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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 MUHARRAM 13, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net First Assembly Debacle for Iran general Beach Games session marred Obama as said to to go global, by sectarian, Republicans mastermind says Asian graft charges2 capture7 Senate Iraq13 ground war Olympic18 chief Kuwaiti Gitmo detainee Min 13º Max 24º Odah freed, sent home High Tide 11:44 & 23:14 Low Tide Fawzi spent 13 years in detention without charge 05:23 & 17:33 40 PAGES NO: 16334 150 FILS

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: One of two remaining Kuwaitis held in the US military prison at Corruption over camping spots at Municipality Guantanamo Bay was sent home yesterday after nearly 13 By Nawara Fattahova years in detention without charge, a Pentagon spokesman told AFP. Fawzi Al-Odah, 37, boarded a Kuwaiti govern- KUWAIT: A Municipality employee involved in the ment plane at 5:30 am (1030 GMT), said Lieutenant allotment of desert spots for camping is selling Colonel Myles Caggins. He is the first inmate freed since them for thousands of dinars, according to several late May, bringing the total number of detainees at the Kuwaitis who had to pay the civil servant in order to prison on a US naval base in be granted those campsites. The muftah (the key Cuba to 148. person) allegedly reserved several spots for himself, “In accordance with statu- his family, friends and even his domestic servants tory requirements, the secre- when the camping season opened. He then began tary of defense informed to sell these reservations to citizens looking to set Congress of the United up their camps in prime locations. States’ intent to transfer this Kuwait’s camping season runs from November till individual,” Caggins said in a March and is popular with both locals and expatri- statement. Odah’s “transfer ates. Thousands of camps are set up, mostly in took place consistent with Ahmadi, Farwaniya and Jahra governorates in appropriate security and selected desert areas overseen by the Municipal humane treatment meas- ures,” in cooperation with the Council. Fawzi Al-Odah Under a new system by the Municipality that Kuwaiti government, he aims to organize the camping season and help pro- added. tect the environment, campers must now register The release comes a day after a major election defeat for a designated spot and pay a fee of KD 50 plus a for US President Barack Obama, a Democrat, who blames KD 300 deposit. Using GPS coordinates and an Congress for blocking his attempts to close the controver- online registration system, the Municipality invited sial jail. Republicans will now control both congressional would-be campers to apply for a campsite. chambers, for the first time since 2006. Odah and fellow KUWAIT: A ‘reserved’ signboard is seen in front of a makeshift tent in a camping area in the desert yes- Continued on Page 13 Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee Fayez Al-Kandari were terday. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Continued on Page 13 p2.e$S 2_Layout 1 11/5/14 9:24 PM Page 1

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KUWAIT: (From left) MPs Jamal Al-Omar, Saadoun Hammad, and Khalil Abul address the assembly during yesterday’s session. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat First assembly session marred by sectarian, corruption charges MPs call for measures toward slide in oil prices

By B Izzak with the surpluses. MP Jamal Al-Omar said the gov- KUWAIT: The first National Assembly ernment has taken no practical step session in the new term kicked off to counter the slide in oil prices, on yesterday with the normal accusa- which Kuwait heavily depends for tions and threats against Cabinet most of its revenues. members while a few MPs He said it is nice to hear Cabinet exchanged sectarian comments and ministers talking about the sharp others made corruption allegations. drop in oil prices but the Cabinet has The charges were made as the taken no measure against this. The assembly began debating the Amiri government must take actions to speech delivered at the opening ses- ensure that subsidies are directed to sion last week amid calls by a large those who need it and the finance number of MPs for the government minister must step in to stop supply- to focus on development pro- ing the petrochemicals with heavily- grammes and to take precautionary subsidized natural gas. measures against the slide in oil The lawmaker also criticized the prices. MPs also called on the gov- government’s inaction in countering (From left) MPs Hamdan Al-Azemi, Hmoud Al-Hamdan and Mohammad Al- Minister Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim responds to MP Hammad’s accusations. ernment to take measures to stop sharp rent increases, saying that the Enizy at yesterday’s session. the crazy rise in rents in the country government which succeeded in for the project are like paper compa- strongly lashed out at the interior revoking of the citizenship of Shiite replace the current outdated legisla- and said the government must apply controlling the price of bread at 50 nies and the whole process was minister for not expelling an Iraqi cleric Yasser Habeeb and who are tion. MP Khalil Abul said all of us pressure on landlords. fils for decades, appears to be orchestrated to ensure the success of Shiite cleric who has allegedly insult- suffering from the same actions raise the national unity slogan but Meanwhile, Minister of State for unable to keep a lid on the prices of one company which turned out to ed companions and wife of the today. do not implement it in the right way Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad real estate, land and rents. MP Khalil have made the cheapest offer. prophet. Nasef called for formulating a allowing sectarianism and discrimi- Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah stressed the Al-Saleh said the country needs a The lawmaker alleged that as a He also blamed Shiite MPs for not new modern citizenship law to nation to spread. importance of reconsidering redis- law to stop landlords from deciding result, the offers were KD 500 million criticizing the cleric for insulting the tributing the state budget in a way when to increase rents. He also above estimates and warned that prophet’s wife as they had in the that would achieve the best rational- called for constructing high rising public funds should not be made to past demanded the expulsion of ization levels. buildings to overcome any shortages pay the difference. senior Sunni clerics. MP Ahmad Al- Committee formed to Speaking to reporters after a par- in real estate. Minister of Public Works Azemi also called for expelling the liamentary session and a meeting of Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim denied any Iraqi cleric and called on MPs to study airpoot bids the parliamentary priorities’ commit- Airport project irregularities in the awarding reject sectarian tensions. tee, Sheikh Mohammad said that the MP Saadoun Hammad charged process, adding that the project has Shiite MP Ahmad Lari and others KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works and technical specifications and criteria of drop in oil prices cannot be hidden that government projects are being not been awarded yet and all what said Kuwait is a civilized country Minister of Electricity and Water the tender. The Committee will be nor ignored. He added that the gov- devised in such a way to fit certain happened was the opening of the with institutions and those com- Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim issued a ministe- headed by the Ministry’s undersecre- ernment has been very concerned influential contractors citing the air- bids. He insisted that the ministry plaining of anything should go to rial decision yesterday to form a tech- tary and its membership would with this drop during the past four port expansion project. He claimed treated companies on equal basis court, insisting their concern for nical committee to study bids of the include experts from Kuwait years of huge financial surpluses. that the ministry of public works did and that technical committee will national unity. construction and maintenance of the University, Kuwait Institute for “Any further drop will mean that not properly prequalify companies still assess the offers before taking a Liberal MP Rakan Al-Nasef strong- new passenger terminal at Kuwait Scientific Research, Ministry of we will reach prices equal to oil to ensure that a certain firm wins the final decision on the issue. ly condemned what he described as International Airport. In a press state- Finance, Ministry of Public Works, prices estimated in the state’s budg- contract. religious extremism sweeping the ment, the Public Works Ministry said Ministry of Planning, and General et,” he underlined, urging everybody Hammad said that the three com- Offensive cleric region and endangering Kuwait. He that the committee will study the Directorate of Civil Aviation. — KUNA to accept the drop the way they did panies out of four prequalified to bid Islamist MP Hamdan Al-Azemi also criticized those who hailed the

Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Thani with Governor Thabet Al-Muhanna. Ooredoo CEO, Asmah governor discuss future initiatives

KUWAIT: As part of Ooredoo Kuwait’s General Thabet Al-Muhanna expressed the visit, General Manager and CEO Al- efforts in strengthening ties with the his gratitude towards the visit of Thani said: “Ooredoo always aims to government entities, General Manager Ooredoo CEO, lauding the efforts of enrich the lives of the people it serves. and CEO Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Ooredoo in the field of social responsi- We aim to cooperate with our dear Thani met with the governor of bility. Ooredoo announced recently counterparts in the Governorate of Asmah, Thabet Al-Muhanna, to discuss that it will be launching a number of Asimah to launch new services and ini- ways in which they can cooperate. initiatives that serve the residents of tiatives aimed to serve all residents of Asimah governor retired Major Asimah governorate. Commenting on the governorate.” Kuwait condemns Israeli assaults on Al-Aqsa

KUWAIT: Kuwait strongly condemned The source also called on the inter- aimed at undermining security and the extreme and continuous Israeli national community to force Israel to stability. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled reit- assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque and its comply with UN resolutions and to erated rejection to all forms of terror- violations to holy sites and properties, accept a just and comprehensive ism, and underlined Kuwait’s firm sup- a source at the foreign ministry said peace in the region. port to Saudi Arabia. The security of yesterday. Separately, Kuwait strongly con- the two countries is integrated, he The source explained that such demned the ‘terrorist’ shooting attack added. “I renew my call for the impor- “flagrant” practices loudly defy that took place in the Saudi Ahsa gov- tance of doubling international efforts Muslims’ feelings and reaffirms Israel’s ernorate killing and wounding a num- to confront this dangerous phenome- intention to proceed with the escala- ber of people. non,” said the senior Kuwaiti official. tion that would lead to more tension “This cowardly terrorist act is in Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled expressed and hamper efforts to revive the complete violation of values and condolences for families of the vic- Middle East peace process. heavenly faiths, aims at destabilizing tims, and wished speedy recovery for The source urged the international security in the brotherly Kingdom of the injured. community, which currently confronts Saudi Arabia, as well as terrorizing At least five people were killed and terrorism in many parts of the world, civilians,” First Deputy Prime Minister nine injured in a shooting incident in to respond firmly to the state terror- and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Dalwah village, Ahsa, late Monday. ism practiced by Israel against Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said in a Gunmen opened fire at citizens as defenseless people and shoulder its statement to KUNA Tuesday. they were leaving a building in the responsibilities to put an end to Israeli He said he was confident the Saudi area, using machine guns and pis- breaches. authorities would abort any attempt tols.—KUNA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah gestures as he and HH the Crown Prince Sheikh HH the Amir and senior officials cheer on from the crowd. Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah arrive to the venue. —KUNA photos Amir attends ceremony honoring late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber UNESCO marks Sheikh’s educational, cultural achievements KUWAIT: Under the aegis and with Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, First uities in the country, the minister sorship and participation in the the attendance of His Highness the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign said. event, he said that the palace of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- The historic palace of the late late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber is part Jaber Al-Sabah, a UNESCO ceremo- Hamad Al-Sabah and several senior Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of history. ny to honor the late Sheikh state officials. at Dasman suburb was built one Also addressing the event, Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as an Addressing the ceremony, hundred years back and was listed Minister of Education and Higher international personality of educa- Minister of Information and Minister by the UNESCO as a historic build- Education Bader Al-Issa lauded the tional and cultural achievements of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh ing, he pointed out. The minister late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber as a was held yesterday. Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah called for protecting this historic pioneer of culture, education and HH the Amir was welcomed by thanked HH the Amir for sponsoring palace in order to be put on the open-mindedness in Kuwait and the Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber and attending the ceremony and for UNESCO’s world heritage list. Arabian Gulf region. He said the late Al-Sabah and Chairperson of the his unlimited backing to all cultural On the recent opening of a Sheikh Abdullah had greatly con- Organizing Committee Sheikha activities in the country. national library and theater, the tributed to developing and modern- Muna Al-Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber minister said it is part of an ambi- izing the educational system and Al-Sabah to the historic palace of Civilized image tious strategy and a promising disseminating cultural and societal the late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber He said late Sheikh Abdullah Al- national vision based on safeguard- activities in the region. Al-Sabah at Dasman suburb, where Jaber Al-Sabah had made great con- ing national unity and bolstering He had devoted himself to estab- the ceremony was held. tributions to national progress and the role of culture, arts and litera- lishing the principles of tolerance HH the Amir then toured a pho- enlightenment in Kuwait, as well as ture and decrying violence and tol- and open-mindedness, and helping tography exhibition held on the his influential role in the promotion erance. all those who wanted to learn, the sidelines of the ceremony, featuring of Kuwait’s civilized image. minister pointed out. In apprecia- educational history in Kuwait and He added that the late Sheikh Achievement for Kuwait tion for his contributions and the late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber Abdullah Al-Jaber had chaired the For his part, Sheikh Jaber achievements, the State of Kuwait Al-Sabah’s achievements. first literary club in Kuwait in 1924 Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the son had nominated the late Sheikh The event was attended by HH and established several cultural and of the late Sheikh Abdullah, boasted Abdullah to be an international per- the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- educational establishments. He was that the UNESCO’s choice of the late sonality of educational and cultural Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National also the first minister of education Sheikh Abdullah as a pioneer in the achievements, he said. HH the Amir points at a picture during his tour at the photography Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- in 1962, he noted. field of culture and education was exhibition. Ghanim, former parliament speaker Apart from his interest in educa- an “achievement for the State of Cultural exchange between 1936 and 1965. He said the human development. Hammami Jassem Al-Kharafi, senior sheikhs, tion and culture, the late Sheikh Kuwait”. ”My father was so farsight- For his part, Chief of the UNESCO UNESCO’s choice of the late Sheikh reminded that the late Kuwaiti fig- HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Abdullah Al-Jaber was the first one ed that he had made many accom- Office in Beirut Dr Hamad bin Seif Abdullah as an international per- ure had been the first one to have Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Prime to have called for exploring monu- plishments for the nation with the Al-Hamami said he was so happy to sonality for 2014-15 came in recog- opened a school for girls and a Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak ments in Kuwait in 1957, and asked help and support of rulers and sin- be here to honor the late Sheikh nition of his achievements, noting teacher training system, and to have Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of the UNESCO to send experts to set cere Kuwaiti people,” he said. Abdullah who was in charge of edu- that his agency is eager to honor encouraged the cultural exchange, Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser out a law on the protection of antiq- Appreciating HH the Amir’s spon- cation for three successive decades everyone who could contribute to seminars and lectures. —KUNA

HH the Amir and HH the Crown Prince react while looking at one of the pictures at the HH the Amir signs a biography of the late Sheikh Abdullah Al- HH the Crown Prince signs the biography. exhibition. Jaber Al-Sabah.

HH the Amir looks at the achievements of the late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber Sheikh Jaber Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah performs a folklore dance at the event. Al-Sabah.

HH the Amir listens to a demonstration for a model A traditional folklore performance of the late Sheikh’s palace. LOCAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Republic of Peru Heli Palaez hosted a reception at Symphony Hotel on the occasion of the 193rd anniversary of his country’s national independence day. Top officials, diplomats and media representatives attended the event. — Photos by Joseph Shagra ‘Security, stability main guarantors for human rights’

Conference focuses on challenges in Arab region

DOHA: Secretary General of the Gulf sensus on fighting terrorism as a global priority. Cooperation Council Abdullatif Al-Zayani stated Realizing security and preserving human rights yesterday that security and stability are the main are integrated responsibilities of a country, and guarantors for human rights. can never be conflicting if considered from a Addressing the opening session of the Doha- sound point of view, he said. hosted the International Conference on Maintaining national security is a must, but in Challenges to Security and Human Rights in the the meantime is no alternative to human rights, Arab Region, Zayani argued that when security Marri told the session. He added that it has to be deteriorates and stability is shaken, the human realized that violating human rights under the rights become more prone to violations. claim of protecting national security is a choice Firefighters tackle the blaze. The GCC chief highlighted the major strides people reject, he added. made by GCC states, especially Qatar and Forgery network busted Bahrain, to strike a balance between security Key issues requirements and human rights commitments. The two-day conference is organized by By Hanan Al-Saadoun papers from two other persons along He pointed out that the GCC states always opt Qatar National Human Rights Committee in with a Egyptian man who works in a for dialogue to resolve dispute and iron out dif- cooperation with the General Secretariat of Arab KUWAIT: Residency authorities busted a clearing office. ferences. Interior Ministers council, the United Nations network that forged commercial licenses The arrestees confessed to the forger- The Gulf countries are exerting strenuous High Commissioner for Human Rights, the for companies and establishments by ies in exchange of KD 500-KD 800, based efforts to enhance pan-GCC security and military General Secretariat of the Arab League and the cooperation, Zayani said. He noted that the GCC Arab network for National Human Rights forging fake contracts, lease receipts and on the bank statements. Police found sev- Abdullatif Al-Zayani bank statements. en fake stamps of the National Bank of states have recently adopted a series of unified Institutions (ANNHRI). This major crackdown was made Kuwait, employees, printers for making policies, systems, and agreements to achieve region caring for human rights, issuing the rele- Opened by Qatar Premier and Minister of under direct supervision from Assistant certificates and seals saved on their com- highest level of security cooperation. vant legislations that guarantee and preserve Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani, the Undersecretary for National and puter. The culprits admitted processing The GCC chief disclosed GCC states have them. He noted that the Kuwaiti Constitution conference brings together 400 participants, Passports Affairs Maj Gen Mazen Al-Jarrah more than 400 transactions. The suspects approved the comprehensive security strategy, guarantees and protects these rights. Kuwait is including Arab Ministers of Interior and Justice and followed up by Director General of and materials were sent to concerned anti-terror strategy, Riyadh Document of the uni- so keen on providing peace and security for citi- and representatives of major Arab and interna- fied law for anti-information technology crimes zens and residents as a basic human right, the tional and human rights organizations, security Residency Affairs Maj Gen Ghazi Al-Maie. authorities. and Abu Dhabi Document stipulating the uni- Ambassador said, noting that the country “has institutions, studies, research centers and civil Detectives, after following thorough fied law for countering human trafficking. realized the close link between people’s security society organizations. It tackles a plethora of key investigations and taking the necessary No injuries in fire Moreover, the GCC General Secretariat estab- and their basic rights.” issues, including the relationship between secu- legal action, uncovered nine companies A fire broke out in a makeshift room lished a special bureau for human rights to fol- The conference discusses security challenges rity and human rights, Arab and international owned by citizens in cooperation with on top of a Khaitan house yesterday. low up and upgrade the situation of human to human rights and how to enhance these success stories in fields of security and human the Ministry of Commerce. The suspects Farwaniya firefighters rushed to the rights in the member states, he said. rights, Chairman of Qatar’s National Human rights. On the sidelines of the conference, a told authorities about two bedoons, who building and put out the blaze. No casu- Rights Committee, Ali bin Smaikh Al-Marri told number of workshops are held to address chal- in turn admitted to obtaining the forged alties were reported. Kuwait’s commitment the session. He stressed that national security lenges to security and human rights and aspects Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Ambassador to Qatar does not justify violations of human rights. of the relationship between security institutions, Meteb Saleh Al-Mutotah emphasized the signifi- Marri referred to the events the Arab World national human rights institutions and civil soci- Female deputy cance of the conference, saying that Kuwait has has experienced over the past years, especially ety organizations, as well as codes of conduct for been at the vanguard of the countries in the after September 11, which created a world con- security institutions. — KUNA prosecutors appointed

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti women have officially izens. The candidates had passed legal entered the judicial field as deputy prose- courses at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial cutors, after Justice Minister Yaqoub Al- studies. The female citizens were part of the Sane issued a decision appointing 62 13th class in which women were accepted deputy prosecutors including 22 female cit- for the first time. — Al-Watan Interior Minister lauds Interpol meeting

MONACO: Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Sabah lauded yesterday the outcome of the Interpol’s 83rd General Assembly. Speaking to KUNA, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled said that the meeting focused on encouraging decision makers to take important initiatives on the national level to counter modern crimes and security KUWAIT: Ambassador of Austria to Kuwait Ulrich Frank hosted a reception at his residence recently on the occasion of his country’s national threats. He also indicated that the Interpol day. Top officials, diplomats and media representatives attended the event. — Photos by Joseph Shaqra meeting offered a chance to discuss and exchange of ideas regarding the chal- lenges and difficulties facing the organi- Kuwaiti divers remove zation. On Tuesday, Sheikh Mohammad Al- Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah waste off Fahaheel Khaled took part in the opening session of tion offered the latest technological solu- the 83rd Interpol meeting and also visited tions in criminology and genetic finger- KUWAIT: Kuwaiti divers lifted four tons of waste from a sideline exhibition focusing on security printing (DNA), as well as other tools for seabed off Fahaheel beach, as part of a large-scale cam- information and monitoring. The exhibi- promoting joint security action. — KUNA paign to clean up the national beaches. The abandoned items dumped into the waters included plastic, rusted metallic pieces and pipes, all considered quite harmful to the marine environment Farmland sponsors and living creatures’ habitat, team leader Walid Al- Fadhel told KUNA yesterday. He added that more clean-up work needs to be done HORECA Kuwait in the same sea area, further indicating that abandoned ships should be removed from these locations. Ali Al-Omair Hashem Hashem KUWAIT: Farmland Company, the sole The team in coordination with several authorities distributer of the President brand, have already removed hundreds of tons of neglected KOC lauded for announced its golden sponsorship of materials deemed harmful to the marine environment. HORECA Kuwait exhibition. The Kuwait Dive Team is affiliated to the Environmental About HORECA, Director General of Voluntary Foundation (EVF). — KUNA environment Farm Land Antoine Obaid said the exhi- bition gained a prominent status in the friendly award win field of hospitality and food industries. “This this is evident in the participation KUWAIT: Minister of Oil Ali Al-Omair Sunday, and that comes against backdrop of experts and specialists as well as praised Kuwait Oil Company yesterday for of the UN acclamation of His Highness the major companies in the field to winning the 2014 top award of the council Amir as a humanitarian leader. Cooperation exchange expertise and studies,” he said of Arab ministers responsible for environ- between the KOC and EPA has been fruitful in a press statement. mental affairs for its special program in terms of limiting gaseous emissions. Obaid added that latest products in designed to minimize gases’ emission. this sector will be studied to make more In a statement to KUNA, Minister Omair Constant efforts development and prosperity, under the said the KOC project, themed “abidance by Meanwhile, KOC Chief Executive Officer, development move and investment air quality and cutting gas burning,” won Hashem Hashem, told KUNA that the com- openness Kuwait is witnessing. Antoine Obaid the award as a result of the cooperation pany had earned the award as a result of its Furthermore, he indicated that HORECA Middle East level in this vital field,” he between the KOC and the Environment continuous efforts for preserving the envi- represents a unique event in the field of said. Public Authority (EPA). ronment, limiting pollution, improving air hospitality and food industries in Kuwait The 2015 HORECA Kuwait takes place This distinguished accomplishment quality and cutting gases’ burning at its and the region. He expressed apprecia- on 19 - 21 January 2015 at the Arraya came a cap the diligent work by the nation- fields. This award is dedicated to other tion for the progress the exhibition is Ballroom in Jumeirah Messilah Beach al cadres in the two sides, and as an Kuwaiti authorities, namely the EPA, which making each year, saying that it gained Hotel and Spa. It is organized by the acknowledgement of Kuwait’s devotion of closely coordinates with the KOC. The the confidence of companies, experts, Leaders Group for Consultations and particular concern to man’s health and safe council of Arab environmental affairs’ coun- hotels and restaurants. “This contributes Development in cooperation with environment. cil has specialized $7, 000 for the top two to keeping Kuwait in the forefront at the Hospitality Services. The KOC will be honored in the award- winners of the award. The third winner will delivery ceremony due in Jeddah next get $3,000. — KUNA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 LOCAL Kuwait University among top higher education institutions in region US News and World Report unveils inaugural rankings

KUWAIT: US News and World Report, a leading mark themselves against schools in their own and statistical, school-level data collected directly US-based publisher of education analysis and country and region.” from Arab region universities. Her Highness rankings, unveiled the inaugural Best Arab Region The Arab region rankings focus on institutions’ Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairperson of the Universities rankings on usnews.com at the World academic research and are based on research Qatar Foundation, initiated the project as a way to Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha data and metrics provided by Scopus, part of the create global consistency and add value to higher yesterday. Kuwait University ranked number 11 in Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio. The education in the region. The Qatar Foundation is the university rankings in the Arab region, also in methodology weighs factors that measure assisting in the research effort with a grant. the top fifteen were universities from Saudi research productivity and performance, using a Al-Monitor, a media organization that provides Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. The 2015 US News Best Arab Region Universities rankings offer the most comprehen- Dr Othman Al Hajji presents the honoring token to Omar Al-Omar. sive assessment of higher education institutions in the region, allowing prospective students and their parents to accurately compare institutions. Zain recognized for The overall rankings include 91 universities in 16 countries; there are also separate rankings in 16 leading humanitarian role subject areas, including key fields such as com- puter science, engineering, medicine, mathemat- ics and social sciences. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommuni- Omar added “IICO is eminently known Three universities in Saudi Arabia claim the top cations company in Kuwait, was recog- for having a significant role in supporting spots, with King Saud University taking the nized by the International Islamic Charity many charitable, developmental, and Number 1 spot, followed by King Abdulaziz Organization (IICO) for its leading humani- humanitarian campaigns and projects University at number 2 and King Abdullah tarian role and efforts in supporting cam- across the Middle East and Africa, and University of Science and Technology at number paigns that cater to those in need of sup- these efforts helped change thousands of 3. Cairo University in Egypt is ranked at number 4, port due to regional turmoil. lives throughout many nations.” followed by the American University of Beirut in Dr Othman Al Hajji, IICO’s General Omar went on to highlight Zain’s Lebanon at number 5. Director, presented the honoring token to efforts to supporting humanitarian aid For 30 years, the US News Best Colleges rank- Zain Kuwait’s Chief Executive Officer Omar campaigns during the past turmoil peri- ings have been helping prospective students Saud Al-Omar during the recent delega- od, in which the company offered free identify the best universities for them in the tion reception in the company’s main calls and SMS services to Palestine for a US”We are dedicated to giving parents and stu- headquarters in Shuwaikh. whole week, in addition to providing the dents the resources they need to understand Zain, being awarded the Gold Award opportunity for its customers to donate their education options,” said Brian Kelly, editor for Excellence in Corporate Social by sending a free text message that is and chief content officer. “We bring to the Arab Responsibility for two consecutive years, is donated to humanitarian aid to the peo- region and university community the same com- considered one of the leading companies ple of Gaza. mitment and depth of study that have become so The main entrance to Kuwait University’s campus. in the field of CSR in the region. The com- It is worth noting that Zain Group important in the US” pany believes in transparency and donated an amount of half a million $that The Best Arab Region Universities rankings are variety of bibliometric indicators such as publica- original reporting and analysis by prominent jour- accountability in the activities it under- was put towards the humanitarian efforts led by Robert Morse, chief data strategist and tions and citations. Each ranked Arab region uni- nalists and experts from the Middle East, is pro- takes, be they corporate or social. in Palestine, with the amount earmarked head of educational research at US News for three versity has a profile page on usnews.com display- viding US News with region-specific higher edu- Zain Kuwait’s CEO Omar Saud Al-Omar for food and medical supplies for the decades. Morse and US News have played a sig- ing contact information and detailed ranking cation content, as well as publishing an Arabic commented: “our appreciation to the needy. Zain’s efforts included complimen- nificant role in the development of standardized indicators. version of the US News rankings. International Islamic Charity Organization’s tary communication services to contact data for US higher education. The 2015 rankings are the beginning of a long- The new effort is part of US News and World efforts grows constantly, and the energies loved ones as well as fundraising efforts “In the 30 years that we’ve been analyzing term project by US News to develop surveys and Report’s expanding global presence. On Oct. 28, they exert in supporting local, regional, and and campaigns to supply much needed higher education, our goal has always been to rankings for the region. In subsequent editions of US News unveiled a separate project: the inaugu- make the most fair and accurate comparisons,” the rankings, US News plans to include other ral Best Global Universities rankings, which international humanitarian aid campaigns financial and material resources to the said Morse. “For the first time, large numbers of ranking factors, including separate reputation encompass the top 500 universities across 49 is something to be admired.” people of Gaza. Arab region universities will be able to bench- surveys of Arab region academics and employers countries. GCC ministers discuss fostering France organizes language seminar PARIS: France announced yesterday that it Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and potential and those in the digital sector, as industrial cooperation will soon organize an important seminar in Yemen and those taking part will include well as for training and apprenticeships, the Kuwait to discuss the French language dur- CEOs, Education officials, and French teach- Foreign Ministry said. Commercial brands law, joint exhibition mulled ing a two-day event that is expected to ers from the Gulf region. “This seminar will be an opportunity bring together around 100 participants International experts from the relevant to learn about new digital platforms for RIYADH: Cementing industrial ties age innovation to develop industry. cussions and deliberations on part of from the region, official sources said. The fields will also attend and help evaluate the linguistic cooperation put in place by among the Gulf Cooperation (GCC) GCC specialized committees. French Foreign Ministry announced that it “added value” of the French language and the French Institute as well as the first member states featured high on the Removing hurdles The meeting discussed recom- is co-sponsoring the seminar on November “its compatibility with Arabic and English in “trilingual Arab-French-English brand agenda of the 39th meeting of the Speaking to reporters following mendations of a study to assess the 10-11 with the French Institute in Kuwait. the business world.” The seminar will also in the hotel industry,” a statement indi- bloc’s Ministers of Industry in Riyadh the meeting, Mudej said that GCC obstacles, as well as the achieve- Participants are expected from Saudi examine the challenges for employment cated.—KUNA yesterday. member states have made much ments of the GCC unified industrial The GCC has been paying high headway in wiping out obstacles strategy and joint action. The attention to developing the industri- impeding joint trade and industrial Ministers also addressed a proposal al sector through promoting the cooperation. “The Gulf Cooperation to form a committee for officials investment environment, encourag- Council (GCC) countries have made responsible for initiatives by entre- ing investors and fostering partner- much progress in removing hurdles preneurs on developing small and ship between the public and private impeding joint trade and industrial medium size enterprises (SMEs). sectors to achieve sustainable devel- cooperation,” he said. opment, GCC Assistant Secretary- He hailed the positive outcomes Commercial cooperation General for Economic Affairs of the meeting as conducive to a fur- Meanwhile, Mudej also chaired Abdullah Al-Shibli, told the meeting. ther promotion and development of the 50th meeting of GCC Ministers of Yesterday’s meeting was chaired Commerce in Saudi Arabia yesterday. by Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister The Deputy Premier said in his open- and Minister of Commerce and ing speech that GCC countries are Industry Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej. eager to develop their commercial Thus, the GCC has realized repeat- cooperation on all national, regional ed rises in the share of the industrial and international levels. He hailed sector in GDP, which reportedly hit the efforts of the GCC to create equal 10 percent , Shibli said. business opportunities for the citi- The GCC senior economic official zens of member countries by estab- noted that establishing the Customs lishing the joint GCC market. Union and the Common Market Undersecretaries of the ministries transferred the joint GCC economic of commerce presented a number of action from coordination and coop- vital recommendations to the GCC eration to an advanced phase of eco- Ministers of Commerce, during their nomic merger and integration. preparatory meetings, he said. They According to Shibli, it is impera- included executive regulations for tive for the GCC countries to intensi- commercial brands law, supporting fy efforts and enhance coordination Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej the GCC audit bureau and a joint to face the “future challenges” amid GCC exhibition, he noted. rapid changes on the world markets Gulf integration. On his part, Shibli said that the and ardent competition among the The conferees discussed a set of GCC commercial cooperation com- regional and the international eco- significant issues and matters, prima- mittee had achieved many goals in nomic blocs to increase each share rily trademarks, a single audit the economic development among of the world trade and investment. bureau, economic guidelines and its member countries. The commit- He also referred to predictions of dumping, he added. On the industri- tee aims to allow the GCC private changes in the structure of the world al meeting, the minister said several sector to create joint commercial economy, saying that change of the relevant matters such as joint ven- cooperation, while also allowing nature of production will of course tures in the private sector were con- the citizens to engage in different impact the existing competition, sidered. Regarding a joint Gulf mar- commercial activities and open prompting the GCC to benefit from ket, the Kuwaiti minister said this branches for their companies, Shibli available opportunities and encour- topic was still subject to further dis- said. —KUNA

Ali Al-Baghli hands over the donation check. ABK supports KU engineering students

KUWAIT: As part of its social responsi- we can fully support these students order to be part of a prestigious exhi- bility towards Kuwaiti youth, Al Ahli and help them complete their gradua- bition at the University at the end of Bank of Kuwait is privileged to sup- tion projects. As part of our social the semester. port students of Kuwait University’s responsibility we focus on ways to “It is a great honor for the College of Engineering as they pre- give back to the society we live in.” To Management at ABK to witness what pare for their graduation project. show their unstinted support to the our support achieves and we look for- Mr Ali Al-Baghli, Manager, Public University and its students, ABK made ward to being part of the completion Relations at ABK, explained that: a financial donation to ensure that of this project when the exhibition “Being part of this project means that students’ project sees light of day, in opens on campus,” Baghli stated. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest My good old car

By Sami Al-Kharafi

e seemed so depressed and sad that one could notice it from a kilometer away. Asking Priorities Hhim why he had such a long face, he said that his children do not like his old car the way they used to and that they want him to sell it. “It is so shameful,” he quoted his children, noting that they never want to ride in it anymore. “My car used to take them everywhere when they were young. They used to be so happy riding in it, especially when they made two teams and started throwing whatever they hand in their hands at each other during the journey while I screamed at the top of my voice asking them to calm down, their mother smiling at my rage,” he said after a long sigh, noting that after such long years, his old car is not good enough for them now that they have grown up. “They refuse to go out with me,” he added, while thinking that his grandchildren might someday do the same with their parents if he lives that long. “My car is clearly aging despite taking very good care of it. Its seats are as bent as my back, its lights are getting as dim as my sight and it is getting as slow as my heavy steps. My car model used to be very com- mon in the past, but nowadays only a few of its kind are still in use; just like the majority of my friends who left this world. My car’s spare parts are getting very hard to find and I have to make a special order to get them. It always breaks down, costing me fortunes to repair it. I am also being attacked by various sorts of Al-Jaridah diseases. I know that cars used to have fewer options but were stronger and more durable, which is just like the people of those days. “Unlike today’s people, they used to be highly responsible and cared less about appearances. Extra options are becoming basic in modern vehicles. Things are the same with people who are getting more focused on modern life appearances. Many in my view young people are becoming incapable of shoulder- ing responsibilities. People used to gaze at me with Jordan’s King defends Jerusalem’s holy places admiration while driving my car, but now they look at me compassionately, feeling sorry for me. My car’s top and many other parts of its body are in bad need By Abdullah Erakat for a lick of paint. It seems as if it wants to beg me for having mercy on it and end its life. ordan’s King Abdullah has lashed out at Israel, avoid taking actions that would inflame tensions Undermining the deal “The same is happening to me. My face is looking over fears that Israel intends to change the at the site. On Sunday, a right-wing lawmaker In 1984, Israel signed a treaty with Jordan. It very old and full of wrinkles. My grey hair seem to be Jstatus quo at a Jerusalem site that is holy to Moshe Feiglin visited, amid heavy security. was the second Arab country to make peace telling me it is no use to dye them anymore. I used to Jews and Muslims. In a speech in Amman, the King with Israel after Egypt. But Jordanian analyst Al hurry to fix my car in the past and never felt good said that Jordan will “continue to confront, Extreme concern Ranteesy says he thinks this Israeli government until it was fixed, just like when I used to hurry to doc- through all available means, Israeli unilateral poli- The US State Department also appealed for is undermining that deal. tors with my kids and only felt relieved when they cies and measures in Jerusalem.” He also said that calm. “We’re extremely concerned by escalating “Jordan guarantees security for Israel, but the healed. Nowadays, I find it hard to maintain my car, “the Palestine cause remains our principal cause tensions across Jerusalem and particularly sur- right wing Israelis are not giving this the atten- and also feel I am overburdening my kids whenever and is a higher national interest.” rounding the Haram al-Sharif, Temple Mount,” tion that it used to give it,” he said. they have to take me to a doctor, which is unlike what The King’s statements came amid growing ten- State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said. “It is An unnamed Israeli government official says I used to do with them. The only part that is still sions between Israel and the Palestinians over the actually critical that all sides exercise restraint, that Israel considers the peace treaty with ‘young’ and functioning is its radio that has kept me site that Jews call the Temple Mount, and refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric and Jordan as a “cornerstone of its foreign policy.” amused all these years. Finally, my old car is my best Palestinians call the Haram al-Sharif, after Israel preserve the status quo on the Haram al- He cites the foundation of regional stability on friend and it has shared my joys and sorrows. I do closed the site last week. The Israeli move came Sharif/Temple Mount in word and in practice.” the peace between Israel and the Hashemite know that one day, it will have to be dumped in the after a Palestinian tried to assassinate a Jewish The Israeli Prime Minister told his ministers that kingdom. “In the peace treaty, Israel officially scrap yard, and so will I when taken to my grave!” said activist, Yehuda Glick, who is still in serious condi- Israel has every intention to keep the status quo. recognized Jordan’s special role in the holy the sad old man. tion in the hospital. The attacker was killed several A Kuwaiti newspaper wrote that Netanyahu held a places and as a result, Israel values its dialogue —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa hours later in a shootout with police. with Jordan on these matters,” the Israeli official Jordan, which controlled the site until 1967, has said. long had a special role in the site, and it is even One committee comprised of volunteers mentioned in the peace treaty between Israel and According to a long-time belonging to Jordan unions from all fields has Jordan which just marked its 20th anniversary. status quo, Jews can visit the said it hopes to apply pressure to the Jordanian King Abdullah traces his ancestry back to the government to take more action. The ‘Jordanian kuwait digest Prophet Mohammed, and Jordan is considered the site during certain hours, but People’s Committee to Defend Al Aqsa and the official “guardian” of the site. Jordan runs the Holy Sites’ aims to start a media campaign. Muslim religious Waqf, which controls the site, may not pray there. “The forming of this committee comes at a Internet destroyed except for security, for which Israel is responsible. time of escalation when the dangers facing Al censorship walls According to a long-time status quo, Jews can Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem have increased. The visit the site during certain hours, but may not secret meeting with King Abdullah on the issue, a constant invasions by Israel Forces and extrem- pray there. In times of tension, Israel often pro- report that was denied by the Prime Minister’s ist Jews are a strong indicator of the need to do By Suad Al-Mojel hibits men under age 40 or 50 from accessing the office. something,” committee head Abdallah Obeidat site, which includes the Al-Aqsa mosque. A Palestinian spokesman said it’s easy to see told reporters at a news conference. went to the movies along with my daughter Despite the strong statements from King that Israel is behind the escalations. “When you Meanwhile, Al Ranteesy, says that the imbal- and her friends at a prestigious cinema in Abdullah, some Jordanian analysts say Jordan has shut down Al Haram Al- Sharif (the Arabic name ance that exists in the Middle East following the IKuwait, and just because I have been away from more immediate problems to deal with than the for the site), prevent people from reaching their Arab Spring is making it difficult for Jordan to cinemas for a long time, I was appalled by the tensions at the Jerusalem holy site, including han- holy sites, forbid them to pray, what kind of reac- “be more active.” amount of censorship of scenes that affected the dling the flood of refugees from Syria who have tion do you expect,” Ahmad Assaf said. The political analyst also says the Palestinians film’s plot. fled the fighting and concerns about gains by the Many Palestinians say that neither Jordan nor are giving the Israelis a green light to do what The second problem was after we left the the- Islamic State (IS) in neighboring Iraq. other Arab states are doing enough to stop the they want in Jerusalem because they have failed ater, my daughter and her friends embarrassed me “Jordan is not as active as it should be on this violence. But Assaf says that the Palestinian “to put their house in order,” referring to the with repeated questions about previous dialogues issue and that has to do with the fight against IS,” Authority president and the Hashemite Kingdom ongoing tensions between Abbas’s Fatah move- with them about democracy and freedom of opin- political analyst Jehad Al Ranteesy said. “This is are in constant coordination. ment, and Hamas which remains dominant in ion in Kuwait, as well as liberties in general, which not to say it’s not taking the issue very seriously, “Jordan is fulfilling its obligations to Jerusalem’s Gaza. includes the freedom of getting information, and Jordan should make protecting the holy sites a holy sites to the fullest. There isn’t anyone “The Palestinian division is a weakness so is the freedom to navigate through the Internet, priority.” President Mahmoud Abbas hasn’t phoned about the lack of trust between the Palestinian leader- which is the freedom that has been added by After a tense few days, Israeli Prime Minister the violence which continues to grow and the sit- ship and the Palestinian people,” he said. many countries to the instilled human freedoms. Binyamin Netanyahu called on public officials to uation which continues to deteriorate,” Assaf said. —The Media Line Censorship in the past used to be limited to intimate scenes, but what I saw last week was not so, rather the cuttings got to scenes, rituals and kuwait digest expressions of one of the heavenly religious the Quran recognizes - rather it makes it part of the basis of faith that includes believing in Allah, A brave man from New York angels, messengers and other heavenly books. Censorship in the era of the Internet is a laugh- able and naive matter, because the Internet and By Ibrahim Matar technological revolutions tore down the walls of censorship, and if our generation of fathers and mothers read pre-Islam poetry by Taha Hussein in he late iconic Palestinian writer Edward Said said cent gave answers reflecting better views about Islam. Muslims who are neither aware of their religion nor keen secret, or criticized religious thinking under the that “Arabs have been always portrayed as sadists, Jack Shaheen, an American film critic of Lebanese ori- Islam’s image. Those people only care about their per- bedcovers, or bought the “Missing Truth” by Faraj Tfrightened, low, human traffickers, camel riders and gins, conducted a documented survey about this view in sonal gains. Others are less keen on following Islamic Foadah and the twin novels of Taha Hussein - “The terrorists killing the innocent in American movies”. This which he analyzed over 1,000 Hollywood movies through regulations, which makes Westerners disbelieve Islam’s Major Strife” and “Ali and his Children” - from back- reminded me of a story sent to me by a friend about a a book titled: “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A tolerant and virtuous nature. They are never convinced street bookstores, then this knowledge split does vicious dog attacking a child in one of New York’s streets People” that was published in 2001. because what they see in real life is the complete oppo- not exist at all with today’s generation. and a passerby runs to save the child and kill the dog Why having this view and why the image of Arabs site. Regardless of the attempts of companies that right before the eyes of a local daily journalist who takes Unfortunately, our Arab and Muslim media are unable provide Internet services to impose supervisory some photos and rushes to the brave man, highly com- to refute such stereotypes and counter those vicious programs on some sites, the youth today have a mending his unrivalled ‘bravery’. “Your heroism will make Unfortunately, our Arab media campaigns. On the other hand, the Jews succeed- thousand ways and more to access such restricted tomorrow’s headline in a special issue. I will use ‘Brave ed in controlling the international media and thus man- sites. The Internet tore down all censorship walls and Muslim media are unable and was able overcome all supervisory barriers, Man From New York Saves a Child’,” said the journalist. aged to change the image of a Jew from a miser, mean, and even the most technologically advanced “I am not from New York”, the man answered. “Then I to refute such stereotypes and greedy, murderer and bribe-taker to an intelligent, brave countries were not spared from this. Young chil- will use: Brave American Saves a Child,” the journalist said. and creative one in the eyes of Americans and dren were able, more than once, to hack into the “I am not American. I am a Muslim from Pakistan,” said the counter those vicious media Europeans. They did so because they realized the role of Pentagon, White House and other sites among brave man. The following day, newspaper headlines read: the media early enough. They also disfigured Arabs’ those who thought they were immune against “Muslim Extremist Kills Dog in New York Park. FBI investi- campaigns. images in Walt Disney, James Bond and Indiana Jones the thirst of the youth to demolish all walls of cen- gates the man’s possible connection to Qaeda”. movies on purpose. sorship. In a study conducted by the German International and Muslims is being deliberately distorted in Western Finally, I do not claim that all Europeans have the We wish that the Information Ministry in Kuwait Relations Institute about most Europeans’ stereotyped media? I think that one of the reasons for this is the West same perception of Arabs because there are some mod- and its supervisory system realize this truth, so that ideas about Muslim communities, the survey asked a is venomously promoting such an image the way some erate Westerners who objectively and fairly value the they do not get ridiculed by today’s youth of a cen- question: ‘What is the first thing that comes to your mind Orientalists did on purpose to achieve personal gains for relation between the West and Arabs. Yet, those are still sorship that had its walls destroyed by the inevitabil- on hearing the word Islam?’ Seventy five percent of the them or for their countries when they faked their obser- too few and have less influence compared to the vast ity of international technological transformation! — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas answers suggested that Islam represented women’s vations in Muslim countries and testimonies about majority on the other side. oppression, extremism and terrorism, while only 25 per- Muslims taking advantage of the practices of some —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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MANCHESTER: Annalee Stuhl, 2, a young supporter of Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, danced with balloons during Ayla Brown’s performance at the Republican Victory Party in Manchester, New Hampshire. — AFP Debacle for Obama as Republicans grab congress Republicans sweep governors’ races WASHINGTON: Republicans cruised to victory in US midterm elections, gaining control of both houses of Congress in a stinging setback for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats and ensuring fractious co-existence in the last two years of his presidency. The Republicans padded their control of the House of Representatives by at least 12 seats, and in the big prize of Tuesday’s midterm election they retook the Senate. The Democratic implosion put the Republicans in posi- tion to shape if not dictate the congressional agenda, and their priorities are likely to focus on the economy. Many pro-growth laws are ready for approval, such as authoriza- tion for the Keystone XL oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, boosting production of natural gas, helping small businesses and cutting back on govern- ment regulations. The Republicans rode a wave of voter frustration with Washington incumbents and unpopular policies of the Obama administration to claim total con- gressional control for the first time since 2006. The new legislature will take power in January. The new Republican margin of control in the House with a cushion of at least 12 seats takes them close to achieving or surpassing their largest majority of the post-World War II era. They will go from having 45 to at least 52 seats in the 100-member Senate. “This experiment in big govern- ment has lasted long enough. It’s time to go in a new direction,” Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican who defeated the toughest challenge to his Kentucky seat in 30 years, boomed to supporters in his victory speech. But he sounded a conciliatory note as well, adding that while he and the president rarely see eye to eye, “we do have an obligation to work together on issues where we can agree.” Republicans have held the 435-seat House of Representatives since 2010, and they kept it safely in hand Tuesday. Compounding Democratic woes, projec- tions showed the GOP could gain as many as 18 House President Barack Obama seats, giving Republicans their largest majority since 1946. Republicans also cleaned up in key governors’ Republicans are likely to cooperate on issues like tax races, earning re-election in Florida, Wisconsin and reform, the party will seek to breathe life into their stalled Kansas and stunning Democrats by winning governor- jobs bills, to gain approval of the delayed Keystone XL ships in Democratic strongholds Maryland and pipeline, roll back some carbon emission regulations and Massachusetts. But of the 36 governors’ races, probably tweak Obamacare. the most painful for Obama was Illinois, where Republican Bruce Rauner ousted Democrat Pat Quinn in Ugly from the outset the president’s home state. Election night was ugly from the get-go for Obama’s party. Democrats including Senator Mark Pryor of ‘Powerful repudiation’ Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Udall of Democrats had worked feverishly to draw voters to the Colorado fell like dominoes as Republicans capitalized on polls in a last-gasp effort, but it was not enough to halt a particularly strong set of candidates, including Arkansas’ the Republican juggernaut. With no legislative base in Tom Cotton and Colorado’s Cory Gardner, who successful- Congress, Obama will struggle to pass any reforms in the ly convinced voters they would be better off with leaders final stretch of his mandate, and his opponents will be not loyal to an unpopular president. Conservative Joni able to thwart his appointments to judicial and official Ernst won her battle in Iowa, becoming the state’s first posts. The party of an incumbent president historically female senator. fares badly in elections in his second term, and every pres- Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New ident since Ronald Reagan has left office with the opposi- Hampshire held her seat, but that was the only good tion controlling Congress. The Republicans, capitalizing news for Democrats, as Republicans fended off challenges on the nation’s sour mood despite an economic recovery, in GOP strongholds Georgia, Kansas and Kentucky. The essentially based their campaigns on attacks against onslaught could well deepen for Democrats, with an Obama and policies like his troubled health care reform. unexpected cliffhanger remaining in Virginia, Alaska up in “It was a powerful repudiation of the Obama agenda,” the air and Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu conservative Senator Ted Cruz told CNN. But he repeated forced into an unfavorable December 6 runoff. The what many in his party have urged, that the onus now Republican performance appeared to surpass most falls on Republicans to govern, particularly in the run-up expectations. “They’ve done this about as well as they to the 2016 presidential election. “It’s time for government could conceivably have done it,” University of Michigan to start getting results and implementing solutions to the assistant professor Michael Heaney said. A chastened challenges facing our country, starting with our still-strug- Obama has invited the four congressional leaders to the gling economy,” House speaker John Boehner said. While White House on Friday. — AFP p8_Layout 1 11/5/14 10:00 PM Page 1

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Qaeda threatens to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon ‘Hezbollah will regret joining Syria war’ BEIRUT: The leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda Tuesday that it was determined to bat- Golani said in the audio message on owed by the Islamic State, which has fighting the regime to a group assault- rebel wing threatened attacks against tle hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents media outlet Al-Manara Al-Baydaa: seized swathes of northern and eastern ing our people, that is why eliminating the Shiite Muslim militant movement who have seized large areas of Syria “After Hezbollah assaulted our people, Syria and is now being targeted by US- it became a must,” he said. “We fight Hezbollah in Lebanon in coming days and Iraq and forecast they would be we were forced to move the battle led air strikes. The United States plans whoever wants evil for our people in that he said would make it regret fight- defeated across the region. inside Lebanon and to areas where it is to expand military support to moderate Sham (Syria) or tries to be a tool in the ing alongside Syrian President Bashar Also on Tuesday, the Al-Qaeda-affili- present...so that it understands the dan- opposition anti-Assad groups as part of hand of the West to fight the Islamic al-Assad. Lebanon hosts around a mil- ated Nusra Front leader Abu Mohamad ger of standing as an ally to Assad.” its strategy to defeat the ultra-radical project in the region.” lion refugees from Syria’s civil war and Al-Golani said in an interview with the Nusra also joined an incursion into the Islamic State. Golani said his fighters The Syrian Observatory for Human has seen violence spill over the border, group’s media outlet: “The real war in Lebanese border town of Arsal in and other Islamist groups intended to Rights, which monitors the conflict, said with bombings in Beirut, fighting in the Lebanon is yet to begin and what is August and its fighters captured several eliminate the Western- and Saudi- Nusra Front had posted video footage northern city of Tripoli, and rocket coming is (so) bitter that Hassan Lebanese soldiers when they pulled backed Syria Revolutionaries’ Front which they said showed the exhumation attacks on Bekaa Valley towns close to Nasrallah will bite his fingers in remorse out. They have shot dead one of them. (SRF), accusing it of carrying out attacks of bodies in wells in Deir Sunbul, a the frontier. for what he has done to Sunnis. It was Golani also praised the leader of the on Nusra and civilians in Syria’s Idlib stronghold of the SRF in Hama province. Hezbollah’s involvement on Assad’s not clear when the interview was Nusra cell that took part in the Arsal province. Nusra Front said the bodies were of civil- side in Syria has stirred tensions in recorded. Last month, Hezbollah lost 10 operation, Abu Malek al-Shami, saying Maarouf’s group is loosely defined as ians and fighters executed by SRF. The Lebanon, a religiously and ethnically of its fighters in a battle in eastern his acts have had “positive results.” part of the Free Syrian Army, a term Observatory, which tracks the war mixed country where a delicate power- Lebanon with Nusra Front militants - used to refer to dozens of groups fight- through a network of sources, said that sharing system between different sects among the highest casualties the pow- Nusra says ‘Fighting Evil’ ing to overthrow Assad. They have little it had received information in January has been in place since the end of its erful Shiite group has suffered in a sin- The Nusra Front was once one of the or no central coordination and are often that the SRF had killed dozens of cap- own 1975-90 civil war. Hezbollah leader gle action since started fighting with strongest insurgent groups fighting to in competition with each other. “They tives from the Islamic State group and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said earlier on Assad’s forces. topple Assad but has been overshad- (SRF) have transformed from a group thrown them down wells.— Reuters US drone kills top Qaeda operatives

SANAA: A senior Al-Qaeda official wanted Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil by the United States and a local leader of exporter. Houthi forces took over Sanaa in the militant group’s affiliate, Ansar Al- September and fanned out into central and Sharia, were killed in a drone strike in cen- western Yemen. That antagonized Sunni tral Yemen overnight, tribal sources and a tribesmen and Al-Qaeda militants, who militant said yesterday. Nabil Al-Dahab, regard the Houthis as heretics. In the latest leader of Ansar Al-Sharia in Yemen’s al- advance yesterday, residents said Houthi Bayda province, was killed along with four fighters entered the town of Al-Odayn in other al Qaeda members, including Shawki Ibb province after brief clashes with Ansar Al-Badani, the sources said. Al-Sharia fighters. Badani is a leader of Al-Qaeda in the One resident who gave his name as Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) who is wanted Abdulaziz told Reuters by telephone that by the United States. Mamoun Hatem, Ansar Al-Sharia fighters vanished in the ear- another AQAP leader, confirmed on his ly afternoon when the Houthis arrived. A Twitter account that Al-Dahab had been leader of the Dahab tribe earlier said that killed by “American planes defending the one of Nabil al-Dahab’s bodyguards had Houthis against the charging mujahiden”. been identified as among those killed in The Yemeni Defense Ministry said Badani the overnight air strike, but he could not had been killed, and added without elabo- confirm Dahab himself had been killed rating that an Al-Qaeda leader it identified because other bodies had been obliterated as Abu Maysara al-Hanaki had been killed beyond recognition. Other residents of by air strikes. Dahab’s Al-Manaseh village said they could The US State Department had designat- neither confirm nor deny the reported ed Badani as a “global terrorist”, saying he death of the local Ansar Al-Sharia leader, was linked to at least two plots against the saying he had not been heard from since RAFAH: Smoke rises after a house was blown up during a military operation by Egyptian security forces in the Egyptian city of Rafah near the US embassy in Sanaa and a 2012 suicide the Houthis captured the area last month. border with southern Gaza Strip. — AFP bombing in the Yemeni capital that killed The United States acknowledges using more than 100 soldiers. A June 17, 2014, drones in Yemen but does not comment posting on the State Department website publicly on the practice. Sunni Islamist Al- Egypt razes Sinai homes said the Yemeni government had offered a Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen are among $100,000 reward for information about the most active wings of the network Badani. It also reported Yemeni authorities founded by Osama bin Laden. A state- describing him as one of “the most danger- ment issued by residents of the Qifa New strategy against Islamist militants ous terrorists affiliated with Al-Qaeda”. US region, where the past few days of drone drone strikes killed at least 10 suspected Al- strikes have taken place, complained that IBSHAR: At Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip, ty by restoring stability and growth. They have material. Qaeda militants on Tuesday in central the strikes by both the US drones and the families are emptying their homes - lugging sponsored Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire talks and Interviewed by Reuters in the past, those tun- Yemen, where fighting between members Yemeni air force were targeting “women mattresses and furniture onto waiting vans as unveiled a canal expansion plan that hinges on nel owners said their policy was to take a fee and of Ansar Al-Sharia and rebel Shiite Muslim and children at home”. “Those who are soldiers look on from armored cars. In this vil- restoring investor trust. That confidence could ask no questions about the consumer goods, Houthi fighters also killed 10 people, tribes- fighting the Houthis in Radda are the lage of Ibshar and eight more along the frontier, prove tough to win, if as some security sources people or arms that come and go. One Egyptian men said. sons of the local tribes, and those who 680 houses - homes to 1,165 families - are being say, last month’s attacks mark a shift in militant tunnel operator said recently the passages cost Fighting has flared in different parts of say they are Al-Qaeda ...are making these razed to seal off smugglers’ tunnels and try to tactics away from near-daily smaller roadside some $300,000 to build and could bring in up to Yemen since the Houthis rose to domi- charges to justify the drones rocketing crush a militant insurgency in northern Sinai bombs towards larger car bombings that inflict $200 a day. While Egypt has destroyed most of nance in recent months, threatening the our houses and killing our families,” the that has intensified since the army overthrew mass casualties. the larger tunnels once used to smuggle cars fragile stability of a country that borders statement said.—Reuters President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim So far Egypt’s army has stepped up air strikes and trucks, hundreds of smaller tunnels have Brotherhood 16 months ago. on suspected militants but has shied away from evaded detection and their owners say they did The operation’s resulting no-mans-land - a a ground offensive. Security patrols have lucrative business during Israel’s 50-day war in security buffer 13.5 km-long and 500 meters increased as forces clear the border strip, but Gaza over the summer. Palestinian rams car into deep - will provide greater visibility and, Egypt spotting militants has proven tricky - they melt Last month’s attack prompted Egyptian hopes, deter any future passage of arms from easily into a local community mistrustful of the authorities to redouble their efforts to find and crowded train station Gaza to militants who killed 33 security person- state. “The army’s biggest problem is that the shut those tunnels. A key part of that was the nel on Oct 24 in some of the deadliest attacks militants are part of the civilian population. You operation, which began last week, to create a JERUSALEM: A Palestinian man rammed his Christians - from Jordan in the 1967 war. since the army took power. No group has need to pick them out with a pin,” said one secu- no-mans-land that would provide better visibili- car into a crowded train platform in east Palestinians demand the territory for their claimed responsibility for the attacks. But they rity source. Some residents say the new meas- ty. Egypt has offered compensation to residents Jerusalem yesterday, then attacked people future capital. The fate of the area is an emo- bear the hallmarks of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, ures amount to collective punishment that will who leave their homes, handing out 900 with an iron bar and injured at least six in tional issue for Jews and Muslims and its which is targeting police and soldiers in the Sinai do little to rebuild loyalty to a central govern- pounds($125) to cover three months temporary what authorities called a terror attack before future lies at the heart of the Israeli- Peninsula, a strategically important area that ment that has long neglected them. “I’m not accommodation in the north Sinai town of Arish he was shot dead by the police. It was the Palestinian conflict. borders Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal, the leaving my house even if they kill me. I was born while it calculates the payment they will receive second such attack in the past two weeks, The car attack came shortly after clashes in fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia. and raised in this house,” said one woman sitting for lost properties. But those who refuse to go and deepened already heightened tensions the Old City, where Palestinians threw rocks Inspired by Islamic State, the Al-Qaeda off- outside her home in Ibshar. “If they want the ter- willingly forfeit the right to compensation. And between Arabs and Jews in the city. Earlier and firecrackers at police to protest a planned shoot now facing US-led strikes in Iraq and Syria, rorists, they know where they are. There’s no owners of homes found to contain tunnels yesterday, Israeli police had dispersed dozens visit to a key holy site by Israeli supporters of Ansar recently began a campaign of beheadings need to force us from our homes.” would receive no money and could face arrest, of masked Palestinians who threw rocks and a right-wing activist who was shot by a against locals who have informed on its fighters. said General Abdel Fattah Harhour, governor of firecrackers near a contested holy site in Palestinian gunman last week. The Israelis Against that backdrop of fear, Egypt may only Tunnels a way of life northern Sinai, last week. Jerusalem’s Old City. had planned on commemorating a week face heightened resistance if it proves successful In northern Sinai, a night-time curfew is in “The residents who don’t want to leave are Police said the motorist slammed his car since a Palestinian shot and wounded in closing the tunnels. Many locals depend on force but streets are deserted by mid-afternoon. the ones who operate tunnels. Why would they into the train platform in east Jerusalem first, American-Israeli activist Yehuda Glick, who income from illicit tunnel trade in all kinds of Internet and phone lines are disconnected some be attached to a piece of desert here but be backed out and proceeded to drive away, hit- has campaigned for more Jewish access to goods and without it could be tempted into the 16 hours a day, residents say. Checkpoints dot reluctant to go to one elsewhere?” said one of ting several cars along the way. He then got the location, which is revered by Jews as the arms of insurgents, said one source from Ansar the main roads. The Bedouin clans that form the military officers leading the operation. More out of the car and attacked a group of police Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Bayt Al-Maqdis. most of the region’s population have long com- than 200 houses were bulldozed or dynamited officers on the side of the road with a metal Sanctuary. Palestinians view such visits as a “What the army is doing shows their weak- plained at the lack of jobs and opportunities in the plan’s first few days - revealing no less bar before he was shot and killed. Police iden- provocation and often respond violently. ness,” the source said, speaking on condition of that they say drives many locals into the tunnel than 117 passages, the officer said. The entrance tified the man as a Palestinian from east Several police officers were hurt in the clash- anonymity because members of his group are smuggling trade. Across the fence in Gaza, tun- to one was hidden beneath a large bathtub filled Jerusalem. There was no immediate claim of es, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, being sought by security forces. “But I say thanks nels have proven a similar lifeline for with water. Another surfaced inside a mosque. “I responsibility by any Palestinian organization adding that the police used stun grenades to to the army as this decision will push more peo- Palestinians, circumventing tight Egyptian and cannot believe the large number of tunnels we but the Islamic militant group Hamas praised disperse the Palestinians. Quiet was soon ple our way.” The stakes are high for Egypt, Israeli trade restrictions to supply desperate have found,” the officer said, speaking on condi- the attack and called for more violence. “We restored, he said. whose military rulers aim to prove their credibili- civilians with humanitarian aid and building tion of anonymity.— Reuters praise this heroic operation,” said Hamas offi- Palestinian protesters and Israeli police cial Fawzi Barhoum. “We call for more such ... have clashed almost daily in east Jerusalem in operations.” recent months, with much of the unrest 18 dead as Egypt school bus collides with tanker Yesterday’s car attack was almost identical focused around a sacred compound revered to one two weeks ago that killed two people, by both Jews and Muslims. It’s the holiest site a baby girl and a woman from Ecuador, at a for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount CAIRO: At least 18 people were killed when a Roads in Egypt are often poorly maintained Organization. Some of the deadliest accidents train platform, also in Jerusalem. Palestinian because of the revered Jewish Temples that bus packed with high school students collided and traffic regulations little enforced. On have sparked protests and accusations of gov- protesters and Israeli police have been clash- stood there in biblical times. Muslims refer to with three other vehicles, including a tanker Sunday, 11 female university students were ernment negligence. After yesterday’s crash, ing almost daily in east Jerusalem in recent it as the Noble Sanctuary, and it is their third truck, in northern Egypt yesterday, medics said. killed in a collision in the south of Egypt. That President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ordered the prime months. Israel captured east Jerusalem - with holiest site, after Makkah and Medina in Saudi The crash, near the Nile Delta city of Damanhur, accident sparked protests by fellow students in minister to visit the scene. He also gave instruc- its sites sacred to Jews, Muslims and Arabia.—AP 160 kilometers north of Cairo, also injured 18 Sohag province. Road accidents are responsible tions for the injured to be treated in military hos- people, some of them seriously, police and hos- for an average of nearly 12,000 deaths a year in pitals. A cabinet statement promised “decisive pital officials said. Medics were not immediately Egypt, according to the World Health measures to confront road accidents.” — AFP able to say how many of the dead were children because the bodies were so badly burned after the vehicles burst into flames. The fire complete- ly gutted the bus which had been transporting the teenagers to school. Scorched text books were scattered near the wreckage, shown in footage aired by Egyptian television. Medics said three charred bodies, including that of a police officer, were pulled out of a sedan which was also involved in the crash. Provincial governor Mustafa Hadhud told Egyptian television that the bus had skidded after torrential rains struck the region. One of the pupils who survived the crash said that the bus had arrived late and that the driver had explained “there had been a problem” with the vehicle. “I was sitting in the back of the bus when the accident happened, and I jumped out of a DAMANHUR: Egyptians look at a burnt bus after it collided with three other vehicles, JERUSALEM: Israeli police and rescue workers inspect the car a Palestinian man used window,” the child told the private Egyptian CBC including a tanker truck yesterday in Egypt’s Nile Delta city of Damanhur, 160 kilometers to deliberately rammed it into a crowd of pedestrians in Jerusalem.—AFP Extra in a telephone call from hospital. north of Cairo. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Mom tells 911 she threw Mexico ‘imperial couple’ her 6-year-old off bridge GRANTS PASS: Nearly a year ago Jillian for us,” Jillian McCabe wrote. “I love my meets an inglorious end McCabe was posting cheery videos on husband and he has taken care of myself YouTube of her 6-year-old son, London, and my son for years and years and now holding a stuffed toy lion while tossing it’s time for me to take the helm. I am Cops nab mayor, wife in case of 43 missing coins in a fountain to make a wish, and her scared and I am reaching out.” Andrew husband, Matt, lying in a hospital bed talk- McCabe also confirmed that Jillian MEXICO CITY: The end of the road which works with the police. The stu- cash was used for police payoffs. The couple” as proud and arrogant. Maria, ing about his sudden struggle to walk and McCabe had posted the YouTube videos. for the fugitive “imperial couple” who dents have yet to appear despite a head of the Guerreros Unidos told who works at a small jewelry shop even talk. As darkness was falling Monday, One shows her son sitting in a hammock, owned jewelry stores and ruled a massive manhunt around Iguala, investigators after his arrest last that also sells dollars to businesses, according to a police affidavit, Jillian smiling with a cup of juice and engrossed southern Mexican city came in a while the case has infuriated month that Pineda ran the gang’s recalled Abarca treating her with McCabe, 34, parked her car at the north in an iPad. When she asks if he is happy, he scruffy working-class neighborhood Mexicans tired of a drug war that has criminal activities from city hall in contempt when she delivered cash end of the picturesque Yaquina Bay Bridge says nothing. When she tells him to say of the nation’s capital. Jose Luis left 100,000 people dead or missing complicity with her husband and the to him five years ago. “What are you Abarca, the former mayor of Iguala, since 2006. The Guerrero state con- police chief. Three of her brothers are bringing me? Garbage?” Abarca said “help” if he wants a push in the hammock, and his wife Maria de los Angeles gress has since impeached Abarca. linked to the Beltran Leyva drug car- when she offered bills of one, five or he says, “help.” Pineda fled a few days after 43 stu- tel. In Iguala, few can explain how 10 dollars. “He was a despot. Jillian McCabe appeared by video dents vanished in an attack by their Police payoffs Abarca, who once sold clothing and Anything less than $100 was garbage Tuesday in Lincoln County Circuit Court in gang-infiltrated municipal police on The investigation has revealed the straw hats on the street, rose to to him,” recalled Maria, who declined Newport, where she entered no pleas on September 26. to give her last name. Always dressed charges of murder, aggravated murder More than a month later, federal to the nines, the cold and haughty and manslaughter, the court reported. police finally caught the couple in a Pineda was considered the dominant Two Portland attorneys were appointed pre-dawn raid Tuesday on a modest half of the couple, with ambitions to house with a pink metal door in succeed her husband. “We were to represent her. The aggravated murder Mexico City’s densely populated scared,” said a city hall employee. charge, which carries a potential death Iztapalapa district. It was one of three penalty, was filed because the boy was homes under police surveillance in ‘Hardworking’ politician under 14 years old. Police said she was the rough area, far from the lavish Abarca’s family gives a starkly dif- Jillian McCabe from Seal Rock, south of Newport, but lifestyle they enjoyed in Iguala, a city ferent image of the man said to own Andrew McCabe said they had lived in flanked by mountains about 200 kilo- 17 properties in the city, including a in Newport, Ore, took her son in her arms, Hood River. He said his brother had a busi- meters (125 miles) south of the capi- shopping center. “He is a hardwork- tal, in Guerrero state. A woman ing boy who set about meeting carried him to the middle of the span, and ness doing email campaigns until he accused of helping them hide was many challenges. He earned his threw him to his death in the water below. became disabled. also arrested. Abarca wore a dark suit money himself and was in a very Then she dialed 911 on her cellphone. during his arrest while Pineda put on good situation economically long “I just threw my son over the Yaquina Bay Too big to be carried shiny earrings and a white shawl, MEXICO CITY: A handout picture shows Iguala’s former Mayor before becoming mayor,” his sister Bridge,” McCabe told the dispatcher, In the affidavit, a police officer writes according to pictures released by Roselia said, insisting on his inno- prosecutors. Jose Luis Abarca’s wife Maria de Los Angeles Pineda during her cence. The son of modest shopkeep- according to a probable cause affidavit that Jillian McCabe was still talking on her arrest in Mexico City. —AFP filed by police Tuesday. She described cellphone when a sheriff’s deputy walked The couple were taken before ers and the third of five brothers, her son, London Grey McCabe, and the up to her on the bridge, and she prosecutors to answer allegations extent of the Guerreros Unidos’ influ- become a local magnate and mayor. Abarca dropped out of medical they ordered police to attack the stu- ence in Iguala while the search has Members of his own leftist school to go into business. He described again what she had done. clothes he was wearing, saying he was in dents to head off a protest that led to the gruesome discovery of a Democratic Revolution Party accused entered politics in 2012, “invited by the water and gone. Later that night, a Another officer says he saw a woman would interrupt a speech Pineda was dozen mass graves containing 38 him of murdering a farm activist last people who wanted change” for body was reported in the water at a bay- matching Jillian McCabe’s description car- giving as head of a local child protec- unidentified bodies, on top of some year, but prosecutors say they never Iguala and who saw him as a side resort about a mile from the bridge, rying a boy matching London’s descrip- tion agency. In all, six people died, 25 40 others found since February. charged him due to a lack of evi- “stranger to dirty politics,” Roselia and police said they confirmed it was the tion on the bridge shortly after 6 pm, and were wounded and 43 went missing Prosecutors say Abarca periodically dence. said. “He had no clue about where kindergartener. Attorneys appointed to thought it odd because the boy was, “too in a night of terror. Authorities say paid the gang between two million Ashamed to find their city’s seedy he had set foot. Politics is the worst represent her did not return calls for big to be carried,” according to the affi- the officers handed the students to and three million pesos ($150,000 underbelly exposed to the world, of all,” added Roselia, a school princi- comment. davit. The Embarcadero resort where the the Guerreros Unidos drug gang, and $220,000), and that part of the locals have defined this “imperial pal. —AFP boy’s body was found has seen family Autistic son tragedy before. McCain could shake up US defense in new role “It’s a great tragedy,” said the boy’s great Christian Longo was living in a condo aunt, Tanya McCabe. Andrew McCabe con- there in late 2001 with his wife and three WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain’s voice just got a 2008 election, has also criticized the administration on tees oversee the Pentagon’s actual finances. firmed Tuesday that his sister-in-law had young children after fleeing a string of bad whole lot louder. One of President Barack Obama’s noisi- everything from fighting Islamic State militants to arm- He would play a major role in writing the annual written an appeal on YouCaring.com, a checks and criminal charges in Michigan. est detractors, McCain is expected to take the helm of ing moderate Syrian rebels, while seeking a tougher US defense authorization bill. It sets policies on every- crowdfunding website. In it she described He is on death row in Salem after being the powerful Armed Services Committee in the new response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. As committee thing from defense spending and new weapons to Republican-controlled US Senate when the US Congress chairman he could summon Pentagon officials to public military base closures and the elimination of specific caring for her autistic son and her hus- convicted of murdering them and fleeing convenes in January. The Arizona senator, a critic of the hearings to explain their strategy on Syria. weapons programs. band, Matt, who has been unable to work to Mexico, where he passed himself off as $399 billion Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet pro- He has challenged the US Air Force to end a monop- The committee does not control how much money at his business doing email campaigns a travel writer. In 2009, a woman tossed gram, is likely to push for tougher congressional scruti- oly rocket launch program with Lockheed and Boeing the Pentagon gets, but because it sets policies, it can con- since developing multiple sclerosis and a her two young children off a bridge in ny of costly US weapons programs, defense analysts say. Co, the Pentagon’s top two suppliers, and is pushing for trol how the money is spent. “I wouldn’t forecast any huge mass on his brain stem. Portland, killing her 4-year-old son. A He has in the past launched investigations into waste development of a new US rocket engine to end reliance shifts right away,” said one defense industry executive, The appeal ended eight months ago, daughter, then 7 years old, survived. in the US defense industry and shaped legislation to end on Russian-built engines that power one of the firm’s speaking on condition of anonymity, noting that McCain after raising $6,831 toward a goal of Amanda Stott-Smith was sentenced in cost overruns on major arms programs as a senior mem- rockets. In his new position, McCain would oversee poli- had worked closely for years on acquisition reform and ber of the Senate committee. McCain, a former Navy cy legislation that underpins the Pentagon’s budget, weapons oversight with Carl Levin, the Michigan $50,000. “If you are a praying person, pray 2010 to at least 35 years in prison. —AP pilot and Vietnam War prisoner who lost to Obama in the although the House and Senate appropriations commit- Democrat who now heads the committee. —Reuters p10 2_Layout 1 11/5/14 10:01 PM Page 1

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Bone by bone, Ukraine identifies its dead ZAPORIZHIA: Before the war, Oksana from the battlefield to the laboratory san campaign,” Yakubets said. When the Biryukova’s lab helped investigators con- takes a lot of hard work. Commanding bodies are finally brought in for analysis nect criminals to crime scenes. Now her officers can no longer do it if the area the morgues in cities closest to conflict equipment is buzzing around the clock has passed to hands of separatists. zones often struggle with the scale of trying to identify the charred remains of Volunteer group Narodnaya Pamyat- the job. In Zaporizhia, about 170 kilome- Ukrainian soldiers. The DNA laboratory in which works with the authorities to try ters west of rebel stronghold Donetsk, the southeastern city of Zaporizhia is the to recover and return the remains of some of the bodies had to be buried only one in the country charged with cre- those missing-estimates that more than before they could be identified last ating genetic profiles for the unidentified 500 soldiers remain unaccounted for. As month after the morgue ran out of bodies of Ukrainian servicemen killed in military casualty figures spiked at the room, says Evgeniy Ksenzov, who works the conflict with pro-Russian separatists. end of the summer, members from the at the morgue’s forensic department. “These samples arrive every day,” organization who have experience Since then Ksenzov has received four Biryukova, the chief analyst at the interior searching for World War II remains giant refrigerators to keep the remains ministry lab said, nodding at brown boxes offered to help Ukraine’s overwhelmed until they are claimed by their relatives stacked in the corner of her gleaming military find those left behind. after a genetic match. white workplace. “The full picture-nobody But their operations are makeshift at At the cemetery in the outskirts of knows it,” she said. “The 400 that we have best. “The vehicles we have are junk on Zaporizhia, 54 anonymous graves lie in a handled is just some of the work.” wheels, and de facto people do this work dusty field, marked “unknown soldier” and Trying to put a name to the remains on their own money, on their own time,” adorned with wreaths, Ukrainian flags and of those killed in the seven months of says Konstantin, an army officer who children’s drawings. Of the first 200 bodies brutal fighting in east Ukraine can be a helps put together search parties to that arrived in Zaporizhia in September- difficult task. Body fragments sent to scour rebel territory for the dead. So far many of them from the army’s defeat in Biryukova’s lab are often so degraded his groups have helped to recover some the town of Ilovaisk-these had not been ZAPORIZHIA: Picture shows the Kushugumske cemetery in the suburbs of that specialists have to run tests several 160 bodies from the conflict zone. Once claimed by relatives, Ksenzov said. In total Zaporizhia, south-eastern Ukraine, where the remains of unidentified Ukrainian times, she said, showing vacuum-packed a body is found the first obstacle is often the United Nations says more than 4,000 soldiers killed in fighting against pro-Russia separatists are buried. — AFP bones and a piece of jaw lying in an the lack of any identification as Ukraine’s people have been killed in the conflict unassuming refrigerator. “Most of the cash-strapped military cannot even fur- since Apri. Also still out in the fields are unidentified servicemen have at least Republic” (LNR), the smaller of the two time we can only use bone tissue (to run nish dog tags. thought to be the remains of some 10 of afforded them some dignity, the volun- rebel enclaves in the east. There the tests) because samples come from peo- “Servicemen don’t have enough tags, the victims from downed Malaysia Airlines teers still searching for more remains insurgent leaders have refused to let vol- ple who have burnt almost completely.” and volunteer (fighters) never had them flight MH17 that was blasted out of the fear for the other soldiers left lying in unteers take out the dead for more than Even then, family clinging to hope that at all,” military expert Ivan Yakubets said. sky on in July over rebel territory, killing all rebel-held areas. Konstantin, who helps a month, claiming they cannot guaran- their loved ones are still alive sometimes Along with many other supplies, dog 298 people on board. The others have trying to track down remains, says there tee security. “In another month or two, refuse to give their DNA for testing. tags are now being made through been recovered. are areas that the recovery teams cannot there will only be bones that remain of crowd-funding initiatives. The entire mil- enter. Uppermost in his worries are the LNR bodies,” he said, approximating Bringing back the dead itary operation in the east is so ill- No-go zones those soldiers who perished on the terri- that there are between 100 and 200 Getting the bodies of those killed equipped, it is “for the most part a parti- While the burials of some of the tory of the so-called “Lugansk People’s bodies in LNR-controlled territory.— AFP Georgia ruling coalition on the brink of collapse PM sacks defense minister; FM resigns in protest TBILISI: Georgia yesterday plunged into political dismissed the counter-allegations as “irresponsi- frontation that endangers the functioning of crisis after the prime minister sacked his pro- ble speculation,” saying Georgia’s pro-Western ori- state institutions and the country’s Euro-Atlantic Western defense minister and the foreign minis- entation is “irreversible”. “Georgia’s membership in integration”. The US ambassador to Georgia, ter resigned in protest. The surprise move by NATO and the European Union is the choice of Richard Norland, said he was concerned that Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, announced our people,” he said. The premier nominated a lit- recent legal action against Georgian officials Tuesday after a raft of corruption charges against tle-known 36-year-old official, Mindia Janelidze, could be for political ends. “The number and high-ranking defense ministry officials, was who was secretary of the state security and crisis scope of prosecutions of former and current offi- decried by other cabinet members and now risks management council, to replace Alasania. cials raises legitimate concern that the judicial imminent collapse of the ruling coalition. system is being used in a politicized way, or for MONTREAL: French President Francois Hollande (right) and Montreal Mayor Denis More government members have threatened ‘Democracy in danger’ political purposes,” the diplomat said. Opinion Coderre embrace at City Hall in Montreal on the final day of Hollande’s three-day to quit and some lawmakers have said they could Alexi Petriashvili, the minister for European polls have repeatedly shown that Alasania, who state visit to Canada. Hollande is the first French president to come to City Hall since go over to the opposition, thereby robbing and Euro-Atlantic Integration and a close ally of leads the Free Democrats, is the most popular the 1967 visit by Charles de Gaulle. —AFP Garibashvili of a parliamentary majority. In a Alasania, also resigned in protest Tuesday. politician within the ruling coalition. statement on Tuesday, Garibashvili said he dis- “Dictatorship is coming to Georgia, our democra- The grouping of parties was assembled by for- missed his defense minister, Irakli Alasania, “in cy is in danger,” Petriashvili said late Tuesday in mer prime minister and billionaire tycoon Bidzina Unpopular Hollande order to avoid politicization of the Georgian televised remarks. Foreign Minister Maia Ivanishvili, who came to power in October 2012, armed forces and of the ministry of defence and Panjikidze said yesterday that she and her four ending the decade-long rule of the pro-Western in order to provide relevant conditions for an deputies were resigning “to show what threats president Mikheil Saakashvili and his United seeks TV redemption independent investigation” of his ministry. But the country is facing”. Deputy Prime Minister National Movement (UNM) party. Scores of for- Alasania said the charges against ministry offi- Kakhi Kaladze said that other members of mer top Saakashvili officials have been arrested PARIS: Hours after winning the presidency, a was going to be difficult whoever was elected. cials were “groundless and politically motivated” Alasania’s Free Democrats party, including the and thousands of UNM supporters interrogated beaming Francois Hollande emerged in front But they are disappointed, including on the and leveled mainly because of his faction’s sup- justice minister, “could also resign”. A source in over the last two years for alleged wrongdoing, of a crowd of flag-waving, cheering supporters left of politics. For a year, it’s been getting port for closer ties with the West. the Georgian Dream ruling coalition told AFP prompting warnings from the West over selective and said he was proud to have given some harder,” Trigot said. Another Tulle resident, Alasania had been pushing for the former that the Free Democrats-who control 10 seats in justice and persecution of political opponents. hope back to France. Two and a half years later, Jose Da Silva, said: “Whether it was him or Soviet state to join NATO and the EU. “We are the 150-member legislature-would go into oppo- Ivanishvili stepped down in 2013 and chose his exactly half-way through his term, the presi- someone else, the result would have been the dealing with a deliberate attack against the sition, leaving the coalition without a majority in protege Garibashvili, 31, to take over as premier, dent who set himself up as “Mr Normal” finds same. But he has made a lot of promises he defense ministry, which is a direct link in our parliament. but the tycoon is widely believed to continue to himself in a highly abnormal position: never hasn’t kept.” “He doesn’t bang his fist on the country’s chain with NATO and the European Georgia’s pro-Western President Giorgi wield power over the tiny Caucasus nation has a French head of state been so unpopular. table enough. I was expecting a much more Union,” he told a press conference. Garibashvili Margvelashvili denounced the “political con- behind the scenes.—AFP With an approval rating at a historic low of 13 forthright president.” percent and a staggering 97 percent believing he has failed on the economy, more than eight ‘Indecisive leadership’ in 10 French people say they do not want In fact, Hollande’s consensual style has Hollande to run for a second term. And with become a perceived weakness at a time of Catalonia vows to vote even his own camp saying privately there is a political and economic crisis, said Frederic feeling of “end of days” around the presidential Dabi from the Ifop polling group. “The consen- Elysee Palace, Hollande will on Thursday give a sual president who wants to please everyone rare prime-time television interview in a des- has given the impression of an indecisive Sunday, defying Spain perate bid to claw back some ground. leadership... and his eternal optimism has His record so far, especially on the econo- been interpreted as trickery,” said Dabi. my, has been little short of disastrous. Another political analyst, Gerard Grunberg, BARCELONA: Catalonia’s leader vowed yes- Catalonia took a step towards greater auton- Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy rejected Mas’s Unemployment has risen 27 months out of said Hollande “perhaps doesn’t have the char- terday that a symbolic independence vote omy in 2006 when it formally adopted a char- request for greater powers for Catalonia to tax the 30 he has been in charge and growth has acter to face up to the crisis”, saying he had banned by the Spanish government will go ter that assigned it the status of a “nation”. and spend. ground to a halt. He came to office vowing to lost “a large part of his personal authority, But in 2010 the Constitutional Court over- Catalans were fired up by the independ- get France’s budget deficit below three per- allowing all those unhappy with him to do ahead on November 9, setting up a constitu- cent of output-as EU rules demand-but has what they want.” tional conflict unprecedented in post-Franco ruled that nationhood claim, fuelling pro- ence referendum in Scotland in September, since pushed the deadline back from 2013 to Indeed, Hollande is also battling to keep Spain. Defying the latest in a string of legal independence feeling. Had that charter even though voters there rejected a separa- 2017, infuriating partners in Brussels and aus- those in his own camp onside, with a rebel- challenges by Madrid, regional president passed, it would have authorized Catalonia to tion from Britain. Mas has staked his leader- terity-minded Berlin. Added to the political lious left-wing of his Socialist Party defying Artur Mas promised to defend Catalans’ “right hold a referendum, said Gomez. “The more ship on the issue, saying a snap regional elec- and economic woes are difficulties in his per- him and abstaining on crucial parliamentary to decide”, despite an order from Spain’s obstacles they put in the way, the more peo- tion could be held to serve as a plebiscite on sonal life following a bitter tell-all book by for- votes. “It’s hard. It’s not easy,” admitted the Constitutional Court a day earlier to suspend ple will turn out to vote,” said Javier Perez independence. Polls have shown that ERC, the mer partner Valerie Trierweiler that painted a beleaguered president recently. His main the planned vote. Royo, a legal specialist at Seville University. hardline nationalist left-wing party that props picture of a cold and scornful man. reform drive-a mix of spending cuts and tax “We have decided to carry on with this par- “That will be hard to handle.” up Mas’s CiU group in the regional parliament, Close aides worry about the loneliness at breaks for business to create jobs-has been ticipative process... All peoples have the right If Catalans go on preparing the vote, could win a snap election. Spain’s main oppo- the top. “He doesn’t ever get together with his slow to bear fruit, with even his own economy to decide their future,” Mas said in a speech. Virgala warned: “The government will have sition Socialist Party has called for a reform to friends,” said one. And the heady days of May minister acknowledging France is “sick”. On “We are defending fundamental rights pro- two options: appeal to the Constitutional the constitution to resolve the dispute. “I call 6, 2012, when he gave that speech in his the world stage, he has been more dynamic, tected by basic laws: freedom of conscience, Court again, or prosecute civil servants and on Catalan citizens not to be afraid,” Mas said heartland of Tulle, now seem “long off”, admits with France taking an active role in the fight freedom of participation and freedom of the regional government for civil disobedi- yesterday. “We are doing what it is time to do Albert Trigot, owner of a brasserie in the against the Islamic State group and interven- expression.” Sunday’s vote, which Mas insisted ence.” Spain’s recent economic crisis has and what we have to do. We are doing it to square Hollande addressed. “People knew it ing in African hotspots.—AFP is not a “referendum”, will be organized by vol- increased unemployment and hardship in the defend ourselves, in legitimate defense of a unteers without an official electoral roll, but region and swelled its debts, but in 2012 whole people.”—AFP holding it in defiance of the court’s veto Ukraine peace plan would put Mas on delicate ground. “If they go ahead, it will be civil disobedi- ence-not for the people who vote but for the hangs by a thread public officials involved. That is a penal offence,” said Yolanda Gomez, a constitutional DONETSK: The ceasefire in Ukraine hung the elections, but Kiev, the European Union law expert at Spain’s distance-learning univer- and United States all said that the polls had by a thread yesterday after President Petro sity UNED. Mas had promised to hold the Poroshenko accused pro-Russian rebels of badly damaged the peace process, which vote in a legal form and watered down plans sinking the peace process and ordered was based on giving rebel areas autonomy, troop reinforcements to eastern cities. not independence. for an official referendum-style ballot after Artillery explosions could be heard around Rebel leaders have also threatened to earlier legal challenges from the conservative the airport in Donetsk, where Ukrainian sol- expand their territory, especially to the government. Now he has been forced into diers have been holding out for weeks Black Sea port of Mariupol. In response, defying the law in order to keep his promise against surrounding separatist forces. Poroshenko said late Tuesday that he had of holding the vote. “This time, Mas is going to Following salvos of Grad multiple rockets ordered reinforcements to guard against a openly disobey. It is a very complex and deli- and cannon fire, black smoke rose from the “possible offensive in the direction of cate matter,” said Eduardo Virgala, a constitu- area of Peski, a government-held village Mariupol, Berdyansk, Kharkiv and Luhansk tional law specialist at the University of the near the airport. north.” “Ukraine remains a firm supporter of Basque Country. Later, ceasefire observers representing the peace plan,” Poroshenko said. But “we government forces, rebels, Russia and the are obliged as the Ukrainian state not to ‘Civil disobedience’ European security body OSCE were due to allow the spread of this cancerous tumor, to Proud of its distinct language and culture, “discuss a possible path to a ceasefire in the ensure the blockade of this territory,” he told Catalonia has seen a surge in demands for area of the airport,” a spokesman for the his National Security and Defense Council. greater autonomy over recent years. The Ukrainian military said. But the already tat- “Today, several new units and groupings region of 7.5 million people accounts for tered truce, which was signed September 5, have been formed, which will already allow nearly a fifth of Spain’s economy. Spain’s has looked ever more fragile since rebels us to stop any possible attack,” Poroshenko regions have power over matters such as defied the government Sunday and held said.”The supplying of our armed forces with health and education under the country’s BARCELONA: Catalan politicians sign a petition during a meeting of Catalan political parties yesterday in Barcelona where they announced their intent to send a letter of complaint leadership elections that they described as the very latest technology-offensive, recon- constitution, passed in 1978, three years after legitimizing their two self-declared inde- naissance, guided systems-is continuing addressed to the United Nations and the European institutions denouncing the Spanish gov- the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. pendent states. Russia said it “respected” quite effectively.” —AFP ernment’s ban on the region’s independence vote.—AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBERBER 6, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Taleban threatens to attack Indian targets

TTP-JA to unleash its suicide bombers

PESHAWAR: A new Pakistani Taleban group behind this week’s devastating suicide bombing on the Pakistani-Indian border said yesterday the attack was as much aimed at India as Pakistan, suggesting that Indian targets might be next. At least 57 Pakistanis were killed during a popular flag-lowering ceremony on Sunday when a bomber tried to get as close as possible to the NEW DELHI: Indian snack vendors stand in front of the India Gate monument, origi- border in a possible attempt to cause casualties nally called the All India War Memorial and built by the British Raj to honor the on the Indian side as well. Indian Army dead during the First World War, in New Delhi. —AFP Ehsanullah Ehsan, a prominent militant and spokesman for the group, Tehreek-e-Taleban Fallen soldiers ignored Pakistan Jamaat Ahrar (TTP-JA), said he had warned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that NEW DELHI: As Britain and her allies prepare to Not a single Indian was conscripted.” attacks in India were in the pipeline. “I have mark the end of World War I, former colony India Far from acknowledging their contribu- already conveyed it to Modi ... that if our suicide will largely ignore commemorations despite los- tion, however, many in India, a British colony bombers can carry out attacks on this side of the ing tens of thousands of soldiers in the conflict. for 200 years, have chosen to ignore the past. border, they can easily do it on other side of the Everyone from world leaders to school children Some are ashamed its soldiers volunteered to border in India,” he told Reuters by telephone are expected to take part in ceremonies on fight for a country that had long kept them in from an undisclosed location. November 11 to remember the armistice for the servitude, experts say. “In those days, it was “I told him that his hands are red with the Great War, whose centenary this year gives the not considered heroic to be fighting for your blood of Kashmiri mujahideen (fighters) and occasion extra significance. ‘masters’,” said Vedica Kant who has written a innocent people of Gujarat for which he would But the date next Tuesday will be largely book called “The Indian Heroes of WWI”. have to pay the price.” He earlier tweeted in overlooked in India where, for many, the war is “Hence, many of those soldiers’ voices went English: “You (Modi) are the killer of hundreds of an embarrassing reminder of the bloody sacri- unheard, their stories unwritten,” the London- Muslims. We wl (will) take the revenge of innocent fices made for its formal colonial master. “You based Kant told local media in Delhi last people of Kashmir and Gugrat” (sic). An Indian can’t call it sacrifice, it was surely not patriotism month. Indian soldiers became the largest intelligence official said the account appeared that made them fight,” war expert Mridula volunteer force in history when 2.5 million genuine. Kashmir is a disputed Himalayan territo- Mukherjee said of the 70,000 Indian soldiers also fought for Britain during World War II, ry over which India and Pakistan have fought two who died on the battlefields of Europe. “It was according to official figures, before the coun- of their three wars. Gujarat - misspelt in the tweet mostly them looking for employment,” try finally gained independence in 1947. - is a western Indian state where more than 1,000 Mukherjee, chief historian at Delhi’s Jawaharlal people, most of them Muslims, were killed in Nehru University said. Few reminders inter-religious rioting in 2002, when Modi was its Mukherjee said 1.2 million Indian soldiers On Tuesday, India’s army is not planning chief minister. were also motivated to sign up for the war anything special to commemorate the day, KASHMIR: Indian paramilitary personnel keep watch in front of Jamia Masjid during a curfew India has long accused Pakistani militants of in downtown Srinagar yesterday. Separatists opposed to Indian rule called for the strike after because of Britain’s promises at the time of a preferring to hold fire for Republic Day and trying to attack its targets, particularly after the greater role in the running of their own country Armed Forces Day. “There may be some cere- Indian soldiers fired at a private car on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 3, killing two 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were passengers and critically wounding another two. — AFP if they fought. Leading political figures in India, monies here or there, but nothing that I know killed when Pakistani gunmen went on a three- including independence hero and apostle of of,” spokesman Rohan Anand said. The giant day rampage in India’s financial capital. Ehsan said non-violence Mahatma Gandhi, then backed the India Gate memorial in the capital is one of to broaden their mission beyond Pakistan. Ehsan get would severely affect the already frosty rela- however that the Sunday attack was specifically effort, believing it would bolster the colony’s the few stark reminders of the country’s world said that unlike the TTP’s narrow focus on war in tions between the nuclear-armed rivals. aimed at the Pakistani military. The elaborate bor- claims for self-government. Indian soldiers war past. The British-built sandstone arch is a the tribal areas on the Afghan border, his outfit Shelling on their disputed Kashmir border is der parade, which draws hundreds of people arrived on the Western Front in late September notable landmark, drawing thousands of visi- sought to attack countries around the region. an almost daily occurrence, a constant reminder every day, is conducted by the military of both of 1914, equipped with just two machine guns tors every year.But few snapping selfies at the “The TTP focuses on Pakistan only, while we have that a full-blown conflict is always a threat. sides, making it a target for Taleban militants per battalion and dressed in thin cotton uni- monument recently could accurately describe a global agenda of jihad and therefore we have Further unnerving India, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman fighting to topple the Pakistani government and forms that offered no protection against the bit- its significance. “Gandhi made it when we got people from all over the world including the Arab Al-Zawahiri, said to be close to TTP-JA, has establish an Islamic theocracy. “We have proudly ter European winter. independence from the British in 1947?” sug- and Western world for this mission.” announced the creation of a South Asia wing of al stated that our target was the Pakistani security At a ceremony in New Delhi last week, British gested 19-year-old Saksham Jain. Hawker Babu TTP-JA has announced its support for the Qaeda, threatening to stage attacks on countries forces and their installations in which we suc- defence minister Michael Fallon, flanked by top Ahmed, 35, who has been selling tea at the Middle Eastern group Islamic State, whose bel- across the subcontinent. The new group’s first ceeded,” Ehsan told Reuters. military brass and politicians from both countries, monument for 12 years, shrugged and said “who ligerent anti-Western ideology has begun to major attack was a botched attempt in paid tribute to India’s soldiers. “We must not and cares as long as you get visitors”. During last inspire militants across South Asia. The group’s September to hijack a Pakistani warship and Al-Qaeda threat we will not ever forget the enormous service ren- week’s ceremony in Delhi, relatives of fallen sol- openly anti-Indian rhetoric differs from that of the attack a US navy vessel at a base near the port city The central Pakistani Taleban group, known as dered by India’s heroes,” Fallon said after laying a diers beamed with pride as British embassy offi- mainstream Pakistani Taleban, who are mainly of Karachi. On Tuesday, India’s navy withdrew two the TTP, has effectively disintegrated this year and wreath at the India Gate memorial, during a one- cials gifted them digitized war diaries of Indian focused on their insurgency against Pakistani warships from the eastern port of Kolkata after split into a range of smaller groups such as TTP-JA day visit to the country. “Their courage is all the troops who fought in France and Belgium’s security forces in the volatile tribal northwest of intelligence agencies warned of an attack on the who appear to be exploiting their ties to al Qaeda more remarkable for being entirely voluntary. Flanders. — AFP the country. A successful attack on an Indian tar- port and the city.— Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Nigeria’s road shame goes online in hope of better days News in brief LAGOS: The dismal state of Nigeria’s roads Adenekan owns two cars but prefers to is a constant source of exasperation for take public transport because it is cheap- the long-suffering population but a er-and also because the badly maintained 5 bodies found in tongue-in-cheek campaign on social roads take a debilitating toll on his vehi- Karachi identified media is trying to shame the authorities cles. “Nigerians spend a lot of money on KARACHI: Five bodies found dumped under a roadway in into action. Posting under the hashtag maintaining their vehicles because of pot- Karachi have been identified as ethnic Baluch youths who had #MyRoadIsWorseThanYours, Nigerians holes, which damage tyres, wheel rims, been missing for more than 18 months, police said yesterday. have been sharing examples of the coun- shock absorbers and other components,” All five had been shot in the head, their hands tied behind try’s worst highways. Bomb crater-sized said quantity surveyor Alani Amusa. Time their backs. The bodies have been taken to a mortuary for fur- potholes, roads resembling muddy rivers spent in traffic jams is also dead time, rob- ther investigation. Police said the men were residents of Hub, in the annual rainy season and some bing businesses of productivity and effec- an industrial town in southwestern Baluchistan province unrecognizable even as public thorough- tive workers. When they eventually arrive, adjoining Karachi. “The families have identified them and they fares have been posted online. they are often exhausted. Motorists stuck claim that they were missing for one and half years,” senior “Here’s one Lagos road (state governor for hours in jams are sitting ducks for police officer Sheeraz Nazir said. A separatist insurgency has Babatunde) Fashola needs to repair fast,” armed robbers. And bad roads mean more raged in Baluchistan for years and so-called “kill and dump” says one tweet, with a picture of a motor- accidents. Nigeria had the highest road incidents are common. No marks of torture were found on the cyclist navigating a flooded road, with fatality rates in Africa in 2010 at 33.7 bodies, which the city police chief said had been moved after water nearly up to his saddle. The tweets deaths per 100,000, the World Health death. Hundreds of soldiers and militants have been killed in have an underlying seriousness: when Organization said in a report published fighting since the insurgency was revived in 2004. Suspected Africa’s leading economy and oil producer last year. Recently, petrol tanker drivers Baluch separatist insurgents last month killed at least nine claims to have pumped 1.4 trillion naira threatened to go on strike if the bad roads laborers at a poultry farm at Hub. Rights groups allege securi- ($8.5 billion, 6.75 billion euros) into infra- were not fixed, blaming potholes and gul- ty forces have fuelled bloodshed by picking up non-militant structure improvements since 1999, why lies for causing accidents. Nigerian states LAGOS: Motorists try to avoid waterlogged potholes on Apapa Oshodi expressway that leads to Apapa ports, West Africa’s busiest and largest container terminal in separatists, including academics and students, torturing them are the roads so bad? They have also and the federal authorities have been in and dumping their bodies on the streets. helped balance out the pages of self-con- dispute about who is responsible for Lagos. — AFP gratulatory newspaper advertisements maintaining and improving the roads- into swimming pools within minutes of a The contract was awarded for 167.9 bil- taken out by state governments, proudly meaning nothing gets done. The Lagos downpour; roadside culverts overflow; lion naira but some experts believe it Beijing brings ‘freedom, displaying the smooth tarmac of upgrad- State government for example has been at tarmac disintegrates; traffic lights and could have been revamped for a lot less. democracy’ to classes ed, traffic-free roads. loggerheads with Abuja over reimburse- road signs are often absent. Most people, though, just want their own BEIJING: China’s Communist Party will introduce socialist ments for repairs to federal-owned roads Project costs can also be grossly inflat- muddy, potholed streets paved and well- values including “freedom” and “democracy” into the Deaths, strikes, responsibility dating back to when Lagos was the coun- ed. The 338-kilometre (212-mile) dual car- maintained to make the journey from classroom via songs and poetry, state media said yester- Olanrewaju Adenekan is a clearing try’s capital. riageway linking southern oil-producing their front doors to the main road less of a day, as the party strives to maintain its legitimacy. China agent at Lagos’ main port of Apapa. He is states was awarded at a cost of 138.9 bil- bone-shaking obstacle course. Works has “lost its moral compass” during three decades of eco- 51 but looks two decades older and is in Corruption, under-funding lion naira ($835 million, 670 million euros) Minister Mike Onolememen blamed nomic rise, sparking the national campaign to rebuild poor health. Both he and his doctor blame As in so many walks of Nigerian life, in 2006 under former president Olusegun chronic under-funding from the federal faith, the Global Times newspaper said, citing the official it on his daily commute. Adenakan leaves corruption is also part of the problem. Obasanjo. Eight years later, the cost has government, which has led to contractors Xinhua news agency. Core socialist values and goals his house in Sango-Ota, north of Lagos, “Contractors like to cut corners by not increased nearly three-fold to 347 billion revising up their project costs to accom- including “democracy”, “equality”, “justice” and “freedom” before 4:30 am every day to reach Apapa working to specification,” said Amusa, who naira-and the road is not yet finished. modate rising prices of materials. “About will be introduced into education, the newspaper added, at around 9:00 am. The distance door-to- is involved in a number of road projects in Questions have been asked too about the 500 billion naira was needed every year citing experts. “These values can be promoted by encour- door is just 37 kilometers. “The traffic situ- Lagos state. “They connive with corrupt cost of reconstruction of the 127.8-kilome- for the next four years to pave bad roads,” aging composing songs and writing poems about core ation is bad. I spend between four and five officials to use sub-standard materials in tre Lagos-Ibadan expressway-the busiest he said. So far, he said the treasury has socialist values,” it said. The new campaign will also hours for a journey that should take less order to maximize their profits. Many road in west Africa, carrying an average of released just a quarter of the sum for the encourage students to memorize the values and will than one hour,” he told AFP. roads lack proper drainage, turning them 250,000 vehicles per day. coming year.—AFP amend textbooks on Chinese history and morality to include them, the report said. The Communist Party has long maintained tight control in China, nipping in the bud any public challenge to its authority and muzzling HK Students to the media. It also attempts to boost support through the education system with a curriculum that focuses heavily take democracy on China’s achievements since it took power in 1949, and the failures of previous leaders. call to Beijing North Korea’s leader HONG KONG: Students calling for full democracy for Chinese- walking without stick ruled Hong Kong are hoping to take their protest to Communist SEOUL: North Korea’s top newspaper carried pictures yester- Party rulers in Beijing and are expected to announce details of day of leader Kim Jong-Un walking without a stick, apparently their new battle plan today. The plan signals a shift in the focus showing he has recovered from either an injury or surgery to of the protests in the former British colony away from the Hong his leg. Rodong Sinmun, the official daily of the state’s ruling Kong government which has said it has limited room for Korean Workers Party, carried a photo of a smiling Kim walk- manoeuvre. But China is highly unlikely to allow any known pro- ing without the cane he was seen using last month. The pic- democracy activists into Beijing, especially if the trip coincides ture shows Kim walking to a chair in front of a crowd of sol- with this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) diers for a photo opportunity. Another picture showed Kim forum there. standing and clapping his hands. Following an extended “I think one of the ways we can solve this problem is to go to absence from the pubic eye, Kim re-surfaced with a walking Beijing personally and have a direct dialogue with Beijing offi- stick in mid-October. His nearly six-week absence triggered a cials on this matter since the (Hong Kong) government claims frenzy of speculation about his health and grip on power. that all decisions have to be passed up to the NPC,” Alex Chow, North Korea’s state TV at the time carried still photos of Kim leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), said last walking with a black cane but aired no matching video week, referring to China’s parliament, the National People’s footage. Before his prolonged absence, state television had Congress. shown an overweight Kim walking with a pronounced limp. The protesters blocked key roads leading into three of Hong Since assuming power after the death of his father Kim Jong-Il Kong’s most economically and politically important districts for in 2011, Kim Jong-Un has cut a very public figure, with state weeks. The campaign drew well over 100,000 at its peak and media showing him engaged in a seemingly endless series of hundreds remain camped out at the main protest site in the trips to military units and factories across the country where Admiralty district, home to government offices and next to the he gives what is officially known as “field guidance”. main financial district. The HKFS has not said whether its planned trip was to coincide with APEC, which would mean, if allowed, it would take place in front of an audience of world Saudi Arabia beheads leaders. Another student leader, Nathan Law, said details would Pakistani drug dealer be revealed today. China has ruled Hong Kong since 1997 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani yesterday for through a “one country, two systems” formula which allows trafficking heroin hidden in his stomach into the king- wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the ROME: People demonstrate in solidarity with Iranian women injured in a series of acid attacks and to protest dom, the interior ministry said, the latest in dozens of mainland. The protesters are demanding fully-democratic elec- against violence against women in front of the Iranian embassy in Rome.—AFP executions this year. Mohammed Sadiq Hanif was arrest- tions for the city’s next chief executive in 2017, not the vote ed during his attempt to smuggle “a large amount” of between pre-screened candidates that Beijing has said it will heroin, the ministry said in a statement carried by the offi- allow. A survey by Hong Kong University’s Public Opinion cial SPA news agency. Last month, Saudi authorities Program on Tuesday showed that the HKFS has become the Acid attacks sharpen row over beheaded four Pakistanis convicted of smuggling heroin most popular political group in the city. Yesterday, Regina Ip, a into the kingdom. The government “is keen on combating former Hong Kong security chief and a top adviser to the city’s Islamic dress and vigilantism narcotics due to their great harm to individuals and the embattled leader proposed HKFS be given seats on the commit- society,” the interior ministry said. The beheading yester- tee that nominates candidates for chief executive, broadcaster day in the eastern town of Khubar raises to 64 the num- RTHK reported. Ip said the committee should include young Social issues pit Iran’s Rouhani against hardliners ber of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this people and women and could cut back on agriculture and fish- eries representatives, according to the report. BEIRUT: It is a question all Iranians are asking: who is crack down on political dissent, such as during the year, despite international concern. A United Nations Pro-Beijing groups have increasingly criticized the impact the stalking the streets of Isfahan, throwing acid into women’s protests which followed the disputed 2009 presidential independent expert called in September for an immedi- protests are having on business. Data on business conditions in faces? The attacks - there have been at least four in the elections. Though officials have denied links with these ate moratorium on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. the city’s private sector economy released in the HSBC busy city in central Iran in recent weeks - appear aimed at militant groups, there is an overlap between their activi- Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudi- Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) show the strongest pace of terrorizing women who dare to test the boundaries of the ties and that of the Basij, a militia that is overseen by the cial, summary or arbitrary executions, said trials “are by all deterioration in October in three years. The chairman of the pro- Islamic dress code. The crimes coincided with the passage Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, experts say. accounts grossly unfair” and defendants are often not Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of of a new parliamentary bill that allows private citizens to The acid attacks happened as Iran’s conservative-domi- allowed a lawyer. Hong Kong, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Tuesday he would help con- enforce “morality” laws. The bill has sparked a clash nated parliament was passing its morality bill, which vey the students’ message to Beijing if they stopped occupying between hardline politicians, who overwhelmingly sup- essentially gives legal protection to groups like Ansar-e main roads, RTHK reported. Tam was also quoted as saying a trip port it, and moderates including President Hassan Hezbollah that seek to enforce Islamic behavior. That bill, by the students to Beijing during the APEC meeting would not Rouhani. The split is an illustration of the wider political which critics say will give free rein to vigilantes, has drawn be successful.—Reuters challenges Rouhani faces from his hardline opponents. a battle line between the hardliners and Rouhani, who has Acid attacks - an excruciating assault used in many coun- struck a moderate tone on social issues. “We can’t just tries to rob women of their looks - are rare in Iran and treat one issue, bad hijab, as the ultimate evil from morn- Glints of hope emerge in authorities, including conservative clerics, were quick to ing to night,” Rouhani said in a speech two weeks ago in condemn them. which he implicitly criticized the bill, according to the typhoon-hit Tacloban But in a country where volunteer militia operate as the Shargh newspaper. self-appointed guardians of Islamic behavior, it is “Iranian women are Muslim women of virtue who are all TACLOBAN: Sitting on a wooden stool as his customers mill inevitable that suspicions have fallen on religious vigilante supporting hijab. So a few people in this country should around clutching burgers and bottles of San Miguel beer, groups - so much so that one issued a statement to deflect not consider themselves the custodians of morality,” said Jacques Palami talks enthusiastically about life in Tacloban a accusations. Ansar-e-Hezbollah, a plainclothes militia Rouhani, himself an Islamic cleric. By that time, parliament year after the central Philippines town was slammed by which has conducted ‘morality patrols’ to enforce Islamic had already passed the bill. “This definitely does seem to Typhoon Haiyan. Owner of the brightly-lit pop-up bar Na Ning, dress, blamed “the enemy” for the acid attacks that it said be a slap back at Rouhani by the parliament,” said Faraz Palami is one of a growing number of victims of the strongest were carried out to “strike a blow against security”. Sanei, Iran researcher for New York-based Human Rights storm on record to hit land who are committed to rebuilding Attempts to reach the group for further comment were Watch. “The Rouhani administration is clearly on the record the coastal town that many feared was beyond repair. BEIRUT: Lebanese activists, foreground, throw toma- unsuccessful. Police have arrested a handful of suspects as being very, very sceptical of Ansar-e-Hezbollah and Palami, 26, lost his childhood home and two relatives in the toes on a lawmaker vehicle, during a protest against the but not yet charged anyone. Thousands of people took to enforcing of morality laws by vigilante groups.” typhoon that destroyed 90 percent of Tacloban after it hit land extension of the Lebanese parliament, near the parlia- on Nov 8, killing, or leaving missing, some 7,000 people. the streets of Isfahan, and hundreds in Tehran, two weeks In a small victory for the Rouhani administration, Ansar- ment building in downtown Beirut yesterday. —AP Typhoon Haiyan forced as many as four million people to flee ago to protest that not enough was being done to find the e-Hezbollah called off plans to start morality patrols in their homes as it powered across the central Philippines, assailants. Tehran in September, after the interior ministry said any- Lebanon’s parliament packing winds of up to 315 km an hour and causing seven Local media, which have suggested there may have one carrying out such activities would need permission extends term to 2017 metre storm surges. Palami is among a group of local and for- been twice as many attacks as officially confirmed, said from the government. The morality bill still faces some BEIRUT: Lebanon’s political deadlock deepened yesterday, eign entrepreneurs bringing innovation and hope to some Isfahani women had received text messages threat- final hurdles before becoming law, but the support of par- with parliament voting once again to delay elections and Tacloban, a city with a registered population of around ening them with attack if they did not respect the dress liament is a boost for militia groups and a blow to announcing it would extend its mandate until 2017. The deci- 220,000 where a year ago corpses lined the streets and loot- code, or hijab, which in Iran means covering the hair and Rouhani, according to Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, a former sion comes amid a stalemate that has left the country without ers ran amok. wearing modest clothing. “If you don’t observe your hijab, member of Ansar-e-Hezbollah who now works as a jour- a president since May and security concerns tied to the con- His bar, a refurbished truck that was used by his family to then you will be sprayed with acid,” read one anonymous nalist in Germany. flict in neighboring Syria. “The parliament voted by 95 votes deliver food to relatives in the storm’s aftermath, is a popular text message received by a women that the Iranian “They’re actually giving them (militia groups) a green out of 97 members present to extend its mandate until June place for locals and foreign aid workers to unwind. “This is the Students’ News Agency, identified as Haniya. “If the acid light,” he said. “As long as Rouhani’s government is in 20, 2017,” a parliamentary source said. Only two lawmakers time in Tacloban where people are being creative and inno- spraying is related to hijab, then why aren’t the authorities place they’ll continue their activities. Social freedoms, voted against the extension, but 31 boycotted the session vative because they have to be,” Palami, who named his bar giving their views about this?” she said. like wearing hijab, have become the Achilles heel of the altogether in protest over the controversial decision. after his grandfather, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Rouhani government.” While Rouhani has disappointed Parliamentary elections were originally scheduled for the mid- “My vision is for Tacloban to remain on the map.” Palami, who Ultimate evil liberals who say that he has delivered little social reform, dle of 2013, but MPs voted on May 21 for a 17-month exten- spent 10 years working in Manila and abroad, returned to Special police units are often deployed in Iran’s cities to conservatives are using his moderate rhetoric on issues sion of their mandate. However, the political stalemate and Tacloban after Haiyan, the deadliest Philippine typhoon on enforce the hijab, pulling aside women they consider to like hijab to paint him as seeking to distance Iran from security concerns that motivated last year’s extension have record, determined to help rebuild the city that is about 360 be overly made-up or allowing their hair to spill out from the ideals of the Islamic revolution. “Rouhani has been only deepened in the intervening period. The country has miles southeast of Manila. He set up the bar in January this underneath the obligatory headscarf. But groups like more vocal on these issues than he has on lots of other been without a president since Michel Suleiman’s term ended year and it is now parked just minutes from some of the city’s Ansar-e-Hezbollah have also long played a role in enforc- issues,” said Sanei from Human Rights Watch. “That just on May 25 because lawmakers have failed to agree on a suc- landmarks - the cotton candy-colored Santo NiÒo church and ing social laws, pressuring women to dress more conserva- seems to make it worse. It seems to stoke the fires in par- cessor. And the war in neighboring Syria, which has raised a shrine said to be on the site of the childhood home of Imelda tively or confronting unmarried couples who appear in liament even more to push back against him and his existing tensions between Lebanon’s Shiite and Sunni resi- Marcos, the Philippines’ flamboyant former first lady.— Reuters public together. They have also helped the government administration.”—Reuters dents, has spilled over with increasing regularity. NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The fog begins to lift as the rising sun is reflected off of the clouds in Zonnebeke, Belgium yesterday. Belgium is experiencing higher than average temperatures for the autumn. — AP Iran general said to mastermind Iraq ground war

BAGHDAD: When Islamic State mili- That could prove a major impedi- discuss Soleimani’s presence in Jurf al- not directly involved in fighting, and 2006 and 2007 and have more recently Amnesty International said last tants retreated from the embattled ment to addressing the grievances of Sakher, or in previous victories where that Haj was one of them. The official been accused of brutalizing Sunni cap- month that militias have abducted and town of Jurf al-Sakher last week, the Iraq’s Sunni minority. Iran and he is known to have played a com- spoke on condition of anonymity tives. Sunnis are also deeply suspicious killed scores of Sunni civilians with the Iraqi military was quick to flaunt a rare Hezbollah are closely linked with Iraqi manding role. Those successes include because he was not authorized to talk of Shiite powerhouse Iran, which has tacit support of the Iraqi government in victory. State television showed tanks Shiite militias, which have also played a halting the IS advance in the town of to the media. played an outsized role in Iraqi affairs retaliation for Islamic State attacks. and Humvees parading through the key role in driving IS out of the so- Amirli in August and the city of Samarra Iraqi officials have also said that a since the 2003 US-led invasion that Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi town and soldiers touring government called Baghdad Belt of Sunni villages in June. But senior figures with the handful of advisers from Hezbollah, toppled Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-domi- has pledged to reign in the militias and buildings that the Sunni extremist ringing the capital. The sectarian mili- Revolutionary Guard have publicly which is backed by Iran, are offering nated government. “It is true that Iraq establish a national guard to mobilize group had occupied since August. tias have long been implicated in bru- acknowledged Soleimani’s role in Iraq’s front-line guidance to Iraqi Shiite mili- needs any kind of help in the current Sunnis against the extremists. But it However, photos soon emerged on tality against Sunnis, and their advance war with IS. As for Hezbollah, it has tias fighting Sunni extremists north of situation, but this help should be public could take months to assemble such a independent Iraqi news websites could undermine efforts to knit the openly joined Syrian President Bashar Baghdad. But it is not known if any and part of the international efforts,” force, and in the meantime Soleimani’s revealing a more discreet presence - troubled country together. Al-Assad’s forces against mainly Sunni Hezbollah men are actually fighting. Sunni lawmaker Hamid Al-Mutlaq told militias are the best placed to aid Iraq’s the Iranian general Ghasem Soleimani, Militia commanders told AP that rebels - a decision that has fueled sec- Iraqi Shiite militias were implicated in the AP. “This undeclared Iranian help beleaguered military in regaining the whose name has become synonymous dozens of advisers from Hezbollah and tarian tensions in Lebanon. But the mass killing of Sunnis at the height harms national reconciliation and the initiative against the Islamic State with the handful of victories attributed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were Hezbollah has declined to comment on of the country’s sectarian carnage in sovereignty of Iraq.” group. — AP to Iraqi ground forces. Local command- on the front lines in Jurf al-Sakher. They reports of its involvement in Iraq. ers said Lebanon’s Hezbollah Shiite said the advisers provided weapons militia group was also involved. training to some 7,000 Iraqi troops and Mass Killings The US has awkwardly found itself militia fighters and coordinated with In July, officials in Lebanon said a Corruption over camping spots at... on the same side as Iran and Hezbollah military commanders ahead of the Hezbollah commander was killed while Continued from Page 1 The locations differ in price. “Officially, the payment is the in the war against the Islamic State operation. One commander, who on a “jihadi mission” in Iraq. Ibrahim same for all locations in all governorates, which is a KD 50 fee group, which rampaged across much agreed to be identified only by his nick- Mohammed Al-Haj was buried in But according to several campers that Kuwait Times spoke and a KD 300 deposit that will be returned at the end of the of northern and western Iraq in June. name, Abu Zeinab, said Soleimani Lebanon and his funeral attended by with in various camping areas around Kuwait, at least one camping season. But practically, people are selling their sites for While US military advisers have been began planning the Jurf al-Sakher top Hezbollah officials. It was the first Municipality supervisor is withholding the best spots for sale on different prices depending on the demanded areas. Even the KD coordinating coalition airstrikes from operation three months ago. The known Hezbollah death in Iraq since the desert camp black market. “When I tried to book my location 350 officially paid to the Municipality is considered a high within heavily fortified bases, Soleimani cleared town, 50 km south of the capi- the lightning IS advance in June. A for a camp online on the website of the Municipality, I was amount for some people, especially 17- or 18-year-old students, and his commanders are on the front tal, lies on a road often used by Shiite Lebanese official close to the group shocked that all the good strategic locations were gone,” so many of them won’t be camping this year,” Jassem added. lines and would assume a key role in pilgrims. said Hezbollah is known to have “a lim- explained Yousef. “I later found out that a supervisor at the Abu Ahmad, another Kuwaiti camper, confirmed that he paid the retaking of major cities. Iraqi military officials declined to ited number of advisers” in Iraq who are Ahmadi branch of the Municipality has booked the places for the Municipality employee for a good camp location. “I was himself and registered them in the names of his family members obliged to pay KD 1,100 to get a camp near a location to the one and friends. This guy is selling these places for up to KD 2,000,” I typically camp at every year for the last 20 years. The Kuwaiti Gitmo detainee Odah freed, sent... he told Kuwait Times. Municipality is corrupt, but when I went to file a complaint, they “We thought of preparing a petition, but when we filed a told me that I don’t have any evidence as there is nothing regis- Continued from Page 1 in Afghanistan and may have fought alongside Al-Qaeda or complaint at the Municipality, nobody listened. They said every- tered in the name of this corrupt employee, who registered the the Taleban. The board, however, determined that he had only one wants the most popular locations, although we have been locations in the name of his friends and relatives. So I was not arrested in northern Pakistan in late 2001 by tribesmen a low level of training and did not have a leadership position camping there every year. Furthermore, the locations on their able to accuse him as I can’t officially prove it,” he stated. who sold them to the Pakistani army, who in turn handed in either group. He will be required to participate in a militant system are wrong, as I applied for a location in Julaia, and the He mentioned other what he called the exploitation of the them over to the United States. rehabilitation program in Kuwait. But the review board rec- system gave me a location in Mina Abdullah. The new system system. “Besides the corruption of this employee and maybe Odah’s father, Khalid Al-Odah, said in several interviews ommended against releasing fellow Kuwaiti Kandari, ruling he sucks, and hasn’t brought any benefits at all,” he stated. other employees, there is the fact that somebody will get profit over the years that his son was only a teacher in Afghanistan “almost certainly retains an extremist mindset and had close Another camper explained that the Municipality’s new sys- or interest from the deposits and fees paid by people. Imagine who had been wrongly seized by bounty hunters and turned ties with high-level Al-Qaeda leaders in the past”. tem has essentially created the conditions for a black market in how many people paid the KD 350, and this money will be in over to the US. “Sometimes my wife calls my other son Fawzi. The last prisoners released from Guantanamo, in May, were popular camping sites by creating artificial limitations and some account for five months. So who will get the profits of Other times I wake up in the middle of the night and find her five Taleban detainees, in exchange for the return of US Army demand. “The new regulation changed the national tradition of this?” wondered Abu Ahmad. sleeping in Fawzi’s room,” the father said in a 2005 interview. sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, held for five years in Afghanistan. camping into a business for many people. The Municipality is He also complained of the space given by the Municipality. “It’s an unbearable sadness most of the time.” The move, which Obama did by bypassing Congress, sparked involved in this, and their staff are reserving good locations for “They gave us only 1,000 square meters, which is only enough to At a hearing in July, Guantanamo’s Periodic Review Board loud complaints from Republicans, who considered it a bad their friends who are selling them for high amounts starting set up camp for one family or two small families. We also have to “determined that continued law of war detention of (Odah) and dangerous deal. Opened in 2002, the prison has housed from KD 500 up to KD 2,000,” said Jassem, who also paid extra for keep space between the camps and we may not find two adja- does not remain necessary to protect against a continuing 779 inmates detained in connection with the US war on terror, his spot. “Social media and various websites are full of ads by cent locations for each other, while during previous years, four significant threat to the security of the United States”. It con- many of whom were subjected to so-called enhanced interro- people offering to sell a camp with a permit or just the site,” he or five families used to camp together in one location, which is cluded that Odah had most likely undergone terrorist training gation techniques such as waterboarding. — Agencies pointed out. not possible anymore,” he concluded. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 ANALYSIS

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ith sweeping victories that exceeded their own sky-high expectations, the GOP has dealt WPresident Barack Obama and Democrats the most devastating electoral defeat of his presidency. Their prize is full control of Congress, and with it, the power to shape the direction of America’s government in the next two years. Both parties talked Tuesday about need to compromise, but they will face tough obstacles in follow- ing through. The list is long: the already looming 2016 elections, persistent divisions within the Republican Rousseff to rein in excesses - for a while Party, and the frosty relationship between Obama and Sen Mitch McConnell, who won re-election in Kentucky By Anthony Boadle and Alonso Soto and income,” he told reporters on state dearly in an economy close to full high as 50 billion reals ($20 billion). “The and is likely to ascend to majority leader. “I don’t expect Wednesday. He also told business leaders employment, the officials said. government wants to send the message the president to wake up tomorrow and view the world quick belt-tightening, and then back taxes will not be raised to relieve the fiscal The latter steps would be politically diffi- that it is committed to reducing inflation any differently than he did this morning,” McConnell said to business as usual. That appears to crunch. cult. They would also still fall short of and will do all it can bring the rate down to at his victory party Tuesday night. “He knows I won’t Abe the strategy in coming months for Other government allies say that what- wholesale economic changes, such as a the official target,” a senior official close to either.” Brazil’s newly re-elected President Dilma ever pro-market shift does occur is unlikely reform of the tax code, that investors say Rousseff’s inner circle told Reuters, without The election puts Republicans back in power in the Rousseff, who is trying to win back the to last very long. They say Rousseff will are necessary to get Brazil back to the 4 specifying what the size of the cut might Senate for the first time in eight years, and alongside a business community’s confidence without make just enough gestures to win some percent-plus growth it saw last decade. be. Investors are watching for any effort to GOP-led House, the party will set a legislative agenda sacrificing her leftist agenda of reducing breathing room from ratings agencies and Officials don’t see much room for change. redefine the size and scope of Brazil’s state unlike anything that would come from Obama’s White poverty and ensuring a strong state pres- stave off a downgrade, but then return to “The government will make some conces- development bank BNDES, which would House. The president’s top advisers have spent weeks ence in the economy. Since narrowly win- aggressive spending on poverty programs sions to appease investors, but it will not signal that Rousseff is serious about fiscal planning for how to deal with a Republican-led Senate. ning an Oct 26 runoff, Rousseff has fueled and infrastructure while guiding the pri- change its model, which prioritizes growth discipline. Yet she is expected to balk at Obama was to hold a press conference yesterday yafter- hopes of a market-friendly shift by allowing vate sector as she sees fit. “If we need to at any cost,” said a finance ministry official doing so because of the bank’s importance noon, and plans to meet with congressional leaders the central bank to raise interest rates, take some tough measures that involve who asked not to be named due to his criti- in driving growth and creating jobs. tomorrow at the White House. which surprised investors and should help sacrifices, so be it,” Senator Humberto cal stance. “Rousseff is convinced that her Investors agree the biggest sign of In the rosiest of scenarios, McConnell and Obama can control inflation running above 6.5 percent Costa, the ruling Workers’ Party leader in model works, and I don’t think that will Rousseff’s direction in coming years will be look for common ground in areas where their parties a year. the Senate, told Reuters. change in the next term.” who she appoints as finance minister. have overlapping interests: overhauling the nation’s com- Local press has also percolated with talk However, Costa said such measures Previous Workers’ Party governments, Privately, several senior officials have plicated tax code, repairing crumbling roads and bridges, that Rousseff will make a large cut to budg- should be “limited,” and they would be including Rousseff’s first administration, said Rousseff needs to pick a market econ- and inking free-trade agreements with the European et spending, and that she is looking for a applied for just a few months and then have reined in budget spending in their omist or a business leader as her next Union and Asia-Pacific nations. “This is a new chapter in more market-friendly replacement for long- wound down. The belt-tightening would first year to avoid alienating markets too finance minister to rebuild ties with the pri- the presidency and it doesn’t have to be a defeated one,” serving Finance Minister Guido Mantega. have the purpose of “allowing us to return to much - and, often, atone for past excesses. vate sector. Yet there is little sign that said Bill Burton, a former Obama White House and cam- Investors are eager for any signs of change policies based on economic growth and the Cuts will be especially necessary this time Rousseff will opt for the man investors paign adviser. “We lost in a lot of places, but the truth is after Rousseff’s first term in office, which continued redistribution of income,” he said. around. Government accounts have deteri- favor, former central bank chief Henrique this could open up some real opportunity to actually get was marked by average annual economic orated so much under Rousseff that Brazil Meirelles. Rousseff likes to micromanage some things done.” growth under 2 percent, rising budget ‘Convinced Her Model Works’ risks posting its first primary budget deficit economic policy and could prefer an insid- For Obama, who has grown resentful of his dimin- deficits that threaten Brazil’s investment The planning and finance ministries are in nearly two decades this year. er, former deputy minister Nelson Barbosa, ished political standing, the prospect of reaching accords grade credit rating, and huge losses for crunching numbers to decide where architect of her low-cost housing program. with a GOP-led Congress is a consolation prize that could many financial investors. spending cuts can be made, starting with Eyes on Finance Ministry Naming a close aide such as Barbosa help salvage his flailing second term. Republican Senate Yet comments by Rousseff’s chief of staff easy items like government travel and Economists say the expected spending would signal continuity of her policies, offi- leaders may also see something to gain by showing Aloizio Mercadante, who is among the pos- office supplies, government officials told cuts will not cover the fiscal deficit in 2015 cials have told Reuters. Picking the widely Americans they can govern effectively, given that voters sible candidates to run the finance ministry, Reuters on condition of anonymity. Bigger and the government will have to raise tax- respected Meirelles, who is backed by expressed dissatisfaction with their party as well with were one of several recent signs that hopes savings could come from fighting social es, such as a levy on manufactured goods Workers’ Party leader and former president Obama, according to exit polls conducted for AP and tel- for a profound change in policies are likely security fraud, ending the inheritance of and a gasoline tax. Government officials Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, would signal evision networks. to be dashed. “We cannot have a drastic cut lifelong pensions by spouses of civil ser- would not discuss the extent of cuts, or Rousseff is willing to loosen her grip on But McConnell and Republicans are likely to have (in government spending) that leads to vants, military officers and judges, and when they will be announced, but local economic management and shift to more plenty on their to-do list that doesn’t match Obama’s recession. We have to protect people’s jobs abolishing bonus salaries that cost the media have published estimates that go as market-friendly policies. —Reuters plans for his final years in office, including cutting budget deficits, making changes to Obama’s signature health care law and approving construction of the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. “We will send the president bill after bill until he wearies of it,” said New wealth in Mogadishu as millions suffer Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite and potential 2016 presidential candidate. By Abdi Guled the bank. “A real change is taking hold here. Mogadishu did not wear a bulletproof vest humanitarian emergency hits Somalia, it No going back,” said Mohamed Hassan, a this time. Ban acknowledged Mogadishu’s could undermine political and security Short Window he first ATM and the construction of dual Somali-Dutch citizen, withdrawing other side, too, saying he was very con- gains made since 2011. Parts of southern That fast-approaching campaign likely leaves modern buildings and trendy restau- cash this week. cerned about the humanitarian situation. Somalia that have been overly dry are now McConnell and Obama a short window in which to make Trants are exciting signs of growth for Last week UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- “Over 3 million Somalis are in need of being hit by severe flooding, aggravating progress on any compromise legislation. McConnell will those living in Somalia’s capital. That is, if moon traveled to Mogadishu with World humanitarian assistance and unfortunately the food problem, the UN’s Food and be fending off pressure from prospective White House you have money. Even as war-torn Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Ban said that that number is growing. I urge donors to Agricultural Organization said last week. hopefuls, including Paul and Sen Ted Cruz, who see little Mogadishu makes strides forward, thou- peace and security cannot be sustained step up contributions to avert another Many indicators across Somalia resemble or incentive to compromise with a Democratic White House sands of residents are facing the prospect without development and that the two famine in Somalia,” Ban said. are worse than those seen in the pre- as they appeal to the conservative voters who decide of severe hunger. It’s a tale of two very dif- should go hand in hand. “Even though my Back in the filthy camp where Muse and famine period in 2010, the group said. GOP primaries. Republican opposition to the president is ferent Mogadishus. One - violent and hun- visit is very brief today, I can already see her family live, hungry kids go from hut to Bukar Tijani, a top FAO official said: “If we’ve likely to only deepen if the president accelerates his use gry - is long known to the world. The other and feel how the country has made hut looking for food or milk. Nicholas Kay, learned anything from the devastation of of executive actions, including presidential directives on is not. remarkable progress since my last visit,” the UN representative to Somalia, told the the 2011 famine, it’s that early warning immigration that are expected before the end of the year. Outside a makeshift home built of scrap said Ban, who unlike his first visit to Security Council last month that if another signs must lead to immediate action.” — AP Obama, too, will be battling internal party politics. He wood and sheets, Halima Muse holds her may no longer be able to count on full support from crying baby. The women in this small Democrats who are unlikely to want to help the GOP look refugee settlement have begun tightening effective in governing during the lead-up to a presiden- bands of cloth around their stomachs to try tial contest. Tuesday’s elections also strip him of some of to diminish hunger pangs. Two years ago, the more moderate members of his caucus, such as Sen Muse left Mogadishu and returned to the Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Sen Kay Hagan of North town she fled at the height of the devastat- Carolina, leaving him with more liberal members who ing 2011 famine that killed an estimated have fewer overlapping priorities with Republicans. 260,000 people. After bad seasonal rains, The White House was silent as Republicans racked up she and her family returned to the capital one win after another Tuesday and won control of the in search of food. “From hunger to hunger. Senate hours - if not days - before almost anyone expect- Our life is all about that for now,” Muse ed. Privately, there was frustration among some advisers moaned, tears dropping down her cheeks. that Democrats wary of being associated with Obama “I couldn’t stay in my hometown anymore largely sidelined the increasingly unpopular president because there was no food and animals throughout the campaign. That strategy did little to stem were dying by the dozens.” losses in places where Obama showed prowess in his Across Mogadishu, new buildings are runs for president, including Colorado, Iowa and rising where the shelled structures of two Florida.— AP decades of war once stood. Workers this week installed cables on the top of a new 10-story building that will rent office space and apartments. Across the street a high- All articles appearing on these end restaurant served Arabian food. Two pages are the personal opinion of dusty-faced women stood outside begging for money. “Feels like you are in Nairobi or the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Manhattan,” said Ahmed Mohamed, a responsibility for views expressed Somali-British man, while sipping coffee. therein. Kuwait Times invites read- He expressed hope that Mogadishu would emulate those two cities rather than return ers to voice their opinions. Please to violence. send submissions via email to: opin- The installation of Mogadishu’s first ATM [email protected] or via snail inside the high-end Jazeera Hotel has been mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. hailed as progress for the city. “We are plan- ning to install at all other major hotels, the The editor reserves the right to edit new airport terminal, and all major Salaam any submission as necessary. Bank branches in Somalia,” said Mohamed Abdulahi Ali, communications manager for In this photo taken on Tuesday, a Somali man withdraws money from the country’s first ATM machine in Mogadishu. — AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SPORTS

Adriano charged with Ancelotti: Fit-again Bale Cannavaro replaces Lippi BEIJING: Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande have drug-related crime to start against Vallecano appointed former Real Madrid and Juventus defender Fabio Cannavaro as SAO PAULO: Former Brazil striker Adriano has been charged in connection with BARCELONA: Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale will return to the starting their new coach. drug trafficking by a public prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro, court officials said. line-up this weekend against Rayo Vallecano after the Welshman suc- Cannavaro replaces his former mentor Marcello Lippi, who on Sunday Prosecutors allege that the 32-year-old former Inter Milan, Flamengo and cessfully played the final 30 minutes against Liverpool on Tuesday, coach announced his decision to retire from football management and take over Corinthians player bought a motorbike for a Rio drug trafficker to use in criminal Carlo Ancelotti said. as Guangzhou technical director. activities in 2008. He is accused of aiding and abetting the trafficker whom prosecu- Bale showed no signs of the muscle injury that had kept him out for a Evergrande’s official Twitter page posted photos Wednesday of tors say was a childhood friend of his in Vila Cruzeiro, one of Rio’s most violent fave- month, looking lively down the right wing and he also struck the wood- Cannavaro arriving at the airport and at an official press conference las. “The accused, freely and consciously, in collaborating in the trafficking of drugs, work as Real cruised past Liverpool and booked a place in the alongside Lippi, with the tweet “welcome to Guangzhou, Fabio associated with active traffickers in the Vila Cruzeiro (favela) with Champions League last 16 with a 1-0 win. Real are in devastating form Cannavaro.” It also posted “Fabi Canavaro has officially joined as coach,” in the intention of facilitating the illicit trafficking of drugs and and notched up their 12th straight win meaning they are now three shy Chinese. Cannavaro, who captained Italy to the 2006 World related activities,” the statement read. Adriano’s spokesperson of the club’s record run, achieved by Miguel Munoz’s 1960-61 team and Cup title while playing under Lippi as coach, spent last told Reuters judicial officials have not formally presented the under Jose Mourinho in 2011-12. “Bale did well. He played 30 minutes season as an assistant coach at United Arab Emirates club player-whose full name is Adriano Leite Ribeiro-with the and was fine,” Ancelotti told reporters in Madrid. “I thought it was too Al Ahli. The Guangzhou post will be the 2006 world play- charges and he has no knowledge of them. soon for him to start. Saturday he will play the game.” Bale missed five er of the year’s first has head coach. Lippi, 66, who won Adriano is in Le Havre negotiating a return to football with games for Real during which Isco impressed and it raised the question the 2013 Asian Champions League with the French second division club and will only face trial if a whether the Wales winger would win his place back. Guangzhou, said Sunday he felt too old to contin- judge decides there is merit to the accusations. The troubled Isco had a difficult first season at the club following a move from ue coaching. striker won the Copa America and the Confederations Malaga but looked sharp with his movement and link-up play especially “I will be 67 years old in the near future, and I Cup with Brazil and two Serie A scudettos with Inter with Cristiano Ronaldo. He and Bale offer different qualities with Isco do not want to be the head coach anymore,” he Milan but has spent years battling drink and weight possessing strong technique and vision while the British player’s virtues said. “But I will be in charge of technical staff problems. —Reuters lie in his power and pace. —Reuters as a member of the coaching team.” — AP Toyota Racing clinch first and second spot in Six Hours of Shanghai Race

SHANGHAI: Toyota Racing took its sec- the big job was the actual race itself. It’s ond consecutive one-two victory, win- exactly the result we wanted for the ning the Six Hours of Shanghai race on World Championship and puts us in a November 2nd, 2014 by more than a lap strong position for the remaining races. to extend its lead in the FIA World Now we want to keep this momentum in Endurance Championship. Anthony Bahrain and Sao Paulo.” Davidson and Sebastien Buemi took a According to Sebastien Buemi: “I’m dominant win in the #8 TS040 HYBRID, really happy because this is a good step their fourth of the season, to stretch their towards the championship. It makes the lead in the drivers’ World Championship win even sweeter when it’s a one-two; it’s to 42 points. the best result we could imagine. The The 1,000PS four-wheel-drive TS040 team performed really well, as did HYBRID, which dominated the last round Anthony. All in all it was a very good race in Fuji, was once again in a class of its and the car worked well from beginning own with Alex Wurz, StÈphane Sarrazin to end. It’s our third one-two this season, and Kazuki Nakajima taking second after Fuji and Silverstone, so now I can’t place in the No. 7. That gives Toyota a 29- wait for Bahrain. Hopefully we can keep point advantage in the manufacturers’ going like this.” World Championship with two races The race started in bright sunshine, remaining. with Sebastien and Alex retaining sec- According to Takayuki Yoshitsugu, ond and fourth positions respectively Chief Representative, Middle East and during the first corners before an acci- North Africa Representative Office, dent at the rear of the field brought out Toyota Motor Corporation, “I would like the safety car. When racing resumed, to commend the entire team and sup- SÈbastien battled past the front runners port staff for another impressive win in and into the lead by the time he handed Shanghai with the drivers having a flaw- over to Anthony, who resumed ahead. WASHINGTON: Deryk Engelland No. 29 of the Calgary Flames moves the puck in front of teammate Josh Jooris No. 86 and Jason Chimera No. 25 less race to propel the team to victory at Alex was close behind and made two of the Washington Capitals during the third period at Verizon Center. — AFP the finish line. decisive overtaking moves to move from From a technical standpoint, the fourth to second. A smooth race contin- TS040 hybrid car again proved its racing ued and, as the 100-lap milestone Flames down Capitals in OT credentials reinforcing Toyota’s develop- approached, SÈbastien returned to the mental capabilities in hybrid cars. wheel of the #8, by now holding a Participation in such races allows Toyota healthy advantage over the No. 7. WASHINGTON: Alex Ovechkin became the lead- games and 1-3-1 in their last five, absorbed a seconds without giving up a goal until Forsberg to use the races as a test bed to refine While Sebastien continued for a sec- ing scorer in Capitals’ history, raising his career second straight lopsided defeat at home, follow- scored at 16:17 of the second period. advanced hybrid technologies and moni- ond stint in the No. 8, StÈphane handed point total to 827 with a pair of assists in ing a 6-2 loss to Calgary on Sunday. Carey Price tor performance which in turn helps the No.7 to Kazuki with more smooth pit Washington’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Calgary made 27 saves. KINGS 3, STARS 1 Toyota push mainstream hybrid car stops helping to maintain Toyota Flames on Tuesday. Dustin Brown and Kyle Clifford scored third- development to new frontiers.” Racing’s control of the race. By the time Sean Monahan scored the winning goal for PENGUINS 4, WILD 1 period goals as the Kings rallied to beat the On this occasion, Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Sebastien swapped with Anthony for the Calgary at 4:17 of the extra period after the Thomas Greiss made 33 saves while extend- Stars. The victory allowed Los Angeles to salvage Team President said: “This is the result we final time, the #8 held a one-lap lead Flames tied it late in regulation. Washington has ing Pittsburgh’s shutout streak to 205 minutes, the final game of a 1-3-1 road trip. Dallas is 0-3-2 lost five straight since winning at Calgary on Oct. 28 seconds as the Penguins handed the Wild in the last five games, and 1-1-4 at home this have all worked hard for, so thank you to over all cars except the second-place #7. 25. Ovechkin moved atop the scoring list when their first defeat in six home games. season. Brown’s goal from the slot at 4:23 of the That left Anthony and Kazuki to bring everyone in the team; the pit crew, driv- his shot from the left point was deflected by Nick Spaling, Brandon Sutter and Chris Kunitz third beat Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen low and to ers and engineers who did a great job, the cars home for the team’s third one- Nicklas Backstrom through the legs of goalie scored for the Penguins, whose run of unan- his left. At 11:35, Trevor Lewis’ shot from the left particularly on tire management. The car two finish of the season. The battle for Jonas Hiller at 10:18 of the first period. That swered goals also ended at 18 when Nino faceoff circle went in off Clifford’s skate in front. was quick straight out of the box here in the World Championship now moves broke a tie with Peter Bondra. The 29-year-old Niederreiter got one on a breakaway for the Wild The Stars had taken a 1-0 lead on Shawn Shanghai. into the final stages with just two races Ovechkin, a native of Moscow, has 428 goals and with 9:18 left. Rob Scuderi had two assists for the Horcoff’s goal at 2:37 of the first period. Kings We were disappointed to miss the remaining, in Bahrain on Nov 15 and Sao 399 assists. Penguins, who won their fifth straight game. goalie Jonathan Quick finished with 29 saves. pole position by such a tiny margin but Paulo on Nov 30. Their margin of victory is a whopping 22-5. The Lehtonen had 31 before being pulled for an FLYERS 4, OILERS 1 Wild were the last team in the NHL to lose at extra skater with 1:58 left. Jakub Voracek scored two goals, and Steve home this season. Mason made 35 saves to earn his first win of the CANUCKS 5, AVALANCHE 2 season as the Flyers beat Edmonton. SENATORS 3, RED WINGS 1 Nick Bonino scored two goals and Ryan Miller Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Luke Schenn Erik Karlsson had a goal and an assist in the made 20 saves as the Canucks overcame an early added goals for the Flyers, who began a four- Senators’ win over Detroit. Patrick Wiercioch’s deficit to beat the Avalanche. Henrik Sedin and game homestand with their third straight win first goal of the season was the winner. He Derek Dorsett also scored for the Canucks. Chris on their own ice. They dropped their first three moved in from the point and beat goalie Jimmy Higgins had two assists for Vancouver. Semyon games in Philadelphia. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Howard with a wrist shot with less than six min- Varlamov had 32 saves and John Mitchell and scored for the Oilers, who opened a five-game utes to play. Clarke MacArthur scored into an Jamie McGinn had goals for the Avalanche, trip with their third straight loss. empty net at 19:02 to give the Senators (6-3-2) which has lost three straight. Colorado, which the win. started last season 12-1, is 3-6-5. BRUINS 2, PANTHERS 1 Henrik Zetterberg scored the lone goal for Brad Marchand scored 3:27 into overtime to the Red Wings (6-3-3), putting a backhander COYOTES 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2 lift the Bruins to their ninth straight win over the past Craig Anderson at 3:34 of the third to make Mike Smith stopped 28 shots and Sam Panthers. Marchand, who also set up Patrice it 1-1. Both teams had 32 shots. Gagner scored in his second straight game as Bergeron’s second-period goal, shifted around the Coyotes held off the Maple Leafs. defenseman Dylan Olsen and lifted a wrist shot JETS 3, PREDATORS 1 Arizona scored six goals in its last game and over goaltender Roberto Luongo for the winner. Andrew Ladd, Mark Scheifele scored power- kept its offensive surge rolling, going up 3-0 by Jussi Jokinen scored for the Panthers, who have play goals 2:36 apart in the first period as the early second period against Toronto goalie earned points in seven straight games. They had Jets beat Nashville. Blake Wheeler added an James Reimer. Gagne and Martin Erat scored in won two in a row. Tuukka Rask made 18 saves for empty-net goal to seal the win for the Jets (7-5- the first period, Antoine Vermette in the second. the Bruins, who have won three straight. Luongo 1). Winnipeg has won three straight and five of The Maple Leafs rallied against Arizona’s had 23 stops. six, improving to 3-3 at home. struggling penalty kill, pulling within 3-2 after Filip Forsberg scored Nashville’s (7-3-1) only Cody Franson scored with a man advantage late HURRICANES 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 goal to bring the Predators within 2-1 late in the in the third period. Dion Phaneuf also scored on Zach Boychuk, Riley Nash, Justin Faulk and second period. The Jets set a franchise record for a power play in the second. Phil Kessel had a pair Eric Staal scored in the Hurricanes’ win over the the amount of time between goals allowed. of assists for the Maple Leafs and Reimer Blue Jackets. The Hurricanes, who started 0-6-2, With back-to-back shutouts in New York and stopped 30 shots after facing 47 against Chicago have won three in a row. Cam Ward made 17 Chicago, Winnipeg had gone 161 minutes, 17 his last start. — AP saves. Nick Foligno scored twice for the injury- riddled Blue Jackets, who have lost six in a row. Curtis McElhenny, the backup to the injured NHL results/standings Sergei Bobrovsky, stopped 33 shots.

BLUES 1, DEVILS 0 Philadelphia 4, Edmonton 1; Calgary 4, Washington 3 (OT); Carolina 4, Columbus 2; Boston 2, Vladimir Tarasenko scored a power-play goal Florida 1 (OT); St. Louis 1, New Jersey 0; Chicago 5, Montreal 0; Ottawa 3, Detroit 1; Pittsburgh 4, early in the third period as the Blues extended Minnesota 1; Winnipeg 3, Nashville 1; Los Angeles 3, Dallas 1; Vancouver 5, Colorado 2; Arizona 3, their winning streak to six games with a victory Toronto 2. over the Devils. Jake Allen stopped 26 shots in Western Conference Eastern Conference earning his second straight shutout and ending Pacific Division Atlantic Division the Devils’ two-game winning streak. WL OTLGFGAPTS Tampa Bay 8 3 1 42 32 17 The NHL’s No. 1 star last week, Tarasenko has Montreal 8 4 1 31 40 17 Anaheim 10 3 0 36 24 20 seven goals in the last five games and the decid- Boston 8 6 0 38 33 16 ing tally for two straight games. He netted the Vancouver 9 4 0 43 36 18 Detroit 6 3 3 30 27 15 clinching shootout goal against the New York Calgary 8 4 2 41 32 18 Ottawa 6 3 2 31 27 14 Toronto 6 5 1 34 31 13 Rangers on Monday. Cory Schneider made 22 Los Angeles 7 4 2 31 27 16 Florida 4 2 4 15 20 12 saves. San Jose 7 4 2 41 35 16 Buffalo 3 9 1 16 43 7 Arizona 5 6 1 31 44 11 Metropolitan Division BLACKHAWKS 5, CANADIENS 0 Edmonton 4 7 1 30 43 9 Pittsburgh 8 2 1 45 23 17 Davis Versteeg scored twice, and Corey Central Division New Jersey 6 4 2 33 37 14 Crawford made 28 saves in his 11th NHL shutout NY Islanders 6 5 0 36 39 12 St. Louis 8 3 1 30 23 17 as Chicago ended a two-game skid with a victo- NY Rangers 5 4 2 30 35 12 ry over the Canadiens. Nashville 7 3 2 30 25 16 Philadelphia 5 5 2 37 39 12 Jonathan Toews, netted his 200th NHL goal, Winnipeg 7 5 1 25 27 15 Washington 4 5 3 38 37 11 and Brad Richards and Patrick Kane also scored Chicago 7 5 1 34 23 15 Carolina 3 6 2 25 37 8 for Chicago (7-5-1), which came off a 1-0 home Minnesota 7 4 0 36 22 14 Columbus 4 8 0 30 41 8 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one loss to Winnipeg on Sunday. It was the first Dallas 4 4 4 35 42 12 point in the standings and are not included in shutout of the season for Crawford, a Montreal Colorado 3 6 5 33 43 11 the loss column (L). native. The Canadiens (8-4-1), winless in three THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SPORTS Masakadza’s ton boosts Zimbabwe

KHULNA: Hamilton Masakadza defied Bangladesh’s spinners with an unbeaten 154 to take Zimbabwe to a respectable position in the second Test in Khulna yesterday. The tourists had reached 331-5 in their first innings by stumps on the third day, trailing Bangladesh’s total of 433 by 102. Masakadza made the most of the home team’s sloppy fielding to hit 17 fours and two sixes after starting the day on 15. He was dropped thrice by the same fielder, Shamsur Rahman, in the slips when on 15, 19 and 74. Rubel Hossain, Taijul Islam and Shakib Al Hasan were the unlucky bowlers. Masakadza, who made just one half-century in six previous Test innings in Bangladesh, shared an unbroken stand of 142 with Regis Chakabva (75 not out) for the sixth wicket. Chakabva was on four when Bangladesh cap- tain Mushfiqur Rahim missed a simple stumping off Shakib. When he reached nine, the batsman was reprieved by the Decision Review System after ADELAIDE: South African Quinton De Kock bats against Australia during the T-20 being given out leg-before off Shakib. match played at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. — AFP Masakadza celebrated his fourth Test century with a boundary off Shakib through the third man region. Shakib, bowling steady left-arm spin, SA defeat Aussies in T-20 picked up the wickets of Brendan Taylor (37), Craig Ervine (17) and Elton Chigumbura (one) in the ADELAIDE: Rilee Rossouw scored a breezy Watson’s innings, with support from post-lunch session to reduce Zimbabwe to 189-5. KHULNA: Bangladesh cricket captain Mushfiqur Rahim (right) congratulates Zimbabwe 78 to lead South Africa to a commanding James Faulkner (41 not out), revived the But Masakadza and Chakabva defied the spin- cricketer Hamilton Masakadza (left) for scoring 150 runs during the third day of the second seven-wicket victory over Australia in the home side after a poor start. The ners in the entire final session to lead a spirited cricket Test match. — AFP first of three Twenty20 internationals yes- Australians struggled to 67 for four after 10 fightback. Bangladesh lead the three-match series terday. overs with both their international debu- after winning the first Test in Dhaka by three wick- SCOREBOARD Rossouw, making his T20 international tants, Ben Dunk and Nathan Reardon, fail- ets last week. The third Test between the two low- debut, smashed three sixes and seven fours ing. Dunk made just two and Reardon four est-ranked teams-Zimbabwe at number nine and KHULNA, Bangladesh: Scoreboard on the third day of the second Test between Bangladesh and in his 50-ball knock to get the Proteas after opening batsmen Aaron Finch (14) Bangladesh at 10 — will be played in Chittagong Zimbabwe in Khulna yesterday: home with 145 for three. The Australians and Cameron White (24 from 21 balls) had from November 12-16. The Tests will be followed could only manage 144 for six off their 20 begun briskly. by five one-day internationals. Bangladesh 1st innings 433 (Shakib Al Hasan R. Chakabva not out 75 overs after winning the toss at the Adelaide “I thought we were pretty disappointing Bangladesh fast bowler Al-Amin Hossain has Oval. South Africa lost Reeza Hendricks off with the bat. It was a beautiful wicket and 137, Tamim Iqbal 109, T. Panyangara 2-49, T. Extras (b2, lb7, w1, nb1) 11 been cleared of an illegal bowling action following Chatara 2-61, M. Waller 2-65) Total (for five wickets, 112 overs) 331 the third ball of the innings but Rossouw the guys at the top of the order didn’t really independent tests, the International Cricket combined with wicketkeeper Quinton de go on and get that big score,” said Finch, Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Raza), 2-84 (Chari), 3-151 Council (ICC) announced yesterday. Zimbabwe 1st innings (Overnight 53-1) (Taylor), 4-181 (Ervine), 5-189 (Chigumbura) Kock (46 off 39 balls) to put on a match- Australia’s T20 captain. Hossain, 24, was reported during the first Test winning 129-run partnership for the sec- “There were a lot of starts and it was dis- S. Raza lbw b Taijul 11 Bowling: Shahadat 11-2-24-0, Taijul 30-6-94-2, against the West Indies in St Vincent in September, B. Chari c Tamim b Taijul 25 Shakib 30-6-70-3, Jubair 18-2-63-0 (nb1), Rubel ond wicket. By the time Rossouw skied Pat appointing to get out like that, but the way but tests conducted in India revealed his deliveries Cummins to Ben Cutting in the 15th over, we fought with the ball was pretty impres- H. Masakadza not out 154 13-4-31-0 (w1), Shuvagata 7-0-27-0, Mominul were legal as per ICC regulations. B. Taylor c Mominul b Shakib 37 1-1-0-0, Mahmudullah 2-0-13-0. the Proteas only needed 16 runs for victory. sive.” The openers took 27 from the initial “During a comprehensive analysis it was “Fortunately for me, tonight was my three overs before tight bowling and bril- C. Ervine c Rahim b Shakib 17 Zimbabwe trail by 102 runs with five wickets in revealed that the amount of elbow extension in Al- E. Chigumbura c Mominul b Shakib 1 hand. night,” Rossouw said. “You’ve got to be on liant fielding stifled the Aussies. White Amin’s bowling action for all deliveries was within top of your game and if it’s your night you cracked an uppish cut only for Farhaan the 15-degree level of tolerance permitted under have to capitalise. “It’s very nice batting Behardien to snaffle a superb overhead the ICC regulations,” a statement from the world 20, the statement added. Hossain, who has played The ICC recently launched a drive against sus- with Quinton, it takes a lot of pressure off catch at point, while Reardon’s debut dig governing body said. The analysis was performed six Tests and 18 limited-overs internationals, opted pect actions, leading to the suspension of leading your shoulders. “Every opportunity I get I was spectacularly cut short by Proteas at the ICC’s newly accredited testing centre at the out of the ongoing second Test against Zimbabwe bowlers like Saeed Ajmal of Pakistan and Sachithra want to shine and luckily for me tonight wicketkeeper de Kock. Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai on October in Khulna to write his university exams. Senanayake of Sri Lanka. — AFP was my night.” The Proteas’ well-drilled Paceman Kyle Abbott was the pick of bowling and outstanding fielding kept the the South African bowlers with three for 21 Australians under pressure with Shane off four overs. Australia must win the sec- Watson, in his first international appear- ond match in Melbourne on Friday to keep Australia eye Olympic-size WCup boost ance for seven months, top-scoring with 47 the series alive until Sunday’s third and SYDNEY: Australia is anticipating the 11th Cricket Our society reflects the representation we’re going International Cricket Council (ICC) global develop- off 36 balls. final game in Sydney. — AFP World Cup to be the biggest sports event staged in to have here-countries like Afghanistan, ment manager Tim Anderson said. the country since the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Bangladesh, UAE, Scotland and Ireland.” World Cup “And if they beat the other associate (Scotland) SCOREBOARD ticket sales moving briskly. boss John Harnden says the game between South in their group and one more full member then they Thursday marks 100 days to the February-March Africa and India at the MCG on February 22 had can get three wins and go into the next round. ADELAIDE, Australia: Scoreboard in the first T20 International between Australia and tournament to be co-hosted with New Zealand sold more tickets than the opening match between “One thing that has always impressed me about South Africa at Adelaide Oval yesterday. and comprising 49 games across 44 days in 14 Australia and England in Melbourne on February Afghanistan is that the players deal with the pres- cities. Organisers are hoping a successful staging 14. Other popular games include the grudge sure really well and in saying that I think the level Australia innings 31-1 (2w) will revitalise interest in the one-day format of the match between India and Pakistan at Adelaide of expectation from the cricket public in C. White c Behardien b Parnell 24 World Cup, coming under increasing pressure for Oval on the second day of the tournament, for Afghanistan about the team has never been as A. Finch c Rossouw b McLaren 14 South Africa Innings fans’ acceptance from the popular Twenty20 phe- which Harnden said the first allocation of tickets to high as it is now.” S. Watson c Duminy b Abbott 47 R. Hendricks c Dunk b Bollinger 0 nomenon. the public sold out in 20 minutes. “We have been Afghanistan, Scotland, Ireland and the UAE all B. Dunk c Duminy b Tahir 2 Q. De Kock c White b Boyce 46 The World Cup has been going since 1975 but delighted with the response across the two coun- played matches in Australia during September in N. Reardon c de Kock b Abbott 4 R. Rossouw c Cutting b Cummins 78 since the advent of T20 internationals in 2005 there tries,” Harnden said. preparation for next year’s tournament. South J. Faulkner not out 41 J.P. Duminy not out 6 have been five world T20 tournaments with the ICC In recent years, India has eclipsed China as the Africa, the No.1 ODI team, should be the team to B. Cutting c Miller b Abbott 6 D. Miller not out 9 now scheduling one every two years and expand- biggest source of permanent migration to beat but has yet to win a World Cup. P. Cummins not out 0 Extras (lb2, w4) 6 ed to 16 teams as opposed to the four-yearly 14- Australia, and seven of the top 10 source countries Hosts Australia are chasing their fifth title after Extras (lb2, w3, nb1) 6 Total (3 wickets, 19 overs) 145 team ODI World Cup. are in Asia. Adding spice to the 2015 World Cup will India thwarted their hopes of winning four consec- Total (6 wickets, 20 overs) 144 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Hendricks), 2-129 But Australia is expecting a far different World be the first appearance of Afghanistan as one of utive World Cups in the quarter-finals of the last Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Finch), 2-42 (White), (Rossouw), 3-130 (De Kock) Cup to the one it co-hosted with New Zealand in four associate countries alongside the 10 full Test 2011 tournament in India. 3-48 (Dunk), 4-67 (Reardon), 5-124 Did not bat: F. Behardien, R. McLaren, W. 1992 when Imran Khan’s Pakistan beat England in playing nations. The West Indies’ recent walkout of their Indian (Watson), 6-142 (Cutting) Parnell, K. Abbott, K. Rabada, Imran Tahir the final before 87,182 people at the Melbourne Afghanistan are placed in Group A of the com- tour remains a concern for organisers, but Did not bat: K. Richardson, C. Boyce, D. Bowling: Bollinger 3-0-22-1, Cummins 4- Cricket Ground. “It will certainly be the biggest petition along with England, Australia and Sri Sutherland is confident it will be resolved long Bollinger 0-21-1 (2w), Richardson 3-0-28-0 (1w), event in Australia since the Olympics in 2000,” Lanka and face Bangladesh in their opening match before the tournament starts on February 14. Bowling: Abbott 4-0-21-3, Rabada 3-0-27- Watson 1-0-13-0, Boyce 4-0-31-1, Faulkner Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said. in Canberra.”Afghanistan have beaten Bangladesh The West Indies cut short their India tour this 0, Parnell 4-0-28-1 (1nb), McLaren 3-0-27- 3-0-17-0, Cutting 1-0-11-0. “The multicultural aspect is really important. We in the Asia Cup (this year in Dhaka) and then beat- month over an internal pay dispute, despite a fifth 1, Duminy 2-0-8-0 (1w), Imran Tahir 4-0- Result: South Africa won by 7 wickets. can see it already in the ticket sales. “And the fact ing Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe twice and there are and final one-day international, a Twenty20 match that our society has changed so much since 1992. chances they can beat Bangladesh again,” and three Tests still to be played. — AFP

Adam Hollioake Aravinda De Silva Azhar Mahmood Herschelle Gibbs Scott Styris TACK International-MGCC presents Huawei’s 4-nations T-20 festival International superstars of cricket to compete against each other

riday 15th November 2013 was a day that the teams and players. It was also the first time down to Kuwait and compete in a domestic Chandana and Aravinda De Silva from Sri Lanka, resent TACK-KUWAIT XI along with Kuwaitis and will forever be etched in the memories of cricket in Kuwait was backed by the corporate tournament alongside the country’s local talent Scott Styris from New Zealand, former England Kuwait born cricketers. Fcricket lovers across the world as the muscle including the likes of Huawei, Gulf Bank, through the platform of TACK-MG & Huawei captain Adam Hollioake, South African master Yousuf Pathan will represent TACK-INDIA XI biggest icon cricket has ever known, Sachin Enaya Insurance, Mada, McDonald’s, Western 4Nations T20 festival 2014. Instead of inviting blaster Herschelle Gibbs and the giant of Baroda along with the best talent of Indian cricketers Tendulkar, played his last international innings. Union, Kuwait Bahrain Exchange and many oth- some upcoming talent from the domestic cir- Yusuf Pathan from India. residing in Kuwait. A few first class players from However, on the same day, some 2000 miles ers. In fact, Huawei, foreseeing the immense cuits of some of these test playing nations, TACK The sight of these international cricketers India are also going to fly down to compete in from India in the tiny desert country of Kuwait, potential in this concept and wanting to stay went all out for this endeavor and has invited playing side by side with the best of Kuwait’s this historic event. Azhar Mahmood is going to Teams Association for Cricket in Kuwait (TACK) ahead of the curve, has gone ahead and bought some of the biggest names to have ever played cricketing talent is a mouth-watering prospect represent TACK-Pakistan XI along with the best created history. Launched in 2009 with the the naming rights of this year’s event. the game. These include the likes of one of the and is reason enough to lock your dates for the talent of Pakistani cricketers residing in Kuwait. promise of taking the game of Cricket in Kuwait Since that historic day TACK has ushered in a best all-rounder produced by Pakistan i.e. Azhar 28th of November which is a Friday. Herschelle Aravinda De Silva & Upul Chandana will repre- to unparalleled heights by providing interna- new era of cricket in Kuwait and continued to Mahmood, 1996 World Cup winners Upul Gibbs, Scott Styris, and Adam Hollioake will rep- sent TACK-Sri Lanka XI along with the best talent tional standard, cricket playing facilities, it was lead the way with introducing a new concept of Sri Lankan cricketers residing in Kuwait. on November 15th last year when TACK truly and idea to all of its major events. From intro- Huawei Tech. Investment co.ltd has bought announced its arrival on the cricketing world ducing the helicam technology in the last D- the naming rights of the 4 nations T20 festival. stage in breathtaking style by creating a grand TACK finals to press conferences and video Gulf Bank, McDonald’s fast delivery in Kuwait, spectacle of lights, music, sound, and entertain- adverts for TACK-HUAWEI XI, the organization and Western Union are the platinum partners ment packed T20 cricket in the form of 4Nations has continued to prosper winning the love and along with Al Mulla - Mitsubishi Motors, who are Festival between Kuwait, India, Pakistan and Sri support of players and cricket fans throughout going to give their new car “Attrage” to the local Lanka. Kuwait. As TACK’s name has become synony- player of the tournament and are therefore the According to one of the most profound Nike mous with originality and innovation, the bur- exclusive automotive partner. sports quotes “Ambitious goals make for out- den was on TACK’s creative teams as to how Indiansinkuwait.com is the official media part- standing achievements”. TACK’s vision for the they were going to make this year’s 4Nations ner with thousands of people expected to turn 4Nations Festival last year was the very defini- bigger and better than last year. After months of up at TACK entertainment city cricket ground - tion of ambitious and various innovations were grueling hard work that went behind the Doha. The atmosphere is bound to be electrify- introduced for the first time in history of Kuwait scenes, TACK’s team has come up with a win- ing with the best of cricket superstars compet- cricket. From action replays and real time scores ning plan to make this year’s event truly mag- ing against each other. Touristic Enterprises being displayed on the gigantic LED screens nanimous. Company support and management has erected, to live DJ, third umpire facility and live Staying true to its reputation of being the ensured the event’s security is tightened up for streaming on TACK’s website, cricket was being torch-bearer of innovation, for the first time ever the entire spectator’s and the player’s safety and played in Kuwait as it deserves to be in the 21st in the history of cricket in Kuwait, TACK has protection. For more information, visit www.tac- century. In another first for cricket in Kuwait, pulled off an amazing feat of inviting as many as kuwait.com - the leading web portal for cricket cash prizes of $12000 were distributed among seven top line International cricketers to come Upul Chandana Yousuf Pathan lovers in Kuwait. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SPORTS Berdych still searching for his ‘chosen one’

PARIS: Ivan Lendl might be “way too busy” to be ing set up was an obvious one-with both hailing playing those big matches or prepare a player for our sport”? “Well I would say unlucky and, on the his mentor but Tomas Berdych has not given up from the Czech Republic-but the man who guided those big matches. other hand, I think sometimes it is a pleasure to be the dream of jumping on the ‘super coach’ band- Murray to Olympic glory and two grand slam titles “It is a person that can be a consultant or just a part of that and to have had the chance to play wagon. simply could not commit to a full-time job with on top of my current team who are doing a great the best guys like Roger and Rafa,” said Berdych, If he needs any pointers on how to carve out a the world number seven. job. “It’s not easy to just say I want to work with (a who has been drawn with world number one successful coaching relationship with a grand slam “We had a meeting when I got back from particular) past champion and it’s going to work Djokovic in Group A at the Finals. champion, the players’ lounge at the 02 Arena is Shanghai. It didn’t work out because Ivan decided out. It also is about who that person is and... see- “I don’t think there will ever be another time the place to be during the ATP World Tour Finals he’s not able to give the full amount of the weeks ing if that’s the right decision and if (the relation- when someone is going to achieve more (than which start on Sunday. Should Berdych decide to that he would like to give,” Berdych told Reuters in ship) can work out. “If you put 10 coaches togeth- them). “But it’s also been unlucky for me as it’s hang out in the area, he could find the place an interview in the run up to the season finale. er, all of them are going to have different things much harder to fight for one of the slams and the buzzing with the presence of no less than five “He is going to be busy with his activities and that they can see, they can adjust and that they higher rankings.” Despite the misfortune he has ‘super coaches’. his stuff, so not with him.” Berdych has already can make better. suffered with the timing of his career, Berdych said Three years after Andy Murray pulled off a coup drawn up a shortlist of champions he would like to “I am looking to improve myself. One day I am he still had plenty to look forward to despite turn- by hooking up with eight-times grand slam cham- work with but after the talks with Lendl failed to going to (retire) and I want to say, ‘That was quite a ing 30 next year. pion Lendl, the super-coach seems to have produce the desired effect, the 2010 Wimbledon successful career and I’ve tried everything I possi- “Yes I still enjoy playing and the whole career is become a ‘must-have’ accessory for many of the runner-up is keeping tight lipped about his possi- bly can’.” still very much developing year-by-year and I have top players. Eighties rivals Boris Becker and Stefan ble targets. What he would like to achieve more than any- to say it is very different from the first years to Edberg have become familiar sights in the locker “I’m not going to say anything because that’s thing else is to improve his lopsided 11-46 losing now, and I like it,” he explained with a grin. rooms after they were lured back into the day-to- not the way I want to deal with those people. He is record against the Big Three of Federer, Rafa Nadal “There are certain stages that you have in your day grind of grand slam tennis by Novak Djokovic going to be sitting at home reading an article that’s and Djokovic. career that you have to go through and that’s what and Roger Federer respectively. about him. It needs to be done by a proper way,” It has been 10 years since he first burst into the I enjoy. That’s why I always find some new motiva- Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Chang will also be explained Berdych as he ran his fingers through spotlight by railroading Federer at the 2004 tion to go another year. in London to oversee the progress of ATP Finals strands of his dark hair which were sticking out Athens Olympics but since then his wins over the “For me it’s more fun now because I am older, I debutants Marin Cilic and Kei Nishikori, while from underneath his back-to-front baseball cap. tennis establishment have been few and far am more experienced and I enjoy it even more.” Murray’s ‘chosen one’ is now Amelie Mauresmo. “I’m trying to bring a guy with a different experi- between. So does Berdych feel lucky or unlucky to The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals will be held at Berdych’s desire to draft in Lendl to his coach- ence... all those experiences that he can have from be playing in what he described as “the best era of The O2 in London from Nov 9-16. — Reuters Italian tennis player admits match-fixing

ROME: Italian tennis player Daniele Bracciali par- tially admitted to match-fixing during a hearing last week with judicial authorities, a prosecutor said yesterday. “He admitted a few things and he denied a few things” Italian investigator Roberto Di Martino told The Associated Press. Bracciali and occasional doubles partner Potito Starace face corruption accusations after intercepted Internet conversations claiming they sold matches were Al Attiyah seeks second term printed in Italian media three weeks ago. Bracciali and Starace were already two of five Italians - along with Alessio Di Mauro, Giorgio of executive office of FIM Galimberti and Federico Luzzi - who were given suspensions in 2007-08 by the ATP Tour ranging JEREZ: Spain will witness the elections of and the Portuguese Vegas got the position from six weeks to nine months for betting. the executive office of FIM, in which Nasser of the second vice —president as he got 53 The intercepted comments are part of data Bin Khalifa Al Attiyah — the head of QMMF votes. FIM website stated that the that investigators led by Di Martino in Cremona is competing for the position of the Vice- Portuguese Vegas will compete the existing have been sorting through in a soccer match-fix- President . president Vito Ippolito for presidency. ing inquiry. The roots of the soccer inquiry led to In addition to the elections, there will be Al Attiyah enters this election with a Singapore, and the tennis branch of the investi- annual general assembly meetings for FIM good background full of achievements in gation is also extending beyond borders. headed by Vito Ippolito, the existing presi- the last period, so it will be different from “The reality is it’s the same story as with the dent, the union budget will also be dis- the last elections , as he managed to trans- football case,” Di Martino said. “It’s reached a lev- cussed as well as a number of the invest- late the plans and strategies into reality, el where it’s all over the world.” ment projects. The agenda of the meeting such as actual communications between The Last Bet operation has resulted in more will include the release of many new cham- the European and Asian unions , in addi- than 100 people placed under investigation in pionships in the Middle East region, Asia in tion to the support of the game cross Italy since mid-2011, with suspect soccer match- general, Africa and Latin America under the Middle East region throughout the organi- es being looked at by prosecutors in Cremona, great boom of the Motor bike sport all over zation of many championships such as Bari and Naples. Di Martino would not confirm the world. motocross in Qatar which is considered the or deny reports that former Swedish tennis play- Al Attiyah expressed optimism due to first of its kind , and many championships er Tomas Nydahl is also under investigation for the availability of the support to be re-elect- organized at Losail Circuit . Also the good recruiting players to fix matches. ed again for the same position for the next relationship with the president helped to “I can’t say. I don’t know where he is,” Di 4 years . it’s worth saying that Al Attiyah develop the sport, all these factors will be Martino said of the 46-year-old Nydahl, who won the last election in mid-October 2010 a boost for the success of Al Attiyah in this reached a career-high ranking of No. 72 in 1998. Di when he got 74 votes out of 94 , while Vito election which will be held on Nov 19-25 Martino said no other foreign tennis players are Ippolito kept his position as the president, at Jerez, Spain. involved. In a July 2007 conversation on Skype between Bracciali and an accountant who was arrested in 2011, Bracciali discussed arranging a match in Newport, Rhode Island, against ITALY: In this Wednesday, May 9, 2007 file photo, Daniele Bracciali returns the ball. Italian ten- American player Scoville Jenkins. Jenkins won 6-2, nis player Daniele Bracciali has partially admitted to match-fixing. Italian prosecutor Roberto 6-1. In 2011, an owner of a betting parlor who was Di Martino tells The Associated Press that Bracciali ‘admitted a few things and denied a few later arrested was heard saying Starace agreed to things’ during a hearing last week with judicial authorities. — AP sell the final of a tournament in Casablanca. Pablo Andujar of Spain won the final 6-1, 6-2. ist while the 33-year-old Starace is ranked 166th Andrey Kumantsov of Russia this year. Di Martino, who previously confirmed to The in singles. Neither player has competed since In July, one man was charged and five others AP the authenticity of the conversations, said he they lost as a pair in the doubles quarterfinals of arrested in an Australian police operation couldn’t provide more details of Bracciali’s hear- the Kremlin Cup in Moscow the week that the against an international tennis match-fixing syn- ing because the transcript remained confiden- intercepted conversations were published. dicate. tial. He added that hearings with Starace and Bracciali, Starace and Santangelo have not com- While statutes of limitations may be an issue retired Italian player Mara Santangelo, who was mented publicly on the allegations. in sports courts, the president of the Italian ten- also mentioned in the intercepted conversa- In other cases of match-fixing in tennis, life nis federation has promised that the latest cases tions, would likely be held soon. bans were handed to Daniel Koellerer of Austria will be dealt with severely if they are proved The 36-year-old Bracciali is a doubles special- in 2011, David Savic of Serbia in 2012, and true. — AP Hamlin: Most drivers don’t respect Brad Keselowski SHANGHAI: Golfers (left to right) Justin Rose of England, Bubba Watson of the US, Rickie Fowler of the US, Adam Scott of Australia and Martin Kaymer of Germany wear CHARLOTTE: Denny Hamlin thinks most drivers Chinese costumes as they attend a photo call for the WGC-HSBC Champions golf don’t respect Brad Keselowski, and the contempt tournament. — AFP stems from the 2012 NASCAR champion’s refusal to show any remorse for his aggressive driving. Hamlin spoke during a national conference call Scott, Kaymer seek on Tuesday, two days after a brawl between Keselowski and Jeff Gordon on pit road at Texas Motor Speedway. Hamlin said the consensus to excel in Shanghai among his peers was Keselowski didn’t have enough space to attempt a pass of Gordon in the victory are helped without the presence of SHANGHAI: World number two Adam closing laps of Sunday’s race. Keselowski’s bid to the Northern Irishman. Scott is ready to take advantage of the squeeze his car through a gap between Gordon and “Selfishly, (his missing) opens up the absence of Rory McIlroy at the $8.5 million Jimmie Johnson after a restart led to contact field a little bit this week,” he said. US Open WGC-HSBC Champions tournament start- between Gordon and Keselowski, which triggered a champion Martin Kaymer agreed. “It’s defi- ing here today. Australian Scott is part of a post-race fight that left both drivers slightly blood- nitely a loss for the golf tournament, but it’s stellar field that includes 40 of the top 50 ied. still a very, very strong field to beat,” said players in the world at the only World Golf “I think the challenge a lot of drivers probably the German. Championships event played outside the have right now with Brad is there’s no remorse,” “One player, usually it doesn’t make a United States. Hamlin said. “He has the right to feel the way that difference, but when you talk about num- The 2013 Masters champion has only he feels - but when there’s no accountability ... FORT WORTH: Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota, practices at Texas Motor ber one in the world, of course you think, played once since the American season they’re going to be upset with you. “It’s tough to Speedway. — AFP ended in mid-September, a jetlagged tie OK, one player less to beat and a good one win a championship if nobody likes you. That is aggressive move on Gordon to try to win the race. have had the same reaction as Jeff. No question.” for 38th at the Japan Open last month less to beat.” Kaymer has played only two going to be a very, very tough task.” It led to contact with Gordon that caused the Hamlin has a sense of the feelings in the garage which followed a surfing holiday in Costa competitive rounds since helping Europe Hamlin and Keselowski infamously feuded for four-time champion to spin after his tire went because he’s part of a group text message chain of Rica. But after a week of dedicated practice win the Ryder Cup in late September, pre- three seasons and it came to a head in 2009 when down. Gordon went from racing for the win to a 20 drivers, one of which is Keselowski. Twice on back home in Queensland last week, Scott ferring instead to recharge his batteries for they tangled repeatedly on the track in the 29th-place finish Sunday, and he confronted Tuesday he referred to “a common feel amongst is raring to go again. He acknowledges that three consecutive tournaments to end the Nationwide Series. Hamlin complained repeatedly Keselowski on pit road. Kevin Harvick shoved drivers,” including the sentiment that the hole was McIlroy’s late withdrawal-to prepare for a European Tour season. that Keselowski refused to engage in reasonable Keselowski from behind that triggered a brawl not large enough for Keselowski to try to squeeze court case over a dispute with his former McIlroy is not the only big name missing conversation about their incidents. between the teams and drivers. “You’re just looking past Gordon. “People are calling that a hole, that management company-is a blow to the this week. Tiger Woods is also absent as he The two raced incident-free for many years and for someone to say, ‘Man, I’m sorry I ruined your day. was a very small hole,” he said. “It was not enough event, but understands that every player continues to rehabilitate from back surgery, had their first major scrap last month at Charlotte, I screwed up. I apologize,’” Hamlin said. “When that that a car was going to fit without being in contact has to deal with off-course issues from time while fellow American Dustin Johnson will where Keselowski lost his cool following the race. doesn’t get said, then it immediately lights a fire in with Jeff. Somebody was going to have to pay the to time. not defend his title as he deals with person- Hamlin had to be restrained from confronting him, your stomach that he doesn’t have any remorse. price. It was Jeff Gordon. And it made him have a After all, Scott himself skipped this al issues. and Matt Kenseth jumped Keselowski from behind He’s just like, ‘Oh well, it’s your problem.’ bad day.” event last year to recharge his batteries for But the tournament, in its 10th year, in the darkened garage. “That just lights a fire in your inside. Especially Gordon, who before the restart was headed to a a busy end-of-year campaign in Australia. “I appears firmly established to the point Keselowski was fined $50,000 by NASCAR for his when you just had a bad day and your season could victory that would have earned him an automatic know HSBC and everyone involved under- where it no longer relies on the presence of behavior, but Hamlin and Kenseth went unpun- have rested on that. That really set things off. If Brad berth into the Nov. 16 championship finale, stands that’s the way this game is,” Scott a single superstar. ished. Keselowski then overcame a week of criticism would have talked to Jeff, and said, ‘Man, I was dropped to fourth in the Chase standings. Only four told reporters at Sheshan yesterday. “The golf course is beautiful, the atmos- from his peers to win at Talladega and advance into going for a hole, it was my only chance, I’m really drivers will race for the title, and Keselowski is sev- Scott, who was surpassed at the top of phere is great and the weather is perfect,” the third round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup sorry it cut your tire.’ Instead, it was, ‘Oh well, sorry enth in the standings with Sunday’s race at Phoenix the world rankings by McIlroy in early Masters champion Bubba Watson said championship. Then on Sunday, Keselowski used an buddy. You left a hole.’ If he did that to me, I would remaining to set the field. —AP August, acknowledges that his chances of under a blue, cloudless sky. — Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SPORTS

Sheikh Ahmad asks for report on jailed Iranian protestor

BANGKOK: Asia’s most powerful sports official has at the athletes village. Yesterday, Sheikh Ahmad the World Cup. But as a spectacle, the tournament construction delays, soaring costs and a polluted sail- asked Iran for a report on the imprisonment of an announced that women would have a greater repre- was a resounding success. “Although we heard a lot ing venue, “the worst that I’ve experienced”. Iranian-British woman who took part in a demonstra- sentation in sports politics in the future, with at least of news about protesting, blah blah blah, in the end But he later backtracked by saying he expected tion in Tehran against a ban on females attending one woman from each continent assured a place on all the stadiums were full even when it was noon Rio to deliver “an excellent Games”. Last month the some men’s sporting events. the ANOC executive board. time and very hot,” Sheikh Ahmad said. IOC’s coordination commission said work was pro- Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was jailed for a year for Meanwhile, Rio de Janeiro is on track to host a “This makes us excited. We believe in one city it gressing solidly-although it warned there was much spreading anti-state propaganda, Iranian media said, successful 2016 Olympics despite warnings over its will be easier for operations than (having it in) many to do with less than two years before the Games. after being arrested for demanding that women be preparations and problems during this year’s World cities. The coordination committee and the (organis- Meanwhile, the inaugural world beach games could allowed to watch a volleyball match between Iran go ahead in 2017 featuring sports like beach track and Italy. and field and beach American football. Sheikh The case has drawn international attention and Ahmad said the move followed the success of the Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the president of Asian Beach Games, whose fourth edition starts next the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), told reporters yes- week in Thailand with a new-look programme. terday that he had asked for an explanation on what The influential Association of National Olympic happened. Committees president said the proposal would be But Sheikh Ahmad, who is also the president of put to the 204-member body’s general assembly in the National Association of Olympic Committees Bangkok this week. (ANOC), currently meeting in Bangkok, said he did “The Beach Games are becoming more interna- not support the principle of protestors using sports tional, more acceptable and more economic, also for political demonstrations. “Don’t see it only that because with Beach Games there’s not a lot of opera- she has a British passport. If she’s Iranian, she doesn’t tional cost,” he told reporters in the Thai capital. “In have to use this benefit for politics in sport.” he said. the end if the general assembly approves the Beach “If she’s using this (dual) nationality for a political situ- Games we have a lot of interesting (things) in hand ation, we will reject it because we don’t want any- but I don’t want to release them,” Sheikh Ahmad body to use sport for politics. added. “In sport we want peace and solidarity. If some- “But at least I can assure these Games will be a body will use it for wrong messages, we can resist. success and from the beginning, secure financially You have to know that there are different cultures and technically.” The new event is yet to be named around the world, it’s not only one culture.” Women’s with the word “Olympic” trademarked. A title for the rights in sport have become a hot topic for Sheikh tournament will be announced following approval by Ahmad in recent months after a series of incidents at the general assembly, which is taking place tomor- the Asian Games in South Korea. Human Rights row and Saturday. Watch criticised Saudi Arabia for excluding women Phuket will be the first Asian Beach Games to from its team for the Asian Games, accusing Saudi include beach track and field, which features 60- Arabia of shutting the door on female athletes. metre sprints, shot put, long jump, high jump and Qatar then pulled out of the women’s basketball THAILAND: President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and head of the Association of National Olympic cross country. competition after refusing to abide by international Committees (ANOC) Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah (center) addresses reporters during a press briefing as Jet-skiing, water polo, body building, Russian mar- regulations preventing them from wearing hijabs. part of the annual meeting of the ANOC in Bangkok. — AFP tial art sambo and the croquet-style woodball are Under the strict rules of the International Basketball also among a varied programme to be contested Federation, women are not allowed to wear their Cup build-up, Sheikh Ahmad said. . ing committee) president are doing well to solve the over 10 days in the Thai resort. Islamic headscarves during competition, but Qatar’s Sheikh Ahmad, said Brazil could be “slow”, but the problems of accommodation, marketing, all those Sheikh Ahmad said several cities had expressed an women refused to comply, and quit the competition football World Cup showed it would get there in the technical (things).” interest in hosting the global beach games, which also in protest. end. “I know the Brazilian culture is like Asian culture. He added that concerns remained over security in has precursors in Latin America and the Mediterranean. An Iranian team official was also thrown out of the In the end we will have a good Games,” he said. crime-ridden Brazil, although this would be easier to The biannual Asian Beach Games were started by the Games after being charged with sexually harassing a “Sometimes we are slow, but in the end you will ensure at an event which takes place in only one city. Olympic Council of Asia which Sheikh Ahmad also female volunteer while a Palestine soccer player was enjoy the Games.” Public discontent and protests, In April International Olympic Committee vice presi- heads-in 2008 and have taken place in Indonesia’s Bali, charged with the same offence after another incident along with tardy preparations, dogged the run-up to dent John Coates called Rio’s preparations, hit by Muscat in Oman and Haiyang in China. — Agencies Kuwait clinch gold in UAE Rockets cool Heat as, KUWAIT: Secretary General of the Kuwait gold medal after scoring 149-150, followed and Arab Shooting Associations Obaid Al- by Qatar’s Mohamamd Al-Dablan with 144- Osaimi, the head of delegation participat- 150, and UAE’s Abdallah Bu Halailah third ing in the Fourth Asian Clay Target with 143-50. Trail Blazers triumph Shooting at Al-Ain, UAE said that Kuwait Kuwait’s team of Abdelrahman Al- Faihan, Talal Al-Rashidi and Nasser Al- Miqlid were third scoring 349-375, while MIAMI: James Harden had 25 points, 10 assists and UAE was first with 353 and Qatar second nine rebounds, and Dwight Howard added 26 with 351-375. points and 10 boards as the Houston Rockets In the juniors category Kuwaiti Shooter remained unbeaten with a 108-91 win over the Mohammad Al-Hamly took third place with Miami Heat 108-91 on Tuesday night. 115-125 hits, as India’s Ratoor Manfedi was Trevor Ariza added 19 points for the Rockets (5- first with 117-125 and Uzbekistan’s 0), who used a 13-0 run late in the fourth quarter to Kareevov Domian second with 116-125. pull away. Chris Bosh scored 21 points for Miami (3- Al-Osaimi on behalf of the shooting 1). Dwyane Wade added 19, and Shawne Williams community dedicated these achievements and Mario Chalmers each scored 12. The Rockets to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- outscored Miami 25-14 in the final quarter. Jaber, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Houston went 17 for 37 from 3-point range and Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber, and HH the Prime now has 213 points from beyond the arc this sea- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak, in son - as opposed to 198 points on 2-point baskets. appreciation of their support to Kuwait shooting. Al-Osaimi also lauded the major TRAIL BLAZERS 101, CAVALIERS 82 Obaid Al-Osaimi of KSSC support and close follow-up by the leader Damian Lillard snapped out of a shooting slump of Kuwait Shooting Sheikh Salman Sabah with 27 points as Portland held Cleveland star trap shooters were able to clinch one gold Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. LeBron James to just 11. Lillard was nursing an and two bronze medals in their first partici- Al-Osaimi thanked UAE and its shooting abdominal strain but had 15 points by halftime. He pation in this event. Federation for good organization and hos- averaged just 13.7 points on 11-for-41 shooting in Kuwait’s Abdelrahman Al-Faihan got the pitality for all participating delegations. the first three games. The Cavaliers, playing the first of a three-game Western Conference road swing, hadn’t played Inter’s Mazzarri hoping for since a 114-108 overtime victory at Chicago on Friday. They started fast but were doomed by poor- reprieve against Saint-Etienne shooting nights by James (4 of 12) and Kyrie Irving (3 of 17). Wesley Matthews finished with 21 points and the Blazers (2-2) snapped a two-game losing Europa League streak.

SUNS 112, LAKERS 106 MIAMI: Dwyane Wade No. 3 of the Miami Heat drives around Trevor Ariza No. 1 of the Houston PARIS: To say Inter Milan coach Walter Lamela’s extraordinary ‘rabona’ goal, Rockets during a game at American Airlines Arena. — AFP Mazzarri is living on borrowed time as his which has gone viral on the Internet, may Gerald Green scored 26 points off the bench side take on Saint-Etienne in the Europa not find the trip to Greece such a comfort- and Markieff Morris had 23 points and 10 first time since dropping its first six in 1990-91. Backup guard Andre Miller added 12 points. Iman League today is little short of an under- able outing. Asteras have yet to lose a rebounds, as Phoenix overcame Kobe Bryant’s 39- Shumpert scored 19 points for the Knicks (2-2), who statement. home match in three seasons in European point performance to keep Los Angeles winless. BUCKS 87, PACERS 81 had won their last two games. Carmelo Anthony The 0-0 draw between the sides in Italy club competition, winning four and draw- Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points in a reserve role for Brandon Knight had 23 points for Milwaukee, had 18 points on 8-for-23 shooting. last time out may have left Inter comfort- ing three. Ominously for Mauricio the Suns, who survived a fourth-quarter surge led including a key jumper with 22 seconds left. The The Wizards outscored the Knicks 32-15 in the ably top of Group F with seven points, but Pochettino’s Tottenham, those four victo- by Bryant to beat the Lakers for the second time in Pacers shot 39.7 percent while playing without third. They swept the series last season and haven’t seven days. the calls for Mazzarri’s head gathered ries, all by two-goal margins, have come starters George Hill (bruised left knee), David West lost to New York since April 9, 2013. Bryant went 14 for 37 for the Lakers, who are off force again at the weekend after a 2-0 in their last four fixtures. (sprained right ankle) and Paul George (fractured to their first 0-5 start since the 1957-58 away league defeat at struggling Parma. Spurs are unbeaten in their last three leg). Milwaukee led 43-38 at the half and opened PELICANS 100, HORNETS 91 Minneapolis Lakers lost their first seven games. Even club president Erick Thohir appears the third quarter with a 10-0 run. The Bucks led by as Anthony Davis had 24 points, 13 rebounds and away European games, but have never Bryant’s third 3-pointer trimmed Phoenix’s lead to have lost patience with the former won in Greece against local opposition in many as 17. Chris Copeland scored 10 of his 19 three blocks, leading New Orleans to its first victory to 106-104, but Eric Bledsoe hit two free throws points in the third quarter to help Indiana close to since its season opener. Tyreke Evans added 16 Napoli coach. three attempts. before P.J. Tucker punctuated his season debut 69-61. He added one of his four 3-pointers with less points and 10 rebounds for the Pelicans, who Having thrown his weight behind the The tense relations between Sparta with the decisive 3-pointer in front of the Lakers’ than a minute to play, but Knight knocked down a bounced back from Monday night’s 93-81 loss at coach for much of a dismal start to the Prague and Slovakia’s Slovan Bratislava bench with 19 seconds left. 21-footer to help Milwaukee hold on. Memphis. Ryan Anderson scored 16 points and season, Thohir gave the strongest signal resume in the Czech capital when they Austin Rivers had 12. The Pelicans (2-2) shot 46 per- yet that Mazzarri’s job was hanging in the play their return match in Group I after RAPTORS 100, THUNDER 88 WIZARDS 98, KNICKS 83 cent and outscored Charlotte by 10 points in the balance amid speculation that Roberto crowd trouble marred the first game. DieMar DeRozan scored 16 points and Patrick Paul Pierce and Garrett Temple scored 17 points second half when they turned the ball over just Mancini is ready to take over. Sparta won that game 3-0 but were Patterson had 14 as the Raptors beat the depleted each as the Wizards beat the Knicks for the fourth three times. Charlotte (1-3) played without starting Thohir said: “We have to analyse the fined heavily for the behaviour of a dozen Thunder. Lou Williams scored nine of his 12 points straight time. Kevin Seraphin had 15 points for forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, who bruised his ribs situation of the coach in as fair a way as of their fans who climbed a barrier to in the fourth quarter and Tyler Hansbrough got Washington, which pulled away with a 14-0 run in in a 96-93 loss at New York on Sunday. Al Jefferson possible. “We’ll see over the next two attack home supporters, who spilled on eight of his 12 at the free-throw line as the Raptors the third quarter and won its third straight game. led the Hornets with 20 points. — AP games, but changing our coach in the to the pitch, leading to a delay of some 40 improved to 3-1. middle of the season is never a good solu- minutes. Astra Giurgiu will look to main- Serge Ibaka had 25 points and 11 rebounds for tion. We want to give him another oppor- tain the unbeaten home record of a short-handed Oklahoma City team playing the NBA results/standings tunity.” Romanian clubs against Scottish opposi- second game of a back-to-back. Reggie Jackson Italy’s last Champions League winners, tion when they take on Celtic in Group D. added 13 points and a career-high 14 assists. The Milwaukee 87, Indiana 81; Houston 108, Miami 91; Washington 98, NY Knicks 83; Toronto 100, in 2010, Inter have not conceded a goal in Beaten 2-1 in Glasgow, Astra have lost Thunder began the game with eight active players Oklahoma City 88; Chicago 98, Orlando 90; New Orleans 100, Charlotte 91; Portland 101, this year’s Europa League campaign, but their last four European games, with their and finished with six. Forward Perry Jones depart- Cleveland 82; Phoenix 112, LA Lakers 106. will come up against another tight 5-1 opening defeat at Dinamo Zagreb ed with an apparent right knee injury early in the defence, as Saint-Etienne have managed their worst European result to date. second half, and guard Sebastian Telfair was eject- Eastern Conference Western Conference three goalless draws in their fist three But Celtic are without a European away ed for a flagrant-two foul with 1:57 left after he Atlantic Division Northwest Division group matches to trail Inter by four win in three games since beating KR struck Hansbrough in the face. W L PCT GB Portland 2 2 .500 - points. There are no such worries for ReykjavÌk 1-0 in their opening away trip of Toronto 3 1 .750 - Minnesota 1 2 .333 0.5 Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Montella, the season in the qualifiers for the BULLS 98, MAGIC 90 Brooklyn 2 1 .667 0.5 Denver 1 2 .333 0.5 though, as his side entertain PAOK of Champions League. Pau Gasol had 16 points and 13 rebounds as the NY Knicks 2 2 .500 1 Utah 1 3 .250 1 Greece in Group K, expecting to extend French side Lille, held 0-0 at home by Bulls beat the winless Magic despite playing with- Boston 1 2 .333 1.5 Oklahoma City 1 4 .200 1.5 their 100 percent start to the group and Everton in Group H, travel to the north- out Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah. Philadelphia 0 4 0 3 Pacific Division ensure qualification for the knockout west of England, which has not been a Jimmy Butler led the Bulls with 21 points and Taj Central Division Golden State 3 0 1.000 - Chicago 3 1 .750 - stages. Fiorentina won 1-0 in Greece last happy hunting ground for them in the Gibson added 16 for Chicago, which finally pulled Sacramento 3 1 .750 0.5 Milwaukee 2 2 .500 1 time out but were dealt a major blow past. They have not scored in four of their away in the final minutes of a game that was tied Phoenix 3 1 .750 0.5 Cleveland 1 2 .333 1.5 when Italy under-21 striker Federico five games in England and the last time after three quarters. LA Clippers 3 1 .750 0.5 Bernardeschi broke his ankle in training they played on Merseyside, they lost 3-0 Rose missed his second straight game after Indiana 1 3 .250 2 Detroit 0 3 0 2.5 LA Lakers 0 5 0 4 and is expected to be out of action until to Livepool in the 2009/10 Europa League. injuring both ankles Friday against Cleveland. He Southeast Division Southwest Division well into 2015. They are currently without a win in six took part in the morning shootaround and was list- Miami 3 1 .750 - Houston 5 0 1.000 - European fixtures, drawing four and los- ed as probable, but was taken out of the starting Washington 3 1 .750 - Memphis 4 0 1.000 0.5 TENSE RELATIONS lineup about a half hour before the game after ing two, since starting the campaign with Atlanta 1 1 .500 1 Dallas 3 1 .750 1.5 In Group C, Tottenham Hotspur, whose a 2-0 success at Grasshopper Zurich in the going through warmups. Noah was ill. Tobias Harris scored 21 points and Nikola Vucevic had 19 points Charlotte 1 3 .250 2 New Orleans 2 2 .500 2.5 5-1 victory over Asteras Tripolis in London qualifying rounds of the Champions Orlando 0 4 0 3 San Antonio 1 1 .500 2.5 two weeks ago was celebrated for Erik League. —AFP and 13 rebounds for Orlando, which is 0-4 for the THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SPORTS Juve relaunch last-16 bid

TURIN: Juventus relaunched their Champions home.” An injury to defender Angelo League last-16 bid with a nervous 3-2 win Ogbonna forced Allegri to reshuffle, replacing over Olympiakos in Turin on Tuesday when his tried and trusted 3-5-2 with a 4-3-1-2 for- visiting goalkeeper Roberto saved a last- mation that saw Alvaro Morata join Tevez up minute penalty from Chilean Arturo Vidal. front. With Olympiakos seemingly bent on Andrea Pirlo, on his 100th Champions defending in numbers and striking on the League appearance, broke the deadlock with counter, Juve easily dominated the opening a trademark free-kick on 21 minutes but the half but wasted a number of chances early hosts were stunned three minutes later when on. They finally broke the deadlock when central defender Alberto Botia beat Gianluigi Pirlo stepped up to curl a superb free-kick Buffon with a glancing header from a corner. high inside Roberto’s post on 21 minutes Juve needed a win, preferably with a two- after Pogba had fallen on the edge of the area goal cushion, to boost their qualification under a challenge from Luka Milivojevic. chances ahead of an away trip to Swedish Juventus Stadium, however, was silenced champions Malmo and their final fixture at three minutes later when Botia was left home to Atletico Madrid. But despite replying unmarked at a corner and got down low to to Delvin N’Dinga’s glancing header on the head past Buffon. hour with two goals in the space of a minute, Juventus should have restored their lead Vidal spurned the chance to secure a 4-2 win just before the interval but Claudio Marchisio when Roberto saved his penalty with the final could only glance at Asamoah’s probing kick of the game after Carlos Tevez had been delivery from the left as Morata and Vidal felled in the box. lurked in front of goal. Juventus are now level on points with Fernando Llorente replaced Morata just Olympiakos but second on a better head-to- before the hour but disaster struck for the head record, with both trailing leaders hosts three minutes later when they failed to Atletico by three points. deal with Alejandro Dominguez’s probing “It’s a shame we missed the penalty, it free-kick from the left. would have rounded off a good night for us,” The ball was headed out but fired back Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri told towards the six-yard box by Olympiakos skip- reporters. “Tonight the crucial thing was to per Giannis Maniatis where N’Dinga beat get the win, so we have to be positive. We still Buffon with a glancing header. have two games to secure our qualification.” Four minutes later, Juve were back on lev- Pogba, who hit Juve’s winner with his first el terms, Llorente’s header ricocheting off Champions League goal on his 100th appear- Roberto then his post before bobbling over ance for the Italian giants, said: “Today’s game the line for an own-goal. was crucial for us. We had to win and we did, Juventus restored their lead in more con- now it’s all up to us. vincing fashion just a minute later. Pogba col- “Sometimes we get a bit complacent. You lected Llorente’s ball from the left and, after can’t mess about in the Champions League, failing in his attempt to send Tevez through, not even a little bit.” Olympiakos coach Michel he fired in a shot that beat Roberto down low. was quick to praise his players, especially Juve survived a scare when Omar Roberto, after a penalty save which could Elabdellaoui squirmed past Asamoah and GERMANY: Dortmund players (yellow jersey) and Galatasaray players vie for the ball during the Champions League Group D soccer match. — AP prove costly to Juve in the event of a tight forced Buffon into a save at full stretch late qualifying duel. on, but the hosts had the momentum and “Roberto showed his class saving the Tevez wasted the follow-up after Llorente’s Dortmund rout Galatasaray penalty from Vidal. It could make the differ- close-range header was expertly blocked by ence for us in the end,” Michel said. Botia. Roberto got down low to push away DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund brushed off The game was held up twice in the second the Germany winger’s run and put in a brilliant “But I’m proud of all the players. We’re not Tevez’s angled drive two minutes and then their nightmare Bundesliga form to maintain half by crowd trouble as Galatasaray fans threw through ball. Reus needed no second invitation a major European team but we showed that won a penalty in injury time, only for Roberto their perfect Champions League record and book fireworks onto the pitch, then set off a flare in the to get behind the Galatasaray defence and strike we are capable of also playing well away from to block Vidal’s strike. — AFP their place in the knockout phase with Tuesday’s stands in the closing few minutes. on 39 minutes. Dortmund doubled their lead 4-1 rout of Galatasaray. “Everything was done in terms of security, but when midfielder Sebastian Kehl rose highest to a Dortmund are second from bottom of the they still get this stuff through. It’s remarkable. I corner and headed down for Greek centre-back German top flight following the worst start to a hope it calms down,” fumed Klopp. Sokratis, the 26-year-old scoring his first season in the club’s history and have lost their Goals either side of half-time from Marco Reus Champions League goal with a half-volley from last five matches in a row, but are one of the first and Greece defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos inside the six-yard box on 56 minutes. teams into the last 16 in Europe’s elite club com- put 2013 Champions League finalists Dortmund Balta put Galatasaray back in the match with a petition. Borussia remain top of Group D with on their way to the knockout phase. Galatasaray’s thumping header at the near post after a Wesley four wins from four and posted another convinc- Berlin-born defender Hakan Balta pulled one Sneijder corner on 70 minutes. ing victory against Cesare Prandelli’s Galatasaray back for the visitors midway through the second But Reus made way for Immobile and the having won 4-0 in Istanbul a fortnight ago. half before the hosts scored twice more to put Italian quickly claimed his third Champions Arsenal’s 3-3 draw at home to Anderlecht the result beyond doubt. Italy striker Ciro League goal in three games. Galatasaray’s brief leaves Dortmund five points clear of the Gunners Immobile netted Dortmund’s third just three period of pressure came to nothing as Immobile atop the table and odds-on to finish as group minutes and 26 seconds after coming off the finished off a flowing move by Henrikh winners. “That was very disciplined, the team had bench to calm the hosts’ nerves after a period of Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. things under control from the first minute,” said sustained Galatasaray pressure. The Italian got the ball in the net despite Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp. Immobile then compounded Galatasaray’s being fouled by Galatasaray goalkeeper “We defended well and, when our tactical misery when his cross was deflected into the Fernando Muslera on 74 minutes. Aubameyang measures didn’t quite work, we compensated back of the Turkish giants’ net by defender Semih then squandered two chances to add to the goal with passion and scored some great goals.” Kaya. Dortmund have shown two distinctly dif- tally before Immobile struck again. Kaya could Bizarrely, Dortmund have now picked up ferent faces this season as another impressive only watch in horror as Immobile’s pass clipped nearly double the points, 12, in their four display in Europe again bore little resemblance to his boot and spun into the net with five minutes Champions League matches than the seven they their woeful league form. Reus put Dortmund left. The result leaves Galatasaray bottom of the have from their 10 Bundesliga matches. ahead when right-back Lukasz Piszczek spotted table with one point. — AFP Son shines as double seals Leverkusen win at Zenit

SAINT PETERSBURG: Bayer Leverkusen cemented their place at the top of their Champions League group with a 2-1 win at Saint Petersburg on Tuesday thanks to Son Heung-Min’s superb second-half goals. The South Korean striker got the second-half break- through Bayer needed after an unconvincing first 45 minutes when he shot into the top ITALY: Juventus’ Leonardo Bonucci (right) and Olympiakos’ Alejandro Damian right-hand corner on 68 minutes. Dominguez fight for the ball during a Champions League, Group A soccer match. —AP The 22-year-old then added his second five minutes later at Zenit’s Petrovsky Stadium when he held off the Russian defence after Basel thrash Ludogorets striker Stefan Kiessling had won back posses- sion. BASEL: FC Basel’s seventeen-year-old Breel At 17 years and 263 days, he became the The Korean star showed plenty of poise in Embolo scored a delightful goal to set the sixth youngest player to score in the front of goal before coolly slotting his shot past Swiss champions up for a 4-0 win over Champions League. The second goal seven goalkeeper Yuri Lodygin. Zenit scored a late Ludogorets Razgrad on Tuesday that put them minutes later was almost a replica as Frei lifted consolation goal when substitute Jose Rondon second in Champions League Group B. Derlis the ball over the Ludogorets defence and 20- netted in the 89th minute after fellow substi- Gonzalez, Shkelzen Gashi and Marek Suchy year-old Paraguayan Gonzalez calmly provid- tute Aleksandr Ryazantsev lofted his pass over shared the other goals as Basel avenged their ed the finishing touch. the Bayer defence to the feet of the Venezuela 1-0 defeat two weeks ago and moved to six Basel made light of the absence of veteran striker. points, three ahead of Liverpool and the striker Marco Streller and Embolo set up the “These three points are very important,” Son Bulgarian champions. Leaders Real Madrid third for Albanian midfielder Gashi, who said. “In the first half we were a little bit hectic, qualified for the knockout stage with a maxi- scored easily at the far post in the 59th minute it wasn’t our match at all. “But in the second mum 12 points after beating Liverpool 1-0. after the Swiss side won possession in mid- half we put in a much better performance, you Embolo, who was born in Cameroon and field. Czech defender Marek Suchy completed always could see that we wanted to win this ST. PETERSBURG: Zenit’s Jose Rondon (center) scores his side’s only goal against Leverkusen’s has represented Switzerland at youth level, the scoring when he poked home from close match, and we finally did.” goalkeeper Bernd Leno during the Champions League Group C soccer match. — AP opened the floodgates for Basel when he col- range after a corner six minutes later. Basel The hosts’ goal sparked a frantic final five lected Fabian Frei’s ball on his chest and host Real Madrid on Nov. 26 before visiting minutes as Zenit threw everything into attack dinked his effort deftly past Vladislav Liverpool for a potentially decisive match on in a bid to salvage a point. It left space at the Atletico sink Malmo Stoyanov in the 34th minute. Dec. 9. — Reuters back and Leverkusen’s Australian substitute Robbie Kruse almost scored with his first touch as Bayer held on for the three points. MALMO: Atletico Madrid’s Koke and Raul Garcia equaliser, with Isaac Kiese Thelin, Emil Forsberg The Russians certainly had the better of the secured a 2-0 victory at Malmo for the Group A and Anton Tinnerholm all going close. first-half chances, while Leverkusen barely test- leaders in their Champions League clash on Malmo coach Age Hareide thought they ed the Russians defence in the opening half an Tuesday after the Swedes spurned several excel- should have had a penalty when Markus hour. Brazil star Hulk hit the post from a curling lent chances. Having soaked up considerable Rosenberg’s second-half free kick appeared to free-kick after just 13 minutes to cause a few pressure, Koke broke the deadlock for last season’s strike an arm in the defensive wall but referee nerves in the visitors’ defence. Then veteran runners-up on the half-hour, sweeping Juanfran’s Mark Clattenburg waved away appeals as the cap- striker Aleksandr Kerzhakov was presented low cross from the right into the net with the tain fired the rebound onto the post. with two clear opportunities by Zenit captain inside of his heel after a swift counter-attack. Raul “What they did to us they do to most teams Danny inside the opening 30 minutes. Garcia killed the game in the 78th minute, firing but that is no comfort to us,” Hareide told a media Leverkusen’s goalkeeper Bernd Leno denied home Filip Helander’s botched clearance. conference. The second half exploded into life the Russian striker on both occasions. Bayer’s “Obviously, it’s important to play nice football but with a flurry of yellow cards for Atletico with third consecutive win, having lost their open- what makes me proud is when we win,” he told Miranda, Diego Godin and Juanfran all booked in ing match against Monaco, sees them move on reporters. “That is what I want to give the fans, the a three-minute spell, leading to nervousness on to nine points. team, the supporters - victories.” Atletico lead the the Atletico bench before Raul Garcia struck the The victory in Russia was the perfect standings with nine points from four games fol- second goal. “For 20 or 25 minutes at the start of response to Saturday’s shock 1-0 defeat at lowed by Olympiakos Piraeus and Juventus on six the second half Malmo pressed well,” Simeone Hamburg-their first loss in nine games-and points after the Italians beat the visiting Greek said. “They didn’t create any really clear chances leaves them in pole position to qualify as Group side 3-2 on Tuesday. Malmo’s defeat leaves them apart form the one off the post, but when our 2-0 C winners. bottom with three points. goal came it was a relief and we could relax.” The defeat puts pressure on Andre Vilas- Having demolished the Swedes 5-0 at the Simeone praised the Swedes and said that Boas’ Russian Premier League leaders who are Vicente Calderon, Simeone’s Atletico side added they still had a chance to go through. third in the table five points adrift of their first away win in this season’s competition by “Anything can happen. No team has lost the Leverkusen with two matches remaining. hitting Malmo on the counter attack. chance to win or to go through. You have to be Second-placed Monaco could open up a four The Swedish champions did create plenty of very attentive and take the next match as if it SWITZERLAND: Basel’s Derlis Gonzalez (right) is challenged by PFC Ludogorets Razgradís point lead over the Russian side were they to openings as they poured forward in search of an was a final.” — Reuters Vladislav Stoyanov during the Champions League Group B soccer match. — AP beat Benfica later on Tuesday. — AFP Rockets cool Dortmund rout Heat as,Trail Galatasaray Blazers triumph

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MADRID: Liverpool’s Javi Manquillo (left) and Real Madrid’s Isco battle for the ball during a Group B Champions League soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. — AP Real cruise into CL last 16

MADRID: Real Madrid cruised into the Champions League performance,” said Rodgers, who dismissed criticism of his trating night as he was denied on several occasions by Ronaldo’s search for the record-equalling goal contin- last 16 as Karim Benzema’s solitary goal continued their team selection. Liverpool ‘keeper Simon Mignolet. ued after the break, but the man who has 22 goals to his 100 percent record in Group B with a 1-0 win over an “We defended very well when we had to against the The Belgian international was called into action as early name this season ws suffering an uncharacteristic off-night under-strength Liverpool. best team in the world at the minute, who have been scor- as the third minute as he flew to his left to deny James as he fired another decent opening straight at Mignolet. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers had sprung a sur- ing five and six goals a game. Rodriguez before turning a fierce drive from Ronaldo over Liverpool then posed their first serious threat when prise by naming a side missing a host of first-team regulars, “I thought we were very unfortunate not to get some- for a corner. Adam Lallana spun on the edge of the Madrid box and including captain Steven Gerrard and Mario Balotelli, who thing from the game. You see many teams come here and Even without the presence of Gerrard, Jordan sent a low left-footed effort inches beyond the far post were left on the bench ahead of a crucial Premier League the game is over after 20 minutes. For our attitude and Henderson and Raheem Sterling, Liverpool were still enjoy- before Fabio Borini’s deflected free-kick also drifted just clash with Chelsea on Saturday. courage to play I thought we could have got at least a ing plenty of possession in the early stages, but lacked wide. Gareth Bale made his return after five games out And despite a more spirited showing than in their 3-0 draw.” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, meanwhile, was hap- penetration as a couple of promising breaks from Lazar with a pelvic muscle injury as he replaced Rodriguez on defeat to Madrid at Anfield two weeks ago, Benzema’s first- py to see his side seal their passage into the last 16 despite Markovic were easily snuffed out. the hour mark, while Rodgers played his trump cards as half winner condemned them to a third consecutive not sparkling as they have done recently on a 12-game Madrid eventually found a way through on 27 minutes Gerrard and Sterling were introduced at the expense of European defeat. winning streak. when Isco fed Marcelo down the left and the Brazilian’s Lucas Leiva and Markovic. Basel’s 4-0 thrashing of Ludogorets Razgrad leaves them “I think we played well, albeit the tempo wasn’t that inviting low cross was turned in at the far post by the slid- It was Bale who made the most significant impact, in pole position to join Madrid in the last 16. Liverpool and high,” he said. “We scored in the first half and then we con- ing Benzema. though, when he turned another fine cross from Marcelo Ludogorets trail the Swiss champions by three points and trolled the game without taking too many risks.” Mignolet was called into action again to limit the dam- onto the bar 19 minutes from time. will face off in Bulgaria next time out while Basel host Cristino Ronaldo was looking for his 71st Champions age for Rodgers’s men before half-time as he palmed away The Welshman’s next opportunity came from a free-kick Madrid in Switzerland. League goal to match the all-time competition record held a swerving Ronaldo free-kick and a volleyed effort from after he had been chopped down by Alberto Moreno, but “We’re disappointed with the result after an excellent by Real legend Raul, but the Portuguese endured a frus- Marcelo. again Mignolet was equal to his dipping effort. — AFP Anderlecht frustrate Arsenal Talisca revives Benfica’s knockout stage hopes LONDON: Arsenal squandered a golden opportunity to ened again, with Sacha Kljestan skipping through the hosts’ book their place in the Champions League last 16 as defence to force Szczesny into a good save. Anderlecht stormed back from three goals down to rescue a But the Belgians’ gung-ho approach also exposed their LISBON: A goal by impressive young Brazilian Talisca revived stunning 3-3 draw on Tuesday. leaky defence to more pressure than was wise. And Wenger’s Portuguese champions Benfica’s hopes of reaching the Champions Arsene Wenger’s side were on course to qualify for the side exploited the holes in the Anderlecht rearguard to take League knock-out stages for the first time in three seasons as it secured knockout stage of Europe’s elite club competition for the the lead in the 25th minute. a 1-0 win over Monaco. 15th successive season after Mikel Arteta’s penalty and fine Sanchez, in imperious form, slipped a perfectly-weighted Talisca, 20, struck eight minutes from time in an entertaining match strikes from Alexis Sanchez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain pass through to Danny Welbeck and the Arsenal striker’s run which saw the French side slip to their first defeat in seven matches and put them in complete control by the 58th minute. was impeded by Chancel Mbemba, who fell backwards into saw Benfica record their first win of this season’s competition to move But the Gunners’ creaky defence was brutally exposed by his opponent and knocked him to the turf. on to four points, still bottom of the table but just one point off second- Anderlecht in a remarkable finale that saw the Belgians score There was little malice in Mbemba’s challenge but French placed Monaco. three times in the last 29 minutes to stun the Emirates referee Clement Turpin felt it was worthy of a penalty and Leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who beat Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 earlier Stadium into silence. Arsenal captain Arteta stepped up to calmly chip the spot- on Tuesday, are four points clear of Monaco with two games remaining. Anthony Vanden Borre sparked the incredible revival with kick into the roof of the net. With Monaco’s former Bulgarian international striker Dimitar a tap-in from an offside position and he then netted a penal- With the momentum now firmly in their favour, Arsenal Berbatov out with the groin injury he suffered in the first match ty before Aleksandar Mitrovic’s stoppage-time header com- swept forward again and doubled their advantage four min- between the two sides a fortnight ago, Lacina Traore came in for his first pleted the heroic comeback. utes later. start in the competition. “We had some bad luck, the first goal (for Anderlecht) was When Sanchez’s free-kick cannoned into the Anderlecht Benfica had the first opening of the game, which failed to attract a offside but we had a lack of concentration and thought the wall, it seemed the chance had been squandered, but the packed house, but Eduardo Salvio, superbly set up by Talisca, scuffed game was won,” Wenger said. Chile winger’s response to his initial miscue was thrilling as his shot wide of the far post with Croatian goalkeeper Danijel Subasic “Overall we were poor defensively from the first to the last he seized on the looping rebound to smash a blistering vol- beaten. While the hosts had the majority of possession, they found it minute. “Am I angry or disappointed? Both.” Anderlecht boss ley through the now splintered wall and past goalkeeper difficult to fashion chances and had to wait till the final minute of the Besnik Hasi added: “We come from a small league but we Silvio Proto. It was a fitting way to mark Arsenal’s 500th goal half for their best opportunity as Nicolas Gaitan worked some space have shown for the second time against Arsenal that we can since moving to the Emirates and Oxlade-Chamberlain only for his goalbound effort to be deflected for a corner by the out- compete against these big teams.” The north Londoners-now capped his vibrant display with the 501st in the 58th minute. stretched boot of Andre Raggi. Monaco started the second-half brightly five points behind Group D leaders Borussia Dortmund-are The England winger took possession from Sanchez’s but Layvin Kurzawa should have done better with a free header while likely to have to settle for second place and a tougher draw in tenacious tackle and accelerated into the penalty area to down the other end Subasic produced an excellent save to turn away the last 16, assuming they can guarantee qualification in plant a fine finish into the far corner. Talisca’s fierce effort from outside the area. their final two matches against Dortmund and Galatasaray. Yet Vanden Borre reduced the deficit three minutes later Benfica’s Brazilian international goalkeeper Julio Cesar saved his side Hasi’s side must have feared it wouldn’t be their night when his tap in from Andy Kawaya’s cross was allowed to on the hour mark as he got down to stop Argentinian Lucas Carrasco’s when they arrived at the stadium less than an hour before stand even though the defender was clearly offside. shot after he had wriggled free of the attentions of his marker. kick-off after the team bus was stuck in heavy traffic. Arsenal’s always-vulnerable defence was all at sea and Monaco, emboldened by this, went close again in the 68th minute as But they showed no signs of being affected in the open- Vanden Borre struck again with a 73rd-minute penalty after Traore let rip with a fine curling effort from the edge of the area only for ing moments and Dennis Praet fired in a low strike that Nacho Monreal hauled down Mitrovic. Anderlecht could it to drift just wide of the far post. deflected off Per Mertesacker and flashed just past a post scent blood now and they poured forward in a frantic climax, However, it was the hosts who broke the deadlock as Monaco left with Gunners goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny wrong-footed. which reached a crescendo when Andy Najar whipped over LONDON: Anderlecht’s Gohi Bi Zoro Cyriac (left) and two Benfica players unmarked in the area for Derley’s freekick and Anderlecht had outplayed Arsenal for long periods a 90th-minute cross and Mitrovic got in front of Mertesacker Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey vie for the ball during a Talisca made them pay dearly firing in left-footed at the far post for his despite losing in Belgium two weeks ago and they threat- to bury a diving header beyond Szczesny. — AFP Champions League, Group D soccer match. — AP third goal in the last three games. — AFP India refiners complete $900m payment to Iran

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BERLIN: A suburban S-Bahn train, operated by national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB), pulls into a station in downtown Berlin yesterday on the start of German train drivers’ longest strike in 20 years. — AFP German train drivers begin longest walkout

FRANKFURT: German train drivers walked out in their Weber, raged. longest strike in 20 years yesterday, rejecting a proposal of GDL has accused Deutsche Bahn of stonewalling in talks arbitration and threatening to plunge the country into over workers’ demands for a five-percent wage hike and a travel chaos this weekend. shorter working week of 37 hours. Union leaders also want Abu Dhabi may reform The GDL train drivers’ union turned down an offer by to represent other groups of employees within Deutsche the management of rail operator Deutsche Bahn to take Bahn such as conductors, catering staff, dispatchers, and the dispute to arbitration, and began an unprecedented not just drivers. Travellers in Germany have also been hit power, water subsidies five-day stoppage. The strike will start on national freight recently by repeated walkouts by pilots working for airlines services yesterday afternoon and spread to passenger serv- within the Lufthansa group. DUBAI: The government of the emirate of Abu Dhabi is this year, the IMF has estimated, using data from the Abu ices today. In addition to the incalculable economic fallout The government is working on legislation to stop small looking at ways to reform its system of subsidies for elec- Dhabi Department of Finance. from the industrial action, the stoppages will hit the week- groups of employees from crippling large parts of the tricity and water, a senior International Monetary Fund Household electricity bills are so low some people end celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the country’s transport infrastructure, such as rail and air travel. official told Reuters yesterday, in what would be a land- leave their air conditioning on when they go on holiday. Berlin Wall. As many as two million visitors were expected A draft law is expected this month. mark move by the emirate. UAE citizens pay just 5 fils (about 1 US cent) per kilowatt to travel to the German capital, many by train. Several Gulf oil-exporting countries are reviewing their hour in Abu Dhabi and get water for free. Foreigners pay Not only nationwide rail services, but local suburban or Low public support generous cradle-to-grave welfare systems, as plunging about 15 fils for electricity. Abu Dhabi is by far the largest S-Bahn train networks in Berlin and other major cities The mass-circulation daily Bild accused GDL and its global oil prices put pressure on their finances. They of the seven members of the UAE and exports most of its across the country will also be affected. Deutsche Bahn, leader Claus Weselsky of being power mad. Overall public ramped up spending to ensure social peace after the oil. Despite the oil price drop, it is not close to running out which slammed the strike as “out of proportion” and “stu- support of the train drivers seems to be low. “Normally 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, and since then they have of money, so any reforms may be minor. The IMF has esti- pid”, said it was hoping to maintain around one third of everyone, including politicians, feels some sort of solidarity been reluctant to make politically sensitive changes to mated that the UAE as a whole will need an average oil services, but has warned that major delays could be with strikers. But in this case, it’s a conflict about more the subsidies, which encourage waste and drain state cof- price of about $77 per barrel next year to balance its state expected. influence. That can’t be the aim of a strike,” said Soeren fers. budget. Even if that threshold is breached, Abu Dhabi Bartol, responsible for transport issues within the Social Now, however, tumbling oil prices - Brent crude holds an estimated $773 billion in its largest sovereign Arbitration offer Democrat SPD party. reached a four-year low of just below $82 per barrel on wealth fund, so it can fall back on massive reserves. Earlier, Deutsche Bahn had tabled an offer to take the Other unions, including the DGB trade union federation, Wednesday - are giving them political cover to revive Nevertheless, Abu Dhabi’s move appears to be part of dispute to arbitration, with each side appointing an inde- have also distanced themselves from the GDL. Industry reform plans. a trend in the Gulf. Kuwait’s government said last month pendent arbitrator. “We must find a way back to sensible associations are increasingly concerned about the negative “We discussed it here at the policy level, particularly that it planned to cut subsidies for diesel fuel and relations between both sides,” the company said. Deutsche effects the industrial action will have on the economy as a with the Abu Dhabi government, which indicated they kerosene, and Oman’s financial affairs minister told Bahn gave GDL until 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) to decide whole, particularly at a time when the German economy- are now looking at ways to streamline their subsidy poli- Reuters that his government was likely to start cutting whether to accept the proposal and call off the strikes. Europe’s biggest-is struggling with slowing growth. cies and put in place something different, something bet- some subsidies next year. But the union rejected the proposal. GDL has come Several days of strikes will hit production “because rail ter targeted,” said Harald Finger, the IMF’s head of mission In 2010, when oil prices were at similar levels, the UAE under fierce criticism from all quarters for its industrial transport can’t simply be replaced by road or river trans- for the United Arab Emirates. “This is particularly the case raised its petrol prices by 26 percent. But at $0.47 per litre, action, since it is only a small union with around 19,000 port,” said Achim Dercks of the DIHK chambers of com- of the electricity and water subsidies. It is probably too they remain very low by international standards. Finger members, compared with a total Deutsche Bahn workforce merce federation. The chemicals sector will be particularly early to know exactly what is their plan, but the broad said it would be important for Abu Dhabi to review its of 196,000 in Germany and more than 300,000 worldwide. hard-hit, but also the auto and metal-working sectors, direction in which it is headed is the right one,” he said fol- petrol subsidies in addition to electricity and water, but Deutsche Bahn described the renewed walkout as because “they effectively have no alternative means of lowing meetings with local authorities. added: “We are not aware of concrete plans at the “pure bullying”. “While people in Germany are looking for- transport,” said the BGA Federation of German Federation The Abu Dhabi Department of Finance did not imme- moment” in that area. Abu Dhabi is expected to post a fis- ward to celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the of Wholesale and Foreign Trade. Chancellor Angela Merkel diately responded to Reuters requests for comment. cal surplus of 69.7 billion dirhams, or 7.0 percent of gross Wall on November 9, GDL wants to paralyze public life in insisted that unions had a right to strike, but that that right Subsidies and transfers account for nearly 20 percent of domestic product, in 2014, up from 55.6 billion dirhams our country with the longest strike in the history of had to be carried out “responsibly” and “with a sense of Abu Dhabi’s budget, or 47.8 billion dirhams ($13.0 billion) or 5.8 percent last year, the IMF has estimated. Deutsche Bahn,” the company’s head of personnel, Ulrich proportion.” — AFP Gulf stocks hit by falling oil prices

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KUWAIT: Gulf stock markets suffered All 22 active stocks fell, with property- sharply because of the slide in oil prices, sharp falls yesterday, led by Saudi Arabia related stocks hit the hardest. Contractor which have shed about 30 percent of and Dubai, as a slump in world oil prices Arabtec dropped 5.4 percent, Union their value since June. Oil prices extend- depressed sentiment in the energy-rich Properties slid 4 percent and Deyaar lost ed losses in Asian tradingyesterday as region. The Saudi Tadawul All-Shares 3.8 percent. “Regional markets are follow- traders looked ahead to the release of Index, the largest in the Arab world, slid ing what’s going on in the major markets, the latest US supply report and sweated 3.3 percent by mid-session to 9,460.41 except that in recent days they have over price cuts by Saudi Arabia. US points-the lowest level since March-a day underperformed due to the weakness in benchmark West Texas Intermediate after shedding 3.5 percent. oil prices,” said Sanyalaksna Manibhandu, (WTI) for December delivery fell seven Losses were seen across all 15 sectors manager of research at NBAD Securities. cents to $77.12 while Brent crude for with the key petrochemicals industry los- “When investors are risk-off, the mar- December declined 33 cents to $82.49 in ing 3.9 percent. kets where they have the most profits to afternoon trade. WTI had dropped $1.59 Dubai’s main stock index slumped to a take suffer the most. This year, that’s in New York late Tuesday to hit its lowest two-week low yesterday as weak oil prices Dubai. Dubai isn’t (fundamentally) weaker closing point since October 2011, as and downbeat regional markets spurred than anywhere else.” Abu Dhabi’s bench- dealers continued to digest Saudi investors to book profits. Dubai’s bench- mark was down 2.1 percent at 4,847 Arabia’s move to cut its prices for crude BEIJING: Pedestrians walk by a signboard for the 2014 APEC summit to be held in Beijing. Beijing authorities are mark was down 3 percent at 4,415 points points at 0848 GMT, while Kuwait, Qatar, sold to the US markets. Brent fell $1.96 in installing 1,000 facial-recognition cameras, banning kite-flying and suspending some factory production as they at 0845 GMT, trimming its 2014 gains to Saudi Arabia and Egypt also retreated. London to its lowest close since October seek to clear the city of dangers, dissent and smog during an Asia-Pacific summit deemed the capital’s biggest 31 percent. It surged 107 percent in 2013. Gulf shares have been fluctuating 2010. — Agencies event since the 2008 Olympics. —AP BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 Regional debt market growth weakens Seasonal factors, geopolitics dampen activity

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KUWAIT: New debt issuance was weak in 3Q14, as seasonal factors and geopolitical turmoil dampened activity, most notably in the non-financial sector. A notable development was the issuance of debt by sovereigns that had not recently issued debt, including Bahrain and Sharjah. A rel- atively low rate environment and new banking capital regulations have encour- aged issuance as well. Meanwhile, sover- eign rates have stabilized in recent months, owing to the region’s strong regional outlook. As a result, spreads to US treasuries have remained tight. Growth in the GCC’s outstanding bonds was held back in 3Q14 by weak non-financial sector issuance. GCC debt markets added a mere $832 million over the quarter, to reach $266 billion at the The wider participation of regional sov- million, following strong activity the prior regional banks, reflecting the ongoing lized towards the end of the third quarter, end of 3Q14 with growth slowing to 9 per- ereigns could reflect the increased maturi- quarter. Regional turmoil triggered by the adoption of Basel III standards. Future following a declining trend. Stronger cent y/y. The UAE, KSA, and Bahrain were ty of regional debt markets. In this regard, unrest in Syria and Iraq and a slowing issuance by this sector is expected to investment sentiment, encouraged by a behind the bulk of the issues, driven by the UAE is considering legislation that global economy may have curtailed non- maintain a steady pace, encouraged by positive regional outlook, was partly their public sectors which took promi- could help streamline sovereign offerings financials’ interest in tapping regional debt low rates and the prudential regulatory responsible for this. As a result, sovereign nence given the weakness of private by individual emirates. Meanwhile, the markets. Issuance by this sector is expect- environment. spreads have tightened in recent months, issuance. Qatari public sector was uncommonly ed to remain healthy going forward, as The average maturity of outstanding benefitting as well from the steady Public sector issuance was mostly inactive this quarter despite healthy private sector growth picks up. The sector debt in the GCC increased to 6.2 years due increase in US treasury rates. Global eco- unchanged from the previous quarter at demand for its paper by Qatari banks and will also need to refinance nearly $4 billion to the longer maturity of recent issues. nomic turbulence has seen these spreads $6.5 billion, but was characterized by foreign investors. in maturing debt over the next year. Banks in particular sought to boost their widen recently, yet they remained rela- issuances by less active sovereigns. Financial sector issuance slowed some- capital base through perpetual issues. tively small as the GCC economies stood Bahrain, which last issued debt over a year Non-financial sector what from the previous quarter. With $2 Non-financial debt maintained its average firm against the headwinds. Sovereign ago, capitalized on positive investor senti- The non-financial sector, which has billion in new issues, the figure was almost tenor of 9 years, while the average time to yields for Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Qatar ment by issuing $1.25 billion worth of recently been a primary driver of regional half its two year average, and the weakest maturity of public debt was extended by remained steady at 3.14 percent, 1.99 per- debt, while the Emirate of Sharjah raised debt growth, witnessed its slowest quarter in a year. The third quarter saw the six months to 5.5 years. cent and 2.43 percent, respectively, for 5-6 $750 million in its first sukuk. in five years. Issuance reached a low $250 issuance of a pair of perpetual bonds by Sovereign yields seem to have stabi- year paper.

US businesses add News 230,000 jobs in in brief October: Survey Kuwait crude oil price down to $76.76 pb WASHINGTON: US companies added 230,000 jobs in October, a private survey said, the most in four months and a sign that busi- KUWAIT: Price of Kuwait crude oil per barrel went down by nesses are still willing to hire despite signs of slowing growth $1.94, standing at $76.76 pb on Tuesday compared to $78.70 overseas. Payroll processer ADP said yesterday that the job gains on Monday, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yester- were slightly ahead of the 225,000 added in September, which day. Oil prices continued to fall in the global market to reach was revised up from an initial estimate of 213,000. Job gains the lowest level in three years against the backdrop of sever- above 200,000 are usually enough to lower the unemployment al economic factors, notably the high level of crude reserves rate. The data indicates that steady growth in the past six held by the United States of America, the largest consumer months has encouraged businesses to step up hiring. That could of oil worldwide, and Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut prices of lead to a healthy job gain in Friday’s government report on jobs crude oil exported to the United States, after rise of the Saudi and unemployment. The ADP numbers cover only private busi- output to the highest level since 30 years ago. nesses and sometimes diverge from the government’s more comprehensive report, which includes government agencies. Etisalat profit cut by $44m Economists forecast that the government’s report will also due to Mobily debacle show that employers added 230,000 jobs in October, according JAKARTA: A port personnel of the state-firm Indonesia Port Corporation (PELINDO), supervises loading DUBAI: Etisalat will cut its profits by 162 million dirhams ($44 to a survey by FactSet. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s of containers on ship for export at the Tanjung Priok port district in Jakarta. Indonesia’s economy grew million) because of the decision by Saudi Arabian affiliate Analytics, said that faltering economies in Europe, China and at its slowest pace for five years in the third quarter, official data showed yesterday, underlining the Mobily to restate 18 months of earnings, the Abu Dhabi- Japan haven’t yet caused US employers to pull back on adding based firm said yesterday. The United Arab Emirates’ biggest workers. “I don’t think what’s going on overseas is going to challenge for new President Joko Widodo to get southeast Asia’s top economy back on track. — AFP telecommunications operator owns 27.5 percent of Mobily, undermine the very strong numbers we’re seeing right now,” he which on Monday slashed its profits for 2013 and the first half said. However, it’s too early to say that other international trends, of 2014 by a combined 1.43 billion riyals ($381.2 million), cit- such as the strengthening dollar, will have no impact in the com- Egypt’s Beltone Financial ing accounting errors. The impact of this is to reduce Etisalat’s ing months, Zandi added. A stronger dollar makes U.S. exports post-tax profit by 130 million dirhams for 2013 and by 32 mil- more expensive overseas. lion dirhams for the nine months to Sept. 30 this year. Etisalat In fact, US exports slowed in September, the government to raise money for growth will account for these reductions in its earnings statement for said earlier this week, a sign that weakness overseas may already the fourth quarter of this year, it said in a bourse statement. be hitting some companies. Weaker overseas sales caused the CAIRO: Egypt’s Beltone Financial has investor relations, told Reuters that the In July 2013, then army chief Abdel Etisalat previously announced a net profit of 7.08 billion trade deficit to jump 7.6 percent in September. received regulatory approval for a two- investment firm would invite shareholders Fattah Al-Sisi overthrew democratically- dirhams in 2013, of which Mobily provided 1.18 billion The job gains in the ADP report were broad-based: stage plan to raise up to 242 million to a general assembly on Nov 23 to approve elected President Mohammad Morsi of the dirhams - or 17 percent - prior to its earnings shock. Construction firms added a solid 28,000 jobs, while manufactur- Egyptian pounds ($33.85 million) to fund the capital increase. With more than 200 Muslim Brotherhood after protests against ing gained 15,000 positions. Professional and business services, growth in its financial services businesses. staff, Beltone’s activities include brokerage, his rule. Sisi went on to win a presidential Mubadala GE Capital which include mostly higher-paying positions such as account- Egypt’s stock market regulator said in a asset management, investment banking election in May, pledging to restore stability, to sell $500m 5-yr bond ants and engineers, gained 53,000. statement yesterday it had approved the and private equity operations. Foreign oper- and his government has made a raft of DUBAI: Mubadala GE Capital would raise no more than $500 mil- Hiring has been strong this year, partly fueled by average fundraising. ations include offices in Dubai and London. long-awaited economic reforms that have lion when it completes its debut bond sale later, a document growth of about 4 percent at an annual rate in the April-June Beltone’s shares rose by 10 percent, Beltone Chairman Aladdin Saba told helped to boost flagging investor confi- from lead arrangers showed yesterday. The five-year deal, which and July-September quarters. Employers have added an aver- prompting a brief suspension in trading. Reuters in an interview last month his com- dence. Beltone’s earnings have slumped is rated Baa2/A by Moody’s and Fitch respectively, has garnered age of 227,000 jobs a month in 2014, which puts this year on The financial services company said it pany planned to invest 300 million pounds since last year, when they were inflated by orders worth $850 million from investors so far, with order books pace to be the strongest year for job creation since 1999. Other planned to raise 42 million pounds in the next year to expand domestic operations one-off gains such as a property sale. set to close during the morning New York time, the document recent reports suggest that Friday’s government jobs report first phase by issuing free shares to existing because it believed the worst of the coun- Consolidated net income tumbled 84 per- added. Pricing guidance remains at the range given earlier in the could be a healthy one. Manufacturers hired at a faster pace in shareholders instead of paying cash divi- try’s economic instability had passed. cent from a year earlier to 11.0 million day of between 150 and 162.5 basis points over US Treasuries. October than in the previous month, according to a survey by dends. In the second phase, it plans a rights Egypt’s economy has been battered by pounds in the first half of 2014. Earlier this Mubadala GE Capital, a commercial finance company, is a joint the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group. And appli- issue to raise between 100 million and 200 three years of political upheaval since a year, Beltone implemented a five-to-one venture between Abu Dhabi state-owned fund Mubadala and cations for unemployment benefits have fallen to 14-year lows, million pounds. 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak share split to boost trading in its shares and General Electric. evidence that employers are cutting very few jobs. —AP Osama Rashad, Beltone’s head of after 30 years in power. widen its investor base. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.765 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 Nepalese Rupees 3.905 Singapore Dollar 0.22256 0.228256 South African Rand 0.020288 0.028788 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 88.300 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 2.550 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.950 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001910 0.002490 Indian Rupees 4.746 Australian Dollar 229.62 226.62 Thai Bhat 9.980 Taiwan 0.009421 0.009601 Pakistani Rupees 2.836 Canadian Dollar 260.43 261.43 Turkish Lira 130.750 Thai Baht 0.008617 0.009167 Srilankan Rupees 2.222 Swiss Franc 306.65 304.65 Nepali Rupees 2.966 Euro 367.39 368.39 Arab Singapore Dollar 226.360 US Dollar 291.30 294.30 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.765690 0.773690 Hongkong Dollar 37.554 Sterling Pound 468.34 471.34 Egyptian Pound 0.038596 0.041695 Japanese Yen 2.60 2.62 Bangladesh Taka 3.756 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iranian Riyal 0.000081 0.000082 Philippine Peso 6.486 Bangladesh Taka 3.756 4.026 Iraqi Dinar 0.000188 0.000248 Indian Rupee 4.742 5.042 Belgian Franc 0.007578 0.008578 Thai Baht 8.917 Jordanian Dinar 0.406497 0.413997 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.224 2.659 British Pound 0.458611 0.467611 Irani Riyal transfer 1102.090 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal cash 133.840 Nepali Rupee 2.967 3.502 Czech Korune 0.005095 0.017095 Pakistani Rupee 2.834 2.790 Danish Krone 0.044850 0.049850 Lebanese Pound 0.000142 0.000242 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023764 0.047764 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.16 79.63 Euro 0.358697 0.366697 Bahraini Dinar 773.17 775.24 Norwegian Krone 0.038653 0.043853 Nigerian Naira 0.001153 0.001788 Saudi Riyal 77.699 Omani Riyal 0.750080 0.755750 Qatari Riyal 80.061 Egyptian Pound 40.62 41.22 Romanian Leu 0.082290 0.082290 Qatar Riyal 0.079247 0.080460 Omani Riyal 756.790 Jordanian Dinar 413.43 419.08 Slovakia 0.008482 0.018482 Saudi Riyal 0.076990 0.077690 Bahraini Dinar 773.690 Omani Riyal 755.47 762.77 Swedish Krona 0.035170 0.040170 UAE Dirham 79.340 Qatari Riyal 80.22 80.77 Swiss Franc 0.295526 0.305726 Syrian Pound 0.001725 0.001945 Saudi Riyal 77.60 78.00 Turkish Lira 0.130103 0.137103 Tunisian Dinar 0.157462 0.165462 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.130103 0.137103 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.198 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia UAE Dirhams 0.078274 0.079243 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.628 Australian Dollar 0.245374 0.256874 Yemeni Riyal 0.001314 0.001394 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.359 New Zealand Dollar 0.218915 0.228415 Tunisian Dinar 160.740 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 411.040 US Dollar 291.150 Canadian Dollar 0.250972 0.259472 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.954 Canadian Dollar 259.205 US Dollars 0.287000 0.291700 Syrian Lira 2.076 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Sterling Pound 466.000 US Dollars Mint 0.287500 0.291700 Morocco Dirham 33.460 Euro 366.615 US Dollar 290.300 Euro 365.200 Swiss Frank 302.465 Asia EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 774.160 Pound Sterlng 464.000 Bangladesh Taka 0.003348 0.003948 US Dollar Transfer 291.100 UAE Dirhams 79.165 Canadian Dollar 255.700 Chinese Yuan 0.045990 0.049490 Euro 366.490 Qatari Riyals 80.770 Indian Rupee 4.740 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035453 0.038203 Sterling Pound 466.920 Saudi Riyals 77.815 Indian Rupee 0.004506 0.004907 Egyptian Pound 40.615 Canadian dollar 256.140 Jordanian Dinar 410.810 Turkish lira 131.050 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.217 Egyptian Pound 40.623 Bangladesh Taka 3.750 Swiss Franc 304.500 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.222 Japanese Yen 0.002579 0.002759 Australian Dollar 255.150 Philippines Peso 6.472 Indian Rupees 4.740 Kenyan Shilling 0.003241 0.003241 US Dollar Buying 289.900 Korean Won 0.000259 0.000274 Pakistan Rupee 2.825 Pakistani Rupees 2.828 Bahraini Dinar 773.550 Bangladesh Taka 3.756 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085354 0.091354 GOLD UAE Dirham 79.100 Philippines Pesso 6.472 Nepalese Rupee 0.002975 0.003145 Tola 1 133.840 Pakistan Rupee 0.002761 0.003041 Saudi Riyal 77.600 Tola 2 262.940 Cyprus pound 714.395 Philippine Peso 0.006378 0.006658 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 651.380 Japanese Yen 3.560 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BUSINESS GIZ looks to break Islamic microfinance shortfall

FRANKFURT: A series of German-fund- government’s international development hand in June 2015.” Islamic finance prod- Indonesia’s central bank to set up seven of non-payment, so many lenders do not ed studies and pilot projects aims to agency GIZ is helping to develop regula- ucts must be vetted by a board of sharia Islamic savings and loan cooperatives in see it as a commercially viable business bridge the gap between Islamic finance tions, education and training for Islamic scholars, a costly proposition for most Aceh province. It has also worked with model. and microcredit, to the benefit of com- microfinance in developing countries, lenders, and this problem is compound- Bahrain’s Al Baraka Banking Group in Profit-sharing contracts are common munities in developing countries which said Matthias Range, Frankfurt-based ed by a lack of scholars with enough Algeria’s Ghardaia region, developing a in Islamic finance but when applied to remain on the fringes of the financial internal advisor at GIZ. financial literacy, said Range. CGAP data profit-sharing product in 2008 which the microfinance, their reporting and industry. Islamic banking has been grow- “The combination of microfinance suggests high costs and customer per- bank now offers across the country. But accounting requirements become cum- ing rapidly over the last few years in sev- and Islamic finance is scattered and in ceptions are major reasons for the poor the global range of sharia-compliant bersome, adding to operating costs. eral parts of the world, particularly the the fledging phases. There has been take-up of Islamic microfinance, which microcredit products remains very small; “We have almost no innovation in Gulf and southeast Asia, but sharia-com- almost no experience in implementation currently reaches about 300,000 clients most are based on a cost-plus-profit the market...Murabaha has no value- pliant versions of microcredit - the provi- older than eight to 10 years. The devel- in 14 countries, mostly in Indonesia, arrangement known as murabaha, with added for the client,” said Range. GIZ sion of very small loans to low-income opment is far behind its potential.” Afghanistan and Bangladesh. benevolent loans (qard hassan) a distant supports an Islamic microfinance chal- borrowers who lack collateral and a cred- A study of Islamic microfinance prod- This is tiny even for majority-Muslim second. lenge run by CGAP in partnership with it history - have been slow to develop. ucts by GIZ and CGAP aims to identify Bangladesh, where 100,000 Islamic This raises issues of authenticity and the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Expanding the appeal of Islamic ways to lower costs, while a separate GIZ microfinance clients pale in comparison sustainability. Murabaha is criticised by Bank , Al Baraka Banking Group and microfinance is crucial for an estimated study is exploring demand factors, Range to 8 million conventional microfinance some Islamic scholars as too closely Dutch fund manager Triple Jump; the 650 million Muslims who live on less said. GIZ is also sponsoring a study to borrowers in the country. resembling a conventional loan, while competition awards prizes to the best than $2 a day, according to the compare Islamic finance regulations qard hassan is structured as an instru- Islamic microfinance initiatives. The cur- Washington-based Consultative Group across five countries. “We will tender this Murabaha ment of charity - the microlending insti- rent theme of the competition is to Assist the Poor (CGAP). The German year and hope to have the publication at In 2005, GIZ partnered with tution has to extend the maturity in case “Beyond Murabaha”. — Reuters ECB in wait-and-see mode despite fragile economy Policy disputes and stimulus result hold up action FRANKFURT: The sobering economic news just last November, casting a further shadow over cut spending and raise taxes. keeps coming, yet the European Central Bank the outlook at a time when employers are seeing Yet the euro-zone saw no growth in the sec- appears stuck in wait-and-see mode - held up by profit margins squeezed by weak prices. A big ond quarter and few economists think figures policy disputes and a desire to see whether concern the ECB faces is that low inflation could for the July-September period will be much bet- recent stimulus measures are working. turn into a debilitating bout of deflation that ter when they are released on Nov 14. Draghi A day ahead of the bank’s monthly meeting could weigh on growth as consumers delay has said the ECB can do more if the situation in Frankfurt, the ECB’s 24 policymakers were spending in hopes of cheaper goods down the worsens. The biggest weapon left would be a confronted yesterday with more evidence that line. And consumers are already under pressure. monetary stimulus through massive bond pur- the 18-country euro-zone could sink back into Retail sales in the euro-zone slumped 1.3 per- chases, called quantitative easing or QE, similar recession. cent in September, with powerhouse economy to the ones the US Federal Reserve ended last Analysts think ECB President Mario Draghi Germany posting a 3.2 percent plunge, the week. The Bank of Japan last week stepped up TOKYO: Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda at a press conference at the will use his news conference Thursday to under- Eurostat statistics agency said yesterday. its own purchases. BOJ headquarters in Tokyo. — AFP line the bank’s willingness to step up its efforts if Some sort of fall in sales had been anticipat- The practice, which involves creating new things get worse. He may find some relief from ed following August’s 0.9 percent rise, but the euros and pumping them into the economy, is the continuing slide of the euro against the dol- scale of it was a disappointment - the consensus meeting with resistance in some quarters. QE is New monetary easing exposes lar and the sharp retreat in oil prices. A weaker in the markets was for a more modest 0.7 per- not as easy a call in Europe as it was in Japan and currency can boost growth by lifting exports, cent decline. the US. cracks in Japan’s growth blitz while cheaper energy can cut consumers’ fuel Despite the continuing negative news, few For one, it’s more complicated to buy govern- bills. For now, the economic backdrop remains economists think the ECB is ready to use up the ment bonds in an 18-country currency union. It TOKYO: The Bank of Japan’s surprise move at more than twice the size of the econo- uninspiring at best. Yesterday, financial informa- dwindling policy tools it has at its disposal. The also faces opposition among many officials and to inflate its already huge stimulus program my-a figure that will expand as a rapidly tion company Markit said its monthly purchas- ECB’s benchmark interest rate - its typical tool for economists in Germany, the euro-zone’s domi- exposes the cracks in Tokyo’s plan to con- ageing population strains the public purse. ing managers’ index - or PMI, a broad gauge of steering the economy - has already been cut as nant political and economic force. One reason is quer deflation and boost growth, econo- And earlier this year “Abenomics” hit a business activity - rose a bare 0.1 percentage far as it can go, to a record low 0.05 percent. That that QE could ease pressure on governments in mists say, but it may give the government wall as months of weak indicators were points in October to 52.1. The index still points in theory lowers borrowing costs for households weaker countries to reduce burdensome room to hike sales taxes again. compounded by the introduction of the to very modest growth of around 0.2 percent on and for businesses. It is also offering ultra-cheap bureaucracy and excessive worker protections On Friday, the central bank said it would country’s first sales tax hike in 17 years. a quarterly basis. Anything above 50 indicates loans to banks, tied to their lending to compa- and make their economies more business friend- widen its asset-buying plan by as much as As consumers stopped spending the expansion. nies. And it has started buying bonds backed by ly and encourage growth. 20 trillion yen ($182 billion), bringing it to economy shrank an annualized 7.1 percent “The euro-zone PMI makes for grim reading, the principal and interest payments on bank Skeptics include Jens Weidmann, the head of an eye-popping 80 trillion yen annually, in April-June, and with the latest data also painting a picture of an economy that is limping loans, a step it hopes will encourage more lend- Germany’s Bundesbank central bank and a sending the yen into a freefall and stocks looking poor, there are fears of another along and more likely to take a turn for the ing. member of the ECB’s rate-setting council. soaring. The BoJ also halved its annual eco- contraction in July-September, which worse than spring back into life,” said Chris The more activist monetary policy pursued “Political hurdles to sovereign QE remain signifi- nomic growth forecast and trimmed con- would put the economy in technical reces- Williamson, Markit’s chief economist. by the ECB in recent months is intended to help cant, but ECB’s policy will be driven by the data,” sumer price expectations as a much-touted sion. Abe is expected to announce next He noted there was a fall in the employment the euro-zone cement an economic recovery said Frederik Ducrozet, euro-zone economist at inflation target looks increasingly out of month if Tokyo will usher in a second tax indicators in the survey for the first time since after a debt crisis that has led governments to Credit Agricole. — AP reach and Premier Shinzo Abe’s plan to hike in 2015, but fears of recession have kickstart the economy stalls. cast doubt on that. While the new revenue “The move by the BoJ shows that source was aimed at paying down an enor- Abenomics is facing big problems. The mous national debt, it has put Abe in a economy is not growing, and is not show- tricky position as he balances his pro- ing the power to grow,” said Ivan spending growth plan with controlling Tselichtchev, an economics professor at government finances. Japan’s Niigata University. “Thus the gov- The fresh BoJ easing “confirms the scale ernment and BoJ again have to resort to of the challenge confronting the Abe gov- monetary alchemy. Again, it will have a ernment as it seeks to deliver stronger real stimulating effect, but only in the short growth and inflation while also reducing term.” Friday’s decision also threw into the fiscal deficit”, said ratings agency Fitch. focus the sharp contrast of fortunes for the US and Japanese economies after the ‘Prepare for the second tax hike’ Federal Reserve last month brought an end Abe, whose approval ratings have sank, to six years of bond-buying and is now con- is also facing pressure to put in place some sidering an interest rate hike. of the structural reforms he-and most economists-say are necessary to generate ‘Half-baked’ lasting growth. The move-which is an attempt to stimu- “I think the real purpose of the addition- late growth by pumping massive amounts al easing, at this particular time, was to sup- of money into the economy-is the first port the Abe administration and to prepare since the bank unveiled the unprecedented for the second tax hike,” said Kenji Yumoto, easing scheme in April last year. vice chairman of the Japan Research The program-and a target of 2.0 percent Institute. Data released Friday showed inflation by next year-were cornerstones of September inflation slowed and household the government’s wider platform to turn spending slumped further, adding to con- around years of deflation and kickstart the cerns. Japan’s central bankers acknowl- economy. edged struggles in changing consumer Yesterday, BoJ governor Haruhiko thinking on falling prices, saying convert- Kuroda again pledged the central bank will ing the “deflationary mindset...might be do whatever it can to achieve the goal. “In delayed”. Deflation may sound good for order to completely overcome the chronic consumers, but falling prices tend to put disease of deflation, medicine should be off buying in the hope of getting goods taken until the end,” he told private- and cheaper down the road, denting invest- public-sector officials in Tokyo. ment and economic growth. TOUR: Farmers from the French farmers unions FNSEA (Federation Nationale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles) and JA (Jeunes “A half-baked medical treatment will Tsuyoshi Ueno, a senior economist at Agriculteurs, or Young Farmers union) protest in Tour yesterday. France is facing widespread farmer strikes across the country, protesting their only worsen the symptoms,” he said. When NLI Research Institute in Tokyo, said last increasing constraints and charges, the collapsing prices of cereals, milk and vegetables, caused in part by the sanctions on Russia, as well as the program was launched, Abe’s revival week’s measures underlined the bank’s rising fertilizer prices. — AFP plan was cheered by some and it seemed troubles in reaching its 2.0 percent inflation to be working well-sending the yen tum- target. bling against the dollar and the stock mar- “The core consumer inflation index, ket surging to a six-year high by the end of which will be announced next month, may French farmers hand out vegetables 2013. come in lower than one percent,” Ueno But critics derided it as a money-print- said. “So, the BoJ is doing whatever it can. to protest cheap imports ing exercise that would leave Japan in a Monetary easing is a shot in the arm that bigger financial hole. It already has the can buy time for restructuring (the econo- PARIS: Flanked by mountains of potatoes in a Their farms are threatened by the collapse of teens of the economics ministry. heaviest debt burden among rich nations my).” — AFP central Paris square, irate farmers yesterday prices for cereals, milk and vegetables, caused in “Tomatoes from Morocco, apples from Italy, handed out free fruit and vegetables to all com- part by the sanctions on Russia, said another unlabelled produce: the economics ministry ers in a protest against cheap imported produce. union leader, Damien Greffin. should set an example of Made in France, and Organizers said between 700 and 800 farmers They were also protesting increasing govern- that is not the case,” said Samuel Vandaele, the from the Paris region showed up for the demon- ment constraints and charges, as well as rising group’s deputy leader. In southwestern stration, bringing in some 60 tons of potatoes fertiliser prices. The FNSEA, which was staging Toulouse, a line of tractors and pickup trucks and 20 tons of onions, apples and pears, all other protests across the country on Wednesday, unloaded manure outside a government office. grown in the region. is calling for “food patriotism”, demanding that “They are cowboys who come to us to tell us A banner reading “I want to eat French prod- two out of three dishes served in public can- we are not in compliance” with a new regulation ucts today and tomorrow” stretched across a teens be made using French produce. on fertiliser, one official shouted through a monument in the middle of the square. “Let us At dawn, a group of about 20 activists known megaphone. Some 70 tractors drove into the grow French,” shouted Arnaud Rousseau, head of as the Young Farmers went to the edge of the centre of southwestern Pau, causing huge traffic a regional farmers union, FNSEA. city to check the produce heading to the can- pileups. —AFP LME may temper trading fee rise after complaints LONDON: The London Metal Exchange (LME) said Jan 1 would force brokers and banks to ditch more in the world’s biggest industrial metals mar- it might revise a planned hike in trading fees after some commission-free terms and review their ket, but it was also keen to hear feedback. “We customers complained that it could hurt their business models. The actual cost of transacting in announced the fee changes early to allow time for businesses. The 137-year-old LME announced an the LME’s open outcry pit and on its electronic this process, and we have held more than 30 indi- average 34 percent increase in fees in late platform could double next year, Triland said. vidual meetings to date to discuss the matter,” LME September as owner Hong Kong Exchanges and The 34 percent increase highlighted by the spokeswoman Kathy Alys said in the statement. Clearing Ltd (HKEx) (0388.HK) moved to boost LME was an average figure and included clearing “We have received valuable feedback, and as we KARACHI: A Pakistani stockbroker monitors the latest share prices during the trad- ing session at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in Karachi yesterday. Pakistani profits after buying the exchange for $2.2 billion. fees, which were unchanged. The LME said in an analyse this, it is possible that the tariff could be stocks closed at a record high, with analysts crediting falling inflation and commodi- But customers protested. Broker Triland Metals emailed statement on Wednesday that it was com- subject to minor revisions.” She declined to give ty prices as well as an easing of political tensions. — AFP warned that the higher fees due to take effect on mitted to the fee hike, which will allow it to invest details on how the fees may be revised.— Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BUSINESS European shares bounce back earnings reports

PARIS/LONDON: European stocks rebounded yesterday, also advanced 2.6 percent after the Swedish oil and gas pro- year ago, while revenues are down 0.2 percent, highlighting helped by positive company results which saw shares in ducer posted third-quarter earnings above expectations, the fact that Europe’s earnings rebound has mostly come British retailer Marks & Spencer surge more than 8 percent. while German reinsurer Hannover Re rose 1.4 percent after from cost-cutting and lower financing costs. Oil falls below $82 on However, some traders said the stock market rally could be saying its net profit rose by a forecast-beating 21 percent. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 blue-chip index short-lived if European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi Bucking the trend, however, was Finnish stainless steel maker was up by 1 percent at 1,340.34 points by the middle of supply glut, China woes fails on Thursday to unveil new economic stimulus measures Outokumpu which slumped 8.2 percent after reporting a the trading session. The index had fallen 1 percent on to spur growth in the euro zone’s struggling economy. bigger-than-expected quarterly loss. Tuesday, extending losses in late trading after Reuters LONDON: Brent oil dropped to a new four- er currencies when the US currency rises, “If we get nothing from the ECB, which is a close call, we reported that central bankers in the euro area planned to year low below $82 a barrel yesterday, a denting demand. may see some downside,” Philippe Gijsels, chief strategy offi- Rally lacks conviction challenge ECB chief Draghi over what they considered to fifth straight day of losses, as weak eco- The dollar index hit a new 4-1/2-year cer at Fortis Bank, said. Marks & Spencer jumped 8.2 percent About halfway into Europe’s earnings season, 64 percent be his secretive management style. “The market is rising nomic data from top energy consumer high yesterday. US crude stocks fell by after posting a rise in underlying first-half profit for the first of companies have managed to meet or beat profit forecasts, today, but without real conviction. There’s no real trend on China intensified worries about demand as 639,000 barrels to 374.9 million in the week time in four years, beating expectations, while German while 59 percent have met or beaten revenue forecasts, the market at the moment, and flows from investors a global supply glut grows. Services sector to Oct. 31, compared with analysts’ expec- chemicals distributor Brenntag gained 4.5 percent, boosted according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data. In absolute remain thin,” said Jean-Louis Cussac, head of Paris-based growth in China weakened in October as tations for a increase of 2.2 million barrels, by forecast-beating earnings. Shares in Lundin Petroleum terms, profits are up 13 percent versus the same quarter a firm Perceval Finance. —Reuters new business cooled, a private survey data from industry group the American showed, coming just days after data Petroleum Institute showed. revealed sluggish factory growth in the The market is now awaiting weekly world’s second-largest economy. inventory data from the US government’s Brent fell 75 cents to $82.05 a barrel by Energy Information Administration (EIA) 0913 GMT, having earlier reached the day’s later in the day for more clues on demand low of $81.63, its weakest level since late in the world’s top oil consumer. 2010. US crude fell 43 cents to $76.76 a bar- Oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic rel, rebounding off a low of $75.84 hit in lost more than 2 percent on Tuesday after the previous session - its weakest since Saudi Arabia cut export prices to the October 2011 - after data showed US crude United States, threatening to deepen a stocks unexpectedly fell last week as global supply glut that has driven crude refineries boosted output.”Supply is higher prices down 30 percent since June. A bleak and demand expectations are being cut outlook for Europe after the European almost every day,” said Hans van Cleef, sen- Commission downgraded its forecast for ior energy economist at ABN Amro in euro-zone economic growth over the next Amsterdam. few years also weighed on oil prices. Brazil’s oil output reached a record 2.358 Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi is mak- million barrels per day in September, up ing his first visits in years to fellow nearly 13 percent from a year earlier, exporters Venezuela and Mexico, although national oil regulator ANP said on Tuesday. tumbling oil prices are not the stated pur- Consistent supply from Libya and Iraq, pose of the trip, according to officials and where many expected production to be sources. Still, the travel plans come at a disrupted by conflict, has added to the pivotal moment for Saudi Arabia and the downward pressure on prices. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Van Cleef added that dollar strength Countries, which meets later in November was weighing on oil. Oil, priced in dollars, to discuss how to respond to the rout in becomes more expensive to holders of oth- global oil prices. —Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BUSINESS Low growth, price cuts plague euro-zone

LONDON: Euro-zone business growth of what it terms the danger zone below 1 came at a cost. Reuters poll found this week. For such a will likely curb the legislative agenda picked up less than expected in October percent. Markit’s final Composite Flash A sub-index for output prices slumped stimulus program to be effective in across the Atlantic, it sent the euro slid- despite another, deeper round of price Purchasing Managers’ Index, based on to 47.1 from September’s 48.5, its lowest boosting inflation, a Reuters poll said the ing back towards recent lows against the cuts, according to surveys that are unlike- surveys of thousands of companies reading since February 2010 and sug- ECB would need to expand its balance dollar. ly to ease simmering tensions among the across the region and seen as a good gesting firms were desperately slashing sheet by around 1 trillion euros - a figure bloc’s central bankers. Companies have indicator of growth, was all but prices. in line with what ECB President Mario BoE also hamstrung been discounting prices for over 2-1/2 unchanged from September’s 10-month “The euro zone still faces a significant Draghi said he would target. Shoppers in the 18 countries using years and did so last month more steeply low of 52.0, coming in at 52.1. deflation risk. Unless there is a sustained, But Draghi will come under fire from the euro ventured out less frequently in than at any time since early 2010, when “Such a weakness is worrying, as it clear change in the euro zone’s fortunes, the bloc’s national central bankers later September, according to weak retail sales the single currency area was mired in a highlights the feeble nature of demand the ECB could yet ultimately have to go on Wednesday over what they see as his figures also published yesterday. Retail sovereign debt crisis. Weak growth in in the euro area and adds to growth con- down the quantitative easing road,” said secretive management style and erratic sales are a proxy for household demand, services and manufacturing despite fur- cerns. Forward-looking components in Howard Archer at IHS Global Insight. Full- communication, not least because they and the data reinforced European ther discounting will add to pressure on both sectors proved to be disappointing,” scale QE is one of the last options the ECB had agreed not to release that figure, Commission forecasts that the euro-zone the European Central Bank on the eve of said Apolline Menut at Barclays. has left, and while it is not expected to Reuters exclusively reported on Tuesday. economy will have stagnated between a policy meeting, as it seeks ways of Although the PMI chalked up its 16th change tack at Thursday’s policy meet- That rattled markets, and alongside July and September after expanding 0.3 warding off deflation and bringing infla- month above the 50 line that separates ing, there is now an even chance it will the weak data and sweeping Republican percent in the first quarter and 0.1 per- tion - at just 0.4 percent in October - out growth from contraction, the expansion eventually buy sovereign bonds, a party wins in U.S. mid-term elections that cent in the second. —Reuters India to foreign CEOs: ‘We’re waiting for you’ $1 trillion needed for infrastructure development

NEW DELHI: India’s finance minister Chinese President Xi Jinping in those expenses, he said, and noted percent it averaged for a decade up is urging foreign investors to help September and plans to host the cost of diesel had recently been to 2012. plug enormous gaps in the coun- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in pegged to world market prices so Jaitley reassured investors that try’s infrastructure blamed for hold- December. that the government would no the government would push ing back growth. “We are waiting for longer have to cover the difference through an economic overhaul, but you,” Arun Jaitley told a roomful of All subsidies won’t go between import costs and state-set would do so carefully so as to avoid international and Indian CEOs The efforts so far have yielded prices. making any move “which sends a attending the India Economic $100 billion in new business, Modi Investors, optimistic about India’s contrary signal.” “You can damage Summit, one of the World Economic said last month. Jaitley yesterday economy under Modi, helped push the economy with one bad idea,” he Forum’s satellite summits held ruled out eliminating all Indian sub- GDP growth up to 5.7 percent in the said, citing the previous govern- around the globe. sidies, which at 2 percent of the first quarter, after two straight years ment’s decision to impose taxes Prime Minister Narendra Modi country’s GDP act as a heavyweight of economic malaise with the rate retroactively on companies. Modi’s SEOUL: A couple take photos in a park in Seoul yesterday. The central bank has enchanted Indians with his on government finances. The best under 5 percent. Modi has prom- government has not yet reversed expects inflation in Asia’s fourth-largest economy to accelerate to 1.9 per- vision of a country crisscrossed by the government can do is rationalize ised to get growth back up to the 8 that decision. —AP cent in 2014 following a 1.3 percent increase in 2013 — the slowest for 14 modern roads, high-speed trains, years. —AFP dozens of high-tech smart cities and universal Internet cables. To get there, India has a long way UK’s economic recovery set to go. The country is beleaguered by a patchy network of pot-holed for yr-end slowdown: Survey roads, lumbering railway service and a lack of warehouses that leads to some 40 percent of the country’s LONDON: Britain’s rapid economic recov- from 58.7 in September, weaker than even produce and grains going to rot. The ery could slow markedly in the final the gloomiest forecast in a Reuters poll of country loses about a quarter of the months of 2014 after uncertainty about analysts. But the index remained above its electricity it generates through a the global economy started to hit domes- historic average as well as the 50 threshold leaky, inefficient grid. And hundreds tic businesses last month, a closely that marks growth, and bettered the PMIs of millions still have no proper home watched survey showed yesterday. for all other major European economies or access to sanitation facilities. Services companies such as banks, except Sweden. Economists estimate India needs hotels and hairdressers which make up the Growth in Britain’s services sector was a staggering $1 trillion in infrastruc- bulk of Britain’s private sector saw growth tempered by a mix of worries about the ture investment alone. That’s more slip to the lowest level since May 2013, euro zone, the risk of a sharp slowdown in than half India’s entire gross domes- according to the latest Markit/CIPS pur- China, uncertainty about US monetary pol- tic product for 2013 of $1.87 trillion. chasing managers’ index (PMI). A broader icy and geopolitical fears, according to “Infrastructure, let me tell you, we measure which also includes data released Markit chief economist Chris Williamson. welcome large investment partici- earlier this week on manufacturers and pation, even international participa- construction firms sank to its lowest since No pressure to hike tion,” Jaitley said. He said legislative June 2013, and sterling weakened to a The BoE is already expected to keep reforms to open industries such as one-year low against the US dollar in interest rates at 0.5 percent after its real estate, railways services and response. monthly meeting ends today. Economists even defense would be easy to sell While Britain still looks set to outpace increasingly predict it will leave them on in a country sometimes wary of big other advanced economies this year, the hold well into next year. An absence of change. pace of the recovery has eased over the inflationary pressure in yesterday’s survey Modi, under pressure since tak- last few months as European demand is likely to bolster that view. Prices charged ing office in May to boost the econ- NEW DELHI: Jet Airways cabin crew pose during the launch of the carrier’s inaugural flight to Ho fades. by services companies declined for the first omy, has visited countries including The economy now looks on track to time since May 2013, albeit only modestly, Japan, the United States and Chi Minh City at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi yesterday. Jet grow around 0.5 percent in the last three while growth of input prices eased. Australia with the goal of building Airways launched its inaugural daily flight to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the 22nd internation- months of 2014 compared with 0.7 per- Three of the BoE’s most senior officials business ties. He also hosted al destination on Jet Airways international network. —AFP cent in the third quarter, according to data have signalled they are comfortable with company Markit, which compiles the PMIs. record-low rates over the last few weeks. The prediction stands at the most pes- Minutes from the Bank’s October policy simistic end of forecasts from economists meeting showed most officials were wor- Monte Paschi set to OK capital increase polled by Reuters, and contrasts with the ried about the weak euro-zone economy. Bank of England’s expectation for growth Markit’s composite PMI, a broader gauge of 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter. of the economy that combines services, MILAN/LONDON: Italy’s Monte dei hanging in the balance after a review rival UBI Banca , after a calamitous and other funds to take part in yet Members of the central bank’s manufacturing and construction indus- Paschi di Siena is likely to tap overseen by the European Central three years that have seen it lose 9.3 another share sale for a bank exposed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meet- tries, fell to 56.4 from 58.1 — its lowest lev- investors for up to 2.5 billion euros Bank showed it to be the weakest billion euros and have its former top to Italy’s weak economy, bankers said. ing this week will pay close attention to el since June 2013. next year to fill a capital shortfall laid large bank in Europe with a capital brass convicted last week over a Monte dei Paschi has carried out the survey as they gauge when to start “The surveys therefore suggest that the bare by recent stress tests, pay back hole of 2.1 billion euros that needs to derivatives deal that was meant to three capital increases since 2008 finally raising interest rates. “With the MPC Bank of England will wait to gauge the full state aid and prepare itself for a possi- be filled within nine months. hide the bank’s mounting losses. “The with the last share sale raising 5 bil- beginning its November meeting today, extent of the slowdown before making any ble takeover, banking sources said. The rights issue is seen as a step- reason why they are tapping the mar- lion euros in June. Since then Monte these results are likely to strengthen the decisions on policy,” said Markit’s The future of Italy’s third biggest ping stone to a sale of Monte dei ket is because they didn’t have time dei Paschi’s market value has tumbled conviction of the doves that this is no time Williamson. Earlier this week, PMIs showed bank, the world’s oldest, has been Paschi, possibly to smaller domestic to put in place an M&A solution in the to just 3.3 billion euros compared to to think about raising interest rates,” said Britain’s construction sector expanded at time frame given to them by the ECB,” 11 billion euros when it bought small- Martin Beck, economic advisor to consul- the weakest rate in five months in October, said a banker working on the share er rival Antonveneta for 9 billion in tancy EY ITEM Club. The UK services PMI while British manufacturing surged unex- sale. “But the M&A solution will follow cash in 2007. sank to a 17-month low of 56.2 in October pectedly last month. —Reuters sometime next year.” Three banking sources said yester- Monte dei Paschi Chairman day the bank is now looking to raise Alessandro Profumo, appointed in as much as 2.5 billion euros - up from 2012 to try to turn the bank around 2.1 billion euros initially planned - India refiners complete after a costly acquisition in 2007 because that would allow it to pay drained its finances, told Reuters in an back the 1.1 billion euros of state $900m payment to Iran interview last week a merger was one loans it still owes. The bank’s board of the options under consideration. meets later on Wednesday and is NEW DELHI: Indian refiners completed according to the sources. Indian refiners UBI has said it has had “no contact expected to approve the rights issue, payment of $900 million in frozen oil settle 45 percent of their oil payment to whatsoever” with Monte dei Paschi which bankers lining up to under- revenues to Iran yesterday under an Iran in rupees through a local bank, on a possible deal but bankers say a write the deal said will likely take interim deal that eased some sanctions while they continue to hold on to the tie-up with a mid-sized Italian player place in early 2015. against Tehran over its disputed nuclear remainder that are remitted to Tehran such as UBI was politically more palat- Global coordinators for the rights work, said industry sources with direct under the interim deal. Iran uses the able because it would avoid the sort issue would be UBS and Citigroup - knowledge of the matter. Iran and the fund in rupee accounts to pay for of large job cuts that would be trig- which Monte Paschi has hired to United States, China, France, Germany, imports from India. gered from a takeover by bigger advise it on strategic options - as well Britain and Russia agreed in July to The payments are made using an banks such as Intesa Sanpaolo and as Goldman Sachs and Mediobanca, extend the initial six-month interim existing mechanism based on a series Unicredit. one banker on the deal said. Barclays, accord to Nov. 24 after they failed to of back-to-back transactions in different Other banks that have been Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, agree a final resolution to their dispute currencies that are initially channelled flagged as potential bidders include Societe Generale, Commerzbank and before the deadline. through the Reserve Bank of India. Iran Spain’s Santander and France’s BNP Deutsche Bank would act as Tehran would have to curb its will eventually get the payment in PARIS: French Economy and Industry minister Emmanuel Paribas but they have both denied bookrunners. Banks that underwrite nuclear work to ensure it cannot be dirhams from the United Arab Emirates’ Macron leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet they are interested. The possibility of the sale will buy any stock that is left applied to weapons in exchange for central bank. meeting yesterday in Paris. —AFP a deal would encourage hedge funds unsold. —Reuters removal of the sanctions that have hob- Tough sanctions put in place in 2012 bled its oil-based economy by cutting have reduced Iran’s exports by more off the flow of payments for its crude than half from around 2.5 million bar- exports. “The first instalment of $400 rels per day (bpd). Iran’s biggest oil Asia’s richest man buys 60 aircraft in $2.5bn deals million was cleared last month and clients - China, India, Japan and South today the companies paid the second Korea - imported 6.6 percent less in HONG KONG: A property flagship led by Asia’s Tuesday said that the plan was to buy the Boeing vate airlines, helping fuel demand for aircraft. The instalment of $500 million,” said one of September than a year ago, the first on- richest tycoon Li Ka-shing said yesterday it plans and Airbus aircraft from GE Capital Aviation deals also include acquisitions worth $800 million the industry sources. year decline since December, but ship- to buy up to 60 passenger jets in a series of trans- Services Ltd, BOC Aviation Pte, Jackson Square made through a joint venture formed with a sub- The sources declined to be named ments rose back above the 1 million actions that amount to more than $2.5 billion. The Aviation, LLC, and MC Aviation Partners Inc. sidiary of Japanese Mitsubishi Corp, Dow Jones because they are not authorized to bpd mark allowed under the interim Hong Kong businessman made his first major for- The company confirmed yesterday that the reported. speak to the press. deal that eased Western sanctions. US ay into the aviation industry in August by total number of jets was around 60. The deals are Li commands a vast empire through Cheung In the second instalment of $500 Secretary of State John Kerry will meet announcing plans to buy into Irish aircraft leasing worth a total of more than $2.52 billion, Dow Kong Holdings and conglomerate Hutchison million, Mangalore Refinery and Iran’s foreign minister and the European group AWAS, and the new purchases expand his Jones Newswire reported. Whampoa, with global assets in property, tele- Petrochemicals Ltd and Essar Oil paid Union foreign policy chief in Oman on investments into a field that can yield stable and Li is reaching out to the sector as premium air- coms, utilities, ports and retail. In August, the around $220 million each, Indian Oil Nov 9-10 to discuss the Iranian nuclear long-term cash flow, analysts have said. lines cut costs amid fierce competition from a property flagship announced plans to purchase Corp about $60 million and Hindustan issue ahead of the Nov 24 deadline for a A filing written by Cheung Kong Holdings for growing number of budget carriers in Asia. Last Dublin-based AWAS in a $5 billion deal that Petroleum Corp about $5 million, final agreement. —Reuters the southern Chinese city’s Stock Exchange late year, China lifted a six-year ban on creating pri- involve 100 aircraft. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BUSINESS Rolls-Royce Motor Cars issues clarification

KUWAIT: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is issuing 2014 has been a year of growth for the following statement in order to clarify Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. The company confusion that has arisen in certain media recently announced the successful comple- following statements issued by Rolls-Royce tion of its recruitment campaign for 200 plc. new permanent jobs. The campaign was Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a completely launched in 2013 and followed on the distinct company from Rolls-Royce plc worldwide success of its new model, Wraith which manufactures engines for aircraft, and a growing demand for the company’s ships and land applications. Rolls-Royce unique Bespoke personalization offering. Motor Cars is a wholly- owned subsidiary of More than 1,500 people are now employed the BMW Group, Munich and commenced at the Home of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars at business on 1 January 2003 at its new glob- Goodwood, England. al production facility situated on the The recruitment campaign is further evi- Goodwood Estate near Chichester in West dence of Rolls-Royce’s commitment to Sussex. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars manufac- manufacturing in Great Britain. Earlier this tures the world’s pinnacle super-luxury month, the company announced that a new automobiles including the Phantom, Ghost Technology and Logistics Centre will be and Wraith range of models. built at Bognor Regis, close to Goodwood. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars recently The new 30,000m2 centre will consolidate a announced that it is on track for a record number of current technical and logistics year in 2014. The company is poised to functions and allow for future expansion. deliver a record of over 4,000 super-luxury Around 200 people will be employed at the motor cars, making 2014 the fifth consecu- Centre, with a number of new roles created tive record year and the highest in the mar- in addition to those transferred from exist- que’s history. This is underlined by the com- ing logistics functions. The Technology and pany’s latest sales figures, with Rolls-Royce Logistics Centre is planned to be fully oper- Motor Cars increasing worldwide sales by ational in early 2016. Rolls-Royce Motor 24.3 percent year-to-date over the same Cars continues to see strong customer period in 2013. demand for the company’s super-luxury Torsten, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls- cars, with significant customer orders for Royce Motor Cars, said, “I am very pleased the recently announced Ghost Series II. to see that we are on target for another Wraith has been a major success in the record year. This result is based on a bal- super-luxury segment, setting new, con- WILMINGTON: Christi Ferretti, co-owner and chef of Pine Valley Market, cuts kale at the market in Wilmington. The Institute for Supply anced global business picture and is testa- temporary style and technology leadership Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, issued its index of non-manufacturing activity for October yesterday.—AP ment to our stated objective of long-term, benchmarks. Both models complement the sustainable growth. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars pinnacle performance of the incomparable is a British manufacturing success story and Rolls-Royce Phantom while Bespoke pro- the world’s leading manufacturer of luxury duction continues at record levels across all goods.” model families. Qatar Airways introduces CBK cancels issuing ‘global promotion week’ KD120m worth bonds Airline offers savings of up to 25 percent on airfares

KUWAIT: CBK’s official spokesperson, KUWAIT: Qatar Airways has launched a global 2014 until 15th June 2015, customers can plan incredibly special fares over the next few days,” Ya’qoub Al-Ibrahim announced that the week-long sales promotion, offering customers and book their next holiday or business trip well said Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar bank’s supreme management decided in Kuwait great savings of up to 25 percent on in advance. Qatar Airways’ customers can avail of Al-Baker. cancelling KD 120 million-wroth second- airfares to destinations across Europe, Africa, this offer by visiting any Qatar Airways sales While flying with Qatar Airways, passengers ary bonds to be payable by 2024. Al- Asia Pacific, the Middle East and the Americas. office, appointed travel partners or qatarair- will also get to experience the world’s newest Ibrahim explained that the cancellation The discount of up to 25 percent is being ways.com/globalpromo. aviation hub, Hamad International Airport in was due to some legislative and techni- offered for return travel on Qatar Airways in all “Through this global promotion, we would Doha, a world-class facility that sets new bench- cal obstacles that came at the last classes for travel originating from Kuwait. Great like to extend our gratitude to our customers for marks and redefines the passenger and transit moments of the issue process. savings will also be available on holiday pack- their continued support and loyalty in choosing experience. Therefore, and out of CBK’s commit- ages booked with Qatar Airways Holidays during Qatar Airways as their preferred airline. This Qatar Airways has seen rapid growth in just ment to issue deadlines, there was no the promotion. exciting offer provides our passengers travelling 17 years of operation, to the point where today way out of the cancellation though Beginning at 00:00 AM (local time) on 3rd on leisure or business trips, an opportunity to it is flying a modern fleet of 139 aircraft to 145 many investors and shareholders had November, the ‘Global Promotion Week’ offer will visit more than 140 destinations worldwide on key business and leisure destinations across the expressed willingness to take part in rununtil10th November 2014. With a generous our rapidly expanding global network. We look Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, North America bidding for the bonds. Accordingly, six-month travel window from6th November forward to seeing them take advantage of these and South America. those investors are free of any such com- mitment. Nigeria faces twin currency, budget woes

Aer Lingus staff back LAGOS: A sharp drop in global oil prices has raised people, was spending too buoyantly when times quarter of 2013, and a lot of output is deferred dur- the twin spectres of a potential currency devalua- were good. ing shutdowns to fix pipelines. tion and budget shortfalls in Nigeria just as Africa’s “There was significant fiscal expansion since Such outages coupled with lower oil prices pension deal in biggest economy gears up for a closely fought and 2010 as they were used to much higher oil prices, caused government revenues to fall 16.5 percent in costly presidential election in February. which makes the current price really problematic,” September. A report by a national conference con- ‘milestone’ vote Nigeria, the continent’s top producer, relies on Samir Gadio, Head of Africa Strategy at Standard vened by President Jonathan in March, said the oil for only 14 percent of its gross domestic prod- Chartered Bank in London, said. country was losing an estimated $35 million a day DUBLIN: Aer Lingus employees approved GMT. “One of the main milestones has been uct (GDP) but crude makes up 95 percent of for- “You really wonder how they will cope if prices to oil theft. And because a degree of oil theft is proposals to plug the airline’s pension achieved today,” Chief Executive Christoph eign exchange and about 80 percent of govern- stay at $85-90 a barrel and sustain the existing widely assumed to be linked to political funding deficit yesterday, a major hurdle in resolv- Mueller told journalists at a briefing to ment revenues, both of which have shrunk rapidly position,” he said, adding that even with prices at needs, analysts assume it can only worsen as elec- ing an issue that analysts say has weighed announce new transatlantic routes. “We as Brent crude lost more than a quarter of its value $100 a barrel it would struggle. tions draw near. on the Irish carrier’s share price for years. have been waiting for this for five years.” since June. Foreign portfolio investors fearing In theory Nigeria saves money over the bench- The break-even level, the oil price needed to The scheme, which employees at Aer If the deal is approved by pension heavy losses on the currency have pulled out-the mark price in the Excess Crude Account (ECA), balance the budget, is significantly higher, well Lingus share with other aviation industry scheme trustees, the airline plans to ask main share index hit a 16-month low and the yield which builds up a buffer when times are good that over $100/bl, analysts say, with Renaissance Capital workers, has a deficit of more than 700 mil- shareholders to back the agreement in on government bonds rose 10 basis points yester- can be run down during commodity shocks. pegging it at $111/bl for 2014. lion euros ($874.16 million) compared to December. It also needs approval from the day. The naira has lost around 4 percent this year, Yet despite high oil prices the ECA fell to $4 bil- However, some economists say Nigeria is still a Aer Lingus’ market capitalisation of 800 mil- country’s pension authority. prompting the central bank to hold frequent addi- lion by September this year, according to the latest way from being in trouble. “(Nigeria) still has a pret- lion euros. The scheme has dogged Mueller since tional dollar sales and lower the limit on banks’ for- finance ministry figures, from a central bank esti- ty big degree of control over how the deficit Under the deal, which must still be he became chief executive in 2009 and its eign currency borrowing in efforts to prop it up. mate of $11.5 billion two years ago. changes. Spending plans will not necessarily be approved by regulators and shareholders, resolution would be a major milestone At around 167 to the dollar, it is well outside the In January this year, it was as low as $2.5 billion, curtailed ... From here until the election, I don’t Aer Lingus has offered to make a one-off ahead of his planned departure early next central bank’s target band of 3 percent plus or before efforts by the finance minister to build it think they have to cut (spending),” Cameron said. 191 million euro payment. The payment year. Aer Lingus reported a 19 percent rise minus 155 to the dollar. The last time it was in the back up. Nigeria’s budget tends to assume a con- Even with the oil savings account diminishing, does not apply to a separate pilots’ pension in third-quarter operating profit earlier yes- target range was in late January. Foreign reserves servative oil price but that is usually coupled with Nigeria has substantial commercial deposits that scheme. Just over 70 percent of eligible Aer terday in what it said was its strongest per- fell rapidly from a peak of $48.9 billion in May 2013 an overoptimistic production figure, particularly as could also cover any near-term shortfalls, he Lingus employees voted to approve the formance since the 2008 financial crisis. to just $36 billion in June. They have since a large volume of oil is stolen. added. In a global context in which many major deal in a ballot organized by the Irish It said it expected its full year operating rebounded slightly and are currently around $38.3 Nigeria’s 2015 draft budget framework assumes economies are struggling with debt, Nigeria is still Congress of Trade Unions, Aer Lingus said profit to be ahead of last year’s level of 61.1 billion. Despite these losses, analysts say that a an average oil price of $78 a barrel, up from $77.5 doing pretty well. Debt is below 2 percent of GDP in a statement. million euros, an upgrade from three devaluation before the elections, when President in the last budget, with an expected output of 2.27 or around $9 billion, Gadio at Standard Chartered Shares briefly surged 10 percent on the months ago when it said it expected to Goodluck Jonathan will seek a second term, would million barrels per day. That is lower than the 2014 said. “It’s the lowest of the frontier oil exporting news and were 7 percent ahead at 1440 match it. — Reuters be so unpopular that it’s unlikely unless oil prices, expectation but still above average reported levels countries after most was written off in 2005-2006,” now at $82 a barrel, tumble further and force the this year of 2 million-2.2 million bpd. he said. “In terms of sustainability, Nigeria’s external bank’s hand. A report by Chatham House last year said at debt is very low so there is very little risk of a “It will take some time of relatively low prices ... least 100,000 barrels per day was stolen in the first default.” —Reuters India, isolated, toughs it out before you see foreign reserves really being gob- bled up,” Matthew Searle, senior African analyst at in WTO food-stockpiling row Business Monitor International, said. “If oil prices fall further to the $60s or $70s a Harmony Gold considers NEW DELHI/GENEVA: India defied the been completely misunderstood because of barrel, then the central bank will become the main world yesterday in a row over food stockpil- unreasonable positioning by some of the source of dollars,” and will have to decide for how South African job cuts ing that has crippled attempts to reach a developed countries,” Finance Minister Arun long it can keep up the fight. global trade agreement, raising doubts that Jaitley told a World Economic Forum confer- At what point it throws in the towel is hard to JOHANNESBURG: South African miner Harmony continued to be problematic and management is backroom talks can reach a compromise ence in New Delhi. Jaitley repudiated sug- tell. Alan Cameron, London-based economist at Gold reported a further quarterly loss yesterday working on an alternative plan to return the mine before a Group of 20 summit this month. gestions that India was fundamentally Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank, thinks reserves and suggested it might have to cut jobs as it con- to profitability,” the company said. Chief Executive At the end of July, Prime Minister opposed to trade facilitation, which would would likely have to slide to close to $30 billion tends with a depressed gold price and opera- Graham Briggs implied that any restructuring at Narendra Modi pulled the plug on imple- entail easing port and customs procedures before a “last resort” devaluation would be consid- tional problems which include an escalating bat- the mine was likely to include job cuts. menting a so-called trade-facilitation deal and, by some estimates, add $1 trillion and ered. The last time the bank lowered its target tle with illegal miners. Unveiling its results for the “The plans at Kusasalethu we will be signing struck in Bali last year, linking it to the emo- 21 million jobs to the global economy. range for the currency was in late 2011 after the three months to end-September, the company off in the next few weeks ... We will have to go tive issue of rural poverty in his country of naira came under speculative attack and tight said losses narrowed by 78 percent to 226 million through a negotiating process with unions,” he 1.25 billion people. India wants to keep a Quiet diplomacy monetary policy failed to defend it. rand ($21 million), as production rose by 6 per- said on a conference call. so-called ‘peace clause’ that protects its India has begun backroom efforts to cent to just over 303,000 ounces. Under South African labour law companies huge state food purchases until the World break the deadlock, sending a top trade “Fiscal expansion” The company also benefited from an increase have to hold talks with unions if they plan lay- Trade Organization can strike a definitive ministry official to Geneva this week for In addition to a weak currency, Nigeria faces an in the rand gold price because of weakness in the offs. “If we look at job cuts, 50 percent of our costs deal on stockpiling. As originally envisaged talks with Azevedo and key WTO members. increasing squeeze on its government finances. domestic currency. The average gold price in the are on labour, so any major restructuring always in Bali, the clause would expire in four years. Trade diplomats said that there was no hint, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonko-Iweala told journal- quarter eased 0.5 percent to $1,282 an ounce but involves jobs and we have to look carefully at Critics say the food stockpiling amounts however, that a compromise could be ists last week that “Nigeria is not broke”, and ana- the rand/gold price rose 2 percent. But the cur- that,” Briggs said. He said Kusasalethu had not to paying farmers to produce food, which is reached on India’s demands, which have lysts agree the country is a long way from strug- rent quarter will be a tough one as the company made a profit since 2012 and the company had likely to lead to food surpluses that will get been vague and varied in the months since gling to meet its commitments. last week said it was closing its key Kusasalethu been “throwing a lot of resources at it to try and dumped on world markets. its veto. On Monday, Modi held a meeting of Yet a squeeze on funding is being felt. A source mine west of Johannesburg for two weeks to try improve the situation there.” The company said it New Delhi’s blockade has plunged the Indian trade ministry officials to discuss how at the national assembly said money for projects is to remove illegal miners who are believed to be currently employs 6,441 people at Kusasalethu, WTO into its worst crisis in two decades, the deadlock could be broken without com- not being dispersed as easily as before oil prices starting fires in the mine. including contractors. leading Director General Roberto Azevedo promising India’s food-security concerns. fell. An official at a construction company, who “The decision comes after a third under- Gold producers in general are caught in a bind to float the idea of abandoning the consen- “If India has to submit a proposal, it declined to be named, said payments for a number ground fire in October was started by illegal min- as prices tumble and costs climb. The spot price sus principle on which the 160-member would be presented at the right time,” a sen- of projects are in arrears. ers. Although no one was harmed in any of these fell to fresh four-year lows on Wednesday at group operates. Modi’s tough line jars with ior trade ministry official with direct knowl- Oil analysts do not anticipate Brent recovering fires, it did result in 10 production days lost in below $1,200 an ounce-a critical level that many the ‘Make in India’ pitch he has taken to edge of the matter told Reuters. India refus- to over $100/bl with an average of $93.70/bl October,” Harmony said in its results statement. analysts see as a “tipping point” that will cause investors abroad in his first five months in es to bow to foreign calls to scale back a expected in 2015. A production cut by the The company is especially sensitive about shaft closures. Any move to cut jobs at charge. Having failed to make progress on scheme to buy wheat and rice that it distrib- Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries safety after nine employees died in a fire in Kusasalethu could meet with stiff labour resist- trade when he met US President Barack utes to 850 million people. In a recent dis- (OPEC) seems unlikely. Oil producers have become February at its Doornkop mine. Harmony has also ance given the heavy presence at the mine of the Obama in Washington, he could find himself closure to the WTO, India said those pur- accustomed to high oil prices, which have held struggled to get Kusasalethu back to full produc- hardline Association of Mineworkers and isolated at his first G20 summit of world chases cost $13.8 billion in 2010-11 - part of largely above $100/bl since the Arab Spring in tion after shutting the mine for several weeks at Construction Union (AMCU), whose members leaders in Brisbane, Australia, on Nov 15-16. the $56.1 billion it spent in total on farm 2011, and all are having to adjust to the new cli- the start of 2013 because of labour violence root- have downed tools in the past at Anglo American “India’s position on trade facilitation has support.—Reuters mate, but Nigeria, with a population of 170 million ed in union rivalry. “Kusasalethu’s production has Platinum in protest at planned lay-offs. —Reuters technology THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Google going where no search engine has gone before: Singhal

NEW DELHI: Google search guru Amit “People always worry about change,” he Singhal watched the popular science-fic- Just as USS Enterprise Captain James Kirk speakers are already online and Google Singhal believes the search-engine of the said. “We have to teach people to swim with tion show obsessively growing up in India’s never had to type a question into the space- hopes the local-language website will add future will be “a perfect personal assistant”- the flow of technology, not swim against it,” Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. The series- ship’s computer, asking it questions aloud 300-million more Internet users. knowing what you want, when you want it. he said. “There were worries about the Singhal viewed repeats so often he knew the instead, Singhal sees searches heading in the Singhal said the website in Hindi, India’s Although people can travel to the moon’s Gutenberg printing press-that it would dialogue by heart gave him a dream about a same way with better voice recognition. most widely spoken language, would make surface without leaving their armchairs, destroy the beauty of the spoken word, but future where a computer like the one on the Singhal was in New Delhi to announce the Internet “more accessible for people like search-engine developments so far are just we’re far better off with the knowledge it’s starship Enterprise could provide any infor- launch of Google’s new Hindi-language con- my mom” who’s more comfortable in Hindi “baby steps” to “the holy grail of search”, brought,” he said. “People worried TV would mation immediately. And life has given tent website. than in English. “Knowledge is empower- Singhal told AFP in a rare interview. Singhal, stop people reading books but that hasn’t Singhal, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Nearly all of India’s 198-million English ment,” he said. —AFP 44, has already brought transformational happened,” he noted. “The Internet has made Institute of Technology and Cornell change to the Internet since he took over people more productive-removing barriers to University, the chance to help develop just development of Google’s search engine in getting information,” he said. Search is at the that kind of technology. 2000, when the web was still relatively limit- core of Google, which fields millions of ques- “I imagined a future where a starship ed and access achingly slow. tions a day in more than 110 languages. computer would be able to answer any ques- The “Google fellow”-the title the California Singhal’s vision has helped make it the tion I might ask, instantly.” “We’re closer to company bestows on its top thinkers-sees a most visited search engine globally, as well as that dream than I ever thought possible dur- world of “knowledge on demand” before one of the planet’s most profitable compa- ing my working life,” said Singhal, adding that people even know they want it, as speech nies. he was “blessed to do something I love”. recognition, language understanding, touch “These are immensely exciting times” with Singhal is in charge of what Google calls technology and computer advances com- search technology “going through an expo- its “search algorithms”, which decide how bine. nential period” of change, he said. “Ultimately best to retrieve information and answer ques- The search engine of the future will be the I believe this will give mankind healthier, hap- tions. “perfect personal assistant giving you benefit pier lives, not just through wearable technol- His team tests thousands of search algo- of all technical knowledge, enhancing your ogy, but the sum total of information that will rithms every year, adjusting, tweaking and thought processes”, he said. be within our reach to improve lives.” inventing. The key is ranking information, giv- Singhal dismisses criticism by some scien- ing the most pertinent answer first. The more NEW DELHI: Google Senior Vice President Amit Singhal (left) poses with tists that having all the information at peo- ‘Trekkie’ fan Google keeps users happy, the better it is Indian Minister for Information and Broadcast Prakash Javadekar during ple’s fingertips could create lazy minds, short- When Singhal talks about his technologi- able to beat competition from Yahoo and the launch of Google’s Hindi language website hinduweb.in, in New ening attention spans and reducing capacity cal inspiration and the future of search other sites, and also draw lucrative advertise- Delhi yesterday. —AFP to remember information. engines, he smiles and says: “Star Trek.” ment to its pages. Survey: People text and drive knowing dangers AT&T embarks on anti-texting-and-driving campaign

WASHINGTON: Nearly everyone said they want to “stay connected” while texting, killing two people. smartphones “the world’s smallest agrees that texting and driving is to friends, family and work. Nearly Today, he speaks out against slot machines” because they affect dangerous. Most people do it any- a third did it out of habit. texting and driving. “It’s some- the brain in similar ways that gam- way. In a new survey, 98 percent of Among other reasons for tex- thing I struggle with every day,” he bling or drugs can. Dopamine lev- motorists who own cellphones ting and driving: Twenty-eight per- said. “I know that I need to go out els increase as you anticipate mes- and text regularly said they were cent said they are worried about and talk to others about it. I don’t sages, and that leads to higher aware of the dangers, yet three- missing out of something impor- want others to make the same levels of pleasure. Getting desir- quarters of them admitted to tex- tant if they don’t check their mistake I did.” Shaw does not able messages can increase ting while driving, despite laws phones right away. remember what he was texting dopamine levels further. against it in some states. Two- about right before the accident. While all distractions can be thirds said they have read text Performance Back then, he said, “being on my dangerous, much of the focus has messages while stopped at a red More than a quarter believes phone when I drove was some- been on texting and driving, light or stop sign, while more than that their driving performance is thing I did all the time. It was just Greenfield said, because “it’s a quarter said they have sent texts not affected by texting, and just as driving to me. I guess you’d call it ongoing and because there is an while driving. many people said they believe ignorance but I never understood anticipatory aspect to it.” More than a quarter of the tex- ting drivers believed they “can eas- ily do several things at once, even while driving.” The telephone sur- vey of 1,004 US adults was released yesterday by AT&T Inc as DON MUENG: Swedish co-founder of the Pirate Bay website Fredrik Neij part of an anti-texting-and-driving (left), 36, is taken by Thai immigration police officers at Don Mueng airport, campaign. AT&T designed the sur- to an immigration detention centre in Bangkok yesterday. —AFP vey with David Greenfield, founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction and a pro- Swedish co-founder of Pirate fessor at the University of Connecticut’s School of Medicine. Bay whisked to Thai capital The survey came as AT&T expanded availability of a free app BANGKOK: The Swedish co-founder of The ‘Easy to spot him ‘ that silences text message alerts Pirate Bay website was hauled to Bangkok Neij’s lawyer said his client moved to Asia and activates automatically when a yesterday following his arrest in northeast before his conviction and often reported person is moving 15 miles (24 kilo- Thailand, with police from Stockholm wait- back to Sweden for court dates and then meters) per hour or faster. ing to press for his deportation to serve a during an appeal against the sentence in (Passengers can turn it off.) The jail term for copyright infringement. 2010. DriveMode app is coming to Fredrik Neij, 36, was stopped late But he fled to Laos after before the appeal iPhones after being previously avail- Monday at the border with Laos wearing court reached its verdict, living a low-key life able on Android and BlackBerry the same short-sleeved shirt as in a wanted in the capital Vientiane with his Laotian wife. phones for AT&T users only. poster issued to immigration officials by the “He lived a normal family life,” his lawyer The iPhone version will be avail- Swedish embassy. Neij was accompanied by Jonas Nilsson told AFP, adding he has several able to customers of competing several Thai police officers as he arrived at children. Thailand and Sweden do not have carriers as well, but some func- Bangkok’s second airport, his hands an extradition deal but have agreed to work tions will work only on AT&T restrained and covered by a folded T-shirt. to deport him swiftly. devices. He will be detained for an unknown peri- Further details of his arrest emerged yes- The study in May was of cell- phone owners ages 16 to 65 who DALLAS: A man uses his cell phone as he drives through traffic in Dallas. In a new survey, 98 per- od of time in Bangkok before being “hand- terday after he was spotted at the Nong cent of motorists who own cellphones and text regularly were aware of the dangers, yet three- ed over to Swedish authorities,” Police Khai border, where immigration staff said drive almost every day and text at Colonel Panlop Suriyakul na Ayutthaya said. he was wearing the same distinctive shirt as least once a day. It has a margin of quarters of them admit to texting while driving, despite laws against it in some states. —AP Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay allows in the photo circulated to them. “It was sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 users to dodge copyright fees and share easy to spot him,” policeman Panlop said, percentage points. Researchers that others expect them to that it was dangerous. How could Greenfield said people should music, film and other files using bit torrent adding Neij had lived in Laos for at least conducted surveys with people on respond to texts “right away.” me being on the phone cause a not use their phone at all while technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on three years but had entered Thailand 27 their cellphones, and it’s possible Just 6 percent answered that car accident?” driving, but acknowledges that the site. times. those who would have picked up they are “addicted to texting,” Today, his phone is off when this might not be realistic. Apps, Neij was the last of the original founders He is believed to own a property in the on a landline might have different although 14 percent admitted that he’s driving. Never in the past public education and laws that of The Pirate Bay, still used by millions Thai resort area of Phuket.”He said he is attitudes. they are “anxious” if they don’t eight years since the accident, he ban texting and driving, he said, across the globe, to remain at large after a merely a computer programmer,” Panlop Greenfield said the survey is the respond to a text right away, and says, has he gotten a phone call or will all help change people’s 2009 conviction. His arrest is a symbolic said. Neij is the second of The Pirate Bay’s latest to show a discrepancy 17 percent feel “a sense of satisfac- text message that was so impor- behavior, just as anti-drunken- blow to a global community of online shar- founders to go to ground in Southeast Asia between people’s attitudes and tion” when they can read or tant that it couldn’t wait until he driving laws and public education ers of films and music, which the movie and following their conviction. Warg vanished behaviors. It found a broad range respond to a text message. stopped the car. Greenfield, who campaigns have reduced drunk- music industry decries as systemic theft after failing to attend a 2010 appeal hearing of reasons why drivers text. Forty- Reggie Shaw was 19 in 2006 studies the effects of digital tech- en driving over the past few that costs billions in lost revenue each year. in Sweden-meaning his one year sentence three percent of the texting drivers when he caused a car accident nology on the brain, likes to call decades. —AP The site’s founders Neij, Gottfrid was upheld-while an international warrant Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were con- was issued for his arrest. victed in 2009 and sentenced to a year in He was deported from Cambodia in the jail for promoting copyright infringement autumn of 2012 after Swedish authorities Emojis tackle racial diversity with the website. Site financier Carl tracked him down and was later handed Lundstroem was also handed a year in over to Denmark, where he stood trial for prison. hacking the files of a technology company as WASHINGTON: Those odd characters on your “Of course, there are many other types of engineers wrote in the document. All of them apart from Warg had their well as the police force. On Sunday he was emails and text messages are about to see diversity in human appearance besides different “It is beyond the scope of Unicode to provide sentences reduced on appeal. But they sentenced to three-and-half-years in jail in more diversity-sending a message that humani- skin tones: Different hair styles and color, use of an encoding-based mechanism for representing were also ordered to pay a total of 46 mil- Denmark after he was found guilty of “hack- ty comes in many colors. New draft guidelines eyeglasses, various kinds of facial hair, different every aspect of human appearance diversity lion kronor ($6.9 million) in damages for ing and aggravated vandalism”. In late May released Tuesday by the computing industry body shapes, different headwear, and so on,” the that emoji users might want to indicate.” —AFP copyright infringement to the music and this year, Sunde was arrested in southern consortium Unicode offer a broader range of movie industry. Sweden after two years on the run. —AFP options for emojis, the ideograms used for vari- ous visual messages sent online. Google Glass may obstruct “People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, espe- peripheral vision: Study LG and Google strike cially for skin tone,” said the latest draft released by Google’s Mark Davis and Apple’s Peter WASHINGTON: People wearing Google Glass obstruction in the upper right quadrant.” Edberg. may experience significant blind spots on their The blockage was due to the thick strip of patent-sharing deal “The Unicode emoji characters for people right side, which could interfere with tasks such material along the right side of the wearable and body parts are meant to be generic, yet fol- SEOUL: LG Electronics said yesterday it developing new products and technolo- as driving, crossing the street and playing sports, device, not due to any distraction by the soft- lowing the precedents set by the original had signed a long-term cross-license gies that enhance consumers’ lives,” said US researchers said Tuesday. Only three people ware, the scientists said. Three men were part of Japanese carrier images, they are often shown deal with Google as the South Korean J. H. Lee, executive vice president and were included in the analysis of the technology- the study. All had 20/20 vision. Visual tests, as with a light skin tone instead of a more generic firm tries to expand its smartphone head of the LG’s intellectual property which provides online access via a tiny screen well as an analysis of 132 images on the Internet (inhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange business. centre. attached to a spectacle frame-published in the of Google Glass being worn by consumers, color or a silhouette.” The deal covers patents on a “broad Almost all of LG’s popular smart- Journal of the American Medical Association. showed that the gear lined up with people’s The new guidelines offer characters “based range of products and technologies” phones, tablet computers and smart- The findings showed “significant” obstruction eyes in such a way that it obstructed their field on the six tones of the Fitzpatrick scale,” a stan- that already exist and will be filed in the watches are powered by Android soft- in peripheral vision on the right side, where the of view. In the study, wearers took visual tests dard used in dermatology. Emojis were initially next 10 years, the two firms said in a ware made by the US tech giant. device is mounted, the article said. with the Google Glass in place, and then again developed in Japan but later adopted into joint statement. LG-currently the world’s fourth- Researchers said further study in a larger wearing conventional eyeglass frames. global computing standards for use in electron- Samsung-LG’s home rival and the largest smartphone maker-struggled for pool of wearers is needed. “To our knowledge, “Conventional spectacle frames can reduce visu- ic messages around the world. world’s top smartphone maker-earlier years with sluggish sales after making a this is the first evaluation of the effect of wear- al field, sometimes causing absolute blind spots, The symbols may include anything from a struck a similar deal with Google in late entry into the market. But it recently able electronics with head-mounted display on and head≠mounted devices have even more yellow heart to a lollipop, but many are based January. “LG values its relationship with showed signs of revival with its flagship vision,” wrote the team of investigators at the pronounced frames,” the article said. Google on smiley faces. The proposed changes still Google, and this agreement under- G3 smartphones, while its bigger rival University of California, San Francisco. “The Glass became available in the United States in need approval from the Unicode consortium, scores both companies’ commitment to Samsung saw profits sag. —AFP device created a clinically meaningful visual field May for a price of $1,500. —AFP but if adopted could take effect in mid-2105. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Nature cure option for lifestyle diseases: Expert

By Sajeev K Peter for half-an-hour daily in the morning and evening, you can avoid diabetic medicines. KUWAIT: “If we can cure a disease with the This is by adopting natural hygienic systems. help of natural sources, why can’t we do It is called heliotherapy, a natural radiation that,” asks a naturopathy doctor who says method used in naturopathy to cure diabet- nature can cure many lifestyle diseases. Dr T M Kareem, director and chief physician, Health School of Naturopathy & Yoga, Calicut, said naturopathy as an alternative medical system is gaining popularity world- wide today with many people adopting it to improve their lifestyle. Dr Kareem arrived in Kuwait to deliver a speech at the Valaikudy Vanambadikal Poets Association, Kuwait’s celebration at the Indian Embassy auditori- um today evening. Elaborating the method- ology, he said “The system of healing a dis- ease without the use of medicine is what is called nature cure. Fasting, dietary regula- tions, nutritious food, pure water, fresh air, application of clay, sunlight, physical exer- cise, prayer, forbearance etc are the healing Dr T M Kareem devices used in naturopathy,” he said. ics. “Also, mud treatment can remove pain Lifestyle diseases and toxins and deposited waste from your Dr Kareem, who has been practicing body. Applying mud pack also can help acti- naturopathy for the last 20 years, claimed vate your dead cells in pancreas and rejuve- that many diseases especially lifestyle disor- nate it to produce insulin,” he said. der diseases can be cured with the help of nature cure. “Diseases such as diabetes, Origin hypertension, heart block, stomach dis- It was since AD 1800s, when the eases, pains, mucous disorders/asthma, skin American and German health scientists put diseases etc, can effectively be treated in forth the theory of treating diseases without naturopathy, “ he said. medicines, naturopathy began to be accept- In naturopathic system of treatment, ed as treatment. Dr Benedict Lust of PORTLAND: Supporters for the legalization of marijuana celebrate at the Measure 91 party at Holocene night club in Portland. patients are made to observe fasting, their Germany is known as the father of naturopa- Oregon voters legalized recreational pot use on Tuesday, making the state the third to approve the drug for commercial sales. —AP bodies are covered with mud, they are made thy. Today, naturopathy gained wide popu- to drink pure water and laid in that, laid in larity and recognition in American and the sun and made to do some physical exer- European countries. “The father of Indian cise. “We try to bring the body back to its naturopathy is Mahatma Gandhi,” says Dr US vote shows increased natural state and keep it aloof from harmful Kareem. “He was very much fascinated by drugs,” he said. According to Dr Kareem, naturopathy while he was in South Africa. On naturopathy is the child of the scientific arrival back in India, he became its propo- inference that we can lead a healthy life free nent and practitioner. Sabarmathi Ashram support for legalizing pot from diseases by utilizing air, water, soil and was the birthplace of naturopathy in India. sunlight. “What naturopathy aims is to do Gandhiji established a treatment center at justice to the human nature and to be in the place called Uruleekanchan,” he harmony with its surrounding nature,” he informed. In India today, the government has Alaska set to decriminalize pot said. been spending millions of rupees every year Giving a few tips on cure of hypertension, for the encouragement and propagation Dr Kareem said, “Keep a wet pack on the naturopathy. “Today, 13 medical colleges in LOS ANGELES: Washington, DC and Oregon great day for ending the war on drugs in the person was rejected by 64 percent to 36 per- patient’s head. Or keep both his/her feet in India offer a five-year medical degree course voted to legalize marijuana Tuesday, as across District of Columbia,” said Malik Burnett, a lead- cent of voters. In North Dakota pro-abortion water for sometime. Within seconds, hyper- on naturopathy,” he said. Dr Kareem has visit- the United States referendums were held on ing campaigner. “The District of Columbia was voters also won by 64 percent to 36 percent. tension will come down,” he claimed. ed GCC countries like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, issues ranging from gay marriage to abortion, the birth place of the war on drugs, and mari- Firearms measures were voted on in Alabama, “Similarly, if you are ready to take sun rays the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar. on the sidelines of midterm elections. Alaska juana prohibition was the engine of the war on Missouri and Washington state, where there also appeared set to decriminalize pot, accord- drugs. Today we are putting the engine out of were two opposing ballots: one making it ing to partial results posted as the long election commission,” he added. Alaskans also don’t tougher to buy a gun by imposing background night drew to a close in the far northwest of the think marijuana should remain criminalized: checks, and the other seeking to ban exactly US Ebola researchers plead country. Oregon and the US capital provided a with 44 percent of precincts counted, the Yes that measure. Eight towns and cities voted on new high for the marijuana lobby, two years vote had 52.6 percent compared to 47.4 per- anti-fracking proposals. The extraction of oil for access to virus samples after two other western US states, Colorado cent opposed to legalizing pot. and gas from shale via hydraulic fracturing has and Washington, led the way in approving Florida meanwhile appeared to have failed boosted US oil production, but critics fear its CHICAGO: Scientists across the United States Research Institute in La Jolla, California, directs cannabis for recreational use. to approve a measure allowing marijuana for impact on the environment. say they cannot obtain samples of Ebola, com- scientists working on Ebola treatments, such as In other referendum results, voters approved medical purposes. Some 57 percent voted in Several towns and cities voted on measures plicating efforts to understand how the virus is the three-antibody cocktail ZMapp, made by increases in the minimum wage in states favor, less than the 60 percent required for the against genetically modified organisms mutating and develop new drugs, vaccines and privately-held Mapp Biopharmaceutical. She including Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska and South proposal to pass, partial results showed. (GMOs). Referendums in Oregon and Colorado diagnostics. The problems reflect growing cau- said in an e-mail she needs special cells from Dakota, according to partial results posted Marijuana was just one subject being voted on, sought to make it mandatory to label food con- tion by regulators and transport companies Ebola survivors but has not been able to get online. On marijuana, Washington, DC along with everything from abortion to gay taining GMOs. On a lighter note, in California a about handling Ebola as well as the limited any. Dr James Crowe, director of the Vaccine approved the measure by 65 percent in favor marriage and GMOs to bear-baiting, in state measure proposed in San Francisco and resources of West African countries which are Center at Vanderbilt University, is collaborating and 28 percent against, while Oregon passed and local referendums held in the sidelines of Berkeley would impose a tax of one cent per struggling to help thousands of infected citi- with Mapp on ZMapp, and has had problems as by 54 percent to 46 percent. “More and more the US midterm elections. Same-sex marriage, centiliter on sugary beverages, in a bid to com- zens. Ten scientists from eight major research well. Crowe said he may soon get some samples people are realizing that it makes sense to which is also in the process of being legalized bat obesity and other health problems. Voters institutions contacted by Reuters reported they from US Ebola survivors through Emory choose licensed, regulated, and taxed marijua- by many US states, was put to a referendum in in Alaska were consulted on a proposal to ban were unable to get Ebola samples in recent University, after going to great lengths to get na businesses over the drug cartels,” said Mike Arizona, which amended its constitution to mining activity if it endangers wild salmon. months. them. Crowe said a mutation in a key area of the Elliott, head of the Colorado-based Marijuana outlaw it five years ago. Another hot button Also aiming to protect animals, the East Coast Tulane University, one of the institutions, virus “could compromise the utility of the drug,” Industry Group. issue, abortion, was on the ballot in Colorado, state of Maine was asked to ban the use of food received samples this week, and the US Centers adding that there is no evidence that such On the streets of the US capital, pro-marijua- North Dakota and Tennessee. to bait bears, in particular using cold pizza and for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it changes have occurred. Mapp did not respond na campaigners were in jubilant form. “This is a In Colorado a proposal to define a fetus as a donuts as lures. —AFP has reached an agreement to get live speci- to a request for comment. mens, but it is not clear if new supplies will satis- Importing Ebola virus into the United States fy demand, and transport remains challenging. has always been tricky, said Dr John Schieffelin Ebola mutates as it spreads, and while few of Tulane, who has treated Ebola patients in Japan tells China to stop expect it to acquire the ability to transmit Sierra Leone. It has become even more difficult through air, for instance, scientists require a con- since the case of Thomas Duncan, the first per- stant supply of fresh samples to track these son diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, alleged coral poaching changes. The samples hold up is not likely to stoked fears that the country could see its own delay the development of experimental treat- outbreak. Duncan died in a Dallas hospital on ments. But if the virus undergoes significant Oct 8. “You can divide the outbreak into pre- changes that go undetected, the drugs and Dallas and post-Dallas,” Schieffelin said. TOKYO: Japan’s foreign minister has urged tests might not work, researchers said. “Everybody has safety as a very, very high priori- China to take measures to stop Chinese fish- Microbiologist and infectious disease expert ty, which is great. But sometimes the fear and ermen from poaching red coral in Japanese Dr Charles Chiu of the University of California, hysteria trumps science.” waters. Fumio Kishida said Tuesday that as San Francisco, needs samples from Ebola many as 200 Chinese fishing boats were seen patients to develop a new genetic test that A rare success last Thursday near populated Japanese could detect the disease in infected individuals This week, Tulane received a shipment of as before symptoms appear. “No one really knows many as 900 blood samples from Ebola patients islands, 440 kilometers (270 miles) south of right now what has the virus mutated to or if it in Sierra Leone, capping several weeks of effort. Tokyo Bay, and Japan had complained to has mutated,” he said. Without that research, Tulane microbiologist Robert Garry believes the China about it. “we’re not going to be able to determine in university’s decade-long relationship with the The boats have been sailing north from advance whether or not it has changed to a form Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation near the Ogasawara islets, 1,800 kilometers where it might evade diagnostic assays or might was key to getting that access. Even so, export- south of Japan’s mainland, since mid- render current vaccines or drugs ineffective.” ing the samples from Sierra Leone required September. Their movement toward the Scientists say Liberia, Guinea and Sierra approval from an ethics committee, the minister more populated Izu islets and the mainland Leone have been slow to release samples as of health and the president. On the US side, has raised concerns of Japanese residents. they fight to contain the worst Ebola outbreak importing samples of Ebola required a permit on record which has killed about 5,000 people. from the CDC and passage through US customs. Kishida said five poaching-related arrests Laurie Garrett, the senior fellow for global health The researchers switched shipping compa- have been made since September. The ille- at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, nies after one refused to carry Ebola, missed a gally gathered red coral can fetch high said the issue is largely, and appropriately, about flight which did not have room for cargo, and prices on the black market in China. safe transport, especially in the wake of the had to bring dry ice to Africa to pack the sam- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman recent mishandling of pathogens such as ples, which were killed with a double shot of an Hua Chunying said Monday that the illegal anthrax at US government laboratories. “All the inactivating agent, plus a shot of ethanol for harvesting of red coral was prohibited and companies working on vaccines, diagnostics good measure. Tulane researchers will extract that Chinese authorities would keep and treatments are complaining about lack of RNA from the samples and ship them to collab- TORISHIMA ISLAND: This aerial photo shows vessels believed to be Chinese boats off enhancing supervision and law enforce- access to viral samples,” of Ebola, she said. orators at Harvard University and the Broad Institute, which plan to sequence the genetic Torishima island, one of the Izu Islands, Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio ment. Japanese Defense Minister Akinori Kishida has urged China to take measures to stop Chinese fishermen from poaching Key research code of the virus and track the mutations taking Eto said the coast guard and police were Erica Ollmann Saphire of the Scripps place. —Reuters red coral in Japanese waters. —AP handling the matter. —AP

Shipping lines apply ‘Ebola clause’ to fend off virus risks

SAN FRANCISCO: US Agriculture Secretary tions. All but one of the state’s 58 counties are showers each morning with the hose. “When more storage facilities. California Gov Jerry Tom Vilsack visited drought-stricken home- now federally designated disaster areas you get up in the morning and turn the water Brown also is pushing for heavy investment to owners on Friday in Central California, saying because of the drought, making farmers and on, you wonder if the water is going to come secure state water service, including a pro- drought and climate change would require ranchers eligible for emergency loans, accord- out,” Overby told the agriculture secretary. The posed $15 billion to build giant tunnels to car- major investment to secure future water sup- ing to the agriculture department. new drought spending is intended to help ry water from the San Francisco Bay Area to plies. Vilsack also announced $9.7 million in Outside the small city of Farmersville in secure water supplies for 73,000 Californians in the state’s water-thirsty south. The Obama new emergency drought aid to help rural Tulare County, 60-year-old Carlen Overby told 11 counties. Recipients include Farmersville, administration says it has designated more Californians hurt by the state’s three-year Vilsack the running water in her home now where a $500,000 grant will connect residents than $50 million in drought-related aid for drought. A drought monitor sponsored by the came via a garden hose connected to a neigh- who have dry wells to a water main. California. Projects include supporting climate- federal government says 81 percent of the bor’s well, the Fresno Bee reported. Vilsack called drought and climate change a change research hubs to seek ways to ease the state is experiencing major agricultural losses (http://bit.ly/1zRY2Uq). Overby’s own well, like major national concern. He said the country impact. The University of California, Davis, is a and widespread water shortages or restric- others in her area, had gone dry. She now will have to invest in infrastructure, including designated “sub-hub” for that research. —AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Coastal California residents using far less water

SACRAMENTO: Residents in coastal showers as the likelihood of drought Diego and San Jose, are using between use in September compared to the year Statewide monthly water use in communities use far less water than their conditions worsening rises. The data 79 and 92 gallons a day. In densely- before. Regions with the lowest per-capi- September fell 10 percent compared to inland counterparts, but still find ways to released Tuesday shows big disparities in packed San Francisco where lawns are ta water use, however, are reporting the same month in 2013, according to conserve even more, residential per- water habits. Regional water use differ- rare, residents use 46 gallons a day. In some of the biggest drops in monthly self-reporting by nearly 400 water agen- capita water use figures released for the ences range from 84 gallons per-person, the wealthy 5,000-person community of water use. The San Francisco Bay Area cies. But that’s down from an 11.5 per- first time Tuesday show. The State Water per-day in the San Francisco Bay Area to Cowan Heights in Orange County, water region decreased water use by 15 per- cent decline reported for August. Water Resources Control Board is collecting 252 in the Colorado River basin, which use is more than 569 gallons a day. “If cent despite already having the lowest officials say residents need to conserve per-capita data to better target conser- includes San Bernardino and Riverside. you have a place with a really high per per-capita consumption in the state. more. “Some rain and cooler weather are vation efforts as farms go fallow and The figures exclude industrial, agricultur- capita (water use) and use is flat, it raises Cities and local water agencies are welcome relief, but they don’t mean the reservoirs dry up. Gov Jerry Brown called al and business water users. the question of what’s going on and is required to report the figures under drought is over, not by a longshot,” said on Californians to reduce water use by Median per-capita water use is 131, there more that’s being done there,” said emergency regulations approved by the Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the state 20 percent when he declared a drought according to estimates from 351 suppli- Max Gomberg, senior environmental sci- water board in July. Those regulations water board. “By far, conservation is still emergency in January. ers serving roughly 33 million entist with the water board. also included mandatory outdoor water the most cost effective and common Californians are being asked to let Californians. Residents in California’s Cowan Heights, for example, reported restrictions backed up with the threat of sense way to meet our water needs dur- their lawns go brown and take shorter three largest cities, Los Angeles, San just a 2 percent drop in monthly water up to $500 fines for violations. ing this prolonged drought.” —AP

Atomic test site returned Slow-moving Lava spares to the Aboriginal owners

SYDNEY: Defense land used by Britain to Nuclear Tests in Australia. While the land headstone in cemetery test atomic bombs was returned to its was formally handed back to the tradi- traditional Australian Aboriginal owners tional owners in 2009, access was yesterday, with the area set to be devel- restricted as it was within the defense HONOLULU: As slow-moving lava approached a ceme- oped as a tourist site. Handover of the training area. The unrestricted access tery in a rural Hawaii town, Aiko Sato placed flowers at 1,782 square kilometers of land to the would allow the land to be developed for the headstone of the family plot she’s tended to over Maralinga Tjarutja people was marked by tourism purposes, Indigenous Affairs the years, thinking it would be the last time she would a ceremony in the remote South Minister Nigel Scullion said. see it. “I made peace with myself,” Sato said Monday of Australian outback after it was excised Maralinga-Tjarutja general manager visiting the Pahoa Japanese Cemetery on Oct 23. A few from the Australian Defence Richard Preece said the traditional own- days later, lava smothered part of the cemetery and the Department’s Woomera training site. The ers would run tours around the site, with family believed the headstone had been buried. land, called “Section 400” was used by visitors able to explore the former test But a photo taken Oct. 28 by a scientist document- the British government for secretly test- areas. “We’re going to set up bus tours so ing the lava’s progress showed the headstone engraved ing atomic bombs in the 1950s and people can be taken around by Robin with the Sato name standing in a sea of black lava. “I 1960s. “The Maralinga Tjarutja people (the local caretaker), who is a walking feel like it’s a miracle,” said Sato, 63. “I know subsequent have waited far too long for this to encyclopaedia of Maralinga,” Preece told breakouts could cover the grave, but at least I know it become a reality,” Defense Minister David the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. survived, like, a first round.” The lava’s flow stalled over Johnston said in a statement. He added that the area still had some the weekend, remaining early Monday about 480 feet “Defense has adjusted its testing contamination but would be safe for visi- from Pahoa Village Road, which goes through down- activities to allow the removal of Section tors if they were escorted. “Most of the town. A breakout of the flow remained about 100 yards 400 from the Woomera Prohibited buildings there have been taken away from a house. Residents in the area have left or are Area.”The Australian government spent (but) some are still there and there’s a preparing to leave. Aus$100 million (US$87 million) rehabili- huge airstrip,” he said. “There’s lots of con- President Barack Obama signed a disaster declara- tating the contaminated site between crete slabs of course but the really inter- tion for the lava Monday, allowing for federal emer- 1993 and 2001 after recommendations esting area is where you can actually look gency help with issues such as repairs and restoration, by the Royal Commission into British at where all the tests were done.” —AFP Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s office said. Sato’s aunt, Eiko Kajiyama, 83, said she was heartbroken when she heard lava covered the cemetery. When she got the photo from the scientist, she hugged and thanked him, she Ebola talk show recalled. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory wouldn’t normally release such photos out of respect for the family of the deceased but provided the Sato family host detained with a copy after a chance encounter between the fam- ily and an observatory scientist, spokeswoman Janet FREETOWN: Sierra Leone said yesterday it against Baryoh but said anyone who Babb said in a statement. was holding a journalist in a maximum “obstructs, incites or has the tendency to “During their conversation, the scientist recalled that he had just seen the family headstone the night before security prison after a guest on his radio undermine the efforts of government” to and was able to provide information about its status,” show criticized President Ernest Bai fight the epidemic is liable for arrest. the statement said. “Days later, while looking through Koroma’s handling of the Ebola outbreak. Pademba Road was built for 324 inmates HVO’s photos, he realized that this particular image David Tam Baryoh, host of the weekly but currently houses around 1,200. showed the Sato headstone and offered to provide a “Monologue” program on the private Government health experts have linked copy to the family.” Kajiyama said it feels like Pele, the Citizen FM, was arrested on Tuesday and deaths among prisoners to acute malnu- Hawaiian volcano goddess, spared the headstone. sent to Freetown’s notorious Pademba trition, lack of hygienic conditions, malaria “We’re so thankful we know the tomb is still there.” Her Road jail. “The detention came from an and heart failure. Baryoh suffers from high sister and brother, who died as infants, are buried there, executive order which was signed by blood pressure, according to the Sierra along with the urns of her parents. Kajiyama knows a President Ernest Koroma and it was exe- Leone Association of Journalists, which breakout of the flow could later cover the cemetery. cuted by the police,” said government urged the authorities to provide “urgent And while her home is not in the lava’s path, she brac- spokesman Abdulai Bayratay. medical attention”. ing for the possibility it could reach her house. “I’m just HAWAII: Photo provided by the US Geological Survey shows the Sato head- “The president has the power to do The organization said Baryoh had been waiting, day by day,” she said. “With the lava, you don’t stone still standing in a sea of black lava in a cemetery in Pahoa, Hawaii. —AP this under the public order state of emer- examined in custody by a doctor who was know what’s happening.”—AP gency regulations which were approved recommending that he be placed in hos- by parliament in July.... In essence some pital “to avoid a crisis”. Sierra Leone is one freedom and civic freedoms have been of the nations worst affected by the Dozens more dead dogs found dumped in Japan curtailed.” The arrest followed Baryoh’s largest Ebola outbreak on record, with show being taken off air during a live more than 1,500 deaths.”Sierra Leone’s TOKYO: Japanese officials said yesterday that bodies are decaying badly,” the officer said. officials said yesterday. The whales came ashore broadcast on November 1, according to genuine state of emergency means that the number of bodies in a bizarre dog dumping “Police are investigating a possible link between at Ohiwa Harbor in the Bay of Plenty late the Committee to Protect Journalists critical thinking and public debate are case had reached nearly 70 animals, days after the case today and last week.” Jiji Press news Tuesday, prompting a major rescue effort involv- (CPJ), citing local media. Baryoh had inter- more important than ever. Locking away police launched a criminal investigation. agency reported last week the police suspect an ing volunteers and the local Maori community. viewed an opposition party spokesman journalists without charge helps nobody,” Authorities said they had found almost 30 more animal undertaker may have dumped the dogs, The Department of Conservation said 25 of the dead dogs, following the discovery last week of but authorities have only said they were “looking whales died and 11 had to be euthanised but who criticized Koroma and his govern- said Peter Nkanga, the CPJ’s west Africa 40 canine corpses by a river in the eastern part into various possibilities”. the rescuers successfully re-floated a group of ment’s handling of the Ebola outbreak. representative. “We call on President of the country. The newly discovered bodies 21, which swam out of the harbor to deeper Ernest Bai Koroma to ensure that David The host and his guest both also criticized were mainly small breeds, such as Chihuahuas 36 pilot whales die water. Mass pilot whale strandings are common Koroma’s intention to run for a third term Tam Baryoh is released immediately and and Toy Poodles, a local police officer said. The In another development, rescuers saved 21 in New Zealand, with scientists unclear about in office, according to local media. that journalists are allowed to do their site in Tochigi prefecture is some 20 kilometers pilot whales that stranded on a New Zealand why the marine mammals swim ashore in large Bayratay didn’t specify the charges jobs freely.” —AFP (12 miles) from the original dumping site. “The beach but 36 of the animals died, conservation groups. —Agencies WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Students communicate with International Space Station

everal students from a local English school were given the chance to munications opportunities with the International Space Station (ISS) on- earth. Over 10 students from the Gulf English School linked up with communicate with the International Space Station and talk with orbit crew. International Space Station and “Geo Milev” Language High School in SAmerican astronaut Greg Reid Wiseman. The activity involved the It was the first time that any school in the Middle East had a link with the Dobrich, Bulgaria yesterday at 12:56:56 UTC 83 deg. Christopher Greenfield, a Kuwait Amateur Radio Society. RISS, Amateur Radio on the International International Space Station, a telebridge link had been set up through ARISS, former Physics teacher at GES and NASA, ensured that the operation went Space Station, inspired students worldwide to pursue interests and careers telebridge contact had been made between two continents and finally that a smoothly. The audience, including the Bulgarian Consul Dimitri Dimitrov and in science, technology, engineering and math through amateur radio com- telebridge contact had been made by ARISS at the furthest distance from the family, GES parents and students and staff were invited. Asdaa World Cultures Music Festival to debut in Dubai Greetings sdaa World Cultures Music Festival, the first edition of the appy birthday only cultural music festival in the Middle East, will kick off Rachael! Aon 25 November and run until 1 December at The Meydan HCongratulations Hotel in Dubai. Held under the royal patronage of Mohammed VI - you are 17 years old King of Morocco, the L’Institut du Monde Arabe and the today. Best wishes Andalusian Music Association in Morocco, the new cultural event from brother Dr will focus on traditional Middle Eastern and Asian music. “We are Emmanuel and extremely thankful to the King of Morocco for endorsing the Joshua, sister Lydiya, Festival with his patronage,” said Maitha Al Falasi, Chairman to the dad David and mom Advisory Board of the Music Festival. “The World Cultures Music Anna. Blessings from Festival taps into an unspoiled area and, in line with HH Sheikh National Evangelical Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s strategic vision, promotes Church of Kuwait City. UAE as the new cosmopolitan cultural hub for the Middle East and Asia. We hope that this will be the start of a regular yearly appoint- ment in Dubai’s events calendar complementing other established cultural events such as Art Dubai and the Dubai Film Festival”. Embassy of Slovak While celebrating Arabic musical culture and traditions, the Festival will promote cross-border cultural collaborations between Republic the Middle East, Asia and Western countries. The six day Festival’s schedule will be organized around two main pillars: the forum and he Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Kuwait informs the concerts. the public that due to the Public Holiday of the Commenting on the line-up of artists and speakers, Alain Slovak Republic - ‘The Day of Struggle for Freedom T Weber, the Music Festival’s Artistic Director, said: “We have been and Democracy’. The Embassy will be closed on Sunday 16, working to bring established and rising talents from the region November 2014 and the Consular Section will be closed on and around the world to Dubai - most of whom haven’t been to Monday 17, November 2014. The Embassy will resume the the UAE before. This festival is something unique that will cater to normal duties on Tuesday, 18-11-2014. all those people eager for more cultural events”. With morning and afternoon sessions running each day from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM, the forum will cover different topics ranging from “Occupational music and work songs” and “Music & Poetry” to “Beauty & harmony of the Kuwait Times cultural diversity in Morocco and UAE”. The forum will give voice to key speakers such as Andre Azoulay, Counsellor to HM the King of Calendar Morocco and President of the Anna Lindh Foundation; Ahmed Abbadi, President of the Mohammedi League of Moroccan Ulama; of Events Jack Lang, President of IMA; Abderrafie Zouiten, head of the Moroccan Tourism Minister and President of Foundation “Esprit de Fes” and Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez, lecturer in History of Art at the November University of Granada.The afternoon program of the forum will 8 - Fun Fair - Charitable fun fair and carnival to raise wrap up each day with a sunset concert. Artists from Morocco, the funds for children with diabetes. Held in the parking lot UAE, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, India, Armenia and of Discovery Mall in Kuwait City, Saturday November 8 China will be performing live at the World Cultures Music Festival. from Noon to 9pm. email [email protected] Evening concerts will start every day at 9:00 PM and entertain the 8 - Bark in the Park - Organized by K’s Path at the Al audience until midnight. “Al Allyallah” group, Latifa Raafat, Ahmed Ahmadi South Public Park. Fun day for families and pets. Piro, Ghada Sbheir, Lufti Bushnaq and Dhafer Youssef, will be some of the artists who will fly over to Dubai for the Festival. The pro- From 11am to 3pm. Email [email protected] gramme will also feature exhibitions and workshops. 8-9 - UK Education Exhibiton at the Regency Hotel. Al Futouh Ballroom. On Saturday from 5-9pm and on Sunday from 8am to 12:30pm and 4pm to 9pm. 14 - The English School Winter Wonderland Bazaar. Held at the school premises in Salmiya. 14 - Punjab International Cultural Society presents Punjabi Sabhyacharak nite 2014 on November 14, at 4 pm onwards in Indian Model School - Salmiya. 14 - Kala (Art) Kuwait NIRAM-2014 Children’s Day painting competition at Indian Community School, Khaitan, on Friday, 14 November. Clay modeling com- petition also will be conducted for 7 - 11 standard students. Visit www.kalakuwait.net, or by e-mail at [email protected] 15 - Arpan cartoon - caricature competition, work- shop with speed cartoonist Jitheshji at Indian Community School, Khaitan on Saturday, 15th November. Caricature competition for 5- 12th Std and adults at 9 am, workshop at 11.15 am. Students can register through https://www.facebook.com/arpankwt or http://goo.gl/forms/u0CQcedoxT. [email protected] Jamawar Indian restaurant 15 - Day Out Fiesta to be held at Wahran Park in Shamiya. Interested in participating from 4-9pm or email [email protected]. sponsors Cooking Competition 22 - Kuwait Textile Association Bazaar - Held at Sadu amawar Indian restaurant located at the Holiday Inn Salmiya - has sponsored the Mithai House on November 22. Cooking Competition which is one of many other activities held during the Diwali Mela celebra- 22 - Kuwait English School Annual Bazaar - At KES in Jtion that was organized by IIK “Indians In Kuwait” website, and attended by The Indian Salwa, block 11 on November 22. Tables are KD 20. Ambassador and a number of Indian delegations and families in Kuwait. Participants of the cooking 28 - British Ladies Society Bazaar - At BSK on competition were judged by the executive chef and the manager of the restaurant, and winners November 28. were awarded by prizes presented by the Jamawar restaurant of the Holiday Inn Salmiya. Events at TIES Center in November Quran Quotes and Tafseer vant. In this lecture, she will define culturally rele- Islamic guidelines in all aspects of life. Students evening dedicated to Italy’s culinary roots, What’s On - Submission Guidelines by Hassan Bwambale vant education, describe Kuwait’s cultural profile, will also learn and improve Quran recitation where the lesser-known Italian regional special- After reading Quranic verses aloud and explaining summarize the results of her study, and share tips with tajweed of short chapters essential for ties and their history will be highlighted. Local them very briefly, Hassan will illustrate the various for increasing cultural relevance in the classroom. prayer. Every Thursday in November at 5 pm chef Maryam al Nusif will show the growing All photos submitted for What’s On connotations of some words and phrases to show (Ladies Only) demand for a return to simple foods in Kuwait, should be minimum 200dpi. the literary beauty and miracle of the Quran. The Ladies Night: Your Child’s Health which can be found in the Shakshooka Market. class will involve an open discussion in a casual, by Dr Asmaa Farag Islam 101 by Hassan Bwambale Tuesday, November 11 @ 7pm Articles must be in plain text and relaxed setting with the aim of reflecting and pon- Ladies and children are encouraged to join If you are interested to know more about should include name and phone dering verses from the Noble Quran. In addition to Dr Asmaa Farag for a live Q&A on “Child Care: Islam, join the TIES Center for information, dis- Womens’ Rights in Islam that, participants will get some insight into the Myths and Truths”. Learn to distinguish between cussion, and a chance to ask any question about By Zeinab Ashry numbers. Articles and photos that Quranic Arabic. Every Monday in November at 7 fact and fiction when it comes to the health and Islam regarding Muslims’ beliefs, acts of wor- Join Zeinab Ashry for an intriguing look into fail to meet these requirements will pm wellbeing of children. Wednesday, 19 at 6:30 ship, Quranic verses, and the Prophet Women’s Rights in Islam, a four part series that not be published. pm (Ladies and children only) Muhammad’s (PBUH) life. Every Thursday in includes the position of woman in pre-Islamic Culturally Relevant Education November at 7pm Societies, the status of Women in Islam, and the rights by Dr Teresa Lesher Basics of Islam for New Reverts of Muslim women in all spheres of life including Please send them to In her thesis, Dr Teresa Lesher demonstrated by Sharaf Al-Nisaa Italy’s Ancient Foods Reach Kuwait finance and politics. This comprehensive course is free [email protected] that teachers can improve student achievement by Educate yourself in important life issues. This by Sussana Graziano of charge. Wednesday, November 12 and 26 @ making classroom instruction more culturally rele- weekly class for new reverts covers important Susanna Graziano will host an enjoyable 6:30pm (Ladies Only) WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Sheikhah, Anwar Faisal Al-Sabah recently invited members of the International Women’s Group committee to visit the Picard Gallery, Salmiya where she received them and briefed them on some valuable arti- facts made by competitive citizens. IWG members, who were escorted by designer, Husam Al-Rasheed during the visit, highly admired the products. OSN presents much-awaited series in HD

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Kuwait SITUATION WANTED KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY An Indian dental doctor (06/11/2014 TO 12/11/2014) (BDS) with more than 5 years of experience seeking an entry-level position in a clinic hospital. Mobile: SHARQIA-1 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 8:00 PM WOLVES (DIG) 5:15 PM 51457151 or 96917259. KBIG HERO 6 (DIG) 2:00 PM 71 (DIG) 10:15 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 7:30 PM (C 4795) BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 4:15 PM 71 (DIG) 12:30 AM JOHN WICK (DIG) 9:45 PM 3-11-2014 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 6:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:05 AM 71 (DIG) 8:45 PM FANAR-4 Looking for job, driver, 71 (DIG) 11:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 1:15 PM 360º- 1 knowledge of Kuwaiti 71 (DIG) 1:15 AM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 4:30 PM 71 (DIG) 1:30 PM areas, have Kuwaiti valid license. Call: 66347485. Mahboula. Tel: 65607334 or NO SUN+TUE+WED INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 7:45 PM 71 (DIG) 4:00 PM FOR SALE 51580185. (C 4798) INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 11:00 PM 71 (DIG) 6:30 PM (C 4793) 30-10-2014 4-11-2014 SHARQIA-2 NO SUN+TUE+WED 71 (DIG) 9:00 PM Pajero model 2006, full INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 1:45 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 11:00 PM 71 (DIG) 11:30 PM option, good condition. INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 5:00 PM 71 (DIG) 11:15 PM CHANGE OF NAME Contact: 65757463. MATRIMONIAL INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 8:15 PM MARINA-1 (C 4794) INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 11:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:30 PM 360º- 2 2-11-2014 Guy new in Kuwait, middle I, Autilda Julia D’melo NO SUN+TUE+WED 71 (DIG) 3:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:00 PM aged, from New Zealand holding passport No. Z- BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 11:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 5:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 4:00 PM looking for a God fearing 1170911 resident of H. No. SUN+TUE+WED JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 7:00 PM ACCOMMODATION woman to marry. Email: 60, Bairo Bandh Santa Cruz, NO THU+FRI JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM [email protected] Ilhas Goa, hereby change SHARQIA-3 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 7:45 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 1:00 AM A guy new in Kuwait look- (C4797) my name from Autilda Julia 71 (DIG) 12:45 PM THU+FRI ing to share (accommoda- 4-11-2014 JOHN WICK (DIG) 3:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 10:00 PM 360º- 3 Mergulhao to Autilda Julia tion) preferred with family D’melo as per my birth cer- 71 (DIG) 5:15 PM THU+FRI JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:45 PM between Bneid El Gar to THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY JOHN WICK (DIG) 7:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:15 AM JOHN WICK (DIG) 4:00 PM tificate hereafter in all my FORCIVIL INFORMATION INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 9:30 PM THU+FRI JOHN WICK (DIG) 6:15 PM dealings and documents I Automated enquiry JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:45 AM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 10:45 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 8:30 PM will be known by the name about the Civil ID card is NO SUN+TUE+WED SAT+MON JOHN WICK (DIG) 10:45 PM Autilda Julia D’melo. 112 1889988 JOHN WICK (DIG) 10:45 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:00 AM (C 4799) MUHALAB-1 SUN+TUE+WED Prayer timings JOHN WICK (DIG) 2:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 I, Edwin Luis Pereira, holder 71 (DIG) 4:15 PM MARINA-2 INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 1:30 PM of Indian Passport No. BROTHER OF BOMMALI (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 2:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 4:45 PM F6437170 dated Fajr: 04:43 JOHN WICK (DIG) 6:45 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 5:15 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 8:00 PM 21/02/2006 a resident of Shorook 06:04 H.No. 297, Agas Loliem, JOHN WICK (DIG) 7:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 8:30 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 11:15 PM Duhr: 11:32 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 11:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED Canacona Goa hereby INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 12:05 AM NO SUN+TUE+WED change my name as Edwin Asr: 14:36 AL-KOUT.2 Herand Pereira. (C4851) Maghrib: 16:59 MUHALAB-2 MARINA-3 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 12:45 PM 5-11-2014 Isha: 18:18 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 12:45 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG-3D) 12:30 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 3:00 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 3:00 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG-3D) 2:45 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 5:15 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 5:15 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG-3D) 5:00 PM 71 (DIG) 7:30 PM 71 (DIG) 7:30 PM 71 (DIG) 7:15 PM 71 (DIG) 9:45 PM No: 16334 71 (DIG) 10:00 PM 71 (DIG) 9:30 PM 71 (DIG) 12:05 AM BROTHER OF BOMMALI (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM 71 (DIG) 12:05 AM 71 (DIG) 1:00 AM AL-KOUT.3 71 (DIG) 12:30 AM AVENUES-1 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 1:00 PM FURY (DIG) 1:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 3:00 PM MUHALAB-3 FURY (DIG) 4:00 PM BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 5:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 12:30 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 6:30 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 9:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 3:45 PM FURY (DIG) 9:45 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:30 AM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 7:00 PM FURY (DIG) 12:15 AM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 10:15 PM AL-KOUT.4 AVENUES-2 FURY (DIG) 1:15 PM FANAR-1 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 2:15 PM FURY (DIG) 3:45 PM 71 (DIG) 1:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:15 PM FURY (DIG) 3:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:15 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:15 PM FURY (DIG) 12:15 AM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 9:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED FURY (DIG) 12:45 AM WOLVES (DIG) 11:15 PM BAIRAQ-1 SUN+TUE+WED BIG HERO 6 (DIG-3D) 1:15 PM FANAR-2 BIG HERO 6 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 1:00 PM AVENUES-3 INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 5:45 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 3:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:45 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 9:00 PM BIG HERO 6 (DIG) 5:45 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 3:00 PM INTERSTELLAR (DIG) 12:15 AM

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Arrival Flights on Thursday 6/11/2014 THY 766 Istanbul 14:20 JZR 185 Dubai 23:15 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 Airlines Flt Route Time KNE 472 Jeddah 14:25 AGY 684 Sohag 23:20 QTR 8647 Doha 14:25 JAI 574 Mumbai 00:10 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 KAC 617 Doha 15:00 JZR 239 Amman 00:25 FDB 057 Dubai 14:30 Departure Flights on Thursday 6/11/2014 KAC 673 Dubai 15:00 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 MPH 951 Amsterdam 14:35 Airlines Flt Route Time QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 JZR 539 Cairo 00:40 KAC 538 Sohag 14:50 JZR 562 Sohag 00:05 FDB 058 Dubai 15:10 KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 00:40 KNE 470 Jeddah 14:55 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 AGY 685 Sohag 15:15 THY 772 Istanbul 00:45 OMA 645 Muscat 15:00 BBC 044 Dhaka 00:35 THY 767 Istanbul 15:20 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 GFA 221 Bahrain 15:00 FDB 072 Dubai 00:45 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:20 QTR 1084 Doha 01:00 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:10 JAI 573 Mumbai 01:10 JZR 188 Dubai 15:40 RJA 642 Amman 01:05 JZR 175 Dubai 15:20 KLM 411 Amsterdam 01:55 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:45 KAC 546 Alexandria 01:10 UAE 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You could sing positive, upbeat songs-you do your best to eliminate any At this time, the key to your career involves attending to nagging details. negative and are a good mentor to others. You could work as a coordinator You could talk someone out of a lawsuit this morning. You will be saving of events, a social worker or a customer relations manager. You have a boundless amount yourself and perhaps another of much frustration, money and time. Your attitude and tal- of optimism with irrepressible energy. Be as self-confident and assertive as you like, ents move in the direction of self-expression along with your particular ideas and because you are going to get what you want in this life. You are a very attractive and thoughts. You could be leading a group discussion today and it may deal with some sort inspiring person-luck and determination is on your side. Any dispute you may have will of academic crusades. You will be able to sway others to your way of thinking. Science, quickly come to a satisfying end. You move through most problems quickly. A totally new philosophy and religion are likely to seem as if they hold the ultimate answers. True wis- diet or exercise program can improve your life and you are a good influence to others in dom lies in discovering that there are no ultimate answers, only good questions. A good this way. Love and compassion are wonderful friends this evening. conversation with those you love is possible tonight.

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

Your self-confidence is high and you feel the warm urges of ambition. Outer You are usually generous and patient with your co-worker teammates and circumstances are favorable and it should be easy for you to push forward in projects and they enjoy interacting with you. Today, however, may be best spent at your in all aspects of your life. Things may seem almost magical in the way they work to your desk, quietly working as much as possible. The placement of the moon and planets may favor. This is a great time to get things accomplished. You find that you are able to bring be partly responsible for a little emotional frustration. This is a time of sensitivity through more imagination to bear on your goals and ambitions. You appreciate your particular sit- the spoken word, which can be good, or bad. Be aware of your words and realize that per- uation and enjoy support from those around you. This afternoon is a good time for sur- haps the majority of people you see today are probably not having as much fun as you are. rounding yourself with friends and for having a good time. If you are celebrating the sea- Also, be tolerant with family members that seem aloof, they could be scurrying around to sonal activities, now is a good time to order the food or reserve your hotel room. Make put last minute details together to make your day special. Tonight you can relax-someone plans to enjoy some time with the people you love. very special wants to make you smile.

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

Your self-confidence is strong and you feel the nudge from somewhere that There are makings for a bright day. You should be able to get your ideas says it is time for you to make yourself known in the workplace. This is the across with ease. Your communication skills are at a high-water mark. You day you speak up and make yourself known. This afternoon you may learn new ways to seem to gravitate to those things which last and hold true in your life just now. You could ACROSS DOWN relieve stress. You might be embarrassed about doing yoga and relaxation exercises, but teach better business techniques to executives as well as those that choose to stay at 1. A law passed by US Congress to prevent 1. An annual award by the Academy of you will enjoy the results. This may mean you sign up to be in a group to learn these tech- home to work or run a family. Consider teaching your techniques at a junior college this employees from being injured or contracting Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achieve- niques. This evening, a friend in need or something you believe in that will suffer from a next year. Matters of law, religion and philosophy are where you want more education. This afternoon, you may find a long list of chores to do. You make a good impression on diseases in the course of their employment. ments in motion picture production and per- lack of your support is the issue that comes to your attention. You may be called on to lend a hand-start thinking of ways in which you can be helpful-do not wait until the last family members by saving energy and accomplishing so many chores so quickly. Some of 5. Cause to become awake or conscious. formance. minute to solve problems. these short-cuts might be useful in the workplace-take notes. 11. Employed in accomplishing something. 2. Satisfy (thirst). 15. A coarse obnoxious person. 3. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural 16. Occurring or appearing or singled out by creature that makes trouble for human chance. beings. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A quantity of no importance. 4. The fourth compartment of the stomach of This is a very good day for job-related events. You could represent or speak 18. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy a ruminant. At heart, you have a deep sense of responsibility and purpose. Others can for your company or communicate about your skills. Things are happening see your seriousness and they respect your status in the workplace. and who led an English expedition in search 5. A radioactive element of the actinide and your career or path depends on your own ambition and drive, which is strong now. Someone may need your advice today regarding a problem at work. You seem to enjoy of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish series. Your common sense is good and you move in the right direction for your professional helping others. You have the interest and the energy to achieve long-term personal and expedition that explored the La Plata region 6. A wave that is blown by the wind so its advancement. Taking action now is an important move. You can improve your financial professional goals and will many times combine your goals into one. You may decide to situation and you think about ways in which to do so at this time. Your optimistic outlook of Brazil. crest is broken and appears white. own a business instead of managing a business at this time. Your self-confidence is high. helps you to teach other people things you have learned through your own life experi- You feel the warm urges of ambition and you influence others in positive ways. A story 20. Feeling or showing extreme anger. 7. A river in north central Switzerland that ences. This afternoon you think about ways to improve your image, appearance or health. that is hard to believe can be checked out this afternoon. Take advantage of all the oppor- 21. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. runs northeast into the Rhine. You may end a destructive relationship or become very lucky in love this evening. tunities to do some valuable networking this evening as you attend a social event. 22. A state in northwestern North America. 8. A special way of doing something. 23. A polyvalent metallic element that 9. The administration of a strong electric cur- resembles chromium and tungsten in its rent that passes through the brain to induce Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) properties. convulsions and coma. Many of you may be in the beginning of a start-up business from your You are riding a high now in terms of taking advantage of the cycles in your 24. A police officer who investigates crimes. 10. Necessary for relief or supply. home. You are definitely moving in the right direction, but if you are asking life. This time may be a high-water mark; however, this is also a time during which you 25. Source of a tough elastic wood. 11. Not subjected to an aging process. for a loan, be sure to ask for more than you think you need so you will have a payback should begin to consolidate and tie down the advances you have made recently. It may cushion, so to speak. Whether you are in sales or public relations, you may be wondering if 27. A failure to maintain a higher state. 12. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate be best to begin to dig in and strengthen your current position rather than expand out- the people you come into contact with today are okay. Everyone seems to be in such a 30. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or or tossed and served with a moist dressing. ward too much. An award may come to you through your work today. This afternoon you hurry . . . Interruptions, difficult communications, etc. More than one person will seek your will find your mind turning away from the external or the material, to become more con- the keel of a ship. 13. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. advice about sensitive matters this afternoon so, weather permitting, move on outside for cerned with spiritual ideas. All of this will become clear soon. You tend towards mental 32. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. 14. A challenge to do something dangerous a bit of exercise, if possible. You can demonstrate great understanding of and sensitivity to pursuits and admire intelligence. There is an emphasis on communication, expression of the needs of others-this afternoon and evening belong especially to you-relax. 33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. or foolhardy. ideas and the connection between things, places and people. 36. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet. 19. A yellow quartz. 38. A member of a Turkic people of 26. Having winglike extensions. Uzbekistan and neighboring areas. 28. Being one more than fifty. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. A distinct part that can be specified sepa- 29. A region of Malaysia in northeastern rately in a group of things that could be enu- Borneo. Your energies run effectively toward making yourself felt in the material, As an early riser, you have probably already run several miles before your merated on a list. 31. King of England who was renounced by tangible outer world. You are an action person who gains the attention of others and workday begins. More than likely, others are just getting up by the time you 43. Any of various primates with short tails or Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar seems to get things moving. The circumstances of your life suggest extroversion. Self-dis- have completed a half day of work. This is beneficial to you and helps you to greet the day with a feeling of success. If you are taking a test or an exam or studying today, you may no tail at all. (died in 959). cipline is an important issue in your life now as that is what stabilizes your work, as well as your relationships. Today you may be looking for a new vehicle. A better means of trans- have to have a long talk with yourself in order to stay in your chair and keep at it. The same 44. Occurring every day of the week except 34. United States poet and critic (1916-1986). portation has been needed for some time and now is a good time to look around and goes for calculating or shuffling papers. Some of your work could be boring and an extra Sunday (and sometimes Saturday). 35. A pan used for frying foods. make some decisions. There are opportunities to improve your career through travel, writ- concerted effort may be needed all during this day. Take a break at least twice during the 48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted 37. A city in central New York. ing or studying some new technique. A family meeting keeps you on your toes. You are day-if possible, enjoy a bit of fresh air and body movement. End results are positive! Adaptability is essential for a happy relationship. by the anterior pituitary. 39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on encouraged to express yourself this evening. 49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a skewer usually with vegetables. the Dali region of Yunnan. 40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 51. An association of people to promote the River. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution welfare of senior citizens. 42. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in 52. Someone who works (or provides work- favor of a person or cause). ers) during a strike. 45. An international organization of 54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage European countries formed after World War is opened and a section of a blood vessel is II to reduce trade barriers and increase coop- grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery eration among its members. to bypass the blocked section of the coro- 46. The Holy Roman Emperors or the nary artery and improve the blood supply to Emperors of Austria or Germany until 1918. the heart. 50. The blood group whose red cells carry 56. A historical region of southwestern India both the A and B antigens. on the west coast. 53. An oil port in southern Iraq. 60. 100 sene equal 1 tala. 55. A member of the Dravidian people living 63. A grant made by a law court. in southeastern India. 67. A Hindu prince or king in India. 57. Small shrubby tree of eastern North 71. West Indian tree having racemes of fra- America similar to the Judas tree having usu- grant white flowers and yielding a durable ally pink flowers. timber and resinous juice. 58. An associate degree in nursing. 73. A French river. 59. Having a gradual increase in width. 75. A boy or man. 61. A table (in a restaurant or bar) surround- 76. Water frozen in the solid state. ed by two high-backed benches. 77. An unexpected winner. 62. Selected as the best. 79. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting 64. A city in east central Texas. when the rupture or occlusion of a blood 65. On or toward the lee. vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain. 66. Large swift fly the female of which sucks 80. Mature female of mammals of which the blood of various animals. male is called `buck'. 68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising 81. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver solely the razorbill. Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic 69. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo. inhabitants. 70. The sixth month of the civil year. 82. A river in north central Switzerland that 72. The month following March and preced- runs northeast into the Rhine. ing May.

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GOSSIP Redmayne eira Knightley “can’t really imagine” returning to the ‘Pirates of the ‘uncomfortable’ filming Stephen Hawking biopic Caribbean’ franchise. The British actress achieved worldwide recogni- ddie Redmayne never felt “comfortable” Ktion for her performance as Elizabeth Swann in the ever-popular fran- whilst filming ‘The Theory of Everything’. The chise, which features Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, who recently sug- 32-year-old actor - who plays the lead in a gested he’d be keen to appear in another of the movies. Asked whether E biopic about Stephen Hawking’s life - admitted that she’d be interested in the project, the 29-year-old actress told Digital Spy: he couldn’t relax on set because of the pressure of “No, I don’t think so. “It was an amazing point in my life, but it was a good playing someone so “iconic”. When asked at what five-year chunk. It was incredible, but I can’t really imagine going back to it.” point he felt comfortable during shooting, he said: The eagerly-awaited fifth film in the series, otherwise known as ‘Pirates of “Never, actually. Particularly because there is so the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’, is currently in the casting stages, much documentary material on Stephen and I with the likes of Ansel Elgort and George MacKay said to be in contention watched and continued to watch sort of all of it for the part of the male lead. Meanwhile, Javier Bardem has been linked ...”It’s unheard of, really, for an actor to see every with the role of the villain in the new film. Away from the screen, Keira day’s material but I kept seeing it. I had this iPad recently admitted to being “pretty neurotic” until she was 25. The actress with all this footage of Stephen and then I’d see the Knightley said she used to take herself “far too seriously” and obsessed over the criti- footage of me and wish it could just blend. “There cism she received, particularly over her looks. She recalled: “I found it diffi- Pirates of the Caribbean was never a moment where I could relax, right to ‘can’t imagine’‘can’t returning to cult to step back from it and I was taking it very personally. Partly because the last scene.” Meanwhile, Eddie also opened up as an actor you don’t want necessarily that thicker skin, and I couldn’t figure embarrassing himself when he first met Stephen. how to be open emotionally and yet get a thick enough skin so that things He explained to Collider.com: “I’d spent maybe four didn’t hurt.” or five months researching everything about [Stephen] and in the process, I began to idolize him more and more and what he’d achieved and how he chose to live his life. “I suffer from verbal diar- rhea and I basically spent the first 35 minutes just genuinely vomiting forth information about Stephen Hawking to Stephen Hawking.” He contin- ued: “I ended up saying: ‘Of course, Stephen, you were born on the 8th of January, which is Galileo’s birthday ... I was born on the 6th of January, so we’re both Capricorns.’ There was the six minute pause and in his iconic voice, he came out and said: ‘I am an astronomer, not an astrologer’.” Hayley Atwell in ‘Ant Man’

ayley Atwell will star in ‘Ant-Man’. The ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ actress has been confirmed as a cast Hmember for the Marvel Studios film, according to Project Casting. The casting call website is seeking a stand-in actress for the 32-year-old star in order to complete stunts and other scenes during filming for the movie. It was recently con- firmed that the actress will return to ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ for an episode titled ‘The Things We Bury’ in the show’s second sea- Jingle Bell Ball son, to reprise her role as Peggy Carter, the character she will

Take That also appear as in the upcoming movie. ‘Knocked Up’ actor Paul to headline Capital’s to headline Capital’s ake That will headline this year’s Capital hosted by Capital in partnership with Morrisons - Rudd will star as the title character in the movie, which is based Jingle Bell Ball. The band will be joined by was announced live on Capital this morning by on the comic book of the same name and follows his struggle Tthe likes of One Republic, The Script and The radio presenters Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon. to help mentor Dr. Hank Pym - played by 70-year-old ‘Last Vamps as well as Ella Henderson, Olly Murs, Clean During the line-up announcements, the Capital Vegas’ actor Michael Douglas - pull off a mission to save the Bandit and Jess Glynne on December 6, the first FM hosts crossed live to Union J, who will also per- world. Other actors set to feature in the blockbuster include night of the two-day event at London’s The O2, form at the spectacle, and they surprised a crowd ‘The Hobbit’ star Evangeline Lilly and ‘House of Cards’ actor and admitted they cannot wait to perform. Take of fans outside The O2 with an acoustic perform- Corey Stoll. The much-anticipated new film will open in cine- That member Gary Barlow said: “We’ve never ance of their new track, ‘You Got It All’. The line-up mas in July 2015. played Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball before so we’re all for the second day, on December 7, will be really excited.”We’re going to play all the hits and revealed tomorrow morning on Capital. all the songs that everyone loves, and who knows, we may even throw the new single in there!” The line up for the first day of the event - which is

Naomi Campbell opening pop-up shop aomi Campbell is opening a pop-up shop. The 44-year-old supermodel is setting up the store at London’s Westfield Nshopping centre filled with clothes donated from her per- sonal collection as well as those of her celebrity pals. The store will be open for one week from November 28 to December 4 as part of her Fashion for Relief Campaign which aims to spread awareness of and raise money for victims of the Ebola virus outbreak, reports Vogue.co.uk. It is the second time the raven-haired beauty has opened a pop-up shop at Westfield, having previously raised £22,000 for the campaign when she launched a store for one week in 2011. Westfield’s director of marketing for the UK and Europe, Violent scenes in Jolie’s Louis Myf Ryan, admitted she was “absolutely delighted” to have teamed up with Naomi again and is sure the store is going to be an even Zamperini made actors throw up bigger success than the last. She said: “We are absolutely delighted ctors on set of Angelina Jolie’s ‘Louis Zamperini’ have to be working again with Naomi Campbell and her Fashion for revealed that the violent scenes made them throw up and Relief initiative to support worthy cause that’s affecting so many Acry. Japanese pop star Miyavi, who plays sergeant Matsuhiro lives.”In 2011, Westfield London hosted the first Fashion For Relief Nolan preferred ‘realistic’ Watanabe in the film, admitted that one scene in particular where Pop up store which raised over £20,000 in one week. This year, the he brutally beats Louis, played by Jack O’Connell, made him nau- store will be bigger and better with hundreds of designer pieces on seous. He told Vanity Fair magazine: “It was awful torture for me to sale. We have no doubt it will be a brilliant success.” Naomi is also effects for Interstellar hate the other actors - I had to have hatred for them.”When I had to showing her support for the cause by putting on two charity fash- beat them, I had to think about protecting my family. At the same ion shows through her Fashion for Relief foundation - which she hristopher Nolan preferred to use more practical special effects in time, I didn’t want to be just a bad guy. I wanted to put humanity in established in 2005 - in February next year to coincide with London ‘Interstellar’. The 44-year-old - who directed and co-wrote the science fiction this role.” He added: “[Matsuhiro] was both crazy and sadistic, but and New York’s fashion weeks. The fashion legend - who has a Cfilm - wanted to create a “realistic” atmosphere for the actors on set as much also weak and traumatized.” Miyavi - whose real name is Takamasa home at the heart of the outbreak in Kenya - recently admitted she as possible. Speaking in a behind-the-scenes video posted on CBM Trailers’s Ishihara - also admitted that the 39-year-old actress and director was “scared” of the virus which has already claimed the lives of over YouTube channel, the movie’s SFX supervisor, Scott Fisher, said: “Chris wants us to was very “persuasive” when it came to asking him to take on the 1000 people in West Africa. She said: “People don’t have a clear idea do as much as you can practical. “If you can achieve it in camera, that’s always the role. He said: “It’s a story that is still painful for my country. “But she about what Ebola is. Ebola does not discriminate.” —Bang Showbiz goal.” Producer, Lynda Obst added: “He takes us to these exotic locations and cre- told me she wanted to make a bridge between all countries that ates a planetary atmosphere. “He’s filling the screen with a real image that feels had conflict. She was very persuasive.” Meanwhile, Angelina spoke real because it is real.” Meanwhile, John Lithgow, who plays Donald in the film, up about the man on which the film was based, who she showed recounts how Christopher created a particular scene with a dust cloud. He an early cut of the film to before he died aged 97 in July this year. explained: “He loves to work from reality. When we turn around and say: ‘Uh oh, a She said: “I was more emotional than he was. I went in to take care dust storm, you figure you were just gonna look at an empty landscape and they of him - and he was taking care of me. “It was an extremely moving just put it in later for us so we would have to pretend. No.” Christopher added: “For experience, to watch someone watching their own life. Someone so me, when you’re dealing with the vastness of the universe, it’s going to have to be physically strong ... and they are at the stage where their body is the most ambitious film you’ve done. That takes a number of different forms.” giving up.”

Anne Hathaway ‘proud’ of Interstellar

nne Hathaway is “proud” of ‘Interstellar’. The 31-year-old actress - who plays Amelia in the sci-fi film - has revealed Ashe usually nitpicks her performance in movies but didn’t want to in the case of ‘Interstellar’. She told Access Hollywood: “I’m really proud to be in this one. Sometimes when you make a film, you watch yourself and you just you want to nitpick. “You wanna say - and it’s constructive criticism - I think it’s a good thing to do, but at the end of this movie I couldn’t do that because I didn’t want to.” She added: “I didn’t want to go to the part of my brain that says, ‘Ok, well maybe you could have been better or you could have done this differently. “I just want- ed to let the feeling of the film wash over me because if you let it take you away it is such an incredible ride - one of the best I’ve ever been on.” Meanwhile, the actress revealed that her father was a fan of the movie. She explained: “My dad said it was the greatest cinematic experience of his life and I would agree with that.”It’s an incredible movie and I’m so proud of Chris Nolan [the film’s director and writer].” Anne also admitted that she enjoyed filming alongside Matthew McConaughey, who made filming “fun” whilst still staying “focused”. She said: “It was pretty intense, but you know, it was also really fun. Matthew keeps things very focused on set but also light. “I mean, he’s got amazing stories. He’s lived a really cool life as it turns out.” LIFESTYLE37 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES 20 animated movies to vie for Oscar he Academy of Motion Picture Arts received 83 submissions. Countries and Sciences announced Tuesday repped in animation’s list of 20 include Tthat 20 animated features have France, Ireland, Japan, the UK and Latvia. been submitted for consideration in the And Hollywood is more prolific than category for the 87th Academy Awards. ever. Fox distributed five of the films The submitted features are “Big Hero 6” (“How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Mr (pictured above), “The Book of Life,” “The Peabody and Sherman” and “Penguins of Boxtrolls,” “Cheatin,’” “Giovanni’s Island,” Madagascar” from DreamWorks “Henry and Me,” “The Hero of Color City,” Animation, plus “Rio 2” from 20th Century “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Jack and Fox Animation and Blue Sky and “The the Cuckoo-Clock Heart,” “Legends of Oz: Book of Life,” Reel FX Animation), and Dorothy’s Return,” “The Lego Movie,” Disney accounted for three (“Big Hero 6,” “Minuscule - Valley of the Lost Ants,” “Mr Walt Disney Animation; and two from Peabody and Sherman,” “Penguins of DisneyToon Studios and Prana, “The Madagascar,” “The Pirate Fairy,” “Planes: Pirate Fairy” and “Planes: Fire and Fire and Rescue,” “Rio 2,” “Rocks in My Rescue”). Pockets,” “Song of the Sea” and “The Tale Animated films are often a studio’s of the Princess Kaguya.” heaviest hitters. Just three films this year This image released by Disney shows animated characters Hiro Hamada, voiced by Ryan Potter, left, and Baymax, voiced by Scott Adsit, in a AMPAS noted that several of the films brought in $1.5 billion at the global box scene from “Big Hero 6.”—AP have not yet had their required Los office: “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Rio Angeles qualifying run. Last year, there 2” and “The Lego Movie.” The toon tallies were 19 submissions. According to are expected to increase significantly, Academy rules, if there are eight submis- since “Big Hero 6” debuts this weekend Review: In ‘Big Hero 6,’ Disney does Marvel sions, there will be three nominees; 16 or with strong tracking, and Fox and DWA more submissions will trigger five nomi- have high hopes for “Penguins,” which s the Disney-Marvel mash-up “Big Hero 6” man-sized robot makes mincemeat of more adventure that will gradually gather all the nations. The five contenders will be bows Nov 24. The slate of eligible films moves toward its big-action finale, the hulking machines. Tadashi disapproves but expected superhero conventions, slowly drain- announced Jan 15, along with the other includes hand-drawn animation, CGI and Aimages will look strikingly familiar. A doesn’t lecture Hiro, instead casually exposing ing the movie’s innovative Silicon Valley spirit. So Oscar nominations. As pointed out in a stop motion. Last year, the short supervillain wreaks havoc. A portal to another him to his college, San Fransokyo Tech. Though buoyant is the first half of “Big Hero 6” and so story today (Variety, Nov 4), the list of films/feature animation branch had 366 dimension looms. A showdown goes airborne Hiro initially dismisses it as “nerd school,” he dis- colorful is its bright, Japanese anime-inspired submissions is increasing because other voting members. Oscars will be over a metropolis. It could be the finale of a covers it to be a vibrant breeding ground of palette, that the film’s slide into familiar comic countries are realizing the value of Oscar announced at Dolby Theatre ceremonies dozen superhero films, with one difference: “Big invention. He’s wowed by Tadashi’s schoolmates book-movie ruts comes as a disappointment. recognition in this category, where there on Feb 22.—Reuters Hero 6” is animated. But strike that. The majority - Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr), Honey Lemon Could it not have stayed in its rich robotics world is far less competition than in the for- of comic book films are computer-generated, (Genesis Rodriguez), Gogo (Jamie Chung) and as a high-tech high-school tale? Are such Earth- eign-language race, which this year too, particularly their large set pieces. Never has Fred (T.J. Miller) - and their gizmos. bound stories no longer possible for big-studio that been clearer than witnessing just how simi- None is more impressive than Tadashi’s robot, animation? Can’t a kid grow up without flying lar such scenes look as out-and-out cartoons. It’s a marshmallow balloon “personal health care up? a little like seeing that the superhero has no consultant” named Baymax (Scott Adsit), created Directed by Don Hall (“Winnie the Pooh”) and clothes. with a “non-threatening, huggable” design. He’s Chris Williams (“Bolt”), “Big Hero 6” is a fine blend The 3-D “Big Hero 6” is loosely based on a lit- like an Obamacare dream, had the president of sweetness and spectacle, East and West. The tle-known Marvel comic about a team of super- drifted off during a Michelin commercial. With a meeting of Disney Animation and Marvel, heros. Crafting a more kid-friendly version, quick scan, he can diagnose any ailment. though, is a more mixed union. When the young Disney (which owns Marvel) has focused on one Looking Hiro over and detecting mood swings, Hiro and the lovable Baymax strap on the body of the heroes, the aptly named Hiro Hamada he pronounces: “Diagnosis: Puberty.” When his armor girding for battle, it camouflages the (voiced by Ryan Potter). With his older brother, battery life wanes, he loses air pressure and movie’s charm. “Big Hero 6” is preceded by a Tadashi (Daniel Henney) and their aunt Cass begins to drunkenly slur his speech. In short, he’s lovely little short, “Feast,” a tale of Boston Terrier’s (Maya Rudolph), the 14 year-old Hiro lives in San an irresistible Disney supporting player, one who devotion to his owner, told exclusively, and clev- Fransokyo, a beautifully rendered fusion of will give Groot, the soulful treelike alien of erly, through mealtime. It makes for a tasty Tokyo and San Francisco, full of both nighttime “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a run for sidekick-of- appetizer. “Big Hero 6,” a Disney release, is rated neon and steep-hilled, Bay-area panoramas. the-year. PG by the Motion Picture Association of America Hiro, whose parents died when he was a tod- for “action and peril, some rude humor and the- dler, is an avid gamer happy to use his technical Superhero conventions matic elements.” Running time: 95 minutes. Two wizardry hustling unwitting competitors in After a mysterious fiery accident at an inven- and a half stars out of four.—AP Murdoch’s Fox gets underground “bot fights.” His tiny, gingerbread tion showcase, Hiro and Baymax set off on an lift from ‘Apes’ sequel Daughters inspire independent Disney princesses trong box-office results from “Dawn of sports channels. The company noted that it Disney princess no longer needs a prince the Planet of the Apes” helped pro- would be investing in new sports channels. to experience true love. Sisterhood saves Sduce stronger-than-expected results On broadcast, revenues were down amid Athe day in “Frozen.” Motherly love breaks Tuesday for Rupert Murdoch’s media-enter- lower advertising receipts and a drop in rat- an evil spell in “Maleficent.” A little girl’s love of tainment group 21st Century Fox. ings on the Fox broadcast network. But her own life is a focus of Pixar’s next film, “Inside Murdoch’s conglomerate, which includes filmed entertainment saw a record per- Out.” Where romance was once the goal of the the Fox studios, reported a net profit of formance, with revenues up 17 percent and cinematic princess (think “Cinderella” and $1.04 billion in the quarter ended operating income rising 40 percent, helped “Sleeping Beauty”), Disney - long a key purveyor September 30. The earnings were down 17 by the “Apes” sequel, which took in some of princess ideology - is shifting its lens toward percent from a year earlier but per-share $700 million at the box office. Other film independent female protagonists defined by profits adjusted for special items were hits included the post-apocalyptic “Maze broader criteria than how they relate to men. ahead of most Wall Street forecasts. Runner” and the teen drama “The Fault in Filmmakers, inspired by their daughters, hope Revenues also were better than antici- Our Stars.” the shift might change some real-life perspec- pated, rising 12 percent from a year ago to “As a result of these successful releases, tives, too. $7.89 billion. Murdoch, who is chairman the film studio became the first to cross the “All these Disney heroines, the princesses, and chief executive, said the results “were $4 billion mark in worldwide box office this they’re a product of their time,” said Linda driven by continued momentum at our year,” the company said in a statement. Woolverton, who wrote “Maleficent,” released on cable network programming and filmed Murdoch last year split his empire into two DVD Tuesday. “The princesses that were created entertainment segments, reflecting sus- separate entities, 21st Century Fox and in the 1940s and ‘50s, they were the best of what tained increases in affiliate fees as well as News Corp, which kept the newspapers a woman should be then: You’re the good girl. the global box office success of ‘Dawn of and other publishing assets which had You took abuse ... and through it all, you sang the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘The Fault in Our been a drag on earnings. He remains in and were nice. “But we’re not like that anymore. Stars.’” control of both firms.—AFP We kick ass now.” princesses, Lee said. “We did it to add pressure to life gender perceptions. “If we can see it, we can In cable TV, revenues were up 15 per- Woolverton reflects that in her work, which them,” she said. “In Cinderella’s case, becoming a be it,” she said. “If we don’t see it, we don’t know cent, led by gains in revenues from regional includes screenplays for “Beauty and the Beast” princess is the happily ever after. In our case, we can.” It has paid off at the box office. “Frozen” and “Alice in Wonderland.” She thought of her becoming a princess put the pressure on them has brought in more than $1.2 billion globally, love for her daughter when writing the twist on because they’re responsible for an entire king- making it the fifth highest grossing movie ever, true-love’s kiss in “Maleficent,” she said. “It’s dif- dom.” Meanwhile, “Cinderella” is getting a face according to box-office tracker Rentrak. ferent than any kind of romantic love,” she said, lift from Disney, with an updated, live-action ver- “Maleficent” was a hit over the summer, with “and it would be more powerful in breaking a sion due out in 2015. The following year, the stu- $750 million in worldwide ticket sales. spell than any other kind of love.” Don Hahn, an dio is releasing the animated “Moana,” centering Lee hopes seeing independent girls on executive producer of “Maleficent,” said it would on a female island adventurer. Pixar’s “Inside screen valued for strength and with goals be “totally inappropriate” to have a modern Out” is set for release next summer. beyond romance, will help real-life girls avoid Sleeping Beauty rescued by Prince Charming. Writer-director Pete Docter said his daughter the pressure of trying to meet an idealized inspired the Pixar movie, which tells the story of female image. “The more we create real charac- Romantic love an adolescent girl growing up from the perspec- ters that are flawed and messy, we won’t waste “We can’t put a movie on the screen where tive of the emotions inside her head. The tale our time with all that stuff and we can just get the protagonist is asleep through half the movie has nothing to do with her finding romance, he on with living,” she said. Woolverton expects and only wakes up when a man wakes her up said. “That’s not part of my daughter’s story,” he more realistic and empowered female characters and tells her, ‘OK, you can start your life now,’” he said. “This story is about becoming and getting as more women find work as writers and direc- said. “I don’t want to tell my daughter that story.” older.” Hahn acknowledged some concern tors. “Naturally, women as artists are portraying Jennifer Lee also was thinking of her daughter among producers about how Disney traditional- themselves as protagonists,” she said. “The pro- when writing and directing “Frozen.” She wanted ists might view these evolved princesses. tagonist doesn’t stand behind anyone else. ... to create characters they both could relate to, They lead on their own.” Hahn believes seeing and felt the bond between sisters would be Independent female independent female characters benefits both more accessible to a young girl than the lure of “We thought the purists, the Disney fans, girls and boys - “that you don’t have to be a man romantic love. Lee also wanted to reflect the real what are they going to think? Because you’ve to be an engineer or a scientist and you don’t File photo shows Taylor Swift attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume girls she knows, which meant leaving familiar got to have your prince and all that,” he said. “But have to be a woman to be a great cook or raise Institute benefit gala celebrating “Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” in New York.—AP princess tropes behind. the idea is yeah, you can have your prince, but children.”—AP Though Anna initially seeks a prince, she, like that’s a component of your life.” Feminism pio- Elsa, is ultimately motivated by familial love. The neer Gloria Steinem said such independent Taylor Swift album posts two lead characters weren’t originally written as female characters can make a difference in real- top first sales in 12 years Over ‘Am I Wrong’? Nico & Vinz know how you feel aylor Swift’s “1989” sold nearly 1.3 mil- platinum immediately. Her previous two lion copies in the United States in its first albums, 2010’s “Speak Now” and 2012’s “Red,” f you’re tired of hearing Nico & Elephant,” it blends African rhythms ago that failed to get much traction. became the centerpiece and helped Tweek, making it the biggest album also sold more than one million copies in Vinz’s worldwide hit “Am I Wrong,” with broadly danceable pop and Working with local producers to shape future studio sessions.—AP release in 12 years, data showed late Tuesday. their first weeks. Music industry executives Ithe Norwegian duo knows just urban sounds. Dery’s parents are craft a new sound, “Am I Wrong” Sales tracking service Nielsen Soundscan said have been banking on Swift to rescue album how you feel. The 23-year-old musi- from Ghana and Sereba’s father hails that “1989,” released a week ago, sold 1.287 sales, which had been down this year. Earlier cians from the Oslo suburbs from the Ivory Coast, while his million copies in the week through Sunday. this week Swift abruptly pulled her back cata- released the optimistic, ambition- mother is Norwegian. Both were The sales are the highest for an album during logue from the streaming service Spotify in a focused song in April 2013. It hit No. raised in ethnically diverse neigh- a single week since 2002 when Eminem’s “The move that was likely aimed at boosting sales. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold 2 borhoods, surroundings that lent a Eminem Show” sold 1.322 million copies dur- Spotify and similar services have long million tracks and led to plum con- melting-pot quality to their musical ing its second week. Statistically the rap been a bete noire for artists and music execu- cert gigs and international fame. efforts. album sold fewer copies in the initial week tives who say that the easy access devalues Now they’re ready to skip ahead to “My friends and Vinz’s friends after its release as it went on sale on a Friday. albums and decreases sales, although stream- the next track. “When we’re in the also were everything from Pakistani “1989” is on course to be by far the biggest ing companies insist that they give back most cabs and ... the taxi driver turns it up, to Somalians to Asians to Albanians album of the year as it is already the only of their revenue. The catchy dance tunes of we’re like, ‘It’s OK man. You can turn - just everything,” Sereba said. “For record by a single artist to go platinum-or sell “1989” mark an increasingly pop direction for it down. We’ve heard it. I know this us it’s just, people are supposed to more than one million copies-in 2014. The the 24-year-old Swift, who started as a coun- song,’” said Nicolas “Nico” Sereba. be together, no matter where you’re soundtrack to the Disney film “Frozen,” which try singer and guitarist and released her first Sereba and Vincent “Vinz” Dery from. That is something that we was released last year, has also gone platinum album at age 16.—AFP hope radio listeners turn up the vol- want to tell through the music and in 2014. ume on their follow-up single, “In tell by just being ourselves.” The duo In another feat, Swift becomes the first Your Arms.” Like much of their just- first recorded together as Envy, In this Sept 20, 2014 photo, Nico and Vinz arrive at the iHeartRadio artist to pull a hat-trick of three albums going released album, “Black Star releasing a hip-hop album two years Music Festival, at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.—AP lifestyle THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 FEATURES

Members of the East German ( GDR ) founded band “The Puhdys” (from left) Klaus Scharfschwerdt, Peter Rasym, Dieter Hertrampf, Dieter “Maschine” Birr and Peter Meyer pose in front of the Brandenburg in gate 25Berlin years on October 29, 2014. after(Right) Dieter “Maschine” Berlin Birr of the East German Wall founded band tumbled“The Puhdys” performs on stage, atEast the O2 Arena in Berlin.—bands AFP photos rock on Berlin

hey have been rocking arenas nearly as of Neubrandenburg. “What Route 66 is to longer just ban it-they needed to co-opt it. So favorite film, the Puhdys in their heyday cap- young people when they came on the scene,” long as the Rolling Stones but unlike America, that’s what the Puhdys are to us east the Puhdys and other stars of the so-called tured the zeitgeist. said Edeltraud Arndt, 56, at the Berlin concert. TMick and Keith, they’re from a country Germans.” In an interview ahead of a sold-out German Democratic Republic (GDR) had to Their mix of guitar-hero rock and sing- “After reunification, it wasn’t easy for them so that no longer exists. Meet the Puhdys, East show at Berlin’s O2 arena, a 17,000-capacity perform a high-wire act-making music that along pop also translated across borders and we stuck with them and now people my age Germany’s most successful band, who are still venue big enough to host superstars like would get past the all-seeing, all-hearing Stasi the group won permission to perform in West still love them.” The fall of the Berlin Wall was performing to capacity crowds 25 years after Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the band said this secret police and the official censors while still Germany and even the United States, making disastrous for many eastern bands, with fans, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. With was their last hurrah before retirement next ringing true to the country’s citizens. them one of East Germany’s few successful finally given a choice, running out to buy their headbanger hair, black leather jackets year. They are going out with a bang, touring “We had scissors in our own heads so we exports. Juergen Juergens, a radio disc jockey albums from acts like Genesis, Tina Turner, and and motorcycle boots, the look of the kings of throughout the former East Germany in a knew what we needed to cut out,” said lead in West Berlin who promoted Ostrock, told the Stones. “Ostrock” hasn’t changed much although the show complete with fog machines, fireworks singer Dieter Birr, who goes by the nickname AFP the Puhdys were one of the first bands to “After the Wall fell, I played in small clubs to core members are 70 and over. and flame-throwers, and linking up with two “Machine” and whose scratchy bass vocals are write rock songs in German. just a few people. But then after a few years, And with more than 20 million records sold other huge acts under communism, City and the band’s trademark. “There were subjects He said the bonds among musicians and people remembered us and thought ‘yeah, over their 45-year-long career, neither has Karat. “We Ossis never really learned competi- that were taboo like environmentalism or the with their fans were so strong because they they were pretty good’,” Birr said. Later the their sound, which taps a rich vein of tion-that’s why we get along so well,” Puhdys Wall-and we had a song about gays. But all the were forged in hardship. “They all had to help Puhdys managed to put out relevant songs in “Ostalgie”, nostalgia for East Germany, a coun- keyboardist Peter Meyer said, using slang for Ostrock bands found ways of singing between each other because the equipment was so the post-Wall years too, such as the anthem try which only managed to see its 41st birth- easterners. the lines. “The word ‘flying’, for example, was a bad-they borrowed amps from each other “Was bleibt” (What’s Left) and “Frei wie die day. “We were constantly on tour and on tele- synonym for freedom.” Simply a mention of when theirs were broken,” he said. Geier” (As Free as the Vultures), which critiqued vision and so we were always in people’s sit- ‘Scissors in our heads’ “Deutschland” (Germany) raised red flags due greed in capitalist society. Birr said the band is ting rooms-we probably seem like family,” lead The Puhdys got their start in 1969 in the to the country’s division, keeping one Puhdys ‘Didn’t toe the line’ still beloved-it even has a stone monument in guitarist Dieter Hertrampf told AFP. Saxon town of Freiberg, with their name song off GDR television and the radio. With Loyal listeners say that after so much in the its honor in Freiberg-because it trod a path But their act is now drawing younger fans, derived from their first names’ initials. Demand hits like “Ikarus”, “Alt wie ein Baum” (Old as a east was simply subsumed by the west with familiar to so many east Germans. “We were many of whom have hardly any memory of for rock music had mounted to such an extent Tree) and “Geh zu ihr” (Go to Her) from the cult unification, the Puhdys’ concerts feel like a never revolutionaries in the GDR, but we didn’t the Wall. “They’re icons,” said Christian Conrad, among East Germany’s disaffected youth by 1973 movie “The Legend of Paul and Paula”- homecoming. “We didn’t have a lot of rock toe the line either,” Birr said. “We’re just normal a 34-year-old ambulance driver from the town the late 1960s that the authorities could no which Chancellor Angela Merkel has called her groups in the east so it was exciting for us musicians who’ve had a lot of fun.”—AFP Safat Home celebrates the introduction of International brands Blue-chip offerings at NYC fall art auctions

he fall art auctions are about to sizzle. Coveted paintings by Andy Warhol and Edouard Manet - Tnever before offered at auction - and works from single-owner collections with boldface names like Mellon and Bacall are expected to fire up bidding at the sales of impressionist, contemporary and modern art beginning Tuesday. “The fall auctions represent a rare opportunity for contemporary collectors to add not only quality but also pedigree to their collections,” said Sarah Lichtman, direc- tor of The New School’s master’s degree program in the history of decorative arts and design. The exceptional quality of the works could mean a record-setting autumn, said Pat Berman, professor of art at Wellesley College. “The heights reached by Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” rom October, Safat Home has as fashion leaders. or Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucien Freud” - once renovated its flagship store in Alf Italia has been making wood- beyond comprehension - are certainly attainable, and FAl-Rai to improve the lifestyle en bedroom and dining furniture in potentially eclipsed by these rare art trophies,” she said. feel with the growth of its ranges Northern Italy for over 50 years. A “The Scream” sold for nearly $120 million in 2012, only to featuring heritage solid wood collec- family business still, they are proud tions, Asian fusion walnut furniture to be regarded internationally as one and Scandinavian style across the of the leaders in luxury modern home. Now, Safat Home is proud to design bedrooms and dining rooms. launch a new area in the store with Luxury wood veneers, modern the addition of International brands Italian design and the use of the who lead the furniture market glob- highest quality fittings on every ally with leading reputations in piece make the purchase of an Alf design and quality. room a very special experience Sotheby’s auctioneer takes bids on Vincent Van Gogh’s “NATURE MORTE, VASE AUX MARGUERITES Leather editions by Natuzzi pro- which we have mirrored in the pres- ET COQUELICOTS” at Sotheby’s autumn evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art yesterday in vides luxurious leather sofa collec- entation in our showroom. New York. — AFP photos tions, made in Europe appealing to Last but not least the traditional every style of home. Every sofa is cut British look of Alexander & James; from the finest leathers produced Leather sofas and high quality fab- Giacometti sells for from Natuzzi own Tannery in Italy. rics which are so well known in the The sofa frames are all handmade furniture industry of Britain have and the leathers all stitched and been updated and given a fresh $101m at NY auction upholstered by hand to make the look. Their range can now be seen quality of sofa that Natuzzi has been around the world in the combina- A reporter looks at Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” famous for around the world. tion of the finest leathers with luxury during a media preview October 31, 2014 at rare 1950 bronze sculpture by Swiss artist most desirable works of art,” said Shaw last week. The Marie Claire Paris collection is velvets and other contrasting fine Christie’s in New York. Alberto Giacometti sold for $101 million A third highlight of Sotheby’s sale was Vincent across the living room and dining fabrics to create a very modern look Aat auction in New York late Tuesday. The van Gogh’s “Still Life, Vase with Daisies and room and brings together the latest but with the durability of leather and be surpassed a year later by the Bacon which set a record sculpture, “Chariot,” is one of the seminal Poppies,” which fetched $61.8 million, surpassing in European colors, styles and fabrics strong sofa shapes and designs. for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction when achievements of modern art and Sotheby’s had its pre-sale estimate of $30-50 million. —AFP to give great comfort and style. The All our new areas have been pre- it fetched $142.4 million. valued it at more than $100 million. Selling for collections are fully coordinated just sented with their own individual Building on the anticipated excitement among art afi- $100.97 million, it depicts a goddess frozen in as you would expect the Marie Claire look to help customers imagine how cionados, Christie’s this week took out an 8-page wrap- motion and was considered a beacon of hope for stylist continued to do in fashion to create new inspirational looks for around ad in The New York Times - at an estimated cost of the post-World War generation. The record for a and home furnishings over the years their own homes. $200,000 - highlighting its blockbuster offerings. The auc- Giacometti work of art at auction is $104.3 mil- tions get off to a flying start with Vincent van Gogh’s “Still lion, paid for “Homme qui marche I” at Sotheby’s Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies” at Sotheby’s. One of in 2010. the few works sold during his lifetime and painted in The identity of the buyer was not immediately 1890 weeks before the Dutch post-impressionist artist’s known. The sculpture had been in the same pri- death, the painting is estimated to bring $30 million to $50 million. vate collection for four decades. “Chariot” was Acquired in 1928 by A. Conger Goodyear, one of the the most expensive valued lot in a week of auc- founders of the Museum of Modern Art, it remained in tions at Sotheby’s and rival Christie’s, which the family for decades before being purchased by the began Tuesday and last until November 12. “With current owner around 1990. It was on permanent exhibi- its connotations of healing, strength and magic, tion at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo for 30 this heroic sculpture is a symbol of renewal fol- years. Tuesday’s sale also features Alberto Giacometti’s lowing the Second World War,” said Simon Shaw, “Chariot,” a sculpture of an elongated figure atop a Sotheby’s co-head of impressionist and modern wheeled chariot that Sotheby’s estimates could bring art. Also on Tuesday, Amedeo Modigliani’s small more than $100 million, possibly besting the auction sculpture “Tete” smashed pre-sale expectations record for a Giacometti of $104.3 million. by selling for $70.7 million. Sotheby’s said the Works that belonged to Hollywood legends also are price was an auction record for the artist. on tap. Bonhams is selling two Henry Moore sculptures Dating from 1911-1912, it is one in a series of that once graced Lauren Bacall’s home on Tuesday. The rare sculptures carved from blocks of stone scav- “Chariot” by Alberto Giacometti is displayed at bulk of her 700-item collection will be sold in March. The enged from construction sites across Paris. It had Sotheby’s autumn evening sale of following day, a celebrated Manet portrait of a Parisian been valued at $45 million. “The market is redis- Impressionist & Modern Art yesterday in New actress is among the highlights at Christie’s. “Spring” covering sculpture and they are now among the York. — AFP could fetch up to $35 million. —AP lifestyle THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 FASHION Second-hand clothes the austerity fashion in Eastern Europe

he global financial crisis hit hard in central and to 2008 the region as a whole was catching up taught customers how to take care of their money The company, which imports clothes mainly eastern Europe, but one industry has thrived: towards average EU incomes at a rate of about 1 very well,” Hada said. In Poland, the region’s biggest from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Tsecond-hand clothing stores. While in western percentage point a year, from around 35 percent to economy, over 40 percent of people shop for sec- Switzerland, plans to double the number of its Europe the squeeze on household finances prompt- nearly 50 percent. Since the crisis this rate has ond-hand clothes regularly and 100 million euros Romanian stores to six and open a second and a ed many consumers to turn to discount retailers like dropped sharply,” it said, adding that prospects for worth of used clothes were imported in 2013, up third store in Greece next year. “In 2014, the second- Primark, their peers further east - where wages are growth had also deteriorated. from about 60 million on average in the previous hand clothes market in Bulgaria and Europe is significantly lower - have shifted to the used cloth- years. They mainly come from Britain, Germany and developing under the direct influence of the conflict ing sector. Second-hand clothes retailers in Malls Scandinavia. Poland was the only EU member to between Russia and Ukraine,” Spasov said. Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Croatia have grown In Hungary, central Europe’s most indebted avoid a recession during the global crisis but its “Following the sharp decline of the rouble and rapidly and, as the pace of income convergence nation, where the economy has yet to catch up to recovery is also slowing as the Ukraine conflict and the Ukrainian hryvnia, large amounts of goods were between the West and Eastern Europe slows, they pre-crisis levels despite a jump in growth this year, weak European growth are taking their toll. redirected (from Russia and Ukraine) to countries are investing millions of euros to expand their busi- the import of used clothes has more than doubled Grojecka Street in Warsaw is well-known for its neighboring the conflict zone, including Bulgaria,” nesses further. from 2008 figures to 56 million euros last year. Hada, “ciucholands”, or second-hand shops, with a dozen he said. In Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, which Brisk trade in Bulgaria, for example, has prompt- which has 60 stores in Hungary and controls about or so of them in close proximity to one another. In became the 28th EU member in July last year, sever- ed one company - Mania - to open new stores in a third of the market by its own estimate, will open all, there are 21,000 such stores across Poland al second-hand shops have sprung up across the Romania and Greece, while in Hungary major player the 1.6 million euro sorting hall in eastern Hungary according to a 2011 estimate. Prices vary depending city in the past decade. The country has had six Hada is opening a 1.6 million euro sorting hall to next year, adding 155 jobs to bring its workforce to on the shop, from around 30 zlotys ($9) a kilo to straight years of recession. Nena Beric, a 53-year old cope with booming demand. These companies and around 900 people. around 80 zlotys a kilo, but also depending on the lawyer by education, runs one of the oldest second- their rivals source their goods from western coun- The firm imports 30-40 tonnes of used clothes day of the week, with prices falling as the week pro- hand shops in Zagreb. She has owned it for 10 years. tries, buying them from so-called cash-for-clothes per week from Britain - its main sourcing market. It gresses and a new delivery approaches. “Back then, we were the only one. But now, as peo- firms who pay people to recycle their old or has grown into an operation with annual turnover ple become increasingly poor, such shops have mul- unwanted outfits. Some are in pristine condition of 32.4 million euros ($40 million), from a family Ukraine tiplied. They are all over the place and they are all with the original price tag still attached. business started in 1995 and run from a decrepit The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which doing fine.” However the consumer spending There is no shortage of demand for their wares in hall in a remote village near the border with is hitting the region’s economies to varying degrees, squeeze in western Europe has had a knock-on central and eastern Europe, where most people are Ukraine. “Back in the day it was the family, my wife, has boosted the sale of second-hand garments in effect for used clothes sellers further east. in lower-income brackets, by western European grandmother and sister-in-law sorting the clothes,” Bulgaria, one of the poorest members of the EU. “Everything’s got more difficult recently, because of standards. The pace of income convergence with founder Gyorgy Hada said. Mania, a company which started its business with a the crisis, and so has this business,” said Jolanta, who the West had slowed dramatically since the crisis, The firm coped with the financial crisis by shut- single garage shop in 1996, now has 50 stores in has worked in one of Warsaw’s shops for six years. the International Monetary Fund said in a report on ting down weaker stores and opening new ones in three countries, employing more than 600 people. It “People in England are now getting poorer, and the former communist countries in Europe, a quarter of areas with more purchasing power, including bigger hired 100 new workers over the past 12 months, clothes they get rid of - they are nowhere near as a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall. “From 1995 shopping malls in Hungary. “I think the crisis has said its owner Sevdalin Spasov. good as they used to be.”— Reuters

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Indonesian models showcase outfits by Indonesian designer Dominique Nadine during the 2015 Jakarta Fashion Week in Jakarta yesterday. The 2015 Jakarta Fashion Week is held in Jakarta from November 1 to 7. — AP/ AFP photos

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In this Oct 30, 2014 photo children play in front of the painted East Side Gallery, the largest part of original remains of the Berlin Wall in Berlin. On Nov 9, 2014, Germany celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall on Nov 9, 1989. After 25 years only a few remains of the wall remind of the about 160 kilometers (about 100 miles) long border which surrounded the west part of Berlin. The 1300 meters long East Side gallery, a part of the Wall which separat- ed East Berlin from the river Spree, the border at this area, is the longest still existing part of the Berlin Wall. — AP Helping women help themselves By Sahar Moussa the intermittent phases of the Lebanese civil war. We felt that we needed social help for ayat Wahab Arslan is a social activist whose many disasters that happened to many fami- main contribution is setting up the ‘Society lies, especially on the educational level. We Hof Lebanon the Giver’, a non-profit organi- tried to sign a contract with the American zation established in 1983 to deal with social prob- University of Beirut to supervise a free school lems. Her main concern is to help people in need, for students, but unfortunately the war con- from economic, educational and cultural aid to tinued and we couldn’t put the plan into social awareness. action. So we opened a school in the south - The organization executes a program called which was under Israeli occupation - called ‘Women Economic Empowerment’, in which it ‘The New Generation School’ in Hasbaya, trains women to learn a skill and a profession so which is functioning since 1983 with very they can support themselves. In an interview with good results. Now we are building a premises Kuwait Times, Arslan talks about the main goal of for the school. We laid the cornerstone and her organization, her third visit to Kuwait and the we are trying to gather some funds for it, and amazing and beautiful items that were displayed hopefully we will succeed. Within the pro- for three days at Bayt Lothan. grams of the society is women’s economic empowerment. KT: How do women know about your organi- KT: What are your comments about the collab- zation? KT: Is this your first visit to Kuwait? oration between Kuwait and Lebanon? Hayat Wahab Arslan: We spread the word - after Arslan: No, this is our third visit to Kuwait. Our Arslan: There are so many common things all, the Arislan family is a leading family and Photo shows Hayat Arslan. first one was one year after the liberation of between the Lebanese and Kuwaitis - they are people come to us. Unfortunately some of the — Photos by Joseph Shagra Kuwait where we exhibited at the Safir Hotel. elegant and they know what they are saying, Three years later, we exhibited at the and are trying to get into more modern Sheraton Hotel and this year at Bayt Lothan. I things. Maybe we need to find the character- had never heard about it before. Some friends istic of each society so that we adapt to what told me about it and I really liked the atmos- they want. We cannot ask them to adapt to phere here, but the only problem was maybe what we do. we didn’t do enough publicity before we came. Although attendance is sparse, I don’t KT: Are you going to change or mix your style regret exhibiting here because I like Kuwait and designs differently in your next exhibi- tion? Arslan: Of course, I’m asking people who attend the exhibition to give us their feedback so we can adapt to people’s taste. I’m really open to of luxurious things, so we try our best to help new ideas. Note that all profits go to the free them understand the concept and to cus- school and equipping the infirmary in the tomize and adapt new and modern things. south and the workshop. After all, we do have Our work is classical but very creative too. We a cause. did try to modernize the classical items a little bit and hope we succeed in it. KT: Any future plans? Arslan: We are building the premises of the KT: How do the needy women get paid? school, and we want to twin our school with leading families replace the government, Arslan: They get paid per piece to be fair. A high-standard educational institutions. We which is not what we want. three-meter tablecloth is different than small- will organize an annual dinner for our society er pieces. in February. And we have an invitation to KT: Do you participate in political issues? India. We have a mission that we want to Arslan: Here in Kuwait I only do the social part, and to come here. I like to see people’s reac- KT: Do you design the pieces? show a brighter image of Lebanon every- but in Lebanon I am involved in social and tion to our products, but at the same time Arslan: No, a designer helps, but most of the time I where in the world. political issues, which means that we lobby when I get feedback, I adapt to so we can give my remarks. I do intervene in every detail. for reform, which is social and political at the keep up. The colors and the measurements are mine. KT: How do you describe your items? same time. You can never draw a hard line Arslan: I tell them that I have the best and the between social and political life, so in a way KT: Who makes all the handmade items? KT: How were you invited to this exhibition? most beautiful handmade and machine- yes, I do participate but on a different level Arslan: The needy women that we train in our Arslan: It was not an invitation. I expressed my made items at reasonable prices. than politicians do - it is just for reform. workshops. They are very skilful and delicate will to come because it has been a while since in their work, of course under my own super- I visited Kuwait. The Kuwaiti embassy in KT: A last word? KT: Can you tell us more about your organiza- vision. But I consider myself very successful in Lebanon was very helpful in giving us the visa Arslan: I want to thank you, and I’m always tion? supervising and guiding them, and that’s why since they know who we are, and all the grateful to the media because they are very Arslan: It is called ‘Society of Lebanon the Giver’ we have this result and this kind of work. paperwork was smooth. Also, Bayt Lothan helpful. Whenever they talk about us, they and was established in 1983, during one of Needy women are not exposed to these kinds was very receptive and welcoming. make us known.