Cepede Royg, ranked 97 in the world, is only Manchester terror attacks. Spaniard. “I played my best match of the tourna- the second Paraguayan to make the fourth World number one Murray, the runner-up in ment. I served well and opened up the court,” round of a major. The only other was Rossana de Paris to Novak Djokovic in 2016, brushed aside said Halep. The 25-year-old Halep will tackle los Rios in Paris 17 years ago. Karen Khachanov of Russia 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. In his Ukraine’s fifth seed Elina Svitolina for a semi-final Argentina’s Paola Suarez was the last South seventh Paris quarter-final, Murray will face place. The two met in the Rome final on the eve American woman to reach a quarter-final at a either Japanese eighth seed Kei Nishikori or of Roland Garros when Halep was beaten and Slam at Wimbledon in 2004. Before this year, Spain’s Fernando Verdasco. suffered an ankle injury which threatened her Pliskova had never made it beyond the second However, instead of discussing the match in appearance in Paris. “I sill feel the ankle some round in Paris. However, she has not yet had to the traditional on-court TV interview, Murray times but I am able to run. I don’t think about it face a player ranked in the top 65 in this tourna- took the microphone to remember the 29 people during the points,” added Halep. ment. Yesterday’s other last-16 clash sees an all- who died in the recent outrages in London and French battle between Alize Cornet and Caroline Manchester. “Obviously there was terrible MARTIC MAGICAL RUN ENDS Garcia who are barely on speaking terms. tragedy in London and Manchester. Paris has had Svitolina reached the quarter-finals for the The two fell out after Garcia withdrew from its problems too in recent years,” said Murray. “I second time, ending the dream run of world the Fed Cup team earlier this year. “I think that am sure everyone will join me... we share our number 290 Petra Martic with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win. the relationship is not very good,” said 27-year- thoughts and prayers with everyone who has However, Martic, bidding to become only the old Cornet. “I think she may have a grudge been affected. “I appreciate everyone still com- 10th qualifier to make the last eight in Paris against us, so she’s not ready to talk with me.” ing out to support the tennis. I am grateful that I threw away a golden chance for victory. The 26- Cornet is playing in her 45th Slam but has yet can still perform in front of everyone.” year-old led 5-2 in the final set before Svitolina to reach a quarter-final. In the remaining men’s Women’s title favourite and 2014 runner-up rallied to race away with the last five games. last-16 ties, third seed and 2015 champion Stan Simona Halep trounced Spain’s Carla Suarez- Later yesterday, Czech world number two Wawrinka faces Gael Monfils of France while Navarro 6-1, 6-1 to make the last eight without Karolina Pliskova, also in the running to become Marin Cilic tackles Kevin Anderson. — AFP

SOCCER Adoring Madrid fans demand Ballon d’Or for hero Ronaldo

MADRID: Thousands of delirious Real Madrid fans called for Cristiano Ronaldo to win a fifth Ballon d’Or on Sunday as the Spanish giants paraded the Champions League trophy for a record 12th time. Ronaldo scored twice in Real’s 4-1 thrashing of Juventus in Cardiff on Saturday as Madrid became the first side to retain the Champions League. Sporting a newly cropped PARIS: Romania’s Simona Halep eyes the ball as she plays against Spain’s Carla haircut, Ronaldo was the star of a spectacular Suarez Navarro during their tennis match at the Roland Garros 2017 French Open lights and firework show as 81,000 fans crammed yesterday in Paris. — AFP into Real’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium. “Cristiano Ballon d’Or,” the Portuguese sang along with the fans as he was lifted into the air ‘Revenge’ not Mladenovic’s by his teammates. Ronaldo is the hot favourite to win the plan for Bacsinszky rematch annual award for the best player in the world for a fifth time that would see him equal Barcelona rival Lionel Messi’s record as Real also PARIS: France’s Kristina Mladenovic insists finalist in 2015, showed no remorse for her beat out Barca to win La Liga. “The truth is it “revenge” is not fueling her desire to beat actions after dumping out Venus Williams in has been a spectacular season,” added Ronaldo. Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky when the pair Paris for the second year in a row. It is the first time Madrid have won both La Liga clash in the quarter-finals at Roland Garros today. “I’m totally comfortable with what I did and the Champions League in the same season Mladenovic accused Bacsinszky of games- and said during the Fed Cup,” said Bacsinszky, for 59 years. “Thanks for the love you have manship after losing a tense three-set battle seeded 30th at this year’s French Open. shown since the first match,” said Madrid cap- in February’s Fed Cup first round, a tie “I know that the two French players were tain Sergio Ramos. Switzerland went on to win 4-1. But the very critical. I’m not quite sure why. It wasn’t a “We knew this season was going to be differ- French 13th seed said the anguish of that wasp trick. I was really stung by a wasp. ent. “The team has worked hard from the first defeat would not factor into her approach as “I had to manage the pain. At night my minute...we have done a marvellous double.” she looks to the reach last four of a Grand nose clogged up and my eyes went all puffy. I Earlier, overseen by strict security measures, Slam for the first time. had to take anti-allergy medicine. the Madrid squad greeted local government dig- “I don’t see things like that. It’s not, you “And the medical timeout I took against nitaries before parading the famous trophy in an know, because it’s Timea that I must get my Mladenovic on the second day, it showed on open top bus around the Cibeles fountain in the revenge. That’s not my mindset,” said the videos. “That’s why I really wanted to take city centre where thousands of fans had gath- Mladenovic, who is through to the last eight no risks. (Laura) Siegemund, her knee went 10 ered. “The players have entered into the legend at a major for just the second time. days ago, and she was a potential winner, of Real Madrid and of football, as has our coach,” “It would be a negative approach. I don’t too.” Bacsinszky blasted Mladenovic’s asser- said club president Florentino Perez, as he prepare my matches out of revenge. I want to tion that the Swiss was renowned for bending reserved special praise for Zinedine Zidane. go out there and win every match. “I’m going the rules, but she was keen to move on from “He is the only one to win two consecutive MADRID: Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo jubilates during a celebration to go into this match, (thinking) it’s a Grand the incident. Champions Leagues,” added Perez. event held at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after the team won the UEFA Champions League Slam quarterfinals here in Roland Garros.” “When she said that I was known for that “That is why he is already the best coach in football match final. — AFP Bacsinszky drew the ire of her French rival sort of thing on the circuit, really? I think we the world.” The Frenchman, who won the in Geneva after seeking medical help for a should ask other players if that’s what they win in four years has drawn comparisons to the Marco Asensio adding to Ronaldo’s double, Champions League as a legendary player for knee injury during a critical passage midway think,” Bacsinszky replied. great Real side that won the first five editions of there was no sign of the Madrid fans’ tiring of Real between 2001 and 2006, has enjoyed spec- through the deciding set. “People can think what they want. Of the European Cup between 1955 and 1960. success. “It is the best thing that could happen,” When she returned, she took a 21-shot ral- course, it’s not so cool to lose a match. tacular success since taking his first role in senior “I feel like this is the best team in history,” said Colombian shop worker Jose Ordonez, 54, ly and claimed eight of the next nine points Sometimes you need to take a step back, a management just 18 months ago. Alvaro Mora, a fan who had travelled over 500 who took in the festivities with his two sons. to seize control of the match. deep breath. “I want to thank all of you,” Zidane told fans as kilometres from the southern city of Almeria to “We promised to return and we have returned as A day earlier, world number 31 Bacsinszky “Do I bear grudges? Not really,” she added. chants of his name rang around the Bernabeu. take in the celebrations, told AFP. champions,” added Ramos as the squad visited had left the court during her win over Alize “I feel comfortable with what I did. I feel com- “This is what we are here for. It has been a And like Real’s performance on the pitch at the home of Madrid’s local government and the Cornet for treatment to a wasp sting on her fortable what I said about people. So I think spectacular year thanks to you and in the end the Principality Stadium as they tore the Italian city hall. “I hope to return many more times and elbow. But the Swiss, a Roland Garros semi- that’s it, really.” — AFP we won the double.” A third Champions League champions apart with goals from Casemiro and that we can celebrate many more titles.” — AFP Astros beat Rangers Rahal sweeps to register 10th Detroit Grand win16 in a row Prix18 doubleheader TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 Kohli and Yuvraj lead India rout of Pakistan Page 17

OAKLAND: Cleveland Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson, center, is defended by Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green, right, and Klay Thompson during the second half in Game 2 of basketball’s NBA Finals Sunday, in Oakland, Calif. — AP Curry, Durant lead Warriors to 2-0 lead

OAKLAND: Stephen Curry dribbled every which way and first career postseason triple-double with 32 points, 11 “Much more physical today than we were in Game 1. And willing the unblemished Warriors even when Cleveland ran a circle around LeBron James, then drove left through assists and 10 rebounds, while Durant contributed 33 we forced them to 20 turnovers and they still beat us pretty went on a third-quarter run after that play. the paint and beat him to the rim for a right-handed layup points, 13 rebounds, six assists and five blocks and is sud- good, so we’ve got to be much better, too.” Now, Golden State is headed to Northeast Ohio needing over the star’s outstretched arm in a move reminiscent of denly on the cusp of his first ring. Thompson emerged from a postseason-long shooting just two more - yet don’t count on anybody considering his recent MVP magic. “It seemed like it’s personal for both of them,” funk to score 22 points with four 3-pointers while playing this series close to done. The Warriors squandered a 3-1 Steve Kerr got a front-row seat again for the show, Draymond Green said. “And you are talking two of the more stellar defense and pulling down seven rebounds for lead to the Cavs a year ago to miss a repeat. delighted to be back on the bench witnessing those signa- greatest players that we got in this world locked in the way the Warriors, who shot 18 for 43 from deep. “Well, it’s been a great run but none of that matters ture moments he has seen so many times before. they are, that’s why we’re up 2-0.” Golden State improved to The best-of-seven series now shifts to Cleveland for two unless we can finish the job with this series,” Kerr said. Kerr watched his Golden State Warriors grab a 2-0 lead 14-0 this postseason and is trying to become the first games, with Game 3 tomorrrow. Kerr returned to the “Trust me, we know. It was 2-0 last year, we lost.” in the NBA Finals by downing the Cleveland Cavaliers 132- group to go unbeaten all the way to a title. bench to a rousing ovation, waving to the fans while back Curry made all 14 of his free throws. He and Durant 113 Sunday night in another rout, returning to the sideline James was equally spectacular with his own triple-dou- on the sideline for the first time since Game 2 of the first combined for 66 points and 18 assists in the opener, then with a warm welcome from the sellout crowd after a six- ble of 29 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds, but yet again round against Portland on April 19 because of pain issues dominated again while the supporting cast shined. week absence. didn’t get nearly enough help to keep up with the Warriors’ stemming from complications after 2015 back surgery. Curry was upset by his eight turnovers as Cleveland Their leader and reigning NBA Coach of the Year assum- depth. Kevin Love had 27 points and Kyrie Irving 19. Curry provided Kerr more than a glimpse of his great- vowed to put more pressure on the ball and keep Durant ing his usual courtside seat, Curry received a special ness from up close after the coach had been watching from driving and dunking untouched as he did so many request from Kerr: “to play with passion and play with joy,” TRIPLE-DOUBLE games from the locker room while speaking to his players times in Game 1. Curry shared. “That’s what everyone wants to see, some of James tied Magic Johnson for most NBA Finals triple- beforehand and at halftime. the best players in the world go against each other,” Klay doubles with eight, and this marked the first time in NBA On that third-quarter drive, James had little help as It didn’t matter in the end. Thompson said. “Steph made a great move, got by him and history more than one player had a triple-double in the Love got there late. “At that point I was a little bit more Having Kerr there sure did - the Warriors felt whole finished. That’s what he does.” same Finals game. composed than earlier in that possession,” Curry said. “I was again. “We love his presence. We love his voice,” Curry Curry and Kevin Durant tag-teamed the Warriors within “I thought for the most part with the game plan that we just kind of like a chicken with my head cut off, just run- said. “And we’re a full group when he’s out here, so that two victories of another championship. Curry recorded his had we tried to execute it as close as possible,” James said. ning circles.” Curry wore his emotions for everybody to see, means a lot.” — AP

PREVIEW Unbeaten Warriors living up to ‘Superteam’ label

CLEVELAND: Two wins from completing the first “You take one of the best teams that we had ever deters what you’re trying to do. So for us, it’s just han- unbeaten playoff championship run in NBA history, assembled last year, that we saw in the regular season dling business.” But make no mistake, beyond win- the Golden State Warriors are realizing the and in the post-season, and then in the off-season ning titles is a level of greatness the Warriors aspire to “Superteam” expectations they shouldered since you add a high-powered offensive talent like (Durant) reach, a place among the all-time best. signing Kevin Durant last July. and a great basketball IQ like that, that’s what stands “For us, that’s the goal, to try to build a dynasty The Warriors ripped defending champion out,” James said. “I’ve seen a lot of great teams and and be great each and every time we step on the Cleveland 132-113 Sunday to seize a 2-0 lead in the they rank right up there. They work well together. floor. That’s all the motivation we need,” Green said. best-of-seven NBA Finals, which now shift to They have some guys that can actually lead a fran- “It’s not Kevin came here, you have to win the Cleveland for games tomorrow and Friday. chise without anybody else.” Durant complements his championship. That’s the goal. He wants to be great... Golden State became the first club in NBA history teammates, his inside play giving them outside shots with that comes pressure from yourself more than to win 14 consecutive playoff games and the Warriors and their work opening room for him to attack. anybody can ever put on you.” could be in the early years of a dynasty run to match “We all got better and we have worked well legendary Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers together throughout the season,” Durant said. “One ‘Makes it look really easy’ - teams. “They’re the best I’ve ever seen,” Cavaliers day it may be me, one day it may be Steph, Klay, Durant has taken a great team and perhaps made coach Tyronn Lue said. “I mean, no other team has Draymond. You never know who will come up and it one for the ages. “I knew he was a special talent,” done this, right? And they constantly break records show up for us.” Thompson said. “It does surprise me, though, how every year.” The Warriors won their first title in 40 years effortless it looks for him. He makes it look really easy, in 2015, downing an injury-hit Cleveland squad, and ‘TRY TO BUILD A DYNASTY’ and the stuff he does is incredibly hard. “His length, won a record 73 regular-season games the following Golden State won a league-best 67 games this his versatility to guard five positions, his ability to campaign. Golden State came within one win of a season. Since the playoffs began, the Warriors have rebound the ball and block shots-he does everything. title repeat before LeBron James sparked the been unbeatable, sweeping Portland, San Antonio He’s a very complete player.” Cavaliers to the greatest comeback in NBA Finals his- and Utah. Warriors reserve Andre Iguodala shrugs off The Warriors, however, know from last year that no tory, rallying from 3-1 down to claim the 2016 crown. the notion of needing an unbeaten title run. matter how momentum swings, it’s not over until it’s The Warriors answered by signing former Most “I don’t really care about history too much. I try over. “We’ve been in this position before,” said Valuable Player Durant, adding a powerful forward to not to focus on that,” he said. “Just handle business the Thompson. “There are a lot of people who take it to 3-point sharpshooters Klay Thompson and Stephen way you’re supposed to handle business and that’s the extreme, whether it’s, ‘Oh, the Cavs don’t have a OAKLAND: Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors speaks at a postgame press conference fol- Curry, a two-time NBA MVP, and top rebounder the way you make history. chance,’ or ‘The Warriors, it’s over.’ Can’t listen to that. lowing their 132-113 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 2 of the 2017 NBA Finals at ORA- Draymond Green. “If you’re trying to chase something, that kind of Got to shut it off.” — AFP CLE Arena on Sunday in Oakland, California. — AFP Global markets remain upbeat, GCC flat Page 22

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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti traders follow the stock market at the Boursa Kuwait in Kuwait City yesterday. Boursa Kuwait ended yesterday’s trading in the red zone. The benchmark fell by 26.82 points to settle at 6,803 points while the Weighted Index and KSX 15 indices went down by 3.22 and 9.55 points respectively. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat US factory orders slipped in April Investment weak, Q1 productivity unchanged

WASHINGTON: Orders to US factories fell in covers such things as paper, chemicals and persistently soft trend is an obstacle to faster years, below its long-term rate of 2.1 percent hours worked increased at an upwardly revised April for the first time in five months amid food, rose 0.4 percent in April. Orders for trans- economic growth. The Labor Department said from 1947 to 2016, indicating that the econo- 1.7 percent rate. Hours worked were previously declining demand for heavy machinery, iron portation equipment in April fell 1.4 percent, as on Monday nonfarm productivity, which meas- my’s potential rate of growth has declined. reported to have risen at a 1.6 percent rate in and steel, and commercial airplanes. A key cate- a 0.6 percent rise in demand for motor vehicles ures hourly output per worker, was unchanged That suggests the Trump administration the first quarter. Unit labor costs, the price of gory that tracks business investment was weak was offset by a 9.1 percent drop in orders for in the last quarter. It was previously reported to could struggle to achieve its 3 percent annual labor per single unit of output, increased at a for a third month. Factory orders edged down commercial aircraft, a volatile category. have declined at a 0.6 percent annualized pace. gross domestic product growth target. The 2.2 percent pace in the first quarter instead of 0.2 percent in April after a 1 percent increase in Demand for machinery contracted 0.7 percent, The government also reported that the economy grew at a 1.2 percent pace in the first the previously reported 3.0 percent rate. March, the Commerce Department said yester- reflecting a 16 percent plunge in demand for growth in labor costs at the start of the year quarter. It grew 1.6 percent in 2016 and annual Compared to the first quarter of 2016, unit day. It was the first decline since a 2.3 percent construction machinery. Orders for primary was not as strong as reported in May, which GDP growth has not exceeded 2.6 percent labor costs rose at a 1.1 percent rate. drop last November. A category that serves as a metals fell 0.7 percent, with demand for iron could cast doubts on the tightening labor mar- since the 2007-09 recession ended. Fourth-quarter unit labor costs were proxy for business investment posted a tiny 0.1 and steel down 2 percent. ket’s ability to unleash robust wage growth. Economists blame low capital expenditure, revised down to show them declining at a 4.6 percent gain. Orders in this closely watched cat- Despite the April drop, American manufac- The revision to first-quarter productivity was in which they say has resulted in a sharp drop in percent rate from the previously reported 1.3 egory had been flat in March. turing has bounced back in recent months from line with economists’ expectations. the capital-to-labor ratio, for the weakness in percent pace of increase. Wage growth The weakness in April was expected to be a slump early last year. American manufacturing Productivity increased at an unrevised 1.8 per- productivity. There are also perceptions that remains sluggish despite the unemployment temporary, given hopes that manufacturing was hurt early last year and in late 2015 by cut- cent pace in the fourth quarter. productivity is being inaccurately measured, rate being at a 16-year low of 4.3 percent. has started to bounce back in recent months backs in the energy industry and a strong dollar US financial markets were little moved by especially on the information technology side. Hourly compensation increased at a 2.2 per- from a prolonged slump last year. Orders for that makes US products pricier overseas. the report. Compared to the first quarter of Companies have been hiring more workers to cent rate in the first quarter rather than the 2.4 durable goods - items ranging from bicycles to 2016, productivity grew at a 1.2 percent rate, maintain output. First-quarter output per percent pace reported in May. battleships that are expected to last at least Labor costs down pointing to some improvement. worker was revised up to a 1.7 percent growth Hourly compensation rose at a 2.3 percent three years - dropped 0.8 percent in April. US worker productivity was not as weak as Productivity has increased at an average rate from the previously reported 1.0 percent rate from a year ago, down from the 3.9 per- Demand for nondurable goods, a category that initially thought in the first quarter, but the annual rate of 0.6 percent over the last five pace. The increase in output came as total cent pace estimated last month. — AP Kuwait picks EY to Silk Road hub or tax haven? value stock exchange China’s new border trade zone may be less than it seems for potential listing

HORGOS, China/KHORGOS, Kazakhstan: western region of Xianjiang, who only want- echoed complaints about poor design and opening a high-end clubhouse. “You’ve got KUWAIT: Kuwait has picked accounting firm EY to do a On the border of China and Kazakhstan, an ed to give his surname, Ma, due to the sensi- low visitor numbers made by Ma, who visit- Kazakh farmers walking around with plastic valuation of its stock exchange, sources familiar with the international free trade zone has become a tivity of the topic. Several business owners ed Horgos to investigate the viability of bags full of cheap Chinese t-shirts and you matter told Reuters on Sunday. showpiece of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s want me to open a club for government The country has been considering an initial public signature “Belt and Road” Initiative to boost officials and businessmen to meet inside offering of its stock market for years, but political infight- global trade and commerce by improving the zone - which, by the way, you can’t drive ing and entrenched bureaucracy have held up the infrastructure and connectivity. your car into and doesn’t have any five-star process. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has asked Chinese state media are filled with sto- hotels?” Ma said. EY to complete a valuation of Boursa Kuwait’s assets and ries about the stunning success of Horgos, On the Chinese side of the border there prepare a timetable for a listing, the sources said. the youngest city of China’s new Silk Road. are five malls selling cheap consumer The CMA declined to comment when contacted by Last month at China’s Belt and Road Summit goods, though traders complain there are Reuters on Sunday. EY did not immediately respond to a - its biggest diplomatic event of the year - not enough visitors. “Sometimes I’ll sit here request to comment. One of the sources said a commit- promotional videos about Horgos’ booming for a whole day and not make a single sale,” tee that is awarding contract for the valuation of the economy ran on a loop at the press centre. said Ma Yinggui, 56, who has a market stall exchange will meet this week. But Chinese business owners and selling clothes. “Some Kazakhs are rich but Kuwait’s stock market is one of the oldest in the prospective investors who had recently vis- most are poor. They come and haggle over a Middle East region. Established officially in the early ited the China-Kazakhstan Horgos 20 yuan ($2.93) t-shirt.” 1980s, it has shrunk in the past few years as dozens of International Border Cooperation Center More than five years after the 5.3 sq km companies have been delisted. (ICBC), told Reuters they were disappointed trade zone opened, much of the Kazakh Under a law passed in 2010, the CMA is supposed to by the disconnect between the hype and side remains empty. offer 50 percent of the shares to Kuwaiti citizens and 50 reality. Rather than the vibrant 21st Century Only 25 of the 63 projects on the Kazakh percent to ten companies already listed on the stock trading post of Beijing’s grand vision, side have investors, according to Ravil exchange. The exchange may, however, offer up to 44 Horgos is instead developing a reputation Budukov, ICBC press secretary on the percent of its shares to a company that has experience in as China’s very own tax haven. Kazakh side. About 3-4,000 people enter operating bourses when it goes public, a senior govern- “We were so unimpressed by what we from Kazakhstan each day and around ment official told Reuters in 2015. Such a move would saw that after looking around for three BEIJING: Restaurant workers carry a big pot out from a restaurant on the outskirts of 10,000 from China, he added. open the way for an international exchange operator hours, we turned around and drove eight Beijing yesterday. Recent indicators have pointed to slowing growth in the Asian The Xinjiang and Horgos governments such as Nasdaq OMX or Euronext to take a stake in one of hours straight back to Urumqi,” said a busi- economic giant as it grapples with weaker global demand, excess industrial capacity declined to make officials available for com- the Middle East’s oldest stock markets. — Reuters nessman from the capital of China’s far and a burgeoning debt problem. — AFP ment to Reuters for this article. — Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 BUSINESS Global markets remain upbeat, GCC flat

KUWAIT: May was a green month for most of the increasing 2.4 percent. Exports and Imports from world, not including the GCC. Global equities ended NBK Capital Monthly Global Markets Review China both rose in May, however not as much as a the month on a positive note, up 1.9 percent. The month earlier. Exports rose 8.0 percent from a year MSCI Emerging Market Index also continued to per- earlier, slowing from a 16.4 percent rise in March. form well, up 2.8 percent. The FTSE 100 was the best reading fell to 56.2 in May from 56.4 in April. Imports increased by 11.9 percent year-on-year to performing, rallying to 4.4 percent. The British mar- Consumer confidence increased to -3.3, its highest $141.9 billion in April, after a 20.3 percent increase ket reached an all-time high of 7,547.63 during the level in nearly a decade, after the election victory of in the previous month. Overall, the country recorded month. Other major markets ended the month with down in April, coming in at 5.57m compared to pro-European centrist Macron. European equities a trade surplus in April of RMB 262.3b compared to gains, whereas the GCC region was down 1.3 per- March’s 10-year high reading of 5.7m. Consumer rose in May by 0.8 percent, as measured by the Stoxx RMB 164.3b in March. The Caixin Manufacturing PMI cent. Commodities had a relatively mixed perform- Sentiment was at 97.1, slightly higher than April’s 97. Europe 600. for the month of May was 49.6 compared to 50.3 in ance for the month, with Gold unchanged at 0 per- US equities were up, closing the month with a the previous month while the Non-Manufacturing cent and Brent down 2.8 percent. gain of 1.2 percent, as measured by the S&P 500. The Japan exports PMI was slightly higher at 54.5 from 54.0 in April. US Manufacturing shrank slightly although UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) Exports from Japan increased by 7.5 percent from Chinese equities, as measured by the Shanghai remained above 50, with the ISM Manufacturing PMI was 56.7 for the month of May. The Consumer Price a year earlier to JPY 6,329.2 billion in April 2017, Stock Exchange Composite Index, reported a loss of - for May coming in at 54.9, slightly higher than April’s Index for April, YoY, was 2.7 percent compared to 2.3 compared to 12.0 percent last month. Imports for 1.2 percent in May. The GCC equity markets were all 54.8. The labor market continues to be healthy with percent in March. Retail sales increased 2.3 percent the same time-period were up 15.1 percent. The red for the month of May, with MSCI GCC Index post- Initial Jobless Claims at 248,000, higher than market month-over-month in April, its biggest gain since Nikkei Manufacturing PMI came in at 53.1 in May, ing a loss of -1.3 percent. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and expectations of 239,000. Durable Goods Orders fell 0.7 January 2016. Consumer confidence fell to -5 in May slightly above the prior month’s reading of 52.7; Saudi Arabia posted the largest losses, closing at -2.2 percent in April, its first decline in 2017. Housing Starts from -7 in the previous month. The Eurozone Markit indicating manufacturing activity continues to percent, -2.1 percent and 2.0 percent, respectively. along with Building Permits also fell in April, down 2.6 Manufacturing PMI for the month of May was 57, expand. Housing starts were down year on year for Oman and Qatar both closed at -1.6 percent, while percent and 2.5 percent, respectively. Retail Sales unchanged from last month. This is the highest the month of April at -1.9 percent compared to 0.2 Kuwait had the least losses, shedding -0.9 percent. gained 0.4 percent in April, missing market expecta- reading since April 2011, as exports rose the most in percent for the month of April. Japanese equities Within the MENA region, Egypt’s equity market, as tions of a 0.6 percent gain. Existing Home Sales was over six years. The Markit Services PMI preliminary were up in May, as measured by the Nikkei 225, measured by the EGX 30 posted a gain of 7.3 percent.

Warba Bank picks Bentall Kennedy as UK new car sales real estate investment advisor in US fall 8.5% in May ahead of election Bank acquires ManpowerGroup HQ in Wisconsin LONDON: British new car registrations fell 8.5 per- cent last month, an industry body said yesterday, KUWAIT: In line with its development strat- $66,500,000 which strategy which aims to diversify the income Wisconsin Entertainment District develop- blaming the decline on the run-up to this week’s egy to position the bank as the Islamic is 99 percent and grow the bank’s investment’s portfolio.” ment. Boasting a modern design with ele- national election and the effect of an April tax hike Corporate and Investment Banking cham- owned by Warba Al-Ghanem further elaborated that Warba gant glass and masonry exterior, the office which boosted demand earlier in the year. pion in Kuwait while reinforcing its interna- and 1 percent by bank aims to expand its real-estate portfo- building was certified LEED Gold for its Car sales dropped to 186,265 vehicles in May, tional real-estate investment’s program, Bentall Kennedy. lio in USA vertical markets and is currently energy efficiency in 2007, and was awarded with a 14 percent slump in demand to consumers Warba Bank is proud to announce that it Warba Bank’s studying a number of opportunities guar- the Best New Development Office by the and a 5.3 percent drop in fleet business registra- has recently signed a partnership agree- investment in this anteed to provide rewarding incomes and Business Journal Real Estate Awards in tions, according to data from the Society of Motor ment with Bentall Kennedy, one of the property is approx- complies with the bank’s prime policy for 2008. The company recently extended their Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). largest global real estate investment advi- imately $29 million investment and risk criteria. headquarters lease through 2031. “We expected demand in the new car market sors in the USA. By the terms of the agree- which is equivalent He said: “the bank’s Investment Banking Warba bank has recently acquired a to remain negative in May due to the pull-for- ment, Bentall Kennedy is to represent to KD8.8 million. Group is fully committed to make risk miti- newly constructed sole UK KIA vehicle ward to March,” SMMT Chief Executive Mike Warba Bank, as its real estate investment’s This is expected to gated investments strictly following the imports/exports facility strategically locat- Shaheen Hamed Hawes said, referring to a rise in vehicle excise advisor with a new US focused real estate generate over 8 investment policies and procedures with ed on Kiln Lane Industrial Estate, just one Al-Ghanem, Warba duty which boosted demand before it came into investment mandate, and as co-investor. As percent cash the target of generating secured long term and a half miles from the docks at nearby Bank’s CEO effect in April. part of this initiative, Warba bank has increase and IRR returns for the bank and its investors.” Immingham, which receives imported “Added to this, the general election was always acquired the ManpowerGroup for Warba Bank after all expenses and taxes. The ManpowerGroup Headquarters is vehicles from Korea to UK, and also from likely to give many pause for thought and affect Headquarters, a 280,000-square foot office About the bank’s new partnership with an institutionally maintained, Class A asset other manufacturing plants in Europe. The purchasing patterns in the short term,” he said. building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This Bentall Kennedy, Shaheen Hamed Al- situated directly on the Milwaukee River in Ports of Immingham and Grimsby com- Demand for diesel continued to fall last month with investment is the first real estate transac- Ghanem, Warba Bank’s CEO said: “our part- the Downtown West submarket of the city. bined are the UK’s largest ports by ton- demand down 20 percent, as a series of tax hikes in tion that Bentall Kennedy and Warba Bank nership with Bentall Kennedy comes in-line The property is located one half mile north nage, handling up to 60 million tones, London and possible levies in other cities continued have done in partnership. with the bank’s vigorous international real of the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, and including nearly 20 million tons of oil and to dampen demand. —Reuters The purchase price of the property is estate investment program and fulfils our adjacent to the broader $1 billion 10 million tons of coal per annum. WB says trade, manufacturing to boost 2017 global growth

WASHINGTON: The World Bank on in exports and unconventional mone- Sunday maintained its forecast that tary easing are helping to support global growth will improve to 2.7 per- growth. cent this year, citing a pickup in manu- The World Bank said US growth facturing and trade, improved market also is improving but it shaved 0.1 confidence and a recovery in com- percentage point off its forecast for modity prices. The update of the mul- 2017 to 2.1 percent after weak growth tilateral development lender’s Global early in the year caused by a pullback Economic Prospects report marked in consumer spending it viewed as the first time in several years that its temporary. It slightly lifted its 2018 US June forecasts were not reduced from growth forecast to 2.2 percent. those published in January due to ris- It left unchanged its forecast that ing growth risks. China’s growth would slow to 6.5 per- The World Bank’s 2017 global cent from 6.7 percent last year and growth forecast of 2.7 percent com- predicted that commodity exporters pares to its 2.4 percent estimate for Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Russia 2016, a figure that was increased by a will see recessions end and positive tenth of a percentage point since growth resume this year. PYONGYANG: In a photo taken on Sunday, shoppers browse products on display at the Kwangbok, or ‘liberation’, department store in Pyongyang. —AFP January. But the World Bank warned that The World Bank said advanced new trade restrictions could derail the economies were showing signs of recovery in trade that is benefiting South Korea unveils $10bn improvement, especially Japan and many advanced and developing Europe, while the seven largest economies, citing actions being con- emerging markets - China, Brazil, templated by the Trump administra- stimulus to boost jobs, welfare Mexico, India, Indonesia, Turkey and tion. Such restrictions could fall dis- Russia - were again helping to drive proportionately on China and other SEOUL: South Korea launched yesterday a $10 bil- while young job seekers, small businesses and tech sions has slowed more recently. Economic frustra- global growth. Asian economies, the bank said. lion stimulus package to create jobs and bolster wel- startups will also be helped. Financial assistance will tions were among the factors that fuelled the mass “With a fragile but real recovery “Significant disruption to China’s fare programs in the country faced with slow growth be increased for women on maternity leave, more anti-corruption protests that saw former president now under way, countries should exports would undermine its growth and ageing population. The 11.2-trillion won plan is daycare centres and nursing homes for the elderly Park Geun-Hye impeached and arrested over cor- seize this moment to undertake insti- with large spillovers on the region,” the first since Moon Jae-In was elected president of are to be opened, while businesses hiring more full- ruption.Moon has described creating jobs, especial- tutional and market reforms that can the bank said in the report. Asia’s fourth-largest economy last month and the time workers are to be given extra funding. ly for the young, as a top policy priority. attract private investment to help sus- “Furthermore, trade-restricting meas- finance ministry said it will be mostly funded by tax “We launched this extra budget as the high unem- Unemployment among under-30s hit 11.2 percent tain growth in the long term,” World ures in the United States could trigger revenue rather than issuing state bonds. ployment rate among young South Koreans will not in April, more than double the rate for the entire Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a retaliatory measures.” Under the proposals, Seoul will spend 4.2 trillion be solved without drastic measures,” Park Chun-Sup, working population. South Korea’s economic statement. The bank boosted its 2017 It said exports and investment in won to help create 110,000 jobs-including 71,000 in the ministry’s chief of budget, told reporters. “There is growth, which hit 2.8 percent in both 2015 and growth forecast for Japan by 0.6 per- Mexico also could be negatively the public sector-while 7 trillion won will be set a concern over a potential mass unemployment... we 2016, is expected to further slow to 2.6 percent this centage point since January to 1.5 affected by the looming renegotiation aside for welfare for the elderly, working mothers have nearly 1.2 million young, jobless people,” he year, according to the central Bank of Korea. The percent, while the eurozone’s forecast of the North American Free Trade and low-income households. said.Decades of rapid growth saw the South rise from country’s birthrate is one of the world’s lowest and was increased by 0.2 percentage point Agreement, causing spillovers to Among the new jobs being targeted are firefight- the ashes of the Korean War to become a member of has led to concerns about the burden of welfare to 1.7 percent. In both cases, a pickup Central America as well. —Reuters ers, police, assistant teachers and social workers, the OECD group of leading economies, but expan- funding for the ageing population. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.135 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 313.810 Indian Rupee 0.004160 0.004848 Australian Dollar 228.300 Thai Bhat 9.880 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 US Dollar Buying 303.200 Turkish Lira 86.480 ASIAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 0.002667 0.002847 Japanese Yen 2.745 GOLD Kenyan Shilling 0.003027 0.003027 Indian Rupees 4.713 20 Gram 257.510 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL Korean Won 0.000260 0.000275 Pkistani Rupees 2.901 10 Gram 131.680 Malaysian Ringgit 0.066877 0.072877 Srilankan Rupees 1.987 5 Gram 66.680 CURRENCY BUY SELL Nepalese Rupee 0.002985 0.003155 Nepali Rupees 2.958 Pakistan Rupee 0.002709 0.002999 Singapore Dollar 220.740 Europe Hongkong Dollar 39.033 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd British Pound 0.385779 0.395779 Philippine Peso 0.005989 0.006289 Bangladesh Taka 3.766 Czech Korune 0.004998 0.016998 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Philippine Peso 6.112 Danish Krone 0.041975 0.046975 Singapore Dollar 0.214597 0.224597 Rate for Transfr Selling Rate Thai Baht 8.947 Euro 0. 337845 0.346845 South African Rand 0.017755 0.026255 US Dollar 303.900 Norwegian Krone 0.032067 0.037267 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001604 0.002184 Canadian Dolla 225.785 GCC COUNTRIES Romanian Leu 0.084167 0.084167 Taiwan 0.009722 0.009902 Saudi Riyal 81.227 Sterling Pound 392.035 Slovakia 0.009067 0.019067 Thai Baht 0.008576 0.009126 Qatari Riyal 83.661 Euro 343.070 Swedish Krona 0.031179 0.036179 Omani Riyal 791.060 Swiss Frank 296.080 Bahraini Dinar 808.820 Swiss Franc 0.309625 0.320625 Arab Bahrain Dinar 806.040 UAE Dirham 82.931 Turkish Lira 0.080771 0.091071 Bahraini Dinar 0.799000 0.807500 UAE Dirhams 83.135 Egyptian Pound 0.013962 0.019870 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyals 84.355 Australasia Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Egyptian Pound - Cash 19.300 Saudi Riyals 81.935 Australian Dollar 0.218341 0.230341 Iraqi Dinar 0.000189 0.000249 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 16.754 Jordanian Dinar 428.454 New Zealand Dollar 0.211100 0.220600 Jordanian Dinar 0.422888 0.431988 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.223 Egyptian Pound 16.923 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Tunisian Dinar 126.310 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.987 Lebanese Pound 0.000156 0.00256 Jordanian Dinar 429.340 America Moroccan Dirhams 0.019728 0.043728 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.029 Indian Rupees 4.718 Canadian Dollar 0.220028 0.22928 Syrian Lira 2.170 Pakistani Rupees 2.898 Georgina Lari 0.137166 0.137166 Nigerian Naira 0.001254 0.001889 Morocco Dirham 31.708 Bangladesh Taka 3.772 US Dollars 0.299600 0.304000 Omani Riyal 0.782411 0.788091 Philippines Pesso 6.109 US Dollars Mint 0.300100 0.304000 Qatar Riyal 0.082607 0.084057 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 167.712 Saudi Riyal 0.079900 0.081200 US Dollar Transfer 304.400 Japanese Yen 3.735 Asia Syrian Pound 0.001287 0.001507 Euro 342.150 Syrian Pound 2.420 Bangladesh Taka 0.003378 0.003962 Tunisian Dinar 0.121778 0.129778 Sterling Pound 391.610 Nepalese Rupees 3.945 Chinese Yuan 0.043223 0.046723 Turkish Lira 0.080771 0.091071 Canadian dollar 226.990 UAE Dirhams 0.081261 0.082961 Turkish lira 86.480 Malaysian Ringgit 71.750 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037046 0.039796 Yemeni Riyal 0.000987 0.001067 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 BUSINESS

Trump to push for $1 trillion overhaul of roads and bridges

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump such as health care and taxes, come first Cohn said governors and mayors are Amtrak subsidies, the elimination of an appetite for working with the president is launching a major push for a $1 trillion on a fast-closing legislative calendar. scheduled meet with Trump at the White infrastructure investment program start- as he faces inquiries into Russia and overhaul of the nation’s roads and But modernizing the nation’s infrastruc- House on Thursday for a listening session ed under Obama and a more than $90 takes a combative approach overall, bridges, a key item on his agenda that’s ture remains a challenge with broad focused on the efficient use of tax dollars billion drop-off in congressional support from Comey’s firing to the withdrawal been stymied in Congress and overshad- public support. for infrastructure projects. for the Highway Trust Fund over 10 years. from the Paris climate agreement. owed by White House controversies. Trump’s push to revamp deteriorating On Friday, Trump will visit the Democrats have also been critical of “If the obstructionists want to get Trump plans a series of events this roads, bridges, airports and railways aims Transportation Department to discuss Trump’s interest in forging public-private together with me, let’s make them non- coming week to highlight his effort to to unlock economic growth and succeed regulatory changes related to roads and partnerships instead of more traditional obstructionists,” Trump said Thursday, modernize American infrastructure - the in an area where his predecessor, former railways. Trump has noted that the spending on infrastructure projects. At discussing his plans to exit the Paris cli- highway, waterway, electrical and air- President Barack Obama, was repeatedly approval process for permits frequently the same time, many conservative mate pact. “We will all sit down and we way systems on which the nation oper- thwarted by a Republican-led Congress. can drag on for a decade and has Republicans have been wary of the idea will get back into the deal. And we’ll ates. His campaign for public and pri- “It doesn’t matter who you are, pressed to shorten the length of the of a massive government investment. make it good, and we won’t be closing vate funding for the projects is expect- whether you are farmer in the Midwest, review process. And with Republicans in control of up our factories, and we won’t be losing ed to run from the White House, where or a mother driving your kids to and Trump’s focus on infrastructure fol- Congress, Democrats have shown little our jobs.” —AP he’ll speak about upgrading air traffic from school, or a worker or a college kid lows the government’s monthly jobs control, to Ohio on inland waterways flying back and forth to school, you’re report, which showed hiring slowing and through meetings with mayors, affected by infrastructure,” said White down in May. The economy has added governors and Transportation House economic adviser Gary Cohn said an average of 121,000 jobs over the past Department officials. in a conference call with reporters. three months, down from a monthly The Trump administration has strug- Cohn said the nation was “falling average of nearly 187,000 last year gled to gain traction on many of its eco- behind and the falling behind is affect- despite Trump’s promotion of his eco- nomic policies. Job growth has slowed in ing economic growth in the United nomic prescriptions. recent months instead of accelerating as States. The president wants to fix the On infrastructure, the administration the president predicted. Trump has said problems and he doesn’t want to push has pointed to plans for a package of tax he has tax legislation moving through these liabilities into the future.” breaks meant to help spur $1 trillion in Congress but his effort has been stalled new spending on roads, bridges and and no bill has been written. His budget Key priority other construction during the next plan released during his foreign trip Trump was set to outline his legisla- decade. It also would drastically shorten included math errors that enabled the tive principles for overhauling the air project approval times. According to White House to falsely claim that its tax traffic control system, using a White Trump’s budget proposal, the funding plan would deliver both faster growth House address to propose separating air would come from $200 billion in tax and a balanced budget. traffic control operations from the breaks over nine years that would then - Trump’s agenda has been overshad- Federal Aviation Administration, a key in theory - leverage $1 trillion worth of owed by ongoing probes into whether priority for US airlines. construction. Trump campaign officials or associates The president plans to travel to Ohio A senior White House official has said BOULDER CITY: In this May 19, 2017 photo, a man works on the colluded with Russian officials to influ- on Wednesday to address ways of the infrastructure plan might also incen- Southern Nevada portion of US Interstate 11 near Boulder City, ence the 2016 election, as well as scruti- improving levees, dams and locks along tivize local governments to sell their Nevada. President Donald Trump is planning a major push next week ny over Trump’s firing of FBI Director inland waterways that are crucial to agri- existing infrastructure to private firms. to promote a $1 trillion rebuilding of the nation’s roads and bridges as James Comey - who is scheduled to testi- cultural exports. His visit is expected to But Democrats have warned that the his agenda has struggled in Congress and been overshadowed by fy on Capitol Hill on Thursday. include a speech likely to touch on part- Trump budget reduces infrastructure White House controversies. —AP And other policies on the agenda, nering with states and local governments. spending elsewhere, including cuts to KFH holds 20 workshops on Economists expect slower customer protection in 2017 KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House grams were attended by top US growth, says survey (KFH) has organized over 20 officials and employees from workshops during the first half of various levels. 2017 to introduce and train vari- Al-Fadhli added that the ous levels of administrative staff guide includes very impor- US services firms expanded, but slower pace in May on the ‘Customers Protection tant set of regulations that Guide’ issued by the Central Bank had been previously issued DETROIT: Forecasts for US eco- over one-third of the panelists say Services slowly, while a measure of employ- of Kuwait to highlight general by the Central Bank, making nomic growth are coming in trade protectionism, a strong US US services companies expanded ment showed companies stepped principles used to enhance cus- KFH up-to-date. These slightly lower after a weak first dollar and higher interest rates at a slightly slower pace in May com- up hiring. Growth has likely picked tomer protection in the banking instructions are to introduce quarter, according to a survey of could pose a risk to the economy pared with the previous month, a up in the April-June quarter after a sector. new measures to train business economists released in 2018. But 60 percent say there’s sign that modest economic growth sluggish start to the year. In this regard, KFH’s head of customer’s employees as well as boost customers’ yesterday. more chance of an upside risk is likely to continue. The Institute for Americans are spending a bit complaints unit, Abdullatif Saad Al-Fadhli awareness about the guide that was The National Association for thanks to expected corporate tax Supply Management, a trade group more, which boosts services firms, said that the workshops and training pro- uploaded on KFH’s website. Business Economists says it’s reform, individual tax cuts and of purchasing managers, says its such as retailers, restaurants and expecting gross domestic product infrastructure spending. Nearly all services index slipped last month to hotels. Economists forecast growth growth of 2.2 percent this year and the panelists - 95 percent - think 56.9 from 57.5 in April. Any reading will reach an annual pace of 3 per- 2.4 percent in 2018. Those fore- the chance of a recession this year above 50 indicates expansion. cent, up from just 1.2 percent in the casts are down 0.1 percentage is 25 percent or less. Sales and new orders grew more January-March quarter. —AP points from a survey in March. The survey is based on responses from 52 professional forecasters. The gross domestic product - the broadest gauge of the economy - expanded in the January-March quarter at a 1.2 percent annual rate. That was better than initially fore- cast, but still weak. Unseasonably warm weather was one reason for the slow growth, since it limited spending on utilities. Economists forecast GDP growth will rise 3.1 percent in the April-June period and 2.5 percent in the second half of the year. They’re forecasting solid hiring and a low, 4.5-percent unemployment rate, which should help boost con- sumer spending. Inflation also is TOKYO: A woman looks at an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in expected to remain in check Tokyo yesterday. Asian stock markets were mixed yesterday following the Most of the economists sur- London attack over the weekend and a private survey showing improve- veyed believe President Donald ment in China’s service sector. —AP Trump will enact an infrastruc- ture plan and cut corporate and individual taxes before the end Election jitters and consumer of 2018. That will have a posi- NEWPORT BEACH: Rock Cod fresh from the Pacific Ocean are sold at Dory’s Fleet Fish Market in tive impact on economic Newport Beach, California, early on Sunday. Once filled with many different types of fish, the squeeze hit British services growth, but likely not until increase in global overfishing has threatened the supply in the world’s oceans and according to 2018, the survey said. the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 90 percent of the world’s fisheries are LONDON: Britain’s services sector grew less Services drag down average There are downside risks. Just either being fully exploited, or are at risk of collapsing. —AFP than expected and car sales dropped last The large size of Britain’s services industry month, as businesses and consumers put off means its decline outweighed last week’s big decisions before this week’s national elec- stronger-than-expected surveys for manufac- tion, dampening expectations of a strong turers and construction firms, dragging the US mulls possible sanctions rebound from a weak first quarter. all-sector index to its lowest since February as British economic growth slowed to just 0.2 well. Britain was one of the fastest-growing against Venezuela oil sector percent in the first three months of this year - major advanced economies last year, and the weakest among the world’s top advanced since then the number of people in work has WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is decision on it. But all options are on the table. economies - as the cost of the pound’s fall fol- risen to a record high - a fact May has high- considering possible sanctions on Venezuela’s We want to see the bad actors held to lowing last year’s Brexit vote caught up with lighted as she campaigns for re-election. vital energy sector, including state oil company account.” The US deliberations on new sanc- consumers. Many economists have said they But the opposition Labor Party has homed PDVSA, senior White House officials said, in tions come against the backdrop of the worst expect growth in the current quarter to par- in on how wages are now rising more slowly what would be a major escalation of US efforts protests faced yet by socialist President Nicolas tially rebound to around 0.4 or 0.5 percent, than prices, after a pick-up in inflation driven to pressure the country’s embattled leftist gov- Maduro, who critics accuse of human rights but some said that weakness in yesterday’s largely by sterling’s fall of more than 10 per- ernment amid a crackdown on the opposition. abuses in a clampdown on the opposition. services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) cent since last year’s Brexit vote. The services The idea of striking at the core of Since Trump took office in January, he has made this less likely. PMI does not cover retailers, who suffered Venezuela’s economy, which relies on oil for stepped up targeted sanctions on Venezuela, “The pullback in the services PMI in May their worst quarter since 2010 in the first some 95 percent of export revenues, has been including on the vice president, the chief from April’s four-month high is a setback to three months of the year, and appear to have discussed at high levels of the administration as judge and seven other Supreme Court justices. widespread hopes that the economy’s slow- struggled again last month after a brief part of a wide-ranging review of US options, He has pressed the Organization of American down in the first quarter will be fleeting,” said respite in April. but officials said it remains under debate and States to do more to help resolve the crisis. Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at The Bank of England has shown little inter- action is not imminent. While Trump has taken a more active Pantheon Macroeconomics. Financial data est in raising interest rates to tackle what it The officials, speaking on condition of approach to Venezuela than his predecessor company IHS Markit, which published the sur- sees as a temporary spike in inflation this year anonymity, told Reuters the United States Barack Obama, he has so far stopped short of vey, said the services PMI hit a three-month to just under 3 percent, especially as it expects could hit PDVSA as part of a “sectoral” sanctions drastic economic moves that could hurt the low of 53.8 in May, down from 55.8 the month growth to slow next year as Brexit nears. package that would take aim at the OPEC Venezuelan people and give Maduro ammuni- before and at the low end of forecasts in a The services PMI suggested inflation may nation’s entire energy industry for the first time. tion to accuse Washington of meddling. Reuters poll of economists. be starting to ease in the sector. Average But they made clear that the administration The two administration officials said the “Optimism about the year ahead is run- prices charged rose at the slowest pace since is moving cautiously, mindful that if such an United States is also prepared to impose fur- ning below the long-run average, weighed November, while corporate costs grew at the unprecedented step is taken it could deepen ther sanctions on senior officials it accuses of down principally by concerns over Brexit, slowest rate in eight months, despite a pick- the country’s economic and social crisis, in corruption, drug trafficking ties and involve- political uncertainty and weaker spending by up in salaries. which millions suffer food shortages and soar- ment in what critics see as a campaign of polit- households,” IHS Markit economist Chris But new orders flowed in at the slowest ing inflation. Two months of anti-government ical repression aimed at consolidating Williamson said. Separate figures from British pace since February. Some businesses said it unrest has left more than 60 people dead. Maduro’s rule. car dealers and manufacturers showed new was probably a temporary lull as customers Another complicating factor would be the But broad measures against the country’s registrations last month were more than 8 delayed decisions until after the election. potential impact on oil shipments to the vital oil sector - for which the United States is percent lower than a year before. The Society Others said there was heightened concern United States, for which Venezuela is the third the biggest customer - would significantly of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said this about the economic outlook as well as largest oil supplier after Canada and Saudi ratchet up Washington’s response. The United reflected pre-election uncertainty, as well as “intense competition” for new work due to Arabia. It accounted for 8 percent of US oil States has imposed sectoral sanctions against tax rises that took effect in April. squeezed consumer budgets. Also yesterday, imports in March, according to US government Russia’s energy, banking and defense indus- There was little move in sterling after the Britain’s main body for manufacturers revised figures. tries over Moscow’s involvement in Ukraine’s data, which came as markets digested the up its forecast for growth in the sector to 1.3 “It’s being considered,” one of the officials separatist conflict. The officials declined to impact of Saturday’s van and knife attack on percent this year from 1.0 percent, citing a told Reuters, saying aides to President Donald specify the mechanisms under consideration London Bridge, as well as opinion polls show- stronger world economy, but said they Trump have been tasked to have a recommen- and said the timing of any decision would ing Prime Minister Theresa May’s lead has con- expected this to slow to 0.5 percent next year dation on oil sector sanctions ready if needed. depend heavily on developments on the tinued to shorten. as Brexit nears. —Reuters “I don’t think we’re at a point to make a ground in Venezuela. —Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 BUSINESS Global markets drop after London attacks

LONDON: World stock markets were mostly low- ior market analyst at London Capital Group. raids and arrested “a number of people” yester- weekend events in London and the flaki- Labour Party has narrowed but is still er yesterday as traders reacted to the latest ter- “Global equities are flat to negative as investors day after the Islamic State group claimed an ness of the polls in predicting what the out- intact. US nonfarm payrolls rose by 138,000 ror attacks in London that have come ahead of a take risk off the table ahead of a busy week for attack by knife-wielding men who mowed come of Thursday’s general election vote is in May, Labor Department data showed on British general election later this week. Markets politics and macroeconomics,” said Accendo down and stabbed revellers in London, killing likely to be,” said Michael Hewson, chief Friday, suggesting the labor market was reacted also to Friday’s poorly-received US jobs Markets analyst, Henry Croft. seven people before being shot dead by police. market analyst at CMC Markets UK. losing momentum despite the unemploy- data and an escalating diplomatic crisis involv- Forex.com analyst Fawad Razaqzada agreed. It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May seeks ment rate falling to a 16-year low of 4.3 ing Qatar and Gulf neighbors. “It is going to be a big week for the markets this to keep her Conservative party in government ‘Ugly’ jobs report percent. Economists polled by Reuters had After opening slightly higher, London’s one, especially towards the end of it,” he said, and steer Britain through the Brexit process fol- Occupying investors’ minds was also a predicted an increase of 185,000. While benchmark FTSE 100 index was down around pointing to the British general election, the lowing the general election on Thursday. US employment report that showed wages market participants still expect the US cen- 0.4 percent by mid-afternoon, compared with European Central Bank’s policy meeting and tes- Elsewhere yesterday, Asian stock markets growth and hiring coming in below expec- tral bank to raise interest rates this month, the close on Friday-”as investors digest last timony by former FBI Director James Comey in began the week mostly lower as investors tations and testing confidence in the global many expect a more dovish course for the week’s soft US jobs report, another terror attack the United States. In the eurozone yesterday, the mulled the impact of the weekend terror attack economic outlook. “‘Ugly’ best describes second half of this year. in London in the run up to the UK election and a Paris CAC 40 was more than half a percent lower, that saw the pound lose ground. Friday’s US employment report,” said “The pessimistic story of the jobs data (brief) jump in oil prices after a breakdown in while Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index was shut for a “The pound is expected to remain volatile Stephen Innes, senior trader at Oanda.On should weigh on the dollar as the Fed is still Middle East diplomacy”, said Jasper Lawler, sen- German public holiday. Police carried out more this week against the backdrop of the tragic commodity markets, oil prices were flat expected to hike rates in June, but most after a short rally, while gold hit a five-week market participants believe it won’t hike for high at $1,282.16 an ounce thanks to its a long time after that, and maybe not in status as a haven investment. Daniel Hynes, September or December,” said Masashi an analyst in Sydney at Australia & New Murata, currency strategist for Brown Zealand Banking Group, said the decision Brothers Harriman in Tokyo. by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab The dollar added 0.2 percent against the Emirates and Egypt to sever ties with Qatar, yen to 110.57 after brushing a two-week citing its support for terrorism, would have low of 110.25 earlier in the session, while minimal impact on crude prices. the euro fell 0.2 percent to $1.1265 after ris- “On the face of it, it could present a risk, ing to a seven-month high of $1.1285. but I don’t think there is too much in the Slumping Treasury yields also weighed Qatar situation,” he told Bloomberg News. on the US dollar, with the yield on the “Geopolitical risks haven’t really been that benchmark 10-year note at 2.169 percent influential in recent times and I don’t think in Asian trading, not far from their Friday that will change too much.” low of 2.144 percent, which was their low- est since Nov 10. Net long positions on the Dollar edges up US dollar fell sharply in the latest week The dollar edged up yesterday, but through May 30 to their lowest since remained not far from the seven-month September, according to calculations by low it plumbed against a currency basket Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading after disappointing US employment data Commission data released on Friday. prompted investors to pare back expecta- At the same time, euro net long posi- tions of US Federal Reserve rate hikes. tions have risen to a more than six-year The dollar index, which tracks the green- high, the CFTC data showed, in line with back against a basket of six major curren- the improving eurozone economy. Sterling cies, edged up 0.1 percent to 96.798 , not shed 0.2 percent to $1.2868. “We’re seeing far from Friday’s nadir of 96.654, its lowest some position-squaring ahead of the elec- since Nov. 9. Sterling slipped, under pres- tion now,” said Kumiko Ishikawa, FX market sure after the third terrorist attack in Britain analyst at Sony Financial Holdings in Tokyo. in less than three months killed at least sev- “The broader backdrop is that Brexit is en people on Saturday. The attack came going to have many minuses for the UK days ahead of Thursday’s UK election, in economy going forward, and these con- which polls show British Prime Minister cerns will remain no matter what the short- Theresa May’s lead over the opposition term impact is,” she said. —Agencies

SEOUL: Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul yesterday. — AP Anger simmers across Mexican sugarcane fields over NAFTA risks ZACATEPEC, Mexico: Anger is simmering Zacatepec, a village about 80 miles (130 across a lush swathe of Mexico among km) south of the Mexican capital. poor sugar cane farmers who face a major Corruption scandals, lackluster economic blow from trade talks in Washington on growth and surging violence have also Monday, in an ominous preview of the cratered the popularity of President high-stakes re-negotiation of the NAFTA Enrique Pena Nieto and the once-domi- agreement set to begin in August. nant PRI ahead of elections in four states The United States and Mexico have on Sunday. The marquee contest is a gov- until Monday to modify a 2014 agree- ernor’s race in the country’s most popu- ment that set quotas and a price floor on lous state that has always been governed Mexican sugar. US sugar refiners say by the PRI but could be captured by the Mexico’s exports are subsidized, under- hand-picked candidate of leftist Andres cutting their business and that the agree- Manuel Lopez Obrador, the early presi- ment failed to stop dumping. dential front-runner who has a strong fol- A new deal could significantly reduce lowing among poor Mexicans. access to the lucrative US market for some 190,000 Mexican farmers, a fifth of Deep cuts whose sugar last year was sold to US buy- Cane farmers fear loss of income if an ers, and risks triggering tit-for-tat tariffs impasse leads to tariffs as high as 80 per- that could hurt US corn. cent on some sugar exports, or a deal With 2.4 million people estimated to leads to a deep cut in the amount of high earn livelihoods from sugar across 15 value refined sugar exported to the states in Mexico, the spat may also serve United States. Mills pay for cane accord- as an example of the political minefield ing to a formula based on the market val- the government will face in a broader ue of sugar. trade talks later this year that could affect Under NAFTA, Mexico and the United jobs in the thriving manufacturing sector. States gradually liberalized sugar trade US President Donald Trump triggered and by 2008 it was tariff-free. However, the 90-day start to NAFTA re-negotiations since late 2014 the trade has been gov- last month, following up on his long- erned by a so-called suspension agree- standing criticism of the 23-year-old free ment that sets minimum prices and trade pact between the United States, export quotas on Mexican producers, Mexico and Canada, arguing it is unfair to after the US threatened to impose stiff American workers and must be reworked. antidumping and anti-subsidy duties. Feeling used by the government, US negotiators are seeking to reduce Mexican cane farmers are fuming, further volumes of refined Mexican sugar from 53 eroding already flagging support for percent to as low as 15 percent of the annu- Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary al export quota, Mexican industry sources Party, or PRI, ahead of a 2018 presidential say, which would push Mexican producers vote, just as a leftist nationalist is making toward lower-value raw sugar sales. In the inroads into its traditional bastions. Cane same vein, US industry is also seeking to growers have been strong supporters of lower Mexican sugar’s polarity, a measure of the PRI and its forefathers since revolu- quality, from 99.5 percent to 99.2 percent. tionary hero Emiliano Zapata helped “All companies want to reach the final sweep away the hacienda system in the consumer because that’s where you get early 20th century, replacing it with small the best price. So it’s only fair that holdings and land collectives. But the (Mexican) companies also sell their sugar farmers now accuse the government of to final consumers,” said Pedro Ocampo, bowing to US pressure. On Friday the cane head of the Zacatepec cane farmer growers association, traditionally a union. US demand reached some 12 mil- staunch PRI ally, published a rare open let- lion tons of refined sugar last year, and ter in national newspapers accusing the prices for raw sugar average about 6 government of using sugar as a “bargain- cents per pound, the highest price any- ing chip” in the wider trade negotiations. where in the world. “We don’t believe anything the PRI Last year, Mexico exported 1.13 mil- says anymore. We just don’t,” said Narciso lion tons to the United States, 93 percent Hernandez, a 74-year-old farmer standing of Mexico’s sugar exports, according to beside a field of swaying cane in the economy ministry. — Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 BUSINESS Mercedes-Benz collection 2017 A new range of irresistible accessories

KUWAIT: The new Mercedes-Benz 2017 Collection catalogue is out now and is available at Boutique and accessory locations of A R Albisher & Z Alkazemi Co Kuwait. The extensive range of top quality lifestyle collection and popular merchandise for both adults and chil- dren have also arrived. Showcasing the new items, the Mercedes- Benz collection catalogue displays over 500 products across 146 pages, with a wide variety of high quality watches, clothing, cufflinks, sunglasses, pens, sporting accessories, travel goods, key rings, gift ideas, AMG and Maybach equipment. The new selection also con- tains official replica products of race drivers, stylish Hugo Boss polo shirts, as well as the noble products of the Driver’s Choice Collection from MAYBACH - ICONS OF LUXURY. Among other things, the 2017 catalogue features the all new noble automatic wristwatches: “MB Classic” and “MB Sportive Young GMT”, both made of solid stainless steel. The Classic wristwatch has an outward-arched dial with elements inspired by the dashboard of the historic 500K model. The Sportive Young GMT wristwatch has a black dial with several unique levels, as well as an imitation of the rhombic optics of the current S-Class interior. Bracelets made from black and blue Swarovski Crystals also offer a fitting accessory for the style-conscious woman. Mercedes-Benz is a brand of uncompromising quality which extends across its full range of products, from the road to the bou- tique. The new additions to the Boutique and Accessories collection offers customers and fans of Mercedes-Benz, a chance to extend their love for the brand whether buying for themselves or as a per- fect gift for their loved ones. Customers can visit the main Boutique and Accessory corner in Shuwaikh service centre from Sat-Thu 8 am to 2 pm during the holy month of Ramadan. Your ultimate guide to enjoying summer in and around London The London low-down

KUWAIT: Celebrated around the continues to honour many long- from Friday 30 June through to can go behind-the-scenes of the world for its diverse arts and culture, standing traditions not least, a royal Sunday 9 July. widely popular Harry Potter film cutting-edge fashion, and iconic patronage and eating strawberries series, located at the Studios and landmarks, London can often be a and cream. Notting Hill Carnival: Sunday, 27 see where all the magic began. maze for travellers choosing what to August - Monday, 28 August 2017 Walk into authentic sets and experi- do in and around the United British Summer Time - Kings of One of Europe’s biggest street ence for yourself the charm and Kingdom capital. British Airways, Leon: Thursday 6 July parties offers visitors a myriad of spirit that brought the characters to who proudly calls the bustling city The ‘Barclaycard presents British colour across the two-days, with a life. The Studio Cafe offers a popu- of London home, is offering return Summer Time Hyde Park’ is an annu- daily carnival parade, stunning lar British tradition, afternoon tea, fares starting from as little as KD124, al music festival that takes place floats and creatively costumed along with freshly prepared food and a few highlights to make the over two weekends at London’s dancers weaving their way through and baked items. most of the Great British Summer. Hyde Park. Possibly one of the most the streets of London. You will find From historic sporting events famous parks anywhere in the it hard not to move along to the Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix: SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in points to a bulletin board which and music festivals, to palaces and Friday, 14 July - Sunday, 16 July offers a quick summary of current conditions in the country’s employment magical attractions, London and the One for the motor heads and market and highlights the emphasis the new president and his government surrounding counties provide the those who love to party, the week- place on creating jobs, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul. —AP perfect reason for a holiday this end long Grand Prix is a must- summer, whether it be a family attend event on the international vacation, or long weekend getaway. F1 calendar, with tickets starting British Airways’ crew have put from GBP 60. Hailed as one of the Markaz: MENA markets together a list of dates you need to fastest circuits in the world by F1 mark in your calendar, and activities drivers, the Silverstone circuit tumble in line with oil to add to your travel must-do list: attracts serious car enthusiasts and the creme of the F1 community for KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” tively. DP world is expected to expand its opera- Royal Ascot 2017: Tuesday, 21 a truly great annual sporting event. recently released its Monthly Market Research tions to countries such as Russia. It has already June - Saturday, 24 June Visitors can make the most of the report. In this report, Markaz examines and ana- obtained permission for the container opera- The Royal Ascot is unarguably motoring championship and camp lyzes the performance of equity markets in the tion of Santos port in Brazil. Expansionary activi- the UK’s most expensive horse race, out over the weekend if they have MENA region as well as the global equity mar- ties improved investor sentiment over the attracting the world’s finest race- kets for the month of May 2017. prospects of the company. Among companies horses to compete for more than MENA markets, with the exception of Egypt that lost, Ezdan Holding plunged by 27.5 per- GBP 6.58 million in prize money. closed in the red for the month of May. Dubai, cent followed by Kuwait Projects Company that New this year, visitors can now enjoy Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Qatar markets dipped 15.7 percent last month. Ezdan holding’s the best of British summer and rac- shed 2.2 percent, 2.1 percent, 2 percent and 1.6 shareholders have given preliminary approval ing with the roll out of The Village percent respectively. Middle East funds pulled for the company’s plans for delisting leading to Enclosure priced at GBP 67. This out of the UAE markets in view of soft real the selling pressure in the market. addition includes pop up and al- estate activity and tight liquidity prevailing fresco dining, adult beverage bars, causing the Dubai and Abu Dhabi markets to Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia - Deals, fine dining restaurants and an decline. Despite positive events such as Trump’s Diplomacy and investor confidence unmissable atmosphere with live visit and MSCI announcing that the inclusion of It was indeed beneficial to the kingdom of music all day long. Saudi Arabia that Mr. Donald Trump made it the choice of his maiden international visit. Henley Royal Regatta: Wednesday, The visit and the volume of deals signed has 28 June - Sunday, 2 July three-day tickets to the Grand Prix. put to rest some of the anxieties related to his The highlight of the British sum- The camping grounds are adjacent ascent to power. Trump’s visit has surely added mer and the ultimate social event in to and within 150m of Club Corner feed to the diversification, especially through the June calendar, the Henley Royal at the South of the circuit with various deals signed in defense and infrastruc- Regatta is the world’s most popular facilities including toilets, showers ture arena. rowing race of its kind. Dating back and shops. Saudi Arabia into emerging markets would hap- Deals worth $110bn were signed, mostly to 1839, the crowds of sporting pen sooner, fragile outlook on oil turned relating to defense. These deals will become enthusiasts and English socialites A touch of royalty all summer investors bearish. Kuwait price index and effective in the near future as most of them flock to the banks of the River long - Buckingham Palace weighted index lost 0.8 percent and 0.9 percent have been already approved. Defense spend- Thames to support rowing teams opens to the public respectively. Egypt was the only bourse in ing forms the bedrock of the visit and deals competing for the grand titles. There The British monarchy is the most MENA region to gain 5.6 percent last month, as signed. In a scenario of uncertainties in oil are strict dress codes in place for the iconic royal family internationally, foreign institutional investors welcomed the prices and geopolitical tensions, Trump’s visit exclusive areas such as the Stewards’ with its heritage and legacy having central bank’s efforts to curtail inflation and provided fresh assurance on ensuring security Enclosure, which require ladies to a strong resonance with many increased their investments. in the region and exploring US-Saudi business wear a hat and a formal dress below countries globally. If you’re looking Value traded and volumes in May reflected a opportunities. Investors are confident over the knee, and gentlemen are to step into centuries of history and negative mood, with volume traded, dropping by future business, especially in technology and expected to wear blazers and ties, visit the London residence of the 35 percent while the turnover in the market defense sector, much needed for the Saudi often reflecting the universities world’s longest-reigning living declined by 7.2 percent. All MENA markets, bar- economy now. they’ve rowed for. The five-day monarch, then book your tour of ring Qatar and Egypt, witnessed fall in liquidity. event is accompanied by plenty of Buckingham Palace. One of the few Kuwait saw a 75 percent fall in liquidity while it Oil market review afternoon tea and traditional British active royal palaces, the tour of the declined by 22 percent in Dubai. Liquidity Brent crude declined by 2.7 percent in May fares. Queen’s official London residence declines are common in the MENA bourses, espe- 2017 declining to $50.31 compared to $51.73 at covers some of its most lavish State cially due to poor trading activity in the month of the end of April 2017. OPEC and non-OPEC Wimbledon Championships 2017: Rooms, the Throne Room, the Ramadan. In terms of valuation, P/E of Morocco members decided to extend the current pro- Monday, July 3 - Sunday, July 16 world, today under the British rhythmic Caribbean beats that fill Gardens, priceless works of art by (18.9x), Qatar (14.33x), and Kuwait (14.22x) mar- duction cuts for a period of nine months up to The Wimbledon Championships Summer Time Hyde Park event, the air, or fall in love with mouth- some of history’s finest painters kets were at premium, while the markets of Dubai March 2018. Increasing supplies from the US is the oldest tennis tournament in some of the biggest names in music watering food drawing inspiration such as Rembrandt, gifts given to and Bahrain (9.3x), and Egypt (9x) were the dis- shale producers and announcement made by the world, and is widely considered have performed there including the from as all corners of the the Queen and more. count markets in the MENA region. US to sell oil in plans to reduce its Strategic the most prestigious. Since the first likes of the Rolling Stones and Bon Caribbean. A full timetable of British Many blue chips were in the red in May, Petroleum Reserve (SPR) led to the continuing Championships in 1877, Wimbledon Jovi. The line-up for 2017 includes a Airways’ flights to London and while companies such as DP World, Kuwait fall in oil prices. Libya’s oil production has risen has grown from its roots as a gar- list of impressive acts including the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London beyond is available online here Food Company and Mashraf Al-Rayan gained to 827,000 bpd in the beginning of May adding den-party event to a Grand Slam Kings of Leon, Green Day and show- - The Making of Harry Potter where customers can find the low- 12.5 percent, 11.3 percent and 6 percent respec- to the supply glut in the market. tournament. The only one of its kind casing a mix of genres - Justin On for a limited time, here’s one est fares and book, pay and check- held on a grass surface, Wimbledon Bieber on 2 July. The festival runs for the family - adults and children in online for their flights. Trading blues? It’s just another kick in the volatility: Analysts

LONDON: Executives at some of the world’s biggest banks several reasons why volatility across many markets is at its automation, tighter spreads, increased regulation limiting 68 percent in Q1, down from 75 percent in the same period are warning that challenging market conditions could lead lowest in years and in some cases, decades. their trading activities, and, yes, low volatility. But revenue last year, while average one-month implied euro/dollar to a fall in second quarter trading revenues, with much of Among them are structural shifts following last decade’s can rise when volatility falls, and vice versa, which raises volatility fell to 8.9 percent from 9.7 percent. the blame being laid at a familiar door: low volatility. global financial crisis, such as healthier bank balance the question of whether weak trading performance is too The comparison between the April-June quarters of JP Morgan chief financial officer Marianne Lake, Bank of sheets, lower leverage, tighter regulation and oceans of easily blamed on “bad” volatility. 2014 and 2015 shows the opposite phenomenon. Average America chief executive Brian Moynihan and Morgan central bank liquidity that have compressed yields, returns one-month implied Treasury volatility in Q2 2014 was a Stanley CEO James Gorman all said last week that Q2 trad- and spreads. The FICC of it post-crisis low of 58 percent, jumping to an average 85 ing revenue is on course to fall by 10-15 percent. Other factors steady-if-unspectacular global growth, In the first quarter of this year, revenues from fixed percent a year later. Similarly, one-month implied euro/dol- Banks generally find it harder to make money when and more sophisticated hedging strategies whereby income, currency and commodity (FICC) trading at the lar volatility averaged just 5.5 percent in Q2 2014 only to volatility is low because it lessens their ability to take investors minimize their exposure to volatility by simulta- world’s top 12 banks rose 19 percent, to $21.4 billion from more than double to 12.7 percent in Q2 2015. advantage of big price swings, so it’s often a valid, if con- neously buying and selling options. $17.9 billion a year earlier, according to industry analysis Yet FICC revenues at the top 12 banks tracked by venient, explanation. And there are several well-documented reasons behind firm coalition. That was despite a widespread fall in volatili- Coalition fell 12 percent in Q2 2015 from a year earlier, to The trouble is, it doesn’t fully bear scrutiny. There are the erosion of banks’ trading income over the same period- ty. One-month implied volatility in US Treasuries averaged $16.1 billion from $18.2 billion. —Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 BUSINESS

‘Al-Tijaria’ launches new initiative under ongoing Rafad campaign Begin the holy month of Ramadan with charity

KUWAIT: The Rafad campaign is a non- cause, Al-Tijaria received participation from in such initiatives and play an active role in serving the community and contributing profit organization, which was setup in various volunteers groups, employees of giving back to the country and its society by towards building a better future. Following April 2016 as part of The Commercial Real the company and its subsidiary companies doing various such charity work. these footsteps, the company recently Estate Company ‘We Care’- Corporate Social to prepare food boxes and distribute it to The Rafad campaign since its inception launched “Plant a Tree in My Country” cam- Responsibility program. Under this success- the needy families. in 2016, has solely focused on its objective paign which highlighted and raised aware- ful campaign, a new initiative was launched Rawan Adnan - Manager - Marketing & of distributing food on weekly basis to vari- ness of saving the environment and plant- keeping in mind the theme and spirit of the Leasing Dept stated that this initiative ous areas in Kuwait where the people are in ing as many trees as possible. The campaign Holy month of Ramadan. The initiative comes along with the leading role the com- need of food. The food distributed, is freshly was launched by planting more than 500 focused on preparing food packages with pany plays in its ‘We Care - Corporate Social prepared from Symphony Style Hotel trees in Boulevard. “Shining Hope” festival is various assortments of food inside and dis- Responsibility’ and in line with Al-Tijaria’s Kuwait and is of the highest quality. also another initiative under ‘we care’ which tributing them to the needy families in dif- policy of maintaining the principles of cor- Rafad is considered one of the main is held annually and is organized by the ferent areas around Kuwait. porate governance and encouraging the noble campaigns that comes in line with The company to support and promote the tal- To support and encourage this noble youth and people of Kuwait to participate Commercial Real Estate Company policies of ents and ideas of special needs children. Mashreq Bank celebrates 50 years of significant growth

‘Most progressive bank that enables possibilities through innovation’

DUBAI: Mashreq Bank, the UAE’s oldest privately expansion plans for Mashreq. Today, Mashreq ranks banking goes entirely branchless. With 85% of owned bank, celebrate its 50 year anniversary in number 25 on the Forbes Top 100 Arab Companies Mashreq is retail customer transactions happening Kuwait in the attendance of Rahma Husain Al- 2016 list. The World Finance Banking Awards also digitally, it is critical that we continue to develop Zaabi, the UAE Ambassador to Kuwait, with clients, named Mashreq the Best Digital Bank. It has also new, innovative products and services that capital- partners and key industry leaders in JW Marriot won Gallup Great Workplace award for the 4th year izes on this growing trend.” Kuwait. With 50 years of achievements, the bank is in a row, with only 37 companies worldwide win- “To deliver on this promise, we will continue to the regional leader when it comes to product and ning the award. innovate. Innovation has been deeply embedded service innovation and customer service. To mark the 50 year anniversary, Mashreq in the DNA of Mashreq throughout the last 50 Mashreq Bank, originally called Bank of Oman, launched a new Vision to guide the next 50 years of years, and it will continue to be core to our strate- was formed by a decree from Sheikh Rashid Bin the bank’s journey. Its Vision is to be the region’s gy moving forward. Having introduced many Saeed Al-Maktoum in 1966, and formally opened most progressive bank, enabling innovative possi- products, first to the market which are now con- on 1st May 1967. With the strong encouragement bilities for its clients, colleagues and communities. sidered the industry standard - such as the credit Al Mulla Exchange provides of His Highness Sheikh Rashid, Mashreq Bank has Commenting on the 50 year anniversary of the card, ATM and mobile banking app - I know we will reached many milestones since then. bank, Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair, Chief Executive Officer only continue to further develop the sector. Iftar meals during Ramadan Mashreq’s first branch in Kuwait was inaugurat- of Mashreq, said: “We have achieved many mile- Through innovation, strong financial performance, ed in November 2009, in line with the strong rela- stones in the past 50 years, but today is truly excit- and high levels of customer service, we will find tionship and cooperation between the GCC coun- ing. The launch of our new vision will undeniably ways to make possible.” tries. In 2009, Mashreq’s CEO Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair drive the bank forward. Looking ahead, our under- Mashreq Kuwait branch has participated in the affirmed that Kuwait has one of the most success- lying strategy is to continue to digitize the bank, financing of several mega projects, namely Kuwait ful and sophisticated banking systems in the GCC make customer experience seamless, personalized University, Al-Zour South Power Station, and the and holds strategic importance within the overall and omni-channel, and lead into the future where Kuwait Clean Fuel project. Sobha Hartland adopts smart technologies, green city norms

KUWAIT: Celebrating the spirit of giving social responsibility on which mostly com- during Ramadan, Al Mulla Exchange con- panies portray. We believe that our activi- tinued with their tradition of providing Iftar ties resonates well with the needy and also meals during the entire holy month. convey that human kindness is the most The distribution of the meals is slotted at significant gift that can be given.” various locations across Kuwait and is given With 72 branches and growing, Al Mulla mostly outside Al Mulla Exchange branches. Exchange stands tall in the plethora of Speaking on the occasion, Rakesh Joshi, Exchange companies established in Kuwait. General Manager of Al Mulla International Innovation, technological superiority, cus- said “The Holy month of Ramadan personi- tomer service and continuous marketing fies the act of care. Al Mulla Exchange has activities are the hall marks by which they distributed Iftar meals every year and we attained the top slot in the hugely compet- believe that this is beyond just a corporate itive Kuwait money exchange market. The 2017 Nissan GT-R: Polished to perfection

DUBAI: Nissan GT-R, a legendary super- designated as takumi. They are the sole car, is known for its mastery at every assemblers of the engines that power KUWAIT: Sobha Group, the leading premium an ipad. The villas also offer full attractions like the Burj Khalifa, touch point. The craftsmanship that goes one of the most heralded sports cars in real estate developer has adopted the norms of variable lighting option wherein; Meydan Mall, Downtown etc are into the making of the Nissan GT-R is automotive history - the Nissan GT-R. sustainability and green city standards within an end-user can choose the just 3km away. The community done with utmost precision, as each part Nissan is a global full-line vehicle Sobha Hartland - the only fully integrated free- scene setting in each room by also includes a country club, two is built and finished meticulously. manufacturer that sells more than 60 hold community on the Dubai Water Canal. The either using full brightness or international schools (one of Aside from the engine that is built by a models under the Nissan, Infiniti and resort-style luxury housing project, encompass- minimum dim lighting. which is now operational), three Takumi (a master craftsman), another area Datsun brands. In fiscal year 2015, the es 8 million square feet of freehold community Both investors and end-users boutique hotels, premium that is perfected by the hands of a Takumi company sold more than 5.4 million vehi- in Mohamed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum City and is looking at investing in Sobha restaurants, retail outlets and is the polishing process. The process cles globally, generating revenue of 12.2 a $4 bn mixed-use development strategically Hartland will also have added leisure activities. requires the Takumi to inspect, check and trillion yen. Nissan engineers, manufac- located in the heart of Dubai. options to avail of L-shaped villas Phase 3 of the project will be then polish the coat to perfection. tures and markets the world’s best-sell- Surrounded by 2.4 million square feet (30 which provide maximum privacy launched shortly. To get a first- This new video introduces the crafts- ing all-electric vehicle in history, the percent) of greenery and set along the Dubai from neighboring units with spa- hand experience of large, lavish manship behind the Nissan GT-R Nissan LEAF. Nissan’s global headquarters Water Canal, Sobha Hartland encompass a limit- cious private gardens and large and spacious homes, our lavish Coloring & Polishing processes. Notes to in Yokohama, Japan manages operations ed collection of ultra-contemporary villas, town- decks and pool. show apartment and villas are Editor: In Japan, the term takumi is used in six regions: ASEAN & Oceania; Africa, houses, modern mid & high-rise apartments. The Clear glass is used in all the vil- ready and available for viewing to describe a master craftsman who has Middle East & India; China; Europe; Latin PNC Menon, development offers a range of luxury products las where the Visual Light Chairman Sobha Group at the Hartland Sales gallery. perfected his skills over years of painstak- America and North America. Nissan has catering to both individuals and families alike Transmission (VLT) percentage is PNC Menon, Founder and ing work and dedication. It is reserved for been partnered with French manufactur- looking for the ideal homes in Dubai. The devel- higher to maintain the inflow of natural light Chairman, Sobha Group, said, “With a legacy of those who are at the very top of their er Renault since 1999 and Mitsubishi opment has commenced with the launch of inside but at the same time also helps in blocking 41 years in the region the brand is synonymous profession. At Nissan’s expansive engine Motors since 2016 under the Renault- Hartland Greens, Hartland Townhouses and the heat. VLT refers to the amount of visible light to quality and this propels us to introduce higher factory in Yokohama, five men have been Nissan Alliance. Hartland Estates. that passes through a glazing system, in this case standard of living and smarter technologies in Each offering in Sobha Hartland are Smart the glass panels used in the villa. 70 percent of our homes. As one of the greenest projects in Home enabled. The Hartland Estates villas are phase 1 & 2 in Sobha Hartland have been sold Dubai, Sobha Hartland also has a unique advan- ECB expected to take more inbuilt with infrastructure required to make your out. The development will provide both tage of having a residential development sur- villa fully automated. - all controls of the villa like investors and end-users with natural panoramic rounded in a green forest setting right in the benign view of economy AC, Light, music, curtains can be controlled by views, world-class amenities and Dubai’s top heart of the city.” LONDON: German benchmark govern- be a change in language but one that has ment bond yields nudged up yeterday but been well telegraphed by the ECB,” said did not venture far from one-month lows, Antoine Bouvet, a rates strategist at with bond investors confident that the Mizuho. European Central Bank will this week only “ECB policymakers have gone out of take baby steps towards unwinding its their way to stress that this will not be a extraordinary stimulus. prelude to an early unwinding of policy, so The ECB, which meets on Thursday, is set the ECB is still in easing mode until the end to take a more benign view of the economy of the year and that is supportive for bond and will even discuss dropping some of its spreads and duration.” pledges to ramp up stimulus if needed, Germany’s benchmark 10-year bond or sources with direct knowledge of the dis- Bund yield was up 2 basis points at 0.29 cussions told Reuters last week. An improv- percent and within sight of one-month ing economy and some fading of euro zone lows hit last week, while short-dated bond political risks following French presidential yields remain deep in negative territory. elections in April and May have boosted Tradeweb data released yesterday speculation about a scaling back or “taper- showed the share of euro zone govern- ing” of the ECB’s massive asset-purchase ment debt with yields below zero has risen scheme in coming months. to its highest level so far this year. But with the ECB expected to strike a Money market pricing meanwhile sug- cautious tone because of doubts around gests investors are not anticipating a rate inflation, bond investors seem largely hike within the next year. “The data, espe- unruffled. Data last week showed inflation cially the inflation numbers, have not been in the euro area slowed to 1.4 percent year- strong enough to suggest a hawkish tone on-year in May, from 1.9 percent in April. from the ECB this week,” said Orlando The ECB targets inflation of just below 2 Green, European fixed income strategist at percent. “My reading of what the market is Credit Agricole. “They are likely to leave pricing in at the moment is that there will things as balanced as possible.” — Reuters technology TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 System aims to recreate mountain climbs in gym

HANOVER: After spending time in still have the physical experience of with might be seen as an extension of regional director of the climbing group you’re a climber in Boston working on Switzerland studying and hiking in the climbing it without causing the erosion Luzan’s efforts. Access Fund, who was not involved in the route at Rumney mentioned in the Alps, Dartmouth assistant professor and damage to the location. There is Eventually, the researchers envision the study, also said the system has study, you’d probably be pretty psyched Emily Whiting wanted to relive those also the aspect of accessibility, like if a system that could one day ingest potential. Climbers might find it “novel” to be able work on the movements of climbs back home. Upon her return to this is some place in Thailand or some photos and video. A database of out- to challenge themselves on iconic the climb during a training session at the United States, she and a group of remote location and you want to train door climbs could then be created, routes - or even those closer to home. “If your local climbing gym,” he said.—AP colleagues contemplated how they for the route.” from which holds could be manufac- might recreate the climbs indoors. tured and available to climbing gyms. Using 3-D modeling and digital fabrica- 3-D reconstruction They also want to improve the texture tion, the team developed a system that Whiting and her colleagues first did of the holds so they feel more like the replicates the hardest stretches of a 3-D reconstruction of a wall using actual rocks. And there is the visual climb, so that it can be practiced on hundreds of photos at different angles. component - which Whiting hopes one indoor climbing walls. Then, they combined that with video day could be solved by adding virtual In a presentation at a human com- showing the climber’s movements. That reality or projecting images of the puter interaction conference last data helped the researchers identify the climb to a wall. month, the team demonstrated how key parts of the climb, allowing them to The climbers that have given the they replicated a climb in Rumney, New create fabricated holds which were then new system a try say their outdoor Hampshire, and a sandstone crag near attached to a climbing wall. “When you ascent matched their experience St. George in Utah. Fellow postdoctoral are climbing it, you’re grasping onto indoors. “I was kind of blown away at scholar Ladislav Kavan, who is now at small portions of it and so we wanted to just how precisely the body movements the University of Utah, did the work out determine where rock climbers actually on the indoor climb recreated the out- of Utah while Whiting was in New grabbing onto the rock face,” she said. door movements,” said Billy Braasch, a Hampshire. The two, along with their There are plenty of tools in climbing Dartmouth grad student and climber team, also wanted to address problems gyms to practice, including the campus who participated in the study. But while that vex many seasoned climbers - the board, a series of slats that hang on a Braasch said this could serve as a good challenges of mastering a route that wall at various angles so that climbers practice tool, he acknowledged it might might be a world away or one that can practice strength training. And a not be for everyone. might be too fragile to practice on. few years back, Matyas Luzan replicated “One aspect of climbing that I really “What if you could take the experi- a tough stretch of a climb in Germany - love is traveling to a new place and ence of climbing places like these mon- he crafted the holds from wood and exploring new terrain,” he said. “There is uments but not climb the physical varnished them to feel like the rocks. something special about being in a new NEW HAMPSHIRE: This photo provided by Dartmouth College shows thing, actually bring it home to your The system that Whiting and Kavan, place and testing yourself against a new fabricated holds mounted on a climbing wall in Hanover, New local gym,” Whiting said. “You would now at the University of Utah, came up climb.” Mike Morin, the Northeast Hampshire. —AP New smart speaker expected as Apple kicks off conference Speaker to serve as a butler and for listening to music

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple appears poised Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant. That at pictures and watch video on the analyst Amit Daryanani expects the iOS to unveil a voice-activated, internet-con- leaves Apple. Although it was the first devices. Although Siri would likely be a 11 - the next operating system for Apple’s nected speaker that would create a new smartphone maker to come out with a centerpiece of a smart speaker from iPhones and iPads - to get an overhaul digital pipeline into people’s homes. digital assistant when Siri debuted in Apple, Moorhead said the device’s design, that will accommodate the anticipated Tapping Apple’s Siri digital assistant, such 2011, it hasn’t had a stand-alone assistant. colors and acoustics will also likely be removal of the home button from the a speaker is expected to serve as a butler For Apple, having one would further focal points because the company has a 10th anniversary model of the iPhone as well as an outlet for listening to music. broaden the role that its software, services long history of making elegantly due out later this year. The next iOS may If the speculation pans out, the speaker and gadgets play in people’s lives. It designed products. The lack of a break- also have new features designed for artifi- would be Apple’s first new product since wouldn’t be the first time that Apple through device has periodically raised cial intelligence, the application of com- its smartwatch in 2015. And it would hopped on the bandwagon of a technol- concerns that Apple has become too puters that learn and understand things mark an effort by Apple to catch up with ogy product popularized by a competitor. dependent on the iPhone and supported like humans. Apple also may introduce its Amazon and Google. For instance, Apple initially resisted the theory that the company lost its knack next Mac computer, along with the next WARSAW: Taxi drivers block the streets of Warsaw to protest against ride An early glimpse at updates to iPhone enlarging the size of iPhone’s screen for innovation when its co-founder Steve operating system powering the machine. sharing app Uber and competitors in Warsaw yesterday. Traditional cab oper- and Mac software has become a tradition despite strong sales for larger-display Jobs died of cancer in 2011. Although Software updates are also expected for Apple Watch has emerged as the leader in Apple’s smartwatch and TV box for ators argue that the app represents unfair competition because Uber drivers at Apple’s annual conference for app phones made by Samsung and other developers, which began yesterday in rivals. But the company relented, and its technological niche, it hasn’t become a streaming online video. Daryanani said can dodge the rules and restrictions that regulate professionals. —AFP San Jose, California. But Apple occasional- Apple’s larger phones have become hot smash hit like the iPhone or the iPad - at Apple may also announce an iPad Pro ly also uses the event to introduce new commodities as more people have least until tablet sales started declining. with a faster processor in an attempt to devices and services and upgrades to embraced having a bigger display to look On the software front, RBC Capital revive its long-slumping tablet sales.—AP Polish taxi drivers existing products. Amazon introduced the Echo speaker, featuring its Alexa assis- tant, in 2015. Google followed with its protest against Uber Home speaker, featuring its plain-named Assistant, last year. WARSAW: Two thousand Polish taxi driv- taxi drivers to use cash registers and Both speakers can respond to voice ers yesterday snarled traffic in the capital undergo psychological tests to obtain requests for the news, weather and tasks Warsaw by driving at a snail’s pace to licenses. Poland’s competition authority such as turning on the lights. More than protest against competitors including the UOKiK said last month that it found no 35 million people in the US are expected controversial ride-sharing app Uber. grounds to sanction Uber and other opera- to use a voice-activated speaker at least Traditional cab operators argue that the tors for alleged breaches of competition once a month this year, more than dou- app represents unfair competition because rules or consumer rights. Uber has become bling from last year, according the Uber drivers can dodge the rules and one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture- research firm eMarketer. “There is so restrictions that regulate professionals. funded startups and has expanded its ride- much momentum building around these Blaring horns and flying small red-and- sharing services to dozens of countries. speakers that it would be difficult for white national flags, the taxis inched It does not employ drivers or own vehi- Apple not to come out with one,” said through Warsaw at around 10 kilometers cles, but instead relies on private contrac- industry analyst Patrick Moorhead of an hour blocking the city centre and major tors with their own cars, allowing them to Moor Insights & Strategy. thoroughfares. run their own businesses. The app claims it Organizers said that around 2,000 driv- is a service provider, connecting passen- Lack of breakthrough device ers took part in Warsaw and hundreds gers with these freelance drivers directly Amazon just unveiled a version of joined in several other cities across the and cheaply. But critics and competitors Echo with a camera, touch-screen display country. Uber began operating in Poland around the globe say this allows it to flout and video-calling capabilities. The new in 2014. “We want the government to costly regulations such as stringent licens- Echo Show goes on sale on June 28 for respond to the illegal activities of some in ing requirements for taxi drivers, who $230. Google, meanwhile, previewed new the transport sector,” said Jaroslaw undergo hundreds of hours of training. speaker features such as hands-free Iglikowski, a representative of the Warsaw Thousands of Spanish taxis went on strike phone calling during its software confer- taxi union. in Madrid and Barcelona last week to ence last month. Microsoft also has Iglikowski insists that Uber and other protest against Uber and similar ride-hail- NEW YORK: In this file photo, a person stands near the Apple logo at the company’s store in announced its own speaker with Grand Central Terminal, in New York. —AP drivers fail to comply with laws requiring ing company Cabify. —AFP Samsung’s Harman business; it will use Internet extremism Isolation by the West fuels and how to combat it a tech startup boom in Iran DETROIT: In the wake of Britain’s third major Twitter’s internal tools; just 2 percent were taken attack in three months, Prime Minister Theresa down because of government requests, the Launched in 2014, Snapp operates a sleek Uber-like Snapp May called on governments to form internation- company says. Facebook says it alerts law TEHRAN: Mostafa Meisami has given up on the app that runs off of Google Maps and has a launch Snapp is owned by the Iran Internet Group, al agreements to prevent the spread of extrem- enforcement if it sees a threat of an imminent farming life, trading his old job raising cattle for a page featuring the Tehran skyline. which has emerged as one of the leaders in the ism online. Here’s a look at extremism on the attack or harm to someone. It also seeks out better-paying gig ferrying commuters through the It boasts 100,000 drivers and has carried more country’s startup scene. It is backed by telecom web, what’s being done to stop it and what potential extremist accounts by tracing the notoriously traffic-clogged streets of the Iranian than 5 million passengers on some 50 million rides, Irancell, which state-linked investors have stakes in, could come next. “friends” of an account that has been removed capital Tehran. The 38-year-old father-to-be plies his as well as South African telecom MTN. Its other for terrorism. trade in a brand-new, locally assembled Chinese according to its enthusiastic CEO, Sharam Shahkar, 32. He’s among the older employees in the compa- businesses include a food-ordering app called Q. What are technology companies hatchback, scrolling for fares using an app on his ny’s northern Tehran headquarters, where bearded Zoodfood and a hotel booking site known as doing to make sure extremist videos and Q. Why are technology companies clash- Samsung smartphone. Yes, even in Iran, there’s an hipsters and fashionable young women in loose-fit- Pintapin - a useful service in a country that most other terrorist content doesn’t spread ing with governments over extremist com- app for that - and quite a few other things too. ting hijabs squeeze their laptops into a cramped booking portals don’t touch. The company’s online across the internet? munications? The Islamic Republic remains in many ways cut workspace while builders across the hall rush to shopping site Bamilo competes against Iran’s A. Internet companies use technology plus A. Since Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures off economically from the rest of the world. Big- double the office space. It looks like a tech startup biggest e-commerce site, Digikala, which ranks teams of human reviewers to flag and remove about National Security Agency surveillance, name Western brands shun the market for fear of anywhere in the world, except for the Iranian flag in behind only Google and a local sports portal as posts from people who engage in extremist several tech companies have started encrypting violating sanctions that remain in place even after the corner. Shahkar speaks in tech buzzwords like Iran’s third most-visited website, according to web activity or express support for terrorism. - that is, scrambling them to thwart spies - the country’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world “onboarding” for the process of running background traffic data site Alexa. Google, for example, says it employs thou- instant messages and other data so tightly that powers. That means no KFC - just local upstarts like checks and training new drivers, and sees the com- Like Amazon, the sites sell everything from lap- sands of people to fight abuse on its platforms. even the companies can’t read them. “Iran Fried Chicken” - or credit and ATM cards con- pany as a long-term solution for Tehran’s nightmare tops and cellphones to clothes, kitchen supplies Google’s YouTube service removes any video Governments are not happy about that. After nected to global banking networks. Visitors to the traffic and parking woes. “Our vision is to make it so and cosmetics. But there are subtle differences too. that has hateful content or incites violence, the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, country must carry in thick wads of dollars. convenient, so affordable that people will no longer Both sites are currently running promotions for the and its software prevents the video from ever California, and again after the Westminster Many popular social-networking sites like have incentive to own a personal vehicle,” he said. In Islamic holy month of Ramadan, for example. being reposted. Bridge attack, the US and UK governments Facebook are blocked by government censors. addition to its basic service, Snapp offers premium Digikala even sells cars, including a 2017 Lexus YouTube says it removed 92 million videos in sought access to encrypted messages Order from Amazon or call an Uber? Forget about it. rides in nicer cars as well as female-driven vehicles hybrid SUV on offer for more than $90,000. And 2015; 1 percent were removed for terrorism or exchanged by extremists who carried out the In their place, a surprisingly active tech startup for women and families. It recently expanded to the Iranians would not accept having their purchases hate speech violations. Facebook, Microsoft, attacks. scene has sprung up. It’s driven by a growing num- nearby suburb of Karaj and the central city of left unceremoniously on the doorstep like in the US. Google and Twitter teamed up late last year to Apple and Facebook’s WhatsApp refused, ber of Iranian millennials who see their country of 80 Isfahan, and is considering rolling out a motorcycle They expect hand-to-hand delivery, said Afshan create a shared industry database of unique dig- noting that they didn’t hold the keys needed to million people not as an isolated outcast but as a delivery service. Samani, Bamilo’s chief product officer. ital fingerprints for images and videos that are unscramble such messages. Both governments market ripe with opportunity. Among the fastest- The company says it undercuts taxi prices by 30 Samani did graduate work in Sweden and produced by or support extremist organiza- eventually found other ways to get the informa- growing companies in the digital transformation is to 50 percent - a consumer-friendly move that has Canada, but decided to return to her native Iran tions. Those fingerprints help the companies tion they wanted. Some in government - includ- Snapp, the ride-hailing app Meisami uses. rankled the old guard. In February, dozens of local because she said she loves a challenge - and identify and remove extremist content. After the ing former FBI Director James Comey and taxi drivers angry over the competition gathered smelled opportunity. “I noticed how kind of cultivat- attack on Westminster Bridge in London in Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California - Premium car rides outside parliament and chanted “American Snapp ed the environment is. It’s ready,” she said. “The March, tech companies also agreed to form a have argued that the inability to access encrypt- He estimates he makes more than $900 working should be destroyed” in an effort to link it wrongly to huge difference I see right now is people say that ‘I joint group to accelerate anti-terrorism efforts. ed data is a threat to security. Feinstein has in a good month, pulling in a much larger cut per Iran’s arch enemy, the US. A formal request by the want to do something.’” Figures released by Iran’s Twitter says in the last six months of 2016, it introduced a bill to force companies to give the fare than he would driving for a traditional taxi-style taxi association that authorities shut down Snapp central bank last month showed that online shop- suspended a total of 376,890 accounts for viola- government so-called “backdoor” access to car service. His hours are long - 12 hours a day most and a smaller competitor known as Tap30 were ulti- ping jumped 34 percent and accounted for sales of tions related to the promotion of extremism. encrypted data so that investigators could read days a week - but he likes being able to pick when mately rejected. The taxi federation has responded more than $370 billion during the last Persian year, Three-quarters of those were found through messages on these services. —AP and where he works. “This opened a door to people like me who had financial problems,” he said. by launching a ride-hailing app of its own. which ends in March. —AP TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE Yellowstone Park winning against non-native fish

CODY, Wyoming: Researchers trying to feeds on cutthroats. “They’re a wonder- trout are in decline, but it doesn’t hap- mitters in individual lake trout, called Koel said. Recreational anglers also help. preserve native cutthroat trout in ful fish, but they just don’t belong pen overnight,” he said. Researchers Judas fish, and release them to study The fishing season opened in late May, Yellowstone National Park say they are here,” said Phil Doepke, a fisheries biol- use nets to remove lake trout. They their patterns. and anglers can catch as many lake on track to eliminate non-native fish ogist who has been part of the cut- have removed 2.6 million pounds since “The Judas fish lead us to their trout as they like - and they’re not from Yellowstone Lake in about a throat-trout conservation effort for 14 1996, including more than 366,000 friends, and then we kill them,” Koel said allowed to throw any back. “Catch them, decade. The National Park Service is seasons. pounds last year. They also locate and Small aircraft search for the transmitter- kill them and eat them,” Yellowstone trying to get rid of lake trout, which Computer modeling indicates the destroy lake trout eggs at spawn sites. equipped fish, covering the entire 22- National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk were discovered in Yellowstone Lake in lake trout population will collapse Biologists are finding more efficient mile lake in about two hours, far faster said. More than 50,000 visitors buy the 1994, the Cody Enterprise reported. within 10 years, said Todd Koel, the ways to remove lake trout every sea- than boats. “I’m hopeful we can shift required Yellowstone fishing permit Lake trout is a voracious species that park’s senior fisheries biologist. “Lake son, Koel said. They now implant trans- completely to flights to find fish soon,” each year.—AP

Early reporting of cancer symptoms boost survival CHICAGO: If you’re being treated for cancer, for various types of advanced cancers at speak up about any side effects. A study that Sloan Kettering. Some were given usual care had patients use home computers to report and the rest, the online symptom tool. symptoms like nausea and fatigue surprising- Patients were as old as 91, and 22 percent ly improved survival - by almost half a year, has less than a high school education, but longer than many new cancer drugs do. The using a computer proved easy. “The older online tool was intended as a quick and easy patients really grabbed onto it very quickly,” way for people to regularly report complica- Basch said. The online group was asked to tions rather than trying to call their doctors or report symptoms at least once a week - soon- waiting until the next appointment. er if they had a problem - and given a list of Researchers had hoped to improve quality of common ones such as appetite loss, constipa- life but got a bonus in longer survival. tion, cough, diarrhea, shortness of breath, “I was floored by the results,” said the fatigue, hot flashes, nausea or pain. study leader, Dr. Ethan Basch. “We are proac- Doctors saw these reports at office visits, tively catching things early” with online and nurses got email alerts when patients reporting. Patients were able to stick with reported severe or worsening problems. treatment longer because their side effects “Almost 80 percent of the time, the nurses were quickly addressed, he said. People responded immediately,” calling in medicines shouldn’t assume that symptoms are an for nausea, pain or other problems, Basch unavoidable part of cancer care, said Dr. said. Six months later, health-related quality Richard Schilsky, chief medical officer of the of life had improved for more of those in the American Society of Clinical Oncology. “You online group and they made fewer trips to an want to be able to reach your provider as ear- emergency room. They also were able to stay ly and easily as possible,” because a sign like on chemotherapy longer - eight months ver- shortness of breath may mean treatment isn’t sus six, on average. working and needs to be changed, he said. Median survival in the online group was The study was featured at the cancer 31 months versus 26 months for the others. A SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) communication satellite GSAT-19, carried onboard the Geosynchronous Satellite group’s annual meeting in Chicago on larger study will now test the online reporting Launch Vehicle (GSLV-mark III), launches at Sriharikota yesterday.—AFP Sunday and published in the Journal of the system nationwide. A colon cancer patient, American Medical Association. Earlier studies 53-year-old James Sylvester of New York, is suggest that doctors miss about half of using a version of the one tested in the study patients’ symptoms. “Much of this happens to report any problems to his doctors at Sloan India shows off space prowess between visits when patients are out of sight Kettering. He hasn’t had many side effects, and out of mind,” said Basch, a researcher at but a rash led to referral to a dermatologist to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill see if it was related to his cancer medicine. with launch of mega-rocket and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center “The main benefit is they go holistically all in New York. over your body” with the list, asking about Sometimes patients just put up with a things that folks may not realize could be due Mission takes India closer to next generation launch vehicle problem until their next exam. “The spouse to cancer, such as a rash or trouble with bal- will say, ‘My husband was laid up in bed, ance, he said. “Some of the things you might NEW DELHI: India yesterday successfully moment in India’s space technology, to launch June 2014. The rocket’s main cargo on that exhausted or in pain,’ and I’ll say ‘Why didn’t not tell your doctor, or you might forget,” launched its most powerful home-produced an indigenous heavy rocket,” Ajay Lele from the occasion was a 714-kilogram satellite for Earth you call me?’” Basch said. The study tested Sylvester said. The tool ensures the doctor has rocket, another milestone for its indigenous Delhi-based Institute for Defense Studies and observation but it was also loaded with 103 whether the online tool could catch problems that information ahead of time, “so when you space program which one day hopes to put a Analyses said. “Communication satellites are smaller “nano satellites”, nearly all from other sooner. It involved 766 people being treated have that face time, it’s more focused.”—AP human into orbit. The 43-metre rocket hurtled quite heavy and we were (only) able to send up countries. into a clear sky at 5.28 pm (1158 GMT) from the to two tons previously. This is a double quan- Although India has successfully launched southern island of Sriharikota, one of two sites tum jump for India.” The launch is another feath- lighter satellites in recent years, this latest rock- Environmental studies don’t used by the Indian Space Research Organization er in the cap for scientists at ISRO, who won et is capable of carrying a massive four-ton pay- (ISRO) to launch satellites. Scientists hugged Asia’s race to Mars in 2014 when an Indian load into high orbit-twice the capacity of its each other and cheered as the 640-tonne rocket spacecraft reached the Red Planet on a shoe- predecessor, ISRO says. The space agency tested support Trump’s cleanest claim lifted off. string budget. That feat burnished India’s repu- a less-developed version of the rocket in “The GSLV - MKIII D1/GSAT-19 mission takes tation as a reliable low-cost option for space December 2014 while the cryogenic engine was WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump important to look at historical emissions. India closer to the next generation launch vehi- exploration, with its $73 million price tag drasti- still in the testing phase. It carried an unmanned said the United States “will continue to be Since 1870, the US has produced about cle and satellite capability,” Prime Minister cally undercutting NASA’s Maven Mars $671- crew capsule which separated from the rocket the cleanest and most environmentally one-quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide - Narendra Modi posted on his Twitter account. million mission. ISRO is also mulling the idea of and splashed down in the Bay of Bengal off friendly country on Earth” as he announced twice as much as China - and that makes it “The nation is proud!” The rocket boasts a pow- missions to Jupiter and Venus. India’s east coast 20 minutes after liftoff. a US pullout from an international accord the biggest polluter in the world by far, erful engine that has been developed in India The Indian-made capsule was designed to designed to curb climate change. But facts Peters said. In some traditional air pollution over many years. Program managers hope to Reaching for the stars carry up to three astronauts but ISRO said it muddy that claim. Data show that the US is measurements, the United States is cleaner reduce reliance on European engines that have India is vying for a larger slice of the boom- would take at least another seven years to reach among the dirtiest countries when it comes than most nations, said William K. Reilly, propelled some of India’s spacecraft in the past. ing commercial satellite business as phone, the point where a crew could be put into space. to heat-trapping carbon pollution. One who headed the US Environmental The GSLV Mk III rocket carried a satellite internet and other companies seek expanded India wants to become the fourth nation-after nation that has cleaner air in nearly every Protection Agency under Republican weighing more than three tons into a high orbit and more high-end communications. In Russia, the United States and China-to put way is Sweden. “The US is well behind other President George H W Bush. But “when the above Earth, a landmark achievement as India February India put a record 104 satellites in astronauts into orbit but its manned spaceflight countries in having the cleanest and most problem he is dealing with is carbon diox- had struggled to match the heavier payloads of orbit from a single rocket, surpassing Russia program has experienced multiple stops and sustainable environment,” University of ide, we are notably not better than the rest other space giants. “This is an important which launched 39 satellites in one mission in starts.—AFP Michigan environmental scientist Rosina of the world,” said Reilly, adding that Trump Bierbaum said in an email. is “just wrong.” The US emits more carbon dioxide than The US is better than most of the world any other nation except China. In 2014, the when it comes to dangerous soot or fine 2 lions freed from US spewed 237 times more carbon dioxide particles. Among industrialized countries, into the air than Sweden, according to fig- the US tied for sixth cleanest, according to circuses, are poached ures by the US Department of Energy’s Oak the Health Effects Institute. It’s also tied for Ridge National Laboratory. “On pretty sixth smoggiest in the world with Turkey, in South Africa much any climate-related indicator, the US according to the institute. “There are a will not look good,” said Glen Peters, a number of countries that have cleaner air JOHANNESBURG: In 2016, 33 lions freed from circuses in Norwegian climate scientist who is part of in terms of major industrial nations. We are Peru and Colombia were transported to South Africa to the Global Carbon Project that ranks world- certainly in the top core,” said Dan live out their days in a wildlife refuge. Last week, poachers wide emissions. The US is No. 2 in per per- Greenbaum, the group’s president. “Clearly, son carbon dioxide pollution, behind countries like China and India are much, broke into the sanctuary, killing two of the big cats. The Luxembourg, among 35 developed nations much worse than we are.” killing of the male lions named Jos√© and Liso occurred plus China, India and Brazil, Energy The US leads in helping people fight for at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, which had portrayed the Department data show. a clean environment by having laws and lion airlift as a compassionate gesture that alleviated the That’s 19.1 tons of carbon dioxide per procedures that allow citizens to sue to suffering of animals held in cages and subjected to beat- year for the average American, compared enforce pollution protections and get infor- ings and other mistreatment. with 4.9 tons for the average Swede. Taking mation, said Princeton University climate The incursion highlighted how brazen poachers can into account economics, the US ranks 10th scientist and international affairs professor infiltrate places like Emoya, which said it has 24-hour highest in carbon pollution per gross Michael Oppenheimer. Other countries are security and armed patrols and has taken additional domestic product behind China, India, far ahead of the US in cleaner energy, espe- measures to protect its property in Vaalwater, in northern Russia, Estonia, Poland, South Korea, the cially Germany, which on occasion is fueled South Africa. Forensic experts have visited the sanctuary, Czech Republic, Mexico and Turkey, accord- fully by renewables, Oppenheimer said. PAJU: In this file photo, a girl uses binoculars to watch the North side at the Imjingak which is currently closed to visitors and volunteers. South Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas ing to the International Energy Agency. The Reilly, the former EPA head, recalled how African police and anti-poaching units are investigating, US spews almost five times more carbon the US took environmental leadership 25 since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea.—AP said Animal Defenders International, a group that worked dioxide per dollar in the economy than years ago this month as it became the first on the lion transfer from South America. Sweden. Because carbon dioxide stays in industrial country to ratify the first climate North Korea rejects South Korea the atmosphere for more than a century, treaty.”Now we turn the page,” Reilly said. The group said it is considering the offer of a reward scientists and regulators say it’s more “We’ll see where it goes.”—AP for information leading to conviction, and that the other lions might even be evacuated pending security group’s offer for malaria help upgrades. No details about the possible motive for the lion killings were provided. In January, poachers cut SEOUL: A South Korean civic group said said. Despite the lack of South Korean assis- through fences at another animal park in South Africa and yesterday that North Korea has rejected its tance, North Korea has in recent years decapitated and chopped the paws off three male lions, offer to provide anti-malaria supplies to reported declining cases of malaria thanks possibly for use in traditional healing rituals. While lion protest Seoul’s support of fresh UN sanc- largely to anti-malaria aid programs by tions on the country. The rejection could international organizations. According to parts have long been used in some African cultures, con- complicate efforts by South Korea’s news World Health Organization records, North servationists have raised concerns that poachers are liberal President Moon Jae-in to try to Korea had 21,850 malaria cases in 2012, but increasingly targeting lions because of demand in some expand civilian exchanges with North 7,010 cases in 2015. Asian countries. Korea as a way to improve strained bilateral The UN Security Council voted unani- African lion bones are a relatively recent substitute in ties. All major cooperation programs mously Friday to add 15 individuals and tonics for the bones of Asian tigers, whose numbers were between the rivals remain stalled amid an four entities linked to North Korea’s nuclear depleted by poachers. Lion teeth and claws are known to international standoff over North Korea’s and missile programs to a UN sanctions have value as trinkets. The transfer of the lions to Emoya nuclear and missile programs. blacklist. Its unclear if and how much the had no conservationist value because the animals, which In late May, Moon’s government allowed new UN sanctions would sting North Korea, were in poor condition, had been held in captivity and the Seoul-based Korean Sharing Movement which is already under multiple rounds of could not live in the wild. The former circus lions are pro- to contact North Korea. It was South UN and other international sanctions. Since vided with game meat and water in large enclosures. Korea’s first approval of cross-border civil- Moon’s May 10 inauguration, North Korea Rapunzel, one of the 33 lions, died of a botulism toxin ian exchanges since January 2016. The civic has test-fired three ballistic missiles in an at Emoya in June 2016, a little over a month after the air- group subsequently exchanged emails apparent show of its resolve to expand its with North Korea and was supposed to weapons arsenals to cope with what it calls lift from South America, according to the sanctuary’s deliver anti-malaria items such as insecti- US hostility. website. “Animals are normally resistant to this kind of cides, diagnostic reagent kits and mosquito Moon’s government has said it will eval- bacterial toxin but rescue lions that have suffered a life- repellant to North Korea this week, accord- uate expanding civilian exchanges with time of malnutrition and abuse can sadly remain vulnera- ing to group official Hong Sang-young. North Korea, while sternly dealing with its ble to diseases despite rehabilitation efforts,” the sanctu- But North Korea told his organization missile and other weapons tests. North ary said. Animal Defenders International said one of the yesterday that it won’t allow the visit Korea is pushing hard to build a nuclear- NEW HAMPSHIRE: In this file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired two elderly lions killed last week had suffered brain dam- because of UN sanctions adopted last week tipped missile that can reach the continen- Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire.—AP age from head blows in the circus.—AP that Seoul has vowed to implement, Hong tal United States.—AP TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Antibacterial resistance poses major challenges in Middle East hospitals

DUBAI: In the Middle East, MRSA can The gram-positive bacterium hygiene measures. It is crucial that cer- pose major challenges to healthcare sys- Staphylococcus Aureus is the primary tain hygiene rules are followed, particu- tems due to commonly used antibiotics causative pathogen in skin and soft tis- larly in the healthcare environment. losing their effectiveness and certain sue infections. Acute bacterial skin and This is one of the measures which the safety issues and thereby limiting their skin structure infections are complex and spread and infection rates of MRSA can use. MRSA has become an endemic in difficult-to-treat infections and can be be reduced. Therefore, it is essential this region, and the burden and the diffi- associated with increased morbidity and that certain hygiene rules are followed, culty in detecting imported strains are mortality if not treated appropriately.’’ particularly in the healthcare environ- increasing. There is also an increasing risk He continued to say,’’ Complicated ment. Simple measures such as hand of domestic and global transmission. skin infections can progress extremely washing with soap, and/or using an 1MRSA in particular, has become a chal- rapidly in severity and so patients require alcohol based hand rub, wearing gloves lenging healthcare problem leading to prompt diagnosis and initiation of treat- and a gown can help to prevent the increased morbidity and mortality, and ment is essential. Globally, approximately spread of infection. Dr Phil Smits Dr Ashraf El Houfi becoming a burden on healthcare sys- one in every five patients do not receive Enhancing infection prevention and tems and costs. appropriate antibiotic therapy for MRSA control programs to contain healthcare antibiotics as future therapeutic and continue to treat patients. As a result Dr Ashraf El Houfi, Consultant ICU skin infections.’’ MRSA can spread rapidly acquired MRSA is important for both resources.8It is critical for countries in of antibiotics becoming a scarce Dubai Hospital, Examiner for The Royal among people having close contact with hospitals and community areas, along this region to establish both national resource, both physicians and patients College of Physicians, Lecturer in Dubai infected people. Also through indirect with appropriate measures designed to and international initiatives to develop must use them carefully in order to main- Medical College and Chairman of The contact by touching objects i.e., towels, limit the spread and reduce the threat of better measurements designed to limit tain their usefulness. This is the time now, Infection Control Committee Dubai sheets, wound dressings, clothes, and MRSA carriage and infections. On the and control the spread of infections.’’ where the need for policies and regula- Hospital commented saying ‘’When an equipment contaminated by the infected other hand Dr. Ayman AbdulAziz Ali Within the region, Bayer Middle East tions for antibiotic use at the country lev- infection occurs, patients typically skin of a person with MRSA. head of ICU Department in Sharjah has a long standing commitment and el must be developed as well, promoting receive an antibiotic to kill the bacteria. Further, patients in hospitals are University Hospital said ‘’Antibiotic stew- ongoing dedication to contribute to the the appropriate use of antibiotics, and However, over the past few decades, bac- more likely to contract an MRSA infec- ardship is crucial to help contain the fur- fight against increasing antibacterial increasing the awareness for both clini- terial resistance to commonly used tion since the pathogen is often spread ther development of the observed resistance, in order to ensure that physi- cians and the public on the rational and antibiotics has increased considerably. by healthcare staff due to insufficient resistance and to help in preserving cians have effective therapies available appropriate use of antibiotics.

Wasted green power tests China’s energy leadership

BEIJING: China’s scramble to curb pollution quarter, giving a boost to renewables after has made it the world leader in renewable the economy regained momentum from energy development, yet increasing 2016’s slowdown. amounts of that green power have gone However, experts say wasted energy will unused as the country struggles to inte- continue to be a drag on Chinese renew- grate wind and solar farms into an outdat- able power potential until the country’s ed and balkanized electricity network dom- electrical grid is modernized and provincial inated by coal. The problem threatens to officials end their preference for coal, which slow China’s progress in clearing its air and provides almost two-thirds of the country’s controlling the greenhouse gas emissions energy. The problem is worst in winter, that make it the top contributor to climate when many coal plants provide electricity change. for the power grid and send out excess It also could hamper any desire among heat to keep homes and businesses warm. Chinese leaders to fill the leadership gap That’s led provincial officials to keep coal left by President Donald Trump’s move to plants running - and to reject available withdraw the US from the Paris climate wind-generated electricity - despite pres- accord. As energy ministers from around sure from the central government to use the globe gather in Beijing this week to more renewables, said Lu Xi, a professor at promote renewables, China’s difficulty Tsinghua University’s School of Environment maximizing its green resources reflects the in Beijing. “On paper they express quite clear challenges they face over how best to tran- attitudes to promote renewables, but in sition to cleaner electricity. “They installed reality they promote coal interests,” said too much too fast,” said Qiao Liming, China Frank Yu, a renewables specialist with the director for the Global Wind Energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. Council. To help address the issue, China’s “A real market should allow electricity to National Energy Administration has pushed flow between two provinces. That is cur- for more wind turbines to be installed clos- rently lacking” in China, she said. er to Beijing and coastal cities, where MYANMAR: This file photo shows a vendor, left, attempting to sell a chunk of dried elephant skin and an ivory tusk at a traditional medicine Thousands of new wind turbines and solar demand is highest. That should allow shop in the sprawling grounds of Golden Rock pagoda in Mount Kyaikhteeyoe, a major religious pilgrimage site for Myanmar Buddhists.—AFP panels were installed in China’s remote renewable energy to bypass part of the provinces over the past several years as the dated transmission system that’s been country’s leaders sought to alleviate chok- blamed for impeding its use. It also would ing urban smog without slowing economic give more populated provinces a greater Skin cure fad driving Myanmar expansion. China now has more renewable stake in making sure renewables get used. power capacity than any other nation. In a separate effort, at this week’s energy Two nagging problems have dampened ministers meeting in Beijing, Chinese offi- elephant poaching surge: WWF that success, however, according to indus- cials are expected to launch a campaign to try representatives and outside observers: make its power supply system more flexi- China’s sprawling power grid has been ble. The goal is to create a power grid that YANGON: Myanmar’s wild elephants are being he said. “The sex ratio was already screwed up so hidden behind Myanmar’s famed “Golden Rock” unable to handle the influx of new electrici- can more easily absorb the highs and lows poached in record numbers with at least 20 any more pressure on young or breeding pilgrimage site earlier this year saw chunks of ty from wind and solar, while some provin- associated with weather-dependent wind killed this year due to surging demand for their females will have serious, serious implications.” the hide on sale for a few dollars a square inch. cial officials have retained a preference for and solar electricity, said Christian hide, WWF said yesterday, warning the species is Elephant skin has become one of the latest ani- Vendors promised that a paste made of its ash coal. In western China’s Gansu province, 43 Zinglersen, the head of the Clean Energy facing a “crisis”. Hunters are increasingly target- mal products to be touted by some as having and coconut oil would cure eczema, while percent of energy from wind went unused Ministerial, which is hosting the meeting. ing mothers and calves, using poisoned arrows medical properties, although there is no scientif- ground up elephant teeth would smooth and in 2016, a phenomenon known in the ener- Still, the problem of electricity going to inflict a slow and agonizing death before ic support for those claims. whiten skin. But experts say the majority of ele- gy industry as “curtailment.” In the neigh- unused could get worse before it gets bet- stripping them of their skin, the wildlife group WWF estimates there are 1,400-2,000 ele- phant products go to feed neighboring China’s boring Xinjiang region, the curtailment fig- ter, said Liutong Zhang, a senior manager said. At least 20 elephant corpses have been phants roaming wild in Myanmar, thought to be inexhaustible taste for exotic animals. ure was 38 percent and in northeast China’s with the Lantau Group, a Hong Kong-based found stripped of their skin in two sites the the second-largest population in Southeast Asia Much of the trade runs through the country’s Jilin province it was 30 percent. energy consulting firm. wildlife NGO monitors so far in 2017 — more after Thailand. But their numbers have dwindled lawless eastern periphery, controlled by a The nationwide figure, 17 percent, was More solar and wind is planned in than are usually killed in a whole year. as Myanmar has emerged as a key hub in the sophisticated criminal network who are thought described by Qiao’s organization as “shock- Chinese provinces that already have more Global wildlife law enforcement specialist $20 billion a year global wildlife trafficking trade. to be armed and funded by powerful “kingpins” ingly high” after increasing for several years power-generating capacity than they use. Rohit Singh said poaching at the Bago Yoma and Myanmar’s government said in January that ele- in China. “It’s organized crime, so we are dealing in a row. The problem has shown some Additional coal plants also are slated to the Irrawaddy Delta sites, both in the south, had phant poaching has jumped tenfold in recent with organized criminal gangs,” said Singh, signs of improvement this year, according come online, Zhang said. China’s difficul- reached crisis point. “If the current trend contin- years, driven by growing demand for skin and adding that WWF was working with local com- to the China Electricity Council. Power ties, while more pronounced than in other ues then you’re going to lose the wild elephant body parts used in traditional medicine. munities and government to try to clamp down demand in general increased in the first countries, are not unique. —AP population (in these areas) in the next 1-2 years,” AFP reporters who visited a wildlife market on poaching.—AFP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

Indigenous atmosphere at the tent of the Sheraton Kuwait

he coral ballroom at the Sheraton Kuwait hotel is dec- orated with the finest decorations for the holy month of Ramadan with its charming designs and historic Tinterior style reflecting the greater Maghreb, boasting a dis- tinctive atmosphere to welcome you for iftar, ghabqas and suhour in a traditional Ramadan ambiance. Our chefs are keen to prepare a variety of dishes for an experience not to be forgotten. A rich buffet with a variety of delicacies from around the world including salads, appetizers and main dishes, deli- cious shawarma and many types of sambosek, kebbe and jumbo shrimps, a corner for refreshing drinks like jallab and tamer aldin and many others, in addition to a health soups corner specially prepared for iftar and suhur, and distinctive kind of sweets and beverages. A dedicated smoking area has been set up and inspired by the meetings of friends and family. The Sheraton Kuwait hotel’s tent boasts its pioneers of families, friends and business people to offer its luxurious services mixed with loud tunes offering a distinctive and pleasant atmosphere.

ACK, KFAS host SPHERE Arpan, Kuwait holds farewell meeting rpan, Kuwait hosted a farewell comed the gathering. In addition to philanthropic services he rendered to meeting in honor of P A Menon the Arpan members, Menon’s associ- the society. Those delivered felicita- who is leaving Kuwait for good ates in the erstwhile organizations tion speeches included Mohan Iyer, afterA serving in the country for 40 OMWA and UMA, friends and well- Krishnan K Pillai, Ganesh, Mahadevan years. He has been working in the wishers attended the farewell meet- Iyer, Sam C Vilanilam, Rajan Daniel, Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) as chief ing. The speakers, while elucidating Sam Painummoodu, S A Labba, accountant. Menon, currently the the multifaceted qualities of Menon Shivadas Mullassery, Joy Mudakkatt, Advisory Board Chairman of Arpan, is as an expat social activist, listed the Manoj Mavelikkara, Binu P G, Sajeev the founder member of the associa- contributions he made in the Indian (Sarathi), Saji Janardhanan (KALA tion. He has also served Arpan as its socio-cultural arena in Kuwait, partic- Kuwait), Subbaraman A R, Rajeshwari president. ularly in promoting Indian culture and Subbaraman and Sajeev K Peter. Anil The meeting was presided over by heritage in the country. Attiva coordinated the function while Arpan president Suresh K P while They also spoke about his impec- Venkatakrishnan delivered a vote of General Secretary Rafi Padiyath wel- cable leadership qualities and the thanks.

n May 3, 2017 the second Symposia of Private Research Council of Oman. Best Practices in promoting higher Education; Road to Excellence (SPHERE) Research and Development in private Universities, pre- was convened in the premises of the Arab Fund sented by Prof. George Najjar, Provost-Lebanese forO Economic and Social Development. The one day American University. Role of Research and symposium was held under the Patronage of the Development in supporting excellence in higher edu- Secretary General of the Private Universities Council cation, presented by Prof. Abeer Al-Bawab, General (PUC) and wasco-organized and sponsored by the Director of the Scientific Research Support Fund (SRSF) Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) and the Kuwait in Jordan. Market-Driven Research and Development, Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). Presented by Prof. Abdalla Al-Najjar, Chairman-Arab GREETINGS The Proceedings included an opening session in which Science & Technology Foundation, UAE. representatives of PUC, KFAS and ACK participated. The sessions were chaired by: Prof. Tariq Aldowaisan, Dr Waleed Al-Kandari the Deputy of the Secretary Prof. Moudi Al-Humoud, Prof Mustafa Marefi; and Prof erna Gergis Shaker com- General at the PUC highlighted that the PUC has tak- Esam AlAwadhi respectively. At the beginning of each pleted her high school en a number of steps to encourage the private univer- session the Chairperson of the session gave an intro- with flying colors achiev- Ming a 93.3 percent of the total sitiesto enhance their research and developments duction for a few minutes followed by 20 minutes for activities. Dr Adnan Shihab Eldin in his address asked the speaker and 25 minutes for comments from the marks in the science section. Merna the private universities to link their research and floor. A final discussion session composed of the main attributed her outstanding per- development plans with national plans. Furthermore, speakers was conducted by Prof. Adnan Badran, formance to hard work and persist- the Chairperson of the Symposium Dr Mohammed Al- Chancellor of University of Petra and Chairman of the ence. She stressed that time man- Rumaihi emphasized that the private universities board of Trustees of University of Jordan. agement and organization were should have an active role in research through coop- The scholars contributing to the symposium were major factors since day one. She also stressed that both her family, eration with the national stakeholders and interna- affiliated to public and private universities and col- namely her mother, and her school tional partners. leges. In addition, a good number of participants came halid Fawzi received greetings helped her by providing the ideal Four “Technical” sessions where keynote presenta- from national research and development centers and and best wishes on the birth of atmosphere for studying. tions were discussed. Their topics were: Research and agencies. At the closing, the participants expressed his grandson Fares. Development in Private Universities in the GCC, pre- appreciation for the joint event and urged ACK and KCongratulations to him and his family. sented by Prof Hilal Al-Hanai, secretary General of The KFAS to continue this endeavor. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

—Photos by Joseph Shagra IWG holds Ghabqa

By Faten Omar ness to present IWG and appreciated the effort of the former president Elena “Elena organized a he International Women’s Group (IWG) variety of workshops that introduced our mem- held a Ghabqa to celebrate the holy bers to many cultures. I accepted this position month of Ramadan with the members of because she will be in my side, to put me and theT Group at Crowne Plaza Hotel on Sunday. The the rest of members in the right track,” she said. group celebrates occasions all over the year, to Barakat asked all the IWG members to give introduce the cultures all over and give the ideas and suggestions to make the group great opportunity to let its member know about and shine up. For his part, Ambassador of Girgian, Ghabqa and Ramadan in Kuwait, as well Guyana to Kuwait, Shamir Ally thanked and as traditional Kuwaiti food consumed during honored former President of IWG Solomatina Ramadan. and Narjes Al-Shatti, Board Member of the During the event, former President of IWG, International Women’s Group for their effort in Elena Solomatina, the spouse of the Russian creating IWG with their leadership skills. Ambassador to Kuwait said, “IWG spent more The ambassador added “Me and My wife than 25 years of their lives to be what we are appreciate what you have done and still doing today.” She announced the end of the activities for all the IWG members who present different of the International Woman Group for this year cultures and religions.” The event featured a where the members elect Dr Heba Barakat, wife fashion show by IWG members. Also Egyptian of HE the Egyptian ambassador to be the new performance “skirt dance,” which is an Egyptian president of IWG. tanoura traditional dance and a belly dancing The new president of the International show by marionette a puppet controlled from Women Group, Dr. Barakat expressed her happi- above using strings. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 TV PROGRAMS

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Abu Dhabi 22:10 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 UAE 860 Dubai 22:35 KAC 742 Dammam 11:45 AIC 987 Chennai/Hyderabad 22:25 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:00 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 SAW 701 Damascus 12:30 PIA 239 Sialkot 22:35 AAG 143 IQA 12:00 NIA 0162 Cairo 23:10 THY 766 Istanbul 12:50 JZR 241 Amman 22:55 RBG 554 Alexandria 12:10 KAC 795 Madinah 23:10 FEG 933 Sohag 12:55 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:00 MSC 404 Asyut 12:15 KAC 783 Jeddah 23:10 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 MSC 405 Sohag 23:30 SYR 342 Damascus 12:55 QTR 083 Doha 23:20 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:10 MSR 2614 Cairo 23:30 PAL 669 Manila 13:10 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 KNE 529 Jeddah 13:40 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 KAC 411 Bangkok 23:35 stars34 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 CROSSWORD 1629 STAR TRACK

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

Work seems intense today but you possess a powerful, persistent drive An emphasis on discipline with regard to work and health is a keynote of and are a hard, steady worker. Some people find you deep, with a sense of the cycle now dawning in your life. Procedures, scheduling, details: you may become mystery. You are willing to do work today that others would not go near, quietly putting weak in some areas unless you take steps to correct any deficiencies. Deficiencies may an end to some difficult problems. Later today you might be helping others to learn only be when you fail to meet a deadline. You can do this . . . You will be pleased with technical techniques so that you will eventually not be so overburdened. You are able to your progress. Otherwise, you will have to run faster just to avoid falling behind. A direct others in your business and this may lead to a leadership position. You busy your- desire for variety marks this phase and this especially applies to romantic experience self this afternoon in some project that you had been putting off for some time. You will and artistic taste. The latter tend to focus on literature and poetry. Communication be creating a new form or format for presentation to some very important people. with distant family members is possible this afternoon. A sociable, congenial, slightly Some people may wonder how the business could ever get along without you. frivolous orientation sets in this evening. A social involvement can be enjoyable.

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

You are friendly and encouraging today. You somehow manage to find a This is a good time for promoting yourself and for letting others know creative environment or the creative in any environment, so as to provide the most what you have to offer. Right now, the key to career moves involves attending to nag- beneficial area in which to work or play. Others want to join you in this project. You ging details-whatever you have neglected before. This is a time during which you may have a built-in sense of what the public wants and can always come up with just the be able to move ahead with your ambition and your general life's purpose. You would right image. You find it easy to work with the emotions and feelings of others and make an excellent teacher of philosophy or religion-you cannot help but communi- with great imagination. You are great with kids and big on animals, sports and the cate these subjects to others and enchant all who come to know you. Your under- outdoors. You are an instant umbrella of warmth, friendship and self-expression. Clear standing of the unity behind appearances, along with the ability to put these decisions affecting others could be made easily at this time. These are the attitudes thoughts into words, is a rare and valuable gift. You would make a good director, pho- and circumstances in which you find yourself teaching others. tographer, choreographer, etc. You like working with mental images.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You might like to ignore responsibilities and do some socializing, but There are lots of energy and action this day. Your dreams and imaginings realities demand you tend to business and forget your friends for the keep bumping into the real and the actual. You quickly pick up on what is expected of moment. This is one of the best times to make progress, push forward and rise to you, and you are accountable. You are learning to plan ahead as you see your goals prominence. It will be hard for you to do wrong-all the cycles are working in your favor. begin to develop. You do the best you can in every situation that you experience. It Your career seems to get the support you need and this is one area of life that runs ACROSS 5. Prevent the occurrence of. takes judgment to make the choices that best benefit a situation. Consider this: your smoothly. You seem to understand what the public wants and mass marketing could 1. The compass point that is one point south of 6. A Chadic language spoken in Chad. powers of perception are particularly sharp at this time, and you would do well now to be a natural for you. This is also a time when you may marry or take on a new role in work out the details of any plans that you have previously made. This evening, you due east. 7. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a the community or with other people. Your mind is ever on communication, how you may feel focused and even a bit radiant. You are either entertaining company or being present yourself, especially when negotiating. Enjoy cooking a new recipe tonight. 4. United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for relatively long time or attained a specific age. entertained yourself tonight. The snacks are low calorie and nutritional-good for you! his description of the universals of phonolo- 8. Tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths gy (1896-1982). grown for hay in the United States. 12. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischie- 9. An inactive volcano in the Andes in central Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) vous. Ecuador. 15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used 10. In operation or operational. You may realize that you may have been stagnating lately. There are Independence on the part of people or events somehow challenges your opportunities today to rise above the mundane. Saying or writing with style comes in Morse code. authority today. Also, the forces of change assert themselves now and again, manag- 11. A strip of land projecting into a body of water. naturally as you seek to write a program or progress report. It may seem that you are ing to overrule and overturn whatever you have managed to secure. Observing others, 16. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts. 12. 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GOSSIP Lorde apologizes to fans after Free Press Summer Fest cancelled

orde's performance at Free Press Summer Fest was in her own tweet: "just been told that my set at fpsf has Weather Service, Eleanor Tinsley Park is unsafe for the event cancelled after flash flooding. The 'Green Light' hit- been pulled coz of the thunderstorm... i'm so sorry guys. to continue. "Refunds of 50% of the base ticket price will be Lmaker took to Twitter to apologize to her fans who gonna go cry outside beyonce's house now :( (sic)" The can- refunded for any tickets purchased with a credit card within were waiting to see her at the event in Houston, Texas after cellation of the festival was announced in a statement on the next 7-10 business days. Ticketholders who purchased the festival got called off due to the extreme weather con- the event's website. They wrote: "In planning FPSF, patron tickets with cash at the FPSF Box Office will need to contact ditions. She wrote on the social media site: "FPSF, i'm so sor- experience and safety is paramount. Festival organizers, in Front Gate Tickets and provide their wristband print ID to ry but they've cancelled the day due to this apocalypse- agreement with the Houston Police Department, Houston request their refund at support.frontgatetickets.com within style weather which means we can't play for you tonight ... Fire Department, and the Mayor's Office of Special Events, the next 30 days. Ticketholders who purchased tickets on "crying shame because me charli and tove had cooked up a are announcing that FPSF has been cancelled for the June 4, will receive a full refund." cover of umbrella by rihanna for u lol (sic)" Charli XCX's per- remainder of the evening. With intense weather systems formance was also cancelled due to the weather. She added continuing and a flash flood warning issued by the National

Charli XCX: Female pop is in a good place

harli XCX feels female pop music is in "such a good place". The 'Break The Rules' hitmaker thinks it is a great time for women in music and believes Cherself and fellow singer/songwriter Sia are "pushing the boundaries of pop". She told news.com.au: "I feel like we are very similar in the sense each of us write a lot of songs for other people. "I feel like we all are pushing the boundaries of pop in our own ways. I feel pop music, especially female pop music has been in such a good place for about the last five years. The most innovative artists and writers are women." Meanwhile, Charli previously revealed her new album is a "big pop party album to get f***ed up to". She said: "On my previous record, I was really annoyed at the music industry and felt like I had something to prove. After that, I didn't feel I had anything to prove anymore. "Also one of my favorite hob- bies is partying, and I realized that I never actually made a party album. I never made an album that I would want to hear at a club. "It was very indulgent in that sense because I just wanted to make an album that I could get f***ed up to. It's the soundtrack to might nights." And fans of the 'Boom Clap' singer may have to wait until next year to hear Charli's follow-up to 2014's 'Sucker'. She recently said: Sean Paul collaborating "I finished my album in the middle of last year and I'm probably not even going to release it until next year now, because I want to release a lot of other music before, that isn't totally linked to the album. For me personally, I don't think with Shakira albums are the end goal anymore for musicians. Continuously releasing music really suits the way that I work as a songwriter and as an artist." ean Paul is collaborating with Shakira. the genre when they release Dancehall The 'She Doesn't Mind' hitmaker has tracks. Speaking to Alex and Andrea on Srevealed he has teamed up with the KISS FM, he shared: "I don't think any of 40-year-old singer for a song called 'Mad these people are paying homage by doing Love'. He said: "I got something kind of Dancehall, but there are also young kids Childish Gambino hints more poppy coming in a little while, with who don't know about me, and they don't Shakira. The song's called 'Mad Love', it's know that Dancehall is a thing. "When about being mad and having love, it's more they hear that song, they'll be like, 'Oh, next album will be last sexy. It's not about love, it's the sexiness." that's so and so's new song! That's so and And Sean says it is a "dream come true" to so's new music.' I wish people would say, hildish Gambino has hinted his next work with the 'Hips Don't Lie' singer as 'This is my dancehall single.' Because if I just album will be his last. The 'Redbone' they have been wanting to work together decide to do a country and western single, Chitmaker excited fans over the week- for a while. He added: "We've always want- Sean Paul singing about my woes, I would end when he performed a rare live set at ed to work together, and I was like, 'Yo, I've say this is my country single. "It's not a Governors Ball Music Festival in New York always wanted to work with you!' She was beef, I can't be angry, that just means that City but the crowd were in for a shock like, 'I've always wanted to work with you our music has grown huge, and that peo- when he subtly let slip at the end of his gig too!' "And I was like, 'No, I've always been ple are seeing vibes in it. Artists want to that he won't be doing any more music told that you're busy.' And she's like, 'I've catch a good vibe and sell records. They once he's dropped his next record. always been told that you're busy!' It's a know that people are gonna rock with it, Addressing the crowd, he said: "You're in dream come true for me, I've been wanting right now it's the flavor of the month." my heart. I'll see you for the last Gambino to work with her [for a while]." Meanwhile, album." The 33-year-old rapper - whose real the 44-year-old rapper went on to slam name is Donald Glover - dropped his last other artists for not "paying homage" to album in December 2016 so fans may have to wait a little while before they see the next LP. However, he's sure to go out with a bang as it's believed he's already working picture of Donald on Twitter and wrote: "I Prince musical just can't wait to be king. #Simba." Last on a duet with Chance The Rapper. Although fans are no doubt devastated year, Disney confirmed the 1994 movie will about the possibility of his next album be given a live-action reboot and Jon - who in the works to being his last, it's not hard to see why as helmed the 2016 remake of 'The Jungle he's just been cast as Simba in 'The Lion Book' - said is "excited" about the project. honor late star King' remake. Director Jon Favreau shared a Prince musical is set to tour the UK in honor of the late star. The 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' hitmaker tragi- Acally passed away in April 2016 from a fentanyl over- dose at the age of 57, and now a musical - named 'Purple Terry Gilliam finishes The Rain' after the star's hit single and album of the same name - based on his greatest hits is in the works. The creators behind the Michael Jackson themed musical 'Thriller Live' Man Who Killed Don Quixote are the creative minds behind the show, and is set to show- case Prince's most famous work including tracks such as erry Gilliam has finished filming QUIXOTE. Muchas gracias to all the team 'Raspberry Beret', 'Kiss', 'When Doves Cry', and 'Little Red 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and believes. QUIXOTE VIVE! (sic)" Many Liam Gallagher Corvette'. Director Gary Lloyd said in a statement: "Prince's Tafter 17 years. The 'Time Bandits' actors who were part of the original line music and constant reinvention is legendary, so to get the director originally started making the up dropped out mid-production includ- opportunity to bring that and all his colorful characters to movie back in 1998 but due to financial ing the late John Hurt, who was the theatrical stage is a dream. "There is also a real appetite issues, the film was put on halt and replaced by 'Monty Python' star Michael wants Oasis reunion for live music shows that showcase the musicians as part of Gilliam attempted to try and restart pro- Palin in the project. The troubled pro- the performance. Prince was all about this. Prince was a duction but despite failing to get it off duction, which faced technical issues, iam Gallagher would like to see an round and say, 'Sorry about this, lads, but consummate, theatrical artist, but in our show his music is the ground, the director has now con- weather problems and nervous backers, Oasis reunion happen. The 44-year- I'm going to have to put my wicked solo the star. "There will be so much for audiences to enjoy firmed the film is complete. Writing on even inspired a documentary 'Lost in La Lold musician admits he "misses" his career on hold because I need to help my whether they're fans of musical theatre, Prince, or both. social media, Gilliam said: "Sorry for the Mancha' to be made about the film and brother Noel, the band and the fans but he brother out.' But I ain't poor. I'm still stand- 'Purple Rain' is a fast-paced, music lover's night out that long silence. I've been busy packing the it wasn't until Amazon stepped in to insists he doesn't want his sibling to be the ing. No. It ain't happening, mate. When I will tease, surprise and excite audiences in the same way truck and am now heading home. "After help that Gilliam was finally able to fin- one who orchestrates it and says the think about it, being in a band with him he did." The cast of the show will be made up of 26 actors, 17 years, we have completed the shoot ish the movie. In 2016, it was revealed chance of a reunion is in "the lap of the bores the death out of me. He's changed, who will tour the UK in 2018, starting in Bromley on of THE MAN WHO KILLED DON that 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' star gods". He said: "No contact. I can't see it [a as a person. He's not someone I want to be February 1 before making their way to dates in Adam Driver has joined the cast of the reunion] happening. Never say never, I in a band with. He's part of the establish- Manchester, Plymouth, Birmingham, Blackpool, Edinburgh, movie, based on the novel 'Don guess, but at the moment, if I get up and ment." And the 'Don't Look Back in Anger' Hull, Ipswich, and Belfast. Meanwhile, the late star was Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes. He is running on this solo thing, it certainly hitmaker is gearing up to release his debut recently honored with a speech delivered by his sister Tyka set to play Toby, an arrogant man who won't happen for a bit. Because there have solo album. Asked what fans can expect, he Nelson at the American Music Awards in November. She has long waved goodbye to his young, been plenty of times that it could have told The Observer: "It's all been done said: "Prince defied the odds. A black teen from idealistic dream of making films. He happened and it should have happened before, my record. I hope I'm just doing it a Minneapolis with a goal to electrify the world, he had the unexpectedly comes across a copy of and it didn't. "I'd like it to happen, because I little bit better. I'm not reinventing the courage to be different. With his vision [and] God-given tal- his student film about Quixote and miss him and I miss the band and I miss the wheel, I'm just giving it a new polish. Good ent, he is still one of the world's most respected and loved decides to visit the village where it was fans and I miss singing them songs. But it's songs, great vocals, good words ... I hope artists. "What he told me was that he wanted to be known set. What he finds there horrifies him, as in the lap of the gods, not Noel Gallagher, people enjoy it, don't scratch their heads as the world's most prolific songwriter. And with 984 titles his work has changed the village and he as much as he'd like to think he's a bit of a too much." to his credit and counting, he has done just that. "In the meets a man who now believes he is god, but he ain't ... Cos I've seen him com- words of Prince: 'With love, honor and respect for every liv- Don Quixote himself. ing for years. "He thought that I was going ing thing in the universe, separation ceases, and we all to be down and out, and then he'd turn become one being, singing one song.'" Alex Kurtzman says Bride of Frankenstein script is brilliant

lex Kurtzman says the script for 'Bride of weird thing about 'Bride of Frankenstein'. It is one of the to serve another man. Which is gonna be an interesting Frankenstein' is "brilliant". The writer and director of weirdest movies you'll ever see in your life. It is such a thing to tackle in this day and age." 'Pirates of the A'The Mummy' reboot is working alongside strange film. What amazes me is that the bride doesn't Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' star Javier Bardem will scriptwriter David Koepp on the next installment of the show up until, what, the last ten minutes of the film? play Frankenstein in the movie. The Monsterverse sees the Dark Universe - which is set to follow the Tom Cruise "Doesn't say anything, rejects Frankenstein, he pulls a lever studio revisit the creature features which made Universal's reboot - and Kurtzman says the structure of the script is and the building explodes and that's the end of it. There's name, beginning in the 1920s with Lon Chaney's 'The "very unique". Speaking to Den of Geek, he said: "David almost no screen time with her. And yet everybody Hunchback of Notre Dame' and 'The Phantom of the Koepp wrote a brilliant script. A brilliant script with a very remembers the iconic look, the hair, who she was. Articles Opera'. The Dark Universe was started by core creatives unique structure and a central relationship that I think is have been written, there's Halloween costumes. "It's an Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, who directed and produced gonna be relatable to a lot of people while also being very enduring character because there's something mysterious 'The Mummy' reboot. 'Bride of Frankenstein' is set for a true to what I believe people love about 'Bride'. "Here's the about her and that look and the idea that she was created February 2019 release. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 lifestyle

GOSSIP Dan Aykroyd slams Paul Feig an Aykroyd has slammed Paul Feig for crippling any one. "The director, he spent too much on it. "He didn't Leslie Jones." The movie cost a reported $144 million - plus chance of a new 'Ghostbusters' movie. The 64-year- shoot scenes we suggested to him, several scenes that marketing - to make, and it earned almost $240 million at Dold actor has previously praised the filmmaker's were going to be needed, and he said, 'No, we don't need the global box office. Sony confirmed the reshoots had tak- 2016 all-female reboot of the franchise, but has now hit them,' and then we tested the movie and they needed en place, but insisted their cost was a tenth of what Dan out at the filmmaker for spending too much money on the them and he had to go back-about $30 to $40 million in had claimed. The told Entertainment Weekly: "The budget project, accusing him of unnecessarily costing the produc- re-shoots. "So, yeah, he will not be back on the Sony lot and additional visual effects shoots were previously report- tion millions of dollars in reshoots. Speaking on 'Sunday anytime soon." But Dan - who starred in the original ed, and the studio had an incredible relationship with the Brunch', he said: "I was really happy with the movie, but it 'Ghostbusters' and had a cameo in the remake - also took director who was first rate." cost too much. And Sony does not like to lose money. "It the time to praise the cast of the reboot. He said: "The girls made a lot of money around the world but it just cost too are great in it. Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen much, making it economically not feasible to do another Wiig - what a wonderful, wonderful players they are - and

Wonder Woman 2 to be set in America he 'Wonder Woman' sequel will and you can say anything you want in take place in America. The first the world right now." Although Patty Tinstallment of the latest DC admits she feels no obligation to return Extended Universe franchise only hit cin- to the franchise as the director for the ema screens last week, but director Patty sequel, she admits 'Wonder Woman 2' Jenkins already knows exactly what's will be "its own great movie", and she going to happen in the sequel, including would love to be involved in the "beauti- where in the world she'd like the story to ful story". She told Entertainment be set. She said: "The story will take Weekly: "Then I realized that 'Wonder place in the US, which I think is right. Woman 2' is its own great movie. I made Neill Blomkamp She's Wonder Woman. She's got to come Wonder Woman. Now I want to make to America. It's time." And the director 'Wonder Woman 2'. It's a beautiful story says Alien 5 is dead also gushed about getting to work with to tell, an important time to tell it and her "dream cast" in the movie - which with people that I love." Meanwhile, it eill Blomkamp confirms 'Alien 5' is "totally dead". It includes lead star Gal Gadot alongside was claimed last month by a Twitter user was previously reported Blomkamp was to produce Chris Pine - and said she's pleased with who attended a promotional event in Nand direct another installment of the sci-fi saga but her work on the female led superhero Shanghai that Zack Snyder - who has after the franchise's creator Sir Ridley Scott said it is unlike- feature because she "believes in it". She directed other DCEU features such as ly to ever come to fruition as there wasn't even a script for added: "I'm not a big obligation person the upcoming ensemble movie 'Justice the story, the director has admitted he is "sad" to know the when it comes to art. You want to do a League' - had told the audience that movie is unlikely to happen. Speaking to The Verge, movie like this because you believe in it. Warner Bros. had already started plan- Bingle loves concealers Blomkamp said: "I think it's totally dead, yes. "That would Then I had this revelation in the middle ning the 'Wonder Woman' sequel. be an accurate assumption at this point. It's sad. I spent a of the night: this is your dream cast, long time working on that and I feel like it was really pretty you've created a character that you love awesome. "But politically, the way it's gone now and the with a 'cakey formula' way that it all is - it's just not going to live." Back in 2015, concept art images were released by Blomkamp on his ara Bingle loves wearing concealer need to wear many beauty products, and social media pages which sparked excitement for the fans with a "cakey formula". The 29-year- instead focuses on her skincare regime of the franchise however the film now doesn't look like it Lold model - who is now known as and making her complexion look radiant. will be going ahead. Speaking to AlloCine magazine in Lara Worthington after she married actor She explained: "Since I've gotten older, I May, Scott said: "I don't think it will ever see the light of Sam Worthington in 2014 - has admitted feel I don't need as much. I think skin is the day. There was never a script. Just an idea that evolved she doesn't wear "much" make-up but most important thing as then you don't from a dozen or so pages. "I had to participate as producer when she does she opts for "quite natural" have to wear much make-up, so I try and but it didn't go farther because Fox decided it didn't want cosmetics because she prefers a minimalist focus on that. I prioritize things like always to do it. "As far I was concerned, I had already done aesthetic and will smother her under-eye taking off my make-up and wearing sun- 'Prometheus' and I was working on 'Alien: Covenant'." area in a lot of the skin-coloured product screen." And Lara - who has two-year-old Although Scott has revealed 'Alien 5' won't be going to ensure the product lasts. Speaking to son Rocket with her spouse - avoids using ahead, he has revealed earlier this year he has already writ- Byrdie Beauty about her appearance and conditioner when she washes her hair ten the next part of his prequel series which is rumored to style hacks, the blonde-haired icon said: "I because it makes her golden locks look be four films in total. The director also reassured fans he like a cakey formula to really cover things. "too nice", although she is forced to apply will not be closing down the franchise any time soon. "Quite natural but not too natural. I love the product to her tresses when her hair is Despite 'Alien 5' not going ahead, Blomkamp does plan on products that are multipurpose and that I knotty. She explained: "I don't really use making a sequel to his 2009 hit 'District 9'. He said: "With can use in more than one way ... My look conditioner - it makes my hair too nice - 'District 9', I plan on making another film in that world. "To day to day is very minimal, with maybe a but sometimes I take it because you have go back and work with WETA and make the film would be little bit more for night. Most of the time I to if your hair gets knotty." cool but anything that pre-exists like that may not be the don't wear much make-up." And the star best for whatever we're trying here." believes as she has matured she doesn't John Galliano's home David Delfin has died Anna Sui reveals her essential has been burgled beauty products ohn Galliano's home has reportedly been burgled. The nna Sui will never leave the house without applying 56-year-old fashion designer is believed to have had red lipstick. The 52-year-old fashion designer has his Paris home broken into on Friday night or the early J admitted she cannot go anywhere until she has hours of Saturday morning , and it has been reported a A applied two of her essential cosmetic products to her face, number of his personal possessions were stolen during the and she has credited her bold make-up aesthetic, as well horrific ordeal, French newspaper Aujourd'hui has report- as her block fringe, as her "signature look". Speaking ed. However, it is not yet known whether the creative mas- about her beauty essentials to Stella magazine, the cre- termind was present during the break-in. It is believed the ative mastermind said: "I set my alarm for 6am but I always mogul's photograph of the late actress Marilyn Monroe, wake before then. I like to be the first person in the office which was one of the last remaining photographs of the so I can clear my head before meetings begin. "I then put 'Some Like It Hot' star and is worth almost £45,000, was on eyeliner and red lipstick (I never leave home without taken in the break-in. John has been at the helm of a num- these)." And the entrepreneur has urged others to experi- Cruise's style is ber of prestigious fashion houses after he was hired as the ment with their appearance until they discover a unique creative director of Givenchy in 1995, including Dior and look of their own. She said: "Don't be afraid of creating his eponymous brand. John is now the creative director of avid Delfin has tragically died at 46 years old. signature look. I'm known for my fringe, red lip and eyelin- 'elegant with a sexy, Maison Margiela, which is a position he acquired in 2014, The Spanish designer - who was born in er." However, Anna will not wear high heels to work and the brand is honored to have the "incredible couturier" DRonda - passed away on Saturday after because she has hinted they are a restricting form of on board the company and bring his "poetry and magic" to masculine edge' enduring an ongoing battle with brain cancer, footwear and other shoes can be more freeing. She the label. Speaking previously, photographers Luigi and WWD.com has reported. David - whose full name is explained: "Don't wear heels to the office. You discover a om Cruise's style is "elegant with a sexy, masculine Iango wrote: "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAISON Diego David Dom?nguez Gonz?lez - is believed to new freedom when you wear trainers or flat boots." Anna edge", according to stylists Nicole and Wendi MARGIELA. THE UNCONSCIOUS GLAMOUR We are so hon- have died in Madrid, where he had launched his has revealed she will only carry around a small handbag, TFerreira. The 54-year-old actor's fashion sense has ored for this stellar collaboration with the incredible coutu- eponymous brand Daviddelfin, which he co-found- to fit the bare necessities in. The mogul - who launched been described as unique in comparison to other actors rier JOHN GALLIANO @jgalliano who orchestrated this ed in 2001. And touching tributes have come flood- her eponymous fashion house in 1981 - said: "Keep your the style gurus have worked with, because he is "very amazing story with poetry and magic for Maison Margiela ing in following the sad news, which has seen the handbag simple. Mine is lunchbox-sized and fits every- classic" and likes to pay close attention to the "minute @maisonmargiela - an exclusive for @industriemag star praised as the "one of the charismatic and cre- thing I need." Anna boasts a closet that resembles the details". Speaking about the dark-haired hunk, Nicole - @luigiandiango@luigimurenu @stephane_marais_offi- ative fashion designers" in the country. Prime iconic furniture in 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the who has been working as a double act with her sibling cial@lexyroche @yalebreslin @paulbarge@theodieu Minister Mariano Rajoy voiced his condolences to Witch and the Wardrobe', and when she has a free week- since 2005 - said: "I would describe Tom's style as ele- #unconsciousbeauty#madamelepigeon #unconscious- gant ... with a sexy, masculine edge. It's very classic. He's David's family in a heartfelt letter, which has been end she enjoys nothing more than tidying her wardrobes. glamour#luigiandiango (sic)." And John is proud to be at very much all about details, and there's minute details, published on the Spanish government's website. She said "I've an armoire in my dressing room that I picked the helm of the designer brand because he believes there but they matter. It sets him apart and makes it outstand- The statement read: "[David] was one of the most up at Chelsea Market, which looks deceptively small but it is "so much love and support" at the fashion house. ing. "He's very in tune with how he's supposed to look; charismatic and creative fashion designers in Spain. could give Narnia a run for its money. "Some weekends I'll Speaking previously, he said:" There's just so much love he has a definite idea of what he wants to convey." And "[David] leaves an incomparable legacy." And just stay at home. There's nothing I love more than devot- and support here ... and I kind of need to go step by step the 'Mummy' hunk - who has children Suri, 11, with his Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has also spoken out ing a day to tidying my many wardrobes." former partner Katie Holmes, Isabella, 24, and Connor, and get my confidence back." about David's death, in which he stated the "whole 22, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman - has to have his suits Miami fashion week" will mourn the mogul. The 56- custom made prior to star studded events because he year-old 'The Mask of Zorro' star shared an image of thinks tailoring is "important", although this means the David on his official Facebook account, with the cap- fashion pair have to begin to organize Tom's outfit tion: "Toda la Miami Fashion Week llora la muerte del months in advance of any ceremony he is due to attend. dise?ador malague?o David Delf?n. Hasta siempre Speaking about the five foot five inches star's specific paisano. DEP. (sic)." And the post translates to: "The requirements, Nicole said: "A lot of what he wears is Whole Miami fashion week mourns the death of the made-to-measure because of how important tailoring designer Malague?o David Dolphin. Until forever is." Although Wendi and Nicole have only been working homeboy. Dep. (sic)." David made waves in the fash- with the 'Jerry Maguire' icon for the last two years, they were familiar with the way he dressed and his appear- ion industry especially in 2002 with his controversial ance prior to collaborating with him, but still had to do Pasarela Cibeles fashion show, which saw him hide extensive research on how his wardrobe choices have the models' faces by making them wear hoods with changed over time. Wendi explained to GQ.com: "We nooses tied around their necks as part of a protest grew up watching him, so it was a lot of research ... look- against the Afghanistan war. The entrepreneur later ing at how his style has evolved and pulling images that went on to bag L'OrÈal Best Collection and the screamed 'Tom Cruise' to us. Then we did a concise pull National Fashion Prize during Mercedes-Benz of things we want to see him in." — Bang Showbiz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

MUSIC

In this photograph released by One Love Manchester US musicians will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Ariana Grande and Taboo per- UK musician Chris Martin and US musician Ariana Grande perform on stage. form at the One Love Manchester benefit concert for the families of the victims of the May 22, Manchester terror attack, at Emirates Old Trafford in Greater Manchester. — AP/AFP photos Music stars unite in Manchester as fans face down fears

heers drowned out tears in Manchester on Sunday as Ariana Grande was joined by fellow music stars for Ca charity concert where fans vowed to face down fears of terrorism after two deadly attacks in Britain. "Let the world hear your resilience," Pharrell Williams told a sell- out crowd of 50,000 who had gathered to remember vic- tims of a May 22 suicide bomb attack on Grande's concert in the city. The hastily-organized "One Love Manchester" event became one of the biggest single gatherings of musical talent this year, as stars lined-up for the concert dedicated to the 22 people killed and 116 injured, many of them children. Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Robbie Williams, Take That, Liam Gallagher, and Little Mix were among those who hit the stage, as fans held "We stand together" and "For our angels" signs. Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford opened the show after the crowd fell silent for a minute. Less than 24 hours before the concert got underway, Britain was rocked by another terrorist attack, in central London, in which seven people were killed and 48 injured. Grande tweeted "Praying for London" while her manager Scooter Braun said the concert would go ahead "with greater purpose".

Dancing police officers Fans flocked to the Old Trafford cricket ground for the show, many of them with tears rolling down their cheeks during the performances. In one heartfelt moment, Grande Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus perform on stage. was joined on stage by children from a local school, some Ariana Grande, left, and Miley Cyrus perform on stage. of whom were at the targeted Manchester Arena concert, as the group performed her hit song "My Everything". euros) sold out in minutes. "Over 10,000 unscrupulous Grande and Coldplay's Chris Martin performed "Don't look applications", however, were made for free tickets, back in anger", the track by Manchester Britpop band Oasis Ticketmaster said, with people applying despite not hav- which crowds sang during vigils in the days following the ing attended the original concert. bombing. Additional security measures were put in place Others tried to resell their tickets on eBay for £1,200. for the concert, with police warning that everyone would The online auction platform has since then pledged to be searched.But there was also a jovial atmosphere, as immediately remove any item "which profits in any way police officers and security guards danced with music fans. from the tragedy in Manchester". The BBC, Twitter, Apple, Revelers dressed for the occasion, with many wearing YouTube and MTV streamed the concert live, making it tops featuring a bee a symbol for Manchester-and slogans available to viewers in 180 countries. — AFP expressing their love for the city. "We're here to show our support to Manchester more than anything. These people aren't going to dampen our spirits," said 34-year-old Abdullah Mala. His eight-year-old daughter Hannah had left the Grande concert just before the deadly bombing and said she was "happy to be back" to see some of pop's biggest names.

'Overcome the fear' UK musician Chris Martin performs on stage. Ariana Grande, left, and Miley Cyrus perform on stage. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to a fund set up to help the victims' families. Rachel Jea, 32, said she was at Grande's previous Manchester concert and felt it was important to attend Sunday's show to regain trust after the bombing. "Our grandparents went through world wars so that we could live in freedom and now it's starting again. It just shouldn't be like this," she told AFP. Her nine-year-old daughter Scarlet adopted a defiant tone, telling others not to be afraid. "We need to try and find a way to overcome the fear. I'm really happy to come tonight, it is good for Ariana, it wasn't her fault what hap- pened." Grande, who described herself as "broken" follow- ing the May 22 bombing, had immediately returned to the US, interrupting her Dangerous Woman world tour and lat- er promising to return for the charity concert. On Friday the 23-year-old singer made a surprise visit to injured fans being treated at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Sunday's concert was held on the eve of the first funeral of Manchester attack victims. The coffin of Eilidh MacLeod, a 14-year-old victim of the bombing, was flown to the Scottish island of Barra and carried across a beach by mourners on Sunday ahead of the funeral.

'Unscrupulous applications' Those who had attended Grande's May 22 concert were Women wearing I Love MCR T-shirts arrive at the Old Howard Donald, from left, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen offered free tickets to the Sunday show, while the 35,000 Trafford Cricket Ground ahead of the One Love Manchester from the band Take That perform on stage. tickets put up for sale on Thursday at £40 each ($51, 46 Canadian musician Justin Bieber performs on stage. tribute concert in Manchester on June 4, 2017.

Katy Perry, left, perform on stage. Robbie Williams perform on stage. Liam Gallagher, left, and Chris Martin perform on stage. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

FEATURES

Cortney Thibodeau paints a mural based on artwork from the Dr Seuss book "Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!" at The Amazing World of Dr Seuss Museum.

John Simpson, left, project director of exhibitions for The Amazing World of Dr Seuss Museum, paints a mural based on artwork in the Dr Seuss book "Did I John Simpson, left, project director of exhibitions for The Amazing Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?" on a wall at the museum, in Springfield, Mass. — AP photos World of Dr Seuss Museum, and his wife Kay Simpson, right, president of Springfield Museums, unwrap a statue of the "Cat in the Hat," at the museum. Oh the Places You'll Go! Dr Seuss museum opens its doors rom the squiggly, pink handrails outside the entrance said Ishizuka, director of The Conscious Kid Library, which to the front hall decorated with scenes from "And to lends what she says are more diverse and appropriate FThink That I Saw it on Mulberry Street" - a real street books for young readers. Even in his children's books, char- just blocks away - the new Amazing World of Dr Seuss acters of color are subservient or secondary to the white museum says "You're off to Great Places!" Walking into to characters, or depicted as stereotypes and caricatures, she the museum opening to the public Saturday in the author said. Dimond never heard a prejudiced word out of Geisel, and illustrator's hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, she said, and knows he had some regrets about the A man walks past a mural with the character "Sam-I-Am" from the Dr Seuss book is like walking into one of his beloved children's books. wartime work. "Green Eggs and Ham" at The Amazing World of Dr Seuss Museum. The museum dedicated to Theodor Geisel - who under the pen name Dr Seuss wrote and illustrated dozens of rhyming children's books including "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" - features interactive exhibits, artwork never before displayed publicly and explains how his childhood experiences in the city about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Boston shaped his work. "He would absolutely be at ease here," said Leagrey Dimond, one of Geisel's stepdaughters (He didn't have any biological children). "And to know that he's going to be here permanently, safe, protected, that people who want to know more are going to make this trip here to see him, it's perfect." Examples of Geisel's early advertis- ing work and World War II-era propaganda and political illustrations that critics consider racist are conspicuously absent, but that's because the museum is aimed primarily at children, said Kay Simpson, president of the Springfield Museums complex. The organization has in the past hosted exhibits of Geisel's wartime work, she said. Kids are definitely the focus of the first floor of the museum, created in conjunc- tion with Dr Seuss Enterprises, the family company that protects Geisel's legacy. It features games and climbable statues of Horton, the stack of turtles from "Yertle the People walk near an entrance to The Amazing World of Dr Seuss Museum. Turtle and Other Stories" and Thing 1 and Thing 2 from "The Cat in the Hat." "This museum is about visitors "If there is criticism of Ted, it has its place," she said. "I A tray of pen nibs and encountering the creatures that sprang out from Ted would never try to, and he would not want any of us to try memorabilia once Geisel's imagination - Horton, the Cat in the Hat, the to hide away anything he did. I know that he changed with belonging to author and Lorax, Sam I Am - that got kids excited about reading, the times." Richard Minear, a professor emeritus of artist Theodor Seuss which was really his preoccupation later on in his career," Japanese history at the University of Massachusetts, who Geisel, also known by his Simpson said. wrote "Dr Seuss Goes to War" about his political illustra- pen name Dr Seuss, is dis- Visitors are taken through Geisel's boyhood bedroom, tions, says Geisel certainly had a blind spot on race, but it's played at The Amazing his grandparents' bakery and brewery and different rooms not fair to judge his entire career on that work. World of Dr Seuss painted in brilliant blues and radiant reds, and decorated "He matured and he developed a whole lot from those Museum. in almost fanatical detail with scenes from the books. The early years," Minear said, noting that "Horton Hears a museum's second floor has a more intimate feeling with Who!" was an allegory about post-war Japan and the the actual furnishings and assorted knick-knacks from nation's relationship with the US. The museum is expect- Geisel's studio from the La Jolla, California, home where he ed to draw about 100,000 visitors annually and along lived until his death in 1991 at age 87. Even his collection with a $1 billion casino scheduled to open in 2018, is part of 117 bowties is on display. of the Springfield's economic renaissance, Mayor Domenic Sarno said. Geisel belongs in his hometown, the Stereotypes and caricatures mayor said. "Any other city in the country would be sali- But by not referencing Geisel's wartime work, which vating to have a museum for a world-renowned author often stereotyped the Japanese, the museum is telling like Dr Seuss," he said. — AP Photo a mural that features Theodor Seuss Geisel, left, also known by his pen name only half the story, said Katie Ishizuka, who has written on Dr Seuss, rests on a wall near an entrance at The Amazing World of Dr Seuss Geisel's work. "They don't acknowledge the full picture of Museum. him or they try to minimize that or sweep it under the rug," Les Heures Voyageuses: The creative ties between Cartier and the Orient

hese exclusive dainty miniatures motif brooch dating from 1909 is married serve as a shimmering showcase to with the magic and twinkling charms of Tthe most iconic scents of the collec- the Orient. tion: Oud & Oud, Oud & Santal and Oud & To nurture the grand tradition of dis- Musc. The Moucharaby patterned damask patching art de vivre to the four corners of that envelops the bottles honors the cre- the globe, this olfactory triptych is stowed ative ties between Cartier and the Orient, in a travel presentation case specially whose myths and icons were reinterpret- designed by Cartier. Les Heures ed by the jeweler in the Art Deco period. Voyageuses limited editions: Oud & Oud, Today these aesthetic influences once Oud & Santal and Oud & Musc Cartier again intertwine, each a little richer for Fragrances. Moucharaby bottle, 45 ml. the exchange. True Cartier elegance is ref- erenced as the design of a geometric Oh the Places You'll Go! Dr Seuss museum opens its doors

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A Palestinian plays with fire crackers as he celebrates the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 2, 2017. — AFP

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Teenager pens Yale essay on love of pizza Beyond kebabs: Turkish cuisine A teenager secured a place at Yale University after writ- ing an essay on how much she loves Papa John's pizza. Carolina Williams, 18, applied for the Ivy League univer- sity and during the process she had to write an essay on 'something that you love to do' and the teenager seeks place at the table immediately thought of the greasy cheesy grub, the Mirror Online reports. But it wasn't just her adoration for the pizza chain that got her the spot at Yale - which has an admissions rate of just 6.7 percent for the class 'In our country, everything is available throughout the four seasons' of 2021. But it played a significant role in her winning the place.

n a bid to banish stereotypes of late-night greasy fast food, "You can find Turkish meze in all regions, in all countries and Turkish chefs are trying to burnish their image by showcas- each country adapted it to its own taste, like in Lebanon, in Iing the culinary riches the country has to offer. A new Syria or in Jordan." Turkish chef Serkan Bozkurt from the Chef's breed of cooks has shaken up the Istanbul food scene with an Table Culinary Academy, an Istanbul-based cooking school, innovative approach to Turkish cooking, while others are on a said perceptions about Turkish cuisine were changing. Today, mission to show there is more to the nation's cuisine than the he said, Turkish restaurants and cafes were blossoming in perhaps notorious, doner kebab. For many outside the coun- Europe, with chains like the bakery Simit Sarayi and the Kahve try, Turkish food brings to mind images of pitta bread stuffed Dunyasi coffee shop opening up in London and other places. with shavings of meat roasted on a vertical spit, usually con- sumed after a heavy night of drinking. Cheese-lovers' paradise The doner was brought to western Europe by the Turkish Despite the somewhat limited perception of Turkish food diaspora, especially those in Germany where additions like A man is seen serving Kebab in Istanbul. overseas, the cuisine has a wide variety of regional differ- salad and mayonnaise have made it a heavier meal than in ences, with specialties from the western Aegean differing Turkey. But did you ever try karniyarik, a dish of split We've started to realize the value of our products," says sharply from those in the eastern Black Sea region. Antakya in aubergines with a meat filling, or cilbir-poached eggs in garlic Yazicioglu. "In our country, everything is available throughout the southeast has a rich culinary heritage inspired by Aleppo Tesco to bring in delivery robots yoghurt? Ever heard of tulum, a traditional cheese ripened in a the four seasons." Turkish food, she says, has much to offer and in Syria, while specialties on the Black Sea include dishes such Tesco have announced they will start delivering gro- goat's skin, or a dessert called cezerye-caramelized carrot with needs to promote its greatest assets, such as olive oil. But to as muhlama, an unusual fondue made with cornflour, butter ceries by robot rather than a truck. After a successful tri- coconut? "Turkish cuisine is largely known abroad through truly change perceptions, more work is required. "I can say and cheese. In a huge country, which spans 784,000 square al, the supermarket delivered a shopping order using a doner and kebab," says Defne Ertan Tuysuzoglu, Turkey direc- there's been a movement but it would be very strong to talk kilometers (300,000 square miles) -- an area bigger than six-wheeled robot, according to the Daily Star. The tor of Le Cordon Bleu, an international culinary academy, about a revolution. The conditions are not yet ripe for a revo- Germany, Poland and Austria together-the cooking styles are 4mph battery-powered robots can carry items within a which started in Paris and now has campuses all over the lution," she says. Arnaud De Clercq, who has taught at the very varied, from the herbs and vegetables used in the three-mile radius of stores or delivery hubs and cus- world. "Turkish cuisine is not well known," agrees Aylin Istanbul branch of Le Cordon Bleu for the past two years and Aegean, to the meat-dominated specialties of the east, tomers can track its progress. Each robot is equipped Yazicioglu, executive chef at Istanbul's Nicole Restaurant. "The has worked in Michelin star restaurants in France, described Bozkurt said. Its cheeses alone are likely to impress-Turkey with GPS technology which help it navigate where it's food that comes to mind when people talk about Turkey is, Turkish cuisine as "very rustic" with its focus on sauces, has dozens of varieties, which differ sharply from region to going. However, the introduction of the robots could unfortunately, all bad examples. "We see this changing slowly. ragouts and stews. "It is close to the traditional French cui- region, he said. "I always say if a week-long cheese tour was make delivery drivers redundant. We'll do our best to change it." sine: beef bourguignon, veal blanquette, lamb navarin-all this organized in Turkey with trips to its seven regions, people you can find here, but a bit different." would get dizzy!" "Turkish cuisine is not confined to meat and 'Rustic and different' kebab," he said. — AFP At Nicole, diners are offered a multicourse tasting menu of Ottoman appetizers local products aimed at showing off the best that Turkish cui- He singled out Turkish meze, the selection of small dishes sine has to offer. "I believe that in a world geared towards the served as an appetizer at the start of a meal. "When the 'local', we've started to understand the value of our cuisine. Ottoman Empire expanded, it also spread its kitchen," he said.

Mother breaks neck again after laughing at joke A mother has broken her neck for the second time after she laughed at a friend's joke. Monique Jeffrey, from Australia, was lying in her bed in 2012 when she sneezed which jolted her neck forward and caused the vertebrae to collapse. After spending 14 weeks in a halo brace, the mother-of-one made a full recovery however five years later Monique, 33, was at work and felt a pain in her neck. She thought her neck was unstable and when she was in the staff room she laughed at a col- leagues joke and it happened again. Doctors have been left baffled at her injuries, according to the Metro news- paper, and now Monique is recovering from her injuries Aylin Yazicioglu, the chef-proprietor of the Nicole restaurant works in Istanbul. A picture shows a dish by Aylin Yazicioglu, the chef-proprietor of the Nicole restaurant in yet again. Istanbul. — AFP photos