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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 SHAABAN 13, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Firemen Jihadists seize Jolie, Hague UEFA gives rescue trapped Iraq’s second launch fight Blatter the people from city, Nineveh against cold shoulder burning5 bldg province7 wartime39 rape in20 Brazil Opposition declares war Max 50º Min 31º on ‘forces of corruption’ High Tide 09:43 & 23:29 Barrak slams rampant graft, brandishes burial shroud Low Tide 03:46 & 17:05 40 PAGES NO: 16193 150 FILS By Staff Reporter and Agencies

KUWAIT: In one of his strongest speeches ever, promi- nent opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak declared war against forces of corruption “who are out to destroy” Kuwait, alleging they have already stolen tens of billions of dollars during the past seven years. “Today, the real battle begins after this rally and we will only end it when we achieve victory against corruption,” Barrak told thousands of cheering supporters who braved extremely hot weather to attend the rally. It was the opposition’s first public rally in over a year. The crowd was estimated at more than 10,000 people. Barrak showed copies of documents he claimed were the bank accounts and transfers of former senior offi- cials who he alleged stole a total of more than $50 bil- lion. Some of the money was deposited in accounts in Europe, while around $15 billion was deposited in an account in an Israeli bank, he said. The former outspo- ken lawmaker said corruption was rife in every aspect of Kuwait and warned that the forces of corruption were systematically destroying the country. He said the “forces of corruption” were offering bribes in tens of millions of dollars to a large number of people in their attempt to cement control over the country. Barrak strongly criticized the ruling family and called on its youth to speak out in a bid to salvage what remains of Kuwait. “We want a country where people are the makers of their own fate, not one where sheikhs are the masters of the people. We want to hold every- one accountable, even if they’re from the ruling family,” Barrak thundered. “The people demand to cleanse the judiciary!” chanted the crowd in response. “We are experiencing a phase in which Kuwait is being deliberately destroyed,” said Barrak, adding that he is not afraid of anything and showed the people a piece of white cloth which he said was his burial shroud if he gets assassinated. Barrak also called for reforming the judiciary and for introducing wide democratic reforms, including an elected government in order to safeguard the country. Former Islamist MP Jamaan Al-Harbash told the rally, KUWAIT: Opposition supporters gather in Irada Square opposite the National Assembly yesterday. held outside the National Assembly, that what is hap- (Inset) Opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak holds what he called his burial shroud as he addresses the pening in Kuwait “is not only corruption”. crowds. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat (More pics on Page 2) Continued on Page 15 Govt ends diesel subsidies Kuwait expects OPEC to maintain output

KUWAIT: The government has decided in costs have skyrocketed. Finance Minister principle to end subsidies on diesel fuel Anas Al-Saleh told parliament the aver- Five camels but will deal with any negative impacts age annual growth in public spending on consumers before implementing the was 20.4 percent during the past decade decision, the Cabinet said. Last month, against a 16.2 percent for revenues. The infected with the government warned that spending ministry has urged major cuts in subsi- outpaced revenues and this could lead to dies, saying it was impossible for the a budget deficit in 2017/2018 after years state to sustain growth in wages and MERS found of surpluses. “The council of ministers has continue them. Between 2005 and 2013 KUWAIT: Five camels in Kuwait have been found decided in principle to stop subsidies on subsidies rose more than fourfold, from infected with the MERS coronavirus, Public diesel,” a statement said late yesterday. $4.1 billion to $18 billion, an annual Authority for the Agricultural Affairs and Fish But the Cabinet is waiting for a study growth rate of 23 percent, the ministry Resources (PAAAFR) Director General Jassem Al- by the higher planning council on ways said. Bader said yesterday. The camels found infected to deal with possible negative effects on Oil income rose from $45.9 billion in have been identified and quarantined, and were consumers. Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair told 2005 to $106 billion last year. The minister KUWAIT: Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair (center) raises his hand during a vote at the among 83 specimens tested, said the official in a parliament three weeks ago that ending has said that, if oil prices remain at National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat statement. The authority has taken adequate pre- subsidies on diesel would save around $1 around $100 a barrel, Kuwait will post an cautionary measures and has summoned the herd billion a year out of total subsidies of estimated budget deficit of 2.3 billion in owners to isolate the infected animals in order to around $18 billion. Diesel is currently sold the 2017/2018 fiscal year. Last month, the Constitutional court prevent the infection from being transmitted else- at around $0.20 a litre. International Monetary Fund warned where. The step is one of several recommen- Kuwait to contain a rapid rise in public As a result of the findings, PAAAFR held an dations by a government committee wages and subsidies to safeguard the reform law approved formed last October to review subsidies economy against oil price shocks. urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health in order on all services and commodities after Continued on Page 15 to agree on steps aimed at monitoring these partic- Assembly lifts Fadl’s immunity ular herds, in addition to coordinating on measures for other camel herds in the country. Bader assured By B Izzak tarian” statement. Azmi explained that he did that PAAAFR will carry out all procedures necessary not mean any insult as he was only stating a under the guidelines on the matter set forth by the KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday fact. Chaos followed after that forcing acting World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the passed a landmark reform law to allow citizens speaker Mubarak Al-Khrainej to adjourn the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the to directly file cases in the constitutional court session. World Health Organisation (WHO). The authority despite reservations from the government and The other confrontation took place will also be coordinating on the matter with its the judiciary. In the first round of voting, thirty- between Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, who regional GCC partners. — KUNA one MPs voted in favor of the law, one voted came down to the floor to speak on the issue, against and all seven ministers present and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh abstained. The second and final vote on the Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah. Ghanem law is scheduled to take place after two weeks. called for approving the law because this has But before passing the law, two major con- been the dream of Kuwaitis for over 40 years, frontations took place with one of them, a sec- because it will allow citizens the right to seek tarian clash, forcing the chair to adjourn the the help of the country’s top court directly. session. Islamist MP Hamdan Al-Azmi cast But Sheikh Mohammad insisted that the doubts on the motives for approving this law government has reservations, as well as the at this time when the government had reject- supreme judicial council, saying this could lead ed the same bill many times in the past. Azmi to chaos and urged MPs to listen to the objec- then explained that the main aim is to allow tions of the judiciary. As a compromise, Sheikh Shiite MPs to go to the constitutional court to Mohammad suggested referring the issue to challenge the Gulf security pact after approval the constitutional court for a ruling. Ghanem in the Assembly. said that the government as well as the judicial This caused outrage from a number of council can submit their amendments to the KUWAIT: A camel is seen at a farm in Kabd. — Shiite MPs, especially Adnan Abdulsamad and law before the second round of voting. Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Khalil Abul, who strongly protested at the “sec- Continued on Page 15 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Members of the opposition and their supporters gather outside the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat GCC plays a ‘key role’ in resolving Mideast crises US-Islamic World Forum kicks off

DOHA: US Assistant Secretary of State for Near nificance of setting the priorities of the US-GCC for an increase in joint investment and trade Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson on Monday cooperation is geared towards maintaining stabili- exchanges between the US and the GCC countries, acknowledged the importance of strategic cooper- ty, and to enhance the partnership. opening the labor markets in order to achieve the ation between US and the Gulf Cooperation She voiced hope that the Gulf states will con- development targets in the developing Arab coun- Council (GCC) states. “The problems of the Middle vene a conference on defense cooperation in order tries. She emphasized on the need to open more East region cannot be resolved without the to address the security risks, boost their prepared- vocational training institutes and enhance the aca- involvement of the GCC states,” she said in an ness and coordinate their military cooperation and demic exchanges in order to promote the people- address to the opening session of the US-Islamic policies. She noted that President Barack Obama to-people relations and enhance mutual under- World Forum. The US is unlikely to engage in any has stressed in his recent speech the need to scale standing. new war in the region since it leads the NATO and up the fight against Iraqi and Syrian terrorist On Syria, she said the US is committed to help- is committed to defend its allies, Patterson said. groups particularly the Islamic State in Iraq and the ing the moderate opposition groups, blaming “The US-GCC defense cooperation is stronger Levant (ISIL). Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad for giving new than ever. The socio-economic partnership will The anti-terrorism strategy depends on - not chances for terrorist groups such as ISIL to operate KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways and Turkish Airlines officials cut the cake after signing a continue to be the cornerstone of the US relations only military means but the political and diplomat- in the region. “Al-Assad’s regime will not be able to ground services agreement. —KUNA with the Middle East,” she said, as affirming the US ic ones as well. To eradicate terrorism and extrem- quell the popular uprising in Syrian through commitment to enhance the defense capabilities ism requires creating jobs for the youths and realiz- repressive means,” she said, affirming that the US Kuwait Airways offers top of the GCC states. Patterson reaffirmed that the sig- ing their aspirations, she stressed. Patterson called will continue to work with “the Friends of Syria” for achieving democratic transition in the country. ground services at airport President Obama plans to increase humanitarian aid to the victims of the Syrian conflict, she said, KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways is diligently seeking Fleet, VIPs’ aircraft, cargo planes, and special noting that US Secretary of State John Kerry to secure all requirements such as ground flights, he added. The national company oper- announced, during his visit to Jordan, a US contri- services and systems and modern equipment, ates an integrated system in the various sec- bution of $290 million to the relief effort for the needed by airlines operating at Kuwait tors covering booking and departure, and Syrian refugees. International Airport. Fozi Khorshid, in charge also providing new buses, instant and regular Commenting on the stalled Palestinian-Israeli of the KAC ground services, said in a state- maintenance for the other operating compa- peace talks, Patterson said the US will continue the ment yesterday, on occasion of signing a nies. It diligently seeks to expand its commer- mediation efforts to bring back both sides to the ground services agreement with Turkish cial relationship with the aviation companies negotiating table. She called on the countries of Airlines, that the KAC clients, namely the oth- not only in the sector of ground services but the region to contribute to the efforts aimed at er aviation companies, enjoy diverse ground also in other fields, with the aim of bolstering bringing about a fair solution to the long-standing services, specifically allotment of special its status as a specialized company and boost- DOHA: (From left to right) Alia Mansour, member of the Syrian National Coalition, Mouaz Al- dispute. The three-day US-Islamic World Forum weight spaces, counters equipped with state- ing operations at the national air facility, Khatib, former president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition kicked off here earlier on Monday under the of-art devices, in addition to various kinds of Khorshid said. Moreover, the company staff Forces and Hassan Hachimi, member of the Syrian National Coalition, attend the US Islamic patronage of the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin facilities. help clients overcome any “hurdles” they may World Forum yesterday. — AFP Hamad Al-Thani. —KUNA The KAC also serves the Amiri Aircraft face, he continued. — KUNA p3.e$S_Layout 1 6/10/14 11:20 PM Page 1

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Burgan Bank sponsors 8th Photography Competition

KUWAIT: For the second consecutive tasks. The initiative that was open for all year, Burgan Bank sponsored the 8th ages and races and not restricted to KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received the newly-elected Chairman of the Board of annual Kuwait Times photography com- only professional photographers pro- Directors of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Helal Musaed Al-Sayer and board members at Bayan Palace. — KUNA petition themed ‘Action in Kuwait’, vided a mutual platform that enabled aimed at capturing movement through an equal opportunity to exhibit individ- photography. The lucky winners were ual talent. During the event, Public rewarded for demonstrating unparal- Relations Senior Officer of Burgan Bank Retired citizens, volunteers leled creativity talents in their images Group - Hessa Al-Najadah received a while reflecting the beauty of various token of appreciation on behalf of actions surrounding them. The awards Burgan Bank to recognize the bank’s fill in for protesting workers ceremony took place at Crowne Plaza efforts in supporting the growing talent hotel on 8 June 2014. of photography. Burgan Bank seeks to The nationwide competition united partner with organizations that share a KUWAIT: The labor strike at the Public mer employees who are currently retired will be employees to KD 2,000 a month. all the professionals and aspiring pho- similar respect and love for Kuwait and Institution For Social Security (PIFSS) became called to fill in the vacant seats until the protest Union president Manal Al-Rashidi criticized tographers who submitted their innova- its rising talents as part of its long term complicated after management announced ends. the general manager’s announcement to pay tive works on the country’s environ- mission to empower the country with resorting to retired citizens to fill in for the But a response to the organization’s step KD 300 as a reward to every employee who ment, natural landscapes and everyday national pride. protesting employees, while a voluntary organi- came quickly from the Kuwait Ports Association, works during the stoppage, saying that the zation offered to help as well. Sheikha Amthal where labor union president Ali Al-Sukouni said cash should instead be directed towards fulfill- Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, president of the Voluntary that replacing employees with volunteers is “a ing workers’ demands. Rashidi also criticized Work Center, had announced Monday that vol- blatant violation of international laws that regu- parliament members for ‘ignoring’ their Officials can issue unteers would be available to serve citizens at late unionist work”. The PIFSS labor union demands, and said that she is willing to discuss the PIFSS main office and branches starting announced in the meantime that the strike will their demands during a debate with Finance from yesterday. PIFSS General Director Hamad continue until their demands are met, which Minister Anas Al-Saleh on live television. driving licenses Al-Humaidhi had indicated meanwhile that for- include raising the maximum salary cap for — Al-Qabas and Al-Watan

KUWAIT: Directors at traffic departments sidelines of a training workshop for traffic in Kuwait’s six governorates regained the police officers Monday. The senior official power to sign driver’s licenses as per a indicated meanwhile that the Traffic new decision made by Maj Gen Abdullah General Department continues proce- Al-Muhanna, the Assistant Undersecretary dures to investigate and cancel licenses for Traffic Affairs at the Interior Ministry. issued through forgery or to unqualified Muhanna overruled the decision of his drivers. predecessor, Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali, Separately, Undersecretary Lt Gen who had given himself exclusive authority Suleiman Al-Fahd gave orders to take to sign papers to issue driver’s license in a punitive actions against police officers bid to prevent illegal issuance of licenses. who behave unprofessionally. The deci- “Kuwaitis or expatriates who meet the sion came following reporters about conditions to receive a driver’s license are policemen who violated police conduct required to go to the traffic department regulations, in order to restore the status in their respective governorate of resi- of the police force, Al-Qabas reported yes- dence,” Muhanna told Al-Qabas on the terday.— Al-Qabas Kuwait promotes peace and security NEW YORK: Kuwait’s relationship with the backs multilateral action on various arenas at United Nations is “continually growing” as the the international level and the political leader- Gulf state backs the international organization ship, led by His Highness the Amir Sheikh in its efforts to maintain global peace and aids Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. nations at times of crises, affirmed the State of On its part, the UN admires Kuwait’s role in Kuwait Ambassador to the Mexican settling disputes at the regional level, and pro- Federation. The relationship between Kuwait moting security and peace and renunciation of and the UN “is continuously growing,” said violence. The UN appreciation stems from Ambassador Samih Johar Hayat, noting that Kuwait’s support for international efforts to the Kuwaiti foreign policy is based on interna- fight poverty and hunger, and schemes to aid tional cooperation, backing all UN agencies at poor nations and people living under the the level and solidifying international peace poverty line. He further noted that Kuwait and security, as well as aiding countries that Fund for Arab Economic Development is aid- experience natural catastrophes. ing up to 106 nations with 800 development Ambassador Hayat was addressing the schemes. Second Young Diplomats Forum, held at the Ambassador Hayat is taking part as a guest Mexican Foreign Ministry headquarters, late of honor in the week-long forum in response on Monday. Themes of his speech mainly to an invitation by the Mexican Foreign focused on Kuwait’s advocacy of dialogue and Ministry, and the diplomatic Matias Romero cooperation among nations and noticeable Institute. The activity is sponsored by the improvement of Mexican-Kuwaiti relations. Mexican Foreign Ministry, the Senate, and the Elaborating on the principles of Kuwaiti for- State of Queretaro. Speaking on Kuwait’s ties eign policy, Ambassador Hayat affirmed with Mexico, the diplomat affirmed that they Kuwait’s support for all efforts for maintaining have “rapidly and distinctively grown in various global peace and security and respect of inter- spheres in the past three years.” Ambassador national legitimacy. Hayat concluded his lecture- inviting senior Moreover, Kuwait cooperates with the UN officials to visit Kuwait to meet their counter- at the regional level, through coordination parts at Saud Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic with the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Arab Institute and discuss prospects of holding the League, the Organization of Islamic forum in Kuwait next year. Headquartered in Cooperation, and the Non-Aligned Movement, London, the forum is held annually. Last year, it the diplomat noted. Kuwait encourages and was organized in Turkey.—KUNA Electricity consumption nears last year’s record

KUWAIT: The temperatures are soaring, that all necessary maintenance was com- and so are electricity consumption levels, pleted to ensure sustained supply which currently are only 500 megawatts throughout the season, including away from breaking last year’s all-time Ramadan when consumption often inten- record registered in July 2013. Kuwait’s sifies as more people spend time indoors. total consumption reached 11,500 MW Electricity that powers air conditioning Monday, a new record this year, Al-Qabas results in consumption overload as tem- reported yesterday. The maximum tem- peratures increase - often breaking the 50 perature on that day was 48 C degrees. C degrees point multiple times during the The consumption rate is still below the middle of Kuwait’s scorching summer. state’s total daily production capacity, but Kuwait’s seven fossil-fuel power plants it continues to increase gradually in paral- generate up to 14,500 MW of electricity a lel with the rising temperature. Total con- day for a total population of 4 million, sumption reached 10,950 MW on May 31, when all generators are operated at full up from 9,200 MW recorded on April 30. capacity. The challenge to meet the rising Minister of Electricity and Water demand remains despite the ministry’s Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim announced late May assurances, as senior ministry officials that demand on electricity increased by have repeatedly indicated in the past that 12 percent that month, surpassing the a new power plant in North Zour, which is ministry’s projected 8 percent rate. The set to enter operation next year, is neces- ministry reassured before the summer sary to avoid shortages in the future. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest kuwait digest No modesty in Eureka, ‘elastic’ hijabs eureka! By Arwa Al-Waqayan

ometimes I happen to be in some crowded By Dr Sajed Al-Abdali places where I notice a very annoying scene- Al-Watan Sextravagant hijabs. With all due respect to the value of hijab, I notice that some veiled women look have repeatedly said that I do not trust a more like clowns wearing very tight outfits and ‘elas- writer who does not read much because I tic’ hijabs topped with caps that look more like swim- Istrongly believe that ‘good writing’ can never ming bonnets, as if those women are preparing to be achieved unless through ‘good reading’; that plunge into a swimming pool inside malls and is deep analytical reading not the shallow super- restaurants! ficial one we do on scanning newspapers and The hijab aims at modesty, but what we see in real magazines nor the even quicker lazy one people life is far from this as many veiled women are dressed do scanning social media networks that have in flashy attires with their heads looking like that of a given average people a false feeling of being maharaja’s and overdone makeup and everything. knowledgeable and enlightened. The reason for this is that the decision to wear hijab should be made from within instead of forcing In order to write something special, you have women to wear it because most women forced to to read valuable, deep material that will storm wear it do it with unusual extravagance. Since many your brain cells and make your tongue shout kuwait digest women only wear the hijab upon family orders, they with Archimedes’ cry on discovering his principle do not respect it. So, families must not impose such a of buoyancy, “Eureka, eureka!”, which means decision upon their daughters to avoid such disre- “Bingo, I found it!” I was not feeling well last Guilty until proven innocent! spect. A wish to be religious and decent is something week and so I only wrote one article, but in fact, that must come from within as you cannot ‘borrow’ this was not why I have not been writing By Fakhri Rajab faith from your mother, father or even neighbor! because I have very often written in times of Unless coming from deep within, some feelings sickness and fatigue. What really prevented me recently saw an inhuman act at an Interior Ministry jail. the Kuwaiti constitutional says that “an accused person is pre- are worth being expressed. You can impose many was more like a writer’s block as I found no topic Many persons were arrested for traffic offenses and sumed innocent until proven guilty”. So why aren’t the things upon your family except for the hijab, which that would tempt me enough to ‘fall into writing’ Igrouped in a single cell, as if they were criminals, waiting offenders put to trial and banned from traveling in the mean- should be worn upon conviction and not threats. Unfortunately, some parents force their daughters to about it. Yes, I did have many ideas inspired by for the mercy of an official to release them, or deport them time, instead of being jailed because of traffic violations? A wear the hijab as a social tradition and habit. They are readings or viewings but they all seemed just because of a traffic offense. It is sad to see an Indian, large number of Arab men were deported by an Interior Bangladeshi or Arab person clutching the bars helplessly, Ministry order recently because of a fight, so where is the role never keen on having them perform their rituals weightless when it came to writing. They all fad- with tears flowing down their cheeks, waiting to be judged. of the courts in this case? though they force them saying: ‘Wear the hijab, ed whenever I exposed them to light to evaluate But would it be a fair judgment? This is a simple example of The Kuwaiti constitution says about equality, human dig- woman!’ their details. what happens in the cells of the Interior Ministry. nity, and personal liberty, that “all people are equal in human A woman should initially shield herself from sins We applaud the efforts of traffic and security police. But at dignity and in public rights and duties before the law, without before wearing the hijab. She should also wear it nor- the same time, they do not have the right to punish traffic distinction to race, origin, language or religion.” (Article 29). In mally without extravagance or twisting it in ways violators this way. This act reflects inhuman and uncivilized addition, article 31 says that “no person shall be arrested, that may offend her as a Muslim woman. There is no behavior, and a bad image about Kuwait as a country that detained, searched, or compelled to reside in a specified use of hijab while you are backbiting others at break- I strongly believe protects the basic fundamentals of human rights. place, nor shall the residence of any person or his liberty to fast every day. There is no use of hijab while you treat If we look at the issue from a religious perspective, we choose his place of residence or his liberty of movement be your domestic worker badly. There is no use of hijab that ‘good writing’ realize that this kind of treatment is prohibited. Allah restricted, except in accordance with the provisions of the while you bribe your son’s teachers. Religion is far Almighty says in the Holy Quran: “If you (must) rule among law.” In the end, I would like to thank expatriates who built much deeper than mere attire and beards. It initially the people, be sure to rule justly” - Al-Nisaa, verse 58. skyscrapers, homes, bridges, hospitals, police stations and comes in the form of how we treat people, and then Everyone in a position of power who believes that they can ministry buildings. Where there any Kuwaiti workers or super- can never be in how we look so, what if we lack both?! practice injustice against people must fear God and remem- visors who contributed in any of these projects? The answer is ber His power on them. certainly no. Finally, Maj Gen Abdul Fattah Al-Ali’s decisions are And if we look at it from a civilian aspect, then Article 34 of — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas becoming more contradictory and random than road achieved unless bumps on Kuwaiti streets. He is appearing in the media more than the Egyptian movie star Hussein through ‘good Fahmy, so we advise him to focus more on the cor- ruption of some MoI men who unleash their psycho- kuwait digest logical complexes on the public around Kuwait’s reading’ streets! — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida The society is responsible Following long years of writing for newspa- pers, I am beginning to lose interest in writing By Abdullatif Al-Duaij about every issue. I no longer feel I have to have kuwait digest a say about whatever people argue about or eleasing a statement of support for media outlets that past. This includes political groups that claim to be democratic whatever dominates public opinion. I primarily were suspended or penalized is very easy. Holding the and nationalistic, yet they demanded that former ministers government or the information minister accountable close certain TV stations, and filed grillings under the pretext Genuine fear grew more interested in finding something dif- R and making accusations against them is even easier. that said ministers failed to enforce the law. All of them are ferent and worth saying to add more value to Expressing solidarity verbally is useless and will not make any reaping today what they sowed yesterday. the topic in question, something that would difference, especially since we are used to confusing between What needs to happen now is a serious stand to reconsider in the West make me self-satisfied for seeing the issue from what is serious and what is not, and between what is positive the social and political position from freedom of expression a different angle. When a writer repeats what has or negative. It is not going to affect those who dedicated their and the right of publication. Those two aspects must be set By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa already been written about without, worthwhile lives to suppressing freedom of opinion and restricting the free from the society’s dominance, before the government’s additions are nothing more than accumulating right of publication and expression. suppression. The real suppressors of the freedom of expres- here is a genuine fear in the West, especially by The government and interior minister follow orders and sion are the society and the people. The government is only more ‘ado about nothing’ to the ones already fill- liberal and leftist forces, from the growing rise of instructions of the attorney general, who while directly following orders. Voicing support to newspapers and TV chan- conservative factions. The rise of the extreme ing all newspapers. responsible for the suspension, is implementing the law. The nels affected is superfluous, because the real victim is freedom T French faction and receiving first place during the latest I was deeply involved in reading over the past law in this case is the multimedia law that was enforced dur- of expression in general. Limiting the damage in media outlets few days. I acted as if I was someone thirsty who European elections at 25 percent, surpassing the ing former information minister Anas Al-Rushaid’s term, and that were affected by the public prosecution’s decision is an Socialist left, which is ruling France, by more than 10 finally finds access to fresh water. Nevertheless, I was supported by the same people who are criticizing the escape from reality, and a desperate attempt to undervalue percent, and the Gaullist faction by 5 percent. In Britain, am and will always keep on reading in the quest recent decisions to close media outlets. In fact, the law’s the issue at hand, so that facing it becomes easier. the right that opposes joining the European Union for a unique inspiring idea that would spark dif- strongest supporters then were the first to complain against it The confrontation must address the multimedia law in its made progress. ferent writing. I always say that what really mat- today. entirety, and must be against the entire society and everyone There is an argument in the United States about the If there is anyone to be blamed for the recent actions who has a hand in limiting freedom of expression or publica- rise of the Tea Party, which is presenting new ideas that ters is what we read, not how much we read. against media outlets, suppression of freedom of expression tion right. The supporters who believe that they are fighting Similarly, allow me to add that ‘what really mat- is more extreme that the conservative Republican Party. and obstructing the right of publication, it is the entire society. against media oppression must give something other than This party is calling for deep-rooted reforms in govern- ters is what we write, not how often we do so!’ Everyone who called and paved the way for those decisions speaking in solidarity with the affected media outlets. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas ment action and carries a banner to citizens that says expressed their clear objection to freedom of expression in the “we will not do anything for your sake as a citizen, but we promise to keep the government away from you and leave you to work for your interest,” in other words, they work on encouraging the individual initiatives classical capitalism calls for, to keep the government from inter- fering in individuals business. The new conservatives reject the government’s plans to present health services to the poor in the United States, or every support poor classes, and they oppose ideas of the leftist forces to set minimum wages for labor and support the middle class. The question - why did the votes of rightwing parties rise in the West? There are many reasons for the rise of the Western right, most important of which is the increased opposition to the European project and its constitution (European Union), deteriorating economy and spread of unemployment in more than one European country. The third reason is lost confidence in politicians of the West, as the Western voter lost confi- dence in his MPs as well as participation in general because they failed to fulfill popular demands most vot- ers are calling for. All those reasons made voters to vote for the new conservatives in search of a better alterna- tive that they may find in the extreme right. What does this mean for us Arabs and Muslims? We will be the victims of the new European changes in the West! Arabs traditionally have strong relations with the Western left and moderate liberal and socialist parties, as those factions have a humanitarian leaning in them and high respect of human rights. Those parties sided with us for the Palestinian cause, and they helped in opening the immigration doors for foreigners to enter Europe. But the increased number of Arabs immigrating to Europe, and increased religious extremism by Arab and Muslim communities, even among the third generation of immigrants youth, led to terrorists carrying out ter- rorist operations in Britain, Spain, France and others, and created new fears among European people of the spread of terrorism in their countries, especially after having hundreds of Arab and Muslim European youth join jihadist and terrorist actions in Syria. For these reasons, some European countries took strong action to revoke citizenship from any British citi- zen who gets involved in jihadist action. Finally, we Arabs and Muslims, and no one else, contributed to the spread of extremism and the move towards the reli- gious right in Europe. We must adopt moderate and open policies towards the world so we can be accepted in it. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 News in brief

Informatics Award holds fourth dialogue session KUWAIT: Sheikh Salim Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award will hold the fourth dialogue session today under the theme (accountable blogging), aiming to create a creative atmosphere for Arab blogging. The session will bring together bloggers and officials of Arab e-governments, said member of the Board of Trustees Saleh Al-Asousi in a statement yesterday. The event aims to promote the Arabic Language as a main and more actively present medium for inter- action in professional and scientific fields on the internet. “The session will also focus on organizing and categorizing digital content subjects,” said Al- Asousi, adding that the session will be followed by a Immigration detectives arrest 70 ceremony to honor the winners of the 13th Informatics Award season. Since it was first launched, the Award has been giving due priority to By Hanan Al-Saadoun paign resulted in the arrest of 70 persons, including Drug suspects nabbed the Arab digital state of affairs. Kuwaiti and Arab some wanted for other cases and suspected thefts. Narcotics authorities arrested two bedoons with six kilo- members of the judging panel will participate in the KUWAIT: Immigration detectives carried out a campaign grams of hashish. Authorities acted following tips and event, along with bloggers and Twitter users who Monday night in Salmiya under direct supervision by Drill at Airport searched the house of a suspect where 500 gm of hashish won in the award’s (Tadween) competition. His Assistant Undersecretary for Nationality and Passports Medical emergencies department carried out a drill at was found. He told officers that he got the drugs from Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Affairs Maj Gen Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and in Kuwait International Airport in cooperation with the Public another person, who was arrested in his house where near- Al-Sabah will be sponsoring and attending the hon- the presence of Director General of Immigration Health Department and the Civil Aviation on how to deal ly 5.5 kg was found. They were sent to concerned authori- oring ceremony today. Detectives Maj Gen Ghazi Al-Maei. The security cam- with infectious diseases like MERS. ties.

June 15-24- enrollment for universities in Saudi RIYADH: Registration for Kuwaiti students to enroll in Saudi universities will commence next Sunday (June 15) and proceed until June 24, the Cultural Office of the Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Riyadh announced yesterday. Head of the office, Dr Misfir Mahdi Misfir, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the registration will be conducted in accordance with the proce- dures of the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education through the websites of the universities. He said that students seeking to enroll in the Saudi uni- versities must have their high school certificates authenticated by the competent authorities in the Kingdom, in addition to the result of com- petence exams. Misfer added that applicants, and after registration via the websites of the universities, will be asked to submit their docu- ments and papers to the Kuwaiti Cultural Office, according to procedures of the Ministry of Firemen rescue Higher Education in Kuwait.

CERF-support Bazaar trapped people proceeds ‘impressive’ NEW YORK: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late Monday congratulated all the member states, includ- KUWAIT: The heroism of firemen saved tens tion, and she was admitted in the ICU. KFSD ing Kuwait, for working hard in raising $90,000 at the of people following a fire in an 8-storey Director General Maj Gen Yousuf Al-Ansari first ever UN International Bazaar held late last Farwaniya building. The fire, which started in visited the injured firemen at Farwaniya month for the Central Emergency Response Fund a sixth floor flat, trapped many children, Hospital and conveyed greetings of State (CERF). At a ceremony held at UN Headquarters to women and elderly people. Firemen rescued Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh hand the check to CERF representatives, Ban said he the trapped people by fire ladders or carried Mohammad Al-Abdullah. In another develop- is “proud” to attend, along with his wife Ban Soon them to the roof. Some firemen were injured ment, a limited fire broke out in a reserve oxy- Taek who organized the Bazaar. “These funds were with hand burns or exhaustion. An Asian gen room outside the Chest Hospital, and has not easy to earn,” he noted. “Many people spent expat was taken to hospital in critical condi- no effect on patients. hours cooking delicious treats, packing valuable goods, transporting items to the United Nations, and donating their time and resources to make this Bazaar a success. I thank every one of you who showed such wonderful generosity and solidarity.” CERF, he explained, allows the UN to rush aid to peo- ple in desperate need as soon as a disaster hits and will help to provide food, shelter, and services to individuals caught in dangerous crises. Kuwait, along with some 100 other countries participated on May 20 in the UN International Bazaar entitled “Shop for Charity” that took six months to prepare. Wife of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the UN Mansour Al-Otaibi, Souad Al-Otaibi, was the Chairwoman of the Bazaar’s Logistics Committee. She organized one stand with Kuwaiti perfumes and handicrafts and another one with Kuwaiti food.

9th session of Arab cultural, heritage experts committee @Tijari customers - KUWAIT: National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) Secretary General Ali Al-Yuha inau- gurated yesterday the ninth session of the Arab the First to watch cultural and natural heritage experts committee. This meeting is aimed at reviewing the situation of Edge Of Tomorrow the Arab natural and cultural heritage sites and to coordinate and unify Arab stances and moves to KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait invited its @Tijari preserve heritage, Al-Yuha said in the opening customers to an exclusive screening of the action film Edge Of speech. He added that the participants would Tomorrow at Cinescape 360 Mall cinemas. Seven theaters coordinate stances in the upcoming 38th session were reserved just for @Tijari customers and their friends. of the World Heritage Committee and to back Arab Hundreds of customers filled the theaters and enjoyed their bids to include a number of Arab heritage sites on time, especially since they were one of the first in Kuwait to the list of the World Heritage sites. The attendees watch the film. Edge Of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise and Emily would also discuss and call for national and inter- Blunt and tells the story of a brave solider who goes to national measures to safeguard heritage sites in unimaginable lengths to try to save Earth from aliens who are the conflict zones. Al-Yuha noted that the meeting killing and destroying everything. would also tackle the illegal Israeli aggressions It should be noted that @Tijari is a savings account against Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem. He designed for customers aged 15 to 21 years old with the underlined Kuwait’s support to all joint Arab intent to help establish their future and pave the way to suc- action, particularly in the cultural domain. cess. It should be noted that the cinema event was a huge success; the Commercial Bank of Kuwait reserved seven Cinescape theaters exclusively for the youth customers hold- Ancient tomb, daggers, ing @Tijari accounts to give them privacy and to enjoy their corpse found in Sinaw time with their families and friends. The feedback was great MUSCAT: A 2,300-year-old tomb with corpse and and customers were very pleased. The bank promises its cus- daggers had been found during excavations at sev- tomers more events and surprises in the future. eral archeological and monumental cemeteries in Al-Oyoon area in the state of Sinaw, the Ministry of Culture and Heritage said yesterday. According to Kuwaitis to get Oman’s Daily Observer, a number of items were found in the area, and they are currently under doc- umentation and study. Giving details of the finds, 50% stake in 3 the Head of Excavation and Archeological Studies Department Sultan Saif Al-Bakri pointed out that a mega ventures survey carried out in coordination and cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and Communications KUWAIT: Three mega ventures will be offered for public sub- has brought up a discovery of hundreds of cemeter- scription in which Kuwaiti citizens will have 50 percent of the ies spread across a distance of 100 kilometers. shares by the year-end, announced Adel Al-Roumi, President Excavation results show that the first tomb is linked of the Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) in remarks pub- to the third millennium BC, while the second lished yesterday. The three ventures are a solar energy station, belonged to the first millennium BC. These tombs North Al-Zour power plant (second phase), and the largest contained items such as pottery and soft rock ves- solid waste recycling plant in the Middle East. The official’s sels. Al-Bakri added that a man’s corpse was found remarks were published in yesterday’s issue of “Al-Anbaa,” dating to 2,300 years ago. He died in his fifties and local daily. These projects will be up for subscription by for- was buried with his weapons. Additionally, two eign entrepreneurs at a maximum 40 percent, according to camels were buried in two holes near his tomb and the partnership law of the public and private sectors, 50 per- fenced with stone. On the left side of the corpse, an cent for the nationals, and 10 percent for government bodies. 88-cm sword, two daggers, and a woolen hat were The solar energy plant, to be built in Al-Abdaliyah South found. It is estimated these items date back to the Kuwait, will operate with solar energy, gas, and steam tur- Indian civilization which later spread across adja- bines. It will produce 280 Megawatt of power; 60 MW of which cent civilizations and communities. to be generated from solar energy. It will put out 48,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, much less than the volume of car- bon dioxide produced by conventional stations. —KUNA LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 Raped maid hospitalized with severe bleeding

KUWAIT: A domestic worker was hospitalized with severe bleeding resulting from being raped, according to the medical diagnosis. The Ethiopian woman reportedly fell sick in a house in Jahra governorate, and was rushed to Jahra Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. Medical tests revealed that the maid was subjected to sexual assault which caused the bleeding. The woman remains in the hospital under tight- ened security, as police wait for the doctors to clear her to speak in order to get her testimonies.

Thief caught A man was arrested driving a stolen car in Farwaniya, before investigations revealed his involvement in other thefts report- ed around Kuwait. The Egyptian man was placed under arrest after police pulled him over in a street in Farwaniya, when they verified that the luxury car he was driving was stolen. He was taken for questioning, during which police discovered other crimes he committed, including home robberies in Adailiya, Jabriya and Omariya, as well as stealing four cars.

Fatal crash A motorcyclist died in a collision with an SUV in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Sunday. Paramedics arrived to the scene shortly after the accident was reported, but discovered that the Afghan man has already succumbed to his injuries. Criminal investigators were called to examine the scene and transfer the body to the forensic department. The SUV driver, a Kuwaiti woman, was taken by police for questioning. Investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances behind the accident.

Premeditation An investigation is underway in claims of a Kuwaiti woman who accuses a female driver of deliberately hit- ting her car which turned turtle as a result of the impact. The woman and her three children were taken in ambu- lances to the hospital after paramedics and police responded to the accident site in Fahaheel. The woman Sarah Abushaar delivers her speech during the 2014 graduation ceremony at the Harvard said during questioning that another woman hit her car University as former US president George H W Bush, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg five times and fled. and other dignitaries applaud.

Woman fends off rapists Investigations are ongoing to identify and arrest suspects who failed to rape a woman they kidnapped in Abu Halifa. In ‘The Harvard Spring’ - a homage to Arab Spring her statements to police, the Filipina said that she was walking near a mall in the area when three people came out of a car that pulled over nearby and forced her inside the vehicle. The By Sarah Abushaar suspects attempted to sexually assault her, but she showed strong resistance, after which they beat her, kicked her out of hen I was around seven, my toothless brother and I, Harvard University undergraduate speaker the car and escaped, the victim said. The woman gave descrip- on long, boring taxi rides in Syria, would indulge in tion of the three men and the driver of the car, in addition to Wimperialistic fantasies of how we wanted to take over KUWAIT: Born in the United States but raised in Kuwait, thing that strikes us or something that’s so different from the vehicle. the country +outside our windows. My parents would quickly Sarah Abushaar has always had one foot planted in the East the status quo back home,” said the Leverett House resi- crush these imperial conquests by warning: “Shh! You’ll get tak- and one in the West. The daughter of a Syrian father and a dent. “The little revolutions that happen behind Chipotle Playboy sparks fight at Salmiya cafe en by secret service if they hear you.” The walls everywhere, we Palestinian mother, Abushaar spent her childhood roaming burritos or Starbucks coffee cups in Harvard Square. I saw Two women were arrested after their heated competition were told, could hear our revolutionary ideas and would send the hallways of a Sheraton hotel in Kuwait City, where her revolutions happen at tables where I saw some of my to win the affection of a man took a violent turn. Police head- us to prison. Whereas children here had ghosts and the father worked, surrounded by visiting political dignitaries Palestinian and Israeli friends eating and working together ed to a Salmiya cafe Sunday night in response to an emer- boogeyman, our equivalents were our governments. from the West. It was there that at age 7, upon meeting on projects, and then you sit down and think: Why can’t our gency call reporting a fight between two women. They were Fast forward to 2010. When I first got here, someone told George H W Bush, she dutifully informed the former presi- governments act this way? “My whole idea about Harvard placed under arrest and taken to Salmiya police station for me, “If Harvard shut its gates, it could be its own country, just dent that she planned to take his job someday. as an agent for change comes from the fact that it changed questioning. Preliminary investigations revealed that a man like the Vatican.” As I’ve walked through this place every day for An economics concentrator with a strong interest in pol- my family a lot. It pushes whatever frontier that was initially had met each of the women individually inside the cafe, and the past four years, I was struck by how true this idea was. I saw itics, Abushaar, 21, said that Harvard initially seemed like a set a bit further out. After one person comes here, it spoke to them about starting a relationship, which they both it everywhere: The Harvard Nation. I saw it in the big and obvi- nation unto itself, with its own government and museums changes the way their family thinks, and it changes the way ous things: We had our own version of the Statue of Liberty, accepted. The two engaged in an argument after each saw the and even a bus system. But soon, it wasn’t just the historic their school thinks.” the John Harvard statue, our own embassies, the Harvard man sitting with the other, and the confrontation soon esca- institutions that moved her, but the creative and social Having taken a semester off in 2012 to work at the White Clubs of Boston and London, a tax collection agency, the lated into an out-of-control fistfight. vitality, driven by the formal and informal groups and con- House, Abushaar will graduate in December. After that, she Harvard Alumni Association, and an endowment larger than nections on campus that seemed to embody the universi- plans to pursue her interest in international business and more than half the world’s countries’ GDPs. ty’s soul. attend business school down the line. Eventually, she’d like Her speech, titled “The Harvard Spring,” is a homage to to create bilingual, coed schools like the one she and her Why Middle East? the 2010 political uprisings known as the Arab Spring. The younger brother attended back in Kuwait City and use that New ‘Ramadan We also had our own diplomatic passports. Nowhere did I address draws on the everyday freedoms that students take movement as a platform for long-term political change. “I see this more clearly than at US immigration at Boston Logan for granted, such as public debates in the pages of The think there’s a tendency to say, ‘We want to build schools in timings’ for airport. Whenever they saw I was coming from the Middle East: Crimson, along with cultural events and artistic perform- places like Afghanistan,’ and they build schools, but they “What were you doing there? Why are you here? Why did God ances. She calls upon graduates to bring such esprit de don’t build curriculums, they don’t build something that’s make you from the Middle East?” But I made sure I dressed like corps back home with them and initiate change. far more important than the actual hard structure.” public sector our overly proud Harvard dads, with Harvard hat, Harvard shirt, “I think each of us comes here, and we encounter some- — Harvard Gazette Harvard shorts, and Harvard underwear and as soon as they KUWAIT: Work hours will be delayed at the public sec- saw I was a citizen of Harvard: “Ohhhh! You go to Harvard?! tor in Ramadan to accommodate the long day during Surely you must not be a national security threat! Welcome to “So it’s the 1990s,” our negotiations class professor set the and history and ideas that changed the way we saw the world the holy month. A decision taken during the Cabinet’s America!” And suddenly all the gates to the American Dream stage. “A war’s about to break out between Ecuador and Peru. ... accumulations I hope we will continue to wear on our “soles” meeting Monday, which was headed by HH the Prime opened wide. How will you stop it?” I raised my hand to respond. “Wait.” and leave a footprint of all the best we took from Harvard Yard Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, indicates I saw it everywhere, this “Harvard Nation”. But I saw it not Professor Shapiro stopped me, “Tell the president what to do” on our new destinations. that the work will start an hour later during weekdays just in the hard structures but, more importantly, in its invisible and in walked the Ecuadorian president. In bringing the presi- And that’s why I am hopeful for the future. I am hopeful due to the long hours of the day compared to the institutions ... the invisible scaffolds around and undergirding dent to me, in having me speak to and question a shaper of because of my dining hall dinners spent marveling at friends hours of night. According to the new decision, state the hard institutions....I saw it in the quarrelling columns of The history and experience the value he saw in my view, Harvard who, while their countries wage bloody war against each oth- departments which normally start working at 8:30 am Crimson newspaper ... its Kung-Fu fights of ideas and lively stu- would make me feel I too could be him. I, too, had the power er, are able to carry out civil conversation and build generative and end at 1:00 pm, will open at 9:30 am and end at dent debates with the potency to propel policy changes by to shape history and not just be passively shaped by it. projects together. I am hopeful because of the Founding 2:00 pm. This includes the majority of ministries and the next morning’s print. That sense of infinite possibility we have as children - to Mothers and Founding Fathers of revolutionary ideas like government authorities, like the Ministry of I saw it in our cluttered bulletin boards, bustling with life ... think big and conquer great things - was returned to me here, these being launched into the world who will make of its insti- Communications, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of with announcements of student-led conferences, Broadway- a less despotic version of it. What seemed intractable problems tutions, its constitutions, its hospitals, its art houses something Education, Kuwait Municipality and Civil Service worthy shows and dorm-room projects turned world’s next of the world became opportunities for me, for us, to change better. Commission. Facebook smothering each other for our cursory glimpse ... a things. You know, when I first got here my name was Sarah; We’ve heard a lot in the news about an Arab Spring - this Meanwhile, departments which start at 9:00 am and trivial detail these cluttered boards that often slipped notice, after Harvard, it would become “Hey Harvard!” with people graduation is sending 6,000 revolutions into the world in the end at 1:30 pm will start at 10:00 am and finish at 2:30 but where some saw papers, I saw passions, purpose, creativity stuffing 378 years, 5,000 acres of real estate, the entirety of 6,000 revolutions graduating as part of the class of 2014 ... if we pm, according to sources with knowledge of the deci- - I saw a heartbeat of civic community’s vivacity. Widener library and 32 heads of state all into my 5 foot 6 inch take those waiting revolutions, those great ideas sparked sion. Departments like the Ministry of Health, where My parents’ countries were places where institutional dys- self! Ridiculous as it is, there’s a strange reality to it. behind Chipotle burritos and Starbucks coffee cups in our ver- work hours are subject to specific work conditions, will function killed off this social dynamism and vibrant productivi- sion of Tahrir Square, Harvard Square, out with us into the real have to check with the Civil Service Commission to ty and so I felt acutely here the value of civil society and living, Hopeful for the future world, into the real Tahrir Squares, and make something of readjust their timings in accordance. Ramadan starts on breathing institutions. My time here would give me a working Arab-American author Randa Jarrar pictures inhabiting a them! Revolutions not in arms but in minds ... more powerful the 28th or 29th of June depending on the crescent’s model of a better world - not only that, but that sense of new place as “[...] running barefoot, the skin of our feet collect- and permanent and pervasive. For, this isn’t a Ukrainian revolu- observation. The call for the Maghreb (sunset) prayer, empowerment to initiate change. You see, with those spying ing sand and seeds and rocks and grass until we had shoes, tion or an Arab Spring, but a global revolution. the time when Muslims break their fast, occurs at 6:52 walls still lurking in my memory that constrained the little shoes made of everything we’d picked up as we ran.” And run- This is the Harvard Spring of 2014. This is the Harvard pm on both days. The call for Fajr (dawn) prayer, which Napoleons in my brother and me, you might imagine my ning through Harvard Yard over the past four years, the skin of Spring! is when Muslims begin their daylong fast, takes place at shock when, in one of my first classes here, I suddenly found our feet collecting a world of experiences, we each become Sarah Abushaar’s speech can be viewed at 3:13 am and 3:14 am respectively. — Al-Anbaa myself debating a president. this place in a strange way, each of us picking up bits of people www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGdwqdpPKE Kuwait student participates in honeywell challenge academy

KUWAIT: A student from Al-Ikhlass Private School at for me. Math and science studies have always interested me tions were both highlights from my time at the HLCA. While Salmiyah, was one of 304 students from 38 countries chosen most, but through this opportunity from Honeywell I was challenging, the program allowed me to experience leader- by Honeywell (NYSE: HON) to participate in the Honeywell able to experience the fields in an incredibly interactive and ship and team work, and I now have friends from all over Leadership Challenge Academy (HLCA) this year. The week engaging way, and I now see how they apply to real-life sce- the world.” long-leadership program took place at the US Space & narios. Making a heat shield on a rocket, allowing it to re- Since its launch in 2010, Honeywell, in partnership with Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Aziz Abdeh, enter the atmosphere from outer space, and flight simula- the USSRC, has awarded more than 1156 scholarships to from Kuwait, was awarded the HLCA scholarship and was students. Scholarships are granted after a rigorous applica- joined by high school students from all over the US, China, tion and review processes based on academic achievement UK and Mexico. and community involvement. Financial contributions from HLCA uses interactive technology, science-oriented Honeywell Hometown Solutions and Honeywell employees workshops and team exercises to teach children of help fund the scholarships, including tuition, meals, accom- Honeywell employees, between the ages of 16-18, leader- modations and program materials. ship skills in science, technology, engineering and math “Our goal is to continue to develop a new generation of (STEM). Activities are delivered in fun and innovative ways leaders, engineers and scientists who can address the chal- that bring STEM studies to life. The program is designed to lenges of tomorrow,” said Tom Buckmaster, president, build students’ leadership skills and develop their capacities Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company’s global cor- through hands-on challenges. porate citizenship initiative. “Honeywell Leadership During the program, the students met with scientists, Challenge Academy is a holistic program that uses a variety engineers and former astronauts who reinforced core lead- of teaching methods to open students’ minds to the many ership competencies and shared their first-hand profession- possibilities for rewarding careers.” al experiences. In addition, Aziz and his peers took part in “Honeywell’s investment in this innovative global youth team-building challenges, such as designing, building and leadership training reflects their enormous commitment to testing their own rockets; participating in simulated astro- improving the quality of life in communities across the naut training, shuttle missions and a moon walk; and con- world. These youth leaders are the problem solvers of the ducting DNA extraction experiments on fruit. future, at home, at work and in our continuing journey into “The Academy was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and space,” said Dr. Deborah Barnhart, CEO and Executive an experience I will never forget,” said Aziz. “Choosing the Director, USSRC. For more information about HLCA, visit right career path to follow after graduation is a top priority http://leadership.honeywell.com/ Aziz Abdeh WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

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BAGHDAD: An Iraqi policeman searches the passengers of a car at checkpoint in the capital Baghdad yesterday, after a state of emergency was declared by the government. Jihadists seized Iraq’s second city of Mosul and the sur- rounding Nineveh province yesterday, in a major blow to a government apparently incapable of stopping militant advances. — AFP Militants overrun key Iraqi city of Mosul Attack deals major blow to Baghdad government

MOSUL: Sunni Islamist insurgents seized control of Iraq’s which they identified as belonging mostly to ISIL and al second largest city of Mosul early yesterday in a spectacular Qaeda. The retreating army and police set fire to fuel and show of strength against the Shi’ite-led government, which ammunition depots to prevent the militants from using called on parliament to declare a state of emergency. them, the officers said. The capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the University lecturer Zuhair al-Taie, who was trying to flee Levant (ISIL) - an offshoot of al Qaeda - and its allies fol- Mosul with his wife and three children, said ISIL’s black ban- lowed four days of fighting in the northern city and attacks ners were now flying over most army and government in other towns. Residents said ISIL black flags and banners buildings. “The situation in Mosul is tragic,” he said. were flying on captured government buildings. The fall of Mosul deals a serious blow to Baghdad’s efforts to fight National Salvation Sunni militants who have regained ground and momentum Ibraheem al Sumeide’i, a former advisor to Maliki who in Iraq over the past year, pushing into Mosul last week and fell out with him over his policies, said the prime minister overrunning a military base and freeing hundreds of prison- should step down so a national salvation government ers. could be formed. The army has been fighting ISIL in western Iraq since the “The fall of Mosul into the hands of ISIL means that ISIL start of the year when they overran two cities in the Sunni has unified the Iraqi and Syrian front and they have heartland of Anbar, which shares a border with Syria. achieved their goal.” Across the frontier in Syria, ISIL fighters have seized terri- Some in Iraqi security estimate more than a thousand tory close to the Iraqi border during three years of civil war Shi’ite troops have been killed and thousands have desert- between President Bashar al-Assad and rebels. ISIL militants ed from the army, as regular Shi’ite soldiers complain their from Iraq have joined the battle in Syria along with other leadership has not provided them with the equipment and foreign fighters with the aim of establishing a Sunni Islamist training. Maliki’s opponents blame him for leading the state on either side of the border. country to ruin. They say his refusal to share power has pre- In a speech yesterday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vented the creation of a national unity government, urged the international community to support his country allowed for a rise in Sunni militancy, and made him ene- in its fight against “terrorism” and asked parliament to mies among Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders alike. declare a state of emergency. State television said the speaker of parliament had ‘Like Hell’ scheduled an emergency session for Thursday to vote on Thousands of families were fleeing north towards the the motion, which requires a two thirds majority. autonomous Kurdistan region, which shares a border with Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital. ‘Tragic Situation’ “Mosul now is like hell. It’s up in flames and death is Police, military and security officials told Reuters the everywhere,” said Amina Ibrahim, who was leaving with her insurgents, armed with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket- children and said she had lost her husband in a bomb propelled grenades, had taken over almost all police and attack last year. army checkpoints in and around the Mosul early yesterday. On Monday, governor Atheel Nujaifi made a televised “We have lost Mosul this morning. Army and police plea to the people of Mosul to stand their ground and forces left their positions and ISIL terrorists are in full con- fight. Hours later, Nujaifi himself narrowly escaped the trol,” said an army colonel at the local military command. provincial headquarters in Mosul after militants besieged “It’s a total collapse of the security forces.” it. Nujaifi’s brother Osama, who is parliament speaker, Two army officers said security forces had received called on the president of Iraqi Kurdistan to deploy the orders to leave Mosul after militants captured the Ghizlani region’s peshmerga forces to Mosul and wrest it back from army base and set more than 200 inmates free from a high- “terrorists”. security prison. Kurdistan’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said his A Reuters reporter saw policemen swapping their uni- region had tried to coordinate with Iraqi federal authorities forms for plain clothes and discarding their weapons before to protect Mosul, but Baghdad’s stance had made it impos- fleeing the city. The bodies of soldiers and policemen, some sible. Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq of them mutilated, littered the streets. in May the highest monthly death toll so far this year. Last “We can’t beat them. We can’t. They are well trained in year in turn was the deadliest year since sectarian bloodlet- street fighting and we’re not. We need a whole army to ting began to ease from its climax in 2006-07. drive them out of Mosul,” one officer said. “They’re like At least 20 people were killed yesterday when two ghosts: they appear to hit and disappear within seconds”. bombs exploded at a cemetery in the city of Baquba about Two police sources and a local government official said 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, as mourners buried the militants had also broken into another jail called a university professor shot dead the previous day, police Badush, allowing more than 1,000 prisoners to escape, and medics said. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Iran, US kick off second day of nuclear talks

GENEVA: Tehran and Washington began a second day of The deadline for a final accord was July 20, but several between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna, where they aim to parliament, the tough-talking Ali Larijani, said Tuesday it talks in Geneva yesterday on Iran’s contested nuclear pro- players including Iran have already said a six-month set down details of the final deal. The last round in Vienna was crucial to protect “the rights of Iranians” as well as the gramme, amid a fresh diplomatic drive in the face of a extension may be needed. in May yielded little. “scientific achievements of the peaceful activities” of the July deadline for a deal. Washington and the other P5+1 states are seeking Islamic republic’s researchers. Washington warned of “tough choices” in the crunch solid commitments that will ensure Iran’s stated desire for ‘Fate of the world’ at hand After Monday’s first day of talks, Washington said negotiations, as fellow world powers braced to meet with a peaceful atomic energy programme is not a covert The stakes are high, amid warnings by US hawks more effort was needed. “We think we’ve made progress the Islamic republic to try to build momentum. Senior attempt to build a nuclear bomb. against being hoodwinked. That message was echoed by during some rounds, but as we said coming out of the officials from Iran and the United States sat down behind For the Islamic republic, the goal is to make a leap Yuval Steinitz, the minister of strategic affairs in Israel, last one, we hadn’t seen enough made. We hadn’t seen closed doors in Geneva’s upscale Hotel President Wilson, towards ending the international sanctions, notably Iran’s archfoe which is widely believed to be the sole if enough realism, quite frankly, on the table,” said deputy which was sealed off to the media. those imposed by the United States, that have battered undeclared nuclear armed state in the Middle East. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. The talks were expected to last all day. The meeting its economy. Today, Iranian negotiators are set to meet in “Any international agreement that leaves Iran on the “People need to make tough choices, but we are very began Monday with a five-hour session, the first time Geneva with their French counterparts, France’s Foreign threshold of nuclear capability is worse than no agree- focused on that July 20th time,” she said. Iran’s deputy for- since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that US and Iranian Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday. ment at all,” he said Monday at the annual Herzliya eign minister and nuclear pointman Abbas Araqchi said negotiators have held direct, official nuclear talks. They are then due to head to Rome to meet with Conference on Israeli security policy. Monday’s dialogue “took place in a positive climate and The two sides have met informally, notably in a secret Russian officials, then hold talks in Tehran with Germany “What is now at hand is not just the fate of Israel in the was constructive,” according to Iran’s ISNA news agency. session last year in Oman which helped coax Tehran back on Sunday. “Bilateral discussions offer a much more effec- Middle East but the fate of the world.” After decades of hostility, Iran and the United States to the negotiating table. tive platform for conducting real bargaining than the Brigadier General Itai Brun, who heads the Israeli mili- took tentative steps towards rapprochement following They have also sat down within the so-called P5+1 cumbersome committee-type discussions in the P5+1 tary’s research division, said Iran now appeared to be talk- the election of self-declared moderate and former process that involves world powers talking to Iran. framework,” said Ali Vaez, senior Iran analyst at the ing “in earnest” about a final deal thanks to international nuclear negotiator Hassan Rouhani as president last June. The P5+1, made up of the five permanent UN Security International Crisis Group. pressure, adding that he expected an accord this year. Rouhani called US President Barack Obama shortly Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the “The two major sticking points are Iran’s future enrich- Iran’s negotiators, meanwhile, must answer to domes- after taking office, before US Secretary of State John United States, plus Germany, secured an interim deal ment capacity and sanctions relief,” he said. The goal of tic hardliners who say the country’s red lines must not be Kerry met Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad with Iran in November after marathon talks in Geneva. the bilateral talks is to prepare a June 16-20 meeting crossed. Former nuclear negotiator turned speaker of Zarif. — AFP Abbas’ forces break up Hamas protest in WB

RAMALLAH: Palestinian forces loyal to Palestinian reconciliation efforts are in to end a seven-year territorial and politi- President Mahmoud Abbas broke up a trouble. The Islamic militant Hamas seized cal split. Hamas protest, beating some of the par- the Gaza Strip in 2007, leaving Abbas only However, tensions have escalated, ticipants despite a recent unity deal with parts of the West Bank. Last week, with key disputes unresolved. In Gaza, between the two rival factions, witnesses Abbas formed a technocrat government Hamas remains the de facto power on said yesterday. backed by Hamas and his Fatah move- the ground and for the past week has The confrontation on Monday ment. The new Cabinet is to administer forced banks to remain closed amid a dis- evening was the latest sign that both Palestinian territories and is meant pute with Abbas over salaries for its loyal- ists. More than 40,000 employees worked for the outgoing Hamas government in Gaza, and it’s not clear if they will retain their jobs and who will pay them in the meantime. Meanwhile, Abbas has said he will continue security coordination with Israeli forces in the West Bank despite his new alliance with Hamas. The target of such joint security efforts in the past has JERUSALEM: Israel’s newly elected President and former minister and Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin prays at mostly been Hamas, with Palestinian Western Wall in the Jerusalem’s Old City, yesterday. Israel’s parliament elected Reuven Rivlin, a far-right member security forces loyal to Abbas clamping of the ruling Likud party, to be the nation’s 10th president when Shimon Peres steps down next month. — AFP down on the movement. Late Monday, Hamas supporters drove in the West Bank city of Ramallah in Israel elects hawk a convoy of about 30 cars, chanting slo- gans against Israel and showing support for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. WEST BANK: Palestinian women hold posters with slogans and portraits of Palestinian security forces stopped the Rivlin as president detainees during a demonstration yesterday in the West Bank town of convoy, searched the cars and seized Bethlehem in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have green Hamas flags, said Hassan Yousef, a been on hunger strike for six weeks. Some 285 Palestinian prisoners are leader of Hamas in the West Bank. He said Former speaker to be nation’s 10th president observing a mass hunger strike in protest against their being held without troops wielding clubs beat him and other charge under a procedure called administrative detention. — AFP participants as well as journalists.—AP JERUSALEM: Israel’s parliament yesterday elected Reuven but delivered in a voice which at times broke with emotion, Rivlin, a far-right member of the ruling Likud party, to be the Rivlin said he was no longer a man of politics but of the peo- nation’s 10th president when Shimon Peres steps down next ple. “I am no longer party man but a man of all the people,” he month. Known for his affable character and quirky sense of said before joining in a champagne toast led by the speaker. humour, the 74-year-old former parliamentary speaker will Congratulations poured in. “Today is a festive day!” said a take over when Peres retires at the end of July, drawing a line beaming Naftali Bennett, head of the far-right Jewish Home under what many regard as a golden age of the presidency. party who is ideologically very close to Rivlin. A lawyer by profession, Rivlin has won widespread support “Israel has gained a nationalist, Zionist president who loves from across the political spectrum for his determined defence the land of Israel and the people of Israel, a president who of democracy and civil rights. But his political outlook is dia- believes in the right of the people to its land and isn’t afraid of metrically opposed to that of Peres, being a firm opponent of saying it.” a Palestinian state and a keen backer of the settlements. And Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon praised his “Jewish and he will have a tough act to follow, with Peres’s charisma and democratic values”. “Rivlin... will be an important element in global standing enabling him to transcend the largely cere- connecting with different strata of society, bringing people monial position of the presidency and use it to promote a together, and in the uncompromising struggle against vio- political message of peace. lence, xenophobia and racism against anyone who is differ- Announcing the results of a run-off vote, parliamentary ent,” he said. speaker Yuli Edelstein said Rivlin had defeated his centrist challenger Meir Sheetrit by 63 votes to 53 in a secret ballot of ‘Greater Israel’s president’ the Knesset’s 120 MPs. The other three candidates, former But many Israeli commentators were sanguine about politician Dalia Itzik, retired Supreme Court justice Dalia Rivlin’s political bent and what he would use the presidency to Dorner and chemistry Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman were try to achieve. “Rivlin is far to the right of the clear Israeli con- all eliminated in a first round of voting. sensus, he is opposed to the two-state solution, he is an out- and-out supporter of the settlement enterprise on both sides Bitter pill for Netanyahu of the separation fence,” commentator Ben Caspit wrote in In a televised joint news conference, Prime Minister Maariv yesterday. Benjamin Netanyahu, whose bitter dislike of Rivlin made Commentator Ari Shavit wrote in Haaretz newspaper last headlines in the weeks running up to the vote, offered Rivlin week that Rivlin would “exploit the presidential institution to his congratulations. “I want to wish you great success,” said the advance the West Bank settlement project, which he worships, premier who had only begrudgingly backed his party’s candi- and the one-state solution he believes in.” Peres, the last sur- date at the 11th hour after his well-publicised and frantic viving member of Israel’s founding fathers, is due to wrap up efforts to find an alternative failed. his seven-year term at the end of July, just a week shy of his “You have two main missions facing you: to unite all the 91st birthday. Commentators say his departure is likely to people... and to represent Israel to the world,” he said. switch the presidency’s focus from international affairs to In an emotional acceptance speech punctuated by puns, more domestic matters. — AFP Syria prisoner releases begin after amnesty

DAMASCUS: Syria has begun releasing of the decree, according to the text. But it crimes such as torture or murder should prisoners from government jails under a was unclear how many prisoners might not be released. general amnesty announced by President be freed under the amnesty, as previous “There has always been a fear that Bashar al-Assad, a human rights lawyer clemency decisions have not seen large somehow an amnesty could be used to told AFP yesterday. numbers of detainees released. “It is still turn a blind eye to abuses committed “Dozens of prisoners began to be unclear who will benefit from the both by the government and non-state released from Adra prison (in Damascus amnesty,” said Nadim Houry, deputy direc- actors,” he said. Assad’s issued the province) yesterday and the releases will tor of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East amnesty five days after he won another continue today,” yesterday, Anwar al-Bunni and North Africa division. seven-year term in the country’s first mul- said a day after the unprecedented wide- “This amnesty should not be yet ti-candidate presidential vote. ranging amnesty was announced. another false promise, and the released He secured nearly 90 percent of the “The anti-terrorism tribunal and crimi- should not be replaced by new activists vote, but the election was dismissed as a nal courts are sending lists of the prison- being wrongfully imprisoned,” Houry told “farce” by Syria’s opposition and many in ers to be released to the prisons, and AFP. He added that those responsible for the international community.—AFP security services are handling the lists of those to be released from their facilities,” said Bunni. The releases came a day after Syrian state television reported that Assad had declared an unprecedented amnesty, extending for the first time to those accused under the country’s anti-terror- ism legislation. The government has dubbed all those opposed to Assad’s rule-armed opposi- tion fighters and peaceful activists alike-of “terrorism”, and used the law to imprison high-profile dissidents. The amnesty is also the first to offer clemency to foreign jihadists fighting for the opposition, as long as they hand themselves in within a ALEPPO: This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo month. Those who deserted from the Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and army will be extended a full pardon if they other AP reporting, shows Free Syrian Army fighters running at one of the front hand themselves in within three months lines in the town of Sheikh Najjar, in Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. — AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

US report accuses another Chinese military unit of hacking SAN FRANCISCO: A private US cybersecurity com- trade secrets. question. ing, she added. pany on Monday accused a unit of China’s military CrowdStrike said it was publicizing a report pre- Chen did not respond to requests for comment “The United States cannot pretend that it is the of conducting far-reaching hacking operations to viously sent to clients to show that the issue was sent to the email addresses provided by victim. They are a hacker empire. I think everyone in advance the country’s satellite and aerospace pro- broader than many realize. “After the Chinese CrowdStrike. But a spokeswoman for China’s foreign the world knows this,” Hua said. CrowdStrike was grams. response, where they basically said this is all fabri- ministry poured scorn on the report, saying she had founded by former senior executives at big antivirus Security company CrowdStrike said Shanghai- cated, we said why don’t we unleash something a strong sense of “déja vu” about the allegations, company McAfee, now part of Intel. It has contracts based unit 61486 of the People’s Liberation Army that’s undeniable,” said CrowdStrike co-founder adding it was ridiculous to suggest any hacker and other ties to the U.S. government. 12th bureau has attacked networks of Western gov- Dmitri Alperovitch. He said the company had would openly advertise what he did. The new report is likely to add to the escalating ernment agencies and defense contractors since briefed US intelligence agencies before publishing tensions over cybersecurity issues between the 2007. its report. Hacker empire world’s two largest economies. CrowdStrike said the hacking targeted the US CrowdStrike said an individual named Chen Ping “I think this is both curious and puzzling. Have Chinese officials have already responded sharply space, aerospace and communications sectors. The registered website domain names used in some of you ever seen a thief in the street who advertises on to last month’s indictments, pulling out of talks on cyberspying targeted “popular productivity applica- the intrusions. Chen’s personal blog appears to put his chest that he is a thief? Honestly speaking, I think hacking issues and accusing the United States of tions such as Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office to his age as 35, and he identified himself as a soldier, what the US has done here cannot be accepted as plundering Chinese political and military secrets. deploy custom malware through targeted email the report said. correct,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily However, China on Monday confirmed that it will attacks,” CrowdStrike said. Chen’s email is tied to profiles, blogs and forum news briefing in Beijing. participate for the first time in a major US-hosted Less than three weeks ago the US Justice postings, CrowdStrike said. Among material on Revelations by former US intelligence contractor naval drill being held near the Pacific island of Guam Department took the unprecedented step of unseal- those sites was a photo album titled “office” that Edward Snowden that the United States carried out later this month. China is sending four ships includ- ing indictments against five members of another includes a building CrowdStrike identified as the widespread online surveillance showed that the US ing a destroyer and frigate, regardless of deep mis- People’s Liberation Army unit that allege they stole Shanghai headquarters of the military unit in had no right to point fingers when it came to hack- trust on both sides. — Reuters Police: Vegas cop killers had anti-government view Swastika intended to paint police as Nazis LAS VEGAS: A husband and wife who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Las Vegas harbored anti-government beliefs and left a swastika and a “Don’t tread on me” flag on the body of one of the two police officers they killed, authorities said. The flag, with its roots in the American Revolution, is a symbol for anti-government groups. Police said they believe the swastika was intended to paint police as Nazis, not nec- BUENOS AIRES: Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou (R) leaves Comdoro Py essarily as an expression of the Millers’ own courtroom after being questioned about alleged influence-peddling in the acquisi- white-supremacist views. tion of a company with a monopoly to print the national currency, in Buenos Aires, Jerad and Amanda Miller had been kicked on June 9. The case, which marks the first time a sitting Argentine vice president has off a Nevada ranch where anti-government been taken to court, stems from a transaction in 2010 when Boudou was the coun- protesters faced down federal agents earlier try’s economy minister. — AFP this year because they were “very radical,” according to the son of rancher Cliven Bundy. Bundy, who rejects the authority of the Argentina’s Boudou federal government, got into a high-profile showdown with US officials who say he owes more than $1 million in fees and penalties for denies wrongdoing grazing his cattle on government land. Hundreds of supporters, some of them armed, LAS VEGAS: These images provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Deparment in Las in corruption case went to the ranch to support Bundy. Vegas, Nevada June 9 shows suspected shooters Jerad and Amanda Miller. A gun-toting cou- Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill said ple possibly linked to anti-government militias killed officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck execu- tion-style and left a swastika on the bodies, in America’s latest chilling shooting rampage, Monday that the Millers had ideology shared BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Vice President decide whether to proceed to a trial. police said. — AFP Amado Boudou denied any wrongdoing by “militia and white supremacists,” including the belief that law enforcement was the vigil for the slain officers at CiCi’s Pizza on one round and “told the people to get out Monday as he underwent hours of question- Blames the media Monday night, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and this was a revolution and that the police ing in court about alleged influence-ped- Boudou made a last minute request on “oppressor.” Police believe the shootings were an isolat- reported. According to McMahill, this is how were on the way.” dling in the acquisition of a company with a Monday to answer the court’s questions on Sunday’s events unfolded: In the frenzy, shopper Joseph Wilcox told monopoly to print the national currency. camera, which was denied. The court had ed act, not part of a broader conspiracy to tar- The Millers left a neighbor’s apartment friends he was going to confront Jerad Miller - The case marks the first time a sitting previously rejected a request that the hear- get law enforcement, McMahill said. Argentine vice president has been taken to ing be transmitted on live television. Ammon Bundy, one of Cliven Bundy’s sons, where they had been staying around 4:30 am not realizing that Amanda Miller was his court. It stems from a transaction in 2010 Boudou said he is a victim of a negative said by telephone that the Millers were at his and walked for hours, eventually reaching the accomplice. Wilcox went from the checkout when Boudou was the country’s economy media campaign. father’s ranch for a few days this spring before strip mall, about five miles (eight kilometers) area to Miller and pulled his concealed minister. “As they did not let us broadcast the they were asked to leave by militia members away. Jerad Miller went briefly into the restau- firearm. But before he could fire, Amanda Following his appearance, Boudou said hearing, we are scanning the more than 30 for unspecified “conduct” problems. He called rant, then left and got his wife, leaving their Miller shot him in the ribs and Wilcox col- that his entire statement would be posting pages so that everyone can read them,” the couple “very radical” and said they “did not backpacks outside. lapsed. on Facebook. “I answered some questions Boudou said on Twitter. “It would be very align themselves” with the beliefs of other The two officers were sitting in a booth. “Joseph died trying to protect others,” from the judge and the prosecutor,” he told good to have transparency and visibility in protesters, who thwarted a roundup of Cliven Jerad Miller fatally shot Soldo in the back of Sheriff Doug Gillespie said. By now, police reporters. this case, which has been much talked Bundy’s cattle by the US Bureau of Land his head. As his partner tried to react, Miller had arrived, and two five-officer teams Arriving at the court to a swarm of pho- about,” said Jorge Capitanich, President Management, which wants to collect more shot him once in the throat. Amanda Miller entered the massive store. Near the back, tographers, Boudou, 51, said he was at Cristina Kirchner’s chief of staff. than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties. then pulled her own gun and both shot Beck one team confronted the Millers, and peace with himself and had come “to tell the “It is an excellent opportunity for the several times. Police believe that while the exchanged fire. At one point, Jerad Miller truth.” public to learn of all the reasons and for the Candlelight vigil Millers wanted to target police, the choice of tried to blast a rear emergency exit door Federal Judge Ariel Lijo is investigating judiciary and a judge to act without pres- Soldo and Beck was random. open with a shotgun, but police had blocked whether Boudou acquired Ciccone sures of any kind,” he said. Boudou, 51, is a While thousands of people have been to the site over the last couple of months, “Not Pulling the mortally wounded officers from it with a car and he could not escape. Calcografica through associates to negotiate flamboyant Peronist politician who plays the booth, they took their guns and ammuni- One officer went with store security to sweetheart contracts with the state and the electric guitar and drives motorcycles. very many people were asked to leave. I think tion and put a yellow Gadsden flag featuring screens showing feeds from surveillance ruling party to print money and official doc- As president of the Senate, he can be they may have been the only ones,” Ammon uments. tried but not arrested unless he is fired by Bundy said. the phrase “Don’t tread on me” and a swastika cameras and saw that Jerad Miller had built Prosecutors suspect that Boudou, the the legislature, which is controlled by the On Sunday, the two Las Vegas police offi- on Beck’s body. a makeshift barricade around his wife. first of seven people to be questioned in the ruling party. cers were having lunch at a pizza buffet in an The couple also told restaurant patrons As police closed in, Amanda Miller shot case, “took advantage of his condition as a The government of Kirchner supports aging strip mall when the Millers fatally shot that their act was “the beginning of the revo- her husband several times with a handgun, public official” to favor the company, accord- him. Boudou served as economy minister them. The attack at a CiCi’s Pizza killed officers lution,” the same message as a note they left killing him. She then shot herself in the ing to the summons issued for him to during Kirchner’s first term, and then was Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, both of at the restaurant. That was what the Millers head. When officers arrived, she was still appear. Once all seven suspects are elected vice president in 2011 as her run- whom were husbands and fathers. told customers at a Wal-Mart about a block breathing, and was taken to the hospital. deposed, the judge will have 10 days to ning-mate. — AFP About 100 people attended a candlelight away, where the couple fled. Jerad Miller fired She later died. — AP Report: Sex crimes up at US colleges WASHINGTON: The number of sex offenses reported at American colleges and universities went up in the last decade even as overall campus crime decreased, according to an Education Department survey that also suggests high schools are safer than they used to be. The report released Tuesday said 3,330 forcible sex offens- es were reported on campuses in 2011, the latest data avail- able for colleges and universities that researchers have ana- lyzed. That was a 51 percent increase from the 2,200 reported a decade earlier. But the number of campus crimes in every other category, such as burglary and car theft, declined dur- ing the same period. The annual survey primarily focuses on crime and safety at the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, where fewer crimes were reported than 20 years ago, according to the report. Of students ages 12-18, 52 per 1,000 reported being vic- tims of a crime at school in 2012, compared with 181 per 1,000 in 1992, according to the report. Away from school that rate fell from 173 per 1,000 to 38. Males were more likely than females to be victims of crime, and students in urban and suburban areas were more likely than their rural counterparts to have experienced crime. The report draws on data from different sources, includ- ing the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and campus surveys. That means data for some statistical cat- egories were available for as recently as 2012, while others - such as for fatal violence in schools - were not. At elementary and high schools, the report identified 31 homicides or suicides - though not necessarily of students - between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, that occurred either on school grounds, on the way to or from school, or while attending or traveling to or from a school-sponsored event. During the 2010-11 school year, 11 school-age children were killed at school, and there were three reported suicides. Though the 31 violent deaths for the year represent a sharp drop from the early 1990s, Tom Snyder of the National Center for Education Statistics, an Education Department center that collects and analyzes data, cautioned that it was hard to draw meaningful conclusions about any trend. The data were compiled, for instance, before the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 Iran must budge on centrifuges for talks to succeed: France

PARIS: Iran must drop its demands to have thou- planned nuclear power plants. assess their strategy ahead of the next round of offi- A senior Iranian official said on Monday talks sands of centrifuges used to enrich uranium if it Paris has long held out for strict terms in the cial negotiations with Iran beginning in Vienna on could be extended for another six months if no deal wants a lasting deal with major powers over its dis- negotiations, in which it and Britain, China, June 16. is reached by a July 20 deadline. puted nuclear programme, France’s foreign minister Germany, Russia and the United States are contem- “We are still hitting a wall on one absolutely fun- A November agreement - under which Iran sus- said yesterday. plating an easing of strict economic sanctions if Iran damental point which is the number of centrifuges pended some nuclear activities in exchange for lim- Highlighting a big gap in negotiating positions, can dispel their concerns. which allow enrichment,” Fabius told France Inter ited sanctions relief - allowed for a six-month exten- Laurent Fabius told French radio that Iran should US and Iranian officials are holding talks in radio. “We say that there can be a few hundred cen- sion if more time were needed for a settlement. An only have a few hundred centrifuges, machines that Geneva this week to discuss ways of breaking a trifuges, but the Iranians want thousands so we’re extension would allow up to half a year more for spin at supersonic speed to increase the concentra- deadlock which has raised the likelihood that a self- not in the same framework,” he said. It was not limited sanctions relief and restraints on Iranian tion of the fissile isotope. imposed July 20 deadline will lapse without an immediately clear whether he was spelling out the nuclear work. “Obviously, if the Iranians maintain Iran - which says its nuclear programme is peace- accord. Failure of the broader negotiating process French position, or that of the six powers. their position, what is the purpose of having thou- ful and rejects accusations it has been seeking to could raise the possibility of further sanctions and Enriched uranium can be used to generate sands of centrifuges if we’re not heading towards develop a nuclear weapons capability - now has increase the danger of militry action by Israel nuclear power, which is Iran’s stated goal, but can an atomic bomb?,” Fabius said. “So the question that around 19,000 centrifuges installed, of which rough- against Iranian nuclear instillations. French officials also provide the fissile core of a nuclear warhead if will be asked in the coming weeks is whether Iran is ly 10,000 are operating, according to the UN nuclear are due to meet Iranian negotiators on Wednesday refined to high degree, which the West fears may be really ready to accept to give up the atomic bomb agency. It says it needs to expand its capacity to fuel in Geneva before the six world powers meet to Tehran’s ultimate aim. or not.” — Reuters Top Kenyan Muslim preacher shot dead

MOMBASA: Gunmen in the Kenyan Nelson Marwa said it was a drive-by Idris, was shot dead. port city of Mombasa yesterday shot shooting, with unknown gunmen fir- Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, dead an influential moderate Muslim ing from a motorbike. “They shot him was a vocal supporter of Osama bin preacher who was a vocal opponent in the abdomen and he was pro- Laden and had described last year’s of the radical preachings of Somalia’s nounced dead at the hospital,” Marwa attack on the Westgate shopping mall Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, said. “He was a pillar of unity among in Nairobi, which was claimed by police said. our people, and he has left a vacuum.” Shebab fighters, as “100-percent justi- Idris was chairman of a key fied”. In August 2012, radical preacher mosque that was recently taken over Aboud Rogo Mohammed was also radical youths, and according to press gunned down, sparking deadly riots, reports he had been accused of help- and in October last year his successor, ing the authorities. The preacher had Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail, met the same said he feared for his life. fate on a road near Mombasa. “There was a power struggle at Kenya has been hit by a series of Sakina mosque-where he was sup- attacks since invading Somalia in posed to be installed as a sheikh- 2011 to battle the Shebab, later join- between his supporters and another ing an African Union force battling radical group opposed to him,” Kitur the Islamists. added. Last month several Western Mombasa, Kenya’s second city and DONETSK CITY: A pro-Russian militia man from the “Russian Orthodox Army” stands at a check point near the air- nations urged their nationals to avoid an important tourist hub on the coun- port in Donetsk city yesterday. Ukraine’s new Western-backed president ordered the creation of humanitarian cor- all but essential travel to the coastal try’s palm-fringed Indian Ocean coast- ridors in the separatist east that could save civilians and advance his plan to end nearly two months of fighting by city of Mombasa, the scene of a string line, has also seen a series of attacks the end of the week. — AFP of recent bombings and shootings. on churches as well as power strug- Idris’s death is the latest killing of gles between rival Muslim factions. Muslim leaders in the city, although Ukraine prez orders civilian previous shootings have been of radi- Murder condemned MOMBASA: A photo taken on January cal leaders accused of backing the “The killings of Muslim religious corridors in war-ravaged east 1st, 2014 shows Mohamed Idris, 64, Shebab. leaders has reached alarming levels,” chairman of the Council of Imams and said Hussein Khalid, head of the Preachers of Kenya who was shot ‘God will pay’ killers Mombasa-based civil society group dead yesterday by gunmen in Kenya’s Poroshenko unveils plan to end rebellion Previous shootings of clerics have HAKI Africa. port city of Mombasa. — AFP sparked riots, and his brother Ali Idris Idris preached in mosques that KIEV: Ukraine’s new Western-backed cally-devastated country into even “Criminal conduct by the insurgents Mohamed Idris, 64, chairman of urged people not to take the streets radical interpretations of jihad were president yesterday ordered the cre- deeper recession. A marathon round of does not relieve the Ukrainian forces of the Council of Imams and Preachers to protest. wrong, and that Islam was a peaceful ation of humanitarian corridors in the EU-mediated gas talks concluded in their obligations to act in accordance of Kenya, was shot in the stomach “We are calling for calm... we can- religion that did not encourage vio- separatist east that could save civilians Brussels early Tuesday without an with international law,” Human Rights shortly before dawn as he headed to not carry out any revenge,” he said. lence. He had also urged the govern- and advance his plan to end nearly two agreement but a decision for the sides Watch said in a letter addressed to prayers at a mosque, Mombasa police “God will pay the killers.” In April, ment arrest key financiers and radical months of fighting by the end of the to meet again by today after further Poroshenko. chief Robert Kitur told AFP. prominent hardline Muslim cleric preachers. He is survived by four week. consultations back home. Mombasa County Commissioner Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, a rival of wives and 25 children. — AFP Tycoon Petro Poroshenko’s initiative But Ukraine’s Energy Minister Yuriy Elusive gas deal meets a major demand put forward by Prodan conceded that little progress The gas talks in Brussels came on the Moscow and helps address growing had been made on a dispute over prices eve of a Russian deadline for Ukraine to concern among rights groups about and billions of dollars in contested cover a debt of $4.5 billion (3.3 billion Kiev’s use of tanks and air power in debts sought by Moscow. “We remained euros) or have its shipments end today. heavily populated areas to suppress the at the level of the (last round) of negoti- Russia has not yet publically indicat- pro-Russian insurgency. But the 48-year- ations,” Prodan said. ed whether it was ready to push back old chocolatier and political veteran that deadline in an effort to let the stopped well short of accepting the Justified use of force negotiations take their course. Ukraine Kremlin’s request to allow Russian aid A top leader in the self-proclaimed has refused to pay the gas bill in protest into the eastern rustbelt-a move Kiev “Donetsk People’s Republic” said the lev- at Russia’s decision to nearly double its fears could be used to help arm the el of violence made him doubt the sin- rates in the wake of the February ouster rebels. cerity of Poroshenko’s proposals. of Kiev’s Kremlin-backed president. “In order to avoid new victims in the “We heard about this initiative but About 15 percent of Europe’s gas zone of the anti-terrorist operation, the doubt it will come into force,” Donetsk from Russia transits through Ukraine- president has ordered the responsible “deputy governor” Andriy Purgin told dependence that EU nations have been ministers to bring about all necessary Russia’s Interfax news agency. trying to limit following similar disrup- conditions for civilians who want to The government’s military offensive- tions in 2006 and 2009. leave,” Poroshenko’s office said in a dubbed an “anti-terrorist operation” by Analysts had expected the two sides statement. Kiev and a “punitive operation” by to agree to a new price of around $350 The new leader also told his govern- Moscow - has gathered considerable per thousand cubic metres of gas-a sum ment to provide transportation as well momentum since Poroshenko’s May 25 about halfway between Russia’s old rate as food and medical supplies for local election as the fifth president of and the one set after the rise to power officials to be able to handle the expect- Ukraine. of the new pro-Western authorities. ed inflow of displaced persons into oth- The fighting has engulfed two eco- But they said Ukraine appeared to be er parts of Ukraine. nomically-vital regions that are home to taking a hardline position by demand- Poroshenko has unveiled plans to seven million people and have exten- ing the same rate Russia awarded the end a rebellion that has killed more sive trade and cultural ties to Russia. The ousted authorities for their decision to than 200 and shaken the very founda- battles are now primarily being waged ditch an historic EU trade agreement. tion of the splintered ex-Soviet state by along Ukraine’s border with Russia and “Ukraine’s lack of a constructive posi- the end of his first week in office. Slavyansk-a city of 120,000 that was the tion is seriously impeding the talks,” The peace push came after the first first of a dozen to fall under rebel com- Moscow’s Alfa Bank said in a morning of what are expected to be daily meet- mand in early April. A Ukrainian military research note. ings with Moscow’s ambassador to Kiev source told AFP that federal forces had “Ukraine continues to insist on a and a representative from the also successfully repelled a second gas price of $268 per thousand cubic Organisation for Security and attempt by guerrillas to seize the main metre, which EU authorities view as a Cooperation in Europe-a Vienna-based airport in the neighbouring region of non-market price.” Russia’s energy body that was first tasked with ensuring Lugansk since the weekend. ministryyesterday said the talks could peace during the Cold War. But human rights groups question proceed if Ukraine covers a $1.45-bil- Poroshenko’s high-stakes negotia- whether Ukraine’s growing reliance on lion debt it owes from the last two tions with the Kremlin include efforts to artillery fire in Slavyansk and neighbour- months of 2013 and makes a partial avert a Russian gas cut that would also ing towns-an offensive backed by Kiev’s payment of $500 million for April and impact Europe and plunge his economi- US and EU allies-was entirely justified. May deliveries. — AFP German president can call neo-Nazis ‘loonies’

KARLSRUHE: Germany’s president Joachim Gauck has the The court acknowledged that the term “loonies” could right to call members of a neo-Nazi party “loonies”, the be seen as defamatory. “Here, however, as follows from the country’s top court ruled yesterday. overall style of the respondent’s statements, the term The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed a complaint “loonies”, in addition to the terms “ideologues” and “fanat- by the far-right, anti-immigrant National Democratic Party ics”, serves as a collective term for people who have not of Germany (NPD) against the remark last August by the learned the lessons of history and who, unimpressed by largely ceremonial head of state. the dreadful consequences of National Socialism, hold The fringe party had argued that the president, whose nationalist and anti-democratic opinions,” it said. job is to serve as a kind of national moral arbiter and repre- The NPD, with around 6,000 members, scored just 1.3 sent Germany abroad, is supposed to stay neutral on day- percent in national elections last September and has never to-day party politics. entered the national parliament. However, it is represented But the court gave the president a wide berth for how in two eastern states’ legislatures and therefore is entitled he performs his functions and what issues he chooses to to official campaign funding under German electoral law. address. “Specific statements by the Federal President can And last month it gained its first seat in the European only be objected to before the courts if the Federal Parliament after garnering 1.0 percent of the national vote. President takes sides in a way that clearly neglects the inte- Germany’s upper house of parliament is working on a case grative task of his office, and thus takes sides in an arbitrary before the constitutional court to ban the NPD, which was manner,” it said in a statement. founded in 1964 as a successor to the neo-fascist German “This was not the case here.” The president made the Reich Party. comment to students after the NPD helped organise Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman has labelled the protests against a refugee centre that had opened in east- group an “anti-democratic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, anti- ern Berlin. Gauck, once a Christian pro-democracy activist constitutional party”. And the Federal Office for the in communist East Germany, said: “We need citizens who Protection of the Constitution, a domestic security watch- rally in the streets and put these loonies in their place.” dog, has the party under observation. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Female Afghan cabbie meters out election advice

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: When Afghan taxi driver Sara effort in Afghanistan, but most women still live Bahai has male passengers in her cab, she takes the strictly confined lives and very few build an inde- chance to lobby them on female rights-and she pendent career such as taxi-driving. hopes the country’s next president will also listen to her arguments. ‘Working has emboldened me’ Bahai has been driving the streets of Mazar-i- “I am not afraid of anyone now,” said Bahai, 40, Sharif city for 10 years, during which Afghanistan has who is unmarried and took up her job to provide for experienced huge changes, including limited her two adopted sons and her sister’s seven children. improvements in the lives of many women after the “When I first got the licence after the fall of the harsh years of Taleban rule. Taleban, everybody laughed at me. But working has Now, ahead of the Saturday’s run-off election, she emboldened me and I want to show that women are says the new president must push ahead with not just meant to marry and have children. reforms in the face of opposition from Islamists who “Many women, when they see their taxi driver is seek to reverse gains as the US-led intervention female, remove their veils or burqas and talk, they winds down this year. trust me more,” she said, adding she earns about $9 “Sometimes I argue with male passengers all the a day plying the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif in the rela- journey to convince them a woman driving a taxi tively peaceful north of Afghanistan. isn’t a bad or un-Islamic thing,” Bahai, who is thought “Some people would say I am setting a bad to have been Afghanistan’s first-ever female taxi example, and I have suffered insults. But it is my pas- driver, told AFP. sion, and I was determined not to give in to the pres- “I have many expectations for the next govern- sure.” ment. They must pay serious attention to women. The two presidential candidates, Abdullah BALKH: This photograph taken on May 18, 2014 shows Afghan taxi driver Sara Bahai, 40, waiting for “Women should be given bigger roles, they Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have both stressed that customers in her taxi in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province. When Afghan taxi should be given seats as ministers. And female they would work to boost women’s dire status in driver Sara Bahai has male passengers in her cab, she takes the chance to lobby them on female teachers should be paiTd more to help female edu- society, but entrenched patriarchal views remain rights — and she hopes the country’s next president will also listen to her arguments. — AFP cation. strong nationwide. cess we had in the last 14 years, but there have been abuse cases. “I see a lot of changes for Afghan women in the Activists say the flagship 2009 Elimination of only limited improvements on the ground,” Hasina In other areas, women’s seat quotas on provincial past few years. Many are setting up businesses to do Violence Against Women law has been rarely imple- Safi, director of the Afghan Women’s Network, told councils were cut, and a draft law suggesting the whatever they want. Much work has been done, but mented, and horrific recent abuse cases have includ- AFP. reinstatement of stoning for adultery was rejected it is not enough-women are aware of their rights.” ed women executed for alleged affairs, as well as “I hope to see more female drivers. This shows the only after the proposal became public. Under the Taleban, who imposed a strict version stonings and mutilation. evolution of Afghan women. The election will bring For one of Bahai’s satisfied customers, hailing a of Islamic law, all Afghan women were barred from The United Nations, Human Watch Rights and positive changes for women’s rights-if the govern- female taxi driver offers hope for the future despite work and education, and the all-encompassing local campaigners fear that women’s rights could ment stands by its international commitments.” the many challenges that Afghan women face. burqa was compulsory on rare trips outside the already be deteriorating as the NATO military with- Earlier this year, a global campaign nudged “When a women drives, it shows progress,” said home. draws and attention on Afghanistan’s development President Hamid Karzai into ordering amendments Lida, a 22-year-old university student. “It shows the The improvement in women’s rights has been fades. to a proposed law that would have banned family women can stand on their own feet, without anyone hailed as one of the major successes of the US-led “A female taxi driver is one example of the suc- members from testifying against male relatives in else’s help.” — AFP Pakistan repels second Taleban attack near Karachi airport Pounds ‘terrorist hideouts’ after Karachi attack KARACHI: Taleban gunmen attacked a security post outside Pakistan’s Karachi airport yesterday, a day after an all-night siege by the militants left 37 dead and shredded a tentative peace process. The latest assault on the airport raised further questions about the authorities’ ability to secure key facilities in the face of a resurgent enemy, and came as air force jets pounded suspected militant hideouts in the northwest, killing 25 people. The attack on the security post targeted an entry point to an Airport Security Force (ASF) camp 500 metres (yards) from the airport’s main premises, and around a kilometre from the passenger terminal. Police, paramilitary rangers and army all raced to HYDERABAD: Relatives and friends mourn near the mortal remains of Indian student the site but officials reported there had been no Gampala Aishwarya, who drowned after water was released from a dam in northern casualties and they had not traded fire with the mil- Himachal Pradesh state, during last rites at their residence in Hyderabad yesterday. itants. “Two people came towards the ASF (Airport Rescuers discovered five bodies June 9 in a river in northern India as they stepped up Security Force) checkpost and started firing,” their search for 24 students washed away in a sudden surge of water released from a Colonel Tahir Ali, a spokesman for the force told dam. — AFP reporters. “Nobody has been killed or injured,” he added. Army spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa Two Russians dead confirmed the incident was over, but said three to four assailants were involved. “3-4 terrorists fired near ASF camp, ran away. No breach of fence, no in India bus crash entry. Chase is on, situation under control,” he KARACHI: Pakistan rangers hold passers-by during a search operation after the firing incident tweeted. DEHRADUN: A bus carrying Russian water. near Karachi airport in Karachi yesteray. The second attack on Pakistan’s Karachi airport in as Flights resumed after temporarily being sus- tourists plunged into a river in northern Eight others had been taken to a hos- many days ended without casualties, officials said, but with the escape of the two gunmen pended for the second time in as many days, Abid India yesterday, killing at least two and pital in the state capital Dehradun, while involved. — AFP Qaimkhani, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation injuring eight, a local official said. The another three were unharmed, he said. spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said, referring to The strikes were the latest in a succession of Authority, told AFP. bus was travelling to Gangotri, source District magistrate Sridhar Babu Adanky Pakistani air strikes of suspected militant hideouts. attacks carried out by the Pakistani military in the A senior rangers official at the scene who wished of the Ganges, in the Himalayan state of blamed “bad road conditions” for the tribal belt this year after talks with the Tehreek-e- to remain anonymous said the gunmen may have Uttarakhand when it veered off the accident which occurred close to Air strikes Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke down. fled to a nearby shanty settlement. “We are chasing road and into the river below, police remote Harsil village, some 245 kilome- Earlier in the morning, Pakistani jets launched air The last was in North Waziristan in late May, them, we will get them, its not easy to hide here, superintendent Jagat Ram Jyoti said. tres (152 miles) from Dehradun. strikes on a militant-infested tribal district in appar- killing at least 75 people and triggering an exodus there are no buildings, no population except for “There were 14 Russian tourists in Adanky confirmed rescue operations ent retaliation for Monday’s siege. The military said of some 58,000 people-half of them in the past few two small shanty towns nearby,” he told AFP. the bus,” he said. “Two of them died at were under way for those still missing. nine “terrorist hideouts” were destroyed in the raids, days in fear of a ground offensive that has been The Taleban later claimed responsibility for the the spot, their bodies have been recov- The Himalayan region with steep gorges launched after the Taleban stormed Pakistan’s anticipated for years. attack, saying they were in response to air strikes in ered.” and mountains was devastated last year biggest airport, killing 37 people in an all-night bat- The military’s death toll from yesterday’s strikes, the tribal areas. “Today’s attack on ASF (Airport Another Russian was missing and the by floods and landslides triggered by tle that ended Monday. in the restive Tirah Valley area of Khyber tribal dis- Security Force) in Karachi is in response to the bom- driver’s status was unknown, he added, early monsoon rains, leaving some 5,500 The dramatic siege by heavily armed militants trict, could not be independently verified. The dis- bardment on innocent people in Tirah Valley and with a search ongoing for the bus in the people dead or missing.— AFP targeting Pakistan’s economic hub piled pressure trict was also targeted in April, with aerial bombing other tribal areas. We will continue such attacks,” on the government to act. that killed dozens. — AFP

Another politician shot dead in north India

NEW DELHI: Two men on a motorcycle shot dead on Monday a politician from the ruling party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh, the second such killing in a week, prompting concern about lawlessness in the northern state. Omveer Singh, a local politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was riding a motorcycle to his hometown around 7 am when two unidentified men pulled up and “shot him till he died”, said Kamal Singh, a local police offi- cial. Singh shot back and wounded one of the assailants, but they managed to drive away. They did not take the two mobile phones, wallet and cash the politician had on him, said policeman Singh. The shoot-out took place in Muzaffarnagar district, a flashpoint in western Uttar Pradesh in which some 60 peo- ple were killed in Hindu-Muslim riots last year. It was the latest in a surge of apparently unconnected violent incidents coinciding with a summer heat wave and the general election last month won by the BJP. Singh was killed three days after another BJP politician, Vijay Pandit, was shot dead in Noida, an industrial satellite city in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. Pandit was standing outside his home on Saturday night when three men on motorcycles fired at him. His supporters said he was shot for campaigning against extortion rackets, the Indian Express reported. An investigation has been launched, but the killings do not appear to be connected. Uttar Pradesh, home to one in every six of India’s 1.2 billion people, is one of the country’s poorest and most crime-ridden states. In one of the more heinous examples, two girls, aged 12 and 14, were raped and hanged from a tree there last month. The state, ruled by the regional Samajwadi Party, was criticised for its lawlessness by opposition lawmakers in parliament yesterday. Singh, the police official in Muzaffarnagar, said Tuesday’s attack might have been over money, as the politician’s uncle allegedly owed two million Indian rupees ($34,000) to gangsters. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 Clock ticks as Japan PM pushes to loosen constraints on military TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cam- But the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) Advocates say growing regional threats, including A survey by the NHK public broadcaster released paign to ease constitutional curbs that have kept the junior coalition partner, the New Komeito, and the from an increasingly assertive China, mean Japan on Monday put support for Abe’s cabinet at 52 per- military out of overseas conflicts for nearly 70 years is lay Buddhist group that backs it, are wary of signing cannot afford to wait. cent, down four points from a May poll. Forty-one going down to the wire. off on what would be a major shift in Japan’s security percent were undecided about collective self- With less than two weeks before a self-imposed policies. “At present, we can’t say that the gaps ‘Overdue Homework’ defence, while those in favour and those opposed deadline, a gulf yawns between the hawkish leader between the LDP and New Komeito have narrowed,” Sino-Japanese ties have been strained by a feud accounted for 26 percent each. and his dovish coalition partner on changes that LDP Vice President Masahiko Komura told reporters over tiny isles in the East China Sea, distrust of each At 36.9 percent, backing for Abe’s LDP dwarfed would allow Japan’s military to go to the aid of a after inter-party talks yesterday. other’s defence policies, and rows stemming from the 5.1 percent who supported the main opposition friendly nation under attack. If a draft cabinet resolution is not presented at the the legacy of Japan’s wartime occupation of much of Democratic Party, but 42.4 percent supported no The stalemate has sparked speculation that Abe next round of talks on Friday, the schedule would be China. “Overdue homework should be done in a hur- particular party. Political experts said, however, that might call a snap poll to seek a mandate to lift the too tight for it to be adopted during parliament’s cur- ry because the possibility of a clear and present chatter about a snap election was more likely a tactic ban on so-called collective self-defence, though rent session, he said. potential threat is increasing,” said former Japanese aimed at getting the New Komeito to compromise. sceptics say an election would distract from efforts to Abe, who has long fretted under the restraints of diplomat Kunihiko Miyake. “The longer it takes, the The LDP has a clear majority in parliament’s lower revive the economy, a top priority since Abe took the U.S.-drafted constitution, wants the cabinet to less furious debate will be. We have to strike while house, but needs the New Komeito’s support to pass office in December 2012. Abe has made clear he adopt the change before parliament breaks on June the iron is hot.” If Abe were to call a snap election for bills in the upper chamber, which can block legisla- wants his cabinet to adopt a resolution to let 22. That would allow it to be reflected in an update of parliament’s lower house, as some media has specu- tion. Support from the lay Buddhist Soka Gakkai Japanese forces engage in combat overseas, which US-Japan defence cooperation guidelines the allies lated, he could cast victory as public backing for his group which backs the smaller party is also critical for has been ruled out under a decades-old interpreta- aim to complete by the end of the year. security stance. “All options are conceivable ... If sup- many LDP lawmakers to keep their seats. tion of the post-World War Two, U.S.-drafted pacifist Abe and his aides fear that if the talks drag on, port rates were low, he wouldn’t do it, but now sup- “The New Komeito has a final card to play - refus- constitution. The United States and some Southeast momentum for the change, which many voters port rates are high, so it wouldn’t be a problem,” LDP ing to cooperate with the LDP in an election,” said Asian countries would welcome the change, while oppose for fear Japan would be drawn into overseas General Council head Seiko Noda told Reuters. “But Tomoaki Iwai, a political science professor at Nihon rival China would almost certainly criticise it as fur- wars, will be lost. Critics say the re-interpretation of this is something only the prime minister knows, University. “The possibility (of a snap election) is not ther evidence that Tokyo, rather than Beijing, is ramp- the constitution would gut its war-renouncing Article Clock ticks as Japan PM pushes to loosen constraints zero, but it is not very realistic.” The next general elec- ing up regional security tension. 9 and bypass politically tough amendment steps. on military so I can’t comment.” tion must be held by 2016. —Reuters China’s Vietnam veterans fighting new battle

YIYANG: Marginalised and misunderstood, landmark reform drive that partially replaced Chinese Vietnam veterans-who fought in a lit- its state-planned economy with free markets. tle-celebrated war against their southern Leaving the army, Teng was assigned a job neighbours-risk beatings and prison in a new in a state-run firm, but was later laid off and battle with government officials. could only find work as a rubbish collector. Teng Xingqiu is one of thousands of Soldiers of the time were “left behind” by retired Chinese soldiers staging an increasing change, said Neil Diamant, a professor at number of protests over unpaid benefits and Dickinson College in the US who has studied unnerving Communist authorities. veteran activism, and now many are “living “The police told me they hoped I’d die in hand to mouth with mounting medical jail,” said Teng, whose activism resulted in him expenses”. China often vows aid for its veter- being sentenced to three years in prison in ans-estimated to number millions-but rules 2009. A thin man whose body bears scars he conflict and are poorly enforced. says result from police violence, the 56-year- Teng says he makes about 1,000 yuan old scanned the streets for surveillance cam- ($160) a month from odd jobs but thinks the eras before choosing a run-down restaurant government should find him a wage match- as a safe meeting spot. The current tensions ing the approximately 2,800 yuan average over Beijing’s deployment of an oil rig to dis- income in his home town of Yiyang, in the puted waters are only the latest strain central province of Hunan. between the Communist neighbours. He was sentenced to more than three Teng was posted to the border area during years in jail for “assembling to disturb order in a brief but bloody war in January 1979 — a public place”, after banding together with China’s last major land conflict-launched by other former soldiers who donned army uni- Beijing to punish Hanoi for invading forms to protest outside government offices. Cambodia and overthrowing the genocidal China sees hundreds of demonstrations Pol Pot, a Chinese ally. “As Chinese citizens, of involving thousands of veterans every year, GWANGJU: Kim Byung-gwon, a representative of families of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol, speaks after a pretrial hearing of crew course we wanted to go to the front. A lot of according to rights groups, with more than members of the ferry at Gwangju District Court in Gwangju, South Korea, yesterday. Hostile spectators cursing, shouting and weeping behind my army friends were killed. Many members 10,000 reportedly doing so in 11 provinces them, 15 crew members from the sunken South Korean ferry appeared in court yesterday to enter pleas on charges of negligence and failing to of my platoon were shot dead,” he said. late last month. save more than 300 dead or missing passengers. — AP China reportedly acknowledges it lost Such demonstrations are one of the 6,954 soldiers. Other estimates place its toll at biggest threats to social stability in the coun- more than 20,000, with even higher figures try, Xue Gangling, dean of the China for Vietnamese casualties. No national memo- University of Politics and Law, told Chinese S Korea ferry crew rial to the conflict exists, and Beijing rarely media outlet Caixin last year. mentions it, even when denouncing Hanoi. China’s President Xi Jinping has in the last The war was “deadly and atrocious on the year vowed to cut army personnel as part of ground,” according to US historian Xiaoming sweeping military reforms aimed at creating Zhang. “Ordinary Vietnamese worked in an army oriented towards sea and air com- murder trial opens secret with the army, old men and women bat-raising the possibility of further veteran would even shoot at us, it was really terrify- unrest. But authorities view any organised ing,” Teng said. Beijing declared victory and dissent as a risk, and crack down harshly. withdrew its troops less than a month after Significantly, any suggestion of disloyalty Shout of ‘murderer’ goes up in packed court they reached an outpost near Hanoi. Vietnam in the military-a pillar of Communist control- also regards it as a success, saying it repelled is anathema to China’s rulers, who constantly Chinese forces. stress the need for the People’s Liberation GWANGJU: Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry same if these were your children? Please imagine publicised case. Army to follow Party orders. that sank in April killing more than 300 people, for a moment that they were your children who “They were appointed by the court, so we Threat to social stability Censors block news of military-linked most of them children, went on trial yesterday on died and tell the truth.” hope there is no criticism of them,” Hahn told The US has produced hundreds of films protests, Chinese reporters told AFP. “Army charges ranging from negligence to homicide, The lawyer for the captain, in an opening reporters before the hearing. A panel of three and novels about its own Vietnam war, but topics are sensitive and people sense danger with the shout going up of “murderer” as the cap- statement, said his client had no power to stop judges presided over the first day of the trial, as China’s experience there is rarely spoken so it’s particularly hard for veterans to tain entered the court. the ferry company’s practice of overloading the the state called for justice to be served and the about, and first-hand accounts are heavily mobilise outside support,” said Diamant. Captain Lee Joon-seok, 68, and three senior vessel with cargo. The lawyer, Lee Kwang-jae, also seven defence lawyers presented their case. censored. “Orphans can do it, environmentalists can do crew members were charged with homicide, fac- said the captain had not meant to cause the acci- The captain and one senior crew member had Around the same time, China began the it, but not veterans.” ing a maximum sentence of death. Two were dent, and there were therefore no grounds for written to the court pleading leniency, court doc- charged with fleeing and abandoning ship that the homicide charge. “It wasn’t like he had a uments show, but details were not available. carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. grudge against the children so it’s difficult to Authorities are still searching for Yoo Byung- Nine were charged with negligence, which can accept the prosecution’s argument that he wilful- un, head of the family that owned the operator also carry jail terms. ly neglected the duty of rescue and escaped to of the doomed ferry, on charges of embezzle- Emotions ran high in court as family members save himself,” Lee told the court. ment seen as a key factor that led to compro- appeared to have already convicted the crew The sound of sobbing was heard throughout mised safety management. who were caught on video abandoning ship, the the courtroom as the state presented its case and Police have arrested executives of the ferry captain in his underwear, while the children, the head prosecutor’s voice broke when he operator and subsidiaries of the investment firm obeying orders, waited in their cabins for further recounted the last moments of some of the chil- held by Yoo’s family but they have yet to go on instructions. As the defendants were led in, dren. trial. The coastguard, which is set to be broken someone in the packed courtroom shouted: up, is also facing investigation for suspected neg- “That guy is the captain, isn’t he? Murderer!” “I don’t know why ligence in the course of the rescue operation. One relative held up a sign that read: “You are this is happening’ President Park Geun-hye, who days after the dis- not human. You are beneath animals.” An alterca- One child was caught on video, recovered lat- aster said the actions of some of the crew were tion broke out between relatives and security er, staring death in the face, the prosecutor said. tantamount to murder, nominated a former jour- guards who tried to take the sign away. “I’m not a criminal, I don’t know why this is hap- nalist as her choice to be the new prime minister The Sewol, overloaded and travelling too fast pening,” the child was quoted as saying. “I haven’t to replace the incumbent who resigned over the on a turn, sank off the southwest coast on April done anything that bad.” government’s slow and ineffective response to 16 on a routine journey from Incheon on the The court suspended the hearing and set the the disaster. Moon Chang-geuk was expected to mainland to the southern holiday island of Jeju. next court appearance for next Tuesday. About take charge of overhauling bureaucracy and Of the 476 passengers and crew on board, 339 20 relatives stood outside the court waiting for reforming safety standards as pledged by Park. were children and teachers from the same school the defendants’ bus to appear. Park Eun-hee, the A lawyer appearing for the one of the crew in on the outskirts of Seoul. Only 172 people were mother of a girl who died on the ferry, hearings held earlier behind closed doors con- rescued and the remainder are all presumed to denounced the crew’s earlier defence that they fessed to being torn between professional obli- YIYANG: This picture taken on May 8, 2014 shows former Chinese Vietnam veteran have drowned. had panicked. “We mothers say this. The crew gation and the resignation that lawyers could soldier Teng Xingqiu showing a photo of his military badge received for his partici- Mourning family members packed the court claimed that they had panic disorder so they did- not make any difference amid a nationwide pation in China’s war with Vietnam as he accepts an interview in a restaurant in in Gwangju, the closest city to the scene of the n’t know what to do or couldn’t save the passen- witch hunt. “It is a burden for every lawyer, Yiyang, central China’s Hunan province. Marginalised and misunderstood, Chinese disaster, as the 15 were led in and seated on two gers,” she said sobbing. “But during that time, our because the crime is something that can hardly Vietnam veterans — who fought in a little-celebrated war with its southern neigh- rows of benches. The 15 have been in detention children were crying as they called their parents be forgiven,” he said in the small coastal town of bour — risk beatings and prison in a new battle with government officials. — AFP since they were charged in May. and said they were scared.” Mokpo last month. “It’s not just that one person A family member spoke on behalf of others at A Gwangju judge who handles media affairs, died. There were hundreds. All I could say to the ‘Tortured’ maid’s ex-boss the start of the hearing, imploring the defen- Hahn Jee-hyung, said the defendants were judges is ‘we will await your wise decision’. That denies charges in HK court dants to tell the truth. “Would you have done the unlikely to get a concerted defence in the highly was it.” — Reuters

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong woman as her defence counsel lodged a plea of not China denies bail to prominent lawyer accused of torturing her Indonesian maid guilty to all the charges. The case was BEIJING: One of China’s best-known rights Unlike many dissidents, he has thus far enjoyed due process, making some of them well-known in a case that sparked international con- adjourned to July 10. Police officer Chung lawyers has been denied bail in what his attorney domestic media coverage and the ability to travel among the politically conscious Chinese citizen- cern yesterday denied all the charges Chi-ming said outside the District Court and friends said yesterday is a signal he will be out of the country despite his outspokenness. ry. Pu’s lawyer, Zhang Sizhi, said his request for against her. that more than a dozen witnesses could be indicted in a case they believe is aimed at deter- Beijing activist Hu Jia said authorities appeared bail for Pu was denied Monday and he expects Law Wan-tung, a 44-year-old mother-of- called, including Sulistyaningsih, two other ring rising legal activism. set to make an example of Pu to stem the rise of police will press criminal charges against his two, was arrested in January for seriously maids who were allegedly abused, doctors, Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was one of several activists activist lawyers who are often at odds with the client. He declined to elaborate on the possible wounding Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, her for- and employment agency representatives. who were detained after attending a small, private Communist Party-controlled system of courts, charges. “I don’t think he will be released any mer domestic helper. She faces charges The case highlighted concern over the meeting in Beijing to discuss the 1989 Tiananmen prosecutors and police. time soon,” Zhang said. “A criminal charge is very including grievous bodily harm with intent, treatment of domestic helpers in the south- Square crackdown on protesters ahead of its 25th “He’s a representative of China’s rights lawyers. likely, given the circumstances and the reasons of criminal intimidation and failure to pay ern Chinese city, sparking angry protests as anniversary - a taboo subject in China. They want to send a strong signal by suppressing the detention.” wages-a total of 20 counts, some of which well as calls for legislation to provide better Because of his national profile, Pu became a someone who is such a symbolic figure,” Hu said. Beijing police did not respond to a faxed list of also relate to her previous employees. protection. The Asian financial hub is home symbol of the most expansive security sweep in In recent years, rights lawyers have been at the questions. Chinese authorities in recent years have Prosecutors have said she turned house- to nearly 300,000 maids, mainly from recent years to prevent public commemorations forefront of the country’s hot-button social issues, increasingly used criminal charges against dissi- hold items such as a mop, a ruler and a Indonesia and the Philippines. Amnesty of the deadly military crackdown on June 4, 1989. campaigning for the victims of abuses that dents that are unrelated to their activism - includ- clothes hanger into “weapons” against her International last year condemned the Since other participants in the Beijing meeting include illegal land seizures, food safety scandals, ing tax evasion, technicalities regarding business maids. Erwiana, who said she suffered “slavery-like” conditions faced by some have now been released, Pu’s supporters have labor camps and gang rape. licenses, and charges of disrupting public order. months of abuse, left Hong Kong in domestic helpers and accused authorities concluded he is being pursued for other reasons. Pu was detained on May 6, nearly a month January and was admitted to hospital in of “inexcusable” inaction. Time magazine in Pu has represented the dissident artist Ai Public support before the politically sensitive anniversary of the Indonesia, emaciated and in a critical con- April named Sulistyaningsih as one of the Weiwei, campaigned for the abolition of labor Many of the lawyers use social media to drum Tiananmen Square crackdown. Dozens of people dition. Before a packed courtroom, Law world’s 100 most influential people, hailing camps and spoken up for Communist Party offi- up public support for their causes, and directly were detained or placed under house arrest in the remained silent and kept her head lowered her bravery in speaking out against her ex- cials tortured in a secretive detention system. challenge Chinese authorities on violations of clampdown. —AP throughout a brief appearance in the dock, employer.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Five US soldiers killed by ‘friendly fire’ in Afghanistan KABUL: A NATO air strike in Afghanistan forces were jointly engaged in fighting with deployment will remain until the end of killed five US soldiers in an apparent “friend- militants. Foreign forces called in air support 2016 if a long-delayed deal is signed ly fire” accident during clashes with insur- and they mistakenly bombed friendly posi- between Washington and Kabul. The south gents, officials said yesterday, as troops try tions,” said Mohsin Khan, spokesman for the and east of Afghanistan are the most violent to ensure security for the presidential elec- Afghan army’s 205 division. “We also lost parts of the country as the Taleban wage a tion. one solider and one was wounded.” The US- guerrilla war against the Kabul government Local police and the Afghan army said led International Security Assistance Force and NATO troops. that the US troops, as well as one Afghan (ISAF) is winding down operations in Afghan security forces have taken over soldier, were killed in the restive province of Afghanistan after more than a decade of responsibility for thwarting the Taleban, but Zabul when air support was unleashed to fighting the Taleban, and the number of sol- NATO troops still accompany them on some try to beat back Taleban fighters. Friendly diers on the front line has fallen rapidly in patrols. The second-round election will fire incidents have been rare in Afghanistan the last year. Monday’s deaths in determine the successor to President Hamid in recent years, though five Afghan soldiers Arghandab district, a Taleban stronghold, Karzai, who has ruled since the Taleban were killed in a NATO air strike in the eastern were the worst single incident for the NATO regime was toppled in 2001. Former foreign province of Logar in March. force since five British soldiers were killed in minister Abdullah Abdullah fell short of the “Five American troops were killed yester- a helicopter crash on April 26. 50 percent threshold needed for an outright day during a security operation in southern “The casualties occurred during a securi- victory in April’s first round and will face for- Afghanistan,” Pentagon spokesman Rear ty operation when their unit came into con- mer World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani in Admiral John Kirby said in Washington. tact with enemy forces,” ISAF said in a state- the poll. Late last month President Barack “Investigators are looking into the likelihood ment. “Tragically, there is the possibility that Obama outlined the US strategy to end that friendly fire was the cause.” fratricide may have been involved.” America’s longest war, saying that the 32,000- Afghanistan is braced for Saturday’s run- strong US deployment in Afghanistan would JALALABAD: An Afghan policeman stands near a burning NATO supply off presidential election-which the Taleban NATO troops head for exit be scaled back to around 9,800 by the start of truck in Behsud district of Jalalabad Monday. An Afghan provincial offi- have vowed to target-and Monday night’s All of the 50,000 remaining NATO com- 2015. cial says suicide bombers have attacked a parking lot at a police base in joint US-Afghan operation was tasked with bat troops are due to leave the country by Those forces will be halved by the end of eastern Afghanistan, killing a guard and setting almost two dozen boosting security ahead of polling day. “Our the end of this year, though a small US 2015 before eventually being — AFP trucks ablaze. — AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Focus Abductions on rise in rebel-held eastern Ukraine

By Nicolas Miletitch

rom international observers and journalists to pro- Ukrainian activists, priests and ordinary citizens, cas- Fes of arbitrary detention and abductions are on the rise in the areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro- Russian rebels. “Kidnappings began from the very begin- ning of the insurgency and today we estimate the num- ber of those being detained illegally at 200,” Maria Oliynik, an activist with Ukrainian rights watchdog Prosvita, told AFP. Those held hostage are usually kept in basements and safe houses guarded by gunmen from the rebel Jonathan faces storm over new Muslim leader “authorities” of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine - and the United Nations By Joel Olatunde Agoi gratulate Sanusi. His party even issued a premature statement principle of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”. “Where will the says they can face beatings, torture and even execution. of congratulations to the late emir’s son on Sunday before hasti- president go now in Kano? Will he now come to Kano and bow But after almost two months of bloodshed in the igeria’s ruling party has been given another headache in ly withdrawing it. The PDP was alleged to have backed his can- to a man he suspended from his job for doing the right thing?” region the situation is chaotic and with rebels splintering the run-up to next year’s general election, with the didacy and the APC, Sanusi’s. the source added. “And what will happen to all the court cases into different groups it is sometimes difficult to tell which Nappointment of the former central bank governor to an against him? You can’t drag the Emir of Kano to court.” faction is actually holding the detainees. For close to a influential religious post. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was named A question of Pride? Thomas and Debo Adeniran, from the Coalition Against fortnight now two groups of observers from the Emir of Kano on Sunday, making him the second most-power- The PDP and the APC traded insults on Monday after the Corrupt Leaders pressure group, however, said the onus should Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ful Islamic leader in the country and giving him immediate opposition accused the ruling party of inciting the violence that not all be on Jonathan to build bridges. Sanusi should also put (OSCE) - totalling eight international monitors and a influence across the Muslim-majority north. But with Sanusi’s erupted on the streets of Kano in the wake of Sanusi’s appoint- their differences aside, they said. The new emir has a responsi- Ukrainian interpreter - have been held captive and incom- background and the allegiances of the Kano state governor ment. How Jonathan responds is still key, with a snub to Sanusi bility to help tackle the increasingly violent insurgency by municado after separatists picked them up, three days apart, in late May. who approved his appointment, domestic politics and jockey- likely to widen the gulf between the PDP and the electorate in Boko Haram militants across Nigeria’s north and there was a These latest abductions come after seven OSCE ing for position before next year’s vote have been suspected. the north. Nigeria’s traditional leaders, including the emir, have bigger picture to consider. “His (Sanusi’s) selection should not observers sent to Ukraine by the Vienna-based organisa- Dapo Thomas, a political scientist at Lagos state university, few constitutional powers but wield great influence as custodi- be politicised because he is now the father of all,” said tion to pacify the region and foster dialogue were held for said Sanusi, as a grandson of a former emir and member of a ans of both religion and tradition. An unnamed source close to Adeniran. “It’s customary and traditional that the president eight days by pro-Russian rebels in their stronghold city of ruling house in the northern state, had all the right credentials Kwankwaso was quoted as saying by the Leadership newspa- should pay him homage in Kano as the institution he repre- Slavyansk and released in early May. But while some rebel to win. Kano state governor Rabiu Kwankwaso was also within per on Monday that the governor’s decision was based on the sents is non-partisan.” — AFP leaders in Slavyansk have reportedly claimed the his rights to approve the recommendation of four royal “king- observers are in their custody others say that they have no makers”, who met in private to discuss the succession after the idea where they are. “We are searching for these late emir’s death on Friday, he said. But he added: “Although, he observers, but we are not able to control the whole terri- is supposed to be apolitical, Sanusi’s choice may indirectly tory (of the Donetsk region),” Aleksandr Borodai, the affect the political fortunes of the ruling Peoples Democratic “prime minister” of the “People’s Republic of Donetsk” and Party (PDP) and President Goodluck Jonathan, given the frosty in theory the senior rebel official in the region, told relationship between them,” he said. reporters on Saturday. “Sanusi was sacked as CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) gover- nor and I am not sure he can easily forgive Jonathan and his Killings, Torture party for that. “As a traditional and religious leader, an emir Beyond the headline-grabbing seizure of international wields a lot of influence among the people and this may not observers, the latest reports from the United Nations, augur well for the president and the PDP,” he told AFP. OSCE and Human Rights Watch confirm that the scale of abductions is growing. A recent UN report cited “numer- Political Background ous instances of killings, torture, beatings, kidnappings The PDP’s fortunes in northern Nigeria had taken a nosedive and intimidation mostly perpetrated by well-organised even before last weekend’s events. Jonathan and his party saw and well-armed anti-government groups in the country’s a wave of defections of influential state governors to the main east”. The report highlights “the alarming increase in kid- opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) late last year. Most napping and illegal detention of journalists, activists, local of them were from the north and Kwankwaso was among politicians (and) NGO representatives”. “Although some them. That, and the switch in sides of a number of PDP lawmak- people were ultimately released, the remains of many oth- ers, eroded Jonathan’s power base and parliamentary majority, ers were thrown into rivers and other places,” the docu- strengthening the APC’s hand as it looks set to win the presi- ment from May 16 reads. dency for the first time. Local government elections in Kano recently saw the APC secure a landslide victory, while ‘Prisoners of War’ Kwankwaso - tipped as a potential presidential candidate - The rebels though deny the allegations of brutality enjoys popular support. High-profile Sanusi, who is credited and say the people being held are legitimate targets. with turning round the fortunes of Nigeria’s banking sector, was “They are mostly people who engaged in hostile activities, stuck up subversive leaflets and campaigned against the suspended from his post in February after alleging corruption at the heart of government. The government’s claim of miscon- People’s Republic of Donetsk,” Leonid Baranov, the nation- The new emir of the ancient northern Nigerian city of Kano and former Governor of Central Bank Sanusi Lamido Sanusi al security council member in charge of the “commission duct and financial recklessness against Sanusi was seen as polit- ically motivated. Jonathan was quick to express his condo- (center) walks out of the Africa House hall at the Kano state Government House after receiving his letter of appointment for the prisoners of war”, told AFP. “A decree was issued by as the new emir of Kano from the state governor on Monday. — AFP the government to arrest those who engage in activities lences to the late emir on Friday. But he has yet to formally con- hostile to the People’s Republic of Donetsk,” he said. Claiming that he was not aware of the total number of the “prisoners of war” being held in Donetsk, Baranov said a Togo goes high-tech in crackdown on ivory tentative estimate would be “some 15” people. He reject- ed as “lies” the testimonies of former prisoners about sys- By Emile Kouton continent. But numbers have fallen from 10 million in 1900 poses and use in traditional medicines, has fuelled a lucra- tematic beatings while in captivity. and 1.2 million in 1980 to about 500,000 currently, accord- tive illicit trade thought to be worth up to $10 billion a year. International organisations report that those being ogo has gone hi-tech in its crackdown on ivory smug- ing to conservation groups. Trade in ivory was banned in The proceeds are said often to fund militia and rebel groups. held come from a wide range of backgrounds: miners union leader Oleksandr Vovk, Polish Catholic priest Father glers, employing DNA testing to determine the origin 1989 under the Convention on International Trade in The authorities in Indonesia, China and Hong Kong alerted Pawel Witek, Protestant pastor Sergiy Kosiak, local officials Tand age of contraband tusks and expose those at the Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). CITES their counterparts in Togo two years ago about Lome being from Ukrainian political parties, such as Yaroslav Malachuk heart of the illegal trade. Some 4.5 tonnes of ivory was confis- and other animal protection groups have warned that as a trading post in the smuggling after a number of seizures and Artem Popyk, and journalists accused of spying. cated in the tiny West African nation between August 2013 many as 20 percent of the continent’s elephants could dis- in Asia. Since then, Togo has stepped up its export controls Sometimes the pretext for detention can be very flimsy and January this year, leading to the arrest of 18 people, appear within a decade if current poaching rates are not and all containers leaving the port are scanned closely, indeed, says human rights activist Oliynik. “It can suffice according to the government. The biggest seizures were on tackled. An estimated 22,000 elephants were killed illegally according to a customs official. Unannounced spot checks that your ID card indicates an address in Kiev or in western January 23 and 29 at the port in the capital, Lome, where in Africa in 2012, the groups said. are also carried out in shops in the capital and in the coun- Ukraine to become a suspect and be arrested. This was police discovered some 3.8 tonnes of ivory in containers Demand for tusks, particularly in Asia for decorative pur- try’s major cities. — AFP the case of the student from Kiev, Igor Khotria, who was bound for Vietnam. arrested when he arrived to visit his family that lives near To dismantle the smuggling network, the authorities have Donetsk,” she said. turned to science. “DNA tests were carried out from February But there may be a deeper reason for the detentions, 27 to March 8 on a sampe of 200 tusks from the consignment with separatists using those held as bargaining chips in seized in 2013 and 2014 by a local team of specialists support- negotiations over prisoner swaps with Kiev for rebel sup- ed by experts from Interpol headquarters,” commissioner porters they claim are being held illegally by the central Charles Minpame Bolenga, who runs the global law enforce- government. The separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai said ment agency’s bureau in Lome, told AFP. “Analysis was then Saturday that a prisoners’ swap was being negotiated with carried out at a laboratory in Washington.” the assistance of the OSCE and UN representatives in According to Bolenga, the results have allowed Togolese Donetsk. “We are in talks to achieve the release of the police to determine the origin of the tusks as well as the age hostages. Insurgents now hold more than 200 people, citi- of the elephants killed. The first results indicated that the con- zens of different countries,” Kiev-appointed governor of signment of ivory seized in 2013 came largely from Ivory the Donetsk region Sergiy Taruta confirmed. — AFP Coast, Ghana, Guinea and Liberia as well as Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added. “We are still waiting for the results of the tests carried out on the biggest seizures con- All articles appearing on these ducted at the port of Lome in January this year,” he said. “We pages are the personal opinion of will share the results of this analysis with all the concerned countries in order for them to better protect their elephants the writers. Kuwait Times takes no because at the moment a single country can’t effectively lead responsibility for views expressed the fight.” Last year, more than 700 kg of ivory were discovered therein. Kuwait Times invites read- in a shop in Lome belonging to Emile N’Bouke, a 58-year-old Togo national. He is currently on trial in the capital alongside ers to voice their opinions. Please three other suspected traffickers. The verdict in the case is send submissions via email to: opin- expected this week. Others arrested as part of the crackdown [email protected] or via snail are scheduled to appear in court before the end of next mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. month, one of the judges involved in the case said. The editor reserves the right to edit Scanning and Spot Checks any submission as necessary. Elephants, the world’s largest land mammal, are one of Africa’s biggest tourist attractions and are found across the This picture taken on Feb 4, 2014 shows a stock of elephant tusks seized recently in Lome’s autonomous port. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 Sisi faces big challenge Constitutional court reform law... Continued from Page 1 immunity, but advised against such action against Azmi, arguing that the case against him was “ungrounded”. over ‘sexual terrorism’ The Assembly also passed in the second and final Meanwhile, Minister of Public Works and Electricity round of voting a law calling for the establishment of a and Water Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim said that the govern- Public Transport Authority, again despite government ment wants the new authority to focus on the main CAIRO: A video of a woman being sexually assaulted at firmly” to prevent sexual harassment. reservations. According to the law, the new authority will roads to accelerate the construction of key motorways inaugural celebrations for Egypt’s new president has spot- be responsible for all roads in the country although the while leaving other smaller roads to the ministry. lighted a national epidemic, but activists believe that stop- ‘Endemic Levels’ of Abuse ping such attacks will be difficult. Graphic footage, appar- A 2013 study by the United Nations said that more than government insisted that the authority should only Ibrahim said he does not know if the government will ently filmed on Sunday using a mobile phone, shows a mob 99 percent of Egyptian women had been subject to some supervise highways, motorways and other main roads in reject the law and send it back to the Assembly. of men surrounding the young woman, who was stripped form of sexual abuse. Women in the Arab world’s most pop- the country while smaller internal roads should remain In another issue, Ibrahim called on residents to con- of her clothes and badly bruised in the assault in Cairo’s ulous country said that they were harassed regardless of under the Public Works Ministry. serve electricity because consumption on Monday hit a iconic Tahrir Square. The video, shared widely on websites whether they wore conservative Islamic attire or Western- The Assembly also approved lifting the immunity of new record high of 11,830 MW/hour, up 14 percent on including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, triggered out- style clothing. Since the revolution that toppled long-time MP Nabeel Al-Fadl in relation to a press misdemeanor the same day last year. The minister said that power con- rage, with activists calling for protests on Saturday. president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the problem has wors- case but abstained from taking an identical step against sumption has risen by 12-14 percent so far this year, “Execute them!” said yesterday’s front-page headline in ened, with women now regularly attacked during rallies by fellow MP Azmi in the so-called “Farwaniya felony case”. much higher than the average growth of 8.0 percent pro-government Al-Watan newspaper. “Sexual assaults and groups of men in and around Tahrir Square, the epicentre of The legal and legislative affairs committee had conclud- during the past few years. Kuwait’s production capacity rapes by mobs are now part of reality. How far will things protests. ed that Fadl should be stripped of his parliamentary stands at around 14,600 MW. go? This is sexual terrorism,” said Zeinab Sabet, a prominent Between Nov 2012 and June 2013, some 250 cases of activist with “Dignity Without Borders”, a group battling sex- sexual assault or harassment by mobs, or rapes involving ual violence. “This has been happening since 2012...The fact weapons, were reported during protests in Cairo, activists Govt ends diesel subsidies that it happened again (on Sunday) shows that the authori- say. Experts say that rising unemployment, the huge cost of ties aren’t even bothered about us,” she told AFP. marriage and the fact that sex outside marriage is forbid- Continued from Page 1 OPEC headquarters. “President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi instructed the minister of den are all factors in these assaults. Human Rights Watch He also joined oil ministers from OPEC members interior... to vigorously enforce the law and take all neces- said in a report released yesterday that Egyptian women The state is also revising subsidies on electricity, Angola, Ecuador, Iraq and Venezuela in hinting at no sary measures to combat sexual harassment, an unaccept- face “endemic levels” of sexual violence. It said that “the water and petrol, currently sold at well below cost. change to the ceiling being made at today’s meeting. able form of conduct,” the presidency said in a statement. authorities have taken little action to stop or investigate “The president calls on all citizens to undertake their part to violence against women, or to bring those responsible to Kuwait has boasted a budget surplus in each of the past “There are indications that there will be a rollover,” Iraqi reinstate the true spirit of ethical and moral values in justice”. 14 fiscal years, helping to increase its sovereign wealth Oil Minister Abdelkarim Al-Luaybi said yesterday. Luaybi Egyptian society... This should come in parallel with the fund to over $500 billion, local media said. also revealed that Nigeria had nominated its oil minister, state’s efforts to robustly enforce the law.” ‘Can’t Trust Sisi’ Separately, Kuwait expects the Organization of Diezani Alison-Madueke, to succeed OPEC’s long-stand- Activists say at least nine cases of sexual assault were Activists doubt that the regime under Sisi, who repeat- Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep the oil produc- ing secretary-general Abdullah El-Badri. A vote was not reported last week as revellers celebrated Abdel Fattah Al- edly reached out to women voters during his election cam- tion ceiling unchanged so as not to alter prices, the oil due until December, while Nigeria has yet to comment Sisi’s presidential election. One woman was burned by hot paign, could prevent such attacks which are part of a long- minister said yesterday. Asked if he believes the OPEC on the matter. water after being stripped in Tahrir Square by three men standing systemic problem. “During his campaign, Sisi’s cartel will decide to maintain current output at its regu- Global oil prices have meanwhile held above $100 a who later also assaulted her daughter, the prosecutor’s comments regarding women’s issues were farcical and lar meeting in Vienna, Ali Al-Omair said: “I think yes.” “I barrel this year, boosted by falling production from office said, adding that the men had been detained. vague,” said Fathi Farid from “I Saw Harassment”, a group think that all parameters lead to keeping the production Libya, while Iran’s output remains hit by Western sanc- Officials on Monday said police have also arrested seven fighting sexual violence. “He didn’t address controversial as it is and this, of course, will be reflected in (oil) prices” tions over its disputed nuclear program. The market has men suspected of sexually assaulting women during Sisi issues concerning women... He did not speak of the politi- remaining unchanged, Omair told reporters outside par- won support also from the Ukraine-Russia crisis. celebrations. cal, economic or social empowerment of women.” liament before leaving for Vienna. He said he believes Investors are concerned that a full-blown conflict in Egypt, which until this month had no specific law on sex- Activists say Sisi cannot be trusted given his involvement that by not changing the oil output ceiling, there will be Ukraine would disrupt supplies and send energy prices ual harassment, last week approved penalties for such in “virginity tests” during the 2011 revolt. In early 2011, Sisi, offences to include jail terms, fines or both. But these then head of military intelligence, acknowledged to no “big changes” in crude prices. The 12-member OPEC, soaring. Russia accounts for nearly 40 percent of EU gas amendments “were not enough... (as) the state was inca- Amnesty International that detained women protesters which supplies about one third of the world’s crude, is imports, with half of that transiting through pipelines in pable of addressing such crimes in the absence of a com- faced “forced virginity tests”. “He said virginity tests were pumping around 30 million barrels of oil daily. Ukraine. prehensive strategy,” said a group of 25 Egyptian rights carried out to protect the army against possible allegations OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s biggest and While higher oil prices boost the coffers of producers organisations. On Tuesday, the presidency said Sisi had told of rape, and added that the army does not intend to detain most influential producer, also declared yesterday that meanwhile, they can weigh heavily on economic interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim to “implement the law women again,” Amnesty said at the time. — Agencies he expected no change to oil output levels. Saudi Oil growth, dampening demand and resulting in price Minister Ali Al-Naimi, speaking on the eve of the meet- weakness further down the line. Present oil prices are Opposition declares war on ‘forces... ing, said the market was “stable and balanced” and that about ten percent higher than when the cartel last met he therefore believed there would not be any decision in December, and remain above the key $100 level pre- Continued from Page 1 the government’s Social Affairs Ministry and wants govern- to change output. “The price is at a comfortable level for ferred by OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia. OPEC comprises ment officials to be held accountable for corruption. “We producer and consumer countries as well as for the oil crude exporting nations from the Middle East, Africa and “It is high treason” by corrupt elements, he charged. He want them to know that we know what they’re doing,” he industry,” Naimi said. Latin America. “The price... is not bad. It’s alright. The said that the conspiracy against the country, “which was said. Another protester, university student Fahd Al-Enezi hatched in Geneva by former officials, included foreign said people are not happy with government services, such While OPEC appears satisfied with current price lev- market, it’s okay,” Angolan Oil Minister Jose Maria sides and arms dealers in addition to money launderers”. as public healthcare and the education system, and are els at around $100 a barrel, the cartel is in fact pump- Botelho de Vasconcelos said yesterday. Harbash said that around KD 50 million was paid in bribes demanding a better future. ing below its collective target owing to abundant sup- Oil ministers from Iraq and Venezuela had already to a number of former MPs and demanded action. Barrak Tariq Al-Doussari joined the rally with his wife and chil- plies in top crude consumer the United States. indicated on Monday that there was a growing consen- and Harbash challenged the government to hire an inter- dren. He said people have had enough. “I’m completely dis- Offsetting this to a large extent are worries of potential sus for no change. The International Energy Agency, national company to track down the huge transfers and satisfied and very disappointed with how things are going supply strains as Ukraine risks sliding into all-out civil which advises countries on energy policy, recently called bank accounts to bring public funds back to Kuwait. in our country today,” he said. We want transparency and war. “Current oil prices are positive for... all producers upon OPEC to raise production sharply to keep oil mar- Khaled Al-Kandari, 34, said he joined the rally because accountability and we want to know why we’re stuck while and customers,” Libya’s acting oil minister, Omar Al- kets well supplied because of record-high global he feels Kuwait is “deteriorating day after day.” He works in all the other countries in the region flourish.” Shakmak, told reporters yesterday in Vienna, home to demand. — Agencies WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 SPORTS

Moeen to unveil doosra Villa sign midfielder Cole Colback heads for Newcastle LONDON: England newcomer Moeen Ali is preparing to unveil a surprise LONDON: Former England midfielder Joe Cole has joined LONDON: Jack Colback left Sunderland with a “bitter taste” after he signed for should he make his test debut against Sri Lanka at Lord’s tomorrow — his Aston Villa on a free transfer, the Premier League club said their fierce local Premier League rivals Newcastle United on a free transfer on doosra. yesterday. Monday. The 24-year-old was free to sign a long-term deal at St James’s Park The Worcestershire all-rounder is set to play in the opening game of the Cole, 32, has signed a two-year deal after being released with his contract at Sunderland due to expire this summer but the Wearsiders two-match series, with captain Alastair Cook likely to call on Moeen’s part-time were angry at the circumstances of his departure. Sunderland said they had met spin bowling and that of top-order batsman Joe Root as England plug the gap by West Ham United. “This is a massive club and there’s a mas- sive opportunity for the club to push on,” he was quoted as his demands, and were led to believe he wanted to stay, only for the former left by the retirement of Graeme Swann. England under-20 international to change his mind. “Jack is a player we have nur- saying on BBC Sport. Moeen says he is confident of his bowling ability and is considering using tured and developed through our academy system since he was eight years old,” his doosra - a delivery that looks like an off-break but actually turns the other “I’ve been lucky enough to have a really good career but the club said in a statement on their website (www.safc.com). “We gave him the way - after practising it with his county team mate, Pakistan off-spinner Saeed there’s still a lot more I want to achieve.” The London-born opportunity to become a professional footballer and are therefore extremely dis- Ajmal. player, who won 56 caps for England, began his career at appointed in the events that have led to his departure from the club.” The 26-year-old has taken 139 first-class wickets at an average of Upton Park before moving in 2003 to Chelsea, where he won Sunderland said they had put contract talks on hold, at Colback’s just over 40 but told reporters that given the amount of bowling he three league titles. request, until the club’s top flight status was assured and were dis- had done for Worcester over the past three seasons, he had no con- He joined Liverpool in 2010 but could not hold down a mayed not to have been given a further chance to negotiate. “For cerns about doing it at test level. regular first-team place, and spent the 2011-12 season on him to then leave the club that has supported him throughout his “A lot of people haven’t seen me bowl in the longer format so loan at French club Lille. Cole is Villa’s second signing of the formative years in such a manner, with no chance for Sunderland hopefully I can surprise a few people,” Moeen said yesterday. “I’m close-season, after Philippe Senderos on a free transfer from to recover any of the significant investment that it has made in him pretty confident with my bowling.—Reuters Valencia.—Reuters as a player, has left a bitter taste,” they said.—Reuters

CHICAGO: White Sox right fielder Dayan Viciedo dives and misses a ball against the Detroit Tigers during the ninth inning of a aseballb game. —AP Indians pound Rangers, Angels roll

ARLINGTON: Lonnie Chisenhall hit three homers seven of nine. Martinez’s two-run shot off Hector games. The Rays have lost 13 of 14 and are sad- and nine RBIs in a five-hit game, leading the Noesi (2-4) trimmed Chicago’s lead to 5-4 in the dled with the worst record in the major leagues Cleveland Indians to a 17-7 victory over the Texas sixth. Ronald Belisario worked a shaky ninth for at 24-41. The last time they were 17 games under MLB results/standings Rangers on Monday. his sixth save. .500 was the end of 2007, the final year they The only other nine-RBI game in Cleveland Rick Porcello (8-4) struggled through five-plus were known as the Devil Rays. Cano’s big hit Seattle 3, Tampa Bay 0; Baltimore 4, Boston 0; Pittsburgh 6, Chicago Cubs 2; Toronto 5, Minnesota 4; LA Dodgers 6, history was by Chris James in a 20-6 victory on innings, allowing six runs and nine hits. He also came during a three-run third against David Cincinnati 2; Cleveland 17, Texas 7; Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 5; Atlanta 3, Colorado 1; Houston 4, Arizona 3; LA Angels 4, Oakland 1; Washington 9, San Francisco 2. May 4, 1991, against Oakland. Michael Brantley committed a costly throwing error. Price (4-6), who struck out 10 in eight innings. homered and scored five times for the Indians. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner has American League National League Chisenhall had two-run homers in the second ANGELS 4, ATHLETICS 1 dropped three straight decisions and hasn’t won Eastern Division Eastern Division and fourth innings before hitting a three-run Mike Trout drove in a run with a double that in nine starts. W L PCT GB Atlanta 33 29 .532 - shot in the eighth to give Cleveland a 17-6 lead. originally was ruled a homer, and Garrett Joe Beimel (1-1) retired his only two batters Toronto 39 26 .600 - Washington 33 29 .532 - He also had an RBI single in the first and a run- Richards pitched seven strong innings as Los and Fernando Rodney worked a perfect ninth for Baltimore 32 30 .516 5.5 Miami 33 30 .524 0.5 NY Yankees 31 31 .500 6.5 scoring double in the sixth. Angeles beat Oakland in the opener of a series his 18th save in 20 opportunities. NY Mets 28 35 .444 5.5 Boston 28 35 .444 10 The offensive outburst put Chisenhall in rare between the top two teams in the AL West. The Rays were shut out for the AL-high ninth Philadelphia 25 36 .410 7.5 Tampa Bay 24 41 .369 15 Central Division company. He became the fourth major league The Angels’ fourth straight victory reduced time overall. Seattle finished a 6-1 road trip. The Central Division Milwaukee 38 26 .594 - player since RBIs became a statistic in 1920 to Oakland’s lead 3 1/2 games, but it did not come Mariners won three straight over Tampa Bay after Detroit 33 27 .550 - St. Louis 33 31 .516 5 have at least five hits, nine RBIs and three homers without some controversy. Los Angeles manager dropping the opener of the four-game series. Cleveland 33 31 .516 2 Pittsburgh 30 33 .476 7.5 in a game. He was the first to do it since Boston’s Mike Scioscia was ejected by first base umpire Chicago White Sox 32 33 .492 3.5 Cincinnati 29 33 .468 8 Fred Lynn in 1975, according to the Indians. Bob Davidson in the fifth inning for arguing after ORIOLES 4, RED SOX 0 Kansas City 31 32 .492 3.5 Chisenhall had the first three-homer game for a call was overturned on replay. Oakland manag- Bud Norris pitched eight innings of three-hit Minnesota 29 33 .468 5 Chicago Cubs 25 36 .410 11.5 the Indians since Sept. 17, 2010, by Shin-Soo er Bob Melvin challenged Trout’s towering drive ball and Adam Jones hit one of Baltimore’s three Western Division Western Division Choo, who now plays for the Rangers. Cleveland to right field, believing the ball was touched by a home runs against Boston. Oakland 39 25 .609 - San Francisco 42 22 .656 - hit five homers, won for the ninth time in 10 fan at the top of the 18-foot wall. Originally ruled Nick Markakis and Ryan Flaherty also con- LA Angels 35 28 .556 3.5 LA Dodgers 34 31 .523 8.5 games and pulled within two games of Detroit a two-run homer, Trout was awarded an RBI dou- nected for the Orioles. Norris (5-5) struck out six Seattle 34 29 .540 4.5 Colorado 29 34 .460 12.5 just three weeks after trailing by 10 1/2. George ble. Richards (6-2) allowed a run and four hits and walked three while matching the longest Texas 31 33 .484 8 San Diego 28 35 .444 13.5 Kottaras had the other Indians homer, and Jason with four strikeots and no walks against an outing of his career. Houston 29 36 .446 10.5 Arizona 28 38 .424 15 Boston has lost six of seven after a season- high seven-game winning streak. The Red Sox improving to 3-0 against the Giants with 29 4 since April 30. Chicago fell to 10-22 on the have been shut out five times this season. Jake strikeouts in 25 innings. road, the worst mark in the majors. Peavy (1-4) allowed four runs and eight hits over Nationals starters have struck out 52 and seven innings. He hasn’t won since April 25 walked one in their last seven games. Ryan BRAVES 3, ROCKIES 1 against Toronto. Jones had three hits, including Vogelsong (4-3) gave up six runs and nine hits in Gavin Floyd pitched effectively into the sev- his 150th career homer. six-plus innings, ending his three-game winning enth inning for his first win since returning last streak. month from reconstructive surgery on his right BLUE JAYS 5, TWINS 4 elbow, leading Atlanta over Colorado. Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run homer in DODGERS 6, REDS 2 Floyd, limited to five starts last season with the first inning and Kevin Pillar singled home the Scott Van Slyke drove in a career-high four the White Sox before undergoing Tommy John winning run in the ninth to lift Toronto over runs with two homers off struggling left-hander surgery, allowed one run and three hits in 6 2-3 Minnesota. Tony Cingrani as Los Angeles pulled away from innings for his first victory since beating The first two batters of the game, Danny Cincinnati for a rare comfortable win in their Cleveland on Oct. 3, 2012. Signed by Atlanta last Santana and Brian Dozier, homered for the Twins pitching-dominated series. December, Floyd (1-2) snapped a career-worst off R.A. Dickey, but Encarnacion’s 20th of the sea- Van Slyke hit a solo homer and a three-run six-game losing streak dating to April 2013. Chris son soon put Toronto ahead. Jose Reyes added a shot off Cingrani (2-7), who could lose his spot in Johnson had three hits, including two RBI sin- solo shot for the Blue Jays, who squandered a the rotation when Mat Latos returns from the gles, to help the Braves beat the Rockies for the two run lead in the top of the ninth and then disabled list later this week. Cingrani gave up a 15th time in 18 games since 2012. Craig Kimbrel recovered to avoid their first three-game skid career-high six runs in 4 2-3 innings for his fifth got three outs for his 17th save in 20 chances. since May 9-11. Reyes also singled during the straight loss. Christian Bergman (0-1) gave up two runs over winning rally. Matt Guerrier (0-1) took the loss. Dan Haren (6-4) gave up five hits in 5 1-3 six innings in his major league debut. Corey Casey Janssen (1-0) got the win after blowing his innings, including Ryan Ludwick’s solo homer, for Dickerson homered for the Rockies. second save. his first win since May 12. Brandon League ARLINGTON: Cleveland Indians Jason Kipnis, right, steals second base against Texas Newly signed slugger Kendrys Morales made escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs threat in the ASTROS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3 Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus (1) during the fourth inning of a baseball game. —AP his Twins debut, batting sixth and starting as the eighth by getting Ludwick to hit a comebacker Jose Altuve had three hits, including an RBI designated hitter. He went 1 for 3 with a single that led to a home-to-first double play. double, and Jarred Cosart pitched six solid Kipnis drove in four runs. Scott Atchison (3-0) offense that came in leading the majors in runs and a walk. innings in Houston’s victory over Arizona. pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings for the win. Texas and on-base percentage. Ernesto Frieri struck out PIRATES 6, CUBS 2 Dexter Fowler also had three hits and scored right-hander Nick Martinez (1-3) gave up eight the side for his 11th save. Jesse Chavez (5-4) NATIONALS 9, GIANTS 2 Andrew McCutchen homered and drove in twice. Cosart (5-5) allowed three runs and five runs in two innings. yielded three runs - two earned - and eight hits Ian Desmond had a career-high five RBIs and three runs to lead Pittsburgh over Chicago. hits. The right-hander struck out eight, matching in six innings. A’s third baseman Josh Donaldson Stephen Strasburg won his third straight deci- McCutchen drove a two-run shot to right field in his career high set in his previous start against WHITE SOX 6, TIGERS 5 made three throwing errors. sion in Washington’s victory over San Francisco. the third inning and added an RBI double in the the Angels. He retired the first 10 batters, five by Jose Abreu hit a two-run homer in a three- Denard Span added a triple and two doubles to fifth off Edwin Jackson (4-6). Charlie Morton (3-7) strikeout. The Astros scored their four runs in the run fifth inning as Chicago ended a three-game MARINERS 3, RAYS 0 help the Nationals win for the eighth time in 10 allowed one run over seven innings to win for first two innings off Josh Collmenter (4-3), who losing streak with a victory over Detroit. Robinson Cano drove in two runs with a games. Desmond had three hits and Jayson the third time in his last four starts after begin- settled down to blank Houston over his final five Gordon Beckham had three hits as the White bases-loaded double as Seattle blanked Tampa Werth drove in two runs. ning the season 0-6. Ike Davis hit his fifth homer innings. Paul Goldschmidt doubled in a run for Sox bounced back from a sluggish trip to Bay for the second straight game. The Giants had their five-game winning and Starling Marte broke out of a long slump the Diamondbacks, who had won five of six. Southern California. Miguel Cabrera, Victor Five Seattle pitchers combined on a five-hit- streak snapped. Strasburg (6-4) allowed four hits with three hits. Starlin Castro went 3 for 4 with Chad Qualls pitched a scoreless ninth for his Martinez and Eugenio Suarez homered for the ter. The Mariners extended their scoreless streak over six innings and retired his final 10 hitters. He his eighth home run and two RBIs for the Cubs. eighth save. The Astros have won four of five and AL Central-leading Tigers, who have dropped to 19 innings and won for the eighth time in nine struck out seven and did not walk a batter, Jackson gave up four runs in six innings and is 1- 12 of 16. —AP Felix back in hunt for 200m domination

OSLO: Allyson Felix will seek out a further step back towards rivals on Wednesday. The only sprinter to have gone sub- clocked 9.95sec this season. A time under 10sec will be the recovery after an injury-plagued 2013 when she races her pre- 22sec, her season’s best of 22.44sec is also fastest, followed by target despite the absence of some of track’s bigger sprint ferred 200m at today’s Diamond League in Oslo. Ivorian Murielle Ahoure’s 22.61. names such as Jamaican pair Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, and A four-time Olympic gold winner, Felix has been one of the The US-educated Ahoure claimed double sprint silver in American Justin Gatlin. dominant figures over the distance, winning three consecu- the Moscow worlds and will likely be Felix’s main contender in Elsewhere, the “dream mile” sees Djibouti’s world indoor tive world titles, the first coming in Helsinki in 2005. the push for the line. 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman again to take to one of Last season, however, was one to forget, the American win- In the men’s 100m, veteran kim Collins of the St Kitts and track and field’s most iconic races. ning only two Diamond races before crashing out of the Nevis will be up against a welter of younger competitors, Souleiman was a winner at the Bislett Games last year, and Moscow world championships 200m with a hamstring injury. notably rising French star Jimmy Vicaut and Britain’s surprise this season was a conqueror of a class field in Eugene in a per- It was a far cry from 2012, when she claimed Olympic gold world indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty. sonal best of 3:47.22 over four laps. in not only the 200m, but also the 4x100 and 4x400m relays, While Kilty has yet to put together a truly convincing 100m American Galen Rupp, training partner of Briton Mo Farah guaranteeing her place as one of the most decorated athletes performance, Vicaut, Ghana-born Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy under Alberto Salazar, is in the pack along with the expected in the sport’s history. On paper, at least, Felix, who finished Ndure and Trinidad and Tobago’s 2008 host of Ethiopian and Kenyan runners, notably Imane Merga, fifth in the 400m at Shanghai last month, is well ahead of her Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson have all Yenew Alamirew, Edwin Soi and Thomas Longosiwa.—AFP Allyson Felix p17 2_Layout 1 6/10/14 11:19 PM Page 1

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 SPORTS NZ in driver’s seat

KINGSTON: All-rounder Jimmy Neesham became the first New Zealander, and just the eighth play- er overall, to score centuries in each of his first two tests as the tourists ended the second day of the first test against West Indies with a huge first innings lead. Neesham, who scored 137 not out on debut against India in February, was dismissed for 107 after sharing a 201-run partnership with wicket- keeper BJ Watling (89) to take the visitors to 508 for seven declared at Sabina Park in Kingston. West Indies openers Chris Gayle (eight) and Kieran Powell (11) guided the hosts to 19 without loss at stumps, still 489 runs in arrears, though Powell should have been dismissed on eight when he was dropped by Peter Fulton at second slip off Tim Southee. “It’s very pleasing obviously,” Neesham said of his achievement. “Individual stuff is nice but you NEW YORK: Rangers center Dominic Moore (28) (right) passes off the puck against play the game to win and that’s what’s most Los Angeles Kings center Jarret Stoll (28) in the first period during Game 3 of the NHL important. hockey Stanley Cup Final .—AP “It’s quite a flat wicket but there is some turn and bounce if the bowlers put the ball in the right area so if we can get some early wickets Kings march towards tomorrow it will be interesting if we could put them under pressure.” The lefthander and Watling brink of Stanley Cup resurrected New Zealand’s innings when the KINGSTON: West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin (left) plays a shot off New Zealand’s bowler Ish Kiwis lost three wickets for 20 runs in the first ses- Sodhi as wicket keeper BJ Watling (right front) and Ross Taylor watch during the third day of NEW YORK: The Los Angeles Kings moved to Richards. Quick was sensational at the net, stop- sion on Monday after they had resumed on 240 their first cricket Test match. —AP the brink of reclaiming the Stanley Cup by beat- ping all 32 of New York’s shots on goal for the for two. First day centurion Kane Williamson ger the declaration. The only other players to tury in his third test, as well as Bill Ponsford, Doug ing the New York Rangers 3-0 on Monday at Kings, who can clinch their second Cup in three failed to pick a Sulieman Benn arm ball and was score hundreds in their first two tests are Walters, Alvin Kallicharran, Greg Blewett, Sourav Madison Square Garden to take a 3-0 lead in the years with a victory at the Garden in Game Four bowled without playing a shot for 113 to leave Mohammad Azharuddin, who also scored a cen- Ganguly and Rohit Sharma. —Reuters best-of-seven National Hockey League title on Wednesday. the visitors on 259 for three before Ross Taylor series. The Kings, who have done their business The fast-paced first period was marked by (55) was deceived by a Shane Shillingford flight- the hard way in their playoff run with three swarming defense on both sides and only nine ed delivery and spooned an easy catch to Kirk SCOREBOARD Game Seven wins on the road and battled back shots on goal. New Yorks left winger Mats Edwards at midwicket. Captain Brendon after falling behind by two goals in each of their Zuccarello had New York’s best chance, when McCullum then fell for seven when he was caught KINGSTON: Scoreboard at the end of the second day of the first Test between the West Indies and New Zealand at two wins at home changed the script in their he swept in with just under five minutes to go by Gayle at first slip to leave the hosts on 279 for Sabina Park in Jamaica on Monday. visit to Broadway. in the period to put his stick on a rebound in the five and in danger of undoing their good work on New Zealand 1st Innings (overnight 240/2) (Neesham), 7-508 (Watling). Los Angeles put themselves firmly in the dri- crease just to the right of Quick. Zuccarello tried a slow and low pitch. T. Latham c and b Shillingford 83 To bat: I. Sodhi, M. Craig, T. Boult. Bowling: Taylor 26-11- ver’s seat with pinpoint shooting and a spectac- to stuff it in, but Quick lunged along the ice and Neesham and Watling guided their side P. Fulton c wkpr Ramdin b Taylor 1 37-1 (2nb), Roach 29-6-85-0 (1w), Bravo 1-0-2-0, Benn ular performance by goaltender Jonathan managed to get his stick on the puck to turn it through to lunch and accelerated in the middle K. Williamson b Benn 113 52-14-142-3, Samuels 15-1-55-0, Shillingford 46.3-7- Quick. The winners converted three of their away at the last instant. The period looked set to session, scoring 129 runs in 28 overs to put New R. Taylor c Edwards b Shillingford 55 145-3, Gayle 5-0-17-0. modest 15 shots on goal, while Quick saved all end scoreless until one last Los Angeles rush as Zealand in the box seat. B. McCullum c Gayle b Benn 7 West Indies 1st Innings 32 shots from the Rangers, who failed to take the clock ticked down. The 23-year-old Neesham brought up his hun- J. Neesham c wkpr Ramdin b Benn 107 C. Gayle 8 advantage of six power play chances. dred with a cover drive for two runs off Jerome “He was obviously the best player on the ice,” SILENT GARDEN B.J. Watling c Powell b Shillingford 89 K. Powell 11 Taylor before he was Benn’s third wicket when he T. Southee not out 21 Total (9 overs, 0 wickets) 19 said Rangers coach Alain Vigneault. Kings coach Williams centered the puck across to Carter got a faint edge to a delivery that was taken by Darryl Sutter said the power play was the key. who rifled a wrist shot past New York’s Swedish Extras (b-19, lb-6, w-5, nb-2) 32 To bat: K. Edwards, D. Bravo, S. Chanderpaul, M. Denesh Ramdin. Total (174.3 overs, 7 wickets declared) 508 Samuels, D. Ramdin, J. Taylor, S. Benn, S. Shillingford, K. “They didn’t score on any of them,” Sutter said. goalie Henrik Lundqvist for a goal that grazed Watling was the last wicket to fall, hitting out “I think the second period was probably the off defenseman Dan Girardi’s skate. Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Fulton), 2-174 (Latham), 3-259 Roach. in an effort to reach his fourth test century when (Williamson), 4-277 (Taylor), 5-279 (McCullum), 6-480 Bowling: Boult 5-2-11-0, Southee 3-1-8-0, Craig 1-1-0-0. most important part of it. We scored on the The Kings increased their lead to 2-0 less he was caught in the deep off Shillingford to trig- power play and they didn’t. That’s a big differ- than five minutes into the second period when ence.” Now it is the Rangers who must be come- Muzzin snapped a long-range shot from the back kings if they are to win their second Cup in blue line past Lundqvist, who was screened by 20 years and third since 1940. Carter camping out in front of the net on a pow- Ainslie leads UK bid for America’s Cup Only one team has ever overcome a 3-0 er play. The Rangers had the man advantage deficit to win the final - the Toronto Maple Leafs, three times in the second period and on two of LONDON: Sailor Ben Ainslie will lead an 80 million “It’s a huge challenge, there’s no doubt about it,” large British multinational companies, and a naming who notched four successive wins to beat the them mounted furious attacks that totaled sev- pound ($134 million) British challenge for the 35th Ainslie told reporters at the launch by the river rights sponsor, but said it was not crucial that they Detroit Red Wings in 1942. en shots on goal but stifled each time by acro- America’s Cup in 2017, aiming to return sport’s oldest Thames in south London. had everything in place before the Aug 8 entry dead- “We’re happy we’re up 3-0,” said right-winger batic saves from Quick. trophy to his country for the first time. “Taking on Larry Ellison and the team is a massive line. “We’ve had some really goods positive responses, Justin Williams, who vowed the Kings would not With 2:46 left in the period, Mike Richards The four-time Olympic gold medallist helped challenge, no question about it,” he added. There has if we have two or three companies (tendering) it suffer from overconfidence since they stormed cashed in a 2-on-1 break by snapping home a inspire one of the great sporting comebacks last year long been speculation that Ainslie planned to lead an would be perfect. At the moment it’s bilateral.” back from a 3-0 deficit in the first round to beat return pass from Kyle Clifford past Lundqvist to when Oracle Team USA rallied from 8-1 down to America’s Cup challenge but he had been awaiting Among the new protocols, the next Cup will be San Jose. “But we know as good as anybody end the scoring. The third period was played in defeat Emirates Team New Zealand 9-8 and land the the protocols or guidelines and also putting together sailed with a similar but smaller version of the 72-foot, that 3-0 is not four. Just because you’re leading virtual silence at the famed midtown trophy. The 37-year-old has now set his sights on a the funding and crew. wing-sail catamarans used in 2013. The new 62-foot the series doesn’t mean you’ve won anything.” Manhattan arena after thunderous roars had British challenge, seeking to lead his country to a first Telecoms entrepreneur Charles Dunstone said 40 boats, called AC62s, will be crewed by eight people, encouraged the Blueshirts from the opening win since the competition began in 1851. percent of the budget would come from wealthy three fewer than last year. The venue for the racing is LAST SECOND faceoff until the Kings had put their stamp on The venue for the 2017 regatta has yet to be con- individuals. “We needed to form a team before we yet to be determined, with Hawaii and the coastal A last-second goal at the end of the first the game. “Nothing’s done, nothing’s finished,” firmed, but new protocols, including nationality stand credibly before you today,” said Dunstone, cities of Newport, Rhode Island, and San Diego all period by Jeff Carter gave the Kings a 1-0 lead, cautioned Quick, who grew up in nearby requirements, have been negotiated by software bil- chairman and founding shareholder of the Ben thought to be in consideration. Ainslie insisted the and the Western Conference champions Hamden, Connecticut as a Rangers fan. “We lionaire Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, and Team Ainslie Racing (BAR) team. racing should take place in San Francisco, venue of increased their advantage with second-period know that winning the fourth game is always Australia’s Hamilton Island Yacht Club, the Challenger BAR board member and one of the founding last year’s regatta. “It’s perfect for the foil boats and goals by defenseman Jake Muzzin and Mike the hardest.” —Reuters of Record. investors Keith Mills said they would be targeting you can almost guarantee conditions.”—Reuters

Kuwaiti Winter Sport Club President Fehaid Al-Ajmi with Eng Ashwaq Al-Mudhaf and Board members. Kuwait and UAE players vie for the puck. UAE beat Kuwait for final spot

KUWAIT: Reigning GCC Ice Hockey champi- ons United Arab Emirates look set to retain their third title after beating hosts Kuwait, 2- 0, on Monday. The UAE have won their third game in a row and the latest result puts them through to the final of the round robin competition with six points, while the hosts took four points from earlier victories over Qatar and Oman. With both teams employing a wary defen- sive game, Kuwait - the 2012 runners-up - paid for two errors made by their goaltender which the Emiratis capitalized on. The Kuwaitis came close to scoring on a few occasions but could not quite find the decent finish to their advances. Monday’s other fixture saw Oman put the pressure on the hosts after earning a huge 9- 3 victory over Qatar, who have been defeated for the third time since the start of the four- nation tournament. The UAE will again face Qatar next having ensured progress to the final as Kuwait faces Oman late yesterday — the result of the lat- ter encounter being particularly crucial for Board member Khaled Al-Mutairi and Eng Ashwaq Al-Mudhaf give the Best Goal Kuwaiti Winter Sport Club President Fehaid Al-Ajmi (right) with Eng Ashwaq Al-Mudhaf the sides involved. —KUNA Keeper cup to UAE.— Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat (center) and Sheikh Nawaf Al-Hamad. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Germany look frail in World Cup bid GERMANY Portugal remain believers

LISBON: Portugal may not a the Euro 2000 semi-finals, said defeat at home to Greece in the Euro favourite to win the World Cup but Portugal now is operating differently 2004 final and in the 2006 World Cup their coach Paulo Bento believes that to previous sides. and Euro 2012 semi-finals, is delight- works in their favour and rivals “There are things we are doing ed that his side go to the finals with should beware. differently now in terms of prepara- supporters expectations low. Bento’s belief will face a stern test tion, in terms of our training, our “We know that Spain, Brazil, at the first hurdle, even with strategies - they are different from Germany and Argentina are the Cristiano Ronaldo in the team, as what we did in 2010 or 2011,” he said. favourites and that is fantastic for us,” Portugal have been drawn in Group “Football is always evolving and he said. “I am confident. We have a G with strongly-fancied Germany, we always need to be ready for that. difficult group in my opinion but we 2010 quarter-finalists Ghana and the Portugal play with an identity that will go one game at a time. The first United States. we’ve worked on, but obviously we match against Germany will be very However, 44-year-old Bento-who want there to be some evolution in difficult but I believe we can have a was rewarded with a two year con- our game.” great World Cup. And without pres- tract extension in April-told uefa.com Bento’s words did not seem to be sure, which is very good.” that the team is becoming stronger supported by what transpired in One thing that has really hurt every day. their World Cup qualifying campaign Portugal in the past is the lack of a Whether they have made enough as they struggled to reach Brazil. truly top-class centre-forward has progress to emulate the sides of They were held to draws at home long been an issue, but another vet- 1966 — two of whose stars Eusebio by Israel and Northern Ireland on the eran Helder Postiga scored six goals and Mario Coluna died this year-and way to finishing second in their in qualifying, including the winner at 2006 who reached the semi-finals is group behind Russia. As a result, they home to Russia. questionable but Bento remains con- were forced to come through a play- Meanwhile, there is a solid spine vinced of the team’s potential. off to reach the finals. to the side with Rui Patricio in goal, BERLIN: Germany head for the World attack. But there is concern about Gundogan has not played since “Over the 90 minutes, we could Happily, though, for Bento world Bruno Alves and Pepe in central Cup finals with the football-mad who will play up front in his 4-2-3-1 August with a back injury and a virus. really have achieved that objective of player of the year Ronaldo produced defence and the likes of Joao country desperate for a fourth title, formation. First-choice striker Miroslav Both were named in his 30-man provi- reaching the final (the penalty two performances that swept aside Moutinho and Miguel Veloso in mid- but with defensive frailties, off-form Klose is just one goal off equalling the sional squad though. shootout loss to Spain in Euro 2012 the doubters who claimed that he field. players and injuries hampering the record 15 World Cup goals set by “I only want to say that some play- semi-final),” Bento told uefa.com. went into hiding in tough games. Indeed Bento has plenty of bid. Brazil’s Ronaldo, having scored five ers need to improve their level of per- “What we did after that was con- The 29-year-old scored all the options in that area with Sporting’s The Germans last lifted the World goals in 2002, five in 2006 and four in formance, mainly because they have tinue to compete in the best possible goals in a 4-2 aggregate victory in William Carvalho a superb prospect Cup in 1990 and after nearly eight 2010. been injured and not played much,” way — trying to achieve objectives the two-legged tie with Sweden, and with the country’s Federation years in charge, time is running out But the 35-year-old is injury prone Loew has said. like our presence now in the 2014 including a stunning hat-trick in the hopeful of getting permission to for coach Joachim Loew to win a and with Mario Gomez having been “In Brazil, we will face prevailing World Cup.” second leg in Solna. allow Porto’s Brazilian holding player major title before his contract expires left out of Loew’s extended provision- temperatures and different time Bento, a hard-tackling midfielder Ronaldo, one of the few players Fernando to represent his adopted in 2016. al squad, 21-year-old Kevin Volland of zones, these will not be excuses.” who played in the side that reached left in the squad to have tasted bitter country.—AFP Euro 2004 was the last time Hoffenheim is the only other out-and- While Loew has an embarrassment of Germany failed to reach the last four out striker in the squad. Their defence, midfield riches, his options are limited of either a European Championships which has looked frail on occasion, up front with veteran striker Miroslav or a World Cup. But Loew has key needs to be better organised with Klose susceptible to injury, as is problems to resolve if his team are to only captain and right-back Philipp reserve Mario Gomez. mount a prolonged challenge in Lahm sure of his place in Loew’s back A third option needs to be ready PORTUGAL Brazil, where they start in four. before the opening group game Group G against Portugal, Ghana And a big test Loew could face in against Portugal on June 16 or and United States, now managed by Brazil will be when to drop any under- Bayern’s Mario Goetze could be used his predecessor Jurgen Klinsmann. performing stars. Either injury or a as a false nine, where he has played in Loew was asked to be Klinsmann’s loss of form has affected certain play- friendlies. assistant in charge of tactics and strat- ers, none more so than Arsenal’s Loew also needs to instill a clear egy at the 2006 World Cup after they Mesut Ozil whose confidence has Plan B for the occasions when his met on a training course. dipped sharply since he failed to con- team’s original strategy fails to work. Having succeeded Klinsmann as vert a penalty against Bayern Munich Germany have looked decidedly aver- head coach after the tournament, in the Champions League. age when teams attack them, as Loew steered Germany to the Euro “I have 100 percent faith in him Sweden proved when they forced a 4- 2008 final, then the 2010 World Cup (Ozil), he will find his form again,” 4 draw in Berlin in a World Cup qualifi- semi-finals, where they swept aside Loew has insisted, but the challenge er in October 2012 having come back England and Argentina before suc- will be when or if to bench the from 4-0 down. cumbing to eventual winners Spain. Gunners star if the dip continues. Loew’s men also suffered the rare Despite his impressive record of 70 Loew is also low on defensive mid- indignity of being booed by their own wins in 103 internationals in charge, field options to partner Bastian fans during a laboured 1-0 win over Loew himself admitted, “the clock is Schweinsteiger. Real Madrid’s Sami Chile this month where the South ticking” for the Germans. Khedira is struggling with a knee Americans dominated for long peri- The team is known for its powerful injury while Borussia Dortmund’s Ilkay ods.—AFP Bradley puts US before GHANA family at World Cup

WASHINGTON: Michael Bradley, the “It’s all about representing the sure upon American forwards such as United States midfield maestro, could United States,” he said. Klinsmann Jozy Altidore of English Premier be just the spark the Americans need ditched his long-used 4-2-3-1 align- League side Sunderland. to escape a formidable first-round ment for a more conventional 4-4-2 “Often we had situations where we group at the World Cup. setup that allowed Bradley greater didn’t give enough support to our for- The 26-year-old Bradley, who flexibility in dictating pace and more wards. When you especially look at departed AS Roma for Major League decision making at the forward tip of Jozy, often we had kind of him discon- Soccer’s Toronto FC in a $10 million a midfield group. nected,” Klinsmann said. transfer in January, scored one goal “It means that I’m able to have a lit- “But if we have two guys to play and set up another in a 2-2 draw tle more freedom, have the ability to into up front and Michael joins, it is against Mexico in April as the US team be a little more two-way and be more going to be more difficult for oppo- tried a new attack formation with up-and-down,” Bradley said. “It’s cer- nents to read us.” That figures to be a great success. tainly something I enjoy.” plus going against Ghana, Portugal “Bradley looked as if he was the Klinsmann, directing the and Germany in the first round while best player in the world,” Mexico Americans at a World Cup for the first enduring the longest travel schedule coach Miguel Herrera said. Bradley is time in Brazil, enjoyed it too. of any team during the group stage the son of former US coach Bob “Michael has tremendous strength, in Brazil. “One of our strengths is we Bradley, whose firing opened the door finding ways, getting in the box and have the ability to play it a lot of dif- for the arrival of Jurgen Klinsmann in joining the attack. So purposely we ferent ways,” Bradley said. “It gives 2011. But the younger Bradley, whose moved him,” Klinsmann said. “The me more freedom to be mobile, to European stops include Germany’s hope was that he gets into the box. get forward.” Bradley’s repositioning Borussia Moenchengladbach and a The hope was that he is actually also also provides greater freedom for three-game loan to England’s Aston dangerous to score.” Clint Dempsey and Chris Villa in 2011, says there was no prob- As more of a playmaker, Bradley Wondolowski to press the attack lem in putting the needs of the team can make dangerous runs and show- with defensive-minded Kyle Ghana ready for World big guns ahead of any personal animosity. case his passing skills to ease the pres- Beckerman as a safeguard.—AFP ACCRA: Ghana are confident they book their passage to Brazil 2014. by the same scoreline in the round of UNITED STATES can claw their way out of a World Cup It was a vintage performance by 16. Their second group game will be group which includes Germany, the west African side in Kumasi, where against Germany on June 21 in Portugal and the United States. they blew away Egypt 6-1 in the first Fortaleza. The Black Stars reached the round leg. Gyan scored twice. Portugal, with Cristiano Ronaldo, of 16 in their World Cup debut in 2006 They will be in Brazil with a more will be their final group opponents on in Germany and reached the last eight experienced squad after Michael June 26 in Brasilia. “Ronaldo is the four years ago in South Africa. Essien rejoined the team and they world player (of the year) and there is Now they want to become the first now have more viable options upfront no doubt that he is critical to the African team to reach the semi-finals with the emergence of Majeed Waris cause of the Portuguese team but for of the tournament. Skipper Asamoah and Christian Atsu. us we are not going to be distracted Gyan, who appeared at both previous Coach Kwesi Appiah, who was an because of him,” he said. finals, said that Ghana will raise their assistant coach at the South Africa “I am not bothered because we are game in Brazil. finals, has won the confidence of his playing Portugal because the World “The thing about Ghana all the players, despite rumours that he Cup is the biggest stage and there are time is that whenever we play against would be replaced with a foreign no small team. Every team who quali- a big team, we perform,” said Gyan. manager. fies has done so on merit. “That is what happened with us when Germany-world champions three “We are playing against the best we were going to the 2006 and 2010 times-are favourites to win Group G, and we cannot do anything about World Cups. leaving the other automatic qualifying that, we just have to get ourselves “And that is what happened with spot wide open. ready.” As part of their World Cup the Egypt (World Cup play-off) game Ghana open the campaign against build-up, they will tackle the where everyone got involved. “And I the United States on June 16 in Natal. Netherlands on May 31 in Rotterdam. believe it will happen again at this They have beaten the Americans on They will then set up a training World Cup.” their two previous meetings at the camp in Los Angeles, where they have Ghana were unstoppable when World Cup. In 2006, Ghana won 2-1 in confirmed another warm-up game they dumped seven-time African a group game and four years later against fellow World Cup finalists champions Egypt 7-3 on aggregate to they eliminated the Americans again Honduras.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Every goal counts for Algeria in World Cup

ALGERIA Russian pensioners seek World Cup breakthrough

MOSCOW: The collapse of the “Sport is out of politics, for me. I been hurt at only being called up Soviet Union delivered a political don’t understand when someone at the last minute. blow to the country and under- boycotts a competition,” Capello Age too is a concern in defence mined Russia’s football team. Shorn told CNN in March when asked where captain Sergei Ignashevich of players from the former Soviet about the US senators demand. is 34 and his central defensive part- Republics-with whom they had Capello can take confidence ners, one of the two Berezutski reached three quarter-finals and from the qualifying campaign twins Alexei or Vasili, are 31. the 1966 semi-finals-they have where they edged Euro 2012 semi- This is an area that the pacey failed since 1990 to qualify for finalists Portugal into second place. South Koreans could expose. It is three finals and in the two they did But he will be relying largely on the lack of young talent coming reach, in 1994 and 2002, they went the same team that predecessor through that has taxed Capello’s out in the first round. Dick Advocaat took to Euro 2012 mind, for while exciting playmaker Now an ageing squad will be and flattered to deceive after they Alan Dzagoev is young-he will turn tasked with breaking new ground went out in the group stage 24 on June 17 — he is not a new in Brazil in June. Fortune has despite opening with a 4-1 victory face on the international scene favoured them with a kind draw in over the Czech Republic. having made his debut in 2008. Group H where aside from the The talent of Alexander “They (Russian club managers) highly-rated Belgians there are Kerzhakov-the only one of the need to prepare the under-21s, Algeria and South Korea, both of squad with World Cup experience under-20s to find new players,” ALGIERS: Algeria have promised to Kadir has been loaned to Rennes by three more coming from Valencia whom Fabio Capello’s men should having made one appearance as a Capello told CNN. “I need to speak improve on an embarrassing World fellow Ligue 1 outfit Marseille and is wide midfielder Sofiane Feghouli. beat. substitute in 2002 — Roman with the managers. We need to put Cup record when they compete at the among numerous France-based However, veteran defender and The Italian coach can get on Shirokov, Igor Denisov and Yuri some young players in the first 2014 finals in Brazil. Algerians vying for squad places. captain Madjid Bougherra was credit- with planning for the finals despite Zhirkov is not in doubt. But they team. This is the problem. The ‘Desert Foxes’ last won a Football ties between France and ed with the scrambled goal that took two United States senators have also shown a tendency to “We’ve got seven foreign players match at the tournament 32 years Algeria run deep with Lille-born his country to the finals at the demanding FIFA bar Russia from crack under pressure and fight every game, and four Russian play- ago and have scored only once in six Tottenham Hotspur central midfielder expense of Burkina Faso. the finals after President Vladimir among themselves. ers. If one of the best players is games during two subsequent Nabil Bentaleb opting for the ‘Foxes’. Algeria made a spectacular start to Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Not even their advancing years- injured, we lose a lot.” appearances. The 19-year-old played for France World Cup participation in 1982, Few people believe FIFA would all will be 30 or older by the time With Capello having signed a But midfielder Foued Kadir says his at age-limit level before being per- shocking then European champions impose such a punishment on the the finals begin-has seemingly contract that will see him through country can do better with a more suaded to represent the country of and eventual finalists West Germany hosts of the 2018 finals, unlike the improved this facet of their charac- to the 2018 finals he can turn his experienced squad than that which his parents. He made his international with a 2-1 victory and also defeating former Yugoslavia who were ters. mind to that goal after Brazil. In the flopped in South Africa four years debut during March in a 2-0 win in a Chile after losing to Austria. expelled from 1992 European Shirokov has on more than one mean time the short term goal will ago. friendly at home to Slovenia, who However, the ‘Foxes’ were deprived Championships and not allowed to occasion been disciplined for mak- be for the ‘dribble of pensioners’ his “You will see a different Algeria in defeated Algeria at the 2010 World of a second-round place in Spain by participate in qualifying for the ing controversial statements while 30-somethings to at the very least Brazil, with more maturity and experi- Cup. goal difference after the Germans 1994 World Cup because of the Denisov refused to play at Euro reach the uncharted waters of the ence than the 2010 squad,” said Kadir. It was a rare victory over European beat the Austrians in controversial cir- Balkans War. 2008 because he said his pride had knockout stages.—AFP “Our ambitions are to win matches opposition and raised morale ahead cumstances. and qualify for the knockout stage. So of Brazil-an expedition pundits and Many who watched the game much hinges on the first game bookmakers believe will end in first- believed the result was contrived, and RUSSIA against Belgium. round failure. FIFA reacted by staging final group “Everybody is assuming the “A mediocre squad that has some fixtures simultaneously in future tour- Belgians are going to top the group, flair but remains largely cynical and naments. leaving the other three teams fight- committed to gamesmanship and Algeria also reached the following ing for second place. “If we can get at time wasting,” was the dismissive World Cup in 1986, but after drawing least a draw against Belgium our summary of one pundit. with Northern Ireland in Mexico they chances of making the knockout Scoring at the highest level has lost to Brazil and Spain. stages will greatly improve,” he long been a problem for the ‘Foxes’ A 24-year gap ensued before the added. and strikers Islam Slimani and El Hilal next appearance and losses to South Korea and 2018 World Cup Soudani carry heavy burdens. Slovenia and the United States and a hosts Russia complete Group H, Slimani scored five goals and drab draw with England meant which is spread over five venues. Soudani three in the qualifiers with another early departure. —AFP

BELGIUM

South Korea under spotlight

SEOUL: South Korea are remem- Hee, who had declared he would key to improving South Korea’s scor- bered for their run to the 2002 only manage South Korea through ing record. World Cup semi-finals but they are the qualifiers when he took over in Son made his name netting 12 under pressure to create new mem- December 2011, stuck to his plan goals for Hamburg last season, ories this year in Brazil after an and resigned. earning a lucrative transfer to Bayer unconvincing build-up. And in came Hong Myung-Bo, Leverkusen. More goals have come The Taeguk Warriors enjoy an South Korea’s most-capped player this season for his new German club enviable record of qualifying for and captain of the squad that bat- and he is South Korea’s top-scorer eight World Cups in a row, a streak tled their way to the semi-finals, under Hong, with four in eight only bettered by Brazil, Germany, when they co-hosted the 2002 games. Italy, Argentina and Spain. finals. Where former coach Choi found But for their supporters, the South Korea’s 2002 World Cup little use for Son, the versatile for- looming Group H games against victories over footballing giants ward is a natural under Hong’s style Belgium resurgence Belgium, Russia and Algeria cannot Portugal, Italy and Spain are now a of play, which allows second strikers paper over South Korea’s struggles distant memory and the signs or wingers to roam behind the pri- to qualify this time when they under Hong, 44, so far have not mary line of attack. sparks optimism squeaked home on goal difference. been encouraging. Mainz 05’s Korean duo of attack- In a bad-tempered final game, In 14 matches under his watch, ing midfielder Koo Ja-Cheol and South Korea lost 1-0 to Iran and had South Korea were held scoreless six left wing Park Joo-Ho will also BRUSSELS: A few years ago the Everton team-mate Kevin Mirallas Van Buyten revealed how the to endure anxious moments before times, and their 15 goals scored boost South Korea, along with notion of Belgium as fifth favorites ply their trade in Europe’s main shift in attitude to Belgium by his learning they had finished second in includes four against lowly Haiti and Sunderland midfielder Ki Sung- to win a World Cup ahead of leagues. German teammates at Bayern their group despite Uzbekistan’s 5-1 three against Mali. Son Heung-Min, Yueng and controversial striker France, Italy and England would And that presence beyond underscored his country’s dramatic defeat of Qatar. Coach Choi Kang- a 21-year-old forward, may hold the Park Chu-Young.—AFP have seemed ludicrous even to the Belgium’s borders according to recent progress. “It’s great that country’s most ardent supporters. veteran central defender Daniel such a big football nation knows a Just making the World Cup van Buyten is one of the reasons match against Belgium isn’t going SOUTH KOREA finals proved beyond the Red for Belgium’s footballing renais- to be easy.” Devils in 2006 and 2010, their last sance. Belgium’s former boss Georges appearance coming back in 2002 “We’ve got a good generation Leekens believes Hazard will shine when they lost to eventual winners of players, many of whom ply their on the World Cup stage, his move Brazil in the last 16. trade abroad and are playing regu- from Lille to Chelsea, coached by Yet here they are, bags packed larly in international competitions,” Jose Mourinho, taking his game to for Brazil with ‘dark horses’ firmly said Van Buyten, who plays for another level. stamped on their passports and German champions Bayern “The Chelsea manager has not yet only the hosts, Argentina, Munich. “That’s made us a lot only demanded Hazard scores Germany and Spain above them in stronger,” the decorated defender, more goals and produces more the betting. only the second Belgian to win the assists, but also that he works hard Coach Marc Wilmots’ talented Champions League, told fifa.com. defensively and takes responsibili- squad sailed through their qualify- “All the young players are sud- ty,” Leekens told London’s Evening ing group unbeaten, barely put- denly playing abroad. They all used Standard. ting a foot wrong against Croatia, to play in Belgium. They were still “The World Cup is the right Serbia and Scotland. good players, but only as good as moment to show himself, he will They sealed their berth to Brazil the Belgian league.” be excellent. His performances with a game to spare in Zagreb, Belgium’s best run in a World against the likes of Manchester Romelu Lukaku’s double doing the Cup so far saw them reach the City and Liverpool have shown he damage. They start in Group H 1986 semi-finals in Mexico where is ready for the biggest teams in against Algeria, Russia and South they met their match in a Diego the World Cup. “He has the talent Korea. Maradona-inspired Argentina. to be considered on the same lev- Star players like Chelsea’s Eden Van Buyten said that Group H is el as Ronaldo and Messi after the Hazard, Wolfsburg’s Kevin de “winnable.” If they do top their World Cup, maybe people will Bruyne, Lukaku (loaned by Chelsea group, Belgium could avoid stop comparing him to those to Everton), Manchester City’s Germany in the last 16, a major players and appreciate him for the Vincent Kompany and Lukaku’s incentive if ever there was one. player he has become.” —AFP Indians pound NZ in Rangers driver’s seat

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LONDON: Australia’s Marinko Matosevic returns against Croatia’s Marin Cilic during the second round match on day two of the ATP Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club. — AFP Matosevic upsets Cilic at Queens

LONDON: Australia’s Marinko Matosevic ended Marin Cilic’s “His mum coached him and she did a great job with him, so may have noted the first round provided mixed results for the two reaching the final of the grasscourt event in Nottingham last week attempt to reach a third consecutive Queen’s Club final yesterday we’ll see what happens. “It’s all equal rights these days. Got to other leading men coached by women. following his first-ever match win at a Grand Slam when the world and then aimed a verbal volley at Andy Murray’s decision to hire be politically correct. So, yeah, someone’s got to give it a go. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin, coached by his wife Anastasia, number 60 defeated Dustin Brown in the French Open first round. Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach. Won’t be me.” was beaten 6-4, 6-1 by Czech 15th seed Radek Stepanek, while And he finished off world number 26 Cilic in impressive fash- Cilic won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in 2012 when Although he wasn’t in action yesterday, there was still plenty of Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, coached by his mother Klaudiya, ion to clinch a second round match against Lukas Lacko. “Before, his opponent David Nalbandian was disqualified and the Croatian attention on reigning Queen’s and Wimbledon champion Murray, defeated compatriot Farrukh Dustov 7-6 (9/7), 6-3. With his wife when someone would mention something to do with a Grand made it back to the final last year before losing to Murray. who starts his spell working with Mauresmo in today’s second back home in Volgograd after failing to secure a British visa, Slam, it would make me feel uncomfortable. Now I just feel free to But the ninth seed’s hopes of becoming the first player to round match against France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu. Kukushkin crashed out, but he tipped more men to employ play tennis,” he said. reach three successive Queen’s finals since Andy Roddick from Murray rocked the tennis world when he announced on female coaches in future. “Like I said in Paris, it’s a huge gorilla lifted off my shoulders 2003 to 2005, were shattered by Bosnia-born Matosevic in a 6-4, 6- Sunday that Mauresmo was his choice to replace Ivan Lendl, who “I see a lot of players and coaches, and I see some coaches on now. I have no more worries.” Czech second seed Tomas Berdych 4 first round defeat in west London. quit in March, as his coach for at least the grasscourt season. tour who do almost nothing on tour,” Kukushkin said. was pushed hard by Australian qualifier James Duckworth before Matosevic, 28, was still in combative mood during his post- Mauresmo, a former world number one and Wimbledon “It’s not so important if it’s a man or a woman, what’s impor- the 2010 Wimbledon runner-up edged through to the third round match press conference as he became the first male player to dis- champion, arrived at Queen’s to link up with Murray yesterday, but tant for me is really working hard to build together. “Very few play- with a 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 6-4 victory. agree with Murray’s shock coaching appointment. kept a low profile, telling reporters “I’ll see you tomorrow” when ers have a female coach but for me there’s no difference between Bulgarian fourth seed Grigor Dimitrov was watched by girl- “For me, I couldn’t do it since I don’t think that highly of the approached after watching compatriot Julien Benneteau lose to a man and a woman. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more women friend and newly-crowned French Open champion Maria women’s game,” said Matosevic, who is coached by compatriot Victor Estrella Burgos. coaching men in the future.” Sharapova, as he advanced to the third round with a 7-5, 6-3 win Mark Woodforde. Murray, who had lunch with Mauresmo in the players’ lounge, The outspoken Matosevic has been in good form of late, over British wild card entry James Ward. — AFP Ghana thrash S Korea MIAMI: Ghana substitute Jordan Ayew post 10 minutes before halftime, a Blatter urged to go grabbed a hat-trick to stake his claim missed chance the Koreans would rue SAO PAULO: Top European football officials Van Praag said that if Platini does not stand for a starting place in a convincing 4-0 because Ghana soon got a second goal yesterday publicly called on Sepp Blatter to end then UEFA should agree another candidate to win over a sloppy South Korea side in through the lively Asamoah Gyan who his reign as FIFA president amid accusations of stand against the Swiss official. their final World Cup warmup on tucked the ball past Jung after robbing corruption against Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid. Blatter was given a standing ovation when Monday. Kwak Tae-hwi in midfield. Michael van Praag, head of the Dutch foot- he spoke before the African, Asian and North World Cup quarter-finalists in 2010, Gyan ran at the Korea defence and ball association, said Blatter should quit when American-Caribbean confederations on Ghana scored twice in the first half although Kim Young-gwon tried to get his term ends next year. A similar call was made Monday. “This time, before UEFA, he did not get through Ayew and Asamoah Gyan across to cover he was too late to stop by David Gill, vice-chairman of England’s it,” van Praag said. Blatter, 78, has been FIFA’s before the former grabbed two more in the striker firing the ball into the bot- Football Associaton. president since 1998. the second half for the Black Stars. tom corner of the net. Blatter, 78, is expected to use the FIFA The governing body is currently embroiled Kwesi Appiah’s Ghana are in one of Jordan Ayew then grabbed his Congress in Sao Paulo starting on Tuesday to by accusations that Qatar paid for votes when the toughest sections in Brazil with a second of the night with a right-foot announce that he will stand for a new four year FIFA chose Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. June 16 opener against the United shot into the bottom left of the goal term. The corruption allegations and the Qatar has strongly denied involvement in States before they play European pow- with the Korean defence asleep again mounting pressure on Blatter have threatened wrongdoing, but allegations made in British erhouse Germany and Portugal in raising concerns for coach Hong to further taint the opening of the latest World newspaper The Sunday Times are expected to Group G. Myung-bo. Cup in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Brazil is already be raised at the FIFA congress late yesterday “I don’t look at the scoreline but “It’s very difficult to come back from struggling with protests over the cost of the and today. FIFA investigator Michael Garcia has how we played individually and as a two goals down,” Hong said. Ayew, event. Van Praag challenged Blatter when the completed his report but it will not be handed team,” said Ghana coach Appiah. “We who is the son of former African FIFA leader appeared before the European con- to a FIFA adjudicatory chamber until mid-July. took our chances. Korea attacked well Footballer of the Year Abedi Pele, federation UEFA. Some federations are angry Blatter has said no decisions will be taken until but you have to be cautious at the back. saved the best till last when he ghost- because Blatter said in 2011 when he secured September or October. “If my team had lost by four goals it ed into the area to expertly turn the his latest term that it would be his last. FIFA faces mounting pressure as five of its would maybe help me to look at the ball home from close range. ‘Mr Blatter, this is nothing personal but if six major sponsors, who account for hundreds mistakes and correct them before the Ghana, who had lost their previous you look at FIFA’s reputation over the last seven of millions of dollars of finance each year, have World Cup.” warmup match 1-0 to the Netherlands, or eight years, it is being linked to all kinds of called for a thorough investgation of the allega- Ghana lost forward Majeed Waris were eliminated by Uruguay four years corruption and all kinds of old boys’ networks tions. with a thigh injury in the fourth minute ago in a shootout after Luis Suarez things,” Van Praag said he had told Blatter. The embattled FIFA leader has hit back at after a fierce challenge by Ki Sung infamously stopped Gyan’s penalty in Media were kept out of the meeting. critics however by saying that racism is behind Yueng, who was booked, allowing the the last minute of extra time with his “FIFA has an executive president and you the corruption accusations. Blatter hit out at 22-year-old Ayew to be introduced hand and was sent off. are not making things easy for yourself and I do the “storm against FIFA” over the 2022 World from the bench. It was another defeat for South not think you are the man for the job any Cup and the “discrimination and racism” at the The substitute did not take long to Korea, who will be playing at their longer. Blatter replied that he would not resign heart of the attacks when he addressed the make an impact as he gave Ghana the eighth consecutive World Cup, after straight away, according to the official. The African Football Confederation yesterday. lead in the 11th minute with a deflect- they lost 1-0 at home to Tunisia before English FA’s Gill also said it was “disappointing” African football officials were among those ed right-foot shot that looped over leaving for their Miami training camp. that Blatter had changed his stance and the said to have accepted Qatar’s money, accord- goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong off Ki. FIFA should leave next year. “I think we need a ing to the Sunday Times. CAF members gave The face Russia, Algeria and Ayew’s older brother Andre had set full, frank and open debate about what Fifa Blatter a rousing reception and also slammed Belgium in Group H. “It was individual up the chance by feeding him the ball needs going forward.” the allegations in a statement. But English FA on the edge of the area at the Miami mistakes rather than the way the team UEFA president Michel Platini has been chairman Greg Dyke said he had told Blatter Dolphins’ Sun Life Stadium which was was organised that cost us,” Hong said touted as a possible rival to Blatter when the “the allegations being made are nothing to do filled with only a few thousand fans. of the defeat. “There is time to get bet- FIFA vote is held next year. Platini has said he with the racism, they are allegations about cor- South Korea did come close to an ter for the World Cup and I will do my MIAMI GARDENS: Ghana’s defender Jonathan Mensah jumps for the ball over will only decide his candidacy in September. ruption.” — AFP equaliser when Son Heung-Min hit the best to improve the team.”—Reuters South Korea’s midfielder Son Heung-Min during the friendly match. — AFP Tax cheats take billions from Ukraine Page 24

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ALLAHABAD: Passengers rest as they wait for their train at a railway station platform on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India. Heat wave continued to affect normal life in North India with the capital reeling under long spells of pow- er outages. — AP India’s power struggle hits the poor More than 300 million lack access to electricity

LONDON: For decades, India’s power engineers had Unmet demand electricity to states and territories home to more than and Power Grid of India, which manage the network, cents per kilowatt-hour (“An analysis of power tariffs a dream: “One Nation. One Grid. One Frequency.” At More than 300 million people in India lack access half of the country’s population. and strong state electricity boards that answer to local across India”, February 2013). the start of this year, that vision was realized. India to electricity, according to the World Bank and the Ironically, the only region spared was the southern politicians. The boards control regional distribution finally has a nationwide power system stretching International Energy Agency, compared with fewer one because it was not synchronised with the rest of and generation. Prices have been strictly controlled, Reform prospects from Tamil Nadu in the south to Kashmir in the north, than 3 million in China. In 2012/13, India’s power sys- the grid. The lack of direct connection served as a fire- and in many areas cheap electricity and the promise of The electricity system needs much more central- Gujarat in the west to Nagaland in the east. On Dec tem was able to supply a peak of just 124,000 break as blackouts rippled across the network, the connection have been used as a political tool. ization. It is too easy for state electricity boards to 31, India commissioned the last link, a high-voltage megawatts for a country of more than 1.2 billion peo- danger foreseen by Britain’s grid engineers in the Subsidization, especially for farmers, and non-pay- obstruct realistic pricing and grid management. The transmission line between Raichur and Solapur, con- ple. By contrast, Britain’s power stations generated a 1920s and 1930s. Blackouts occurred because during ment of electricity bills are endemic. synchronization of regional grids must be accompa- necting the southern regional grid to the four other maximum of 55,000 megawatts for a country of 60 the intense summer heat, which stretched the coun- The result is that Indians pay too little for electricity. nied by more integration of electricity suppliers. grids serving the north, east, west and northeast, million. On average, Indians consume 917 kilowatt- try’s generation and transmission resources to the lim- Those who have access often use it wastefully while “Current problems are the result not just of bureaucra- which had been successively integrated since 1991. hours each per year compared with 3,300 in China, it, many of India’s state electricity boards ignored millions more have no access at all. There are not cy but of the fragmentation of the distribution The whole of India’s electricity system was syn- 5,400 in Britain and 13,000 in the United States. India instructions to reduce power deliveries to their cus- enough revenues to support the massive building process,” according to Nick Butler, chair of the King’s chronized and started to function as one giant has just over 1 million km (625,000 miles) of high-volt- tomers. A cascading failure resulted. program needed to connect all of India’s villages, build Policy Institute in London. India’s new prime minister machine. Unification is a powerful symbol of national age transmission circuits and 185 substations. That But it is not just too much consumption that can new transmission lines and construct extra power “will have to centralize decision-making”, Butler wrote identity and modernization as well as enabling the compares with around 750,000 circuit-kilometers on destabilize the grid. Last month, the northern grid col- plants. India needs hundreds of new power plants recently in the Financial Times (“Indian power: Modi system to operate more efficiently. Britain’s seven the main interconnections in North America, which lapsed when thunderstorms and heavy rain hit Delhi, (including wind farms and solar power stations) cou- must centralize it”, June 1). regional networks were first synchronized as long has a population a quarter the size of India’s, and more Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Uttarakhand. Bad weather pled with investment in more transmission capacity, Gujarat, the state formerly run by new Prime ago as 1937 in an unauthorized night-time experi- than 50,000 transformer substations in the United caused a sudden reduction in demand. As voltage and significant improvements in grid stability control, and Minister Narendra Modi, has been touted for its effi- ment by electrical controllers and officially integrated States alone. Generation is dominated by old and inef- frequency surged, 69 high-voltage transmission lines a massive rural electrification program comparable to cient and commercially run electricity industry, which in the winter of 1938. ficient coal-fired units that belch soot, toxic pollutants disconnected themselves to protect equipment. the one that brought power to rural America in the featured in the recent national election campaign. Until then, “having too many power stations con- and carbon dioxide. Coal accounts for 60 percent of Around 8,000 megawatts of load was dumped in half 1930s and 1940s. Such an enormous investment pro- Since 2003, power thefts have been slashed. The state nected together in one big network had been India’s installed generation capacity with some hydro an hour, equivalent to 6 percent of India’s power supply, gram will be forthcoming only if prices are raised high separated agricultural and residential power systems. thought too risky”, according to the Central Electricity (16 percent) and renewables (13 percent) as well as including 3,500 megawatts in Delhi, according to a enough to cover the cost of generation and transmis- Rural homes pay higher bills but get more reliable Generating Board. But the national grid kept Britain’s smaller amounts of natural gas and nuclear. Power report prepared by the Central Electricity Authority sion and provide investors with a realistic rate of power supply. armaments factories running during the heavy air cuts are frequent as demand often outstrips supply. (“Report on the Load Crash in Northern Grid during the return. There will still need to be an element of subsi- “Gujarat now supplies near 24-hour electricity not raids of World War Two. More than 10 percent of electricity demand routinely evening of 30th May 2014”). Cascading power failures dization (either from customer bills or taxation) to cov- only to its large cities and towns but to the 18,000 vil- The United States integrated almost its entire net- goes unmet at peak periods, according to India’s are not unique to India. The United States, Canada, er the cost of linking villages to the network. But once lages too,” according to the Times of India. During work into two giant interconnections that link into Central Electricity Authority (“Annual Report 2012-13”). Brazil and Indonesia have suffered partial grid collapses. customers are connected, they should pay the full cost recent power shortages, Gujarat has been selling its neighboring parts of Canada and Mexico: the Eastern But the frequency with which India’s grid has lost con- of transmission and generation. surplus power to neighboring Rajasthan, Haryana and Interconnection in 1962 and the Western Power failures trol is a cause of concern. There have been price increases in recent years. The Delhi (“Power-full Gujarat gives 24-hour electricity”, Interconnection in 1967. China, too, is rapidly linking India’s grid has proved worryingly unmanageable average power tariff in Maharashtra has been raised to March 4, 2013). Gujarat’s well-run electricity system its regional grid operations into a nationwide super- and unstable even before the synchronization of a Power politics around 15 US cents per kilowatt-hour, which is compa- could be a model for the rest of the country. But first, grid. But India’s belated arrival in the super-grid club fifth region with hundreds of millions more customers. The fundamental problem in India’s electricity rable to much of the United States. But in much of India India needs to sweep away the entrenched interests in cannot disguise the underdevelopment of the coun- In July and August 2012, India’s two worst blackouts in industry is political. The industry is fragmented the price is less than half this level. Customers in popu- the state electricity boards and shift to a full cost- try’s electricity system. history cascaded across the north and the east, cutting between a relatively weak Central Electricity Authority lous but power-short Uttar Pradesh and Bihar pay just 8 recovery model. — Reuters UAE markets slide in volatile trade Africa’s women take the lead KAMPALA: Madinah Nalukenge recalls the day she set out to reduces,” said Thomas Bwire, an economist with Uganda’s sell food on the filthy edges of a bus terminal in the Ugandan central bank. In a sign of the times, he said, Ugandan women MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS capital in 2004. She had just $10 left over from a failed now even work at road construction sites. attempt to sell bed sheets. Now she runs a catering business There are more women than men working in the informal DUBAI: Stock markets in the United Arab Emirates extended Shakeel Sarwar, head of asset management at Securities & that makes a monthly profit of up to $3,000, a source of pride sector in all of sub-Saharan Africa, according to the losses yesterday, led by Dubai builder Arabtec which domi- Investment Co (SICO) in Bahrain. “What’s worrying me is the for the 34-year-old single mother who spends her days offer- International Labor Organization. The UN agency’s most nated trading volume, while Egypt pulled back slightly after volatility, it seems to be very strong.” ing plates of mashed plantain and greasy meats to transport recent survey, released last year, noted that this is unlike oth- leaping in the previous two sessions. Shares in Arabtec operators in downtown Kampala. er regions, including South and East Asia, where informal dropped their daily limit of 10.0 percent to 4.88 dirhams, Egypt pulls back “There is a lot of money to be made here,” she said recent- employment for women tends to be concentrated in home- dragging down Dubai’s benchmark, which closed 1.6 percent Qatar’s bourse closed almost flat at 12,971 points as most ly, her apron bulging with cash. “I need to stay focused.” Her based, domestic work. Some of the food vendors in down- lower after diving as much as 3.6 percent during the session. MSCI names there either edged up or were unchanged, with competition: More than a dozen other women operating town Kampala have remarkably similar accounts of what Arabtec had more than tripled in value this year after win- the exception of lenders Masraf Al-Rayan, down 2.2 percent, food stalls next to hers. Nalukenge, who did not study sparked their entry into private business: Hungry children, beyond grade school, is part of a growing trend in Africa unpaid rent and some violent partners. Most of them have ning a string of large construction contracts, including a deal and Commercial Bank of Qatar, off 0.3 percent. Traded value, where more women are running businesses on a scale that long been single or were recently in failed relationships, an to build $40 billion worth of affordable housing in Egypt. It however, fell 28 percent compared with Monday and was was unthinkable a generation ago. Africa now has the high- important detail because many insist their businesses are was also one of the 19 stocks from the UAE and Qatar which concentrated in declining stocks such as Masraf Al-Rayan and est growth rate of female-run enterprises across the world, succeeding in part because of their independence on the MSCI included in its emerging market index at the end of Gulf International Services. according to the World Bank. home front. Many of the vendors have also enrolled their May. But most analysts consider the stock overpriced now Egypt’s bourse pulled back 0.3 percent after leaping 5.9 About 63 percent of women in the non-agricultural labor children in boarding school to make more time for work. and rate it as a “sell”, according to Thomson Reuters data. The percent in the previous two sessions as President Abdel force are self-employed in the informal sector in Africa, more “They don’t help and they never want to help,” Nalukenge stock is down 37 percent from its record intra-day peak just a Fattah Al-Sisi was sworn in, and as a group of investors than twice the worldwide rate, according to World Bank data, said of her former partners. “Yet even the little you get they month ago; the measuring objective of a head & shoulders offered to buy a 20 percent stake in investment bank EFG which also shows that necessity - not opportunity - is the want to take away from you. I was alone when I started this pattern formed by the peaks since May is around 4.20 Hermes. Investors represented by Beltone Financial Holding main driving force behind female entrepreneurship in poor business.” dirhams. Profit-taking continued in other MSCI components said last week they were offering 16.00 Egyptian pounds for countries. Women often start by running informal retail or Development economists note that if more women are yesterday. Emaar Properties fell 0.9 percent, Dubai Financial each shares in EFG Hermes. There is some doubt as to service businesses, but those who are more ambitious have helped to join the labor force, especially through access to Market lost 1.5 percent and Dubai Islamic Bank slipped 0.1 whether the offer will go ahead and whether it will be suc- created thousands of jobs in projects that break stereotypes credit, they can be a powerful force for global economic percent. Abu Dhabi’s index also fell 1.6 percent under the cessful; Egypt’s financial regulator said yesterday that the bid about what women can do, physically and socially, in soci- growth. A report released earlier this year by the invest- eties that are still largely conservative. ment bank Goldman Sachs urged what it called “giving weight of MSCI stocks. Shares in Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank currently did not meet regulatory requirements and more credit where it is due,” noting that women’s “increased bar- dropped 4.6 percent, while First Gulf Bank and Aldar information about it was needed. But the offer continued to Informal employment gaining power has the potential to create a virtuous cycle Properties fell 3.0 percent each. “A lot of speculators, short- excite the market; EFG Hermes climbed 1.9 percent to 15.50 “Traditionally women would sit at home and wait for the as female spending supports the development of human term investors and retail investors had positions ahead of the pounds while Beltone itself jumped its daily limit of 10 per- man to return home with a bag of groceries, but this has capital, which in turn will fuel economic growth in the MSCI upgrade and now they are dumping those stocks,” said cent for a second day in a row. — Reuters been changing over time as women’s dependence gradually years ahead.” —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 BUSINESS Oil at $110 smoothes path for unchanged OPEC ceiling

VIENNA: An oil price comfortably over to its worst since the civil war three years $100 a barrel leaves smiling OPEC ministers ago. with an easy task to leave things as they are Oil Minister Omar Shakmak said on his on output policy at their meeting today. arrival in Vienna that output had fallen Brent crude has stayed above that price, below 200,000 bpd, a fraction of Libya’s 1.6 the preferred level of top OPEC producer million bpd before the conflict. He at least Saudi Arabia, all year and was trading near welcomed the oil price. “This is positive for $110 yesterday, supported by the almost the market, it’s for the benefit of producers total loss of supplies from OPEC member and customers alike,” Shakmak said. Libya. OPEC’s sanguine view of supply will run The Organization of the Petroleum into a seasonal rise in demand later in the Exporting Countries, which pumps more year, underpinned by signs of some global than a third of the world’s oil, is meeting in economic recovery. OPEC itself has raised Vienna to agree policy for the second half the demand for its crude for the year to of the year. Ministers have said they will 29.76 million bpd, snugly inside its ceiling leave the output target of 30 million barrels but the International Energy Agency, repre- per day (bpd) unchanged, and that the senting the United States and leading market is well-supplied. industrialized oil consumers, sees a tighter “The price is good. Brent is $110, it is not fit of around 30 million bpd. bad,” said Angolan Oil Minister Jose de The IEA in its May report said oil prices Vasconcelos. Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister had remained “elevated” and market balances yet to arrive in Vienna, but gave his unam- called for a “significant rise” in OPEC pro- biguous view on the meeting last month. duction from current levels for the second “There is no reason for a change. half of the year. As well as unrest in Libya, Absolutely no reason,” he told reporters in western sanctions on Iran have also cut Seoul. “Supply is highly sufficient, demand OPEC supplies, but output recovered in is great and the market is fairly stable.” May close to the 30 million bpd target as Riyadh kept production little changed in extra barrels from Iraq and Angola helped May, pumping 9.705 million barrels per day, offset the unplanned reductions. “With the according to industry sources, supporting current low price volatility, OPEC has no Naimi’s view that the market did not need incentive to change anything when it also BEIJING: A Chinese woman holds an umbrella while walking past a clothing booth during a promotional sale outside a shopping mall on a rainy more. OPEC has steered a course around has to deal with the uncertainty of Libya day yesterday. — AP the loss of over a million barrels per day of and Iran,” said Olivier Jakob, oil analyst at oil from Libya, as the crisis there deepened Petromatrix. —AP China inflation hits 4-month high in May United changes mileage rewards BEIJING: China’s annual inflation rose sharply in “Today’s inflation data confirm our view that a low comparison base. “We believe that the threat May to its highest level in four months, official data broader price pressures are stable and that con- of deflation in China is quite small,” they said in a DALLAS: Travelers who fly the most and pay “These changes are designed to more showed yesterday, easing concerns about defla- cerns about deflation, sparked by a short-lived fall note, but added that “the acceleration is not sus- the most will soon earn more miles on directly recognize the value of our members tionary risks in the world’s second-biggest econo- in headline inflation in April, were overplayed,” tainable as the base effect is one off”. They expect United Airlines’ frequent-flier program. The when they fly United,” Thomas O’Toole, pres- my. The consumer price index increased 2.5 per- Julian Evans-Pritchard, an analyst with Capital CPI to stay around 2.5 percent in the next few change will help elite members of United’s ident of the airline’s MileagePlus program, cent year-on-year last month, accelerating from 1.8 Economics, said in a research note.The producer months with PPI picking up. In the first five months loyalty program - those who fly at least said in a statement. While basic MileagePlus percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics price index (PPI) — a measure of costs for goods at of the year, CPI increased 2.3 percent from the 25,000 miles a year on the airline. It will be members will earn 5 miles per dollar, awards said in a statement. It was the highest figure since the factory gate and a leading indicator of the same period in 2013, the NBS said. far less-rewarding for people who currently for top fliers will depend on their status lev- January also saw CPI rise 2.5 percent. The May fig- trend for CPI-also improved to a decline of 1.4 per- The positive inflation data came after figures for rack up miles by taking occasional long el. United did not reveal any change in lev- ure matched the median forecast in a poll of 15 cent in May, the NBS said in a separate statement. May showed renewed vigor in China’s manufactur- flights at bargain fares. Starting next March els for redeeming miles. A spokesman said economists by the Wall Street Journal and was That was up from a decrease of 2.0 percent in April ing sector, with official and private surveys indicat- 1, elite-level members of MileagePlus will they would not change. mainly driven by rises in food costs, particularly a and marked the highest level since December, ing an improving situation. China’s gross domestic earn between 7 and 11 miles for every dollar Economy-class round trips usually cost 20-percent surge in fruit prices, the NBS said. when PPI was also minus 1.4 percent, according to product grew 7.4 percent in the first three months they spend on tickets, not counting taxes. 25,000 to 50,000 miles for US flights; 60,000 Despite the rebound, CPI was still well below the official data. Moderate inflation can be a boon to of 2014, weaker than the 7.7 percent recorded in Regular members - people who fly less than to 130,000 miles between the US and 3.5 percent annual target set by Beijing in March. consumption as it encourages consumers to buy October-December and the worst pace since a 25,000 miles and spend less than $2,500 a Europe; and up to 170,000 miles to fly from April’s price decline had raised concerns the before prices go up. In contrast, as Japan has seen, similar 7.4 percent expansion in the third quarter year on United - will get 5 miles per dollar the US to the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Chinese economy, a key driver of world growth, falling prices encourage consumers to put off of 2012. Beijing has introduced a number of toward free travel. Australia or New Zealand and back. More faced deflationary pressure. The news also comes a spending and companies to delay investment, measures to spur growth, including the reserve United joins Delta, Southwest and miles are needed for first- or business class. day after the People’s Bank of China announced both of which act as brakes on growth. requirement ratio cut, financial support for small JetBlue in basing awards on money spent, United said that passengers will earn miles details of a cut in the amount of cash certain companies and targeted infrastructure outlays. not miles flown. Since 1981, when American for every dollar they spend on base fares lenders must keep with the central bank-the ‘Deflation threat small’ But it has so far refrained from more aggressive Airlines started the first big loyalty program and the airline’s own surcharges, such as for reserve requirement ratio-as part of a limited stim- Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists Lu steps such as interest rate cuts, citing worries in the airline industry, fliers were rewarded fuel. Money spent on bag fees and other ulus to boost spending. Ting and Zhi Xiaojia attributed the pickup in CPI to about excessive credit.—AFP for the number of miles they flew regardless amenities and taxes will not count. of how much they paid for their ticket. In The changes will apply to most tickets for the last few years, however, Virgin America, United and United Express flights and tickets JetBlue, Southwest and Delta have retooled that United sells on partner airlines. There Dubai’s Emaar Malls tightens their programs to favor passengers who will be a maximum of 75,000 miles earned spend the most. It’s part of a larger strategy per ticket. United said that it would give to appeal to high spending passengers, members new ways to redeem miles. especially business travelers who buy Beginning next year, they will be able to cash guidance for 10-year sukuk expensive, fully refundable tickets, some- in miles to cover economy-class seats with times in the first- or business-class cabin. more legroom and bag-checking fees. —AP Retail sector avoids Dubai’s property risk

Emerging countries waver, DUBAI: Emaar Malls Group, a unit of Dubai’s ed over 75 million visitors last year. That makes Holding, which issued a $500 million, 10-year Emaar Properties, may price its debut sukuk it a play on Dubai’s retail, tourism and food & conventional bond in April at a spread of 195 advanced economies expand today inside comparable bonds as investors beverage booms - and arguably a less risky bet bps over midswaps; the bond was trading at seek exposure to the emirate’s booming retail than its parent, which is involved in the emi- 180 bps over its Z-spread yesterday. Majid Al- PARIS: Emerging giants China, Russia and lished shortly after Britain and Italy both sector. Bankers think Emaar Malls, which also rate’s volatile residential real estate market. Futtaim is rated in line with Emaar Malls, and Brazil are losing some of the driving steam published strong industrial output for the plans an initial public offer of shares in coming Emaar Malls is making efforts to establish a investors may bid the latter up higher because which helped prevent a global economic month of April. months, will issue up to $1 billion of 10-year “sustainable capital structure” in preparation for of a lack of issuance in the Gulf during recent slump, but advanced economies are now The British statistics office reported that wakala sukuk. its stock market flotation, Moody’s said last weeks, which has left cash-rich funds scram- increasingly able to pick up the slack, industrial output expanded 0.4 percent in Normally, a first-time issuer might expect to week when it assigned the firm a credit rating bling to buy paper before the Ramadan and according to key data published yesterday. April from the March level when it gained pay some kind of pricing premium, but that of Baa2, two notches above the parent’s score. summer lulls begin at the end of this month. The OECD said its latest monthly report on 0.1 percent, and over 12 months showed a doesn’t look likely in this case. “We are comfortable with the credit. It’s really a The other possible comparable is leading economic indicators suggest that jump of 3.0 percent. That was far ahead of By late yesterday, indicative pricing had one-asset company right now, but that asset, Investment Corporation of Dubai, the emirate’s “the growth momentum is weakening in analysts’ expectation of a 12-month rise of already tightened to 190 basis points over Dubai Mall, is an excellent one. Plus the compa- state investment arm, which owns 29 percent most major emerging economies” with the 2.8 percent. At Berenberg bank, chief UK midswaps from initial pricing thoughts of 200 ny is committed to maintaining investment of Emaar Properties. It issued a $300 million, indicators showing weaker than usual economist Rob Wood commented: “Today bps over, with investor demand said to be very grade ratings, which is an additional source of 10-year conventional bond in mid-May at 210 growth in China, Russia and Brazil. brought yet more good news on the strong. “As I understand, books are already in comfort,” said Abdul Kadir Hussain, chief execu- bps over midswaps; it is now trading at about Conversely, the United States and Canada strength of the UK recovery, with manufac- the $2 billion plus range. My expectation would tive at Mashreq Capital. 185 bps over its Z-spread. Ten banks are are showing stable growth momentum, the turing output rising solidly for the fifth con- be a spread of around 175 bps,” said Biswajit bookrunning the deal: Dubai Islamic Bank, 18-member euro-zone as a whole including secutive month. Dasgupta, chief investment officer at Emirates Emirates NBD, Mashreq, Morgan Stanley, First Italy is improving, and non-euro Britain is “The UK economy is increasingly firing on Comparables Investment Bank. Traders see two possible comparables for Gulf Bank, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Noor steadying at unusually strong growth rates, all cylinders, setting up the second quarter The firm owns Dubai Mall, one of the world’s the Emaar Malls issue. One is United Arab Bank, Standard Chartered, Al-Hilal Bank and the OECD said. The OECD’s report was pub- for another strong growth reading.”—AFP largest shopping centres, which says it attract- Emirates malls developer Majid Al-Futtaim Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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PRETORIA: The South African government and the Recession is unlikely ing markets in Africa. central bank chief warned yesterday that strike-hit She however dismissed fears of South Africa slip- Mining is the bedrock of the South African econ- platinum mines could close, throwing miners out of ping into a recession, despite growth contraction in omy and platinum group metals alone raked in 9.0 work and rocking an already shaky economy. The the first quarter of this year which was largely percent of export earnings last year. After months world’s three biggest platinum miners-Anglo American blamed on the prolonged wage strike. “We do not of standing on the sidelines, the government Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin-have been believe that a recession is the most likely outcome,” stepped in at the end of May to try to break the deadlocked with strikers demanding better pay for said Marcus. South Africa’s economy shrank by 0.6 deadlock between the Association of Mineworkers nearly five months. “The situation is grave,” said percent in the first three months of this year, the and Construction Union (AMCU) and the producers. Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi. “The worst quarterly performance in five years, raising After the mediation effort collapsed on Monday, longer the strike goes on the more likelihood of shafts the specter of a recession. the mine operators said they were “committed to a being closed.” For South Africa to head into negative growth in negotiated settlement” but “will now review further Ramatlhodi on Monday abandoned mediation the second quarter-which would officially plunge it options.” efforts between the union representing the striking into recession-”we would have to have significant More than 70,000 miners stopped work on workers and their employers after they failed to reach further contractions off the already low bases in January 23 to back their demand that the minimum agreement. “I suspect there will be job losses, realisti- both the mining and manufacturing sectors,” she monthly basic wage be doubled to $1,180 (866 cally,” he said. Central bank chief Gill Marcus said sepa- said. “And such contractions would have to be of euros), which producers say they cannot afford. The rately that even if the strike was to end now, it is “possi- similar orders of magnitude as in the first quarter.” strike has cost employers 22 billion rand ($2 billion, ble that a number of shafts will never re-open.” She The South African currency has been under pres- 1.47 billion euros) in revenue while workers have warned that platinum exports would be hit hard, sure for months and ratings agencies have warned forfeited about 10 billion rand ($945 million, 695 although the mines have “significant” inventories of that deficits, high unemployment and slow growth million euros) in wages and benefits, according to the mineral, which is used to make jewelry and catalyt- may prompt a credit downgrade to junk bond sta- industry figures. Mining firms estimate the strike ic converters in cars. But these stocks are being deplet- tus. That could raise the cost of borrowing for the has already affected 45 percent of the global supply ed and “the longer the strike continues, the sooner the South African government and prompt internation- of platinum. South Africa holds around 80 percent adverse effects on exports will be felt,” said Marcus. al investors to look to other faster-growing emerg- of the world’s known platinum reserves. — AFP NEW YORK: The headquarters of Time Warner company is seen. — AFP Time Inc shares ECB policymakers dip even as new can do more CEO sees growth if necessary HELSINKI/BRATISLAVA: European Central Bank poli- cymakers stressed yesterday that they can still do NEW YORK: Shares of Time Inc Inc publishes more than 90 titles, more to support the euro-zone economy after last ebbed on Monday in the magazine including the business magazine week announcing a package of measures to ward off publisher’s first trading session Fortune, and operates 45 websites. the threat of deflation. The central bank chiefs of since its spinoff from Time Warner The magazine unit has slashed Finland and Slovakia, Erkki Liikanen and Jozef Inc, even as CEO Joe Ripp vowed to its workforce in recent years, a Makuch, who both sit on the ECB’s 24-member expand a business he said had trend that is expected to continue Governing Council, said the bank could do more if been starved of capital for years. under Ripp. The company, which needed. Last Thursday, the ECB cut interest rates to Time Inc, whose titles include cut 600 jobs in 2013, now has record lows, launched a series of measures to pump People, Sports Illustrated and its about 7,800 employees. Ken money into the sluggish euro zone economy, and namesake Time magazine, will now Doctor, a research analyst at Outsell pledged to do more if needed to fight off the risk of operate without the cushion pro- Inc, said Time Inc won’t have an Japan-like deflation. vided by such lucrative Time easy time as it plays catch-up with “This is not it yet,” Liikanen said at the Bank of Warner Inc cousins as the HBO fam- faster-growing Internet-based Finland’s quarterly news conference when asked ily of pay-TV channels or the media companies. about remaining tools in the ECB’s kit. “We have the Warner Bros movie studio. “You can manage declines but capacity to act, we can make decisions, this has not The spinoff, which follows a at some point you’ve got to have a changed.” ECB President Mario Draghi said after strategy pursued by News Corp way to turn around that story,” announcing the package last week that “we aren’t and other media companies, is a Doctor said. Ripp acknowledged finished here”, indicating that so-called quantitative response to a steady decline in the difficulties facing his company easing (QE) - or money printing to buy assets - is on magazine circulation and advertis- but said it could follow some of the the table. Draghi made the comment during the ing revenue as consumers shift to strategies that are working for its question and answer session of his news conference, reading news and entertainment competitors. He said the company not in the statement he read out announcing the content on smartphones and could find new revenue streams by measures, on which he said there was unanimity. tablets. Ripp said in an interview on offering products that are not nec- Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann insisted on Friday Monday that Time Inc, no longer essarily print-based but are related that “it would be absurd to already start talking now about a further set of measures.” But the latest com- beholden to its parent for capital, to specialty areas it serves. For ments, and others last Friday from ECB Vice President could now plow more cash back example, the company, which has Vitor Constancio and Luc Coene, Belgium’s central into its business and take the com- two magazine titles dealing with Auto trade gets serious bank chief, suggest a significant group on the pany beyond its core print prod- wine, could acquire wine-oriented Governing Council support Draghi’s readiness to do newsletters, sponsor vineyard tours ucts. He sees acquisitions in more if needed. newsletters and the digital sector and other events, produce videos, about lighter materials as a possibility. create apps and cull related data. Substance “I think you’re going to be see- Between 2011 and 2013, Time “How far (rates) can go is a technical question. DEARBORN: Roofs made of carbon fiber. Plastic Morgan Stanley estimates than shaving 110 ing lots of acquisitions from us. Inc’s revenue fell 9 percent to $3.35 There is room for a further cut in the benchmark rate, windshields. Bumpers fashioned out of aluminum pounds off each of the 1 billion cars on the world’s Some smaller and some a little bit billion, while operating profit and of course space for adjustment of the corridor or foam. What sounds like a science experiment could roads could save $40 billion in fuel each year. bigger, but I’m not looking at any- dropped 40 percent. The company keeping the corridor with the new benchmark rate,” be your next car. While hybrids and electrics may “Lightweighting is going to be with us for a long thing for a $1 billion right now,” has also taken on $1.4 billion in Makuch said. Last week, the ECB lowered its deposit grab the headlines, the real frontier in fuel economy time,” said Hesham Ezzat, a technical fellow at GM. Ripp said. There’s nothing like that debt, partly to help fund a one- rate - that it offers for holdings banks’ cash overnight - is the switch to lighter materials. Automakers have “Every manufacturer is going to have to leverage in my sights.” Shares closed 18 time dividend to Time Warner to -0.1 percent. It cut its main refinancing rate to 0.15 been experimenting for decades with lightweighting, their entire palette of materials.” Here’s a look at some cents lower, or 0.8 percent, at shareholders. Several media com- percent, and the marginal lending rate - or emer- as the practice is known, but the effort is gaining of the materials automakers will use to shed the $23.30, after trimming a decline of panies, including News Corp, the gency borrowing rate - to 0.40 percent. Aside from urgency with the adoption of tougher gas mileage pounds: as much as 6 percent. publisher of the Wall Street Journal QE, there is little of any substance left in the ECB standards. To meet the government’s goal of nearly HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL: Steel isn’t going away. As part of the spinoff, Time and owner of Fox News, have armory after Thursday’s announcement of new meas- doubling average fuel economy to 45 mpg by 2025, Chances are, high-strength steel - a lighter and Warner shareholders received one recently separated their print prop- ures to try to steer the euro zone away from the eco- cars need to lose some serious pounds. stronger steel mixed with other elements such as share of Time Inc stock for every erties from faster-growing TV and nomic quicksand of deflation. Clemens Fuest, presi- Lighter doesn’t mean less safe. Cars with new nickel and titanium - already makes up at least 15 eight shares of Time Warner stock. cable businesses. Tribune Co also dent of the Mannheim-based think tank ZEW, saw a materials are already acing government crash tests. percent of your car’s weight. Some newer models, Based on 110 million shares out- plans to cleave off its newspaper high probability of the ECB embarking on large-scale Around 30 percent of new vehicles already have such as the Cadillac ATS, are nearly 40 percent high- standing, Time Inc had a market properties from its TV stations this asset purchases, similar to programs exercised by the hoods made of aluminum, which can absorb the strength steel. High-strength steel costs about 15 value of roughly $2.6 billion. Time year. — Reuters US Federal Reserve or the Bank of Japan.—Reuters same amount of impact as steel. Some car companies percent more than regular steel, but less than other are teaming up with airplane makers, which have materials such as aluminum. It still weighs more than years of crash simulation data for lightweight materi- aluminum, but continuing advances could cut that als. weight. Extremely thin but strong steels made with New US student loan program Ford gave a glimpse of the future last week with a nanotechnology - which manipulates the metal at lightweight Fusion car. The prototype, developed the molecular level - could be on cars by 2017. with the US Department of Energy, is about 800 ALUMINUM: The typical vehicle already contains leaves many out in the cold pounds lighter than a typical Fusion thanks to dozens around 340 pounds of aluminum, or about 10 per- of changes in parts and materials. The instrument cent of the weight of a midsize car. It’s most com- LOS ANGELES: President Barack Obama’s tor of the National Consumer Law Center’s The expansion to borrowers with older panel consists of a carbon fiber and nylon composite monly used in engines, wheels, hoods and trunk lids. expansion of an income-based repayment Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project. loans is expected by the end of 2015. Those instead of steel. The rear window is made from the Aluminum is lighter than steel and easy to form into a program offers additional help for millions of Obama’s executive order extends the Pay borrowers are currently eligible for another, same tough but thin plastic that covers your cell- variety of parts. It’s also more corrosion-resistant than Americans struggling with federal student as You Earn repayment program to about 5 older program called Income Based phone. steel. There are drawbacks. The supply of steel is loan debt. Some of the most burdened bor- million more borrowers with older loans. Pay Repayment, or IBR. This program caps pay- The car has aluminum brake rotors that are 39 per- many times greater than that of aluminum, and will rowers, however, will get little if any relief, As You Earn caps payments at 10 percent of ments at 15 percent of discretionary income. cent lighter than cast iron ones and carbon fiber be for many years. Aluminum also costs 30 percent financial aid experts said. Private student the borrower’s discretionary income, which is Borrowers with public service jobs can have wheels that weigh 42 percent less than aluminum more than conventional steel, and a rapid increase in loans and parent PLUS loans are not eligible defined as the amount exceeding 150 per- their remaining balances forgiven after 10 ones. Because it’s lighter, the prototype can use the demand could make aluminum prices volatile. Still, for income-based options, and borrowers cent of the poverty level for the household. years, while those in other jobs are eligible for same small engine as Ford’s subcompact Fiesta, consultant McKinsey and Co. predicts aluminum’s use with huge debt loads can be shut out if their The program is currently only available to forgiveness after 25 years. which gets an estimated 45 mpg on the highway. in the auto industry will triple by 2030. incomes are too high. “You could really be those who were new borrowers as of Oct. 1, Pay As You Earn has the same 10-year The car won’t be in dealerships anytime soon. For CARBON FIBER: Airplanes use it. Boats use it. struggling and still not qualify for one of 2007, and who received a federal loan dis- requirement for public service jobs but allows one thing, it’s prohibitively expensive. Its seats, for Carbon fiber is a high-strength material made from these programs,” said Deanne Loonin, direc- bursement after Oct 1, 2011. forgiveness after 20 years for other jobs. A example, cost up to $73 apiece because they have woven fibers. It’s half the weight of steel, it is resistant third, less-generous option, the Income- carbon fiber frames. The same seats with steel frames to dents and corrosion, and it offers the most design Contingent Plan, is available for federal loan borrowers who do not qualify for the other are $12. Still, prototypes are helping Ford and other flexibility, since it can be shaped in ways that two plans, including parents who shifted companies figure out the ideal mix of materials. stamped metal can’t. But the high cost of carbon fiber their PLUS loans into a direct consolidation “These are the technologies that will creep into and the time it takes to form it into parts are huge loan on or after July 1, 2006. Payments are vehicles in the next three to five years,” said Matt barriers for the auto industry. capped at 20 percent of discretionary income Zaluzec, Ford’s technical leader for materials and Petroleum-based strands must go through several with forgiveness after 25 years. manufacturing research. Some vehicles have already stages before they’re woven into carbon fiber. After In 2012-13, about 700,000 families bor- made a lightweight leap. Land Rover’s 2013 Range that, it takes five minutes to form the material into a rowed nearly $10 billion under the parent Rover, which went on sale last year, dropped around part, compared with one minute for steel or alu- PLUS program, which has minimal credit 700 pounds with its all-aluminum body, while the minum. On an assembly line producing a car every requirements, no underwriting to determine new Acura MDX shed 275 pounds thanks to increased minute, that’s simply too long. Plus, carbon fiber is the borrower’s ability to repay the debt and use of high-strength steel, aluminum and magne- five to six times more expensive than steel, according no cap on borrowing. Parents can borrow the sium. to McKinsey. full cost of a child’s education, while the stu- Ford has unveiled an aluminum-body 2015 F-150 Automakers, the government and others are dent’s federal student loan borrowing is typi- pickup, which shaves up to 700 pounds off the cur- experimenting with cheaper materials for the fibers cally limited to $31,000 for an undergraduate rent version. The truck goes on sale later this year. The and faster-curing resins that could shorten the time degree. average vehicle has gained more than 800 pounds to form parts. McKinsey believes that could signifi- Some students and parents turn to private over the last 12 years and now tops out at just over cantly shrink the price gap by 2030. Until then, expect loans to supplement or even replace federal 3,900 pounds, according to government data. Not to see carbon fiber in limited amounts on low-volume loans. About $6.2 billion was disbursed in pri- only have cars gotten bigger, but safety features like or luxury cars. The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, which vate student loans in 2012-13. Unlike federal air bags and more crash-resistant frames have also starts at $51,000, has a carbon fiber hood and roof, loans, private student loans typically have added weight. General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt electric while the $41,350 BMW i3 electric car is built around WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the East Room of variable interest rates and few repayment car has to drag around a 400-pound battery. a carbon fiber frame. — AP the White House. — AP options.—Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 Tax cheats take billions from Ukraine Phantom firms intercept between $3.4bn and $5bn

KIEV: On paper, the Ukrainian trading taxes were so high and the rules so errati- firm known as Mistral dealt in manage- cally enforced that he had to work with ment consulting and research, doing mil- phantoms just to stay afloat. He spoke on lions of dollars’ worth of deals before condition of anonymity because he going bust after Ukrainian President feared prosecution. Viktor Yanukovych was chased out of The corruption began at the top, said office earlier this year. But when police Bilous. He accused his predecessor, recently tried to visit Mistral’s Kiev office Yanukovych ally Oleksandr Klymenko, of at No. 12 Saperne Pole Street, they found organizing the previously ad hoc fraud a huge hole in the ground, the foundation into a nationwide system, organized “like of an apartment complex to be complet- a pyramid” with legitimate firms at the ed next year. There was no trace of bottom funneling money through their Mistral, whose name refers to a type of phantom partners until it reached wind. A receptionist at No. 5 on that Klymenko and his associates, who either street said there used to be a wine ware- ran the phantom firms through proxies or house at the site, but it was cleared when took a cut of their proceeds. Klymenko construction began in 2011. Apartment denied his successor’s allegations. numbers now jump from 9 to 22. “These are groundless accusations,” he Officials tasked with cleaning the said in an interview over Skype, saying country’s corruption-scarred tax system that he’d improved the tax agency by, for say the company didn’t merely enter the example, implementing a new IT system. wrong address. They say Mistral may nev- But then there was the secret chamber. er have existed in the first place - one of Across the atrium from Bilous’ office, scores or even hundreds of phantom spokeswoman Yaryna Klyuchkovska firms suspected of squeezing a total of showed off a steel, soundproof vault 130 billion hryvnias ($11 billion) from where she said Klymenko and his col- Kiev’s coffers over the past three years. leagues worked out how to divide the The country’s total tax revenue amounted illicit cash. The vault was equipped with a to 210 billion hryvnias ($17.8 billion) in white-noise generator to beat eavesdrop- 2013. pers and furnished with clear plastic Some 30 investigations are now under- tables and chairs so those haggling over way, and a few companies have been their spoils could see there were no listen- raided, but the country’s top tax official ing devices attached to the furniture, she contends his predecessors were part of said. Klymenko did not return emails the fraud, which is why many phantom about the vault, but using transparent fur- firms acted with impunity. “They didn’t niture to beat surveillance “is straight out care about the police, the security servic- of the old-school, Eastern Bloc, counterin- es. Nobody was checking,” Deputy Tax telligence playbook,” said Vince Minister Ihor Bilous told The Associated Houghton, the historian and curator of Press in an interview at his Kiev office last the International Spy Museum in month. “That’s why this cancer ... spread Washington, DC. He said East Germany’s over the whole country.” intelligence service used to keep trans- parent furniture in a vault at its embassy Getting a ‘cut’ in Rome - a sure sign of concern over Outside experts support Bilous’ claims eavesdropping. and documents reviewed by the AP - including tax records, a list of alleged Phantom firms phantom companies drawn up by a “If it’s in a secure, soundproof vault I Ukrainian anti-corruption group, and data can’t see any other reason for it to be from the business intelligence website there,” he said. The system that ran from Arachnys - echo his description of a wide- the vault kicked the corruption into over- ranging scheme. Bilous’ assertions are drive, Bilous said. In 2013 alone, he said “very hard not to agree with,” said Anna phantom firms helped intercept between Derevyanko, the director of the Kiev- $3.4 billion and $5 billion meant for the based European Business Association. state, figures derived from an analysis of “Basically whatever field you are touching, phantom firms’ reported sales. Klymenko, it was corrupt in the territory of Ukraine.” who said those estimates were “made up,” Tax fraud has long been a problem spoke to the AP from an undisclosed loca- here, and reforming the country’s revenue tion, having left Ukraine in a hurry follow- system is a key challenge faced by the ing Yanukovuch’s departure. Surveillance newly elected administration of Petro video taken from a Ukrainian airport Poroshenko, who was sworn in Saturday shows Klymenko and the country’s chief as Ukrainian president. For now, Ukraine’s prosecutor scuffling with guards who budget is being held together with the tried to detain them and overturning a help of a $17 billion IMF loan package; metal detector gate as they try to reach Bilous says he’s proposing a series of their plane. Klymenko left behind a set of changes to the country’s parliament in a crocodile-skin armchairs which, together bid to put the country on a firmer finan- with other luxuries, carry echoes of the cial footing. The success of those reforms extravagance of the Yanukovych mansion may hinge on whether the country can that protesters overran in February. exorcise its phantom firms, fake compa- Klyuchkovska said the armchairs were nies which have long been used by legiti- slated for auction. mate businesses to reduce their tax bills. Despite Bilous’ actions, skeptics say the According to officials and insiders, here’s new government is not doing enough to how it worked: A business pretended to end fraud. Outside the tax ministry, buy goods or services from the phantom drum-banging, bell-clanging protesters firm but, instead of delivering on the deal, from the Anti-Raider League of the fake company secretly returned the Entrepreneurs, an anti-corruption group, money in cash, reducing the real compa- accused Bilous of not doing enough, ny’s tax liability in return for a cut of the alleging that crooked officials from the money. previous administration had merely been Some 1,700 legitimate businesses were shuffled around. Bilous “has not changed in on the scam, according to the ministry, anything,” said the league’s director, which flushed them out by identifying Andrei Semedidko. “How are we going to 100 to 120 phantom companies and build a new country when the faces are tracking who was at the other end of their the old ones?” A blacklist of phantom deals. Getting in on the scam slashed tax firms provided by the group listed 11 of bills dramatically. One home appliance them based in just one of Ukraine’s 25 importer used phantom partners to whit- regions, including Crimea, which is also tle its tax obligations down to $85,000 a claimed by Russia, and he estimated the month, according to ministry figures. true number of phantom firms at around Once it dropped the tactic, its payments 1,200. jumped tenfold. In the past five weeks authorities say they have shut at least 30 phony firms Erratically enforced rules across the country, often raiding empty Those behind the phantom firms stood offices filled with bogus paperwork, fake to make huge amounts of money; one tax corporate letterhead, and bundles of document reviewed by AP showed that a cash. But there have been no mass firings company purporting to be a Kiev-based at the tax ministry. Bilous said he was trading firm drew in $190,000 in sales per doing what he could in the face of month - with only a single employee on a entrenched corruption, saying tax evasion monthly salary of just $110. A business- had been a problem “for the last 23 years, man with nearly two decades’ experience and it’s not easy to close it down.” But he in Ukraine estimated that $300,000 he acknowledged he’s dealing with a crisis. “I owed in tax was instead split between his call it a national security problem,” he said, companies and the various phantom “because if we continue like this, the firms he dealt with over the years. In an budget deficit will basically kill us, in a interview, he complained that Ukrainian year or two years’ time.” — AP

KIEV: Ukrainian protesters hold banners outside the tax ministry in Kiev. —AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Gap to be first US retailer to sell ‘Made in Myanmar’ goods

YANGON: High street giant Gap is to become the products from two factories in Yangon, Gap Inc. sanctions by the West imposed in protest at the $145.7 million in 2013. American imports from first American retailer to source garments made becomes the first American retailer to enter the government’s dire human rights record. Myanmar have also started to grow, with their in Myanmar, the US embassy in Yangon said, over Myanmar market,” it said. Gap will operate in Garment exports, which had hit a high of $850 value rising from zero in 2012 to $30.1 million last a decade after sanctions against the former junta partnership with the US Agency for International million in 2001, plunged after the US toughened year. slashed the country’s textile industry. The US Development (USAID) on a project to improve sanctions in 2003 in protest at the junta’s deten- The US embassy statement, which was embassy said products made at two Yangon fac- skills among Myanmar’s largely female textile tion of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, released following the signing of the USAID part- tories would be in Gap stores by this summer, in industry workforce. according to Myanmar textile industry figures at nership on Saturday, added that Gap would the latest sign of growing interest from multina- the time. But a quasi-civilian regime that came ensure the factories it is sourcing from meet tionals in the fast-changing former pariah state. Reviving garment exports into power three years ago has ushered in a “internationally recognized human rights and Most Western embargoes on Myanmar-which “By entering Myanmar, we hope to help accel- broad spectrum of changes-including welcoming labor standards”. The garment industry has been previously blocked exports from the Southeast erate economic and social growth in the country, Suu Kyi and her opposition party into parliament. in the spotlight in Asia in recent years because of Asian nation-have been lifted in response to and build on our track record of improving work- The reforms have generated hopes of an concerns over labor rights and safety. Violent wide-ranging democratic reforms introduced in ing conditions and building local capacity in gar- investment boom in the resource-rich nation of crackdowns on striking textile workers in 2011. ment factories around the world,” said Wilma about 60 million people. US firms including Cambodia most recently raised fears over the sec- “The garment industry stands poised to Wallace, the vice president of Gap’s Global drinks makers Coca Cola and Pepsi and carmakers tor, which employs about 650,000 people in the become a significant source of jobs, exports and Responsibility division. Myanmar was left impov- Chevrolet and Ford have already established a country and provides clothing for Western high opportunity for the people of this country,” the erished after decades of economic mismanage- sales presence in the country, as exports to street brands including Gap, H&M, Puma and US embassy said in a statement. “By producing its ment under the former junta, as well as years of Myanmar soared from $9.8 million in 2010 to Levi’s. — AFP Performers threaten French summer festivals PARIS: Performers, technicians and other istries in two weeks. casual workers in the French arts world are France’s some 100,000 casual festival threatening to step up strikes to thwart the workers have a special status under law. country’s top summer festivals in protest at Although they only represent 3.5 percent cuts to their unemployment insurance of job-seekers, their unemployment com- arrangements. The threat came as pensation is two times higher than the President Francois Hollande’s government average and in itself creates a deficit which faced other unrest, with train unions due amounts to a quarter of Unedic’s annual yesterday to launch a 24-hour strike to shortfall of four billion euros. While workers protest a reorganization of the rail system. say the nature of festival schedules means Taxi drivers will today join a one-day they undergo long periods of unemploy- demonstration in major European capitals ment for which they should be compensat- over competition from chauffeured cabs. ed, France’s main employers’ group, Medef, France’s summer festivals draw hun- considers their benefits to be akin to a gov- dreds of thousands of visitors and include ernment subsidy. renowned events such as the Avignon Under the reform worked out by Medef Theatre Festival and Aix-en-Provence’s and some unions in March, festival-work- opera festival - both of which were can- ers will see their unemployment contribu- celled in 2003 during an earlier bout of tions rise and many will have to wait strike action. Hollande wants to narrow the longer after the end of each temporary job HARPSUND: British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and Swedish Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt look at German Chancellor Angela multi-billion-euro deficit in France’s Unedic before they can receive benefits. Theatre Merkel as she speaks during a joint press conference in front of the summer residence of the Swedish Prime Minister, in Harpsund, 120 km west unemployment fund as part of wider actor-director Jacques Allaire told of Stockholm yesterday. — AFP moves to get France’s public finances back Liberation daily that France’s cultural iden- into shape as agreed with European Union tity was at stake. partners. “It’s not only about a fight for rights but But festival workers - known as “inter- for a model of society,” said Allaire. “And Rebuffing Cameron, Merkel mittents” - have long refused any change to what about this betrayal from a govern- arrangements they argue are vital to sup- ment of the left?” UNEDIC is financed porting French culture, and say reforms directly by contributions from workers and backs Juncker for EU job agreed in March will make it impossible for employers, with any shortfall made up by many of them to eke out a living. Earlier borrowing. Because the state guarantees this month they launched strikes in the UNEDIC’s bonds, its debt counts towards southern city of Montpellier that have total government debt but not the annual Swedish PM shows concerns for Juncker appointment already caused cancellations of events in its public deficit figure. Stubbornly high HARPSUND: German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month. after the meeting. Juncker has the support of the “Springtime of Actors” Festival, and the CGT unemployment of over 10 percent has reaffirmed her support yesterday for Jean-Claude With Cameron promising Britons an in-out EU European People’s Party, the largest centre-right union is calling for a nationwide strike on strained Unedic’s finances and meant its Juncker becoming the next president of the membership referendum in 2017 if re-elected political grouping in the European Parliament, June 16. total accumulated debt is set to rise to 24.9 European Commission after meeting EU leaders next year, Juncker’s appointment may see a politi- which named him as its candidate before last “Montpellier on strike today, all of us on billion euros next year. Hollande - the least critical of the Luxembourger. Merkel made her cal backlash in the UK. “Obviously the approach month’s European elections. strike tomorrow,” read a banner outside popular French leader in the 56-year-old statement after talks in Sweden hosted by Prime that the European Union takes between now and He may be the front runner for the job, but oth- Paris Opera Bastille this weekend, where Fifth Republic - is trying to find 50 billion Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and also attended by then will be very important,” Cameron said, saying er possible candidates have also been suggested. protestors delayed the start of the Verdi euros in budget savings over the next British Prime Minister David Cameron and Dutch Europe had to be more open and needed leaders While IMF head Christine Lagarde has ruled herself opera “La Traviata.” Prime Minister Manuel three years in order to meet EU-mandated premier Mark Rutte. “capable of taking the European Union forward in out of the running for the job of European Valls nominated a mediator to try to defuse deficit-reduction goals, but faces pressure The informal meeting was held amid a cam- that direction.” “Obviously if the European Union Commission president, British officials have made the crisis. The mediator’s proposals will be from voters and left-wing lawmakers to paign by Cameron, who has promised a referen- doesn’t go in that direction that would be clear centre-left Danish Prime Minister Helle submitted to the labor and culture min- ease up on austerity measures. — Reuters dum on Britain’s continued membership of the unhelpful,” he said. Thorning-Schmidt would also be acceptable. European Union, to prevent the federalist former Other names include outgoing Finnish Prime Luxembourg prime minister being nominated to “No threats” Minister Jyrki Katainen while Irish Prime Minister head the bloc’s executive arm. “I have said that for One of the British leader’s problems is that he Enda Kenny is another potential compromise. me Jean-Claude Juncker is the candidate for the cannot afford to alienate Merkel if he is to suc- Cameron has said EU leaders and not the office of Commission president and that I want to ceed in renegotiating his country’s relationship European Parliament should nominate the candi- have him as the Commission president,” Merkel with Europe prior to holding a referendum. date for Commission president, arguably the told a news conference under an unusually hot Merkel, criticised by German media for her initial most powerful job in the bloc’s institutions with Swedish sun at the government’s country man- reticence in giving Juncker full-hearted support, major influence over policy affecting 500 million sion of Harpsund. has indicated she does not want to isolate Britain Europeans. Who becomes the next Commission head has and would prefer a broad consensus if possible. Leaders of the EU legislature have argued that generated heated debate since May’s EU parlia- But asked about how the debate should be the assembly should play a defining role in mentary elections, with the risk Britain could be conducted, she said: “Threats are not a part of it. choosing the next Commission president, citing pushed closer to leaving the EU if its opposition It’s not part of the way we act.” Reinfeldt and Rutte the bloc’s governing Lisbon treaty which says the to Juncker is not heeded. The four leaders talked took no clear public position for or against nominee should be chosen taking the elections until around 1 am yesterday over coffee in Juncker, saying that the policy agenda - like into account. EU leaders have mandated Harpsund’s piano room, with Merkel’s position reforms to the EU budget and labor markets - for European Council President Herman Van unchanged in private, a source at Cameron’s the next Commission had to be agreed first. Rompuy to propose a package of appointments office said. “We have agreed that the future policy priori- for several top EU jobs, including the Cameron had hoped the meeting could give ties of the EU must be decided before we can Commission presidency, if possible in time for a more impetus to an alliance to block Juncker but decide on appointments of different top jobs,” summit at the end of this month. Under the the source said discussions were “constructive Reinfeldt said. But Reinfeldt has made it clear that Lisbon treaty, the decision is subject to qualified but not resolved”. Britain regards Juncker as an he has concerns with Junker’s appointment. majority rule. Cameron appears to be short of a old-style European federalist and says someone “We don’t think that you should choose party blocking minority unless Italian Prime Minister TOKYO: Customers shop at Japan’s casual apparel giant Uniqlo yesterday. The operator more open to reforming the EU and reducing candidates a long way in advance. That disquali- Matteo Renzi, who has said Juncker has no auto- of cheap chic clothing brand Uniqlo, whose affordable garments have come to symbol- the powers of Brussels should be picked, reflect- fies a large number of people from being candi- matic right to the job, is willing to block the vet- ize deflation-plagued Japan, said it will hike its prices, blaming a weaker yen. — AFP ing a widespread protest vote against the bloc dates for these top jobs,” Reinfeldt told Reuters eran Luxembourger. — Reuters US billionaire Ross cashes Euronext stock market out Bank of Ireland stake set for ICE spin-off

LONDON/DUBLIN: US billionaire Wilbur Ross sold his shares were trading at 0.10 euros. PARIS: US stock market operator ICE began spinning off the pan- ICE which wants to develop globally in this very competitive sec- entire shareholding in Bank of Ireland for almost half a bil- Through an investment in Virgin Money, Ross also got European market Euronext yesterday in an operation which could tor. ICE will raise 880 million to 1.16 billion euros from the sale. lion euros yesterday, to almost triple the value of a shrewd into British banks, a sector where others have succeeded. raise 1.75 billion euros and will leave three main operators fight- This is because ICE has confirmed that a hard core of shareholders investment made at the height of the euro zone crisis. Ross Investors from Qatar and Abu Dhabi made more than 1 bil- ing for business in Europe. ICE said yesterday that shares in the which had undertaken to retain their holdings for three years will has said he would sell his 5.5 percent stake three years after lion pounds each on bets on Barclays when the bank need- newly floated entity would be issued at 19-25 euros, valuing acquire 33.33 percent of Euronext at a discount of 4.0 percent his pioneering investment kept the struggling bank out of ed cash in 2008. He was also one of many international Euronext at 1.33-1.75 billion euros ($1.8-2.37 billion). The issue is from the issue price. Among these investors are French bank BNP state hands, and his holding was snapped up at 0.265 investors - from tycoon Donald Trump to investment firms backed by hard-core investors, and the guide valuation is in line Paribas and its Belgian subsidiary Fortis, Societe Generale bank euros a share. The 76-year-old investor, who made his such as Lone Star and Franklin Templeton - who bet on with estimates by analysts. and the quasi-state savings giant Caisse des depots (CDC) and its name by snapping up out-of-favor assets ranging from Ireland’s recovery by buying up everything from bonds to The operation will re-draw the European landscape which will subsidiary Bpifrance, together with the European clearing house, banks to textile firms, joins several big investors who timed hotels and apartment blocks after a devastating economic be dominated by, Euronext, the German Deutsche Boerse in which matches and routes transactions, Euroclear. Other mem- their bets to make significant profits from stepping in to and banking crisis. Frankfurt, and the London Stock Exchange which operates the bers of this core group are Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo bail out European banks. Liquidators appointed to the collapsed Anglo Irish Bank, markets in London and in Milan. Euronext, which operates the and BPI Vida e Pensoes, Dutch banks ABN Amro and ASR “This has been a terrific investment for us,” Ross told who in recent months sold loans with a book value of 21.7 Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon stock markets, said it Nederland, and the Belgian state holding company SFPI. These Reuters in response to emailed questions, adding that even billion euros, said last week the disposal was the biggest intends to develop its traditional cash payment trading activities, investors have been at loggerheads with governments, objecting though he remained confident in the bank and in Ireland’s loan sale in the world in the past two years. Fairfax Financial but also business in derivative instruments and in information to regulations which they say will reduce the profitability of prospects, he had become too concentrated in banking. boss Prem Watsa, who was also part of the 2011 consor- services. Euronext. Two institutional investors have also made an under- Ross, whose fund specializes in so-called distressed assets, tium and who sold shares with Ross in March, told Reuters It intends to reduce costs by about 60 million euros in the next taking to buy about 2.0 percent of the shares. These are the was among a group of North American investors who on Monday Ross’s decision was “entirely unrelated to the three years in order to raise annual turnover by about 5.0 percent French energy giant GDF Suez and Dutch banking and insurance bought a 35 percent stake months after Ireland signed up business” and pledged to hold his own 5.8 percent stake for in the medium to long term and to achieve a gross operating mar- group KBC. The public offer of the shares lasts until June 18 in to an EU/IMF bailout, effectively giving an early vote of con- the long term. gin of about 45 percent. Euronext chief executive Dominique Europe, and until June 19 for the private placing of stock in other fidence in the debt-ravaged country. The Irish government, the bank’s largest shareholder Cerutti said in a statement: “We are delighted to launch the IPO countries including the United States. — AFP He told Reuters in April he was assessing distressed with 14 percent, has said it has no interest in running banks (initial public offering) of Euronext with such strong commitment assets in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy and was looking long term but is under no financial or political pressure to from leading institutions across Europe, a recognition of to make investments in the next few months. Yesterday’s sell. Bank of Ireland, the only Irish lender to avoid full state Euronext’s potential as a leading pan-European exchange group. placing in Bank of Ireland was priced at a 6.7 percent dis- ownership, said in March it had been profitable in the first “Euronext’s role in supporting the real economies of Europe will count to the stock’s closing price of 0.28 euros on Monday, few months of the year and analysts say it is well placed to be further strengthened by our independence...” valuing the holding at 477 million euros ($649 million). By pass European “stress tests” on the sector this year. With the IPO, the company returns to being an independent 1100 GMT Bank of Ireland shares were down 3.2 percent. “Longer term, the removal of Wilbur Ross from BoI’s company, having been acquired in 2007 by the New York Stock share register may be a positive for the bank, reducing the Exchange. NYSE Euronext was then bought by the Bet on recovery focus and reliance of one large high-profile investor as the InterContinentalExchange (ICE) in 2013, but ICE was not interest- A source familiar with the matter said Ross’s 1.8 billion group returns to normalized operating conditions,” ed in the European activities.Euronext in the first place, was the shares had been bought by a mixture of existing share- Merrion Stockbrokers analyst Ciaran Callaghan wrote in a result of a series of mergers around the Paris stock market which holders and other investors. Deutsche Bank acted as sole note. “However, more short term, his sudden departure is wanted to create a pan-European exchange. bookrunner. Ross, who had a stake of about 9 percent likely to raise questions over the future upside to the before first selling shares in the bank in March, sold that ini- bank’s equity valuation and the challenges that remain ICE retains Liffe PARIS: Euronext Chief Executive Dominique Cerutti tial stake at just below 0.33 euros per share, meaning he ahead, despite its recent return to profitability and capital The new entity is equivalent to the old Euronext, but shorn of speaks yesterday during the launching of the compa- almost tripled his investment having bought when the generation.” — Reuters the London financial futures market Liffe. This is being retained by ny’s IPO. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 BUSINESS

Registration for NBK Summer Internship Program 2014 ends today KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait The two-week courses in this pro- the interns with invaluable knowledge ment as well as its national commit- responsibility. In addition to the (NBK) closes today the online registra- gram are specially designed for high on a variety of subjects such as: the ment towards providing young gener- Summer Training program for high tion for the 2014 Summer Internship school and college students, holders teamwork, creative thinking, means of ations with the appropriate opportuni- school students, NBK regularly organ- Program through NBK.com and NBK of Al-Azraq and Al-Shabab accounts self expression and modern banking, ties to experience how the actual pro- izes the Summer Internship Program social media channels through official between 15 and 20 years old. The in addition to helping them to have fessional banking issues and transac- for university students. NBK offers as page on Facebook, on Twitter and Summer Internship Program consists greater exposure to daily banking tions are handled and processed. NBK well a range of educational and profes- Instagram @NBKPage. The program of five-hour daily sessions and features work procedures. views the Summer Internship Program sional developing programs targeted will start on Sunday 15th of June, a mixture of theoretical and practical This annual program demonstrates as an extension to its educative initia- at developing Kuwaiti youth entering 2014. training. It is dedicated to providing NBK’s long-standing social involve- tives and as part of its corporate social the work force.

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KUWAIT: Gulf Bank red customers can now red(tm) customers with new and exciting see movies at Kuwait National Cinema promotions that are tailored to meet Company (KNCC) cinemas during the their specific needs. The red(tm) account weekend, which is a 50 percent discount on is designed for university and college stu- the normal price. This latest offer is valid dents aged 17 to 24 years old. Amongst from May 8, 2014 and is ongoing through- other benefits, account holders receive out the year, open to any redTM account an ATM card and there is no deposit customers who use their red ATM cards to required to open the account or mini- purchase cinema tickets from KNCC ticket mum balance charge. To become a Gulf kiosks to see movies on Thursdays, Fridays Bank red(tm) account holder or to find or Saturdays. out more of its benefits, visit one of the Gulf Bank is committed to providing its bank’s 58 branches. Volkswagen ME reports record retail network growth in 2014

KUWAIT: Volkswagen Middle East has existing network. reported record growth across its retail net- With more customer touch points than work with the opening of six world-class ever before, the latest developments will showrooms and a series of state-of-the-art be well-received by Volkswagen enthusi- service facilities in the first half of 2014. asts in the Middle East, ahead of the highly The $20 million development of the anticipated arrival of the powerful Beetle brand’s retail network reveals sustained and the all-new Golf R this year. demand across the model line-up in the “We are confident in adding some of the Middle East, as Volkswagen remains com- Middle East’s most advanced showrooms mitted to offering peerless German and service centres to our growing portfo- Engineering after more than 50 years in the lio of first-class facilities. We look forward to region. welcoming customers seeking unparalleled Thomas Milz, Managing Director, driving experiences across the full model Volkswagen Middle East said: “Service line-up, which will include the new genera- Excellence is our first priority and together tion Beetle and the dynamic Golf R from with our local partners, we are committed this summer,” concluded Milz. to providing our customers with high quali- The network growth will continue ty products and unrivalled customer serv- throughout 2014, as Volkswagen Middle Djokovic aces with Peugeot ice through strategic investment in tech- East prepares to break another record. nology, after-sales and better accessibility Developers will begin construction of the PARIS: than ever before with new and enhanced, world’s largest Volkswagen showroom and Novak Djokovic was quickly recog- values of: Excellence, Allure and Emotion. sion of a certain art of living.” As the ambassa- world-class showrooms and service cen- service facility in Kuwait this summer, while nized as the world No. 2 in tennis, having Commenting on his partnership with the dor for the brand, he now drives the new RCZ tres. “Our retail network’s record-breaking in Abu Dhabi, ground will be broken for a already won the Australian Open four illustrious French automotive brand, Novak as his personal car, a vehicle that is the perfect growth signifies our ongoing commitment third Volkswagen showroom in the UAE times and won both the US Open and Djokovic said, “I am happy to represent a great complement for the sport he so eloquently to the Middle East. With the support of our capital with future facilities marked for Wimbledon in 2011. In addition, the French automobile manufacturer, recognized represents. With this partnership, Peugeot trusted partners in the region, we remain development in Oman”. Serbian player has also won 41 singles throughout the world with a pioneering his- confirms and strengthens its strategy in the on track to becoming a world leader in cus- The Volkswagen retail network encom- titles and 16 Masters-1000 series titles tory that goes back for over 200 years in the tennis world, in a year that also marks the tomer satisfaction and innovation by 2018,” passes the GCC and Levant including throughout his career. He is a player that industry. In my eyes, PEUGEOT embodies 30th anniversary of the partnership with Milz continued. Bahrain (Behbehani Brothers wll), Kuwait perfectly embodies the Peugeot brand’s French elegance, refinement and the expres- Roland Garros, the French Open. The retail network expansion includes (Behbehani Motors Company), Iraq (D- the opening of six new showrooms in Auto), Jordan (Nuqul Automotive), Beirut, Doha, Dubai, Erbil, Fujairah and Lebanon (Ets. F.A. Kettaneh S.A), Oman Sharjah; the arrival of brand new service (Wattayah Motors), Qatar (Q-Auto) and the Zain launches direct payment channel centres in Erbil, Muscat, Fujairah and United Arab Emirates (Dubai and Northern Sharjah; and major enhancements to the Emirates; Al-Nabooda Automobiles, for in-store and Internet shopping

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading faster and more easily given that various selected merchants directly telecommunications company in the service does not require sub- through their phone with ease and Kuwait, announced the launch of mission of any personal informa- peace of mind.” the direct payment channel in tion or passwords. Al-Saif continued: “Through the Kuwait, offering customers an easy Prepaid customers can make use direct payment channel, customers and unparalleled safe experience in of this channel by performing any who prefer not to use their bank online and in-store shopping. purchase transaction using their cards can select Zain as the pre- With the latest launch of Zain’s current available credit, while post- ferred payment channel as a safe direct payment channel, the com- paid customers can simply activate alternative. Zain will soon expand pany introduces revolutionary ‘Zain Pay’ by contacting a customer the list of partnering merchants fur- application that is on par with inter- contact center representative on ther, and the company will also be national payment standards. 107.’Zain Pay’ is a virtual solution diversifying programs and services Customers can perform any pur- that allows post-paid customers to to the benefit of all customer seg- chase transaction, online or in- acquire a rechargeable mobile bal- ments, including daily, weekly, store, by paying for their purchases ance. Customers can consequently monthly, and yearly smartphone via their mobile phone balance use the balance to perform any mobile subscriptions.” without the need of using their payment transaction. Zain customers can immediately credit cards. A number of selected Commenting on the launch of enjoy using the direct payment outlets already offer Zain cus- the new payment channel, Nadia channel with the following selected Nadia Al-Saif tomers the privilege of enjoying Al-Saif, Zain Kuwait’s Value Added outlets: Nokia Store, CashU, Coffee this dynamic and advanced chan- Services Director said: “With the Republic, Second Cup, Coco ing customers’ expectations. The nel and it is expected that many launch of this direct payment chan- Cabana, as well as several mobile company will continue leading the other outlets will be added to the nel, we are giving customers a safe TV streaming applications, online market by launching unprecedent- Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum list in the near future. and simple way of performing any games, and NFC platforms. Zain ed services, products, and solutions By introducing the direct pay- online or in-store transaction in the strives to offer customers the latest in addition to value added services lead UAE trade delegation to Erbil ment channel, Zain is helping cus- palm of their hands. Customers can services and mobile solutions in the geared at maintaining its premier tomers transact payments much simply pay for their purchases at world, all with the aim of surpass- position in Kuwait. KUWAIT: Dana Gas, the region’s first regional tracts signed with the Kurdistan Regional private-sector natural gas company, and Government (KRG) for the Khor Mor and Crescent Petroleum, the oldest Middle East pri- Chemchemal fields. The companies have been vate oil and gas company are the lead sponsors producing gas and liquids continuously since flydubai highlights increased connectivity, and participants of an important UAE trade del- October 2008, with total cumulative produc- egation to Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan tion already exceeding 115 million barrels of oil trade and tourism links during trip to India Region. “Trade UAE-Iraq” is being held from equivalent (mmboe). The 83,000 barrels of oil June 9-12 under the patronage equivalent per day (boepd) KUWAIT: Following the announce- warm historical relations and have in 2010 there has been strong the new flights. of the UAE Ministry of Economy currently produced by the ment of 10 new flights to Delhi, been long-term dynamic partners demand for our flights. When we At the dinner, flydubai created a and the Kurdistan Regional partners provides fuel for Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram in the trade and economic sector. announced the start of our flights show kitchen featuring a wide Government (KRG) of Iraq, in reliable and affordable elec- Dubai-based flydubai, during its In 2013, India became the top trad- to the three new destinations in range of culinary flavors and creat- partnership with the Abu Dhabi tricity access for millions of inaugural trip to India, highlighted ing partner of Dubai with a trade India bookings were made within a ed an art gallery with pictures of Department of Economic Iraqis and billions of dollars the increased connectivity of its volume of $37 billion. The UAE is few minutes. We are delighted to the many hidden gems from across Development, Dubai Foreign in ongoing fuel savings for network and the growing trade and also India’s top export destination, be able to provide more choice for its network. In line with increased Direct Investments, and Dubai the KRG, which has enabled tourism links between India and accounting for more than 10 per- our passengers.” demand for business travel to and Exports, and supported by the the significant economic the United Arab Emirates (UAE). cent of its tangible exports. During the trip to India, flydubai from India, flydubai also displayed Dubai Chamber of Commerce development witnessed in Tourism between India and the Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice hosted representatives from the its Business Class seats. Business and the Sharjah Chamber of the Kurdistan Region. UAE and the rest of the flydubai Class will be available on all three Commerce. “The policies and legal network continues to drive new routes in India giving passen- The official UAE delegation, framework of the KRG demand for travel. There has been gers the option of a more personal- which was led by Abdullah encouraged us to invest in consistent and positive growth of ized flying experience on the Saleh, Undersecretary at the UAE the Kurdistan Region as the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTA) from ground and in the air. Ministry of Economy, and includ- earliest major investors from the Middle East to India over the flydubai’s cargo volumes contin- ed Rashid Al-Jarwan, Executive the UAE,” said Abdulla Al- last three years as investment, ue to increase carrying a wide Director and Member of the Rashid Al-Jarwan Qadi, Director of Exploration tourism and trade ties continue to range of goods. The airline regular- Board of Dana Gas, and Abdulla & Production at Crescent. strengthen between the two ly carries pharmaceuticals, mobile Al-Qadi, Director of Exploration & Production at “Since our entry, many UAE companies such as regions. phones, perishables and garments Crescent Petroleum, held high-level meetings Emirates, Etihad, Air Arabia, Rotana, and Emaar Commenting at the start of the from all destinations in India across with Ministers and senior officials of the KRG, have already entered Kurdistan, and we are trip, Ghaith Al-Ghaith, Chief its network to the Middle East, and inaugurated the major trade exhibition pleased to play this positive role in encourag- Executive Officer of flydubai, said: Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia, and conference featuring more than 70 compa- ing further strong economic ties and invest- “We are thankful to the Indian Europe and Russia. nies from the UAE and the Kurdistan Region of ments from the UAE.” authorities for providing us with flydubai operates a fleet of 36 Iraq. “We are proud to be sponsors and partici- Trade UAE-Iraq is the leading event of its the opportunity to deliver more new Next-Generation Boeing 737- pants in this important trade visit, in partner- kind to promote economic ties between the options to passengers who are 800 aircraft. India becomes the ship with the UAE Ministry of Economy and UAE and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and looking to travel between India and third largest country that flydubai other organizations,” said Rashid Al-Jarwan, includes a conference at the Saad Conference the UAE. The interest in this delega- operates to by number of points Executive Director and Member of the Board of Centre in Erbil, networking events, business tion reflects the increasing levels of and includes: Ahmedabad, Delhi, Ghaith Al-Ghaith, CEO of flydubai Dana Gas. “We have been active in Kurdistan’s meetings between companies from the UAE investment, trade and tourism Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kochi and oil and gas industry since 2007 and have been and Iraq, and site visits to local industrial proj- between the two business-friendly Thiruvananthapurum. The airline the largest investors and employers in this ects. With the aim of strengthening economic countries and the flydubai network President, Commercial (GCC, Russian and Middle Eastern media has built a network of 74 destina- important sector of the economy”, he added. ties, meetings and private consultations were highlighting the importance of Subcontinent and Africa) for fly- to showcase India as a key destina- tions, 48 of which were previously Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum are the held between participants from leading sector improving connectivity. We look dubai said: “Tourism, investment tion within its network. Mohamed underserved markets from Dubai largest investors from the GCC in the Kurdistan ministries, agencies, organizations and com- forward to working closely with the and trade between India and the Sultan Abdalla Al-Owais together including Armenia, Iraq, Kabul, Region of Iraq, having already invested over mercial contractors and investors from the UAE authorities going forward.” UAE are important economic driv- with business leaders attended a Georgia, Romania, Serbia and $1.1 billion in major gas projects under con- and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. India and the UAE have enjoyed ers. Since we started flying to India dinner in Delhi to mark the start of Kazan and Ufa in Russia. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 TECHNOLOGY Videos may make up 84% of internet traffic by 2018: Cisco

WASHINGTON: Video consumption of the World going to look like the world cup month because the could allow telecommunications companies the fastest growing connected devices, making up over Cup alone will generate nearly as much Internet traf- consumption just keeps getting bigger and bigger,” right to prioritize some traffic. 46 percent of Internet traffic, from the current 25 fic as occurred in all of Australia in 2013, according said Robert Pepper, Cisco’s vice president of global Critics of the proposed revisions worry the rules percent. “A world in which we want networks to to a new Cisco Systems Inc report that shows technology policy. would create “fast lanes” for companies that pay up treat all traffic the same will inhibit these connec- growth in Internet traffic is fueled by video. Cisco, one of the leading makers of networking and slower traffic for others. Not all Internet traffic tions,” Jeff Campbell, Cisco’s vice president of gov- The report, which says video is expected to grow equipment, studies the use and speed of devices, will be the same, according to the report. Internet ernment and community relations told Reuters. to 84 percent of Internet traffic in the United States connections and data for an annual forecast of connected medical devices, for example, would “As the FCC looks at rewriting its net neutrality by 2018 from 78 percent currently, raises questions Internet traffic growth. have a different data profile than video streaming, rules, it is important that we allow for things like about whether Internet service providers should pri- The report, released yesterday, comes as the but a higher speed urgency. managed services and specialized services that can oritize traffic, which has become a controversial Federal Communications Commision debates legis- The report forecasts that, by 2018, online con- provide new applications for consumers,” Campbell issue. “In the future at some point every month is lation on Internet traffic, or “net neutrality,” that nected machines will take over televisions as the added. — Reuters Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever NEW YORK: This year’s World Cup will play Facebook, which counts 81 percent of its out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and mes- users outside the US and Canada, is unveiling saging apps like WhatsApp just as it progress- its World Cup features at a time when the es in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De company is working to become a place for Janeiro. more real-time, public conversations about Nearly 40 percent of Facebook’s 1.28 bil- big events- a la Twitter. Such events attract lion users are fans of soccer, better known as big advertising dollars, though the company football outside of the US and Australia. is not saying how much money it expects to Yesterday, the world’s biggest online social make from World Cup-related ads. network is adding new features to help fans Not to be outdone, Twitter touted in a follow the World Cup - the world’s most wide- blog post last week that the “the only real- ly viewed sporting event - which takes place time #WorldCup global viewing party will be in Brazil from June 12 to July 13. on Twitter, where you can track all 64 match- Facebook users will be able to keep track es, experience every goal and love every sec- of their favorite teams and players through- ond, both on and off the pitch.” Fans can fol- out the tournament in a special World Cup low individual teams or players and use the section, called “Trending World Cup.” hashtag #WorldCup to tweet about the Available on the Web as well as mobile matches, and follow official accounts such as devices, the hub will include the latest scores, @FIFAWorldCup, @ussoccer for the United game highlights as well as a feed with tourna- States team and @CBF_Futebol for Brazil’s ment-related posts from friends, players and soccer governing body, for example. teams. In addition, an interactive map will show where the fans of top players are locat- Widely viewed ed around the world. The company is also The World Cup is the planet’s most widely launching a page called FacebookRef, where viewed sporting event. According to FIFA, fans can see commentary about the matches which organizes the tournament, an estimat- from “The Ref,” Facebook’s official tournament ed 909.6 million viewers watched at least one commentator. minute of the final 2010 game when Spain Social media activity during big sporting beat the Netherlands. In comparison, nearly events such as the Olympics and the Super 900 million people watched at least part of LOS ANGELES: Ted Price, CEO, Insomniac Games, at the Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing at the Galen Center on Monday in Los Angeles. — AP Bowl has soared in recent years and should the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer continue as user numbers grow. In 2010, Olympics. On Twitter, more than 24.9 million when the last World Cup took place in tweets were sent out during this year’s Super Microsoft and Sony battle Johannesburg, South Africa, Facebook had Bowl, up from 13.7 million just two years ear- just 500 million users. Now there are just that lier. Because it takes place over several weeks, many soccer fans (people who have “liked” a marketers are gearing up for “a marathon, not team or a player) on the site, the company a sprint,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an ana- for hearts video game fans says. Facebook has recently focused on mak- lyst for research firm eMarketer. ing its mobile app usable on simple phones “Developing countries will be a key target that use slower data speeds since many of its for global brands,” she said. “They will work newest users are in developing countries. As a hard to capture the attention of soccer fans in ‘Destiny will help us define next generation of gaming’ result, Rebecca Van Dyck, head of consumer Latin America, Asia, Africa. The challenges marketing at Facebook, said the World Cup (include the fact) that all the games are taking LOS ANGELES: Microsoft and Sony grappled Halo collection groundwork for the future.” The Master Chief hub will also be available on so-called “fea- place in one place and the customers and ture phones.” Here the section will be “little marketers are in multiple time zones. This will yesterday for the hearts of hard core gamers Microsoft announced the release for later collection will contain a live action series less graphical” than what’s shown on smart- require around the clock marketing.” whose devotion could determine whether this year of an addition to its popular science based on the franchise and produced in col- phones and on the Web, she said, but will For fans traveling to Brazil for the game Xbox One or PlayStation 4 rule console play fiction “Halo” series called “Halo: The Master laboration with filmmaker Ridley Scott. include the same information. and hoping to tweet and post about it on and Internet Age entertainment. Chief Collection,” s well as other exclusive The “Halo Nightfall” series is coming to the Facebook, the country’s mobile communica- The rival console makers aimed squarely titles “Sunset Overdrive,” “Forza Horizon 2,” and Xbox Live service for online game play and Popular topics tions services might pose their own chal- at hard-core video game players in grand “Dance Central Spotlight.” digital content, according to Microsoft. Users can get to the World Cup hub by lenge. Dropped voice calls are common even press briefings, unveiling blockbuster titles “We are committed to delivering amazing While many blockbuster titles from third- clicking on the hashtag #worldcup in a without the hundreds of thousands of soccer and touting content or opportunities only experiences that will help define this genera- party studios or publishers have versions tai- Facebook post, or by clicking on “World Cup” fans descending on the country. Accessing available on their respective systems. tion of games and delight the millions of pas- lored for both platforms, Microsoft and Sony in the list of trending topics on the site. the Internet can be incredibly slow, and Microsoft opened fire with “Halo” and a sionate Xbox fans around the world,” said Phil are keen to convince gamers that their con- In a nod to Twitter, Facebook, earlier this there’s even some worry about network barrage of other titles for play on its new- Spencer, head of the Xbox division. sole is the better place to have fun or find year, began displaying trending topics to blackouts. “World Cup visitors won’t be able generation Xbox One consoles. Sony shot “Our goal is to make Xbox One the best entertainment. show users the most popular topics at any to communicate the way they want to,” back in a return salvo lead by keenly antici- place to play games this generation.” Sony and Microsoft have also been court- given moment. The feature is currently avail- Christopher Gaffney, a visiting professor at pated “Destiny,” the first new franchise from Microsoft brought the focus back to games in ing independent game makers to add quirky able in the US, UK, India, Canada and Rio de Janeiro’s Federal Fluminense University Bungie Studios revered in the gaming com- a shift from stressing how Xbox is evolving or innovative new titles uniquely to their Australia. whose research focuses on Brazil’s prepara- munity for creating Halo. “Our vision is into a multipurpose entertainment center for respective consoles. “This is our first foray into this, especially tions for the World Cup and Olympics. grounded in an uncompromising commit- films, television, music, and more. for a big sporting event like this,” Van Dyck “Instagram, Twitter, social media will not ment to gamers,” said PlayStation group Sony goes into the video game industry’s Kevin Spacey gets game function at world class levels but at Brazilian said. “We’re going to see how this goes. If chief Andrew House. biggest annual trade show with an edge, its Spencer touted that downloadable con- people enjoy the experience it’s something levels, so people visiting Brazil will experience “Destiny will help us define this next gen- PS4 having trumped Xbox One in sales since tent for a keenly-anticipated “Call of Duty: we’d like to push on.” the frustrations we face every day.” — AP eration of gaming. PS4 owners will be able the competing consoles hit the market in Advanced Warfare” game, complete with a to play an online test version of Destiny November. Microsoft played to its strength character played by a virtual version of actor starting tomorrow and through the coming with a “Halo Master Chief” collection for Xbox Kevin Spacey, will arrive first on Xbox One. weekend. Sony is even launching a white One that will let people play installments from “Advanced Warfare” is slated for a PS4 in September as part of a Destiny game the game dating back to previous generations November release. The title by Insomniac bundle when the game is released. Exclusive of Xbox. Typically older games aren’t compati- Games is due out on Xbox One in October. PS4 games touted included a new “The ble with new-generation consoles, but the Microsoft and Sony each touted projects to let Order 1886.” collection brings the array of “Halo” titles to people create and play their own games on Powerhouse titles heading for consoles, Xbox One as a draw for new players as well as consoles. “PlayStation is the best place to play but sometimes will special content tailored fans interested in replaying the past. today, and in the future,” Sony’s House said. for one or the other, include exciting sequels “It’s massive,” said Bonnie Ross, general The rival console titans and game studios will to franchises including Batman Arkham, manager of 343 Industries unit of Microsoft be showing off coming titles at E3 through Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, and Far Cry. Studios behind “Halo.” “It is also setting the Thursday. — AFP Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet coming to PlayStation 4

LOS ANGELES: Sony Corp. announced Monday that it’s bringing new installments of the popu- lar video-game franchises “Uncharted” and “LittleBigPlanet” to the PlayStation 4 as it cele- brated the 6-month-old game console’s market- place triumph. Sony also premiered “Abzu,” an undersea LOS ANGELES: Dancers perform onstage to Just Dance Now to demonstrate the mul- odyssey from the creators of the award-winning tiplayer experience during Ubisoft’s media briefing at the E3 video game conference “Journey” and “Entwined,” a psychedelic 3-D fly- held at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, California. — AFP ing game. And it showed new highlights from the steampunk thriller “The Order: 1886” during its annual presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. PlayStation TV to On the hardware side, the company said it will bring PlayStation TV, its video- and game- streaming device, to North America and Europe soon hit US-Europe this fall. The $99 device lets users stream video, older PlayStation titles and games for Sony’s LOS ANGELES: Sony Computer ing is underway, writer Brian Michael hand-held Vita system to any TV. The “micro- Entertainment on Monday said a Bendis said at a Sony press briefing on the console,” which debuted in November in Japan PlayStation TV home entertainment sys- eve of the Tuesday opening of the E3 as PSVita TV, also lets PlayStation 4 players send tem will debut in North America and video game show here. The story revolves the action to a second TV. Europe by the end of this year. around two homicide detectives who spe- On July 31, Sony will launch the open beta of The small, stand-alone PS TV box will cialize in investigating suspicious deaths its cloud-based PlayStation Now service, which be priced at $99 here and 99 euros in of people with super powers. “If a super will allow players to stream classic games from LOS ANGELES: Andrew House, President and group CEO Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Europe. A bundle containing a wireless hero falls dead from the sky or a notorious Sony’s older consoles onto newer devices such speaks onstage during the Sony press conference at E3 in Los Angeles, California. — AFP video game style controller, a memory super villain is found dead in a gutter, that as the PS4, the hand-held Vita, Xperia cell- card, and a “LEGO: The Movie” video game is their case,” Bendis said. “It is also about phones and Bravia TVs. sales of their predecessor consoles - the Xbox Cry 4,” Warner Bros.’ “Batman: Arkham Knight” from Warner Brothers Interactive what a world with super heroes might Sony is also demonstrating Project 360 and PlayStation 3 - during the same amount and Deep Silver’s “Dead Island 2” - will also be Entertainment will sell for $140. really look like; how it would affect our Morpheus, its virtual reality headset, at E3. That of time. And Sony’s lead is far from insurmount- available on the Xbox One, although Sony PS TV is designed as a platform for culture.” PS TV will synch with a Sony project, however, won’t be available to con- able. That makes exclusive titles like the just- promised exclusive content or early beta access games, films, television shows. music, and online store for digital content, provided sumers for at least another year. announced “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End” and for each. even orignal programming streamed from they are members of the PlayStation Sony has led Microsoft Corp. since both com- “LittleBigPlanet 3” more important. But one One exclusive that will appeal to comic book the Internet or PlayStation consoles. Network. The system has proven popular panies began selling their latest consoles in much-hyped PS4 exclusive, the racing game fans: A live-action drama based on Brian The first PS TV original series, titled since it was released in Japan and other November. Sony has sold 7 million PlayStation 4 “DriveClub,” was conspicuously absent at this Michael Bendis’ popular series “Powers” will “Power” and based on a graphic novel of parts of Asian in November as PlayStation consoles to Microsoft’s 5 million Xbox One units. year’s E3 presentation. Many of the games Sony begin airing on Sony’s PlayStation Network in the same name, is in production and cast- Vita TV, according to Sony. — AFP However, both companies have outpaced the showcased Monday - including Ubisoft’s “Far December. — AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Measles threatens thousands of children in Somalia: UN

MOGADISHU: Thousands of children in war-torn impoverished Somalia risks sliding back into acute break was “extremely alarming”, warning that 10 were vaccinated countrywide in 2013. Somalia was Somalia are facing death or disability due to an out- crisis less than three years since a devastating percent of children infected could die from compli- the hardest hit by extreme drought in 2011 that break of highly contagious measles, the United famine, amid poor rains, escalating conflict and aid cations. affected over 13 million people across the Horn of Nations said yesterday. funding shortfalls. “We have a very high number of Around half a million children have been vacci- Africa, with famine zones declared in large parts of Recent rates of infection are four times higher malnourished Somali children,” UNICEF chief for nated in recent months, but the UN says some five the war-ravaged south. than the same time last year, and a vaccination Somalia Sikander Khan said. million in total need protection. In some parts of One in five children dies before their fifth birth- campaign must be “urgently conducted to prevent “Malnourished children here are more suscepti- Somalia-notably southern and central regions day with measles one of the main causes, according thousands of avoidable deaths”, the UN children’s ble to disease, and are more likely to die or suffer including areas where African Union troops are bat- to the UN. The measles campaign would cost some agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization life long disability such as blindness, deafness or tling Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents-immuniza- nine million dollars (6.6 million euros), but aid agen- (WHO) warned in a joint statement. brain damage as a result of contracting measles.” tion rates are as low as 15 percent. cies are already struggling to raise the funds need- The outbreak comes amid renewed warnings WHO head for Somalia, Ghulam Popal, said the out- Less than a third of children aged under a year ed for other emergencies in the country. — AFP Healthy seniors tested in bid to block Alzheimer’s

WASHINGTON: In one of the most ambitious to find out. - whether he received monthly infusions of the attempts yet to thwart Alzheimer’s disease, a Researchers are just beginning to recruit vol- experimental medicine, Eli Lilly & Co’s major study got underway Monday to see if an unteers, and on Monday, a Rhode Island man solanezumab, or a dummy drug. Solanezumab is experimental drug can protect healthy seniors was hooked up for an IV infusion at Butler designed to help catch amyloid before it builds whose brains harbor silent signs that they’re at Hospital in Providence, the first treated. Peter into the brain plaques that are a hallmark of risk. Scientists plan to eventually scan the brains Bristol, 70, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, figured he Alzheimer’s. It failed in earlier studies to treat of thousands of older volunteers in the US, was at risk because his mother died of full-blown Alzheimer’s - but it did appear to help Canada and Australia to find those with a sticky Alzheimer’s and his brother has it. “I felt I needed slow mental decline in patients with mild dis- build-up believed to play a key role in develop- to be proactive in seeking whatever therapies ease, raising interest in testing it even earlier. ment of Alzheimer’s - the first time so many peo- might be available for myself in the coming Huge risk Scientists now think Alzheimer’s begins rav- aging the brain at least a decade before memory problems appear, much like heart disease is trig- gered by quiet cholesterol build-up. Many believe the best chance of preventing or at least slowing the disease requires intervening, some- Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dasman Diabetes Institute. how, when people still appear healthy. The $140 million study, funded by the National Institutes Dasman Diabetes Institute of Health, Lilly and others, will track if partici- pants’ memory and amyloid levels change over three years. hosts the second Whether this particular drug works or not, the Alzheimer’s study is being watched closely as a GCC INCONET event chance to learn more about how amyloid works and how people handle the uncertainty of asman Diabetes Institute hosts the resources and markets in the GCC region knowing it’s there. “Amyloid we know is a huge second GCC INCONET event, which * Have a positive influence on the joint risk factor, but someone can have a head full of Dis a two day meeting dedicated to EU-GCC STI agenda amyloid and not decline” mentally, Sperling said. strengthening the cooperation activities * Make it easier for Europe’s researchers “We need to understand more about why some between EU and Gulf countries coopera- and universities to work with the best sci- brains are resilient and some are not.” tion and to support the institutional, bi- entists and research infrastructures in the Before any brain scans, interested 65- to 85- regional strategic planning and policy dia- world year-olds will undergo cognitive tests to make logue in Healthcare, Science and * Create a roadmap for future research sure their memory is normal. Volunteers also Technology Innovation system. The meet- activities and collaborations must be willing to learn their amyloid levels, and ing was attended by former minister of * Contribute effectively to stability, secu- WASHINGTON: Peter Bristol of Wakefield, RI receives an intravenous infusion at Butler Hospital researchers can turn away those whose psycho- health, Dr Hilal Al-Sayer as well as Dr Kazem rity and prosperity in the world in Providence, RI, Monday. —AP photos logical assessments suggest they may not cope Behbehani, Director-General of Dasman * Contribute to global sustainable devel- well with the news. Sperling expects to screen Diabetes Institute and many other digni- opment and foster Europe’s S&T excellence ple without memory problems get the chance to years,” said Bristol, who said he was prepared more than 5,000 healthy seniors to find the taries. The event which took place at * Contribute to the free circulation of learn the potentially troubling news. when a PET scan of his brain showed he har- needed 1,000 participants, who will be moni- Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, yester- knowledge at the global level Having lots of that gunky protein called beta- bored enough amyloid to qualify for the tored for anxiety or distress. day and today, is a is a three-year project * Raise Europe’s S&T profile in the GCC amyloid doesn’t guarantee someone will get research. (2014-2017) sponsored by the European region sick. But the big question: Could intervening so “Just because I have it doesn’t mean I’m going Future study Commission - Directorate General for early make a difference for those who do? “We to get Alzheimer’s,” he stressed. But Bristol and “It is breaking new ground,” said Dr Laurie Research and Innovation which seeks to Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, as Chairman of the have to get them at the stage when we can save his wife are “going into the situation with our Ryan of the NIH’s National Institute on Aging. engage and collaborate with research-ori- Board of Trustees of Dasman Diabetes their brains,” said Dr Reisa Sperling of Boston’s eyes wide open.” He won’t know until the end of “We really do have to understand how that ented institutions and organizations in sci- Institute, and the Dasman International Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard the so-called A4 Study - it stands for Anti- affects people.” More than 35 million people ence and technology-based projects rele- Scientific Advisory Board, said “The signifi- Medical School, who is leading the huge effort Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s worldwide have Alzheimer’s or similar dementia, vant to the GCC region. cance of this conference lies in the startling including about 5 million in the US, numbers INCONET-GCC2 which made up of 20 fact that diabetes is now a global epidemic. expected to rise rapidly as the baby boomers members, is a Science, Technology and Current estimates indicate that 382 million age. Alzheimer’s affects 1 in 9 people over age Innovation International cooperation net- adults aged between 20 to 79 years are 65, and about a third of those 85 and older, work between EU and the Arab Gulf diagnosed with diabetes worldwide, while according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Countries. Its main goal is to support the 316 million are diagnosed with impaired Today’s medications only temporarily ease institutional, bi-regional policy dialogue in glucose tolerance. An additional 175 mil- some symptoms, and scientists don’t even know Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). lion are estimated to be undiagnosed. Each exactly how the disease forms. A leading theory Its other goals are to strengthen the bi- year, over 70,000 children develop diabetes is that amyloid plaques kick off the disease but regional cooperation between research and 440,000 children worldwide under the tangles of a second protein, named tau, speed and innovation stakeholders, especially in age of 14 now live with type 1 diabetes. In up the brain destruction. As scientists shift their the context of the Horizon 2020 program, the Middle Eastern and North African attention to the still healthy, a few studies are and to monitor progress in the bi-regional region 1 in 10 adults are diagnosed with underway to try blocking Alzheimer’s in people STI cooperation. It aims to promote joint diabetes. genetically at risk to get a form of the disease research through clustering activities with- Dr Kazem Behbehani, Director General that runs in their families. The A4 study widens in the fields of Health Innovation, Energy of Dasman Diabetes Institute welcomed in the focus beyond a genetic link. Security & Innovation, Social Innovation, his speech the dignitaries who came from Like Bristol, the first participant, some people ICT, water and food and to identify specific Europe, Gulf countries and the Belgium do want to know if they’re at risk, said Dr Jason thematic areas of mutual interest. Ambassador to Kuwait, who are participat- Karlawish, a bioethicist at the University of INCONET-GCC2 aims to: ing in the event. Dr Behbehani reiterated Pennsylvania who helped design the study’s * Reinforce strategic S&T cooperation that this event sheds light on the epidemi- psychological precautions. After all, many and innovation with the Arab Gulf region ology of diabetes and methods of combat- already get tested for Alzheimer’s-related genes. * Facilitate access to knowledge, ing it. He calls the research “an opportunity to study the future of the way we’re going to think about, WASHINGTON: This undated handout photo provided by the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative talk about and live with the risks of Alzheimer’s Study shows Dr Reisa Sperling Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. disease.” — AP Conjoined Twins celebrate 18th birthday in Houston

HOUSTON: For a set of Texas twins, being joined thought there were good opportunities for sepa- separation surgery. at the hip is not just a cliche - that was basically ration where they would both be able to live Meanwhile, Copeland watched Caitlin, bigger the first 10 months of their life. Yesterday, Emily basically normal lives,” she added. and chubbier than Emily, try to roll over on her and Caitlin Copeland, who were born conjoined The complications after the twins were born sister, who would scream, arms flailing to the at the liver, are celebrating their 18th birthday by were worrisome. One was born with a blocked sides. Then Caitlin got on all fours and tried to enjoying the success of a separation surgery that intestine, and surgery had to be conducted when crawl, but Emily was too heavy for her to drag. has allowed them to lead normal lives and gradu- they were just 2 days old. Lally wanted to sepa- Faced now with two smiling teenagers, rather ate as co-valedictorians from Lutheran High rate them at that point, but when the surgery than screaming toddlers who had to raise their North in Houston. began doctors discovered they were not only shirts so he could inspect their scars, Lally smiles. “I think for anyone it’s exciting to get to 18, conjoined at the liver but the organs were dis- “You don’t always see the long-term results of but in particular for us I think it’s just a really big charging through only one twin. So doctors what we do, and it’s nice when you get to see a INDIA: An Indian member of the Bathini Goud family administers ‘fish medicine’ blessing that we got to 18, considering what decided to wait for them to get bigger for the good one,” he said. — AP to a patient at the exhibition grounds in Hyderabad. — AFP could have happened,” Caitlin said. Crystal Copeland, the twins’ mother, nods. She will never Wriggling treatment: Indians forget the day she learned she was pregnant with conjoined twins, a phenomenon that occurs swallow live fish for asthma once in every 200,000 live births. Between 40 percent and 60 percent are stillborn, and some HYDERABAD: With pinched noses and Parents are often forced to pry open 35 percent survive one day. And in late 1996, sur- watery eyes, thousands of Indians have the mouths of reluctant children who cry gery and imaging were not as advanced. lined up to swallow live fish in a tradi- at the site of squirming fish, while others “At the time, if you Googled conjoined twins tional treatment for asthma administered pinch their noses, tip their heads back all you got was circus acts and babies that died,” annually in the country’s south. Asthma and close their eyes. Copeland said. It was a Friday when Copeland sufferers gather every June in the south- Thousands of people travel from first spoke to Dr Kevin Lally, surgeon in chief at ern city of Hyderabad to gulp down the across India for the free medicine during Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in a two-day period, the specific dates of Houston. He promised to provide an honest hopes it will help them breathe more which are determined by the onset of the assessment of the chances for survival. The easily. The wriggling five-centimeter monsoon every June. Rights groups and babies were kicking. Copeland had seen them (two-inch) fish are slipped into the doctors have complained that the medi- in an ultrasound. To her, they were alive and throats of patients in a bizarre treatment cine is “unscientific”, a violation of human well. That weekend, she said, was the hardest in that leaves them gagging. The Bathini rights and unhygienic, claims rejected by her life. Goud family, which administers the treat- the family. ment, says the fish clear the throat on The Indian government arranges spe- Normal lives their way down and permanently cure cial trains for the “fish medicine” festival asthma and other respiratory problems. every year and extra police are on duty to On Monday, the Copelands got the best news HOUSTON: This Summer 1997 cover of H they could have hoped for. “They were joined at But the family has declined to reveal the control crowds. After digesting the treat- magazine provided by Children’s Memorial In this 2003 handout photo provided by the the liver, not at the heart, which would have secret formula which they say they got ment, patients are told to go on a strict Hermann Hospital, shows Dr Kevin Lally hold- Copeland family, Emily, top and Caitlin been, you know, fatal,” Copeland said. “He from a Hindu saint in 1845. diet for 45 days. —AFP ing Emily and Caitlin Copeland. — AP photos Copeland sit on front steps.

WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 TEC Fishing Competition

ouristic Enterprises Co (TEC) recently concluded its fishing competition at Al-Fahaheel Marine Club. TThe competition was organized by a group of fish- ing lovers and sponsored by Bin Nisf Company and club members, Ali Hussein Al-Enezi and actor, Jamal Al- Radhan. On concluding the fishing day, the organizing committee checked and weighed participants’ catches. Ali Abbas was declared the first winner; Nawaf Al-Azmi - the second winner and Abdullah Al-Ajeel won the third place. A special ceremony was held to honor the win- ners.

OSN hosts Meet & Greet for Ben10 fans in Kuwait

SN, the region’s leading pay-TV net- Ben10, the opportunity to meet and greet children with opportunities to engage and OSN continues to bring world-class enter- Hulk. For more information on OSN’s chil- work, and the flag bearer for chil- with their favorite star. Followers of the hit interact with Ben10. Children can also take tainment to children and families across the dren’s programming, please visit: Odren’s entertainment in the Middle television series across Kuwait were able to delight in numerous Ben10-themed activi- Middle East and North Africa. Most recently, www.osn.com East and North Africa, gave ardent fans of meet with their idol and pose for photo- ties including face painting, live coloring the network hosted a region-wide tour of Cartoon Network’s beloved child hero, graphs. Held at Al Bairaq Mall, OSN provided stations, and action-packed performances. Marvel’s Spider-Man, Iron Man, and The WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Volunteers in Kuwait participate in Citi Annual Global Community Day

iti employees, alumni, family and friends ute the items to low-income children. The ini- ing and participating in more than 1,200 serv- Global Community Day activities, creating last- annual Global Community Day to remember around the world reinforced the compa- tiative, in collaboration with the Kuwait Red ice projects focused on local needs including ing impacts on cities around the world and and be thankful for the blessings we have and Cny’s commitment to supporting and Crescent Society, saw the collection of 60 urban revitalization, literacy and education, reinforcing the idea that active corporate give back to the local community through dif- improving communities by turning out in school bags filled with basic stationery neces- housing, environmental conservation, health engagement is an essential component of a ferent activities”, commented Ozgur Kutay, force during Citi’s ninth annual Global sities to benefit children of low-income fami- and human services, and disaster relief. livable city. General Manager of Citibank Kuwait. Community Day. In Kuwait, Citi volunteers lies. While Citi volunteers have a strong tradi- “Volunteer service is one of the many ways “This year, we are donating school bags joined more than 800 Citi volunteers in 10 More than 70,000 Citi volunteers in 479 tion of engaging in community service year- Citi shows its commitment to the communities with stationery items to send across a mes- countries including Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, cities spanning 93 countries around the world round, Global Community Day is an annual where we have a presence,” said Citi CEO sage of how important education is for the Bahrain, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, engaged in service activities to benefit their opportunity for Citi colleagues and other par- Michael Corbat. “Global Community Day high- future starting with our children,” he added. Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates in the local communities. Working side-by-side, Citi ticipants to join together and use their time, lights the great work of our community and Supporters can learn more about Citi’s proud “MENA for the Children” campaign, a regional colleagues, alumni, family and friends demon- skills and expertise to make a difference in non-profit partners, and we are excited to join tradition of volunteerism and join the conver- dedication across the Middle East and North strated the company’s commitment to sup- their cities. Since its launch in 2006, more than them once again to strengthen our neighbor- sation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by Africa to collect basic necessities and distrib- porting and improving communities by lead- 540,000 volunteers have participated in Citi hoods.” “Citi employees come together on the following #CitiVolunteers.

Alghanim Industries hosts Harvard Business School admissions event

lghanim Industries had the privi- lege to sponsor a unique event in AKuwait, in coordination with the admissions office of Harvard Business School. The event, which took place at the JW Marriott hotel on 4 June 2014, provided information on the full-time MBA program at Harvard Business School, targeting young professionals and high potential candidates. Information on Harvard Business School was provided by staff from the Admissions Office and several prominent alumni based in Kuwait. Omar K Alghanim, Chief Executive Officer - Alghanim Industries, who is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, (HBS MBA 2002), was pleased to sponsor this event: “Harvard Business School has an established record in developing world-class, general management talent. By providing a local forum for students to ask questions and get first-hand informa- tion about the admissions process, we want to encourage promising candidates to apply. We believe this will develop the potential of Kuwait’s young people, which is so crucial to the future health, diversity and sustainability of our econo- my.” Local Harvard Business School alumni who presented included: Hashim Gillani (HBS MBA 2002), Vice President, Alghanim Industries, who introduced the event on behalf of the company. A wel- come address was delivered by Samer K (HBS MBA 1975), Chief Operating Officer - KIPCO, followed by a Q&A session facili- tated by Faisal Al-Hamad (HBS MBA 2005), Managing Director - NBK Capital. Mohammad Eissa (HBS MBA 1999), Managing Director - Gulf Investment Corporation, also contributed by helping participants understand the admissions process and providing information about life at Harvard Business School. For more information about HBS MBA Admissions, please visit www.hbs.edu/mba. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Open 15:00 Live Tennis Gerry Weber Open 17:00 Live Tennis Gerry Weber 00:45 Crime Scene Wild 00:15 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 03:10 The Hive 04:00 Gnomeo & Juliet-PG Open 01:35 Untamed & Uncut 00:40 Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen 03:20 Art Attack 06:00 Charlie And The Chocolate 19:00 Live Tennis Gerry Weber 02:25 Natural World Secrets 03:45 Art Attack Factory-PG Open 03:15 Animal Clinic 01:10 Come Dine With Me 04:10 Jungle Junction 08:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 21:00 Golfing World 04:05 Dog Rescuers 01:55 Masterchef: The Professionals 04:25 Jungle Junction 10:00 Love Will Keep Us Together- 22:00 Snooker 04:30 Dog Rescuers 02:25 Planet Cake 04:35 Jungle Junction PG15 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 02:55 Bargain Hunt 04:45 Jungle Junction 12:00 Hope Springs-PG15 05:45 Animal Maternity Ward 03:40 Beat My Build 05:00 Art Attack 14:00 Standing Ovation-PG15 06:35 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 04:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 05:25 Art Attack 16:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 07:00 Animal Airport Notebook: Cosmo Cook 01:00 Tennis Gerry Weber Open 05:50 Mouk 18:00 The Expatriate-PG15 07:25 Animal Battlegrounds 04:55 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 03:00 Tennis Gerry Weber Open 06:00 Austin & Ally 20:00 The Colony-PG15 07:50 Animal Battlegrounds 05:20 Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen 05:00 Tennis Gerry Weber Open 06:25 A.N.T. Farm 22:00 The Haunting In Connecticut 08:15 Wildest Indochina Secrets 07:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 06:45 Mako Mermaids 2: Ghosts Of Georgia-18 09:10 Crocodile Hunter 05:45 The Boss Is Coming To Dinner 08:00 Champions Tour Highlights 07:10 Suite Life On Deck 10:05 Natural World 06:10 Come Dine With Me 09:00 Web.Com Tour Highlights 07:35 Good Luck Charlie 11:00 Animal Precinct 07:00 Masterchef: The Professionals 10:00 PGA Tour Highlights 07:55 Jessie 11:55 Animal Airport 07:25 Planet Cake 11:00 PGA European Highlights 08:20 Mako Mermaids 00:00 NRL Full Time 12:20 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 07:50 Bargain Hunt 12:00 HSBC Sevens World Series 08:45 Liv And Maddie 00:30 Futbol Mundial 12:50 Dog Rescuers 08:35 Beat My Build Highlights 09:05 Good Luck Charlie 01:00 International Rugby Union 13:15 Dog Rescuers 09:25 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 12:30 Futbol Mundial 09:30 Dog With A Blog 03:00 IRB Junior World 13:45 Biggest And Baddest Notebook: Cosmo Cook 13:00 Golfing World 09:55 Austin & Ally Championship 14:40 Natural World 09:50 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 14:00 International Rugby Union 10:15 Jessie 05:00 IRB Junior World 15:30 Tanked 10:15 Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen 16:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 10:40 Cheetah Championship 16:30 Wildest Indochina Secrets 17:00 NHL 12:15 Gravity Falls 07:00 Golfing World 17:25 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 10:40 Come Dine With Me 19:00 Golfing World 12:35 Dog With A Blog 08:00 Tennis Gerry Weber Open 17:50 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 11:30 Masterchef: The Professionals 20:00 PGA European Tour Weekly 13:00 A.N.T. Farm 10:00 Tennis Gerry Weber Open 18:20 Preposterous Pets 11:55 Planet Cake 20:30 Inside The PGA Tour 13:25 Jessie 12:00 Championship Tour 19:15 Natural World 12:20 Bargain Hunt 21:00 Trans World Sport 13:45 Austin & Ally Highlights 20:10 Wildest Indochina 13:05 Beat My Build 22:00 IndyCar Highlights 14:10 Good Luck Charlie 13:00 Live Tennis Gerry Weber 21:05 Lion Man: One World African 13:55 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 23:00 Golfing World 14:35 Mako Mermaids Safari Notebook: Cosmo Cook 15:00 Flubber 21:35 Lion Man: One World African 14:20 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 16:30 Cars Toons Safari 14:45 Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 22:00 Natural World Secrets 17:00 Good Luck Charlie 22:55 Wildest Indochina 15:10 Come Dine With Me 17:20 Jessie 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 16:00 Masterchef: The Professionals Game of Thrones to 16:25 Planet Cake 17:45 Dog With A Blog 16:50 Beat My Build 18:10 Liv And Maddie 17:40 Bargain Hunt 18:30 Mako Mermaids mark season finale 18:25 Marbella Mansions 18:55 Good Luck Charlie 19:20 Violetta 00:15 Doctors 19:10 Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And Easy Food 20:05 Austin & Ally on June 16, 00:45 Hunderby 20:30 Jessie 01:10 The Old Guys 19:35 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 20:00 Delicious Iceland 20:50 Dog With A Blog 01:40 Scott & Bailey 20:30 Come Dine With Me 21:15 Jessie exclusively on OSN 02:25 The Job Lot 21:40 Shake It Up 21:20 Masterchef: The Professionals DUBAI: The most highly-anticipated movies and TV 02:50 Mistresses 22:00 Austin & Ally 22:15 Bargain Hunt series of 2014 are set to mark their second screen pre- 03:40 Hunderby 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 23:00 Marbella Mansions miere this June, exclusively on OSN, the region’s leading 04:10 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:50 Good Luck Charlie 23:50 Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And pay-TV network. 05:00 Nina And The Neurons 23:10 Wolfblood Easy Food THE ANIMAL ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD Headlining the June programming is an audience 05:15 Poetry Pie 23:35 Wolfblood favourite and undoubtedly one of the most-watched 05:20 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 11:00 Hard Time 09:00 24 and most talked about shows in HBO’s production his- 05:40 Jollywobbles 12:00 Family Guns 10:00 Emmerdale tory, Game of Thrones, which marks its season finale on 05:50 The Green Balloon Club 13:00 The Border 13:00 24 June 16th at 22:00 KSA. 06:15 Nina And The Neurons 14:00 Somewhere In China 14:00 Last Resort Series fans can also enjoy the American supernatural 06:30 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 15:00 Hunter Hunted 15:00 Live Good Morning America 03:35 Prototype This 03:15 THS 03:25 Andy Bates American Street police drama, Sleepy Hollow, a modern-day take on the 06:50 Jollywobbles 16:00 Wild Untamed Brazil 16:00 24 04:30 Prototype This 04:10 THS Feasts 1820 short story ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’ which 07:00 The Green Balloon Club 05:20 Prototype This 03:50 Iron Chef America 17:00 Rescue Ink 18:00 C.S.I. marks its premiere on OSN First HD, on June 15th, at 05:05 Extreme Close-Up 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 07:25 Charlie And Lola 06:10 Prototype This 04:40 Chopped 19:00 24 20:00 KSA; while Burn Notice and Survivor: Cagayan, 05:30 Extreme Close-Up 19:00 Wild Kalahari 21:00 C.S.I. 07:35 The Job Lot 07:00 How Tech Works 05:30 Unwrapped gear up for their season finales on June 8th at 19:00 06:00 THS 20:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 22:00 Mistresses 08:00 The Old Guys 07:25 How Tech Works 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown KSA, and 6th at 22:00 KSA, respectively, on OSN First 07:50 Style Star 21:00 The Known Universe 23:00 Boardwalk Empire 08:30 Gavin & Stacey 07:55 The Future Of... 06:10 Food Network Challenge HD. 08:20 E! News 22:00 Alaska Wing Men 09:00 Eastenders 08:45 Mythbusters 07:00 Tastiest Places To Chowdown Comedy-lovers are in for a treat this month with the 09:15 The Drama Queen 23:00 Rescue Ink 09:30 Doctors 09:40 Mythbusters 07:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives series premiere of Growing Up Fisher, the story of an 10:00 Great Expectations 10:30 Mythbusters 10:15 The Drama Queen 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives eclectic family brought together by their parents’ sepa- 11:10 Eric And Jessie: Game On 08:15 Food Network Challenge ration, when Mel Fisher, their father and lawyer, is deter- 10:50 Lark Rise To Candleford 11:20 Mythbusters 00:00 Below Zero-PG15 09:05 Siba’s Table mined not to let the fact that he’s blind slow him down. 11:40 The Job Lot 12:10 Mythbusters 11:35 Eric And Jessie: Game On 02:00 15 Minutes-PG15 09:30 Have Cake, Will Travel Catch the series premiere on June 14th at 18:00 KSA 12:05 The Old Guys 13:00 How Tech Works 12:05 E! News 04:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 09:55 Have Cake, Will Travel exclusively on OSN First Comedy HD. 12:35 Gavin & Stacey 13:30 Through The Wormhole With 13:05 Beyond Candid With Giuliana 06:00 Shadow Conspiracy-PG15 10:20 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 03:00 Dads On the movies front, there’s plenty to look forward 13:05 Eastenders Morgan Freeman 14:05 Keeping Up With The 08:00 Vanishing On 7th Street-PG15 Basics 03:30 The Neighbors to! 13:35 Doctors 14:20 Through The Wormhole With Kardashians 10:00 Deep Rising-PG15 10:45 Extra Virgin 04:00 Seinfeld The critically acclaimed The LEGO Movie, which fol- 14:05 Only Fools And Horses Morgan Freeman 15:00 Keeping Up With The 12:00 Premium Rush-PG15 11:10 Siba’s Table 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring lows Emmet, an average LEGO minifigure, who is mis- 14:35 Great Expectations 15:10 Da Vinci’s Machines Kardashians 14:00 Vanishing On 7th Street-PG15 11:35 Cooking For Real Jimmy Fallon takenly identified as the key to saving the world, will 15:25 The Iceberg That Sank The 16:00 Nyc: Inside Out 16:00 Giuliana & Bill 16:00 Prometheus-PG15 12:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 05:30 Two And A Half Men make its TV appearance this month. Tune into this 16:50 USA Memory Championships 18:00 Premium Rush-PG15 Titanic 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 12:25 Unique Eats 06:00 Better Off Ted adventure of epic proportions starring Chris Pratt, Will 17:40 Sci-Fi Science 06:30 Friends 20:00 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark- 16:15 Lark Rise To Candleford 18:00 E! News 12:50 Barefoot Contessa - Back To Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Charlie Day, Liam 18:05 Sci-Fi Science 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers PG15 17:10 Eastenders 19:00 Fashion Police Basics Neeson, and Morgan Freeman, from June 20th, on OSN 08:00 Seinfeld 22:00 Hobo With A Shotgun-R 17:40 Doctors 18:30 Prophets Of Science Fiction 19:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 13:15 Hungry Girl Movies Box Office HD. 08:30 Two And A Half Men 18:10 Outcasts 19:20 How Tech Works 20:00 Keeping Up With The 13:40 Hungry Girl The Spartans return for an encore in 300: Rise of an 09:00 Dads 19:00 Twenty Twelve 19:45 How Tech Works Kardashians 14:05 Food Network Challenge Empire, following the adrenaline-fuelled 2007 block- 20:10 The Future Of... 09:30 Last Man Standing 19:30 The Job Lot 21:00 Keeping Up With The 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:00 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo- buster. In the sequel, General Themistokles leads an 21:00 How Techies Changed The 10:00 Melissa & Joey 20:00 Mistresses Kardashians 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 10:30 Friends PG15 invasion against mortal-turned-idol Xerxes and World 20:50 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 15:45 Chopped 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 02:00 Your Sister’s Sister-18 Artemisia, the commanders of the Persian forces. The 21:50 Sci-Fi Saved My Life film will be available on OSN Movies Box Office HD from 21:35 The Cafe 22:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 16:35 Siba’s Table Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Dating Coach-PG15 22:40 You Have Been Warned 17:00 Siba’s Table June 27th. 22:00 Ashes To Ashes 23:00 Hello Ross 12:00 Better Off Ted 06:00 Frankenweenie-PG 23:30 Weird Connections 17:25 Guy’s Big Bite 12:30 Seinfeld OSN will also bring array of family-friendly movies 22:55 Lark Rise To Candleford 23:30 Chelsea Lately 08:00 Charlie And The Chocolate 23:45 Eastenders 23:55 Weird Connections 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 Two And A Half Men Factory-PG during the Holy Month of Ramadan, with daily films at 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:30 Friends 10:00 Dark Shadows-PG15 15:00 KSA, including: Ice Age: Continental Drift; The 18:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 14:00 The Neighbors 12:00 Dating Coach-PG15 Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Oz - The Great and Basics 14:30 Last Man Standing 14:00 Romy And Michelle’s High Powerful; Monsters University; Life of Pi and Iron Man 3 19:05 Extra Virgin 15:00 Melissa & Joey School Reunion-PG15 to name a few. 19:30 Siba’s Table 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 16:00 Dark Shadows-PG15 Reality television takes the centrestage on E!HD with 19:55 Cooking For Real Stewart 18:00 The Animal-PG15 the premiere of The Escape Club, the one-hour series 20:20 Chopped 16:00 The Colbert Report 20:00 The Do-Deca Pentathlon- that sends 12 twenty-somethings to escape and reboot 16:30 Better Off Ted 21:10 Food Network Challenge PG15 their lives on an exclusive, exotic resort. There is one 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:00 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo- catch though; each group must sacrifice one of their 18:00 Dads 22:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives PG15 members each week, to make way for new blood. 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Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (05/06/2014 TO 11/06/2014)

SHARQIA-1 NO SUN+TUE+WED X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 3:00 PM FANAR-3 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 9:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:00 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 12:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 9:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:15 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 2:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 12:30 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 9:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 5:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:05 AM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:00 PM 360º- 1 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 9:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 2:00 PM SHARQIA-2 BLENDED (DIG) 9:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 1:30 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 11:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 7:00 PM 2½ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM NO THU ACCOMMODATION HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM FANAR-4 Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 8:00 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM THU Abraq Khaitan sharing bed A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 10:00 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 4:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM space available for decent MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:15 AM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:05 AM Goan bachelor from June MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 8:30 PM in C-AC building. Beside SHARQIA-3 MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:30 PM 360º- 2 main road & bus stop with ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:30 AM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:15 PM wifi, kitchen facility. THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 2:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 3:15 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 4:45 PM FANAR-5 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 5:15 PM Contact: 97523316 or ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 7:15 PM 24745162. (C 4741) JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:30 PM HOLIDAY (DIG) (HINDI) 3:30 PM Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:15 PM 7-6-2014 BLENDED (DIG) 8:30 PM HOLIDAY (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 9:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:45 PM NIREL (DIG) (Tulu) 6:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:30 PM (C 4744) ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 AM ELISA KHATAFHA JAMEEL (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 9:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:15 AM TUITION X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 12:30 AM 10-6-2014 SITUATION WANTED MUHALAB-1 360º- 3 Arabic Teacher for non- ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 PM MARINA-1 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM native speakers beginners & I, Muhammed Basheer Working as computer LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (DIG) 2:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 2:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 4:30 PM advanced - All levels of the (name in existing passport) numeric control operator ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 4:30 PM THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 4:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 7:30 PM Arabic language - IGCSE & X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 6:15 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:30 PM NO THU holder of Indian Passport and holding AutoCAD- GCSE, language training syl- MECH 2D and 3D with 3 JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:45 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 8:15 PM Special Show “EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG)” 7:30 PM labus foreign and common- No: Z1922893, hereby BLENDED (DIG) 8:45 PM BLENDED (DIG) 8:15 PM THU years Gulf experience. wealth office. Only KD 10 for change my name to ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 10:00 PM Contact +971 558568727. ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:00 AM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:15 AM GODZILLA (DIG) 12:30 AM an hour & free books. Muhammed Basheer Kany, Email: Contact: Mr Khalid: address: Chirakkuzhy [email protected] MUHALAB-2 MARINA-2 AL-KOUT.1 99619998. (C 4740) house, Ponkunnam P.O., (C 4745) MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:30 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 1:45 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 12:45 PM 10-6-2014 Kottayam Dist. Kerala. 10-6-2014 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 3:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 4:00 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 5:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 6:15 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:15 PM (C 4742) A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 7:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 8:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 7:45 PM 10-6-2014 FOR SALE MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 9:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 12:05 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 1:00 AM MALEFICENT (DIG) 11:45 PM CHANGE OF NAME I, Patan Basha, holding GMC Envoy registered in NO SUN+TUE+WED 2008 in excellent condition MUHALAB-3 MARINA-3 I have changed my name Indian Passport No: for sale, SUV maintained by EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 1:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:30 PM AL-KOUT.2 from Archana Jeetendra E8322965, hereby change dealer and having full serv- HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 1:45 PM Vyas to Safiyah Shaikh as my name to Patan Mubarak ice record. Contact: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 3:45 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 3:45 PM 99893082. (C 4743) per Maha Gazette No. U- Khan. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 6:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 8:00 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 5:45 PM 9-6-2014 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 8:15 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:00 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 7:45 PM 45730 dated 17/01/2013. 9-6-2014 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 10:30 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:05 AM ELISA KHATAFHA JAMEEL (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:00 PM I, Archana Jeetendara Vyas EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:45 AM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 12:45 AM AVENUES-1 have changed my religion Automated enquiry aboutthe FANAR-1 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 2:15 PM AL-KOUT.3 from Hindu to Muslim as Civil ID card is MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 4:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:30 PM per Maha Gazette No. U- EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 3:15 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:15 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 3:00 PM 45735 dated 17/01/2013. 1889988 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 8:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:30 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 7:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:15 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 7:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:15 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:15 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:15 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:30 AM AVENUES-2 NO SUN+TUE+WED Prayer timings FANAR-2 GODZILLA (DIG) 2:00 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 1:30 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 4:30 PM AL-KOUT.4 Fajr: 03:13 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 3:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 6:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 PM Shorook 04:48 THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 5:15 PM JIRAN AL SAAD (DIG) 9:15 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 2:30 PM Duhr: 11:47 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 7:15 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 11:30 PM GODZILLA (DIG) 4:15 PM THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 9:00 PM THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 6:45 PM Asr: 15:21 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 11:00 PM AVENUES-3 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 8:45 PM Maghrib: 18:47 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:45 AM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:30 PM Isha: 20:19 112

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CROSSWORD 575 STAR TRACK

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

Inventions, in particular in communications, computers and electronics, may You may find that a particular project is just not your cup of tea this morn- be possible now. There are clear perspectives into your present reality, mak- ing. Arguments of an emotional kind could be easy to find. Not every proj- ing situations easier to understand. There are options now to improve a love relationship. ect will be the kind you want to dive into but there will be something in this one that will You are very tolerant and accepting of differences and have good insights into problems. prove beneficial-patience. If you are a part of this project, another undertaking that you Independent, you like to promote and compromise and otherwise show your desire and will really want to become involved with will be coming your way soon. A good sport atti- abilities to understand others. You may be unconventional in matters of philosophy and tude may be all-important for now. Outwardly you are intense and passionate and this religion-always finding new ways to get past the fluff. You must understand, however, quality is so essential to your character that all else revolves around it. This is what makes that your insights into truth and the eternal make you a loner at times. You seek to under- you popular when your work or personal partners want to move forward and get things stand situations by finding new ways to better conditions. accomplished. Your lifestyle may be just where you want it for now-enjoy.

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

This is a time of good fortune when things open up in a very natural way for You are in tune with the practical issues in the workplace today. A firm you. Opportunities are plenty and you may find yourself wanting and able to do almost sense of direction will help get you to your destination. This is a great time anything. This is a time during which circumstances bend to your will and things have a to be working in groups. You may be sought after as a guide or leader. You could be most way of working out smoothly. Here are real opportunities to complete and work out diffi- persuasive with others and charismatic in speech and communication. You could come up culties and projects that require both long-term effort and a high degree of discipline. This with new solutions or inventions, and it is good that you are willing to listen to the ideas of day is good for job-related events. You could represent or speak for your company at this others. It is ideas that count for you now, more than narrowly personal concerns. Family time. Any personal matters you want to accomplish or business matters that need tending needs are important and there is no question about attending a family event this evening. will also have positive results. Tonight would be a good time to pal around with some of Praise and support encourages a loved one to achieve the best. You are the cheerleader your friends-maybe a sports type of game. and the inspiration for your family and friends.

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

It is hard to relax today when you are the one that always fixes and does for Be satisfied with the ordinary and usual for now. Novel ideas or insights others. You are happy to share in responsibilities that other people may could be more damaging than useful. There is hectic emotional energy pre- worry over. At some time in the future, you might consider being paid to sit in where peo- vailing, but it is only temporary. After the workday is over, you could be tempted to relieve ACROSS 4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake ple are away on vacation or a leave of absence. You may say that you would not like that stress by purchasing some items. There is a greater appreciation for things of value and 1. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. Chad. sort of job, but you do seem to get quite a lot of pleasure from helping others and you are the idea of value itself is in order. This could be a period of great material gain; it is certain- 4. Shrubby tree widely distributed along trop- 5. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan very talented. You achieve positive results. You are a natural at being organized and you ly a time when material things have a great deal of importance for you. If you are on a ical shores. River. have a lot to teach. Work goes well and after the workday ends, you might as well be pre- budget, give yourself twenty-four hours before making your final purchase decision. You 12. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) 6. A strong solution of sodium or potassium pared as it is a celebration time for you. People you have helped in the past did not forget may be helpful to a friend or close relative this evening. You are able to find the real truth about a questionable situation. to the time spent traveling (in hours). hydroxide. about you. Celebrations are happening; smile. Happy birthday! 15. Group insurance that entitles members to 7. Located inward. services of participating hospitals and clinics 8. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the and physicians. Dali region of Yunnan. 16. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness. 9. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to birds. but heavier than beer. 10. Of or relating to the stomach and intes- Your dreams and ideals are very important to you. You may be more Anyone who tries to get you to play with words is in for a big surprise. Your focused on your goals now than ever before. You busy yourself putting 18. An associate degree in applied science. tines. mind cuts right through all the window dressing and gets right down to the those plans of yours to work. You will notice that you have become more focused in your quick. Before anyone knows it, you have the heart of the matter out front for everyone to 19. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon 11. A city of southeastern Mexico. 12. Type genus of the Manidae. work lately. This afternoon, when you show up early for a family get-together, they may be see. You would make a great investigator, either in scientific research or undercover work. worn as a headband. surprised as well as pleased that you broke free from your projects in order to be with It makes no difference. Your ability to get to the point is all but phenomenal. You can talk 20. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) 13. Having a horizontal surface in which no them. You are intuitively learning your limits as well as implementing a balance in your and put into words areas of the psychological that others would not touch. You have an of the benzodiazepine class. part is higher or lower than another. life. There is time this evening for making a few special plans that will help you complete urge to put out to sea and to somehow get past what separates and into that which 22. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes. 14. (usually used colloquially) Causing or one or two of your goals. You may find yourself putting your whole heart into making your unites or ties things together. Your drive to make dreams real keeps you working for your 24. Any organic compound containing two accompanied by misfortune. dreams and ideals a reality. Much can be accomplished without stress. vision and goals. Consider volunteer work this week. amino groups. 21. An alloy of mercury with another metal 25. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth. metallic element (resembles arsenic and anti- Aquarius (January 20- February 18) mony chemically). 23. A Russian dish made with patties of Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. The large trunk artery that carries blood ground meat (mixed with onions and bread Your successful optimism is obvious and therefore, catching. You see posi- Saying or writing with style comes natural to you these days. New words to and milk) and served with a sauce of sour tive results from your hard work today. Family, home, relatives and real from the left ventricle of the heart to branch increase your vocabulary expertise can be a fun activity between you and a friend or co- cream. estate play a big part in your life now. Perhaps you have been planning a move and some- arteries. worker. Your ability to discriminate real breakthroughs and spot new trends makes you 27. A sudden abrupt pull. one calls with information on just the right home for you. You work to show off your skills 28. Covered or protected with or as if with a able to work in areas that are at the very fringe of technology as well as psychology. You 30. Large high frilly cap with a full crown. and you enjoy the praise you receive. This time marks a change of direction for you, away case. love all that is new and different and electronics, computers, communication-in fact, from the material and glitter, toward inner needs and security. Your intuition is strong and 29. Italian violin maker in Cremona. 31. Tropical American tree grown in southern everything electrical is where your attention stays focused most of this day. There is a can guide you accurately in making forecasts or decisions; allow this to work for you. You United States having a whitish pink-tinged desire for variety this evening, particularly where it applies to romantic experience and 32. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye. will find yourself more concerned with maintaining and strengthening your position, fruit. artistic tastes. A sociable, congenial, slightly frivolous orientation sets in now. You will 34. Spanish Catholic theologian and founder rather than pushing outward. These next few months are for friends. of the Society of Jesus. 33. Any plant of the genus Erica. enjoy the interaction of friends tonight. 37. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella. 35. The blood group whose red cells carry 41. A soft gray ductile metallic element used both the A and B antigens. 36. In bed. in alloys. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a 38. A name that has been assumed temporari- ly. skewer usually with vegetables. Your career could assume a much more determined and solid form. This is In taking care of business, it is important to stay focused. There is a sense of 44. Type genus of the Timaliidae. 39. Vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals. a real time to buckle down and firm up your career goals. Your own ambition and drive emotional coolness or detachment at the personal level. It is ideas that 46. A federal agency that supervises carriers count for you now, more than narrowly personal concerns-and you may have little toler- 40. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity are strong. You are able to use good reasonable thinking and make good choices. You can that transport goods and people between ance for people who do not function at this level. You do not waste words today as com- and Judaism and Islam. get a faster push forward by taking the right kind of action; you are positive and attentive. states. munications tend to be short and to the point. Take time to be specific and ask for feed- 43. A Russian river. By working at a steady pace you will make a lot of progress. This afternoon you may find 48. A piece of furniture that provides a place yourself advising or guiding another. Your spontaneity and unpredictability make you back so that you can be sure you were clear in your instructions to others. Take care of 45. A polyvalent metallic element that resem- to sleep. interesting to a group gathering this evening. You are independent and the way you every last detail by proofing, or if possible, exchanging your work with someone else and bles chromium and tungsten in its properties. 50. Of the relatively near future. come across to others creates an opportunity to teach and guide. You find some time to proofing each other’s work. Develop and use your critical faculties. You are determined to 47. An actor's line that immediately precedes complete your tasks. This evening is an excellent time to relax by music. 51. (law) A comprehensive term for any pro- enjoy some simple exercise before retiring tonight. and serves as a reminder for some action or ceeding in a court of law whereby an individ- speech. ual seeks a legal remedy. 49. A light touch or stroke. 53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 52. Someone who works (or provides workers) Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution Chad. during a strike. 55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially 54. Any of various units of capacity. in Turkey). 57. An alluvial deposit that contains particles 56. An organization of countries formed in of some valuable mineral. 1961 to agree on a common policy for the 58. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who sale of petroleum. reject modern secular culture and many of 59. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB whom do not recognize the spiritual authority gun. of the modern state of Israel. 62. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced 60. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders. mosque. 65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism. 61. A member of an agricultural people of 67. A tributary of the Missouri River. southern India. 70. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for 63. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial a player. herbs. 74. Alsatian artist and poet who was 64. French composer noted for his experimen- cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich. talism and rejection of romanticism (1866- 75. Any organic compound formed by adding 1925). alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules. 66. A radioactive element of the actinide 78. A member of a North American Indian series. people living east of the Sacramento river in 68. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in California. western Asia. 79. The cry made by sheep. 69. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea 80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. 82. Someone who leaves. 71. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydrox- 83. A transuranic element. yl groups in each molecule. 84. A short aria. 72. In the Roman calendar. 85. In addition. 73. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999). DOWN 76. A legal document codifying the result of 1. An informal conversation. deliberations of a committee or society or leg- 2. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- islative body. one else. 77. A broad flat muscle on either side of the 3. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron of back. eastern North America having rosy to pink- 81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali purple flowers. earth group.

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im Kardashian had a secret room built for Kanye West’s birthday pres- Kent. The couple - who married in Italy last month - have been undergoing renovations on their Bel Air mansion for over a year and the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star stunned her rapper hus- band by unveiling a luxurious studio in the property on his 37th birthday on Sunday. A source told HollywoodLife.com: “Kim got Kanye the most incredible birth- day gift which has been in the making for months. She had designers create a ‘man cave’ for Kanye at their new house. “They are still in the process of making the luxu- rious state-of-the-art music studio and it was kept under wraps until Kim surprised him.” And Kanye - who has 11-month-old daughter North with Kim - is thrilled with d Sheeran thinks Pharrell Williams is psychic. ‘x’ this month, also appears in a new MTV documen- the facility. The source added: “Kanye was The ‘Drunk’ hitmaker and producer collaborat- tary ‘Nine Days And Nights Of Ed Sheeran’, which and is floored with how thoughtful and Eed on Ed’s new track ‘Sing’, which became his gives fans a rare insight into the singer’s life. In the creative Kim is and is obviously over the first UK number one at the weekend, and he reck- film, the star explains how pirates lured celebrated moon.” It was recently claimed the 33- ons its success is all down to Pharrell’s clairvoyant producer Rick Rubin onto working on his new year-old brunette beauty was considering ability after he made him change his mind about album. Ed explained: “Rick came to my birthday gig having a tattoo tribute to her spouse. A which song to release. Ed, 23, told the Daily Star and I was dressed as a pirate. “I was summoned by source said: “Getting a tattoo is something newspaper: “I swear Pharrell has special foresight. I Elton John to meet him, so it was us and Adele. I felt she said she would never do, but there said I wanted to release ‘Don’t’ [from the new awkward dressed as a pirate. “Six months later he has been talk about getting a symbol or album] as the first single. “He said it should be ‘Sing’ was listening to my album and telling me: ‘You some initials referring to her love for and it would do over 100,000 in the US and sure shouldn’t be doing it like this’ or ‘Sing it like this.’” Kanye inked on her lower back or some- enough it’s doing 140,000. I owe him a hat or some- Ed’s new documentary ‘Nine Days and Nights of Ed where discreet. It would be something Clooney, Brolin to thing.” Ed, who will release his second studio album Sheeran’ which air on June 20 on MTV. delicate, simple.” Madonna to work with Disclosure? star in ‘Hail, Caesar! even years after they first collabo- rated on “No Country for Old Men,” adonna could be set to work with year-old star has already revealed she has been Josh Brolin has signed on to Disclosure. The ‘Hung Up’ hitmaker teaming up with Diplo to record her 13th stu- S reteam with the Coen brothers once has become friendly with the British dio album, who she claims has been working M again on “Hail, Caesar!,” which Universal dance duo, brothers Guy and Howard her like “a slave driver”. She posted a photo- Pictures has acquired for worldwide dis- Lawrence, after also teaming up with Diplo graph of herself looking tired after a long ses- tribution, the studio announced and Avicci. Madonna posted a photograph of sion working on new ideas and wrote: “Diplo is Monday. Oscar winner George Clooney her on her Instagram account of the three of a slave driver! Got me working all hours of the is set to star in “Hail, Caesar,” which Joel them, with the caption: “Getting lit! Full night in the studio. Had to sneak into the bath- and Ethan Coen will direct from their Disclosure...... #dancing #fun #life (sic),” fol- room! #clicclacclicclacbitchgetoffmyback (sic)” own original screenplay. “Hail, Caesar!” is lowing their recent show at the Governors Ball Diplo, who has had success with his electronic a comedic period picture set in the festival in New York at the weekend. She also music project Major Lazer, has previously 1950s that follows Eddie Mannix, a posted two shots of her at the side of the stage worked with the likes of Beyonce, Rita Ora, Tinie Hollywood fixer who works for the stu- and wrote next to one of them: “Doing a little. Tempah and Justin Bieber and is known for his dios to protect their movie stars (and Security work on the side for reggae-inspired music. Meanwhile, Madonna their squeaky-clean reputations) from Disclosure...... shure is Hawt in here! (sic)” has also been in the studio with dance music gossip rags and jealous rivals eager to Madonna followed the caption by writing: star Avicii, who produced Coldplay’s new single expose salacious scandals. The Coens “Been promoted to head of security for ‘A Sky Full Of Stars’ and she’s set to release new will also produce under their Mike Zoss Disclosure! #hawt #talent #surrey (sic)” The 55- material in coming months. Productions banner alongside Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan of Working Title Films. “Hail, Caesar!” be the eighth col- laboration between the Coen brothers He most recently worked with the Coens and Working Title. Brolin recently signed on “True Grit.” He’s represented by CAA McCartney on to voice the villainous role of Thanos and attorney Wendy Kirk of Ziffren in the Marvel cinematic universe, as well Brittenham. CAA also reps Clooney, postpones start as co-star in Denis Villenueve’s “Sicario.” while UTA reps the Coen brothers. of US tour after illness aul McCartney has postponed the start of his US tour, due Altin couldn’t keep to begin on Saturday, as he recovers from an illness that Pforced the cancellation of gigs in Japan and Korea last month. “I’m sorry but it’s going to be a few more weeks before we a straight face in get rocking in America again,” the 71-year-old former Beatle said in a statement on his website late Monday. “I’m feeling great but taking my docs’ advice to take it easy for just a few more days. Look forward to seeing you all soon.” McCartney cancelled four ‘The Hooligan Factory’ sold-out dates in Japan and on the South Korean leg of his “Out There” global tour last month after falling ill with an undisclosed osef Altin struggled to keep a straight virus. The Liverpool-born musician, one of two surviving members face on the set of ‘The Hooligan Factory’. of The Beatles, was due to return to the stage on June 14 in Favreau finds JThe ‘Young Victoria’ actor - who stars as Lubbock, Texas, at the start of the US leg of the tour. However, that troublemaker Weasel in the new movie - gig and six others scheduled for New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta, admitted he and his co-stars found it difficult Nashville, Jacksonville and Louisville in June have been postponed to keep it together when filming the comedy to October. “Paul McCartney has confirmed that he will, however food hypnotic spoof about a group of rowdy football fans. reluctantly, heed medical advice to rest up just a bit longer to fully Talking to BANG Showbiz at the film’s pre- recuperate from the virus that forced the postponement of his on Favreau finds food hypnotic. The 47-year-old actor, who stars in ‘Chef’ as miere in London’s Leicester Square yesterday recent dates in Japan and Korea,” said a statement on the singer- Carl Casper, a Los Angeles chef who quits his job in a top restaurant owned he revealed: “It was difficult because in a songwriter’s website. “The ‘Out There’ world tour will now resume Jby Riva (Dustin Hoffman) as he searches for a way to reignite his passion for spoof you try and not play the comedy too July 5 in Albany, New York... Tickets for the original June dates will food, insists grub translates well on screen. He said: “It’s amazing how well food much so you try and keep a straight face but be honored for the new dates.” translates to cinema, you know it’s very cinematic. There is something about food it was hard on set. There was a lot of funny that is just hypnotic.” Favreau - real name Jonathan Kolia - also confessed he things going on. “We kind of kept it together worked very hard to get his knife skills on point by practicing with wife of 14 years as one big family but we just had to keep Joya Tillem. Talking at the film’s premiere, yesterday at The Old Truman Brewery in going without too much laughs and tried to East London, he told BANG Showbiz: “There are some camera tricks in there, that I save it till we wrapped. It was amazing.” The learnt from my ‘Iron Man’ days, but I worked very hard to get my chef skills down 31-year-old - who appeared alongside Hugh more so for the attitude, the stance and the behavior.” Favreau is joined on screen Jackman and Anne Hathaway in the 2012 by an A-List cast which includes Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo blockbuster ‘Les Miserables’ - also had noth- and ‘Her’ actress Scarlett Johansson. ing but praise for cast mate Nick Nevern who directed and stars in the movie as former prison inmate Dex. He said: “He’s a real joy to work with. He’s so easy to work with. He’s Josef was joined on the red carpet by his Spacey quashed more of an actor’s director. He was just so co-stars Jason Maza, Ray Fearon and calm on set but obviously it was his baby so Steve O’Donnell as well as ex-’TOWIE’ he just needed to make sure everything was star Kirk Norcross, The Inbetweeners’ right. A real perfectionist. It was just so lovely James Buckley and former ‘Celebrity Big Bond film rumors to work with him as an actor, it was superb.” Brother’ contestant Casey Batchelor. evin Spacey has quashed rumors that he’s been cast in the new Bond Sharon shares biggest beauty regret Kfilm. The ‘House of Cards’ actor - who plays Francis ‘Frank’ Underwood in haron Osbourne’s biggest beauty regret is the popular Netflix series - has addressed overplucking her eyebrows. The showbiz speculation that he will play a villain in Smatriarch has had her fair share of beauty the upcoming picture and claims he’s disasters in the past and says nothing has haunted never even read a script for the movie her more than the time she went crazy with a pair about the famed secret agent. In an inter- of tweezers. She told The Daily Telegraph newspa- view with the BBC, the 54-year-old star per: “Plucking eyebrows for everyone has to be the said: “I don’t know why people keep writ- worst thing and it’s so marvelous that mine are so ing about this. I’ve never read a script, I’m heavily documented.” Her daughter Kelly Osbourne not doing the next James Bond movie. chimed in: “They’re the gift that keeps on giving.” No. “I don’t know who started the rumor, The mother and daughter duo have teamed up on but stop it.” The interviewer joked: “I think a two-part, 26-piece collection for MAC Cosmetics - it’s probably [director] Sam Mendes.” including blushers, eyeshadow, lipsticks, eyeliner Spacey replied: “No, he didn’t. I think if he and make-up tools - and had great fun showcasing wanted me he would have offered me the their infamous sense of humor via their product names. Sharon joked: “I can’t believe Cheeky and role. I don’t even know if there is a role.” Dodgy Girl got through. We had to come up with ‘Bond 24’ - which is the working title for 50 names, then it goes through legal.” As for Kelly, the 24th film in famed series - has Daniel she had a blast experimenting with different colors Craig returning as Bond, Sam Mendes in at the MAC Pro centre in New York. The ‘Fashion the director’s seat and John Logan help- Police’ host added: “They have these huge glass ing to pen the script. Meanwhile, Spacey pots with every pigment which are so fun to play is set to hit the big screen later this year in with. I realized there were certain textures I wanted ‘Horrible Bosses 2’ and documentary for a satin finish, a glossy feel but not too glossy. It ‘Unity’ which he narrates. was really fun to experiment with.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 FEATURES

Lopez cancels performance at World Cup opener in Brazil

In this Saturday, June 7, 2014 photo provided by Josh Newton, newlyweds Michael Wolber and April Hartley pose for a picture near Bend, Ore, as a wildfire burns in the background. —AP

f you were hoping to watch Jennifer Lopez perform in Thursday’s World Cup opening ceremony, you’re out of luck. IFIFA officials announced Sunday in a statement to the Wildfire sparks amazing wedding photo in Oregon Associated Press that Lopez has withdrawn from the festivities, and will not perform the official song “We Are One” with rapper Pitbull and Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte, as previously wildfire that disrupted an Oregon to downtown Bend’s Drake Park for the both work at Nike. “It’s terrible to be evacu- telling people to evacuate as a precaution. announced. couple’s wedding also gave them reception. ated from your own wedding,” said Lisa “It is an accurate picture,” she said Tuesday Soccer’s governing body blamed unspecified “production Athe photograph of a lifetime. A fire As guests headed for the cars, wedding Clark, a fire information officer with the about the widely viewed photo. issues” for Lopez’s withdrawal from the opening ceremony. In truck rolled up at Rock Spring Ranch near photographer Josh Newton took some Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Firefighters were probably sympathetic to January, FIFA announced JLo would be joining Pitbull and Bend with sirens blaring Saturday and the photos of the couple with the wildfire rag- Center. “But it’s a story for the rest of their the wedding party with the disruption and Leitte on stage. “We Are One” was written and co-produced by wedding party was told to evacuate, The ing in the background. Michael Wolber lives and nothing that could be duplicat- permitted the quick ceremony. “I don’t Pitbull, and features Lopez and Leitte, who sings part of it in her Oregonian reported. The minister con- called it “the most beautiful ceremony ed.” The wedding venue was on the edge think the firefighters would have allowed native Portuguese. A call to JLo’s rep was not immediately ducted an abbreviated ceremony. either of us could have ever imagined.” He of the wind-pushed fire and deputies and the extra few minutes if it had been that returned. — AP Everyone cheered and began to evacuate and his wife, April Hartley, live in Aloha and fire trucks were driving through the area critical,” Clark said. — AP World Chefs:Wolvesmouth on underground food, art and society or the ‘Wolf’ of Los Angeles dining, food has always Q: When did you realize you had a very different been the medium for a higher social purpose. approach to food compared to traditional chefs? FWolvesmouth, the alias of Arizona-native Craig A: Even being in a restaurant kitchen, I always felt like I was Thornton, is the self-taught chef who emerged four years a black sheep guy in that environment. I had a blast ago as part of the sweeping trend of underground supper doing it but there was always an artistic element that I clubs, serving up dishes inspired by raw nature and wanted, or a different element, which was the installa- abstract art at his loft, Wolvesden. tions and being able to create events that go deeper Diners could eat pork belly and lobster infused in squid than what’s on your plate. For me, I wanted to create ink with yams and green apples, or a rabbit croquet served one linear idea and have the whole idea make sense ... with plantains, jicama remoulade and jerk sauce. Alongside But it was also about how can I make it more intimate hosting intimate dinners for donation amounts to guests and more sociable than just the norm of going to a curated from a waiting list of thousands of potential diners, restaurant? the 32-year-old chef will present Ceremony on Friday, the latest project in his quest to merge gourmet underground Q: Where do you fit into the Los Angeles dining scene? This 2013 photo provided by I Heart New York shows Kristain and Anzalee Rhodes at Brooklyn Bridge Park, in New dining with art and music. Ahead of the event, the chef dis- A: I just cook very much to my taste, and it is a very eclectic York. — AP photos cussed his non-traditional approach to food and his desire palette that I have. But I also balance my food a certain to elevate dining. way, there’s a certain approach to it. I don’t want it to be overly serious. I don’t really know where it fits within the People hiring photographers Q: What is at the core of your events? actual food scene itself. I know that it really is an amal- A: (The loft dinner) is a smaller, intimate setting, and usual- gam of stuff that I would love to get on a menu, so ly when people are walking away, they’re coming away that’s what I make for people, rather than trying to with the food and it’s the people they’re meeting, the impress. to shoot everyday life conversation, and the playlist that’s playing, it’s the hen Anzalee and Kristain Rhodes $259 for a 90-minute family session around whole thing. Q: Is there an issue of exclusivity, that certain types of look back at their daughter’s first the Big Apple. And just like with a selfie that food and dining are only available to a certain hier- Wyear of life, they won’t be examin- you post from your phone, the company’s Q: How would you describe your culinary style - it archy of people? ing blurry, red-eyed camera phone photos. work can be seen right away online. I Heart appears to take the raw experience of hunting and A: Yes, and the thing is, we’re technically exclusive, but They’ll have crisp, finely detailed profes- New York will photograph a proposal and spins a gourmet twist? we’re only exclusive because we’re a small ... team, that’s sional shots of a baby growing up before provide a near-instantaneous shot so A: It’s always trying to have the balance of elegance and the only reason why. We get our hate mails of people their eyes. Each month, a team of profes- clients can post it to social media sites - and visceral. That is really where I like things, that are really going “I can never get in.” That’s because we’re not sional photographers shoots them as they change their relationship status at the same beautiful and things that are grotesque in a way. But going to destroy ourselves doing a thousand people a go about their daily lives at home and time, Beckford said. they’re grotesque in such a way that they’re pretty. night so that way there’s nothing special about it. I’m around New York City. The Rhodes treasure their ongoing pho- Nature offers more of that than anything a human can not going to destroy something special just to get more “As a baby, she changes every month. tographic record of their daughter’s child- ever create. people through the door.. There’s something new. Her hair changes, hood, and believe it’s an accurate represen- everything changes within a month and we wanted to be able to capture all those things,” said Anzalee Rhodes, a 35-year- ‘I AM NOT YOU’ exhibition old statistician who lives on Long Island, New York. The Rhodes are part of a trend of folks hiring professional photographers to docu- ment not just big events like weddings and bar mitzvahs, but everyday activities. Sometimes they want a milestone recorded - a child’s birthday party or family get- This 2013 photo provided by I Heart together. But often they’re hiring pros to New York shows Anzalee Rhodes photograph things they might otherwise holding her 10-day-old daughter have shot with their own cellphones or Arabelle in her Long Island home. point-and-shoot cameras: a weekend out- ing, a vacation, or a portrait of a beloved “They don’t realize that everybody is doing pet. Those photos are then shared, just like the same thing, engaging in the same strat- their own cell pictures would be, on social egy as themselves, which is to sort of media sites like Facebook, Twitter and ignore the negative or the trivial or the Instagram. “We’re in a digital-media focused banal, and posting only the best stuff, the world now. I mean, you kind of live your life This February 2014 photo provided exciting stuff.” And that’s true whether they through Facebook, looking at photos of by I Heart New York shows Kristain are taking selfies or hiring someone to do it peoples’ lives. There’s a lot more sharing in and Anzalee Rhodes with their for them. general, so that is expanding the footprint daughter Arabelle, at 5 months old, Liz Bowling, a 33-year-old account exec- of what people will consider to have profes- on their first family trip to the utive, first hired a professional photogra- sionally documented,” said Tim Beckford, a Brooklyn Museum in New York City. pher to shoot her wedding and then her photographer known as Tim Co with I Heart newborn daughter, Ashlyn. Since then, New York, the New York City-based compa- tation of their family in everyday situations. she’s had the same photographer travel ny that shoots the Rhodes family each But is it possible to present a realistic view from Boulder, Colorado, to her home in month. of ordinary experiences if a photographer is Lake Tahoe to capture her family a handful staging and enhancing each shot? Catalina of times. The photographer, Julie Documenting trips Toma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Afflerbaugh, has even stayed with the fami- “Why have blurry cell phone photos professor whose research includes examin- ly in order to capture them in a candid way, with just one of you actually in the photo?” ing emotional well-being and social media, Bowling said. reads I Heart New York’s website pitch. says people tend to construct very flatter- “It’s not just a staged photograph. She “Visiting (or living) in New York City is a big ing images of themselves online. captures very authentic moments,” Bowling deal and we want your Facebook friends to said. “I really want images that are going to be VERY jealous.” People from as far away as Capturing authentic moments show who I was when, and she does that.” Australia have responded by hiring I Heart “The importance of self-presentation on The photos are framed and displayed on a New York to document their trips to the Big social media is really high,” she said. And wall in the family home, Bowling said, as A man takes pictures of the art work ‘Demon of the Apple. The cost varies widely depending on when people look on Facebook and see well as used for Christmas cards and shared Growth’ (2012) by Czech artist Kristof Kintera in the how long the shoot lasts and how many their friend’s best self - whether it’s a once- via social media sites. “It’s me. That’s who I Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, yesterday. images the client takes. I Heart New York in-a-lifetime trip to Greece, a new job or a am and it’s kind of fun to share what I’m A visitor walks behind the art works ‘Nervous Trees’ Kintera’s exhibition ‘I AM NOT YOU’ lasts from June charges $229 for a two-hour session photo- flawless family photograph - they get doing with really beautiful photos,” Bowling (2013) by Czech artist Kristof Kintera. 11 until Sept 28, 2014. — AP photos graphing a couple around New York City or depressed thinking they are missing out. said. — AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

Music & Movies ‘Game of Thrones’: Battle for Castle Black could determine fate of all of Westeros t was a bold decision on the part of the creative mammoth on the wildling side, and we know they Less hope I’d like to say that I am hopeful they can come minds behind HBO’s “Game of Thrones” to take a full have many more they can pull in for a larger offensive. If The Wall falls and “Winter” comes roaring forth together in their darkest hour and rise up against the Ihour of one of the most sprawling shows on televi- While this was an epic battle, featuring some beau- from the North, will this game of thrones matter one surging forces of evil, but this is George R.R. Martin, sion and narrow its focus to just one location. And yet, tiful fight scenes, it was nevertheless a small battle. iota? Will it matter who sits upon the Iron Throne when and he’s proven he believes more in the worst that it also proved very effective. Castle Black at The Wall Larger shots showed how small the wildling forces such magical forces of evil are set to wipe out all of humanity has to offer than the best. Those who rise hasn’t been home to the most compelling political looked against The Wall, and yet they still nearly took machinations thus far, but it may well prove to be the it. “The Watchers on the Wall,” as this episode was most important battleground of the entire saga. named, are ill-prepared for what’s out there. We’ve been anticipating the battle between the There were some awesome wall defense sequences Night’s Watch and the wildlings for weeks now, and in this episode, and a stunning continuous camera there was a very personal stake for Jon Snow and shot of the battle inside the castle itself. The fighting Ygritte. The two became lovers while Jon was effec- was ugly and nasty and unpredictable, as it should be tively spying on her and her people, trying to assess between these two forces. The hour flew by, and you’d their threat level to the Night’s Watch. scarcely realized that we still hadn’t checked in on To say that Ygritte was a lover scorned would be a Tyrion’s guilty verdict when the credits started to roll. massive understatement. The entire battle was under- scored by the tension rising before their inevitable Unwanted peoples confrontation. Would she shoot him again, as she did Usually you wouldn’t want a director to stand out the last time they were together? Would he have to kill on a serialized show like this, when many different her? As we’ve learned many times on “Game of ones are used throughout each season to try and cre- Thrones,” oftentimes such decisions are out of our ate a cohesive narrative, but Neil Marshall stood out hands. Ygritte and Jon did come face-to-face, but for all the right reasons with his second “GoT” episode. before either could decide how to proceed, an arrow It’s appropriate that they went with him here, as he pierced her chest. At least they got to have one final, gave us the penultimate episode of Season 2, which tender exchange, with Jon telling her they’d go back also focused entirely on a single battle. to their cave. She reminding him: “You know nothing, What’s so effective about this episode is that it real- Jon Snow.” ly put everything about the show into perspective. The On the opposite side, Sam’s innocence and bravery Lannisters and Targaryens and Starks and Baratheons continue to be a winning combination for him, as he may be playing at this game of thrones in Westeros, managed to kill another dire threat and his own love but it really is a game compared to what’s coming safe. And there’s the bitter irony that it was Ygritte who from the North. It is the Watchers on The Wall who are spared Gilly’s life at the inn, while it was a Night’s the most important players. And yet, their numbers Watch Boy ordered by Sam to take up his weapon and are made up of the cast-offs and undesirables of fight who ultimately killed Ygritte. Westeros. To think that the fate of all humanity may lay in the hands of those unwanted peoples. Two giants and a single mammoth Worse, the Night’s Watch has dwindled in numbers Westeros is a bleak place filled with little hope. so much over the centuries, that it is grossly outnum- Perhaps it is because “Winter is coming,” as the Starks bered in its defense of Westeros. Every loss among the say, but it is filled with such darkness and despair that Night’s Watch - it took six men to take down a single we’ve come to expect the worst even when there are giant at the gate - will be felt tenfold when the full moments of true joy. Who expected both Sam and forces of the wildlings amass. This is why it’s so impor- humanity? Mankind needs to do is put aside its differ- above are often pulled down, or beheaded, for their Gilly to come out of this first battle unscathed? I was tant than Jon Snow defeat the wildings’ leader, Mance. ences, as the men of the Night’s Watch are forced to do trouble. looking for the coward who hid out with Gilly to kill Without him to unify them, the wildlings might fall as they take their oath, and unite against a common I’m very worried for Sam, Gilly, Jon, Arya, Bran and her, just because she saw him sneak in. back to infighting and break up. enemy. Hodor, Tyrion, and even poor Sansa, as well as the few Of course, as Jon was quick to point out, just “Winter is coming” is more than just a statement Will they? Oh, probably not. These are vain, ambi- other characters who’ve proven to have redeeming because this battle is over, the larger war is not over about the weather. “Winter” also refers to the denizens tious and petty people. And they’ve grown compla- qualities. This does not seem to be a world for them. yet. This was just a fraction of what the wildlings are of the North, kept away from humanity for so long that cent, thinking the biggest dangers in the world are the There is little joy, and even less hope. Winter is coming. able to accomplish, with the smallest portion of their they’ve been forgotten: The White Walkers and giants political maneuverings of their enemies and relatives. Can The Wall hold it back?—AP full might. The forces on either side of the wall were and mammoths and direwolves. “Winter” is all the They’re not prepared for what’s to come, just as Jon modest at best, while the defense on the inside wasn’t night-time stories come to life. Every dangerous thing Snow had to admit that the Night’s Watch is not pre- much better. There were only two giants and a single that most have chosen to forget. pared for the full might of the wildling armies. ‘Arduous’ recovery ahead for funny man Tracy Morgan

S actor Tracy Morgan, known for his auto and four counts of assault by auto, accord- Emmy-nominated turn on television ing to a statement from state prosecutors, cited Ucomedy “30 Rock,” is facing an “arduous” by local media. Apparently he had not slept in recovery after a car crash, his agent said Monday. 24 hours. Morgan was critically injured Saturday in a six- Roper’s truck allegedly caused the accident car accident in New Jersey that killed one of his on the New Jersey Turnpike near the state capi- friends. Agent Lewis Kay said the actor and tal Trenton, which involved Morgan’s limo bus, comedian still was in critical but stable condi- another truck, two cars and and an SUV. tion. “His fiancee Megan (Wollover) is by his Morgan-who performed Friday night at Dover side,” Kay said. “Rumors about amputating his Downs Hotel & Casino in Delaware-was nomi- leg are completely fabricated. As we shared yes- nated for an Emmy in 2009 for his role on “30 Turkish imam given go terday, Tracy had surgery on his broken leg,” the Rock,” which also starred Tina Fey and Alec agent explained. “This recovery will be arduous Baldwin. On “30 Rock,” a show about the cast and and we hope that you can be patient during this writers of a sketch comedy show resembling ahead to make rock ‘n’ roll difficult time,” he added, mentioning a possible “Saturday Night Live,” he played Tracy Jordan, a recovery period of several weeks. caricature of himself. The program ended its sev- Turkish imam has been allowed to rock formed for the first time in public at a local fes- The incident occurred as the 45-year-old en-season run in early 2013. Morgan appeared on after the country’s powerful reli- tival in his home town to hundreds of curious Morgan, a former star of “Saturday Night Live,” on “Saturday Night Live” from 1996 to 2003. — Agious authorities gave him the green onlookers. was heading home from a stand-up perform- AFP light to continue playing in his band after a He is gearing up for his next concert in the ance in the East Coast state of Delaware. A 35- nine-month investigation. Ahmet Muhsin Fenike town of Antalya on June 22, during year-old Georgia truck driver-identified as Kevin Tuzer, a Muslim religious leader from a tiny which “the authorities will keep a close eye on Roper-was charged with one count of death by hamlet on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast was me”. “Before, I wasn’t able to act like myself investigated by the Diyanet, the state body in because of pressures. But this time, you will charge of the country’s mosques. They had to see a different imam, both in terms of looks decide whether his brand of music was com- and the repertoire,” he said, saying at least patible with Islam or his playing created a con- 50,000 people are expected to attend the free flict with his role as an imam, which is a gov- concert. “I’ll be a real rock star!” he exclaimed. ernment-funded post. The Islamic-rooted government of Prime In the end, they decided to let him contin- Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power for ue as a member of Firock, which blends rock 11 years, has long been under fire for what with mystical Sufi music, and only reprimand- critics say are creeping efforts to force Islamic ed him for his negative remarks about the values on the predominantly Muslim but investigation. “I am very happy that the staunchly secular country. Erdogan stoked Diyanet has shown to the whole world that controversy over calls for a ban on mixed-sex our religion is indeed a tolerant one, not the accommodation for university students and one that only bans beautiful things,” Tuzer told has angered secularists with a crackdown on AFP by phone from Pinarkoy, a tiny communi- alcohol sales and advertising. — AFP ty near the Mediterranean beach resort of Kas. The 43-year-old imam made headlines in Traffic moves pass the scene of a serious accident at mile- August last year when he and Firock per- post 71 on the northbound lanes of New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, June 7, 2014 near Cranbury, N.J.

‘Penny Dreadful’: Dalton explains the shocking scene they shot two ways unday’s “Penny Dreadful” featured a scene in a garden TheWrap: Do you think Sir Malcolm’s affair with Vanessa’s ment and all the rest of it. It might be understandable psycho- great sort of entanglement. Because people so often, always maze that seems to be the source of much of the show’s mother was the original sin that unleashed all this evil? logically, but it obviously is a terrible thing to do to anybody. need to be blaming someone else for what they should be Smadness. We learned that as a young girl, Vanessa Ives Dalton: It’s part of it. But part is the operative word. There’s And it deeply wounds my daughter. So we’re both responsible taking responsibility for. So now we’re getting into this whole (Eva Green) caught her best friend Mina’s father, Sir Malcolm more. Of course you’ve got to understand Vanessa’s part. She for that, aren’t we? You’ve unsuspectingly led Vanessa into thing about guilt and the responsibility for guilt and what is (Timothy Dalton), having sex with her mother. Dalton tells has an affair out of spite, out of revenge, out of jealousy. It is your world, and it adds depth to all the interactions we’ve redemption? It’s fascinating. Vanessa clearly has a sexual TheWrap that the show shot the scene two different ways. those actions that set Mina off. It is my action that has sparked seen so far. attraction to your character, and we don’t know if it’s recipro- “We did do it so he was unaware, and we did do it so I saw the Vanessa’s action, coupled with her own jealousy and resent- He is also responsible for her actions against Mina, which is cated. I mean, she’s only what, 15, 16, 17? If that. If that. So no. I girl there and we actually locked eyes for a second,” he said. mean, he likes her. Because he sees in her all the things he In the version that aired, Sir Malcolm doesn’t realize would like in a daughter. Right, he’s clearly not attracted to her Vanessa saw him - so he never realizes the hell her discovery as a child. But when she’s older? Probably he still sees her like a unleashes. Vanessa, damaged by what she witnessed, grows daughter? Maybe yes, maybe no. We’ll just tease this one out. up to have an affair with Mina’s fiance. Mina believes her life is [Possible spoiler alert: At this point we asked a question that ruined, and in her despair falls under the control of a vampiric may point toward a spoiler. You may want to stop reading.] master. Vanessa, meanwhile, goes insane and possibly Is there any chance that Sir Malcolm is Vanessa’s father? becomes possessed. Eventually she seeks out Sir Malcolm, [Laughs. Laughs. Laughs more.] Oh my, oh my. I think the and tells him they must work together to find Mina. It all hap- phone is going down immediately. I’m not answering that pens in flashbacks, which change the color of everything question. There will be a lot of answers - no, I don’t know if we’ve seen in the previous four episodes of the Showtime dra- there will be a lot of answers. But there will be conclusions ma: It turns out the partnership between Vanessa and Sir coming. I’ve been a bit absent from episodes three and four. Malcolm is much more fragile than we realized, and filled with But you’ve seen five and six, seven, eight we get onto the last tension. lap. Malcolm’s story is much more present. I would just leave The question is what kind of tension. Dalton helped us your excellent question as an excellent question. — Reuters understand. At one point, we asked perhaps too pointed a question. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014

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US actress and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie and co-host Britain’s Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague and US actress and UN special Summit co-hosts Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague and US actress and UN special Foreign Secretary William Hague pose for a picture with 19-year-old envoy Angelina Jolie make their opening speeches at the four-day Global envoy Angelina Jolie visit exhibitors during the first day of the Global Summit. Faida Kasilembo during the first day of the Global Summit to End Summit to End Sexual Violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict in east London yesterday. — AFP photos Jolie and Hague to open largest ever summit on rape in war

o-hosts Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary ment deny safe haven to those who “commit these vile acts.” Hague hopes the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in “debunk the myth that rape in war is somehow inevitable or a William Hague opened yesterday a four-day summit on “We must declare in unison: ‘They can’t run and they won’t Conflict, which runs until Friday, will create “so much momen- lesser crime.” Cending sexual violence in conflict, the biggest meeting hide here’,” he added. tum that we begin to shatter the culture of impunity.” “If Hague and Jolie took part in meetings with youth delegates ever held on the subject. Senior officials from over 100 coun- women are still treated in this abhorrent way in times of war, and today are due to attend an event to launch the tries, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, will join over Film forced Hague to act they will never be treated as equals in times of peace, and that International Protocol. Tomorrow, Hague will host delegations 900 experts, NGOs, survivors and religious leaders at London’s It was Jolie’s film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” which cannot be tolerated,” he added. Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, from over 100 countries and will chair a ministerial meeting on Excel Centre. Writing in London’s Evening Standard newspa- first alerted Hague to the extent of sexual violence in conflict survivor of sexual violence in Colombia’s conflict, will be one of security in northern Nigeria. UN Secretary General Ban Ki per, Kerry said delegates would work to “relegate sexual vio- zones, he has said. The British cabinet minister and Hollywood speakers. Moon (by video message) and US Secretary of State John Kerry lence to the annals of history”. “Sexual violence plagues every A-Lister Jolie, a Special Envoy for the UN Commissioner for “For the first time in history a world summit highlights and will speak in a closing plenary session on Friday. There will also country,” he wrote. “Acts of sexual violence demean our collec- Refugees, have since visited the Democratic Republic of the denounces a crime that is normally made invisible and is often be over 140 free events open to the public as part of the three- tive humanity. “We will pool our expertise, diplomatic skills Congo and Bosnia as part of their campaign to bring the issue silenced by the majority of states,” she said. The stated aims of day Global Summit Fringe, which runs until Thursday. The and resources toward the common goal of relegating sexual to the world’s attention. Jolie’s 2011 film, which marked her the conference are to “shatter the culture of impunity” by event will feature film, music, theatre and debate. — AFP violence to the annals of history where it belongs.” The top US directorial debut, is a love story told against the backdrop of launching a new International Protocol, to take practical steps diplomat insisted that sexual violence in armed conflict be the Bosnian war two decades ago, when according to Hague to reduce the dangers women face in conflict zones, to treated as a major international crime and that every govern- some 50,000 women were raped. increase support for survivors of sexual violence and to Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr, to play rapper in N.W.A. biopic

ce Cube and director F Gary Gray have cast Nationwide controversy the iconic rapper’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. to Ice Cube is producing the movie with Dr Dre Iplay the original N.W.A. member in and Easy-E’s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright, and Universal’s biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” the trio have casting approval. Will Packer and multiple individuals familiar with the long-ges- Cube Vision’s Matt Alvarez are also producing tating project have told TheWrap. Universal did and have been driving forces behind the proj- not confirm the casting. Gray (“The Italian Job”) ect. Along with Ice Cube, the duo have some is directing from a script by Jonathan Herman, leverage at Universal, as they’re also behind the which Ice Cube has previously described as a studio’s hit comedy “Ride Along,” which is get- comprehensive “dramatic story that encom- ting a sequel that is due in theaters on Jan 15, passes hip-hop, dope-dealing, Reaganomics, 2016. AIDS, LAPD, rap feuds, FBI, PMRC, the Parental It’s unclear whether “Straight Outta Advisory stickers on the records... all of it.” Compton” has received an official greenlight Ice Cube revealed in February that he was from Universal yet, but it’s clearly looking good, In this May 19, 2014 file photo, from left, actor Guy Pearce, director David This image released by A24 Films shows Guy Pearce, left, and Robert pushing for his son to play him in “Compton,” as Gray recently shot a end-credits sequence Michod and actor Robert Pattinson pose for a portrait to promote “The Pattinson in a scene from “The Rover.”— AP photos telling The Guardian “I’ve been trying to get for the film that features Ice Cube and Dr Dre Rover,” at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. that pushed along. Just wanna make sure that discussing the legacy of N.W.A. Ice Cube was a he’s the best man for the job.” However, the teenager from South Central when N.W.A. was aspiring young actor still had to prove himself. formed in Compton as Dr Dre and Eazy-E were Nepotism is an old-fashioned Hollywood tradi- in their early 20s. The other founding members A new animal kingdom for Michod in ‘The Rover’ tion but as a producer, Ice Cube had a responsi- of N.W.A. were DJ Yella and Arabian Prince, the bility to audition multiple candidates, from latter of whom left N.W.A. in 1988, shortly after t’s getting howly out there,” says the The film announced Michod’s arrival, with some you in 2009.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah. Had a meeting with authentic rappers to professional actors. MC Ren joined the group. The group was active Australian director David Michod, peering calling him a Scorsese from Down Under. Brad Pitt the other day.’” According to several sources, Ice Cube con- from 1986 to 1991, during which time their “Iout at a torrential downpour that’s pound- Afterward, he spent years reading scripts and field- Michod, who splits his time between Sydney vinced Universal executives that despite his explicit lyrics garnered nationwide controversy, ing the southern coast of France. The stormy back- ing entreaties from Hollywood. “That couple of and Los Angeles, is now developing a film with Pitt lack of acting experience, O’Shea Jr. could han- leading to the group being banned from many drop is fittingly portentous for Michod as he dis- years after was strange. Because my life changed, I about Gen. Stanley McChrystal called “The dle the pressure and was up for the challenge. mainstream radio stations in the US. cusses his much anticipated follow-up to the felt like suddenly an entire world of possibilities Operators,” based on Michael Hastings’ book. The Eazy-E’s son has also been lobbying for a With more than 10 million records sold, Oscar-nominated debut “Animal Kingdom.” He calls had opened to me. And I wanted to explore them,” director’s rising star also attracted Pattinson, the role but TheWrap hears that an unknown actor N.W.A. was included in Rolling Stone’s 100 “The Rover,” which premiered at the Cannes Film says Michod. “I wasn’t roaming the Earth “Twilight” actor, who has often played still, cool is poised to win the part, and that Universal Greatest Artists of All Time. “Straight Outta Festival in May and hits theaters Friday, “a portrait depressed, but there was a level of anxiety there characters that trade on his severe looks. But in could announce the main cast before the end Compton” was originally set up at New Line of a menacing and damaged near future.” It takes because I did after a while start to go: ‘I don’t know “The Rover,” he’s received the best reviews of his of the week. It would mark the end of a long before Universal pick it up out of turnaround. place 10 years after a vaguely defined “collapse” what my second movie is.’” He ultimately realized career for playing a fidgeting, bloodied misfit with search, as casting director Cindy Tolan held an The film’s budgeted is expected to be less than that has left Australia’s currency worthless. The he wanted to make a movie “from the ground up.” a stuttering Southern accent. “There was some- open casting call in Gardena, Calif in March $25 million. — Reuters Outback is a fearful, murderous wasteland of gun- “The Rover” was an idea Michod and his friend Joel thing about the speech pattern,” says Pattinson. seeking appropriately-aged African-American toting bandits and wanton depravity. Guy Pearce Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby,” “Warrior”) first con- “When you’re reading something, it’s very rare that males, with no experience necessary. plays a terse, indifferent wanderer pursuing his one ceived of years earlier: a lean, minimalistic thriller you actually want to say it out loud. As soon as I possession - his car - after a band of thieves steal it, with exposition meted out in the most judicious of started reading this, it was just a fun voice. You leaving behind one of their members, a half-wit drips. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” is a clear become really annoying and run into the other played by Robert Pattinson. touchstone. room: ‘Listen to this!’ And they say, ‘What are you “I realized when I was writing it that I was pro- talking about? I can’t understand anything you’re jecting onto Guy’s character a lot of the anger and Cool characters saying.’” despair I felt about the state of the world, the fact Michod, 41, wrote the lead specifically for “The Rover” may seem similar to other visions of that bankers could destroy economies and then Pearce, who was the lone established star in bleak futures, but Michod says the film isn’t about get away with it,” says Michod. “Simultaneously, “Animal Kingdom.” The movie brought internation- its genre. “As soon as you present a dystopian we’re presented with the great moral challenge of al renown to the loose Aussie filmmaking collective vision that is the result of some kind of apocalypse, our time, which is dealing with climate change, and dubbed Blue-Tongue Films, of which Michod and it’s like it gives the movie license to become pop- yet no one seems to want to do anything about it. Edgerton are members. “I sort of keep forgetting I corn,” says Michod. “I wanted this thing to feel like it You throw your hands up in the air and go, ‘We’re was in it,” Pearce says of “Animal Kingdom.” “I was was just a natural extension of the forces that are destroying ourselves and we don’t care.’” It took only on set for a week and a half and those guys, bubbling around us today.”— AP Michod four years to find his footing after the run- they lived it. It’s a hard one to feel connected on away success of 2010’s “Animal Kingdom,” a deli- the same sort of level when it’s changing every- ciously dark crime family saga that won critical one’s lives.” Reconvening for “The Rover” was the acclaim, a record number of Australian Film first time they saw each other since shooting Institute awards and an Academy Award nomina- “Animal Kingdom.” Pearce recalls greeting Michod: tion for co-star Jacki Weaver. “‘So, your life’s been a bit different, then, since I saw Ice Cube’s son and O’Shea Jackson Jr Can ‘Fault in Our Stars’ still clean up after early box office flurry? s displays of box-office girl power go, the couldn’t remember a female skew as pro- exit polls were extraordinarily positive, schools $48 million opening of “The Fault in Our nounced as that on an opening of that size. “The are out and Fox marketers will focus on expand- AStars” was an all-timer. Primed for months Vow” drew a crowd that was 72 percent women ing to the mainstream - otherwise known as by a massive social media campaign, young and opened to $41 million in 2012 and “Dear men. women - the audience was 82 percent female John” was 84 percent female and debuted to “That’s a long shot,” said Contrino. “Maybe as and 79 percent under the age of 25 - swarmed $30.5 million in 2010, but those were Valentines a date movie, but you’re not getting groups of the adaptation of John Green’s bestselling novel releases. The wired and social media savvy young guys saying let’s skip ‘Jump Street’ and go about tragic teen love. It was like a flash mob. “Fault” fantatics were a much younger bunch, have a good cry.” Here’s betting “Fault,” from They rushed out and drove a huge Thursday however. “Twilight” producers Marty Bowen and Wyck night that resulted in a massive $26 million “This really is a unique film, so nobody knew Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment, makes it Friday, sealing the weekend win. for sure where it was going,” Aronson told to $100 million domestically over the next few But flash mobs vanish quickly, and so did TheWrap. That will apply to the coming weekend weeks. It brought in $17 million from overseas more than half of the grosses - Saturday’s haul as well. Sony’s R-rated comedy “22 Jump Street” this weekend, too. So given that $12 million pro- for the Shailene Woodley-Ansel Elgort tearjerker and DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your duction budget, we’re talking tears of joy for the was just $12.5 million. That’s one of the steepest Dragon 2” both look very strong. Sunday’s gross- “Fault” camp. — Reuters Friday-Saturday drops ever, according to Box es for “Fault” - $9.4 million and down a more rea- Office Mojo. No one at Fox was complaining, sonable 29 percent - were encouraging. since the weekend box-office haul quadrupled “I don’t think it will fall off a cliff,” said the production budget of “Fault,” but it was wild BoxOffice.com vice-president and senior analyst ride. Phil Contrino. “It’s created enough positive buzz “It was a little nerve-wracking,” admitted Chris that there’s going to be interest.” On the plus Aronson, the studio’s head of distribution, who side for “Fault,” the CinemaScore was an “A,” the Jolie and Hague to open largest ever summit on rape in war

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A man representing Brazil performs during the annual Carnival of Cultures parade in Berlin, Sunday, June 8, 2014. Thousands of people attend the festival with costumes from all over the world. — AP

‘Girly’ garage in Paris twins tune-ups with manicures

manicure, a massage and a lesson in mechanics. It’s not tomers, two-thirds of them women. “They’re so welcoming what most expect when they bring their car in for serv- here!” gushes Jennifer Collon, a 25-year-old who was drying Aicing. But one brand-new garage near Paris is revamp- her ruby-red nails after a manicure here. In addition to the ing the masculinist mode of auto repair to suit a female clien- “beauty corner”, the garage includes a children’s playroom. Its tele. Only Girls, which opened in May in the suburb of Saint- waiting room is more akin to a beauty spa than traditional Ouen-l’Aumone, caters to women who feel they’ve been sold garage, with mauve-colored wallpaper, hardwood floors, flick- short and charged long by mechanics in traditional auto shops. ering candles and velvet sofas. With increasing numbers of women living alone or taking control of domestic affairs, it’s simply good business to cater to them, says Rodolphe Bonnasse, from the communication group CA Com.

‘Less macho’ style “The range of goods and services on offer has adapted to societal changes” over the past decade, he says, adding that for companies it’s ultimately about “opening up new growth chan- In this photo taken May 17, 2014, Weluree Ditsayabut, center, poses with two runner- nels”. France, Bonnasse notes, has been a straggler in this so- ups Pimbongkod Chankaew, left, and Sunnanipa Krissanasuwan, right, after the Miss called “gender marketing” trend-behind, say, England and Universe Thailand beauty pageant competition in Bangkok, Thailand. — AP Japan-but now has an array of sports clubs, insurance compa- nies and even credit cards catering specifically to women cus- tomers. For some feminist critics, like blogger Sophie Gourian, the trend is more a shallow marketing ploy than a reflection of Miss Universe Thailand women’s lib. “The whole discourse behind this is really pretty old-fashioned, based on stereotypes” suggesting that women are “a bit daft”, she says. quits after political furore But for Only Girls’ two female auto mechanics, it’s been a professional windfall. Aurore Dabireau spent three years strug- hailand’s contender for the Miss able for the title because of her figure, gling to find a job after earning a degree in auto mechanics. Universe beauty pageant has relin- face and manners,” said another com- “Garage owners are skeptical (about hiring me), and I’ve often Tquished her crown after she ment. Weluree, who is also a prominent been told, ‘you’ve got no place here’,” she said. Only Girls is allegedly called for supporters of the actress, announced Monday that the France’s second made-for-women auto mechanic, following a ousted government to be “executed”, backlash had proved too much. sparking a social media furore. A tearful “The comments that I have received A woman mechanic cleans first female garage in the southern French city of Montpellier. “When you’re a woman, it’s like you’ve got ‘sucker’ tattooed on Hautenne says customers like her come here seeking “more Weluree Ditsayabut, 22, said she was giv- were quite severe,” the pageant queen- her hands after working on ing up the chance to represent her coun- better known as Nong Fai-said at a news repairing a car. your forehead,” says Sandrine Hautenne, one happy 42-year- transparency” about their repairs, and a “less macho” style. We old customer. “One time, I went round to three different only change what is strictly necessary, and we show our cus- try after a barrage of online criticism conference Monday, where she garages, and got three different estimates. Since then, I’ve sent tomers the parts and explain what we’re doing,” says manager upset her family. She was accused of call- appeared without her tiara or beauty my uncle to get estimates and-guess what? the prices have Laid Hdachi. Only Women sets its gender aims high, for cus- ing for “the execution” of the “damn pageant sash. “I said sorry... I understand dropped!” tomers and staff-but in at least one respect it is still traditional: Reds”-a reference to the “Red Shirt” fol- that I am a public figure but when I see From cam belt to brake pads, customer Sandrine got a 15- its manager, Hdachi, is a man.— AFP lowers of former premier Yingluck my mother is unhappy, as a daughter I minute run-down on her car from a female mechanic. “If it had Shinawatra and her family, which has cannot be happy either. So, today I have been a man, he wouldn’t have explained any of this to me,” she won every Thai election since 2001. “The decided to step down as Miss Universe says. With only a month to its name, Only Girls has seen 40 cus- land of Thailand is dirty because of peo- Thailand.” ple who want to get rid of the monarchy,” Dismayed organizers did not immedi- she was quoted as writing. ately say who would inherit her title and The remarks, made on her Facebook represent Thailand at Miss Universe later page late last year, have since been this year. “In the future we will have to removed. At the time protesters were carefully screen the behavior of contest- massing on Bangkok’s streets calling for ants as well as check their social media,” the resignation of Yingluck, in a political said Pranome Thavaravej, from Miss crisis that culminated in a coup carried Universe Thailand. Thailand’s rupture out by Army Chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha on roughly pits the Shinawatra-supporting May 22. Thailand has been torn apart by northern portion of the country against a bitter division since Yingluck’s elder the Bangkok-based establishment and brother Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire its backers within the military. The army tycoon-turned-populist politician, was chief has extolled the need to restore ousted in an earlier army takeover in “peace and order” after nearly seven 2006. Political opinions of any kind can months of protests, which saw 28 people be highly inflammatory to the other side. killed and hundreds more wounded in political violence. — AFP Angry backlash Facebook and Twitter users took aim at Weluree’s physical appearance in a campaign seemingly waged in reaction to her posts about government support- A woman mechanic fixes a car as she works ers. “She’s a walking beer barrel,” accord- in an innovative garage and auto repair ing to one comment on a dedicated anti- workshop catering exclusively to female Weluree Facebook page. “She is unsuit- customers.— AFP photos