Ukraine shadow mark D-Dayin World leaders PAM, Iinviteall Kuwaitis forthemeetingandto mobilizefor tion anddetails Barrakwouldannounce.“In thenameof ed tocallforthegatheringnow andwhatkindofinforma- exposed inatelevisioninterview lastmonth. details aboutallegationsofa hugefinancialscandalhe emergency meetingofthegroup thathewouldrevealmore Mussallam Al-Barraktoldapress conferencefollowingan months. SecretarygeneralofPAMandformerMP Assembly nextTuesdayforthefirstsuchprotestinseveral yesterday calledforapublicgatheringoutsidetheNational KUWAIT: By BIzzak

It wasnotimmediatelyknown why thegrouphasdecid- SUBSCRIPTION O The oppositionPopularActionMovement(PAM) pposition 7 150 Fils undeterred byMERSfears Pilgrims pourintoMakkah AUDY UE7 04 SABN9 45A No:16189 1435 AH SATURDAY, SHAABAN9, JUNE7,2014 Saudi Arabia’sMERSdeathtollhits284 in theMuslimholycityofMakkah.—AP,AFP wear noseandmouthmasksonthewaytoIslam’sholiestshrine,Kaaba Syndrome, orMERS,spreadsfromcamelstopeople.(Inset)Muslimpilgrims Medicine offersthestrongestevidenceyetthatMiddleEastRespiratory Camel Festival.AnewstudypublishedbytheNewEnglandJournalof originally fromNajd,SaudiArabia,duringthefinaldayofMazayinDhafra NAJD: Inthisfilephoto,afestivalofficialtouchesthelipofMajahimcamel, c alls forrally that forcesofcorruption wantedtohide. fident ofvictory”. Barrakalsovowedthathe will revealfacts Kuwaiti peopletojoininthebattle, insistingthatheis“con- start of“anewbattle”against corruptionandurgedthe that”. Theformeroutspokenlawmaker alsohintedatthe of whatIsaidintheinterview and Iamgoingtodoexactly that “itistherightofKuwaiti peopletoknowthedetails profile corruptionbuthedid not revealnames.Barraksaid of sixyears. meager $239milliontoasmuch$23billionwithinaspan the bankaccountofaformerseniorofficialinflatedfrom sion interviewwithAl-Youmchannel,Barrakallegedthat Kuwait” Barraktoldthepressconference.Duringtelevi- day atwork friends onfirst Robot makes 31 He alsorevealedseveralmajortransfersinvolvinghigh lunar MuslimcalendarinOctober,accordingtoofficialstatistics. umrah pilgrimshasreached4.8millionsincethestartof the kingdomforumrahandhajj.Thisyear,numberof in westernSaudiArabia.Lastyear,fivemillionpilgrimsvisited with someinvolvingpilgrimstravellingtotheMuslimholysites cases relatetopeoplewhobecameillwhileintheMiddleEast, imported tomorethanadozenothercountries.Allofthose pone theirplansforpilgrimagethisyear.Thevirushasbeen the virus,Tunisianauthoritieshaveadvisednationalstopost- ing shewas“complyingwiththemedicalprecautions.” postponed mypilgrimage,”saidthe56-year-oldwoman,insist- pilgrimage. “Itwasnoteasytocomehere,soIcouldn’thave pointing outthatitisnotalwayseasytogetavisaperform fears ofMERS.“Iamnotafraidthecoronavirus,”shesaid, avirus. Tunisianpilgrim,SafiaBinMohammedshruggedoffthe and measurestopreventtheriskofinfectionbycoron- tributing leafletsandbrochurescontainingadviceonhygiene place thisyearinOctober.LocalauthoritiesMakkaharedis- largest annualreligiousgatheringworldwide,whichtakes Makkah forumrah. starts lateinJune,andseeshundredsofthousandsdescendon approach oftheMuslimfastingmonthRamadan,which tect me,”hesaid.Morepilgrimsareexpectedtoarrivewiththe tants asheenterstheGrandMosqueinMakkah.“Godwillpro- Malaysia. Wearingamask,Abdullahsaidheappliesdisinfec- precautions,” said45-year-oldAbdullah,apilgrimfrom about MERSandwereinformedoftheimportancetaking “We havereceivedwarningsbyauthoritiesinourcountry pour intoMakkahtoperformthelesserumrahpilgrimage. Makkah andM country, accountingforthebulkofaglobaldeathtoll. Arabia inApril2012,andthekingdomremainsworst-hit nine percentofwhomdied.MERSfirstappearedinSaudi virus thatappearedinAsia2003andinfected8,273people, considered adeadlierbutlesstransmissiblecousinoftheSARS kingdom. ThemysteriousMiddleEastRespiratorySyndromeis spread oftheMERSviruswhichhaskilled284peoplein into theholycityofMakkahinSaudiArabia,undeterredby MAKKAH: ure. —AFP perature. ButMERS differsinthatitcausesrapid kidneyfail- patients sufferingcoughing,breathing difficultiesandatem- said. LikeSARS,MERSappears to causealunginfection,with we neverknowhowthesituation willevolveinRamadan,”he rate remainsaveragelynormal forthistimeoftheyear,but anonymity, seemedmorecautious. “Thehoteloccupancy for anagencyspecializedinreligious tourism. the umrahseason,”saidSaadAl-Qurashi,aSaudiwhoworks grims fromhiscountry.“Thecoronavirushasnoimpacton Murshed Ahmed,aBangladeshileadinggroupof23pil- health authorities.Thesituationseemsnormal,”said appeared. “Wearecomplyingwiththeinstructionsof people outof691infectedinSaudiArabiasinceitfirst mission ofMERS,accordingtoWHO.MERShasnowkilled284 re-vote calls ducks Qatar FIFA’s Blatter 43 In apreemptivemeasuretoavoidpotentialimportationof But numberswillrocketwhenpilgrimsarriveforhajj,the But thefaithfulwhodreamofvisitingholyshrinesin But theheadofasimilaragency, speakingonconditionof There isnoevidenceofsustainedhuman-to-humantrans- Muslim pilgrimsfromaroundtheworldarepouring ش dina atleastonceintheirlivescontinueto Camel tohumanjump Min Max 32º 46º

LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

KUWAIT: Kuwait Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt General Suleiman Al-Fahad honoring distinguished officers, commissioned officers and individuals at the conclu- sion of the 2013/2014 training season at the special security sector. Al-Otaibi denies MPs up in arms against offending PAAET director ‘immoral’ TV serial By A. Saleh ‘Shameful and disgusting’ KUWAIT: MP Saadoun Al-Otaibi denied accusations that he offended a senior official at the Public Authority for Applied By B. Izzak and Agencies exchanged on social media recently, and Islamic and Kuwait society values and safe- Education and Training, but confirmed that an argument hap- shows actress Ilham Al-Fadhala telling actor guard the constitution which says that the pened during a recent meeting of the parliament’s petitions KUWAIT: MPs were up in arms against a Hameed Al-Beloushi “do you know what it state safeguards public values and preserves committee. Kuwaiti serial that is scheduled to be shown means to sleep with two sisters?” This sen- the family.” PAAET Director Dr Ahmad Al-Athari had filed a case at the in the fasting month of Ramadan by Dubai- tence started the argument and sharp Al-Huraiji condemned the placement of Adailiya police station against Otaibi, accusing him of libel and based MBC and which reportedly includes exchanges over the social media. the series on Kuwait Television agenda as it making verbal threats after storming his office. “immoral scenes”. A large number of MPs includes low ethics and distorts the Kuwait But Otaibi says that a verbal exchange took place between called on the information minister to exert Controversial question family image, within the schedule of the holy Athari and members of the petitions committee while discussing his efforts to try and stop the pan-Arab satel- Actress Ilham Al-Fadhala said on her month of Ramadan, and held minister Sheikh complaints over hiring at the PAAET. lite channel from showing it especially dur- instagram account that the series was filmed Salman responsible for holding all those “I can assure to the public that we invited the PAAET director ing the holy month of Ramadan. a year ago and does not have anything who approved its showing among ministry to [the committee’s] meeting where an argument happened A number of officials and actors of the wrong and what you have seen is just a pro- leaders and TV officials. between him on one side, and me and the other MPs on the oth- serial however denied that it contains any mo. “How do you make a judgment and you He said that all those who bought the er,” Otaibi said in a statement Thursday. immoral scene insisting that these are merely have not seen it?” she wondered. rights of broadcasting the “incest” show The argument was over allegations that Athari appointed rumours not based on truth. The information Fadhala added that Beloushi plays her using public funds committed unforgettable unqualified expatriate personnel at the PAAET for jobs exclusive ministry also denied in a statement that it husband who marries a close friend she crimes by squandering public funds and to Kuwaiti employees. planned to show the serial in Kuwait adding regards as a sister behind her back, hence destroying the values and ethics system of “The PAAET director hired an Iranian, Syrian, Jordanian and that the ministry had nothing to do with the the reason she makes the controversial ques- the conservative Muslim society. Egyptian employees in jobs allocated for Kuwaitis only, while serial in its production or broadcasting. tion during the serial. Meanwhile MP Adel Al-Kharafi described some of them do not have a high school degree,” Otaibi said. He Current and former MPs had asked the The promo sparked condemnation from clips he saw from the series as shameful and added that the aforementioned employees helped enroll expatri- government to ban the TV series that the parliament and arguments on social disgusting. He said “I hope that the state of ate students in the PAAET despite having below average GPA. allegedly talks about “Zina al-Maharem” or media between those who jumped to criti- Kuwait take a stand towards this series which And while Otaibi insisted that he never offended Athari, he incest, saying that it spoils values and cize the show, others who expressed curiosi- includes unnecessary words and we do not hinted that the police complaint could be a tactic to force the ethics of the society. They argued that it is ty to see what is all about, and those who accept hearing them from the state’s official parliamentary panel to stop investigations in the case. the state’s duty to protect the values, tradi- made speculations about the TV show’s system and we hope that other channels do tions and ethics of the society as per the nature. not show it”. Human rights council constitution, it must meet its constitutional “The low quality series must be stopped Al-Kharafi expressed confidence in the In other news, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister and legal responsibility, and warned as it is talking about incest,” said National Information Minister to confront all that of Justice Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah told the par- Information Minister Salman Al-Humoud Assembly supervisor MP Saud Al-Huraiji. affects traditions and values of Kuwait people. liament’s human rights committee that the cabinet plans to sub- Al-Sabah against ignoring their demands to “Those who approved its broadcast on He said this confrontation is a must because mit a draft law to establish a national human rights council, head stop the series. Kuwait TV must be questioned. Information showing the disgusting clips is haram and of the committee MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan said following the pan- A promo of the series called “I love you minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud must shameful. —- Translated material from Al- el’s meeting Thursday. yesterday, tomorrow and the day after” was bear his political responsibilities and uphold Watan daily are included in this report. Also Thursday, Minister of Housing Yasser Abul announced that the parliament’s housing committee will soon finish amend- ments to the housing care law which allows speeding up the process of executing housing projects. Al-Ali defends midnight Abul attended the panel’s meeting earlier that day which dis- cussed results of a recent meeting between Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim, and officials from the State Audit Bureau resturants closure and Public Authority for Housing Welfare. The results would help remove obstacles that cause delay in housing projects, especially KUWAIT: Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali defended his decision to meet orders through home delivery. regarding prior monitoring that the bureau imposes, according order restaurants closed in private residential areas by mid- Meanwhile, Maj Gen Al-Ali announced that he plans to pur- to sources quoted by Al-Qabas yesterday. night, saying that it helps establish order by preventing trou- sue efforts to achieve a ‘quantum leap’ in the general security blemaking youth from having late night gatherings outside. department, mainly through improving quality of work at Electoral law Separately, Al-Watan daily reported yesterday that liberal MPs Reports Thursday had indicated that Deputy Prime Minister police stations. are holding meetings with former lawmakers and political and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah “There will be no place in the General Security Department groups not represented in the parliament, to come up with a gave orders to suspend Ali’s decision, following complaints for an officer that does not work,” he said, adding that his plan draft law to amend the electoral law. from restaurant owners who protested against the timing of includes redistribution of police forces depending on an area’s The draft law would be proposed at the beginning of the the order a few weeks ahead of Ramadan. density. upcoming parliamentary term, but is not likely to be given priori- Maj Gen Al-Ali, the ministry’s assistant undersecretary for “For example, Farwaniya’s population increased from ty in the parliament where a majority MPs support the current general security, argued however that restaurants become a 850,000 last year to 1,170 million today, which means that single-vote system, said sources quoted in the report. favorite destination during the summer for young people, security forces there need to increase accordingly,” he added. The law is also supported by members of the opposition including troublemakers who gather there to plot crimes such “We are looking to have studies in order to redirect security because it opens the door for them to run in the next elections, as thefts, or drive recklessly. The senior official further told Al- performance towards achieving better security,” Maj Gen Al- Rai daily that restaurants affected by his decision could still Ali indicated. — Al-Rai LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

KUWAIT: A delegation from the fire prevention sector headed by Acting Director of Jahra Prevention Center Col Khalid Al-Ajmi visited Equate Company and were received by security and emergency operations chief Abdelqader Al-Enezi. Prevention and safety equipment were checked and tanks of hazardous materials were inspected. The visit aims at increasing cooperation between Kuwait Fire Service Department and Equate. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun Dead body found Three policemen punished for in Sulaibikhat allowing comrade to escape By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: The body of what is suspected to be an expatri- Man forgets car, reports theft ate was found with a slashed throat near the walking track in Sulaibikhat. The coroner recovered the body and KUWAIT: Three police officers were mine how a man entered Kuwait illegal- Sheep theft investigations are under way. detained after they allowed a comrade ly through the Salmi border checkpoint A Kuwaiti man filed a case at Jahra to escape while questioned over public without being noticed, according to his police station Thursday morning, Drug smuggler indecency charges. The policeman was statements. The Yemeni national was accusing two employees of stealing The Interior Ministry is searching for an unknown per- arrested outside a mosque in Andalus in caught begging at a Jahra market sheep worth KD18,000 in total. son who attempted to smuggle 2kg of marijuana in a a compromising situation inside a car recently, and said during questioning The man explained that he went to postal parcel. A security source said air cargo officials were with a woman. The two were taken to that he met a man after entering Saudi his livestock farm in the Abdali desert informed by narcotics authorities about the shipment. the police station, and were soon Arabia illegally from his home country after he tried calling his two shepherds allowed to escape while investigations who offered to help him go to Kuwait but their cell phones were switched were ongoing. After news about the for 1,000 Saudi Riyals. The man said that off. He discovered after reaching the incident reached Maj Gen Shehab Al- the person he paid was able to help him place that the two Ethiopian men were No new MERS Shemmary, head of the Interior enter through the border without any- missing, along with 37 sheep they Ministry’s Control and Inspection one at the checkpoint noticing. grazed. Department, he gave orders to detain cases in Kuwait three police officers at the Andalus police station for 15 days, and launch NBK announces first winner KUWAIT: The Health Ministry’s Undersecretary Khaled Al- investigations in search for the runaway Sahlawi has affirmed that the ministry has not registered any policeman. in Rolls-Royce competition new cases of the deadly MERS virus and is continuously work- ing with neighbouring regional health authorities to combat Car ‘theft’ the disease. A man reported his car stolen, but “Only three persons tested positive for the virus in Kuwait canceled the case a while later after he before and these cases were reported to the World Health remembered that he parked the car Organization (WHO) and posted on its website,” he said of the away from home. The company repre- disease, which is one of the strands of coronavirus. sentative went to deposit cash at the Dr Al-Sahlawi made the comments at a ceremony to honor end of his morning shift, then walked head of the awareness committee on coronavirus Dr Ghalia back to his apartment located at a build- Al-Mutairi and member of the committee Dr Malek Al-Nabhan ing near the bank branch. When he for their efforts to promote awareness about the preventive came out of the house to go back to measures. “The fatality rate among MERS patients around the work, he thought that his car was stolen world ranges between 30 and 35 percent, or almost a third. after he could not find it outside. He This is the case in Kuwait as well as other parts of the world,” went to the police station and reported he pointed out. the case, but while returning home, he Dr Al-Sahlawi voiced hope for discovering a vaccine spotted his car parked outside the bank against the fatal virus before the start of the Hajj (pilgrimage) branch, and remembered what hap- season. “Lab tests, being conducted on animals, show prom- pened. He went back to the police sta- KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait for four weeks. A committee from NBK ise as the animals were responsive to the drugs but this tion and dropped the case. (NBK) announced the first winner in its will choose every week the best photo process needs time to get the approval of the WHO before Rolls-Royce competition on to win a KD 100 prepaid gift card. introducing the drugs to our countries,” he explained. Prostitute arrested Instagram. Shomoou Abed Al Elah Participants must be followers of Dr. Al-Sahlawi noted that during his visit to Al-Jahra med- The Interior Ministry deported a pros- Nabhan Al-Amami won a KD 100 NBK NBK’s official Instagram account. They ical area yesterday he discussed with the medical officials titute back to Europe after she was prepaid gift card. are required to download the Rolls- there the possibility of launching a coronavirus lab at the bio- arrested in a trap. The European woman NBK launched this campaign due Royce Phantom application on their logical lab of the area and launching an ICU. was lured to a Shaab apartment where to the high anticipation of its Annual smart phones, customize their car and On her part, Dr. Al-Mutairi thanked Minister of Health Dr. she headed to meet an undercover Summer Campaign that will give away upload it on their Instagram account, Ali Al-Obaidi for his support to the awareness committee. information on a prearrangement to this year a prestigious, custom-made, hash tagging #NBKPhantom. “The committee is made up of 35 volunteers from universi- spend two hours with him for KD1,500. Rolls Royce phantom car. Through this NBK greatly values social media as ty students who tour the health facilities countrywide and Investigations with the woman follow- competition, NBK’s social media fol- an easy mean to communicate with organize activities at the various colleges and institutes to ing her arrest revealed that she came to lowers can have the chance to experi- customers and build a strong and last- raise public awareness about the virus and preventive Kuwait 10 days ago, and that she works ence the customization factor of NBK’s ing relationship. NBK is keen to sup- actions,” she said. for a network that provides sexual serv- summer campaign which the winner port customers through all channels Dr. Al-Mutairi added that the committee plans to organize ices online. of the grand prize will enjoy in reality. and views social media networks as 25 lectures in collaboration with the Ministry of Awqaf and Followers of NBK Page on important aspects for supporting the Islamic Affairs as part of the medical awareness campaign for Infiltrator caught Instagram still have the chance to par- lifestyle and banking habits of NBK pilgrims in the ‘Umra’ (minor pilgrimage) season in the Holy Investigations are ongoing to deter- ticipate in this competition that runs clients. Month of Ramadan and the Hajj season. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis enjoy tea and exchange experiences at public cafes, a common meeting place for the natives. Popular cafes to attract youth with e-services Seniors’ long-time haven

KUWAIT: The authority in charge of public ager of Al-Sulaibikhat cafe. country, said Makdes. He indicated that the about their experience in old Kuwait. cafes has drawn up a plan to update them In the olden times, these cafes were made managers of these cafes would seek to offer He confirmed that the cyber services at the with modern and electronic facilities, namely of meagre, simple materials and included various services and accommodate the cus- popular cafes will be free of charge. The serv- the internet, in a bid to draw more people and wooden benches, offering tea and coffee for tomers, including the families who come with ice will be available along with the Knet pay- blend these genuine Kuwaiti resting places token prices. Some of these cafes have been their children. ment facility. For his part, Yusuf Al-Mutawaa, with a modern feature. The social fund for re-decorated and others have not, but they in charge of maintenance and services, indi- popular cafes is seeking to maintain the origi- generally still draw many natives, particularly Free of charge cated that the new approach aims at “improv- nal features of these cafes, a retreat for the old the seniors and retirees. Assaad Al-Derbas, who manages Al- ing the quality of food served.” “All cooking generation, that date back to pre-oil boom Many old Kuwaitis, in the past times, had Farwaniyah cafe, said that the transformation utensils at the cafes have been renewed,” he times, when the natives used these cafes, par- worked at the sea, fishing and diving for pearls of the cafes would not affect their genuine further revealed saying that an agreement has ticularly the ones dotting the beach, as resting or sailing to remote countries for trade. They features and that the prices would “remain been worked out with Loyac society to show- and gathering houses for merchants, fisher- narrate endless stories of adventure, interest- symbolic.” He confirmed that the plan aims at case its activities at these cafes. men and pearl divers. ing incidents and events. Some still get attracting the young Kuwaitis to enable them Loyac will hold a series of diverse activities The fund board has devised a full-scale together at these cafes and recollect the remember the ancestors and catch some at these public cafes-such as handicraft and plan to upgrade the popular cafes to draw var- “good old days.” Updating these cafes has glimpses of the Kuwaitis’ old life style. artistic exhibitions. Furthermore, special enter- ious segments of the Kuwaiti society, of vari- become a necessity, due to the new services Moreover, their presence in the cafes will taining programs are planned for the fasting ous ages, confirmed Abdulaziz Makdes, man- offered by modern cafes dotting the whole enable them mingle with the seniors and learn month of Ramadan. — KUNA Kuwaiti charity NASA selects Kuwait for offers $8m in aid to Syrian refugees research on soil humidity

BEIRUT: Kuwait’s Al-Rahma International Charity has KUWAIT: Director of the research divi- opments in the various scientific which aims to develop quake-resistant offered more than $8 million in humanitarian aid to dis- sion of Kuwait Foundation for the researches,” he affirmed. construction materials and energy-effi- placed Syrian refugees in Lebanon, declared the charity’s Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) Dr Esam On the lecture, he said it was delivered cient buildings. representative in Lebanon Ashraf Bakri, in a statement yes- Al-Sayyed Omar said yesterday the US by Dr Hala Al-Jassar, professor of physics Meanwhile, Dr. Al-Jassar said the team terday. National Aeronautics and Space at Kuwait University, in the run-up to of researchers, led by her, will conduct The aid given varied from providing the refugees with Administration (NASA) has selected NASA launching of a new satellite joint field researchers with NASA before medical care and schooling for their children to helping Kuwait among a few number of countries designed for taking accurate data on cli- the launching of the new satellite, called them pay rent and granting them pocket money to defray for its program to conduct researches on mate. “The readings of the new satellite MSAB, in November, 2014. the cost of clothes and food they may buy, said Bakri. soil humidity. will be available to Kuwaiti researchers in “This the second KFAS-funded joint More specifically, he said that the charity has built a “The selection is based on the avail- order to enable them conduct further cli- research project,” she said, adding that hospital and a medical center at the cost of $1.7 million for ability of technical and human resources mate researchers,” Dr. Omar went on. the researches will be conducted in col- the benefit of the refugees in addition to assisting in the necessary for such a research mission,” he He commended the cooperation laboration with the Kuwaiti Ministry of construction of schools and in granting donations to said on the sidelines of a KFAS lecture on between KFAS and MIT in such projects Defense, the MIT and the New York schools to the tune of $5.2 million. The charity further- “climate maps of desert environment in as the sustainable building program University. — KUNA more offers financial aid to 50,000 students belonging to Kuwait, the Arabian Peninsula and other Syrian refugee families, said Bakri. parts of the world.” The charity moreover has incurred the cost of housing “The program, the first of its kind in Power, water tariffs more than 500 refugee families to the tune of $1.2 million, Kuwait, aims to gauge the ratios of he said as he extoled the work of Kuwaiti charities and humidity in the desert soil and compare KUWAIT: High ranking sources said the goals the first is rationalization and stop relief aid organizations in alleviating the harsh conditions them with the weather readings received government will start implementation of squandering. being experienced by so many displaced Syrians currently from satellites; it falls in the framework of any increase on electricity and water tar- The government said this vision is languishing in refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey, and a cooperation agreement between KFAS iffs , in case they are approved, on min- highly objective and the government is Jordan. and the US Massachusetts Institute of istries and government departments. convinced to start with itself when new The latest statistics show that the number of displaced Technology (MIT),” Dr Omar pointed out. The sources said that no increase has categories for electricity and water are Syrian refugees in Lebanon has approached one million, “KFAS maintains friendly exchanges been officially discussed but there are approved. The sources assured citizens most of whom being concentrated in northern Lebanon, with prestigious organizations in the proposals under study and calls for the and expats that there will not be any in such places as Tripoli, Menia, and Dhania, and also in advanced countries with a view to build- government to start with itself especially increases for those who use normal and the Beka’a valley region. —- KUNA ing the capacity of Kuwaiti researchers for electricity and water to achieve two realistic levels. and keeping abreast of the latest devel-

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Man suspected of killing Who is Ukraine’s Sword-wielding Sikhs clash Canadian Mounties caught 8 next president? 9 at India’s Golden Temple 10

NORMANDY: (From left to right) Belgium’s King Philippe, Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander, Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski, US President Barack Obama, Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano, Slovakia’s President Ivan Gasparovic, Norway’s King Harald V and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II attend an international D-Day commemoration ceremony yesterday. — AFP World honors D-Day’s fallen, 70 years on

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER: Gone are the screaming bring Europe peace and unity. in Benouville used as a hospital during the war, and the battle’s bloodiest fighting at Omaha Beach, shells, seasick soldiers and bloodied waters of 1944. in Ouistreham, a small port that was the site of a the emotional centerpiece of American pilgrim- Yesterday, a sun-splattered Normandy celebrated Human chain strategic battle on D-Day. The secretly planned ages to honor the men killed in Normandy. peace, with silent salutes, tears and international At 6:30 am, the moment on June 6, 1944, when Operation Overlord included landings on five friendship marking 70 years since the D-Day inva- Allied troops first waded ashore, a US military band Normandy beaches, code-named Gold, Juno, Propaganda tool sion helped change the course of World War II and played taps. D-Day veterans from the 29th Infantry Omaha, Sword and Utah. The D-Day invasion was a Serving soldiers of the 173rd Airborne brigade, modern history. Not many of the 150,000 Allied sol- Division and serving soldiers stood at attention. turning point in World War II, cracking Hitler’s west- the ceremony organizers, served as ushers, wear- diers who slogged onto storm-torn beaches or “Twenty-nine, let’s go!” they shouted, then downed ern front as Soviet troops made advances in the ing maroon berets. For the ceremony, small US parachuted into Normandy remain alive to pass on shots of Calvados, Normandy’s apple brandy. east. At least 4,400 Allied troops were killed the first and French flags were placed in the ground at the legacy of that “longest day.” Some survivors Hundreds of Normandy residents and other day, and many thousands more in the ensuing each grave. In addition to the fallen troops, Allied stood, somber-faced and proud, alongside onlookers applauded, then formed a human chain three-month Battle of Normandy, before the Allies bombardments killed an estimated 20,000 French President Barack Obama and French President on the beach. could march to Paris to liberate the French capital civilians, and Hollande paid tribute to them yester- Francois Hollande as they paid tribute to history’s The glorious sun that rose as they arrived shone from Nazi occupation. day in Caen, which like many cities of Normandy biggest amphibious invasion. through the day on a land where paratroopers’ German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a few was largely destroyed in the bombings. The veterans’ hands, which once wrested France corpses once hung from trees and medics dragged German veterans also took part in yesterday’s cer- France has only tentatively come to grips with from Nazi occupation, saluted wizened faces. Some wounded soldiers from blood-swirled waves. But emony, as a gesture of the European unity that the invasion’s toll on civilians. The Allied bomb- rose to their feet with difficulty. Thousands of the peace and stability that its wartime history the Allied victory brought. Ceremonies large and ings - especially the deadly onslaught in onlookers applauded. “France will never forget brought continues to be challenged, as bloodshed small were taking place across Normandy and Normandy during the invasion launched on D- what it owes these soldiers, what it owes the United in Ukraine poses new threats to European security around the world. A ceremony with Prince Charles Day - were used as a propaganda tool by the States,” Hollande said at the Normandy American and East-West relations. at the Cathedral of Bayeux, just south of the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Cemetery on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. Hollande sought to use yesterday’s gathering to beaches, left British veteran Richard England Nazis. Historians now believe that nearly as many “Vive l’Amerique! Vive la France! And long live the reconcile Russia with the West and Ukraine, and deeply shaken. French civilians died in Allied air raids as Britons memory of those who fell here for our liberty.” invited Ukraine’s president-elect as well as Russian “It brought it all back, I’m afraid - all the boys I during the German Blitz. Taking the stand at a site he called “democra- President Vladimir Putin. Putin met with Petro lost, my brother-in-law who was killed almost at “This battle was also a battle of civilians,” cy’s beachhead,” Obama said: “America’s claim - Poroshenko and Obama on the sidelines of the the end, and the lovely chaps that fought with me Hollande said. He said Normandy’s residents “helped our commitment to liberty, to equality, to free- event. “It is because France itself experienced the who were older than me and are no longer with the victory happen. They opened their doors to the dom, to the inherent dignity of every human barbarity (of war) that it feels a duty to preserve us,” said England, of the 8th Durham Infantry liberators.” Yesterday’s commemorations also hon- being - that claim is written in blood on these peace everywhere, at the frontiers of Europe as in Battalion. “They weren’t here, unfortunately.” ored soldiers in today’s conflicts. Jeffrey McIllwain, beaches, and it will endure for eternity.” In all, 19 Africa,” Hollande said. Several thousand veterans, family members and professor at the San Diego State University school of world leaders, more than 1,000 veterans and others gathered at the Normandy American public affairs, will lay a wreath on behalf of educators many others gathered to honor the troops and Day invasion Cemetery and Memorial, with its 9,387 white mar- who have lost students to wars in Iraq and civilians who fell in mighty battles that helped He was hosting the world leaders at a chateau ble tombstones on a bluff overlooking the site of Afghanistan - himself included. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

‘Hundreds dead’ in Boko Haram rampage

MAIDUGURI: Hundreds of people are feared dead in a Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said. Another 45 people were Gunmen razed a Roman Catholic church and torched suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in north- killed when suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending a local government office after firing at troops manning east Nigeria, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming to be itinerant preachers opened fire on a crowd in the a nearby checkpoint, said the chairman of the local gov- increasing numbers of civilian lives. Some community village of Barderi near the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, ernment in the town, Maina Ularamu. No deaths had leaders put the death toll from the Tuesday attacks in the on Wednesday evening. been confirmed, he added, although one resident Gwoza district of Borno state as high as 400 to 500, reported that two civilians were killed in the crossfire. although there was no independent verification because Church razed of poor communications in the remote area. If confirmed, One survivor, Mallam Bunu, said: “They... lied to us No one to bury the dead the attacks in the villages of Goshe, Attagara, Agapalwa that they had come to preach to us and when almost all Reports from Gwoza said the insurgents were steal- and Aganjara would be among the deadliest in the the villagers had gathered, another set of insurgents ing livestock and food and burning property with Islamists’ five-year insurgency and top the more than 300 emerged from nowhere and opened fire on the congre- impunity, despite a year-long state of emergency in who were killed on May 5 in nearby Gamboru Ngala. gation before we all scampered for safety.” On Thursday the restive region. “Hundreds of dead bodies are lying “The killings are massive but nobody can give a toll for four people were killed near the home of a state gover- there... because there is nobody that will bury them,” now because nobody has been able to go to that place nor in northeast Nigeria when a pick-up truck loaded said one community leader in Attagara, who request- because the insurgents are still there. They have taken with grain bags exploded, a government source told ed anonymity. He said the attackers on Tuesday only over the whole area,” lawmaker Peter Biye told AFP. AFP. spared women and that young boys were “snatched “There are bodies littered over the whole area and people The blast happened near the private residence of from the backs of their mothers and killed”. have fled,” added Biye, who represents Gwoza in Gombe state governor Ibrahim Dankwambo in the Men, women and children fled the villages but Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament, the House of upscale Government Reserve area of the state capital. gunmen on motorcycles tracked them down, shooting Representatives. Gombe state borders Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, which as they ran, he added. Gwoza shares a border with Boko Haram’s bloody reign of terror in northeast have been at the centre of the Islamist violence. A sepa- Cameroon and is surrounded by mountains and the Nigeria is forcing 800 people to flee from their homes rate attack was reported on Thursday in the town of Sambisa forest, a known Boko Haram stronghold and every day and has claimed more than 3,000 lives in the Madagali, just 25 kilometers (15 miles) by road from the focus for a Nigerian military search for more than past year, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Gwoza in Adamawa state. 200 schoolgirls kidnapped on April 14. — AFP Man suspected of killing Canadian Mounties caught Nearly 300 police officers in manhunt MONCTON: The suspect in the killing of three Royal small, worn trailer with a roommate. Neighbors Canadian Mounted Police was arrested unarmed early described him as a withdrawn gun collector and avid yesterday, ending a massive manhunt that paralyzed hunter of birds, deer and moose. much of an eastern Canadian city. “I’m done,” a wit- “He never missed a season,” said Kerry Fitzpatrick, ness said he told police. Police said at a press confer- who lives half a block away from Bourque and was at ence that they received a tip that led them to a wood- home when he heard the sound of gunfire. When he ed residential part of Moncton, New Brunswick, where later heard Bourque might be the shooter, he walked they found 24-year-old Justin Bourque, suspected in over to his trailer, found an open door and Bourque’s the deadliest attack on the ranks of Canada’s national wallet on the table. “He lost it. The guy lost it,” police force in nearly a decade. Bourque had been Fitzpatrick said. armed with high-powered long firearms and had been Fitzpatrick said he had stopped by Bourque’s trailer DAMASCUS: A Syrian army soldier climbs out from a 10-meter tunnel reportedly dug by rebels fighters in Jobar, a mostly rebel-held area on spotted three times Thursday, eluding the massive just five days ago. “He seemed fine, it was a normal the eastern outskirts of Damascus. — AFP manhunt that all but shut down the normally tranquil conversation,” Fitzpatrick told The Associated Press on city about of about 60,000 people east of the Maine Thursday by phone from his home. Fitzpatrick said border. Nearly 300 police officers were involved in the Bourque “obviously had things on his mind,” based on Syrians wage war of search for Bourque, who was seen going in and out of a stretch of recent Facebook posts about guns and the a wooded area. police, but did not take it seriously. During the man- tunnels for Damascus RCMP Supt Marlene Snowman said Bourque was hunt, police asked residents of the city’s northwest arrested in a wooded Moncton area at 12:10 am with- section to remain indoors with their doors locked and DAMASCUS: Guided more by what both sides fire from buildings some- out incident. She said no weapons were on him, but exterior lights on to help the search. Much of Moncton, they can hear than see, Syrian troops times just meters apart, the thunder were found nearby. Charges will be brought later. including its popular downtown area, was completely and rebels are battling in the bowels of shells and regime air strikes occa- Michelle Thibodeau said she saw the man arrested in shut down. Some businesses placed signs in windows of Damascus, digging tunnels in a sionally rocking the area. “There are the front yard of her home and heard him say, “I’m saying they were closed because of the manhunt. campaign to control the eastern two cities. There’s the virtual one done,” before his arrest by officers with guns drawn. entrance to the capital. This is the above, and the real one below,” says a Roger Brown, commanding officer of RCMP in New Gun violence rare suburb of Jobar, next to Abassid soldier monitoring computer screens. Brunswick, choked back tears as he addressed media Police commandeered armored trucks. The city Square, a stronghold of President To evade the snipers, men on both yesterday morning. took its buses off the roads and closed schools and Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. The army sides have linked the buildings they “Fortunately most people will never have to experi- government offices. Mail delivery was suspended. knows that if it is lost to the rebels, the control through a network of tunnels ence what our officers have gone through in the last Dozens of police officers patrolled the search area with capital’s entire defenses are in danger. dug through the red earth and light- two days,” he said. “I can’t dig deep enough to explain their weapons drawn. Others, including members of a Inside an empty building, a hole in ed with lamps. “The first tunnel is for the sadness that we all feel.” Brown identified the dead tactical unit, were patrolling streets within the cor- the floor leads to an observation food supplies, the second to commu- as Constables David Ross, 32, originally of Victoriaville, doned off area. room seven meters (23 feet) down, nicate between our positions and the Quebec; Fabrice Georges Gevaudan, 45, originally of Police used air support, tactical teams and canine where army computers are linked to third to evacuate the wounded,” Boulogne-Billancourt in France; and Douglas James units. Several hundred officers from New Brunswick cameras rigged up inside a network explains Maher, a bearded army offi- Larche of Saint John, New Brunswick. and elsewhere from across Canada were involved. of army tunnels. But Mazen, a captain, cer in fatigues. explains that the cameras are of only “The last, which can go to depths Bourque was wearing military camouflage and carry- limited use in tracking the enemy’s of 12 meters, surrounds the building ‘Never missed a season’ ing two rifles in a picture released by police on Twitter. movements. “We depend above all on and, if the enemy tries to get in, we “It’s been a very challenging 30 hours for the offi- Two other Mounties who were injured in the shooting our ears. When we’ve located the detonate bombs placed inside it.” The cers that got this job done,” Snowman said. “It will take are recovering and doing well, police said. Gun vio- source of the noise, we dig in that two sides dig their tunnels at different some time to heal, but together we will get there.” lence is rare in eastern Canada. This was the deadliest direction.” levels to reduce the potentially deadly Snowman and other RCMP officials did not release any attack on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since “Then it’s a surprise: either the risk of bumping into each other, in more details about Bourque’s arrest or the circum- four officers were killed by a gunman on a farm in the rebels are there and we fight, or we what has become a game of cat and stances of the shooting, citing their ongoing investiga- western Canadian province of Alberta in 2005. That cut off the tunnel, or we use it our- mouse. “Captain Ali drives them crazy, tion. Details will be made public in court, she said. attack remains the deadliest on Canadian police offi- selves.” There are two wars going on because he knows how to dig and Police have not spoken about a possible motive for the cers in 120 years. Canada’s Parliament on Thursday here, one above ground, the other launch surprise attacks,” says one of shootings. Residents of Bourque’s trailer park said he observed a moment of silence and the flag on below. In the open air, snipers from his men. — AFP was a quiet, seemingly reclusive man who shared a Parliament Hill flew at half-staff. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Prominent Nigerian cleric, the Emir of Kano, dies at 83

KANO: One of Nigeria’s most prominent Islamic lead- All roads leading to the emir’s palace were blocked secular government. The leader of Nigeria’s Muslims, ers, the Emir of Kano, has died after a long battle with by police and traffic redirected, as security was tight- the Sultan of Sokoto, has also been threatened. Boko cancer, a palace official said yesterday. He was 83. ened in anticipation of a visit by dignitaries to pay Haram last month killed the Emir of Gwoza in Borno “From Allah the Almighty we are and to Allah the their respects, an AFP reporter said. Palace officials- state, Idrissa Timta, while travelling by road to the Almighty we return. The Emir of Kano passed away this so-called “kingmakers”-had also arrived for a closed- funeral of another cleric. Two other traditional mon- morning. His burial will be conducted at 4:00 pm (1500 door session to determine the three names that will archs escaped unhurt. GMT),” royal courtier Mahe Bashir Wali announced on be submitted to the Kano state government for Critics have suggested that the three senior mon- state-run Radio Kano. approval as Bayero’s successor. archs could have taken bolder action against the Ado Abdullahi Bayero, who with the Sultan of Those tipped to be in the running include the for- Islamist insurgents to stem the bloodshed, which has Sokoto and Shehu of Borno was part of the triumvirate mer governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi killed thousands since 2009. A senior security source of influential traditional monarchs in the Muslim-major- Lamido Sanusi, who is the grandson of the late emir’s told AFP last month that the rulers could have played a ity north, had been emir since 1963. He had kept a low- brother. Sanusi was suspended as CBN governor by greater role in tackling the insurgency and helping to profile recently because of his illness and had been the government in February on charges of financial secure the release of 219 schoolgirls still held hostage receiving treatment in a London hospital, according to recklessness and misconduct, soon after he alleged by the group. palace and state government sources. President that Nigeria’s state-run oil firm had misappropriated The Emir of Kano was a well-regarded figure in the Goodluck Jonathan expressed his condolences in a $20 billion (14.7 billion euros) in revenue. Another northern state and was seen as a key link between tra- statement, calling the emir’s passing “a national loss” name in the frame is one of the emir’s sons, Aminu dition and modernity, leading the region’s clerics as the and describing him as “one of the most respected tradi- Ado Bayero, who holds a royal title and is currently a custodian of Islam in the region. Local politicians up to tional rulers”. popular district head in Kano. the state governor also sought his opinion and counsel, “President Jonathan believes that Alhaji Ado Bayero and he was seen as a bridge between Muslims and will always be remembered and honored by the people Assassination attempts Christians in religiously tense Nigeria. A former ambas- of Kano and all Nigerians for his immense wisdom and The Emir of Kano and Shehu of Borno had previously sador to Senegal, Bayero made a fortune in stock-mar- competence as a traditional ruler, as well as for using survived assassination attempts by Boko Haram insur- ket investments and took over as emir after the short- his exalted throne to build bridges of unity, friendship gents, angered by what they saw as the leaders’ betray- lived reign of his half-brother during the turbulent and harmony across the nation,” his office said. al of Islam for submitting to the authority of Nigeria’s political period after independence in 1960. — AFP Who is Ukraine’s next president?

KIEV: More than three months after Ukraine’s president fled to Russia in the wake of months of street protests, Petro Poroshenko is to be inaugu- rated today as the troubled country’s new leader. The billionaire, widely called “the Chocolate King” because his fortune is rooted in the candy busi- ness, faces huge challenges posed by the violent insurgency in Ukraine’s east and the country’s stumbling, corruption-plagued economy. A look at Poroshenko and what’s ahead for him: The 48-year-old, who is estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth $1.6 billion, started his rise by importing cocoa beans into the Soviet Union in 1991. The project ballooned into the immense- ly popular candy manufacturer Roshen, the foun- dation of a business empire that now includes ship-building and one of the country’s most influ- ential TV stations. Unlike many other Ukrainian billionaires, Poroshenko did not make his money in murky post Soviet privatizations, boosting his reputation as a “good tycoon.”

WHAT ARE HIS POLITICS? BERLIN: Ukraine president-elect Petro JERUSALEM: A Palestinian protester poses as he holds a sign in Arabic reading: ‘Al-Aqsa Poroshenko began his political career in 1998 Poroshenko attends a joint news conference Mosque is our red line’ during a rally marking “Naksa Day”, the 47th anniversary of the as a lawmaker in a Russia-friendly party and went with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. — AP 1967 Six Day War, in front of the Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in on in 2001 to help found Party of Regions, the the Old city of Jerusalem yesterday. — AFP political engine behind ousted president Viktor relations with Moscow should be equal and Yanukovych. But in 2004 he threw his weight should not undermine Ukrainians’ desire for clos- behind the Orange Revolution protests that arose er ties with the European Union, he says. Jailbreak in Congo claims 4 lives after fraud-plagued presidential elections. He served as head of national security for a BUKAVU: At least four people were killed Kivu Civil Society organization, told AFP there WHAT WILL HE DO NEXT? few months, but stepped down after months of when 301 inmates broke out of the main were “at least 1,600 prisoners in this prison” at Poroshenko faces a growing pro-Russian feuding with the prime minister and allegations prison in Bukavu in the east of the Democratic the time of the breakout. Balegamire said that uprising in the east of the country, where officials of improperly trying to help one of Ukraine’s Republic of Congo, the provincial justice minis- the jailbreak was believed to be connected to say more than 200 people have been killed in major tycoons. He later returned to serve as for- ter said yesterday. “The current toll is four peo- “the suspension of the former head of the clashes between insurgents and Ukrainian forces. eign minister, and briefly as economics minister ple dead, two soldiers on guard duty and two prison ... accused of several offences, particu- Many will expect Poroshenko to speedily bring inmates who were trying to escape” on larly extorting payment for visits to inmates, after Yanukovych came to power in 2010. He cat- the conflict under control. He could also defuse it Thursday, said Gisele Balegamire, minister of opening the way for the torture of certain apulted back into the public eye by allying him- through constitutional reforms that devolve justice and human rights in South Kivu detainees by soldiers and the embezzlement self early and openly with the anti-Yanukovych more powers to regions and by giving up certain province, where Bukavu is the capital. of funds allocated to the prison.” protest movement that broke out in late prerogatives, such as the ability to appoint gover- In all, 54 of the escaped detainees had been Staff of the justice division in South Kivu-a November 2013. nors. Ukraine’s cash-strapped government, des- rounded up by yesterday morning, but “three province that has known more than 20 years’ Supporters regard his moving between fac- perate to receive the full $17 billion loan package of them are badly wounded and in hospital for unrest and is rife with armed groups-helped tions as a sign of pragmatism amid Ukraine’s promised by the International Monetary Fund, treatment”, Balegamire told AFP. In an earlier the former prison governor to steal the funds, highly polarized politics. Poroshenko allied with a will have to undertake serious reforms early in toll given hours after the dawn breakout, she added. potential rival, former boxing champion Vitali Poroshenko’s tenure as president. Poroshenko police said two people had been killed and “Several secret meetings have been held ... Klitschko, endorsing him for Kiev mayor as also faces a major hurdle in encouraging lawmak- seven injured. At first light Thursday, inmates to avenge the suspended prison chief and to Klitschko endorsed Poroshenko for president. ers in parliament to agree to hold elections this overpowered warders on duty, “took weapons show that the new chief, who is experienced Poroshenko supports signing an association year instead of in 2017 as scheduled. If he fails, he and managed to open the prison gate”, the since he has already run the jail in Uvira, is agreement with the European Union, but has could face the same challenges as the Orange policeman added. Residents living near the incompetent. These people ... cooperated with spoken against holding a vote on whether Revolution government, which took two years to facility reported awakening to gunfire. some detainees to organise the breakout,” Ukraine should seek NATO membership. He says hold parliamentary elections and soon became Descartes Mponge, president of the South Balegamire said. — AFP it’s important to mend ties with Russia quickly; bogged down by infighting. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Pakistan suspends news channel Geo

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan took the country’s most popu- Amir Mir, said Hamid had told him before the attack which clerics said was blasphemous and defamed lar television channel off air yesterday, the latest twist that he felt threatened and if anything happened to Islam. in a bitter row between Geo News and Islamabad’s him the ISI chief “would be responsible”. The media group subsequently apologized over top spy agency over the shooting of a leading journal- Geo News broadcast images of Islam along with both issues, a move that was apparently enough to ist. The government’s media regulatory body said in a the Mir family allegations for eight hours, infuriating save it from closure but not suspension. Pakistan statement the station’s license was being suspended the military which filed a complaint to PEMRA seek- began awarding licenses to private channels in 2002, for 15 days and it would have to pay a fine of 10 mil- ing the channel’s closure. Mir has criticized the coun- leading to a media boom and a sharp rise in critical lion rupees ($100,000). try’s powerful intelligence agencies and military for reporting. But while the media has been relatively Observers will view the decision, which the their alleged role in the abduction of thousands of free to report on the country’s political parties, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEM- people in the restive southwestern province of all-powerful army, which has ruled Pakistan for half RA) said was “unanimous”, as a blow to freedom of Baluchistan. its existence, remains a sensitive topic. expression as the all powerful army clamps down on Many journalists from the Jang Media Group, Mir’s case has been compared to the case of critical coverage. Geo News has locked horns with the which owns Geo News, have reported receiving Saleem Shahzad, who was found dead near the capi- Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) ever since a prominent threats and being harassed following the row. A tal Islamabad in 2011 after writing about links anchor of the television channel was attacked in the regional editor of Jang newspaper, the group’s Urdu between the Pakistani military and Al-Qaeda Rights volatile port city of Karachi in April. daily, was severely beaten in Multan on Monday after groups have called Pakistan one of the world’s most Hamid Mir was shot three times but survived, with leaving his office. Geo News is also facing the wrath dangerous countries for journalists. Media watchdog his family blaming the chief of the ISI, General Zaheer- of the religious community for airing a song-and- Reporters Without Borders says seven reporters lost ul-Islam, for the attempted murder. Mir’s brother, dance routine on a breakfast show aired in May their lives in Pakistan last year.— AFP

Afghan village fumes over US-Taleban prisoner swap DEH SAQI: The release of a Taleban leader accused of orches- trating industrial-scale carnage in Afghanistan’s pristine Shomali plains in 1999, torching homes and carrying out sum- mary executions, has horrified villagers for whom memories of the slaughter are still raw. Mullah Mohammad Fazl was released from Guantanamo Bay along with four other senior Taleban insurgents-also accused of a litany of abuses-last Saturday in exchange for US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only American prisoner of war who was held hostage for five years. The swap has sparked anger and resentment in Shomali villages such as Deh Saqi, which still bear the scars of that cat- aclysm-charred, ruined and bombed out houses and an anguished generation with a thirst for vengeance. “Why is the US releasing the enemies of peace, the enemies of Afghanistan?” fumed Mohammad Arif, who fled to the Pakistani city of Peshawar with 18 members of his extended family after the bloody assault, only to return when US-led forces ousted the Taleban from power in 2001. “The Taleban only know how to kill, maim and plunder. They only know destruction and devastation,” said the 53- year-old Afghan farmer, who has struggled to shake off painful memories of the devastation wreaked by a cadre of marauding insurgents. The Afghanistan Justice Project, an independent research and advocacy organization, has docu- AMRITSAR: Sikh activists clash with members of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) during com- mented evidence linking Fazl-recognized as the Taleban army memorations for the 30th Anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple yesterday. — AFP chief of staff-to a frightening catalogue of atrocities. Citing detailed testimonies, it alleges that in the 1999 Shomali assault against Northern Alliance forces led by the Sword-wielding Sikhs clash late Ahmad Shah Massoud, Fazl presided over carnage on an industrial scale-houses were torched, vineyards and orchards deliberately destroyed, and surrendering fighters summarily at India’s Golden Temple executed. Residents of Deh Saqi, hemmed between shale- brown hills, recall starving villagers were forced to survive for days on mulberry leaves as the Taleban offensive forced the 30th raid ’ersary marked by bloodshed exodus of tens of thousands of civilians. AMRITSAR: Clashes broke out between Television footage showed two groups own Sikh bodyguards in October 1984 in ‘Worst of the worst’ sword-wielding Sikhs yesterday at the of Sikhs sporting blue and saffron turbans revenge for the operation. Such medieval savagery was unseen even during the Golden Temple in northern India on the chasing each other with swords on the Her assassination triggered mass anti- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, said Arif. 30th anniversary of a notorious army raid marbled staircase of the revered shrine in Sikh riots in which some 3,000 people “It was a massacre,” he said, twirling prayer beads with his in which hundreds of people were killed. Punjab state. The clashes allegedly broke were killed, many of them on the streets fingers. Michael Kugelman, a South Asia program associate at At least 10 people were wounded in the out after members of Shiromani Akali Dal of New Delhi. On Thursday, supporters of the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center violence at the temple in the city of (Amritsar) insisted they be allowed to several radical groups carried out a for Scholars, said there was no doubt that the five freed Amritsar, which is the holiest shrine in the speak on the microphone first. “Members ‘Genocide Remembrance Parade’ around Taleban represented “the worst of the worst”. “They pose a Sikh religion. Hundreds of Sikhs had gath- of a radical outfit confronted the temple’s the streets of Amritsar, shouting slogans clear and present threat,” Kugelman told AFP. Norullah Noori, ered at the shrine to pay their respects to task force, triggering the fight. Some 10 to hail the “martyrs” of 1984. Despite the another Taleban commander released along with Fazl, is those killed in the June 6 1984 raid of the people have been injured, two of them outrage over the Golden Temple raid, accused of taking part in the 1998 massacre of thousands of temple by Indian troops aimed at flushing are being treated in hospital,” a police offi- support for an independent “Khalistan”, Shiites when he was governor of the northern Afghan out armed separatists demanding an cer in charge of temple safety told AFP. or the land of the pure, has waned in the province of Balkh. independent Sikh homeland. last three decades. Although the released Taleban figures have expressed no “Today we were supposed to have a Operation Blue Star Analysts say Punjab’s geopolitical sig- desire for atonement or reconciliation, some of them have solemn remembrance for the martyrs of He said the situation was now under nificance-the landlocked region shares evinced a willingness to work for peace since being set free. 1984 so what has happened is very sad,” control with extra security deployed inside borders with Pakistan and restive “(Noori) says he wants to join the Taleban again and bring said a spokesman for a radical Sikh outfit the temple. At least 400 people were killed Kashmir-means sovereignty is almost changes (internally). He says Afghanistan needs peace now called the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) in the army’s infamous Operation Blue impossible. However support for the and he will work for peace with the Taleban,” his cousin whose supporters were involved in the Star. The army’s operation enraged Sikhs independence movement remains clashes. “The Temple has once again been who accused the troops of desecrating strong among sections of the Sikh dias- Abdullah told AFP. dishonored today,” the spokesman Prem the faith’s holiest shrine. India’s prime min- pora in Britain, Canada and the United But several residents in the Shomali plains scoff at the Singh Chandumajra told reporters. ister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her States. — AFP assertion that the release of the Taleban militants will help Available at The Sultan Centre & Carrefour

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Thai police: We’ll ‘get you’ for junta criticism Thai junta tracks Internet posting to capture protest leader BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta said yetser- day that it had captured a fugitive anti- coup leader facing possible imprison- ment, as the ruling generals seek to stamp out any criticism of their seizure of power. The regime has banned public HONG KONG: Passengers walk past the check-in counter protests, summoned hundreds of critics of Cathay Pacific and Dragonair at Hong Kong Airport yes- for questioning and imposed a night-time terday. — AP curfew since its May 22 putsch, which has sent tourist arrivals plunging. Sombat HK carriers on alert Boonngamanong, who spearheaded an online campaign to stage illegal flashmob after attack warning rallies against the military takeover, was arrested late Thursday in Chonburi south- HONG KONG: Two Hong Kong airlines said yesterday that they east of Bangkok, army spokeswoman received a warning from Taiwan about a possible bomb attack Sirichan Ngathong said. targeting a flight to the southern Chinese city. Details on the “We have a team who tracked him nature of the threat were scant but the alert comes at a time of through the Internet,” she told AFP. BANGKOK: Thai soldiers pull barb wire from recent political rallies as they heightened tension on the Chinese mainland as Beijing Sombat faces charges of defying an order clean up outside Government House yesterday. — AFP responds to a spate of suicide bombings and stabbings by sus- to report to the junta, which carries a pos- pected Uighur separatists. sible punishment of two years in prison. salute from “The Hunger Games” films month. His supporters reacted to news of The warning also came the same week tens of thousands of He is expected to be detained at an army that has become a symbol of defiance his arrest with dismay. “What has he done people rallied in Hong Kong to remember the dead on the 25th facility for up to one week for questioning against the junta. wrong? Did he kill anybody?” one follow- anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the only and then brought before a military court. “The military manhunt and arrest of er wrote on his Facebook page. major commemoration that takes place in China. The South Sombat was one of several hundred politi- Sombat shows the NCPO’s shameful China Morning Post, quoting an unnamed Taiwanese law cians, activists, academics and journalists refusal to recognize basic rights to free- Ministers detained enforcement officer, said a female carrying a bomb planned to summoned by the junta, formally known dom of expression and peaceful assem- A former minister in Yingluck’s ousted fly from mainland China to Hong Kong either yesterday or as the National Council for Peace and bly,” said Brad Adams, Asia director of cabinet who also refused to answer the today, through a flight operated by Cathay Pacific or its Order (NCPO), following the May 22 coup. New York-based Human Rights Watch. summons appeared in a military court Dragonair unit. Those who attended were detained in “Next we’ll see a travesty of justice as the yesterday. Ex-education minister A spokeswoman for the city’s flagship airline confirmed with secret locations for up to a week and NCPO drags him in front of a military tri- Chaturon Chaisang was detained by sol- AFP a threat message originating from Taiwan had been made ordered to cease political activities. bunal that resembles a kangaroo court diers in a dramatic swoop on a press con- known to the company. “We are aware of a threat message with Sombat, a prominent pro-democracy more than a proper court of law.” ference late last month, minutes after reference to our flights from mainland China to Hong Kong as activist, refused to turn himself in, instead Sombat is the leader of a faction of the criticizing the coup. He was initially shared by the Taiwan authorities,” the Cathay spokeswoman posting a message on Facebook saying: “Red Shirts” movement, which broadly ordered yesterday to remain in military said in an emailed statement. “We will continue to work closely “Catch me if you can”. Since then he has supports fugitive former premier Thaksin custody for another 12 days, but later with the relevant authorities and have reminded our frontline urged followers to stage peaceful public Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck, who released on bail. If convicted, he could be teams to remain vigilant as usual,” she added. — AFP demonstrations, flashing the three-finger was deposed as prime minister last imprisoned. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Pentagon has N Korea detains US tourist protocol for returned captives American held for ‘inappropriate’ conduct as tourist SEOUL: North Korea said yesterday it had North Korea. “There is no greater priority North Korea has detained and then WASHINGTON: Once released from captivity, a soldier like Sgt detained an American tourist for violating for us than the welfare and safety of US cit- released other Americans in the past year, Bowe Bergdahl enters a series of debriefings and counseling its laws after entering the secretive state in izens abroad,” the official said, adding no including Korean War veteran Merrill E. sessions, all carefully orchestrated by the US military, to ease the April, bringing the number of US citizens further information was available. Newman, whom it expelled after holding soldier back into normal life. In military parlance, it’s known as held by Pyongyang to three. Pyongyang Earlier yesterday, Japan’s Kyodo news him for more than a month accusing him “reintegration,” and Bergdahl, who spent five years as a captive has detained a number of US citizens in agency said the North had detained a US of war crimes. In April, the North said it of the Taleban under circumstances now hotly debated, is recent years, using them as a tool to citizen in mid-May. The Kyodo report was holding an American named Matthew working his way through its early stages at a US military hospi- extract visits by high-profile figures, quoted unidentified diplomatic sources. Todd Miller who had made “a gross viola- tal in Germany. A look, in question and answer form, at how this including former President Bill Clinton, for Two other Americans are currently being tion of its legal order” after entering the process typically plays out: propaganda means. held by the North, arrested after arriving country on a tourist visa. North Korea periodically accuses the on tourist visas and accused of crimes He tore up his visa and demanded asy- Q. When does Bergdahl get to go home? United States of military hostility and con- against the state. Korean American mis- lum, KCNA said in April. Bae was arrested A. The short answer is, no one knows. Bergdahl has not even spiracy to overthrow its leadership. The sionary Kenneth Bae has been in custody in 2012 and has been sentenced to 15 placed a phone call to his family, Pentagon officials say. two states have been locked in a tense for 18 months and a second man has been years’ hard labor on charges of state sub- Typically, a returned captive would spend from five days to diplomatic conflict over Pyongyang’s held since April. version. His family says he suffers from a three weeks in the phase of reintegration in which Bergdahl nuclear and missile programs. The latest variety of health issues, including dia- now finds himself at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, American to be held was being ques- War veteran released betes, an enlarged heart, kidney stones according to a Pentagon psychologist who is an expert in deal- tioned by authorities for conduct inappro- In May, the US State Department and severe back pain. North Korea has ing with military members who have been released from cap- priate for the purpose of his visit as a issued an advisory urging Americans not twice cancelled visits by Robert King, the tivity. The psychologist spoke to reporters on condition of tourist, state media reported yesterday. to travel to North Korea because of the US special envoy for North Korean human anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon. Once The North’s KCNA news agency gave “risk of arbitrary arrest and detention” rights issues, to discuss Bae’s case. The Bergdahl is deemed ready to move on to the next phase of his his name only in Korean and said he even while holding valid visas. “Foreign United States has no diplomatic ties with entered the country on April 29. It gave no visitors to North Korea may be arrested, North Korea and the interests of its citi- decompression, he is expected to be flown to an Army medical further details. A State Department official detained, or expelled for activities that zens in the country are represented by center in San Antonio, where it is believed he will be reunited said Washington was aware of reports that would not be considered criminal outside Sweden, which has an embassy in with his family. a third US citizen had been detained in North Korea,” it said. Pyongyang. — Reuters Q. Why does it take so long? A. Each case is different, and Bergdahl’s is especially compli- cated. That is partly because he was in captivity for so long and ‘Heroes’ helped stop partly because he has been - or soon will be - made aware of accusations that he deserted his post in Afghanistan and will- ingly sought out the Taleban in June 2009. The military psychol- ogist who briefed reporters Thursday at the Pentagon said neg- gunman at university ative publicity can have the effect of “hugely” complicating the process of preparing a former captive or hostage for his return home. That would seem to suggest that Bergdahl faces a SEATTLE: When a lone gunman armed with potentially lengthy reintegration, given the firestorm of criti- a shotgun at a small Seattle university cism over the terms under which he was released and the accu- stopped firing at students to reload, another sations of disloyalty and other potential misbehavior. student pepper-sprayed him and subdued him with the help of others and prevented Q. What is Bergdahl facing now? more deaths, police said. A 19-year-old man A. US officials won’t talk about specifics beyond saying was fatally shot and two other young people Bergdahl’s health is improving and he is becoming more were wounded after the gunman entered engaged in his treatment program at Landstuhl. It is unclear the foyer of a Seattle Pacific University build- why he has not yet spoken by phone to his parents. The military ing and started shooting Thursday after- psychologist who briefed reporters said a request by a returned noon. When he paused to reload, a student captive to make such a phone call would not be denied typical- building monitor disarmed him. ly, although he also stressed that every case has its own peculi- “There are a number of heroes in this,” arities. Part of the current phase for Bergdahl includes helping Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh said. him prepare for situations likely to arise once he returns home. “The people around him (the gunman) That can include seemingly innocuous things like sounds or stepped up.” The gunman had additional smells that trigger memories of captivity or captors. That assis- rounds and a knife, McDonagh said. The man in custody was not a student at the tance is provided by psychologists familiar with what the mili- school, McDonagh told a news conference. tary calls Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape (SERE) techniques, Four people, including the young man who SEATTLE: Following the lift of a lockdown in the wake of a school shooting, designed originally for air crews captured behind enemy lines. died, were taken to Harborview Medical Seattle Pacific University faculty members Caenisha Warren (left) and Tanisha Center. A critically wounded 20-year-old Hanson (right) embrace each other Thursday, June 5, 2014, on the campus of Q. Has this process been created just for Bergdahl? woman was in intensive care late Thursday Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Wash. — AP A. No, it has evolved and been refined over many decades. It after five hours in surgery, hospital spokes- has been applied to many returned captives, including Chief injured when a 43-year-old former student that the suspect’s father, Ambrose Ybarra, woman Susan Gregg said. A 24-year-old Warrant Officer Michael J Durant, the Army helicopter pilot who opened fire at a tiny Christian school, Oikos said he didn’t know anything about the man was hospitalized in satisfactory condi- was shot down in Somalia and held for 11 days before being University, in Oakland, California, in 2012. A shooting. Student Chris Howard was at Otto tion. A Seattle Fire Department official said released in October 1993. The reintegration process derived, in gunman killed five people and injured 18 Miller Hall when the shooting happened. He the man suffered “pellet type wounds” to his when he opened fire in a Northern Illinois said he saw the wounded woman on the large measure, from problems associated with the return of neck and chest. POWs from the 1950-53 Korean War, many of whom endured University lecture hall in 2008. In 2007, 32 floor being tended to by a classmate. Her people were fatally shot in a dorm and class- chest was bloodied. Her phone was covered great hardships and some of whom were suspected of having Gun violence epidemic been brainwashed by their communist captors. room at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, in blood, but she asked her helpers to look A 22-year-old man was treated and before the gunman killed himself. through her phone for her mother, aunt and released, Gregg said. Police said he suffered Q. Is Bergdahl being investigated? Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, noting previous best friend. minor injuries during the struggle with the mass shootings in the city, said: “Once again “She was panicking,” Howard said. “She A. The investigation that is expected to examine the circum- suspect. None of the victims was immediate- stances of Bergdahl’s disappearance in Afghanistan, as well as the epidemic of gun violence has come to said ‘I think I’m going to die.’” Soon after, ly identified. Aaron R. Ybarra, 26, was booked Seattle.” Also late Thursday, police who said police arrived. By then the suspect had been his behavior during his five years in the hands of the Taleban, into the King County Jail late Thursday for has not yet begun. The Pentagon briefers said Thursday that the they were serving a warrant entered a house subdued. Howard ran outside and back investigation of homicide, according to that was believed tied to Ybarra. A phone through the lobby where he saw the man reintegration process now underway is separate from any inves- police and the jail roster. The gun violence message left at that house in the north pinned on the floor. “The suspect was calm. tigation. A major part of what Bergdahl is being prepared for follows a spate of recent shootings on or Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace was not Not speaking. Not moving. Not struggling. now is how to handle media attention, as well as adjusting to near college campuses. Last month, accord- immediately returned. Just there,” Howard said. The shooting came the demands of everyday life. He also is being debriefed by mili- ing to police, Elliot Rodger killed six people a week before the end of the school year. tary officials on any useful intelligence he may have as a result of and injured seven before turning his gun on Classes canceled McDonagh said he did not know the gun- his time with the Taleban. Those debriefings are confidential, himself in a rampage in Isla Vista, California, Messages left with friends and relatives man’s motive or intended target. Detectives meaning Bergdahl is supposed to be protected from incriminat- near two universities. of Ybarra via social media were not immedi- are “working as quickly as we can to figure it ing himself during this period of decompression. — AP Seven people were killed and three ately returned. The Seattle Times reported out,” he said. — AP Lost oil revenues have German growth to slow China’s growth to Businesscost Libya $30bn: CB16 in Q2, uptrend intact 17moderate: World Bank 19 SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 ECB’s actions are no panacea for economy 18

LONDON: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne listens to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (inset) speaking at a press conference in London yesterday. —AFP Act on housing bubble risk: IMF tells UK Osborne says central bank shouldn’t hesitate to act

LONDON: The International Monetary Fund spoke at the same news conference as Lagarde, drive up household indebtedness - and thus sys- failed, the BoE should impose caps on loan-to- urged Britain to cool its housing market by rein- said he would stay vigilant over housing, and temic risk for financial institutions - more policy income and loan-to-value ratios, and increase ing in risky mortgages, the strongest warning yet that the BoE should not hesitate to act if needed. action is warranted.” the amount of capital lenders must hold against from an international organization about the risk Two major British banks, Lloyds Banking Group On Britain’s economy more broadly, the IMF’s residential property loans. The government of a property price bubble. So far there have and Royal Bank of Scotland, have already said tone was much more upbeat than a year ago might also need to stop offering mortgage guar- been few signs of a credit-driven bubble in they will no longer lend at multiples of more when the country seemed to be on the verge of antees under the Help to Buy program if it sees British house prices, the IMF said. than four times a borrower’s income for mort- falling back into recession. Some officials at the much greater take-up. The scheme was launched But that could change fast and lenders should gages of over 500,000 pounds ($839,500). Fund at the time said Osborne was too focused by Osborne last year to help first-time homebuy- offer fewer mortgages that are far larger than With a national election due in less than a on cutting the budget deficit at the expense of ers. The IMF said that in the longer term, Britain borrowers’ incomes, it warned in an annual year, Osborne will be keen that the Bank of growth. had to build more houses. The opposition Labor report on Britain’s economy published yesterday. England does not take steps that will hurt Lagarde, who had a close working relation- Party said the report showed how the govern- IMF managing director Christine Lagarde called growth or suggest his measures to revive hous- ship with Osborne when she was France’s ment’s struggle to get more houses built meant on the Bank of England to use its powers over ing demand were misguided. House prices have finance minister, admitted the IMF had got it interest rates might have to rise earlier than oth- bank lending “early and in a gradual fashion as risen by more than 11 percent over the past year wrong. “I am happy to come back yet again and erwise needed. Andrew Sentance, a former BoE the first line of defense against risks ... from the according to one measure, the fastest rate since say that we had clearly underestimated the policymaker who has long called for tighter housing market.” just before the financial crisis, powered by soar- growth of the UK economy in our forecast a year monetary policy, also said it was unclear how If efforts to rein in the market did not work ing London prices. ago,” she said at the news conference. effective the BoE’s so-called macroprudential the Bank of England would need to be ready to BoE Governor Mark Carney said in May that Weak productivity was a risk to future growth, tools to control bank lending would be in curb- raise interest rates fast, the IMF said. “Policy housing was the biggest threat to Britain’s eco- but overall Britain’s fiscal stance was appropriate. ing house price risks. might ... have to be tightened quickly if costs run nomic recovery. Later this month, the BoE could “To a large extent these measures are untried ahead of productivity growth, slack is absorbed, add to measures it has already taken to control Fewer high-LTI mortgages and untested,” he said. “If the first (interest rate) or financial stability concerns cannot otherwise the mortgage market. The IMF said that more On housing measures, the IMF said a first step rise is delayed too long, there is a risk that the be addressed,” it said in the report. needed to be done now. “In an environment would be to limit the proportion of high loan-to- MPC will have to act quickly after the election British Finance Minister George Osborne, who where expectations of capital gains can quickly income mortgages any lender could issue. If that with a succession of rapid rises.” — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Australian court upholds S&P derivatives case

SYDNEY: Standard & Poor’s was found liable yesterday for investment losses incurred by Australian councils in the lead- up to the global financial crisis, after a court dismissed its appeal against a landmark 2012 ruling. The full bench of the Federal Court of Australia threw out the appeal by the ratings agency, ABN AMRO Bank and Australian firm Local Government Financial Services (LGFS) and upheld the original judgement. The Sydney court ruled that S&P, ABN AMRO-now a divi- sion of Royal Bank of Scotland-and LGFS were 100 percent liable for losses sustained by the councils of 13 towns rather than 33 percent in the earlier judgement. The 474-page deci- sion said “S&P’s rating of the Rembrandt notes was unreason- able, unjustified and misleading (and ABN AMRO knew that to be so)”. S&P said in a statement that it was “disappointed”. “It’s clear that the law in Australia relating to duty of care is at odds with well-established laws elsewhere, including in the US and Europe,” the ratings agency said. “We continue to believe that it is bad policy to enforce a legal duty against a party like S&P, which has no relationship with investors who use rating opin- ions, yet impose no responsibility on those investors to con- duct their own due diligence.” JALALABAD: Afghan vendors unload watermelons from a truck at a fruit market in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Piper Alderman, the law firm representing the councils, Nangarhar province. Afghanistan’s economy is recovering from decades of conflict but despite the significant improve- and Bentham IMF Australia, a publicly listed company that ment in the last decade it is extremely poor, and highly dependent on foreign aid. — AFP funds large legal claims, said in a joint statement the ruling had “significant global ramifications”. “This is a landmark decision that changes the legal land- Lost oil revenues have scape with regard to apportionable claims for misleading and deceptive conduct,” Piper Alderman partner Amanda Banton said. “The significance of this judgement cannot be overesti- mated. The implications for other claims currently in the court cost Libya $30bn: CB are enormous.” ‘A great win for investors’ Wave of protests cut output to 200,000 bpd John Walker, the chief executive of Bentham IMF, which funded 12 of the councils, said the decision meant investors TRIPOLI: Libya has lost $30 billion due to Alkari said there needed to be a political and insurers. now had more avenues of recourse. “This is a great win, not 10 months of protests at oilfields and solution for the oil crisis but did not elabo- Discussing the bank’s little-known only for the 12 councils but for investors generally, that export terminals but has sufficient foreign rate. A rebel group in eastern Libya has investment strategy, he said it favored dol- should once and for all puts banks and ratings agencies on currency reserves to keep the country run- seized several oil export ports to press for lar bonds such as US Treasuries as its oil is notice that they will be held accountable,” Walker said. ning, a central bank official said. financial demands and regional autonomy. sold in dollars. It also holds sovereign or The original ruling found S&P’s AAA rating of constant pro- A wave of protests at oil facilities has The government signed an agreement in other highly rated bonds from European portion debt obligation notes created by ABN AMRO and sold reduced the North African country’s oil April with the rebels to reopen the ports countries and stakes in companies includ- to the councils were “misleading and deceptive”. It was the output to less than 200,000 barrels a day but implementation has been slow due to ing Italy’s UniCredit, a Gulf lender and first time a ratings agency faced trial over synthetic deriva- down from 1.4 million bpd in July before mutual distrust. The rebels have refused to insurers. tives, a form of collateralized debt obligation-a high risk prod- the strikes started. deal with the new premier Ahmed Maiteeq “We have a good mix geographically uct that can offer extremely high yields to investors. The protests are part of wider turmoil in who was elected by parliament in a chaot- and in terms of risks,” Alkari said. The bank The councils lost Aus$16 million ($15 million) on the so- the North African country since the over- ic vote disputed by some lawmakers. still buys overseas assets sometimes “but called “Rembrandt notes” they purchased from LGFS in 2006, throw of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Alkari said the central bank had diversi- less than before”. “We receive $1 billion (a more than 90 percent of the original capital invested. government is unable to control militias fied its foreign currency reserves, which are month) in this hand, but in the other hand Piper Alderman and Bentham IMF said the councils could and armed tribesmen who helped oust split between cash, short-term deposits, we pay $3.6 billion so how can we invest recover about Aus$25 million, which includes interest Gaddafi but now seize oilfields or state foreign bonds and equity stakes in banks new money?” Alkari said. — Reuters accrued, in losses. institutions at will to make political or Yesterday’s decision came a month after the Federal Court financial demands. “The damages the state cleared the way for 91 church groups, councils and charities to has now suffered after more than 10 resume a damages claim against S&P over hundreds of mil- months, Libya has lost not less than $30 US economy adds lions of dollars they lost on synthetic derivatives. —AFP billion,” Musbah Alkari, director of the cen- tral bank’s reserves department, told 217,000 jobs in May Reuters. Reserves are currently around $110 billion, down from around $130 bil- WASHINGTON: The US economy gains achieved a fresh benchmark for lion last summer when protests started. pumped out 217,000 jobs in May, less the recovery from the 2008 economic The situation could get worse in the next than the previous month but still a sol- crisis: the total number of jobs held sur- few days. State oil firm National Oil Corp id number, Labor Department data passed for the first time the pre-reces- (NOC) said on Wednesday that it might be showed yesterday. The unemployment sion peak of 138.4 million. forced to use crude from its two offshore rate held steady at 6.3 percent, after “Non-farm payroll employment fell oilfields, so far unaffected by protests, to falling sharply from 6.7 percent in April. by 8.7 million from January 2008 feed a domestic refinery. That could mean The showing was close to expecta- though February 2010. Since then, Libya stops exporting oil for the first time tions, implying a continued modest employment has risen by 8.8 million,” since 2011. Alkari said Libya was currently rebound by the economy after the 1.0 said the Labor Department. earning around $1 billion each month in percent contraction of the first quarter Economists said May’s net job creation oil revenues, having brought in between of the year. But the pace of job cre- numbers were encouraging, even if $4 billion and $5 billion a month before ation was not strong enough to pull down from April’s 282,000 revised the oil protests started. people back into the workforce after number. Oil and gas exports are the only source having left it during the Great “This is a solid report, marking four of revenue for the country’s $50 billion Recession, with the very low 62.8 per- straight gains over 200,000; that hasn’t SYDNEY: Office employees reflect in a glass panel as they budget and to fund food purchases and cent rate of participation unchanged. happened for more than 14 years,” said makes their way during rain in the central business district other imports worth $30 billion, as Libya Encouraging, however, were falls in Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon of Sydney yesterday. Surging mining exports powered the has no sizeable industrial production out- the number of people forced to work Macroeconomics. Almost all of the Australian economy to better-than-expected 1.1 percent side the oil sector. “The reserves will last part-time because they could not find gains were in the private sector, with growth in the first quarter of the year, data showed on (cover the budget and imports) for three full-time jobs, and a slight uptick in governments at all levels adding only a June 4, 2014 but Treasurer Joe Hockey said he was also and a half years ... (but) we want suitable wages during the month. May’s job net 1,000 workers. —AFP encouraged by a pick-up in other sectors. — AFP solutions for these problems,” he said. BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Azerbaijan progresses on diversifying economy

BAKU: Oil-rich Azerbaijan is making progress in its opponents for its crackdown on dissent, put more drive to diversify its sources of economic growth, emphasis on preserving political stability in the but the desire to maintain stability could get in the mainly Muslim country, sandwiched between way of tackling corruption, the European Bank for Russia and Iran, that has been courted by the West Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) resident because of its role as an alternative to Russia in sup- official says. Neil McKain told Reuters in an inter- plying oil and gas to Europe. “I think that the main view the non-oil sector was projected to grow by 9- focus of leadership of this country is stability. And if 10 percent in 2014, the same as in 2013. Overall tackling corruption head on challenges the stability economic growth was expected to slow down to of the country, then the stability will win,” McKain 4.75 percent from 5.8 percent on the back of the said. Azerbaijan has been one of the world’s fastest fall in oil output. growing economies over the last decade. Luxury “I think the government is on track with some of shops now sit outside the capital’s old city walls the right policies, but there is not as much progress and poverty has been reduced to single digits from as we want to see, when it comes to tackling cor- over 50 percent ten years ago. Growth has slowed ruption,” McKain said. in recent years on lower oil production and prices. “There are a lot of distortions created by the cor- Production stabilised last year, but started to fall ruption that exists in the country. That has to be again from the beginning of this year and is expect- addressed from the top.” Commentators say official ed to be slightly lower than in 2013. Oil output fell corruption is one of the biggest frustrations for by 2.4 pct in the first five months of this year com- people living in Azerbaijan, where strongman pared with the same period in 2013. McKain said Ilham Aliyev has ruled since taking over from his the EBRD encouraged the government’s efforts to BUDAPEST: (Light to right): Minister of Agricultural Affairs Sandor Fazekas, Minister of Economy father in 2003. In its 2013 Corruption Perception reduce dependency on the oil and gas sector, Mihaly Varga, Minister of Defense Csaba Hende, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tibor Navracsics, Index, Transparency International ranked which account for about 70 percent of the state Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Minister of Prime Minister’s Azerbaijan 128 out of 177 countries. This put budget’s revenues. “I think the government has Office Janos Lazar, Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi, Minister of Interior Affairs Sandor Pinter, Azerbaijan lower than Egypt and Tunisia where become very serious about diversification. It will Minister of Human Resources Zoltan Balog and Minister of National Development Miklos Sesztak street protests have overthrown previously require a constant reform process, if the govern- of the newly elected Hungarian government take oath of office during the swearing in ceremony entrenched governments. ment is going to stay at this 10 percent growth in in the main hall of the parliament building in Budapest yesterday. — AFP But the government, which is criticized by non-oil economy every year,” he said.—Reuters German growth to slow in Q2, uptrend intact Industrial output expands slightly in April

FRANKFURT: The German economy, between exports and imports-widened in Europe’s biggest, will book slower growth in April, driven by booming exports. the second quarter, after a robust start to the year, but the recovery remains intact, data Strength of economy showed yesterday. Industrial output, on the other hand, Industrial output expanded only slightly in showed very muted growth of just 0.2 per- April, weighed down by a drop in construc- cent, according to economy ministry data. By tion activity, data compiled the economy sector, manufacturing output edged up by ministry showed. Nevertheless, exports rose 0.1 percent and energy output increased by strongly, causing the country’s trade surplus 2.7 percent, while construction output con- to expand. And the German central bank or tracted by 1.2 percent. Bundesbank upgraded its forecast for the Analysts were nevertheless confident that whole year, saying the economy was on a the economic recovery in Germany is not in MUMBAI: Indian pedestrians watch as a digital broadcast presents the rolling share price “robust growth path.” jeopardy. “All in all, the latest data gives no information and national election results news coverage on the facade of the Bombay Stock “The German economy made a very buoy- reason to doubt the underlying the funda- Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai. — AFP ant start to 2014,” the Bundesbank said. mental strength of the German economy. “Even if it does not maintain the high rate of However, a slowing of the economy in the India shares hit record high growth seen in the first quarter, the second quarter is clearly in the offing,” said Bundesbank’s economists are still confident ING DiBa economist Carsten Brzeski. as investors bet on Modi about Germany’s growth prospects,” it said, In March, industrial output and exports pointing to strong domestic demand and an had both fallen, casting doubt about the MUMBAI: Indian shares closed at a record mandate in three decades has sparked an ongoing improvement in the economic situa- strength of the recovery. And the latest data high yesterday on investor optimism about investor buying spree. Finance Minister Arun tion of the industrial countries. “have not entirely taken away these doubts,” economic growth prospects under the Jaitley will present the budget in July, and “The gradual recovery of the euro area Brzeski said, suggesting that the Ukrainian country’s new right-wing government led has signalled his intent to boost growth suggests that Germany will follow a robust conflict and the Chinese slowdown could be by Narendra Modi. The Bombay Stock while reining in government expenses. “We growth path,” said Bundesbank chief Jens having a stronger impact on the real econo- Exchange’s benchmark index, known as the must move towards an era of fiscal disci- Weidmann. The figures were published the my than originally anticipated. Berenberg Sensex, closed up 1.51 percent at 25,396.46 pline where we can reduce the fiscal deficit, day after the European Central Bank made Bank economist Christian Schulz also said points, eclipsing its previous lifetime high of contain inflation and improve our growth major announcements of measures to boost “the hard data seem to confirm the loss in 25,375.63 points hit on May 16. Earlier in the rates,” Jaitley said last week. the amount of cash in the euro-zone econo- industrial momentum. The second quarter is day, it touched a lifetime intraday peak of Last weekend, Modi abolished the nine my. likely to be a bit weaker than the first quar- 25,419.14 points. “The government is talking empowered groups of ministers and 21 The main decision was to charge banks for ter.” in the right tones on reform and has also groups of ministers, created by the previous parking cash with the ECB, essentially to ward BayernLB economist Stefan Kipar believed acted to show they mean business by abol- Congress government during its decade in off deflation but with the parallel objective of that on the basis of positive factory orders ishing (bureaucratic decision-making) struc- power, that were seen as a layer of red tape stimulating activity, since the recovery in data and robust confidence indicators, “the tures like empowered group of ministers,” obstructing growth. The economy has been most euro-zone countries is trailing behind positive underlying trend continued in the said Shrikant Chouhan, head of technical stuck in low gear, growing by 4.7 percent Germany. According to the Bundesbank’s lat- second quarter.” research at Kotak Securities. year-on-year in the 12 months to March est forecasts, German gross domestic product The economy “likely grew moderately in “The market is moving in anticipation 2014 — the second consecutive year of sub- (GDP) was projected to grow by 1.9 percent the second quarter,” Kipar said. He said he that the upcoming budget will reflect con- five percent expansion. in 2014 and then by 2.0 percent in 2015, fol- was pencilling in GDP growth of 0.3 percent crete move towards reforms,” he said. The Chouhan forecast the Sensex would lowed by growth of 1.8 percent in 2016. in the period from April to June after growth change in government with the Bharatiya climb to 27,000 points in coming months if The latest trade data were also positive. of 0.8 percent in the first three months of the Janata Party-perceived as pro-business-tak- the government’s actions live up to investor Germany’s trade surplus-the balance year. — AFP ing charge last month with the first majority expectations. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Don’t be complacent, warns EU’s top economic official

LONDON: Dramatically reduced borrowing costs for Europe’s weakest economies risk making governments complacent about structural reforms needed for growth, the European Commission’s most senior economics official said yesterday. Yields on bonds issued by countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and Ireland have fallen to pre-crisis lows in recent months as fears for the fate of the euro zone recede and investors embrace the one- time pariahs of the periphery. “It is a dangerous thing if it leads to complacency and the dec- laration of ‘mission accomplished’,” Marco Buti, the long-serving head of the Commission’s directorate for economic and financial affairs, told Reuters in an interview. “It is not the case, there is still a lot to do at the national level and at the European level. The tendency always is to make mistakes when times are good or when times are getting better, and this is the same risk now.” Buti said the Commission was determined that countries across the EU’s 28 member states should run their finances responsibly and would monitor countries that have exited bailout programmes, as Ireland and Portugal have, particularly closely. “It’s not (a) free- for-all,” he said. “They have quite robust post-program surveil- lance.” Another danger cited by Buti, who is waiting to find out who his next boss at the Commission will be, is that the new, more Eurosceptic parliament elected last month will water down FRANKFURT: The euro sculpture stands in front of the European Central Bank (right) in Frankfurt. The European Central plans to tighten banking ties within the bloc. Bank took bold steps Thursday to protect Europe’s fragile economic recovery, cutting interest rates and offering to “There will certainly be some temptation of that, but I think pump more money into the financial system. — AP this would be a mistake,” said Buti. Work still to do includes set- ting up the single resolution mechanism that will deal with failing banks and agreeing details of how to fund a 55 billion euros ($74.88 billion) backstop. Europe is also still debating how to bal- ECB’s actions are no ance austerity aimed at fixing public finances with measures to boost growth, mirrored in the banking sphere by the dilemma over how to get loans flowing to companies while making banks less risky. Delegates at the International Institute of Finance con- panacea for economy ference in London, which Buti was speaking at, said the Commission wanted to promote lending and growth, but that its policies display a suspicion of capital markets and especially the Europe’s growth needs long-term fixes shadow banking sector. “We have to move into a more adult approach,” said Buti, pointing to European regulators’ initial preference for placing the WASHINGTON: Central banks can’t fix the margin,” said Mark Zandi, chief econo- around the world, the ECB has been a lag- complex securitization products that hobbled America’s banking everything. The European Central Bank mist at Moody’s Analytics. “This will be a gard. The US Federal Reserve and other system into a box marked ‘toxic’. —Reuters took bold steps Thursday to protect very long road.” central banks long ago used up their tradi- Europe’s fragile economic recovery, cut- Zandi says banks across the continent tional tool for fixing economies - cutting ting interest rates and offering to pump must strengthen their own finances, possi- short-term rates to near zero - and then Greek economy more money into the financial system. bly with taxpayer help, before they’re unleashed more untested measures. The Economists generally praised the healthy and confident enough to ramp up Fed, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of gains ground in Q1, moves, which are designed to raise dan- lending. England have aggressively bought govern- gerously low inflation in the 18 countries Countries such as Italy and France need ment bonds to try to push long-term rates growth in sight that use the euro and encourage lending. to revamp regulations that discourage lower and thereby encourage borrowing The ECB’s steps could also make exporters businesses from hiring. They must, for and spending - an unconventional policy ATHENS: The Greek economy did markedly better than more competitive by reducing the euro’s instance, make it easier for employers to known as “quantitative easing” or QE. expected in the first quarter of this year, shrinking by 0.9 per- value and thereby making Europe’s goods cut wages, rather than lay people off, dur- The ECB has balked at going that far. It cent over a year instead of 1.1 percent estimated in May, the less expensive abroad. ing hard times. And Germans, far more balked again Thursday. But President statistics office said yesterday. The bailed-out and austerity- But they say Europe’s economy won’t prosperous than their neighbors, need to Mario Draghi said the ECB would prepare shocked economy has been in recession for six years, but the return to health until it receives long-term buy more products and services from the for a program to buy bonds made up of latest figures support the government’s hopes that this year fixes that the ECB can’t provide on its own. rest of Europe. loans to small businesses. The idea would the economy will switch into growth of 0.6 percent. The ECB’s “actions will help, but only on Compared with other central banks be to accelerate lending to small compa- That would mark rapid progress, since in the last quarter nies. For the first time in its history, the ECB of last year, the economy showed shrinkage over 12 months will start charging banks for depositing of 2.3 percent. And in the whole of 2013, gross domestic money at the central bank. This step - product shrank by 3.9 percent. The statistics agency Elstat called a negative deposit rate - is intended said that the first-quarter performance had turned out to nudge banks to lend rather than hoard stronger than thought because data which had not been cash. Draghi pledged to do still more, rais- available previously had been included in the update. ing hopes among investors that he will Exports rose by 5.4 percent on a 12-month basis. This is pursue a big Fed-style bond-buying pro- important because a trade deficit tends to weigh on growth, gram in the future. but a surplus contributes to expansion, and the euro-zone “Are we finished?” he said at a news countries which ran into deep trouble are all looking in large conference. “The answer is no.” The euro- part to export-led growth to pull them up. zone clearly needs the help. Its economy In Greece, the export performance was lifted by a 13.1- grew just 0.2 percent the first three months percent rise by the services sector, driven by expected record of the year from the October-December tourist visits this year, for the second year running. quarter. Inflation is running at a perilously Households have been hit dramatically by the recession, by low 0.5 percent. tax rises and by pension and pay cuts to correct national Excessively low inflation is unhealthy. It finances, but even consumer spending turned in a positive makes it harder for consumers, companies figure, rising by 0.8 percent in the quarter. and countries to repay debt left over from That was the first such increase for at least two years. The the euro-zone’s financial crisis. And it raises recession has been easing noticeably since the third quarter of fears of an outright drop in prices - defla- last year. Extremely high unemployment has began to fall tion. Deflation can kill economic activity DONETSK: Coal miners leave the Zasyadko mine following their work shift in slowly in September last year, and was down to 26.8 percent of and business profits by causing people to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk yesterday. Donetsk is part of the the workforce in March, although this is one of the highest lev- delay purchases in anticipation of even Donbass coal mining region, which has been hit by separatists protests in els in the euro-zone along with the rate in Spain. —AFP recent weeks. — AFP lower prices. —AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Wal-Mart to face scrutiny at annual meeting

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas: Wal-Mart stakeholders should get a deeper insight into new CEO Doug McMillon’s plans to shape the future of the world’s largest retailer in an era of changing con- sumer habits, a tough global economy and intense scrutiny in how it does business overseas. The annual Wal-Mart shareholder’s meeting was expected to draw about 14,000 people, including its workers around the globe. McMillon took the helm at Wal-Mart Stores Inc in February. Revenue at established Wal-Mart stores in the US has declined for five consecutive quarters. Meanwhile, the number of customers has fallen six quarters in a row at the division, which accounts for 60 percent of the company’s total sales, which reached $473 bil- lion last year. Like many other retail chains that cater to working-class Americans, Wal-Mart is a victim of an uneven economic recovery that has benefited well-heeled shoppers more than those in the lower-income rungs. Moreover, shoppers are increasingly looking for lower prices at online rivals like Amazon.com and at small stores like dollar chains and pharmacies. Wal-Mart is expected to show investors how it’s fighting back by accelerating its expan- sion of smaller store formats with names like Neighborhood Markets and Wal-Mart Express while pushing online grocery serv- ices in several markets. It’s also adding new services catering to BEIJING: Lanterns are reflected in a window behind diners at a restaurant in Beijing yesterday. China’s economy will moderate serving the needs of its low income shoppers such as its new money transfer service that it says cuts fees for customers by up over the next few years as Beijing looks to rebalance it, the World Bank said. — AFP to 50 percent compared with similar services elsewhere. At the same time, Wal-Mart is still battling labor-backed critics who argue that its workers’ wages are too skimpy, and is facing China’s growth to tough ethical questions overseas as it continues to confront con- cerns over how it handled bribery allegations that surfaced in April 2012 at its Mexican unit. The company is also being pres- sured to increase its oversight of factories abroad following a moderate: World Bank building collapse in April 2013 in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 garment workers. Wal-Mart wasn’t using any of the Property sector woes threat to revenues factories in the building at the time of the collapse, but it is the second-largest retail buyer of clothing in Bangladesh. BEIJING: China’s economy will moderate over the next few Property sector During the annual meeting, which is to be held at the years as Beijing looks to rebalance it, the World Bank said yester- “While the debt stock is manageable, the growth of local gov- University of Arkansas’s Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, day, but it warned of risks from local government debt, a cool- ernment debt at a yearly rate of around 20 percent in 2010-13 is a Arkansas, 30 miles from the company’s headquarters in ing real estate sector and an uncertain export recovery. The major concern, and some subnational governments may be Bentonville, Arkansas, shareholders in the audience are expected bank’s Economic Update on China comes amid fears the Asian overdebted,” the Bank said. Regarding the property market the to present three proposals. giant and driver of global growth is slowing too much, as the Bank said: “In some municipalities, a decline in real estate activity One pushes for an independent chairman that doesn’t serve leadership looks to pivot towards private, domestic demand has started to put pressure on land-lease revenues, which still as an executive at Wal-Mart. Last week, Institutional Shareholder from a reliance on big-ticket government investment projects. average more than half of local government revenues. Services, a prominent proxy advisory firm, asked shareholders to “China’s growth will continue to moderate over the medium “A sharp slowdown in growth in some sectors, particularly real back the resolution for the appointment of an independent chair- term, and the structural shifts will become more evident,” it estate, or abrupt changes in the cost of capital could generate man. It also recommended that shareholders vote against the re- said. The report pointed out that the world’s number two econ- debt-service difficulties for local governments and the corporate election of board members Robson Walton, the company’s chair- omy had shown signs of picking up in recent months thanks to sector, triggering an increase in nonperforming loans that would man, and Mike Duke, who was recently Wal-Mart’s CEO. The ISS government support measures, robust consumption and limit banks’ lending capacity,” it said.Home prices in major Chinese cited the failure of the board to provide more information to improving foreign demand, adding the recovery is likely to con- cities posted their first monthly decline in nearly two years in May, shareholders about specific findings of the investigation into tinue into the next two quarters. according to a survey by real estate website operator Soufun. bribery outside of the United States. The Washington-based lender forecast growth of 7.6 percent Analysts point to factors including oversupply, stringent bank loan But Wal-Mart, fired back in a regulatory filing, saying that ISS’s this year, unchanged from its April estimate but lower than criteria, expectations of falling prices, and financial trouble among request for disclosure of “specific findings” in regard to possible China’s actual growth of 7.7 percent in 2013. Beijing’s own tar- developers as reasons behind the market slowdown. violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits get for this year is 7.5 percent. However, it said there were dan- While the report kept its growth forecast for this year and next companies from bribing foreign officials, is “contrary to the best gers down the road, including from a disorderly deleveraging of intact, the Bank lowered its 2016 estimate to 7.4 percent from the interests of the company” because such a disclosure could inter- local government debt, which could potentially trigger a sharp 7.5 percent predicted in April. Beijing, faced with calls to support fere with the ongoing investigations. Allegations first surfaced slowdown in investment-a key driver of the economy. the economy, has said it will not introduce a huge stimulus like two years ago that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement that There were also problems facing the cooling real estate sec- that seen during the financial crisis but has introduced a number company officials authorized millions of dollars in bribes in tor and the export sector, the report added. It noted that the lat- of measures to spur growth, including lowering the amount of Mexico to speed up building permits and gain other favors. Wal- est estimate by the National Audit Office of local government cash bank must hold as reserve. It has also announced a basket of Mart has been working with government officials in the US and debt and contingent liabilities in mid-2013 was 17.9 trillion yuan other measures including more financial support for small com- Mexico on that investigation. Wal-Mart has said that it has spent ($2.9 trillion). That is 31.3 percent of the overall economy last panies and targeted infrastructure outlays, but has so far about $500 million on investigations and bolstering its compli- year and compares with 10.7 trillion yuan at the end of 2010, the refrained from more aggressive steps such as interest rate cuts, ance programs around the world. — AP report said. citing worries about excessive credit. — AFP Not a candidate for EU Commission job: Lagarde

LONDON: IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde ruled herself out June. But there is division over who should win the post. Former forward Lagarde for the Commission presidency, according to two of the running for the job of European Commission president yester- Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is considered the French sources briefed on the exchanges said. A German govern- day, saying she intended to complete her term in charge of the front-runner given the support he has from the European People’s ment spokesman denied the report. International Monetary Fund. Party, the EU’s largest centre-right political grouping after last So far, no candidates beyond those with a declared interest in the “I’m not a candidate and the reason I’m not a candidate is that I month’s European elections. British Prime Minister David Cameron job have come forward. Lagarde was asked at yesterday’s news con- have a job,” Lagarde said in response to a question at a news confer- has opposed Juncker’s candidacy, seeing him as a supporter of a ference if she could rule out accepting the job if it was offered to her. ence in London. “It’s a job that I happen to think is rather important more federal EU which flies in the face of Cameron’s attempts to “I intend to complete my term,” she replied. at the moment.” EU leaders are expected to decide on their candi- lessen the influence of Brussels over countries in the bloc. “I think that you know (the) bottom line. You are not going to date for the presidency of the EU executive - a job that has a big say Earlier this week, Reuters reported that German Chancellor extract anything else out of me because I think that is a very clear in policy affecting 500 million Europeans - by a summit at the end of Angela Merkel had asked France whether it would be willing to put position on my part.” — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Singapore FM accepts slower growth as trade off for social stability

SINGAPORE: Singapore is willing to accept slower growth as a trade-off for social stability as it aims to keep down the number of foreigners working in the city-state, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told Reuters. Over the past decade, Singapore’s economy has expand- ed by a 6.4 percent annual average. Tharman said that he would be happy if Singapore grew 3 percent a year, as long as growth was driven mainly by gains in productivity. “Three percent growth is good growth,” he said during an interview on Thursday. High past growth has brought rising numbers of foreigners to work in wealthy Singapore, which in turn has spurred discontent among citizens angered by the strains put on infrastructure and services. Between 2000 and 2013, Singapore’s population rose to 5.4 million from 4 million, with foreigners accounting for the bulk of the 35 percent increase. Unhappiness about inflows of foreigners helped an opposition party gain ground in the 2011 general elections as the People’s Action Party, which has ruled Singapore since independ- ence in 1965, won only 60 percent of votes, its worst showing to date. The next election must be held by January 2017. Tharman, who is also a deputy prime minister, said the The facade of BNP Paribas, Paris government accepts a slower growth rate as the cost of ensuring the country retains its national identity, combats over-crowding and keeps the ratio of foreign to local workers at around one-third. US threatens BNP Not like Dubai “We are never going to be Dubai, we are a country with a social ethos that we take very seriously,” the 57- with $16bn penalty year-old finance minister said. The number of foreigners in Dubai is larger than that of locals, a result of its aggres- sive economic growth strategy. At the end of 2013, there were 1.32 million foreigners Bank fines soar globally despite negotiations in Singapore who held employment or work-passes, around 38 percent of the total work-force. In 2010, WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: US authorities ken records on penalties for corporate mis- Critics say recent penalties have not Singapore launched a 10-year plan to restructure its negotiating with BNP Paribas over alleged conduct at least seven times, including been nearly stiff enough, and amount to economy, aiming to increase productivity and cap the sanctions violations at one point suggested three times this year alone. The most recent the cost of doing business. Regardless, the ratio of foreigners in the workforce at around one-third. that France’s biggest bank pay a penalty as was Credit Suisse in May, which paid $2.6 upward push of the settlements is stark. In The plan aimed to raise the productivity rate by an aver- high as $16 billion, according to people billion over charges that it helped American cases over banks’ money laundering con- age of 2 to 3 percent a year, though it actually fell in 2012 familiar with the matter. evade US taxes, the largest penalty ever trols, for example, criminal penalties have and 2013. While the sources said that number was levied in a criminal tax case. Total corporate skyrocketed since 2010, when Wachovia In line with the plan, the government has imposed only proposed as a negotiating tactic in criminal penalties in the United States over- forfeited $110 million to resolve charges regulations to curb hiring of overseas workers in some response to an offer from BNP of about $1 all increased about 647 percent between that it willfully failed to establish a compli- sectors. Now many companies, particularly in the con- billion, the dollar figures being thrown 2001 and 2012 to about $4.3 billion, ance program. struction and hospitality sectors, are clamoring for a let- around demonstrate what bankers and according to figures compiled by University By comparison, JPMorgan paid $1.7 bil- up in the rules, saying they are hurting their businesses. their allies say is an alarming trend of ever- of Virginia law school professor Brandon lion earlier this year to resolve criminal Last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the increasing record penalties. Garrett. charges over its failure to maintain an effec- government would delay S$2 billion ($1.59 billion) of con- A $16 billion settlement would have The robust growth in corporate penal- tive anti-money laundering program in struction projects in order to reduce demand for foreign pushed BNP’s penalty above the biggest ties, especially for banks, has defense connection with its business with convicted labor. Tharman said no tweaks would be made to the ever for a bank-JPMorgan Chase & Co, lawyers questioning how authorities calcu- Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. A BNP set- rules to help companies in the sectors that are struggling, which paid $13 billion last year to resolve a late each landmark settlement and how tlement of $10 billion would be more than as they had to adjust and find more productive ways of number of civil mortgage-related allega- institutions can prepare for such fines they 14 times higher than the $667 million working instead. “Giving them a little more slack can make some sense in the short-term but it delays that tions. More recently, authorities have been might face. Banks are also deploying strate- Standard Chartered paid to resolve sanc- long-term transition,” he said. “We know that this is a discussing a settlement with BNP in the gies to try to keep the numbers from grow- tions violations in 2012, the highest fine for transition that can be done, it’s not inventing something range of $10 billion, sources have said. US ing, including enlisting top executives in such violations to date. that hasn’t been done elsewhere.” authorities are probing whether BNP evad- settlement negotiations and taking their A former DOJ official said: “It’s almost ed US sanctions relating primarily to Sudan chances going to trial. like more is law now.” Some industries will exit between 2002 and 2009, and whether it “I think everyone realizes that it’s an Rationale For some companies though, he said, the rules may stripped out identifying information from exuberant market,” said one defense lawyer Sources familiar with the BNP settle- ultimately mean they have to leave Singapore as its econ- wire transfers so they could pass through who has negotiated recent settlements ment talks say there are clear justifications omy becomes less competitive for some industries. “You the US financial system without raising red with the Justice Department and declined for a fine of as much as $10 billion, as well can’t move into higher value, high innovation activities flags. The New York State Department of to be named. as other severe potential penalties, such as without freeing up labor and land from the old activities, Financial Services, one of the five offices There are multiple explanations for the suspending BNP’s ability to process dollar but you have to leave it to the market,” Tharman said. negotiating the settlement with BNP, could rising fines. For one, cases related to the payments. They point to the sheer volume There are concerns that unhappiness about the num- receive at least $2 billion of an eventual $10 2007-2009 financial crisis have produced of the suspect transactions by BNP that ber of foreigners in Singapore is causing some citizens to billion deal, according to a source familiar big settlements connected to trillions of allegedly violated U.S. sanctions: about 10 become hostile towards them. Last month, organizers of with the matter. That would be more than dollars in subprime mortgage financial times larger than other banks which have a planned celebration on Singapore’s main shopping three times that office’s $552 million annual products. US authorities have also turned resolved similar cases, according to a per- street of Philippine independence day cancelled it after budget this year. their attention to other crimes involving big son familiar with the matter. A second online abuse directed at the Filipino community. A $10 billion fine would almost wipe out dollar amounts, including money launder- source said the high level of senior man- Tharman said he didn’t believe xenophobia was a major BNP’s entire 2013 pretax income of about ing, sanctions violations and the rigging of agement knowledge of the conduct is problem among Singaporeans or a threat to foreign 8.2 billion euros ($11.2 billion). BNP benchmark interest rates. another contributing factor. investment. reserved $1.1 billion against a potential The Justice Department may also be A third consideration was the bank’s Citizens “would be concerned for valid reasons if there fine. Representatives of the Justice responding to political pressure, especially poor cooperation with the government’s is overcrowding in the buses or in their housing estates” Department and BNP declined to comment because no high-profile bankers have gone investigation, an element that also figured he said. — Reuters on the negotiations. In the past two years to jail for the role they played in fueling the in Credit Suisse’s guilty plea and record the US Justice Department has said it’s bro- financial crisis. fine. —Reuters 2014 SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 7, JUNE SATURDAY, www.kuwaittimes.net

Sister Cristina Scuccia reacts after winning the Italian State RAI TV program’s final ‘The Voice of Italy’ in Milan yesterday.— AFP

SingingSinging nunnun winswins ItalianItalian televisiontelevision talenttalent showshow PAGE 22 SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Sister Cristina Scuccia, performs during the final of the Italian version of the TV Sister Cristina Scuccia performs during the final of the Italian version of the TV talent show ‘The Voice’ in Milan, Italy, Thursday, June 5, 2014. — AP/AFP photos talent show ‘The Voice’. Singing nun wins Italian television talent show singing nun clinched the rock’n’roll career. Order. There was some confusion final of The Voice of Italy tele- “I will go back to my priorities- when one panel judge-rock star Avision talent show contest prayer, waking up early in the morn- Piero Pelu-joked that she was the yesterday after winning millions of ing, school service.. That’s funda- “devil incarnate”, prompting the followers with her lively dance act mental for me to be able to begin host to quickly step in saying this and soulful renditions of lusty pop something new later on,” the Sicily was meant with “maximum irony”. classics. Wearing her black habit native told reporters. Suor Cristina The talent show was also appar- and a crucifix around her neck, Suor said she was following Pope ently being followed in the Vatican Cristina punched the air and Francis’s appeals to bring the thanked God for her victory, reciting Catholic Church closer to ordinary an “Our Father” prayer to the puz- people and was not shy about her zlement of organizers and audience. newfound success. “I want Jesus to come in here!” said “I have a gift to give, and I am the wholesome 25-year-old with a giving it to you, what can I do about self-effacing manner, who was that? Jesus has called upon me. It dressed in the sensible black shoes wouldn’t be worth much if I kept it and ankle-length black skirt she has for myself,” she said. She shot to tel- worn throughout the contest. evision fame in recent months in “My presence here is not up to this predominantly Catholic country me, it’s thanks to the man upstairs!” with her versions of songs like “Girls Sister Cristina Scuccia, second from left, performs with British group said Suor Cristina after winning out Just Want To Have Fun” and “Time Clean Bandit violinist Grace Chatto on stage. against a 28-year-old hard rocker of My Life” from the film “Dirty ‘Mysterious and special force’ with long curly hair who had per- Dancing”. Fame has brought media scruti- formed “Stairway to Heaven”. Suor It was a performance of Alicia ny, including interviews with an ex- Cristina, a reformed rebel who used Keys’s “No One” that first drew boyfriend and with Claudia Koll, the to sing in a band and now lives with attention to her in March and she director of the musical academy fellow nuns in Milan, has won a sang the tune again yesterday to where she trained-herself an ex- record contract with Universal but cheers from an audience that starlet who is now a lay sister. she hinted she might shun a full included nuns from her Ursuline “Cristina’s personal journey has brought her to maturity and artistic fullness thanks to a mysterious and special force. By giving herself to the Lord, she has enriched her art,” Koll said earlier. Sister Cristina Scuccia is flanked Suor Cristina has said she was by Italian rapper Dj-AX before once distant from religion but was performing. inspired to be a nun when she audi- tioned for a part in a musical about corridors of power, with top culture the founder of the Ursuline Order, official Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi Saint Angela Merici. She became a tweeting a quote from a Roman novice in 2009 and worked for two thinker: “If we commit injustice, God years with poor children in Brazil will leave us without music.” Suor Sister Cristina Scuccia, flanked by before formally joining the order Cristina has already sung alongside second placed Giacomo Voli clos- although she still has to take her Kylie Minogue and Ricky Martin dur- es her eyes in the moment she final vows. ing the show and Keys defined as won the final of the Italian version She may have won audience “pure energy” Suor Cristina’s per- of the TV talent show ‘The Voice’. hearts but her popularity is not uni- formance, which received more herself as a “humble servant” and versal, even in Italy, and critics have than 50 million YouTube hits. She ascribed her sudden success to a ascribed her success more to novel- has also received a celebrity “thirst for joy, for love, and a mes- ty value than talent. Singer Emma endorsement from actress Whoopi sage that is beautiful and pure”. Marrone, who represented Italy in Goldberg the star of the 1990s com- “Since Pope Francis talks of a bible this year’s Eurovision song contest, edy “Sister Act” where she is a of joy I think I’m on the right track,” complained that the sensation sur- singer playing a nun. she said in the run-up to yesterday’s rounding the nun was “an insult to But Suor Cristina still defined showbusiness”. — AFP Sister Cristina Scuccia reacts after winning. showdown. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Sotheby’s goes street with Banksy exhibition

A Sotheby’s employee hangs framed works of art . A gallery assistant poses for a photographer by a work entitled ‘Monkey Queen 2001’.

here’s a dead rat at the heart of a new bane of Banksy’s existence as a young street Banksy’s authentication service. exhibition mounted by august auction artist. For others, he’s altered existing paintings: “Works that are on the street don’t get cer- Thouse Sotheby’s. Stuffed and sporting a Van Gogh’s sunflowers have withered and died; tificates,” she said. “They’re there to be backpack and a spray can, the rodent is the cre- flying saucers disrupt a maritime scene. Some enjoyed, they’re there to be seen but they’re ation-cum-alter ego of Banksy, the anonymous have not been seen in public for years, includ- not there to be resold again.” As his career has street artist turned art-world superstar. It’s a ing the rat, in a glass case bearing the words bloomed, Banksy has left his spray-painted sign of his status that Sotheby’s is behind one “Our Time Will Come.” Banksy installed it in mark worldwide, from the streets of New York of the largest-ever Banksy exhibitions, a display 2004 in London’s Natural History Museum as to the Israel-Palestine separation wall. As for of kissing policemen, placard-wearing chim- hundreds of visitors and staff walked by. big gallery shows like this, Lazarides said: “He panzees and smiley-faced riot police spanning hates it.” Lazarides, who parted company with much of the artist’s career. Some of the works Rich tradition originally sold for as little as 50 pounds ($84). Banksy works have fetched as much as Now, prices range from 4,000 pounds ($6,700) $1.8 million at auction, so it’s no surprise that to more than 500,000 pounds ($840,000). several of his outdoor works have recently - Banksy is not involved in the show, which is and controversially - been stripped from being billed as an “unauthorized retrospec- walls and sold for high prices. None of the tive.” It has been assembled by his former pieces in the London show was originally agent Steve Lazarides, who first met Banksy in street art, and Sotheby’s contemporary art the 1990s in their home town of Bristol in chief Cheyenne Westphal said all have been southwest England. Lazarides took a paint- endorsed as genuine by Pest Control, filled fire extinguisher to the gallery’s white walls to make it look less like an alien environ- ment for graffiti art. But, he conceded yester- day, “it’s completely paradoxical for me to be here, for the work to be here.” A work entitled ‘Banksus Militus Vandalus’. “It’s in a space it almost shouldn’t be and Banksy several years ago, takes a different viewed in a way it was never intended,” he view. “The show being here at Sotheby’s is said. “But I think that’s part of the fun.” The 70 almost a validation of the whole scene,” he paintings, prints and sculptures, owned by said. “When we were doing this 15 years ago, Lazarides and other collectors, display Banksy’s everyone told us this was impossible, no one subversive - if not always subtle - humor. would buy the work, it was a fad, it would dis- Winston Churchill sports a Mohawk haircut; appear. “People tend to forget that (Jean- genteel pensioners play lawn bowls with Michel) Basquiat and Keith Haring were graffiti A gallery assistant poses for a photographer as fizzing bombs; a ballerina breathes through a A Sotheby’s employee hangs framed artists first. This is just following on from a rich she walks past a work of art depicting Winston gas mask; a hungry child with an empty bowl works of art in the first unauthorized ret- tradition.” The exhibition opens at Sotheby’s Churchill in the first unauthorized retrospective wears a Burger King hat. rospective of works by British graffiti S/2 Gallery in London on Wednesday and runs of works by British graffiti artist Banksy in Several early works feature police officers - artist Banksy. to July 25. — AP London yesterday.— AFP photos Another Spears singer: Jamie Lynn goes country

xpect to see a lot more of Jamie Lynn 101” has been working behind the scenes in folks and fans alike. Spears this summer, but not in her former Nashville learning the craft of songwriting. Spears left acting after announcing that she Erole as an actress. She’s putting out new She’s already got a music video and put out an was pregnant at the age of 16, but now 23, a music, getting radio play and introducing her- EP called “The Journey” on iTunes with five new mom and recently married, she says she knows File photo shows self to country music fans all over the country. songs. Even without a record label, her EP singing is her passion. “It felt good to be able to Jamie Lynn Spears, making an appearance at this week’s debuted at No. 193 on the Billboard 200 tell these stories and be able to sing them, make Spears arrives at CMA Music Fest in Nashville, understands why albums chart this week and came in at No. 24 them universal,” Spears said. “... I feel like I have the 49th annual some people might be a little puzzled - the lit- on the Country Albums chart. She’s increasingly really been able to find who I was as an artist.” Academy of tle sister of one of the world’s biggest pop star’s doing more live performances, including this The two sisters sang together on a song for Country Music singing country? But Spears says once people week’s festival and the Taste of Country festival Britney’s album, “Britney Jean,” and the younger Awards at the get a chance to listen to her, they understand it. later in June in New York State. Festivals like the Spears isn’t ruling out another duet in the future. MGM Grand “It gives me more of a reason to prove that I CMA Fest are critical starting points for new Jamie Lynn says she gets advice and inspiration Garden Arena, in love what I am doing and make them believe in artists trying to break out on the smaller stages from her older sister, but she’s also gotten a Las Vegas. —AP me,” Spears said. The former teen star of “Zoey and grab the attention of both music industry good compliment from Britney.—AP SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

This March 21, 2013 file photo shows the congregation lining up to enter Canterbury Cathedral for the Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby in Canterbury, England. Chaucer’s tales still lure visitors to Canterbury

fter nearly 1,000 years, murder in the cathedral is still dent population. luring visitors to Canterbury. It was in the Canterbury But by far the biggest tourist attraction is Canterbury ACathedral in 1170 that Archbishop Thomas Becket Cathedral, founded in the year 597. (There is an entrance fee was killed, viciously, by four knights who believed they were for visitors.) It is a marvelous edifice on spacious property doing the bidding of King Henry II. As a result, Becket that also houses some buildings of the King’s School, a became a martyr and the cathedral a place of pilgrimage to renowned secondary school. his shrine. The exterior of the cathedral, an impressive 236 feet (72 The homicide was the subject of “Murder in the meters) high, reflects Romanesque, English Gothic and Cathedral,” a verse drama by T.S. Eliot, and was more Gothic architectural styles, with round and pointed arches, famously immortalized in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century blind arcades, and pinnacles of the 14th-century perpendi- work, “The Canterbury Tales,” told in now obsolete Middle cular Gothic nave. English, which focused on one such journey in what had The Trinity Chapel was built specifically for the Shrine of become an annual spring pilgrimage: St Thomas, which stood from 1220 to 1538, when it was And specially from every shires ende destroyed on orders of King Henry VIII. The floor of the cur- Of Englande to Caunterbury they wende, rent chapel has a set of inlaid marble roundels representing The holy blisful martir for to seke, zodiac signs, months, virtues and vices. A lone candle marks That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. the spot of the shrine. It is said that 100,000 pilgrims made their way to the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Canterbury include the cathedral in 1420, including, as the poem says in its last line, cathedral along with St Augustine’s Abbey (mostly the ruins the sick (seeke) whom the shrine cured (hath holpen, or of the monastery where St Augustine’s monks lived) and St helped). Today, Canterbury Cathedral draws one million visi- Martin’s Church, England’s oldest working parish church. tors a year. Another popular tourist site is the Norman Canterbury Chaucer’s pilgrims made the journey on horseback; Castle, or at least its remains. The castle was one of three today’s visitors are more likely to arrive by plane and car, original royal castles of Kent, built soon after the Battle of train or bus from London or Dover. With its sites, shops, and Hastings on the main Roman road from Dover to London. restaurants, pubs and tea rooms concentrated largely in its This was the route taken by William the Conqueror in 1066. Old Town area, Canterbury is a comfortable walking city. It is relatively small, with a population of about 150,000. Clock tower survivor The Stour river runs through the city and at some points The medieval St Margaret’s Church now houses “The is navigable for small boats. Rowboats and punts (flat-bot- Canterbury Tales,” an audio-visual presentation of five tales tomed boats like gondolas) can be hired, generally with a (in modern English) from Chaucer’s most colorful characters, Image shows the Wife of Bath, one of the life-size charac- local university student serving as oarsman and guide. Kent using life-sized character models: the miller, knight, nun’s ter models from the attraction in Canterbury, England. University and other schools contribute to a large local stu- priest, wife of Bath and pardoner, with live guides at the start SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

This undated image provided by The Canterbury Tales, a show in Canterbury, England, Image shows the exterior of St Margaret’s Church. shows a group of visiting children in medieval costumes looking at the attractionís life- size character models. — AP photos (Tabard Inn) and end (shrine of Thomas Becket). There is, however, little other evidence of Chaucer in Canterbury, aside from this shortened retelling at “The Canterbury Tales” - and a pub by that name. Another famous literary name with a connection to Canterbury is Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan poet and playwright (“Hero and Leander,” “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”) who was born in Canterbury in 1564 and attended King’s School there. The city’s modern theater house is named for him and his death is noted at the clock tower of St George’s Church. Marlowe was baptized in the church, but its clock tower is all that survived German bombs in World War II. The house believed to be where the Marlowes lived for the early years of Christopher’s life also was destroyed in a German air raid in 1942. In front of the present Marlowe Theatre is a 19th-centu- ry statue of a Muse (Marlowe is known as the Muses’ darling) surrounded by small effigies of characters from Marlowe’s plays. All in all, Canterbury proved itself to be a charming and comfortable small city, but it has a big history. — AP

This image shows the Stour river running through the city of Canterbury, England.

Image shows Canterbury Cathedral looming over the rooftops and buildings of Canterbury, England. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Right at home Greco-Roman motifs lend classic flair to decor

This photo provided by Restoration This photo provided by Restoration Hardware Hardware shows shows a bust of Ariadne cast from plaster and neoclassical hand rubbed to give it an aged look as an ele- architectural gant objet d’art from the neoclassical era. ornaments cast in brass. —AP photos

f you’re a fan of traditional decor, you proba- while the Adele dining chair, upholstered in vel- perhaps for a plaster bust of Ariadne, or a bly appreciate the elegant lines and rich his- vet, features inlaid antiqued wood rosettes. carved finial. Griffin’s not surprised that the Itory of neoclassical style. Interest in classical Restoration Hardware has a group of archi- Greek key motif is a trend. “Its sleek, straight style really took off in the second half of the tectural ornament fragments cast in brass and lines and crisp right angles are perfect counter- 18th century, when Scottish architect Robert mounted on museum stands, among them parts to contemporary design, and are among Adam began using its elements in fancy homes, the few design motifs that truly look great says London designer Adrienne Chin. Adam everywhere and with everything,” she says. She recast urns, sphinxes and vine leaves as decora- likes to use the design in dressmaker-inspired tive elements in mirrors and moldings. “Adam’s details, such as embroidered tape trim on cur- style owed much to the archaeological discov- tains and upholstery. eries of Greco-Roman domestic architecture at Or, if you want a bold look, consider going Pompeii and Herculaneum,” says Chinn. for an all-over pattern. Smith and Noble offers The historical discoveries also inspired the the Greek key motif in bright combinations of development of neoclassical furniture, which tangerine, navy, red or deep pink with white, or replaced the fussy rococo style with more lin- a more subtle pairing of pale grey or aqua with ear, geometric silhouettes. Today, Greco-Roman off-white - especially pretty for sheer curtains. classicism is the basis of many interior dÈcor Jonathan Adler is known for his use of Greek styles - Louis XV, Regency, Federal and keys: he puts the pattern on rugs, throws, china Georgian among them, says New York designer and furniture, such as a needlepointed ottoman Elaine Griffin. “As the oldest recognized style, and a white lacquered cocktail table. classicism carries with it the approbation of If you’re interested in collecting from this time and taste,” Griffin says. style, antique stores invariably have pieces with And while it never falls too far off dÈcor’s provenance. —AP radar, it’s really enjoying a moment now. “Classicism’s clean, sleek lines are back with a vengeance this summer, both in a refined way and in over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek style statements,” she says. There are many ways to introduce the style into traditional or contem- porary spaces, and at various price points. “Lamps are a great way to bring a neoclassi- cal touch into your dÈcor - classic urn shapes, This photo provided by Restoration columns or classical motifs like acanthus leaves Hardware shows Italian illustrations look elegant, particularly when paired with a of the varieties of Greco-Roman capi- black card or pleated silk Empire lampshade,” tal designs that make attractive, clas- Chinn suggests. sic wall art. Stiffel has a wide selection with silver or bur- nished bronze bases. “Ornate plaster corbels swag and tassel, cornice, and acanthus scroll used as brackets for decorative display shelves patterns. Vintage Italian etchings of capital bring a classical element to a room,” she notes. styles would make nice wall art, and so would Look for plaster ones, or unfinished wood that an intricate charcoal drawing circa 1900 of clas- you can paint or gild yourself. sical carved marble portraits. A series of intaglio AllModern has pairs of bookends with busts cameos of neoclassical themes are cast in plas- This photo provided by Restoration of Hercules or David. The Perseus console from ter and framed. Hardware shows a carved oak plinth Currey & Company is a sleek, silver-leafed iron The retailer’s also got larger pieces, includ- that makes a statement, and can be piece with a Greek key border. At Arhaus, scroll ing wooden columns, pillars and plinths that used to hold artwork, plants or as a and floral wood carvings frame the Clara mirror, could be used as display stands for artwork - In this photo provided by Arhaus, neo- side table. classical floral motifs define a mirror. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Macedonia Trash Fashion

Models present creations during Trash Fashion Show in Macedonia’s capital Skopje, on Thursday, June 5, 2014. Teams from 45 high schools from Macedonia presented Thursday their creations made of redesigned materials from waste as plastic bags, newspapers, cardboard, plas- tic bottles, wires, cans, used paper, etc. — AP photos SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

This photo provided by Brian Patrick Flynn/HGTV.com shows a living room designed for In this photo provided by Burnham Design, shades of purple and lavender are mixed with Dwell with Dignity by Flynn where he uses neutral accents to tone down the highly ener- softer shades of gray and black accents in a living room designed by Betsy Burnham of getic tone of apple green wall paint. Burnham Design. Ask a Designer: No color’s too bold for decor

t might be practical, of course, to decorate your home sultation, walking through your home to discuss how favorite with neutral colors and muted earth tones. No need to colors might work there. I worry about colors clashing if most everything is white, beige and light brown. But what if you’re a fan of vivid Embrace the blues orange, lime green or a luscious shade of lavender? These Rather than layering a room with creams and beiges, colors can be tricky to use successfully in decor. But you Schuneman suggests blues. “I actually think of blue as a neutral,” don’t need to avoid them, says interior designer Brian Patrick he says. “I love it and always have it in my house, and have used Flynn, creator of the Flynnside Out design blog. Just use shades from sky to royal to navy.” Even vivid blues can have a them carefully. “It’s a game of balance,” Flynn says. “Once calming effect. “Everyone gravitates to oceans and lakes, and it you get that right, just about any color can be spectacular.” makes people feel good,” Schuneman says. Flynn says the payoff Here, Flynn and two other designers - Kyle Schuneman of can be fabulous. “To make a splash with blue in a bold way, I sug- Live Well Designs and Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design - gest using Klein Blue, also referred to as electric blue,” he says. share advice on decorating successfully with even the most “It’s got a ton of purple mixed in, so it feels rather royal. And when complicated colors. you mix it with red, it’s magical.”

Pick one wild shade For a client who loved lime green, Schuneman covered one dining room wall with wallpaper that combined bright lime green with a muted sage green. He painted the other three walls in the neutral sage. That way, the client could enjoy a favorite color but the room didn’t feel overwhelming. “There can only be one star in a room,” Schuneman says. “If you want a bold color, then you already have your star.” Burnham agrees: “Orange next to screaming lime green next to fuchsia,” she says, “doesn’t belong in a grown-up space.” But fuchsia paired with olive green can look chic. The same approach works for paler colors. Pastel pink used with pastel yellow and pastel blue creates an overload of sweet- ness. But Flynn has found that a light pastel pink can be gor- In this photo provided by Burnham Design, bold red wallpa- geous paired with a dark, calming navy blue. per and upholstery are combined with neutral colors to cre- ate a lively but cohesive design for this home office, created Adjust your shade by Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design. — AP photos When clients are considering a very bright color, Flynn often advises them to choose one “two shades lighter or less saturated than the one they’re iffy about.” “Nine times out of 10,” he says, “they end up still getting the effect, but without the color becoming too saturated to live with.” No matter what the color, all three designers recommend picking a shade that’s got some gray mixed in. For a living room done in shades of purple and lavender, Burnham chose a sofa fabric that was a mix of gray and purple, and used a white paint infused with a bit of gray on the walls. “Gray has a way of calming a color down,” Schuneman says, making it “feel velvety and more soothing.”

Accents instead of walls “There are lots of ways to incorporate color without hav- ing to commit to a wall color,” Schuneman says. “Paint an old media cabinet in a bold purple to make it a hot conversation piece.” Taxicab yellow walls would be awful, says Burnham, In this photo provided by Brian Patrick Flynn/HGTV.com, but one bright yellow throw or ceramic lamp could satisfy In this photo provided by Burnham Design, a vibrant wall col- Klein Blue, also referred to as electric blue or midnight blue your desire for that shade without overpowering a room. or like this shade of spring green is balanced by equally bold was used in this playroom designed by Flynn. The designer If your heart is set on a tough color and you’re not content furniture and accent pieces that combine the room’s entire suggests pairing the highly dramatic color with other bold with adding just a single accessory, Burnham suggests con- palette in the bedroom designed by Betsy Burnham of hues like red, and keeping it all balanced with white or black. sulting an expert. Many interior designers will do a color con- Burnham Design. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 New nostalgia: Home decor with a retro vibe

f you spent childhood summers on a tion that includes surfboards, canoe paddles, northern lake, grew up lunching at diners chairs and other accessories. The Hula lamp Iand shake shacks, or took a college road brings a bit of kitsch to the design forefront. trip, you’ll be all over the next big home Tiki motif glassware, surfboards and Bodhi decor trend: American Retro. And even if you vase planters kick up the midcentury Cali didn’t, you may appreciate the look and feel vibe. Or find fun reproductions of surf shop - an easygoing, aspirational lifestyle centered and beach signs at Retroplanet. “Moonrise more on the meandering road than the tech- Kingdom” fans, consider prints by artist Leah no highway. Lifetime Brands trend expert Flores of Portland, Oregon. Tom Mirabile calls the style “visual comfort “I had a gypsy-esque childhood growing food.” up in various national parks around the The imagery and decor elements draw United States,” she says. “Surrounded by baby boomers back to what might feel like mountains, oceans, wildflowers and red- simpler, more innocent days. Think vintage- wood forests, I developed a sense of wonder style advertising and artwork, lunch-counter with the natural world early on.” Flores takes dishware, camping motifs, midcentury surf photographs of rugged roads, rivers, waves culture. Old bakeries, drive-ins, roadhouses, crashing on beaches and misty forests, and garages, beach shacks. It’s the kind of retro, then adds an inspired word or phrase, such outdoorsy charm to be found in the produc- as “Never Stop Exploring,” “Life is a Great tion design of Wes Anderson films like Adventure” or “Wanderlust.” She sells “Moonrise Kingdom.” through Urban Outfitters, Society 6 and her Online retailer Fab has jumped on the own Etsy shop. trend, with offerings like Roo Kee Roo’s retro- The trick is to not let this look get too style prints of boating and cottage motifs, kitschy, unless you want to. A few ele- made by Forest and Michael Evashevski, who ments in an otherwise contemporary grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. space pack design punch. But if your Beach towels printed with patterns from style’s more boho than Bauhaus, then lay- famed blanket-maker Pendleton have a vin- ering textiles, art and accent items creates tage vibe, and would work in a bathroom as a comfortable, lived-in look that captures well as at the shore. And a campfire-ready the charm of retro style. — AP collection of enamelware from Falcon includes a red teapot and serveware. Grace Feyock’s wall clock for Uttermost is made of vintage pictures of old license plates. A map made of license-plate images makes bold, graphic wall art, by David Bowman. A set of coasters printed with images of the famous Route 66 road sign make a nice addition to the cocktail cart. Martin Yeele’s photographs of vintage motel and diner signage add style to serving trays from Bob’s Your Uncle. At Modcloth, find Karma Living’s collec- tion of curtains and pillows in cheerful, ‘70s- style medallion and floral prints in colorful hues. A blue, purple and pink psychedelic- print tapestry looks hip and new, but boomers will remember similar icons from their college days. Also here, a little chrome table lamp styled like a vintage motorbike’s headlight.

New collection In this photo provided by CB2, Brooklyn-based This photo provided by CB2 shows Hawaiian kitsch at its finest, In this photo provided by Magical Thinking’s wooden letters are designer Aelfie Oudghiri, puts a contemporary this polyresin hula girl lamp strums just the right retro note. CB2, LA-based board makers embellished with henna-inspired painting at spin on the iconic ‘butterfly’ chair by covering it Todd Patterson and Ryan Urban Outfitters, which also carries groovy in a flatweave dhurrie in California-beachfront Harris shaped an ocean-ready cotton bedding in paisleys and other retro hues of aqua, white and sunny orange. canvas for a bold design by prints. Retro-surfer decor is available at sev- Chicago-based artist Brett eral retailers. CB2 has launched a new collec- Whitacre. — AP photos TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Smartwear revolution promises healthier lives

TAIPEI: A new generation of wearable technology is promising not only to log data about users’ health but to predict and avert crises-from drivers falling asleep at the wheel to runners wearing themselves out in a marathon. But there are concerns over the accuracy of the personal information collected by the burgeon- ing range of smart wristbands, watches and clothing-and how companies might use that data. Wearable technology is the fastest growing category at this year’s Computex, Asia’s largest tech trade show which kicked off in Taiwan on Tuesday, with health-tracking a dominant theme. “Health and fitness sensors and data are fundamental for wearables and largely define the category,” said Daniel Matte of market research firm Canalys. Market tracker IDC predicted in April that sales of wearable tech items would triple this year to 19 million units worldwide, growing to 111.9 million by 2018. At Taiwanese smartwear com- pany AiQ’s Computex stand this week, a muscular mannequin showed off a lycra cycling top. Stainless steel fibres in the fabric and electrodes in the sleeves sense heart rate and other vital signs as well as calories burned, sending the data to a Bluetooth clip which can transmit it to a phone, tablet or other smart device. The technology will appeal to sports fans, but it is Taiwan’s bus drivers who will be the first to TAIPEI: A woman walks inside an Acer show room in New Taipei City. It’s déja vu for Acer’s founder Stan Shih as he pre- benefit, when companies ask them to wear smart shirts later this pares to step down later this month — he retired 10 years ago, but returned to take back the reins of the struggling year in a move that could prevent accidents. Taiwanese personal computer maker. — AFP “We will provide a shirt which can monitor the drivers in case they are falling asleep, or in case any vital signs are not OK, and it will provide a signal or a warning to the bus company,” said AiQ Acer boss says ‘no regrets’ vice president Steve Huang. The clothing was trialled for a year on discharged hospital patients to track their condition and it received positive feedback from wearers, he added. But analysts and consumers still have reservations about whether smartwear as he prepares to retire can really tell us the truth about our bodies. “Current sensors are not very accurate, but there will be improvements,” said Matte.

‘At some point one has to retire’ Privacy fears Samsung unveiled a new digital health technology platform TAIPEI: It’s deja vu for Acer’s founder Stan maker in its heyday, and one of the best it was a headache-my wife didn’t agree, last week that uses sensors to track a range of body functions Shih as he prepares to step down again known Taiwanese brands internationally, but no one accepted my invitation to the such as heart rate and blood pressure. And another giant of the later this month-he retired 10 years ago, before retiring in 2004. chairmanship. I asked many people. We sector, Apple, also launched its ‘Health’ app this week, with spec- but returned to take back the reins of the But its fortunes have worsened in tried every other possible way, but there ulation mounting it will move into hardware later this year. struggling Taiwanese personal computer recent years as sales have been hit by was no choice,” says Shih. Leading Taiwan tech firm Acer also revealed its first wearable maker. Since his comeback as chairman competition from Apple and other rivals, “The main reason I came back was my at Computex a fitness-tracking wristband which links to a smart- and interim president late last year-which as well as shrinking demand for PCs. personal social responsibility, not my phone. But while tech firms jump on the health-monitoring he always billed as a temporary measure- Ahead of Computex, Acer launched its investment. bandwagon there are questions over how the huge flow of data the company has gone through a painful new Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service, “There are so many shareholders, so from the new devices will be handled. restructuring, after two top executives touting it as the future of cloud comput- many employees and partners under “There is a massive opportunity to analyze and monetize the quit over the firm’s poor performance. ing, whereby individuals can access infor- Acer.” The father-of-three and grandfa- large amounts of data that wearable sensors and platforms will But with Acer swinging back to profit in mation stashed online. ther-of-eight will step down as chairman generate. Privacy is always a concern,” says Matte. at a board meeting on June 18, but will Huang acknowledged the tension between the potential remain a board member. Co-founder commercial benefit for smartwear firms and the risk of invading George Huang will take his place as chair- users’ privacy. “There will be a lot of legal and moral issues,” he man. Chip expert Jason Chen became said. Tech companies are also emphasizing the potential benefits president and CEO in December and of analysis to help users make sense of their data, and the possi- Shih’s son Maverick heads up the compa- bility of linking up with experts who can give them feedback. ny’s BYOC and tablet group. “I have a new “Maybe we will cooperate with some medical (institutions) like chairman, new CEO, new management hospitals to improve this kind of product and to do something to team. Of course it’s just beginning, but it really help people-this has been talked about at Sonostar,” said looks as though everything is shaping up,” Paula Luh at the Taiwanese firm’s stand. —AFP says Shih. “I think all our efforts have had a good result-it’s too early to claim an achieve- ment, but we’re encouraged.” And his wife of 43 years, Carolyn Yeh, is also happy despite her initial reservations. “She sup- ports me and she can see it’s (the compa- ny) stabilized and turned around gradual- ly,” he says, crediting her for looking after his health. Acer’s founder Stan Shih speaks during an interview in New Taipei City. — AFP “I get up in the morning and walk with my wife. After dinner we also walk again the first quarter of this year, following It also revealed a fitness-tracking wrist- — 10,000 steps together every day. “It’s three consecutive losses, 69-year-old Shih band, its first ever wearable device. With good for us because we chat a lot when says he is looking forward, not back. this new vision Shih has predicted the we walk.” “I don’t like to waste my mind on company will “return to glory” by 2017 — In September the couple will be taking regret, I don’t have time,” he told AFP in an still with a clear commitment to its PC- a cruise on the Danube with friends and interview at Acer headquarters in Taipei, making roots. He says there is now a bet- Shih says he is relishing the prospect of LOS ANGELES: Microsoft presents an upcoming LucasArts’ where industry leaders from all over the ter sense of teamwork and entrepreneur- taking his foot off the gas. “I still have a “Star Wars” video game for its new Xbox 360 with Kinect world are gathered for Computex, Asia’s ship at Acer, where senior executives took personal social responsibility, but I won’t technology, during the 2010 Xbox 360 media briefing at largest tech trade show. “You have to voluntary salary cuts of 30 percent as part have any criteria imposed from outside, the Wiltern Theater, in Los Angeles. With the launch of the always look ahead, always be positive. It’s of the overhaul. from my peers, Wall Street, quarterly Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U in the video game your choice, your destiny. You have to results. I like to release the psychological industry’s rearview mirror, the spotlight at the Electronic enjoy life.” Shih founded Acer in 1976 and Sailing into the sunset pressure,” he said. “At some point, you Entertainment Expo, held June 10-12, 2014, is expected to built it into the world’s second-largest PC “Before I made the decision (to return) have to retire.” — AFP shift back to games. — AP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

TOKYO: People look at humanoid robot ‘Pepper’, which is jointly developed by Japan’s mobile carrier SoftBank and French humanoid robot maker Alderbaran, at a showroom of SoftBank in Tokyo yesterday. (Right) Terry Gou (left), chairman and CEO of Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology group, tries to shake hands with humanoid robot ‘Pepper’ (right). — AFP Chatty Japan robot makes friends on first day at work ‘He is cute, like a real child’

TOKYO: A chatty humanoid robot whose makers claim it can Masayoshi Son, who billed it as an “emotional” robot that make people happy. “We’ve learned that he can get people’s understand people’s emotions made its first friends yesterday understands “70 to 80 percent of spontaneous conversations”. attention and has a greater impact than images streaming on as it struck up conversations with shoppers in Tokyo. And the After a couple of dance and a few stories, visitors were smit- television or screens at outlets,” he said. device-named Pepper by its designers-proved an effective ten. “He is so cute. He is like a real child,” said Itsumi Yabe, 28, Terry Gou, chief executive of Taiwan’s Foxconn which is to marketing tool for mobile carrier SoftBank, delighting man- who was visiting one of the outlets with two of her friends. manufacture the robots when SoftBank starts selling them for agers who put it to work collecting customer opinions. Shintaro Hamada, 23, was impressed by Pepper’s capability about $2,000 each in February, said the robot industry was “So you came to meet me today?” asked Pepper of one to carry on conversations. “I thought he would just talk regard- embarking on a new chapter. shopper in the store in the upmarket Omotesando area of less of what I say, but he really interacted with me. That was “We use a lot of robots in factories..., but this is for con- Tokyo. “I am so happy to see you. What are you doing this great,” he said. The robot, one of at least three stationed in the sumers and also for communication,” he told AFP. “This can weekend?” store, can also conduct automatic market research, said really become a revolution.” The 120-centimetre (four-foot) tall robot which moves on Kaname Hayashi, deputy director of SoftBank’s business devel- More robots will work the floor of SoftBank’s flagship Ginza rollers and has what looks like a tablet computer strapped to opment and management department, because it is able to store, before a fleet of them are rolled out at locations across its chest, was unveiled Thursday by SoftBank president accumulate data about what kind of products and content the country. — AFP Barnes & Noble Tech firms mark Snowden enlists Samsung to make Nook tablet leaks with new campaign

NEW YORK: Barnes & Noble is teaming up with WASHINGTON: Some of the largest technolo- renewed push for legislation to curb the sur- from the rights of the individual,” said a letter Samsung to develop Nook tablets, the book seller gy firms and activists marked the anniversary veillance powers of the NSA. “We understand to lawmakers from the “Reform Government said Thursday, as it focuses on its Nook software. of Edward Snowden’s leaks on Thursday with that governments have a duty to protect their Surveillance” group which includes Microsoft, Barnes & Noble spent years investing heavily in its new efforts to thwart online snooping and citizens. Facebook, Google and AOL. “This undermines Nook e-book reader and e-book library, but they boost privacy. A coalition of companies and But the balance in many countries has the freedoms we all cherish, and it must struggled to be profitable. And in December the digital activist groups unveiled new steps in tipped too far in favor of the state and away change.” —AFP their “Reset the Net” campaign-stepping up chain said it was evaluating the future of its tablets. encryption to keep online activity free from Still it offered a new non-tablet e-book reader dur- government surveillance. ing the holiday season. The moves came one year after the first The New York company has been trying to turn reports published from secret documents itself around as competition from discount stores leaked by Snowden describing the vast elec- and online retailers toughens, and as consumers tronic surveillance programs of the US shift away from traditional books to digital formats. National Security Agency and other intelli- In its most recent quarter, Barnes & Noble report- gence services revelations which roiled US ed a third-quarter profit as cost cuts at its Nook unit relations with allies and others and rocked the and elsewhere helped offset declining revenue technology community. In their latest across all of its businesses. response, the companies in the “Fight for the CEO Michael Huseby said at the time in a call with Future” coalition were unveiling tougher secu- analysts that the company is trying to create better rity standards or promoting new privacy safe- ways to package physical and digital content, call- guards. ing the digital side “vital to our mission.” “It’s been one year since Edward Snowden The device will be a 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 blew the whistle on the US government’s abu- sive spying programs. In that time Congress co-branded as a Nook with Nook’s digital reading and the Obama Administration have failed to software already on it. The tablet will be available at protect our rights,” said Tiffiniy Cheng, Barnes & Noble’s 700 US stores in early August. A spokeswoman for the coalition. price for the device will be announced then. Barnes “Now, they’ve got a rebellion on their & Noble says it will continue to make and sell its $99 hands as tech companies and internet users Nook GlowLight e-readers and provide customer work together to directly intervene in mass support. surveillance and block the NSA and its kind The company also says it is moving its Nook from the Web.” This week, Google announced LONDON: People walk past a Vodafone shop in London yesterday. Vodafone, employees out of its Palo Alto, California, offices to plans to make it tougher for spies or anyone one of the world’s largest cellphone companies, revealed the scope of govern- save money. Employees are expected to move to a else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome ment snooping into phone networks yesterday saying authorities in some coun- smaller space in nearby Santa Clara, California, by browser software for scrambling digital mes- tries are able to directly access an operator’s network without seeking permis- July. Its shares rose 60 cents, or 3.2 percent, to sages. Other firms-including WordPress and sion. The company outlined the details in a report that is described as the first of $19.50 in afternoon trading. Its shares have risen Tumblr-said they were also stepping up its kind, covering 29 countries in which it directly operates. It gives the most more than 26 percent so far this year. — AP encryption on the sites they power. comprehensive look to date on how governments monitor the communications The anniversary also was marked by a of their citizens. —AP TV listings SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

11:05 The Planners 13:30 Through The Wormhole With 06:25 A.N.T. Farm 22:25 A.N.T. Farm Takeaway 11:55 The Planners Morgan Freeman 06:45 Mako Mermaids 22:50 Good Luck Charlie 07:50 Shetland 12:45 The Planners 14:20 Through The Wormhole With 07:10 Suite Life On Deck 23:10 Wolfblood 08:50 Dirk Gently 13:35 Homes Under The Hammer Morgan Freeman 07:35 Good Luck Charlie 23:35 Wolfblood 09:45 Seven Dwarves ANIMAL PLANET HD 14:25 Homes Under The Hammer 15:10 Da Vinci’s Machines 07:55 Jessie 10:40 The Chase 03:15 Preposterous Pets 15:15 Homes Under The Hammer 16:00 Nyc: Inside Out 08:20 Mako Mermaids 11:35 David Suchet: The Mystery Of 04:05 Animal Maternity Ward 16:10 Homes Under The Hammer 16:50 USA Memory Championships 08:45 Liv And Maddie Agatha Christie 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 17:00 Homes Under The Hammer 17:40 Sci-Fi Science 09:05 Good Luck Charlie 12:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 05:45 Treehouse Masters 17:50 Masterchef: The Professionals 18:05 Sci-Fi Science 09:30 Dog With A Blog 14:05 56 Up 06:35 Wildlife SOS 18:20 Masterchef: The Professionals 18:30 Prophets Of Science Fiction 09:55 Austin & Ally 03:15 THS 15:00 Big Star’s Little Star 07:00 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 19:10 Masterchef: The Professionals 19:20 How Tech Works 10:15 Jessie 04:10 THS 15:55 Vera 07:25 My Cat From Hell 20:00 Masterchef: The Professionals 19:45 How Tech Works 10:40 Cheetah 05:05 Extreme Close-Up 17:35 Blandings 08:15 Too Cute! 20:55 Come Dine With Me 20:10 The Future Of... 12:15 Gravity Falls 05:30 Extreme Close-Up 18:05 Shetland 09:10 Gator Boys 21:40 Come Dine With Me 21:00 How Techies Changed The 12:35 Dog With A Blog 06:00 THS 19:00 Big Star’s Little Star 10:05 Call Of The Wildman 22:30 Come Dine With Me World 13:00 A.N.T. Farm 07:50 Style Star 19:55 The Hungry Sailors 10:30 Swamp Brothers 23:15 Come Dine With Me 21:50 Sci-Fi Saved My Life 13:25 Jessie 08:20 E! News 20:50 Vera 11:00 Tanked 22:40 You Have Been Warned 13:45 Austin & Ally 09:15 The Drama Queen 22:35 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night 11:55 Treehouse Masters 23:30 Weird Connections 14:10 Good Luck Charlie 10:15 The Drama Queen Takeaway 12:50 Galapagos 23:55 Weird Connections 14:35 Mako Mermaids 11:10 Eric And Jessie: Game On 23:35 David Suchet: The Mystery Of 13:45 Galapagos 15:00 Flubber 11:35 Eric And Jessie: Game On Agatha Christie 14:40 Galapagos 16:30 Cars Toons 12:05 E! News 15:35 Speed Of Life 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 13:05 Beyond Candid With Giuliana 03:35 Prototype This 16:30 Speed Of Life 17:00 Good Luck Charlie 14:05 Keeping Up With The 04:30 Prototype This 17:25 Speed Of Life 17:20 Jessie Kardashians 05:20 Prototype This 18:20 Treehouse Masters 03:10 The Hive 17:45 Dog With A Blog 15:00 Keeping Up With The 06:10 Prototype This 19:15 Gangland Killers 03:20 Art Attack 18:10 Liv And Maddie Kardashians 07:00 How Tech Works 03:00 Hard Time 20:10 Shamwari: A Wild Life 03:45 Art Attack 18:30 Mako Mermaids 16:00 Giuliana & Bill 07:25 How Tech Works 04:00 Family Guns 20:35 Shamwari: A Wild Life 04:10 Jungle Junction 18:55 Good Luck Charlie 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 07:55 The Future Of... 05:00 The Border 21:05 Shark City 04:25 Jungle Junction 19:20 Violetta 18:00 E! News 08:45 Mythbusters 06:00 Sea Patrol 22:00 Gangland Killers 04:35 Jungle Junction 20:05 Austin & Ally 19:00 Fashion Police 09:40 Mythbusters 07:00 The Pack 22:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 04:45 Jungle Junction 20:30 Jessie 19:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 10:30 Mythbusters 08:00 Wild Kalahari 23:20 Shamwari: A Wild Life 05:00 Art Attack 20:50 Dog With A Blog 20:00 Keeping Up With The 11:20 Mythbusters 09:00 Rescue Ink 23:50 Up Close And Dangerous 05:25 Art Attack 21:15 Jessie Kardashians 12:10 Mythbusters 10:00 Banged Up Abroad 05:50 Mouk 21:40 Shake It Up 21:00 Keeping Up With The 13:00 How Tech Works 11:00 Hard Time 06:00 Austin & Ally 22:00 Austin & Ally Kardashians 22:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 12:00 Family Guns 22:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 13:00 The Border 23:00 Hello Ross 14:00 Somewhere In China 03:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 23:30 Chelsea Lately 15:00 Hunter Hunted 04:15 The Weakest Link 16:00 Wild Untamed Brazil 05:00 Jackanory Junior 17:00 Rescue Ink 05:15 Little Human Planet 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 05:20 The Green Balloon Club 19:00 Wild Kalahari 05:45 Nina And The Neurons: In The 20:00 World’s Toughest Fixes Lab 21:00 The Known Universe 06:00 Balamory 03:25 Andy Bates American Street 22:00 Alaska Wing Men 06:20 Jackanory Junior Feasts 23:00 Rescue Ink 06:35 Little Human Planet 03:50 Iron Chef America 06:40 The Green Balloon Club 04:40 Chopped 07:05 Nina And The Neurons: In The 05:30 Unwrapped Lab 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 07:20 Charlie And Lola 06:10 Food Network Challenge 07:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 07:00 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 08:00 The Job Lot 07:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 01:30 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:25 The Mimic 02:00 The League 08:50 The Weakest Link 08:15 Food Network Challenge 02:30 Weeds 09:35 Doctor Who 09:05 Siba’s Table 03:00 Last Man Standing 10:20 BBC Proms 2011: Human Planet 09:30 Have Cake, Will Travel 03:30 New Girl Prom 09:55 Have Cake, Will Travel 04:00 Seinfeld 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 11:40 The Weakest Link 10:20 Barefoot Contessa - Back To Jimmy Fallon 12:25 Last Woman Standing Basics 05:30 My Boys 13:20 Doctor Who 10:45 Extra Virgin 06:00 The Goodwin Games 14:05 Doctors 11:10 Siba’s Table 06:30 Friends 14:30 Doctors 11:35 Cooking For Real 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 15:00 Doctors 12:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 08:00 Seinfeld 08:30 My Boys 15:30 Doctors 12:25 Unique Eats 09:00 Last Man Standing 16:00 Doctors 12:50 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 09:30 Enlisted 16:30 Rock & Chips: Special: Xmas Basics 10:00 The Michael J. Fox Show 2010 13:15 Hungry Girl 10:30 Friends 17:25 Doctor Who 13:40 Hungry Girl 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 14:05 Food Network Challenge 18:10 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood 12:00 The Goodwin Games 19:00 Hunderby 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:30 Seinfeld 19:25 The Job Lot 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 My Boys 19:50 Mistresses 15:45 Chopped 13:30 Friends 20:40 Waking The Dead 16:35 Siba’s Table 14:00 New Girl 14:30 Enlisted 21:35 The Mimic 17:00 Siba’s Table 15:00 The Michael J. Fox Show 22:00 The Cafe 17:25 Guy’s Big Bite 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 22:25 Being Erica 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:30 The Goodwin Games 23:10 Doctor Who 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 23:55 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood 18:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 18:00 Dads Basics 18:30 The Neighbors 19:00 Cougar Town 19:05 Extra Virgin 19:30 Melissa & Joey 19:30 Siba’s Table 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 19:55 Cooking For Real Jimmy Fallon 20:20 Chopped 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 03:20 Masterchef: The Professionals 21:10 Food Network Challenge 22:00 Saturday Night Live 03:50 Masterchef: The Professionals 23:00 Weeds 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 04:40 Masterchef: The Professionals 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 05:35 Masterchef: The Professionals 06:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook 07:00 Come Dine With Me 07:50 Come Dine With Me 03:00 Nip/Tuck 08:35 Come Dine With Me 05:00 56 Up 04:00 Bones 09:25 Come Dine With Me 05:55 The Hungry Sailors 05:00 Criminal Minds 10:15 Come Dine With Me NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 06:45 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night 06:00 The Glades TV listings SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

07:00 The Mob Doctor 07:00 Now You See Me-PG15 21:00 Jack Reacher-PG15 08:00 Made In Jersey 09:00 Cheerful Weather For The 23:15 The Campaign-18 09:00 Criminal Minds Wedding-PG15 10:00 Castle 10:45 Jobs-PG15 06:00 Trans World Sport 11:00 Bones 00:15 Cloverfield-PG15 13:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking 07:00 This is PGA Tour Latinoamerica 03:05 Long Island Medium 12:00 Emmerdale 02:00 Dead Before Dawn-PG15 Dawn Pt. 2-PG15 07:30 Total Rugby 04:20 What Not To Wear 12:30 Coronation Street 03:45 The Amazing Spider-Man-PG15 15:00 Buried-PG15 04:15 Dino Time 08:00 Live NRL Premiership 06:00 Super Soul Sunday 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:00 Piranhaconda-PG15 17:00 Old Stock-PG15 OSN MOVIES PREMIERE HD 10:00 NRL Premiership 07:00 What Not To Wear 14:00 Made In Jersey 08:00 Dick Tracy-PG15 19:00 Faces In The Crowd-PG15 04:00 Gnomeo & Juliet-PG 12:00 Total Rugby 07:50 Secret Eaters 15:00 The Glades 10:00 Cloverfield-PG15 21:00 Hick-PG15 06:00 Charlie And The Chocolate 12:40 Live AFL Premiership 08:40 Iyanla, Fix My Life 16:00 Emmerdale 12:00 Rewind-PG15 23:00 Maniac-R Factory-PG 15:30 Top 14 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 16:30 Coronation Street 14:00 Dick Tracy-PG15 08:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 17:30 Super Rugby 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 16:00 Batman: The Dark Knight 10:00 Love Will Keep Us Together- 19:30 WWE This Week 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 18:00 Made In Jersey Returns Part One-PG15 PG15 20:00 IndyCar Series 11:10 Cake Boss 19:00 Burn Notice 18:00 Rewind-PG15 12:00 Hope Springs-PG15 22:30 Live IndyCar Series 11:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 20:00 Nothing Left To Fear-18 20:00 Top Gear (US) 14:00 Standing Ovation-PG15 12:00 Little People, Big World 21:00 Witches Of East End 22:00 Falls The Shadow-18 16:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 03:15 The Raven 12:25 Super Soul Sunday 22:00 Supernatural 18:00 The Expatriate-PG15 05:15 Darling Companion 13:15 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 23:00 Nip/Tuck 20:00 The Colony-PG15 07:15 Playdate 13:40 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 22:00 The Haunting In Connecticut 2: 09:00 True Love 14:05 World’s Worst Mum Ghosts Of Georgia-18 11:00 The First Grader 03:00 IPL Highlights 14:55 Extreme Couponing 00:00 Grassroots-PG15 13:00 An Inconvenient Truth 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 15:20 Cake Boss 02:00 The Dukes Of Hazzard-18 15:00 Broken Bridges 15:45 What Not To Wear 04:00 The Runway-PG15 09:30 IPL Highlights 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 06:00 Beethoven-FAM 17:00 The First Grader 10:30 IPL Highlights 03:00 Boardwalk Empire 08:00 Super Buddies-FAM 19:00 Smashed 04:00 Super Rugby 11:30 IPL Highlights 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 04:00 Mistresses 10:00 Beethoven’s Second-PG 20:30 American Gangster 06:00 This is PGA Tour HD 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 05:00 Last Resort 12:00 The Runway-PG15 23:15 Best Laid Plans 06:30 Inside The PGA Tour 13:00 IPL Highlights 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 06:00 Good Morning America 14:00 Think Like A Man-PG15 18:40 Little People, Big World 07:00 Emmerdale 07:00 live NRL Premiership 15:00 IPL Highlights 16:00 Beethoven’s Second-PG 19:10 Super Soul Sunday 09:00 24 18:00 Bernie-PG15 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 16:00 ICC Cricket 360 10:00 Emmerdale 20:00 Mash-18 09:30 Top 14 16:30 IPL Highlights 20:05 Extreme Couponing 13:00 24 22:00 Grassroots-PG15 05:00 Monsters University-PG 12:00 Live Champions Tour 17:20 Live IPL 20:30 Cake Boss 14:00 Last Resort 06:45 Star Trek Into Darkness-PG15 14:00 Live PGA European Tour 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 21:00 Bling It On 15:00 Live Good Morning America 09:00 The Sapphires-PG15 18:30 Inside The PGA Tour 21:30 IPL Highlights 21:55 Craft Wars 16:00 24 22:50 Long Island Medium 18:00 C.S.I. 10:45 Iron Man 3-PG15 19:00 Live PGA Tour 22:30 IPL 19:00 24 13:00 Fastest-PG15 23:15 My Teen Is Pregnant And So Am 21:00 C.S.I. 15:00 Class-PG15 22:00 Mistresses 03:00 Jobs-PG15 17:00 The Sapphires-PG15 23:00 Boardwalk Empire 05:15 The Key Man-PG15 19:00 Silver Linings Playbook-PG15

‘Fault in Our Stars’ expected to trounce Cruise at box office this weekend

$12-million tearjerker about two teenage Fox domestic distribution chief Chris Aronson cancer patients will beat the latest Tom noted strong competition from “Maleficent,” last ACruise action movie at the box office this weekend’s box office champ. It will play at 3,948 weekend, according to pre-release tracking and theaters, many more than “Fault.” box office analysts. “The Fault in Our Stars” is “We didn’t think ‘Maleficent’ would open to projected to gross between $35 million and $40 quite the number it did; that is formidable,” million while “Edge of Tomorrow,” which stars Aronson told TheWrap. “Their two strongest Cruise and Emily Blunt, is projected between quadrants are exactly the same as our one and a $25 million and $30 million. half.” Aronson remains confident because “The Some analysts think $40 million may be too Fault in Our Stars,” which stars Shailene low an estimate for “Fault,” which has amassed a Woodley and Ansel Elgort, delivers precisely massive following on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter what its rabid audience desires. “We’ll have one and YouTube. That is no surprise given the of those phenomenons where people will latch source material. The movie is based on a book onto the movie and it will play for a long time,” by John Green, an author who was an early and Aronson said. “In a forest of special effects and avid user of YouTube and Twitter. He launched tentpole movies, it’s a really compelling human the popular VlogBrothers YouTube channel with interest drama.” his brother Hank in 2007, one year after Google While estimates for “The Fault in Our Stars” bought the now-ubiquitous video site. vary, Disney, rival studios and outside analysts BoxOffice.com vice-president and senior all project “Maleficent” will drop to the low-to- analyst Phil Contrino told TheWrap the final tally mid 30s. It has posted strong mid-week grosses, for “Fault” could fall anywhere within a wide and has tallied $211.5 million worldwide since range given the fickle nature of teenagers, the opening last week. Both “Maleficent” and “Fault” movie’s core audience, but he projected $45 should top “Edge of Tomorrow,” Warner Bros. million in grosses from the movie’s 3,171 loca- $178-milion action movie directed by “Bourne tions. “It’s really mobilizing the fan base and cre- Identity” filmmaker Doug Liman. Warner Bros ating new fans,” Contrino said. “It’s extraordinary has mounted a furious marketing campaign to see.” Movie studios are still cautious about before the movie to try and boost its chances, social media indexes, and “Fault’s” studio Fox but neither that nor strong reviews have had the projects $25 million for the young adult drama. intended effect.—ReutersSATURDAY, JUNE 7, GRASSROOTS ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Alnowair’s latest campaign at The Avenues

s part of its initiative to spread a positive attitude in Kuwait, fulness experience. The exercise will help activate all their bodily one can use to nurture a more positive outlook.” said Sheikha Alnowair launched its first ever interactive campaign at senses and help the visitors feel more connected with them- Intisar Al-Sabah, the founder of Alnowair. AThe Avenues. The campaign called Live the Now is to pro- selves. The visitors have an option of two different environments “This is the first time ever we are collaborating with The mote awareness about mindfulness in Kuwait. Mindfulness is a to perform the exercise, one being in the forest and the other in Avenues, and it is very encouraging for nonprofit endeavors such concept of being aware of our thoughts, feelings and environ- ocean. as ours to see that a corporate giant such as The Avenues is sup- ment in the present moment. It means purposefully noticing life “The concept of mindfulness is relatively new not just to porting our cause to make Kuwait a more positive place to live in. as it happens. Kuwait but internationally as well. Although many big corpora- This is the first time ever that they are lending support to a non- The activities will give a chance to the visitors at The Avenues tions are slowly embracing the idea of mindfulness at their work, profit initiative for an entire year and we are honored to be the to escape from the busy mall space to an environment where they see the physical and emotional benefits of mindfulness and first ones.” said Gaya Kruchlik, Campaign Manager at Alnowair. they can relax and concentrate on themselves. Two specially the positive effects it has on individuals. The Live the Now cam- The booths are located opposite of the Cheesecake Factory at The designed interactive booths will give the visitors a guided mind- paign is our effort to create awareness about this amazing tool Avenues, between June 3-7, 2014.

Kuwait Tamilosai celebrates ‘Mupperum Vizha’

uwait Tamilosai Poets Association (KTPA) Yaqoob Ali served the role of frontstager. The scheduled a carnival called Mupperum founder of the dedicated musical karoake web- KVizha on May 2 to mark the celebrations of site Abdul and Dr Ambalavaanan graced the the world Laborers’ Day. The program was occasion as chief guests. KTPA’s President Dr organized at the “Sangeeta Auditorium” in Kumar delivered the welcome address followed Mangaf, Kuwait commenced at 10:00 am with by igniting the traditional lantern Kuthu vilakku the recitation of Tamil Anthem. KTPA’s custodian by KTPA’s lady members. Vice-President committee member UK Sivakumar presided over Anbazhagan delivered the vote of thanks in the the meeting, narrating an emotional compilation end. The celebrations came to an emphatic end of walks of Tamilosai with poet Muthupet with the delicious feast served to all.

Jatiya Party Kuwait Branch holds prayer mehfil

atiya Party Kuwait Branch arranged a prayer mehfil on Sunday, May 4 at Arafat Hotel in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh for the late parliament member Nasim Osman. Jatiya Party Kuwait’s Jreligions secretary Moulana Abdul Ahad conducted the prayer mehfil. President of the program thanked all. WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

KES holds Graduation Ceremony

uwait English School held the Graduation Ceremony of its secondary students for the school year 2013-14. The Kevent was attended by Head of Earth and Environment Sciences Department, College of Science, Kuwait University Dr Mohammad Abdelrahman Al-Sarawi. Dr Al-Sarawi urged students to exert their efforts and actively participate in taking responsibility for building their countries. Meanwhile, school owner Mohammad Al-Sadah spoke about the importance of instilling information in their minds. The school’s superintendent congratulated the stu- dents and wished them the best in their future endeavors. HEALTH SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 Soda war activists look New gene tests may give cancer to tobacco as model patients quicker WASHINGTON: Soft drinks should be targeted like tobacco with more than 16 ounces in restaurants and movie theaters. To dram- consumer warning labels that spell out the risk of obesity and atize the amount of sugar that goes into soft drinks, tables at the path to treatment other maladies, American advocates of a war on soda say. The conference were covered with soda bottles, along with their Center for Science in the Public Interest brought together health equivalent in powdered sugar. So an ordinary 20 ounce bottle CHICAGO: A new way of evaluating tumors may soon help can- professionals other experts this week to plot a strategy to turn would contain the equivalent of 16 teaspoons of sugar and 240 cer patients identify the underlying genetic link to their disease - around public attitudes toward the sugary drinks. “This is about calories. and the best possible treatment - all in a single test. Researchers transparency, telling the truth about these products and let the Besides contributing to weight gain and obesity, heavy con- are set to begin clinical trials using a more comprehensive test- consumers decide by themselves,” said Harold Goldstein, one of sumption of drinks with added sugar like sodas, energy drinks, ing method that looks for all of the known genes that may be the dozens of doctors and other experts who attended the “Soda and sugary fruit juices is the direct cause of serious illnesses. active in a tumor. The new method could guide patients to the Summit” Wednesday and Thursday. Kimber Stanhope, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, right drug earlier, potentially replacing current tests known as At a news conference, Goldstein called for passage of a bill showed how sugars lead directly to fattening of the liver which companion diagnostics that only look for a specific biological requiring warning labels to be affixed to sugary drink containers. leads to metabolic diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. trait or “biomarker.” The presence of a biomarker can predict The bill already passed the state senate in California at the end of If the current levels of consumption do not change, 33 percent whether a new class of drugs called targeted therapies will work May, and once Governor Jerry Brown signs it, the state will of boys and 38 percent of girls born in 2000 will develop diabetes on particular tumors. Results of these broader tests could even become the first to adopt the rule. The language is similar to or pre-diabetes, projections that rise to 50 percent in the case of be used to quickly identify which patients might benefit from warning labels for cigarettes: “Drinking beverages with added African American and Hispanic populations, according to confer- experimental drugs being tested in clinical trials. US health offi- sugar contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.” “Give ence organizers. Still, anti-soda activists are optimistic that they cials see it as the future direction of cancer diagnostics. “We real- people the information at least,” said Goldstein. “Once they have are winning the soda war. ly are moving away from this one drug, one biomarker, one com- the information, then they will be ready for more.” Goldstein and “The signs of early victories in this war are that soda con- panion diagnostic,” said Dr Richard Pazdur, the US Food and others at the conference, however, stressed that combating con- sumption, particularly consumption of sugar sweetened sodas, Drug Administration’s oncology chief. sumption of sugary drinks will require multiple approaches. is down significantly” from a peak in 1998, said Jim Krieger, an In advanced melanoma, for example, about half of patients’ organizer. “People are getting the message.” Annual US con- tumors have a mutation in the BRAF gene. Roche makes a drug Winning the war sumption has dropped from 55 gallons to 44 gallons, a 17 per- called Zelboraf that blocks that pathway, at least for a time. To Conference participants noted that New York City is asking a cent decline, and water consumption has increased 38 percent get Roche’s drug, patients need to be evaluated with an FDA- state appeals court to reinstate its ban on sales of sugary drinks of over that period. — AFP approved companion diagnostic test. One of the tests is also made by Roche. In many cases, the FDA requires single-biomark- er companion diagnostics as part of the drug approval process, but the broader testing model opens the door to additional play- ers in the diagnostics space, including US -based Foundation Medicine Inc and Thermo Fisher’s Life Technologies. In a trial starting later this month, for example, patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung could be recommended for one of five experimental treatments based on which genes are active. Foundation Medicine’s next-generation sequencing plat- form will be used to screen some 6,000 lung cancer patients over five years. The Lung Master Protocol trial, also known as Lung- MAP, will take place in some 400 research centers. It is a public- private partnership between the National Cancer Institute, Amgen Inc , AstraZeneca Plc and its US -based biotech arm MedImmune, Roche’s Genentech unit and Pfizer Inc A similar effort called the National Lung Matrix trial being organized in Britain by AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Cancer Research UK is set to start taking patients in July or August. Pazdur said a conference this fall will also discuss plans for a trial in metastatic breast cancer. “This is a new paradigm in many, many ways,” said Ellen Sigal, chairperson and founder of Friends of Cancer Research, which is organizing the US lung cancer trial. “We’re revolutionizing not only the genetic testing but how patients get into a trial.”

One tissue, many tests Dr Mace Rothenberg, senior vice president of clinical devel- opment for Pfizer’s cancer business, said having a single test looking for a single biological marker made sense when there were only a few targeted cancer drugs, which exploit specific weaknesses in patients’ tumors. “In the past 10 years, we’ve now identified many more potential targets of drugs, and these mole- GERMANY: A flock of sheep is pictured in Karsdorf, eastern Germany. — AFP cules are involved in critical functions of a cancer cell,” he said. “Now it becomes very relevant that we be able to go beyond Sheep genome shows links that one tissue, one test to one tissue, many tests.” In non-small cell lung cancer, for example, there are more than a dozen different molecular abnormalities that are known to influence tumor growth. Dr Vince Miller, Foundation between wool, health Medicine’s chief medical officer, said as more of the drugs win approval, doctors might need to run five to eight tests, all from a WASHINGTON: Scientists have mapped the entire genome of breeding selection programs, and to further research to mitigate tiny scrap of tumor. “Tissue scarcity was becoming a very real sheep, paving the way to improve the health of the humble farm diseases affecting the animals. “Given the importance of wool issue,” he said. It’s an issue that Dr Tadd Lazarus, chief medical animal for better meat and wool. After eight years of work on the production, we focused on which genes were likely to be officer at Germany’s Qiagen NV, knows about personally. entire genetic makeup of the species, the researchers also found involved in producing wool,” said Brian Dalrymple, project leader Lazarus’ father is battling his second round of lung cancer, the secrets of the sheep’s digestive system and unique fat metab- at Australia’s national science agency the Commonwealth and biopsies must be done using a long needle, a process that olism process that allows it to produce and maintain its thick coat. Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. produces only a tiny tissue sample. “You get a fixed amount of Sheep became a species distinct from goats and other ruminants “We identified a new pathway for the metabolism of lipid in tissue and you have to maximize it,” he said. The German diag- about four million years ago, with a four-compartmented stom- sheep skin, which may play a role in both the development of nostics company has three companion diagnostic tests on the ach that can convert rich plant materials into animal protein, wool and in the efficient production of wool grease (lanolin).” US market, including one recently approved for Amgen’s col- according to the study. There are about a billion sheep around the world-including orectal cancer drug Vectibix. Qiagen has also invested in a new That digestive feature allows sheep to easily feed on a diet of around 70 million in Australia alone. So the researchers pre- testing platform from PrimeraDx, a privately held Boston-area low-quality grass and other plants. The study published in the dicted their work could have a “massive impact” for the rural company. Under an expanded partnership with Eli Lilly and Co, journal Science was the culmination of a project involving 26 economy due to the sheep service as a significant source of the companies plan to use the new platform to analyze both institutions from eight countries that is part of the International meat, milk and wool products. Researchers from Australia, DNA and RNA biomarkers, targeting multiple molecular path- Sheep Genomics Consortium. Researchers hope their findings will Britain, China, France, Denmark and New Zealand participated ways active in common cancers. —Reuters help develop DNA tests to improve stock through accelerated in the study. — AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

Kuwait ACCOMMODATION MATRIMONIAL KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY Abraq Khaitan sharing bed (05/06/2014 TO 11/06/2014) Wanted bride: BE mechanical space available for decent boy from Kerala - Roman Goan bachelor from June in Catholic/28 yrs/ 168 cm, C-AC building. Beside main working in Greek SHARQIA-1 MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:30 AM road & bus stop with wife, Construction Co., looking for EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:45 PM kitchen facility. Contact: MALEFICENT (DIG) 3:00 PM FANAR-5 alliance from RC girl. Contact 97523316 or 24745162. EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:00 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:00 PM email: [email protected] X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:15 PM HOLIDAY (DIG) (HINDI) 3:30 PM (C 4741) (C 4739) EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 9:45 PM HOLIDAY (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM 7-6-2014 5-6-2014 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:05 AM NIREL (DIG) (Tulu) 6:30 PM ELISA KHATAFHA JAMEEL (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 9:30 PM SHARQIA-2 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 12:30 AM CHANGE OF NAME A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 1:30 PM FOR SALE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM MARINA-1 I, Ronda Ramakrishna (my HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 2:00 PM Volvo model 2003 - S40, 4 old name) hereby change my MALEFICENT (DIG) 8:00 PM THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 4:30 PM cylinder - run 1,14,000 km, name to Rondla Ramakrishna A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 10:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:30 PM engine, gear tyres, battery, Reddy (my new name. MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:15 AM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:15 PM and AC all in excellent condi- Address: 1/70-A, Atlur (Vil, BLENDED (DIG) 8:15 PM tion, black color, interior and Post & Mandal), YSR (Dist.) SHARQIA-3 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:30 PM exterior neat and clean, all ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:15 AM (C 4736) service done till today at 5-6-2014 THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 2:45 PM Volvo service center. For seri- A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 4:45 PM MARINA-2 ous buyers, call 69698484 / ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 1:45 PM 99072651. TUITION JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 4:00 PM (C 4738) BLENDED (DIG) 8:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 6:15 PM 5-6-2014 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 8:45 PM Arabic Teacher for non- ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:45 PM native speakers beginners & EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 1:00 AM advanced - All levels of the MUHALAB-1 LOST Arabic language - IGCSE & ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 PM MARINA-3 GCSE, language training syl- LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (DIG) 2:30 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:30 PM I, Abdurrahman Hassan Al- labus foreign and common- ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 4:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM Qaddah, hereby state that I wealth office. Only KD 10 for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 6:15 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM have lost my Syrian Passport. an hour & free books. JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 8:00 PM Number: 003327362 - issued Contact: Mr Khalid: 99619998. BLENDED (DIG) 8:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:00 PM in Syria. Date of issue: (C 4740) ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:05 AM 12/3/2008. Date of expiry: 5-6-2014 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:00 AM 11/3/2014. (C 4737) AVENUES-1 5-6-2014 THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY MUHALAB-2 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 2:15 PM FOR CIVIL INFORMATION MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 4:15 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 3:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:15 PM Automated enquiry MALEFICENT (DIG) 5:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 8:15 PM aboutthe Civil ID card is A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 7:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:15 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:15 AM 112 1889988 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 12:05 AM AVENUES-2 MUHALAB-3 GODZILLA (DIG) 2:00 PM Prayer timings EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 1:00 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 4:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 6:45 PM Fajr: 03:14 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 3:45 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 9:15 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 6:00 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 11:30 PM Shorook 04:48 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 8:15 PM Duhr: 11:47 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 10:30 PM AVENUES-3 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:45 AM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:30 PM Asr: 15:21 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM FANAR-1 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:00 PM Maghrib: 18:46 MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:00 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 9:45 PM Isha: 20:17 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 3:15 PM BLENDED (DIG) 9:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 12:30 AM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 7:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:00 PM 360º- 1 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:15 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 2:00 PM Hospitals EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM Sabah Hospital 24812000 FANAR-2 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 7:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:30 PM NO THU Amiri Hospital 22450005 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 3:30 PM Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:00 PM Maternity Hospital 24843100 THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 5:15 PM THU ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 7:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM Mubarak Al-Kabir Hospital 25312700 THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 9:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:05 AM Chest Hospital 24849400 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:45 AM 360º- 2 Farwaniya Hospital 24892010 NO SUN+TUE+WED ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:15 PM Adan Hospital 23940620 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 3:15 PM FANAR-3 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 5:15 PM Ibn Sina Hospital 24840300 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 12:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 7:15 PM Al-Razi Hospital 24846000 GODZILLA (DIG) 2:30 PM Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:15 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 5:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 9:30 PM Physiotherapy Hospital 24874330/9 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:30 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 9:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:15 AM Clinics BLENDED (DIG) 9:45 PM Rabiya 24732263 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 11:45 PM 360º- 3 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM Rawdha 22517733 FANAR-4 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 4:30 PM Adailiya 22517144 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 7:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 4:00 PM NO THU Khaldiya 24848075 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:30 PM Khaifan 24849807 MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 8:30 PM THU MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 10:00 PM Shamiya 24848913 Shuwaikh 24814507 information SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 DIAL 161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION

In case you are not travelling, your proper cancellation of bookings will help other passengers use seats

Arrival Flights on Saturday 7/6/2014 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 Airlines Flt Route Time KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 17:45 KAC 521 Al Najaf 11:15 QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 KAC 671 Dubai 11:20 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 IZG 4161 Mashhad 18:00 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 JZR 267 Beirut 00:25 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 JZR 539 Cairo 00:30 MSC 407 HRG 18:20 KAC 501 Beirut 11:40 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 JZR 555 Alexandria 01:25 FDB 063 Dubai 18:35 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:45 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:25 KAC 104 London 18:45 IAW 158 Al Najaf/Baghdad 12:00 SAI 441 Lahore 01:35 CLX 732 Luxembourg 18:50 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 THY 764 Istanbul 01:40 JAV 621 Amman 18:50 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 IRA 669 Mashhad 18:50 SYR 342 Damascus 13:05 GFA 211 Bahrain 01:55 ABY 129 Sharjah 18:55 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 IRM 1189 Mashhad 13:15 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 02:30 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 FDB 072 Dubai 13:15 JAI 576 Kochi/Abu Dhabi 02:35 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 FDB 056 Dubai 13:20 PIA 239 Lahore 03:05 KAC 502 Beirut 19:20 JZR 124 Bahrain 13:30 FDB 5067 Dubai 03:05 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 MSR 580 Sohag 13:50 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 KAC 742 Dammam 19:30 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 KAC 614 Bahrain 19:35 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 OMA 643 Muscat 03:20 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 OMA 647 Muscat 19:55 KAC 561 Amman 14:45 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 KAC 562 Amman 20:00 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 KNE 474 Jeddah 20:00 FDB 058 Dubai 15:00 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 FDB 5061 Dubai 20:05 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:15 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 BAW 157 London 06:35 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 IRC 527 Mashhad 15:30 JZR 563 Sohag 06:35 ABY 121 Sharjah 20:20 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 06:40 JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 FDB 053 Dubai 07:00 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 KLM 415 Amsterdam 21:05 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 KAC 204 Lahore 07:35 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 KAC 741 Dammam 16:30 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 KNE 471 Jeddah 16:30 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 FDB 059 Dubai 21:40 KNE 463 Madinah 16:30 KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:35 KAC 344 Chennai 08:20 KNE 480 Taif 22:00 KNE 481 Taif 16:40 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 KAC 786 Jeddah 22:40 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:00 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 UAL 981 Bahrain 22:40 KAC 785 Jeddah 17:00 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:10 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 JZR 513 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:30 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 FDB 5055 Dubai 09:35 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 TBZ 5484 Mashhad 17:30 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 FDB 052 Dubai 17:40 IAW 157 Baghdad/Al Najaf 11:00 Departure Flights on Saturday 7/6/2014 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 Airlines Flt Route Time ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:50 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 NIA 252 Alexandria 17:50 JZR 151 Dubai 11:50 JZR 562 Sohag 00:10 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:20 UAE 858 Dubai 18:15 FDB 071 Dubai 12:35 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 FDB 055 Dubai 12:40 NIA 264 Alexandria 00:50 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 JZR 241 Amman 12:40 KLM 413 Amsterdam 00:55 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:40 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 JZR 502 Luxor 01:30 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 IZG 4162 Mashhad 19:00 MSR 579 Sohag 13:05 THY 773 Istanbul 02:20 MSC 408 HRG 19:20 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 SAI 442 Lahore 02:35 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KAC 287 Dhaka 19:30 FDB 057 Dubai 13:50 FDB 5068 Dubai 03:45 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:15 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 KAC 546 Alexandria 14:15 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:20 IRA 666 Esfahan 19:55 JZR 779 Jeddah 14:20 OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 JAV 622 Amman 19:55 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 KAC 363 Colombo 20:05 IRC 526 Mashhad 14:30 PIA 240 Sialkot/Islamabad 04:35 CLX 732 Hong Kong 20:20 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:40 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 KAC 522 Al Najaf 14:55 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 KNE 475 Jeddah 20:45 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 UAE 854 Dubai 05:30 FDB 5062 Dubai 20:50 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 KNE 470 Jeddah 15:35 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 ABY 122 Sharjah 21:00 IRM 1180 Mashhad 15:45 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 KNE 462 Madinah 15:45 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 TBZ 5483 Mashhad 15:50 JZR 240 Amman 07:05 JZR 552 Alexandria 21:15 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 JZR 150 Dubai 07:15 MSR 607 Luxor 21:25 KNE 460 Riyadh 15:55 KAC 545 Alexandria 07:20 KAC 543 Cairo 21:30 KAC 118 New York 16:00 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 KAC 672 Dubai 16:00 FDB 054 Dubai 07:50 KLM 415 Dammam/Amsterdam 22:05 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 BAW 156 London 08:25 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 JZR 778 Jeddah 08:45 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 JZR 125 Bahrain 16:25 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:50 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 UAE 857 Dubai 16:55 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 FDB 051 Dubai 16:55 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 KNE 461 Riyadh 22:50 UAL 982 IAD 17:25 FDB 5056 Dubai 10:15 FDB 060 Dubai 23:00 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:20 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 KAC 101 London/New York 10:25 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:40 Directorate General of Civil Aviation Home Page (www.kuwait-airport.com.kw) SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014

DOWN 1. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar. CROSSWORD571 2. United States poet (1849-1916). 3. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally. 4. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders. 5. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine. 6. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church. 7. The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound. 8. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century. 9. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth. 10. A Mid-Atlantic state. 11. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn. 12. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. 13. Lacking excess flesh. 14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa. 20. Type genus of the Anatidae. 22. A doctor's degree in education. 23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 26. (prefix) In front of or before in space. 27. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny. 31. Make lively. 32. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission. 33. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi. 35. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven. 36. Group of people related by blood or marriage. 38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. 39. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India. 42. In bed. 43. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands. 48. 1/10 gram. 50. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance. 51. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery). ACROSS 53. A state in the Rocky Mountains. 1. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma. 56. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter. 4. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious. 60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World. 11. A young male horse under the age of four. 61. A formal expression of praise. 15. Term of address for a man. 63. Lower in esteem. 16. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. 64. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings. 17. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits. 66. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE 18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. Nebraska. 19. Not in a specified place physically or mentally. 67. Slightly wet. 21. A government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible 68. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. for stopping bootlegging). 69. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 24. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades. 1999). 25. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap 72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. jewelry and for gilding. 73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 28. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code. 76. A room equipped with toilet facilities. 29. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated 77. The bill in a restaurant. with him on recordings (born in 1933). 80. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element. 30. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables. 34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). 37. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar. 40. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modi- Yesterdayʼs Solution fied as wings. 41. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table. 44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 45. Being one more than six. 46. Jordan's port. Yesterday’s Solution 47. A public promotion of some product or service. 49. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables. 52. Tending to impart new life and vigor to. 54. The early stage of growth or development. 55. An informal term for a father. 57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 58. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing. 59. A period of time spent sleeping. 62. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh). 65. An Old World reptile family of Sauria. 70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group. 71. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images. 74. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy. 75. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly. 78. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. 79. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made. 81. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research. 82. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. 83. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people. 84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

Daily SuDoku Yesterday’s Solution Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014 San Francisco Giants thump Reds

CINCINNATI: Left-hander Madison Bumgarner got his career- York rallied from a 4-0 deficit. Justin Grimm (2-2) got the win. he left with an AL-leading 2.02 ERA. David Robertson worked high sixth straight win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the the ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances, helped by a lucky Reds 6-1 on Thursday afternoon, taking a series in Cincinnati DIAMONDBACKS 12, ROCKIES 7 bounce. Stephen Vogt singled with one out and pinch-runner for the first time in five years. San Francisco moved a season- Paul Goldschmidt, Miguel Montero and Chris Owings Craig Gentry stole second. Alberto Callaspo followed with a high 18 games over .500 with its 11th win in 14 games. The homered as Arizona reached double-digits against the hard grounder that deflected off Robertson’s leg, and first Giants have the best record in the majors at 39-21. Bumgarner Colorado Rockies again and completed a sweep. Arizona took baseman Mark Teixeira corralled the carom and flipped to the (8-3) gave up three hits in eight innings, including Todd all three games at Coors Field for the first time since April pitcher covering the bag for an out. Pinch-hitter Derek Norris Frazier’s homer, and retired the last 16 batters he faced. He’s 2008. Bronson Arroyo (5-4) pitched effectively most of the looked at strike three for the final out. 6-0 in his last seven starts, the best such streak of his career. evening before running out of steam. The 37-year-old allowed Michael Morse hit a two-run homer, and Brandon Crawford four runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. A night after the RANGERS 8, ORIOLES 6 broke out of a slump with a three-run shot off Mike Leake (3- Diamondbacks put up 16 runs, they pounded Rockies starter Rougned Odor had a leadoff single in the seventh and 5), who had overwhelmed the Giants the last four times he Juan Nicasio (5-4). The right-hander struggled with his com- scored the tiebreaking run with the help of two errors by faced them. mand, allowing a season-high seven runs in 5 1-3 innings as Baltimore Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy and Texas avoided a three-game sweep with a win. The Rangers blew an early 5-0 lead, but their three-run seventh started when No 9 batter Odor had an infield single off reliever Brian Matusz (2-2) and moved up on throwing error by Hardy. Odor came home when Hardy misplayed a grounder hit by Elvis Andrus to make it 6-5. Alex Rios and Chris Jimenez then added consecutive RBI singles off Preston Guilmet, the fifth Baltimore pitcher. Hardy, an All-Star for the second time last season, also had a throw- ing error in the fourth for the first three-error game in his career.

ASTROS 8, ANGELS 5 Jose Altuve and George Springer drove in two runs each during Houston’s four-run eighth inning as the Astros pulled away for a win over Los Angeles. Altuve had two hits, includ- ing a two-run double in the eighth, and Springer finished with three RBIs for the Astros. Brad Peacock (2-4) allowed three runs and six hits with a strikeout in five innings. Chad Qualls earned his sixth save. Mike Trout had two hits, including a double and a triple, and Chris Iannetta had three hits for the Angels, who have lost five of their past six games. Tyler Skaggs (4-4) allowed four runs and six hits with four strikeouts in five innings.

INTERLEAGUE ROYALS 3, CARDINALS 2 Yordano Ventura threw six innings in his return from a sore elbow, and the Kansas City ended a string of eight straight home losses to their in-state rivals. Ventura (3-5) was skipped his previous time through the rotation because of minor elbow pain, but he looked sharp in his return. He pitched to contact and took advantage of some sharp defense, which helped him to limit the damage whenever he ran into trouble. The Royals rallied for three runs off Michael Wacha (4-4) to take the lead in the sixth inning, and Francisley Bueno and Wade Davis each pitched a perfect inning in relief of Ventura.

CINCINNATI: Angel Pagan #16 of the San Francisco Giants slides at home plate to score a run after a single by Buster MARLINS 11, RAYS 6 Posey (not pictured) in the seventh inning of the game against the Cincinnati Reds on June 5, 2014. — AFP JT Realmuto had three RBIs in his major league debut, Marcell Ozuna homered and drove in four runs, and Miami the Rockies dropped their seventh straight game. It’s their handed Tampa Bay its 10th consecutive loss. Realmuto drove NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 2 longest skid since losing nine in a row late in the 2012 season. in two runs on his first big league hit, a fourth-inning single, Doug Fister kept himself and his club on a roll, allowing and added a sixth-inning RBI single. Ozuna’s two-run homer two runs and four hits over seven innings as Washington AMERCIAN LEAGUE put Miami up 11-6 in the ninth. Giancarlo Stanton hit his 17th Nationals capped a sweep. Fister (4-1) struck out five and BLUE JAYS 7, TIGERS 3 home run, a two-run shot during a three-run seventh that didn’t walk any as he won his fourth consecutive start for Juan Francisco and Brett Lawrie hit consecutive home runs made it 9-5. The Marlins beat the Rays for the fourth straight what’s starting to look like the tough-act-to-follow rotation in the sixth inning off Justin Verlander, and Toronto complet- time in a home-and-home interleague series. Jacob Turner (2- expected from the Nationals this season. The Nationals have ed a three-game sweep of Detroit. The AL East-leading Blue 3) allowed five runs and eight hits over 5 1-3 innings for won five of six. They’ve outscored opponents 38-12 in those Jays have won 19 of 23, including sweeps of defending cham- Miami. A three-run sixth gave the Marlins a 6-3 lead. Casey half-dozen games, including 19-6 in each of the three-game pion Boston, AL West-leading Oakland and AL Central-leading McGehee ended starter Jake Odorizzi’s day with a leadoff dou- series against the Texas Rangers and the Phillies. Kyle Detroit. JA Happ (5-2) allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1- ble. Jake McGee (2-1) entered and allowed RBI singles to Kendrick (1-6) allowed four runs over seven innings and 3 innings for Toronto. Casey Janssen got the final out for his Ozuna and Realmuto. walked a season-high five as the Phillies dropped their season- 10th save in 11 chances. He needed only one pitch to retire high sixth in a row. Nick Castellanos on a line drive to left with two on. Melky BREWERS 8, TWINS 5 Cabrera also homered for the Blue Jays. Verlander (6-5) Carlos Gomez hit a three-run homer against his former CUBS 7, METS 4 allowed six runs - five earned - and eight hits in seven innings. team to spark Milwaukee’s comeback. Khris Davis hit a two- Anthony Rizzo hit a tiebreaking homer, Travis Wood went He walked four and struck out four. Toronto scored three runs run homer off Kevin Correia (2-7) for the lead in the sixth deep and drove in three runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the each in the fourth and sixth. inning to pull Brewers starter Wily Peralta (5-5) out of an early New York Mets 7-4 Thursday night to complete the three- deficit built by Oswaldo Arcia’s grand slam. Jonathan Lucroy game sweep. Rizzo’s solo drive off Vic Black (1-1) with one out YANKEES 2, ATHLETICS 1 tacked on a two-run shot in the ninth, and Francisco in the seventh gave Chicago a lead after New York’s Andrew Masahiro Tanaka tamed the highest-scoring team in the Rodriguez finished up for his 18th save in 20 attempts. Arcia Brown capped a four-run comeback with a two-run shot in the majors and New York stopped a four-game skid, beating gave the Twins a 4-0 lead in the third inning, but the young top half. Junior Lake added a two-run triple in the eighth, and Oakland and ending the Athletics’ five-game winning streak. slugger left the game after spraining his right ankle while the Cubs came away with their first series sweep since they Facing the A’s for the first time, Tanaka (9-1) got an early jolt being picked off second base in the sixth. Peralta was in trou- took three at San Francisco last July 26-28. Wood delivered in when John Jaso homered as the second batter in the game. ble every other inning, but Arcia was the only one who actual- a big way at the plate and was in line for the win before New But that was the only run Tanaka allowed in six innings, and ly made him pay for it - and in a big way.— AP Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014 Martinez to defend middleweight title

NEW YORK: Miguel Cotto will try to become the first four-division not going the distance.” It will be the second fight for Cotto under world champion from Puerto Rico by taking a middleweight crown trainer Freddie Roach, who guided Pacquiao over Cotto in 2009 but from Argentina southpaw Sergio Martinez today at Madison has inspired the challenger with his advice and predicts an early Square Garden. Martinez, the World Boxing Council champion in Cotto knockout. “A lot of people say Michael Jordan wouldn’t be the weight class, has won seven fights in a row in improving to 51- Michael Jordan without Scottie Pippen-Freddie Roach is my Scottie 2-2 with 28 knockouts. The 39-year-old South American won the Pippen,” Cotto said, invoking two stars from the Chicago Bulls’ run title from Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr in September of 2012 at Las Vegas of six NBA titles in the 1990s. “Our chemistry together has been by unanimous decision and defended it last year in Argentina with great.” a unanimous decision over England’s Martin Murray. Hand and shoulder injuries have kept Martinez out of the ring for Cotto, 38-4 with 31 knockouts, comes off a third-round stop- 14 months, a sign the champion’s time is done according to page of Delvin Rodriguez last October after having dropped his Roach.”The wear and tear of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr fight ruined two prior fights, to Floyd Mayweather and Austin Trout in 2012. Martinez,” Roach said. “He has nothing left. Miguel is the fresher Cotto, 33, has been a world champion at light welterweight, welter- fighter.” Martinez, who was knocked down in the 12th round and weight and light middleweight. His welterweight reign was ended later hit the canvas again on what was ruled a slip, says he has plen- when Filipino star Manny Pacquiao stopped him in the 12th round ty in the tank yet. “If winning 11 1/2 rounds out of 12 is not impres- in 2009. “It is not only Austin Trout that made it a difficult fight for sive, I don’t know what I could do,” Martinez said. “If the fight would Cotto, but Mayweather and Pacquiao as well,” said Martinez. have lasted another two or three rounds, Chavez would have run “We’ve looked at all of those fights, and picked up on different out of gas and I would have stopped him.” Martinez suffered his things that have worked against Cotto. Whatever Cotto will do in only loss since 2000 in a majority decision to Paul Williams in 2009 at HOBOKEN: Miguel Cotto works out for the media at the ring doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care. This fight is definitely Atlantic City. — AFP Everlast Lab in Hoboken, New Jersey. — AFP

Wiggins ‘gutted’ to miss Tour de France

LONDON: Britain’s Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner, said yesterday that he was “gutted” not to be selected for Team Sky to compete in this year’s race. Wiggins told BBC television that he would not take part in the race he became the first British rider to win, with his team concentrating its efforts on last year’s winner Chris Froome. “The team is focused around Chris Froome,” the team leader, Wiggins, 34, said. “I am gutted. I’ve worked extremely hard for this throughout the winter and up to the summer. I feel I am in the form I was two years ago,” he explained. “I’ve been working towards that all season. It’s disappointing because it would perhaps have been my last Tour de France,” added Wiggins, who was sup- port rider to Froome last season but did not compete in the Tour de France. On top of his 2012 triumph, Wiggins ROME: Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim competes in the men’s high jump on June 5, 2014 at the Rome’s Olympics stadium during has won four Olympic gold medals both on the track and the Golden Gala, as a part of the IAAF Diamond League. — AFP the road. This season the two rivals have been kept apart in warm up races ahead of the Tour which starts in the English city of Leeds on July 5. Wiggins recently won the Barshim, Gatlin Tour of California and is set to start the Tour of Switzerland next week as Froome will build up to the Tour with the Dauphine Libere race which starts tomor- row. “As it stands, all being well and Chris staying fit and triumph in Rome healthy, that’s the team,” added Wiggins. “The past few weeks it’s become progressively clear that apart from something happening to Froome in the Dauphine, I ROME: American Justin Gatlin outclassed the men’s 100-metre field at than the wind-assisted 9.76 he set in Oregon recently and his 9.87 in won’t do the Tour. the Rome Diamond League on Thursday as Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Beijing, Gatlin’s ferocious start and solid final 50 meters left his rivals “The plan since the worlds last year, in an ideal world, Barshim continued to soar by beating Ukrainian world champion playing catch-up. Carter clocked a time of 10.02 with British hope was that Chris and I would both do the Tour. “I under- Bohdan Bondarenko in the men’s high jump. Gatlin, who served a Gemili finishing well in the second half of his run to claim a deserved stood the role that I would play, that Chris would be the four-year drugs ban from 2006 to 2010, clocked a winning time of third in 10.07. American Lashawn Merritt clocked a winning time of leader and would try to win his second Tour and I was 9.91secs to finish comfortably ahead of Jamaica’s Nesta Carter, while 44.48 in a dominant men’s 400m, with Youssef Ahmed Masrahi of 100percent behind that. “And then during the Paris- Britain’s Adam Gemili was third. It was a repeat of last year’s success Saudi Arabia stunning David Verburg of the United States for second Roubaix, Shane Sutton (Team Sky’s new boss) said in the for Gatlin, who in 2013 edged Usain Bolt on the line to beat the place in a time of 45.14. “I wasn’t trying to break any records,” said press that I needed to fight really hard to win a place, it Jamaican for the first time. Barshim, meanwhile, had the sparse crowd Merritt. “It was necessary for me to come out and work on a few was now Chris’s team and Chris obviously had a say. at the Olympic Stadium on their feet with a string of strong perform- things, and get another victory in the Diamond League.” Frenchman “The option that they (Sky) gave me was to return to ances before triumphing with a new personal best of 2.41m. Christophe Lemaitre, meanwhile, admitted he was lacking some race track, to focus on the Commonwealth Games end of July. In doing so the 22-year-old-who took bronze at the London sharpness as he settled for second place in the men’s 200m behind “So for the moment I’m going to do the individual Olympics in 2012 and won silver at last year’s world championships in Panama’s Alonso Edward, who set a winning time of 20.19, with pursuit and team with a view to the Olympic Games in Moscow-matched the year’s best height set by Olympic champion American Curtis Mitchell third. “I’m a little disappointed. I tried to get Ivan Ukhov of Russia in Doha. Ukhov was fifth in Rome, with close to 20s, but the legs just felt a bit heavy. I’m just lacking a little bit Rio. And then I hope to race the Vuelta (Tour of Spain). Bondarenko in second place with a jump of 2.34. The men’s world of race fitness,” said Lemaitre. Already deprived of Bolt, the Rome “Personally it’s disappointing but you can also under- record of 2.45 is still held by now-retired Cuban Javier Sotomayor. “It crowd also had to do without seeing Olympic women’s hurdles stand why they have chosen this team.” Wiggins, who will come sooner or later, nothing will stop me,” said Barshim, who champion Sally Pearson, who pulled out during the warm-up. In the had been the lead rider since the formation of the Sky narrowly failed with an attempt to clear 2.43. “I don’t want to set Australian’s absence, world champion Brianna Rollins led an American Team in 2010, said he was now considering his future. myself limits. This performance gives me confidence. I was close to podium sweep with a world’s best time of the year (12.53) ahead of “For the moment I’m considering all the options but as clearing 2.43 but just clipped with my ankle.” Dawn Harper-Nelson and Queen Harrison. Another year’s best time things stand I still haven’t any offer from Sky. “It’s now Gatlin had beaten Bolt for the first time at this event last year, and was set, in the women’s 400m hurdles, by Jamaican Kaliese Spencer quite clear next year that if I want to do the Tour, it is like- made the most of the Jamaican’s absence to claim his second succes- who clocked 53.97 to beat Georganne Moline of the USA and Britain’s ly that I’ll have to leave Sky.”— AFP sive win in Rome. Although the American’s time of 9.91 was slower Eilidh Child, who was third. —AFP Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014 FIFA’s Blatter ducks Spurs cool Heat Qatar re-vote calls

SAO PAULO: Football chief Sepp Blatter resisted calls to Green shoots of recovery lifts Spurs order a re-vote for the 2022 World Cup on Thursday, saying no decision could be taken until FIFA completes a probe of SAN ANTONIO: Some torrid fourth-quarter shooting led by Danny Sunday. Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said the hot conditions created Qatar’s winning bid. Speaking in Sao Paulo, Blatter declined Green lifted the San Antonio Spurs to a come-from-behind 110-95 an “unusual environment,” adding that it was painful to see James to comment directly on mounting corruption revelations victory over the Miami Heat in the opening game of the NBA Finals hobbled. “We’re used to having the hotter arena at this time of embroiling Qatar’s win at a controversial 2010 vote. Blatter on Thursday. Green scored 11 of his 13 points in the final period as year,” he said. “But both teams had to deal with it. It’s unfortunate said FIFA would make no ruling until officials had assessed the Spurs hit 14-of-16 shots, including all six from beyond the arc, that it was that way. “It felt like a punch in the gut when you see the findings of the corruption investigation headed by US turning a seven-point deficit into a runaway victory. In the final your leader limping like that back to the bench, but at the same lawyer Michael Garcia. “I am not a prophet,” Blatter said. “We quarter, Green made all three of three-point attempts to key a 31-9 time we still had an opportunity to make plays going down the must wait for the results of the investigation.” run to end of the game. stretch. “They made obviously the biggest plays in the last five min- Blatter also reminded reporters that FIFA had already Tim Duncan, who led the Spurs with 21 points, said taking care utes.” assured Qatar this year that the tournament would go ahead. of the ball made the difference down the stretch. San Antonio had “All I would add, is that this year, in March, the executive 22 turnovers but was dazzling when it counted. “We took care of the Rest needed committee of FIFA said that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was ball finally,” he told reporters. “We had 20-some odd turnovers for With James on the bench, the Spurs out-scored Miami 16-3 over not in question,” he said. FIFA’s executive committee voted 28 points. The last seven or eight minutes we only turned the ball the last four minutes. “Obviously when LeBron went out for us in a to give Russia the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 event over once or twice. “Getting them out of the passing lanes, keeping two-point game is not ideal, but we got to get better shots on the at a vote in Zurich four years ago. Garcia is looking into them in front of us, making them score over us, and we found some- offensive end,” said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, who had 19 points. whether there was corruption in the awarding of the tourna- thing that worked on the offensive end. “We started moving the ball “We didn’t, we turned it over a few times. We didn’t get good looks ments. and Danny Green got hot and hit a couple of shots and really and you can’t do that versus this team.” Manu Ginobili, who had 16 The 2022 vote has come under renewed scrutiny after opened it up for us.” points for San Antonio, said it was hardly time to be overconfident, The Sunday Times allegations that Qatari former Asian foot- LeBron James paced the Heat with 25 points but played only noting that the Spurs won the opener in last year’s finals before ball chief Mohamed bin Hammam paid more than $5 million five minutes in the final quarter due to leg cramps. An electrical falling in seven games. “At this point, we are the same exact spot as to win support for his country’s bid. Asia’s top Olympic offi- outage caused the air conditioning to fail at the AT&T Center, last year,” he said. “We are up 1-0 and they always come back. They cial on Thursday said the accusations against Qatar were creating steamy conditions for both players and fans. James hit always adjust well. motivated by “racism.” Pressure for action grew, however, as a lay-up with four minutes left to pull Miami within 94-92 but “They have great players, so we got to come back on Sunday and UEFA president Michel Platini said a new vote should be was forced to the bench with his leg issues. “It sucks at this play even better.” James said he welcomes the rest until Sunday’s called if corruption was proved. Sheikh Ahmad al-Sabah, point in time in the season,” said James. “After I made that game. “I need it, I need it, I need it,” he said. “We’re going to start president of the Olympic Council of Asia and the Association layup we was down two and, you know, as well as they played tonight, continue to get the fluids in me and get me ready for of National Olympic Committees, strongly defended Qatar. we still had a chance. “After I came out of the game, they kinda Sunday. “Thankful for the fact that I can get on it tonight, and put The attacks were “racist actions towards Qatar and Arabs, took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not be able to myself in a position where I can be out there for my team for the revealing the malice of those parties in a way that has no jus- help our team.” long haul. “Sitting on the sideline, if I’m not in foul trouble, is not tification,” the International Sports Press Association quoted Tony Parker scored 19 points and Manu Ginobili added 16 for the good for us and not good for me. I look forward to Game Two and the Kuwaiti sheikh as saying. “We will confront all such acts Spurs, who host Miami in Game Two of the best-of-seven series on go from there.”— Reuters of racism and we will stand with Qatar so that no-one removes its right to organize the 2022 World Cup in Doha,” he added. “I stand by my brothers in Qatar,” the sheikh declared.

Report due June 9 FIFA investigator Garcia met Qatari World Cup committee officials in Oman this week, a source close to the meetings said. He is to hand his report to a FIFA ethics committee on June 9, the day before the world body starts its annual con- gress in Sao Paulo. UEFA President and FIFA executive mem- ber Platini, who voted for Qatar in 2010, told L’Equipe news- paper that if the corruption allegations were proven there should be a re-vote. “If there is proof of corruption, it will take a new vote and sanctions,” Platini was quoted as saying. Platini again rejected claims by English newspaper the Daily Telegraph this week that he held “a secret meeting” with Hammam. He admitted attending a “private lunch” with Nicolas Sarkozy when he was France’s president, and a group of high-ranking Qataris. Platini, a potential rival to Blatter in an election next year, insisted he was not influenced by anyone to vote for Qatar. “On arriving at the lunch I found that the Qataris were there and I felt there was a subliminal message in them being present. “However, I would emphasize that I went to the lunch to see the president and I did not know the Qataris would be there. “Nobody told me who to vote for. Qatar never did and nor did Sarkozy,” Platini said. — AFP SAN ANTONIO: Dwyane Wade #3 of the Miami Heat goes to the basket against Manu Ginobili #20 of the San Antonio Spurs during Game One of the 2014 NBA Finals on June 5, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. — AFP Moore out to build Wallaby momentum against France

BRISBANE: The Wallabies are bidding for their best winning streak in hooker told reporters. “We did finish the season positively last year Backline stars Remi Tales and Mathieu Bastareaud are also being six seasons against France in Brisbane today with new skipper and we want to pick it up from there. “Any time you can look back and rested after their late arrival from the Top 14 final played last week- Stephen Moore keen to build momentum. Four victories at the end of say you have strung some wins together that builds confidence for end. But Moore has predicted a tough night for his forward pack, last year’s European tour have Australia poised for their best run since the team and a winning habit and ultimately that’s where we want to identifying the breakdown, scrum and lineout all as areas the French the successful first five matches of former coach Robbie Deans’ tenure go.” will attack. Even without Dusautoir, flankers Michael Hooper and in 2008. Among those first wins under Deans was against France at Moore is only one of coach McKenzie’s significant decisions after Scott Fardy are expected to have their hands full against the French home six years ago and the Wallabies, now led by Ewen McKenzie, less than a year in the job since replacing Deans. The 55-Test scrum- foragers. “They’ve picked a team to compete hard at the breakdown,” kick off their 2014 campaign against an under-strength Les Bleus in half Will Genia was left out of the match-day squad against France, Moore said. Veteran flyhalf Frederic Michalak has 66 more Test caps the first of three Tests. Moore, appointed this week as Australia’s new while former captain James Horwill was named on the bench behind than Foley while Wesley Fofana is regarded as the form number 12 in captain 15 months out from the World Cup, stressed the importance debutant Sam Carter.McKenzie has gone with scrum-half Nic White rugby. Exciting Wallabies fullback Israel Folau, who equaled Lote Friday of constructing a launching pad in the French series. and fly-half Bernard Foley as his halves pairing, with just six minutes Tuqiri’s calendar-year mark of 10 tries at the end of 2013, is expecting It has been 12 years since Australia have won the Bledisloe Cup together as a Test combination. “That’s Test footy and we have to find the unexpected from the French backs. “I think there will be a bit of against trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand and Moore is looking for his out because they’re going to play against the best,” Moore said. Les everything really,” Folau said. “We’ve trained all week for the unpre- team to rise from world number three to the top ranking heading into Bleus are also missing key men, with inspirational captain Thierry dictable.”Especially in attack. They can throw the ball around, put little the World Cup. “If we can pick up a win then that’s five in a row and Dusautoir (biceps) and back-row partner Louis Picamoles (hip) resting chips over the top and grubbers in behind so, defensively, we have to that’s good short-term goals for the guys to aspire to,” the 91-Test injuries. be on to try and stop them.” —AFP Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL

Erratic France Feisty young side shatter slowly rediscover Switzerland stereotypes their pedigree BERNE: A young side drawn mainly from immigrant backgrounds, Under former Bayern Munich manager Ottmar Hitzfeld, their PARIS: Four years after making fools of themselves in Switzerland’s World Cup team is about as far removed from the prospects are better than at the previous two tournaments and they South Africa, France have regained their credibility and stereotyped image of the Alpine nation as it is possible to get. While should be a far more entertaining proposition than their dour, can even realistically contemplate making a major impact the Swiss are often regarded as reserved, diplomatic and predictable, defense-orientated predecessors. at the World Cup finals. In 2010, Les Bleus went on strike their national side is a feisty outfit with a surprising amount of flair. They open their campaign against Ecuador in Brasilia on June 15, in support of Nicolas Anelka, who had been kicked out of Stephan Lichtsteiner and hard-tackling captain Gokhan Inler never then meet France in Salvador on June 20 and Honduras in Manaus the squad for insulting coach Raymond Domenech, and shy away from a battle while the impish skills of Xherdan Shaqiri could on June 25. As nearly all of their players are based in top European exited the competition in the first round. Laurent Blanc make him one of the finals’ most exciting players. leagues those matches will not unduly faze them. Fullback took the team to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals but off-field The make-up of the team has changed beyond recognition over Lichtsteiner is at Juventus, Napoli boast the midfield trio of Inler, problems again got in the way and the French players the past few years as the national federation, which runs one of Blerim Dzemaili and Valon Behrami and the Bundesliga contingent were lambasted for their childish behavior. It has taken Europe’s most impressive youth development programs, has tapped includes Djourou, Shaqiri, goalkeeper Diego Benaglio and midfield- into the potential offered by Switzerland’s immigrant communities. er Granit Xhaka. Switzerland may have problems at the back, how- new coach Didier Deschamps less than two years to More than half the squad hail from immigrant backgrounds. Many ever, where Philippe Senderos and Djourou have struggled for form transform the squad and their image. “They can go far,” are from families who fled to Switzerland from Kosovo during the at their clubs. They are prone to lapses, such as squandering a three- said former France forward Youri Djorkaeff, a member of 1990s while midfielder Gelson Fernandes was born in the Cape Verde goal lead in a 4-4 draw at home to Iceland, but young forwards such the World Cup-winning team in 1998. Islands and Johan Djourou in Ivory Coast. as Josip Drmic, Admir Mehmedi and Haris Seferovic give them bite. “Winning the World Cup might be complicated but I Although they missed out on Euro 2012, when the team was in a Hitzfeld’s team went through an admittedly easy qualifying group think they have recovered the panache, the desire, the transitional period, Switzerland will be going to their third successive unbeaten and, with England, are one of only two teams to have stability that can help them go through the group phase World Cup, an excellent record for a small country especially consider- beaten Brazil since Luiz Felipe Scolari took over as coach in and challenge the best teams.” France, drawn in Group E ing that football is less popular than ice hockey and Alpine skiing. November 2012.—Reuters with Switzerland, Honduras and Ecuador, should claim top spot. Since 1998, the erratic French have either reached the final or failed to win a game at the World Cup. The official FIFA World Cup rankings for their last four World Cup finals appearances bear that point out perfectly: 1st in 1998, 28th in 2002, 2nd in 2006, 29th in 2010. If that pattern is repeated they are due to reach the final again this time, but a semi-final appearance might be a more likely target if they click as they can.

Turning point And their qualifying campaign was a microcosm of their ability to turn out Jekyll and Hyde performances. After a series of indifferent matches in the regular cam- paign, the playoff against Ukraine was the turning point. The qualifying campaign was disappointing but victory in the playoffs gave a hint of a better future, when the Stade de France crowd finally backed their team unreservedly. After a 2-0 defeat in Kiev, Deschamps dumped defender Eric Abidal and midfielder Samir Nasri for the return leg. Les Bleus played fearlessly as centre-back Mamadou Sakho scored two goals with a resurgent Karim Benzema netting the other to guarantee a last- gasp passage to Brazil. “Something strong happened. Most of them had no happy memories with France,” said Deschamps. “Now it’s part of their history, it changes a lot of things.” Sports daily L’Equipe, who wondered on their front page after the first leg if France were the “worst team” in SUZHOU: People look at a small exhibition themed in FIFA World Cup 2014 in a shopping mall in Suzhou, east China’s history, made a U-turn after the second game with the Jiangsu province. Brazil is hosting its first World Cup since 1950 from 12 June to July 13, 2014.— AFP headline “Respect”. A team which had no clear direction on the pitch, France now rely on a stable midfield consist- ing of Yohan Cabaye, Paul Pogba and Blaise Matuidi, a England rely on youngsters, luck perfect launching pad for the attacking trio of Mathieu Valbuena, Franck Ribery and Benzema. Ribery, one of the LONDON: One of the most telling moments of England’s World naments has been muted and it would surprise few if they left players sanctioned over the South Africa debacle, failed Cup build-up came off the pitch, away from the players, crowds before the knockout stages start on June 28. to sparkle at Euro 2012 but he has been beaming on and and live TV cameras on the night of a labored 1-0 win over off the pitch since then, although he has been suffering Denmark at Wembley in March. Denmark coach Morten Olsen, Young talent from back pains recently. completing his post-match news conference turned back to the Manager Roy Hodgson, 66, has been careful to avoid talking up Benzema went through a scoring drought but mass of reporters as he left the auditorium and shouted: “Good England’s prospects too much. It is not that he has been getting Deschamps kept the faith, which was eventually repaid luck in the World Cup - you need it!” As well as producing howls his excuses in early - he has just been wary about raising unrealis- when the Real Madrid striker finally hit his stride in the of spontaneous laughter, it crystallized in nine words what most tic hopes. On the one hand, he has a squad full of exciting young blue jersey. The 26-year-old, who has brushed aside the people think about England’s return to the land of their greatest talents such as Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling, Arsenal pair Alex soccer humiliation - it is doomed to failure. Even the chairman of Oxlade-Chamberlain and the injury-prone Jack Wilshere as well as claims of Olivier Giroud to become the first-choice striker, the Football Association Greg Dyke does not appear to think promising Southampton duo Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw. He has netted four times in his last five appearances. France’s much of their chances. can also call on seasoned veterans like captain Steven Gerrard, rejuvenation has come at the expense of promising play- At the draw for the finals in December, when England were Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney. But, he warned: “We are in a ers like Hatem Ben Arfa and Nasri, the latter possibly pay- grouped with four-times champions Italy, twice winners Uruguay tough group with two former world champions who are rated as ing for his reputation as a troublemaker. The team are and stubborn Central American middleweights Costa Rica, Dyke highly as we are, so it’s like having three seeds in the group. “But it already preparing for Euro 2016, which will be played in was caught on camera grimacing and making a throat-slitting is an interesting group and I think we are helped by the realisation France. Young players such as centre-back Raphael gesture. He later back-tracked, brushing it off as a joke, but there from everyone that is not an easy group. “That, I think, is an advan- Varane and Pogba are showing with Real Madrid and are, nonetheless, real fears about 1966 world champions England tage. People at home know their World Cup history, they know Juventus they have what it takes to drive the side for- failing to make it out of the group stage, which has only hap- that European teams have never succeeded in South America. ward.— Reuters pened twice before, in 1950 and 1958. For once the hyperbole They know there are 32 highly motivated teams out there and that that normally surrounds England’s chances ahead of major tour- means there really are no easy games.”—Reuters

Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014 Mickelson out to put end to US Open jinx

PINEHURST: Reigning British Open champion Phil Mickelson hopes to complete a career golfing grand slam at the US Open, an event where he has settled for second a record six times. Mickelson, who turns 44 on the day after the final round of next week’s major show- down at Pinehurst, has endured agonizing near misses and even dubbed himself an idiot after one epic stumble. But the American left-hander figures he has more chances to win the only major that has eluded him even if he fails this time around. “Some people view it as though he’s come close and he’s never done it,” said Mickelson. “I see it as though I’ve finished second six times, I played some of my best golf in this event and that I should have an opportunity, and more than one opportunity, to close one out in the future.” Mickelson captured Masters titles in 2004, 2006 and 2010 as well as the 2005 PGA Championship and last year’s British Open at Muirfield. He shared second at last year’s US Open behind England’s Justin Rose at Merion and was second for the first time at a US Open in 1999 at Pinehurst. That’s when he was beaten by the late Payne Stewart on the day before Mickelson’s daughter Amanda was born, “Lefty” having had his caddie carry a beeper in case wife Amy went into labor while he was playing so he could depart. Mickelson also finished second at US Opens in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009. It’s a his- tory of defeat that has made him hunger for the US Open crown like MEMPHIS: Ben Crane chips from the bunker onto the fourth green during the first round of the FedEx St Jude Classic at no other title and he is not shy about admitting the fact. the TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. — AFP “If you try to deny it and try to act like it doesn’t hurt and that it’s no big deal, well, you’re just lying to yourself,” Mickelson said. “It’s easier to be honest and up front about what I’m feeling and going Crane spreads wings through than it is to try and deny it, which is why, when I lose, I talk about how tough it is. Because it is. It’s challenging. “It was the biggest defeat. I had such a down moment after losing at Merion. It’s to lead in Memphis easier, rather than trying to put on a front or trying to deny what’s playing out in my head, just to be honest. “It stung (last year) and you just do what you have to to get over it. And it took me a few MEMPHIS: American Ben Crane defied recent poor form to post a web.com tour, was another surprise packet given he has missed the days.” bogey-free seven-under 63 and surge to a two-shot lead in a weather- cut on eight of his 11 appearances on tour this year. His 65 equaled affected first round of the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis on his career low on tour and was his first round in the 60s since early ‘It would mean a lot’ Thursday. Crane, a four-time winner on the US tour but without a title March in Puerto Rico. “There have been some negative thoughts Mickelson says golfers who have completed the career slam-Jack since 2011, sits alone as the clubhouse leader after darkness halted bouncing around in my head for most of the year but in the last cou- Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Gary Player-are play with 60 players still to complete their rounds due to an earlier ple of weeks I’ve kind of gotten it turned around,” said the Tennessee on a higher plateau than those who have not and that has an emo- storm delay. Fellow Americans Peter Malnati (65) and Billy Horschel, resident, who sits 172nd on the FedEx Cup points list. “I expected to tional impact upon him as he plays. “What I’m feeling is that there’s five-under through 16 holes, shared second at five-under. come out and play well so it was great. I am really trying hard to really such a difference in the way I view the few major champions that Major winners Retief Goosen (66) and Zach Johnson (15 holes) think about just playing golf and having fun. have won all four-the guys that have won all four, I view in a different were joined by Joe Durant (66), Jason Bohn (14 holes) and Australian Mickelson, who will attempt to complete the career grand slam regard,” Mickelson said. Stuart Appleby (17 holes) in a tie for fourth at four-under. Phil in the U.S. Open next week was treading water at one-over through “I’m fortunate and I’m honored to be part of that long list of great Mickelson, a runner-up last year, started his tune-up for the U.S. Open 11 holes before making birdies on four of his last seven to push players that have won three of the four. That’s great. But it would with a solid 67, leaving him in a tie for ninth. Playing the back nine of right into the mix. Given his focus was finishing off rounds after let- mean a lot to me. “I would look at myself, I would look at my career, TPC Southwind first, Crane started modestly with birdies on the 11th ting them slip in previous tournaments the 43-year-old was pretty in a whole different light if I were able to get that fourth one.” and 16th holes before making his move at the turn. Three birdies on pleased. “This was what I was hoping for and what I was really hop- Mickelson also will have the distraction of being the subject of an FBI the trot to start the front side and two to finish sent the 38-year-old to ing to work on this week,” Mickelson told reporters. “I had a nice investigation into insider stock trading that also involves investor the top of the pile, unfamiliar ground for Crane in recent times. Since a solid round going, not too many birdies, not too many bogeys but Carl Icahn and gambler Billy Walters. “I have done absolutely nothing tie for ninth at the Humana Challenge in January, Crane hasn’t fin- to finish off birdie-ing three of the last four makes it a great round wrong,” Mickelson said. “That’s why I’m fully cooperating with the ished better than a tie for 32nd and missed five of his last seven cuts and it is exactly what I need to do.” Defending champion Harris FBI agents and will continue to do so. “As a player you have to be leading in. Malnati, a 26-year-old rookie coming off the secondary English struggled to a 73.— Reuters able to block out whatever is going on off the golf course.”— AFP Wie, Park shoot 65 to share LPGA lead

WATERLOO: Michelle Wie matched her low round birdies at the par-5 18th and par-4 first, added of the year with a six-under par 65 Thursday to another at the third hole and matched Wie’s grab a share of the lead at the $1.5 million LPGA birdies as six and seven as well. “I just kept think- Manulife Financial Classic. Wie, ranked 10th in the ing positive, keep it simple,” Park said. “And then I world, and defending champion Park Hee-Young didn’t really expect to play well because between of South Korea finished 18 holes one stroke ahead this year and last year it was a pretty different con- of China’s Feng Shanshan with American Cristie dition. I just kept it simple and didn’t care about Kerr and China’s Lin Xi Yu another stroke adrift. other players playing well or not, just one by one Making her 12th start of the season, Wie sizzled shot play.” Park finished 26-under par last year but early with birdies at the par-3 third, par-5 sixth and was not targeting such a low total this time par-4 seventh. around. She closed the front nine with a bogey but “I was just happy today I played pretty good,” answered with a birdie at 11 and closed with Park said. “Six-under par is a pretty good position. birdies on three of the last four holes, the final one Still three more rounds left, so going to keep from 12 feet after reaching 15 of 18 greens in regu- patient and do the same thing.” Feng fired a lation in windy conditions. “I was consistent,” Wie birdie-free round as well, running off three birdies said. “And I felt like I judged the wind pretty well.” in a row at the par-5 fifth and sixth and seven, Wie won her third LPGA career title in April in another birdie at 14 and she closed with a birdie to Hawaii, while Park captured her second LPGA vic- stand one off the lead. Seven-time LPGA winner tory last year here at Grey Silo, defeating Angela Choi Na-Yeon of South Korea is among 12 players WATERLOO: Michele Wie misses up her birdie putt attempt on the 12th hole during the first Stanford in a playoff. on 68 while world number one Stacy Lewis and round of the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic at the Grey Silo Golf Course on June 5, 2014 in Park began a bogey-free stroll on the 10th tee South Korean Park In-Bee, the dethroned former Des Moines, Iowa. — AFP and birdied the 11th, then had back-to-back number one, were in a pack on 69.— AFP Sports SATURDAY, JUNE 7 , 2014

Sharapova, Halep set for guts, guile battle

PARIS: One has nothing to lose, the other is expected to shoulder injury and has been pushed to three sets in each in the third round of the French Open in 2010 against win today. Even though Romania’s Simona Halep is the of her last three matches in Paris. “I’m very proud, because I Justine Henin. higher seed, at four, Maria Sharapova is the household worked hard to get myself injury free, and I had to work She is 3-0 up in the head-to-head over the Romanian, name, the face on the billboards and is playing in her third through some tough losses in the beginning of the season including recovering from a woeful start last month to successive French Open final. Halep has not dropped a set that I didn’t want to accept,” the 27-year-old told reporters overwhelm rising talent Halep 1-6 6-2 6-3 in the Madrid on the way to challenging for the Suzanne Lenglen Cup, after beating up-and coming-Canadian Eugenie Bouchard Open final and claim her 31st career title. But Halep, who and the 1,650,000 euro ($2.25 million) cheque, having nev- in the last four. will rise to number three in the world when the new rank- er gone further than the quarter-finals of a grand slam “I worked through them, I worked hard, and I’m in this ings are released on Monday, has proven over the rounds before. “I have nothing to lose. I will keep this in my mind position giving myself a chance.” Of course, saying she has in Paris that she can adapt to the challenges with an array always. I will try to hit very relaxed,” the 22-year-old told a chance is just modesty. Having shaken off her own of shots, not just her prowling baseline style. She has reporters after beating Germany’s Andrea Petkovic in the description of herself as a “cow on ice” unable to master already spoken about having several match plans to get semis. “I know that it will be very tough to manage the the balance and timing needed to slide for points on the this far. She may well need them if she is to emulate her emotions, but I will try my best at that moment.” red dirt, the Russian has an 18-1 win-loss record on the sur- adviser and compatriot Virginia Ruzici who won the title in Sharapova has four grand slam titles, including the face this year. She has long shown her fighting spirit ahead 1978. “I don’t know how I have to play to beat Maria,” 2012 French crown, and has been number one in the of what may be a battle of guts against guile with Halep. Halep said. “But I have to take that revenge. I will fight for world, yet she missed the second half of last season with a The last time she lost in three sets on the slow surface was this one.” — Reuters

Genocide survivors, stateless compete in non-FIFA WCup

OESTERSUND: Despite yet another crushing defeat, Darfur United’s goalkeeper is still upbeat about playing in an international soccer tournament near the snow-peaked foothills of northern Sweden. A week ahead of the glitz and glamour of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, 12 teams from four continents were competing in Oestersund in one of the world’s largest tournaments for stateless people, regions seek- ing autonomy and other non-FIFA affiliated teams. “Football helps us ... we get to tell people about the situation in our camps. Otherwise nobody hears about us,” Ismail Gamaradin tells AFP after his team lost 19-0 to stronger, better trained players from the breakaway Georgian republic of South Ossetia in the first round of CONIFA World Cup matches. The day before they lost 20-0 to Padania, a team representing the autonomous aspirations of Northern Italy. Gamaradin was just 11 when Janjaweed militia gunned down his father in front of him, forc- ing him to flee with his mother and seven younger siblings to refugee camps three-days-walk away. “It’s very difficult there now-there’s not enough food, medicine or education and the UN says we have to go back to Darfur next year,” added the soft-spoken 23-year old. “But there is still killing and raping everywhere. We don’t think there’ll be peace any time soon.”

Pick up a football or a gun His team consists of survivors of a conflict that began in 2003 and OESTERSUND: South Ossetia’s Elbaev Artur (center) jumps to score a goal during the CONIFA (Confederation of has killed hundreds of thousands according to some estimates. They Independent Football) World Football Cup 2014 match Darfur United vs South Ossetia in Oestersund, Sweden. — AFP came to Sweden with the help of an aid group working in camps on the Chad-Sudan border that house more than 300,000 people. California-based group i-ACT brought footballs to the camps in 2005 to help rebuild the shattered lives of the refugees. And football has High flyer Roland Garros become a way to tell the world about a forgotten crisis overshad- owed by other refugee emergencies such as Syria and South Sudan. “Conditions are getting worse and worse, there is less and less aid honored at French Open ... We need to get Darfur on the map again,” said i-ACT founder Gabriel Stauring, who lobbied hard to get the team to Sweden, amid warnings that Chad would stop the NGO-run football training in the PARIS: His name is better known in connection with the exploits of became a notorious flyer even before the war.In his memoirs, he camps if the refugees overstayed their visas. Football is one of the few Rafael Nadal and Bjorn Borg, but Roland Garros excelled in a world wrote that he “believed in his vocation from the earliest age” and things these men have left, said Stauring, adding that militias visit thousands of feet above the clay-covered courts of Paris which bear while he never achieved his dream of flying with his body as his “sole their camps to lure the most desperate back to Darfur to fight in the his name. There will be no shortage of militaristic language used to resource,” Garros overcame pneumonia at the age of 11 to achieve escalating conflict. “If these guys don’t pick up a football, they’re accompany this weekend’s French Open finals, but battle was no the levels of fame which resulted in the modern day complex in Paris gonna pick up a gun,” he said. metaphor for Garros, an expert aviator who has become famous for bearing his name. Prior to his wartime exploits, when he was credited Darfur United was up against other teams with large refugee dias- his bravery. with downing four enemy planes, Garros gained a fierce reputation. pora including Kurds, Aramean-Syriacs, and Tamils. They all He even fought for his country in World War I, before he lost his “He is the unrivaled king of the air, the Champion of Champions, expressed the same goal: using football to put their people on the own battle with death a day short of his 30th birthday. Yet, for most who honors French aviation,” one 1912 report claimed. A year later, map. “I feel really honored to wear the jersey of Tamil Eelam,” said outside of France, the details of Garros’s life are largely unknown, a he outdid himself, recording probably his greatest peacetime Umaesh Sundaralingam, a 21-year-old student from Toronto, Canada. fact which drove the French Tennis Federation (FFT)to open an exhi- achievement when he became the first man to fly across the Tamil Tiger rebels fought to control this part of northern Sri Lanka in a bition detailing his life, alongside which sits a special exhibition to Mediterranean Sea. Not content with just flying, however, the pilot war with government forces that killed at least 100,000 — ending in mark the centenary anniversary of World War I. In the idyllic setting of turned his hand to engineering during the war and was responsible the alleged massacre of 40,000 Tamil civilians before the government the “Musee de la FFT” at Roland Garros stadium in the leafy western for developing a revolutionary way of firing his machine gun through claimed victory in 2009. outskirts of Paris, “Front Lines: Tennis in 1914-18” tells the story of 12 a plane’s propeller arc. Nevertheless, not even all his expertise could An international Tamil youth organization selected players from tennis champions, whose lives, like Garros’, became entwined with prevent the clogged fuel line which forced his crash landing behind Canada, France, Germany and the UK-some of them professional the Great War. enemy lines and subsequent imprisonment in April 1915. players-many of whom met for the first time just ahead of the tourna- As well as wanting to mark a century since the war began, the Three years later, having rediscovered his love of sport and music, ment. “The one thing that connected everyone was that we all have FFT’s museum curator Michael Guittard, said it was important that Garros eventually escaped, returning to Paris where he was awarded roots in Tamil Eelam-a lot of people don’t know what went on in Sri people knew the true story of Roland Garros. “For many people, the Legion d’Honneur. After returning to action, the crash which Lanka and we want to publicize it,” said Sundaralingam, at the stadi- Roland Garros is a tournament, it’s a stadium, some people think he eventually defeated him just a few weeks before the end of the war um which was dotted with bright red Tamil flags bearing the sepa- was a tennis champion, even the president of the FFT!”We want peo- remains an unsolved mystery. At the time, it failed to make headlines, ratist group’s tiger emblem. “And this is one way to show we’re a ple to know who Roland Garros is because he is, quite simply, a hero.” but appreciation of his genius has grown in the century since his nation and that we’re stronger than ever.”—AFP Born on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion in 1888, Garros death.—AFP Spurs beat Heat in steamy conditions SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 SATURDAY, SportsSports 43

PARIS: General view taken yesterday in Paris shows Great Britain’s Andy Murray playing against Spain’s Rafael Nadal (inset left) during their French tennis Open semi-final match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris . (Inset right) Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts after a point during his French tennis Open semi-final match against Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis yesterday. — AFP Djokovic and Nadal face off Nadal crushes Murray, books French Open final

PARIS: The world’s top two players, Rafael Nadal and Novak years of coming here and to be back in the final for the ninth time hope, and it became an even steeper mountain to climb for him Djokovic, will contest tomorrow’s French Open final following the - it’s something I never believed would happen in my life. when he dropped serve for the third time to put Nadal 5-2 up. Spaniard’s 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 centre court demolition of Andy Murray “He (Djokovic) is an unbelievable opponent. He is always a big The Majorcan duly pocketed the set by serving out to love and yesterday. Earlier Djokovic had won through his semi-final with a challenge and I need to play at my very best. He beat me the last such was the one-sided nature of the contest that there was no 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Ernests Gulbis Of Latvia. Top seed and few times we played.” Nadal was aware that the last time he sign of Murray’s habitual angry outbursts aimed at getting him- eight-time winner Nadal now stands just one win away from played Murray-on clay in Rome last month-the Scot won the first self going. becoming the first man to take the French Open title five times in set 6-1, before losing in three. This time it was a very different sce- The outcome looked a formality and when Nadal broke the a row, surpassing Bjorn Borg. He also is on the cusp of a 14th nario as the Spaniard, who turned 28 on Tuesday, hit the deck Murray serve for the fourth time to lead 2-1 in the third the end Grand Slam title, which would put him level at second best on the running, winning the first three games in just 10 minutes and for was in sight for the 27-year-old Scot. It came 18 minutes later all-time list with Pete Sampras and three behind Roger Federer. the loss of just three points. Murray finally opened his account, when a dispirited Murray lost serve for the fifth and final time. The Murray failed in his bid to become the first British player to but the one break of serve was enough for Nadal to take the first win brought Nadal’s formidable record on the claycourts at contest the French Open final since Bunny Austin 77 years ago set 6-3. Roland Garros, since making his debut in 2005, to 65 wins against and will now turn his attention to defending his Wimbledon It was another storming start to the second set from Nadal the one loss, conceded to Robin Soderling of Sweden in a fourth crown. It was his worst loss to Nadal in nine Grand Slam match- who bludgeoned two big forehand winners past Murray to set up round tie in 2009. And it meant that he has now won 20 of the 23 ups between the two, surpassing the nine games he managed in breakpoint which he took when the seventh seed weakly hit a Grand Slam semi-finals he has contested in his career, the last the 2008 Wimbledon quarter-finals. “I think that today I played high forehand wide. Murray was failing to make any impression time he lost in the last four being against Juan Martin del Potro at my best tennis at Roland Garros this year,” said Nadal. “After 10 on the Nadal serve with not a single break point offering him any the 2009 US Open. — AFP