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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SHAABAN 9, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir urges Turkey could Airbus leads Nigeria thrash citizens to deploy army Boeing in Tahiti in ‘positively to quell battle of giants Confed Cup contribute’2 protests at air show Liberal8 National21 Alliance20 Max 44º to take part in elections Min 31º High Tide 06:29 & 18:38 Two police officers sentenced to death over torture Low Tide 12:59 40 PAGES NO: 15843 150 FILS By B Izzak Movement insisted in a statement that the “out of respect for court rulings”. constitutional court rulings will not resolve the The alliance insisted that it will take part in KUWAIT: The National Democratic Alliance chronic political crisis in the country which can the coming elections, expected to be held (NDA), the main umbrella of liberal groups, be solved only through true democratic within two months, and that it will work within said yesterday it has decided to accept the rul- reforms. the Assembly to introduce a series of reforms ing of the constitutional court in confirming The constitutional court on Sunday con- including legalizing political parties, a new the controversial electoral law amendment firmed that the amendment to the electoral electoral system, the independence of judici- and announced it will take part in the next law introduced by HH the Amir last October is ary and preparing the ground to reach a full election. The announcement comes just one in line with the constitution. But the court can- parliamentary system. The NDA, which had day after the main opposition alliance com- celled the December election process, scrap- around six MPs in the 50-seat Assembly in the prising Islamist, nationalist and other liberal ping the National Assembly and ordering fresh 2009 house, had boycotted the December groups and activists, said it has decided to elections. The NDA said in a statement that it election along with other opposition groups in boycott any future elections based on the sin- has decided to accept the constitutional court protest against the electoral law amendment. gle-vote amendment. The leftist Progressive verdict although it was against its ambitions Continued on Page 15 Rebels get Saudi missiles

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, a staunch opponent of President Bashar Al-Assad since early in Syria’s conflict, began sup- plying anti-aircraft missiles to rebels “on a small scale” Ali vows to rid about two months ago, a Gulf source said yesterday. The shoulder-fired weapons were obtained mostly from sup- pliers in France and Belgium, the source told Reuters. traffic ‘disease’ France had paid for the transport of the weapons to the region. The supplies were intended for General Salim Idriss, leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Assistant Syrian Army (FSA), who was still the kingdom’s main Undersecretary Maj Gen Abdulfattah “point man” in the opposition, the source said. Al-Ali stressed that all traffic violation- The Gulf source said without elaborating that the related deportations are in accordance kingdom had begun taking a more active role in the with the law. Speaking at a press con- Syrian conflict in recent weeks due to the intensification ference at the Kuwait Journalists of the conflict. A foreign ministry spokesman was not Association (KJA) headquarters, Ali said immediately available for comment. King Abdullah that deporting people for traffic viola- returned to Saudi Arabia on Friday after cutting short a tions was also adopted by the US and holiday in Morocco to deal with what state media other countries worldwide. “The prob- described as “repercussions of the events that the region lem is that we were very tolerant with is currently witnessing”. violators and this does not mean that Diplomatic sources in the kingdom say Riyadh has law violation is a right for motorists,” he grown increasingly concerned after the entry of underlined, urging all human rights Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah into the conflict and organizations who have criticized the subsequent rebel defeat in Qusair. Speaking to Kuwait’s traffic police to examine Reuters on Friday, Idriss urged Western allies to supply human rights in their respective coun- anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles and to create a no-fly tries before talking about Kuwait. zone, saying if properly armed he could defeat Assad’s “We have filed over 70,000 traffic army within six months. Idriss said his forces urgently citations including 43,000 serious ones needed heavier weapons in the northern city of Aleppo, such as running red lights, driving where Assad’s government has said its troops are under the influence of alcohol, driving Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali preparing a massive assault. on the wrong side and many others,” he have various problems... including the Syria’s civil war grew out of protests that swept across elaborated, pointing out that those fact that motorists speak many lan- the Arab world in 2011, becoming by far the deadliest of already deported did not want to guages and dialects which requires a those uprisings and the most difficult to resolve. Just respect the traffic laws they had repeat- large number of specialists to develop months ago, Western countries believed Assad’s days edly violated. their traffic awareness,” he explained, were numbered. But momentum on the battlefield has Ali added that the results of studies noting that the traffic remedy strategy turned in his favour, making the prospect of his swift of traffic problems revealed many and started by diagnosing the “disease” by LAS VEGAS: Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady poses onstage after winning the removal and an end to the bloodshed appear remote that once one problem was solved, studying random “specimens” at 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on without outside intervention. another emerged immediately. “We Continued on Page 15 Sunday. — AFP (See Page 39) Continued on Page 15 West rebukes Putin on Syria

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland: bring Assad to the negotiating table to Western leaders rebuked Russian end a conflict in which at least 93,000 President Vladimir Putin for supporting people have been killed. British Prime Four more die Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad’s attempt to crush Minister David Cameron, who is chairing a two-year-old uprising, setting the stage the G8 summit in a remote golf resort in of MERS virus for a tense G8 summit of the world’s Northern Ireland, conceded there was “a most powerful nations. US President big difference” between the positions of RIYADH: Four people have died from the MERS virus in Barack Obama is expected to use his first Russia and the West on how to resolve Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like face-to-face meeting with Putin in a year the war. virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry said on its to try to persuade the Kremlin chief to Continued on Page 15 website yesterday. Two people died in the western city of Taif and the other two were pronounced dead in Eastern Province, where most cases have been registered, said the ministry. The ministry announced three more confirmed cases of people in Saudi Arabia infected with the virus, which the World Health Organisation has dubbed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS. TEHRAN: Newly-elected Iranian President Hassan Rowhani places his hand on his One case of infection was in Eastern Province and heart as a sign of respect after speaking at a press conference yesterday. — AP another in the capital Riyadh, while the third was of a two- year-old boy in the western city of Jeddah who was suffer- ing from a “chronic” lung problem. The other two cases are Rowhani firm on nuclear of a 63-year-old woman suffering from several chronic dis- eases and a 42-year-old man with chronic asthma, it said. rights, vows moderation The ministry said the total number of MERS infections in the kingdom now stood at 49, including the 32 fatalities. TEHRAN: Iran’s newly-elected president But he said he would seek to thaw rela- The World Health Organisation announced Friday that Hassan Rowhani ruled out yesterday any tions with the key Gulf Arab backers of the the global death toll from MERS had reached 33, with 28 halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn rebels fighting to oust Assad’s regime for of them in the kingdom. It had said 58 laboratory-con- UN sanctions but said he hoped an early more than two years. Rowhani, who led firmed cases were announced worldwide, the majority of deal could be reached to allay the con- the nuclear negotiating team under them in Saudi Arabia. The virus is a member of the coron- cerns of major powers. The moderate cler- reformist former president Mohammad avirus family, which includes the pathogen that causes ic, who won outright victory in Friday’s Khatami from 2003-5, said there could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS sparked presidential election on the hopes of mil- no return to the moratorium on uranium global panic in 2003 after it jumped to humans from ani- lions for an end to the economic hardship enrichment that Iran accepted at the time. mals in Asia and killed 800 people. caused by Western sanctions, pledged “This period is over,” he said. When Like SARS, MERS appears to cause a lung infection, greater transparency in the long-running Rowhani stepped down, outgoing with patients suffering from a temperature, cough and talks. Rowhani, addressing his first press President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad breathing trouble. But it differs in that it also causes rapid conference since winning the vote, said resumed uranium enrichment, triggering kidney failure. Scientists at the Erasmus medical centre in there would be no change in Iran’s long- successive UN Security Council ultima- ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland: Demonstrators from the ‘IF campaign’ wearing the Dutch city of Rotterdam have pointed to bats as a nat- standing alliance with Syrian President tums to suspend it, some of them backed masks depicting G8 leaders protest against tax avoidance during the G8 summit ural source for the virus. — AFP Bashar Al-Assad that has been the source up with sanctions. yesterday. — AFP of additional Western concern. Continued on Page 15 TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 LOCAL Turkey is perfectly ‘safe’, envoy says By Ben Garcia “This is all new for our media and the media around the world and it seems KUWAIT: Turkey is a perfectly safe country therefore as if we have a crisis in the coun- and there is no reason for anyone to be try. It leads to headlines,” he added. alarmed, the Turkish envoy has said. Protesters, according to Tamer, were small Speaking at a press conference yesterday at groups of people and it would never affect their embassy in Dasma, Murat Tamer, the safety and security of the tourists. Ambassador of Turkey to Kuwait, said the “Business was as usual and everything in protest which has been going on for days Turkey is now normal. We have normal five now in Istanbul is nothing but a demon- times a week flight to Turkey from Kuwait stration calling for government’s interven- and we are perfectly alright and safe. We tion on the issue of green park located in want to assure our visitors that Turkey is Istanbul’s suburb of Taksim. very safe,” he reiterated. Explaining why it blew into some sort of “We can say that there are some pockets a national issue, he said it was connected to of protests until now but even these are the manner in which police authorities subsiding and are already contained,” he reacted while dispersing the protesters. added, but admitted there were some “The reported excessive use of force small groups taking advantage of the situa- became a national issue,” he reasoned, tion. He called these as merely marginal adding, “But the protest is all about retain- groups who are a bunch of boys throwing ing the green park as it is and not to turn it stones and provoking clashes. into an area for shopping malls or real He also confirmed there were a small estate properties. It is the only green area numbers of protesters asking their presi- in that part of Taksim, so it became a dent to step down, but said their PM has KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dances with other dignitaries at a dinner banquet national issue.” already spoken. “Our PM said the way to held in his honour by Adwan Mohammad Al-Tawala yesterday. — KUNA But he assured that the government is replace the government is through voting now handling the issue properly. “The peo- and peaceful elections. Nothing more,” he ple who used excessive force could face tri- said. Amir urges citizens to shun sedition al,” he asserted. “When the protesters use He denied rumors that it was all some- their democratic rights, the authorities also how connected to their policy against KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah feud that shatter our unity.” Amir asserted that country. He emphasized firm support for Sheikh exercise their legal right so as to protect Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad government. “The Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday called on Kuwait was a genuine democracy with “an Sabah in his leadership of the country and the the civilians and the state. When both sides protest currently on is mainly about the fellow citizens to “positively contribute” their advanced constitution we are committed to, safeguarding of “our country, constitution and claim their rights, it usually results in clash- green park in Taksim, and was never about best in a drive to safeguard “our national unity” which preserves the rights and obligations and national unity.” es,” he explained. “But both are exercising anything else or about our stand against and reject sedition. “I call upon my brothers, protects freedom.” Al-Tawala praised the judiciary and the con- their legal rights. That is one good thing the Bashar Al-Assad government. There is sons and daughters to positively contribute to Sheikh Sabah also praised the “just” judiciary stitutional court’s ruling which validated the about any vibrant democracy,” he pointed no truth that there is any direct interven- the best of their country, taking into considera- and “clear laws which require “which should be one-person, one-vote law. He said the court’s out. tion of foreign countries, and we would like tion the critical circumstances in the region respected and implemented by everybody. ruling “boost the confidence in the solid nature Tamer mentioned that government has to categorically state that,” he concluded. which you undoubtedly realize their threats,” Sheikh Sabah also highlighted that Kuwait was of the institutions of the State of Kuwait and its already spoken to its national leaders about On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah said in a speech during a dinner safe, free and prosperous “and they are great judicial system.” He said Al-Shammari tribe the issue and that both sides agreed that Recept Tayyid Erdogan told a crowd of held in his honor by Adwan Mohammad Al- blessings to which we should be grateful and sought social justice, equality and implementa- the only way to resolve the problem was to more than 100,000 supporters, that it was Tawala. The dinner banquet was attended by seek to preserve.” Ahmad Mashaan Al-Jarba tion of the law. Al-Tawala, who praised His organize a plebiscite. “Both agreed to hold his duty to order crackdown on Istanbul His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- thanked, in a brief taped speech, the Amir and Highness the Amir’s relation with his people, a plebiscite although no date has been set protest park, as police and anti-govern- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah urged His Highness the Crown Prince for attending the urged Sheikh Sabah to address the problem of for the plebiscite.” He elaborated further ment demonstrators faced off in a fresh citizens to be “cautious and ... preserve our dinner banquet. Al-Tawala commended His the illegal residents “whose cause are largely that during the past seven years, Turkey clash. The crisis began when a peaceful sit- national security, protect and strengthen our Highness the Amir for being the true guardian of humanitarian, as well as solving the housing only figured in the news for all the right in to save Gezi’s Park’s 600 trees from being national unity, and not to arouse sedition and the constitution throughout his service of the problem. — KUNA reasons and news such as those about razed prompted a brutal police response protests was something new for the coun- spiraling the into countrywide demonstra- try and made headlines in certain newspa- tions against the leader. The crisis claims pers. four lives and 7,500 injured. Zain welcomes Sudan 3-year tax exemption

KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecom Group its national economy,” Zain Group daunting challenges facing the equipment in hard currencies, such Zain yesterday welcomed Board Chairman Asaad Al-Banwan mobile operators. “We have felt as dollars or the Euro, so the Sudanese government’s decision said in a press statement yesterday. during our visit a clear understand- pound’s plunge has upped expen- to scrap a 30 percent profit tax on Sudan announced Sunday the ing from President Al-Bashir and diture at a time when average rev- telecom operators for three years, cancellation of a 30 percent profit his government to help remove all enue per user (ARPU) - a key indus- replacing it with a 2.5 percent levy tax on telecom operators until the hindrances and challenges facing try metric - is in retreat. Zain is the on total net profit. “We greatly end of 2015, replacing it with a 2.5 Kuwaiti investments in Sudan,” Al- market leader with a 52 percent appreciate the Sudanese govern- percent levy on total income in a Banwan said. Sudan’s three mobile share of Sudan’s mobile sub- ment and president’s tax exemp- move that should help a sector operators - Zain Sudan, a 100 per- scribers, according to its first-quar- tion decision which will help boost hurt by the plunging value of the cent-owned subsidiary of Kuwait’s ter results, while South Africa’s Zain investments and to fulfill its Sudanese pound. The decision Zain, state-owned Sudani and MTN and state-owned Sudani each commitments towards Sudan and reverses a government tax increase South Africa’s MTN - typically buy had 24 percent.— KUNA in December 2011, which raised sales taxes on telecom companies to 30 percent from 20 percent and a profit tax to 30 per cent from 15 KUWAIT: Murat Tamer, addresses the local media yesterday with a female per cent. interpreter. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Zain Sudan Deputy Board Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi under- lined that the decision shows the government understanding of the challenges facing telecommunica- tion sector. “It also shows that the Sudanese government encourage and back investors,” Al-Kharafi said, adding that is encouraged to continue the devel- opment of its operations in Sudan. The statement unveiled that a sen- ior delegation from Zain Group had recently visited Sudan and dis- cussed with the Sudanese Bader Al Kharafi President Omar Al-Bashir the Assad Al-Banwan

KUWAIT: Local reporters attend the press conference at the Turkish embassy. Kuwait to execute ‘Hawally Monster’

KUWAIT: Kuwait is set to execute two per- murder cases committed by two Sri Lankan sons today, including a man convicted for and one Pakistani death row inmates, after raping a multiple number of children in which a decision was made to postpone incidents reported in the Hawally district their execution,” security sources told Al-Rai seven years ago. Earlier reports had sug- while speaking on the condition of gested that five murder and rape convicts anonymity. In addition to the Egyptian were to be handed the death penalty child rapist whose wave of crimes earned today, but Al-Rai newspaper reported yes- him the ‘Hawally Monster’ moniker, authori- terday that the decision to execute three ties are set to execute another Egyptian offenders was put on hold after “disclaimers man who was convicted of murder. He and were discovered.” three other Asian death row inmates com- “An official in the Interior Ministry’s jails mitted their crimes between 2008 and department discovered disclaimers in the 2009.— Al-Rai Al-Sawwagh urges Kuwaitis to ‘honor the court verdict’ KUWAIT: Political activist Mohammad Al- Sawwagh has urged citizens to honor the Constitutional Court’s ruling, insisting in a state- ment to the press that the verdict came “to con- KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary Ministry of Interior Lt General Sheikh Faisal Nawaf Al-Sabah chaired a meeting yesterday at the firm the fact that my decision to contest in the elections under the single-vote system was cor- Administration of Domestic Labors in the presence of General Director of Immigration Brig Adnan Al-Kandari and Director of rect”. Meanwhile, Al-Sawwagh held the govern- Domestic Labors Administration Colonel Iskandar Al-Kandari and a number of head departments. ment’s legal advisors responsible for “wrong pro- cedures” based on which the court dissolved the parliament, and urged the Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to “take nec- essary action” on that regard. In the meantime, Al-Sawwagh reiterated commitment to his ‘duty’ to keep “honoring the testament” that his voters have put in him, and vowed to continue being “loyal to members of the fifth constituency”. “I will continue consulta- tions and communications for what serves Kuwait’s top interest, and hereby I reiterate the importance of honoring the Constitutional Court’s ruling and the law to thwart plots Mohammed Al-Sawwagh against Kuwait”, he added. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 LOCAL Municipal Council elections in doubt after court ruling KUWAIT: The Constitutional Court verdict of the now disbanded National Elections which ruled that an emergency decree to Committee Ahmad Al-Ujail said that a new establish the National Elections Committee decree would be required for Municipal was unconstitutional has led to uncertainty Council polls. He further told Al-Jarida about the Municipal Council elections newspaper that the Ministry of Interior was which were set to be held on July 6. In this the party that was required to examine the regard, a legal expert told Al-Qabas news- files of candidates who would have to sub- paper on Sunday that annulling the mit their applications once again, after a National Elections Committee as a result of new nomination period is announced. the court verdict also meant that the elec- Al-Rai newspaper in the meantime tions were now on hold “because the letter requested constitutional expert Dr. calling candidates to submit their papers Mohammad Al-Feeli for a comment, and he was issued by the committee.” indicated that the decree calling for the To address this situation, the govern- Municipal Council elections was made “as ment can either postpone the elections per specific procedures” but was not issued while forming a committee to run the by the National Elections Committee. He affairs of the Municipal Council, or it can added that as per the law followed by the decide to open doors for nominations Kuwait Municipality, the Ministry of Interior again, said the source who preferred to was still required to supervise the remain anonymous. Meanwhile, president Municipal Council elections.—Agencies Corona virus alert

KUWAIT: Even as the Supreme Technical cautionary steps to be taken in this respect. Committee tasked with addressing the The WHO said the report it received “Corona Virus” related incidents met recent- from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received the President of State Audit Bureau, Abdulaziz ly, the World Health Organization, in its lat- about the 21-year-old patient was from the Yousef Al-Adsani at Bayan Palace. — KUNA est report on June 14 said it received HAFRALBATEN governorate and the patient reports about a case from Saudi Arabia in was one among three new cases detected. which a 21-year-old man was found infect- Kuwait health circles expected even more ed by the virus. The Supreme Technical enhanced levels of awareness and readi- Opinions vary amid turmoil Committee’s meeting was led by ness across all Kuwait hospitals, particularly Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Dr those close to the Saudi border, to deal Khalid Al-Sahlawi and will be preparing with any possible case that could require over landmark court ruling plans and training programs to educate swift action. The Ministry of Health empha- doctors, nursing staff, and other employees sized that hospitals were ready to deal with in hospitals and health centers to deal with such cases and provide diagnosis and nec- Govt advisors blamed, tribes return to polls the virus infection. It will also suggest pre- essary treatment. KUWAIT: A dissolved parliament, a return to the scene.” matters relating to emergency is reflecting the opinion of many for- decree to amend the electoral sys- In its historic ruling, the unacceptable, and that the mer MPs. And in a shift of position, tem being upheld, and a decision Constitutional Court declared a issuance of emergency decrees as Kuwaitis were called to head to the Kuwait cabinet vows to by the opposition to continue state of emergency, after which HH well as determination of a state of polls, and tribal chiefs announced protesting: While the Constitutional the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad emergency are still under the their intention to take part in the Court’s ruling did not yield any Al-Sabah exercised his right, as per court’s watch.” upcoming elections after welcom- protect national unity unexpected results, opinions varied article 71 of the constitution, to With the controversy over the ing the Constitutional Court ruling. on whether it would put an end to issue an emergency decree to single vote system’s constitutionali- Leading figures from the Shemmar, KUWAIT: The Kuwait Cabinet vowed yes- chaos,” sedition and democracy. Amir had Kuwait’s political crisis or cause amend the electoral system. The ty appearing to be over, Dr. Al-Feeli Awazem, Mutair, Harb, Hajr, Anza terday to put into effect all the instructions voiced concern over “sick sectarian” signs in more turmoil in the country. One ruling defends the single-vote sys- explained that laws passed by the and Ghanim tribes urged their given by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait the Kuwaiti community which might trig- newspaper described the ruling as tem, which replaced the one that now-dissolved parliament remain tribesmen to honor the ruling, in Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ger extremism and spark destructive dis- signaling of the end of “a chapter of entitled each voter to four votes by intact “yet are open for review if statements made to Al-Rai. in his keynote speech to the nation late cord, a matter rejected and condemned by political conflict,” and the begin- saying that it “allows the minority they were challenged in the future.” The same daily also spoke with Sunday, especially those related to main- every faithful Kuwaiti. ning of “a new stage in which bal- to be represented in the parlia- He further indicated that elections representatives of student unions taining of national unity. “We will spare no Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister ance is restored inside the Abdullah ment” and “frees voters from candi- must be held within 60 days of the who called on the public to vote in effort to put in place these instructions and briefed the Cabinet on the outcome of his Al-Salem Hall and the political dates’ pressure.” parliament’s dissolution. However, the upcoming elections. In the implement the national goals to protect recent visit to Baghdad which resulted in scene alike.” The ruling affirmed that the an exact date cannot be deter- meantime, most economists that our national unity, democratic experience signing six agreements and memorandums “First of all, the ruling eliminated decree was necessary to “serve the mined until the dissolution order is Al-Rai contacted said the ruling will and give great impetus to progress and of understanding to bolster bilateral coop- the credentials based on which the national interest” by addressing an published in Kuwait’s official leave a “positive effect” on the development march in the state,” Minister eration in different domains, mainly educa- opposition claimed that the single- issue “that risked the unity and gazette. If that happens next national economy. However, some of State for Cabinet Affairs and Minister of tion, economy, aviation, environment and vote decree was unconstitutional, social fabric of the nation.” The rul- Sunday (June 21), the elections will of them noted that economic State for Municipal Affairs Sheikh culture. The PM expressed gratitude for which effectively closed all protest ing also led to a second Amiri be held before August 23, which growth could be slowed down due Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- Iraqi government hospitality and warm channels in front of them while decree to establish the National falls right after the post-Ramadan to the latest political develop- Sabah said in a statement read out follow- reception of the Kuwaiti delegation. bringing them face-to-face with Election Committee unconstitu- “Eid Al-Fitr” holidays. ments. ing the weekly meeting of the Cabinet yes- He also noted that Iraq greatly appreci- legal verdicts that are far from tional on grounds that the state’s The general mood in the dis- The parliament’s dissolution has terday. During the meeting held at Bayan ates the positive Kuwaiti role and efforts to political games,” Al-Qabas reported interest is “much greater than that solved parliament was optimistic, raised many questions about the Palace and under the chairmanship of His end Iraq Chapter VII status and after its ful- yesterday in an analysis that depict- of a committee,” an argument with most MPs calling for “honor- fate of social affairs and labor min- Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber fillment of commitments towards Kuwait. ed that the ruling “paved the way based on which the emergency ing” the verdict, although they ister Thekra Al-Rashidi, who was the Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the The ministers welcomed the outcome of for stability.” decree was issued. accused government advisors of only elected member of the cabi- Cabinet reviewed the Amir’s speech and HH the Prime Minister’s visit to Iraq. They The daily further indicated that “The ruling is a reaffirmation of making recommendations that net. In that regard, Dr Al-Feeli said the Supreme Constitutional Council ruling also announced that Kuwait is looking for- holding elections as per the single- the Constitutional Court’s impor- spawned faulty procedures and led Al-Rashidi’s position would remain on parliament. The ministers applauded ward towards strengthening ties and vote system leads to a change in tant role in issuance of emergency to the parliament’s dissolution. “We safe until the new parliament is the Amir’s confirmation that he and the expanding cooperation with Iraq to the methods that political forces decrees,” constitutional expert and demand a decision to dismiss the elected “at which point the cabinet state will respect the top court verdict achieve the higher interests of both use to influence the public “when Kuwait University Professor Dr chairman of the Fatwa and the is required as per the constitution which annulled the current parliament, nations. The ministers also touched upon electoral coalitions are eliminated,” Mohammad Al-Feeli told Al-Qabas. Legislation Department who are to submit its resignation”. Dr Al- elected in December 2012, and ordered the the latest developments on the Arab and in addition to the changed parlia- He was also quoted by Al-Rai yes- responsible for the emergency Feeli reiterated, however, that Al- organization of new parliamentary elec- international levels. In this regard, the mentary formation “after tribal and terday as saying that the verdict decree establishing the National Rashidi would have to resign if she tions in two-month period. Cabinet congratulated the Iranian other political groups which boy- was “a message to the government Elections Committee”, now former decides to contest in the upcoming The Cabinet also highlighted the Amir’s President-elect Hassan Rohani and his elec- cotted [December’s] elections and political forces that leniency in MP Abdulhameed Dashty said, elections.—Agencies call on Kuwaitis to unite against “voices of tion victory. — KUNA

Morocco FM visits Kuwait

KUWAIT: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Morocco Dr Saad Eddin Othmani arrived in Kuwait yester- day to take part in the seventh session of the Joint Kuwaiti-Moroccan committee. A statement from Foreign Ministry said that the committee, head- ed by Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, began its preparatory work through convening numerous technical meet- ings, which included a number of representatives of the official governmen- tal organizations and rep- resentatives of the private sector in both countries in order to examine and dis- cuss all areas of coopera- tion frameworks between the two sides. The preparatory meet- ings probed completion of the final versions of the agreements and bilateral memorandums of under- standing to be signed at the conclusion of the min- isterial meeting of the Committee. Kuwait’s Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Khaled Al-Jarallah said the Committee’s agenda includes several impor- tant issues pertinent to cooperation between the two countries including cooperation in the politi- cal, economic, investment, development, media, sci- ence and cultural domains. — KUNA TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait marks World’s Day to Combat Desertification National Committee tackles desertification KUWAIT: The National Committee has suffered drought between 2007- huge efforts of the committee to on Combating Desertification, under 2012, where the total amount of rain combat desertification and reduce the Environment Public Authority recorded throughout the whole year the effects of drought in establishing yesterday celebrated the World’s Day was between 35 to 75 mm, with four natural reserves near the north- to Combat Desertification. According expectations that drought will con- ern and western borders of Kuwait. to the UN Convention to combat tinue for the upcoming seasons. The The committee added that establish- desertification and mitigate the committee said that a number of ing those reserves which stretch effects of drought in 1994, desertifi- rules should be set and followed to over 1, 630 square km in total, will cation is the degradation of land in fight drought in the country, includ- protect the various wild life areas. dry and semi-dry regions due to ing measuring and studying the The National Committee on human activity and weather quantities of rain, reducing the peri- Combating Desertification consists changes, while drought is a period of od of time allowed for camping, ban- of a number of experts representing abnormally dry weather that causes ning camping in certain drought-hit different governmental and civil serious hydrological imbalance in areas in the north western, and community organizations under the the area, due to lack of rain. north eastern parts of Kuwait. umbrella of the Environment Public The committee noted that Kuwait The statement also noted to the Authority. — KUNA Last chance to register for the Super Shop to handle Protegees powered by KIPCO racetrack construction KUWAIT: Don’t Miss your chance to Third Generation is open for all Gulf Insurance Group, United KUWAIT: The leader of Super Shop Al-Sarraf pointed out that the future financial and spiritual abilities at the dis- register for the Proteges - the men- young people aged between 16 and Networks, Kuwait Hotels Company team for car racing affirmed on Sunday of motorsports in Kuwait, particularly posal of constructing a racetrack of torship program that provides young 24. The program will start in the sec- and the American University of his willingness to handle all expenses drag racing, has become everyone’s international standards in order to prac- people with opportunities to learn ond week of August and continue for Kuwait. In Addition to platinum for construction of a private racetrack responsibility without any exception, tice drag racing sport, which attracts a life and leadership skills. Registration 4 weeks. The application deadline for sponsors Abyat, Ali Alghanim & Sons for drag racing contests in Kuwait. The asserting that it has also become an large segment of Kuwaiti youth. for the program is open until June 20 The Proteges, Generation 3 is June Automotive Company, and Al Anba major goal behind constructing the imperative on all, whether racers or rep- Furthermore, the Super Shop team for all young people aged between 20, 2013. Applications can be sub- Newspaper and the bronze sponsor, racetrack is to contribute in minimizing resentatives for Kuwaiti sports, to initi- leader expressed his confidence in the 16 and 24. The program will start in mitted online through www.thepro- IFA Consulting Services. For the lat- road accidents resulting from “negative” ate in developing radical solutions and response of founders of motorsports in the second week of August and con- teges.org Many thanks to all The est news and information about the practices of this type of motorsports by make all efforts to support Kuwaiti Kuwait, especially the Public Authority tinue for 4 weeks. Program manager Proteges sponsors including KIPCO program, follow us on Twitter: some reckless individuals, which cost sports in a way that guarantees its for Youth and Sport (PAYS), members of Shamlan Al-Bahar urges all young and their group of participating the_proteges and Instagram:The the country losses of lives, specifically development and continuation. the Board of Directors of Kuwait Motor people to register as soon as they companies: Burgan Bank, KAMCO, Proteges. the youth segment, team leader Jaber In addition, he called on all to coop- Sports Club, and members of the Board can. United Real Estate, Qurain Founded in 2010, The Proteges is Al-Sarraf told Kuwait News Agency erate in supporting motorsports in of Directors of the Kuwait Quarter Mile He commented, “We are provid- Petrochemical Industries Company, a program designed to positively (KUNA). Kuwait, affirming that he is putting his Club. — KUNA ing Kuwait’s future generations with infuence the youth of Kuwait, the life and leadership skills they through an inclusive program that need to help society and lead our combines travel, lectures, group country. We look for gifted young activities, challenges, games and fun. people and give them an opportuni- Guided by a team of mentors, the ty to shine like the stars we hope Proteges are encouraged to discover they will become. This is truly an their passions and given the tools to experience that will change your life help them excel in their future forever. It is an opportunity that careers and contribute positively to should not be missed,” Al Bahar society. added. The KIPCO Group is one of the “The Proteges focuses on improv- biggest holding companies in the ing critical thinking and creativity, Middle East and North Africa, with morals, social and life skills and consolidated assets of $26 billion as developing self awareness. We at 31 March, 2013. The Group has achieve this through workshops, significant ownership interests in projects, debates, guest speakers over 60 companies operating across and a trip to the United Kingdom for 24 countries. The group’s main busi- specialized courses at Kings College ness sectors are financial services, in London, one of the top 30 univer- media, real estate and manufactur- sities in the world. There are only a ing. Through its core companies, few days left to register, so don’t subsidiaries and affiliates, KIPCO also KUWAIT: Under the auspices of the deputy PM and Defense Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, miss your chance.” has interests in the education and Mubarak Al-Abdullah Commandment and Staff College celebrated 17th batch graduation ceremony. The Registration for the Proteges Shamlan Al-Bahar medical sectors. graduation ceremony was held at Ali Sabah Al-Salem Military College. Kuwaiti claims first place Kuwait participates in ‘Global Village’

MADRID: Kuwaiti students from the and Arabic coffee. Moreover, the The IE Business School is interna- in US Jet Ski tournament Spanish IE Business School partici- visitors expressed their admiration tionally recognized and is consid- KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Jet-Skier Abdullah the categories of Prom Am Ski ment, thanked Kuwait Airways and pated in the Global Village activities for the national and folkloric ered to be one of the top European Al-Fadhil won the first place in two Limited, and Pro Am Ski Open, Al-Ghanim Group of Shipping and held by the university in Madrid, Kuwaiti music. The Global Village is universities, claiming the first place different categories in the third praised the efforts of the technical Transport for supporting him in this with the participation of 20 differ- an annual event held by the univer- in the Financial Times’ ranking of round of US Jet ski Seasonal staff in preparing his Jet Ski for the international sport event. Al-Fadhil ent countries. The Kuwaiti corner, sity to showcase the different cul- the best business schools in the Tournament, concluded in tournament. He noted that he looks had previously won two trophies of which was organized by Kuwait’s tures and backgrounds of its stu- world. Kuwaiti students, Mishal Al- Wisconsin late Sunday. Al-Fadhil forward to present his best perform- second place in the second round of Embassy in Madrid with the pres- dents of about 85 countries. The Wazan and Fatma Al-Mutar have said yesterday, he is proud of this ance during the remaining competi- the tournament, in the categories of ence of Kuwait’s Ambassador to students usually offer traditional earned Master Degrees in Business Kuwaiti achievement, especially tions which consists of seven Prom Am Ski Limited, and Pro Am Ski. Spain, Adel Hamad Al-Ayyar, dishes and music to get to know Administration from this university with the severe exhaustion they suf- rounds, scheduled to end in August. He also claimed gold medal of the attracted a large number of visitors. each other’s culture and traditions, last week, while eight other fered due to land travel of more The Kuwaiti Jet-Skier who is the king of Thailand’s tournament 2012 The Kuwaiti students offered tradi- in the presence of their friends and Kuwaitis are still enrolled in the pro- than 2000 km. Al-Fadhil, who won in only Arab competitor in the tourna- in the 1600 CC category.— KUNA tional food such as (jerish), (rahash) parents. gram.— KUNA

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank staff pictured with Kuwait National English School students. Gulf Bank hosts ‘More than Money’ sessions at KNES Bank paves way for future business leaders

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank hosted a presentations from Gulf Bank for small businesses, and how to areas of youth and education. ‘More than Money’ sessions at personnel about the ways to develop business plans based The ‘More than Money’ program Kuwait National English School earn and consciously spend, on job skills and interests. gives the Bank an opportunity as part of the Bank’s strategic share and save money in a The ‘More than Money’ pro- to present itself to Kuwait’s partnership with INJAZ Kuwait responsible way. Jamil Girgis, gram aims to teach students future business leaders, increas- in 2013, which aims to help Manager - Human Resources, about earning, spending, shar- ing their understanding of the both organizations progress from Gulf Bank conducted the ing, and saving money, as well banking industry and demon- towards their shared goals of sessions at KNES, presenting the as ways of earning money from strating the importance of earn- investing in Kuwait’s future eco- fundamentals for making sound their jobs or businesses. Gulf ing and saving money. Gulf nomic and social prosperity by financial decisions, identifying Bank seeks to equip students Bank looks forward to building a directly creating and supporting characteristics of positive work with practical business-related prosperous future for Kuwait’s youth education and develop- ethic, identifying ways of earn- skills as part of its corporate next generation and by joining ment programs. During com- ing money through personal social responsibility (CSR) strate- forces with INJAZ Kuwait the prehensive sessions held, 31 businesses or jobs, calculating gy. Gulf Bank’s 2013 CSR strate- Bank is confident of achieving students from KNES received operating expenses and income gy is focused on the critical great results. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 LOCAL

Dalia Wafai Emad Al-Sharif Munawer Al-Khatrash Rawia Reem Barakat Jamal Obaid Farhan Hassan TEC, Expo Tag announce Summer Festival

KUWAIT: The Touristic Enterprises Company recent statement. She added that the event the event. “We plan to introduce our latest KEMS Munawer Al-Khatrash offered customers that his company, which is the official supplier and Expo Tag for Conferences and Exhibitions would include showcasing products and serv- products and services as well as our network the opportunity to learn about the company’s of Al-Alali brand in Kuwait, “is looking forward announced holding summer exhibitions on ices including food items, internet, and den- of branches around Kuwait,” said the Head of latest offers for “high-speed, high quality inter- to the opportunity to stay in touch with local June 21 and June 28 at the Ras Al-Ardh Sea tistry, apart from an entertainment program the Catering Department in Al-Refa’ie net at competitive prices,” whereas Marketing costumers and introduce our latest lineup of Club and Al-Shaab Sea Club, respectively, fea- featuring musical displays and competitions Company, Farhan Hassan. Meanwhile, Public Director of Fine Napkin Products Tawfiq Al-Ali, top-quality food products.” turing a variety of companies including Al- for all family members. Relations Manager of Al-Mara’ei Abdul-Aziz Al- and Reem Barakat of Al-Hajri Company, Deputy Marketing and Public Relations Mara’ei, Al-Refa’ie, Al-Alali, KEMS, Al-Hajri and In the meantime, representatives of compa- Uqail said that his company will sponsor the announced that their respective companies Manager of Al-Maidan Dental Clinic Fine. “Through this fruitful cooperation, we nies, who announced their plans to take part event “as part of our strategy to support local plan to distribute a variety of products free of announced in the meantime that her compa- look to benefit from the TEC’s experience in in the exhibitions, expressed appreciation for activities in all Gulf Cooperation Council coun- cost to visitors during the event. ny plans to present gifts to visitors during the organizing family entertainment events,” the opportunity to showcase their products tries.” Also, Marketing and Sales Manager of event including “free dental check up and announced Expo Tag CEO Dalia Wafai in a and services for a large audience attending Meanwhile, Assistant General Manager of Emad Trading Compay Emad Al-Sharif, said opening files free of charge.” Kuwait, FAO discuss CAIT, PAHW launch new e-services KUWAIT: The Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) has ‘Longest day of the year’ Africa food security launched a number of electronic services in cooperation and coordination with the KUWAIT: Astronomer Khalid Al-Jamaan has stated that Friday, the 21st of Public Authority for Housing Welfare June, will see 14 hours and 2 minutes of sunlight, and will therefore be the FAO awards Kuwait for early MDGs fulfillment (PAHW) via the official portal of Kuwait. longest day of the year in Kuwait and the Gulf region. Meanwhile, night- time will last for 9 hours and 58 minutes, the shortest in the year. Speaking ROME: Head of the Economic Department at Kuwait Ban Ki-moon. “Globally, hunger has declined over the past CAIT’s deputy Director General of National Projects Magda Al-Naqeeb said in a state- about weather, he said, “We are going through the season of ‘Bawareh,’ Foreign Ministry Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled Al-Sabah has dis- decade, but 870 million people are still undernourished, when the winds change direction, due to which dust rises during the day cussed with Chairman of the Africa Group of Permanent and millions of others suffer the consequences of vitamin ment yesterday that the introduction of a and subsides at night throughout the week.” The timing of the season is Representatives in Rome-based Food and Agriculture and mineral deficiencies, including child stunting,” the FAO range of electronic services related to determined annually by the movement of the sun, which will reach its Organization (FAO) Ambassador Carla Elisa Mucavi chief said. “We need to keep up our efforts, until everyone housing comes within the framework of highest position in the sky (84.06 degrees) this year on June 21, marking Kuwait’s contribution to development and food security in can live healthy and productive lives.” coordination efforts and technical cooper- the midpoint of summer. Africa. Sheikh Ali and Mucavi also discussed the proposed ation between CAIT and PAHW according agenda of the upcoming Arab African Summit in Kuwait FAO HONORS KUWAIT to the development plans. and the coordination between the FAO African Group and In another development, FAO has honored Kuwait for It is aimed at upgrading the level of Summer Culture 8 festival Near East Group, which Kuwait will chair shortly. The services provided to citizens. She added meeting the target of the Millennium Development Goals KUWAIT: Summer Culture (8) Festival, organized by the National Council for that the citizens can visit the official web- Kuwaiti official expressed his country’s support to the (MDGs) and World Food Conference to curtail hunger and Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), kicked off on Sunday with participation from site of the portal either through the international efforts to achieve sustainable development undernourishment. Kuwait was listed among 18 countries a number of artists, musicians and singers, coupled with cultural activities that and food security for the countries of the African conti- that were awarded during the 38th general conference of Internet or through smart phone applica- would lasts until July 4th. The festival will include events dedicated to all ages, nent. For her part, Mucavi greatly appreciated Kuwait’s the FAO. Kuwait’s representative at the conference Sheikh tions to take advantage of those services. ranging from training courses, workshops, galleries and music shows, NCCAL contribution to development projects in Africa. Ali Al-Khaled Al-Sabah received the award from FAO PAHW’s Deputy Director-General for Culture and Arts Director and director of the festival Sahel Al-Ajmi said, on the She lauded Kuwait’s quick response and help to disas- Director General Jose Graziano da Silva during a ceremony Development of Human Resources sector sidelines of the opening ceremony which was attended by NCCAL Secretary ters-stricken areas, citing Kuwait’s initiative to establish at the FAO headquarters in Rome on Sunday evening. Nabil Al-Kharafi said that some 47 new General Ali Al-Yoha and a number of diplomatic corps, and huge crowds. the International Fund for Agriculture Development in The ceremony was attended by heads of state, prime services have already been launched dur- Al-Ajmi said that tonight witnessed the start of a great music event, with response to the famine that hit Ethiopia in 1970s. Last ministers, ministers and representatives of FAO member ing this period. Among the new services the famous Singer Abadi Al-Jowhar, with ten songs led by Maestro Ahmed week, FAO announced that 38 countries have met interna- states reaching 197 in number. In a keynote speech at the are queries about a residential request, Hamdan Al-Harbi. The official noted that the Council aims to invest the summer tionally-established targets in the fight against hunger, event, the FAO chief highly applauded Kuwait and other opening of a new file, rent allowance and season in many varied activities and to create a cultural tourism for Kuwaitis forefront of them Kuwait, chalking up successes ahead of 17 countries which have fulfilled the MDGs target of eradi- house ownership issuance. —KUNA and residents alike. — KUNA a deadline set for 2015. “These countries are leading the cating poverty and hunger, and the stricter goal of the way to a better future. They are proof that with strong World Development Conference which aims to eradicate political will, coordination and cooperation, it is possible undernourishment. to achieve rapid and lasting reductions in hunger,” FAO He said the 18 countries had made such achievements Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said. thanks to their strong political will and coordination and Graziano da Silva urged all countries to keep up the cooperation for the fulfillment of world ambitions for a momentum, aiming for the complete eradication of better future. For his part, Kuwait’s representative at the hunger, in keeping with the Zero Hunger Challenge conference Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, the director of launched in 2012 by United Nations Secretary-General the economic department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, voiced much pleasure at this international award which proved the position of Kuwait internationally due to its pioneering role in encouraging and supporting interna- tional cooperation through development diplomacy. Speaking to KUNA on the occasion, Sheikh Ali said this fresh international recognition is the fruit of accomplish- ments led by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his pioneering ini- tiatives for food security and fight against hunger and poverty through development programs, projects and plans in diverse regions, primarily a fund for decent life purposed to face world food shortage and surging food prices. He pointed to the role of Kuwait in calling for and sponsoring regional and international conferences, includ- ing an Arab economic cooperation summit and the third Arab-African food security summit due in Kuwait later this year. In this context, he lauded the keenness of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Kuwait’s active and effec- tive presence in all regional and international conferences and events. He also appreciated great contributions worth $16 bil- lion by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to different Arab and developing nations. The Kuwaiti representative finally spoke highly of Kuwait’s Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) for its great efforts to boost local pro- duction and spur the Kuwaiti private sector to play its due part in ensuring national food security. Among the other honorees are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Djibouti, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Peru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Vietnam. — Agencies

Rashidi plans labor centers KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Thekra Al- Rashidi said she briefed the Cabinet yesterday on a proj- ect to establish and adminis- ter labour offices in the six governorates in partnership with the private sector. The minister added that such measure will be open for public bidding to qualified companies. Al-Rashidi said the goal of the labour offices was to end negative aspects and improve performances through termination of all types of corruption while creating professional nation- al workers. The minister not- ed that the project aims, among other things, at facili- tating procedures for visi- tors, mostly business own- ers, and improve the type of services provided by the center. — KUNA TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view Iran- Extend a A Big Yes, hand of peace and a Big No

By Abdullatif Al-Duaij assan Rohani’s victory in Iran’s presidential elec- tions is a proof of the goodwill and moderation of the Iranian people, and refutes the allegations of H By Labeed Abdal ‘Safavid hostility’ towards Arabs and Sunni Muslims. Nothing is definite of course, and history is replete with examples of moderate and tolerate presidents involving their countries in wars and feuds, but at this point I can only judge from what is apparent; which is that the elec- tion of the moderate Rohani is a testimony that Iranians who elected him strive to establish normal relations [email protected] have always been thinking of how to make it easier for expats It is perhaps no coincidence living in Kuwait to live a dignified life. When I read the news Ireports about the helpline set up by the Indian Embassy to that the Iranian president-elect help Indian nationals, I realized how important the step would prove to be for the Indians living in Kuwait. Now, they will feel bet- had mentioned during his elec- ter and will know that the diplomats in this country are well aware tion campaign his wish about of their plight and were keeping in close touch with the local offi- cials to address any accidental hardships swiftly. ‘improving relations with Saudi Similarly, the moves by the Philippines Embassy to meet its country’s nationals and educate them about how to deal with the Arabia’ in specific, which could emerging situation was very welcome. The embassy gave certain mean that Iranians had better tips to its nationals, asking them not to panic during any raid, to keep at hand all legal documents, not to worry and remember to relationship with their neigh- contact the embassy whenever necessary through hotlines, web- site and social media etc. bors in mind when they headed kuwait digest Such diplomatic efforts will surely go a long way to in assuring to the polls. the foreigners here, especially when some perceived that even those who were legal immigrants may face unpalatable issues. As Kuwait traffic campaign for Kuwait, which I expect to take the lead when it comes to safe- with their neighbors, as do people all over the world. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Iranian presi- dent-elect had mentioned during his election campaign I am also sure that our valued his wish about ‘improving relations with Saudi Arabia’ in By Sami Al-Kharafi readers are rightfully sensitive specific, which could mean that Iranians had better rela- tionship with their neighbors in mind when they headed irst of all, I don’t want to speak about the traffic right lane? How many times have we written about our about breach of human rights. to the polls. This peaceful gesture by the Iranian voters campaign being carried out by the traffic depart- streets being choked with an increasing number of cars, They are not worried just about should - or at least hopefully it will - be enough to extin- Fment headed by Lt General Abdul Fattah Al-Ali, and that number still rising sharply? So far no solution guish the fire of sedition that some people try to ignite who is making great efforts to implement the law fully, could ease these traffic jams. How many thousands of visas but also about issues of between Iran and the rest of the Gulf states, or between and has started making efforts that could ease the traf- driving licenses were issued to undeserving persons Shiite citizens of the Gulf who are often accused of har- fic problem that all of us in Kuwait have been reeling who did not meet the conditions? We have been stability, security and respect. boring loyalty towards Iran and their fellow citizens of under for many years, and which no one has been able demanding a committee to review all such licenses. Furthermore, all citizens and other religious beliefs. to solve. How many times have we demanded a solution to Meanwhile, I hope that Kuwait’s government contin- No citizen or expat can deny that the law is a pillar of the mess seen at the traffic lights, where the street expats like Kuwait and they do ues to adopt a balanced policy which it has so far main- the state and it is only turns into a five lane one tained in respect to Iran, and avoid entering agreements through law that a state can instead of three, all because not want to be left behind, par- designed to target Iran or in response to an alleged No citizen or expat can deny impose its will on everyone most of those drivers do not ticularly when they compare Iranian threat. The Iranian people have played their role and regulate the society, that the law is a pillar of the know the basics of driving and have extended a hand of cooperation by electing a while there are some who and traffic rules and the benefits accruing to them candidate who calls for moderation and good relations believe that it is a challenge state and it is only through law received their licenses with neighbors. here in comparison to some and a courageous thing to that a state can impose its will through “Wasta” route? It is Now, the neighboring countries are required to avoid break the law. They break regrettable that what Lt rapidly changing and develop- sending negative signals to the people and leadership in the laws and despise all reg- on everyone and regulate the General Abdel Fattah Al-Ali Iran since such signals can easily spread nowadays, giv- ulation, thus adding to a rise is doing now is being criti- ing neighboring countries. en the sectarian tensions and hostility due to the ongo- in accidents in which several society, while there are some cized by some. All he is ing events in Syria. While the majority of these signals people have lost their lives. doing is to implement the guarding human rights as per international humanitarian stan- can be described as irresponsible negative remarks, God who believe that it is a chal- Anyone who reads the law, something we all dards, I said a big yes to the hotlines being set up by respective only knows what kind of a reaction they can trigger daily reports in newspapers lenge and a courageous thing demanded in the first place. embassies but I would say a big no to anyone trying to threaten an within Iran which surely has its own share of people or watches them on other The man is working honestly expat’s human rights, or any innocent person for that matter. looking for trouble. —Al-Qabas to break the law. They break the media knows that everyone to reduce some of our suf- I am also sure that our valued readers are rightfully sensitive has been reiterating the laws and despise all regulation, ferings and end this spate of about breach of human rights. They are not worried just about need to enforce the law, accidents and traffic jams, visas but also about issues of stability, security and respect. thus adding to a rise in acci- Furthermore, all citizens and expats like Kuwait and they do not kuwait digest especially traffic laws, on and save people’s lives. every one without excep- In a nutshell, I want to want to be left behind, particularly when they compare the bene- dents in which several people fits accruing to them here in comparison to some rapidly chang- tion, to instill the fear of the say that the campaign of Lt. Directions have lost their lives. ing and developing neighboring countries. state. How many times have General Al-Ali to reduce the There is no other option except to ensure that we have harmo- above the law we complained about cars traffic jams will not succeed ny in our own country. No one should wonder that we are going speeding fast even in the safe lane, and still going unless we all lend a hand and join in the efforts along- to see immense development, thanks to His Highness the Amir’s unpunished? side him to end the culture of Wasta, and give him a By Waleed Al-Ghanim support for more political and economic stability and his vision to How many times have we complained about trucks chance to restore the might of the law, something transform Kuwait into a new regional financial hub. Once again, he general management process is still dominated being driven in all lanes in total disregard of the traffic that Kuwait has been found wanting in for a very long we will witness a new parliament and elections, big spending, by a chaotic legacy that can be summed up in a laws which state that these should be driven only in the time. —Al-Anbaa huge infrastructure coming up for a new Kuwaiti Capital, new Tsingle word: directions. This word refers to verbal cities and much more. Well, guess what? Haven’t we been waiting orders given to enforce the law with regards to a matter for all this for so long? Hence, we must ensure a dignified life and of general state affairs. Without these directions, the law stability for the expats and only then will we enjoy working remains unenforced. The Ministry of Interior enforces kuwait digest together in a wonderful, responsible and harmonious fashion. traffic regulations, after that a senior official comes out and announces that the latest procedures came as per directions of a higher-ranked official. So it seems like Kuwaiti oil is for Kuwaiti people kuwait digest The Ministry of Electricity and Mistake in calculation Water makes efforts to collect By Waleed Al-Rujaib By Thaar Al-Rashidi bills. After that, a ministry t seems that the International Monetary Fund After that, a so-called ‘Higher Economic Advisory n December 1 when the result of the election for the last (IMF), the protector of neoliberal economic policies Committee’ was formed only to come through a back- employee announces that these council, now declared void by the constitutional court, came Iin the world, will not rest until they force all nations door with demands to impose income taxes, increase Oout, I wrote an article titled “Government...made a mistake in efforts were as per the direc- to submit to the policies of globalized capitalism. public services’ fees, and end social security for citi- calculation” in which I mentioned that this council will be able to sur- tions of a senior ministry official They continue to play the role of ‘ordering’ govern- zens, but making an exception for companies. Their vive for a maximum of six months and its main object was to fix the ments of poor nations to lift social security and priva- efforts failed eventually since their demands were decree of one man-one vote. At that time, I was criticized by some who simply gave the orders that tize public sector in the service of the globalized unrealistic in a country with Kuwait’s characteristics. colleagues on the grounds that I was too quick to predict matters. the ministry must start collect- imperialism that became a risk threatening people The third attempt came recently through a team The fact is that I was not quick but was only trying to envision a polit- around the world with economic death, starvation, as that volunteered to come up with an initiative labeled ical situation. My stand remains unchanged. On December 15, 2012, I wrote an article titled, “Opposition and well as end of democracy, with the promising slogan ing dues. the trap of one man vote” in which I mentioned in the last paragraph principles of social justice The government of Kuwait tried of “Kuwait, the Oil Capital of that “this council will be declared as void and will not be dissolved, had the same official failed to demand that the law is and everything that the the World.” With its flashy and it would be the second Council to be announced as void in the enforced, chaos would have continued on the roads. working class has earned in 2010 to follow a ‘destructive name aside, the initiative history of Kuwait and in my opinion, the government was betting on The Ministry of Electricity and Water makes efforts to throughout human history. was soon exposed to be a this council only to approve and fix the one man-one vote decree, collect bills. After that, a ministry employee announces recipe’ in the form of selling all The new neoliberal poli- ploy to give private firms in and then it will have to leave.” that these efforts were as per the directions of a senior That article I published after less than two weeks of the election ministry official who simply gave the orders that the cy in market mechanisms state departments to private Kuwait and outside a has restricted the role of greater role in Kuwait’s eco- results , prompting a rather unnatural reaction from a few observers ministry must start collecting dues. But what if the offi- companies in the country. But including constitutional experts, who spoke to me about my article and cial had not issued these directions? The ministry’s governments to being nomic life which would said I was too quick and suffer from a “shortfall” in my legal vision. At indebtedness would have reached tens of millions of ‘guardians of the capitalist when the public stood against have phased out the public that time, I told them that I do not deal with legal theories, but I work as dinars by now. system’ within their respec- these procedures, the parliament sector through companies per a political vision, and I get my information from decision making cir- The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor announces tive nations. It put all the in which 80 percent of the cles and through theories or assumptions. I knew for sure then that as plans to fight visa traffickers (hypothetically speaking, wealth of our planet in the excluded education, health and shares were to be owned by per the available information, this council will be announced void, and that is), after which a senior ministry official announces hands of major industrial- the private sector. as per all available information, it was born to die. that the procedures went underway as per the direc- oil sectors from the purview of the On March 25 last, I wrote a column titled, “Elections with half tions of his boss. Fine, but what if these directions had ized countries and their If it were to happen, this intercontinental compa- law in its second hearing. would lead to economic vote” and it included as follows: “Personally, I am still betting on the not been issued? Does that mean that visa traffickers fact that this council will be announced as void, and we are entering would have remained free to practice their illegal activi- nies, laying the foundation disasters starting from huge in a few months into a phase of new elections with one man-one ties for years until a ministry official one day decides to of a new policy based on ‘dictatorship of the market layoffs in the oil sector as well as increasing poverty vote system. That is because the one man vote will be a reality and a stop them? and globalization’. and unemployment rates in larger social sectors, in law, and will not remain a subject of political dispute and constitu- What is the need for laws if they are not to be imme- This policy often spawns undemocratic sayings like addition to putting the main source of income and tional dispute as it is today.” I wrote three articles in which I predict- diately and consistently implemented? Why do we need ed from a political point of view, not any other kind, that this council laws in the first place if they are to be put on hold until a “keeping into account social security and the needs of effectively the entire fate of the Kuwaiti people in the will be declared as void. I remember that one of the MPs used to ask senior official gives directions to enforce them? What is the poor has become an unbearable burden,” or hands of the private sector. It would be like taking a me after each article: What is your legal point which supports this the duty of government employees if the law remains claiming that “a little inequality has become unavoid- step back to the time before nationalization of oil view? And I used to answer him that politics is sometimes above frozen either intentionally or due to recklessness? What able.” By this approach, poor countries in debt are put companies in 1975; a step that would coincide with the law for several reasons and any good reader of events since the good are the laws if their enforcement is subject to cer- alongside high-income states that can create sustain- South American states nationalizing their own oil tain people’s attitudes? dissolution of 2009 council until today will find that legal theories able development through which prosperity and jus- companies, and people in Europe and around the and scientific assumptions all collapse at the political wall. One of The law becomes immediately effective in countries tice can be spread while poverty and unemployment world protesting against privatization policies. that stick to the rule of law, and these are implemented. those who objected to my articles told me, ‘you are not an expert in That is why the laws are followed by everyone and no can be eliminated. The Kuwaiti people are advised to stay alert about law, so how do you predict that the council will be declared as one has the power to suspend them, except through The government of Kuwait tried in 2010 to follow a what is being plotted against their only natural void?’, and I answered him, “Dear brother, it is not necessary that I be legislative means or a court order. People feel secure in ‘destructive recipe’ in the form of selling all state wealth. We must avoid letting the parasitic private a specialized mechanic when I tell you that the car which has no society and know that their daily life requirements are departments to private companies in the country. But sector from taking over our future, and sharing our engine will not move. Is that clear? And it is not necessary that I be a fire man officer to tell you that the house engulfed in flames is burn- guaranteed when they see the law fully implemented when the public stood against these procedures, the wealth with the foreigners. Kuwait’s oil must always and respected. But if the law needs directions to come ing and at the same time, it is not necessary that I be a constitution- parliament excluded education, health and oil sectors remain the sole possession of Kuwaitis and their al expert to tell you that this council was born to die or to be into effect, then it means that the situation in a country from the purview of the law in its second hearing. future generations. —Al-Rai is one of total chaos. —Al-Qabas declared as void.” —Al-Anbaa

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ANKARA: Anti-government protesters demonstrate in central Ankara yesterday. (Inset) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting. — AFP/AP Turkey warns to deploy army Unions had called for strike, but little disruption seen

ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Turkey’s deputy prime ing stones from slingshots, fought with police. agency reported. Yesterday’s union marches sioner Stefan Fuele expressed concern about successive elections, and whom they consid- minister said yesterday the armed forces could The violence was minor compared with the were peaceful and small, and, while it was developments in Turkey, whose negotiations to ered unfairly under siege. The blunt-talking 59- be called up if needed to help quell popular weekend, which saw some of the fiercest clash- unclear how many of the 850,000 public work- join the bloc have stalled, partly over worries year-old said the rallies were to kick off cam- protests that have swept Turkish cities in the es so far when police fired teargas and water ers answered union calls to strike, there were about its record on human rights and freedom paigning for local elections next year and not last two weeks, the first time the possibility of a cannon to clear thousands of people from the no signs of major disruption. What began late of speech. related to the unrest, but they were widely seen military role has been raised. Bulent Arinc made square. “Our police, our security forces are in May as a protest by environmentalists upset Germany has long harboured doubts about as a show of strength. A defiant Erdogan told a the remarks in Ankara, where 1,000 striking doing their jobs. If it’s not enough, then the at government plans to build on a public park admitting Turkey to the EU. Chancellor Angela sea of flag-waving supporters in Istanbul on trade union workers faced off briefly against gendarmes will do their jobs. If that’s not adjoining Taksim has grown into a movement Merkel said she was “appalled, like many others” Sunday that the disturbances had been manip- police backed by several water cannon, before enough ... we could even use elements of the against Erdogan, who opponents say is over- at Turkey’s tough response to the protests. “I ulated by “terrorists” and dismissed suggestions police retreated and the crowd left. In Istanbul, Turkish Armed Forces,” Arinc told Turkey’s state- bearing and meddles in their personal lives. would like to see those who ... have a different that he was behaving like a dictator, a constant the cradle of protests that have presented run TRT television. The unrest has yet to seriously threaten opinion and a different idea of society having refrain from protesters on the streets. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan with the greatest Any use of the army would be a dramatic Erdogan’s position. A new poll showed that 35.3 some space in a Turkey that moves into the 21st Just a few kilometres away, police fought public challenge to his 10-year leadership, sev- step in Turkey, where Erdogan has pushed percent of people would vote for for his AK century,” she told the German broadcaster RTL. running battles with protesters in clashes that eral hundred union members also marched in through democratic reforms including taming a Party were an election to be held straight away, “What’s happening in Turkey at the moment is lasted well into the evening. The stark con- sympathy with anti-government demonstra- military that toppled four governments in four compared with 36.3 percent in April. In the first not in line with our idea of the freedom to trast between events in different parts of tions. decades. There were also clashes yesterday in survey published since protests started, opposi- demonstrate or freedom of speech.” Istanbul highlighted how the protests have They were prevented from entering Taksim the city of Eskisehir, around 200 km southeast tion groups also gained in popularity, most Erdogan sought to seize back the initiative polarised Turkey, its conservative religious Square, the focal point of the unrest, but after of Istanbul, where police used teargas and notably the CHP whose support jumped to 22.7 over the weekend by holding huge rallies in heartland largely backing Erdogan while workers had moved off, between 200 and 300 water cannon to disperse crowds and cleared percent in June from 15.3 percent two months Istanbul and Ankara. Hundreds of thousands Western-facing liberals swell the ranks of the mainly young protesters, some of them throw- away hundreds of tents, the Dogan news ago. European Union enlargement commis- turned up to see a leader who has won three protesters. — Reuters Damascus blast kills 10 soldiers Israel official blasts BEIRUT: A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near Palestine state idea a military airport in an upscale neighborhood of the Syrian capital killed 10 soldiers, activists said JERUSALEM: The idea of Palestinians to a Palestinian state. Many Israelis are yesterday as President Bashar Al-Assad’s troops establishing a state in the territory they concerned that violent groups will fill the pressed ahead with an offensive to regain terri- seek has “reached a dead end”, a senior vacuum if Israel withdraws from areas it tory they lost to rebels trying to topple his Israeli official said Monday, in the latest controls. The Islamic militant group Hamas regime. The army has scored major victories in remarks by hard-liners that appear to con- eventually took over the Gaza Strip after key battlefields in western and central Syria in tradict the country’s official support for a Israel left it in 2005. Hamas is defined as a the past weeks, and is now setting its sights on “two-state solution” to its conflict with the terrorist organization by the US, EU and the country’s largest city, Aleppo, in the north, Palestinians. The statements by Naftali others due to its suicide bombings, shoot- parts of which have been opposition strong- Bennett, economics minister and leader of ing and rocket attacks aimed at civilians holds. the Jewish Home party, chime with similar that have killed hundreds. Bennett said The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for sentiments expressed by other officials in that the policy of Israeli land concessions Human Rights said 10 soldiers died in the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and withdrawals has failed. “Terrorists Sunday night attack in Damascus’ Mazzeh area coalition government and come as the entered everywhere that Israel withdrew and 10 were wounded. The neighborhood hous- United States is trying to restart peace from. The most important thing in the land es several embassies and a military airport. talks between Israel and the Palestinians. of Israel is to build and build and build,” he Syrian state media confirmed there was a blast “The idea that a Palestinian state will added. “Israel’s biggest problem regarding near the military airport late Sunday but did not arise inside the land of Israel has reached a Judea and Samaria was and remains the release any casualty figures. At least 93,000 peo- dead end,” Bennett said Monday at a lack of willingness by Israeli leaders to say ple have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it meeting of the Yesha settlement group. in a simple way that the land of Israel erupted in March 2011, according to a recent “Never in the history of Israel have so belongs to the people of Israel,” Bennett U.N. estimate. many people dealt with so much energy said, referring to the West Bank territory by Millions have been displaced and the civil DAMASCUS: A member of the Syrian army checks the trunk of a car at a checkpoint yesterday. — AFP with something so pointless,” he said. Talks its biblical names. war is increasingly being fought along sectarian collapsed about five years ago over the Last week, Netanyahu’s deputy lines, pitting Sunni Muslims against Shiites. It is Hezbollah’s help. The fall of Qusair shifted the flow into the rebel-held areas in the north have core issue of Jewish housing in East defense minister and member of his own also threatening the stability of Syria’s neigh- balance of power on the battlefield in favor of caused problems for the opposition and Jerusalem and the West Bank, territory Likud party, Danny Danon, said “there is bors, including Lebanon and Iraq. Sunnis domi- the Damascus regime, which is now looking to resulted in infighting between ethnic Kurdish Israel captured from Jordan in 1967 and certainly no majority” in the Likud for nate the rebel ranks while the Assad regime is keep the momentum and aims to take back con- and Arab groups fighting against Assad’s which Palestinians envision for a future establishing a Palestinian state based on mostly made up of Alawites, an offshoot sect of trol of Aleppo, the country’s commercial hub. regime in the predominantly Kurdish northern state. The Palestinians refuse to return to Israel’s borders before the 1967 Mideast Shiite Islam. Sectarian divisions deepened in the The rebels captured parts of the city last summer region of Afrin. talks unless construction there stops. war. “A Palestinian state on the 1967 lines conflict a few weeks ago, when Lebanon’s Iran- during an offensive in the north along the bor- Arab rebels imposed a siege in late May on Israel says settlements and all other issues is something dangerous for Israel, and backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah joined der with Turkey. the area that resulted in a humanitarian crisis, like security can only be resolved through therefore I oppose that idea,” Danon told the fight inside Syria on the regime’s side. While the rebels had been able to capture according to the Observatory, which relies on a dialogue and has frequently called for Channel 2 TV. He said it was possible that Earlier this month, Assad’s troops dealt a territory from the government in the past network of informants on the ground. The peace talks to resume without precondi- the broader coalition government, which major blow to the opposition forces after they month, they have been unable to hold on and region has a population of more than half a mil- tions. Some Israelis cite security, religious includes other hard-line parties, also pushed the rebels out of the strategic town of govern it effectively because of the regime’s lion, along with more than 200,000 internally and historic reasons for their opposition opposes a return to the 1967 lines.—AP Qusair near the Lebanese border, largely with superior firepower. Lack of services and aid displaced people, the Observatory said. —AP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Protests to give new turn to Egypt revolution

CAIRO: Does Egypt face a new revolution? their petition is close to gathering more sig- that this revolution has actually worked”, tourism. But, lacking broad popular sup- they will come out - in large numbers.” Millions hope so, it seems; they have signed natures for Morsi’s - hypothetical - removal one aide called it - but must be peaceful. port, the legislature and the executive have The president’s allies will not give in so a national petition demanding the presi- than the 13 million votes that elected him a Morsi himself says he will react “fiercely” to struggled to act decisively on an economy easily: “If Morsi ends up being ousted by dent resign and plan to take to the streets year ago. trouble from “felloul” - ‘remnants’ of being kept afloat by soft loans from Qatar violence or a coup by the army or police, on June 30, when Mohamed Morsi marks a ElBaradei spoke at a two-week-old sit-in Mubarak - and calls the petition, which has and other regional allies. there will be an Islamic revolution,” said Al- year in office. Their slogan is a call for revolt: by artists at the Culture Ministry. It was no legal weight, “an absurd and illegitimate There seems little prospect the Tamarud Ghaddafi Abdel Razek, manager of the pro- “Tamarud - Rebel!” But for all the simmering prompted by the new minister firing the action”. There have been scuffles this petition will induce Morsi to resign - and Morsi Tagarud campaign which he said had discontent with the Islamist who has head of Cairo Opera and by fears of a new month between groups gathering signa- even some liberal commentators say that collected 7 million signatures backing presided over political and economic paral- puritanism after an Islamist lawmaker tures; an apartment used by Tamarud was might set an unwelcome precedent. Morsi’s Morsi. “We have our people in the army and ysis, millions more are ready to defend urged a ban on ballet, calling it “naked art”. firebombed. A new test looms this Friday, win seemed fair and a new presidential the police, too, and we are ready,” added Egypt’s first freely elected leader; they say Such threats grip the liberal media and when Islamists plan pro-Morsi rallies. vote might produce a broadly similar result. Abdel Razek, 37, a pharmacist once jailed those campaigning for him to quit are ElBaradei said Islamist dominance must be The heart of the problem is a failure to Yet a Zogby poll yesterday showed only 28 for his membership of militant group Al- agents of the old regime and plan their Gamaa al-Islamiya. “We know that if Morsi own pro-Morsi rallies starting Friday. Their goes, we’ll all be in prison.” counter-campaign - “Tagarud” - calls for Over at the opposition campaign, open minds. spokesman Mahmoud Badr is grappling There is a risk of more of the violence with piles of signatures and ID numbers that has punctuated the two and a half that need to be verified against databases if years since Hosni Mubarak was toppled by Tamarud is to make the case it hopes to the a blast of rage from Tahrir Square. “June 30” United Nations that its petition is genuine. crops up endlessly in conversation. The Even without international intervention, Cairo bourse has shrivelled in anticipation Badr argued, the weight of opinion could and security forces say they are preparing embarrass Morsi into stepping aside. to deal with trouble. “There is a strong Others say that at least it might push him to chance of violence,” said retired general listen to them. “It is a new factor, this kind of Sameh Seif Al-Yazal. “It could start from any mobilising effort with the numbers of folks side.” involved,” said US pollster James Zogby. It is unclear what can end stalemate “We don’t know where it’s going, but we’re between the Islamists, whose organised clearly turning a page. “This is a revolution electoral base has handed them the formal still to be resolved.” levers of power, and a diffuse opposition of And if Morsi goes? It seems hypothetical liberals, Christians and secular conserva- now, but Badr and his team have a post- tives united in fear of Islamic rule, plus a Morsi plan: the constitutional court chief mass of the uncommitted, fed up with eco- would be interim head of state with a small nomic drift under Morsi. The “culture war” technocrat cabinet. For many, exasperated between elected Islamists and a secular by power cuts, shortage of fuel and rising opposition, with a once-political army in prices, a return to army rule would be wel- the background, has echoes of today’s come - though the military insists it wants unrest in Turkey, but deep economic crisis no such responsibility. Its chief, appointed and a still unformed political system makes by Morsi, has urged “a framework for con- Egypt much more fragile. sensus”. One military source told Reuters With world powers at odds over Syria, the army was ready for all eventualities where Morsi has backed the Sunni Muslim after June 30 - “but we will not interfere revolt, and Washington funding an unless the situation seems to be heading Egyptian army that honours Cairo’s peace CAIRO: In this May 17, 2013 file photo, an Egyptian activist covers her face with a ‘Tamarud’ petition calling towards violent conflict”. Army chief Abdel treaty with Israel, any instability in the most for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and for early presidential elections during a protest in Fattah Al-Sisi has said troops will “defend populous Arab state has implications far Tahrir Square. —AP the state and what is sacred to the people” - beyond. The wealthy generals, once led by that, the source said, included their rights Mubarak but who sacrificed him to save stopped: “We ask every Egyptian to go out build consensus. With opponents in disar- percent of voters now see his election as to protest. themselves, have said they want no more on the 30th, to free ourselves and reclaim ray, the Brotherhood and its allies won positive or at least an outcome to be As the rallies approach, Egyptians have political role. Islamists say it would mean our revolution.” For the millions of poor, for majorities in both houses of parliament respected - down from 57 percent a year decisions to make. Ahmed Mahmoud, 30, civil war if the troops moved against them. whom the ballet ranks low in their priori- and the presidency last year and rushed a ago. The poll also showed, however, that no a labourer from Alexandria is already in Yet the army is still held in high regard by ties, it is an economy caught in a vice of col- constitution through a referendum. The current opponent is clearly more popular the capital to make his voice heard: “I want the vast majority and says it will intervene lapsed tourist income, rising world com- opposition, partly backed by a judiciary the than the bespectacled, bearded face to tell Morsi loud and clear he needs to go to maintain order. modity prices and a growing population Islamists see as Mubarak holdovers, now crossed out with a red “X” on Tamarud’s since he has failed to meet the demands However June 30 ends - and few will bet dependent on subsidised bread and fuel reject most of those state institutions. ubiquitous posters. of our revolution, for a better life and free- with confidence on the outcome - it will that matters. “We don’t want Morsi. We Elections for a new lower house that might But if the protest movement seems like dom,” he said. “We are tired and cannot help determine whether the Arab Spring want change,” said Umm Sultan, working provide a forum for national dialogue are a leap into the unknown, that is not deter- take it anymore. We want to live.” But oth- eventually blossoms, or withers - not just with her son at the family juice stall in being held up by rows over the rules. ring large numbers from joining it. ers, who fear yet more unrest can only for 84 million Egyptians but for would-be Cairo’s Old City. “They must give us money Anchoring his power in the provinces, “Tamarud is a representative public reac- plunge them deeper into poverty, are democracies across the Middle East. “This so our children can live.” Morsi named Islamists to run several gover- tion to the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi’s more patient. Mohamed Ali, 26, a waiter at revolution is not over yet,” said Mohamed Echoing fellow Islamists governing in norates on Sunday, including one from a failure to run the state,” said Hassan Nafaa, a a Cairo cafe, said Morsi should be given his ElBaradei, a former top UN diplomat and Turkey, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood insists group whose gunmen massacred 58 for- Cairo University political scientist who says chance: “We are new to democracy and one of the best known faces of Tamarud, he has a democratic mandate and warn eigners in Luxor and will now head the Morsi must resign for his “stupidity”. “It has we should give him time to work and whose keen young sidewalk volunteers say that protest is permitted - “a healthy sign administration in the temple city, a hub for left people no option but the streets and so learn.” —Reuters Iran discontent unlikely to bring nuclear change Netanyahu says Rowhani ‘doesn’t count’ JERUSALEM: Iran’s election has exposed with its regime, but unfortunately it does- nuclear capabilities while all the while popular discontent with the Tehran gov- n’t have the power to change Iran’s holding talks with Europeans. “They are ernment but is unlikely to bring about nuclear ambitions,” said the Israeli leader, using time. He himself admitted they any change in Iranian nuclear policy, who heads a centre-right coalition gov- were using time basically to continue Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ernment. Iran denies that it wants nuclear Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” said Netanyahu told Reuters yesterday. weapons and says its atomic program is Netanyahu, sitting in his Jerusalem office, Acknowledging that economic sanctions focused exclusively on civilian needs. a large map of the Middle East and Iran were clearly taking their toll on Iran, Rohani was viewed as moderate by com- pinned next to the main doorway. Netanyahu said the pressure needed to parison with the other presidential candi- The situation has changed dramatical- be maintained and urged Western allies dates. His emphatic election victory on ly in Iran since 2004, with increasingly not to pin their hopes on the newly elect- Sunday surprised many Western govern- rigid western sanctions damaging the ed Iranian president, Hassan Rowhani. ments. local economy, forcing a sharp reduction “He doesn’t count. He doesn’t call the Iran’s nuclear negotiator from 2003 to in oil output and a deep fall in the value shots,” Netanyahu said, adding that Iran’s 2005, Rowhani said yesterday that Tehran of Iran’s currency. “These sanctions actual- supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be more transparent about its ly produced the change we have seen made all the decisions regarding nuclear nuclear activities in future. However, today. They did not work counterproduc- policy, which the West fears is geared Netanyahu, who views Iran’s nuclear pro- tively. They produced some change in towards developing an atomic bomb. gramme as an existential threat to Israel, Iran, but they have not yet produced the “The Iranian election clearly reflects quoted a 2004 speech in which Rohani change that we need to see,” Netanyahu deep disaffection of the Iranian people openly acknowledged developing Iran’s said. “So stay firm with the demands and firm with the sanctions.” Israel, widely believed to be the Nile dam politics: Egypt, Middle East’s only atomic power, has sig- nalled it could take military action against Ethiopia officials meet Iran if sanctions and diplomacy fail to bring about a change. In a speech to the ADDIS ABABA: The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia met in Addis United Nations last September, Ababa yesterday in hopes of defusing tensions over a huge dam Ethiopia is Netanyahu drew a “red line” for Iran’s ura- building on the Blue Nile River. Egypt and Ethiopia began a sharp exchange nium enrichment - the point at which it of words after Ethiopia last month started to divert Nile waters as part of could swiftly upgrade its stockpiles to the construction of its massive $4.2 billion hydro-electric project dubbed build a bomb. Officials put this at 250 kg the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Egypt fears the dam will mean a of 20 percent enriched uranium. diminished share of the Nile, which provides almost all of the desert Since then, the Iranians have convert- nation’s water needs. ed some of their enriched uranium into a Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr arrived in Addis Ababa on powder, staying below the threshold set Sunday, where he is meeting counterpart Tedros Adhanom. Dina Mufti, a by Netanyahu, in a move that some spokesman for the Ethiopia’s foreign ministry, said Ethiopia wants Egypt to experts say has enabled Tehran effective- understand that the dam is not going to harm Egypt. But in a possible sign ly to circumvent the Israeli threat. that the talks are not sailing smoothly, the two ministers cancelled a sched- Netanyahu said he would not be setting uled news conference yesterday morning. “I cannot anticipate the outcome any further red lines, but added that of the meeting . but our wish is that they would understand that the con- world powers had to persuade Iran to struction of the dam is not going to harm them in any way. We have always halt all enrichment and remove the urani- sought a win-win cooperation and relationship with Egypt,” Dina told AP on um stockpiles. “The red line has not Sunday. changed. Neither has the Iranian pursuit Relations between the nations have quickly grown tense over the last of approaching it gradually, running out two weeks. In a televised meeting June 3, Egyptian politicians suggested the clock, buying time, putting up a more attacks against Ethiopia to sabotage the dam. A week later, Egyptian hospitable face. These are all tactics. President Mohamed Morsi warned that “all options are open” to challenge Again and again and again,” he said. Ethiopia’s Nile project. In response, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam The United States has said it will not Desalegn vowed “nothing” and “no one” will stop the dam’s construction. let Iran obtain the bomb, but in recent Then, last Thursday, Ethiopia’s parliament unanimously ratified a new weeks the White House has been more accord that replaces colonial-era deals that awarded Egypt veto powers focused on the civil war in Syria, over Nile projects. The tensions are causing international concern. The head announcing at the weekend that it was of the African Union urged dialogue and cooperation and U.N. Secretary- prepared to arm rebels fighting General Ban Ki-moon telephoned both Morsi and Hailemariam. Ethiopia President Bashar Al-Assad. Netanyahu downplays the prospect of military confrontation with Egypt. The president has previously cautioned against such a said Egypt would not attack unless its leaders “go mad.” Ethiopia insists it move, worried that the weapons could “will not bow to pressure” by delaying the construction of the dam. fall into the wrong hands and be turned The Renaissance Dam has been under construction for two years on the against Israel, which shares a tense fron- Blue Nile River in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region near Sudan. tier with Syria. Asked about the US step, Currently more than 22 percent complete, the dam is expected to produce the Israeli leader said: “I can understand 6,000 megawatts, which will make it Africa’s largest hydroelectric power the decision of President Obama. What is plant. The dam is expected to have a reservoir of around 70 billion cubic happening in Syria is a tremendous meters, which is scheduled to start filling next year. —AP tragedy.” —Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Parties contest South Africa’s richest province

SOWETO, South Africa: South Africa’s children, the day the global peace icon The ANC won 2009 polls with 65.9 slamming critics such as the DA who old Mandela, the country’s first black two main political parties are setting out marked a week in hospital for a recurring percent nationally, against the DA’s point out sluggish economic growth president, are an open reminder of the their stalls for the 2014 election, with the lung infection. Meanwhile DA leader 16.7 percent. But the opposition’s and 25 percent unemployment as well ANC’s past as liberation movement. It country’s key province Gauteng shaping Helen Zille was clear on her party’s tar- representation in Gauteng shot to as massive labour unrest in the mining keeps referring to that history to appeal up to be a key battleground. In recent get for parliamentary and presidential over 33 percent in a municipal vote sector during his four years in office. to voters. But the DA has hit back with a days the African National Congress polls. “The DA is marching towards victo- two years later. “They’ve forgotten that this government campaign showing its own leaders’ role (ANC), in power for 19 years, and main ry in Gauteng next year,” she told a sea of Though the ANC still firmly controls is trying to fix problems that have been in fighting against the white-minority opposition the Democratic Alliance (DA) supporters dressed in the party’s blue at the province, protests over poor electric- there for centuries,” he told students at regime. A big advertisement in Soweto have held town hall discussions and ral- a rally in Johannesburg on Saturday. ity, water and sanitation services have the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto recalls how Zille exposed the apartheid lies in the region, which encompasses “South Africa stands or falls on Gauteng’s increased. A massive municipal mishap campus on Friday. The ANC has drawn a police killing of activist Steve Biko in Johannesburg and Pretoria. The coun- success because of its economic might. If in the provincial capital Johannesburg lot of mileage from the DA’s image as a 1977 when she was a young journalist. try’s smallest and most populated South Africa is to succeed, Gauteng must provoked scandal as residents received party for whites. Black DA supporters are But the DA stronghold Western Cape province, it holds the seat of govern- succeed.” erroneous utility bills amounting to “un-African”, the ANC has said. is the only province where blacks are a ment and the economic heartland of This will be a key fight in upcom- thousands of rand. The DA, smelling Zuma launched a charm offensive in minority. Gauteng is majority black, and Africa’s largest economy. ing polls, agreed political analyst blood, has thrown its weight and funds mixed-race communities in Gauteng, in a country where race-based politics is President Jacob Zuma, on the hunt Cherell Africa. “Gauteng is a very behind a mass civil society court battle focusing on an anti-drug campaign. an important factor in votes, the party for a second term in office, on Friday vis- strategic province. It is a very impor- against planned tolling on Gauteng’s Many commentators saw this as an has a battle on its hands. “I don’t see it ited the suburb where Nelson Mandela tant province economically,” she told main highway. The party said it wanted attempt to lure them away from the DA, will be likely the DA wins Gauteng,” said used to live in the iconic Johannesburg AFP. “It is strategic in terms of if they to win another key province after taking their likely voting choice. Both parties Africa. “The trend has been that where township Soweto. “Get well, Mandela, want to damage the ANC,” said Africa, the Western Cape - which includes Cape promise a better future, but ironically people are dissatisfied with the ANC get well!” was a popular chant as he who heads the politics department at Town - in the previous elections. the apartheid past is prominent in the they tend to opt out of voting. It’s not spoke to cheering students and school- the University of the Western Cape. Zuma has defended his track record, debate. Slogans in support of 94-year- that they would move to the DA.” —AFP Czech prime minister steps down after graft scandal Arrest of aide on bribery, spying charges pushed him out

PRAGUE: Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was about the surveillance, but the charges were so Necas and his administration will stay on as care- forced to quit on Sunday by a graft and spying toxic that his coalition partners signalled they takers until a new government is installed. scandal involving his closest aide, pitching the could no longer support him. “I will resign as President Milos Zeman will have an important say European Union member state into a period of prime minister tomorrow,” Necas told a news con- in who takes over. If after three attempts there is uncertainty over who will form the next govern- ference after meetings with his Civic Democratic no viable government, or the parliament agrees ment. Under the Czech constitution, the whole party and with the leaders of other parties in the to dissolve itself, an early election will be held. government will now have to step down, and governing coalition. “I am aware fully aware how Forming a new government will be tough for the current coalition because it does not have an outright parliamentary majority. At the moment, it falls at least two votes short. The only way to cobble together a majority is to win over inde- pendent members of parliament. Some inde- pendents have in the past voted with the cabi- net, opening the possibility they may pledge LELYSTAD, Netherlands: The widow (pink shirt) and sons of linesman Richard their support. The constitution gives the presi- dent the authority to appoint a prime minister. van Nieuwenhuizen leave the courthouse yesterday. —AFP He is a political opponent of Necas, and could refuse to endorse the coalition’s nominee for Six teens, dad jailed for prime minister. “If the government has majority support, I believe that he (the president) would accept that Dutch linesman killing majority. If that attempt is not successful, there LELYSTAD, Netherlands: A Dutch court yes- that they will never know exactly what hap- should be a quick agreement on an early elec- terday jailed six teenage boys and a father for pened,” she said. “It looked like they were kick- tion,” said Miroslav Kalousek, deputy chairman of up to six years for brutally beating to death an ing a ball,” the judge quoted a witness as say- TOP09 and finance minister in the outgoing cabi- amateur linesman in a case that shocked the ing as she read out the verdict. This incident net. An early election would favour the opposi- football-mad nation. “The seven suspects are has shocked the footballing world, beyond our tion Social Democrats, who, according to opinion guilty of beating the linesman’s head and borders.” polls, are more popular than the government. The upper body,” judge Anja van Holten said of the Nieuwenhuizen’s death led to much soul- anti-corruption operation that brought down killing of Richard Nieuwenhuizen, 41, last searching in the Netherlands, where 1.2 mil- Necas was the biggest in the Czech Republic, a December. Nieuwenhuizen died following an lion people out of a population of 16.5 mil- country of 10.5 million people in eastern Europe, attack by enraged youth players after officiat- lion are members of the national football fed- for 20 years. ing in a match near Amsterdam in which one eration KNVB. The court heard testimony in About 400 police officers raided government of his sons was playing. May and June including allegations that offices, bank safe deposits and other locations, PRAGUE: Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas announces his resignation on Sunday at the A total of seven young suspects, aged 15 to members of the opposing team told them to conducted 31 house searches and seized at least Czech government headquarters. —AFP 17 at the time, and the 51-year-old adult were “come and fight”. Hassan D said he had only $6 million in cash and tens of kilograms of gold. charged with manslaughter, public violence tried to keep players apart, as the court was there is likely to be horse-trading between the the twists and turns of my personal life are bur- They did not say who it belonged to. A lawyer for and brutality. “The court decides that none of shown photographs of the brawl taken by governing coalition, the opposition and the presi- dening the Czech political scene and the Civic the prime minister’s aide Nagyova, who is now in the suspects had the intention of killing the spectators. But Van Holten said: “Instead of dent before a replacement is in place. Necas quit Democratic Party,” he said. He said his party would custody, says she denies some of the allegations linesman,” the judge said. The only adult, also setting an example by speaking to the days after prosecutors charged the head of his try to form a new government, led by a different against her, while on others she argues that she the father of one of the accused, Hasan D, was youngsters about their behaviour, he partici- office, Jana Nagyova, with bribing members of person, to rule until a scheduled election next acted in good faith. Czechs have been increasing- jailed for six years, while five teens were sent to pated in kicking and beating the linesman.” parliament and ordering intelligence agents to year. However, it was unclear if that plan could ly irritated by media reports of kickbacks and youth detention units for the maximum of two Nieuwenhuizen’s DNA was found on the foot- spy on people. muster enough support in parliament. tainted deals in the public sector and the inability years, six months suspended. A sixth adoles- ball boot of one of the young suspects. The scandal has a personal element for the Two decades ago, Czech dissident Vaclav of the police and justice to punish the perpetra- cent convict, aged 15, was sent to a youth Lawyers for some of the seven said they prime minister: one of the surveillance targets, Havel led a “Velvet Revolution” that overthrew tors. Last week’s operation was, in part, the result detention unit for a year with two months sus- would appeal the sentences. “The problem is according to lawyers involved in the case, was the Communist rule and turned his country into a of Necas’ own reforms: under his watch, newly pended. The seventh teen, also 15, was acquit- that they took a couple of witnesses and prime minister’s own wife, Radka. The two are fil- beacon of liberty. But in the years since then, the appointed prosecutors were given a free hand to ted of the killing but convicted of hitting the based the judgement on them,” lawyer ing for divorce. Necas has said he knew nothing Czech Republic has been mired in corruption. go after corruption cases. —Reuters rival team’s goalkeeper. Marielle van Essen told AFP. “This (the judge- “We’re happy with the high sentences, ment) is way too easy, they were under pres- because the worst thing for me is that they sure and wanted to make an example, but Ecuador, Britain never admitted what they did,” his widow you have to look at individual cases,” said fel- Xandra Nieuwenhuizen told journalists out- low lawyer Geert-Iem Roos. Those convicted fail to break side the court, arm in arm with her three sons. are all connected to, or are members of, the “This verdict gives us some kind of closure,” she Nieuw Sloten football club, which was play- Assange deadlock said on the verge of tears. “Enough of violence ing against Nieuwenhuizen’s Buitenboys Club in football, enough of violence in Dutch foot- in Almere, just east of Amsterdam, when the LONDON: Ecuador said yesterday it will continue to grant ball,” said his son Mykel Nieuwenhuizen, 16, attack occurred. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum at its London who witnessed the deadly assault on his Nieuwenhuizen officiated as a linesman embassy after talks with Britain failed to achieve a break- father. The eighth defendant was acquitted of in the under-17 match and was set upon through on the case. Ecuador Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino the killing but ordered detained for 30 days, 17 immediately afterwards by members of the said the Australian was prepared of them suspended, because “he only hit the Nieuw Sloten club. He was kicked several to stay at the embassy for another opposing side’s goalkeeper,” the court ruling times in the head but got up and went five years if necessary until a said. “The conclusion is that the violence the home. He became ill a few hours later and diplomatic solution was found, suspects committed is the reason for died the following day in hospital with his insisting there were no plans to Nieuwenhuizen’s death,” the judge said after family at his side. After his death, sign were smuggle him out “in the boot of a an expert had said the death could be blamed put up around the country declaring: car”. Patino was speaking after on a genetic anomaly. “Zonder respect geen voetbal” (Without talks with British Foreign Secretary Prosecution spokeswoman Susanne respect, no football). Teams at the Club World LONDON: Britain’s Prince Philip waves as he leaves the London Clinic yes- William Hague in London ahead Terporten said she was “fairly satisfied” with Cup in Japan last year held a moment of terday. —AP of the anniversary on Wednesday the sentences. “The fact that they never con- silence in Nieuwenhuizen’s memory before of Assange’s flight to the embassy. fessed is hard for the family, because it means the tournament kicked off. —AFP The 41-year-old former com- Smiling Prince Philip puter hacker sought refuge on June 19 last year after a British court ordered his extradition to Ricardo Patino Merkel demands answers leaves UK hospital Sweden, where he is accused of LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II’s 92-year-old husband of London, where the queen - an avid horse racing fan sex crimes. Hague and Patino “agreed to keep channels of from Obama on snooping Prince Philip walked out of hospital yesterday “in good and a noted breeder - is staying during the nearby communication open, but made no breakthrough” during the spirits”, 10 days after undergoing exploratory abdomi- Royal Ascot races week. 45-minute meeting, said a statement from the British Foreign BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to cool German fears over its secret nal surgery. The Duke of Edinburgh, who went under Prince Philip was admitted to hospital on June Office. “Ministers agreed that officials should establish a work- said yesterday she was surprised by revela- Internet surveillance program, saying Obama the knife on June 7, smiled and waved as he left the 6, checking in after a Buckingham Palace garden ing group to find a diplomatic solution to the issue of Julian tions of mass US online surveillance and that would tell Merkel that it was purely aimed at private London Clinic in the centre of the British capital. party. He underwent planned surgery the follow- Assange, but no substantive progress was made,” it said. “The she would call for “transparency” on its scope thwarting terror attacks. But Ben Rhodes, a US “The duke is in good condition and good spirits. He’ll ing day. The analysis of the operation results was foreign secretary (Hague) was clear once again that any reso- in talks with President Barack Obama this deputy national security advisor, pointedly take a period of convalescence of approximately two expected to be completed last week. He spent his lution would need to be within the laws of the United week. Merkel confirmed in an interview with noted that Germany had served as a staging months,” a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. “The 92nd birthday in hospital on June 10 and has had a Kingdom.” commercial broadcaster RTL that she would ground for some of the hijackers who plotted duke has expressed his thanks and appreciation to string of visitors, including the queen, their eldest Britain has refused to grant Assange safe passage out of discuss with Obama an issue which has the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. Under the PRISM medical staff at the London Clinic and the many mem- son Prince Charles and his sons, Princes William and the embassy, and so he remains stuck in the modest apart- caused deep unease in Germany, where mem- program that came to global attention this bers of the public who have sent good wishes.” Harry. Prince Philip received more than 1,000 cards ment indefinitely. Patino said Assange was “in good spirits and ories of the East German Stasi’s spying on citi- month, the NSA can issue directives to The palace has not said why he needed the opera- from well-wishers while in hospital, the palace said. is ready to spend at least another five years in our embassy”, zens are still raw. “I will call for more trans- Internet firms such as Google and Facebook to tion, only that it followed abdominal investigations the Born a prince of Greece and Denmark, the naval insisting there were no plans to smuggle him out of the build- parency,” said Merkel, who grew up in the gain access to emails, online chats, pictures, week before. Officials insist he is otherwise in robust officer is known for his forthright manner, impa- ing. “The government of Ecuador believes the reasons for communist East. files and videos uploaded by foreign users. health. Prince Philip is renowned for his no-fuss, “get on tience and off-the-cuff jokes that are occasionally granting him asylum have not changed,” he said. “Mr Assange She was speaking ahead of a G8 summit The European Union has expressed disqui- with it” attitude and is unlikely to take kindly to his deemed politically incorrect. With the duke now a is not going to escape from our embassy,” Patino said. “He is opening in Northern Ireland yesterday and et over the scheme and warned of “grave enforced absence from duty. In recent days he has nonagenarian and the queen 87, the royal couple not going to get out through a tunnel or in the boot of a car. talks with Obama in Berlin tomorrow. She said adverse consequences” to the rights of been asking for paperwork from his office. He have slashed their overseas travel, notably plan- Ecuador will not act irregularly. He will leave through the main Germans wanted to know if their online data European citizens. Meanwhile German news emerged from hospital carrying the 1,000-page hard- ning to skip the biennial Commonwealth summit door - he will go out the front, and to freedom.” was being sniffed out by the US National weekly Der Spiegel reported that the coun- back book “Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and to be held in Sri Lanka in November. Assange denies the allegations of sexual assault made Security Agency (NSA). “We have to be clear - try’s foreign intelligence service (BND) plans a the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754- In a BBC interview marking his 90th birthday, against him, saying they are politically motivated and linked what is being used, what is not being used,” Ä100-million ($130 million) program over the 1766”, by the US historian Fred Anderson. Prince Philip said he was easing back his schedule, to the release by WikiLeaks of thousands of classified US docu- she said. Merkel said that she was “certainly next five years to expand web surveillance Wearing a double-breasted blazer, shirt and tie, the gradually shedding his responsibilities and patron- ments. He said he fears his extradition to Sweden would pave surprised” by the reports about the so-called with up to 100 new staff members. Spiegel duke joked with nurses as he left and shook hands ages. “I reckon I’ve done my bit. I want to enjoy the way for his transfer to the United States, where he could PRISM program, while noting that she recog- said the BND aimed to monitor international with senior hospital staff on the doorstep. Prince Philip myself for a bit now, with less responsibility, less be prosecuted for the whistle-blowing website’s actions. US nised that secret services needed to address data traffic “as closely as possible”, noting that then walked briskly to his waiting vehicle, getting into frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying Army Private Bradley Manning, who passed the hundreds of the threat of terrorism with 21st century sur- it currently kept tabs on about five percent of the passenger side unaided. He lowered the window to think of something to say,” he said. “On top of thousands of secret files to WikiLeaks, is currently on trial in veillance techniques. “However it must be pro- emails, Internet calls and online chats while to wave and smile at people waiting outside the hospi- that, memory’s going, I can’t remember names and the United States on charges that include include “aiding the portional,” she said. The White House on Friday German law allowed up to 20 percent. —AFP tal. He will initially spend time at Windsor Castle, west things. I’m just sort of winding down.” —AFP enemy”. —AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Residents anxious to head back to Colorado fire zone Deadly wildfire now 65% contained

COLORADO SPRINGS: With evacuees anxious to active enough on Sunday to produce a large risk being arrested. Trudy Dawson, 59, was at return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and smoke plume, El Paso County Sheriff Terry work when the fire broke out Tuesday and quick- extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by Maketa said it wasn’t safe for people to return ly spread in record-breaking heat and strong the most destructive wildfire in Colorado’s histo- home until roads and downed power lines were winds. Her 25-year-old daughter, Jordan, who ry. The labor-intensive work is necessary because repaired. Additionally, the death of two uniden- was on her way from Denver to visit, spotted the extremely dry grass and trees could quickly tified people trying to flee the fire was still being smoke, called her mother and went to the ignite if wind stirs up hot spots in the densely investigated. Maketa said he was in no rush to house. With only 30 minutes to evacuate, she wooded Black Forest near Colorado Springs. have people return to an area that, at least for only had time to find a family cat and to open a Firefighters did get some help from the weather now, was still being considered a crime scene. corral gate so the horses could flee. Jordan and as steady rain moved through the area Sunday “I’m not going to compromise the evidence two adult siblings went to the property the next These file photos show Sen Lindsey Graham, R-SC (left) and Sen Robert Menendez, afternoon. But that weather came with some by allowing people in too soon,” he said. Some day with a sheriff’s escort and found the horses, D-NJ. —AP lightning, which sparked a small grass fire near evacuees outside the burn area have been unhurt, standing in their corral. one home. allowed back home. Those with property in the “It was just skeletons of vehicles and ash Nearly 500 homes have been burned by the burn area have returned with escorts to check everywhere. It’s haunting. It looks like it’s right Immigration bill 22-square-mile fire, which is 65 percent con- on their property or to pick up items, but Maketa out of a horror movie,” Jordan Dawson said. It’s tained. Crews hope to have it fully under control said some were then refusing to leave once they unknown what sparked the blaze, but investiga- could decide 2016 by Thursday. Even though the fire was no longer were done. He urged fire victims to cooperate or tors believe it was human-caused and have asked for help from the state and the US Bureau WASHINGTON: Republicans’ hopes to have demanded. “I think 95, 96 percent of of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as reclaim the White House in the 2016 elec- the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go. they sift through the ash. It’s only a few miles tions hinge on whether they support - or But there are elements that need to be away from the state’s second most destructive sabotage - the immigration overhaul being improved,” said Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla. wildfire, the Waldo Canyon Fire, which burned debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who Republicans are demanding tougher border last summer. helped write the proposal warn. Sen. security measures and stricter standards for The memory of that fire may have made resi- Lindsey Graham, R-SC, on Sunday told con- who qualifies for government programs dents especially appreciative of firefighters. servatives who are trying to block the meas- such as Social Security and health care. About 1,000 people turned out to line the road ure that they will doom the party and all but Rubio is trying to balance concerns from and cheer firefighters as they returned from lines guarantee a Democrat will remain in the his party’s conservative flank, which has Saturday night, fire spokesman Brandon White House after 2016’s election. Sen great sway in picking a nominee, with the Hampton said. Some of the aircraft used to fight Robert Menendez, D-NJ, went a step further political attempt to win over Hispanic and the Black Forest Fire and other Front Range fires and predicted “there’ll never be a road to the Asian-American voters who overwhelmingly have been moved to fight a nearly 700-acre White House for the Republican Party” if favored President Barack Obama’s re-elec- wildfire near Rifle Falls State Park in western immigration overhaul fails to pass. tion in 2012. Colorado. That fire erupted Friday from a smol- The Senate is moving forward with an Further complicating Rubio’s presidential dering lightning strike the day before, overhaul and appears to be on track to have aspirations, the Republican-led House hews spokesman Pat Thrasher said. The residents of 12 a vote from the full Senate by July 4. A time- toward tea partyers. “After eight years of homes were ordered to leave along with line for a House proposal is less certain, President Obama’s economic policies, and, campers in the park as well as Rifle Mountain although leaders say they are working on quite frankly, foreign policy, people are Park and the nearby White River National Forest. plans that more closely follow conservatives’ going to be looking around,” Graham said. Crews were closer to containing other wildfires wish list. The Senate last week overcame a “But if we don’t pass immigration reform, if that broke out around the same time as Black procedural hurdle in moving forward on the we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, Forest. In Canon City, 50 miles to the southwest, first immigration overhaul in a generation. practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run a fire that destroyed 48 buildings at Royal Gorge Lawmakers from both parties voted to begin in 2016. Bridge & Park was 85 percent contained and the formal debate on a proposal that would give We’re in a demographic death spiral as a park’s scenic railroad was running again. A light- an estimated 11 million immigrants in the party and the only way we can get back in ning-sparked fire in Rocky Mountain National US illegally a long and difficult path to citi- good graces with the Hispanic community, Park had burned nearly 500 acres and was 60 zenship. in my view, is pass comprehensive immigra- percent contained. In New Mexico, crews were The Senate legislation also creates a low- tion reform. If you don’t do that, it really trying to protect homes in a historic mining skilled guest-worker program, expands the doesn’t matter who we run.” In 2012, Obama COLORADO SPRINGS: In this photo, an American flag hangs in front of a burning structure in town from a 35-square mile wildfire that had number of visas available for high-tech won re-election with the backing of 71 per- the Black Forest, a thickly wooded rural region north of Colorado Springs, Colo. — AP prompted 26 people to leave their homes. — AP workers and de-emphasizes family ties in cent of Hispanic voters and 73 percent of the system for legal immigration that has Asian voters. A thwarted immigration over- been in place for decades. It also sets border haul could again send those voting blocs to security goals that the government must Democrats’ side. That has led some meet before immigrants living in the US ille- Republican lawmakers to support immigra- Current, former officials gally are granted any change in status. tion reform, but the party’s conservative Meanwhile, one of the proposal’s authors, base still opposes any legislation that would who is considering a White House cam- create a pathway to citizenship for immi- back secret surveillance paign, refused again to pledge support for grants living here illegally. Democrats are the measure without changes conservatives well aware of the numbers. —AP WASHINGTON: Top officials from the data collection from Americans and Americans is called Mainway, the Post Obama and Bush administrations say foreign nationals. Like McDonough, reported. A second program targeting the government’s newly exposed they said the operations are constitu- the Internet contact logs and location secret surveillance programs have tional and carefully scrutinized by information of foreign users is called been essential to disrupting terrorist authorities for any signs of abuse. Marina. A third program, which inter- plots and have not infringed on The latest reassurances came as a cepts telephone calls and routes their Americans’ civil liberties. Washington Post report on Sunday contents to government listeners, is The officials justify the massive described the massive structure of four called Nucleon. A fourth program, trawling for phone and Internet data as major data collection programs that Prism, exposed recently by Snowden, new revelations add to public disclo- have been set up by the government forces major Internet firms to turn over sures about the classified operations. since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, the detailed contents of Internet com- Denis McDonough, President Barack 2011. The Post report follows earlier munications. Prism is aimed at foreign Obama’s chief of staff, said the execu- stories based on documents provided users but sometimes also sweeps up tive, legislative and judicial branches of by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. the content of Americans’ emails and government, using “aggressive internal Two secret programs, the Post report- other Internet communications, offi- checks inside the administration, from ed in its new disclosures, are aimed at cials have acknowledged. inspectors general and routine audits, phone and Internet metadata, while “The metadata story does touch are overseeing how we do these pro- two more target contents of phone upon Americans in a massive way with grams.” and Internet communications. phone records but not the content. The McDonough, appearing on CBS’ Metadata includes logs and timing Prism story is about foreigners and it is “Face the Nation,” added, “The of phone calls and lists of Internet about content,” Hayden told NBC’s American people can feel confident communications, but does not include “Meet the Press.” that we have those three branches the actual contents of communica- Rep. Mike Rogers, who heads the looking.” Officials from the George W. tions. Even without knowing those House Intelligence Committee, said Bush administration, including former contents, intelligence officials can learn any phone metadata from Americans Vice President Dick Cheney and former much from metadata, including likely swept up in the surveillance is held CIA and National Security Agency head locations and patterns of behavior. A under careful safeguards, kept in a Michael Hayden, were among those previously reported surveillance pro- “lockbox” that can only be accessed if it who appeared on Sunday talk shows gram aimed at the phone logs and becomes relevant to terror investiga- to back the government’s reliance on location information of millions of tions. US officials also said Saturday that gathered data is destroyed every five years. “This is a lockbox with only phone numbers, no names, no Longtime govt lawyer to addresses in it, we’ve used it sparingly,” Rogers, R-Mich., said on CNN’s “State of lead Gitmo closure effort the Union.” But one congressional critic of the secrecy surrounding the govern- WASHINGTON: President Barack dent’s conviction that Guantanamo’s ment’s surveillance raised doubts Obama has chosen a high-powered continued operation isn’t in our secu- about the effectiveness about the Washington lawyer with extensive rity interests.” The move fulfills part of widespread collection of Americans’ experience in all three branches of Obama’s pledge last month to renew phone metadata. “I don’t think collect- the government to be the State efforts to close the military-run ing millions and millions of Americans’ Department’s special envoy for clos- detention center at Guantanamo. phone calls - now this is the metadata, ing down the military-run prison at That was a major promise in his 2008 this is the time, place, to whom you the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in presidential campaign, but it ran direct the calls - is making us any safer,” Cuba. Clifford Sloan is the pick to aground due to opposition from con- said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. Udall said reopen the State Department’s Office gressional Republicans. he would introduce a bill this week to of Guantanamo Closure, shuttered In late May, Obama lifted a self- narrow the reach of that collection to since January and folded into the imposed ban on transferring only “those who have a link to terror- department’s legal adviser’s office Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, in ism.” Hayden said he worried that news when the administration, in the face what was a step toward closing a reports about the programs have often of congressional obstacles, effective- prison that he said “has become a provided erroneous information, ly gave up its attempt to close the symbol around the world for an “much to the harm of a rational nation- prison. America that flouts the rule of law.” al debate.” He did not specify those A formal announcement of He said he would name envoys at concerns. The disclosures, provided in Sloan’s appointment was expected both the State Department and recent days by both the Post and The Monday, according to officials Pentagon to try to unblock the clo- Guardian newspaper, came from classi- briefed on the matter. They spoke on sure process. The Pentagon envoy fied documents exposed by Snowden, condition of anonymity because he position has yet to be filled. 29, who was working as a private con- was not authorized to discuss the Word of Sloan’s appointment fol- tractor with the NSA and later said he appointment publicly before the for- lows the Republican-controlled grew disenchanted by what he saw as mal announcement. Sloan has House’s overwhelming passage a growing secret American surveillance served in senior government posi- Friday of a $638 billion defense bill apparatus. tions in both Democratic and that would block Obama from clos- After working with the two newspa- Republican administrations and is ing the detention facility. The House pers, Snowden turned up in Hong now a partner in the Skadden, Arps, of Representatives acted despite a Kong, prompting concern that he Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP law White House veto threat. The admin- might cooperate with Chinese authori- firm. For the past several years, he istration cited Guantanamo’s prohibi- ties. “I am very, very worried that he still has been an informal adviser to tive costs and role as a recruiting tool has additional information that he has- Secretary of State John Kerry, who for extremists. A hunger strike by n’t released yet, the Chinese would recommended him for the post, the more than 100 of the 166 prisoners welcome the opportunity and proba- officials said. protesting their conditions and bly be willing to provide immunity for “I appreciate his willingness to indefinite confinement has prompt- him or sanctuary for him, if you will, in take on this challenge,” Kerry said in a ed the fresh calls for the prison’s clo- exchange for what he presumably statement. “Cliff and I share the presi- sure. —AP knows,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.” —AP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL S Korea president flags risks in engaging North Obama calls S Korea’s Park to discuss China’s Xi SEOUL: South Korean President Park were cancelled last week in a row willingness to abandon its nuclear summit with Chinese President Xi Geun-Hye yesterday warned against over protocol. “Talks for the sake of programme before a dialogue could Jinping, when both leaders agreed to engaging North Korea in a token dia- talks will only help North Korea earn begin. work together on the de-nuclearisa- logue that would only allow more time to advance its nuclear The South’s Unification Ministry, tion of the Korean peninsula. Park and Pyongyang more time to develop its weapons,” a presidential Blue House which deals with inter-Korean rela- Xi are due to hold their own summit nuclear weapons program. The warn- spokesman quoted Park as telling tions, made it clear that Seoul and in Beijing on June 27. North Korea has ing came in a 20-minute telephone Obama. Washington were firmly on the same embarked on something of a diplo- matic offensive of its own after months of heightened military ten- sions on the Korean peninsula, during which it had threatened nuclear strikes against the South and the US. In May, it received a top-level aide to Japan’s prime minister, and leader Kim Jong-Un sent his personal envoy TOKYO: In this picture, a 53-year-old former yakuza gangster shows off his to Beijing for talks with the Chinese silicone-made finger during a visit to prosthetics specialist Shintaro leadership. Then it proposed high-lev- Hayashi’s office. —AFP el talks with South Korea which were called off at the last minute after the Fake fingers help Japan’s two sides argued over the rank of their respective chief delegates. Sunday’s proposal for direct talks ex-yakuza lead lawful life with Washington insisted there could belonged to a friend of his boss. Out came be no “pre-conditions”-an optimistic TOKYO: Going straight after a lifetime spent the kitchen knife again, and off came the requirement given the US insistence as a member of Japan’s feared yakuza top of his little finger. But his fourth ampu- that the North first demonstrate its organised crime mobs poses a number of tation bore a whole different significance. “I sincerity about de-nuclearisation. challenges. Chief among them is what to do met my wife,” he said. “I wanted to marry South Korean media dismissed about the fingers you chopped off. For one her, but she said she couldn’t possibly mar- Pyongyang’s talks offer as a worn-out reformed wise guy, the answer lay in thou- ry a yakuza guy. So I quit.” strategy to divide Seoul and sands of dollars’ worth of prosthetics crafted Of course, you can’t just resign from the Washington, with an editorial in the to look exactly like the three of his digits he yakuza. You need to offer a sacrifice. A ring JoongAng Daily calling it “North hacked off to appease his one-time bosses. finger, for instance. “I tried to do it as usual Korea’s indecent proposal”. “You see how real these fingers are?” said with a kitchen knife, but the blade didn’t go Last week, Glyn Davies, the US Toru, 53, proudly showing off his artificial through because of the muscle. I had to ask pointman on North Korea, repeated body parts-both little fingers and his left a brother to take a hammer and a chisel to calls for the North to take steps to ring finger. “There was only one time that lop it off,” he said. “Oh, it was painful.” Where end its nuclear programme and said anyone ever knew they were fake. She was once the missing fingers were badges of the recent surge in tensions on the an old lady in her 70s. I told her I was honour, proving to fellow gangsters that SEOUL: Pictures and diagrams of North Korean missiles are displayed in a street as part of a Korean peninsula had reinforced US injured in a factory.” Toru was loyal, hard-working and prepared hesitancy to engage again. The last Like the Italian mafia or Chinese triads, campaign to denounce North Korea’s nuclear threat yesterday. —AP to make sacrifices, they now worked against senior-level talks between North yakuza gangs engage in activities ranging from gambling, drugs and prostitution to him. call between Park and US President The White House meanwhile page. “I’d like to explain our stance by Korea and the United States in loan sharking, protection rackets, and Life as a “katagi” (civilian) is tough when Barack Obama the day after North issued a statement saying the two repeating the comments from the February 2012 resulted in a deal for white-collar crime. The gangsters in Japan, everybody knows how you used to make Korea proposed opening direct de- presidents “agreed to continue close White House ... that the window of supplies of US food aid in exchange who number 63,200, have historically been your living, with respectable companies nuclearisation talks with the United communication and coordination on dialogue is open but that the North for a moratorium on missile and tolerated by the authorities, and are heavily unwilling to be connected to the yakuza. States. actions to pursue the de-nuclearisa- should take concrete steps first,” said nuclear tests. The agreement col- romanticised in popular culture, spawning a The only solution is to get your fingers back. The offer was widely seen as an tion of North Korea”. Washington had ministry spokesman Kim Hyung- lapsed almost immediately when vast catalogue of manga comics and That is where prosthetics specialist Shintaro effort to drive a wedge between the already responded warily to Seok. the North unsuccessfully launched a movies. Hayashi came in, crafting three silicone fin- United States and its South Korean Pyongyang’s proposal, saying North During their 20-minute call, long-range rocket the following Observers say the strict code of honour gers, complete with the creases and lines of ally after planned North-South talks Korea would have to show proof of its Obama briefed Park on his recent month. —AFP of the yakuza, passed down from the samu- a natural digit. His works are so delicate that rai warriors of the 17th and 18th centuries, he even implants individual hairs taken is largely gone and many are little more from his subjects’ hands and arms to give than brutal criminals. But even in the mob, each finger a really lifelike look. US scientist Japan’s rigid societal rules play out. This “I think of myself as being like Geppetto,” means your peers are always supposed to he said, referring to the woodcarver who hanged himself: look out for you and protect you. Likewise, created Pinocchio. “My job requires not only it means you have to look out for them. knowing the person well but also injecting Singapore Toru-not his real name-used to make his liv- his or her personality into the parts,” he said, ing offering “protection” to the bars and adding that he keeps a photo of his client SINGAPORE: The Singapore government yesterday clubs of Tokyo’s Kabukicho red light district. on his desk as he works. The bulk of rejected a conspiracy theory behind the death of an He was a success, making sure the rival Hayashi’s clients are people who have lost American scientist found hanged in the city-state last gangs stayed off his turf and keeping the hands, feet or ears in accidents, or are born year, saying he killed himself after a bout of depres- money flowing up to his seniors. But then with something missing, but around five sion. Summing up its position at a coroner’s inquest one of the men in his gang-a “brother”-fell percent are former yakuza. Making a mould into electronics engineer Shane Todd’s death in June foul of the strict prohibition on stealing and for the silicon casting is expensive-around 2012, a government statement said “it is clear from the drug use. To assuage his boss’s anger and 300,000 yen (about $3,000) for one finger- medical forensic evidence that the medical cause of prove the group was truly penitent, Toru but it means the prosthetics are easy, and Shane’s death was asphyxia due to hanging.” Public sliced off the top of his left little finger. relatively cheap, to replace when they look hearings on the case were held from May 13-27. An Unfortunately, someone got the group into tatty or worn. independent coroner’s verdict on the cause of death is trouble again a short time later, and Toru “For me, these fingers are consumable due to be handed down on July 8. had to take the knife to the second joint. items,” said Toru. “I have to renew them Todd’s family, who believe Todd was murdered, “The first joint of a little finger can be every three months.” And they have been sliced easily,” he said. “You tie the bottom of well worth the initial outlay, allowing him to stormed out of the hearings on May 21, saying they it with thread tightly and put your body build a house renovation company that had “lost faith” in the proceedings and describing it as weight on a kitchen knife. But the second does legitimate work. “I now run two outlets one-sided. They later said they may have the body joint was tougher than I thought.” Luckily, for my business, making about 300 million NEW YORK: In this file photo, Chen Guangcheng speaks at the Council on exhumed in California for further tests. The head of the there was a brother to hand, who could yen a year,” he said. Asked why he granted Foreign Relations in New York. —AP Singaporean legal team that assisted the family during stand on the knife and slice through the the interview, Toru has a quick and easy the inquest told AFP that the Todds, now back in the knuckle. answer-he wants to show yakuza stuck in a United States, were still considering whether to file a The loss of the tip of the pinkie on his life of crime that there is another way. “They Chinese activist says he’s formal closing submission to the coroner. right hand was his own fault-he got drunk could do well if they work hard, even if they “They have contacted us,” said Gloria James-Civetta. and started throwing furniture around in a have lost some of their fingers. “Life is much being forced out by NYU “A decision has not been reached on whether or not bar. Unfortunately for him, the bar easier this way.” —AFP there will be a submission.” Lawyers for the Singapore BEIJING: Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, Beckman responded that the university began government cited suicide notes left by Todd on his lap- Snowden poses stress test who was allowed to travel to the US after escaping talking to the Chens “not because of some fiction- top computer, a psychiatrist’s testimony that he suf- from house arrest, said yesterday that New York al ‘pressure’ from China, but so that they could use fered from depression, and a browsing history show- University is forcing him and his family to leave at the months to make their transition a smooth ing he accessed suicide websites before his death. “The for HK’s ties with China the end of this month because of pressure from one.” conspicuous absence of any evidence to support the HONG KONG: Former spy Edward Snowden “That fear of Beijing interference is always the Chinese government. The university denied NYU said Chen has two offers for new institu- next-of-kin’s homicide theory must be viewed in juxta- has exposed not only US cyber-espionage but prevalent in Hong Kong on every front,” pro- Chen’s allegations. Chen said in a statement that tional affiliations. Earlier, a spokesman for New position with the overwhelming evidence pointing also political fault lines in Hong Kong that are democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo told AFP. China’s Communist Party had been applying York-based Fordham University confirmed that inexorably towards suicide,” said a closing statement widening as the territory, a proud bastion of “Most people would tend to suspect that “great, unrelenting pressure” on NYU to ask him to Chen was negotiating with Fordham Law School’s read in court by senior state counsel Tai Wei Shyong. free speech and protest, chafes under Chinese there would be some form of Beijing interven- leave, though he did not provide details or evi- Leitner Center but said he didn’t know what kind “It is submitted that (the) homicide case theory is rule. In retreating to Hong Kong and vowing tion, not overtly of course,” she said. China last dence to back his claim. Chen said Beijing’s of position was being discussed. The incident has entirely misplaced and unfounded, and that Shane’s to fight any US extradition attempt, the for- week stonewalled media questioning about authoritarian government has more influence on highlighted the potential public relations benefits mer CIA analyst is testing the former British the Snowden affair but issued its first substan- death was a suicide.” Tai said the scientist’s depression the American academic community than is per- and risks that American universities face in engag- colony’s civil liberties under its “one country, tive comments on Monday, saying that had likely worsened in the months before his suicide, ceived. ing Chinese dissidents at a time when many are two systems” framework of semi-autonomy, Washington owed the world an explanation “The work of the Chinese Communists within trying to expand in China and Chinese students as evidence showed he did not complete a prescribed experts say. “I’d be concerned if China over- about the reach of its cyber-snooping. academic circles in the United States is far greater are an increasingly important source of tuition course of anti-depressants or schedule follow-up steps its power because every time it does, it The boot is now on the other foot after than what people imagine, and some scholars income for colleges. appointments with his psychiatrist. “It is therefore opens up more opportunities for it to do so in persistent complaints from the United States- have no option but to hold themselves back,” he Chinese students form the largest population highly likely his major depressive disorder was not the future,” said Billy Leung, one of several raised at a recent Sino-US summit in said. “Academic independence and academic free- of foreign students at American universities, with being treated during the two months before his hundred people who attended a rain- California-that China systematically steals dom in the United States are being greatly threat- nearly 200,000 this year, up 25 percent since last death,” he said. drenched rally in defence of the self-styled secrets held online. Foreign ministry spokes- ened by a totalitarian regime.” NYU officials called year - and they often pay full tuition. NYU raised its In earlier statements to the inquest, Todd’s parents whistleblower on Saturday. woman Hua Chunying also dismissed as Chen’s account puzzling, saying that his fellowship profile and earned itself goodwill by offering a fel- said he feared he was being made to compromise US Hong Kong’s government is vowing to let “completely groundless” claims aired by for- was meant to be a one-year position and had sim- lowship to Chen as a solution to last year’s diplo- national security in a secret project involving a Chinese the law take its course in its handling of mer US vice president Dick Cheney that ply concluded as planned, and that school officials matic crisis. Beckman said the university provided telecom firm accused of international espionage and a Snowden, who arrived in the city in late May Snowden chose Hong Kong because he was have been talking with him for months about housing, food, health care and insurance, special state-linked Singapore institute that employed their with a trove of documents on US cyber-spy- an agent of China. what his next step might be. law tutorials, translation services, English lessons son. The two firms-the Institute of Microelectronics ing that he has leaked to the press. While the Some Chinese state media say Beijing US government has yet to file any formal should in fact be governed by public opinion Chen sparked a diplomatic crisis between and connections to a publisher. To help him pur- (IME) and China’s Huawei Technologies-said they only China and the US last year when he fled to the US sue his advocacy, Chen was also invited to speak at extradition request, a weekend newspaper in the Snowden case. The Global Times said held preliminary talks on a potential project with com- Embassy in Beijing from house arrest. Since last many events facilitated by the school, Beckman poll said that half of Hong Kongers opposed Monday that extraditing him would be a May, he’d been a special student at NYU’s US Asia said. However, the university’s association with mercial applications, but did not proceed. A US con- sending him back. Hong Kong, which “betrayal” of his trust and a “face-losing out- Law institute. He has been working on a book due such a prominent dissident has brought greater gressional committee last year labelled Huawei and retained a separate legal system after return- come” for China. “The image of Hong Kong out later this year. NYU spokesman John Beckman scrutiny of the university’s engagement with China. ZTE, another Chinese telecom firm, as potential securi- ing to China in 1997, has an extradition treaty would be forever tarnished,” it said. Snowden said in a statement yesterday that the conclusion A US newspaper, the New York Post, had earlier ty threats that should be excluded from US govern- with the United States but Beijing has the timed his trip to Hong Kong well. In two of Chen’s fellowship had nothing to do with the reported that NYU’s decision was related to the uni- ment contracts and barred from acquiring US firms. potential to veto any ruling, and suspicion is weeks, pro-democracy groups will stage their Chinese government. “We are very discouraged to versity’s development of a campus in Shanghai, In a separate closing summary to the coroner rife that it will step in. annual July 1 march marking the anniversary learn of Mr Chen’s statement, which contains a though the university rejected the claim. NYU has Monday, the IME said there was no evidence to sup- Many analysts say the US-China relation- of the Chinese takeover. Last year, hundreds number of speculations about the role of the said that its new campus in China’s financial capital port the family’s allegation that Todd was forced to dis- ship is too important to be sacrificed over the of thousands turned out as anti-Beijing senti- Chinese government in NYU’s decision-making will be a degree-granting, liberal arts and science close sensitive information that could harm US nation- 29-year-old contractor and anticipate a quiet ment surged. that are both false and contradicted by the well- college, with classes scheduled to begin this fall. Its al security. During the hearings, the Todd family’s star deal to hand him over, regardless of whether Beyond the perennial debate about Hong established facts,” Beckman said. Beckman said partners are a Chinese university, the Shanghai city witness, US pathologist Edward Adelstein, recanted an Hong Kong courts rule to let him stay. “This is Kong’s political system, ordinary citizens have that even before Chen’s family’s arrival in the education commission and the government of the earlier theory that Todd was garroted with a cord in his going to affect the Sino-US relationship, so vented anti-China anger on an array of issues States the fellowship he was to take at the univer- city’s Pudong district. Bob Fu, a US-based rights own apartment. He presented a new theory: Todd was Beijing will step in and ultimately, it will have a ranging from high property prices to rude sity was discussed as a one-year position. activist and one of Chen’s key supporters, said US big say in terms of how this is going to be mainland tourists and shortages of baby milk killed by assassins who used a stun gun before chok- “NYU believes it has been generous in sup- academic institutions may shun outspoken solved,” said Ma Ngok, a political scientist at powder. “My intention is to ask the courts and porting this family, and we are puzzled and sad- Chinese dissidents on their own initiative due to ing his neck and then hanging him to make it look like the Chinese University of Hong Kong. the people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. I dened to see these false claims directed at us,” growing economic interest in China. But, he said, in a suicide. But Adelstein presented no evidence and Suspicion of Chinese meddling is stoked by have been given no reason to doubt your sys- Beckman said. The dissident said that as early as doing so they risk hurting their reputations as two other US pathologists testified in support of popular concerns that Beijing opposes univer- tem,” Snowden told the South China Morning last August and September, three to four months being havens for free speech that make them Singapore police findings that Todd hanged himself sal suffrage in Hong Kong and enforces poli- Post last Wednesday, in his first interview since after his family had arrived in the United States, attractive to young Chinese who don’t experience from his bathroom door. —AFP cies in connivance with the city’s pro-business unmasking himself to the Guardian newspa- NYU was already discussing their departure. those and other freedoms at home. —AP elite via a compliant local government. per on June 10. —AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL India’s Congress readies for polls amid oppn split

NEW DELHI: India’s embattled ruling a string of corruption scandals which has candidate for the prime minister’s post Congress party geared up yesterday for derailed efforts to push through prom- should the party win elections. next year’s elections with a cabinet ised pro-market reforms, curtail inflation Modi has painted himself as a pro- reshuffle, boosted by a bitter split in the and revive the economy. But the left-lean- business reformist who can revive the for- opposition over the elevation of a hardlin- ing Congress has been bolstered by tur- tunes of the world’s largest democracy. er. Congress was to swear in four new moil within the opposition coalition after But he remains a hugely divisive figure cabinet ministers, as it readies for a tough the pullout of a key partner over the ele- nationally after being accused of doing battle to try to win a third term in office vation of right-wing hardliner Narendra little to stop religious riots in his state in amid a slew of graft scandals, policy Modi to head its campaign for the elec- 2002 in which some 2,000 people-mainly malaise and the slowest economic tions due by next May. Muslims-were killed. Kumar, the chief growth in a decade. The reshuffle comes a The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata minister of eastern Bihar state, fears Modi day after Congress unveiled its campaign Party (BJP) accused its partner, the Janata could alienate voters, especially Muslim committee, with members picked from a Dal (United) party, of betrayal over the voters, not only in this state but national- diverse range of areas throughout the pullout after a 17-year alliance as the bit- ly, at the election. But the BJP, which is country. “It is a significant rejig as it marks terness of the turmoil played out yester- planning to stage a “Betrayal Day” to a transition within the party ahead of the day in the Indian media. “We will take protest the pullout, remains firmly behind polls,” author and political analyst revenge of this insult in the Lok Sabha Modi. Modi’s rise is likely to pit him Rasheed Kidwai said of the reshuffle due (Lower House) elections next year,” Sushil against Rahul Gandhi, seen as the reluc- later yesterday. Kumar Modi, a senior BJP official, was tant scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, The move comes as the Reserve Bank quoted as saying by the Times of India which is at the helm of the Congress par- of India left its key lending rate newspaper. The head of Janata Dal, Nitish ty, during the election campaign. As well unchanged, dealing a blow to the govern- Kumar, hit back, telling reporters that as the four cabinet ministers, four other ment and underscoring the challenges it Modi’s elevation was unacceptable for his ministers are expected to be sworn in lat- faces as it tries to boost investment and party and would prove disastrous at the er yesterday including two key transport kickstart the economy. The Reserve Bank polls. “They wish (us) long life but give portfolios. A new railways minister is of India held rates steady, saying the local medicines to kill,” Kumar said, referring to expected after the resignation of Pawan currency’s sharp decline could adversely Modi. Modi, who is the chief minister of Kumar Bansal over accusations his NEW DELHI: Indian United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Chairperson impact already high inflation in Asia’s Gujarat state, was earlier this month nephew took a $160,000 bribe from an and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (center) talks with rural women dur- third largest economy. named the BJP’s election committee official in return for a plum post in the ing the 2nd anniversary of India’s National Rural Livelihood mission in New The government has been dogged by chairman, and is likely to be tapped as the state-run network. — AFP Delhi. — AFP Early monsoon strikes India, 26 people dead More than 50 missing in floods

NEW DELHI: Heavy rains lashed parts of north India yesterday, resulting in the deaths of at least 26 people, as the annual monsoon covered the country nearly two weeks ahead of schedule, officials said. Surprise showers struck the capital New Delhi over the weekend, flooding the arrival halls in the international and domestic airports and leading to traffic jams in some parts of the city. More than two dozen people lost their lives due to record downpours in Uttarakhand state, situated in the foothills of the Himalayas, a local official said. “Twenty-six peo- ple have died and more than 50 persons are missing, due to flooding, landslides and building collapses caused by heavy rain,” Piyush Rautela, director of Uttarakhand’s disaster management centre, said. HELMAND: Afghan policemen inspect the site of a suicide car bomb in Lashkar Gah, Three members of a single family, including a capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan yesterday. — AP boy died when their house collapsed, crushing them in the state capital Dehradun, Rautela told Afghan convoy attack AFP. “Dehradun received a record 220 millime- tres (8.7 inches) of rain in a 24-hour-period yes- kills three drivers terday. It has been raining non-stop since Saturday morning,” Rautela said. Several houses KABUL: Insurgents fired rocket-propelled his way to his office at about 7 am. Broken were swept away as water flooded parts of grenades and heavy machine guns into a glass and the charred remains of the Uttarakhand, burying people under debris, he convoy carrying goods to the Afghan capi- bomber’s car were strewn in a main road in UTTARKASHI: Bulldozer and other vehicles are drifted in a flooded river in Uttarkashi district said. yesterday. —AP tal yesterday, killing three drivers and the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after “We fear that we will find many more bodies wounding two others, an official said. Two the attack. The force of the blast tore off the since so many people have been reported miss- shepherds and thousands of sheep stranded, a receive normal rains this year, raising prospects of the container trucks caught fire and door of Elham’s vehicle. Three police offi- ing.” River water levels are continuing to rise village headman told AFP. of a stronger performance by Asia’s third-largest burned from the grenade blasts at about cers traveling in the convoy were wounded, across the state, clogging roads and leaving The rains also caused traffic snarls and delays economy. Last year India got below-normal rain 2:30 am on the main highway about 60 provincial spokesman Ummar Zawaq said. hundreds of pilgrims stranded on their way to in train services in India’s financial capital in the first half of the wet season. The rains kilometers (37 miles) east of Kabul, said “Thanks be to God that it was so early in visit Hindu shrines, he added. Four people died Mumbai. “This is the first time that the rains have picked up in some areas later, but large areas of Sarhadi Zwak, spokesman for Laghman the morning,” Elham said later in an inter- and five others are feared dead due to landslides covered the country so early. Before this, the ear- west and south India did not benefit. province where the attack took place. It view. “If it had been 8 or 9 in the morning, in the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh, a liest was on June 21, 1960,” BP Yadav, director of The monsoon will be crucial for parts of was unclear if the trucks were carrying sup- there would have been laborers here who local police official told AFP by telephone. the India Meteorological Department told the Maharashtra state, India’s biggest sugar-produc- plies for the US-led military coalition or if are building a road for a mosque. “A family of five, including three children Hindustan Times newspaper. The early onset of er, which have been reeling from the worst they had commercial goods, Zwak said, but Shopkeepers would have been here, and were buried alive when boulders fell on their the annual monsoon has boosted hopes for the drought in over four decades. Agriculture con- he added that no international troops or how many people might have been killed?” house in Chagaon village of Kinnaur,” G.Shiva, country’s farming sector and its slowing econo- tributes about 15 percent to gross domestic military vehicles were in the convoy. He With Afghans for the first time taking the police chief of Kinnaur district, said. “The my. product but the livelihood of hundreds of mil- said the drivers were Afghan. the lead in fighting the Taleban in most of family was asleep... Rescue teams are on their The rains that lash the subcontinent from lions of Indians living in rural areas depends on Attacks on supply trucks coming to the country this year, the toll on Afghan way to the spot, but villagers say there is only a June to September are dubbed the “economic the farming sector. A good monsoon is also vital Kabul are relatively common, as Taleban forces has been high, more than doubling minimal chance of anybody surviving,” he said. A lifeline” of India, one of the world’s leading pro- for the ruling Congress party ahead of elections and other militants seek to disrupt both from last year’s spring and summer fighting few villages close to the Tibet border have also ducers of rice, sugar, wheat and cotton. The due in 2014 as it struggles to kickstart growth in flow of the military goods and sow fear season. In May alone, at least 271 police seen unseasonal snowfall, leaving dozens of weather department has forecast India will the country of 1.2 billion people. — AFP among the population. The latest attack were killed in attacks, and total deaths for comes in a period of intense violence, with all security forces including the army and the Taleban targeting police and civilian community-based forces known as the officials and attacking government posi- local police was 400 for the month. Afghan women lose Australian court agrees that tions around the country as Afghan police At the same time, casualties among the and army prepare to officially take over full US-led military coalition have been reduc- power as fears we’re not all male or female responsibility for security from internation- ing as the international forces pull back to al troops. let the Afghans take the lead. In May, 21 grow over future SYDNEY: A landmark ruling won by an accepted that “sex non-specific” could be Insurgents are also waging a campaign NATO troops were killed in the country, Australian gender trailblazer which finds accepted for Norrie’s records. But soon after- KABUL: A legal requirement that women make up at of assassinations of government officials. down from 44 during the same month last that sex does not just mean male or female wards, the office revoked its decision, saying least a quarter of all provincial elected officials was qui- Yesterday, the police chief of the southern year. The coalition said that one of its serv- could have broader implications as society the certificate was invalid and had been etly removed by conservative male parliamentarians, becomes more accepting of diversity, issued in error. At the time, Norrie said the province of Helmand survived a suicide car ice members died in a non-battle-related officials said, the latest in a series of decisions under- bomb attack on his convoy that wounded incident in southern Afghanistan on experts say. Norrie, who does not identify as decision left her feeling “socially assassinat- mining advances in women’s rights in Afghanistan. The either male or female, last month won a bid ed”. “There was a lot of support for fighting three officers. Police Chief Mohammad Sunday but released no further details. The change, engineered in mid-May, was only discovered Nabi Elham sustained only minor injuries death brings June’s toll for international to have a new gender category on the regis- for it,” the 52-year-old recalled. So began a by women members of parliament a few days ago. ter of births, deaths and marriages in New series of appeals, ending with a decision last when the car bomber struck as he was on troops to 20. — AFP The action has sparked fears among women’s rights South Wales, Australia’s most populous month in the New South Wales Court of activists that President Hamid Karzai’s government is state. “I’m very happy that I have been told Appeal which ruled that sex should not be increasingly willing to trade away their hard fought in no uncertain terms that what sex you are limited to male or female, though it stopped gains to placate the Taleban as part of attempts to coax is not just male or female necessarily,” Norrie, short of defining other categories. PNG girl beheads them to the peace table. Activists said it could also reduce the number of women serving in parliament’s who uses only a first name, told AFP. Born as “There are a few people, not many, who dad after rape upper house, as most women are elected there via their a male, Norrie underwent gender reassign- are like Norrie and don’t want male or role as elected provincial officials. ment surgery in 1989 to become a woman. female on their birth certificate,” said Norrie’s “In negotiations you don’t gain anything unless you However, the surgery failed to resolve lawyer Emily Christie. “She feels that every SYDNEY: A teenage girl beheaded her the leaders and the people and told her Scotland-born Norrie’s ambiguity about sex- time she has to sign a form, every time she father with a bush knife after he raped her story of why she had killed her father,” said also give something up,” said prominent women’s rights activist and MP Farkhunda Naderi. “This is a political ual identity. The sexual equality campaigner has got to fill something out, and it says at their home in Papua New Guinea, a Kumi. “The daughter did what she did made global headlines in February 2010 ‘What’s your sex?’ and it only has male or report said yesterday, with community because of the trauma and the evil actions strategy: to please (the Taleban) in peace talks they’re willing to give up women’s rights.” Women entered when an application to New South Wales’ female, she feels that she is being forced to leaders protecting her, saying the man of her father so that is why we have all department of Births, Deaths and Marriages live a lie.” —AFP deserved to die. The Post-Courier newspa- agreed that she remains in the community.” Afghanistan’s male-only political arena in 2001 soon after the overthrow of the hardline Taleban regime by a per said the 18-year-old chopped her Violent crime, as well as witchcraft, is rife in US-led invasion. father’s head clean off after he repeatedly Papua New Guinea with the government The law had previously set aside for women at least raped her last Tuesday night in their village last month voting to revive the death a quarter of seats in some 400 district and 34 provincial in the poverty-stricken Pacific nation’s penalty in a bid to deter offenders after a councils. Seventeen of 28 women in the upper house Western Highlands. series of high-profile grisly incidents. are appointed by Karzai. The remaining 11 must be The report cited a pastor as saying the Brutality against women, including chosen from among women sitting on district and father, in his mid-40s, had three other chil- domestic violence and rape, is also endem- provincial councils, but those positions are now under dren and raped his daughter when they ic in the country. Over the weekend, the a cloud. The change was approved by parliament’s low- were alone in the house after the mother Post-Courier reported that child prostitu- er house, the Wolesi Jirga, on May 22. Prominent parlia- and the other siblings visited relatives. tion is on the rise, particularly in the capital mentarian Fawzia Koofi said female members did not Pastor Lucas Kumi said the man went to his Port Moresby where many new nightclubs discover the change until last week. “(They) removed it daughter’s room in the night and raped her have sprung up, with young girls increas- without informing us. We trusted that the law we repeatedly. “The father wanted to rape his ingly being forced into the sex trade. signed off on was the same as previous drafts,” she said, daughter again in the morning inside the Some are being pushed into selling referring to the members who made the changes. house and that was when the young girl themselves by their parents to help them The law still needs approval from the upper house picked up the bush knife and chopped her cope with rising costs of living, it said, cit- and Karzai before being passed into law. Critics of the father’s head off,” he said. Community lead- ing non-government organisations. “Child change told Reuters its removal will not only affect ers are now refusing to hand the girl over prostitution is an issue so hidden from our women’s ability to serve in the upper house, but also to police, vowing to protect her. public consciousness that the mere men- do away with more than 100 seats in local government “The people and leaders in our area tion of it results in shock and denial,” said bodies nationwide that were previously guaranteed to went and saw the headless body of the one NGO. “It’s true, and it’s here so we have women. —Reuters REDFERN: In this photo, Norrie, who uses only a first name and does not identify as father after the girl reported the incident to to face it.” — AFP either male or female, poses for a photograph in Redfern near Sydney. — AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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he election of the moderate Hassan Rowhani as Iran’s new president is a game-changer Twhich could set a new tone and soothe ten- sions with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, analysts said. Dubbed a “sheikh diplomat” for his negotiating skills in tortuous nuclear talks, the moderate cleric raised hopes internationally after he emerged as the victor of the key polls on Saturday. Rowhani has vowed to end the nuclear stalemate Change to come slowly after Rowhani win which has led to crushing Western sanctions on Iran. His policies under reformist president Mohammad By Marcus George constructive interaction with the world and securing the future of the Islamic Republic. He the issue of the two leaders remains deeply Khatami were abandoned in 2005 when President “more active” negotiations over Iran’s nuclear was rewarded with a string of high-profile sensitive. Rowhani’s first official news confer- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected and Rowhani he victory of a moderate in Iran’s presi- program, after his predecessor’s belligerence positions and remains a member of the ence as president-elect was cut short after a slogan was shouted in favour of Mousavi. quit his post over differences. dential election has kindled the hopes of was met with painful Western sanctions and Expediency council and the Assembly of Tliberals for a return to the “golden years” military threats. He has said suspension of ura- Experts, two influential advisory bodies. With his pre-election emphasis on rights “Rowhani’s victory is not regime change in Iran - of reformist president Mohammad Khatami, nium enrichment was out of the question but Significantly, he is Supreme leader Ayatollah and freedoms, Rowhani may also be forced to but it is a game changer,” said Foreign Policy maga- when Iranians enjoyed more freedoms and his more moderate approach could lead to a Ali Khamenei’s representative on the Supreme confront the issue of human rights and abuses zine. Although the “Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Tehran had better relations with the West. But part thawing of the frosty relations between National Security Council. “Compared with by Iran’s notorious security agencies. Yet he Khamenei) and the Revolutionary Guards continue like Khatami, former nuclear negotiator Hassan the Islamic Republic and Western powers who Khatami, he is in a better position to have may find little ability to extend his influence to control all levers of power,” Rowhani’s election Rowhani will face obstacles from the conserva- suspect Tehran of seeking to develop nuclear Khamenei’s support while in office,” Vaez said. over them, especially after he beat their could see Washington “adopt a new approach to tive establishement. He will be unable to move weapons, allegations it denies. Israel, fearful of To this end, he is expected to draw up a team favoured candidates current chief nuclear strengthen reformists”, it added. Tehran has been fast and may not want to move far since, unlike such a thaw, made clear on Monday it foresaw that includes reformists, conservatives and negotiator, Saeed Jalili and mayor of Tehran, Khatami, he has close ties with the religious no change in the nuclear policy of its long- principlists but that excludes radicals from any Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, to the presidency. engaged since 2006 with the P5+1 - the UN Security leadership. “Dr Rowhani and the Supreme time foe and few expect any early end to its faction, said Mousavian. “Rowhani will be able to decrease tensions and Council permanent members, Britain, China, France, Leader have been friends for more than four support for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Although elated that eight years under slightly relax the security atmosphere which Russia, the US, plus Germany - over its controversial decades,” said Hossein Mousavian, who that country’s civil war. hardliner Mahmoud Ahamdinejad are drawing has gripped much of the country for four nuclear work, but with no breakthrough. worked directly under Rowhani when he was Khatami was director of the national library to a close, many reform-minded Iranians ques- years,” said Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, a Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw, who chief nuclear negotiator. “It is a relationship of before his landslide election as president in tion whether their president-in-waiting can or researcher on modern Iran at Oxford dealt with Rowhani in negotiations on Iran’s nuclear trust.” 1997 ushered in an era when strict controls wants to deliver what he promised and already University. “But he will not have much or any program, called him a “very experienced diplomat That trust is a clue to the puzzle of an over- were relaxed and a vibrant press and flourish- sense disappointment. Chief among those say over the Ministry of Intelligence, the and politician.” “What this huge vote of confidence in whelming victory for reformist-backed ing arts scene sprang up. But entrenched con- concerns is whether he will take on the issue of Revolutionary Guards and will find himself Rowhani after a pre-election clampdown on servatives fought a rear-guard battle, blocking the two reformist leaders who have been hedged in.” Dr Rowhani appears to show is a hunger by the reformists left many expecting a hardline vic- further reforms and banning reformist news- under house arrest for more than two years When president, Khatami was faced with Iranian people to break away from the arid and self- tory. “This outcome more likely came about papers. By contrast, Rowhani earned his revo- over what critics have decried as their sedi- thousands of students in 1999 protesting defeating approach of the past and for more con- because, not in spite of, the Supreme Leader lutionary spurs through his closeness to the tious role in the post-election protests in 2009. against the closure of liberal newspapers. The structive relations with the West,” The Sunday Times who allowed Rowhani to enter the race, gain founder of Iran’s theocratic state, Ruhollah Supporters stirred memories of 2009 during reformist president was accused of standing newspaper quoted him as saying. The United States, momentum, and win,” said Ali Vaez, Iran ana- Khomeini, and former president Akbar this campaign, chanting the names of the two by, allowing the hardliners to crush the dissent which along with Israel and the West suspects Iran’s lyst at International Crisis Group. While the Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was disqualified from men, Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, which left several dead. Several days after the nuclear program is aimed at developing weapons - a president-elect is unlikely to seek such far running in the election but regarded as a “pillar at rallies and intensifying calls for their release. protests, Rowhani, then head of the Supreme charge Tehran vehemently denies - hailed the win as reaching reforms as Khatami, his position at of the Islamic Republic”. “We may see the release of Mousavi and National Security Council, told a pro-govern- the heart of the Islamic Republic will provide Rowhani played a central command role in Karoubi. After the election there could be no ment rally security forces would “deal with a “potentially hopeful sign.” him with a wider political base to get things the Iran-Iraq war bolstering his status and role left for them to play,” said Mehdi Khalaji, a these opportunists and riotous elements if “If he is interested in... mending Iran’s relations done. Rowhani has said he intends to pursue influence, because of its overriding priority in senior fellow at the Washington Institute. Yet they dare to show their faces”. — Reuters with the rest of the world, there’s an opportunity to do that,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told CBS News’s “Face the Nation”. “If he Iran president may help shield rulers lives up to his obligations under the UN Security By Brian Murphy Iran’s presidency is still without the tools to officials including the 64-year-old Rowhani - a ing table before as Iran’s envoy beginning in Council resolution to come clean on this illicit take any major initiatives without clearance former nuclear negotiator - insist the coun- 2003, just a year after Tehran’s revived nuclear nuclear programme, he will find a partner in us, and or a lesson in what Hasan Rowhani’s from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei try’s only seek reactors for energy and med- efforts were revealed. Rowhani has been there will be an opportunity for that.” But others reformist-backed presidency could or, by extension, the Revolutionary Guard. ical use. highly critical of Iran’s leadership for not were far more cautious. “We are not expecting a Fmean for Iran, a promise Sunday by the The ruling clerics - not the president - hold “With a moderate in as president instead showing more nimble tactics and allowing quantum shift,” a European diplomat said, speaking ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard to coop- all the cards in policymaking and make every of Ahmadinejad, Israel has to change its tone,” the economic squeeze to become so painful, on condition of anonymity, adding that “there will erate with him is a good guide. Like the rest make decision such as nuclear efforts, deal- said Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born political with inflation now galloping at about 30 per- be no fundamental changes but perhaps a differ- of Iran’s ruling Islamic establishment, the ings with the West or Iran’s aid to its ally analyst based in Israel. “The sell-by date of cent and critical oil exports cut in half. Guard, which has kept a tight lid on any hints Bashar Assad in Damascus, who sent Rowhani repeating the same line of ‘all options remain In some ways, Rowhani’s rise may owe a ence in style.” of opposition for years, is for the moment a congratulations message Sunday that on the table’ has expired.” The US and other bit to the sanctions and the predictions by Genevieve Abdo, an Iran expert at the embracing Rowhani, even though he is urged for the countries to remain united. On world powers, meanwhile, are likely to move Washington that they will embolden dissent. Washington-based Stimson Center think-tank, said almost certain to return once-silenced mod- Sunday, Rowhani had his first meeting as quickly to restart nuclear negotiations, which During the street celebrations for Rowhani on there would be very little change on the nuclear erates into the political fold and restore the president-elect with Khamenei, who offered have failed to make any headway after four Saturday, there were many chants about Iran’s issue or Iran’s support for Syria’s embattled leader voice of liberal-leaning Iranians who danced sinking economy and international isolation Bashar Al-Assad. “I think that generally we might see in the streets after his stunning election victo- peppered among the calls for greater free- a honeymoon in the beginning, because this histori- ry. The reason is because - in one of the more doms and political rights. Rowhani knew cally has been the way the Iranians operate... But I’m curious twists of Iranian politics - the opposi- where to strike in the campaign, constantly tion’s accidental hero Rowhani also may returning to economic woes. “Which family very sceptical that there will actually be any progress become a lucky charm for the ruling system. today doesn’t have someone who isn’t unem- on the nuclear issue and I think on Syria there will be His surprise victory allows the Islamic lead- ployed?” he asked. “If the administration had no change whatsoever. The regime is concerned ership to seek a bit of legitimacy among liber- a plan, couldn’t this be solved?” about its domestic situation... I think that they will als and others who felt they exiled off the The pro-reform Etemad daily carried a try, perhaps, with this new president to appease the political map after the crackdowns following front page image of the smiling cleric public, whatever that requires, for some time. But massive protests in 2009 over the disputed Rowhani flashing a V-for-victory sign: “A then I think it’s probably back to the status quo,” she re-election of the now-exiting Mahmoud salute to Iran and to the sheik of hope.” added. Ahmadinejad. “They counted my vote!” some “Rowhani may face problems like sanctions, Rowhani supporters chanted in a mix of cele- inflation and so,” said Mirzababa Azadeh Kian-Thiebaut, a political science profes- bration and shock after the announcement of Motaharinejad, a member of the pro-reform sor at Paris University, said the West was better off the results from Friday’s election. Mardomslari party. “But authorities will coop- with Rowhani in its efforts to normalise ties with Rowhani’s mild manifesto - sprinkled with erate with him.” Up to a point. Iran has been Tehran. Rowhani had not evoked “the extremely words like “moderation” and “dialogue” - also here before and it didn’t end well for thorny question of Syria” during his campaign, she could provide a honeymoon period for the reformists. In 2001, reformist Mohammad said. But he had indicated “he wanted to be in line leadership as a whole. Factions in Israel and Khatami steamrolled into his second term as with the Saudis on a number of issues.” Saudi Arabia the US that have promoted military options president. The next four years were a stale- against Iran’s nuclear program may find mate as hardliners allied with Khamenei has backed rebels fighting the regime of Assad, Iran’s themselves in search of an audience with blocked attempts at political reforms in par- ally. A French diplomat however cautioned that Iran Rowhani playing the role of tension-easer. liament. Authorities gave up some ground on had decided to back Syria for strategic reasons and Interviewed on the American CBS TV net- social freedoms - letting women’s head- was a “country that was serious about its long-term work, White House chief of staff Denis scarves slide back and permitting more choices.” —AFP McDonough called on Rowhani to follow Western films and music - but there also were through with his plan to improve relations pinpoint strikes on dissent with arrests and with the West. “I see it as a potentially hopeful Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) meets with the new presi- newspaper closures. All articles appearing on these sign,” McDonough said. dent-elect Hassan Rowhani near a portrait of Islamic revolution’s late founder Now, the Revolutionary Guard and its pages are the personal opinion of The ecstatic outpouring of Iranians danc- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at his office in Tehran on Sunday. — AFP nationwide paramilitary force, the Basij, are ing and celebrating in the streets Saturday far stronger and more deeply integrated into the writers. Kuwait Times takes no night and Sunday reflected the hopes that “necessary guidelines” to Rowhani, state TV rounds since last year. This sets up a potential every level of society, including monitoring responsibility for views expressed Rowhani can bring an end to the domination said, without elaborating. quandary for Iran. social media. It’s unlikely Rowhani will push therein. Kuwait Times invites read- of hard-liners for the past eight years under In reaction to the positive vibes, Israeli The current nuclear negotiator, Saeed too hard anyway. He is moderate in the mold Ahmadinejad, with arrests against the oppo- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Jalili, finished a distant third in the election of his political patron, former President Akbar ers to voice their opinions. Please sition and restrictions on rights. Many saw the Sunday against being lulled by “wishful think- and is something of Rowhani’s antithesis, Heshami Rafsanjani, who wages selective bat- send submissions via email to: opin- win as a slap to the ruling clerics, sending a ing” and urged for increased sanctions to rein insisting that Iran cannot give an inch to its tles against the Islamic establishment but [email protected] or via snail message that they cannot keep the opposi- in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Some Israeli com- foes. So far, Iran’s negotiating position has manages to stay an insider with a post within mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. tion bottled up. Rowhani does have a people- mentators have even joked - with a dash of been that the West must ease sanctions up the ruling hierarchy. Rowhani’s candidacy was power mandate that certainly will be factored truth - that Israeli hawks will miss front as a first step before anything else can something of a consolation prize after the rul- The editor reserves the right to edit in by Iran’s rulers. But the scope of his win - Ahmadinejad as the best salesman for their happen. What the Iranian president can offer ing clerics barred Rafsanjani from running. any submission as necessary. more than three times of votes of the runner- policies. The West and allies fear Iran could be is advice and attempt to nudge views in his Rafsanjani will now play the role of shadow up - doesn’t give him any extra-credit powers. moving toward a nuclear weapon. Iranian direction. Rowhani has been at the negotiat- president, advising from the wings.—AP NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

A sandstorm envelops camels in the desert region of Al-Hasa, some 370 km east of the Saudi capital Riyadh, on Sunday. — AFP US convenience stores exploited immigrants

NEW YORK: Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven conven- to conceal the immigrants’ employment by stealing the identi- the stores had generated $182 million in profits shared by the further comment. ience stores were charged yesterday in a scheme to exploit ties of about two dozen people - including those of the child, defendants and 7-Eleven. Immigration officials detained 18 The case reflects stepped-up enforcement against employ- immigrants from Pakistan and the Philippines, in part by pay- the dead and a Coast Guard cadet - and submitting the infor- workers, including some who first notified authorities about ers using bogus documentation for immigrant workers. In the ing them using the stolen Social Security numbers of a child mation to the 7-Eleven payroll department. When 7-Eleven’s the alleged fraud in 2010. Lynch said the workers would be past two years, federal authorities have brought similar and three dead people while stealing most of their wages. headquarters sent the wages for distribution, the employers processed through the system, with some who served as charges against more than 500 business-owners and man- Most of the defendants were arrested early Monday as federal stole up to 75 percent of the workers’ pay, authorities said. The whistleblowers being able to remain in the country while the agers, said James Hayes, head of Immigration and Customs authorities raided 14 franchise stores on Long Island, New York, defendants also forced the workers to live in houses they case is prosecuted. “Several workers came forward and com- Enforcement’s New York office. “There’s real teeth to these laws, and in Virginia. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents owned and pay them rent in cash, they added. plained,” she said of employees who were recruited from the and we’re using them now more than ever before,” Hayes said. were executing search warrants at more than 40 other stores “The defendants not only systematically employed illegal same ethnic communities as the defendants. Hayes said the workers in the 7-Eleven cases were not inno- across the US suspected of similar infractions, authorities said immigrants, but concealed their crimes by raiding the cradle The defendants were to appear in court on Long Island and cent victims in the scheme but also were exploited by bosses at a news conference in Brooklyn. and the grave to steal the identities of children and even the Norfolk, Virginia, later in the day to face wire fraud conspiracy, who paid them a fraction of what they were owed for working Four defendants who hold both US and Pakistani citizen- dead,” US Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement. “Finally, identity theft and alien harboring charges. They face up to 20 up to 100 hours a week. ship belong to a family that has participated in social events these defendants ruthlessly exploited their immigrant employ- years in prison if convicted of conspiracy and other charges. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc also came under investigation in with Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, prosecu- ees, stealing their wages and requiring them to live in unregu- Those arrested included a married Long Island couple who recent years for hiring workers who were in the country illegal- tors said in court papers as they highlighted foreign ties while lated boarding houses, in effect creating a modern day planta- owned, co-owned or controlled a dozen 7-Eleven franchise ly. Last year, federal prosecutors charged a Minneapolis man seeking to have the defendants held without bail until trial. tion system.” Lynch told a news conference the stolen identifi- stores on Long Island and Virginia. The couple bought their who ran a company that provides labor to large poultry farms Another defendant is a citizen of the Philippines. The govern- cations were “recycled from store to store and state to state” in first franchise license in 1988. The government said the fran- with transporting and harboring illegal immigrants. Haeyoung ment said the defendants pocketed tens of millions of dollars a case driven by greed among defendants who bought big chises were licensed by Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc, the US sub- Yoon, senior staff attorney for the National Employment Law in the scheme, hiding some of the money. houses. sidiary of Seven & I Holdings, which operates, licenses or fran- Project, said that low-wage employers are more prone to not Federal indictments naming eight men and one woman The government seized the franchise rights of 10 stores in chises 49,000 convenience stores worldwide, including 7- having the proper documentation for their workers. Once the allege that since 2000 they employed more than 50 immi- New York and four stores in Virginia. The stores will remain Eleven stores in 16 countries. A 7-Eleven spokesman said the fraud is exposed, the workers typically end up getting fired on grants who didn’t have permission to be in the US. They tried open under the parent company’s operation. Authorities said company was cooperating with the investigation, but declined the spot and sometimes deported, Yoon said. — AP

West rebukes Putin on Syria Rowhani firm on nuclear rights, vows... Continued from Page 1 to overcome mistrust between them. They had earlier Continued from Page 1 Rowhani up on his promise of more constructive agreed to set up a Syrian peace conference in Geneva but engagement. “I will continue to do my work to urge Iran In some of his most colourful remarks on Syria, Putin progress has been slow. The European Union has dropped Iran has since massively expanded its facilities for the to work closely with me.., to build confidence in the described anti-Assad rebels as cannibals who ate human its arms embargo on Syria, allowing France and Britain to enrichment of uranium, extending the process to 20 nature of their nuclear program,” she said. Rowhani said flesh and warned Obama of the dangers of giving guns to arm the rebels, though Cameron expressed concern about percent and raising the fears of regional foe Israel that he would seek to mend difficult relations between such people. Moscow also said it would not permit no-fly some of Assad’s foes. “Let’s be clear - I am as worried as the 90 percent required for a warhead is but a step Shiite Iran and Sunni-dominated Gulf Arab states, which zones over to Syria. For their part, Western leaders have anybody else about elements of the Syrian opposition, away. The 64-year-old Rowhani said that the EU and US have been further strained by the two-year conflict in criticised Russia, Syria’s most powerful ally, for sending who are extremists, who support terrorism and who are a sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors that Syria. “The priority of my government is to strengthen weapons to Assad forces and considering deliveries of a great danger to our world,” Cameron said. have sent the economy into freefall were unjust but relations with neighbours... the countries of the...Gulf sophisticated missile system. “How can we allow that Syria aside, Cameron wants to focus on the formal agen- promised transparent talks to try to resolve the underly- and Arab ones that are of strategic importance and our Russia continues to deliver arms to the Bashar Al-Assad da on tax, trade and transparency, dubbed “The Three Ts”, ing issues. Iran will be “more transparent to show that brothers,” he said. “Saudi Arabia is a brother and neigh- regime when the opposition receives very few and is being topics expected to dominate discussions today. As the its activities fall within the framework of international bour... with which we have historic, cultural and geo- massacred?” French President Francois Hollande said. summit kicked off on Monday afternoon, the United States graphical relations.” Stung by recent victories for Assad’s forces and their and the EU opened negotiations for the world’s most ambi- rules,” he said. “The idea is to engage in more active support from Hezbollah guerrillas, the United States said tious free-trade deal, promising thousands of new jobs and negotiations.” But he said there would be no let-up in Iran’s support last week it would step up military aid to the rebels includ- accelerated growth on both sides of the Atlantic. The spot- Rowhani has repeatedly promised to restore diplo- for its longstanding ally, Syrian President Bashar Al- ing automatic weapons, light mortars and rocket-propelled light was on Obama and Putin who were due to meet at matic relations with the United States, broken off more Assad, to appease Gulf states that back the rebels. “The grenades. In an apparent response to this development, the Lough Erne golf resort about 10 km outside the than three decades ago after the storming of the US government must be respected by other countries until Assad said Europe would “pay the price” if it delivered arms Northern Irish town of Enniskillen, scene of an IRA bomb embassy in Tehran by Islamist students. He has also the next elections and then it is up to the people to to rebel forces, saying that would result in the export of attack in 1987 that killed 11 people. Security was tight and expressed readiness for bilateral talks with Washington decide,” Rowhani said, referring to Assad’s term of office terrorism to Europe. “Terrorists will gain experience in com- the venue was surrounded by a 15-ft high steel fence. to allay its concerns that Tehran’s nuclear program is which does not expire until 2014. bat and return with extremist ideologies,” he said in an Unlike previous summits which have seen often turbulent cover for a drive for a weapons capability. But he said Rowhani won Friday’s election with more than 50 advance extract of an interview due to be published in the anti-capitalist protests, the meeting failed to attract any those talks could not be without conditions. “The US percent of the vote against a divided field of hardline Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today. crowds, possibly due to its remote location. should not interfere in our internal affairs, recognise the conservatives. He told supporters yesterday that he Divisions over Syria dominated the atmosphere as glob- In a speech in Belfast, Obama urged young people in rights of Iran including nuclear rights and stop its unilat- would do all in his power to bring about “the change” al leaders streamed into the heavily guarded resort in Northern Ireland to finish making “permanent peace” and eral policies and pressure,” he said. “The next govern- they desired after eight years of conservative domina- Northern Ireland, a place once rocked by decades of vio- set an example to other areas of the world stricken by con- ment will not give up the legitimate rights of the coun- tion under outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. lence but which Cameron now wants to showcase as a flict. Cameron could also face some awkward questions at try.” “God willing, this is the beginning of a move that will model of conflict resolution. Despite the disagreements the G8 table after a Guardian newspaper report that Britain On a visit to Iran’s western neighbour Iraq yesterday, bring the change demanded by the people in the fields over Syria, Putin and his Western counterparts appeared spied on officials taking part in two Group of 20 meetings the chief negotiator of the major powers, EU foreign of economy, culture, social and politics,” he said, cau- cordial in their public appearances. The Kremlin chief in 2009. In a report published just hours before the G8 policy chief Catherine Ashton, said she would take tioning that could not happen “overnight.” — Agencies cracked a grin as he shook Cameron’s hand outside the summit, the daily said some delegates from countries in venue, as police helicopters surveyed the site overhead. the Group of 20 - which comprises top economies around Moscow and Washington both agree that the blood- the world - used Internet cafes that had been set up by shed in Syria should stop and say they are genuinely trying British intelligence agencies to read their emails. — Reuters Ali vows to rid traffic ‘disease’ Continued from Page 1 out licenses at all,” he said, adding that this called for strict law enforcement. Liberal National Alliance to take part... different times of the day at places with heavy traffic “Traffic in Kuwait is like an old sick man who once flows such as Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Shuwaikh Industrial treated for one aliment develops another,” he noted, Continued from Page 1 at a police station. The court also sentenced four other Area, Amman Street, Bnaid Al-Gar, Khaitan, Farwaniya adding that 18 traffic inspection teams dressed in civil- policemen to 15 years in jail each, a fifth for two years in and Fahaheel. “The specimens showed some major ian clothes had been formed and deployed in various Other opposition groups, comprising Islamists, prison and fined two others KD 75 each. The court, problems such as domestic drivers using private vehi- places. “Fortunately, traffic police only file 100 daily cita- nationalists and other liberals, vowed after a lengthy whose rulings cannot be appealed, also acquitted 11 cles as taxis, taxi and large vehicle drivers who do not tions in Jleeb compared to 1,000-1,500 in the past”, he meeting Sunday night that they will not take part in the others including two foreign civilians who worked at the hold general driver’s licenses and people driving with- concluded. forthcoming election in protest against the constitution- police station. The criminal and appeals courts had sen- al court ruling which “ended the rule of the constitution”. tenced the two officers for life terms but the cassation The opposition said it will take a series of actions in the court toughened the sentence to death. Rebels get Saudi missiles near future to express its rejection to holding parliamen- The officers were convicted of torturing to death tary elections on the basis of the single-vote law. Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Al-Maimouni at a police sta- Continued from Page 1 early June. The Progressive Movement in the meantime said that tion in Ahmadi in Jan 2011 on charges that he was sell- Diplomatic sources in Riyadh said Saudi Arabia, the chronic political crisis in the country has not been ing liquor, a charge that was found to be fabricated. The The reported Saudi supplies began shortly before its France and Britain shared common ground on pushing resolved or dealt with because its causes still exist. The policemen arrested Maimouni and tortured him merci- main Western ally the United States announced it would Washington to take more decisive action against Assad. crisis has not resulted from the single-vote amendment lessly in a remote desert area for three days and then likely send arms to Syrian rebels, a development long Saudi Arabia has led Arab opposition to Assad since ear- but from a trend in the country to adopt individualism in brought him to the police station and continued the tor- encouraged by Riyadh. ly in Syria’s revolution. It was the first country to cut governing and decision-making, it charged. Among the ture. They refused his non-stop pleading that he was a Top Saudi princes have been shuttling from one ally diplomatic ties with Damascus last year and took an ear- reasons are the shortcomings in the 1962 constitution cardiac patient and that he needed to take his medica- to another in recent weeks for meetings about Syria. The ly lead in funding and arming the rebels and helping which lacks the most important democratic guarantees tion. The torture and refusing to give him medicine led epicentre of this activity was Paris, visited by Interior them logistically. However, its support has always been in legalizing political parties and a fair election system, it to his death. The deceased was rushed to Kuwait Oil Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in May, intelli- tempered by concerns of blowback from the more mili- added. It called on opposition groups to adopt a pro- Company hospital in Ahmadi after he collapsed at the gence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Foreign tant Islamist groups spearheading the battle against gram for true reforms that aims to achieve a full parlia- police station. But he was dead when he arrived and Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal this month. Saudi Arabian Assad, diplomatic sources in Riyadh say. Riyadh has mentary system. doctors discovered he was tortured. The issue forced for- National Guard Minister Prince Miteb bin Abdullah is spent years combating domestic militants who waged a In another development, the court of cassation, the mer interior minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to there this week after meeting Turkish Prime Minister bombing campaign against Saudi and US targets last highest court in Kuwait, yesterday sentenced two police resign after he was accused of providing false informa- Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. Crown Prince Salman met decade, after they returned from fighting under the officers to death for torturing a Kuwaiti citizen to death tion to the Assembly. British Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond in Jeddah in Islamist banner in Afghanistan and Iraq.— Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SPORTS

Isco gets Real, City offers F1 seek contract extension Animal Kingdom favorite

MADRID: Malaga’s Spain Under-21 playmaker Isco has confirmed that Real Madrid and MONTREAL: Canadian Grand Prix organisers say they are discussing a LONDON: Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom bids to fol- Manchester City have made offers to buy him and said he will decide his future after 10-year contract extension as Formula One seeks long-term deals with low in Frankel’s hallowed hoof-prints with the American raider providing the star today’s European championships final against Italy. key races ahead of a possible flotation of the series. Francois Dumontier, billing on the opening day of Royal Ascot yesterday. The 21-year-old midfielder, valued at 20 million euros ($26.7 million) on website promoter of the race in Montreal, told the espn.co.uk website that an Frankel enjoyed an imperious 11-length triumph in the Queen Anne Stakes last transfermarkt.com, helped Malaga reach the last eight of the extension to 2024 was on the table. He said that was the longest agree- year on his way to becoming the world’s highest-rated Champions League last season and has caught the eye with ment ever proposed to Canadian organisers, with previous deals being racehorse. several scintillating performances at the Euro Under-21 for five years with options. “All new agreements now being signed are The memory of that explosive victory will have extra tournament in Israel. for 10 years,” he added, saying that there were several reasons for that. “I poignancy following the death last week of Frankel’s train- Asked about offers from Real and City, Malaga native believe they want to consolidate the good grands prix. Montreal is such er Henry Cecil, who trained a record 75 Royal Ascot win- Isco told Spain’s As sports daily on Monday they were “on a race, undoubtedly. We saw as much (this year) with the full grand- ners over four decades. the table”. “I know that both Manchester City and Real stands and the comments made by the drivers and teams. “F1 has a Animal Kingdom will be the first Kentucky Derby Madrid are two great clubs,” he added. “I want what is project to enter the stock market. Ten-year contracts have a certain val- winner to race at Royal Ascot since the Triple Crown best for me and for Malaga.” Isco said he had not spo- ue when entering the stock market,” he added. Formula One supremo winner Omaha, who raced in the Ascot Gold Cup in ken to City’s new manager Manuel Pellegrini since the Bernie Ecclestone said in April that the company behind the sport could 1936. “I’ll never train another one like him. The horse Chilean decided to leave Malaga and move to the be floated in Singapore at the end of this year if markets remained has had a chequered career because of his injuries so Premier League at the end of last term. However, benign. it is all the more remarkable how he has kept his form,” Pellegrini’s presence at City might help swing Plans to raise up to $3 billion by listing the business were pulled last Animal Kingdom’s British-born trainer Graham year amid market turmoil following the flotation of social network his decision the way of the Manchester club, Motion said of the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner. Facebook, whose shares plunged after their debut. Several grands prix Isco added. “He is a great coach who has done “Royal Ascot is a bonus for me because I are nearing the end of their current contracts, with Australia’s ending in some impressive work at Malaga, as he did at thought Dubai was his last race. I feel very fortu- 2015 along with Barcelona, while Bahrain’s runs out in 2016. Singapore other clubs, and I am sure things will go well nate that these guys have taken on this very signed a five-year extension in 2012.—Reuters for him (in England),” he said.—Reuters sporting challenge at Royal Ascot. —Reuters Mets win, Braves roll

NEW YORK: Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a three-run homer that walks in 5 2-3 innings. The top pick from the 2011 draft Chacin was efficient throughout. Chacin needed just 74 capped a four-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning won in his big league debut last week. pitches - 59 strikes - to get through the first eight innings. to help the Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Sunday, Alvarez snapped a 2-all tie when he connected off Hamels has lost two straight decisions and eight of nine. salvaging what had been shaping up as another sorry Zack Greinke (3-2) for a three-run homer in the fifth. afternoon. Matt Garza pitched seven scoreless innings, Alvarez leads the Pirates with 15 homers. PADRES 4, DIAMONDBACKS 1 and the Cubs scored twice on a madcap play that fea- The Pirates won for the sixth time in nine games. Alex In San Diego, Kyle Blanks hit a three-run homer with tured three bad throws by Mets infielders, giving Presley had three hits for the Pirates, including a home two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning to a snap a tie Chicago a 3-0 lead. run, and Garrett Jones added a two-run single. Dodgers and lift San Diego to its season-high sixth straight victory. But New York came back against Carlos Marmol (2-4) rookie Yasiel Puig had three hits and raised his batting Blanks’ eighth home run of the season came off in the ninth, starting with Marlon Byrd’s leadoff home average to .479 in his first 48 at-bats in the majors. Arizona reliever David Hernandez (2-4) and made a win- run. Nieuwenhuis connected with one out. ner of Clayton Richard (2-5), giving the Padres a three- BALTIMORE: Chris Davis No. 19 of the Baltimore Orioles beats the tag of Jose Bobby Parnell (5-3) pitched the top of the ninth. Mets ROCKIES 5, PHILLIES 2 game sweep. starter Jeremy Hefner allowed one earned run and struck In Denver, Jhoulys Chacin came within an out of his Huston Street came on in the ninth to earn his 13th Iglesias No. 10 of the Boston Red Sox for a double in the fifth inning.—AFP out five in five innings. second career shutout, and Colorado topped save in 14 opportunities for the Padres (35-34), who Garza gave up three hits and struck out five, and was Philadelphia. Chacin gave up six hits, struck out three and moved above 500. for the first time since closing the 2010 Orioles pound Red Sox all set up for his second win in five starts this season. The didn’t walk a batter. His 8 2-3 innings marked the longest season with a 90-72 record. Cubs had used closer Kevin Gregg on four consecutive outing by a Rockies starter this season. The Padres have gone 30-19 since May 1, are 21-7 in ARLINGTON: Chris Davis hit his major league-lead- went 4-6 on a 10-game homestand. days and manager Dale Sveum turned to Marmol, who Jimmy Rollins hit an RBI double with two outs in the their last 28 home games and have pulled within two ing 23rd home run and Nick Markakis had four hits ASTROS 5, WHITE SOX 4 had been unseated as closer earlier this season. Phillies’ ninth, and Ryan Howard followed with a single to games of first-place Arizona in the NL West. and scored three runs as the Baltimore Orioles beat In Houston, Jason Castro homered for the sec- finish Chacin (5-3). Rex Brothers got the final out for his Everth Cabrera opened the eighth with his third single Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox 6-3 on Sunday. ond straight game and Matt Dominguez hit a three- BRAVES 3, GIANTS 0 second save of the season. Wilin Rosario and Carlos of the game and Chase Headley walked with two outs Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to a run double to help Houston top the Chicago White In Atlanta, Freddie Freeman singled three times and Gonzalez homered for Colorado. The teams combined for before Blanks hit a 1-2 pitch 379 feet into the left-field career-high 14 games and drove in a run for the Sox for its fourth straight win. drove in one run, and Julio Teheran pitched six innings to 30 runs and 55 hits in splitting the first two games of the bleachers. Until then the game had been an outstanding Orioles, who took three of four from first-place Dominguez put Houston on top 3-0 with a dou- lead Atlanta over San Francisco. series, but pitchers dominated the finale at Coors Field. pitcher’s duel between Richard and Arizona’s Ian Boston to move within 11/2 games of the AL East ble in the second inning, and Castro hit a two-run Teheran (5-3) allowed seven hits and one walk. The Phillies starter Cole Hamels (2-10) was sharp early, but Kennedy—AP lead. Baltimore has won six straight series over the shot to make it 5-2 in the seventh. 22-year-old struck out eight and got a few stellar plays Red Sox. Davis gave the Orioles a 3-0 lead in the The left-handed Castro hit his first career home from outfielders Jason Heyward and Justin Upton in the third inning with his 100th career homer and sev- run off a left-hander on Saturday night when he fourth, and by Andrelton Simmons at shortstop in the enth in 10 games against Boston. Davis doubled in a connected off John Danks, and made it two against sixth that kept a run from scoring with the Braves hold- run in the fifth to give him 60 RBIs. Matt Thornton on Sunday. ing a two-run lead. Will Middlebrooks hit a three-run homer for the Alejandro De Aza tripled and scored in the sixth Lincecum (4-7) gave up six hits and five walks in six Red Sox, 2-5 against the Orioles this season and 5- and Dayan Viciedo tripled and scored in the seventh innings. Two of his three runs were earned, and he struck 14 in the last 19 games between the teams. to cut the lead to 3-2. De Aza added a two-out, two- out three. Baltimore starter Miguel Gonzalez (5-2) took a run homer off Jose Veras to make it 5-4 in the ninth Braves closer Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless ninth two-hitter and a 5-0 lead into the seventh. He before Alexei Ramirez grounded out to give Veras to earn his 19th save in 22 chances. Kimbrel struck out allowed three runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings to his 14th save. Houston starter Dallas Keuchel (4-3) Andres Torres and Joaquin Arias before retiring Nick improve to 3-0 against Boston. yielded four hits and two runs in 6 1-3 innings for Noonan on a flyout. Jim Johnson earned his 25th save. Lester (6-4) the win. Hector Santiago (2-5) allowed five hits and fell to 14-2 against the Orioles, 7-1 at Camden Yards. three runs with eight strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings. The REDS 5, BREWERS 1 The right-hander gave up five runs and nine hits in AL-Central-worst White Sox have dropped four In Cincinnati, Johnny Cueto pitched six solid innings five innings. straight overall and 12 of their last 13 road games. in his return to Cincinnati’s rotation and Jay Bruce home- YANKEES 6, ANGELS 5 BLUE JAYS 7, RANGERS 2 red in a win over Milwaukee. In Anaheim, Mariano Rivera struck out Albert In Arlington, Wang Chien-ming won for the first Donald Lutz drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single, Pujols with the bases loaded to end the Angels’ five- time in more than a year and Colby Rasmus home- and Zack Cozart and Joey Votto each had two hits as run rally in the ninth inning as the New York Yankees red for a third straight game as Toronto completed a Cincinnati rebounded after losing 6-0 on Saturday. ended their five-game losing streak with a wild vic- four-game sweep by beating Texas for its fifth Cueto, activated from the disabled list Sunday, tory over Los Angeles. CC Sabathia pitched five-hit straight victory. The Rangers lost their sixth in a row improved to 4-0 in his seventh start of the season. He ball into the ninth, and Travis Hafner hit a three-run and fell to 1-6 on a season-high, 11-game homes- allowed five hits and one run with three strikeouts and homer off Jered Weaver, but the Yankees barely sur- tand. Texas has dropped six straight for the first time no walks as the Reds took two of three in the weekend vived when Rivera fanned the Angels’ star slugger. since April 15-21, 2010. series. New York’s famed closer gave up three hits and a Wang (1-0) allowed seven hits in seven shutout Cueto made his first start since a 6-0 win at Pittsburgh walk, but still got his 24th save. innings to win for the first time since last June 12 on May 31. He was placed on the disabled list on June 5 Lyle Overbay and Jayson Nix also drove in runs with Washington. Adam Lind hit a three-run homer, for the second time this season because of a strained during a five-run third inning for the Yankees, who and J.P. Arencibia added a two-run shot for Toronto. muscle in his right shoulder. salvaged the finale of their 10-game road trip by The Blue Jays outscored the Rangers 24-4 to sweep Alfredo Simon allowed two hits and had six strikeouts battering Weaver (1-3) early and hanging on late. a four-game series at Texas for the first time. in three innings of relief for his first save of the season NEW YORK: Carlos Marmol No. 49 of the Chicago Cubs pitches against the New York Mets Sabathia (7-5) struck out six and walked three, Derek Holland (5-4) allowed four runs and 10 and second in two years with Cincinnati. during their game at Citi Field. —AFP but tired in the ninth, leaving with two runners on. hits in six innings for the Rangers, who have only Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta gave up all five Reds After reliever David Robertson left with a 6-1 lead, scored eight runs in their slide. runs - four earned - in 5 1-3 innings. The slumping Peralta Rivera gave up Erick Aybar’s RBI groundout, Alberto ATHLETICS 10, MARINERS 2 (4-8) allowed seven hits with two walks and two strike- MLB results/standings Callaspo’s two-run single and Peter Bourjos’ RBI sin- In Oakland, Bartolo Colon worked seven strong outs to fall to 1-6 in his last seven starts. gle. Rivera then walked Mike Trout to load the bases innings to win his sixth straight decision and Josh Cleveland 2, Washington 0; Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 1; Miami 7, St. Louis 2; NY Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 3; before getting Pujols, finally wrapping up the 632nd Reddick homered and matched a career high with MARLINS 7, CARDINALS 2 Baltimore 6, Boston 3; Pittsburgh 6, LA Dodgers 3; Kansas City 5, Tampa Bay 3; Detroit 5, Minnesota 2; Houston save. four hits as Oakland avoided a sweep with a victory In Miami, Ricky Nolasco allowed one run and three 5, Chicago White Sox 4; Toronto 7, Texas 2; NY Yankees 6, LA Angels 5; Oakland 10,Seattle 2; San Diego 4, TIGERS 5, TWINS 2 over Seattle. Sean Smith and Brandon Moss each hits in seven innings to help Miami take the last game of Arizona 1; Colorado 5, Philadelphia 2; Atlanta 3, San Francisco 0. In Minneapolis, Doug Fister held Minnesota hit- homered and drove in two runs for the Athletics, its three-game series against St. Louis. The NL Central- less until the sixth inning and Torii Hunter connect- who moved three games ahead of Texas in the AL leading Cardinals lost a series for the first time since April American League National League ed for his 300th career home run, leading Detroit West - their largest lead since ending the 2006 sea- 26-28 against Pittsburgh. Eastern Division Eastern Division over the Twins. Fister (6-4) didn’t allow a baserunner son four games up. Josh Donaldson also went deep, The Marlins climbed above .300 at 21-47, still base- W L PCT GB Atlanta 41 28 .594 - until walking Ryan Doumit with two outs in the and Yoenis Cespedes, Coco Crisp and John Jaso ball’s worst record. They scored 19 runs in the series Boston 42 29 .592 - Washington 34 34 .500 6.5 fourth inning, then lost his no-hit bid when Brian drove in runs for Oakland. against a team with the lowest ERA in the majors. Baltimore 40 30 .571 1.5 Philadelphia 33 37 .471 8.5 Dozier led off the sixth with a homer. Colon (9-2) allowed two runs on eight hits, didn’t The abundance of offense was a refreshing change NY Yankees 38 31 .551 3 NY Mets 25 39 .391 13.5 Fister allowed two runs and two hits - both to walk a batter, and struck out three to extend his for Nolasco (4-7), who has endured the worst run sup- Tampa Bay 36 33 .522 5 Miami 21 47 .309 19.5 Dozier - in 7 2-3 innings. He struck out seven, walked home win streak to seven. Hisashi Iwakuma (7-2) port of any pitcher with at least 14 starts. Juan Pierre Toronto 32 36 .471 8.5 Central Division two and won for the first time in his last six starts. lost for the first time since April 23, giving up four drove in two runs and had two hits to extend his hitting Central Division St. Louis 44 25 .638 - streak to 12 games, and Justin Ruggiano and Placido Joaquin Benoit pitched the final 1 1-3 innings, earn- runs on a season high-tying eight hits. Detroit 38 29 .567 - Cincinnati 42 28 .600 2.5 ing his fourth save. Hunter and Austin Jackson both INTERLEAGUE GAME Polanco each had a two-RBI hit. The Marlins have won Cleveland 34 34 .500 4.5 Pittsburgh 41 28 .594 3 hit two-run homers for Detroit. PJ Walters (2-2) gave INDIANS 2, NATIONALS 0 eight of 14, their best stretch this season. Tyler Lyons (2- Kansas City 33 34 .493 5 Chicago Cubs 28 39 .418 15 up four runs on nine hits and three walks in 5 1-3 In Cleveland, Corey Kluber pitched eight 3), making his fifth major-league start, lost for the third innings. shutout innings as Cleveland spoiled Stephen time in a row after winning his first two decisions. He Minnesota 30 36 .455 7.5 Milwaukee 28 40 .412 15.5 ROYALS 5, RAYS 3 Strasburg’s return with a win over Washington. gave up six runs in 5 1-3 innings. The Cardinals managed Chicago W Sox 28 38 .424 9.5 Western Division In St. Petersburg, Wade Davis stopped his five- Kluber (5-4) escaped three big jams to win for only five hits, all singles. Western Division Arizona 37 32 .536 - game winless streak and Jeff Francoeur homered as the first time in 11 career starts at Progressive Oakland 42 29 .592 - Colorado 37 33 .529 0.5 Kansas City beat Tampa Bay. Davis (4-5) gave up two Field. He gave up seven hits, struck out eight and PIRATES 6, DODGERS 3 Texas 38 31 .551 3 San Francisco 35 33 .515 1.5 runs and five hits in six innings for his first win since didn’t walk a batter. He wiggled out of trouble in In Pittsburgh, rookie Gerrit Cole won again, getting Seattle 31 39 .443 10.5 San Diego 35 34 .507 2 he beat the Los Angeles Angels on May 15. It was the seventh after the Nationals loaded the bases home run help from Pedro Alvarez and pitching LA Angels 30 39 .435 11 LA Dodgers 29 39 .426 7.5 the right-hander’s first game against the Rays, who with no outs. Strasburg (3-6), activated from the Pittsburgh past Los Angeles. Houston 26 44 .371 15.5 traded him to the Royals during the offseason. disabled list before the game, held the Indians to Cole (2-0) allowed three runs on seven hits and no After Francoeur hit a solo homer in the fifth one run and one hit in five innings. Making his inning, Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon had RBI first start since May 31 when he strained a mus- singles to put the Royals ahead 4-2 in the sixth. cle in his back, the right-hander struck out four, Gordon added a sacrifice fly in the eighth. walked four and threw 82 pitches. Lexus defeat AMEC in final Francoeur had only 13 hits in 83 at-bats before Carlos Santana’s RBI single with one out in the delivering his third homer this season. Greg Holland, fourth - the only hit Strasburg allowed - gave the fourth Kansas City reliever, earned his 14th save Cleveland a 1-0 lead. Jason Kipnis’ sacrifice fly in KUWAIT: Lexus defeated AMEC Diamond Cricket see his team through to an emphatic win in the The presentation party was presided by Asad despite allowing a homer to Jose Lobaton in the the eighth scored the Indians’ run. Vinnie Team in the finals played at the Sulaibiya Cricket 18th over. Baig who handed over the GCL Cup to the win- ninth. Roberto Hernandez (4-7) allowed four runs Pestano pitched the ninth for his first save of the Ground organised under Kuwait Cricket. Raghavendra was declared man of the match ning captain Anil Reddy of Lexus. and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings for Tampa Bay, which season.—AP AMEC won the toss and elected to bat first on for his match winning performance of 66 runs The final was officiated by umpires Farid a pitch that looked inductive for batting. The from 51 balls and also got a wicket conceding 23 Dilwai and Imran Mustafa while Syed Nadeem Kuwait wins gold medal openers of AMEC Could not give them a start runs in his allotted quota of 4 overs. was the official scorer of the match. they were looking for in the finals, within four KUWAIT: Kuwait’s skeet shooter Abdallah are always working hard to keep their coun- overs both the openers were back in the pavilion Alturqi Al-Rashidi won the gold medal during try’s name in prominence in world arenas. with only 19 runs on the board. the world championship that was held in NIkhil was the top scorer for AMEC as he Cyprus from June 8-17, 2013. Al Rashidi played an anchor role with a patient 31 runs of scored 123 hits and had to go through a 24 balls. Wickets kept tumbling for AMEC as shoot off round with the Swedish shooter some good bowling from Lexus restricted AMEC Henrick Johnson and beat him to take first to 141 runs in 20 overs, Roshan and Christopher place while third place went to Spain’s Jose were the pick of the bowlers for Lexus as they Juan. Head of Kuwait’s delegation Dr. Nidal took 2 wickets each. Ahmad Alsayed Omar lauded the spirit of Chasing a modest total, Lexus too had a Kuwaiti shooters as they proved themselves in shaky start losing three wickets in quick succes- the presence of shooters from over thirty sion, some accurate bowling from Imtiyaz had countries. put Lexus in some sort of trouble but the opener He said that Kuwait shooting achieve- of Lexus Raghavendra played a vital role in ments will continue as he dedicated this win to HH the Amir, HH the Crown Prince and the achieving the target, as he along with Thomas Kuwaiti people, adding that Kuwait’s shooters Abdallah Alturqi Al-Rashidi put on a valuable 78 runs for the sixth wicket to TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SPORTS Birthday heartbreak for Mickelson in Open

ARDMORE: This wasn’t the way it was sup- first Masters, cradling his daughter on the posed to end, not on Phil Mickelson’s birth- side of the green and telling her, “Daddy day and not at Merion Golf Club, where his- won! Can you believe it?” tory will record with little fanfare outside of This one would have been almost as England that Justin Rose won his first major good, except there would be cake instead championship. of a green jacket. All Mickelson had to do When the rain began falling on the back was play even par coming in to win and, nine Sunday after Mickelson pitched in for though that’s a tough order in any Open, an eagle on the 10th hole to take the lead he had the easy 121-yard 13th hole that he in the US Open, you half expected a rain- would almost surely birdie as insurance bow to appear amid the clouds with a tro- against any bogeys down the stretch. phy at the end of it and bearing Mickelson’s But he hit a pitching wedge instead of a name. gap wedge to the hole, flying the green He probably expected it, too, if only and leaving himself with a pitch from the because the law of averages would seem to rough he had no way of getting close to demand it. Five times before he had been the hole. He made bogey, then compound- runner-up in this tournament and no book- ed his error on No. 15 by quitting on a gap ie in Vegas would offer odds of any player wedge and leaving it so short he had to finishing second in the national champi- chip from the front of the green for another onship six times. bogey. But golf is a cruel game and the Open This from a guy who had studied Merion seems even crueler to Mickelson, though so carefully that he carried five wedges in some of the fault lies within. He desperately his bag and not one driver. “Thirteen and chased the best birthday present of all, 15 were the two bad shots of the day that only to kick it away once again in a way I’ll look back on where I let it go,” Mickelson only Mickelson seems to lose golf tourna- said. ments. What made it hurt even more was that Two bad wedges from one of the great- Merion was Mickelson’s kind of course, a est short game players ever. One more place where he could work the ball both huge disappointment in a tournament ways and use his short game magic to Mickelson seems destined never to win. trump the field. He knew it from the time ARDMORE: Justin Rose of England kisses the US Open trophy after winning the 113th US Open at Merion Golf Club. —AFP If he didn’t cry, surely some of his many he first played it, and became even more fans did. This wasn’t so much a loss as it convinced of it the more he studied his was a career encapsulating moment, and notes and course pictures in the days though Mickelson handled it with his usual ahead of the Open. English Rose blooms grace that didn’t make it any easier to He opened with a 67 on little sleep and stomach. had a one-shot lead going into the final He began the week by flying all night to round. Everything was going according to ARDMORE: England’s Justin Rose clinched his first nament that I’d like to win, after having so many After a muggy, overcast and breezy morning, make his tee time just so he could watch plan - you could almost see the newspaper major title with a nerve-jangling two-shot victory at good opportunities. the wind began to pick up, causing all sorts of prob- his daughter speak at her eighth-grade headlines of “PHIL-a-del-phia” - but anyone the 113th US Open on Sunday after overhauling 54- “This week was my best opportunity, I felt, head- lems for players already battling to cope with slick, graduation. He ended it by wondering why who has ever seen Mickelson play knows hole leader Phil Mickelson in the final round. ing in, certainly the final round, the way I was play- sloping greens, narrow tilting fairways and heavy at he keeps being tortured by a tourna- that even his best plans sometimes have a Rose closed with a level-par 70 in difficult scor- ing and the position I was in.” rough. South African Charl Schwartzel, Mickelson, ment he loves but doesn’t love him back. way of unraveling with little warning. ing conditions at Merion Golf Club, posting a one- Mickelson, a four-times major champion, had to Mahan, Rose and Day all enjoyed moments at the “Heartbreak,” Mickelson said when “This could have been the big - a really over total of 281 to become the first Englishman to hole out for birdie from a swale below the green at top of the leaderboard but it was Mickelson who asked what he would take from this one, big turnaround for me on how I look at the win the year’s second major since Tony Jacklin at the par-four last to force a playoff but his shot ran provided the shot of the day when he stunningly and it was a word he used more than once. U.S. Open and the tournament that I’d like Hazeltine in 1970. through the back of the green from where he two- holed out from the right rough to eagle the par-four The fans who crowded into old Merion to win after having so many good opportu- American Mickelson bogeyed three of the last putted for bogey. 10th. came expecting something special from a nities,” Mickelson said. “Playing very well six holes for a 74 to tie for second with Australian Day shared second place with Mickelson at three Mickelson watched from 75 yards out as his ball century-old golf course where history here and really loving the golf course, this Jason Day (71). over with Americans Hunter Mahan (75), Jason bounced short of the pin before rolling up into the seems to come alive. So, too, did Mickelson week was my best opportunity I felt, head- It was an especially emotional win for Rose, Dufner (67) and Billy Horschel (74), and twice for- cup, then jumped up and down with both arms on a day he hoped to remember for far dif- ing in, certainly the final round, the way I coming on Father’s Day, and he pointed a finger mer champion Ernie Els of South Africa (69), a fur- raised skywards. ferent reasons than it being both his birth- was playing and the position I was in.” skywards after two-putting for par on the 18th ther two strokes back in a tie for fourth. Tiger That briefly put him a stroke clear but Rose day and Father’s Day. There was still a chance at the end, green to acknowledge the memory of his own Woods, who teed off among the early starters, post- responded with birdies at 12, where he struck a Ben Hogan famously won here in 1950 though it wasn’t a good one. With no driver, father Ken, who died from leukaemia in 2002. ed a two-over-par 74 for a 13-over total of 293, his superb approach to two feet, and at 13, where he after a near fatal car accident and Bobby Mickelson had to hit his 3-wood on the “It wasn’t lost on me that today was Father’s worst finish after four rounds at a U.S. Open as a drained an 18-footer. Mickelson’s title bid effectively Jones capped off his Grand Slam here 20 511-yard finishing hole immortalized by Day,” the 32-year-old Rose said during the trophy professional. ended with bogeys on 13 and 15. years before. Who among the thousands Hogan’s 1-iron and he put it in the left presentation after mixing five birdies with five Helped by consecutive birdies at the 12th and Woods, tournament favourite at the start of the lining the fairways and greens didn’t expect rough with no chance of reaching the bogeys in the final round. 13th, Rose edged one ahead on a tightly bunched week after winning four times in just eight starts on Mickelson’s first Open win to write a new green. “For it to all just work out for me, on such an leaderboard and, though he bogeyed 14 and 16, he the 2013 PGA Tour, birdied the par-four first but chapter in Merion lore? The crowd serenaded him with choruses emotional day, I just couldn’t help but look up to was handed the lead for good when Mickelson and then ran up a triple-bogey eight at the second after It was just 18 holes of golf, but it of “Happy Birthday” as he came to the the heavens and think that my old dad Ken had Mahan both stumbled at the tricky par-four 15th. hitting his tee shot out-of-bounds. The three-times seemed much more than that. It could have green needing to hole a pitch shot to force something to do with it,” said Rose, after winning his Rose safely parred the short 17th before having US Open champion added a further two birdies and been the story of his career, with Good Phil, a playoff, but there would be no happiness fifth title on the U.S. PGA Tour. to face the brutal challenge of the 511-yard, uphill four bogeys to finish in a tie for 32nd, his bid for a Bad Phil, Unlucky Phil and Jubilant Phil all this time. “This one’s probably the toughest Left-hander Mickelson, serenaded with ‘Happy last, the most difficult hole on the course during the first major title in five years coming up well short. making cameos at some point during the for me because, at 43 and coming so close Birthday’ chants from the fans on every hole after week. “I did a lot of things right, unfortunately I did a round. five times, it would have changed the way I turning 43 on Sunday, had to settle for a record He struck a superb tee shot down the middle, few things wrong, as well,” said world number one When he pitched in from 75 yards on look at this tournament altogether and the sixth runner-up spot at the U.S. Open after carding then hit his four-iron approach right at the flag for Woods, a 14-times major champion. “I didn’t make the 10th hole to retake the lead he leapt in way I would have looked at my record,” a 74. “For me, it’s very heart-breaking,” said his ball to roll through to the back of the green a lot of putts the first couple of days and yester- the air with both arms raised high, much Mickelson said. “Except I just keep feeling Mickelson, who had previously finished second at before nestling on the fringe. day.” Northern Irish world number two Rory like he did in 2004 when he shook off the heartbreak.” A word he kept repeating. A the event in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009. From there, Rose used a three-wood to putt and McIlroy, the US Open champion at Congressional critics and his own self-doubt to win his feeling he knows all too well.—AP “This could have been a really big turnaround very nearly sank the birdie attempt, his ball curling in 2011, finished a further shot back at 14 over for me on how I look at the U.S. Open and the tour- left-to-right before halting inches short of the cup. after signing off with a 76.—Reuters Idaho feed biz homes in on Taiwan’s racing pigeons

MERIDIAN: Jos Zamzow was blast- times for 200 miles. Now Zamzow is expects its first test shipments of allowing them to fly to their respec- ing southward on a train on the betting that Dynamite can trans- pigeon chow to head overseas later tive homes. Older timing systems island of Taiwan last December, form Idaho-grown safflower and this summer, enough to feed 1,000 have given way to more sophisti- looking out the windows at colorful corn - and a top-secret, blood- chicks slated to race in the coming cated radio frequency identification structures atop apartments and boosting brew of mushroom pow- season. “After they start winning tags and small GPS systems to track houses passing by in a blur. The der and yeast cell wall extract it races, we expect there will be sig- birds’ performance. In Taiwan, train was traveling too fast to make makes in its 102-year-old feed mill - nificant demand. And not just in pigeons are often taken via boats out exactly what they were: Bird into an annual export business Taiwan. Pigeon racing is popular all to platforms far offshore and then coops, it turns out. worth up to $15 million. over Asia,” said Zamzow, who released. “When I got off, the first thing I In Taiwan, pigeon racing is a returned to Taiwan in April with Just how big and how profitable did was ask what kind. Somebody national pastime. There are racing Idaho Gov. CL “Butch” Otter to meet Taiwan’s pigeon racing world is isn’t told me pigeon racing in Taiwan clubs all over the island, and the with pigeon fanciers. known, in part because gambling was big business,” Zamzow recalled. sport is so lucrative - with race-win- Earlier this month, a Chinese on the races is illegal. But between Zamzow was in Taiwan working nings in the tens of thousands or businessman paid 310,000 euros breeders, racers, gamblers and oth- to expand existing sales of pet and more - that it is a top draw for ille- (or about $400,000) for a single bird ers, the industry likely generates commercial pork feed made by his gal gamblers and crime rings that at an auction in Belgium, the cradle several hundred million dollars a family’s southwestern Idaho com- kidnap pigeons to demand steep of European pigeon breeding. In all, year. pany, Dynamite Marketing. But he ransoms. Bird-doping has even 530 birds were sold at the event, “There is no official record for quickly realized there was a market been alleged. yielding a record $5.6 million. Nine this, because pigeon racing is in a for something different: High-per- Already, Dynamite makes feed of the 10 top-grossing birds went gray area,” said Eddie Yen, Taiwan- formance racing pigeon chow, to for competitors at New York’s annu- to China or Taiwan. based director of the Idaho Asia create a super bird capable of flying al Westminster dog show and the Racing generally involves taking Trade Office and a key contact faster than a mile a minute, some- Kentucky Derby. The company trained pigeons to a location before between Dynamite and the island’s pigeon industry. Once Zamzow’s test phase is done, the Taiwanese government must give its stamp of approval for ZAGREB: Peter Joppich of Germany (right) competes against Andrea Baldini commercial sales. Yen said that of Italy (left) during their Men’s Individual Fleuret semi-final match at the could take between three and six European Fencing Championship. —AFP months, or longer if more testing is needed. If Dynamite-fed birds turn out to be fast, they could become targets. Doping was widespread In 1998, a Taiwanese gang armed with nets collected ransom of more among Dutch cyclists than $1.5 million after capturing birds mid-race, then using their THE HAGUE: An independent commission Its final report said that the vast majority numbered ankle rings to find and that investigated doping by Dutch cyclists of riders felt they had little choice but to shake down desperate owners. Last and their teams recommended yesterday dope, particularly after the introduction of year, Taiwanese police made multi- that the responsibility for testing and sanc- blood-booster EPO. ple arrests for a similar bird-nap- tioning riders be taken away from the Many riders “described it as a choice of ping scheme. International Cycling Union to prevent the do it or quit,” said the commission, which Others have even used perform- appearance of a conflict of interest. was headed by a former Dutch justice min- ance-enhancing chemicals on their The commission’s report concluded that ister, Winnie Sorgdrager. birds. In 2001, Belgian police raided doping was endemic among Dutch cyclists It said that the governing body of 80 homes of breeders and feed and for years and was only reduced by the cycling - along with those of other sports - medicine suppliers, confiscating introduction of measures such as biological should consider handing off the primary suspicious products. passports and out-of-competition testing. responsibility for drug testing to an inde- Zamzow won’t disclose the Doping has overshadowed Dutch cycling pendent body. blend of his pigeon pellets, but for years. Rabobank last year announced it “We see that the interest the UCI has in a maintains the concoction is natural. was pulling out of its long-term sponsor- good image for cycling has possibly been a His dad, Jim Zamzow, the compa- ship of the country’s highest-profile men’s delaying factor in development of anti- ny’s founder and chief formulator, professional team and in March former rid- doping policy,” the report said. borrowed nutritional principles er Michael Boogerd admitted doping dur- It suggested an independent organiza- from his existing work with show ing his career. tion for testing while the UCI and national dogs, champion 4-H livestock and The Anti-Doping Approach Commission cycling authorities would remain responsi- thoroughbred racehorses, rushing established by the Dutch Olympic commit- ble for developing anti-doping policy and TAIPEI: In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, racing pigeons owned by the Chairman of the Taipei to complete the test formula in tee and cycling union conducted anony- educating riders. The UCI did not immedi- County Pigeon Racing Association, Yeh Cheng-shen sit in an elaborate set of rooftop cages in time for racing in Taiwan this sum- mous interviews with dozens of riders and ately reply to an email seeking a reaction to Taipei County, Taiwan. —AP mer and fall.—AP team staff. the report’s recommendation.—AP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SPORTS Wade set to stand Photo of the day tall for the Lions

SYDNEY: Shane Williams accepts that him and seeing what he’s got. He’s call to come over here... I’m happy to his stunning recall to the British and more than capable of showing what be here and if I do get the chance to Irish Lions will be a one-night cameo he’s got and being part of this test play in the test it would probably be but firmly believes fellow winger series, I think.” the proudest moment in my life,” he Christian Wade could go on to play in The appreciation clearly cut both said, pausing before adding: “So far.” the test series against Australia. ways and Wade said it was a “massive Wade flew 7,500 miles (12,000km) The pair have flown thousands of to join up with the Lions after getting miles to bolster the cause and will start the call-up on at the weekend along against the ACT Brumbies in Canberra with England centre Brad Barritt, who today, giving respite to a bruised and had a similar distance to travel from his battered Lions backline before the first holiday in California. test against the Wallabies on Saturday. “Luckily we have a brilliant back- The selection of Williams, four years room staff here at the Lions, they seem after he bowed out of the 2009 Lions to find a way of making the impossible tour with a brilliant try against the happen,” the South African-born centre, Springboks and two years after he last who will also start against the played test rugby for Wales, was a deci- Brumbies, said. sion that stunned everyone. Wade’s call “I had the boots delivered this up from England’s tour of Argentina morning and quite strangely I had a was also a something of a surprise giv- gum guard in my toiletry bag. Not sure en that he had only made his full inter- how that got there.” national debut the previous week. Williams made the comparatively At 36 and 22 respectively, Williams modest trek of 4,900 miles from Japan, and Wade are at opposite ends of their where he has been playing club rugby, careers but the similarities do not end after getting the call from Lions backs with the unlikelihood of their presence coach Rob Howley on Saturday and on the Lions tour. was confident he would be able to Bucking the international trend for make the step up on Tuesday. “Of hulking wingers, they are both a good Christian Wade course it’s going to be difficult but deal under six foot (1.82m) and weigh thrill” to be able to play alongside the we’re professional rugby players,” he in well under the 200lb (90kg) mark but former Wales winger, who scored 58 said. “We’ve all got to do our home- are blessed with great balance, quick tries in 87 tests. work tonight and make sure we’re be footwork and blistering acceleration. “Shane’s one of those players who mentally prepared because we don’t Williams said he had paid “close I’ve watched and tried to learn a lot off want to let anyone down. We want to attention” to Wade’s progress and had from a distance,” he said. “To be able to go out there and give it 100 percent kept tabs on him through his former play alongside side him is probably and do what we do best. Wales team mate Stephen Jones, who beyond my dreams. “Hopefully it won’t be too much of a is now at Wade’s club London Wasps. “I probably wouldn’t have got the shock to the system (but) if I felt for “He’s a very talented player, new on the chance to play against him in my one second I wasn’t going to be ready scene and already raising eyebrows,” career and to play with him is taking it for this game, or good enough for this Williams told reporters yesterday. “He’s to the next level.” game, I’d have told Rob to stick it. “To obviously a massive talent, I enjoy the Wade clearly also has a good dose be given this opportunity is a dream way he plays, he’s an aggressive runner, of the ebullient confidence that carried come true. If by me playing tomorrow, he’s very fast, enjoys taking defenders Williams through a career playing it can help the Lions recover and win Ucchie performs at Red Bull Under My Wings with Ucchie at Jadhavgadh Fort in Pune, India. on, my kind of guy really. against much bigger men. that test on Saturday, then I’m really www.redbullcontentpool.com “I’m looking forward to playing with “It’s just a massive honor to get the proud to be part of it.”—Reuters Dream see off Sky ATLANTA: Angel McCoughtry ing the 2010 season with six scored 23 points, and Erika de straight. Shavonte Zellous led the Souza had 16 points and 11 Fever (1-5) with 17 points, and rebounds to help the Atlanta Tamika Catchings had 16, but the Dream beat the Chicago Sky 88-74 defending WNBA champions in the WMBA on Sunday. dropped their fifth straight game. Tiffany Hayes also had 16 points for Atlanta (5-1), and Jasmine STORM 78, SUN 66 Thomas added 13. Elena Delle In Uncasville, Tina Thompson Donne led Chicago (4-2) with 25 scored 17 points, and Camille Little points, Allie Quigley had 14, and had 15 points, nine rebounds and Sylvia Fowles finished with 10 five assists to lead Seattle past rebounds. Connecticut. The Dream led by 18 points in Tanisha Wright added 13 points the first quarter, but didn’t pull and five rebounds for the Storm (2- away until going on a 20-10 run in 3). Allison Hightower had 17 points the fourth quarter that included and five rebounds for Connecticut nine straight points after the Sky (2-5). Tina Charles added 15 points cut it to six. and six rebounds.—AP

MERCURY 108, SHOCK 103 In Tulsa, Diana Taurasi scored 29 points and DeWanna Bonner had 23 in Phoenix’s victory over Tulsa. Candice DuPree added 20 points and 10 rebounds, rookie Britney Griner finished with 16 points, and Charde Houston had 10 for the Mercury (3-3). Glory Johnson had career-best 32 points for Tulsa (1-7). Riquna Williams added a career-high 28, hitting six 3-pointers, and rookie Skylar Diggins had a season-best 22. The second half featured eight ties and 11 lead changes before Taurasi took over, scoring eight points in the overtime period. SAN ANTONIO: Kawhi Leonard of the San Antonio Spurs vies for the ball with Mike Milelr of the Miami Heat during Game 5 of the NBA finals.—AFP MYSTICS 64, FEVER 60 In Washington, Ivory Latta scored 17 points and Crystal Spurs stun Heat in Game 5 Langhorne had all 16 of her points in the second half as Washington beat Indiana for its third straight SAN ANTONIO: With the old Manu finals since the Lakers beat the Celtics in finals. The crafty lefty plays with a flair ing his way into the lane repeatedly and victory. Ginobili back, the San Antonio Spurs 2010. developed on the courts of Argentina scoring seven points in a 12-0 run that Monique Currie scored 10 points looked like champs again. Ginobili broke Miami’s Big Three formed a few weeks and perfected in Europe before coming made it 29-17. Leonard’s 3-pointer with for the Mystics (4-1), riding their out of a slump in a big way with 24 after that game, with predictions of mul- to the NBA. He sees angles other players 4.7 seconds left, on an assist from longest winning streak since clos- Angel McCoughtry points and 10 assists in a surprise start to tiple titles to follow. Now they’re a loss can’t and takes risks few others would, Ginobili, made it 32-19 and gave the spark San Antonio to a 114-104 victory away from going just 1 for 3 in finals to but his style has been the perfect fit Spurs 12 makes in 19 attempts (63 per- over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the start their partnership, while the Spurs alongside Duncan and Parker. cent) in the opening 12 minutes. Bolt’s coach calls NBA Finals on Sunday, giving the Spurs a could run their perfect record to 5 for 5. He converted a three-point play, Green has 25 3s in the series. Allen 3-2 lead in the series and pushing them Duncan won his first title in 1999, and tossed in a floater with his left hand as he made 22 3-pointers in six games in 2008 one victory away from their fifth champi- Parker and Ginobili were with him for drifted right, and found Tiago Splitter finals for Boston. Green’s third straight 3- for anti-doping lab onship. three championships since. They have under the hoop with a pass to make it pointer made it 45-28 about 5 minutes One more victory and the Spurs’ Big been the perfect partnership, keeping 85-74. He flipped in another runner with into the second quarter, and it seemed KINGSTON: The Jamaican govern- Jamaican officials have con- Three, not Miami’s, will be the one that the Spurs in the hunt virtually every year 2.9 seconds to go, sending the Spurs to the trend of blowouts would continue. ment needs to establish an accred- firmed an athlete failed a doping rules the NBA. Tony Parker scored 26 while teams like the Lakers, Mavericks the fourth with an 87-75 lead as fans But James suddenly got rolling during a ited anti-doping laboratory to pro- test at the meeting but have points, Tim Duncan had 17 points and 12 and Suns have all risen and fallen in the chanted “Manu! Manu!” during the break 14-2 Miami spurt that cut it to five on his tect its world-class athletes from declined to give a name. rebounds, and Ginobili had his highest- Western Conference during that time. between the third and fourth quarters. third consecutive Heat basket. taking contaminated substances, “It just re-emphasizes the need scoring game of the season as the Spurs They remained unbeaten in Game 5s, Ginobili had been averaging just 7.5 San Antonio made 21 of 34 shots (62 the coach of world record holder for all involved to be extremely vig- became the first team to shoot 60 per- including two previous victories when points on 34.5 percent shooting in the percent) in the first half, opening a 61-52 and Olympic champion Usain Bolt ilant and the great need for cent in a finals game in four years. the series was tied at 2-2. Of the 27 times series, making only three of his 16 3- lead on Parker’s drive with 0.4 seconds says. Jamaica to establish an accredited Danny Green smashed the NBA Finals the finals have been tied at 2-2, the point attempts. But Spurs Popovich left. Miami then ran off eight in a row to Glen Mills, who mentors Bolt lab so that athletes can have sub- record for 3-pointers with six more and Game 5 winner has won 20 of them. made the finals’ second lineup change in start the second half and get within one. and world 100 metres champion stances tested and verified before scored 24 points. Kawhi Leonard finished Miami was the most recent loser, two games, after the Heat inserted Mike They cut it to one again later in the peri- Yohan Blake, said Jamaican ath- usage,” Mills said. with 16, but the stage was set when falling to Dallas in Game 5 in 2011 before Miller to start Game 4. od before Ginobili led the flurry that fin- letes faced a minefield of sub- “It’s a minefield out there,” the Ginobili trotted out with Duncan, Parker being eliminated at home the next Ginobili didn’t make a start this sea- ished the Heat for good. stances and had little way of long-time coach added. “Any sub- and the rest of starters in what could game. son and certainly hadn’t been playing It was a fitting finish if it was the last checking their validity. stance that you take up could be have been the last finals home game for San Antonio shot 42 of 70, right at 60 like someone who belonged with the home game in the finals for this San “It’s definitely a time for (the) contaminated.” Samples from dop- a trio that’s meant so much to San percent. The last team to make 60 per- first five. But in the Spurs’ biggest game Antonio trio, which has combined for 101 nation to step forward and provide ing tests in Jamaica are currently Antonio. The AT&T Center crowd roared cent of its shots in the finals was Orlando, of the season, they remained confident playoff victories together. Ginobili has with a service that athletes can use processed in other countries, when Ginobili was the last Spurs player which hit 62.5 in Game 3 against the he would break out, and they were right. said he might think about retirement as to ensure the purity of substances including the World Anti-Doping announced and chanted his name in the Lakers in 2009, according to STATS. It was the first time he scored 24 or he turns 36 next month, and Duncan is that they have to use for treatment Agency accredited laboratory in second half, a familiar sight and sound in “They just absolutely outplayed us,” more points since having 34 on June 4, 37. Both coaches said it was difficult or whatever,” Mills said in an inter- Montreal. San Antonio but not during what had Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “At times 2012, against Oklahoma City, according waiting two days between games - view with RJR 94FM radio in A dozen Jamaican athletes have been a miserable series for the former they were just picking one guy out at a to STATS. The AT&T Center crowd roared Popovich said it was “like death” - though Jamaica. received sanctions ranging from Sixth Man of the Year. time and going at us mano-a-mano. when Ginobili was the last starter he did say it was great for the Spurs His call follows reports that three months to life for doping vio- “He’s obviously very popular. He’s That’s got to change.” Ray Allen scored 21 announced, the cheers growing louder because they have some older players. Jamaica’s most decorated female lation in the past five years, officials when he made a jumper - originally ruled The break seemed to help his team been here a long time. He’s helped us points on the night for the Heat as Green sprinter, two-time Olympic 200 have said. have a lot of success over the years,” shattered his finals 3-point record. a 3-pointer but later overturned by early, particularly Parker, whose energy metres champion Veronica Jamaican 400m runner Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. The Heat were within one with 3:05 replay - on the first possession. He assist- sagged in the second of Game 4 as he Campbell-Brown, tested positive Dominique Blake was the latest to LeBron James and Dwyane Wade left in the third before Green hit yet ed on the Spurs’ next three baskets, and struggled with a strained hamstring that for a banned diuretic at last be sanctioned, receiving a six-year each scored 25 points for the Heat, who another 3-pointer and Ginobili followed it was 15-10 when he later hit a 3 that did he said could tear at any time and month’s Jamaica International invi- ban last Thursday for a second host Game 6 on Tuesday. They need a with the stretch that turned the game count. would’ve had him sidelined during the tational in Kingston. doping violation.—Reuters victory to force the first Game 7 in the into the fourth straight blowout of the Parker picked it up from there, danc- regular season.—AP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SPORTS19 It’s time to pay back to this generous country KUWAIT: Gaber Al-Saraf emphasizes want to reflect on them at the time fortune of the country. standards to participate in this compe- positively to participate in USA his full readiness to fund the construc- being, we all (competitors - officials) Al-Saraf also expressed his full trust tition. About the nature of the expect- Championship. tion of a new track for drag race in responsible for this sport, will set out of the officials to accept this initiative , ed competition of Super shop team , Al-Saraf also added that “the nature Kuwait. Al-Saraf “Super shop team radical solutions for this sport, as this saying that” I’m sure that the officials of Abdullah Alsoori stated that “ super of the participation will act as a good leader” emphasized that he is willing to sport records a long feedback since the this sport headed by Ministry of Youth , shop team has been honored to repre- practical training course in readiness to bear the full costs to construct a new beginning of 1980s, we still practice Public Authority of Youth & Sports, and sent Kuwait in USA 2012 championship participate in the next Gulf champi- drag race track on the availability of the and achieve titles in the name of the members of Quarter Mile Club , now we are seriously thinking to par- onship’ where Super Shop team will proper piece of land. Kuwait, we as Super shop team or any board of directors members will ticipate in this international champi- participate in more than 3 Gulf champi- About the nature of this initiative, other Kuwaiti participating team respond immediately to this initiative, onship, especially after the good onships, equivalent to more than 15 Al-Saraf commented: “Yes, it’s our throughout the championships held in and motor sport club board of directors results that the team has secured rounds. national duty towards this generous Qatar, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia members also will do the same, as they recently in this season , throughout the In the end Alsoori praised his team country, I emphasize my full readiness up to the home of this sport “USA”. all realize the volume of responsibility, participation in Bahrain drag race 2012 members as well as Tamdeen group at to provide all the possible financial and Al-Saraf said that, Kuwait has given we all hope to co-operate together to championship and UAE drag race 360 mall and Cinescape for their special spiritual possibilities to construct a so much and it’s time to pay back a lit- accept this initiative, regardless of any championship 2012 , in which the team sponsorship, which was one of the track with international standards here tle bit to this generous country. On the other personal considerations, the scored the title of 10.5 class in both most important motives behind these in Kuwait, “Kuwait deserves more”, Al- other side, we are now in urgent need name of Kuwait is the target behind my two championships. achievements. He also thanked the Saraf added. to construct this track, this track would initiative” Al-Saraf said. It’s worth mentioning that It was members of directors board of Motor He also indicated that the motor help much in reducing the volume of On the other side, Super shop team the technical errors behind the failure Sport Club headed by sheikh Ahmad Al sport — especially drag race — future traffic accidents, due to the negative under the leadership of Gaber Al-Saraf of clinching the title of the season, Dawood Al Sabah, “We promise the career in Kuwait became the responsi- driving habits which are practiced by is ready to participate in the round of however the team scored the first and Kuwaiti fans that Super Shop team will bility of all without exception. some careless drivers and reduce many ADRL championship USA 2013, second positions in most of the rounds, continue to achieve more Kuwaiti vic- However, this sport had exceptional death cases among the Kuwaiti youth, Abdullah Alsoori will drive a Camaro 68 as the championship consists of 5 tories locally and internationally, circumstances in the past, we don’t who are considered the most valuable after preparing the car with special rounds, all this given data pushes us Alsoori concluded. Tempers flare in Asian World Cup qualifying

SINGAPORE: An extraordinary row between South Korea and Iran highlights tensions in Asia’s final World Cup qualifying group matches, with Australia also urging caution before trying to book their ticket to Brazil. South Korea’s promise to “make life painful” for Iran and to force their captain to cry “tears of blood” have sharply raised the stakes before today’s clash between the Asian giants in Ulsan. South Korea, who lead Group A by a point, need only a draw to reach Brazil 2014 but victory for Iran would guarantee their fourth World Cup finals appearance. Third-placed Uzbekistan, two points behind Iran, must win in Qatar to stand LONDON: Australia’s Adam Voges (center) survives a run out attempt during any chance of automatic qualification. the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia In Group B, Australia can join Japan, who at the Oval. —AFP have already secured qualification, in Brazil with a win over Iraq in Sydney. Oman, a point behind Sri Lanka oust Aussies Australia in third, take on Jordan as they bid to snatch second place from the Socceroos. LONDON: Sri Lanka reached the fightback would have been followed keen- But South Korea and Iran, with 11 World Cup Champions Trophy semi-finals with a 20- ly by New Zealand, who would have joined appearances between them, have added consid- Son Heung-Min run victory over holders Australia in the last England in the semi-finals if the last pair erable emotional spice to their meeting with tit- league match at the Oval in London yester- had scored the remaining runs. for-tat barbs between their coaches and players. day. In the end, the Black Caps were strand- After Korean boss Choi Kang-Hee’s vow to neighbouring North Korea in 2005. next year’s World Cup, while Neill, striker Tim The Sri Lankans, who needed a win to ed on three points, one behind both “make life painful” for Iran drew a strong Home fans hurled bottles and chairs on to Cahill and midfielder Mark Bresciano will all be stay in the competition, relied on aggres- England and Sri Lanka. Australia finished response from their coach Carlos Queiroz and sive half-centuries from Mahela with just one point through a rain-affected the pitch during Iran’s 2-0 victory in Pyongyang, 34. But the chance to contest a third World Cup Jayawardene and Lahiru Thirimanne to game. captain Javad Nekounam, the home players and angry spectators blockaded the visiting together, after reaching the last 16 in 2006 and score 253-8 after being sent in to bat. Glenn Maxwell, a million-dollar signee launched a fresh salvo. team inside the stadium afterwards. narrowly failing to go past the group stage in Seamer Nuwan Kulasekara then picked with Indian Premier League franchise “I will make him (Nekounam) shed tears of Australia will hope for a smoother outing 2010, has proved powerful motivation for the up three wickets, effected a run-out and Mumbai Indians, smashed 32 off 20 balls blood,” said Germany-based forward Son against Iraq, especially after last week’s 4-0 drub- Aussie veterans. “We really would love to play took a catch as the Australians were before he was bowled off his IPL team- Heung-Min, while Choi vowed that Queiroz bing of Jordan put them on the verge of their this World Cup together because it’s been such a bowled out for 233 in 42.3 overs. mate Lasith’s Malinga third delivery. would be watching the World Cup from his third successive World Cup. great adventure being part of the Socceroos for Sri Lanka and England finished level Kulasekara, who bowled Shane Watson home in Portugal. Iraq, the 2007 Asian Cup champions, are so long,” Bresciano said. with four points each, but the hosts topped and had Phil Hughes caught behind, ran The dispute follows South Korean accusa- missing captain Younis Mahmoud and influen- “For me personally and some of the other the group due to a superior net run-rate out Bailey with a direct throw from fine leg tions of ill-treatment during their visit to Tehran tial midfielder Nashat Akram. But Australia’s old boys, we’d get to play in three World Cups if we and will meet Group B runners-up South to make it 69-4 in the ninth over. last October, with complaints including visa heads have joined coach Holger Osieck in warn- get a result on Tuesday so it would be a massive Africa in Wednesday’s semi-final at the Matthew Wade picked up the scoring problems and poor training facilities. In a feisty ing against premature celebrations. “The man- achievement for a lot of us.” Oval. Sri Lanka will clash with Group B win- rate with a 22-ball 31 that contained four encounter, South Korea lost 1-0. “Our players all ager and the senior players have made sure no The top two teams in Group A and B earn ners India in the second semi-final in boundaries and a six, adding 47 for the remember the poor treatment they got (in one’s talking about dancing the samba. automatic qualification. The two third-placed Cardiff on Thursday in a a repeat of the sixth wicket with Voges. Tehran). I think we must make life painful for Nobody’s in Brazil yet,” said Australia captain sides will face each other over two legs in 2011 World Cup final in Mumbai which the Voges was ninth out, caught in the deep Iran,” Choi said last week. Lucas Neill. September. Indians won. off Rangana Herath, before McKay and Iran have won 10 of their 26 head-to-head “We need one game, one win. Then we can The winner of that fixture will play an inter- The final is at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Doherty put on their defiant stand.—AFP games against nine victories for South Korea, start thinking about all the dreams coming true.” continental play-off in November against the on Sunday. Jayawardene, who became the but Team Melli’s visits to the Korean Peninsula Time is catching up with the greying Socceroos, fifth-placed team from South American qualify- eighth batsman to complete 11,000 one- also include a notorious World Cup qualifier in with goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer set to be 41 by ing for the final place at Brazil 2014.—AFP day runs when he reached 62, anchored Champions Trophy table the middle-order with an unbeaten 84 off 81 balls. Champions Trophy table after yesterday’s last “It felt good to get to 11,000 runs, but group match between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Oval in London (played, won, lost, tied, French footballers stand trial winning this game was the icing on the no result, points, net run-rate): cake,” said the 36-year-old former captain, who was named the man of the match. Group A in underage prostitution case “We are playing hard and passionate England 3 2 1 0 0 4 +0.31 cricket. That has been the mantra of our - qualified for semi-finals PARIS: French footballers Franck Ribery and who represent the state, can open an investiga- He has denied any encounter and his lawyer said success in the past and I hope it continues Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 0 4 0.20 Karim Benzema go on trial in Paris yesterday tion and appoint independent judges to lead it. he would not comment on the case before the in the future also. - qualified for semi-finals accused of paying for sex with a teenage call girl. As the investigation moves along, prosecutors beginning of the trial. Dehar’s lawyer did not “We look forward to another tough New Zealand 3 1 1 0 1 3+0.78 Bayern Munich winger Ribery and Real can change their mind and recommend drop- respond to requests for comment.—Reuters match in the semi-final.” Australia, who Australia 3 0 2 0 1 1 -0.68 Madrid striker Benzema have been under inves- ping the case, but the judges can ignore this needed to win in 29.1 overs to qualify, tigation in their home country for more than advice and call a trial anyway. made a brave bid to secure their first victo- Group B two years on allegations of paying Zahia Dehar, According to court documents, Dehar had ry in the tournament with belligerent bat- India 3 3 0 0 0 6+0.94 then a minor, for sex in 2008 and 2009. been a prostitute since the age of 15 or 16, but Matches on TV ting led by Adam Voges’ top score of 49. - qualified for semi-finals None of them are expected to appear at the would tell clients she was 18. She said she was (Local Timings) The Aussies were 192-9 when the last- South Africa 3 1 1 1 0 3+0.33 criminal court for the trial that is expected to run flown in from Paris to Munich in 2009 for wicket pair of Clint McKay and Xavier - qualified for semi-finals until June 26. The ruling could come later. Ribery’s 26th birthday party in a luxury hotel, Doherty gave Sri Lanka a fright by adding West Indies 3 1 1 1 0 3-0.07 The scandal, which exposed footballers’ and that he paid her 700 euros for sex. WC2014 Qualifying - Asia 41 amid mounting tension. Pakistan 3 0 3 0 0 0 -1.03 tastes for flings and partying, came ahead of the Ribery has acknowledged the encounter but Tillakaratne Dilshan ended the drama 2010 World Cup, further damaging the image of said he did not know she was underage, nor that Australia v Iraq 12:30 with a spectacular return catch to dismiss Semi-finals a French squad already tarnished by internal she was a prostitute. He said he only gave her Al Jazeera Sport +2 McKay, who made a career-best 30. Jun 19, The Oval: England v South Africa bickering, public tantrums and defeats. 200 euros for a taxi ride to the airport. Doherty remained unbeaten on 15. Jun 20, Cardiff: Sri Lanka v India Algerian-born Dehar, now 21, has since Ribery’s lawyer, Carlo-Alberto Brusa, said his “It would have been nice to get over the become designer Karl Lagerfeld’s muse and pro- client was innocent and should not be expected Uzbekistan v Qater 15:00 line in the end,” Australian captain George Final tegee, launching her own lingerie line. to show up in court. Al Jazeera Sport +1 Bailey said. “Our goal was to do it in 29 Jun 23, Edgbaston The footballers could be sentenced to up to “In French law, it’s not forbidden to make overs, but we never got going. But it was Note: Matches start at 0930GMT. three years in jail and fines of 45,000 euros love to a woman and even to pay her for it, what South Korea v Iran 15:00 good to see the last two fight it out.” The ($60,000) if found guilty of soliciting the services is forbidden is to do it with a minor,” he told of an underage prostitute. State prosecutors Reuters. “When a woman travels around Europe Al Jazeera Sport +2 have requested that the case be dropped, how- by plane, can you imagine thinking for one sec- SCOREBOARD ever, arguing the footballers did not know Dehar ond that she’s a minor?” Benzema is suspected Jordan v Oman 19:00 was a minor. to have paid 500 euros in May 2008 to have sex Al Jazeera Sport +1 LONDON: Full scoreboard of the Champions Trophy group A match between Australia and Sri Under France’s legal system, prosecutors, with Dehar, then 16, in the suite of a Paris hotel. Lanka at the Oval in London yesterday: Sri Lanka Australia K. Perera lbw b Johnson 4 S. Watson b Kulasekara 5 T. Dilshan c Watson b Doherty 34 P. Hughes c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 13 K. Sangakkara c Maxwell b McKay 3 G. Maxwell b Malinga 32 CBK to sponsor women’s sports L. Thirimanne c Watson b Johnson 57 G. Bailey run out 4 M. Jayawardene not out 84 A. Voges c Eranga b Herath 49 KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait has A. Mathews b Faulkner 12 M. Marsh b Mathews 4 M. Wade c Dilshan b Kulasekara 31 agreed to sponsor Kuwait’s national football D. Chandimal c Hughes b Johnson 31 team as well as activities of the first women’s N. Kulasekara run out 6 J. Faulkner c Sangakkara b Herath 17 M. Johnson c Kulasekara b Eranga 4 sports league (athletics, table tennis, basket- R. Herath run out 2 C. McKay c and b Dilshan 30 ball) organized by the Kuwait Women’s Sports L. Malinga not out 2 X. Doherty not out 15 Extras: (b5, lb7, w4, nb2) 18 Federation. Extras: (lb11, w17, nb1) 29 “The sponsorship comes as part of our Total (for eight wickets, 50 overs) 253 Total (all out, 42.3 overs) 233 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Perera), 2-20 (Sangakkara), Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Watson), 2-45 (Hughes), 3- responsibility to support events organized by 3-92 (Dilshan), 4-128 59 (Maxwell), 4-69 (Bailey), 5-80 (Marsh), 6-127 civil society institution”, said Deputy Director (Thirimanne), 5-159 (Mathews), 6-224 (Wade), 7-163 (Faulkner), 8-168 (Johnson), 9- of the Public Relations and Media Department (Chandimal), 7-233 (Kulasekara), 8-244 192 (Voges), 10-233 (McKay). Amani Al-Wara in a recent statement. She (Herath). Bowling: Eranga 8-1-40-1 (w2), Kulasekara 9-0- added that the CBK believes in the tourna- Bowling: Johnson 10-0-48-3 (nb1), McKay 10- 42-3 (w3), Malinga 9-0-60-1 (nb1,w9), Herath ment’s benefits “of encouraging young 1-51-1 (w3), Faulkner 9-0-60-1 (nb1, w1), 10-0-48-2 (w3), Mathews 3-0-21-1, Dilshan 3.3- women to practice sports for their positive Watson 4-0-14-0, Doherty 10-1-30-1, Marsh 2- 0-11-1 0-12-0, Maxwell 5-0-26-0. Sri Lanka won by 20 runs advantages on the health and mental aspects”. English Rose Sri Lanka blooms at oust US Open Aussies

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BRAZIL: Tahiti’s Ricky Aitamai (left) and Nigeria’s Brown Ideye challenge for the ball during the soccer Confederations Cup Group B match. — AP Nigeria thrash Tahiti in Confed Cup

BELO HORIZONTE: Nnamdi Oduamadi claimed a hat-trick as through Vincent Simon. The goal also sparked jubilation on the bench, coach Eddy $15 billion earmarked for the two sports events amid calls for Nigeria shook off the jet lag to thrash minnows Tahiti 6-1 in Fortune deserted the underdogs moments later, however. Etatea leaping from the dug-out with his fists in the air, but more health and education funding. their opening Confederations Cup game in Belo Horizonte After the ball bounced off referee Joel Aguilar, Echiejile Tehau’s day took a turn for the worse in the 68th minute when The Confederations Cup, a dress rehearsal for the 2014 yesterday. launched a speculative shot that deflected off Tehau and cap- he inadvertently toed the ball into his own goal to restore World Cup that runs through June 30, got under way in The African champions only arrived in Brazil 36 hours tain Nicolas Vallar and ricocheted past Tahiti goalkeeper Nigeria’s three-goal advantage. Brasilia’s national stadium Saturday with Brazil trouncing before the game after a row over bonus payments, but they Xavier Samin. Oduamadi tucked in a cross from substitute Brown Ideye Japan 3-0. could even afford some wasteful finishing as they leapfrogged Oduamadi added two more, neatly side-stepping a pair of to complete his hat-trick in the 76th minute, with Echiejile But the kick-off was marred by weekend protests outside world champions Spain to the top of Group B. challenges and sweeping home in the 10th minute, before adding a sixth shortly after as Tahiti’s reserves of resistance the Brasilia stadium, as well as at the iconic Maracana arena in It was a predictably chastening experience for Tahiti, tapping in his second when Samin spilled a low cross from finally ran dry. Rio. ranked 138th in the world, but they were nonetheless able to Ahmed Musa. Meanwhile, Brazil warned yesterday that it will not allow In both cases, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to celebrate when Jonathan Tehau headed in their first ever goal Nigeria made heavy work of putting the game to bed ongoing nation-wide protests against higher public trans- disperse fans who tried to break into the stadiums. Some peo- at a high-profile international event. though, with Musa miskicking in front of an open goal before portation fares and the use of public funds to disrupt interna- ple were detained and others hurt. But the worst violence Tehau’s goal, early in the second half, trimmed Nigeria’s Anthony Ujah and Sunday Mba both allowed Samin to save tional football tournaments. occurred late Thursday in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s economic capital lead to 3-1 after a deflected Uwa Echiejile shot and a pair of when clean through on goal. Tahiti had already seen their one “We will not allow any of these demonstrations to disrupt and most populous city, when a police crackdown led to more goals from Oduamadi had put Nigeria in command. professional player, Marama Vahirua, drive a shot narrowly the events which we have pledged to host-the Confederations than 230 arrests, with about 100 people, including reporters, However, the south Pacific islanders’ hopes of a famous over, and they threatened to make things interesting as Cup and (next year’s) World Cup,” Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo hurt. comeback were dashed as Tehau put through his own goal Steevy Chong Hue headed wide from a Ricky Aitamai cross. said. A new demonstration was scheduled in the city of 11 mil- before Oduamadi and Echiejile added further goals to give Musa miscued again from 12 yards early in the second half, “The demonstrations will be tolerated within these limits,” lion people later yesterday. In an effort to avoid a repeat of last Stephen Keshi’s men a spring in their step ahead of Thursday’s before the goal that Tahiti had been threatening arrived in the he added. “The government assumed the responsibility and week, Sao Paulo public security officials met early yesterday crucial showdown with Uruguay. 54th minute. the honor to stage these two international events and will do with protest organizers. A sparse crowd of just 20,187 made their way to the newly The honor fell to Tehau, who headed in a deep corner kick so, ensuring the security and integrity of the fans and tourists.” Sao Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin pledged that renovated Estadio Mineirao but they were vocal in their sup- from Vahirua at the back post and then led his ecstatic team- Protesters in several major cities are up in arms over hikes police would not use rubber bullets and would not inter- port of Tahiti, who registered the game’s first shot on target mates in a canoe-paddling celebration. in mass transit prices-from $1.5 to $1.6 — as well as over the vene except in cases of vandalism or if provoked. — AFP Spain cruise to 2-1 Brazil already has win over Uruguay Spain on its mind

RECIFE: Goals from Pedro and Roberto Soldado helped Spain cruise to a 2- FORTALEZA: Only one game into the nament has just started,” Marcelo said. “We 1 victory over Uruguay in the Confederations Cup in Recife on Sunday and Confederations Cup, Brazil is already talk- still have to play against Mexico and Italy. reinforced their position as tournament favorites. ing about a possible matchup with Spain. But if we do play them, I’m sure that it Luiz Suarez scored a late consolation for Uruguay but the World and A day after the Spaniards enjoyed an could be a great match.” European champions dominated the game from start to finish and could easy victory over Uruguay in its opener, the Spain will play Tahiti on Thursday, then easily have won by more. Brazilian players couldn’t avoid talking closes the group against Nigeria on “We were really tired towards the end of the match. When you are play- about the World Cup champions. Sunday. The last time Brazil and Spain met ing in temperatures like this it’s normal that should happen,” Spain coach Brazil and Spain first need to make was in 1999 in a friendly in Spain that end- Vicente del Bosque said in an interview with Spanish television broadcast- sure they advance to the second round ed in a scoreless draw. In eight matches er Telecinco. of the Confederations Cup, but Real between the countries’ senior squads, “We played an excellent first half and I think we also played very well in Madrid left back Marcelo said it would Brazil have won four times and Spain two. the second period but we suffered a bit at the end. “They are three magnif- be a “great match” if the teams end up The teams drew twice. “We are talking icent points which put us in a very good position to get through to the playing each other in the World Cup about two national teams with a lot of semi-finals.” warm-up competition. quality,” Luiz Gustavo said. “But to reach The FIFA tournament is being used to test Brazil’s preparations ahead of Defensive midfielder Luiz Gustavo, who our goal of making it to the final we need the World Cup they host next year and Spain dominated from the outset of helped Bayern Munich eliminate Barcelona to get past all these national teams, not their opening match. in the semifinals of the Champions League only Spain.” Fabregas, Pedro and Andres Iniesta all came close in the first quarter of earlier this year, even tried to offer some In the Champions League, Luiz Gustavo an hour before a 20th minute corner was knocked out of the Uruguay box tips on how to play Spain. played twice against Barcelona, which has as far as Pedro whose fierce shot was deflected by Diego Lugano past a Brazil, which hasn’t faced Spain in nearly nine players in the Spanish squad that is helpless Fernando Muslera. 14 years, opened with a convincing 3-1 win playing at the Confederations Cup. The goal roused Uruguay and they came close with an Edinson Cavani over Japan on Saturday. Its next match is “There’s no recipe,” the 25-year-old header before Iniesta and Fabregas orchestrated Spain’s second with against Mexico, then it closes Group A Brazilian said when asked about how to Iniesta dragging defenders one way and Fabregas’ instead passed to against Italy. stop the Spaniards. “You have to be care- Soldado who coolly slotted home. “We are not worried,” Marcelo said. “We ful and you need the entire group to be Spain relaxed in the second half but still controlled the game and haven’t played against them in a long time, united, motivated and committed. Spain but if we have to play them, it won’t be a has its own style and we have ours. The almost scored a third in the 49th minute but Pedro narrowly failed to get a RECIFE: Spain’s Sergio Ramos and Uruguay’s Diego Godin go for a problem. We have to be prepared to play team which does a better job on the pitch touch on Soldado’s cross. header as Uruguay’s Diego Lugano and Spain’s Gerard Pique (left) Neither side threatened seriously after that but Uruguay picked up a everybody and it won’t be different if it’s will win.” look on during the soccer Confederations Cup Group B match. — AP against them.” Brazil had its first practice in the north- late consolation when Liverpool striker Luis Suarez curled home a free kick The win takes Spain’s unbeaten run to 23 matches. “We couldn’t relax two minutes from time. Spain is in Group B, so the teams can eastern city of Fortaleza yesterday. The for a moment even when we were winning 2-0. When they scored some meet either in a semifinal or in a final if squad was greeted by nearly 8,000 fans at The game was the first to be played at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife doubts set in,” Soldado told Telecinco. and most of the locals in the 42,000 crowd were vociferously behind their they advance past the group stage of the the President Vargas stadium. Although the “They were pushing forward and we were suffering in the final stages eight-nation tournament among continen- fans were only allowed to enter the venue Latin American neighbours. and it was a shame that we didn’t manage to take some of our chances. However, Uruguay struggled to get out of their own half, particularly in tal champions. Spain defeated Uruguay 2-1 after the training session was completed, “We are very happy because we were able to beat a very tough opponent.” on Sunday. they showed their support and chanted a first half during which Spain had 78 percent of the possession, while Spain’s next game is against Tahiti on Thursday, while Uruguay will face Suarez and Cavani rarely threatened Iker Casillas in the Spanish goal. “It’s not like Spain has already reached the names of several players. The entire Nigeria on the same day. —AFP the final and is just waiting for us, the tour- team took time to greet the fans. — AP India’s central bank keeps rates steady Page 22

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LE BOURGET: An Airbus A380 flies over Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, yesterday on the opening day of the International Paris Air show which will be held until June 23, 2013. (Inset) Visitors watch a CFM56-7BE jet engine manufactured by CFM International on display. — AP/AFP Big jets make a splash in Paris Qatar Airways buys up to 9 Boeing 777-300ER

PARIS: Big finance waded into a rain- financing A380 jets for Emirates airline, the the aircraft on firm order will be delivered in previous 767 flop. Singapore Airlines, soaked Paris Airshow with more than $10 aircraft’s largest operator, said its deal early 2014, airline Chief Executive Akbar Al- British Airways and Air Lease Corp are billion in orders for jumbo passenger jets as would be finalised in months, with deliver- Baker said. Options for the other seven are expected to place orders for the 787-10. planemakers duelled over strategy for large ies to start in 2016. likely to be firmed up shortly after, and the They will be joined by United Airlines, Saudi stocks aircraft yesterday. The world’s biggest air- “We see how airlines that do not yet delivery schedule will be decided then, he industry sources said. None of the compa- craft lessor, a unit of General Electric, have the A380 are interested in it and added. nies could immediately be reached for became the second buyer to endorse a larg- approach us and ask questions, which comment. Boeing re-introduced the 787 rebound er version of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, shows us that there is pent-up demand for Next-generation jets Dreamliner to service in April after a three- weeks after the lightweight jet went back this aircraft,” Mark Lapidus, chief executive Most attention at the air show, however, month grounding due to battery problems. into service after a three-month grounding. of Doric Lease Corp, said. “If anything, we focused on a new generation of mid-sized Now it is also looking at a partial redesign MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS Confirming a Reuters report, the GECAS are perhaps under-ordering the A380.” It long-range jets, seen as crucial to the future of its 777 mini-jumbo too. subsidiary said it would sign up for 10 of the remained unclear whether Doric had of both companies and their suppliers. Leasing companies and airlines, looking DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index recovered stretched 787-10 passenger planes, joining already identified the eventual customers Boeing said last week it sees a $1 trillion beyond the financial crisis, meanwhile, most of its early-week losses yesterday as investor a $30 billion order haul that industry to whom it would rent out the planes. market over the next 20 years for mid-sized, placed orders for more than $20 billion concerns of a political conflict in Syria spreading sources say Boeing is assembling to formal- Lessors have until now been reluctant to twin-engined passenger jets, a category small narrow-body planes like the Boeing wider to the region eased, while all other Arab mar- ly launch the jet today. And an influential back the A380 because it is highly cus- that includes its carbon-composite 787 737 MAX and the A320neo. Lufthansa con- kets also rose. The kingdom’s benchmark advanced German leasing company, Doric Asset tomized and expensive to convert. The Dreamliner. Days after it surprised the firmed a $10 billion order for 100 Airbuses 1.8 percent, its second consecutive day of gains since Finance, little known outside the specialist move is a boost for Europe’s Airbus which industry by making the first flight of its rival and lessor ILFC signed up for $5 billion - Saturday’s 4.3 percent plunge. “The MENA markets world of aviation financing, splashed out on has struggled to sell the model in the past A350 before the show, Airbus will attempt a confirming moves earlier reported by are attractive and political tensions have always been 20 Airbus A380 superjumbos worth $8 bil- year haunted by wing cracks, and had curtain call on Friday with a fly-by for Reuters - and Boeing got a finalized order there,” said Ali Adou, portfolio manager at The lion at list prices to anticipate rising recorded no sales so far in 2013. Boeing French President Francois Hollande, on only worth $6 billion from Britain’s TUI Travel. National Investor in Dubai. “Despite the risk, the demand. says airlines do not want to invest heavily in the plane’s third test. The military side of the world’s largest aero- more the market drops, valuations become attractive Total orders on day one of the world’s the largest jets above 400 seats, even Airbus and its US rival have placed bets space event was muted by comparison and more buyers return.” Saturday’s panic sell-off on largest aerospace event swelled to more though it originally defined the category worth tens of billions of dollars on the suc- with previous years. the Saudi bourse - dominated by retail investors - than $30 billion in three hours as heavy rain with its 747, and would prefer to buy small- cess of this market. Behind them Canada’s US arms firms have scaled back but all was triggered by political tension in Syria intensify- lashed the Le Bourget pavilions. But, er planes built with new weight-saving Bombardier Inc is betting the same tech- eyes will be on the return of Russian fight- ing; King Abdullah cut short a holiday abroad to deal despite the early flurry, the number of materials. Airbus has stood by the industry nology will be suitable for smaller planes as ers, noted for dramatic stunt displays. with the issue. orders this year was expected to be down mammoth, saying urbanization and airport it seeks to boost orders for its new CSeries, Budget cuts prevented the US government Egypt severed its democratic ties with Damascus, on the last Paris show in 2011, GECAS chief congestion will drive traffic towards planes due to fly this month. For Boeing, the latest from bringing F-16 jets, which usually show backing a no-fly zone over the country wrought by executive Norman Liu told reporters that can keep pace with demand for travel addition to its fleet, the 323-seat 787-10, is off their skills during the air show. civil war. Heavyweight firms made a come-back. The “It is shifting to more of a wide-body sto- between hubs. partly designed to serve dense routes with- Lockheed Martin Corp, maker of the F-16 petrochemical shares index rose 1.6 percent and the ry,” he said, referring to long-haul jets seat- Qatar Airways has signed an agreement in Asia - a region fast emerging as the and F-35 fighter jets, did not bring even the banking index climbed 1.9 percent. Real estate devel- ing anywhere from 200 people on small to buy up to nine Boeing 777-300ER aircraft world’s largest travel market. The company mock-up model of the F-35, the Pentagon’s opers dominated trading; Emaar Economic City and wide-bodies to 525 on the double-decker valued at $2.8 billion at list prices, the airline claims it will have the best economics of its largest program which faces concerns Dar Al Arkan climbed 2.6 and 3 percent respectively. A380. Doric, which is already involved in said at the Paris Airshow yesterday. Two of kind, while Airbus sees it as a repeat of a about costs. — Agencies UAE markets also recovered losses from the previous session as selling on political worries proved short- lived and a bullish local economic outlook outshined. Dubai’s index rose 1.6 percent and Abu Dhabi’s Greece holds crucial govt talks over ERT situation benchmark climbed 0.4 percent. The United Arab Emirates has revived a proposal ATHENS: Prime Minister Antonis Samaras could emerge from the current parliamentary to merge its two main stock exchanges in a state- yesterday summoned an emergency meeting majority, if the coalition parties agreed to backed deal that could boost trade in the local mar- with his coalition allies as a furore over the stick together. “The country should not be led ket and attract more foreign investment to the Gulf shock shutdown of state broadcaster ERT to elections. Parliament can give solutions state, sources familiar with the plan said. In Kuwait, threatened to bring down the government. other than this government, this can be one the index gained 1.6 percent after a court ruling dis- Samaras will meet at 1630 GMT with the lead- eventuality,” moderate leftist party solved the parliament and called for fresh elections. ers of the smaller socialist and moderate left- spokesman Andreas Papadopoulos told Skai Analysts said investors reacted positively to the dis- ist parties in his coalition, which strongly Radio. “The country does not need elections,” solution of the parliament elected in December. oppose ERT’s closure and have demanded its socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos told Real Opposition boycott these polls in protest to a new immediate and full restoration. At around the News daily, but stressed that his party would voting system decreed by HH the Amir. The court same time, main opposition party Syriza will not bow down to “blackmail” and “shows of upheld the voting rules. hold a rally on central Syntagma Square to force”. demand early elections. Some analysts noted that government Traders said there was a widespread belief that But other politicians cautioned against cohesion has already been irreparably dam- state funds would intervene if needed to support the moves to oust the government, which last aged. “Even if the leaders do not collide market during political uncertainty. The market is still Tuesday suddenly made the broadcaster a tonight, it will happen quite soon,” political up 36.2 percent year-to-date, in a rally driven mainly casualty of its unpopular austerity drive. “I columnist Panaghis Galiatsatos told Skai by retail investors, who have been encouraged by a would find it completely crazy to push for Radio. The Athens stock exchange opened government push on economic development and ATHENS: People walk past a graffiti in central Athens yesterday. — AFP new elections here in Greece,” said prominent yestedray down 3.13 percent but later expected improvement in corporate earnings. Green Eurodeputy Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who recouped most of the losses. The three-party bastions of obscurity and privileges?” members have occupied the broadcaster’s Elsewhere, Egypt’s bourse mirrored the regional is in Athens to support ERT. coalition was already a delicate balancing act, Samaras told a conference of officials from his offices in Athens, Thessaloniki and other trend and rose 1.2 percent, cutting 2013 losses to “They (Greek parties) are behaving like with the socialists and moderate leftists New Democracy party. Samaras on Friday major cities since the closure was announced 14.7 percent. children, there is no responsibility for the forced to accept additional job cuts to safe- offered to partially reopen the broadcaster and kept up a rogue broadcast on the Telecom stocks rallied with Orascom Telecom and common good,” he said during a meeting guard Greece’s massive EU-IMF loan lifeline. with a slimmed-down news service to placate Internet, with assistance from the European Telecom Egypt up 6.1 and 6.7 percent respectively. with bloggers. Also yesterday, credit ratings Three separate opinion polls on Sunday his critics, but his coalition partners rejected Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Greek radio “Investors want to buy Egypt in this shaky time and agency Moody’s warned that “fraying political showed that Greeks rejected ERT’s closure by the proposal. Greece went through a harrow- stations. The EBU yesterday condemned a something that’s less risky - telecoms are defensive consensus” and “slippage” in its privatisation between around 64 and 68 percent-though a ing double national ballot in May and June threat by the Greek government to take legal stocks that were hit badly so the rebound is as programme could cost Greece another grade majority also opposed elections. Samaras on 2012, a by-product of which was the rise of action against the unauthorised broadcasts. strong,” said Mohamed Radwan, director of interna- drop. The conservative prime minister’s allies Sunday accused his coalition partners of violent neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. “We urge the Greek government to withdraw tional sales at Pharos Securities. Low trading value is have urged him to back down from the heavi- “hypocrisy”, arguing that all three coalition The government says it will compensate the threats made against satellite operators, indicative of risk-averse attitude ahead of June 30 - ly criticised ERT cull, warning that the coali- party heads had agreed to chop 2,000 public ERT’s almost 2,700 employees and has and restore the continuity of public service President Mohamed Morsi’s one-year anniversary in tion could collapse if he persists. sector jobs to help keep Greece afloat. pledged to set up a new public broadcaster media channels in Greece and across the office. Opposition parties have called for mass One of the allies yesterday hinted that “From where should we cut these jobs before the summer’s end with less than half world,” said EBU director general Ingrid protests against the Islamist leader. — Reuters another government-without Samaras as PM- apart from the undeserving ERT... one of the the original staffing levels. However, ERT staff Deltenre. —AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 BUSINESS India’s central bank keeps rates steady ‘Global economic activity slows but risks elevated’

MUMBAI: India’s central bank kept its benchmark risks to growth,” the governor said in the state- said the bank’s tone remains “guarded”. “The door is interest rates unchanged yesterday, after three ment released on the RBI website. open for a 25 basis points cut when the RBI meets successive cuts, citing inflationary concerns and a The RBI’s decision to keep rates unchanged had next,” she told AFP, adding that a lot would depend weak rupee in the face of a global economic slow- been forecast by economists due to the weaken- on the currency movements and the monsoon’s down. After meeting in the financial capital ing rupee, which hit a record low of 58.98 against impact on food prices. The RBI also expressed con- Mumbai, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the the dollar last week. A cut in interest rates would cern over inflation, although this cooled to a more benchmark repo rate, at which it lends to com- lead to an even weaker rupee, push up the cost of than three-year low of 4.7 percent year-on-year in mercial banks, would be on hold at 7.25 percent, imports and widen the current account deficit, May, according to data last week. as expected by most economists. The cash reserve which hit a record 6.7 percent of gross domestic Business leaders however want the RBI to low- ratio-the percentage of deposits banks must keep product in the last quarter of 2012. er borrowing costs further to help kick-start the with the central bank-was also kept unchanged at Subbarao said while steps have been taken to economy, which has been growing at a decade KHARTOUM: A Sudanese youth collects plastic bottles from a garbage con- 4.0 percent. contain the current account deficit, the bank low of 5.0 percent. India’s manufacturing activity tainer yesterday. —AFP “Global economic activity has slowed but risks needs to be “vigilant” about global uncertainty, also dropped to a 50-month low in May, fuelling remain elevated,” said RBI governor Duvvuri rapid shifts in risk perceptions and the impact on further concerns about the strength of Asia’s third Sudan’s garbage economy Subbarao, explaining the decision. Subbarao said capital inflows. “The RBI has taken a cautious largest economy. The Congress party govern- there were pressures from the impact of the stance and is non-committal about what it could ment, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a lifeline for scavengers “rupee depreciation, increases in fuel prices and do in its next policy in July,” said Siddhartha has been battered by a spate of corruption scan- imbalances relating to food (prices)”. “It is only the Sanyal, chief India economist with Barclays dals and is keen to revive economic growth KHARTOUM: Just after the footpath beside the anything inside he tilts his head back and drinks durable receding of inflation that will open up the Capital. before facing voters in general elections due in school passes into the cool late afternoon shadows, before methodically bearing down on the can with space for monetary policy to continue to address Economist Shubhada Rao, with private Yes Bank, 2014. —AFP a gentle cracking sound signals that Doud Sebet a brick. has arrived. He sits on a piece of cardboard, with ‘I don’t want them to work like this’ one long leg out in front of him and the other Sebet is a veteran of this dirty business but oth- India cuts Iran tucked underneath. From a white sack, Sebet ers have turned to it more recently.”I have been col- UAE’s Etihad mulls retrieves metal drink cans that other people have lecting these things for seven months,” says 26-year- thrown away. He slowly places each of them on old Mohammed Adam, in Omdurman. Another oil imports 42% equity stake in one brick and hammers down on them with anoth- young man, Osman Haroun, 25, says he can make er. The flattened coloured circles collect in front of 10 or 15 pounds a day scavenging.”We choose spe- NEW DELHI: India cut its Iranian oil imports by more than 40 percent in the Serbia’s JAT Airways him. cific areas, where the rich people live,” he says atop a first five months of the year, replacing the crude with shipments from He and an increasing number of others are donkey cart which he and his work partner bought scouring garbage to make a living in the troubled to make their job easier.”Before that, I didn’t have Venezuela, Iraq and Oman, and pushing Iran down four places to seventh BELGRADE/DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Etihad economy of Sudan, a country ranked near the bot- permanent work,” Haroun says. Another scavenger among its suppliers. India’s imports of Iranian oil for May dropped 12.2 per- Airways has signed a preliminary agreement with the Serbian tom of a United Nations human development in Omdurman, Omar Muhajir, 56, said rubbish col- cent from a year ago to 213,500 barrels per day (bpd), tanker arrival data government over a possible equity investment in the Balkan index measuring income, health and education. lection helps to support his five children-whom he compiled by Reuters from trade sources shows. The cuts underline the country’s loss-making JAT Airways. Serbia is looking to offload “The people of this area are living in luxury,” Sebet hopes will have a better life than his. effectiveness of US and European sanctions aimed at Tehran over its sus- loss-making state enterprises, including JAT, pharmaceuticals says in his favourite hunting ground, the Khartoum “I don’t want them to have to work like this, col- pected pursuit of nuclear weapons. Those measures reduced Iran’s oil firm Galenika and the Zelezara Smederevo steel mill in a bid 2 district where foreign ambassadors and wealthy lecting things from the garbage. On the other exports to the lowest in decades in May and have cost it billions of dollars in business people live. hand, it’s better than sitting around without a job,” lost revenue per month since early 2012. to keep its budget deficit at about 4.7 percent of gross “There are many restaurants,” he says, making it he says. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) esti- Washington is now seeking to cut Iran’s oil shipments further through domestic product (GDP) and secure growth of around 2 per- fertile territory for a scavenger like Sebet who also mated that Sudan’s economy would get a boost of tighter sanctions. The Middle Eastern country’s economy has been battered cent this year. Previous attempts to sell JAT have failed due to collects discarded plastic water bottles. nearly $500 million (375 million euros) this year and as a result of the sanctions aimed at ending its nuclear activities, though lack of interest from prospective buyers. Etihad, which has He marvels that some people drink water from about $1.5 billion in 2014 under an agreement there are hopes of better relations with the West after the election of mod- been expanding rapidly, did not specify the value of the a sealed, disposable container. In poorer parts of between the two countries for South Sudanese oil erate cleric Hassan Rohani to its presidency. But with Iran’s supreme leader, potential deal, nor how much of a stake it could take in JAT, the city, water is delivered in a tank pulled by a don- fees and a package to compensate for the loss of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, still deciding state policy, there is not expected to key. It is not just the rich areas that are targeted by the South’s oil at separation. adding any transaction would be subject to a due diligence scavengers-the more down-to-earth community of This could help ease the deterioration in living be a rebound in oil exports anytime soon. process and regulatory approvals. Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman is also rich pick- standards for ordinary Sudanese like Sebet. “If this While India’s Iranian imports for May were up more than 80 percent from “The two airlines will now intensify discussions about col- ings. A growing number of people are turning to windfall is used wisely... it will contain the rising cost April, the year-to-date total was down 41.8 percent, the tanker data laborative efforts to further integrate their networks and help the city’s rubbish for income in a “static economy” of living which has been crippling everyone but showed. Iran’s share of India’s total oil imports dropped to 5.5 percent over JAT Airways achieve efficiency, build revenue and reduce which is failing to create new jobs, says University especially the poorest,” an IMF official told AFP in the January to May period, down from more than 10 percent in the same costs,” Etihad chief executive James Hogan told a news confer- of Khartoum economist Mohammed Eljack May. But new economic uncertainty emerged this period last year, the data also showed. Ahmed. month when Sudan began to stop the flow of oil. ence in Belgrade. In April, Etihad and JAT agreed to share Earlier this month, Washington granted its third 180-day waiver to Asian “Within this economic atmosphere this is a President Omar Al-Bashir ordered the closure of countries including India for significantly reducing Iranian oil imports in the route-booking codes but stopped short of an equity tie-up. good alternative for them,” he says. Sudanese have the pipelines carrying South Sudanese crude six months to May. Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Mangalore Refinery and Earlier this year, the Serbian government said it was ready struggled to cope with soaring inflation and a because of alleged southern support for rebels in Petrochemicals halted their Iranian oil purchases in April as it became diffi- to take on 170 million euros ($227 million) of JAT’s debt, weakened currency since South Sudan separated the north. After South Sudan’s separation, the oil cult to insure refineries processing oil from the OPEC member, making the which in 2012 stood at 3.68 billion dinars ($43.1 million), pay in July 2011 with about 75 percent of united refineries and export pipelines stayed under largest contribution to India’s cuts this year. leases for six new aircraft from EADS’s Airbus and secure sev- Sudan’s oil production. The lost crude accounted Khartoum’s jurisdiction. The South halted crude pro- Indian insurers worried about running afoul of sanctions have said they erance payments for redundant workers. Hogan said a minori- for most of Khartoum’s export earnings and half of duction early last year during a dispute over fees for will not be able to pay claims at plants processing Iranian crude. That has its fiscal revenues. its use of the infrastructure. ty equity investment could help JAT to secure savings Inflation is close to 40 percent, and Ahmed esti- Southern production resumed in April and the left the country’s biggest refiner, state-owned Indian Oil Corp - whose insur- through pilot and crew training and fuel costs, as well as mates that unemployment exceeds 30 percent. oil had been slowly making its way toward the Red ance coverage is due for renewal only in November - and private refiner through procurement and maintenance agreements for com- “We are suffering,” says Sebet, who is over 60 years Sea export terminal before Bashir’s surprise order to Essar Oil as Iran’s only Indian clients, according to sources. mon engine types. old. His breath smells of alcohol, and Khartoum’s close the line within 60 days. If implemented, the oil The data showed IOC bought two very large crude carriers of Iranian oil “These are early days, but we are ... looking forward to ever-present desert sand has stained brown his compensation package would last for less than four in May, and industry and government sources said the state refiner is not explore the possibility of a much deeper strategic commercial white jalabiya robe. Sebet says he can earn 400 years but the revenues would “provide a very valu- planning to lift any more Iranian crude until the fourth quarter of 2013. This pounds (about $60) a month by recovering the able breathing space” for an economy which must means Essar Oil would be Iran’s sole customer in India from June to later partnership with JAT Airways,” he said. JAT currently operates cans and selling them to a company. be restructured, including through the revitalisation this year, unless other Indian refiners find a way to insure plants processing 10 Boeing 737-300s and four ATR 72-200 turboprop aircraft A native of South Sudan, he says he lost his gov- of neglected sectors like agriculture, the IMF official Iranian crude or sanctions are eased. on 30 routes within Europe and to the Middle East. ernment employment many years ago and then said. Other Asian countries have also been showing steady cuts in their Partnership with Etihad is part of Serbia’s bid to secure turned to hauling goods for merchants until illness Unless the damaged farm and industrial sectors Iranian crude imports. Customs data on Saturday showed that South Korea investments from sovereign lenders outside the recession-hit forced him to stop. Now, this is his main job, help- can assume a significant economic role generating had cut its May oil imports from Iran by 8.3 percent from a year ago. India euro zone - the main trading partner of the European Union ing to support a teenage daughter who lives with employment, the long-awaited oil revenue, despite imported nearly 80 percent more oil from Latin America in the January to him at their home made from grass and wood in its fiscal importance, will not be enough to help candidate country. Serbia has already borrowed from Russia, the city’s south. Every morning Sebet travels by bus Sebet and the other scavengers, says the university May period as it cut its dependence on Iran. The region accounted for China and the UAE. This year, it has secured a $400 million about a fifth of India’s overall imports, up from 12 percent in the same peri- to scour the trash of Khartoum’s elite. When he is economist, Ahmed. Sebet has not heard about the sovereign loan from the UAE for agriculture investment and done, he sits in the shade of the school overlooked now-uncertain oil deal with South Sudan. His left od a year ago. Overall, Asia’s third-largest economy shipped in 12.6 percent agreed more than $400 million in investment by the Al-Dahra by a high rise apartment block where foreign diplo- shoulder bears the weight of three sacks of more oil in May than a year ago, while imports for the January-May period agricultural firm based in the Emirate. —Reuters mats live. garbage as he slowly staggers off, another day’s rose about 8.8 percent, the data showed. —Reuters He shakes the cola containers and if there is work done. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Commercial Bank of Kuwait Malaysian ringgit 94.271 Omani Riyal 737.02 748.000 Guinea Franc 0.0000440 0.0000500 Irani Riyal 0.271 Qatari Riyal 78.26 79.500 Hg Kong Dollar 0.0340195 0.0371195 Irani Riyal 0.273 Saudi Riyal 75.70 76.000 Indian Rupee 0.0048687 0.0049337 US Dollar/KD .2770000 .2880000 Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000238 0.0000289 GB Pound/KD .4310000 .4470000 GCC COUNTRIES Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Jamaican Dollars 0.0028329 0.0038329 Euro .3680000 .3760000 Saudi Riyal 75.990 Japanese Yen 0.0029338 0.0031138 Swiss francs .3020000 .3170000 Qatari Riyal 78.290 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Kenyan Shilling 0.0032678 0.0034978 Omani Riyal 740.160 Canadian Dollar .2780000 .2920000 US Dollar 283.750 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0863871 0.0933871 Bahraini Dinar 756.880 Nepalese Rupee 0.0029300 0.0031300 Australian DLR .2940000 .3020000 Canadian Dollar 280.895 Indian rupees .0040000 .0069000 UAE Dirham 77.605 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028520 0.0028920 Sterling Pound 445.920 Philippine Peso 0.0061723 0.0066423 Sri Lanka Rupee .0020000 .0035000 Euro 380.130 UAE dirhams .0771240 .0778990 ARAB COUNTRIES Sierra Leone 0.0000725 0.0000755 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.950 Swiss Frank 300.705 Bahraini dinars .7513970 .7589480 Singapore Dollar 0.2230032 0.2290032 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.068 Bahrain Dinar 751.230 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021664 0.0022084 Jordanian dinar .3930000 .4110000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.329 UAE Dirhams 77.230 Saudi riyals .0720000 .0770000 Thai Baht 0.0089038 0.0095038 Tunisian Dinar 175.830 Qatari Riyals 77.885 Arab Omani riyals .7366120 .7440150 Jordanian Dinar 402.420 Saudi Riyals 75.630 Bahraini Dinar 0.7463592 0.7548592 Egyptian pounds .0370000 .0440000 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.912 Jordanian Dinar 399.990 Egyptian Pound 0.0379239 0.0399539 Syrian Lier 3.096 Egyptian Pound 39.942 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0127229 0.0192229 CUSTOMER TRANSFER RATES Morocco Dirham 34.444 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.223 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1442921 0.1460821 US Dollar/KD .2841000 .2862000 Indian Rupees 4.857 Iranian Riyal 0.0000789 0.0000794 GB Pound/KD .4338920 .4370990 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Pakistani Rupees 2.877 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001724 0.0002324 Euro .3707360 .3734770 US Dollar Transfer 284.850 Bangladesh Taka 3.643 Jordanian Dinar 0.3947072 0.4022072 Swiss francs .3043390 .3065880 Euro 379.140 Philippines Pesso 6.561 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Sterling Pound 445.220 Canadian dollars .2795430 .2816100 Cyprus pound 696.050 Lebanese Pound 0.0001740 0.0001940 Danish Kroner .0497330 .0501010 Canadian dollar 280.640 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0223261 0.0463261 Turkish lira 149.830 Japanese Yen 4.000 Swedish Kroner .0443660 .0446940 Thai Bhat 9.785 Nigerian Naira 0.0012034 0.0018384 Australian dlr .2963730 .2985640 Swiss Franc 306.620 Omani Riyal 0.7261310 0.7371310 Australian Dollar 269.330 Syrian Pound 4.055 Hong Kong dlr .0365940 .0368650 Nepalese Rupees 3.325 Qatar Riyal 0.0772976 0.0780806 US Dollar Buying 283.650 Saudi Riyal 0.0751467 0.0757867 Singapore dlr .2291130 .2308060 Malaysian Ringgit 95.150 Japanese yen .0029600 .0028810 Sudanese Pounds 0.0461426 0.0466926 GOLD Syrian Pound 0.0027430 0.0029630 Indian Rs/KD .0000000 .0052870 20 Gram 265.000 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lanka rupee .0000000 .0022880 Tunisian Dinar 0.1740625 0.1800625 10 Gram 134.000 UAE Dirhams 0.0758409 0.0772909 Pakistan rupee .0000000 .0029190 5 Gram 70.000 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Bangladesh taka .0000000 .0036810 Europe Yemeni Riyal 0.0012801 0.0013801 UAE dirhams .0773800 .0779520 British Pound 0.4385459 0.4475459 Bahraini dinars .7538810 .7594530 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Czech Korune 0.0067169 0.0187169 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian dinar .0000000 .4048090 Danish Krone 0.0467706 0.0517706 Euro 0.3737158 0.3812154 Saudi Riyal/KD .0757800 .0763400 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Norwegian Krone 0.0457018 0.0509018 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Omani riyals .7382100 .7436660 Australian Dollar 276.14 284.000 Scottish Pound 0.4341150 0.4416150 US Dollar 283.500 Philippine Peso .0000000 .0069870 Canadian Dollar 283.39 282.000 Swedish Krona 0.0400591 0.0450591 Euro 380.350 Swiss Franc 312.97 312.000 Swiss Franc 0.3034377 0.3104377 Pound Sterling 447.300 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Euro 382.43 380.000 Australasia Canadian Dollar 281.250 US Dollar 283.40 284.500 Australian Dollar 0.2621097 0.2741097 Japanese Yen 3.850 Sterling Pound 449.28 448.500 ASIAN COUNTRIES New Zealand Dollar 0.2207648 0.2307648 Indian Rupee 4.917 Japanese Yen 3.08 3.300 Japanese Yen 2.901 Uganda Shilling 0.0001113 0.0001113 Egyptian Pound 39.955 Bangladesh Taka 3.655 3.670 America Indian Rupees 4.870 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.200 Indian Rupee 4.931 5.050 Canadian Dollar 0.2723886 0.2813886 Pakistani Rupees 2.886 Bangladesh Taka 3.642 Srilankan Rupees 2.231 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.209 2.550 Colombian Peso 0.0001443 0.0001623 Philippines Peso 6.615 Nepali Rupees 3.049 Nepali Rupee 3.083 3.250 US Dollars 0.2816500 0.2838000 Pakistan Rupee 2.878 Singapore Dollar 226.790 Pakistani Rupee 2.877 2.900 Asia Bahraini Dinar 755.000 Hongkong Dollar 36.693 UAE Dirhams 77.23 78.800 Bangladesh Taka 0.0035991 0.0036541 UAE Dirham 77.250 Bangladesh Taka 3.652 Bahraini Dinar 754.29 753.000 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031476 0.0033776 Saudi Riyal 75.750 Philippine Peso 6.590 Egyptian Pound 39.91 38.80 Chinese Yuan 0.0452909 0.0502909 *Rates are subject to change Thai Baht 9.227 Jordanian Dinar 403.34 410.000 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0163867 0.0194867 TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 BUSINESS

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Clashes erupt at Indonesia demos against petrol hike Unions opposed to cash handouts for poor JAKARTA: Indonesia’s parliament debated measures yesterday to open the way for a jump in fuel prices after months of delay that have undermined confidence in the government and the ability of Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to continue rapid growth. The price hike of 33 percent would allow the government to cut costly fuel sub- sidies and could give support to PAMPLONA: Two elderly women enjoy the day while they rest outside a shop, yester- the struggling rupiah after the cen- day. — AP tral bank scrambled last week to prop up the currency, which was caught in an emerging market sell- Spain’s power industry overhaul off. President Susilo Bambang set to affect companies, banks Yudhoyono would have to sign off on the measures. MADRID: Spain’s latest overhaul of its dys- association UNEF. The surge in fuel prices, which functional energy sector, due this month, will Banks, which have already had to write would boost inflation and in turn inflict pain on renewable power companies down more than 300 billion euros of toxic spark labour union wage demands, and utilities and force losses on banks and property assets and loans in Spain, face hav- is testing Yudhoyono’s already investors. Reform of the power sector, the ing to recognize billions of euros of further uneasy ruling coalition of political fifth in as many years, is intended to eliminate losses on loans to energy projects if the parties, which are increasingly a gap between the cost of producing energy reforms force some solar projects to shut focused on next year’s general and and what consumers pay for it, which has down. Small solar power producers have seen presidential elections. One member built up a debt of 26 billion euros ($34.7 bil- revenue drop 40 percent due to the impact of of the coalition has very publicly lion) over 13 years. previous reforms, according to the National opposed a proposal to protect the That debt, which sits on the books of pri- Association of Energy Producers, ANPIER, poor from the impact of higher fuel JAKARTA: Indonesian demonstrators rally outside parliament yesterday. — AFP vate utilities who paid the bill but is backed which represents more than 4,000 photo- prices with cash compensation, a by taxpayers, has come under European voltaic investors. measure Yudhoyono had insisted On Saturday, about 70 percent Jakarta was about to raise fuel month downgraded its outlook for Union scrutiny as Spain battles to keep its Even after earlier cuts, renewable energy on before he would agree to raise of members of the parliamentary prices helped lift the rupiah off its Indonesia’s sovereign credit to sta- budget deficit in check. The government of gets nearly half of all state support for the prices. budget committee backed 2013 lowest level against the dollar in ble from positive. The move was centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is overall sector. Industry sources forecast addi- The change has been seen as a budget revisions, which includes almost four years as the currency especially galling for the expected to unveil new rules on June 21 or tional cuts of at least 10 percent for renew- key test of Yudhoyono’s commit- some 9 trillion rupiah ($910 million) came under fire from investors cut- Indonesian government because at June 28, including harsh cuts to a range of ables, hitting listed companies like Acciona ment to economic reform in the in compensation for the poor. ting their emerging market expo- the same time S&P upgraded its power subsidies in an attempt to close the and Abengoa and potentially triggering fur- final 1-1/2 years of his term as These measures will pave the way sure over uncertainty in the future rating for the neighbouring gap - known as the tariff deficit - once and for ther lawsuits against the government by prospects for rapid economic for the fuel price rise if passed by of US monetary policy. Philippines. While Indonesia’s tech- all, industry and government sources said. green energy investors already furious over a growth soften. Thousands of pro- parliament. “We support the cuts in The pressure on the rupiah and nocrats have been shouting for fuel Renewable energy firms such as Acciona series of changes in the rules. Seeking legally testers took to the streets in cities fuel subsidies because Indonesia concerns of the inflationary impact prices to rise, the issue has become and Abengoa , which have relied heavily on safe formulas for reform, Industry Minister across the giant archipelago, but has to spend billions on fuel of costlier fuel, prompted surprise largely hostage to politics ahead of government support, will be hardest hit. Jose Manuel Soria said last week Spain could there were no reports of serious imports every year ... And make no increases in two of the central next year’s elections. Consumers will escape the pain for now, but a link guaranteed profit for renewable energy violence. mistake, we will withdraw support bank’s key interest rates last week. Of the three parties to oppose review of the formula for calculating power companies and other regulated power costs “We reject the proposed cash if the government doesn’t protect It expects inflation to top 7 percent the measure in Saturday’s budget bills is expected to be finished later in the to treasury yields in the review. handouts because it doesn’t poor people,” said Teguh Juwarno, after fuel prices rise from the cur- committee meeting, one was rul- year. Spain, in its fifth year of on-off recession, To stop the tariff deficit from expanding address the real issue of poverty. an MP with ruling coalition party rent level of around 5.5 percent. ing coalition member PKS, the has already cut back on lucrative subsidies for further Soria must still cut about 4 billion Instead, they’re trying to be like PAN. The finance ministry has warned country’s biggest Muslim party. renewable energy that made it the world’s euros from total costs of 20 billion, which Santa Claus before next year’s gen- Fuel subsidies last year cost the that the growing subsidy cost of Analysts say the PKS is hoping to No. 4 wind power generator and the No. 2 aside from subsidies for renewables, coal and eral election,” head of the largest former OPEC member some $20 fuel, unless prices rise, could use the issue to divert attention solar power generator. Those policies as well nuclear include payments to big utilities to labour union, Said Iqbal, told billion and is putting pressure on exceed 3 percent of GDP. The initial from allegations that senior party as subsidies for providing power to remote keep extra capacity on hand and for power reporters. About 20,000 security the current account deficit. The budget had put the deficit at just members were involved in a beef islands, were largely responsible for the tariff transportation. Analysts forecast a 10 percent officials had been placed on alert in finance ministry has said the price 1.6 percent. import scam and sexual impropri- deficit. The new round of cuts could make across-the-board cut to these payments, hit- the capital, the police said. Protests rises could save the state about $4 Pointing to concerns over ety, charges which threaten to some solar projects unviable and sour loans ting profits at utilities Iberdrola, Enel-con- have marked previous attempts to billion if they are implemented this stalling reform momentum, ratings wreck its election hopes next that banks made to green energy projects at trolled Endesa and Gas Natural and electrici- raise fuel prices. month. Rumours late last week that agency Standard & Poor’s early last year. — Reuters a time when the government promised con- ty and gas grid operators Red Electrica and sistent subsidies and stable returns, energy Enagas. sector sources said. Months of tension over Of the big utilities, Endesa may be the the likely reforms reached a climax this hardest hit because of its power generation Asian markets mixed ahead of Fed meeting month when the government asked banks to on the Spanish islands, which also benefits refinance debt held by renewable energy from significant state subsidies. In a note to HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed yester- ed with fuelling a stocks rally since September. “As firms expected to be hit by subsidy cuts, clients, Berenberg bank estimated such cuts day despite a weak batch of US economic data US employment data has shown signs of a weak industry and banking sources said. to knock 14 percent off of Endesa’s earnings boosting hopes that the Federal Reserve would economic recovery, I think the Fed will stand pat on Representatives of some of Spain and per share, followed by a 9 percent hit for Enel put off announcing any winding down of its vast its easing policies, opening the door to more yen Europe’s biggest banks stormed out of a and 8 percent for Gas Natural and Iberdrola. stimulus scheme at the end of a policy meeting weakening,” Naoki Fujiwara, fund manager at meeting with Spain’s secretary of state for The companies’ shares have mostly priced this week. Traders were upbeat despite a soft lead Shinkin Asset Management, told Dow Jones energy, Alberto Nadal, furious over the pro- in regulatory uncertainty and analysts say the from Wall Street while the dollar edged up after Newswires. posal. The banks included Santander, BBVA, final outcome of the reform, barring particu- suffering a sell-off on Friday in New York. Tokyo Selling pressure intensified last Tuesday when Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Espirito Santo , larly nasty cuts, could finally bring a safer jumped 2.73 percent, or 346.60 points, to the Bank of Japan held off unveiling any more of its sources familiar with the situation said. investment climate to the sector. Madrid has 13,033.12, climbing for a second successive ses- own easing measures. However, the latest figures Spain’s photovoltaic and solar-thermal sec- been gradually paying back the tariff deficit sion after plunging more than six percent on out of Washington on Friday suggest the US econo- tors have total debt of about 28 billion euros, through the issuance of government-backed Thursday. my is still too weak for the Fed to turn off the tap, about two thirds of which is held by Spanish bonds and the reform may contain plans for Sydney rose 0.71 percent, or 34.1 points, to with analysts saying it is unlikely this week will see banks, according to estimates by sector trade more securitisations. — Reuters 4,825.9, Hong Kong gained 1.22 percent, or 256.76 any such announcements. TOKYO: A man walks by an electronic stock points, to 21,225.9 while Seoul lost 0.32 percent, or Industrial production came in flat last month, indicator of a securities firm yesterday.— AP 6.14 points, to 1,883.10 and Shanghai closed down there was a decline in the much-watched 0.27 percent, or 5.82 points, at 2,156.22. Mumbai University of Michigan consumer sentiment index, S&P 500 lost 0.59 percent and the Nasdaq was EU, US to launch talks for climbed 0.77 percent, or 147.94 points, to end at and producer prices registered just a modest gain down 0.63 percent. The dollar also slipped in New 19,325.87, its second straight day of gains, even as in May. “The data coming in are up and down, and York Friday but bounced back in Asia, thanks to a world’s biggest trade pact the country’s central bank kept interest rates on unconvincing that the US economy is on a firm more confident outlook for the Fed meeting. In hold, citing inflationary pressures. recovery track, leading to more jitters about central Tokyo afternoon trade the dollar was at 94.73 yen ENNISKILLEN: The EU and United States French President Francois Hollande react- Global markets have see-sawed in recent weeks bank policy,” said SMBC Nikko Securities general against 94.22 yen in New York late Friday. The euro were set to launch negotiations yesterday to ed spikily as he arrived at the summit. “I do on expectations the Fed will soon start to reel in its manager of equities Hiroichi Nishi. was at $1.3334 and 126.71 yen from $1.3346 and create the world’s biggest free-trade pact not want to believe that the president of the $85-billion-a-month stimulus that has been credit- On Wall Street the Dow fell 0.70 percent, the 125.74 yen.—AFP despite a hard line by France to protect its European Commission could have made film and culture sectors from Hollywood. these statements on France,” he told Such a deal is touted as a potentially huge reporters. If the EU-US deal is done, it would boost to business, economic growth and job be the world’s largest Free Trade Agreement Sheraton Kuwait welcomes Loyac trainees creation, but the culture issue is seen as (FTA): bilateral trade in goods last year was KUWAIT: The Sheraton Kuwait potentially offering a bargaining chip to the worth some 500 billion euros ($670 billion), was pleased to welcome stu- US side. with another 280 billion euros in services and dents from the Lothan Youth President Barack Obama and European trillions in investment flows. Achievements Center (Loyac) leaders gathered at the G8 summit in The EU says an FTA would add about 119 during their summer program for Northern Ireland prepared to announce the billion euros annually to the EU economy, and the year 2013, which is a six formal start of talks on the pact, just days 95 billion euros for the United States. British weeks program that aims to pro- after the EU thrashed out a last-minute deal Prime Minister David Cameron, who is host- vide youth during their summer to keep the French happy. The head of the EU ing the G8 meeting of leading industrialised holidays with practical training executive, Jose Manuel Barroso, told reporters nations, made no mention of the row with to acquire valuable working that Obama and European leaders “will give France as he hailed the deal. “My focus is very experience. Also, they connect the go-ahead” for the start of talks and said a clear-getting agreements, signing deals, mak- positively with their society by deal would have huge potential. ing progress on issues that will help hard- volunteering certain hours in “Two years ago, very few would have bet working families right here in the United community centers or awareness that the US and the EU would have been able Kingdom. For me, that’s what the agenda of committees in addition to regu- to launch this free trade and investment part- this G8 is all about,” Cameron said. lar weekly meetings, different nership,” Barroso said. “This can be a game- The British prime minister’s spokesman activities and valuable work- changer, not just for the transatlantic area, said he expected it to take “twelve to eight- shops. the United States and Europe, but for the een months” for the EU and US to complete Exposure to the working envi- world,” he said. Barroso had earlier weighed in negotiations, dismissing speculation that it ronment of the hospitality indus- with an unusually outspoken criticism of could take years for anyone to see the bene- try at the Sheraton Kuwait will France for its “reactionary” behaviour to fits. He added: “I think that what you are enhance their growth potential defend its audiovisual and cultural industry. going to see today is really good important and help them evolve into com- affairs. On this occasion, Fahed very happy to be welcoming dif- of this dynamic industry. We “Some say they belong to the left, but in fact news with the launch of the EU-US trade petent professionals. Thus, the Abushaar, Area Director/General ferent students every year hope that with this condensed they are culturally extremely reactionary,” the negotiations.” He also played down the row Sheraton Kuwait once again pro- Manager of Sheraton Kuwait stat- acknowledging them about the training we have helped develop president of the European Commission said over France’s so-called “cultural exception.” “I vides a guiding force in the com- ed that “this training program hospitality industry and its differ- their professional future and we in an interview with the International Herald wouldn’t characterise it in those terms,” he munity and continues to have an has been carried out for years at ent departments and to be giv- look forward to train more stu- Tribune on Monday. said.—AFP active role in supporting youth the Sheraton Kuwait and we are ing them a better understanding dents in the years to come”. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 BUSINESS Cash-strapped Europe pools defence, saves little so far Efficiency drive unlikely to halt squeeze on spending

ZARAGOZA: At military exercises in northern aims to eradicate purchases of duplicate or over- both in Europe and its ally the United States fear should not be is a way for member states to air-to-air refuelling capacity found wanting Spain, French and Spanish fighters fly alongside lapping materiel, but also to foster integration it may become an excuse for further defence say ‘Oh, now we can do with less defence during the 2011 Libya campaign. Three big Swedish and Czech transport aircraft while a and make the continent more powerful than the spending cuts, in a continent that, since the budget’,” said Rini Goos, deputy chief exec- European aerospace companies called on multinational team of mechanics changes the sum of its parts. demise of the Soviet Union, no longer sees itself utive of the European Defence Agency, the Europe on Sunday to launch its own inde- engine on a Belgian plane. On display is “pooling More defence cooperation is seen as a neces- as facing an imminent military threat. EU’s defence arm, which advocates the pol- pendent military drone programme, a sec- and sharing” - the idea that cash-strapped sity in Europe, in many cases trumping concerns There are questions over how much money it icy. “We have to stop the rot in that sense,” tor dominated by US companies. European allies can retain their military muscle about national security or lost influence and fos- saves, and the biggest Western military powers - he told Reuters. The concern for allies such as the United and keep their budgets in check by cooperating tering dreams of a common army seven decades the United States, Britain and France - balk at States, which believes European defence on how they buy and operate costly yet critical after World War Two. But practical, organisation- picking up the bill for the biggest, most expen- All European together cuts have already gone too far, is that coop- defence equipment. Launched in 2010 in al and financial considerations are giving some sive items while providing a security shield for In the clear skies above Zaragoza, where eration becomes a sticking plaster for response to the global financial crisis, it not only officials pause for thought. Defence experts smaller nations. “What pooling and sharing the 14-day military exercise continues this European military weakness that means week, everything was designed to portray European states avoid reversing defence a picture of seamless pan-European coop- spending cuts once their economies recov- eration. Aircraft from Belgium, the Czech er. Countries that like the idea of sharing Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the more resources are also concerned about Netherlands, Spain and Sweden took part, what would happen if there were a nation- with a team of mechanics from all the al emergency - would they have access to countries working on one another’s planes, the pooled equipment? all conversing in English. And what happens to the vast number French Lieutenant-Colonel Magalie of jobs in the military and defence industry Allard, the maintenance commander at the as the level of cooperation increases? Cuts exercise, said the countries were even pool- to the Spanish and Greek militaries risk ing spare parts and their tools. In many swelling their already vast ranks of youth respects, that sort of cooperation is noth- unemployed. “Countries remain scared to ing new. France and Belgium already have pool capabilities because they don’t want joint pilot training, the Belgian and Dutch to lose control and they don’t like the idea navies have all but merged and the two of having to sacrifice jobs,” said Clara countries are looking to establish a joint Marina O’Donnell, senior research fellow at helicopter command. the Centre for European Reform, a think- France and Britain have agreed to set up tank. And even when the logic of eight or a joint military force, share equipment and 10 European countries - some with shared nuclear missile research centres. But in a borders and histories - coming together sign of the problems that can befall even seems incontrovertible, there is evidence the best attempts at cooperation, a plane that the financial gain, one of the main carrying military chiefs from Brussels to the arguments in favour, is not always there. event was delayed for four hours by an air The European Defence Agency (EDA) said it traffic controllers’ strike in France, and a had no estimate of savings from pooling paratrooper drop was cancelled due to an and sharing so far. EDA Chief Executive engine problem with a Belgian C-130. Claude-France Arnould said in November EU Still, defence chiefs, especially those members could save up to two billion euros from smaller nations, see great scope in over 15 years if they boost cooperation on “pooling and sharing”, or what NATO, with military satellite communications and up to its own desire for greater multinational a further 500 million euros a year by standar- cooperation within the alliance, refers to as dising certification of military aircraft and “smart defence”. “I am not sure we will get other equipment. NATO has no estimate of to this European army one day because savings to date, but expects “significant sav- some big nations have their own agendas, ings” in years to come from reducing dupli- but for smaller nations, definitely,” said cation in managing new equipment pro- Colonel Frederik Vansina, chief of staff of grammes, a NATO official said. O’Donnell Belgium’s air force. “I see a Benelux army cites EU officials as saying that combined EU maybe in a few decades ahead. Why not?” defence spending has fallen from around 200 billion euros in 2008 to 170 billion euros Scant saving? last year, a vast decline. But savings from The idea of a European army, first cooperative defence projects over the same bandied around in the 1950s, remains a dis- period were only 200 or 300 million euros, tant dream, but there is an ever-increasing she said, due to high initial costs. “So we are level of cooperation among EU nations, as looking at an order of magnitude that is 100 witnessed in Libya and alongside US forces times smaller,” she said, underlining that in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Pooling and shar- while the goal may be sound, the benefits of ing” has no overarching end goal, consist- the policy may be far less than hoped, espe- ing rather of initiatives and projects identi- cially when it comes to the money saved in fied by EU members, such as boosting the the short term. — Reuters

KARACHI: Pakistani stockbrokers chat as they sit under share prices board at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) yesterday. The benchmark KSE-100-Index closed at 22216.46, down 325.18 points at the end of the day. — AFP

Turkey’s economy is vulnerable LONDON: Tayyip Erdogan seems to like Turkey. What’s more, the Turkish miracle the concept of “choking” things. At the isn’t quite as good as it seems. The econ- weekend, Turkey’s prime minister sent omy grew only 2.6 percent last year, riot police into an Istanbul park with tear down from 8.5 percent the previous year gas and water cannons to clear out the - after the central bank had to hike inter- protestors. A week earlier, he had threat- est rates because the economy was over- ened to “choke” an alleged “high-interest- heating and inflation reached 8.9 percent rate lobby” of speculators who wanted to last year. push interest rates up and suffocate the Turkey’s biggest economic weakness economy. is its current account deficit - a sign that Erdogan’s harsh actions against pro- consumption has been growing faster testors and harsh words against investors than is sustainable. The deficit did fall to could backfire economically. The country 5.9 percent of GDP last year, after a 9.7 depends on foreign investors to fund its percent gap the previous year, as the big current account deficit. If they turn economy slowed. But it is rising again tail in response to the mounting unrest, this year. The April trade deficit was $10.3 interest rates will indeed have to rise. billion, up from $6.6 billion last year. The protests which began two weeks Indeed, the selloff in Turkey’s financial ago over Tayyip Erdogan’s alleged markets began a week or so before the authoritarianism, triggered by the prime police crackdown on protestors in minister’s insistence on bulldozing one of Istanbul’s Taksim Square on May 31. For Istanbul’s few public parks, initially example, two-year bond yields rose from alarmed investors. The stock market 4.8 percent on May 17 to 6 percent at the plunged, the lira fell and government end of the month; and the stock market bond yields spiked. Then, after the cen- fell 8 percent between May 22 and the tral bank intervened in the foreign end of the month. exchange market and Erdogan offered Until now, international investors concessions last week, investors calmed have been happy to fund the deficit. Not down. But the weekend’s use of riot only were they attracted by the strong police has stoked a conflict that seemed economic growth. They also liked like it might be on the point of resolu- Erdogan’s pro-market approach, the tion. The problem is not so much that political stability they thought he had speculators have an incentive to jack up brought and the prospect that Turkey’s interest rates. This would be perverse. march towards a market democracy Foreign investors own $140 billion of would be anchored by negotiations to domestic bonds and equities, according join the European Union, says Timothy to Standard Bank. They will lose money if Ash, Standard Bank’s head of emerging interest rates rise. markets research. The “interest-rate lob- The risk rather is that investors will by” also liked the fact that the govern- pull out their money if they lose confi- ment’s debt is only 35 percent of GDP and dence. The US Federal Reserve’s indica- that banks have strong balance sheets, tion that it may slow down its massive partly because they were seared by bond-purchasing programme has exac- Turkey’s financial crisis at the start of the erbated that risk, as some of the money it millennium. Meanwhile, both Moody’s has been pumping into US bonds has and Fitch recently upgraded the country seeped into emerging markets such as to investment grade. —Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

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BUDAPEST: Hungary’s government raised taxes government efforts to cut the deficit below 3 per- tax, will have to pay a 7 percent charge on trou- on the mostly foreign-owned financial and tele- cent of economic output. It did this despite earlier bled municipal debt that the government will coms sectors yestedray to plug budget holes but criticism over the imposition of big windfall taxes take over this year. This measure alone will put also rattling investors who have already experi- on mostly foreign companies. The EU is expected at least 43 billion forints into government cof- enced three years of unpredictable policies. The to make the final decision on ending Hungary’s fers, as the state will assume 612 billion forints new set of fiscal measures were a surprise. They deficit blacklisting later this week. worth of debt, much of it denominated in for- included lifting the current financial transaction tax eign currency, from municipalities. and raising existing charges on telephone calls Banks hit Banks must pay the 7 percent charge in and mining royalties for what some analysts said Even though the government formally taxes forints by December 20 this year. If they want to was around 100 billion forints ($459.68 million). the financial sector, blaming Brussels, banks get rid of the remaining stock of around 500 bil- The government said the moves were need- have passed on most of the costs from the finan- lion forints worth of municipal debt, they can do DHAKA: In this file photo, Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory ed to make up a shortfall in the budget brought cial transaction tax, which was introduced last that by indicating a willingness to pay the levy in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh. — AP about because low inflation is hitting revenue. year, to their clients - households and firms. on this additional chunk as well, according to They will help Prime Minister Viktor Orban keep Varga said the country’s Banking Association the bill. Hungarian stocks fell on the announce- Bangladesh disaster the deficit below the European Union’s 3 percent had accepted the government’s proposals for ments. The Budapest Stock Exchange’s main of GDP ceiling. Analysts said they may also cre- the tax hikes. The group did not immediately index fell one percent with Hungary’s biggest crushes owner’s ideal of ate room for him to spend ahead of parliamen- comment on the announcement. bank OTP shedding 2.3 percent while telecoms tary elections next year. Since he won in 2010 In a separate draft bill submitted to parlia- firm Magyar Telekom lost 3 percent by 1232 clothes with a conscience elections, Orban’s policies have included the ment, the government also said commercial GMT. The forint was largely unfazed while bonds nationalisation of private pension funds and tax- banks, which already pay Europe’s highest bank firmed slightly. — Reuters SAVAR: When Spanish garment maker poor, rural women who flock to Dhaka in es on banks and selected business sectors. These David Mayor arrived in Bangladesh a search of work. Domingo Gonzalez, head of have helped his government avoid outright aus- decade ago the fashion label he set up had quality control for Cristian Lay, said he had terity and still cut the deficit, while also retaining the motto ‘clothing with a heart’. In an visited the factory frequently and was a lead over the opposition. industry notorious for harsh working con- impressed. “The early summer austerity measures are ... ditions he said he wanted to show it was ‘It was a totally normal factory with making room for late summer fiscal loosening possible to run an ethical business in which healthy conditions, with a lot of light,’ measures in order to sweeten voters ahead of workers were trained well and treated with Gonzalez said. Other clients over the years elections in April 2014 while keeping the budget respect. The story of how that dream end- included Inditex, owner of Zara, and deficit still below 3 percent,” said Zoltan Torok, an ed in the rubble of Rana Plaza, an eight- Spanish department store El Corte Ingles, a analyst at Raiffeisen. Many economists believe storey factory complex that collapsed in former Phantom-TAC official said. In the Orban’s policies may consign Hungary to years of April killing 1,129 people in one of the Daily Star article, Mayor said he’d worked bumping along with very low growth after a world’s worst industrial accidents, is a cau- out he would have to charge an extra 10 recession last year, as they say he has scared off tionary tale for global retailers now scram- cents per piece to really improve lives. His some of the foreign direct investors whose cash is bling to prevent another fatal accident in fashion label was meant to make that pos- badly needed to fund a stronger recovery in the Bangladesh. sible and he wanted to venture into retail, export-driven economy. Rana Plaza was built on swampy ground, opening a boutique in a wealthy Dhaka Economy Minister Mihaly Varga said measures with substandard concrete. It was designed neighbourhood. implemented earlier this year to cut state spend- as a five-storey shopping centre, but the ‘When you are a manufacturer negotiat- ing may not be enough to fully avert the threat of owner of the building, a local political leader, ing orders with buyers that 10 cents fiscal sanctions from Brussels because 38-year- rented it out to factory owners and built becomes very important, it is very competi- low inflation levels cut tax revenues, “One of the three more floors. ‘David tried to do some- tive and 10 cents becomes a lot,’ he said. main causes of the measures is to ensure that thing good, better than the locals, but finally ‘However when you look at 10 cents on a Hungary gets out (from the EU’s excessive deficit he was overtaken,’ said Brother Massimo retail price, it is nothing.’ At the beginning, procedure) once and for all, and avert the threat Cattaneo, a Roman Catholic missionary who Mayor lived in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone and that we get back into it in a short time,” Varga told LISBON: Students gather in front of a banner reading “Students and teachers together on runs a technical school in northern came to the factory most days, two former a news conference. strike for the national exams” at Camoes High School in Lisbon yesterday. Portuguese teachers Bangladesh and worked with Mayor on a employees said. He spoke a smattering of The EU said it planned to end its excessive stage today a strike on the first day of the national exams, against the removal of staff in edu- training programme he funded there. Bengali and called his staff ‘brother’, which deficit procedure against Hungary last month, lift- cation and the extension of working hours laid down as part of the new austerity measures Despite repeated attempts in Spain and was well received. ing it off the budget blacklist and acknowledging announced by the Portuguese government. — AFP Bangladesh, Reuters was unable to contact But about a year after the Rana Plaza Mayor for comment. He has made no pub- factory opened he moved back to Spain to lic statements since the accident and it was focus on marketing, travelling to not possible to establish whether he has Bangladesh every few weeks with new Fracking fuels water hired a lawyer. Mayor had nothing to do clients, several employees said. That, some with the construction of Rana Plaza. But as workers said, is when the problems began. the part-owner of a factory in the building The reason for the change is not clear, but a fights in dry spots the Spaniard, who was not in Bangladesh deteriorating economy in Europe, his prin- at the time, is one of those named as under cipal market, almost certainly made it hard- investigation in the police case launched er for Mayor to develop a dream of more SAN FRANCISCO: The latest domestic energy the southern half of the Eagle Ford Shale, one of dollars for each acre-foot of water he can sell. “I after the disaster. He has not been arrested. ethical fashion. Eventually the ‘heart’ bou- boom is sweeping through some of the nation’s the nation’s most profitable oil and gas fields. realized we’re not making any money farming, so All the other factory owners named by tique closed. A plan to massively expand driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of That’s equal to about half of the water why not sell the water to the oil companies? Every police, including his partner, are now in the training projects was dropped, water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath recharged annually into the southern portion of little bit helps.” custody while the police complete their Cattaneo said. the Earth’s surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the the aquifer, which spans five counties that are The amount of water needed to hydraulically investigation. Although none have been Instead Phantom TAC began to focus on drilling technique commonly known as fracking, home to about 330,000 people, said Ron Green, a fracture a well varies greatly, depending on how charged, a government panel has recom- large export deals. In the days before the has been used for decades to blast huge volumes scientist with the nonprofit Southwest Research hard it is to extract oil and gas from each geologi- mended they face charges of culpable disaster, it was working flat out to complete of water, fine sand and chemicals into the ground Institute in San Antonio. The Eagle Ford, extending cal formation. In Texas, the average well requires homicide, which carries a maximum life a sample order for Spanish retailer Mango to crack open valuable shale formations. But now, from the Mexican border into East Texas, began to up to 6 million gallons of water, while in California sentence. Interviews with former employ- in the hope it would lead to a bigger, lucra- as energy companies vie to exploit vast reserves boom in 2011, just as Texas struggled with the each well requires 80,000 to 300,000 gallons, ees, clients and associates of Mayor show tive supply contract with the company, one west of the Mississippi, fracking’s new frontier is worst one-year drought in its history. While condi- according to estimates by government and trade he invested in workers and appears to have of the world’s top buyers. Mango, which has expanding to the same lands where crops have tions have improved, most of the state is still deal- associations. been popular with his staff. But some staff over 2,600 outlets in 107 countries, said it shriveled and waterways have dried up due to ing with some level of drought, and many reser- Depending on state and local water laws, frack- also said that conditions in the factory had not finalised the order found in the rub- severe drought. voirs and aquifers have not been fully replenished. ers may draw their water for free from under- gradually deteriorated as the company ble. The company, based in Barcelona, said In Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, “The oil industry is doing the big fracks and ground aquifers or rivers, or may buy and lease began to focus on winning larger orders. that it would have gone ahead only had a Texas, Utah and Wyoming, the vast majority of the pumping a substantial amount of water around supplies belonging to water districts, cities and trial sample been found to be up to stan- counties where fracking is occurring are also suf- Ethical credentials dard and had Phantom TAC passed Mango’s fering from drought, according to an Associated Bangladesh’s garment industry employs checks on its labour practices and safety. Press analysis of industry-compiled fracking data some 4 million people, mostly women. Under pressure to meet mounting orders, and the US Department of Agriculture’s official While the jobs give the women economic line managers drove staff harder, some- drought designations. While fracking typically power and an independence they did not times making them work through the consumes less water than farming or residential have before, many work long hours in night, some workers said. Reuters was not uses, the exploration method is increasing compe- poorly ventilated, fire-trap factories. At first, able to speak to any line managers from tition for the precious resource, driving up the Mayor thought he could change that, the company. The increasing tensions on price of water and burdening already depleted negotiating with buyers for longer dead- the factory floor were kept from Mayor, 20- aquifers and rivers in certain drought-stricken lines to avoid excessive overtime, accord- year-old seamstress Runi Akhter said. stretches. Some farmers and city leaders worry ing to people who worked with him. He set ‘When he came there was an announce- that the fracking boom is consuming too much of up a fashion label, Tacsocial, that adver- ment by loudspeaker,’ said single mother a scarce resource, while others see the push for tised its ethical credentials with the ‘heart’ Akhter, speaking in the two-room house production as an opportunity to make money by slogan and motif. she shares with eight people, including her selling water while furthering the nation’s goal of In 2007, aged 29, he started another parents and two young children. ‘We were energy independence. clothing firm, Phantom TAC Ltd, a joint ven- told by the managers that if we com- Along Colorado’s Front Range, fourth-genera- ture with local partner Aminul Islam, docu- plained to him we’d lose our jobs.’ tion farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some ments seen by Reuters show. ‘Workers’ con- of his corn fields this year because he can’t afford ditions are not bad, but we want to ‘Are they all dead?’ to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in improve them further,’ Mayor told Dhaka’s On the morning of April 24, managers part because deep-pocketed energy companies Daily Star in 2008. A few weeks later ordered staff into work at the five factories have driven up the price of water. “There is a new GREELEY: In†this photo farmer Kent Peppler stands next to a beet planter used by his grandfa- Phantom TAC opened the factory at Rana in Rana Plaza, even though the building player for water, which is oil and gas,” said Peppler, ther in the 1940’s on his farm near Greeley, Colo. — AP Plaza, in an industrial suburb of Dhaka. had been evacuated the day before after a of Mead, Colo, who also serves as president of the Brother Cattaneo said the factory seemed crack appeared in a pillar. Minutes after Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. “And certainly here,” said Ed Walker, general manager of the farmers. Some of the industry’s largest players are safe, and several workers interviewed by they sat down the power went out in the they are in a position to pay a whole lot more than Wintergarden Groundwater Conservation District, also investing in high-tech water recycling sys- Reuters said at the start things were better building and heavy generators on the we are.” which manages an aquifer that serves as the main tems to frack with gray or brackish water. than in many factories. ‘Our wages were upper floors kicked in with a shudder. The In a normal year, Peppler said he would pay water source for farmers and about 29,000 people Halliburton, for instance, recently started mar- paid on time every month, and we left building shook hard and crashed to the anywhere from $9 to $100 for an acre-foot of in three counties. “When you have a big problem keting a new technology that allows customers to work by seven or eight at night. The behav- ground. Amarat Hossain, a merchandiser water in auctions held by cities with excess sup- like the drought and you add other smaller prob- use recycled wastewater, calling it an “investment iour of the bosses was good at the begin- who had worked for Mayor since 2007 plies. But these days, energy companies are pay- lems to it like all the fracking, then it only makes to further the sustainable development of the oil ning,’ said Rashida Begum, who crawled out coordinating with buyers, said he was late ing some cities $1,200 to $2,900 per acre-foot. The things worse,” Walker said. and gas industry.” The American Petroleum of the ruined building. She is now unem- to work that day, and by the time he Denver suburb of Aurora made a $9.5 million, five- West Texas cotton farmer Charlie Smith is try- Institute, the principal lobbying group for the ployed, suffers chest pain and is scared to arrived Rana Plaza had collapsed into a year deal last summer to provide the oil company ing to make the best of the situation. He plans to industry, said its members are working to become go back to a factory. mound of broken concrete. As he frantically Anadarko 2.4 billion gallons of excess treated sew- sell some of the groundwater coursing beneath less dependent on fresh water, and instead draw tried to contact colleagues his mobile er water. his fields to drillers, because it isn’t enough to irri- on other sources. ‘Healthy conditions’ phone rang. It was his boss, asking why he In South Texas, where drought has forced cot- gate his lands in Glasscock County. Smith’s fields, “Recycling wastewater helps conserve water One of Mayor’s steadiest clients was couldn’t reach Phantom TAC chairman ton farmers to scale back, local water officials said like the rest of the county, were declared to be in a use and provide cost-saving opportunities,” said Spanish catalogue-sales company Cristian Islam. When Hossain told him the news he drillers are contributing to a drop in the water drought disaster area this year by the USDA. “I was Reid Porter, a spokesman for the group. In some Lay, which worked with Phantom TAC from said Mayor broke down, screaming ‘oh God, table in several areas. For example, as much as going to bed every night and praying to the good states, regulators have stepped in to limit the vol- 2007 to 2012 and helped fund Cattaneo’s oh God’, into the phone and asking: ‘Are 15,000 acre-feet of water are drawn each year Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,” ume or type of water that energy companies can rural training programme aimed at the they all dead?” — AP from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer to frack wells in said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand use during drought conditions. —AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 External growth critical for 3M

By Sajeev Peter are planned for the region, whether it is the World KT: Can you give me a brief overview of the Cup in Qatar 2022 and the World Expo 2020, if UAE mega projects bagged by 3M in the region? A brief interview with Manohar Raghavan, Area wins the same. All these will bring in opportunities Raghavan: We have been an active player in Leader - Middle East & Africa, 3M: for growth and we are very well positioned to the infrastructure development whether it is in leverage these opportunities. development of the new airports/airport expan- Kuwait Times: Can you briefly tell us your sion in the area or in the commercial buildings, expansion plans for the region, with special KT: I understand that Saudi Arabia is a major providing advanced active and passive fire protec- reference to Kuwait? market for 3M. How do you propose to pursue tion to oil and gas and commercial buildings, pro- Manohar Raghavan: Middle East is one of the yourbusiness strategy and expansion plans in viding biometric solutions to multiple key growth drivers for the broader Middle East the Kingdom? Government and private segments, connecting and Africa region and we continue to see the Raghavan: Saudi Arabia is one of the key the world through structured cabling solutions, growth momentum picking up in multiple indus- countries for our growth in the Middle East & enhancing the aesthetics through an array of tries. With our aggressive growth strategy for the Africa Region. We have made significant invest- graphic solutions and meeting the emerging region, we have made significant investment in ment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the last needs of the healthcare industries. Since we are a the Middle East region by expanding our presence diversified technology company, with over 65,000 in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and are actively pur- products coming out of 46 core technology plat- suing opportunities in other emerging economies, forms, it is very difficult to list all the projects as such us Iraq and Oman. We have been present in we would have made our presence in each and Kuwait for over five years and have added front every industry, whether it is in large scale or limit- end resources to increase our coverage in the mar- ed to supply of some consumer products. ket place. There are significant opportunities to further increase our penetration in some of the KT: Explain 3M’s Middle East growth and key markets, whether it is in oil and gas, health- profitability targets. care, consumer or infrastructure. With the Middle Raghavan: Our strategy has been to outpace East region poised for further growth in line with the economy by 2 to 3 times depending on the the government plans to increase the investments segments. We have been growing over 15 percent in key markets, we will continue to look at oppor- in the core industries and 10-12 percent on the tunities in certain segments, including the mega non-core industries. Some of the emerging coun- trends that are shaping the economies of the tries have also shown much higher growth rates countries. and aspiration is to outpace the economy with a higher run than in the past and the strategies are KT: Does your expansion plan involve any laid out to meet the same. major acquisitions as well? Raghavan: External growth is critical for 3M KT: Aviation and oil and gas are the fastest and we have acquired many companies in the last growing sectors in the region. What are the ASAR hosts leading seminar few years globally and will pursue further. We will solutions 3M can specifically offer to the busi- continue to pursue opportunities within the Manohar Raghavan nesses in these sectors? region in some of the key countries and segments Raghavan: 3M’s strength is in the 46 core tech- on implications of FATCA and look at the same when the targets are attrac- nology platform that we own. With this 46 core tive, strategic fit of the target and time is right. few years. We have recently moved to a much big- technologies, we are able combine them and ger office in Riyadh, opened a branch in Jeddah bring in products/solutions that will meet and KUWAIT: ASAR - Al-Ruwayeh & Partners long as any dollar based transaction neces- KT: What is the growth potential for 3M in and currently looking at a customer innovation exceed our customer needs. Customer inspired (ASAR), Kuwait’s leading and most promi- sitates dealing with correspondent banks the MENA region in the context of increasing center in Riyadh. We have also invested in front- innovation is one of the core areas that we are nent corporate law firm, and one of the in the United States of America, Arab Banks competition? end resources, increased our local capability in the focused on and our technical and R&D team are region’s top tier firms hosted a leading are required to implement this law so as to Raghavan: MENA region has always been very technical, regulatory, professional sales, supply working towards bringing in more innovative seminar on the implications of the Foreign avoid a 30 percent withholding of their competitive and with the western world softening, chain and marketing areas. solutions that are needed in the market place. 3M Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) across deposits.” we will see increased competitive pressure in driv- We are now actively looking at expanding our spends over $1.5 billion on R&D on an average per Kuwait’s financial services industry and oth- John Cunha, Partner at ASAR - Al- ing volume and the competition will use pricing to presence in the Eastern province. In addition to all year and we work very closely with the markets er sectors. The event was held at the JW Ruwayeh & Partners said: “It is particularly drive large volume, mainly in core areas. However, these, we have also made investments in the two and our customers to understand the needs. We Marriott Hotel in Kuwait City and was important to note the level of readiness of with the low penetration in several North African key growth drivers mainly oil and gas and govern- offer thousands of products, such us the advanced attended by representatives of various banks and other financial institutions countries and some of the Middle East countries ment markets. bonding solutions, technologically superior abra- leading banks, investment companies and across Kuwait (and indeed throughout the and the increased spending expected from Our key strategy has always been expanding sives, vast array of personal safety products, very other corporates in Kuwait and the broader broader GCC region) to comply with FATCA, Government, every company has room for increas- our presence in the market place and making rele- advanced ceramic solutions, aesthetically pleasing GCC region. Guest speakers at the seminar and especially so given the different effec- ing the penetration and accelerated growth. There vance to our customers. New products introduc- matting solutions, improved slip and fall safety included leading and internationally recog- tive dates by when compliance with vari- are significant opportunities in healthcare, indus- tion at a faster pace will be key to our long term products, electrical solutions, advanced active fire trial, consumer, construction and oil and gas. In success and we are very well positioned to lever- protection products etc to oil and gas and avia- nized FATCA practitioners from Washington ous provisions under FATCA is to be addition to all these, there are mega events that age the opportunities. tion industries. DC and London who, amongst others, achieved. Banks and other financial institu- shared their insights on the technical tions in Kuwait (and throughout the GCC) aspects of FATCA as well as the practical must be fully prepared to start becoming Jazeera Airways secures $90m in implications and potential solutions based FATCA compliant and must ensure that a on their experience around the world. robust FATCA compliance framework is put The seminar was specifically designed in place upon which an organization’s FAT- aircraft funding from NBK, DVB Bank by ASAR to shed light on the issues that are CA compliance systems and processes can faced by Kuwaiti, as well as GCC, based run in an efficient manner.” KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), DVB financial institutions, affected corporates, With dedicated offices in Kuwait and Bank, and Jazeera Airways Group (JAG) today high net worth families and individuals, in Bahrain coupled with its associated offices announced a $90 million commercial facility for fund- an effort to gain a thorough understanding and relationships, ASAR provides clients ing JAG’s aircraft purchases through a structured facili- of different elements that aim at enabling across an extensive range of industry sec- ty led by NBK and DVB Bank SE. them to make sound strategic decisions for tors with comprehensive legal advice and The loan, which has a 12-year term, is employed to their respective organizations. support for their business activities in fund the purchase of three brand new Airbus A320 air- craft, one of which was already delivered earlier this Sam Habbas, Senior Partner at ASAR - Kuwait, across the GCC, and beyond. ASAR month. NBK Kuwait CEO Sheikha K Al-Bahar said, Al-Ruwayeh & Partners said: “FATCA arrives has been consistently rated as the leading “NBK’s relationship with Jazeera Airways Group dates at a time when financial institutions already corporate and commercial law firm in back to the very early days of the company’s success. face a number of regulatory compliance Kuwait by many of the world’s leading and In 2008 NBK managed the company’s IPO and we’ve challenges, testing many organizations’ reputable legal guides such as the continued to support the company’s various funding capability and capacity to manage change. Chambers Global Guide, International requirements since then. Today Jazeera Airways is one The FATCA requirements introduce a series Financial Law Review, and the Legal 500. In of the few success stories to come out of the Middle of business and systems requirements that 2012, ASAR was named as the “Best Law East over the last decade. We are proud to be part of appear simple in concept, but may be diffi- Firm in Kuwait 2012” by the International the airline’s success story.” cult and costly to operationalize. The aim Financial Law Review (IFLR), the market- DVB Bank SE Member of the Board of Managing for organizations (and other persons) leading guide for financial law firms world- Directors Bertrand Grabowski said, “Our relationship affected by FATCA will be to meet the new wide. The firm also won the “Best Equity with Jazeera Airways Group dates back to June of take on new aircraft deliveries until the end of 2014 in owned Airbus A320s with a two-class cabin compris- compliance burden, while managing the Deal in the Middle East” award by IFLR dur- 2005 when DVB Bank SE was part of the original parallel to Kuwait’s overall market growth. ing a Business Class and an Economy Class. Business associated compliance costs and risks. As ing the same year. group of banks to fund the airline’s first four aircraft. The Airbus A320 is the world’s best-selling aircraft. Class travelers get both an upgraded experience and Eight years later, it is a pleasure to witness the very air- There are over 5,500 A320 aircraft in operation by air- exclusivity, starting with exclusive check-in lines, busi- line that we helped seed in 2005 transform into the lines across the world, and over 3,900 aircraft sched- ness lounge access, up to 60 kilograms in free baggage market-leading and profitable airline it is today.” uled for delivery over the coming years. The A320 sin- allowance, and an exclusive on-board cabin. The air- Jazeera Airways Group Chairman Marwan Boodai gle-aisle jetliner family is the world’s most eco-effi- line’s Economy Class offers travelers free baggage said, “With this deal, we have secured our funding cient single-aisle product line. It is used for a full range allowance of 40 kilograms and free on-board meals requirements for the coming two years. NBK and DVB of services from very short-haul airline routes to inter- with a changing menu every month. Bank SE are true long-term partners in our business continental segments. Jazeera Airways is based in Kuwait and serves 19 and we are humbled by their continued support for Jazeera Airways Group is a Kuwait Stock Exchange- popular destinations in the Middle East from Kuwait our operations.” To date, Jazeera Airways Group has listed company with a fleet of 13 fully-owned Airbus comprising high-demand business, leisure, family, and taken delivery of 13 Airbus A320s since 2005, as part A320s, through its airline business, Jazeera Airways weekend destinations such as Dubai, Bahrain, Beirut, of an order for 15 aircraft of the same type. The (operating seven aircraft), and its fully-owned leasing- Alexandria, Amman, Istanbul, Sharm El Sheikh, Assiut, remaining two aircraft of the order are scheduled to arm Sahaab Aircraft Leasing (operating six aircraft). Luxor, Mashhad, Sohag, Jeddah, Riyadh, Cairo and Al- be delivered in October 2013 and May 2014. The three Sahaab has its aircraft assets placed with Virgin Najaf. Jazeera Airways is an IATA-member airline and new aircraft are in-line with the airline’s growth strate- America, Sri Lankan Airlines, Nasair and Jazeera operates one of the youngest Airbus A320 fleets in the gy to always operate new and modern aircraft, and to Airways. Jazeera Airways operates its seven fully- Middle East. Kuwait Airways, Microsoft Kuwait sign agreement

Assistant Governor for Banking Supervision Saeed Abdulla Al-Hamiz and NBK KUWAIT: Microsoft Kuwait and Kuwait Airways Group Deputy CEO Isam Al-Sager in a group photo with NBK officials at the new today signed an agreement under which Kuwait Airways will implement the latest Microsoft tech- branch. nologies, including Lync, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync Plus and Office 365, over a period of three NBK opens new branch in years. Under the agreement, the national carrier of Kuwait will adopt Genuine Microsoft software Abu Dhabi, the second in UAE which will enhance productivity, improve collabora- tion and maximize communications across the com- KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Murabaha deposits, corporate FX hedging pany. Microsoft services will enable Kuwait Airways yesterday opened its new branch in Abu solutions and mortgage services. NBK has to leverage powerful tools to increase efficiency Dhabi, the second in the United Arab the widest banking presence with more amongst its employees. Kuwait Airways can take Emirates (UAE), under the patronage of the than 170 branches worldwide. NBK’s inter- advantage of the cloud-based enhancements and UAE Central Bank. The ribbon cutting cere- national presence spans many of the technology capabilities to match their business mony was attended by the Assistant world’s leading financial centers including ambitions. Governor for Banking Supervision Saeed London, Paris, Geneva, New York and Captain Ahmad Mohammed Al-Kreebani, CEO of Abdulla Al-Hamiz, NBK Group Deputy CEO Singapore, as well as China (Shanghai). Kuwait Airways said, “The vision and future strategic Isam Al-Sager and NBK officials. Meanwhile, regional coverage extends to plans of Kuwait Airways are based on expanding its “NBK is keen on strengthening its posi- Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, fleet and enhancing its operations and infrastruc- tion in the regional and international mar- Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey. ture, which in turn will give the carrier a competitive Captain Al-Kreebani. We are pleased to work with port our operations. We believe that partnering with kets with more focus on GCC operations”, NBK continues to collectively enjoy the advantage within the industry. The agreement not Kuwait Airways to address their technology require- leading IT companies like Microsoft will help us said Al-Sager. “The UAE enjoys positive eco- highest ratings among all banks in the only standardizes our technology platform but ments and drive additional value, by increasing build the right expertise and improve our services nomic prospects and we are happy to Middle East from the three international offers us extra benefits in terms of enhanced sup- operational efficiency and flexibility. Organizations with less time and cost.” expand our presence in the Emirati market.” rating agencies; Moody’s, Fitch Ratings and port and training that help to make our staff more today are facing complex issues and need to “Improving service and containing cost is high Al-Sager added: “NBK remains committed Standard and Poor’s. productive. It also offers us access to Microsoft’s lat- streamline operations and find ways to utilize on the agenda of businesses in Kuwait,” commented to its strategy of balancing its revenues in The Bank’s ratings are supported by its est products and technologies which help us resources more efficiently, without incurring extra Ehab Mostafa, Country Manager, Microsoft Kuwait. Kuwait and outside. NBK’s expansion strat- high capitalization, prudent lending poli- address a wide range of important technical busi- costs. Microsoft’s technologies help address these “The solutions adopted by Kuwait Airways will pro- egy has proved resilient in light of the chal- cies, and its disciplined approach to risk ness issues.” needs by enabling companies to boost productivity vide a robust platform for building highly scalable lenging operating environment.” management, in addition to its highly rec- Ali Faramawy, Vice President, Microsoft and work smarter, thereby maximizing their effec- and functional technology infrastructure at signifi- NBK-Abu Dhabi comes as part of the ognized and very stable management International added, “Microsoft will closely work tiveness in driving their business forward.” cantly lower costs. We look forward to a long and Bank’s expansion strategy in the UAE which team. In 2012, NBK was also named with the Information Technology Unit in Kuwait Abdulmenam Abdulsalam, Director of strategic partnership with Kuwait Airways in order started with its first branch in Dubai in among Global Finance’s list of the 50 Airways to use and apply the new technologies in Information Technology at Kuwait Airways said: to develop an effective framework that will enable 2008. NBK-UAE provides its customers with safest banks in the world for the seventh accordance with the agreement, in order to achieve “This agreement will help us build the required improved collaboration and decision making within complete banking solutions including consecutive time. the goals and future plans set in the vision of infrastructure and adapt latest technologies to sup- the organization.” technology TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 Obama does not feel Americans’ privacy has been violated WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama does not not.” While he defended the surveillance, ber one goal is to protect the American people, but the instances that will be provided, hopefully, early believe the recently disclosed top-secret National McDonough said “the existence of these programs we can do it in a way that also respects our civil lib- week ... to be as accurate as we can and not disclose Security Agency surveillance of phone records and obviously have unnerved many people.” He said erties.” a source or a method of how we disrupted the Internet data has violated Americans’ privacy rights, Obama “welcomes a public debate on this question McDonough said Congress authorized the pro- attack exactly,” the Rogers, a Michigan Republican, his chief of staff said on Sunday. because he does say and he will say in the days grams as a way to thwart plots against Americans said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. Rogers Denis McDonough, appearing on CBS’s “Face the ahead that we have to find the right balance, and and that lawmakers should stay up to date on how said he expected Snowden, whose last known loca- Nation” program, also said he did not know the we will not keep ourselves on a perpetual war foot- they are run. The administration has said the pro- tion was in Hong Kong, was still somewhere in whereabouts of Edward Snowden, the former NSA ing.” Revelations of the NSA’s broad monitoring of gram collected only “metadata” - raw information China. contractor who said he was the source of reports in phone and Internet data has drawn criticism that that does not identify individual telephone sub- FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that Britain’s Guardian newspaper and The Washington the Obama administration has extended, or even scribers and did not monitor calls. authorities would move aggressively to track down Post about the agency’s monitoring of phone and expanded, the security apparatus the George W. “The president is not saying ‘trust me.’ The presi- Snowden and hold him accountable for leaking the Internet data at big companies such as Verizon Bush administration built after the Sept. 11, 2001, dent is saying I want every member of Congress, on details of extensive and top-secret surveillance Communications Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc. attacks. whose authority we are running this program, to efforts. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, inter- The administration has said the top-secret col- “We owe it to the American people to have a ful- understand it, to be briefed about it, and to be com- viewed on “Fox News Sunday,” said the United lection of massive amounts of “metadata” from some debate in the open about the extent of these fortable with it,” he said. States might have been able to prevent the Sept. 11 phone calls - raw information that does not identify programs,” Senator Mark Udall, a Colorado House of Representatives Intelligence attacks if the surveillance programs had been in individual telephone subscribers, was legal and Democrat a long-time critic of the surveillance pro- Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a defender of place then. “As everybody who has been associated authorized by Congress in the interests of thwarting grams, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” the surveillance efforts, said the NSA, as soon as this with the program’s said if we had this before 9/11, militant attacks. It has said the agencies did not Describing the surveillance overseen by the week, will release information on terrorism threats when there were two terrorists in San Diego - two monitor calls. secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Udall that were halted by the telephone surveillance pro- hijackers - able to use that program, that capability Asked whether Obama feels he has violated the said, “I just don’t think this is an American approach gram. “We know that there are dozens of them, and against the target, we might have been able to pre- privacy of Americans, McDonough said, “He does to a world in which we have great threats. My num- the reason they’re being careful is we want each of vent 9/11,” he said. — Reuters Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine

NEW YORK: Can the City That Never “We shouldn’t just observe the Sleeps become the City That Never wonderful entrepreneurs √¢‚Ǩ1/8 Dies? A Russian multimillionaire we need to move ahead systemati- thinks so. cally,” Itskov said in an interview. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of “We are really at the time when humanity’s best brains - and a few technology can affect human evolu- robots - in New York City on tion. I want us to shape the future, Saturday to discuss how humans bring it up for public discussion, can get their minds to outlive their and avoid any scenario that could bodies. damage humanity.” Itskov, who looks younger than Itskov says he tries to eliminate his 32 years, has an aggressive his “selfishness” day by day, and has timetable in which he’d like to see spent about $3 million promoting milestones toward that goal met: his vision. He organized the first • By 2020, robots we can control conference on the theme in Russia This video game image released by Ubisoft shows a scene from “Tom Clancy’s The remotely with our brains. last year. Division.” — AP • By 2025, a scenario familiar to But in bringing the idea to the watchers of sci-fi cartoon show US, a cultural difference is apparent: ‘Watch Dogs’ video “Futurama:” the capability to trans- Itskov’s desire for a shared, guiding plant the brain into a life-support vision for humanity does not mesh system, which could be a robot well with the spirit of the American game a sign of the times body. Essentially, a robot prosthesis high-tech industry, which despises that can replace an ailing, perhaps government involvement and LOS ANGELES: Across the dizzying, colorful blackout when Pearce was confronted by dying body. prizes its freedom to pursue what- show floor at last week’s Electronic police officers. • By 2035, the ability to move the ever projects it wants. Entertainment Expo, there were games on dis- “I think ‘Watch Dogs’ is appealing to people mind into a computer, eliminating Space entrepreneur and X-Prize play where players could become all manner because they can relate to it,” said Laurent the need for the robot bodies to Chairman Peter Diamandis articu- of things, like a throat-slashing 18th century Detoc, North America president of Ubisoft. “It’s carry around wet, messy brains. lated that spirit at the conference; pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city a very relevant topic and an extremely ambi- • By 2045, technology nirvana in the freewheeling capitalist system, on earth, music-making sorcerer, ruthless tious project for us. Because people have been the form of artificial brains control- he said, is one of the strongest Roman general, shape-shifting creature, goblin talking about this game for the past year, it’s ling insubstantial, hologram bodies. engines for effecting change. slayer and Batman. now up to us to confirm that ‘Watch Dogs’ is The testimony of the neuro- “The rate of change is going so However, the role that seems to have cap- what people expected it to be.” science experts invited to Itskov’s fast √¢‚Ǩ1/8 I do not believe any of tured the most buzz from the gaming commu- In a sea of sequels and shooters at E3, Global Future 2045 conference at our existing government systems nity is one that’s far less fantastical but surpris- “Watch Dogs” stands out as a game that could Lincoln Center in the New York can handle it,” he said. ingly topical: an eavesdropping hacker. One of be reflective about contemporary culture, a City’s Manhattan borough indicate Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of the several surveillance-related games at E3, feat many games can’t achieve given their long that Itskov’s timetable is ambitious Orthodox Church in America, who “Watch Dogs” casts players as Aiden Pearce, a production schedules. While arguably to the point of being unrealistic. But has a background in neurobiology vigilante who can tap into security cameras provocative, the question remains whether the gathering was a rare public air- and physics, offered another cri- and listen in on phone calls across a virtual gamers will actually want to play out the ing of questions that will face us as tique at the conference. “A lot of this rendition of an automated Chicago. always-connected Orwellian situation Ubisoft technology progresses. stuff can’t be done,” he said. “Watch Dogs” is set amid an urban open has concocted. “We all want to know what will Is immortality desirable, and if NEW YORK: Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov speaks at the Global If it can be done, that’s not nec- world similar to that of a “Grand Theft Auto” happen and what we should do with these so, what’s the best way to get there? Future 2045 Congress, at Lincoln Center in New York. Some of human- essarily a good thing either, the game. As players move through the city as machines that are becoming more and more Do we leave behind something ity’s best brains are gathering in New York to discuss how our minds robed and bearded patriarch Pearce, they can scan computer-controlled intelligent,” said Yves Guillemot, CEO of essentially human if we leave our can outlive our bodies. The conference is funded by a Russian billion- believes. “I’m not too fond of the passers-by with a smartphone to glean such Ubisoft. “We are organizing the world differ- bodies behind? If you send your aire with an aggressive time schedule: immortality by 2045. —AP idea of immortality, because I think details as income, age, credit score, employ- ently. Being able to go and virtually experience robot copy to work, do you get it will be deathly boring,” he said, ment, criminal and bank account records. that is something we love to do, and we think paid? Japanese robotics researcher “Geminoid” (after the Latin word for enthusiasts. Ishiguro flew to the US with a twinkle in his eyes. Giving up (“Frequents fetish porn sites,” one particularly it’s something our consumers will also love.” Hiroshi Ishiguro’s presentation start- “twin”) to meet with students at a with his robotic twin’s head, the our bodies could also be problem- brazen description reads.) “Watch Dogs” wasn’t the only game hyped ed out with a life-size, like-like robot research institute two hours away most valuable part, in the carry-on atic, he said. The timing of “Watch Dogs” is remarkable in at E3 that features ripped-from-the-headlines representation of himself on stage. from the laboratory where he also luggage. The body rode below, in “There’s a lot of stuff in them that light of recent revelations about the National realness. “Tom Clancy’s The Division,” another The robot moved its lips, nodded has an appointment. He controls it the luggage compartment. makes us human. I’m not sure they Security Agency’s controversial data-collection third-person action game from Ubisoft, is and moved it eyes while a hidden through the Internet, and sees his To Itskov, who made his money can be built into machines,” Puhalo programs. They were revealed in media stories inspired by real-world US government direc- loudspeaker played up Ishiguro’s students through a webcam. in the Russian Internet media busi- said. Itskov acknowledges that his by The Guardian and The Washington Post, tives about catastrophic emergencies. Players voice. Apart from a stiff posture and “The problem is, if I use this ness, the isolated achievements of vision would leave part of the leaked by former NSA contractor Edward portray sleeper agents in New York following a a curious splay of the hands, the android, the research institute says inventors like Ishiguro are not human experience behind. But he Snowden. Is “Watch Dogs” a case of a video bio-terrorist attack on Black Friday. robot could be mistaken for a it cannot pay for me,” Ishiguro said, enough. He wants to create a move- believes it would be worth it. “We’re game imitating life - or the other way around? “One of the things that we’re really interest- human, at least 10 rows from the to laughter from the audience of ment, involving governments and always losing something for what “We’re just as surprised as everyone else,” ed in is this situation where the player actually stage. hundreds of journalists, academics, the United Nations, to work toward we’re doing. We’re always paying,” said Dominic Guay, senior producer at Ubisoft only has 72 hours until they start running into Ishiguro uses this android or Buddhist monks and futurism a common goal. Itskov said. — AP Montreal. “We’ve been working on this game problems themselves,” said David Polfeldt, for the past five years and locked down the managing director of Ubisoft Massive. “They script last year. These events keep transpiring will need water. There’s a survival mechanism in the news - whether it’s the NSA or using a in the game. Definitely, they will need to find Apple details govt cellphone to hack into a car - that mirror the better weapons, ammo and gear.” ideas that we have in the game.” “Infamous: Second Son,” the third installment Guay acknowledged Pearce’s morality isn’t in Sony’s superhero “Infamous” series, tasks new called into question as players employ protagonist Deslin Rowe with destroying surveil- Chicago’s fictional Central Operating System, lance equipment and battling agents of the fic- requests for data ominously called ctOS, to peep digital lives. tional Department of United Protection. In the Instead, players’ actions affect Pearce’s reputa- game, the government has set up a network of tion. For example, if he hacks into traffic lights security cameras to keep track of a burgeoning NEW YORK: Apple says it received between and causes havoc on the street, a TV news population of superhumans. “We wanted to tell 4,000 and 5,000 requests from US law report about the incident might pop up on a a story that asks important questions,” said Brian enforcement for customer data for the six nearby screen. A demonstration last week of Fleming, co-founder of Sucker Punch months ended in May. “Watch Dogs” at Sony’s presentation at E3, the Productions. “How much freedom should we The company, like some other businesses, largest annual gathering of the gaming indus- sacrifice in the name of security?” Despite tack- had asked the US government to be able to try, showed Pearce hacking a gate open while ling such serious subject matter, Fleming noted share how many requests it received related driving through Chicago, eavesdropping on a that the game’s developers didn’t have “any to national security and how it handled them. man alerting 911 about Pearce’s presence as preachy answers. We didn’t want a screed about he exited a cafe, as well as inciting a city-wide how all this is bad.” — AP Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies. Chinese supercomputer Prism appears to do what its name sug- gests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism named as world’s fastest takes large beams of data and helps the gov- ernment find discrete, manageable strands of BEIJING: China has built the world’s It’s the second time China has been information. fastest supercomputer, almost twice as named as having built the world’s fastest Prism was revealed this month by The fast as the previous US holder and under- supercomputer. In November 2010, the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, lining the country’s rise as a science and Tianhe-2’s predecessor, Tianhe-1A, had and has touched off the latest round in a technology powerhouse. that honor before Japan’s K computer decade-long debate over what limits to The semiannual TOP500 official listing overtook it a few months later. impose on government eavesdropping, which of the world’s fastest supercomputers The Tianhe-2’s achievement shows the Obama administration says is essential to released yesterday says the Tianhe-2 how China is leveraging rapid economic developed by the National University of growth and sharp increases in research keep the nation safe. SAN FRANCISCO: In this Monday, June 10, 2013 photo, people wait for the doors to open for Defense Technology in central China’s spending to join the United States, Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and the start of the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple says it Changsha city is capable of sustained Europe and Japan in the global technolo- 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from US law enforcement for customer data for the computing of 33.86 petaflops per sec- gy elite. data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May six months ended in May. —AP ond. That’s the equivalent of 33,860 tril- “Most of the features of the system 31 from federal, state and local authorities “We do not provide any government requests in the past. lion calculations per second. were developed in China, and they are and included both criminal investigations and agency with direct access to our servers, and Facebook Inc. has said that it received The Tianhe-2, which means Milky only using Intel for the main compute national security matters. any government agency requesting customer between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for data Way-2, knocks the US Department of part,” said TOP500 editor Jack Dongarra It said that the most common form of content must get a court order,” Apple said in from all government agencies in the second Energy’s Titan machine off the no. 1 spot. in a news release accompanying the request came from police investigating rob- a statement on its website. half of last year. The social media company It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second. announcement. “That is, the intercon- beries and other crimes, searching for missing Apple explained that its legal team evalu- said fewer than 19,000 users were targeted. Supercomputers are used for complex nect, operating system, front-end proces- children, trying to locate a patient with ates each request and that it delivers “the nar- Apple’s stock rose $2.12 to $432.17 in work such as modeling weather systems, sors and software are mainly Chinese,” Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a rowest possible set of information to the morning trading yesterday. They have traded simulating nuclear explosions and said Dongarra, who toured the Tianhe-2 suicide. The company also made clear how designing jetliners. development facility in May. — AP authorities” when deemed appropriate. The in a range of $385.10 to $705.07 over the past much access the government has. company said that it has refused some 52 weeks. — AP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE China seen facing uphill struggle against pollution

BEIJING: China’s newly announced measures to cautioned that efforts to improve air quality “could reduction. The new measures, which include a because the power of the public is large, and they combat pollution by slashing emissions from major last for 18 years, before Chinese cities’ average pledge to give local leaders targets for improving air can push forward air pollution control in China.” polluting industries and holding local officials PM2.5 falls to 30”. PM2.5 is a measure of tiny particu- quality, could provide them with “new motivation” The China Daily, one of the country’s state-run responsible could take 18 years to bring air quality late matter which causes smog and breathing prob- to reduce pollution, Ma said, adding: “its not clear newspapers which have grown increasingly outspo- within acceptable standards, analysts said yester- lems. Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and how important the environmental goals are in the ken on the issue of air pollution, said yesterday in an day. The problem of air pollution has stoked popular Environmental Affairs, one of China’s best-known overall system”. editorial that if local governments obeyed the new discontent across the country, with levels of particu- environmental advocacy groups, said the measures Ma praised a new requirement that heavy pol- measures, “the day would not be too far away when late matter in Beijing measured at 40 times above announced late Friday were “a response to public luters such as power plants must release detailed we would be able to enjoy clean air”. Air pollution World Health Organization limits this year. concerns”, but cautioned that “it will be a huge chal- environmental information to the general public. contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths and 25 The measures announced by the State Council, lenge to put the measures into action”. “This will change the dynamic,” Ma said. “It’s a big million healthy years of life lost in China in 2010, the including holding local officials responsible for air “The main reason (for pollution) is that the local step forward for corporate disclosure, which has US-based Health Effects Institute reported in March, quality, and reducing emissions from key polluting governments protect polluting industries for the always lagged behind in China.” “I think that these basing its figures on a global survey published in industries by 30 percent within five years, amount sake of GDP,” he said. While China has long pledged measures are great, but the challenge is giving the British medical journal The Lancet. China’s pollution to a “milestone in the country’s anti-pollution cam- to improve its environment, local officials are incen- government the motivation to enforce them,” he said. problems are blamed on rapid urbanization and paign”, Deutsche Bank said in a report. But the bank tivized to rank economic growth above pollution “The pressure needs to come from the public, decades of dramatic economic development. — AFP Improve your body alignment by adding some habits and losing others

e’ve been told to stand up straight as long as we’ve been able to stand, but some- Wtimes it’s harder than it seems. We know why we should do it: Good posture looks good, feels good and makes us look slimmer. On the flip side, studies have linked poor posture with lower self-esteem, depression and back pain. But, sometimes, posture pointers are confusing. Remember when we were all supposed to use Pilates balls instead of office chairs? Well, claims that doing so improved posture were recently dis- puted by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. They found that it didn’t help-or hurt- posture. But there are still some things you can do

SINGAPORE: People walk on a pier overlooking Marina Bay Sands hotels as it is blan- keted by haze yesterday. — AP Singapore chokes on haze from Indonesia forest fires ILLINOIS: When sitting at a computer your monitor should be 1 to 2 feet away from your face, SINGAPORE: Air pollution from forest fires its 5.3 million people live in high-rise apart- and your eyes should be level with the top of the monitor. in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island reached ment blocks. Malaysia has also been affect- turn to one side by lifting your left arm and stack- severe levels in Singapore yesterday, trig- ed by the haze problem, which occurs in ing your body over your right leg, keeping your gering a health alert in the densely popu- the dry season as a result of forest fires in right arm extended on the ground. You may bend lated city-state. Skyscrapers including the the sprawling Indonesian archipelago, your right arm if necessary. Then switch sides. famous Marina Bay Sands casino towers some of them deliberately started to clear were shrouded in haze and the acrid smell land for cultivation. Haze reached Hurts: of burnt wood pervaded the central busi- unhealthy levels in Malaysia over the week- High heels ness district. The Pollutant Standards Index end. Heels higher than 1 inch increase your sway soared to 105 at mid-afternoon, past the Yesterday, the Malaysian pollutant index backward, which can lead to lower back discom- “unhealthy” threshold of 100, according to showed unhealthy levels of between 102 fort, Novak said. Your foot slides to the front of the the National Environment Agency (NEA) and 121 in parts of the states of Pahang, shoe, which puts too much pressure on the ball of website. People with heart and lung dis- Terengganu and Malacca. In the capital the foot and your toes. High heels also shorten the ease, those over 65 and children are Kuala Lumpur, the sky was also hazy with a muscles and tendons on the back of your ankle, advised to “reduce prolonged or heavy out- reading of 82 at midday. and stretch and weaken the muscles on the front door exertion” even in moderate condi- Southeast Asia’s haze problem hit its ILLINOIS: Competitive bodybuilder and fit- of your ankle, which can lead to shin splints. Heels tions, defined as a reading of 51-100. worst level in 1997-1998, causing wide- ness trainer Cornell Walker in this 2001 file on shoes also get in the way of the natural stride, Business and air transport have so far spread health problems and costing the photo in Chicago. —MCT photos which is to place your heel down first, then roll not been affected. Singapore schools are regional economy billions of dollars as a through the ball of your foot. If you must wear on holiday. Singapore is one of the world’s result of business and air transport disrup- to help your stance, as well as some things you can heels, don’t wear them for longer than four hours at a time. most densely populated countries. Most of tions. —AFP avoid to keep it from getting worse.

Helps: Ottomans Effort to revive Galapagos Reposition your monitor When you’re resting your legs in a straight Your monitor should be 1 to 2 feet away from extension you’re placing stress on your lower back, tortoises once thought extinct your face, and your eyes should be level with the ILLINOIS: For proper posture while driving, said Mary Ann Wilmarth, chief of physical therapy top of the monitor, said Janice Novak, author of move your seat close enough to the pedals so at Harvard University. Sitting this way can stress ECUADOR: Scientists will try to revive two evolved in isolation, as he developed his “Posture, Get It Straight! Look Ten Years Younger, that your knees are bent. your sciatic nerve and may put you in a slouched species of giant Galapagos tortoises theory of natural selection. Now Tapia’s Ten Pounds Thinner and Feel Better Than Ever.” This position without supporting your back. A better case your air bag deploys.) Your lower back should alternative would be to rest with both knees bent. thought to have been extinct by breeding team is eyeing something of reverse natu- will prevent your head from leaning forward and be against the back of the seat. Sit in an upright or genetic relatives in captivity, experts lead- ral selection: bringing back to life animals away from your shoulders. slightly reclining position. Adjust the headrest so ing the effort said. The Galapagos Islands, technically considered to have died out. He Soft couches your head is actually resting against it. This position You should not be able to sink into a couch, located 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off said that experts will soon start trying to Lumbar rolls places your head directly over your spine and Wilmarth said. “It needs to be firm enough to give Place a lumbar roll behind the small of your Ecuador’s Pacific coast, are famed for the get pairs in captivity to produce offspring allows your neck and upper back muscles to relax you support.” If your couch doesn’t support your back when you’re sitting in a chair, according to Dr. large number of species that have devel- close to their genetic origin. But due to the while you drive, Novak said. Finally, when holding lower back, you can use extra pillows to assist it. Richard Guyer, orthopedic surgeon and co-founder oped there in isolation. New research tech- lengthy lifespan of the animals, Tapia said the steering wheel, your elbows should be bent at Obliviousness Notice where your head is at this niques have revealed that at Wolf volcano that he will not live to see the results: true of the Texas Back Institute. 120 degrees. very moment. on Isabela Island, 17 hybrid giant tortoises to the slow pace tortoises are famous for, it “It helps to maintain the normal curvature in the “Is it completely focused on the page or the have been found with genes from the should take about 120 years to get all the back when sitting,” he said. “There is a tendency for Strengthen your core muscles screen? What’s going on with your shoulders right extinct Pinta Island tortoise, and about 280 data in. the lower curve to flatten, which can cause fatigu- through exercise now? Any tension there? Is your chin jutting for- hybrids have been found with genes from The female tortoises reach sexual matu- ing with prolonged sitting.” Do three sets of basic and side planks daily, ward?” said Lindsay Newitter, spokeswoman for the the extinct Floreana Island tortoise. rity at around 20-25 years, and males at holding each pose for 30 seconds, said Dr. Levi Alexander Technique and certified in teaching the Reposition yourself in your Among those with Pinta genes, at least around 25-30. Tapia said that mating a Harrison, orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles and Alexander Technique, an educational method car while driving author of “The Art of Fitness: A Journey to Self studied by musicians, actors and athletes aimed at one pair has 80 percent of the original female and male with 80-90 percent Move your seat close enough to the pedals so species’ genes, while among the Floreana Floreana genes should produce offspring Enhancement.” improving posture that’s been in practice for more that your knees are bent. A 90-degree angle would Start in a pushup position with your arms hybrids, many have up to 90 percent of the with about 95 percent of the genes of the than 100 years. “There’s a learning process involved be too bent, and anything more than 130 degrees directly under your shoulders (you may bend your in unlearning habits, but a great first step is to start original species genes. “That gives us the original species. With the Pintas, “there is a would be too straight. (Make sure your body is at arms if necessary) for the center plank. Keep your developing an awareness of yourself in the midst possibility, literally, of bringing back these chance, albeit remote, that we could end least 13 inches away from the steering wheel in head aligned with your neck. After 30 seconds, of activity,” she said. — MCT species which at the moment are consid- up with a male being produced with only ered extinct,” Galapagos National Park original-species genes,” Tapia said. For now, applied sciences chief Washington Tapia the future of the Floreana lies with about told AFP. Giant tortoises have life spans of 92 animals born in captivity since 2012. Final curtain for Europe’s up to 180 years, growing to 1.8 meters (five More testing has to be done to determine feet nine inches) long and nearly 400 kilo- which have the greatest original-species grams (880 pounds) in weight. genetic content so that those males and Last year the body of “Lonesome females can be bred. deep-space telescope George,” a giant Galapagos tortoise once Tapia said that one of the main goals is believed to be the last of its kind, was sent for the tortoises to be released back into FRANCE: The deep-space telescope Herschel to New York after its death to be embalmed their natural habitats as soon as possible, took its final bow yesterday, climaxing a success- and then returned home. A rare Pinta even as hybrids, so that they can help bring ful four-year mission to observe the birth of stars Island giant tortoise discovered in 1971, the ecosystems of the islands back into bal- and galaxies, the European Space Agency (ESA) George was estimated to be a century old ance after they were disturbed by imported said. The largest and most powerful infrared tele- when he died June 24, 2012. At the time, he species, such as goats. The Wolf hybrids scope in space, Herschel made over 35,000 scien- was believed to be the last of his kind. The have a salty story of their own: park officials tific observations and amassed more than 25,000 Floreana Island tortoise was widely believe the tortoises were taken to Isabela hours of science data, it said. “Herschel has been thought to have been extinct for more than Island in the 17th and 18th century by turned off,” ESA director general Jean-Jacques 100 years. One of their last sightings was by pirates who picked them up to eat, but Dordain told journalists at the Paris Air Show. British naturalist Charles Darwin when he then decided they were no longer needed “It is not a surprise, it was expected, it was visited the Galapagos in 1835. as a source of meat and tossed them over- scheduled,” he added. Herschel has run out of a Darwin studied the tortoises, which board. — AFP supply of liquid helium required to cool its instru- ments to near absolute zero (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius or minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to make its observations. “As it heats up it becomes unusable,” said Dordain, explaining why the data link with Herschel was shut down at 1225 GMT Monday. Its mission offi- cially ended on April 29, but the satellite was used in its dying weeks as an “orbiting test bed”, This NASA illustration obtained yesterday shows a newfound reservoir of stellar fuel discov- said an ESA statement. ered by the Herschel space observatory (red). Stars are formed out of pools of gaseous hydro- “We had a sophisticated spacecraft at our dis- gen molecules. To locate these pools, astronomers have historically looked for carbon monox- posal on which we could conduct technical test- ide (CO), which is co-located with the hydrogen gas (orange). But this tracer molecule does ing and validate techniques, software and the not lead astronomers to all of the star-making material in our galaxy. By using Herschel to functionality of systems that are going to be map ionized carbon (C+), scientists were able to find additional reservoirs of the hydrogen reused on future spacecraft,” said Herschel’s gas. — AFP spacecraft operations manager, Micha Schmidt. “This was a major bonus for us.” The satellite has now been placed in a safe, “disposal” orbit around NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women the Sun. “The last thruster burn came today, CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA has eight new astro- naut candidates ever selected by NASA. ensuring that all fuel is depleted,” said the ESA nauts - its first new batch in four years. The space The eight were chosen from more than 6,000 statement. agency announced its newest astronaut class applications, the second largest number ever Launched in May 2009, Herschel carried 2,300 yesterday. Among the lucky candidates: the first received. They will report for duty in August at INDIA: Indian Red Cross Society employee, Jasbir Kaur poses with an abandoned liters of liquid helium coolant, which evaporated female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA baby boy, found at the pictured ‘pangpura’ (cradle) drop off box at the entrance to over time. Its expected lifetime had been 3.5 nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot Administrator Charles Bolden says these new the Red Cross House in Amritsar yesterday. The premises contains a drop off location years. At 7.5 meters (24.3 feet) high and four also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are candidates will help lead the first human mission for unwanted babies, built in 2008, in an attempt to curb female infanticide. An aver- meters wide, Herschel had a launch mass of 3.4 women, the highest percentage of female astro- to an asteroid, and then Mars. — AP age of 15 babies a year have been saved, according to the society. — AFP tons. —AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Head blow leaves Boston hospital to offer Australian with French accent hand transplants for kids BOSTON: A Boston hospital is starting December, doctors at Johns Hopkins SYDNEY: An Australian woman who now speaks with a French- the world’s first hand transplant pro- Hospital in Baltimore did a double-arm sounding accent after a head injury eight years ago has gram for children, and doctors say it transplant for former soldier Brendan revealed the experience has left her feeling frustrated and reclu- won’t be long until face transplants and Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while sive. Leanne Rowe, born and raised on the southern Australian other radical operations to improve serving in Iraq. It was the seventh dou- island of Tasmania, was in a serious car crash which left her with appearance and quality of life are ble-hand or double-arm transplant a broken back and jaw. “Slowly, as my jaw started to heal, they performed in the US. For a child miss- said that I was slurring my words because I was on very power- offered to kids, too. The move shows ful tablets,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the growing willingness to do trans- ing two hands, “the quality-of-life late Sunday. plants to enhance a patient’s life rather issues are a big deal,” said Dr Douglas As she regained her health, Rowe found that she had what than to save it as donated hearts, livers Diekema of the Center for Pediatric sounded like a strong French accent. “It makes me so angry and other organs have done in the Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital because I am Australian,” she said. “I am not French (though) I do past. More than 70 hands and at least and a member of the American Board not have anything against the French people.” The condition has 20 faces have been transplanted in of Pediatrics’ ethics committee. had a deep impact on Rowe’s life, and her daughter usually adults, and doctors say it’s clear these “In terms of how we interact with speaks for her in public. “I prefer night time because it is very operations are safe enough to offer to the social world, it’s mostly our face peaceful, not many people about,” she said. Rowe has not had a children in certain cases, too. and our hands,” so a transplant “is a definitive diagnosis but her family doctor Robert Newton “We feel that this is justifiable,” Dr reasonable thing to offer a family,” he believes she is Australia’s second ever case of the rare condition Amir Taghinia said of the pediatric said. Boston Children’s Hospital plans Foreign Accent Syndrome. hand program he will lead at Boston to make its first cases healthy children “She had a normal, if you like, Australian accent for the whole Children’s Hospital. “Children will BALTIMORE: File photo shows retired Infantryman Brendan M Marrocco partici- 10 or older who are missing both time I knew her before that,” he told the ABC. “She’d done pates in a news conference at Johns Hopkins hospital. — AP French at school but she’d never been to France, didn’t have any potentially benefit even more from this hands. “Some of them can’t feed them- French friends at all.” Only a few dozen people worldwide have procedure than adults” because they over the long term. Also, a hand can be removed if rejec- selves, they can’t go to the bathroom, been officially documented as suffering from the syndrome regrow nerves more quickly and have However, one independent expert tion occurs, and that would not leave someone needs to assist them with since it was first recorded in 1907. It is linked to damage to the more problems from prosthetic hands, thinks the gains may be worth it in cer- the child worse off than before the almost every activity,” Taghinia said. part of the brain that controls speech. In 2010 a New Zealand he said. tain cases. “We understand so much transplant, Horslen said. Several types The hospital also will consider children woman with multiple sclerosis found her Kiwi tones turning into Only one hand transplant is known more about immune suppression” that of kids might be candidates - those missing one hand who already are tak- a mix of Welsh, Scottish and North London accents and a subse- to have been done in a child - a baby in it’s less of a risk to put children on it, born without hands, children who lose ing immune-suppressing drugs quent scan revealed two lesions on her brain. Malaysia in 2000. Because the donor said Dr Simon Horslen, medical director them in accidents and children with because of transplanted organs, or Other known cases include an English woman speaking with was a twin who died at birth, her sister of the liver and intestine transplant infections that wind up requiring dam- those with only one hand that doesn’t a French accent after having a stroke and a Norwegian woman did not need to take drugs to prevent program at Seattle Children’s Hospital. aged hands to be amputated. work well. The hospital will cover the who spoke with an apparent German accent after being hit by rejection. That’s the main risk in offer- cost of the operation and care for three shrapnel in 1941. Three years ago a woman in England report- “This is never going to be done as an Quality of life is a key concern for edly began speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering a ing children hand transplants - the emergency procedure, so the families people missing arms and hands - pros- months afterward, then ask insurers to migraine. — AFP immune-suppressing drugs carry side will have plenty of opportunity to thetics for those limbs are not as pay for immune suppression and fol- effects and may raise the risk of cancer weigh the options.” advanced as those for feet and legs. In low-up. — AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 ICSK accomplishes outstanding academic feat

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We want our students to feel added that “Rome was not built in a comfortable working in high-tech lab- day,” oratories so that they will have an Vijay Karayil, Hon Secretary of the equal footing with their international Board of Trustees elaborated “We have counterparts should they choose to 40 PAC members - 10 from each branch study abroad,” said Kalra. The school of which one is elected to the Board, so also boasts the first energy saving lab- as one can see, all our success is clearly oratories as well as smart board a collaborative effort and parents are equipped classrooms which are being an important part of the equation,” he rolled out this year. said, while adding “PAC acts as a medi- With regards to elective stream um that bridges the Board to the par- choices, out of 242 schools that ents, and the executive committee will applied to the CBSE for new streams, very shortly put a program in place to ICSK is the only one is Kuwait to have interact one-on-one with individual received an additional 6 streams which parents once every two months.” add Humanities, Home Science and t’s good to dream and have a vision, sibilities in the most diligent manner. Change - one of the most significant Physical Education to the prevailing everyone does, but great are the Committed to absolute transparency in signs of growth and progress - recently Science, Math and Commerce streams. Ileaders who see and translate these all its dealings, the Board sought to made its way into the school, with a Special arrangements are also being very successful merger. Bringing stu- made to provide coaching for JEE, isreen’s father, mother, friends and family visions into reality. Without an iota of implement whatever was best for the doubt, Ashok Kalra, Honorary students, the faculty and the commu- dents of all senior classes under one AJPMT and AJEEE, including video con- is congratulating her for graduating from roof was a much sought after develop- ferencing with professors from IIT and the sixth grade with honors. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of nity with the available resources N Indian Community School Kuwait is Kalra also praised the performance ment that was implemented to facili- other prestigious institutions across amongst them who takes a look back of the Academic Committee for the tate an equal learning environment India. ICSK focuses all its attention on on a very noble vision that, after years year 2012-13 headed by Bobby A and the same level of educational facil- the all round development of its stu- Announcement of toil, has become a dream realized. Mathew, including all the honary ities and amenities, while at the same dents, especially in the arena of sport. “The school was founded more than members consisting of Dr Narayanan time optimizing the school’s available The school has bagged the CBSE 50 years ago, in 1959 to be exact, by a Nampoory, Sayid Mohammed Nasir, resources. Kuwait Cluster Championship for 11th “The merger created an effective consecutive year adding color to victo- The Meat Co Kuwait launches group of visionary Indians who planted Thomas Thomas, Biju. P Abraham, Nizar learning environment where stu- ry, 23 athletes have taken part in the weekly Jazz Nights a sapling that has grown today into an K V and Abdul Hakim Siyali. Visibly hap- institution called Indian Community py Kalra explained that all segments dents can remain motivated while National Sports Meet. he Meat Co Kuwait will be bringing more than being provided with the same oppor- According to the Chairman, none of outstanding steak to the table with the launch School Kuwait. Commonly known have to work together like a well-oiled machine. “Behind the success of our tunities to compete on an equal foot- these achievements could have been of their new weekly jazz nights. The Meat Co among Indians as ICSK, the school T boasts of four separate premises, has a students lay the hard work and com- ing and to develop their individual tal- achieved without the input of every Jazz Nights will be treating its customers to the teaching and non-teaching staff of mitment of many others.” ents to the highest level, all under high member that forms the organization. smooth sounds of the Kuwait Jazz Trio, who will be over 500, and student strength in “A chairman or vice chairman can- caliber faculty that aids better prepara- “During the past years we have been entertaining the crowd with their extensive reper- excess of 6,500,” said Kalra. Having not do everything; neither can a single tion for the finals,” Kalra explained. patiently laying the foundation for suc- toire of tunes, including the works of Cole Porter, faced many hurdles and challenges the faculty member. Under the board “Despite the high capital expenditure, cess that took around nine years of Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Billy Strayhorn ICSK family has pulled through to exists 11 sub-committees, each of the merger has been a huge success hard work and dedication. But the last and George Gershwin. Kuwait’s premier jazz band emerge as one of the best schools in which is assigned to particular job area for the school.” 4-5 years has been smooth sailing. will be performing every Wednesday from 8pm at terms of coaching, academic excel- such as maintenance, transport, aca- ICSK spares no expense when it Even though it has been a struggle it The Meat Co, Kuwait - using the traditional jazz trio lence and co-curricular achievements. demics and more. These subcommit- comes to their students. Working on a has paid off now and the building instruments of piano, bass and drums -thrilling the Being the oldest and largest school in tees report back to the board with ‘no-profit no-loss’ policy, the Board of blocks put in place continue to hold audience with the best of international jazz late into the country for the Indian community, ideas and suggestions which are then Trustees along with the subcommit- ICSK at the top.” the evening. it has, no doubt, a shining reputation reviewed. It is never a one-man show,” tees have always kept infrastructural that precedes it. he said. Indian Embassy From the very inception the school Befitting of its involvement and sets up helpline has been a community venture, enjoy- commitment to the community, ICSK he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up ing the unstinted moral and financial even has a subcommittee that works helpline in order to assist Indian expatriates in support of the Indian community in exclusively with the Endowment Fund - Tregistering any complaint regarding the gov- Kuwait. Over the years, the bond a system set up to accommodate free ernment’s ongoing campaign to stamp out illegal between community and school scholarships, financial support for eco- residents from the country. The embassy said in strengthened by the school’s respon- nomically under privileged students, press release yesterday that it amended its previous siveness to the community’s ideas in sports scholarships and much more. statement and stated if there is any complaint, the addressing complex educational issues “For the first time in the history of the same could be conveyed at the following (as amend- and other challenges. school, we have been able to provide ed): Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, This year ICSK has topped the CBSE scholarships and funding. This is the Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It Grade 12 examinations and the story third year running, and with each year said the embassy has been in regular contact with behind its success is well worth shar- passing, more and more of our stu- local authorities regarding the ongoing checking of ing. “Success is only possible through a dents are able to further their academ- expatriates. The embassy has also conveyed to them shared, combined effort on the part of ic goals and reach greater heights for the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the com- students, faculty, parents, community brighter futures,” Kalra said . All stu- munity in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait have and management. By joining hands, dents are eligible to apply with sup- conveyed that strict instructions have been issued to we have been able to sail great heights porting documents which are then ensure that there is no harassment or improper of achievement, in the last few years, reviewed and decided upon by the treatment of expatriates by those undertaking culminating in being the highest scor- executive committee of the Board. checking. “The embassy would like to request Indian ers in the board exams,” proudly assert- Rajan Daniel, Hon Vice-Chairman, expatriates to ensure that they abide by all local ed the chairman. Board of Trustees remarked that laws, rules and regulations regarding residency, traf- “With the collaboration of the com- Parents of ICSK students have always fic and other matters,” the release read. It would be munity, the work of the faculty and the been a backbone of the school and prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other rele- guidance and leadership of the Board their supportive suggestions along vant documents such as driving license, etc. In case of Trustees, ICSK is and will shine with the school’s proactive responses an Indian expatriate encounters any improper treat- bright.” Unfazed by the school’s limited forms the base of the strong relation- ment during checking, it may be conveyed immedi- resources and ever increasing needs, ship. Parent Advisory Councils (PAC) ately with full details and contact particulars to the the Board of Trustees, headed by Kalra, comprises of elected members from embassy at the following phone number 67623639. put all its energy to fulfill their respon- parents of students in all four branches These contact details are exclusively for the above- mentioned purpose only.

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Wednesday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups To The Arctic 3D 10:30am Tornado Alley 3D11:30am, 6:30pm, 9:30pm Hot summer promotional Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm offers at Continental Hotels! Journey to Mecca 5:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 8:30pm uwait Continental Hotels has hot Hotel offer also free use of mobiles dur- & great promotional offers this ing the guestís stay. The Hotel has also Ksummer. The General Manager made arrangements with many of the Hotels, Kamal Hussein Famous Companies such as Jovial Write to us announced the summer offers which Watch co, Ajmal Perfumes, Al-Mulla include complimentary breakfast and Renting Car Co, Qortuba Furniture, Al dinner buffets with free facilities such Hazeem Co, International Clinic, Al Send to What’s On as free transfer from I to airport, shuttle Misk international Mill & roaster, services to and from shopping centers, Lamode International ladies Saloon upcoming events, birthdays or internet and business center facilities, and Continental Men Saloon for fabu- celebrations by email: and Hookah, pool and health clubs. lous discounts and special offers to its [email protected] The Hotel has tied up with guests. Entertainment City, Aqua Park and Kids Fax: 24835619 / 20 Land for free tickets for its guests. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- com for more information. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm.

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EMBASSY OF CANADA The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration depart- ment. All processing of visa and immigra- Kids World Kindergarten held a ceremony to mark the end of the school year 2013 featuring a Sinbad Operetta performed by the children. tion matters including enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im-enquiry@inter- national.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday.

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EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an interview or a trip inside the Embassy. The chil- dren must be under 14 years of age, and addi- tional requirements do apply, but the service means parents will no longer have to schedule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti pass- ports. To take advantage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous pass- port, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS- 160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS- 160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For children of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I- 20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is avail- able on the U.S. Embassy website: McDonald’s floats kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html into Summer n n n n n n n EMBASSY GREECE cDonald’s Kuwait yesterday leading food service organisation serv- announced the launch of its ing 69 million people each day at more The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the Mbrand new McFloat, offering than 34,000 restaurants in 119 coun- pleasure to announce that visa applica- customers across the country a deli- tries. For more information on tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa cious and refreshing break from the McDonald’s in the Middle East, visit Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th summer heat. Available in three mcdonaldsarabia.com. floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- flavours - Coke, Sprite or Fanta - the McFloat offers a winning combination Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For of refreshing soda, topped off with a information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to dollop of McDonald’s creamy soft serve 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: vanilla ice cream. Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- George Khawam, Marketing Director of McDonald’s Kuwait said: “The tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications McFloat is a new offering for our cus- please visit the following website tomers in Kuwait and is one we expect www.mfa.gr/kuwait. McDonalds Kuwait to be well-received during the summer months when customers are looking n n n n n n n for some much-needed relief from the launches 1955 Burger heat. The ice cream float is an iconic EMBASSY OF VATICAN cDonald’s announced yesterday indulge in the taste of home-made burgers. summer treat, and we’re excited to be the launch of the 1955 burger for This ‘Blast from the Past’ signature burger putting a McDonald’s spin on it with The Apostolic Nunciature Embassy of Mthe first time in Kuwait, offering will definitely allow us to expand our menu our creamy vanilla soft serve. Our limit- the Holy See, Vatican in Kuwait has customers a choice to experience home- offerings here in Kuwait and we are excited ed time summer products have been moved to a new location in Kuwait City. made goodness, featuring 100% pure and about the feedback that we will be receiv- consistently well-received in Kuwait, Please find below the new address: Yarmouk, Halal tasty beef patties, sesame buns, with ing from our customers.” and we are confident customers will Block 1, Street 2, Villa No: 1. P.O.Box 29724, fresh and crispy lettuce, tomato slices, The 1955 burger was named the year enjoy this refreshing addition to our Safat 13158, Kuwait. Tel: 965 25337767, Fax: chicken roll, grilled onions ketchup and its Ray Kroc opened the very first McDonald’s summer line-up.” signature 1955 sauce. in Des Plaines, Illinois to commemorate this McDonald’s operates in more than 965 25342066. Email: George Khawam, Marketing Director of historic occasion. It was then added to the 375 restaurants in the GCC, all of which [email protected] McDonald’s Kuwait said; “The 1955 Burger McDonalds menu which took Europe by are owned and operated by localentre- made its way into Kuwait, offering mem- storm and now it’s in the State of Kuwait. preneurs. McDonald’s is the world’s bers of the Kuwaiti community a chance to TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

22:00 Banshee 21:15 Austin And Ally 11:35 Unique Sweets 23:00 Greek 21:40 That’s So Raven 12:00 Amazing Wedding Cakes 00:00 Glee 22:00 Shake It Up 12:50 Have Cake, Will Travel 01:00 Banshee 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 00:00 ATP Tennis 14:35 Border Security 02:00 The Americans 22:50 Austin And Ally Basics 02:00 Super League 15:05 Auction Hunters 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 04:00 International Rugby Union 15:30 Auction Kings 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place Basics 06:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 16:00 Ultimate Survival 00:00 Hannah Montana 14:05 Food Wars 07:00 Super League 16:55 Yukon Men 00:20 Hannah Montana 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:00 NRL Premiership 03:00 Samantha Who? 17:50 Mythbusters 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 11:00 Futbol Mundial 03:30 Malibu Country 18:45 Sons Of Guns 01:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite 11:30 UK Open Darts 04:00 Seinfeld 19:40 Industrial Junkie 01:30 Emperor’s New School 15:45 Chopped 15:30 PGA Tour Highlights 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 20:05 How It’s Made 01:50 Emperor’s New School 16:35 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 16:30 PGA European Tour Leno 20:35 Auction Hunters 02:15 Replacements Basics Highlights 05:30 Two And A Half Men 21:00 Storage Hunters 02:35 Replacements 17:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 17:30 ICC Cricket 360 06:00 All Of Us 21:30 Off The Hook: Extreme Basics 18:00 Live IRB Junior Championship 06:30 Til Death Catches 17:25 Food Wars 20:00 Live IRB Junior Championship 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 21:55 Off The Hook: Extreme 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:00 NRL Full Time 08:00 Seinfeld Catches 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:30 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 08:30 Two And A Half Men 18:40 Charly’s Cake Angels 23:30 WWE Smackdown 22:25 Extreme Fishing 14:30 Style Star 09:00 Samantha Who? 19:05 Unique Sweets 23:20 Moonshiners 15:00 Keeping Up With The 09:30 Hot In Cleveland 19:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 00:15 Off The Hook: Extreme Kardashians 10:00 Parks And Recreation 20:20 Chopped Catches 16:00 Keeping Up With The 10:30 Til Death 21:10 Chopped 00:40 Off The Hook: Extreme Kardashians 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 22:00 Food Wars 02:00 International Rugby Union Catches 17:00 Ice Loves Coco Leno 22:25 Food Wars 04:00 World Pool Masters 01:10 Extreme Fishing 17:30 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 12:00 All Of Us 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 05:00 World Cup Of Pool 18:00 Married To Jonas 12:30 Seinfeld 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 06:00 Trans World Sport 18:30 Married To Jonas 13:00 Two And A Half Men 23:40 Food Wars 07:00 Golfing World 19:00 THS 13:30 Til Death 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:00 International Rugby Union 20:00 Chasing The Saturdays 14:00 Malibu Country 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 10:00 Futbol Mundial 20:30 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 14:50 Empire 14:30 Parks And Recreation 00:55 Unwrapped 10:30 World Pool Masters 21:30 Playing With Fire 15:45 Clash Of The Dinosaurs 15:00 Hot In Cleveland 01:20 Unwrapped 11:30 World Cup Of Pool 22:30 Fashion Police 16:40 Great Planes 15:30 The Daily Show Global Edition 01:45 Food Wars 12:30 Trans World Sport 17:35 Mystery Cars 16:00 The Colbert Report Global 23:30 Chelsea Lately 13:30 Futbol Mundial 18:00 Mystery Cars Edition 00:00 Opening Act 14:00 Golfing World 18:25 I Shouldn’t Be Alive... 16:30 All Of Us 00:55 Style Star 15:00 AFL Highlights 19:20 The Real Inglorious Bastards 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 01:25 THS 16:00 Super League 20:10 Tattoo Hunter 18:00 Last Man Standing 03:45 Captain America: The First 18:00 ICC Cricket 360 21:05 Egypt’s Top Ten Mysteries 18:30 Raising Hope Avenger-PG15 18:30 Futbol Mundial 22:00 The Real Inglorious Bastards 19:00 Hot In Cleveland 05:45 A Cinderella Story: Once 19:00 Golfing World 22:55 Death Machines 19:30 Men At Work Upon A Song-PG 20:00 International Rugby League 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 23:50 Most Evil 03:05 Coastal Kitchen 07:15 The Vow-PG15 22:00 AFL Premiership CLEANSKIN ON OSN CINEMA Leno 00:45 Mystery Cars 03:30 Food Poker 09:00 Win Win-PG15 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 01:10 Mystery Cars 04:15 Bargain Hunt 10:45 Captain America: The First Stewart 01:35 The Real Inglorious Bastards 05:00 House Swap Avenger-PG15 21:30 The Colbert Report 05:45 Cash In The Attic 13:00 Perfect Plan-PG15 22:00 The New Normal 06:30 Coastal Kitchen 14:45 A Mother’s Choice-PG15 22:30 Out There 07:00 Food Poker 16:30 Win Win-PG15 23:00 Brickleberry 07:45 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 18:30 The Avengers-PG15 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 14:20 Food Factory 08:35 Bargain Hunt 21:00 The Descendants-PG15 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 14:45 Food Factory 09:20 Antiques Roadshow 23:00 The Five Year Engagement-18 Stewart 15:10 Thunder Races 10:15 Extreme Makeover: Home 01:15 Toast-PG15 01:00 The Colbert Report DUBAI: OSN is bringing viewers the ultimate TV entertain- 16:00 Nextworld Edition 01:30 The New Normal ment experience this Ramadan showcasing an array of Exclusive Egyptian series 16:55 Mega World 11:00 MasterChef Australia 02:00 Out There brand new and exclusive premium programming and a Back by popular demand is a line-up of star-studded dra- 17:45 Comet Impact 11:50 Come Dine With Me 02:30 Brickleberry viewing experience unmatched in the region. mas. The heart-wrenching Egyptian love story, Adam w 18:35 The Gadget Show 12:45 Food & Drink 07:00 The Dragon Chronicles: Fire & Viewers will be spoilt for choice with nine brand new Jamila makes its return on OSN Ya Hala Shabab HD. This 19:00 The Tech Show 13:15 Food Poker Ice-PG15 19:30 Scrapheap Challenge 14:00 Bargain Hunt shows making their TV premiere exclusively on OSN Ya powerful series, starring Hassan Al Raddad and Yousra Al 09:00 Just Crazy Enough-PG15 Hala!HD and OSN Ya Hala Shabab HD. From original Louzy, follows a young couple’s love story as it encounters 20:20 Prototype This 14:45 Cash In The Attic 11:00 An Invisible Sign Of My Own- 21:10 Food Factory 15:25 Antiques Roadshow PG15 Egyptian productions (Adam w Jamila, El- Kabeer S3) to insurmountable obstacles. Screened every day at 22:00 KSA, 21:35 Food Factory 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 16:20 Extreme Makeover: Home 13:00 Second Chances-PG15 brand new Khaleeji series (Ghssen Maksoor, Salim S2), OSN Adam w Jamila will have OSN viewers gripped to their seats. 22:00 Scrapheap Challenge 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers Edition 14:30 Madea’s Big Happy Family- will also build on the success of its cookery themed drama The series will continue after Ramadan with the next season 22:50 Body Spectacular 06:00 Prankstars 17:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent PG15 introduced last year with a brand new season of the hugely returning exclusively on OSN. 23:40 Food Factory 06:25 Suite Life On Deck 17:55 The Roux Legacy 16:15 Call Of The Wild-PG15 popular Znood El Sitt and another fresh concept Alf Akla w Ahmed Mekky is a gifted comedian, writer and rapper 00:05 Food Factory 06:45 Shake It Up 18:30 Home Cooking Made Easy 17:45 Marion Jones: Press Pause- Akla, an unconventional culinary show inspired by the leg- and is one of the funniest men in Egypt. In El Kabeer, Mekky 00:30 How Do They Do It? 07:10 A.N.T Farm 18:55 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard PG15 01:00 Prototype This 19:20 New Scandinavian Cooking endary fairy tale 1001 Nights. plays three separate characters in one sitcom - a father and 07:35 Jessie 19:00 The Best Exotic Marigold his three extremely different sons. Humour at its best, tune 01:50 Body Spectacular 07:55 Good Luck Charlie With Andreas Viestad A key highlight of OSN’s offering is undoubtedly the Hotel-PG15 much awaited Season 3 premiere of the endearing and epic into the brand new Season 3 of one of the best Egyptian 08:20 Good Luck Charlie 19:45 Come Dine With Me 21:15 Cleanskin-18 08:45 Doc McStuffins 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home 23:00 Final Destination 5-18 story of Hareem Al Sultan which makes its grand appear- comedy shows which portrays different views and different 09:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Edition 01:00 Second Chances-PG15 ance on OSN screens from July 1. ways of living through hilarious moments inspired from 09:30 A.N.T Farm 21:20 Antiques Roadshow Khulud Abu Homos, Senior Vice President of both Eastern and Western cultures. The show will screen at 14:00 American Pickers 09:55 A.N.T Farm 22:15 Bargain Hunt Programming at OSN said: “Based on customer demand and 19:00 KSA exclusively on OSN Shabab HD. 15:00 American Pickers 10:15 Jessie 23:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent programming research, we have carefully put together an 16:00 American Pickers 10:40 Jessie 23:55 Food Poker unrivalled range of programming to suit all tastes and pref- Exclusive Khaleeji content: 00:40 Come Dine With Me 17:00 American Pickers 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 04:30 One Angry Juror-PG15 erences. Exclusively premiering the hotly anticipated Making its TV debut is Ghssen Maksoor, a romantic 01:30 MasterChef Australia 06:00 Glee: The Concert Movie- 18:00 American Pickers 11:25 Good Luck Charlie Hareem Al-Sultan Season 3 on July 1 is undoubtedly the Khaleeji drama series that tackles and helps to find a deli- 11:50 Good Luck Charlie 02:20 Cash In The Attic PG15 19:00 Ax Men jewel of our Ramadan programming. We are also confident cate balance between human relationships. The series stars 20:00 Pawn Stars 12:15 Shake It Up 08:00 Waiting For Forever-PG15 20:30 Storage Wars 12:35 Shake It Up 10:00 Rise Of The Planet Of The that Adam w Jamila will be a huge hit creating a benchmark renowned Kuwaiti actor Naif Al Rasheed along with Huda 21:00 Ancient Aliens 13:00 Austin And Ally Apes-PG15 for drama production in the region and Ahmed Mekky’s Khateeb. 22:00 Storage Wars 13:25 A.N.T. Farm 12:00 Dark Shadows-PG15 popular El-Kabeer is back with Season 3 only on OSN.” Plus, tune into Salim Season 2, inspired by a verse in the 22:30 Storage Wars 13:45 Jessie 14:00 Project Nim-PG15 “We understand that during the Holy Month, schedules Holy Quran, sees Mustafa Al Aidaroos return to OSN’s Ya 03:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 23:00 American Pickers 14:10 Shake It Up 16:00 Waiting For Forever-PG15 change and vary from person to person. With OSN’s tech- Hala!HD with a new inspirational season. Aimed at improv- 03:25 Food Wars 00:00 Pawn Stars 14:35 Suite Life On Deck 18:00 The Odd Life Of Timothy 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives nology, viewers can enjoy the spirit of Ramadan and also ing the spiritual and physical aspects of our lives for harmo- 00:30 Storage Wars 15:00 Gravity Falls Green-PG 04:15 Unique Eats rest assured that they won’t miss their favourite shows. In ny and enlightenment, Salim S2 will be broadcast every day 01:00 Ancient Aliens 15:25 Good Luck Charlie 20:00 Gone-PG15 04:40 Chopped fact, OSN’s technology allows each viewer to create their at 18:00 KSA. 02:00 Storage Wars 15:50 Jessie 22:00 The Bourne Legacy-PG15 16:10 Shake It Up 05:30 Iron Chef America 00:15 The Perfect Host-PG15 very own personalised TV experience. This year, OSN’s OSN’s newly created genre of culinary-themed drama: 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 06:10 Food Network Challenge 02:00 Waiting For Forever-PG15 Ramadan offering is not only about premium and exclusive Building on its great success last year and back by popu- 17:00 Austin And Ally 07:00 Guy’s Big Bite content but also an exclusive viewing experience found lar demand, Znood El Sitt will once again couple culinary 17:20 Gravity Falls 07:25 Guy’s Big Bite nowhere else.” delights with comedy and drama. With recipes guaranteed 14:00 C.S.I. 17:45 Suite Life On Deck 07:50 Andy Bates American Street to get the taste buds tingling, this season brings together 15:00 Glee 18:10 Good Luck Charlie Feasts Wafaa’ Mousally and newcomer Samia Al Jazeari. Further 08:15 Unique Sweets 16:00 Emmerdale 18:30 That’s So Raven 04:00 The Speed Of Thought-PG15 08:40 United Tastes Of America expanding this newly created genre, OSN launches Alf Akla 16:30 Coronation Street 18:55 Austin And Ally 06:00 Ice Quake-PG15 09:05 Barefoot Contessa w Akla, a gastronomic extravaganza inspired by the leg- 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 19:20 Jessie 08:00 Fast Five-PG15 09:30 Food Network Challenge endary Arabian fairy-tale 1001 Nights. Featuring sisters Alia 18:00 C.S.I. 19:40 Gravity Falls 10:15 Hide And Seek-PG15 10:20 Extra Virgin & Shorouk, there’s plenty of interesting tales and great tips 19:00 Royal Pains 20:05 A.N.T. Farm 12:00 Ice Road Terror-PG15 10:45 Kid In A Candy Store 20:00 House Of Cards 20:30 Good Luck Charlie 13:45 Fast Five-PG15 on cooking and eating healthy this Ramadan. Tune in every 11:10 Charly’s Cake Angels 21:00 The Americans 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 16:00 Justice League: Doom-PG15 day at 14:00 KSA, exclusively on OSN Ya Hala!HD. 18:00 Ice Road Terror-PG15 20:00 Virtuosity-PG15 And more: Following on from the successful adaption of 22:00 Hanna-PG15 the US Disney drama hit series ‘Private Practice,’ comes the 00:00 Elfie Hopkins-18 acclaimed Turkish version, Marhaba Hayat airing on OSN Ya 01:45 Virtuosity-PG15 Hala Shabab HD from Saturday to Wednesday at 21:00 KSA. Another popular Turkish series, Asmaytoha Feriha brings the charming and passionate love story between Amir and Feriha to viewers from Saturday to Wednesday at 22:00 KSA, 08:00 Police Academy 3: Back In on OSN Ya Hala!HD. Training-PG15 10:00 Ernest Scared Stupid-PG15 Special OSN Movies HD family slot 12:00 Sorority Wars-PG15 Underscoring the values of togetherness, OSN has devel- 14:00 Bushwhacked-PG oped a special family slot on OSN Movies HD at 15:00 KSA 16:00 Ernest Scared Stupid-PG15 daily boasting a line-up of the most popular Hollywood ani- 18:00 While You Were Sleeping- mated blockbusters, family dramas and heart-warming PG15 Ramadan is a hectic period where most flexibility is comedies 20:00 Vampire In Brooklyn-PG15 needed to enjoy the spirit of the Holy Month. OSN is putting This and much more only on OSN this Ramadan. For 22:00 Analyze That-PG15 00:00 Jackass: Number Two-R the reins in the hands of the viewer so they have complete more information on OSN’s Ramadan programming please 02:00 Vampire In Brooklyn-PG15 control over their entertainment and can create their very visit www.osn.com own personal TV experience. Viewers don’t need to be con- strained by channels and show timings any more - they can enjoy the spirit of Ramadan, visit your family and friends and design a TV schedule that fits their routine. Nowhere 09:00 Take Shelter-PG15 11:00 Loosies-PG15 else will viewers find this unique blend of world class, pre- 13:00 My Afternoons With mium content and an exclusive viewing experience. Margueritte-PG15 In addition to enjoying every moment in stunning high 15:00 Take Shelter-PG15 definition, viewers can record their favourite shows or revel 17:00 The Conspirator-PG15 in the joy of pausing live television. Plus, especially for the 19:00 Butch Cassidy And The Holy Month, OSN has launched its exclusive ‘Ramadan Sundance Kid-PG Catch up’ and ‘Ramadan On Demand’ services giving view- 21:00 The Door In The Floor-PG15 ers even more ways to access and enjoy their favourite TV. 23:00 Ironclad-18 Viewers also have the option to watch OSN’s fantastic 01:00 The Last Gamble-18 content anytime, anywhere via OSN Play, the region’s first online TV viewing platform. OSN Play will give viewers access to show details, recipes and even behind-the-scenes footage and interviews complementing the TV viewing 00:00 NRL Premiership experience. 02:00 AFL Highlights OSN Ya Hala!HD +2, a time shifted channel will also be 03:00 UK Open Darts launched especially for Ramadan to provide even more 07:00 ATP Tennis viewing options and flexibility. 08:30 ATP Tennis 10:00 ATP Tennis 12:00 ICC Cricket 360 Award-winning Turkish drama 12:30 Live British & Irish Lions Kicking off this year’s Ramadan line-up is the award win- 14:30 Super Rugby Highlights ning Turkish series, Hareem Al Sultan. The long-awaited 15:30 International Rugby Union third season, which centres on the fictional portrayal of life 17:30 AFL Highlights in the Ottoman royal court, is a visual masterpiece and has 18:30 ICC Cricket 360 been a resounding success across the Middle East and 19:00 British & Irish Lions Africa. The first episode will premiere on Monday, July 1 21:00 NRL Full Time exclusively on OSN Ya Hala!HD and will be screened from 21:30 Futbol Mundial 22:00 Trans World Sport Saturday through to Wednesday dubbed in Arabic with 23:00 IRB Junior World English subtitles. Championship THE AVENGERS ON OSN MOVIES HD Classifieds

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CROSSWORD 224 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) ARIES You are always out front and manage to spend a lot of time in the spot- Your physical vitality, psychological or spiritual goals are in good shape. Now is light in social situations. However, it may be time to cool your entertaining urges and let the time to weed through and eliminate or in some way control difficulties that have come to others take the limelight for a while. Finances—purchases, investments and credit in your attention. This could be a professional or personal task. You are able to handle situations particular—could stand some clear thinking. Getting in over your head where such with confidence and set examples for others to follow without even realizing it. Your compas- things are concerned can happen before you know it, so keep an eye on the bottom sion to others is commendable. If you are the owner of a business, there are opportunities now line. You are a born teacher and others find you inspiring. You may be guiding new to advance forward by making any changes you deem necessary. You will take matters into employees in the ways of the working world. There is a love of the sea and a great desire consideration and go with the statistically feasible and businesslike action. This evening you to take some time off for a while. Checking the calendar you may find some opportune find constructive ways to relax that may include the care of animals. Family members bring times to do just that. Plan a new adventure. much laughter tonight.

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

You could be feeling rebellious and independent regarding your current Your goals stand in stark contrast to the goals of others and an adjustment must situation. Patience will win out, however. Remember, there are times that others may be made. You will be able to compromise and come to a new understanding. There is a switch have to be patient with you. There is the possibility of new visions or sudden insights effect: you may alternate between very conventional behavior and sudden rebellious lapses. At into your self-image or into your ideals and dreams. This is a time to reshape and renew these times you must be attentive to reflect your thoughts and words to others in the best pos- your philosophy or religion, during which your imagination is at full tilt. There are break- sible ways. This is a time to be patient and tread lightly when it comes to indulgence and throughs in compassion and communion. You naturally gravitate toward positions of overextending your time. Relationships, whether partnerships, personal or the social scene in power. Others see in you a great practical ability and accept you as a leader or authority general, are very important now and can have a very strong influence on your career. This figure. Your career may be very important to you now. Management or a self-owned evening, you can forget the day and become lost in your loved one’s arms. business could be a consideration soon.

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

You may be playing the role of healer, teacher or critic today. You will You are very independent in appearance and communication. Your spontaneity receive good news regarding your business or your position within a com- and unpredictability make you interesting to any group. You and a group of pany. A raise or a boost in your income makes this a rewarding day. There could be a your co-worker friends are planning a big barbeque soon and you could provide some of the close relationship that may seem to be a bit shaky just now—perhaps a misunderstand- entertainment. You may feel that you are intuitively in touch with whatever comes across your ACROSS DOWN ing. It’s important to keep your perspective where such things are concerned. Feelings of path. Harmony, energy, enthusiasm and respect are easy to find. You have plenty of support for 1. A wine bottle made of leather. 1. A rule made by a local authority to regu- love and needs for security must be expressed and addressed; otherwise they can drive a whatever you want to accomplish. The cycle that begins for you now will be marked by a more 5. Not capable of being swayed or diverted late its own affairs. wedge between people. You may be sought after for your advice regarding very personal intense focus on mental and communicative activity. It’s a time of more involvement with a from a course. and emotional issues of a young person. You will be able to handle this matter success- variety of people, a time for gathering information and a time when you’re apt to be more on 2. A member of the Siouan people formerly the go than usual. 12. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = living in the Missouri river valley in NE fully. You are able to cut through the red tape in order to find the needed results. 1.5 gallons. Nebraska. 15. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant 3. Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his slain by Odin and his brothers and from nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Capricorn (December 22-January 19) whose body they created the world. Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405). Cancer (June 21-July 22) 16. A clergyman. 4. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed New career opportunities may be the reason for a move soon. Fate sends You have great internal strength and lean toward independence, preferring to lean on 17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit on as the waters of the great flood receded. opportunity your way if you listen to your instincts and give your natural yourself more than on those outside. The ability to work with those older and younger juice. 5. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized sense of curiosity a free rein. The perfect house or apartment may be in the least expect- than yourself is a real gift and this talent makes you a natural mediator or go-between. You may find 18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of by behavioral and learning disorders. ed place. Take your time before signing on the bottom line. Decisive action is the main opportunities to be self-motivating—no dependency here. As it is most of the time, you work well by Lamaism. 6. A small syringe with detachable nozzles. order of business now. The way you respond to change and maintain your independence yourself or with others. This afternoon is great for a philosophical discussion. You may decide this is a 19. A person who fights duels. 7. A stock exchange in New York. is a major focus. Someone in the family wants more independence—give them responsi- good time to visit those friends that interact with you in fun and perceptive conversations. You are 20. A young woman making her debut into 8. A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to bilities and independence will come. With several members of your family having the inspired. This evening, you may be teaching a child some very important things about goal setting society. one thousandth of a bar. same month birthday soon, consider a fun trip to a new area of town that nobody has and achieving those goals. Encourage short-term goals as well as the long-term ones. 21. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent 9. Black tropical American cuckoo. deities. 10. Drawn or pressed close to someone or 23. Being ten more than one hundred thirty. something for or as if for affection or protec- 24. Roman emperor and adoptive son of tion. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) Nerva. 11. The cardinal number that is the sum of You are very talkative and not just a little curious. You enjoy talking, speaking and Mysterious or mystical information fires your imagination and there is a good 26. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and three and one. writing and may be looking forward to a class in creative writing this evening. It is easy for you to be chance that there is more imagination than knowledge for now. Keep an open mind and learn conspicuous red flowers in dense globular 12. A pilgrimage to Mecca. convincing and persuasive and today there is an important point you feel you need to make. With all you can, but do not take everything you hear for gospel. You are inclined to do things from racemes. 13. The content of cognition. only a few words, others will understand. Study, research and investigations of all kinds appeal to you. outer necessity rather than for emotional or idealistic reasons. Your theories and mental activi- 28. Muslims collectively and their civilization. 14. The compass point that is one point If you are not traveling just now, you will be talking about it with co-workers. The best places to visit, ties may be fine, but you may also lack the heart or time to let things develop. Patience is the 30. The income arising from land or other stay and eat are topics of conversation during the noon meal. Educational projects require much north of northeast. key word, particularly for today. This could affect your career direction or vocation. Your wish to study and may also involve travel. You may be performing research on the subject of a story you are property. 22. Essential oil or perfume obtained from be independent, to try new things, etc., comes at an inappropriate time but you will eventually writing. Fresh insight comes to you through mass media. 31. German publisher of a series of travel flowers. find workable solutions. Your desires are strong and you will find contentment this evening. guidebooks (1801-1859). 25. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae. 35. An abnormally large amount of this feto- 27. A state in northwestern North America. protein in the fetus can signal an abnormality 29. Durable fragrant wood. of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anen- 32. Capital of Micronesia. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) cephaly). 33. An implement used to erase something. 39. A person who evokes boredom. 34. Seed again or anew. Situations and people you thought you could rely on might not be so solid This may be a frustrating day regarding practical or job-related activities. However, 40. Cheese containing a blue mold. 36. Marked by casual disrespect. after all. Talk things over and find out what is really happening—you should be able to your key word is responsibility. You will be able to rise above these frustrations through your persever- 43. By bad luck. 37. Of or relating to punishment. enhance your security. There is a feeling that things will work out to your satisfaction very soon. ance. You are able to find yourself in others, in relationships, rather than alone—a mirror or clear pool. 44. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color. 38. Found along western Atlantic coast. You may be able to break through and move ahead with your ambitions and general life’s pur- You can be peaceful, calm and undisturbed regardless of what is going on around you. You are a 47. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a 41. Not having been read. pose. You could also receive unexpected help from someone in authority. In playing the mat- genius at bringing out others and directing them into productivity. You are direct and candid and are compound gland). 42. A platform raised above the surrounding ing game or match game, timing is everything. Today is a very important day for love. When encouraged to brush past appearances and settle on the truth. Ideas—philosophy and religion—are 50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat level to give prominence to the person on it. that telephone call comes this afternoon, know ahead of time what days or evenings of the what life is all about. Travel opportunities come to your attention. You may travel, council and be a trimmed off. 45. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature calendar will be available for dating and encourage or make a future date. Guides or angels teacher to others. You spend time helping animals this evening. 51. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation emanating from the Supreme Being and work in your best interest. equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated playing various roles in the operation of the material. universe. 52. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate 46. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy Word Search Yesterday’s Solution the maiden or family name of a married volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element woman. belonging to the halogens. 53. A zodiacal constellation in northern 48. Tropical American tree producing cacao hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo. beans. 54. Wood of a sumac. 49. A state in the Rocky Mountains. 57. Informal terms for a mother. 55. A percussion instrument consisting of a 59. An associate degree in nursing. pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usual- 60. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the ly held between the thumb and fingers) that genus Acacia. are made to click together (as by Spanish 62. Any of a number of fishes of the family dancers) in rhythm with the dance. Carangidae. 56. Having two faces or fronts. 67. An awkward stupid person. 58. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfec- 70. One or some or every or all without speci- tions of the skin. fication. 61. A compartment in front of a motor vehi- 73. Having the head uncovered. cle where driver sits. 75. Relating to or characteristic of or occur- 63. An Indian nursemaid who looks after chil- ring on the sea or ships. dren. 76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 64. A city in northwestern Syria. 78. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage 65. The closing section of a musical composi- is opened and a section of a blood vessel is tion. grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery 66. A town in north central Oklahoma. to bypass the blocked section of the coro- 68. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth nary artery and improve the blood supply to and spring. the heart. 69. At or constituting a border or edge. 79. Hormone secreted by the posterior pitu- 71. An accountant certified by the state. itary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by 72. A local computer network for communi- nerve endings in the hypothalamus. cation between computers. 80. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces. 74. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed. 81. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a 77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alka- heavier blade. li earth group. Yesterday’s Solution

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ays of Our Lives” scored a rare win for best drama series at the Daytime Emmys in a show marked by an enve- “Dlope mix-up, expletives and the constant din of audi- ence chatter heard during the cable telecast that stretched beyond its time slot. NBC’s “Days” won just its second drama series trophy and first since 1978, upending such heavyweights as “General Hospital,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless” all of which had dominated the category in recent years. “Days” is one of four remaining soaps still airing on the broadcast networks, while another nominee “One Life to Live” has found new life on the Internet after being canceled. “Days” claimed one other trophy: Chandler Massey as outstanding younger actor. CBS claimed eight trophies during Sunday’s show, giving the network a leading 21 wins including those from last week’s cre- ative arts ceremony. PBS was second with 14 wins. In a major gaffe, Aisha Tyler of “The Talk” was presenting outstanding talk show informative when she opened the envelope and quickly realized she had been given the wrong one. “Oh, interestingly enough this winner is not in this category,” she said. “If I read it out I’m going to give another category away.” The audience at the Beverly Hilton hotel gasped and Tyler vamped while waiting to be given the cor- rect envelope from the wings. “There better be a cocktail waiting on my table,” Tyler said. She then announced “The Dr Oz Show” as the winner. “It’s like saying, ‘Whoops,’ in the operating room,” Dr Mehmet Oz said backstage about the goof-up. Corbin Bernsen uttered two expletives on-air when talking about his late mother, Jeanne Cooper of “The Young The cast and crew of ‘Days of Our Lives’ accept the award for outstanding drama series at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif. — AP photos and the Restless,” during the in memoriam tribute. Doug Davidson of “The Young and the Restless” and Heather Tom of “The Bold and “This is so strange,” Davidson said as he grabbed a mic and took the Beautiful” won lead acting honors. Davidson earned his first a seat on a red sofa. “Good Morning America” weather anchor Sam career trophy as Detective Paul Williams, a character he’s played Champion, along with HLN network’s A.J. Hammer and Robin since 1978. Tom, who previously was on “Y&R,” repeated her win Meade, hosted the 40th annual show, which stretched well past its from last year. scheduled two hours. Scott Clifton of “The Bold and the Beautiful” “I am overwhelmed,” he said, wiping his eye. Tom won for her and Billy Miller of “The Young and the Restless” tied for supporting role as Katie Logan, who struggled with post-partum depression actor in a drama series. Julie Marie Berman of “General Hospital” and abandoned her baby in a major story line. Last year, she won supporting actress honors. She has since left the ABC soap. became the first person to win Daytime Emmys in the younger, Her former co-star, Kristen Alderson, won the younger actress cate- supporting and lead categories. She expressed optimism for the gory. In an upset, first-time nominee “CBS Sunday Morning” beat future of daytime dramas, which have shrunk from a dozen airing out heavyweights “Good Morning America” and the “Today Show” on the broadcast networks in 1991 to just four still on TV. for outstanding morning program. “We snuck in while nobody was “Last year was kind of like, ‘Oh god, things are being canceled.’ looking,” host Charles Osgood said. Now our numbers are up and people realize there’s an audience for Ricki Lake, whose daytime comeback has been canceled, won this type of entertainment,” Tom said backstage. “It’s an audience outstanding talk show host. Ben Bailey of “Cash Cab,” which is no that can’t be easily swayed to something that doesn’t resemble a longer being produced, picked up his third win as outstanding daytime drama. Our future looks good.” Reflecting the current era game show host. “The Price is Right” won game show honors. “The of dwindling daytime audiences, network budget-cutting and the Ellen DeGeneres Show” earned its seventh trophy as outstanding cancellation of some soaps, the awards were aired by cable news talk show entertainment. The show paid tribute to Lifetime channel HLN for the second straight year, having lost its longtime Achievement Award winners Monty Hall of “Let’s Make a Deal” home on the broadcast networks last year. fame and the late game-show creator Bob Stewart. — AP In an effort to liven up the proceedings, the night’s biggest win- ners were chatted up, sometimes awkwardly, on stage right after Heather Tom accepts the award for outstanding lead Doug Davidson accepts the award for outstanding lead they accepted their trophies by celebrities whose favorite question actress in a drama series for ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’. actor in a drama series for ‘The Young and the Restless’. was the clichÈd “How do you feel?”

The crew of ìThe Ellen DeGeneres Showî accepts the award for outstanding talk show entertainment. Scott Clifton accepts the award for outstanding support- ing actor in a drama series for ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’. Charles Osgood accepts the award for outstanding morn- ing program for ‘CBS Sunday Morning’.

Producer Mike Richards accepts the Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show award for ‘The Price is Right’.

Actress Julie Marie Berman poses with the Outstanding Actress Kristen Alderson poses with the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series award for ‘General Younger Actress In A Drama Series award for ‘General Hospital’. Hospital’.

Drama series: “Days of Our Lives.” Lead actress in a drama series: Heather Tom, “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Lead actor in a drama series: Doug Davidson, “The Young and the Restless.” Supporting actress in a drama series: Julie Marie Berman, “General Hospital.” Supporting actor in a drama series (tie): Scott Clifton, “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and Billy Miller, “The Young and the Restless.” Game show:“The Price is Right.” Informative talk show:“The Dr Oz Show.” Entertainment talk show:“The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Culinary program (tie):“Best Thing I Ever Made” and “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.” Culinary host: Linda Bastianich, “Lidia’s Italy.” Morning program:“CBS Sunday Morning.” Original song:“Good Afternoon” from “Good Morning America.” Special class animated program:“Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” Younger actor in a drama series: Chandler Massey, “Days of Our Lives.” Younger actress in a drama series: Kristen Alderson, “General Hospital.” Entertainment talk show:“The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Drama series directing team:“The Bold and the Beautiful.” Scott Clifton, left, from the cast of ‘The Bold and the Drama series writing team:“The Bold and the Beautiful.” Beautiful,’ congratulates co-winner Billy Miller, from the Talk-show host: Ricki Lake, “The Ricki Lake Show.” cast of ‘The Young and the Restless,’ as they accept the Ben Bailey accepts the Outstanding Game Show Host award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. award for ‘Cash Cab’. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

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n Pixar’s “Monsters University,” a prequel to 2001 career at Monsters, Inc. (Monsters fuel their world by “Monsters, Inc,” our expert “scarers” to be - the wise- scaring human children through the nighttime portal Icracking pipsqueak Mike Wazowski and the burly of closet doors.) The professional scarers are like rock James B. Sullivan - are college freshmen with high stars in Monstropolis, and Wazowski, blind to his aspirations. Pixar, too, knows something about expec- diminutive size and total lack of fright-inducing men- tations. Thanks to the gentle poetry of “Up,” the cosmic ace, dreams of making the big leagues. romance of “WALL-E” and the unlikely artist portrait of For Sully (John Goodman), such a future is pre- “Ratatouille” (not to mention others), the mantle is sumed. He’s “a Sullivan,” a legacy, the son of a famous high for Pixar, a paragon of pop culture.But lately, the scarer. Blessed with a powerful roar, he boasts all the studio hasn’t been living up to its uniquely high stan- natural talent Wazowski lacks. One a jock of privilege, dard. “Monsters University” follows two subpar efforts, the other a wide-eyed aspirant: Neither can stand the “Cars 2” and “Brave,” both of which lacked Pixar’s usual other. But both find themselves kicked out of the inventiveness. Scare Program by the cruel Dean Hardscrabble (Helen The digital animation outfit, it turned out, is human Mirren), a kind of winged centipede. Shut to the doors after all. “Monsters University” is neither a bold return of the cool kids frat, Roar Omega Roar (captained well to form nor another misfire, but a charming, colorful by Nathan Fillion’s chest-pumping Johnny coming-of-age tale that would be a less qualified suc- Worthington), Wazowski and Sully have no recourse cess for all but Pixar. The profusion of sequels is indeed but to join the motley gang of misfits at Oozma Kappa dismaying for a studio that so frequently has prized (“We’re OK!” they shout). originality. But “Monsters University” is nevertheless Their only way back in is to win the Scare Games, a pleasant, amiably animated family entertainment. A Harry Potter-like tradition of competing fraternities. If big reason is because Wazowski and Billy Crystal “Monsters, Inc” was workplace whimsy, “Monsters remain one of the best toon-voice actor combinations University” is campus comedy. Characters - widely var- in animation. A lime green ball with spindly ied in both skill sets and biology - are finding their appendages, he’s little more than one big eyeball. But path, often a happy deviation from their expected it’s Wazowski’s mouth that’s his dominant feature. He’s one. Director Dan Scanlon, a veteran Pixar storyboard This film publicity ceaselessly chipper, with a stand-up’s penchant for sar- artist, populates this collegiate life with rich detail and remains an intriguing Pixar theme seen previously in University,” a Walt Disney release, is rated G. Running image released by casm. He arrives on campus an eager, retainer- sly but not forced references. “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille”), but also of the time: 103 minutes. Three stars out of four. — AP Disney-Pixar shows a mouthed bookworm with his heart set on becoming a Ultimately, the film (which is preceded by a short, great value in plucky determination. Pixar’s “Monsters scene from ‘Monsters star pupil in Monster University’s prestigious and com- “The Blue Umbrella”) makes a surprisingly sharp les- University” might not be as gifted as some of its other University.’ — AP petitive Scare Program, and moving on to his dream son on the hard truths of limited talent (giftedness movies, but sometimes it’s alright to be OK. “Monsters

orld War Z” promised to be some sort of ultimate zombie movie experience, and it’s hard to call it “Wthat. But the first 25 minutes or so of this “Contagion”-meets-”28 Days Later” thriller will leave you breathless. And the rest of it serves up novel and often enter- taining solutions to the various “zombie problems” that this overexposed genre presents. Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace”) hurls us straight into the action. Barely five minutes into the film, ex-UN trouble-shooter Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), his wife (Mireille Enos) and two kids are trapped in Philadelphia traffic when all heck breaks loose. Whatever hints there have been about this “rabies” outbreak on the news cannot prepare them for the melee a tidal wave of the undead unleash. They dash through an onslaught of zombies, streets of may- hem, stores filled with looters. Parents act like parents (To the kids: “Be NINJA quiet!”) and Gerry lets on that he knows more than we realize as he armors himself against being bitten and takes suicidal precautions when he is exposed. Gerry has spe- Kendrick Lamar performs on stage. —AP photos cial skills. He was a researcher / troubleshooter for the United Nations. His old UN boss (Fana Mokoena) says “I need you,” and that’s his family’s source of rescue. As cities fall and govern- ments collapse, the “useful” and the powerful find themselves ferried to an offshore flotilla of survivors where the military and the UN help them regroup and start looking for answers. lets the tension dissipate. Whatever message might be carried “The airlines were the perfect delivery system” for a virus, This publicity image in the way fortress states like Israel and North Korea resist the we’re told. “Attention, DC has gone dark,” a public address sys- released by Paramount virus is undercut by the best-laid plans of the living dead. (Who tem aboard their safe-haven aircraft carrier announces. And Pictures shows, from are, by the way, fast-moving, twitchy and just scary enough. then begins Gerry’s long, deadly search for clues, for “Patient center left, Brad Pitt as Their tooth-clicking glee at pursuing new victims is a sure Zero,” the first place this epidemic broke out and the “crumbs” Gerry Lane, Abigail laugh, but the movie rarely becomes a “Mow them down” that will point to a solution. An awful lot of the budget-that not Hargrove as Rachel emories are a jumble walking out of the Ryan Lewis is just a fad built on a novelty song? video game.) reserved for special effects-must have gone to Pitt, as the sup- Lane, and Mireille Enos Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Days You should have seen their show Sunday at The “Contagion” vibe clings to it, with science straining to porting cast is seriously low-wattage, only a few name players as Karin Lanein a scene blend together, sound memories clash Bonnaroo. Filled with humor, non-stop energy find an answer and the last vestiges of government grasping at M in bit parts. David Morse has a chewy, toothless scene describ- from ‘World War Z.’ — AP and surface. Hipster moustaches made from pink and the duo’s recent hits, including “Thrift Shop,” a Hail Mary pass to save them all. So no, “World War Z” isn’t the ing how North Korea may have saved itself. Mathew Fox and glow sticks haunt your dreams. And that smell. the show was something of a revelation. ultimate zombie movie. But 11 years after “28 Days Later,” it’s James Badge Dale are swaggering soldiers improvising their The horror. A few things really stuck out this year, “I like Mack,” Lamar said as Lewis’ bass rattled reassuring to see the human race put aside its differences and way through Armageddon, making sure they “get Zekes (zom- though, as we reviewed things following Tom the walls of his backstage trailer. “I’ve hung with share a little brain power to defeat those who-tradition and bies) on the ground.” Petty’s rain-drenched, festival-closing 2 1/2-hour him a few times. Cool dude, man. He’s taking George A. Romero always told us-prefer their brains fresh and Gerry Lane doesn’t swagger. He doesn’t panic, but Pitt nev- set. Here’s a look at five: Rock ‘n’ roll will never die: over.” And that’s just what he was doing outside. juicy. — MCT er lets on that his character is sure of the outcome even if giv- Those who think rock ‘n’ roll is irrelevant or even In a soon-to-be-classic YouTube moment, ing up is no option. “Gut up,” he tells a soldier. Pitt lets us see dead need to pay a visit to the farm. It may be Macklemore saw a fan in the crowd sporting a Gerry take his own advice. Forster keeps the gory stuff-bitings, showing its age - eternally rocking Paul spotted fur coat similar to the one the Seattle bloodlettings, amputations-discretely off camera. But he rarely McCartney and Petty and The Heartbreakers rapper features in the “Thrift Shop” video. “Can were the two most prominent headliners - and you take off that fur jacket and crowd surf it up electronica and hip-hop are elbowing their way here and let me take a look at it?” Macklemore in - witness start turns by Macklemore, Kendrick said. The fan sent the coat toward the stage and Lewis and A$AP Rocky, who brought more than security tossed it up to the rapper: “You know, this doesn’t smell as bad as I thought it would. It smells like weed and malt liquor.” He put the coat on and sent the crowd of 40,000-plus at the main stage into a frenzy with the help of a live horn section as he launched into “Thrift Shop,” the group’s breakthrough hit os Angeles police say “Curb Your phone and email messages Sunday. Garlin played that’s launched a six-month run to pop stardom. Enthusiasm” actor and comedian Jeff Garlin Larry David’s friend and manager on “Curb Your Even a pop-up thunderstorm couldn’t slow Lhas been arrested on a felony vandalism Enthusiasm” and was the show’s co-executive things down and Macklemore wrapped it up by charge after a dispute with another motorist over producer. He’s also appeared frequently on crowd surfing. HAIM is next: HAIM already had a a parking space. Police Sgt Harry Rosenfeld says “Arrested Development” and numerous other tel- little buzz rolling into Bonnaroo after time spent the 51-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly evision shows. TMZ first reported his arrest. — AP on the road with Mumford & Sons and anticipa- smashing the windows of the other person’s car. tion for the sister act’s debut album building. Rosenfeld says officers arrested Garlin in Studio Their well-attended Thursday afternoon set City on Saturday. should add to the clamor building around Este, Garlin was jailed on $20,000 bail. It wasn’t Alana and Danielle Haim. clear from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s On their previous EP releases, the band came Department’s website if he had been released. File photo shows actor Jeff Garlin across as more a girl group with complex har- Garlin’s publicists didn’t immediately respond to attends the HBO premiere of ‘Curb monies and a hip-hop influenced sound. On You Enthusiasm’ at the Time Warner stage, though, they’re something very different. Center in New York. — AP All three play instruments, have the ability to rock as they showed on a Fleetwood Mac jam and fin- Tom Petty performs on Day 4 of the 2013 ished off their set with a rousing drum circle that Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in fans were talking about a day later. The best Manchester, Tenn. moment, though, had nothing to do with music. Este Haim shut the group down about midway 20,000 fans to a tent designed to hold 5,000. But through the set and pointed at a sign in the it’s really still rock ‘n’ roo. crowd: “There’s a little boy holding a sign that anye West, “Yeezus” (Def Jam/Roc-A- best. The album lacks deep storytelling from Just ask Derek Vincent Smith, the DJ who per- says, ‘Kiss me, Este.” Fella) It’s hard to digest all of Kanye the 36 year-old, which he powerfully deliv- forms as Pretty Lights. Smith had one of the most And she did, bringing the toddler who wore a KWest on his new album. “Yeezus” is the ered on past albums. He sounds random and anticipated and well-attended events of the large yellow noise-blocking headset onstage rapper’s darkest, eeriest and most erratic frustrated at times, and at others, he’ll frus- weekend early Saturday morning, spinning tunes where she and her sisters posed for a picture album of his six solo releases. He is in militant trate you. for tens of thousands of wild, scantily clad and with him. “I’m engaged now,” Este Haim said. Two form on the 10-track set, rapping over beats West raps about religion a good amount costumed revelers until nearly 4 a.m. He saw by two: Jack White and The Black Keys have that are artsy, electronic and gloomy. It’s a far on “Yeezus,” which is his Jesus-like moniker. “If something interesting as he worked his way mostly moved on from that two-man band stretch from the contemporary rap and pop I don’t get ran out by Catholics, here come through his set, however. “From my perspective, I thing, but a wave of guitar-and-drums duos con- success he achieved with more than a dozen some conservative Baptists,” he says on “Black really noticed a massive response to my classic tinues to roll through rock ‘n’ roll. At least four Top 10 hits, including “Gold Digger,” Skinhead.” And on “I Am God” - well, you get rock remixes,” Smith said. “So Bonnaroo hasn’t were on display at Bonnaroo - Japandroids, JEFF “Stronger” and “Heartless.” But that isn’t nec- it. But religious folks won’t be the only ones changed too much, you know what I mean? My the Brotherhood, Deap Vally and Beach House. essarily a bad thing. upset with the album: While West has pro- Pink Floyd remix, my Led Zeppelin remix, my Vancouver, British Columbia-based Brian King “Yeezus” continues on the dark and emo- moted “Yeezus” with performances on Steve Miller Band, stuff like that, people went and Dave Prowse of Japandroids turned in one of tive path he set on 2010’s “My Beautiful Dark “Saturday Night Live” and video projections crazy. I wasn’t initially planning on venturing into the festival’s most raucous performances Twisted Fantasy” and “808s & Heartbreak,” to match the album’s wild sound, he’s releas- that territory, but I was trying to read the vibes.” Thursday, and they did it with just two guys which was released two years earlier. The pro- ing it without a huge single on radio or on Smith decided to spend parts of three days in bashing away. King plays guitar and sings most duction throughout “Yeezus” is exceptional, the charts. There isn’t even an official music middle Tennessee checking out the festival. He of the songs and Prowse plays drums. “There’s a with Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, No ID, RZA and video. — AP said it’s been one of his best experiences. lot of positives and negatives to it,” King said after more helping out. The album flows nicely, “Everyone’s there,” Smith said. “It’s not Coachella the set. “Like there’s no third, fourth or fifth per- with songs including layered vocals and tran- where everybody leaves and they go to their son to break a tie. It’s more like a relationship. You sitions that elevate them to great heights: “On This CD cover image released by Def Jam Recordings Sight” starts the album with the right energy condo or whatever. Everyone’s out there sweat- have to find some kind of middle ground to shows ‘Yeezus,’ the latest release by Kanye West. — AP ing, getting smelly together. Even with the elec- make it work or it doesn’t work.”—AP and West gets an epic and soulful assist from tronica and hip-hop and all that really becoming Charlie Wilson on the closing track, “Bound 2.” a big part of it, it’s always going to be a hippy fes- It’s a classic Yeezy effort and arguably the tival in the end. That’s awesome.” Macklemore is album’s best track. for real: Think the popularity of Macklemore & Lyrically, though, West isn’t always at his lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

Fashion

hoppers in the 109 countries where Spanish fashion chain a new strategy to reduce production costs and prices of its remain a central strategy for the company, Casi said. The col- Key to Mango’s 10-year strategy lies in developing a group Mango has stores recognize its celebrity faces well, but clothes had halted a two-year profit fall, increasing net profit for lapse of a building in Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people has of brands for men, children and older women, building on its Sfew know much about the company behind the clothes 2012 by 82 percent to 113 million euros ($150.00 million). raised questions about conditions in producing countries. Mango Touch accessories line started in 2011 and H.E. by modeled by Kate Moss, Gerard Pique and Scarlett Johansson. Casi described how the firm recaptured European customers Forms for a Mango sample order were found in April in the rub- Mango. “It seems they want to use an umbrella brand and the “Mango is from Spain, part of the Inditex group, isn’t it?” said battling austerity, with designers creating less expensive ble of Rana Plaza. doubt is whether they’ll have the ability to not only grow but Maria Lekae, 29, a Russian shopper browsing in the branch on clothes, less evening wear and more casual garments. “In 2010, “Today, if you want to produce textiles, apart from the cloth, also adapt their structure to this new strategy,” said Gerard Barcelona’s smart street Passeig de Gracia. Her misconception 2009, we made markdowns, but in 2011 we did so many we ate you know the countries of the world where you must buy and if Costa, marketing professor at Barcelona-based ESADE business that Mango is one of Zara owner Inditex’s cluster of brands is up half the profit,” he said. “We now start with a lower price but you buy in other places you go wrong and you fail,” he said. “In school. common. In fact, the 30-year-old Barcelona-based company is without discounts or markdowns later.” China, they sew better than in Europe nowadays.” Mango’s In Mango’s 12,000-square-metre design centre El Hangar is a private and unrelated to the world’s largest retailer, based in founders, the Andic brothers, Isak and Nahman, opened their pilot shop where the display of the new formats is worked out. Galicia, northern Spain. The dangerous mid-market first store at 65 Passeig de Gracia in 1984, when Casi worked as Samples for the line Mango Kids, launching this summer, That could change if Mango successfully implements a 10- Mango put prices alongside outfits in catalogues and adver- a consultant for them. “It was an old fur shop and I remember include gold hotpants costing 27.99 euros. Mango also launch- year plan to break out from under the shadow of its larger tising last year, in a similar way to H&M. Budget retailers such as we opened up so quickly we still had the name of the fur shop es its Sport&Intimates underwear line this summer; next year, it Spanish competitor and equal Zara’s current level of sales, Primark, owned by Associated Foods, have thrived during the there and Mango’s sign in red letters,” he said. plans to bring in lines targeting teens and mature women. It which topped 10.5 billion euros last year compared with economic slowdown as consumers buy cheaper clothes. Some aims for group sales of 1.98 billion euros by year end. — Reuters Mango’s 1.7 billion. “We began later than them, that’s why you luxury brands have also held up. But the mid-market is suffer- New ventures need to give us 10 years to catch up!” Managing Director Enric ing. Mango makes 16 percent of sales and has 326 outlets in Since then, Mango has notched up about 2,600 stores. By Casi told Reuters in an interview at Mango’s headquarters and Spain, which is racked by high unemployment and recession. comparison, H&M has over 2,900, while Inditex has more than design centre on an industrial estate 30 km from downtown Even veteran department store El Corte Ingles is suffering. 6,000, of which over 1,700 are Zara. The retail empire has made Barcelona. The market repositioning is paying off, with 2012 global Mango President Isak Andic and his family the fourth richest in Mango has pushed out to even more markets than its larger sales up 20 percent and the firm back in profit after dropping Spain, according to Forbes. Andic, who loves yachts and art, listed peer, which opened its first store about 40 years ago. It 32 percent in 2010 and 38 percent in 2011. Cheap labor in resists giving interviews. “We’re now in another market, we’re aims to continue expansion at the rate of more than four new China, source of 42 percent of Mango clothes, and countries competing with Inditex, with H&M, and we’re very satisfied,” stores a week, entering four new countries this year. It also said including Turkey, South Korea, Morocco and Bangladesh will said Casi.

Models present creations by Sibling during the spring / summer 2014 London Collections Men’s fashion week in London yesterday. — AFP photos

Models present creations by YMC. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

Features

The top fifteen Miss USA finalists pose onstage.

he country’s newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar are competing, where it’s not all about the hair and the job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes makeup, but personality too,’” Audrey said. Twith her new role - and she can’t wait. Moments after Brady told The Associated Press that she hopes her she was crowned at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on background will help dispel negative associations held by the Las Vegas Strip Sunday, Connecticut accountant Erin some toward pageants. “I think that now more than ever, Brady said all she could think about was letting her bosses they’re accepting that we’re all intelligent individuals and know she won’t be coming in tomorrow. Or ever again. As that it’s really not a stereotype,” she said. Unlike the rival her family and fiancee looked on, Brady beat out other Miss America pageant, Donald Trump’s Miss USA doesn’t beauties from every US state and Washington DC to take ask its queens to perform a talent or choose a charity mis- the title, accepting the crown from outgoing queen Miss sion. As suspenseful music played on Sunday night before Maryland Nana Meriwether. the winner announcement, Brady held hands with first She wore an orange bikini with a matching halter-top as runner up Mary Margaret McCord, of Alabama. McCord she strutted to the Jonas Brother’s “Pom Poms.” Later, she could be seen saying, “I love you.” Miss Illinois Stacie Juris donned a strapless gown with a spangled golden corset was second runner up. and long white train. In the pageant’s final minutes, she Two of the six judges’ questions on Sunday touched on answered without hesitation a question about the US the controversial data-collection programs run by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold widespread DNA tests. National Security Agency brought to light earlier this “If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it month. In both cases, the queens took an unconcerned should happen. There are so many crimes that if that’s one attitude. Miss South Carolina said the former NSA contrac- step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do tor Edward Snowden who leaked the information should so,” she said. not be charged with treason. Miss Alabama said the pro- Miss Utah, meanwhile, apparently stumbled in response grams did not bother her. Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady reacts after being to a question about income disparity, providing a ram- Beaming fiancÈ Tony Capasso said he advised Brady to crowned Miss USA during the 2013 Miss USA pageant bling, halting answer included an invocation to “create compete without makeup. The Central Connecticut State Miss USA 2012 Nana Meriwether crowns Miss at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las education better.” As Miss USA, she will live in a swanky University finance major will represent the US at the Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady the new Miss USA. Vegas, Nevada. — AP/AFP photos Manhattan apartment and travel the world raising aware- Universe pageant in Moscow this winter. Last year’s Miss ness about breast cancer, but Brady has an additional goal USA, Olivia Culpo, won that international crown, becoming of her own: Helping children cope with the effects of drug the first Miss USA to ascend to Miss Universe in 16 years. and alcohol abuse, which have marked those close to her. Brady said she is determined to pull of the feat for the US “I grew up in a family influenced by that and I think it’s real- again. For the next few days, though, she’s just hoping to ly important to help the children of families that are suffer- unwind with a routine that sounded not very different from ing from those problems,” she told The Associated Press. her training regime: hitting the gym and getting in her Her father Francis said he always knew his math-orient- beauty sleep. Yvette Cruz contributed to this report. — AP ed daughter was a glamour girl. She and her sisters used to strut around and pretend they were beauty queens. Her sister Audrey, 20, said with tears in her eyes that her grand- mother, who was watching from home, would orchestrate the pretend shows. “She’d be like, ‘Prance around the pool like Miss America.’” The family was taken by surprise two years ago when Brady announced she would be entering the Miss Connecticut competition, but they cheered her on. “She just went up there on a whim, man. But it was like, ‘Just go for it. There should be more people like you who

Miss Texas Ali Nugent from Dallas.

Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady walks onstage.

Hosts Nick Jonas (left) and Giuliana Rancic introduce the contestants.

(From left) Top 6 finalists Miss Texas USA Alexandria Nichole Nugent, Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady, Miss South Carolina USA Megan Tyler Pinckney, Miss Illinois USA Stacie Juris, Miss Alabama USA Mary Margaret McCord and Miss Utah USA Marissa Powell appear during the 2013 Miss USA pageant .

Donald Trump, recording artist and host Nick Jonas From left, host Nick Jonas, Giuliana Rancic look on as and television personality and host Giuliana Rancic Miss Connecticut Erin Brady answers a question from a Miss Illinois Stacie Juris Miss Pennsylvania Jessica Miss West Virginia USA 2013, Chelsea Welch, is appear onstage. judge. Billings from Berwyn. announced as one of the 15 finalists. Miss USA crown goes to Connecticut contestant39 TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

A leaf of a rubber tree photographed with macro lens 100mm, in Kuwait City yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

here’s no business like small business. Mix the high stakes part-brick, part-cinder block warehouse on a dry, dead-end that he could spend a night in a tent during a camping trip. reality show began airing on History in 2009. The store installed of running a small business with a dash of family drama country road. Duck hunters use the whistles, which mimic duck (Robertson ends up bringing a big recreational vehicle and is misters above the line to keep fans cool under the hot, Las Tand throw in a camera crew and you get hit reality televi- sounds, to attract their prey. ridiculed for it. “Once you bring something with wheels that’s Vegas sun. Fame has disadvantages. Harrison says he wears a sion shows such as “Pawn Stars,” “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” and Since “Duck Dynasty” began airing in March 2012, Robertson enclosed, you’re no longer camping. You’re parking,” says hat and sunglasses to disguise himself, even on visits to IHOP “Duck Dynasty.” Turning small business owners into stars has finds at least 70 people waiting in front of the warehouse every Robertson’s brother, Jace Robertson, in the episode.) for pancakes with his kids. During an overseas vacation, he was become a winning formula for television producers, but some morning asking for autographs and photos. Neighbors have To keep up with rising sales, Duck Commander hired five swarmed by fans at the Tower of London”It amazes me,” says businesses featured in them are cashing in, too. Sales explode complained about the mobs and the police have been called. more people. Every duck call has to be put together by hand. Harrison. “I’m just a fat middle-aged bald guy, but people still after just a few episodes air, transforming these nearly Despite the trouble, the show has been good for the family “It’s like a musical instrument,” says Robertson. “Each one needs want to meet me.” unknown small businesses into household names. In addition business. Sales of the company’s duck calls, which range from to be blown into it to make sure it works.” Harrison is cashing in on his celebrity. He was hired as a to earning a salary from starring in the shows, some small busi- $20 to $175, have skyrocketed. In 2011, the company sold To stop the crowds from disrupting business, and to make spokesman for Procter & Gamble Inc’s Swiffer cleaning wipes ness owners are benefiting financially from opening gift shops 60,000 duck calls. In 2012, the year the show began airing, the extra cash, Robertson opened a gift shop inside the Duck and he wrote a book, called “License to Pawn,” about his life and that sell souvenirs or getting involved in other ventures that company sold 300,000. “We saw a big difference as the Nielsen Commander warehouse. “It keeps the people out of my lobby,” business. (Harrison declined to say how much he made on spawn from their new-found fame. ratings went up,” says Robertson. Their income from doing the says Robertson. The shop sells duck calls, Duck Commander T- those deals.) He also rents out a 1,300-square-foot area in the Sales at Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas are five times show may be going up along with the ratings. “Duck Dynasty” is shirts and bobblehead dolls that look like Robertson, his dad, back of the pawn shop’s building for private parties. The fee can higher than they were before “Pawn Stars” first aired in 2009. the most watched documentary-style reality series on TV right uncle and brother, complete with their long beards. range anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000, depending on the More people are pouring into the St. Louis restaurant featured now, according to Nielsen, which provides information and Rick Harrison, the star of “Pawn Stars,” opened a gift shop, number of people invited and whether Harrison or one of the in “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” to eat its jumbo-sized fried chick- insight into what consumers watch and buy. too. He sells mugs, T-shirts, bobbleheads and refrigerator mag- shows stars to drops by.Despite his fame, and busy 40-week-a- en wings and six-cheese macaroni and cheese. And Duck April’s one-hour season three finale was watched by 9.6 mil- nets, in the back of his Las Vegas pawn store. Harrison says the year filming schedule, Harrison says that his pawn business Commander, seen in “Duck Dynasty,” is having trouble control- lion people, making it the most watched program in A&E’s 29- souvenirs bring in about $5 million in revenue a year. The pawn comes first.—AP ling the crowds in front of its headquarters in the small city of year history. The Hollywood Reporter reported that the cast of business brings in about $20 million a year, up from the $4 mil- West Monroe, La. the show is demanding a raise to $200,000 an episode to do a lion before “Pawn Stars” aired. “Sometimes it’s hard getting from the truck to the front fourth season. Both the network and Robertson had no com- The show, which follows people as try to sell or pawn items door,” says Willie Robertson, who owns Duck Commander with ment on the report. Cameras follow Robertson and his family as ranging from gold coins to classic cars, also stars Harrison’s son, his father and stars in the A&E series with his extended family. they make duck calls, hunt or go camping. One episode his father and an employee named Austin “Chumlee” Russell. It’s a big change for a company that sells duck calls out of a showed Robertson trying to prove to his dad, brother and uncle People have been lining up outside the pawn shop since the

Jedward pose on the red carpet during the 2013 MuchMusic Video Marianas Trench pose on the red carpet. PSY performs on stage. Awards in Toronto on Sunday. — AP photos

Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne arrive on the red carpet. Rich Kid and Sonreal pose on the red carpet. Lauren Toyota and Taylor Swift speak onstage.