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TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 RABI ALTHANI 9, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Tourism in Clinton counters Kuwait experience Djokovic, Kuwait can Sanders highlighted in Serena star at generate 30,000 ‘revolution’ with Boumedjeria’s scandal-hit jobs in 410 years her experience9 maiden35 book Aussie20 Open KPC board reshuffles Min 10º Max 26º key posts in oil sector High Tide 07:50 & 18:59 Terms of office end for many top officials Low Tide 01:18 & 13:01 40 PAGES NO: 16760 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s Board of KIA refusing Directors, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of 4 kids killed in Farwaniya blaze Finance and Acting Minister of Oil Anas Al-Saleh, yesterday conducted a reshuffle of major posts in affiliate compa- to cooperate nies. The board discussed nominations for the major posts in the oil sector as the term of office ended for a host of top officials, spokesman of the sector Sheikh Talal Al- in sale probe Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said in a press statement. Directors and their deputies were appointed at KPC, as By B Izzak well as CEOs of subsidiary companies, he added. Hashim Sayed Hashim was appointed managing direc- KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s public tor of KPC, entrusted with management and implementa- funds protection committee MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji tion of the integration project between refining and petro- yesterday accused the state-run Kuwait Investment chemical operations. Jamal Abdulaziz Jaafar was appoint- Authority (KIA) of refusing to cooperate with the pan- ed CEO of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Mohammad el’s investigation. Turaiji said the committee met yes- Abdulatif Al-Farhoud and Abdulnasser Yusuf Al-Fluij were terday to discuss the issue of selling a real estate serv- appointed CEOs of the Petrochemical Industries Company ices company by KIA in a suspicious way that “serves (PIC) and the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) respective- the relatives of the KIA director”. He said that the direc- ly. Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled noted that the KPC also appoint- tor refused to provide the committee with documents ed members of the boards of directors in all the KPC affili- of that sale and also refused to provide the documents ated companies for the coming three years, after dis- to the Audit Bureau. cussing the relevant criteria and regulations. The committee intends to write a letter to the Kuwait’s previous oil minister Ali Al-Omair was moved to the Public Works Ministry after a row with senior oil Assembly speaker stating that KIA has refused to execs over his plan to reshuffle oil companies’ leadership. cooperate with the panel’s investigation and also with He was appointed in Jan 2014 but faced repeated contro- the Audit Bureau, and “we have the evidence of that versies during his tenure and fierce opposition to his and the cheques of the sale”, the lawmaker said. Turaiji plans to swap the CEOs of two state-owned oil company also warned the finance minister, who supervises KIA, KUWAIT: Four children were killed in a fire in a sixth-floor flat in Farwaniya yesterday. Furniture, mattress- subsidiaries. KPC CEO Nezar Al-Adasani refused in that the authority is committing a serious mistake of es and other objects in the stairwell hindered firemen as they tried to reach the affected apartment, while November last year to make the swap as Omair decreed, refusing to cooperate with an Assembly panel. residents of the building were evacuated. One fireman was injured. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun instead arguing that the minister had no power over such Continued on Page 13 decisions. — KUNA

LEEDS: British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) talks with Imam Qari Asim and Shabana Muneer, a member of the mosque’s women’s group, as he visits Makkah Masjid yesterday. — AFP Cameron warns Muslim women: Learn English or risk deportation LONDON: Muslim women who fail to learn English to a partners. But Cameron said they would also face further high enough standard could face deportation from tests after two and a half years in the country to make Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron announced yes- sure their language skills were improving. “You can’t terday. He also suggested that poor English skills can guarantee you will be able to stay if you are not improv- leave people “more susceptible” to the messages of ing your language,” he told BBC radio. “People coming groups like Islamic State (IS). Cameron’s comments to our country, they have responsibilities too.” came as his center-right Conservatives launched a £20 Cameron’s government estimates that around 190,000 million ($28.5 million) language fund for women in iso- Muslim women in England - about 22 percent of the lated communities as part of a drive to build communi- total - speak little or no English. There are estimated to ty integration. be around 2.7 million Muslims in England out of a total Immigration rules already force spouses to speak population of some 53 million. English before they come to Britain to live with their Continued on Page 13 World tennis rocked by match-fixing bombshell

MELBOURNE: A bombshell report alleging wide- As speculation swirled over the identities of the spread corruption in tennis cast a shadow over the players under suspicion - eight of whom are reported- start of the Australian Open yesterday as officials vig- ly in Melbourne - world number one Novak Djokovic orously denied suppressing evidence of match-fixing. said he was once approached to fix a match. The The BBC and BuzzFeed reported that a “core group” of men’s tour and the sport’s anti-corruption body, the 16 players who reached the top 50 in the past decade, Tennis Integrity Unit, as well as Tennis Australia firmly including Grand Slam title-winners, had repeatedly rejected suggestions that any evidence was deliber- caused suspicion but never faced action. The claims, ately suppressed. “The Tennis Integrity Unit and the citing a leaked cache of secret files, broke as the year’s tennis authorities absolutely reject any suggestion first Grand Slam got underway in Melbourne, and that evidence of match-fixing has been suppressed for prompted a swift response from tennis officials, with any reason or isn’t being thoroughly investigated,” British Prime Minister David Cameron also calling for a men’s tour chief Chris Kermode told reporters. full investigation by the sport’s governing bodies. Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Lord Mayor of London Jeffrey Evans. Ahmed El-Tayeb. — KUNA photos Amir meets Azhar Grand Imam, London Mayor

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb, at Seif Palace yesterday. Tayeb is visiting the country to present His Highness the Amir with a medal for his appreciative endeavors in the field of religion. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister of Amiri diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah and Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Tayeb later met with is his Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud, as well as Secretary General of National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) Ali Hussain Al-Yoha, and NCCAL’s assistant Secretary General for culture sector Dr Bader Faisal Al-Duwaish attended the meeting. Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir received Lord Mayor of London Jeffrey Evans, in presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The meeting was attended by head of honorary mission and Governor of Hawally retired Lieutenant General Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. In other news, His Highness the Crown Prince received Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Acting Minister of Oil Anas Khaled Al-Saleh, as well as Minister of health Dr Ali Saad Al- Obaidi, and President of the National Security Apparatus His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. — KUNA Minister of health Dr Ali Saad Al-Obaidi. the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb. Philippine Airlines starts Kuwait operations

By Ben Garcia

KUWAIT: The maiden flight of Philippine Airlines landed in Kuwait yesterday and was accorded a traditional welcome by Kuwait airport officials. The inaugural flight to Kuwait carried passen- gers and several Philippines Airlines officials including Vice President for Sales Ryan Uy and Senior Assistant Vice President Genaro Velasquez. The first return flight took off yester- day afternoon. Abdullah Al-Rajhi, the superin- tendent of Air Transport for International KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Ali Al-Omair, Ambassador of Sudan to Kuwait Relations, welcomed the airline officials and pas- Mohi Al-Deen Salim Ahmed and other officials cut the ceremony’s cake. sengers. “We welcome Philippine Airlines in — Photos by Joseph Shagra Kuwait and we are hoping for the success of our business venture together. As part of the Kuwait Airport management, we are very happy over this new wonderful development,” said Rajhi.

Warm welcome Uy thanked Kuwait and its people for the warm welcome accorded to Philippine Airlines. “On behalf of Lucio Tan, Chairman and CEO of DGCA’s Director of the Department of Air Transport Abdullah Al-Rajhi with Philippine Airlinesí Philippine Airlines, and Jaime Bautista, President Vice President for Sales Ryan Uy. and Chief Operating Officer, I would like to thank the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the dent Kuwait emerged as one of the world’s and enthusiastic support from various sectors,” management of Kuwait International Airport major oil players in the world,’ he added. He Uy disclosed. and people of Kuwait for this wonderful recep- mentioned that Filipinos were among the first to After Kuwait, Philippine Airlines will start tion,” he said. “We are honored by the special work in the oilfields and refineries in the country. operations to Jeddah from today, bringing to attention and indeed your effusive welcome seven the flag carrier’s total number of Middle matches the warmth of your bright and sunny 200,000 Filipinos East destinations which also includes Abu Dhabi, weather in Kuwait. I also bring you warm greet- “With 200,000 Filipinos in Kuwait, it is high Doha, Dammam, Dubai and Riyadh. PR 668 ings from Manila,” he noted. time that their flag carrier, the airline they trust, departs Manila at 10:00 pm every Monday, The inaugural flight, according to Uy, was the flies to their workplace to serve their travel Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and arrives in first of many PAL flights that will bind Kuwait needs. Of course PAL being an international car- Kuwait the following day at 6:55 am local time; City and Manila closer together. “It took us a rier, we serve all nationalities. Our Kuwaiti PR669 departs Kuwait at 2:55 pm local time Sudanese ambassador Mohi Al-Deen Salim Ahmed welcomes Russian Ambassador to while to arrive here - in fact 75 years, or since friends and foreign expatriates based in Kuwait every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Kuwait Alexey Solomatin. PAL was founded in 1941. We consider you as a are most welcome as our guests, and indeed and arrives in Manila at 8:15 am the following friend; Kuwaitis and Filipinos have been interact- there are many reasons why PAL chose to fly to day. PAL’s new A330-300 will be the fleet for the Ministries should follow ing since early 1960s when a newly-indepen- Kuwait. One and most important is the strong new Mideast routes. Amir’s footsteps: Omair

By Meshaal Al-Enezi organized by the Sudanese Embassy in Kuwait to celebrate Sudan’s National Day. KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works and The minister also commented on the Minister of State for National Assembly absence of some MPs from a recent parlia- Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair said His Highness ment session, saying that it was unlikely to the Amir’s orders to cut down the Amiri affect the parliament-government relation. Diwan’s expenses in view of the deteriorat- He also stressed that Speaker Marzouq Al- ing oil prices was “an insinuation to all Ghanem ‘did his best’ to contain the prob- state departments to follow the same lem. Meanwhile, Omair noted that the Gulf steps.” Cooperation Council’s (GCC) security pact Dr Omair made those statements to is on the parliament’s agenda and would reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony be discussed in due time. KUWAIT: DGCA’s Director of the Department of Air Transport Abdullah Al-Rajhi with Philippine Airlines officials in a group photo. —KUNA Financial humanitarian aid gap rising: UN chief

DUBAI: Despite the generosity of donor Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of estimated at USD 15 billion.” need help,” said Sheikh Mohammad Al countries, the gap of financial humanitarian Dubai Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Sheikh Mohammad Al Maktoum lauded Maktoum said. assistance is on the rise, UN secretary-gener- Maktoum. the UN decision to launch the report in UAE, Meanwhile, Chairperson of International al Ban Ki-moon stressed late Sunday. Ki- Ki-moon pointed out “The gap between as it has topped the list of donor countries. Humanitarian City Princess Haya Bint Al moon made this remark at an official launch the increasing numbers of people in need of He stressed that joint international action is Hussain, wife of Sheikh Mohammad Al of a report on humanitarian aid financing at assistance and sufficient resources to pro- essential in narrowing humanitarian financ- Maktoum said with the number of refugees International Humanitarian City in Dubai. vide relief is rising. The world today spends ing gap worldwide. and asylum seekers and internally displaced The one-day event, which highlighted close to USD 25 billion annually to provide “To bridge the gap in humanitarian aid, it people in the world touching nearly 50 mil- the role of UAE in taking up international part of the required assistance to save lives is necessary to consolidate international lion. There are 125 million people around humanitarian causes, was opened by UN and the people in need. Despite the gen- efforts, improve efficiency of humanitarian the world who are affected by lack of basic DUBAI: Amiri Diwan Advisor Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and was erosity of many donors, there still remains a work, involve the private sector and estab- needs such as food, clean water resources, greets UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. —KUNA under the sponsorship of Vice-President and gap in the financing of humanitarian aid lish good governance in the countries that health and education, she added.—KUNA TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 LOCAL

In my view Cabinet condemns terrorist Chinese President attacks in Turkey, Indonesia embarks on 5-day Middle East trip Cabinet names senior officials to new posts

KUWAIT: The cabinet yesterday con- unprecedented falls of oil prices, prompt- Palestinian people and their just cause. He the post of Director General of Kuwait By Javaid Ahmad demned the recent ‘criminal act’ that hit ing the entire society, individuals and insti- addressed means of boosting bilateral Municipality, Sheikh Mohammad Al- Turkey ‘terrorist attacks’ snd in Indonesia. tutions, to proceed and face the challenge, cooperation in all fields. Abdullah announced. He also indicated Last Tuesday, a suicide attack struck the his- Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah added. His Highness the Prime Minister also that the cabinet has appointed Dr Khaled torical Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, His Highness the Prime Minister urged apprised the ministers of a message from Abdelsahab Mahdi as Secretary General of leaving many killed, mostly Germans, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Secretariat of the Supreme Council for wounded. Two days later, gun and bomb Finance and Acting Minister of Oil Anas His Highness the Amir inviting him to Planning and Development (SCPD). attacks targeted the Indonesian capital of Khaled Al-Saleh to coordinate with the con- attend the first-ever World Humanitarian Moreover, the cabinet has appointed Jakarta killing several people and wound- cerned government bodies on the neces- Summit, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on Faisal Saoud Al-Hasawi as Director General omorrow, Chinese President Xi Jinping is ing many others. sary measures and steps to enforce His May 23-24. of Fish Resources at Kuwait’s Public embarking on a five-day trip to the Middle During a meeting held at Seif Palace and Highness the Amir’s directives, for rational- First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Authority for Agriculture and Fish East. His trip to the region is going begin in chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Resources Affairs while Mohammad Rashed T Egypt, where he will meet his Egyptian counter- Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Al-Sabah briefed the meeting on his partic- Al-Hamad was assigned the post of Sabah, the cabinet expressed condolences ipation in the 4th session of Kuwait-Qatar Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of part Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Xi is expected to discuss to the two countries, and families of the Joint Committee that recently reviewed Justice. with Sisi bilateral and other regional issues such as victims, wishing the injured speedy recov- means of enhancing bilateral ties in all Meanwhile, Waleed Abdulaziz Al-Ammar Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Xi is also ery. fields. In addition, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled was named Assistant Undersecretary of the expected to discuss terrorism and the ways and The cabinet reiterated Kuwait’s unwa- gave notice of his meeting with Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. means to counter this menace. vering stance, urging the international Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Mohammad Bader bin Naji has been The Chinese present’s visit to Egypt is on the community to counter that “abominable during his visit to the country last week. assigned the post of Assistant occasion of the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplo- phenomenon” that targets people’s safety The Doha talks addressed the deep-rooted Undersecretary of the Ministry of matic relationship between the countries. It is also and stability worldwide, regardless of eth- bilateral ties. Information while Fatma Mohammad Al- expected that Xi will sign almost 51 bilateral nicity or religion. Snan was named Assistant Undersecretary agreements with the government of Egypt. It also stressed Kuwait’s firm rejection of Obaidi’s grilling at the Ministry of Higher Education. Diplomatic relationship between the two coun- all forms of terrorism, denounced by all Meanwhile, the cabinet lauded the Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah also tries is important as China has launched one of the faiths and human values and conventions. argument of Health Minister Dr Ali Al- announced that Hamad Abdullatif Al-Barjas most important and ambitious project of the The country supports efforts seeking to Obaidi in reply to a grilling motion submit- has been assigned the post of Deputy 21stcentury known as ‘One Belt, One Road’, in vanquish the phenomenon, Minister of ted against him last week. The ministers KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Director General of the Public Authority for which Egypt has a very important role. State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting stressed how Al-Obaidi disproved pivots of Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Minor Affairs (PAMA). Haifa Abdulaziz Al- On the second leg of his is visit, Xi will be in the grilling through facts and documents. Minister of Electricity and Water Sheikh Sabah chair’s the cabinet’s meeting yes- Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is one of the important Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- The cabinet reiterated keenness on pub- Mudhaf was named Assistant Secretary terday. — KUNA regional countries on which China is largely Sabah. lic interests and enforcing real parliamen- General of the Secretariat of SCPD. izing expenditure, responding to require- tary practices, that require constructive and Mahmoud Hamad Al-Qattan was given dependent on for imports of crude oil. During his Diwan budget ments of current conditions, for the sake of fruitful cooperation between the the post of Deputy Director General of the visit to Saudi Arabia, the Chinese president is As yesterday’s weekly meeting started, public interests. Legislative and Executive Authorities, to Public Authority for Housing Welfare expected to further strengthen bilateral trade and the cabinet was informed of His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak then notified realize security and prosperity for “dear (PAHW) while Mohammad Bahman has commercial relationship between China and Saudi the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber the cabinet of a message His Highness the Kuwait.” The meeting was concluded with a been transferred from PAHW to the Civil Arabia. Al-Sabah’s orders on rationalization of the Amir received from Palestinian President review of the political developments on the Service Commission (CSC) while retaining Xi is also expected to visit Iran on the final leg budget of the Amiri Diwan, and affiliated Mahmoud Abbas, also chairman of the Arab and international arenas. the same post. Sheikh Mohammad Al- of his visit to the region, where he is expected to bodies. Executive Committee of the Palestine Abdullah also announced that Hadeel discuss the ‘One Belt, One Road’ with the Iranian The ministers pointed out that His Liberation Organization (PLO). In the mes- Senior officials Abdellatif bin Naji has been transferred government. Iran is an important country that Highness the Amir’s initiative offers a signif- sage, Abbas expressed high appreciation Separately, the cabinet agreed to assign from Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB) to PAHW, plays an important part in this ambitious plan. icant all-inclusive message, amid the for Kuwait’s stances in support of the Engineer Ahmad Abdullah Al-Manfouhi to while retaining the same post. —KUNA China recently opened the Asian Infrastructure investment Bank (AIIB) in which Iran’s membership has been approved. China is not only importing crude oil from Iran, but is looking forward to fur- Crime PIC acquires 25% of South Korean company ther strengthen trade, commercial and diplomatic Report relationships with Iran. The lifting of sanctions on KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Petrochemicals Meanwhile, PIC’s CEO Asaad Al- Iran may likely provide an opportunity for China to Industries Company (PIC) signed an Saad stressed on the importance of invest in Iran, and Beijing is likely to be interested agreement to acquire 25 percent in this agreement in developing the oil to benefit from this opportunity. South Korea’s SK Gas Company, sector in Kuwait and expanding Xi’s visit to the region is occurring at the time according to a statement by a senior investment in East Asia. He also said when the relationship between Iran and Saudi official. The deal includes a propy- that SK Gas is one of the top part- Arabia is tense. But the Chinese president’s visit to lene factory in South Korea with a ners of Kuwait Petroleum the region was planned last year, and diplomatic production rate of 600,000 ton per Corporation (KPC), adding that sources are very optimistic about his visit. China year, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister petrochemical industries play a key may play an important role towards reducing the of Finance and Acting Minister of Oil role in supporting Kuwait’s economy Anas Al-Saleh tension in the region and may help warring coun- Anas Al-Saleh said yesterday. and petroleum resources. — KUNA tries open diplomatic windows towards regional peace and stability. China considers Middle East’s political stability is not only important for the region, but also very important for the interests of China. Last month, the Syrian foreign minister and a Syrian opposition group were invited to visit Child killed China. Since the Syrian war started, it is expected that China has lost almost $5 billion in invest- ments in the oil sector. Last month, Iraq’s prime in accident minister visited China, where their bilateral rela- tionship was upgraded. Iraq has been considered By Hanan Al-Saadoun as a ‘strategic partner’ of China and in the near future, China is also looking to invest in Iraq and KUWAIT: A child was killed in a car accident reported on China has signed several agreements with the Abdaly road yesterday. Abdaly firemen who responded to Iraqi government. the call found that four injured people were trapped, so The fact of the matter is that China is slowly and they freed and handed them over to paramedics, including gradually increasing its economic and political role the four-year-old Kuwaiti girl who died en route to hospi- in the region, and it seems likely in the near future tal. In a separate accident, a vehicle flipped over on Salmy road, prompting the Salmy fire center to respond. Trapped KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is seen during his visit to the elections affairs that China could be play an important and leading people in the vehicle were freed. No injuries were reported. department yesterday. — KUNA photos political role along with other regional players such as the US, Russia, France and Britain. China can be counted as an important, emerging and Interior Minister inspects trusted player in the region. elections affairs department Environmental Group hails blocking First female candidate registers falcons’ smuggling By Meshaal Al-Enezi first female candidate Amani Al-Saleh, tenced a citizen to life in prison for who registered yesterday along with murdering his friend during a fight By A Saleh KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and four candidate s. The four other candi- involving others in a Salmiya apart- Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad dates are Khaled Al-Daihani, Khalifa ment. Notably, a fight had starte d KUWAIT: The Green Line Environmental Group (GLG) Al-Khaled Al-Sabah yesterday visited Al-Khaddah, Sami Al-Sharida and Fa raj amongst a number of citizens in an expressed high appreciation Deputy Prime Minister and the elections affairs department to Al-Khadri. apartment overlooking the Fifth Ring Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- review the latest developments and Road, where the defendant used his Sabah’s instruction on the need to protect Kuwait’s preparations for by-elections in the Court date set gun to shoot his friend in the head environment and fully respect the environment law reg- third constituency. The Ministry of The court of appeal yesterday set a and injured another. ulations made by Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Interior’s Assistant Undersecretary for hearing on Jan 25 to pass its verdict in Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahd. GLG stressed that Research and Legal Studies Major a case filed against Sheikh Ahmad Al- Ramadan donations thanks to coastguard alertness, an Iranian boat was General Asaad A-Rowayyeh urged Fahd for slandering the judiciary. The Informed sources at the Ministry of recently stopped on attempting to smuggle 23 rare fal- No injuries in fires candidates to formally apply to the court had reviewed an appeal made Social Affairs and Labor said that the cons into Kuwait. “This is the largest number of falcons Jahra occupational fire department tackled a blaze department and Kaifan police station by Sheikh Ahmad over a pervious ve r- ministry was in the process of prepar- in a vehicle in Saad Al-Abdullah. Firemen prevented to get permission to set up their cam- dict sentencing him to six months smugglers tried to smuggle into Kuwait,” GLG said, ing a system to collect donations dur- warning that the current season was one during which the flames from spreading, bearing in mind that one of paign headquarters. with labor and KD 1,000 to suspend ing Ramadan and make sure those the vehicles had a gas cylinder in it. No injuries were The elections department manag- the ve rdict. falcon smugglers were very active to sell them in black donations actually reach deserving reported. Meanwhile, a fire broke out in the kitchen of er Lieutenant Colonel Salah Al-Shatti markets in GCC states. GLG added that falcons were people. The sources added that chari- a flat in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, prompting Jleeb fire center invited candidates wishing to hold Blogger sentenced amongst endangered species included in the CITES ties wishing to collect charity dona- to respond. The fire was contained to keep it from seminars and rallies to use Ministry of The criminal court yesterday sen- international treaty that Kuwait joined in 2003. “This tions during Ramadan will, as usual, spreading and was put out without injuries. In the Social Affairs and Labor halls and tenced a blogger known as ‘Carlos’ to five operation confirms Kuwait’s commitment to the treaty,” have to apply to get the ministry’s meantime, Jleeb fire men fought a fire in a main trans- school theatres after paying a deposit years with labor over a case filed against GLG highlighted, adding that falcons breed in over 25 approval and abide by the conditions former in cooperation with electricity emergency. One of KD 3,000 that would be refunded him by the state security for slandering European and Asian countries and migrate amongst 59 electricity emergency worker was injured and taken by after getting clearance from the HH the Amir and Saudi Arabia. and regulations to do so. The source s European, Asian and African ones during winter. paramedics. Separately, fire broke in a vehicle in schools and the area’s police station. underlined that donations would not Mahboula behind Alia towers. Mangaf fire center Shatti added that the total number of Life in prison be collected through text messages or responded and the fire was put out promptly. Fire also candidates reached 35 including the The criminal court yesterday sen- social media sites. MPs commend Amir broke out in the ‘Green Tower’ in Fahaheel. The fire was MP Kamel Al-Awadhi praised HH the Amir’s instruc- limited, and was contained and put out. No injuries tions to cut the Amiri Diwan expenses and wished other were reported. ministries and government establishments would fol- low in view of the sharp fall in oil prices. “Rationalization is not only a patriotic duty, it is also a religious one Liquor smuggling foiled because Islam teaches us not to be wasteful,” he under- Detectives and customs officers foiled an attempt to lined. MP Abdulhameed Dashti also praised HH the smuggle a large quantity of liquor hidden in a container Amir’s instructions. “This step should be a role model for loaded with oranges. Official papers indicated it belonged us all including ministries and various government bod- to a company and contained oranges, but a source said Shuwaikh Port detectives became suspicious. When the ies and establishments,” he underlined, pointing out container was searched, they found 200 cartons of liquor. A that such a step would help stop wasteful and unjusti- Pakistani mandoub was arrested when he went to clear the fied spending as well as fight public fund violations and shipment and was sent for questioning. Five candidates who registered yesterday for by-elections in the third constituency. corruption. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: The Information Ministry’s Undersecretary Faisal Al-Mutalaqem, Leaders Group’s General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari and Officials cut the ceremonial cake. other officials inaugurate the Horeca Kuwait 2016 exhibition. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

Information Ministry’s Undersecretary Faisal Al-Mutalaqem and Chefs prepare food items during the event. Statues made from chocolate on display at the exhibition. Leaders Group’s General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari visit a compa- ny’s pavilion at the exhibition. Tourism in Kuwait could generate 30,000 jobs over 10 yrs: Official

By Ben Garcia such as a live cooking demo, fruit and vegetable tourism and development projects in the country carving, culinary expo, sushi, burger, ice carving, and opening more job opportunities for the KUWAIT: Kuwait will raise the standard of the wedding and decorative competitions among youth, amid public and private sector coordina- tourism sector, which can provide around 30,000 others. tion, he said. Citing Kuwait’s successful participa- job opportunities over the next 10 years, with an tion in the global sociocultural Milan Expo 2015, annual investment capacity of over KD 700 mil- Pivotal role the official urged the need for “specialized” exhi- lion, according to a senior official. The Mutalaqem said the tourism sector will bitions, which he said support development Information Ministry’s Undersecretary for assume a pivotal role in the diversification of plans, reinvigorate trade and offer a dynamic role External Media Affairs and Acting Undersecretary resources and in the reduction of the likely state in encouraging youth to engage in businesses for Tourism Faisal Al-Mutalaqem was speaking to budget deficit in the event of a persistent drop in through support of SMEs. reporters during the opening of Horeca Kuwait oil prices. He underlined the ministry will be Expected at the expo are culinary stars from 2016, a two-day food, beverage and hospitality assuming its role in this endeavor, focusing its various countries including Karlheinz Haase, exhibition at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel. efforts on raising the standards of and transform- Andre Shellenberg, Christelle Brua, Tareq Dubbed as one of the biggest annual hospi- ing the tourism industry into a dynamic source of Ibrahim, Luccien Veillet, Yousef Akiki, Lorenzo tality expos, Horeca Kuwait has attracted several national income. Cogo, Shaman Hilal and Yasser Jad. The event is international brands from various countries This strategy carries a rather large responsibili- organized by Leaders Group Company for around the world to display their products and ty, he said, as promoting the country as a tourist Consulting and Development in collaboration Information Ministry’s Undersecretary Faisal Al-Mutalaqem and Leaders services. The expo also hosts various side events destination requires huge commitment to with the Hospitality Services Company. Group’s General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari tour the exhibition. Kuwait looking into latest renewable energy technologies: Sheikh Mohammad ABU DHABI: Minister of State for Cabinet take in a two-day World Future Energy Affairs and Acting Minister of Electricity Summit (WFES). and Water Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Sheikh Mohammad said that Kuwait has Al-Sabah said yesterday that Kuwait is keen practically started following serious meas- ures in shifting to renewable energy, espe- cially in the field of solar energy and hydro- electric, which would greatly improve the quality of the environment and save in energy cost. The distinguished participation of Arab and international figures in the summit gave a great change to discuss means of activating clean energy technology in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the Minister added. The Ministry of Electricity and Water in cooperation Kuwait Institute for Scientific Sheikh Mohammad Research (KISR) and Kuwait Petroleum Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah Corporation with are setting medium and long-term plans in order to achieve apply- on looking into renewable energy’s latest ing renewable energy in Kuwait. There are a technologies. The Minister made this number of renewable energy projects to be KUWAIT: Australian Ambassador to Kuwait Warren Hauck Australian Ambassador to Kuwait Warren Hauck is pictured with remark to KUNA upon arrival to UAE to par- announced soon, he said.—KUNA speaks at a dinner reception held last Sunday at his residence. some guests at the event. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Agricultural beautification project starts across Kuwait

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) said that yesterday marked its new agricultural beauti- fication phase of roads across Kuwait. The project will focus on suburban roads and highways with a budget worth over KD 2 mil- lion for each area, PAAAFR official Faisal Al- Sadiqi said. Sadiqi mentioned that past mis- takes will not be repeated - whereby tenders were granted to less-expensive firms with lower capabilities. These negative circum- stances will not be repeated, and the tender process will ensure better-equipped compa- nies that have had past dealings with the authority, he added. —KUNA

Ambassador Hauck participates in meat grilling held during Chefs cook a variety of Australian meat. the reception. Guests enjoy Australian meat at ambassador’s residence

By Ben Garcia Lamb’ Australia, who are participating in the of Australian meat,” Hauck said. Horeca exhibition at Jumeirah Hotel. According to the ambassador, Kuwait is the KUWAIT: Australian Ambassador to Kuwait Australian beef/lamb takes pride of its 100 per- largest market for Australian meat, especially live Warren Hauck hosted a dinner reception on cent ‘halal to the bone’ meat, as sheep and cattle sheep. “We are getting a lot of fresh meat in the Sunday for dignitaries and invited guests to taste are slaughtered according to sharia law by market. We attribute the growing meat products a variety of Australian meat (Wagyu Muslims. “We are happy to share with you the best here from Australia to the growth of direct flights beef/steak/tenderloin and lamb chops) at his resi- of our meat from Australia. We have here with us to Australia and region - 163 flights per week dence in Adailiya. The event was also attended by famous Arab chef Tareq, and he’s the ambassador between Australia and GCC countries,” Hauck David Beatty, Regional Manager of Dubai-based of Meat Australia. He is the best person to show- added. The value of live sheep trade alone is at KUWAIT: Scenes from agricultural beautification projects previously carried Meat and Livestock Australia, who led a delega- case the best of Aussie beef and lamb. This is a rare $80 million per year. Chef Tareq Ibrahim then held out in Kuwait. —KUNA tion of businessmen from ‘True Aussie Beef and opportunity to share right at my doorstep the best a live cooking demo.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Al-Qabas Al-Anbaa Abdelhussain Oil prices IS’ 7 benefits for Abdelredha’s honoring, long overdue Islam and Sunnis

By Ahmad Al-Sarraf By Sami Al-Nisf

uwait enjoys an abundance of innovations in diplo- he benefits brought about by IS and its sister organ- macy, judiciary, poetry, music, film directors, human- izations like Al-Qaeda, Zarqawi and all militias flock- Kitarian aid, business management, acting, medicine, Ting out of their nations’ legitimacy in the name of security and sports along with other innovations, and their Islam, are countless for Islam in general, and Sunni Arabs numbers are much more than Kuwait’s geographic size, in particular. Some of these benefits are as follows: and it was possible for the number of these to increase 1. Distorting Islam’s image before the whole world, much more if it was not for the fundamentalist attack that making it appear as a religion of terrorism, decapitations, invaded us with its ideology, and consequently everything hatred and retardation through terrible crimes commit- went backward. ted by IS and its sister organizations and putting them on All of us, along with those innovators, owe to one or video. more of those distinguished with something in making our 2. Destroying Muslim countries, particularly Sunni life more beautiful and enriched, and our physical and regions, by occupying them and making them targets for mental health better, while our lives more secure and our airborne and land strikes by Western and Oriental pow- mornings brighter. With all due respect to all Kuwaiti inno- ers in collaboration with the fighters, tanks and troops of vators and artists, the personality that the majority of official armies in concerned states, such as Syria and Iraq. Kuwaitis and a large portion of Gulf nationals and Arabs Al-Jarida 3. Placing Muslims, namely Sunni Arabs, under criti- agree upon, and were influenced with some degree or cism of national partners and fellow-citizens by destroy- another over the past half century, is the outstanding actor ing worship and holy places belonging to the followers of Abdelhussain Abdelredha! other religions and doctrines, which instigates them. Yes, we are in need of one who maintains the security They also do so through suicide bombings in market- of our country, and who treats us if we become sick, and New floors to accommodate places, schools, colleges and congregations and immedi- who plays a piece of music if we become sick, and who ately claim responsibility for such brutal actions that are writes us a beautiful novel to keep us away from our prob- motivated and funded by ghosts and paid for by the lems, and someone who produces an excellent movie that students’ increase innocent. None of the suicide bombers is the son of any entertains us and documents our history, but we are in of IS or similar organizations’ leaders. more need of one who puts the smile on our faces and KUWAIT: Concerned authorities at showed the existence of high densi- 1,450 schools 4. Inciting world nations against Muslims, namely gets happiness into our hearts, and gets happy tears out of the Ministry of Education is consider- ties even in areas which were built In other news, recent statistics Sunni Arabs, through terrorist operations committed in our eyes, so our insides get rid of worries and prisons, and ing the addition of extra floors to the few years ago, they added. The showed that the total number of there is no better that what the comedians t do, and those Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, to which IS always new schools in the intermediate and sources said that new areas, in addi- schools in Kuwait rose to 1,450, claims responsibility very fast to hinder any efforts to are headed by the outstanding actor who is still at the secondary stages to face the rising tion to some old one suffer an including public, private, special and peak of his career, Abdelredha. defend Muslims. number of student, particularly in increase in student densities in all religious education schools. The statis- 5. IS and its likes do not settle for harming and making Kuwait planned a celebration, in an unprecedented new cities. stages. tic also showed that the number of move under the patronage of HH the Prime Minister, as Sunni Arabs jobless in their countries and turning those The ministry’s planning and infor- Meanwhile, the Education Ministry classrooms reached 24,567. countries into war-afflicted wastelands - they also pursue part of the Al-Qurain cultural festival celebrations, to name mation department carried out a announced the need for “Educational Meanwhile, the stats showed that the Salmiya theater after Abdelhussain Adelredha in apprecia- them in countries they immigrate to and commit the study and survey on schools in new Technologies supervisors” at the number of students in all schools tion of his major artistic role and his contribution in mak- same crimes to have everybody mistrust them and refrain and old residential areas which are Educational Development and activi- reached 647,238 while the number of ing Kuwait more civilized and its people happier and from employing them. proud of him. We hope the government continues to name suffering from high student density, ties sector of the educational tech- teachers of both genders reached 6. IS and its likes deliberately wage consecutive wars other state facilities after outstanding innovators, and rids according to sources. The study nologies department. 81,404. — Al-Jarida, Al-Qabas that displace millions of Muslims, namely Sunni Arabs us from the naming randomness, and honors innovators and deprive them from education and physical and psy- while they are still alive to be happy about it. We should chological healthcare, which ends up creating genera- not forget to commemorate the late Khalid Al-Nafisi and Online house loan application soon tions of ignorant people who later on contribute to Abdelamir Al-Torky, in addition to actors Saad Al-Faraj, destroying various countries. What would one expect Suad Abdullah, Ghanima Al-Fahd and others whose names KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait ing of a KCB branch in Ghirnata service to provide the KD 70,000 from millions of children deprived from school and prop- we cannot fit here. Finally: We wish Abdelredha a longer Credit Bank (KCB) Salah Al-Mudhaf Sunday, Mudhaf said the percentage housing loan electronically, in order er food and dumped into crowded refugee camps except life and continued contributions, and congratulate him for said investment in bonds has made of returns from Dec 14, 2014 until to save citizens’ time and effort. growing up into future killing and devastation tools?! this deserved honoring, and congratulate ourselves for his 4 percent returns, adding that the last Saturday reached 16 percent “Efforts continue to ease procedures 7. IS and its likes did not settle for destroying the pres- existence among us. total invested value reached KD 13 with a total value of KD 2 million. He and relieve burdens on citizens who ent and future of the Muslim nation, it also destroyed it — Translated by Kuwait Times million. Speaking during the open- also said that the bank will launch a apply for a loan,” he said. — Al-Qabas past trough destroying temples and human heritage that had existed on those lands for thousands of years and had not been touched by the Righteous Caliphs. Thus, they strike several birds with one stone by erasing the Ooredoo Kuwait pumps up volume of past, provoking millions of followers of other religions and doctrines, proving that Arabs and Muslims are not fit enough to run their own countries and give enough retail outlets with Alfa partnership excuses for those wishing to eradicate what is left of Arab and Muslim legacy and worship places using the ‘same treatment’ principle. 24/7 access to mobile services — Translated by Kuwait Times Crime Report

Wife beaten for smoking shisha KUWAIT: An Egyptian woman was beaten by her husband who said he saw her smoking shisha. The woman went to the police station and submitted a medical report from Adan Hospital stating she had grazes and bruises, and claimed they were caused by her husband. The husband justified his action by saying he saw his wife smoking and lost his head. A complaint was lodged and investigations are ongoing.

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, member of so customers can trial the latest technolo- mobile services have been offered in Alfa Fuel Services is part of SOOR Fuel Fake cop caught international Ooredoo Group, is offering gies whilst they wait their car to be serv- Kuwait and we are grateful to the manage- Marketing Company (S.A.K), which was Jahra police arrested a former police officer who customers 24/7 mobile services, in addi- iced. The Express Shops will be staffed by ment of The Sultan Centre for their selec- established in 2005. Following its incor- claimed to be a detective and placed a flasher on his tion to the latest services and promotions experienced Ooredoo Kuwait ensuring tion of Ooredoo as sole telecom operator poration and the constituent general car, claiming it was his brother’s. Police patrols noticed at two locations within Alfa petrol sta- the highest quality, morning, noon or within their shops and helping us intro- assembly where it was declared finally the car with the flashing light on it, and when they tions. This follows an agreement that will midnight. duce our Express Shops across the country. established, the company acquired from asked the driver for his ID, he told police: “I am your see pumps outfitted with hi-tech Mijbil Alayoub, Director of Corporate We are sure our customers will appreciate Kuwaiti National Petroleum Company a colleague from the detectives’ department.” Policemen Ooredoo Express Shops which will feature Communications at Ooredoo Kuwait said: being able to try and buy at any time, sev- set of 42 stations, and started operating insisted on seeing his ID, but he attempted to escape. exciting promotions as well as a test zone “This is the first time that round-the-clock en days a week.” by May, 2006. Policemen caught him while he was resisting. He was taken to Jahra police station for further questioning.

Search for swindler A female citizen accused a Syrian man of swindling her out of KD 7,200 she had set aside for purchasing beauty salon equipment. The woman told Jabriya police that the sus- pect told her about the equipment as she was preparing to open the salon, but took the money and disappeared. Hawally detectives are investigating.

Fight Hawally police broke up a bloody fight between two citizens following a verbal dispute over a traffic dis- agreement. A security source said the Interior Ministry received a call about the fight, so police went to the scene and broke up the fight. They found one of the men with a wound on the head as a result of a strike with a sharp object. He was taken to Mubarak Hospital while the other man was taken to Maidan Hawally police station. — Al-Rai

Hawalli structural study shows deteriorated infrastructure

KUWAIT: A study recently conducted by Hawalli traffic depart- ment showed a great deal of deterioration in infrastructure in the area, and that most of its lands were used by public and pri- vate schools. The study stresses the need to approve a special plan to execute major and minor renovations and development in order to reduce the negative impacts on the roads network created by the presence of several schools in the area. The study added that the parking of vehicles in ‘unofficial’ parking places and yards is considered a major challenge in Hawalli’s design. Further, the study stressed that most facilities and infrastruc- ture services were too old, outdated and in bad need for renova- tion, development and upgrading in order to absorb current and future population growth, which has already been overbur- dening electricity, water and drainage systems beyond their capacity. The study was prepared by the Organizational Structure KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Fire Services Directorate (KFSD) Major General Yousuf Al-Ansari lauded the role of the private sector in the success of the directorate’s Department at the Hawalli traffic department and will soon be department plan, especially the import of vehicles and new boats that were launched on the last day of 2015. The latest experiment was carried out three days ago in a prac- referred by Kuwait Municipality’s Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi tical exercise to pump water and foam through hoses in a building under construction with a height of 164 meters which is equal to 47 floors. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun to the Municipal Council for approval. — Al-Qabas TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 Bitter cold strikes Northern Plains, Where next for US-Iran ties? Great Lakes regions Page 8 Page 9

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Rise in Kidnappings Brothels and alcohol shops have been repeatedly targeted by powerful Shiite militia groups in Baghdad over the years. Iraqi parliament speaker Salim Al-Juburi condemned the rise in “cases of foreigners being kidnapped in Iraq,” saying it would harm the country’s relations with other states. “The kidnapping of the American citizens yesterday, and before them the Qatari hunters, whose fate is still unknown, without a doubt indicates the increasing work of organized gangs in Iraq,” Juburi said in a state- ment. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said Sunday that the US was “working with the full cooperation of the Iraqi authorities to locate and recover the individuals”. Both Juburi and the police colonel said the kidnappings took place Sunday, but some reports indicated they happened earlier. Iraq turned to paramilitary forces dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias in 2014 to help combat IS jihadists. These groups, which fall under an umbrella organization known as the Hashed al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization units, have played a key role in the fight against IS. But they and their affiliates have also been accused of abuses including summary executions, kidnappings and destruction of property. The US is leading a coalition of countries that have bombed thousands of IS targets in Iraq and Syria and which are providing training to Baghdad’s forces. Washington has also dispatched special forces to Iraq to carry out raids against the jihadists. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 US releases account of sailors’ Iran detention

WASHINGTON: In its first official account released Monday said the US sailors were notified of a total loss of communications sels. Central Command’s naval headquar- In the hours after the seizure of the of Iran’s seizure and subsequent release not mistreated during approximately 15 with the boats. It does not explain who ters at Bahrain attempted to contact Americans became public on Jan 12, of 10 US sailors in the Arabian Gulf, the US hours in Iranian hands. It said a post- advised the headquarters of this problem Iranian military units operating near Farsi there were conflicting reports about what military said yesterday the only items recovery inventory of the boats found or its apparent cause. A large-scale Island by using marine radio to broadcast caused the sailors to stray off their found missing from their two recovered that all weapons, ammunition and com- intended course. Yesterday’s official boats were SIM cards for two satellite munications gear was accounted for, account did not explain the reason. It said phones. But key questions, such as why minus two SIM cards apparently removed only that the crews “deviated” from their the sailors had deviated from their from two handheld satellite phones. planned course. It made no reference to planned route to enter Iranian territorial The sailors were traveling in small the navigation error cited by Carter last waters, remain unanswered in the armed vessels known as riverine com- week. “At some point one (of the two account released by US Central mand boats, headed from Kuwait to boats) had indications of a mechanical Command. It’s calling the description a Bahrain, which is the location of the issue in a diesel engine which caused the preliminary timeline of the events of Jan Navy’s 5th Fleet. “The planned transit crews to stop and begin troubleshooting,” 12-13. path for the mission was down the mid- the account said. Because the boats were “A Navy command investigation initi- dle of the Gulf and not through the terri- traveling together, the other boat also ated Jan 14 will provide a more complete torial waters of any country other than stopped. At this point they were in accounting of events,” Central Command Kuwait and Bahrain,” the account said. The Iranian territorial waters, “although it’s not said. The investigation will focus on the boats were seized by Iran and escorted at clear the crew was aware of their exact US sailors’ treatment while in custody, gunpoint to Farsi Island, which is in the location,” it added. including any interrogation by Iranian middle of the Gulf and home to an While the boats were stopped and the personnel, the command said. Defense Iranian military facility. crew was trying to assess the mechanical Secretary Ash Carter said last week while Along the approximately 80-km jour- problem, Iranian boats approached. First visiting Central Command headquarters ney they were to have refueled by linking to arrive were two small Iranian craft with in Florida that the boat crews had “mis- up with a US Coast Guard vessel, the armed personnel aboard. Soon after, they navigated”. He did not say how that mis- Monomoy, in international waters. The were joined by two more Iranian military take happened or provide other substan- timeline said that approximately 10 min- This Nov 2, 2015, image shows Riverine Command Boat (RCB) 805 in the Arabian vessels. A verbal exchange ensued tial details about an episode that posed a utes after the scheduled refueling, Central Gulf. —AP between the Iranians and Americans, but potential complication to efforts by Command’s naval headquarters at there was no gunfire. Armed Iranian mili- Washington and Tehran to establish bet- Bahrain received a report that the boats search-and-rescue mission was undertak- information about the search-and-rescue tary personnel then boarded the US ter relations. were being questioned by Iranians. The en at that point, but it is not clear operation. Separately, the US notified boats while other Iranian personnel The boat seizure happened just hours account does not explain who sent this whether the Americans had by this time Iranian coast guard units via telephone. aboard other armed vessels monitored before President Barack Obama delivered report or whether it included other already been taken ashore on Farsi Island. About four hours after the US first heard the situation. At gunpoint the US boats his State of the Union address and just details. Aircraft from the USS Harry S Truman air- that the sailors were being questioned by and their crews were escorted to a small days before implementation of the Iran About 19 minutes later, the naval craft carrier, which was operating 72 km Iranians, the US Navy cruiser USS Anzio port facility on Farsi Island, where the nuclear deal with the West. The imple- headquarters “was advised of degraded southeast of Farsi Island, participated in received word from the Iranians that the Americans went ashore and were mentation triggered the end of crippling communications with” the two boats, the the search, along with Air Force planes sailors were in Iranian custody. The detained, the account said. The sailors international sanctions on Iran and a US- account added. After an additional 26 and vessels of the US Coast Guard, the Iranians described the 10 as “safe and were released the following morning Iran prisoner exchange. The timeline minutes, the naval headquarters was British Royal Navy and other US Navy ves- healthy”, according to the US account. aboard their boats. — AP France vows ‘vigilance’ with Iran on nuke deal

ABU DHABI: World powers will remain region”. Peace talks scheduled to take “very vigilant” to ensure Tehran commits to place in Geneva on Jan 25 to resolve Syria’s a nuclear deal that has seen the West lift deadly conflict would provide the “first sanctions on Iran, French Foreign Minister opportunity” to test Tehran’s intentions, he Laurent Fabius said yesterday. The entry said. into force on Saturday of the July 14 deal Iran - alongside Russia - is a key backer between Iran and world powers “is a good of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s thing... but we should be extremely strict regime, which has been locked in deadly in monitoring its implementation,” he said. fighting with opponents since an uprising “We will be very vigilant,” he told reporters erupted in 2011. Fabius is to visit Tehran’s on the sidelines of the World Future Energy regional rival Saudi Arabia today, just days Summit in Abu Dhabi. before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is The International Atomic Energy expected in Paris. Saudi Arabia severed its Agency confirmed late Saturday that diplomatic ties with Iran earlier this month Tehran had complied with its obligations after protesters attacked its missions in the under the accord, leading the United Shiite-dominated Islamic republic. States and the European Union to lift sanc- The protests erupted in response to the tions imposed over Iran’s disputed nuclear execution in the Sunni-ruled kingdom of programme that had crippled its economy prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Al-Nimr. for a decade. These obligations included Asked if France could play a mediator role Iran dramatically downscaling its nuclear between Riyadh and Tehran, Fabius said: program, including slashing by two-thirds “Mediation is not the right word, but we the number of its uranium centrifuges and are talking to both sides.” Fabius said he reducing its stockpile of uranium. Fabius would meet Saudi King Salman today said he hoped “the state of mind that ahead of a meeting on economic coopera- allowed for this deal will have positive con- tion between France and Saudi Arabia in TEHRAN: A picture taken yesterday shows an anti-US hoarding inspired by American photographer Joe Rosenthal’s iconic World War II photo- sequences on Iran’s general attitude in the March. — AFP graph “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” displayed on a building in the Iranian capital. —AFP Where next for US-Iran ties? Nuke deal and prisoner swap a start WASHINGTON: Was this weekend’s nuclear deal the UN-mediated Syrian peace talks due to still chant “Death to America!” Washington still and Washington’s surprise prisoner swap with resume later this month in Geneva. Iran and its lists Iran as a “state sponsor of terrorism”. And Tehran the final high point of a one-off diplo- Lebanese ally the Hezbollah militia are key back- there may not be time to do much about this. matic initiative or the start of a real realignment? ers of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Supporters of Iran’s reformist president Hassan Some 35 years after US-Iran ties were broken potential spoilers as Washington tries to ease Rouhani hope to make gains in parliamentary amid the chaos of the Tehran hostage crisis, him out of office. elections next month that will give him more might the Great Satan and the Axis of Evil lynch- Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, is a sponsor of the room to maneuver around hardliners. pin be on the brink of real detente? Most experts rebels ranged against him, and Riyadh’s anger at But the stance of Iran’s Supreme Leader see a formal restoration of diplomatic ties as far Obama’s Iranian gambit may poison the mood Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will remain key, and he off and progress as fragile, but Washington at as Washington pushes for peace. “We have pro- may not be ready for further reconciliation. least is ready to see how far the diplomatic track found differences and continue to have pro- Obama, meanwhile, has a clearer deadline. He is will take it. found differences with Iran over the situation in out of office in a year’s time, and if a Republican “We do believe we should test whether or not Syria,” the US official, speaking on condition of candidate wins the White House he or she will there can be additional cooperation, or at least anonymity, admitted. And not only on Syria. likely adopt a tougher tone. “Perhaps Obama is constructive dialogue,” a senior US administra- right,” Bahout said. “But he won’t get much fur- tion official told reporters. On Saturday, the UN ‘Terror Sponsor’ ther. What they achieved so far is huge, and ABU DHABI: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (right), Crown Prince of Abu nuclear watchdog confirmed Iran had put a Despite the image presented by US Secretary they’ll try to keep the relationship going dis- Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE armed forces, meets French nuclear bomb beyond its immediate reach and of State John Kerry’s frequent meetings and calls creetly, like a couple having an affair.” So, admin- Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at his palace yesterday. —AFP the US and EU lifted their most draconian eco- with Iran’s Foreign Mohammad Javad Zarif, noth- istration officials admit, there won’t be a dramat- nomic sanctions. At the same time - in a surprise ing concrete has changed. The countries still ic US embassy re-opening like there was last gesture - Tehran and Washington revealed they have no formal diplomatic ties. Crowds in Tehran year in Havana. There simply isn’t time. — AFP had reached a deal to exchange two groups of prisoners held in each other’s jails. US ‘won’t rest’ until “We were able, over the course of the last Iran poets, facing lashings couple of years, to have more diplomatic ex-FBI agent freed engagement with Iran than I think we’ve had in total since 1979,” the US official said. US diplo- and prison, escape country mats insisted, to widespread skepticism, that the WASHINGTON: While five American citi- unjustly detained in #Iran at every oppor- two breakthroughs were entirely separate. The DUBAI: Two Iranian poets who face lashings charges ranging from propaganda against the zens were freed from detention in Iran this tunity.” He added: “Iran also agreed to Iran nuclear deal was the product of years of and prison sentences have fled Iran, one of the state to “insulting sanctities.” Each also was weekend, the US government vowed deepen our coordination as we work to careful negotiations between Tehran and the writers said yesterday, a rare escape for local sentenced to 99 lashings for shaking hands Sunday to work tirelessly for the release of locate Robert Levinson. We won’t rest until P5+1 - the permanent UN Security Council artists and activists ensnared in an ongoing with members of the opposite sex. They likely another missing for nine years. Ex-FBI the Levinson family is whole again.” The members and the European Union. The prisoner crackdown on expression in the country. were targeted because their work is known agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Federal Bureau of Investigation has swap, by contrast, came after 14 months of back- Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi’s free- abroad. Both are self-described “postmodern mysterious circumstances in March 2007 announced a $5 million reward for infor- channel negotiations, conducted in secret dom came as world powers lifted sanctions on Ghazal” poets who seek to revive the tradition- during a visit to the Iranian mation leading to his return. between US envoys and Iranian diplomats and Iran over its contested nuclear program and as al Persian love sonnet by applying it to con- island of Kish. He was report- “The FBI expects our Iranian intelligence officials. But taken together, the ini- the country separately freed four Iranian- temporary political and social issues.—AP edly investigating cigarette counterparts to fulfill their tiatives have fed speculation that President Americans in exchange for seven Iranians held counterfeiting in the region. commitment to locate Bob Barack Obama is rewiring US networks in the in the US. The poets’ escape is a reminder that Levinson, 67, is considered and help bring him home Middle East to end the decades-long standoff. despite the growing detente with the West, to be the longest-held safely,” the agency said in a hardliners still exert control over much of life hostage in US history, if still statement. “Bob forever ‘Natural future partner’ in the Islamic Republic, which is one of the alive. remains part of the FBI fami- Detente with Iran would make it easier to world’s top jailers of journalists. “Even as we rejoice in the ly, and we remain committed resolve the crises in Iraq, Syria and Yemen - even “Iranian political prisoners who are impris- safe return of others, we will to bringing him home safely if it would unsettle traditional US allies Israel and oned on similarly baseless charges and do not never forget about Bob,” to the family who misses him Saudi Arabia. “Deeply encoded in Obama’s soft- hold a foreign passport do not get the same President Barack Obama so much.” ware, the answer was Iran,” Joseph Bahout, a attention,” Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director said in a White House The FBI said “we continue Middle East scholar at the Carnegie Institute for of the International Campaign for Human speech. “Each and every day, Robert Levinson to investigate and follow up International Peace, told AFP. “His team thinks Rights in Iran, said in a statement this week- but especially today, our on all information we receive, that Iran is a natural future partner.” If the ten- end. “This is a continuing travesty of justice.” hearts are with the Levinson family, and no matter how insignificant it might seem” sions between the Shiite Islamic republic and Ekhtesari, a practicing obstetrician, told AP we will not rest until their family is whole In 2013, US media reports revealed that the Sunni Gulf monarchies subside, other con- yesterday that both she and Mousavi, a again.” Of the US citizens who have been Levinson had been paid by the CIA to flicts fed by their proxies and their funding trained doctor who teaches literature and freed by Iran, four were part of a prisoner gather information during his visits to Iran. might be solved. poetry, escaped from Iran in recent days and swap with America, while a fifth was He had been hoping to meet an informant “I think that we have shown that over time, made it to another country. She declined to released in a separate process, according during his trip who could provide informa- elaborate out of continuing concerns about to US officials. tion about Tehran’s disputed nuclear pro- very persistent diplomacy can yield results,” said Iranian poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and the Obama administration official, defending the their safety. Taking to Twitter, Secretary of State gram, they said. The White House has Ekhtesari faced an 111/2-year prison sen- Mehdi Mousavi pose in an unknown place John Kerry said “For over a year, we have denied Levinson was working for the US outreach. The next test of whether Iran will con- in Iran. — AP tinue to accomodate some US ambitions will be tence, while Mousavi faced nine years on raised the cases of American citizens government when he vanished.—AFP INTERNATIONAL TUFESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 Bitter cold strikes Northern Plains, Great Lakes regions

CHICAGO: The arctic air mass that froze year-old woman likely died of exposure water pipes in Minnesota and lead in Milwaukee; she had reportedly left a Chicago officials to ask re sidents to house party and was found outside by a check on neighbors this weekend is passer-by. sticking around in some parts of the Snow accompanied the drop in tem- upper Midwest. Due to El Nino, winte r peratures in northern and western got off to a mild start. But the blast of Michigan, where up to 16 inches of dangerous cold moved east across the snow fell over 24 hours in Honor and Northern Plains and Great Lakes on Traverse City re ceived 10 inches. Some Sunday, when temperatures bottomed reprieve from the cold is expected in the out at 36 degrees below in Fosston in Midwest later in the week, with Chicago northwest Minnesota. It was so cold in expecting to jump into the comparative- western Minnesota that traffic lights ly balmy 30s by Thursday. But the sub- went dark Sunday morning in freezing temperatures we re moving Mo ntevideo when a transformer blew. eastward. In Philadelphia, a man who One homeowner’s bid to thaw pipes in had been evicted from a homeless shel- West Duluth caused a fire that led to ter returned Sunday morning and $37,000 in damage, WDIO-TV reported. opened fire, killing one employee and Meanwhile, parts of Illinois were in injuring another, police said. Some offi- the single digits yesterday, the second cials feared the shooting might deter day with such frigid air. Many cities people from entering shelters as frigid sought to ensure no one succumbed to weather entered the region. “We’re very, the cold. The Indianapolis Star reporte d very, very concerned; this is not some- that the state Department of Homeland thing that happens in the city of Security would send anyone needing Philadelphia’s shelters for people experi- CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders participate in the NBC News-YouTube shelter from the we ather Sunday and encing homelessness,” Marie Nahikian, Democratic debate on Sunday at the Gaillard Center.— AFP yesterday to a Salvation Army facility. director of the city Office of Supportive But in Wisconsin, authorities said a 21- Housing, told WPVI-TV. — AP Sanders slams Clinton in Democratic debate Hillary counters ‘revolution’ with her experience

CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Democratic the world. I’m prepared and ready to take it on,” “He has voted with the NRA (National Rifle presidential candidates clashed in their final she said. She also insisted that she was best Association), with the gun lobby numerous debate before first votes are cast in Iowa, with qualified to “bring our country together” during times,” including against legislation mandating Hillary Clinton saying she’s ready to take on the politically polarizing times. Sanders shook up background checks for gun sales. she declared. “world’s hardest job” as she sparred with her the issue of healthcare when just hours before And Clinton wryly congratulated Sanders for surging rival Bernie Sanders. The pair, along with the debate started he unveiled a universal flip-flopping on a proposal she has advanced to former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, met healthcare proposal he says can save American end gun makers’ immunity from lawsuits. In in Charleston, South Carolina, late Sunday aware families thousands of dollars each year by no 2005 Sanders voted for legislation that gave gun that their performance could be the best oppor- longer paying insurance premiums. manufacturers legal immunity. “This should not tunity to reshape the Democratic nomination But the plan would require a 6.2 percent be a political issue,” Sanders said, noting the race ahead of the Iowa caucuses, which will be healthcare payroll tax on businesses, while slap- tragedy that befell Charleston when a “crazed held two weeks from Monday. ping taxpayers with a 2.2 percent “premium” person” shot nine African Americans in a church Clinton is ahead in national opinion polls based on income. Sanders, a self-described dem- last year. “What we should be doing is working among Democrats, but Sanders has surged in ocratic socialist, claims his plan would save $6 together.” recent weeks and threatens her narrow lead in trillion over 10 years compared with the current Iowa. Clinton wrangled with the leftist Vermont system. Clinton criticized his plan claiming it A ‘Rigged’ Economy senator, sometimes intensely, over plans for uni- would shred President Barack Obama’s O’Malley has made little headway with voters versal healthcare, guns, battling Islamic State Affordable Care Act, which has helped 19 million despite considerable debate stage time. He jihadists and reining in Wall Street. She empha- new people get health insurance. “To tear it up squeezed into the conversation Sunday, indict- sized her vast experience as former secretary of and start over again... I think is the wrong direc- ing the Clinton political juggernaut by stressing state, senator and point-woman for her husband tion,” Clinton said at the debate broadcast by that it was time for voters to “let go of the past ex-president Bill Clinton’s efforts to reform NBC News. and move forward”. However, it is Sanders and MINNEAPOLIS: Jack Delehanty poses for a photo after going on a 10-mile jaunt at healthcare in the 1990s. Perhaps her sharpest attack against Sanders his “political revolution” that has jostled team Lake Harriet on Sunday. — AP “I understand that this is the hardest job in was her claim that he is weak on gun control. Clinton.—AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 4 dead in suicide attack at Cameroon mosque YAOUNDE: Four worshippers were AFP. A source close to regional authori- “The bomber ran towards the Islamist group claiming responsibility. the jihadists on the other side of the bor- killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque ties confirmed that a deadly attack had mosque, where he set off the explosives He was freed after around 50 days in der. Boko Haram, which has waged a six- in northern Cameroon yesterday, a secu- taken place in Nguetchewe, but was he was carrying with him.” captivity. year campaign for a hardline Islamic rity source said, five days after a similar unable to provide details. The security Cameroonian troops are at the scene Communications Minister Issa state in northeast Nigeria, has been attack left 12 people dead. source said the attack took place around of the attack, the source said. It is the Tchiroma Bakary said Friday that nearly using the Far North as a base for supply- Yesterday’s blast hit the village of 6:00 am (0500 GMT) just as morning second deadly blast to hit the Far North 1,200 people have been killed in the Far ing weapons, vehicles and equipment. Nguetchewe in Cameroon’s Far North prayers were ending. “The suicide in less than a week, following a bombing North since 2013, when Boko Haram Along with Nigeria, Niger, Chad and region, in an area near the border with bomber, a young boy, arrived in the vil- at a mosque in Kolofata district during began attacking Cameroonian territory Benin, Cameroon is part of a regional Nigeria regularly targeted by Boko lage by foot,” the source said, adding morning prayers last Wednesday. In bordering its northeast Nigerian strong- military force fighting the jihadists, who Haram jihadists. “The toll of this attack is that a witness had noticed his behaviour November 2013, French priest Georges hold. Cameroon boosted its military have killed at least 17,000 people and four dead and two injured,” the source, seemed suspicious and had tried to Vandenbeusch was kidnapped from presence along the Nigerian border in made more than 2.6 million others who was at the scene of the attack, told intercept him. Nguetchewe, with the Boko Haram 2013, under increasing pressure from homeless. — AFP

Burkina Faso capital security tightens after jihadi attack OUAGADOUGOU: In the wake of a week- jihadists. The toll includes a Ukrainian woman end attack that left up to 32 dead, security who was co-owner of the Cappuccino Cafe, was beefed up across Burkina Faso’s capital along with her 9-year-old son, according to yesterday as businesses and banks Ukrainian and Italian officials, and six reopened. Canadians, according to Canada officials. The The West African nation also announced Canadian Press reported that the six were a joint effort with Mali in the fight against traveling together as part of a humanitarian jihadi elements in the West African region. mission, four them were from the same family. “Please go ahead and search my bag. We Others killed include seven citizens of want to be protected and there is no way Burkina Faso, two Ukrainians, two Swiss, to refuse this,” said Fati Doussa, who visited two French and one each from the US, the a bank to get some cash. Metal detectors Netherlands, Portugal and Libya, and one have been placed at banks. “We know it is French-Ukrainian, according to Burkina just going to be different from now on,” Faso officials who released a partial list. said Ousmane Sawadogo, a cell-phone sell- Other bodies were being identified. er some 200 meters from the Splendid At least 176 people were freed by Hotel. The attack, which began Friday Burkina Faso and French forces by Saturday, night, was the first of its kind in Burkina he said. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Faso, a largely Muslim country that had put out a formal statement Sunday naming managed to avoid the kinds of jihadist three of the attackers, according to SITE attacks that have hit neighboring Mali Intelligence Group which monitors extrem- since 2012. ist sites. It said it was a “drop in the sea of At the site, forensic experts and investi- global jihad.” The group on Friday claimed gators from France and Burkina Faso, responsibility for the attack saying al- dressed in white, filled the brown dusty Mourabitoun fighters carried out the siege. street yesterday, gathering evidence in Al-Mourabitoun joined AQIM last year and secured areas near the Cappuccino Cafe they claimed their first joint attack was the and Splendid Hotel. Military forces ended Nov 20 seizure of the Radisson Blu in Mali the siege Saturday. Officials said forces that killed 20 people. Burkina Faso and killed three attackers in the Splendid Hotel, Mali’s prime ministers met Sunday, and Migrants and refugees walk through snow covered fields, after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia near the village of Miratovac and another in a neighboring hotel. agreed to share intelligence and have join yesterday. — AFP But a Burkina Faso gendarme official, patrols along shared borders, they said. who spoke on condition of anonymity “It is obvious that, faced with this situa- because he was not permitted to speak to tion, both countries are going to beef up the press, said they are investigating the transnational cooperation with other coun- Merkel, Juncker put euro’s fate person killed at the nearby hotel to deter- tries, share intelligence, have mixed patrols mine if it was an attacker. at our borders and use adequate means,” said Burkina Faso’s security minister, Simon Burkina Faso Prime Minister Paul Kaba in play if migration not solved Compaore, on Sunday said 32 people were Thieba. Makan Kone, spokesman for Mali’s dead, including three jihadists. The toll had prime minister said the countries will contin- earlier been 28 killed in addition to four ue to fighting extremism in the region. — AP Pressure mounting on Merkel to close borders to Syrians

BRUSSELS/BERLIN: Is this how “Europe” ends? The refugees, Germany could shut its doors, sparking national resentments were re-emerging, he added, Germans, founders and funders of the postwar wider crisis this spring. accusing his generation of EU leaders of squander- union, shut their borders to refugees in a bid for ing the legacy of the union’s founders, survivors of political survival by the chancellor who let in a mil- GERMAN WARNINGS World War Two. Merkel has not suggested-yet-that lion migrants. And then-why not? they decide to With Merkel’s conservative allies in the southern Berlin could follow neighbours like Austria and revive the Deutschmark while they’re at it. frontier state of Bavaria demanding she halt the Denmark in further tightening border checks to That is not the fantasy of diehard Eurosceptics mainly Muslim asylum seekers ahead of tricky deny entry to irregular migrants. But she has made but a real fear articulated at the highest levels in regional elections in March, her veteran finance clear how Europe might suffer. “No one can pre- Berlin and Brussels. Chancellor Angela Merkel, her minister delivered one of his trademark veiled tend that you can have a common currency with- ratings hit by crimes blamed on asylum seekers at threats to EU counterparts of what that could out being able to cross borders relatively easily,” New Year parties in Cologne, and EU chief execu- mean for them. she said at a business event last week. tive Jean-Claude Juncker both said as much last “Many think this is a German problem,” In private, German officials are more explicit. week. Juncker echoed Merkel in warning that the Wolfgang Schaeuble said in meetings with fellow “We have until March, the summer maybe, for a central economic achievements of the common EU finance ministers in Brussels. “But if Germany European solution,” said a second German official. market and the euro are at risk from incoherent, does what everyone expects, then we’ll see that it’s “Then Schengen goes down the drain.” nationalistic reactions to migration and other not a German problem-but a European one.” Senior A senior EU official was equally blunt: “There is a crises. He renewed warnings that Europe is on its Merkel allies are working hard to stifle the kind of big risk that Germany closes. From that, no “last chance”, even if he still hoped it was not “at the parliamentary party rebellion that threatened to Schengen ... There is a risk that the February sum- beginning of the end”. Merkel, facing trouble derail bailouts which kept Greece in the euro zone mit could start a countdown to the end.” The next among her conservative supporters as much as last year. But pressure is mounting for national summit of EU leaders one month from now follows from opponents, called Europe “vulnerable” and measures, such as border fences, which as a child meetings last year that were marked by agreement the fate of the euro “directly linked” to resolving the of East Germany Merkel has said she cannot coun- on a migration strategy as well as rows over failures migration crisis — highlighting the risk of at the tenance. “If you build a fence, it’s the end of Europe to implement it. Of the 160,000 asylum seekers EU very least serious economic turbulence if not a for- as we know it,” one senior conservative said. “We leaders agreed in September to distribute among mal dismantling of EU institutions. Some see that need to be patient.” A senior German official noted member states, fewer than 300 have been moved. as mere scare tactics aimed at fellow Europeans by that time is running out, however. “The chancellor Berlin and Brussels continue to press for more dis- leaders with too much to lose from an EU collapse has been asking her party for more time,” he said. tribution across Europe. But few place much hope OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso troops provide security in the area yesterday after — Greeks and Italians have been seen to be drag- “But ... that narrative ... is losing the persuasiveness in that-one senior German official calls it “flogging militants led an attack on a hotel and a cafe popular with foreigners over the week- ging their feet over controlling the bloc’s it may have had in October or November. If you a dead horse”. end in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. — AP Mediterranean frontier and eastern Europeans who add in the debate about Cologne, she faces an benefit from German subsidies and manufacturing increasingly difficult situation.” TURKISH KEY supply chain jobs have led hostility to demands He noted that arrivals had not fallen sharply EU leaders’ hope is for help from Turkish that they help take in refugees. over the winter months as had been expected. President Tayyip Erdogan, a man many of them see Spanish king meets party Germans are also getting little help from EU co- “You can only imagine what happens when the as an embryonic dictator. Berlin is pressing for founder France, whose leaders fear a rising anti- weather improves,” he said. more EU cash for Ankara, beyond an agreed 3 bil- leaders to form new govt immigrant National Front, or the bloc’s third power, lion euros, which Italy is blocking. Some Germans MADRID: Spain’s King Felipe VI began yes- that we concentrate on what matters,” he Britain, consumed with its own debate on whether SCHENGEN FEARS suggest simply using German funds to stem the terday a week of meetings with party lead- said during an interview with Spanish pub- to just quit the European club altogether. Merkel and Juncker explicitly linked new flow from Turkey. EU officials say it is too early to ers in a bid to break a potentially damaging lic radio. The majority of Spanish voters, 61 So, empty threat or no, with efforts to engage national frontier controls across Europe’s passport- panic. Arrivals have fallen this month. UN data impasse over the formation of a new gov- percent, oppose holding fresh elections to Turkey’s help showing little sign yet of preventing free Schengen zone to a collapse of the single mar- show them running in January at half the 3,500 ernment following inconclusive elections. resolve the political impasse, a poll pub- migrants reaching Greek beaches, German and EU ket at the core of the bloc, and of the euro. Both daily rate of December. Progress includes a move Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has lished in daily newspaper El Pais showed. officials are warning that without a sharp drop in would ravage jobs and the economy. “Without to let some of the 2.1 million Syrian refugees in headed a caretaker government with The survey also showed that if new elec- arrivals or a change of heart in other EU states to Schengen ... the euro has no point,” Juncker told a Turkey take jobs. The EU will fund more schools for reduced powers since a December 20 gen- tions were held the results would be similar relieve Berlin of the lonely task of housing New Year news conference on Friday. Historic refugee children. —Reuters eral election produced a hung parliament to the December vote and the deadlock in which a ruling majority cannot easily be would remain, although Podemos would formed. edge out the Socialists from second place. German town Under Spain’s constitutional monarchy As such, European Union officials and the king must now meet with the leaders of Spanish business figures have pressed par- reopens pool to all parties that won representation in parlia- ty leaders to move quickly to form a new ment before nominating one of them to try government. “I hope that Spain will get a to form a new government. The nominated stable government as quickly as possible asylum seekers party leader must then win a parliament given that it is a member of the eurozone,” BERLIN: A German town said yesterday it would reopen vote of confidence to take office. If there is European Commission chief Jean-Claude its public indoor swimming pool to male asylum seekers still a deadlock two months after the first Juncker said Friday. after talking to migrants about the need to treat women vote, the monarch must call new elections. with respect. Felipe, who took the throne when his father ‘Face up to’ hardship Bornheim, a small town 30 km (19 miles) south of Juan Carlos abdicated in June 2014, began The PP hopes to hold a first vote of con- Cologne, banned the men last week after receiving com- the talks on Monday by meeting with the fidence during the last week of January or plaints of sexual harassment at the pool, saying it was leaders of small regional parties. The consul- the first week of February. “From the point not prepared to see German cultural norms compro- tations are due to end on Friday when he of view of companies, what matters to us is mised. It was the latest sign of social tensions caused by meets with Rajoy, whose conservative that there is a solid, strong government the arrival of 1.1 million migrants in Germany last year, Popular Party (PP) won the most seats but formed by those who will face up to eco- followed by a wave of sexual assaults on women by fell far short of an absolute majority in the nomic difficulties,” the head of the Spanish gangs of young male refugees during New Year’s Eve cel- LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) greets Turkish Prime Minister 350-seat parliament. Confederation of Business Organisations ebrations in Cologne. Ahmet Davutoglu as he arrives outside No 10 Downing Street in central London yes- (CEOE), Juan Rosell, told AFP. The ban will be lifted on Wednesday, the town said in terday. —AFP ‘Uncertainty has consequences’ Rajoy, who passed several reforms a press release. “The cancellation is not the result of pres- Rajoy has called for a “grand coalition” of including a 2012 labour market shake-up sure from the media’s response, but rather follows inten- the PP, which has 123 seats, his traditional that reduced firing costs, has kept quiet sive discussions with refugees on how they should treat Zuma’s office admits Africa Socialist rivals who came in second place regarding which policy areas he would be women with respect, regardless of whether they have a winning 90 seats and new centre-right par- willing to make compromises on to pact migration background or not,” it said. isn’t biggest continent ty Ciudadanos which took 40 seats. The with other parties. “The one who puts his Bornheim said last week it wanted social workers to JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s presidency Zuma’s opponents, who argue that his lack of cards on the table before starting a negoti- Socialists instead are seeking a left-wing teach asylum seekers at three shelters about gender issued an embarrassing correction yesterday schooling makes him unfit to lead a sophisti- alliance that includes new anti-austerity ation is a poor negotiator,” he said. The king equality and respect for women. The New Year’s Eve to rectify an erroneous reference last month cated emerging economy. It was unclear why party Podemos, which won 69 seats. traditionally has invited the winner of the attacks deepened public doubts about Germany’s ability by President Jacob Zuma to Africa being the the presidency decided to issue the correc- Rajoy said yesterday he hoped a new most seats to form a government but he to integrate the mainly Muslim and Arab refugees, most- “largest continent”. tion after a delay of nearly six weeks. government is formed “as soon as possible,” can opt for other leaders if it appears that ly fleeing war in the Middle East, whom Chancellor Speaking at a business dinner on Dec. 9, “Africa is in fact the second biggest conti- warning political uncertainty threatens to they are better positioned to provide a sta- Angela Merkel has opted to allow in. Zuma, who has no formal education, also nent in terms of population size, and the derail the eurozone’s fourth largest econo- ble cabinet. That has happened at the Police investigations into the New Year’s Eve incidents described Africa as so big that “all continents biggest continent in this regard is Asia. The my. “It is obvious that uncertainty has con- regional level in Spain but never following are focusing on asylum seekers and illegal migrants put together will fit into Africa”. President regrets the error,” the statement sequences. This is why it is so important a general election. — AFP thought to be mostly from North Africa. — Reuters The comments were seized upon by said. —Reuters TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 INTERNATIONAL US envoy urges Myanmar to free political prisoners

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar: The first US after the talks. in prison following that episode and face envoy to visit Myanmar since last year’s “But political prisoners remain and oth- trial accused of stirring unrest. Obama has landmark polls yesterday urged President ers are in the process of being prosecuted,” pumped large amounts of political capital Thein Sein to release all remaining politi- he said. into Myanmar’s transition from authoritar- cal prisoners before Aung San Suu Kyi’s “It would be a fitting completion of ian basket case to a fledgling democracy, government takes power next month. that legacy (of reform) to release all politi- offering financial help and diplomatic sup- Myanmar’s quasi-civilian government cal prisoners so that by the time transition port. steered reforms culminating in the is complete and the new government But the US has also made clear its dis- November election that saw Suu Kyi’s pro- takes office, no-one is in prison for their comfort at ongoing violence between democracy party win an outright majority. political views.” Myanmar’s army and ethnic rebels as well Those reforms included the release of Rights groups say scores of political as religious violence and discriminatory hundreds of political prisoners, many prisoners remain behind bars from the policies particulary targeting the Muslim jailed for long sentences under the junta junta era. Lawmakers from Suu Kyi’s victo- Rohingya minority in the west of the which ruled the country with an iron-fist rious National League for Democracy par- country. for five decades. In talks in the capital ty are due to take their seats in parliament Blinken called on the government-in- Naypyidaw, US Deputy Secretary of State on February 1 as the country undergoes a waiting to end “discrimination and vio- Antony J. Blinken met the president, Suu surge in optimism for a democratic future lence experienced by ethnic and religious Kyi and army top brass and congratulated despite myriad economic and social chal- minorities including the Rohingya popula- them on holding a “peaceful” and success- lenges. tion in Rakhine state”. ful poll. Thein Sein has released prisoners at “The solution is the rule of law equally But he urged Thein Sein’s government key moments in the reform process applied to all,” he said, urging Myanmar’s to free all remaining prisoners including including ahead of high-profile visits from people to grasp the chance to create “an dissidents prosecuted in recent months in dignitaries including US President Barack equal chance for everyone to participate legal moves that have raised fears of a Obama. But in March last year authorities in the democratic life of the country.” NAYPYITAW: National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi return to the bad old days of repression. launched a violent crackdown on a stu- The final session of the current parlia- ( front center) poses for photographers with US Deputy Secretary of State “One of the hallmarks of the reform dent-led education protest in the town of ment is set to end on January 29, but a Antony Blinken (front right), US Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, process is that 1,300 or more political pris- Letpadan, some two hours north of new government will not be formed until front left, and others following a meeting in Naypyitaw yesterday. —AP oners were released,” he told reporters Yangon. Around 60 young activists remain March. —AFP Court acquits Musharraf of rebel leader’s killing Bomb kills five soldiers in western Pakistan

QUETTA: A Pakistani court yester- ment with little clear progress apart significant fall-out from the deci- rity force in restive Baluchistan, day acquitted former military ruler from the granting of bail. Analysts sion. “It’s a win-win situation both were wounded in the attack, Wasey Pervez Musharraf over the 2006 have previously said they believe for the government and Musharraf,” said. No one has claimed responsi- killing of a Baloch rebel leader, one the government of Prime Minister he said. bility. Rich in resources and vast, of three legal cases he faced after Nawaz Sharif lacks the will to offend Baluchistan is at the heart of the returning from exile, lawyers said. Pakistan’s powerful military by push- Bomb attack multi-billion-dollar energy and infra- The decision Monday was the first ing for Musharraf’s prosecution. Five Pakistani soldiers were structure projects China and significant ruling in the cases, which Sharif was also prime minister in killed yesterday when a bomb Pakistan hope to build along a corri- include the murder of former leader 1999, when he was deposed by exploded next to their vehicle in dor stretching from the Arabian sea Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and treason, Musharraf. Pakistani analyst Imtiaz Baluchistan province, officials said, to China’s Xinjiang region. The since Musharraf was indicted in Alam said the Bugti investigation the latest attack in a region that will planned route will run through the 2015 for the killing of nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. KABUL: Head of US delegations, Ambassador Michael McKinley (2R) shakes A spokesman for Musharraf told hands with Pakistani Foreign Secretary, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry (left) prior AFP he was happy with the ruling, to the start of the second round of four-way peace talks at the presidential which “will restore the people’s confi- palace in Kabul yesterday. —AFP dence in the judiciary”. The former ruler also hopes to be acquitted in Four-nation meeting in Kabul the other cases, which the spokesman said Musharraf described seeks to revive Taleban talks as “false and politically motivated”. Bugti was killed in a military opera- tion in 2006, sparking deadly nation- KABUL: A second round of four-country port of Pakistan as vital to bring the Taleban wide protests and inflaming a sepa- talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations to the negotiating table. ratist insurgency in resource-rich but with the Taliban began in Kabul yesterday, impoverished Balochistan province. even as the insurgents wage an unprece- Parliamentary polls “The court has dismissed all the dented winter campaign of violence across Afghanistan will hold its delayed parlia- charges against former ruler Pervez Afghanistan. Delegates from Afghanistan, mentary elections on October 15, the top Musharraf and all those named in the Pakistan, China and the United States con- polling official said yesterday, after last case,” Aftab Sherpao, a former interior vened in the Afghan capital for a one-day June’s deadline to choose a new assembly minister also named in the case, told meeting seeking a negotiated end to the was missed because of political disputes. media in the southwestern city of bloody 14-year insurgency. Parliament’s five-year term expired in June Quetta. “The people of Afghanistan will not but polls were postponed amid concerns The anti-terror court’s ruling was accept a prolonged peace process with no over whether the vote could be fair and confirmed by lawyers on both sides. results,” Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin transparent after a disputed presidential “It’s an injustice and a joke,” Rabbani said in his opening remarks at the election in 2014. Suhail Rajput, lawyer for the Bugti meeting. President Ashraf Ghani last year extend- family, told media and vowed to “On behalf of the people and govern- ed the assembly’s mandate until elections appeal. Musharraf seized power in a ment of Afghanistan, I urge all Taleban were feasible, prompting many to question bloodless coup in 1999. Facing groups to accept our peace message and the legality of his decision. impeachment following elections in QUETTA: Pakistani former interior minister, Aftab Sherpao, (3R) leaves the court after a hearing come to the negotiating table and resolve “Today we announce the date for the 2008, he resigned as president and our differences politically.” parliamentary and district council polls on went into self-imposed exile in in Quetta yesterday. A Pakistani court acquitted former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the The first round of the “roadmap” talks October 15,” election commission chief Dubai. He returned to Pakistan in 2006 killing of a Baloch rebel leader, one of three legal cases he faced after returning from exile, was held in Islamabad last week as the four Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani told reporters. “The 2013 on an ill-fated mission to run in lawyers said. —AFP nations try to lay the groundwork for direct parliamentary election and district council the general election, but was barred dialogue between Kabul and the Islamist polls will be held on time if the government from taking part and has since faced and prosecution had been “poor”. be home to the planned route of Quetta. But the region is also home group. provides the necessary budget, security for a barrage of legal cases. They “The administration was under the $46 billion China-Pakistan eco- to several separatist groups that Taliban representatives were notably candidates, electoral workers and polling include treason for imposing emer- pressure not to find any hard evi- nomic corridor. have waged war against the state absent in both rounds and analysts caution centres.” Nuristani urged the international gency rule in 2007, and the assassi- dence against the powerful play- The bomb, planted in a coal- for years, as well as the Pakistani that any substantive talks are still a long community to provide funding and support nation of opposition leader Benazir ers,” he told AFP, without specifying mining district 50 km (30 miles) Taliban, raising concerns about way off. The Taleban have stepped up for the election, which will likely be held Bhutto in a gun and suicide attack who was applying the pressure. east of the provincial capital, security. attacks on government and foreign targets against the backdrop of a worsening securi- that same year. Government efforts to persuade Quetta, was detonated remotely as Two Pakistani coast guards were in Afghanistan this winter, when fighting ty situation in Afghanistan. Musharraf has been under house militants to lay down their arms in members of the Frontier Corps killed this month when a bomb usually abates, underscoring a worsening “We have learnt good lessons from the arrest in Karachi while the cases Balochistan has seen the insur- patrolled the area, said Khan Wasey, exploded under their vehicle in the security situation. challenges and problems of the last elec- have ground through Pakistan’s gency begin to slow in recent a spokesman for the paramilitary Gwadar district of Baluchistan, Late Sunday a rocket launched by the tions. We are committed to holding (fair and notoriously slow legal system, mov- months, and security analyst Talat force. At least two members of the whose port is at one end of the pro- militants landed very close to the Italian transparent) elections,” Nuristani said. ing from adjournment to adjourn- Masood said there would not be Frontier Corps, the main state secu- posed corridor. —Agencies embassy compound. The foreign ministry in Both Ghani and his rival Abdullah Rome reported no casualties and said it was Abdullah, a former anti-Taliban resistance unsure if their compound was the target. fighter, claimed to have won the fraud- Observers say the intensifying insurgency tainted 2014 presidential election, tipping highlights a push by the militants to seize Afghanistan into a crisis that threatened to Maldives ‘disappointed’ more territory in an attempt to wrangle trigger nationwide unrest. greater concessions during talks. It took months for both candidates to At last week’s talks in Islamabad an agree on a US-brokered deal to form a Nasheed won’t travel to UK Afghan government spokesman said “National Unity Government”. Nuristani’s Pakistan would unveil a list of Taleban announcement comes as Kabul hosts a members who are ready for talks, but no second round of four-country talks aimed MALE, Maldives: The Maldives government return which must be co-signed by a guaran- to release Nasheed. names have so far been released. at reviving peace negotiations with the said yesterday it was “disappointed” that tor. In a tweet, it said the government was The country’s prisons chief Mohamed Pakistan-the Taleban’s historic backers- Taleban, even as the insurgents wage an jailed former leader Mohamed Nasheed “disappointed by the refusal of former presi- Husham announced at the weekend that hosted a milestone first round of talks unprecedented winter campaign of vio- would not travel to Britain for surgery after dent Nasheed to travel to UK for surgery, as Nasheed had been granted 30 days’ leave directly with the Taleban in July. But the lence. NATO-led US troops formally ended he rejected a demand for a relative to guar- requested by himself”. from prison to receive surgery for a spinal negotiations stalled when the insurgents their combat mission in 2014, leaving antee his return. The government had said Home Minister Umar Naseer told reporters cord problem that requires specialist treat- belatedly confirmed the death of longtime Afghan troops and police to battle an leader Mullah Omar, sparking infighting emboldened nationwide Taleban offen- Nasheed, whose conviction last year on ter- Nasheed would only be allowed to travel if ment. The government initially said Nasheed within the group. Afghanistan sees the sup- sive. —Agencies ror-related charges has been widely criti- he provided a guarantor for his return to could have the procedure on the tiny archi- cized, could travel to Britain for 30 days to serve the remainder of his 13-year jail sen- pelago, but then agreed to allow him to trav- receive urgent spinal cord surgery. He was tence. el to Britain for treatment. The announce- 5 Bangladesh militants jailed due to leave late Sunday under a deal bro- “This is not holding someone hostage,” ment of the concession came as Britain’s kered by diplomats from India, Sri Lanka and Naseer said. “It is appointing a guardian until Deputy Foreign Minister Hugo Swire visited for 10 years for bombings Britain, but his lawyer accused the govern- the inmate returns to (the) Maldives.” the Maldives for talks with Yameen as well as ment of introducing the “illegal” last-minute the opposition and rights groups. DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh yesterday tants were charged with the bombings,” condition. Guarantee return Swire tweeted that he “talked through jailed five militants of a banned Islamist he told Reuters by telephone. “And five of “The government reneged on the agreed Nasheed, 48, became the first democrati- concerns and opportunities” with the presi- group for 10 years over bombings in 2005 them were convicted and sentenced to deal at the last minute, demanding a close cally elected president of the Maldives in dent, but full details of their discussions were that formed part of a series of blasts 10 years in jail, while one was acquitted.” family member of Nasheed remain in Male, 2008 and served for four years before he was not disclosed. He left Male yesterday with across the Muslim-majority nation. The group, thought to have been lying effectively as a hostage, until he returns from toppled in what he called a coup backed by Nasheed still locked up in a cell at the The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen group set low since six of its top leaders were off nearly 500 bombs almost simultane- hanged in 2007, is blamed for a spate of the UK,” Hassan Latheef told AFP. “If Nasheed the military and police. Last year he was sen- Maafushi prison on an island near the capital. ously on a single day in 2005, including recent attacks, including the bombings of does anything that will breach the terms of tenced to 13 years in jail on terrorism charges London-based barrister Amal Clooney is the capital Dhaka. Subsequent suicide a Shi’ite shrine and the shooting of three the agreement by the government, the fami- relating to the arrest of an allegedly corrupt part of the legal team fighting for Nasheed’s attacks on courthouses by its militants foreigners, two of whom died. ly member could then be criminally prose- judge in 2012, when he was still in power. unconditional release. President Yameen is a killed 25 people and injured hundreds. Last year, four bloggers and a publish- cuted,” Latheef said. The United Nations has said his trial half-brother of former strongman Maumoon Five members of the Jamaat-ul- er were killed in Bangladesh, amid a rise “This kind of blackmail is illegal, unheard was seriously flawed and he should be Abdul Gayoom, who ruled for 30 years until Mujahideen group were convicted and in Islamist violence in which liberal of in international affairs, and totally outra- released and compensated for wrongful his defeat by Nasheed in the country’s first sentenced for the explosions in the activists, members of minority Muslim geous.” The foreign ministry said the law detention. But hardline President Abdulla multi-party elections in 2008. He has cracked southeastern district of Rangamati, court sects and other religious groups have required any prisoner requesting treatment Yameen has refused to accept the UN rul- down on dissent and arrested political oppo- inspector Mominul Islam said. “Six mili- been targeted. —Reuters abroad to sign a document committing to ing and is resisting international pressure nents. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 Afghan Taleban flex muscles with new telecom ‘tax’

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: The Taleban Afghanistan’s private telecom firms, kid- ‘no’.” But one of the telecom officials who one militant group, others will start harass- Taliban last month went one step further have demanded a hefty new “protection napping engineers, destroying transmis- attended the Pakistan meeting said there ing us.’ The National Directorate of in Helmand, enforcing a round-the-clock tax” from Afghan mobile phone compa- sion masts and forcing regular coverage was no escaping the Taleban edict, adding Security, Afghanistan’s main intelligence transmission blackout for nearly two nies, industry and militant sources told blackouts in volatile areas to avoid detec- that the companies at best could wrangle agency, declined to comment when con- weeks as fighting escalated in the south- AFP, as the resurgent group tightens its tion of their fighters. ern opium-rich province. stranglehold on a rare successful business Local-level Taliban commanders have “Except for the government operator in a slumping war economy. been known to extort from businesses Salaam, all private companies cut off their At a secret meeting last month near the operating in their areas, notably the tele- signals,” Omaidullah Zaheer, Helmand’s Pakistani city of Quetta, the Taleban’s cen- com firms and logistics companies supply- telecommunications director, said. “Private tral leadership formally demanded the tax ing NATO bases and Western-funded con- operators begged me: ‘Do something, we from representatives of four cellular com- struction projects. But this appears to be are losing money everyday.’ But what can panies in exchange for not damaging their the first time the central leadership has we do? We are helpless.” sites or harming their employees. The formally demanded a levy from business Afghanistan boasts 18.5 million mobile edict was motivated by an Afghan govern- enterprises, underscoring how they users in a population of 30 million, with ment announcement in October that it increasingly operate like a shadow govern- the fast-growing industry employing had amassed a windfall of 78 million ment. around 200,000 people and reporting Afghani ($1.14 million) within days of It also highlights the dangers of doing annual revenue of $150-200 million in an imposing an additional 10 percent tax on business in conflict-torn Afghanistan-par- otherwise moribund economy. But around operators, according to two telecom com- ticularly for the telecom industry, fast 40 percent of the country’s 6,319 base pany officials who attended the meeting becoming a battleground in the Taliban’s towers are in insurgency-hit areas, accord- and a third industry executive privy to the war against the US-backed Afghan govern- ing to the communication ministry, and information. ment. the Taleban have regularly mounted crip- “They want us to pay the same amount pling attacks on the infrastructure worth paid to the government,” one of the offi- ‘We are helpless’ millions of dollars. cials who was at the gathering told AFP. The companies said to be at the meet- “We told them that this will kill our busi- ing-Abu-Dhabi based Etisalat, South ‘Extortion’ ness, but they said: ‘This is the only way to Africa’s MTN and homegrown firms Roshan KANDAHAR: An Afghan policeman sits near a private cell phone antenna in The levy demand appears to be an guarantee your people are not harmed and Afghan Wireless Communication Kandahar. The Taleban have demanded a hefty new “protection tax” from effort to replenish coffers as the Taleban and your sites are not burned’,” he added. Company-officially declined to comment Afghan mobile phone companies, industry and insurgent sources told AFP, as mount an unprecedented winter offensive, A source in the Quetta Shura-the when contacted by AFP. the resurgent militant movement flexes its muscles like a virtual parallel gov- in the face of dwindling traditional sources Taliban’s Pakistan-based leadership coun- But one of them confirmed the meet- ernment. —AFP of revenue. cil-confirmed the meeting, telling AFP the ing and tax demand, voicing a mix of help- The insurgents are reeling from a sharp group was waiting for a formal response lessness and frustration. “Ten percent tax a concession from the insurgents in future tacted by AFP. In the past cellular opera- decline in opium production, the mainstay from the companies. “We told them: ‘It is to the Taleban? That means we will have to negotiations. “What choice do we have? All tors have capitulated to Taleban decrees-in of Taliban income; the NATO troop draw- our right to tax you if you want us to pro- share our revenue information with a mili- our investment, our infrastructure is at particular, their demand to switch off their down and consequent loss of “extortion” tect your (transmission) towers around tant organization,” a Kabul-based company stake,” he said, adding he was unaware signals at night in many insurgency-prone income from logistics firms; and the shift Afghanistan’,” he said. “‘You will have to representative told AFP. what his company’s official response areas. Wary of intelligence tip-offs and of Gulf-based donor funds towards the pay’.” The Islamists have long targeted “That’s just not feasible. We told them would be. “But I fear that if we start paying phone intercepts of their fighters, the Middle East, experts say.—AFP Indonesia at risk of bigger IS-linked attacks: Police Experienced fighters returning from Mideast

JAKARTA: Indonesia is bracing for the return despite their small size, because this is a were part of an attempt to establish a training of experienced Islamic State fighters from the crowded centre,” he said. “The perpetrators had camp in the forests of the northern province of Middle East who would be capable of carrying the opportunity to take more victims (during Aceh that was thwarted by police in 2010, Haiti out attacks far more deadly than the assault on the attack), but because their capabilities were said. Jakarta last week, the country’s police chief limited, we were able to take them out of In the wake of the latest attack, police said yesterday. action.” would redouble efforts to monitor radical net- Thursday’s attack in the heart of Jakarta was There are fears that much deadlier attacks works in Indonesia, he said. “We want these a hastily executed “Plan B” by Islamist militants, could follow, with the return of experienced networks to be mapped fully, because they can after police raids had disrupted preparations frontline fighters with Islamic State currently in collaborate with each other. There are about for other strikes against Christmas and New Syria and Iraq, Haiti said. nine distinct terror groups in Indonesia. So our Year events, Police General Badrodin Haiti told Authorities say about 500 Indonesians have hope is that this incident can reveal their col- Reuters in an interview. Eight people, including travelled to the Middle East to join the extrem- laborations,” he said. TOKYO: Marzuki Darusman (R), the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the situa- four militants, were killed in the assault on the ist group. About 100 are believed to have “We have found communications between tion of human rights in North Korea, is welcomed by Japanese Foreign Minister capital’s main Thamrin Road that involved pis- returned, although experts say only about 15 people in Syria and here and we should be Fumio Kishida (L) prior to their meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Darusman is on a five- tols and home-made bombs. have combat experience. “Those on the front- able to tell who is responding to those com- day visit to Japan. —AFP The attack, the first of its kind in Southeast lines are better trained, because they’re facing munications and can become a future threat.” Asia to be attributed to Syria-based Islamic their enemies (in) the field. If they come back, The last major attack in the world’s most State, could have been far deadlier, but the then it will be dangerous because they can car- populous Muslim nation before last week was N Korea must be held militants lacked training and powerful ry out acts of violence and terror,” Haiti said. the twin bombing of luxury hotels in Jakarta in weapons, Haiti said. “There is the possibility (of a bigger attack) 2009. Police said in December that a series of “I believe this was a Plan B. Their main tar- if they can train people in preparing explo- raids disrupted plans by militants to launch a accountable for get was Christmas and New Year. They chose sives,” he said. The majority of those believed string of deadly attacks on Christmas and New Thamrin (after that plan was disrupted) to be involved in Thursday’s attack, include Year celebrations, as well as against the coun- abductions: UN envoy because they were hoping for a big impact two of the four militants who carried it out, try’s Shia Muslim minority. — Reuters

TOKYO: A UN special envoy on human language and customs. rights in North Korea said yesterday the Five of the abductees were allowed to country should be held to account for return to Japan but Pyongyang has insist- state-sponsored abductions, slamming the ed, without producing solid evidence, the disappearances as a “crime against humani- eight others are dead. Around 500 South ty”. The condemnation from Marzuki Koreans were also kidnapped by North Darusman, who spoke during a meeting Korea in the years following the 1950-53 with members of Japanese families whose Korean War. children and siblings were kidnapped by Suspicions persist in Japan that many North Koreans, is the latest rebuke against more of its citizens have been abducted Pyongyang over widespread rights abuses. than officially recognized. The lack of “This is not just a tragedy, but it is a diplomatic relations between the two crime against humanity,” he told reporters. countries, along with Pyongyang’s pariah He called on North Korea to “acknowledge status internationally over its nuclear and that abductions have been undertaken by missile program, have hampered progress the state with complicity and knowledge at on the issue. the highest level of leadership.” The special “My beloved child was taken away and envoy will report his findings and recom- many years have passed,” Sakie Yokota, mendations to the UN Human Rights whose 13-year old daughter Megumi was Council in March, before the end of his abducted in 1977, told Darusman. “It’s tenure in July. been 38 years but I haven’t been able to Darusman was involved in a 2014 report meet or speak with her. There is no infor- from the UN Commission of Inquiry on mation as to how she has been doing.” human rights in North Korea that detailed North Korea has said Megumi was one of what it described as horrific abuses in the the deceased, insisting she committed sui- isolated nation. After the report was issued, cide, though her parents and other sup- the UN Security Council agreed to formally porters say Pyongyang cannot be believed. take up the human rights situation there. Japan and North Korea struck a deal in North Korea admitted in 2002 that it 2014 in which the secretive state said it had dispatched agents to kidnap 13 would investigate the abduction of Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s who were Japanese citizens, though Tokyo has voiced tasked with training its spies in Japanese frustration at the lack of progress. —AFP SURABAYA: The Indonesian made naval warship for the Philippine Navy is seen at a shipyard in Surabaya located in eastern Java island during Foreign jurists call for turnover ceremony yesterday led by Philippines Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and Indonesian counterpart Ryamizard Ryacudu. —AFP release of detained Philippine plane warned by Chinese lawyers ‘Chinese navy’ in disputed sea BEIJING: Twenty prominent lawyers and lawyers remain missing. jurists from Europe, North America, The lawyers have sought to use China’s MANILA: Philippine officials said yesterday they Chinese territory. The United States and govern- Apolonio’s team, said the radio warnings were Australia and Pakistan yesterday urged own laws to hold officials accountable or to received two intimidating radio warnings identi- ments with rival claims with China in the disput- an act of intimidation and illustrated the threat Chinese President Xi Jinping to release a protect citizens’ rights, but Beijing says they fied as from the Chinese navy when they flew a ed region, including the Philippines and to freedom of flight in the region. He said other dozen Chinese lawyers and legal assistants are trying to sabotage the judicial system Cessna plane close to a Chinese-constructed Vietnam, have expressed alarm over the Chinese civilian and military planes have also been held in detention in an open letter pub- with improper activism. island in the South China Sea. construction, saying it raises tensions and shooed away by the Chinese in the region. lished in the British newspaper The Since July, more than 300 lawyers, legal Eric Apolonio said the incident happened Jan threatens regional stability and could violate Despite the incident, Apolonio said the gov- Guardian. assistants, staff members of law firms, and 7 when he and other personnel of the Civil freedom of navigation and overflight. ernment will proceed with plans to install the In the letter, the legal professionals, pre- social activists have been detained and Aviation Authority of the Philippines flew to a As their Cessna approached Pag-asa to land, aviation equipment, which is required by the dominantly from Western countries, interrogated. Most have been released, but Philippine-occupied island for an engineering Apolonio said a message was received over an International Civil Aviation Organization to help expressed worries that the Chinese lawyers some of the most prominent rights lawyers survey for the installation of civil aviation safety emergency radio channel warning: “Foreign mili- ensure the have been denied legal counsel since their have been arrested, including Wang Yu, equipment on the island. tary aircraft, this is the Chinese navy. You are safety of commercial flights. Called the July detention. They also said they feared who defended one of the five women who The island, which the Philippines calls Pag- threatening the security of our station.” Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast, that without legal representation the became known as the “Feminist Five.” They asa and is home to a small fishing community The Filipino pilots ignored the warning and the equipment helps aircraft determine their Chinese lawyers and legal assistants could were detained last March after they and Filipino troops, is close to Subi Reef, one of continued with the trip since they were flying a positions via satellite navigation and enables be “at high risk of torture or other cruel and planned to hand out flyers against sexual seven reefs in the disputed Spratly archipelago civilian plane over what Apolonio said was them to be tracked. inhumane treatments.” China has arrested harassment in several Chinese cities in a which China has transformed into islands in the Philippine territory. After finishing the survey on British Ambassador to Manila Asif Ahmad six rights lawyers and legal assistants on case that drew international scrutiny. last two years using dredged sand. Pag-asa, known internationally as Thitu island, said Monday that his government would oppose suspicion of state subversion, and three The lawyers are known to have taken up Chinese officials say they have completed the they left in the plane and later received the same any move that restricts freedom of navigation more on suspicion of inciting state subver- some of the most contentious cases in island building and are now constructing build- warning message, he said. Asked if they felt and overflight in the disputed waters. “If a British sion. One legal assistant was arrested on China, often involving petitioners who ings and runways to ensure safe civilian sea trav- threatened, Apolonio said they were apprehen- aircraft, civilian or military, was intercepted and suspicion of helping destroy evidence. have grievances with local governments, el. They have acknowledged, though, that the sive because “you’ll never know, we can be fired not allowed to fly over a space which we regard Hong Kong-based China Human Rights practitioners of the banned spiritual group islands could also be used militarily, adding that upon.” Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon, the leader of as international, we will simply ignore it,” he told Lawyers Concern Group said several more Falun Gong, or political dissidents.—AFP they have the right to build on what they say is the community on Pag-asa who flew with reporters.— AP NEWS TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

Starlings fly around the Rise Sculpture, also known as ‘The Balls on the Falls’, in Belfast, Nothern Ireland, yesterday. — AP

World tennis rocked by match-fixing bombshell Continued from Page 1 who suffer most are the fans. “The Prime Minister would ing the effectiveness of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU). after beating Chung Hyeon in the first round. “Of course, we want to see these issues investigated by the independent Kermode said the TIU had won 18 convictions including threw it away, right away. It didn’t even get to me, the guy “And while the BBC and BuzzFeed reports mainly refer to authorities. The most important thing is that action is taken six life bans since it was set up in 2008, adding it “has to find that was trying to talk to me, didn’t even get to me directly. events from about 10 years ago, we will investigate any new in response and the independent authorities get on with evidence as opposed to information, suspicion, or hearsay”. There was nothing out of it.” information, and we always do.” that.” The leaked files include details of an investigation BuzzFeed said players were targeted in hotel rooms at Djokovic was reportedly offered $200,000 to throw the The report comes after allegations of doping cover-ups into a 2007 match between Nikolay Davydenko and major tournaments and offered $50,000 or more to fix match, in an incident which gives an insight into the murky at athletics’ world body, the IAAF, and also follow the cor- Martin Vassallo Arguello, which found insufficient evi- matches for the betting syndicates. Other allegations world of match-fixing - which the Serb called “a crime in ruption scandals which have convulsed football’s FIFA. “It is dence of corrupt practice. The report said the probe included that a confidential report in 2008 recommended sport”. Roger Federer also said it was difficult to guess the deeply concerning that another sport is facing such serious uncovered syndicates in Russia and Italy making hundreds investigations into 28 players but the findings were not fol- significance of the report, but he welcomed the extra pres- allegations,” an official spokesman for Prime Minister of thousands of dollars betting on matches investigators lowed up, apparently on legal advice. The report also said sure that would now focus on match-fixers. “There’s more Cameron said yesterday. “As with the allegations we have thought to be fixed. The key group of 16 suspect players the European Sports Security Association, which monitors pressure on these people now maybe because of this story, seen in other sports like athletics and football, the people had not been targeted in any crackdown, it said, question- betting for bookmakers, flagged up more than 50 suspi- which is a good thing,” Federer said. Other players seemed cious matches to the TIU last year. unaware of any problems with corruption, with both Serena Djokovic played down the report’s significance but he Williams and Japan’s Kei Nishikori saying they hadn’t also said he was targeted in 2007 to throw a first-round noticed anything untoward. “I think that... as an athlete, I do KIA refusing to cooperate in sale probe match at St Petersburg. “I was not approached directly. I was everything I can to be not only great, but, you know, his- Continued from Page 1 measures taken by the government and what has approached through people that were working with me at toric. If that’s (match-fixing) going on, I don’t know about it,” been implemented of those measures to face the that time,” said the defending Australian Open champion, Williams said. — AFP KIA manages Kuwait’s foreign assets currently esti- developments on the economic front. The Assembly mated at over $600 billion. There is no direct oversight and the government have agreed to hold a joint meet- by the parliament of investments and income from KIA ing shortly at the Assembly bureau to discuss the issue Cameron warns Muslim women... investments are not counted as part of Kuwait’s budg- of lifting subsidies to reduce the budget deficit and et. The sovereign wealth fund is required to present a boost non-oil revenues. Continued from Page 1 appear tough,” he added. detailed report to the Cabinet on the assets under its MP Askar Al-Enezi meanwhile submitted a draft law Andy Burnham, home affairs spokesman for the main management and performance but is strictly forbid- calling on the government to grant Kuwaiti citizenship Cameron said that a lack of language skills could opposition Labour party, accused Cameron of a “clumsy den from sharing this information with the general to up to 4,000 stateless people known as bedoons in make Muslims in Britain more vulnerable to the mes- and simplistic approach” which was “unfairly stigmatiz- public. 2016. Enezi said he submitted the bill because the sage of extremist groups. “I am not saying there is some ing a whole community.” Ex-Conservative Party co-chair Meanwhile, MPs continued yesterday to hail the validity of the previous law expired by the end of last sort of causal connection between not speaking English Sayeeda Warsi said her former boss’s idea was “lazy and move of HH the Amir to order cuts in the Amiri Diwan year and a new law must be approved to help speed and becoming an extremist, of course not,” he told BBC misguided” and a “stereotyping of British Muslim com- spending in light of the sharp fall in oil prices. The law- up solving the problem of 110,000 bedoons. radio. “But if you are not able to speak English, not able munities”. “My parents came to this country with very lit- makers also called on the government to take similar The interior and defense committee of the to integrate, you may find therefore you have chal- tle English - my mum’s English still isn’t great, even steps to cut spending by ministries. MP Fares Al-Otaibi Assembly discussed the issue on Sunday with the inte- lenges understanding what your identity is and there- though she has been to English language classes,” she praised the Amir’s move and urged the government to rior minister and the head of the bedoons committee. fore you could be more susceptible to the extremist told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. “I think it is lazy and follow suit. The lawmaker said that the prime minister Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- message.” sloppy when we start making policies based on stereo- had asked his ministers to cut spending and stop Sabah told the panel that the ministry intends to grant His comments drew criticism from Muslim groups types which do badly stigmatize communities.” unnecessary expenditures, but so far nothing has hap- citizenship to 155 people soon, mostly children of and opposition parties. Mohammed Shafiq, chief execu- Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council pened. Kuwaiti women married to foreigners. Head of the tive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which campaigns for of Britain, backed Cameron’s call, but questioned his Islamist MP Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran demanded yes- bedoons committee Saleh Al-Fadhalah said that better community relations, accused Cameron of “dis- tactics. “The prime minister’s aim to have English more terday a special debate on the consequences of the authorities have begun looking into the cases of graceful stereotyping”. “David Cameron and his widely spoken and for better integration falls at the first plunge in oil prices and the sharp drop in the Kuwaiti 32,000 stateless people to see if they deserve to be Conservative government are once again using British hurdle if he is to link it to security and single out Muslim bourse. He said the debate aims to discuss preventive granted citizenship or not. Muslims as a political football to score cheap points, to women to illustrate his point,” he said. — AFP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 ANALYSIS

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By Marlowe Hood hen future generations write the history of humanity’s faltering quest to repair Earth’s climate system, 2015 Wwill have its own chapter. Nature, along with the usually fractious family of nations, conspired to make it a landmark year: almost certainly the hottest on record for the planet as a whole, and a rare moment of unity when 195 states pledged to curb the carbon pollution that drives global warming. Whether the Dec 12 Paris Agreement is the key to our salvation or too-little-too-late depends on what happens starting now, experts and activists told AFP. “The most compelling thing you can say about Paris is not that it saved the planet, but that it saved the chance of saving the planet,” said Bill McKibben, founder of the grassroots organiza- tion 350.org and an architect of the worldwide movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program at the Harvard Iran deals may not herald rapid changes Kennedy School, was also chary: “We will only be able to judge whether it is truly a success years, perhaps decades, from now.” But whatever lies ahead, they all agree, the last year has been By Adam Schreck timetable in mind. But he still faces intense Revolutionary Guard, notes Cliff Kupchan, American held in Iran, student Matthew a “tipping point” on climate change. “Paris represented a real sea domestic opposition from hard-liners who the chairman of the Eurasia Group. He pre- Trevithick, was also released. change in seriousness in coming to grips with the issue,” said he lifting of crippling international believe he has given away too much and dicts “a path of slow, non-linear political And rapid-fire diplomacy managed to Alden Meyer, a veteran climate analyst from the Washington- sanctions linked to Iran’s nuclear pro- fear Iran’s opening to the outside world and economic liberalization” in the wake of get 10 US Navy sailors and their boats based Union of Concerned Scientists who has followed the UN Tgram and the flurry of diplomacy that leaves it exposed to corrupting foreign cul- the deal’s implementation. “Khamenei has released from Iranian custody in less than process for nearly three decades. Much of that seriousness was led to the release of Americans held by tural influences. been intent on showing that the deal is a 24 hours last week - an unthinkably quick driven by a crescendo of deadly extreme weather and the grow- Tehran suggests a new era could be dawn- In the months leading up this past one-off, not a dÈtente,” Kupchan wrote. turnaround compared to past cases where ing confidence of science in connecting the dots with long-term ing. But anyone hoping for rapid change is weekend’s implementation of the nuclear “And for some years the Leader will need foreigners found themselves in Iranian ter- shifts in climate. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric likely to be disappointed. President Hassan deal, Iranian authorities pursued a renewed the image of the ‘Great Satan’ to legitimize ritory. But there are limits. Iranian-American Administration will likely report tomorrow on record-breaking Rouhani and his team have plenty to cele- crackdown on free expression, jailing sever- his rule in the eyes of key constituencies - businessman Siamak Namazi, who is heat in 2015. brate now that nuclear sanctions have al writers and artists, including award-win- the (Revolutionary Guard), conservative believed to be detained in Iran, was not been removed. The moderate leader prom- ning filmmaker Keywan Karimi. The clerics and the pious poor.” part of this weekend’s prisoner swap. Also The ‘Golden Spike’ ised to boost Iran’s struggling economy November anniversary of the 1979 And for all the conversations US still missing is former FBI agent Robert They could point to the most powerful hurricane ever regis- and improve its relations with the wider takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran drew Secretary of State John Kerry and Zarif have Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007 tered; freakish, above-freezing temperatures - if only for a day - at world during his 2013 campaign. The thousands of demonstrators, who burned had over the past few years, the fact on an unauthorized CIA mission. the North Pole in December; or life-threatening droughts in east- nuclear deal achieves both aims. American flags and hoisted signs denounc- remains that they represent countries that Meanwhile, Iran remains a staunch ern and southern Africa. Some of that will be chalked up to El He hailed the deal Sunday as a way to ing McDonald’s and Starbucks. do not have formal diplomatic relations. backer of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Nino, a natural weather pattern that creates havoc along the open “new windows for engagement with That hardline pushback also helps Official ties were severed after the 1979 putting it at odds with the US and Sunni tropical and southern Pacific Rim every five or six years. But the the world,” and said fresh investments and explain paradoxes like the fact that officials, Islamic Revolution and the storming of the Arab powers including Saudi Arabia, even very fact that this El Nino is the most intense ever measured may newly freed overseas assets could kick-start including Foreign Minister Mohammad US Embassy. Wide-ranging US sanctions as it shares the West’s interest in defeating itself be a by-product of global warming. the transformation of a country struggling Javad Zarif, tout the deal’s benefits on imposed over the years and unrelated to the Islamic State group. In Yemen, a US- Scientists reported last week that climate change has proba- with high unemployment and inflation. At Twitter even as Iranian censors block the Iran’s nuclear program remain in place. That supported, Saudi-led coalition is fighting to bly pushed back the next Ice Age by 50,000 years. That may the top of the shopping list are more than site and other social media services at will complicate American companies’ abili- roll back gains by Iranian-backed Shiite sound like good news, but more than anything it is a stunning 100 planes from Europe’s Airbus. It will take home. Khamenei, Iran’s top decision-maker, ty to do business in the Islamic Republic. rebels. And mistrust runs deep on both testament to the extent to which human activity - mainly burn- time for the economic benefits to trickle has left little doubt where he stands on the “Both sides would like to open a new sides. Rouhani said Sunday that even with a ing fossil fuels - has played havoc with the planet’s thermostat. down to ordinary Iranians, but the goodwill question of whether the opening with the chapter. This does not mean they see eye to deal in hand, Iranians will not easily trust Experts have also come a step closer to concluding that our from the deal could translate into electoral West should lead to a relaxing of conserva- eye,” said Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East the US because “our people have suffered impact on Earth’s bio-chemical systems has been so massive as gains for moderate and reformist candi- tive values. During a speech to prayer lead- expert at the London School of Economics. from plenty of promise-breaking,” the offi- to justify the christening of a new geological era. The “golden dates in parliamentary elections late next ers this month, he warned that “one of the “This does not mean the end to mistrust. cial IRNA news agency reported. spike”, or start date, for the Anthropocene - the “Age of Man” - will month. Voters will also select members of main objectives of the enemies of Islam This does not mean the end to divergent In Washington, President Barack Obama probably be the mid-20th century. the 88-seat Experts Assembly, an influential and the Iranian nation is to change the cul- interests in the region.” Still, the two diplo- hailed the American prisoners’ release and What Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for clerical body that picks a successor for the ture and moralities of people, particularly mats have forged a working relationship the implementation of the nuclear accord Climate Change and Development in Dhaka, calls a “greater plan- 76-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali their lifestyle.” that can at times bear fruit. Months of as victories for “smart” diplomacy, declaring etary consciousness” on climate has shown up in business and Khamenei, in the event of his death. negotiations resulted in the release of four that “this is a good day.” Not long before, his politics as well. In the World Economic Forum’s annual survey on Rouhani may have pushed for the rapid Resistance Iranian-Americans from prison, including administration announced new sanctions global risks over the coming decade, released last week, some implementation of Iran’s commitments Those hoping for greater openness in Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, against Iran - this time on 11 people and 750 experts put “failure of climate change mitigation and adapta- under last summer’s nuclear deal, ensuring Iran will face resistance from entrenched in exchange for seven Iranians held in the entities involved in the country’s ballistic tion” at the top of the list for the first time. “Mitigation” means cut- faster sanctions relief, with the electoral interests such as the powerful US, six of them also dual nationals. A fifth missile program. —AP ting greenhouse gas emissions, and “adaptation” refers to coping with the consequences of climate change. In third and fourth position are “water crises” and “large-scale involuntary migration”. Saudis alarmed at Iran sanctions relief Record Clean Energy Investment In the business arena, the balance of investment is shifting away from fossil fuels and towards renewables, Bloomberg New By Angus McDowall Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and see no point Saudi Arabia’s economy is slowing sharply because of Energy Finance reported recently. Despite tumbling oil and gas engaging with him instead of his harder line superior. low oil prices, which the entry of new Iranian crude into prices, global investment in clean energy reached $329 billion audi officials have said little in public, but they fear They disdain the campaign by US President Barack the market will intensify. Iran is looking forward to a (300 billion euros) in 2015, a new record, Bloomberg said. US the end of sanctions on Iran could boost what they Obama to bring Iran in from the cold, believing him pusil- trade and investment boom as sanctions are lifted; it has President Barack Obama has dealt the US coal industry - already Ssee as its subversive activities in the Middle East lanimous in the face of what they see as Iranian aggres- big non-oil sectors such as agriculture and car manufac- reeling from bankruptcies - another body blow in announcing a while also enriching a diverse economy that the oil- sion and guileless in accommodating Iran’s moderates turing that the Saudis lack. freeze on new coal mine permits on federal land. dependent kingdom views as a major competitor for when Khamenei pulls the strings. The 2015 watershed on climate change has crystallized a regional influence. Saudi-Iranian political rivalry has Wider Alarm gradual shift from debate over the reality and extent of global aggravated tumult across the Middle East for years, but Tumbling Stocks The volatile nature of Saudi-Iranian relations, aggra- warming, to a discussion on what to do about it. “After having has escalated in recent months as Riyadh’s new rulers Between the full-page adverts Saudi companies had vated already this month by a diplomatic row following concentrated for years on the problems generated by climate have taken a harder line and as the nuclear deal has run in yesterday’s newspapers to congratulate King Riyadh’s execution of a Shiite cleric, is causing alarm change, we are seeing across the globe solutions responding to relieved pressure on Tehran. Salman on the Islamic calendar anniversary of his becom- among world powers who fear things will get worse. the crisis,” said Pascal Canfin, a former French government minis- Iran’s international rehabilitation also opens the ing monarch, the opinion columns and cartoons This week a procession of top officials from around the ter and the new head of WWF France. But Canfin and others cau- prospect of economic rivalry, with Saudi Arabia facing not despaired at Iran’s comeback. The role of Western powers, world will visit Riyadh, including Chinese President Xi tion against undue optimism. only a fellow oil producer in an era of oversupply and low particularly Riyadh’s oldest ally the United States, in facili- Jinping, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, French “There’s a huge amount of resistance and inertia built into the prices, but also a more self-reliant and multi-skilled econ- tating Tehran’s relief from pariah status and their hopes of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and US Secretary of system,” said Huq. “Changing the global economy is not a trivial omy. Even without public pronouncements, Riyadh’s pri- cashing in on Iran’s newly opened economy did not go State John Kerry. matter.” Much of that resistance will come from the fossil fuel vate consternation could be discerned in the pages of unremarked. While they all have other business to discuss, the industry, faced with the fact that 80 percent of known reserves semi-official media and comments by influential clerics. The Al-Jazirah daily’s cartoonist showed an incarnation question of Saudi Arabia’s handling of its rivalry with must stay in the ground to have even a shot at holding global The main cartoon in Al-Watan daily simply showed a of American capitalism in striped trousers and top hat car- Iran, and the wider risks it entails, are likely to be warming to “well below two degrees Celsius” above mid-19th pencil broken mid-way through writing the word “peace”, rying a bottle marked “sanctions”, from which emerged a addressed, with both Xi and Sharif planning also to visit century levels, much less the 1.5 degree target climate-vulnera- while an opinion piece underneath it asked “Will Iran genie in the guise of a Shiite militia fighter, his turban Tehran. What they all fear is that if competition between ble countries fought so hard to include in the Paris Agreement as change after the nuclear deal enters implementation?” Its marked “Iran”. When Salman visited Washington in the Middle East’s foremost powers cannot be contained, an aspirational goal. “The writing is on the wall for coal. But the answer: probably not. Saudi Arabia, a conservative Sunni September, the main focus of talks was the push by his it will complicate efforts to end wars and political strug- oil and gas industry is much bigger and more powerful,” said Muslim monarchy, sees revolutionary Iran as the para- powerful son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin gles across the region or even break out into new fight- Meyer. “You don’t want to delude yourself that they are going to mount threat to the Middle East’s stability, because of its Salman, to win investment from American firms, an ing elsewhere. go away quietly.” —AFP support for Shiite militias that Riyadh says have inflamed apparent riposte to Iran’s overtures to Western compa- Such concerns are only compounded by the sectarian sectarian violence and undermined Arab governments. nies. lines along which the rivalry has become drawn, and the For the Al Saud dynasty, the nuclear deal was a double Sunday’s news that sanctions would indeed be lifted likelihood that hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran blow, freeing Iran from sanctions it believed helped check raised fears of a slide in oil prices below their existing low will translate into religious competition that fuels mili- All articles appearing on these those regional activities and raising the spectre of a rap- level of under $30 a barrel as Iran immediately ordered an tancy across the world. A letter signed by 140 Saudi cler- pages are the personal opinion of prochement between Tehran and Riyadh’s most powerful increase in output, while Saudi stocks fell by 5 percent. ics, including prominent names, calling on the govern- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no ally, the United States. Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia There could be no more pronounced contrast with the ment to beware what they termed Iran’s “record of crimi- responsibility for views expressed has launched a war in Yemen to stop an ally of Tehran mood in Iran, freed from years of increasingly tough sanc- nality and treachery” and to support regional Sunnis gaining power, mobilised Muslim states to freeze Tehran tions which have eroded its currency and allowed Saudi cannot have assuaged international alarm. therein. Kuwait Times invites read- out of regional and Islamic influence, and has boosted Arabia to eclipse its economy. Neither can the tweet by Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim, ers to voice their opinions. Please support to rebels fighting Iranian allies in Syria. In 2000, Iran’s gross domestic product was larger than imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, using a deroga- send submissions via email to: opin- Iran’s pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who has Saudi Arabia’s, according to International Monetary Fund tory term often employed by Arab Sunnis to describe [email protected] or via snail publicly reached out to Riyadh repeatedly since his elec- data; now, the $650 billion Saudi economy is much bigger Iranians and Shiites, after the sanctions were lifted. tion in 2013, on Sunday rebuked the Saudis for their own than Iran at $400 billion. That trend may now start revers- “There is no surprise in the alliance of the Safavids with mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. regional stance and called on them to “take the path that ing, altering how far each country can afford to mount the Jews and Christians against the Muslims, history The editor reserves the right to edit will benefit the region”. Such comments, which mirror political and military adventures overseas, and the extent witnessed this. But there is surprise at minds delaying any submission as necessary. accusations Riyadh makes about Iran, infuriate Saudi offi- to which they can use trade relations to build alliances their understanding of this truth until this moment,” he cials who regard Rouhani as a smooth-talking cipher for with foreign powers. wrote. —Reuters TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 SPORTS

Man City’s right back Kazakhstan to beef Zenit sign Mauricio rules out January exit up doping control from Terek Grozny MANCHESTER: Manchester City right back Pablo Zabaleta has ruled out a ALMATY: The head of Kazakhstan’s national anti-doping centre has MOSCOW: Reigning champions Zenit St Petersburg have signed Brazilian move away from the club during the January transfer window after British pledged to crack down on drug cheats ahead of the Olympic Games midfielder Jose Mauricio from Terek Grozny on a six-month deal, the club media linked the defender with a switch to Italian side Inter Milan. Two knee in Rio de Janeiro following the doping scandal that rocked neighbor reported yesterday. No financial details of the contract, which has an option injuries have disrupted the 31-year-old’s season and he made only his third Russia. “We need to toughen checks on all of our country’s competi- of being extended at the end of the season, were disclosed. start in Saturday’s 4-0 Premier League win over Crystal Palace. “I want to finish tors trying to get into the Olympic squad,” Maira Bakasheva said yes- “I’m happy to get a chance at Zenit,” the club’s official site the season here and am not thinking of going anywhere in terday “We will do our best to ensure that none of the dope cheats quoted the 27-year-old, who has played with Terek since January,” Zabaleta told British media. “It’s January, and every- will enter the Olympic village at Rio.” The pledge comes as 2010, as saying. “It’s a big club and I want to start playing thing comes from the media about players coming in or Kazakhstan’s former Soviet Union master Russia grapples with a dop- with them as soon as possible. My contract expires in going out but I am 100 per cent focused on City at the ing scandal that has seen its track and field team banned from com- just six months and I have a clear understanding that I moment.” However, Zabaleta, who is facing strong competi- petition and facing possible exclusion from the Rio Games. Bakahseva need to show my best from the very first day in the tion for a starting spot from Bacary Sagna, refused to rule expressed concern about the growth in the number of positive dop- team. “I want to win the Russian title, to play in the out a possible exit during the close season, especially ing results that came back from tests on the country’s athletes over Champions League, to become an integral part of with just one year left on his contract. “At the end of the last year. “The samples of 16 of our country’s athletes gave posi- the team. I will do my best for the benefit of my this season I will have one more year left on my con- tive results,” she said. “It’s not too much, but in comparison with 2014, new club and we’ll see what happens next.” tract. Normally the end of this season will be the when only six athletes tested positive, it’s a serious increase.” Zenit, who are currently sixth in the Russian time to decide what we will do,” the Argentina Kazakhstan’s anti-doping boss added that she has been worried over league, seven points behind the leaders CSKA Moscow, will face Portuguese giants international said. Saturday’s win meant third- the fact that four of the dope cheats last year were aged under 18. placed City reduced the gap with leaders Arsenal Benfica in the last 16 round of the “It’s a pity that the athletes use performance-enhancing drugs in pur- European Champions League.—AFP to just a point after 22 games. —Reuters suit of results at the very beginning of their careers,” she said.—AFP Blackhawks matched a franchise record with 11th straight victory

CHICAGO: The Chicago Blackhawks matched a fran- chise record with their 11th straight victory, using two goals from Jonathan Toews to beat the slumping Montreal Canadiens 5-2 on Sunday night. Marian Hossa had an empty-net goal and two assists for Chicago, and Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist. Richard Panik scored his first goal of the season, and Corey Crawford, a Montreal native, made 27 saves while improving to 5-0-2 in seven career starts against his hometown team. The Blackhawks (31-13- 4) also won 11 straight from Feb. 15 to March 6, 2013, and then went on to the second of three Stanley Cup titles in the past six seasons. The defending NHL champions, who won 2-1 at Montreal on Thursday night, go for 12 in a row at Nashville on Tuesday night. Montreal (23-19-4) has lost four in a row and five of six. The Canadiens also dropped to 6-15-2 since star goaltender Carey Price was shelved by a lower-body injury in November.

CAPITALS 5, RANGERS 2 Justin Williams had a hat trick and Washington sur- vived the loss of starting goaltender Braden Holtby to extend its impressive streak of responding after loss- es by beating New York. The Capitals improved to 10- 0-1 after a loss this season and this time did so after Holtby left with dehydration. Philipp Grubauer replaced Holtby late in the second period and stopped all 11 shots he faced. Holtby made 20 saves and got the victory, less than 24 hours after he was pulled during a clunker of a loss to the Buffalo Sabres. Alex Ovechkin scored his 27th goal of the season, and Marcus Johansson also scored on the power play for HAWAII: Fabian Gomez of Argentina plays his shot from the 14th tee during the final Washington. Chris Kreider scored both goals for the round of the Sony Open In Hawaii at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. — AFP Rangers, and backup Antti Raanta made 19 saves in his first start since Dec 17. Gomez edges Snedeker in PENGUINS 5, HURRICANES 0 Sidney Crosby scored two goals, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 22 shots for his third shutout of the playoff to win Sony Open season and 41st of his career and Pittsburgh beat Carolina. Penguins defenseman Trevor Daley scored LOS ANGELES: Argentina’s Fabian Gomez by a 10-foot birdie putt at 17 calmly his third of the season in his 800th NHL game. Olli birdied the second playoff hole on Sunday drained a 22-footer from off the green at Maatta scored his fifth and Conor Sheary his second to beat Brandt Snedeker for the US PGA the last hole of regulation. “I knew I need- for the Penguins, who are one of several teams in the Tour Sony Open title in Honolulu, Hawaii. ed to make birdies coming in,” he said. “I hunt for a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Gomez blistered the par-70 Waialea sort of let (the bogeys) go away and kept Pittsburgh won for just the second time in six games, Country Club Course for a final-round 62 going.” Gomez teared up talking about the but the Penguins picked up points for the 10th time for a 20-under total of 260. His round recent death of his caddie Adrian in 12 games. The Penguins also ended a three-game included seven birdies in a row from the Monteros’s father, adding: “this win is in his winless stretch against Carolina, which defeated sixth through the 12th six of them from name.” He will also improve to 55th in the them twice in the last month, including an overtime within eight feet. He shook off momentum world rankings, closing in on a berth in the loss on Tuesday. Carolina lost its second straight after sapping bogeys at 13 and 14 to birdie the Rio Games when golf makes its Olympic a recent four-game winning streak. The Hurricanes, last two holes. Gomez was in at 20-under return. “I’m really excited about being able following an overtime loss against Vancouver on when Snedeker, who shared a one-shot to get in the Olympics,” he said. “It depends Friday, had at least a point in their last five games. overnight lead with Zac Blair, carded his on how things go with other players, but I fifth birdie of the day at the par-five 18th feel like I will be almost there.” KINGS 3, DUCKS 2 to cap a four-under 66 and force the play- Snedeker, whose trademark putting Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist, Vincent off. touch was in evidence all week-until the Lecavalier added a power-play goal and Los Angeles After both parred the first playoff hole- playoff-said that coming up short on his opened the Freeway Faceoff rivalry series for the sea- the 18th-they returned to the 18th tee for 12-footer to win at the first playoff hole son with a victory over Anaheim. Tyler Toffoli scored the second hole of the decider. Gomez was “going to sting.” “Obviously disappoint- and Jonathan Quick made 30 saves for the Kings, two-putted from the front of the green for ed,” the seven-time PGA Tour winner said. “I who beat their Southern California archrivals in regu- birdie, collecting the second US PGA Tour had some good looks coming down the lation for the first time in 11 regular-season meetings. title of his career when Snedeker just stretch and uncharacteristically I hit some David Perron scored in his first game with Anaheim, missed his birdie chance from 10 feet. “I’m pretty weak putts. I don’t like to miss putts but the Ducks lost in regulation for just the third time really, really happy,” Gomez said. “It’s my short.” Blair, seeking his first tour title, had in 11 games since Christmas. Rickard Rakell also second victory on tour. I felt good all week led briefly but ended up in solo third after scored, and John Gibson stopped 23 shots in a duel long and was able to put on a great round a 67 for 19-under 261. He just missed an of All-Star goalies. The Kings and Ducks didn’t meet today. “I got on a streak with seven putts in eagle attempt at the 72nd hole that would until the 44th game of their respective seasons, but a row and it made me feel good like I could have put him in the playoff. “One of the they’ll face off four more times before the postsea- win the tournament.” best putts I’ve probably ever hit right there son. He kept his cool after back-to-back on 18,” Blair said. “Unfortunately, it didn’t bogeys, and with his confidence restored go in.”— AFP LIGHTNING 3, PANTHERS 1 Nikita Kucherov had two goals and Tampa Bay extended a season-high winning streak to five games by beating Atlantic Division-leading Florida. Andrej Time running out for Sustr had the other Tampa Bay goal and Ben Bishop made 26 saves to help the Lightning move within five Russia: Athletics boss points of Florida. Bishop is 7-1-1 against the Panthers. Nick Bjugstad scored for the Panthers. Florida is 0-2-1 MOSCOW: The newly-elected boss of weeks.’ Shlyakhtin is backed by Russiaís since ending a 12-game winning streak. Roberto Luongo made 29 saves and became the seventh Russiaís athletics federation yesterday Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and he was PITTSBURGH: Pittsburgh Penguins Carl Hagelin (62) is shoved to the ice by Carolina goalie to play in 900 NHL games. admitted that it will be tough to end a ban elected unanimously to head the ARAF Hurricanes’ Kris Versteeg (32) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in imposed on the country’s athletes over over the weekend after two candidates Pittsburgh on Sunday, Jan 17, 2016. Versteeg served a two-minute minor penalty for the CANUCKS 2, ISLANDERS 1 doping in time for the Olympic Games in withdrew from the vote. Mutko has said infraction. —AP Rio de Janeiro. Dmitry Shlyakhtin was cho- he will serve as head of the federation for Ryan Miller made 47 saves and Radim Vrbata sen as head of the All-Russian Athletics the next several months, through the scored in the shootout, leading Vancouver to a 2-1 Federation (ARAF) on Saturday and was Olympic Games in Rio, before another win over New York. Ben Hutton scored for the NHL Results/Standings charged with the task of repairing the vote in September or October. Russia is Canucks in regulation. Despite receiving an 25-save damage done to the reputation of Russiaís facing an uphill battle after a World Anti- effort from Jaroslav Halak, the Islanders’ fell to 24-15- 6 as their two-game winning streak came to an end. Pittsburgh 5, Carolina 0; Vancouver 2, NY Islanders 1 (SO); Tampa Bay 3, Florida 1; Washington 5, NY athletes. Doping Agency (WADA) independent Rangers 2; Chicago 5, Montreal 2; Philadelphia 2, Detroit 1 (SO); Los Angeles 3, Anaheim 2. But the former regional sports official commission alleged widespread state- Ryan Strome scored for New York. New York entered rated Moscow’s chances of overcoming sanctioned corruption and doping in the the day third in the Metropolitan Division despite Western Conference Detroit 23 14 8 111 116 54 having the same amount of points (53) and the same Central Division Tampa Bay 24 17 4 119 107 52 the ban in time for the Rio Games at just country’s athletics. W L OTL GF GA PTS fifty-fifty. ‘I think that currently we have an The IAAF provisionally suspended record (24-15-5) as the second place New York Boston 23 16 5 133 116 51 Rangers. The Rangers are in second place because Chicago 31 13 4 140 110 66 Montreal 23 19 4 128 118 50 even chance of competing at the ARAF in November and outlined strict Dallas 29 12 5 154 124 63 Olympics,’ Shlyakhtin said. ‘We need to do reinstatement criteria last month, includ- they have one more regulation and overtime win (22- Ottawa 21 18 6 125 138 48 21). St. Louis 26 15 7 121 121 59 our best to boost our athletes’ chances ing severing ties with Russian athletics Minnesota 22 15 8 113 106 52 Buffalo 18 23 4 105 122 40 day by day.’ ìWe’re pressed for time as the officials, officers or staff with any past Nashville 20 17 8 116 123 48 Toronto 16 20 7 108 122 39 IAAF (International Association of involvement in doping. The leadership of FLYERS 2, RED WINGS 1, SO Colorado 22 21 3 129 129 47 Metropolitan Division Athletics Federations) expects us to take Russian anti-doping agency Claude Giroux scored in a shootout and in regula- Winnipeg 21 21 3 118 129 45 Washington 34 8 3 149 97 71 hard and drastic measures as soon as pos- RUSADAówhich WADA claimed provided tion, lifting Philadelphia over Detroit. Jakub Voracek Pacific Division NY Islanders 24 15 6 123 112 54 sible,’ Sport-Express daily quoted advance notice to athletes about out-of- also scored in the shootout and Michal Neuvirth Los Angeles 28 13 3 118 99 59 NY Rangers 24 16 5 129 120 53 Shlyakhtin as saying. ‘In March we must competition testingólast month resigned denied two Detroit shooters. Pavel Datsyuk was the Arizona 22 17 5 122 133 49 Pittsburgh 21 16 7 108 108 49 San Jose 23 18 2 124 117 48 only Red Wing to get the puck past Neuvirth in one- New Jersey 22 19 5 101 110 49 report to the IAAF council what we have en masse following a pledge by President Vancouver 19 17 10 111 127 48 done. We need to convince them that Vladimir Putin to ‘do everything’ to fight on-one duels. Neuvirth stopped 29 shots before the Philadelphia 20 15 8 98 114 48 shootout. Giroux pulled Philadelphia into a 1-all tie Anaheim 19 18 7 88 105 45 weíre making revolutionary changes in doping. Over four thousand Russian ath- Calgary 20 20 3 116 131 43 Carolina 20 19 8 111 129 48 Russia’s athletics. letes have been banned from internation- early in the third. Detroit’s Brendan Smith was called Columbus 17 25 4 116 146 38 for hooking with 4.8 seconds left in regulation. The Edmonton 18 23 5 111 134 41 ‘Of course there will be doubts about al competition and sports authorities are Eastern Conference Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in Flyers had a goal waved off after the ensuing faceoff our capability to change the existing prac- launching reforms and making promises Atlantic Division the standings and are not included in the loss col- because a leaping Wayne Simmonds was called for tices in our athletics within just several to get the ban lifted in time for Rio.—AFP Florida 26 14 5 119 101 57 umn (L). goalie interference.— AP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 SPORTS New Zealand dismiss downside of record win

WELLINGTON: New Zealand have line-up with only one match left before this month New Zealand lost four wick- the record was nice but winning was and Williamson who were only separat- weighed up the impact of their record the world T20 championship starts in ets in the first match and only one in the better. “You can’t have everything,” he ed in the first match by a run out. “There win over Pakistan in Sunday’s Twenty20 India in March. second, meaning limited opportunities said. “It was a really good performance was a good combination between and concluded the benefits far outweigh Guptill said Monday that winning was for their middle order batsmen. from the team all round. “An improved Guptill and Williamson because they’ve the downside. Martin Guptill and Kane better than making sure everyone had bowling effort on a pretty good batting got a different style of game,” he said. “I Williamson’s unbroken 171-run stand to batting time. “You don’t really want to ‘Good for us’ track first, and then for Gup and myself think maybe from a coaching point of win the match and level the series set a get out to give other people a go, do “It can only be good for us that we’re to put a big partnership together was view we can develop more variation in new record for the highest Twenty20 you?” he said. Guptill scored an unbeat- winning, not many wickets down,” pleasing. “If you do things well then our bowling, a bit more smart fielding partnership. They eclipsed by one run en 87 from 58 deliveries as New Zealand Guptill said. “Probably only three of us guys don’t get bats, but they’ll be positions. That’s the only thing. “If you the previous best of 170 set by South beat Pakistan by 10 wickets in Hamilton. have had good long innings in the last preparing and training for the next can get one or two wickets, then it’ll be Africa’s Graeme Smith and Loots Bosman Pakistan won the opening match by 16 three or for four games. It’s disappoint- game just as normal and I’m sure they’ll a different ball game. It doesn’t matter if against England in 2009. However, their runs in Auckland, meaning the series is ing for the middle order but it can only be ready to go.” you get 180 or 200 runs on the board, if dominance at the top of the New set for a decider in the third and final be good for New Zealand cricket.” New Pakistan spin bowling coach you don’t pick (up) wickets then the Zealand innings meant no time in the match in Wellington on Friday. Against Zealand skipper Williamson, who scored Mushtaq Ahmed said his bowlers were game will always be in the opposition middle for anyone else in the battling Sri Lanka in two Twenty20 wins earlier 72 off 48 in partnership with Guptill, said unable to find a way to break Guptill hands.” —AFP Under-pressure Dhoni gets board’s backing NEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s job the team under him in the last eight-nine as India’s limited-overs captain is safe years, I think it’s unfair to question his lead- despite the team’s third successive one-day ership after just one series,” Thakur told series defeat, the country’s cricket board reporters. “Dhoni is one of the most suc- (BCCI) said yesterday. Speculation has been cessful captains of the country. Under him, swirling over the future of the 34-year-old we won the World Cup in 2007 (T20) and who quit tests in late 2014 but remains in 2011 (ODI). Team India rose to number one charge of the team in shorter formats. The both in tests and ODIs under his leadership. recent results, however, have not really “Unfortunately we lost all three match- enhanced the reputation of the man who es so far, and we’ve noticed our bowling led India to virtually every honor across for- limitations too, not being able to defend mats. Under him, India lost their first ODI big totals. “It’s a concern and the selectors series in Bangladesh in June last year and and team management would assess the went down to a visiting South African team performance keeping the Asia Cup and in October. On Sunday, Dhoni’s men suc- the Twenty20 World Cup in mind,” Thakur cumbed to their third successive defeat in said. Dhoni himself felt more than his cap- Australia who took an unassailable 3-0 lead taincy, the team needed to look at the in the five-match series, chasing down big grey areas and how to fix them. “It’s not totals in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. about the leader. I’m there (now), some- While some pundits believe test captain body else will come later,” the stumper- Virat Kohli should take over the limited- batsman said after the loss in Melbourne. overs duties as well, BCCI secretary Anurag “What is more important is to see the Thakur insisted Dhoni was the right man to areas we are lacking in, the departments lead India in shorter formats. “The kind of which have to improve when it comes to performance we have had from Dhoni and shorter formats.”— Reuters

BOSTON: Dominick Cruz celebrates with the title belt after his win against TJ Dillashaw in a UFC bantamweight title match on Sunday, Jan 17, 2016. — AP Cruz regains the UFC bantamweight title

BOSTON: Dominick Cruz regained the UFC ban- tamweight title Sunday night, outpointing T.J. Dillashaw by split decision at the TD Garden. Cruz (21-1) received winning scores of 48-47 and 49- India’s captain MS Dhoni 46, and the other judge scored the five-round bout 49-46 for Dillashaw (13-3). Forced to relin- quish the title because of a series of knee injuries, Cruz fought for the first time since 2014 and the Ledecky smashes 800m free second time since 2011. Dillashaw was making his third title defense. “There’s no such thing as world record; Phelps wins rust,” said Cruz, from San Diego. “Rust is only something you get when you don’t train hard. LOS ANGELES: Katie Ledecky crushed her ple more meets before (Olympic) trials. I’ve seen fighters do what TJ does, but he’s faster.” own women’s 800m freestyle world record Hopefully I’ll be better than this,” said Cruz took down Dillashaw, from Denver, in on Sunday, clocking a stunning 8min Phelps, adding that the lower-key meetings each of the first four rounds and used his foot- 6.68sec to win at the Pro Swim meeting in are a chance to assess not only his speed work to control the distance for most of the fight. Austin, Texas. The 18-year-old American but also technical details such as turns as “I’m very disappointed,” Dillashaw said. “I felt like I obliterated the previous record of 8:07.39 he continues a comeback aimed at adding was the aggressor and landed the bigger shots. that she set at the 2015 World to his Olympic legacy in Rio. I’m not a fan of his antics, but congratulations to Championships last August 8 in Kazan, Ledecky, who was the youngest mem- him.” Cruz took down Dillashaw once in the first Russia. “It was exciting,” said Ledecky, who ber of the US Olympic delegation in round, grabbing a leg while Dillashaw was beat the water in triumph when she saw London four years ago, is on course to build throwing a kick. Toward the end of the round, her time. “It’s always exciting when you can her Games legacy as well. She now owns Cruz fought off a takedown attempt from get pushed along by a crowd like this in the eight fastest performances ever in the Dillashaw. Austin.” 800m free and nine of the top 10. She also Cruz used his foot speed in the second round, She upstaged superstar Michael Phelps, holds the world record in the 400m free moving in and out of range to land punches. In who blazed to victory in the 200m individ- and the non-Olympic women’s event of the final minute of the round, he downed ual medley to notch his first win over rival 1500m free. In Rio, Ledecky could line up Dillashaw twice with double leg shots. Dillashaw Ryan Lochte in the event since the 2012 in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyles- landed two kicks to the head in the third, open- London Olympics. Phelps, whose 18 and perhaps even the 100m free, in which ing cuts on Cruz’s lips and next to his left eye. Olympic gold medals include three in the she finished second in Austin this week. Cruz still stayed out of range for most of the 200m individual medley, powered through “I was feeling good going into it,” said round and scored another double-leg takedown. the final 25 meters of the closing freestyle Ledecky, who romped home with Becca Dillashaw sustained a cut along the left eye in leg to win in 1:58.00sec. Lochte, the current Mann a distant second in 8:24.49. the fourth, but scored his first takedown of the world record-holder in the event, held a “Whenever I get going like that, I get into a fight, slipping behind Cruz and forcing him to the narrow lead at every turn but settled for good rhythm with my freestyle. My stroke mat. second in 1:58.43. just feels good the whole weekend once I In the fifth, Cruz kept circling. Late in the “Ryan and I have had a lot of great have one or two really good freestyle round, Dillashaw landed a knee to the midsec- swims with one another,” Phelps said. swims.” In other finals on the last night of tion. In the co-main event, Eddie Alvarez out- “Joking around with him beforehand, I kind the meet, Hungary’s “Iron Lady” Katinka pointed former lightweight champion Anthony of knew we were going to try to battle it Hosszu pulled off a tough double, winning Pettis in a three-round fight. All three judges out. I knew it would come down to the the 200m medley in 2:10.69 shortly after scored it 29-28, two for Alvarez (27-4) and one BOSTON: Dominick Cruz is upended by TJ Dillashaw in their bantamweight bout during UFC touch.” Phelps finished the three-day meet triumphing in 100m backstroke in 59.91. for Pettis (18-4). Both fighters spent the entire Fight Night 81 at TD Banknorth Garden 6 in Boston, Massachusetts. — AFP with two victories-including his 100m but- Singapore’s Quah Zheng Wen won the second round on their feet with Pettis defending terfly win on Friday-and a fourth place fin- men’s 200m fly in 1:58.07, coming from fifth two takedown attempts. In the first, Alvarez took times. Also on the main card, heavyweight Travis mous decision over Ross Pearson. Browne ish in the 200m freestyle. “We have a cou- at the halfway mark to triumph.— AFP down Pettis twice, once with a double leg and Browne stopped former NFL player Matt improved to 18-3-1, and Mitrione dropped to 9- once with an inside triple. Bleeding from his Mitrione in the third round, and lightweight 5. Trinaldo improved to 17-4, and Pearson fell to nose in the third, Alvarez took down Pettis three Francisco Trinaldo won a three-round unani- 20-10 with one no-contest.— AP Australia pick powerful T20 squad to face India

SYDNEY: Australia yesterday named a powerful Australian colors through a combination of his ted not being able to find places for George 17-man squad for the three-match Twenty20 experience, especially in short-form cricket, the Bailey and Mitchell Marsh but noted that the international series against India this month, all-round package he offers and the fact he is door remains open to the World Twenty20 with an eye to the upcoming World T20. bang in form at the moment, having put per- squad. “We know what both those players are However, Test captain Steve Smith and his formances on the board for the Sydney Thunder,” capable of, and both have significant experience deputy David Warner will play only in the open- said Marsh. “Shaun Tait returns on the basis that of playing Twenty20 cricket in India,” Marsh said. ing match in Adelaide on January 26 before sit- he is the quickest bowler going around in “But we want them to continue to press their ting out the other games to prepare for the first Australia at the moment and he offers us that cases for inclusion while we take this opportuni- ODI against New Zealand in Auckland on explosive option if we choose to use it. “Chris ty to look at other contenders.” The second T20 February 3. “Our choice of 17 for the KFC T20Is Lynn, Travis Head and Andrew Tye have made takes place in Melbourne on January 29 while gives us a chance to look at some options ahead irresistible cases for inclusion off the back of the final game will be in Sydney on January 31. of the ICC World Twenty20 in India,” said national individual excellence in the KFC BBL and we are Australia squad include; Aaron Finch (capt), selector Rod Marsh. The tournament starts delighted to offer them the opportunity to push Scott Boland, Cameron Boyce, James Faulkner, March 8 with the April 3 final in Kolkata. their claims for inclusion in the ICC World John Hastings, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Chris Australia have opted for experience and form for Twenty20,” Marsh added. Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, Kane the India series, picking the stars of the Big Bash “In terms of leg-spin, Cameron Boyce has Richardson, Steve Smith, Shaun Tait, Andrew AUSTIN: Katie Ledecky swims in the Women’s 800 meter freestyle final during the league with big-hitting Aaron Finch as captain. once again impressed in domestic action and Tye, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Shane Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin, Texas. — AFP “Shane Watson has earned his recall to deserves his spot.” The selectors said they regret- Watson.—AFP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 SPORTS

NBA Results/Standings

Minnesota 117, Phoenix 87; Oklahoma City 99, Miami 74; San Antonio 112, Dallas 83; Denver 129, Indiana 126; Houston 112, LA Lakers 95. Eastern Conference Atlantic Division W L PCT GB Toronto 25 15 .625 - Boston 22 19 .537 3.5 NY Knicks 20 22 .476 6 Brooklyn 11 30 .268 14.5 Philadelphia 5 37 .119 21 Central Division Cleveland 28 10 .737 - Chicago 23 16 .590 5.5 Detroit 22 18 .550 7 Indiana 22 19 .537 7.5 Milwaukee 18 25 .419 12.5 Southeast Division Atlanta 24 17 .585 - Miami 23 18 .561 1 Orlando 20 19 .513 3 Washington 19 20 .487 4 Charlotte 18 22 .450 5.5 Western Conference Northwest Division Oklahoma City 30 12 .714 - Utah 18 22 .450 11 Portland 18 25 .419 12.5 Denver 16 25 .390 13.5 Minnesota 13 29 .310 17 Pacific Division Golden State 37 4 .902 - LA Clippers 26 14 .650 10.5 Sacramento 17 23 .425 19.5 Phoenix 13 29 .310 24.5 LA Lakers 9 34 .209 29 Southwest Division San Antonio 36 6 .857 - Memphis 23 19 .548 13 Dallas 23 19 .548 13 Houston 22 20 .524 14 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Bass (right) reaches at Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard during the first half of an NBA basketball game on New Orleans 13 26 .333 21.5 Sunday, Jan 17, 2016.— AP Streaking Spurs pummel Mavericks

LOS ANGELES: The San Antonio Spurs are Carlisle said. The Spurs trailed by two points Dion Waiters added 18 for the Thunder. They Indiana, and Monta Ellis added 24. the Timberwolves. They shot 56.5 percent and streaking into the second half of the NBA sea- after the first quarter, but out-scored the Mavs are the third team to reach 30 wins this sea- won for the first time since beating Utah on son after notching their 11th straight victory 64-40 in the second and third periods to gain son. Dwyane Wade, who sat out Friday against TIMBERWOLVES 117, SUNS 87 Dec 30. Brandon Knight scored 20 points on 9- on Sunday, 112-83 over the Dallas Mavericks. control. Spurs starters Tim Duncan and point Denver with shoulder soreness, led the Heat Ricky Rubio and Andrew Wiggins scored 18 for-20 shooting, and Markieff Morris had 17 Forward LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points, guard Tony Parker scored just two points with 22 points on his 34th birthday. Hassan points each and Minnesota beat Phoenix to points and five rebounds for free-falling 13 of them in the pivotal third quarter, as the apiece, Parker departing in the third quarter Whiteside added 14 points, 11 rebounds and snap a nine-game losing streak. Karl-Anthony Phoenix. The Suns have lost 13 of 14 games to Spurs thrashed their cross-state rivals to with a sore right hip. But Boris Diaw con- four blocks for the Heat. It was the fewest Towns had 14 points and eight rebounds for drop to 13-29.—Agencies remain unbeaten in 24 home games this sea- tributed 16 points for San Antonio and Kawhi points scored by the Heat this season and the son. It was their 33rd straight home victory in Leonard chipped in 15 while sitting out the fewest allowed by the Thunder. a streak dating back to last season and took fourth quarter and reserve guard Jonathon their record to 36-6, equaling their best start Simmons stepped up with 14 points for the ROCKETS 112, LAKERS 95 to a campaign, previously achieved in 2010- Spurs. James Harden scored 31 points and 11. A frustrated Carlisle was ejected from the Houston pulled away to beat Los Angeles. The Spurs have earned 11 of their 36 victo- game with 11:17 to play in the fourth quarter Dwight Howard had 14 points and 15 ries by a margin of at least 25 points, a new after coming far onto the court and gesturing rebounds for his ninth straight double-double, club record. Fresh off a victory over Eastern at one of the officials. By that time, the Spurs his longest such streak since a 14-game run Conference powerhouse Cleveland, the Spurs were leading by 23 points. “There was a level three seasons ago. Lou Williams led Los fought through their worst first quarter of the of frustration tonight but everyone was trying Angeles with 20 points. Kobe Bryant, trying to season on Sunday. But they turned things to do the right thing,” Carlisle said. “San play through a sore right Achilles, had five around with the aid of suffocating defense, Antonio goes hard and they can make you points in 24 minutes and tied a season high holding the Mavericks to their lowest field- look bad. We got beat and that’s the name of with nine assists before sitting out the fourth goal percentage of the season at 35.8 percent. that tune.” quarter. Mavericks big man Dirk Nowitzki was limited to just four points. “Both LA (Aldridge) and Thunder 99, Heat 74 NUGGETS 129, PACERS 126 Boris (Diaw) were great in the pick-and-roll Russell Westbrook had his second consecu- Randy Foye hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with defense getting back to Dirk,” Spurs coach tive triple-double to help the Oklahoma City 21 seconds left for Denver in its comeback vic- Gregg Popovich said. “Obviously, he’s a tough Thunder beat the Miami Heat 99-74 on tory over Indiana. The Nuggets came back in cover, so both of them deserve a lot of credit.” Sunday. Westbrook finished with 13 points, 15 the second half to get their seventh straight Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said Nowitzki’s assists and 10 rebounds. It was his fifth triple- win at home over the Pacers. Danilo Gallinari poor shooting night was his fault. “I have to double of the season and the 24th of his had 23 points, and Will Barton had 21, includ- OKLAHOMA: Miami Heat guard Tyler Johnson (left) passes the ball in front of Oklahoma get Dirk better looks-we have to run some career. Kevin Durant had 24 points and 10 ing two free throws with 6 seconds left. Myles City Thunder center Enes Kanter (right) in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game in things to put him into better positions,” rebounds, Serge Ibaka scored 19 points, and Turner scored a career-high 25 points for Oklahoma City on Sunday, Jan 17, 2016. — AP

Panthers to meet Cardinals in NFC championship game Broncos dump Steelers CHARLOTTE: Cam Newton. Larry lot of guys back, watch this film, get DENVER: This would’ve been no way to send Peyton CJ Anderson. A 2-point conversion made it 20-13. Manning said. “They were dominant today against a Fitzgerald. Two of the biggest stars better on it and get ready for Arizona.” Manning into the offseason. Seven dropped passes. A “Bottom line, you lose the turnover battle in a hostile high-powered offense.” playing for the two highest scoring Arizona won in its only other NFC whiplash-inducing, blindside hit from an unblocked environment against good people and it’s going to teams with a Super Bowl berth on the championship game appearance in blitzer. A flurry of field goals and a defense that gave cost you,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “And it cost Stepping up line. Welcome to the NFC champi- 2008 before losing to the Pittsburgh up big chunks of yards too often. All that ugliness got us today.” With no Antonio Brown (concussion), Ben set aside thanks to the sort of comeback that has Making his first start since Nov 15, Manning fin- Roethlisberger found another big play receiver in onship game - the Arizona Cardinals Steelers 27-23 in the Super Bowl. It is defined the Denver Broncos all season. They rallied ished 21 for 37 for 222 yards, with no touchdowns or Martavis Bryant, who caught nine passes for 154 and Carolina Panthers next Sunday in Carolina’s fourth appearance in the for a 23-16 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on interceptions. The totals might have been better were yards. “The plan for me was to stay focused - stay Charlotte, North Carolina. The NFC title game, but first since 2005. Sunday to move themselves and their 39-year-old it not for seven drops from his receivers. Next up, the focused on my job and go out and handle my busi- Panthers held on to beat the Seattle The Panthers are 1-2 in their previous quarterback one win away from the Super Bowl. Patriots, who fell 30-24 in overtime to Denver earlier ness,” said Bryant, who also had two carries for 40 Seahawks 31-24 on Sunday, knocking three appearances, reaching the The 17th edition of Manning-Brady is set for next this season, when Brock Osweiler was playing in place yards. Bryant may have been so open because the two-time defending NFC champs Super Bowl in 2003 before losing 32- Sunday. But before that, Manning will savor a win in of Manning while he nursed his injured foot. “They’re Denver’s defense was in zone a lot, with Pro Bowl cor- out of the postseason with their 12th 29 on a late field goal to the New Denver’s 17th game of the season - one every bit as one of the best teams in the AFC,” Broncos linebacker nerback Chris Harris Jr dealing with a sore shoulder. straight home win. Now they’ll host England Patriots. rough, rugged and up in the air as any of the previous Von Miller said. “Let’s go out and play and see who “We were able to move the ball, and then we just the NFC championship game for the “It’s pretty special, it’s hard to do,” 16. “This was a dog fight, a grinder and went down to wants the Super Bowl.” Things we learned from ... we kind of get down there and hurt ourselves,” first time in franchise history. tight end Greg Olsen said of hosting the last drive,” Manning said. “If you can be in a lot of Sunday’s game: Roethlisberger said. “Part of that was because they’re “To get something that you’ve nev- the game. “When you’re the No. 1 those games and win those games, it certainly gives the No 1 defense in the world.” BIG HIT: The Broncos er got, you have to do something that seed coming off the regular season you confidence and, hey, it’s playoff football.” The Classic matchup defense may have bent a few times, but was never you’ve never done,” Newton said of your destiny is in your own hands and Broncos (13-4) improved to 10-3 on the season in The Patriots opened as a 3 1/2-point favorite over upended. The same can’t be said of their defensive the team’s quest to win its first Super we took care of business against what games decided by seven or less. This one turned Denver, despite playing on the road. This will be a coordinator Wade Phillips. The 68-year-old coach was Bowl. The Cardinals (14-3) beat the has been the pinnacle of the NFC the when Broncos cornerback Bradley Roby punched the rematch from the AFC title game of two years ago, taken out by Bryant after the Steelers receiver got Green Bay Packers 26-20 in overtime last few years, so this was a big step ball out of Pittsburgh running back Fitz Toussaint’s when Broncos receiver Wes Welker leveled then- pushed out of bounds on the Denver sideline. No on Saturday night to advance. The forward as an organization.” This is the hands with 9:52 left. Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib, knocking him out of damage done, though. Phillips popped back up Panthers and Cardinals have not third time since 2008 the Panthers Until then, Denver had settled for four field goals the game and opening things up in the secondary. quickly and slapped his back side. Head coach Gary played this season, but this has the have hosted the Cardinals in a playoff and trailed 13-12. After the day’s only turnover, the Manning threw for 400 yards in a 26-16 win. The Kubiak never even saw it. “I can assure you he’s fine,” potential to be a high-scoring game. The Cardinals upset Jake Broncos put together their only touchdown drive - 13 teams are different now. “Our defense is guiding us. Kubiak said. “He’s in there hollering. I just left him, so plays, 65 yards over 6:52, capped by a 1-yard run by Let’s make that clear. They played great all season,” he’s all right.” matchup. The Panthers averaged Delhomme and the No. 2-seeded more than 31 points this season and Panthers 33-13 in the divisional play- Can’t-miss McManus the Cardinals were a close second at offs in 2008. Broncos kicker Brandon McManus went from 30.5. Fitzgerald had eight catches for The Panthers got some measure of missing kicks in five consecutive games down the 176 yards and a touchdown in the revenge last year when they defeated stretch to making history Sunday: His 5-for-5 per- win over the Packers, but Carson the Cardinals 27-16 in the wild-card formance in tricky crosswinds helped Denver come Palmer struggled most of the game round last season, although Arizona away with points when the offense kept stalling. with inaccurate passes. “It’s easy to was on its fourth quarterback of the “During warmups, we went out there and it was a dwell on (bad plays),” said Palmer, season in Ryan Lindley. “A lot of us pretty calm day - a nice, tempered day. We come out who like Newton is a former No. 1 wouldn’t mind going back there to 7 minutes before kickoff and I see a 30 mph cross- pick and Heisman Trophy winner. “But Carolina and playing those guys again wind come in over the Rockies,” McManus said. “So, I the experience I have, I’ve learned since they beat us last year when we wasn’t nervous at the time, but I knew it would make from a lot of opportunities and situa- had a lot of injuries,” Cardinals corner- for an exciting day.” McManus is the seventh kicker to tions. You’ve got to forget about it back Justin Bethel said. If the game is make all five of his field goal tries in a playoff game. and move on. There is no other close, Olsen said the Panthers are well thought.” prepared. “I guess we’re used to it - I Butterfinger Broncos Newton said the key will be to not know we have some strong tickers,” Denver’s biggest bugaboo this season has been make mistakes and, if the team gets a Olsen said. “We have been through dropped passes, and that trend continued, with lead, to not let off the gas. “We were some drama and some stress, but we Demaryius Thomas, C.J. Anderson and Ronnie Hillman conservative, but at the end of the have a lot of character in this room all letting passes bounce off their hands. Emmanuel Sanders and Bennie Fowler each had two drops. day, you have to trust coaching,” and guys who understand what it Fowler made up for it with his 31-yard catch on third- Newton said. “We had a great plan means for the Panthers and play for and-12 to set up Denver’s only touchdown. “A couple coming in. We just got to keep put- one another. We just have to play it DENVER: Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Matt Spaeth (top) flies over Denver Broncos outside of those were the wind, but as a receiver we should ting it back together. “We’re getting a until the end.”—AP linebacker Von Miller during the first half in an NFL football divisional playoff game on Sunday, have still made those plays,” Thomas said.—Agencies Jan 17, 2016. — AP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 SPORTS African strikers on form in Europe

PARIS: Rudy Gestede was on the mark awarded a penalty when his shot was for Aston Villa in England, while blocked by the sliding Aly Cissokho’s Floyd Ayite (Bastia) FRANCE Cheikhou Kouyate had an outstanding raised arm. Despite missing from the Togo international Ayite scored three match for West Ham. In France there spot earlier this month Mahrez took the minutes after half-time to earn Bastia a 1- were match-winning goals from Floyd penalty himself, but his casual strike 0 win at home to Montpellier. The winger Ayite at Bastia and Cheick Diabate at down the middle was too close to Mark headed home Florian Marange’s cross for Bordeaux, and in Italy Jerry Mbakogu Bunn and the Villa goalkeeper made the his fourth goal of the season. scored the winner for Carpi from the save. penalty spot. Cheick Diabate (Bordeaux) Yaya Toure (Manchester City) Mali striker Diabate struck the winner Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa) ENGLAND The Ivory Coast star suffered the for Bordeaux for the second time in as The Benin striker scored an equalizer indignity of being dropped to the bench many games as they beat Lille 1-0. The 15 minutes from time for Aston Villa in but made his mark when he came on in 27-year-old headed home a cross from their 1-1 draw with high-flying Leicester the second half with a neat piece of play Tunisian international Wahbi Khazri six when, after coming on minutes earlier as as City’s best move of the match led to a minutes into the second half. a substitute, he got away with the ball third goal, and Sergio Aguero’s second of bouncing off his arm and then benefit- the match, in a 4-0 rout of Crystal Palace. Mohamed Salah (Roma) ITALY ted from a Robert Huth clearance that hit Coach Luciano Spalletti was back in him in the groin before his deflected Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham) charge of Roma after the sacking of Rudi shot found its way into the net for his A forceful and aggressive display Garcia and Salah’s performance reflected first goal since September. Unfortunately meant the Senegal star was the pick of the general malaise being felt at the for Villa, the point gained was not West Ham’s midfield in their 2-1 loss Serie A club. The Egyptian winger was far enough to take them off the bottom of away to Newcastle. The London club may from his best and, after Radja the table. still have come away with a point if his Nainggolan had given Roma a 1-0 lead, late header had not been saved by spurned the chance to double the hosts’ Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) Newcastle keeper Rob Elliot. advantage when he hit a wasted shot Jerry Mbakogu He has been having a brilliant season instead of offering up to Edin Dzeko, who as a key member of Leicester’s unexpect- Arthur Boka (Malaga) SPAIN was in a better position. It finished tied at but the league minnows were given a Lorenzo Lollo’s opener for the hosts, and ed push for the Premier League title but Ivorian full-back Boka was sent-off for 1-1. huge boost with a fourth win of the cam- after a foul in the area Nigerian Mbakogu last weekend was one to forget for the two bookable offences as Malaga’s sev- paign thanks to Mbakogu’s second-half stepped up to beat Emiliano Viviano in Algeria winger. Minutes after the Foxes en-game unbeaten run in La Liga came Jerry Mbakogu (Carpi) penalty. Sampdoria’s Joaquin Correa the visiting goal to put Carpi ahead on had gone 1-0 up at Villa Park, they were to an end in a 2-1 defeat at Sevilla. Carpi are in a battle against relegation pulled the match level six minutes after 55 minutes.—AFP Record-setting Higuain fires Napoli title charge

MILAN: Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri hailed Gonzalo Higuain as “the top striker in the world” but says the Argentinean can do more on his record-setting run towards Serie A’s top scorer’s award. “If he was a little more aggres- sive when going to the net, he’d score a lot more,” Sarri said after Napoli moved two points clear of Juventus and four ahead of Inter Milan at the top of Serie A thanks to a 3-1 win against Sassuolo on Saturday. “But he’s still the top striker in the world right now.” Higuain, who joined Napoli in time for the 2013 season after six seasons at Real Madrid, TOULOUSE: Toulouse’s Brazilian midfielder Somalia (right) vies with Paris Saint- finished the previous two Serie A seasons with Germain’s Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura during the French L1 football match a tally of 18 goals (2015) and 17 (2014). Yet, in Toulouse vs Paris Saint-Germain at the Municipal stadium in Toulouse. —AFP his first game of the second half of the season on Saturday, ‘Pipito’ hit his fifth brace from his last seven games to take his goals tally to 20 FRENCH CUP PREVIEW from 20 league games. There are still 18 games to play, so if he continues like this, the French- born Argentina international could rewrite the Toulouse out to claim Serie A history books. The last two Capocannoniere (top scorer) awards were won PSG scalp in French Cup with a total of 22 goals, Ciro Immobile finishing top in 2014 and Mauro Icardi and Luca Toni sharing last year’s prize with the same tally. PARIS: Toulouse will aim to thwart Paris key players amid a congested fixture list Only the feats of Toni, who at 38 years old is Saint-Germain in their quest for a second which includes another meeting with NAPLES: Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after scoring his second goal during a Serie A playing possibly his last season with basement soccer match between Napoli and Sassuolo, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy. — AP straight domestic treble when the two Toulouse on January 27 in the semi-finals side Verona, can be used as any kind of yard- sides meet for the second time in four days of the League Cup. PSG are set to embark stick. It took Toni 21 matches to hit 20 goals in the last 32 of the French Cup today. PSG on a run of seven matches in little over during the 2005-2006 campaign, when the left Toulouse with a narrow 1-0 win in Ligue three weeks before hosting Chelsea in the then Fiorentina striker’s 31-goal tally secured 1 on Saturday courtesy of Zlatan first leg of their Champions League last-16 S African star Cele killed the top scorer’s prize, earned him a call-up to Ibrahimovic’s second-half strike, but tie on February 16, and they would play his maiden World Cup and, after the final’s Dominique Arribage’s side were buoyed by another game before facing the Premier penalty shootout against France, a World Cup as car plunges into river their display against the runaway league League champions should they advance on winners’ medal. Higuain has been on fire this leaders. “It won’t be the same story tomor- Tuesday. There are three other all-Ligue 1 JOHANNESBURG: South African Premier thrilling second half by scoring a second goal row (Tuesday),” Arribage said at Monday’s ties, with record 10-time winners Marseille season, as opposition coaches have noticed. League footballer Mondli Cele died Sunday for the Buccaneers early in the second half. press conference. “It’s up to us to rise to the hosting Montpellier, 2014 champions “For 41 minutes my defenders made sure he after the car he was a passenger in plunged Rattled Maritzburg clung to the lead until occasion. We have plenty of hope because Guingamp visiting Gazelec Ajaccio and didn’t get a touch. Then on his first touch of the into a river near eastern city Pietermaritzburg. 10 minutes from time when Kermit Erasmus they know we could hang with them and Angers at home to 2013 winners Bordeaux, ball he showed all his class,” said Sassuolo The tragedy occurred a few hours after the equalized, and the visitors looked the likelier beat them. as a record 17 top-flight sides remain in the coach Eusebio Di Francesco said Saturday. “You 27-year-old scored for Maritzburg United in a winners in frenetic climax of a memorable “We have to go to the Parc des Princes competition at this stage. Lyon will look to don’t need me to explain how good he is.” 3-3 Premiership thriller against famed Soweto match. Maritzburg remain bottom, one point full of ambition. We’re setting ourselves up recover from Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to bitter Higuain’s incentives this season are twofold. club Orlando Pirates. Cele and another pas- below Pretoria University, while 2015 CAF for a good performance, we’re not going rivals Saint-Etienne when they travel to He is keen to cement his place in Argentina’s senger died when the driver lost control of Confederation Cup runners-up Pirates lie 11th there to concede five (goals) but that could third-tier Chambly tomorrow, while squad having fallen out of favor after missing the car, a provincial transport department after a disastrous one-win-in-seven start to happen.” Laurent Blanc is likely to rest some Monaco go to second-tier Evian.— AFP his penalty in the shootout of the Copa spokesman said. the season At the other end of the table, a America final against Chile last year. Chile went A third passenger survived. “His character seesaw struggle for Premiership supremacy on to win 4-1 on penalties and Higuain, for the on and off the field was impeccable,” said tilted back in favour of record six-time cham- second time in a month, became the scape- Maritzburg chairman Farook Kadodia, refer- pions Mamelodi Sundowns. They won a Law changes to goat. Weeks earlier, Higuain and Napoli goal- ring to 27-year-old midfielder Cele. Premier home derby against Pretoria University 2-1 keeper Mariano Andujar were targeted by hard- Soccer League spokesman Lux September through goals from Zimbabwean Khama line Napoli ‘ultras’ after the striker, after hitting said: “Mondli scored a beautiful goal and it Billiat and Colombian Leonardo Castro to lead ‘simplify’ soccer a brace, missed a penalty in a 4-2 defeat to was to be his last celebration.”Cele was includ- Mpumalanga Black Aces on goal difference. Lazio on the final day of the season. It cost ed in the preliminary South Africa squad for Aces upset Wits 2-1 in Johannesburg the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial thanks to a brace from veteran Zambia striker LONDON: Soccer always has been a rela- have gone through them in detail. The Napoli a place in the qualifying round for the Guinea, but did not make the final 23. Collins Mbesuma, the leading Premiership tively simple sport, governed by 17 laws power of their words, however, impact on Champions League while Higuain’s car was van- His death overshadowed a dramatic week- scorer this season with 10 goals. Sundowns largely unchanged since the 19th century, every organized match, from a World Cup dalized by disgruntled fans. end of Premiership action highlighted by vis- (plus 13 goal difference) and Aces (plus 11) yet that template is now surrounded by final to a Sunday League park game in iting Pirates coming from three goals behind have 30 points each one round before the 22,000 words of interpretations, creating London, Soweto or Miami, and provide the Memories of Maradona to hold bottom club Maritzburg. Cele put halfway stage and Wits are a point behind. anomalies the rulemakers want to stream- unifying link between all levels of the Higuain was all set to start a third season at United ahead after eight minutes at a packed Defending champions Kaizer Chiefs stayed in line. Former Premier League referee David game. Unlike many other sports which Napoli under the helm of Rafael Benitez, until 10,000-seat Harry Gwala Stadium by side- touch, five points off the pace, with a 1-0 vic- Elleray has spent 18 months revising the have countless laws, there are only 17 in the Spaniard’s sacking paved the way for for- footing a cut-back past goalkeeper Brighton tory at Bloemfontein Celtic courtesy of a sport’s global law-book and bringing it up soccer, but Elleray had a mammoth task mer Empoli coach Sarri to take over. After an Mhlongo. Zimbabwean Evans Rusike, who penalty converted by Zimbabwean Willard to date for the first time since the last editing them and their interpretations inauspicious start that prompted club legend created the opening goal, scored on 32 min- Katsande. Thobani Mncwango of Polokwane major re-working in the 1930s by future down from 22,000 to 12,000 words. Diego Maradona to publicly lambast the track- utes and Ugandan Brian Onyango gave City became the first Premiership footballer FIFA president Stanley Rous. As an example of where the modern suit wearing, chain-smoking Sarri, Napoli were United a three-goal advantage soon after. to score more than twice in a game this sea- Elleray has examined incidents from game has left them behind, Elleray recalled soon into their stride. Since their opening day Thabo Rakhale pulled one back within a son by grabbing four in a 4-1 triumph over minor infringements at grassroots level to the occasion when Roy Keane of defeat to Sassuolo, Napoli have conceded minute and captain Thabo Matlaba set up a SuperSport United.— AFP a famous pre-match clash in the Premier Manchester United and Patrick Vieira of defeat just once, to Bologna, to become bona League as well as canvassing opinion from Arsenal nearly came to blows in the tunnel fide title challengers in a championship domi- the heads of refereeing in each of FIFA’s six before a Premier League match at nated by Juventus the past four seasons. confederations. Highbury in 2005. “We all remember the Although Sarri has worked his magic through- “What we have tried to do is add some famous Keane and Vieira exchange of out the club, his close relationship with Higuain common sense, write in clearer language, words in the tunnel at Highbury. But if that appears to be key. “If I’m honest, a lot of what tell referees to be more sensitive to the had developed into a full-scale fight, what I’m achieving at the moment is down to Sarri,” spirit of the game they are controlling, and would you expect to happen to them?.” he Higuain said. “We try to encourage each other bring all the laws up to date,” he told said. “You would expect them to have been because we’re both working for the same goal.” reporters. “Most of these changes are really red-carded and not allowed to play, but If Higuain maintains his current rhythm, he about common sense. Right now, especial- that is not the case.” could exceed the all-time record of 36 goals, ly with some situations, especially those Elleray said under current regulations a scored by Gino Rossetti for Torino in the 1928- that do not happen very often, the laws referee cannot dismiss players in the tun- 29 season. Since Italy’s top flight was contend- are a little crazy because they have been nel because they are not yet on the field of ed by 20 clubs from the 2004-2005 season, the put together piecemeal over the years.” play. That rule was drawn up before the third time in the league’s history, only Toni has Elleray said his goal was for fans to under- two teams lined up next to each other come close to that figure. Perhaps more impor- stand why referees make decisions, lead- ahead of a match. “In future what will hap- tantly, Higuain’s goals could fire Napoli to their ing to more respect for officials, adding pen is that those two players would not be first title since 1990 when Maradona steered that there were no plans for referees to be allowed to play in the game, but both fitted with microphones, as they are in rug- teams will still start with 11 men, using a the ‘Partenopei’ to their second title after their by. substitute off the bench,” he said after a historic triumph in 1987. In the meantime, meeting of the law-making International being first on both fronts, says Higuain, is a Dry read Football Association Board (IFAB) in “special feeling”. “I can say it’s definitely a spe- The laws, first drawn up in 1863 when London. “This is one example of where the cial feeling being on top,” Higuain said the world’s oldest Football Association was laws have not kept up to date, and they Saturday. “We’re having a really positive spell at the moment and we have to capitalize as much formed in England, are a dry read and it is need to change so we can protect the Mondli Cele doubtful whether many fans or players will image of the game.”—Reuters as we can.”— AFP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 SPORTS

MILAN: AC Milan’s Ghanaian forward Kevin-Prince Boateng (center) celebrates after scoring a goal during the Serie A football match between AC Milan and Fiorentina at the San Siro Stadium in Milan on January 17, 2016. —AFP Milan dent Fiorentina Serie A title hopes

MILAN: Carlos Bacca and Kevin-Prince Boateng impressive as they zipped the ball around in the After Milan ‘keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma straight at a thankful Tatarusanu after the ball on for Niang and moments after Mario Balotelli struck in either half as AC Milan dented opening exchanges, although the stakes punched a corner to safety, Niang went on a fell kindly. Sousa boosted Fiorentina’s attack replaced Bacca to make his long-awaited return Fiorentina’s Serie A title hopes with a 2-0 win at changed for the visitors after just four minutes. long run that took him past his marker but his when he replaced midfielder Mario Suarez with from injury, Boateng beat onrushing Tatarusanu the San Siro that ended their long wait for vic- On a Milan counter, Giacomo Bonaventura held cross for Honda met traffic. Fiorentina striker Giuseppe Rossi with 25 minutes to play. But to Juraj Kucka’s long ball, rounded the ‘keeper tory over La Viola. Seven-time European cham- the ball up before releasing Bacca on a run Nikola Kalinic was unlucky not to make contact Milan’s changes proved decisive. Boateng came and slotted it home from 12 yards.— AFP pions Milan had beaten the Florence-based which the Colombian finished by holding off with Marcos Alonso’s drive into the box, and the side only once in their last nine league outings. his marker to fire past Ciprian Tatarusanu and Croatian got his head to an Ilicic corner close to Italy Serie A results/standings But a superb opener from Bacca on four min- into the far bottom corner. half-time but it glanced wide. Fiorentina utes upset the visitors’ gameplan and Boateng, Milan spurned the next chance when resumed in more positive fashion after the MILAN: Italian Serie A table on Sunday (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, who re-signed for the club recently on a six- Keisuke Honda won possession in midfield and break, although their promise soon fizzled out. points): month loan deal, came off the bench to hit a played a one-two with M’Baye Niang, but the A Borja Valero free-kick was nodded towards Napoli 20 13 5 2 41 16 44 Torino 19 7 4 8 26 25 25 well-taken second two minutes from the final Japanese forward’s delivery into the box found the far top corner by Nenad Tomovic but Juventus 20 13 3 4 37 15 42 Atalanta 20 7 4 9 21 24 25 whistle to wrap up the points. no takers. Fiorentina should have levelled Donnarumma was alert to the danger. A long Inter Milan 20 12 4 4 25 13 40 Udinese 20 7 3 10 18 31 24 Fiorentina’s sixth defeat of the season before the quarter hour when Josip Ilicic ran ball from Ilicic sent Kalinic on a promising Fiorentina 20 12 2 6 37 21 38 Sampdoria 20 6 5 9 29 32 23 proved costly, Paulo Sousa’s men left in fourth through unmarked on to Mario Suarez’s ball, counter but with Alessio Romagnoli in hot pur- Roma 20 9 8 3 37 23 35 Bologna 20 7 2 11 22 27 23 place at six points behind leaders Napoli, four but the Slovenian was closed down and after suit the Croatian fired wide of the AC Milan 20 9 5 6 27 23 32 Genoa 20 6 4 10 23 26 22 behind champions Juventus and two behind offloading to Federico Bernardeschi the play- target.Moments later, Kalinic headed a metre Sassuolo 19 8 7 4 24 20 31 Palermo 20 6 3 11 19 33 21 fellow challengers Inter Milan. Milan moved up maker’s snap shot was blocked. Milan were wide from Valero’s cross as Donnarumma Empoli 20 9 4 7 25 24 31 Carpi 20 4 5 11 19 35 17 two place to sixth to sit 12 points off the pace finding openings on the counter, with swung on to his post. Milan looked to have Lazio 20 8 4 8 25 29 28 Frosinone 20 4 3 13 22 45 15 as they continue their bid for a place in next Bonaventura and M’Baye Niang showing plenty soaked up the pressure but struggled to con- Chievo 20 7 6 7 26 22 27 Verona 20 0 9 11 13 32 9 season’s Champions League. Fiorentina looked of pace on the wings. vert their own half chances, Antonelli firing Wenger optimistic over Ozil’s return

STOKE-ON-TRENT: Arsenal manager because they made the game very physi- Arsene Wenger hopes playmaker Mesut cal,” said Wenger. “The crowd was up for it, Ozil will be fit to face Chelsea after the the players were up for it. They went for a German was forced to miss Sunday’s goal- very direct game and we had to show a less draw at Stoke with a foot injury. Ozil is physical response, solidarity, fighting spirit, well clear at the top of the Premier League’s togetherness, which we did.” ‘assists’ charts with 16, compared to nine But a clearly annoyed Hughes respond- for his nearest challenger, Manchester ed: “I’ve just heard Arsene say he was a bit City’s Kevin de Bruyne. And Wenger hopes surprised that we went direct. “I’m not the 27-year-old will overcome the injury in quite sure what game he’s been watching. order to face the struggling Premier League “I don’t think there was a yellow card. I champions at the Emirates Stadium next don’t know why the physical aspect of the weekend after conceding he was missed game has to be mentioned. “I thought it during a stalemate in the Potteries. was a good football game with both teams “There is no team in the world that trying to play and win a key Premier wouldn’t miss Ozil,” Wenger said. “We are League game.” Arsenal’s last victory at the used to having him there. If we had Mesut, Britannia Stadium was a 3-1 success that it would have been a different game became infamous for the sickening broken (against Stoke). “Ozil has an inflammation leg suffered by Gunners midfielder Aaron of the foot. On Saturday morning he was Ramsey, who was again singled out for not very well and he was already not 100 some unsavoury abuse by Potters fans dur- percent at Liverpool,” the veteran French ing his 250th Arsenal appearance. boss added. “I decided to leave him out but The bad blood from the injury and I think he should be back for next Sunday.” Ramsey’s refusal to accept Ryan Shawcross’s Ozil’s absence left Arsenal laboring at the apology for the challenge that caused it Britannia Stadium, where they managed remains for Stoke fans, who taunted Ramsey SAINT-ETIENNE: Saint-Etienne’s Norwegian forward Alexander Soderlund (left) vies for the ball with Lyon’s French defender Mapou Yanga- just three shots on target and found Stoke throughout Sunday’s match with boos and a Mbiwa during the French L1 football match between Saint-Etienne (ASSE) and Lyon (OL) on January 17, 2016. — AFP goalkeeper Jack Butland equal to them. chant about the damage caused to his leg. A point was enough to take the north Wenger said: “I have no influence on it and I London club back to the top of the table as don’t know what generally you should do they edged clear of Leicester City on goal about it. “When people get together, some- Saint-Etienne reignite their difference, but it was another afternoon of times they forget their individual responsi- frustration in the Potteries for Wenger. His bility. “Maybe when you go home and watch side have now failed to win at Stoke’s home it on television you are less proud. “I focus on quest for Europe football in six attempts-a sequence that dates back the game. I shut my ears-I think that’s best to February 2010. And he provoked a way to deal with it.” A draw kept Stoke sev- PARIS: Saint-Etienne reignited their quest for cross was diverted towards his own goal by Kevin second on the hour. Ronny Rodelin pulled one pointed response from Stoke manager enth in the table and Hughes hopes to have European football with a 1-0 win over bitter rivals Theophile-Catherine. back for the hosts after beating Steve Mandanda Mark Hughes by claiming the home team record signing Xherdan Shaqiri back from a Lyon in Sunday’s feisty Rhone-Alpes derby, while But it was the hosts who made the break- to a free-kick, but Bouna Sarr erased any hopes of had been “physical” and “direct”. “Overall it hamstring injury in time for Saturday’s trip Marseille continued their impressive away form in through on 76 minutes when a stray pass from a comeback as he volleyed home Alaixys Romao’s was a battle-an old fashioned Stoke battle to Leicester.— AFP Ligue 1 with a 3-1 victory at Caen. Norway striker Corentin Tolisso was pounced upon by Kevin inviting cross on 83 minutes. The victory pushed Alexander Soderlund marked his home debut Monnet-Paquet, who slipped in Soderlund for the Marseille up to eighth, five points adrift of third- with the decisive goal 14 minutes from time at Norwegian to notch his first goal for his new club. place Angers, with Caen dropping to seventh. the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard to leave Saint- Earlier, Marseille snapped a four-match winless Monaco moved back into second place in the Etienne just two points off the Champions run in the league as they claimed a fifth victory in table after winning 2-0 at Lorient to stretch their League places. six away games. Marseille arrived at the Stade unbeaten run in the league to eight games. For Lyon, who exited the League Cup in mid- Michel d’Ornano unbeaten in seven league Thomas Lemar gave Monaco a 53rd-minute lead week following a 2-1 defeat at holders Paris Saint- matches, although they had drawn their last four in Brittany before Joao Moutinho curled home an Germain, this latest loss simply yielded another outings, and grabbed a 12th-minute lead when exquisite free-kick to leave Leonardo Jardim’s disappointment in a season full of setbacks. “We goal-line technology was used to determine that men 21 points behind runaway leaders Paris had a 10-second lapse of concentration for which Michy Batshuayi’s shot had crossed the line after Saint-Germain. PSG recorded their ninth consecu- we paid dearly,” rued Lyon coach Bruno Genesio. coming back off the post. tive win in all competitions and extended their “We conceded a goal from out of nothing. It’s Batshuayi should have added a second with club record unbeaten league run to 30 matches really disappointing. “We were up against a goal- the goal at his mercy a few minutes later, but the dating back to last March as Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s keeper who made saves at key moments. I think Belgian atoned for that miss by setting up 73rd-minute strike was enough for them to see we also lacked aggression in front of goal, we Georges-Kevin Nkoudou to steer in Marseille’s off Toulouse 1-0 on Saturday.— AFP could’ve come back at the end if we’d been a bit more adventurous.” French League results/standings Both sides had entered Sunday’s clash level on 29 points and looking to keep in touch with the PARIS: French Ligue 1 table after Sunday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): European places, and it was Lyon who largely bossed the first half. On-loan striker Jean- Paris SG 21 18 3 0 51 9 57 Nantes 21 7 7 7 18 20 28 Christophe Bahebeck tried to catch out Lyon Monaco 21 9 9 3 29 25 36 Lorient 21 6 9 6 29 30 27 Angers 21 9 7 5 20 13 34 Gazelec Ajaccio 21 6 8 7 24 26 26 goalkeeper Anthony Lopes with an early free- Nice 21 9 6 6 35 25 33 Lille 21 5 10 6 16 15 25 kick, but the visitors were on top after that as Saint-Etienne 21 10 2 9 24 24 32 Bastia 21 7 4 10 21 26 25 Stephane Ruffier twice thwarted Rachid Ghezzal, Rennes 21 7 10 4 31 25 31 Montpellier 21 6 4 11 22 27 22 the second stop a stunning low save just before Caen 21 9 3 9 22 27 30 Reims 21 5 7 9 22 29 22 the break. Ruffier then palmed away a Clement Marseille 21 7 8 6 31 22 29 Guingamp 21 5 6 10 19 29 21 Grenier free-kick after half-time, before the cross- Lyon 21 8 5 8 27 25 29 Toulouse 21 4 8 9 24 35 20 Bordeaux 21 7 8 6 25 28 29 Troyes 21 0 8 13 13 43 8 Arsenal’s German midfielder Mesut Ozil bar came to Saint-Etienne’s rescue as Ghezzal’s Cruz regains Manning shines the UFC title; as Broncos outpunches down gritty Dillashaw Steelers 23-16

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MELBOURNE: Serena Williams of the US plays a backhand return during her women’s singles match against Italy’s Camila Giorgi (inset) on day one of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament yesterday. — AFP Djokovic, Serena star at scandal-hit Open Quickfire Federer; Sizzling Sharapova blows away rivals

MELBOURNE: Defending champions Novak Djokovic and air. But I think physically I was really good on the court.” his quest for a record-extending 18th Grand Slam title. owed by a report which said top-50 players, including Serena Williams raced into the Australian Open second Williams also made a positive return to competitive ten- Sharapova, the women’s winner in 2008, beat Japan’s Nao Grand Slam champions, had repeatedly been suspected of round yesterday as the year’s first Grand Slam was rocked nis, four months after a heartbreaking defeat in the US Hibino 6-1, 6-3 in just 73 minutes in her first match of the match-fixing without facing action. by claims of widespread match-fixing in tennis. Former Open semi-finals ended her bid for a rare calendar-year year after a forearm injury forced her out of the Brisbane Three suspect matches were at Wimbledon, and eight winners Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova also pro- Grand Slam. Showing no discomfort from the swollen International. “I’m feeling really good, which is a positive. of the players under suspicion were due to take to the gressed smoothly on a day of high temperatures at knee which forced her out of this month’s Hopman Cup I’m just happy to finish off today and be able to get ready courts for the Australian Open, the BBC and BuzzFeed Melbourne Park, where one ballboy felt faint and had to be mixed-team tournament, Williams toughed it out 6-4, 7-5 for the next one,” said the Russian. claimed. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) chief helped from the court. against Italy’s Camila Giorgi. “I haven’t played a competitive Chris Kermode rejected any suggestion that match-fixing Djokovic’s main opponent was the 35 Celsius (95 match in a really long time so it was good for me to come ‘No cover-up’ evidence had been covered up or ignored. “The Tennis Fahrenheit) heat as, cooling himself with ice vests on the out here and get through it,” Williams said. “I was able to Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych and Australia’s Nick Integrity Unit and the tennis authorities absolutely reject change-overs, the top seed dispatched Korean rising star stay in it and stay calm and that is what matters most.” Kyrgios also went through without significant problems, any suggestion that evidence of match-fixing has been Chung Hyeon 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. “You try to stay composed, not Williams, 34, is seeking an Open-era record-equaling while Caroline Wozniacki, Sloane Stephens, Sara Errani and suppressed for any reason or isn’t being thoroughly inves- get carried away by heat, get distracted,” said the Serb, 22nd Grand Slam title, while Djokovic can become only Ivo Karlovic became the first seeds to fall. Spain’s Carla tigated,” Kermode told reporters. “And while the BBC and who was forced out of the 2009 quarter-finals as he strug- the second man to win six Australian Open crowns after Suarez earned applause when she helped a ballboy from BuzzFeed reports mainly refer to events from about 10 gled with the heat. “Of course, there were some long ral- Roy Emerson. Federer was also untroubled in his 6-2, 6-1, the court as he swooned in high temperatures during her years ago, we will investigate any new information, and we lies, long exchanges that got both of us a little bit short on 6-2 win over Georgia’s Nicoloz Basilashvili as he continued win over Viktorija Golubic. However, the day was overshad- always do.” — AFP Barcelona hammer 10-man Bilbao 6-0 No change at the top in Spain as Big 3 cruise MADRID: Atletico Madrid maintained a two-point Griezmann double lifted Diego Simeone’s side to 47 lead in La Liga with a 3-0 victory at Las Palmas and points from 20 matches. Lionel Messi, who presented Barcelona and Real Madrid stayed hard on their heels the fifth FIFA Ballon d’Or he won this week to fans with thumping wins over Athletic Bilbao and before kickoff at the Nou Camp, struck from the spot Sporting Gijon on Sunday. A rare goal from Atletico to set Barca on their way to a 6-0 success against 10- fullback Filipe Luis and a second-half Antoine man Bilbao, with La Liga top scorer Luis Suarez net- ting a hat-trick. Bilbao conceded the early penalty when goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz felled Suarez and was shown a straight red card and Barca put the Basque club to the sword. The Spanish and European champions, who have a game in hand over their main rivals, are two points behind Atletico in second, with Real a further two points adrift in third. Real continued their serene progress under new coach Zinedine Zidane when Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema scored twice apiece in a 5-1 destruction of Gijon. Gareth Bale, who BARCELONA: FC Barcelona’s Luis Suarez (second right) heads the ball to score against Athletic Bilbao during was forced off with a suspected calf strain just before a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Sunday, Jan 17, 2016. — AP halftime at the Bernabeu, had opened the scoring. Atletico initially struggled for control at Las Palmas 20 minutes. After Bale had headed in a corner, Spanish League results/standings before Filipe Luis drilled a shot into the corner. Spain Ronaldo smashed in a second. Bale then crossed for playmaker Koke sent Griezmann clear to make it 2-0 Benzema to score with an acrobatic volley, Ronaldo MADRID: Spanish La Liga table after Sunday’s games (played, and the pair combined again to complete the scoring turned in a Dani Carvajal centre and Benzema got his won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): a minute from time. second to make it 5-0 four minutes before the break. Atletico Madrid 20 15 2 3 30 8 47 It was another morale-boosting performance follow- Barcelona 19 14 3 2 50 15 45 Fantastic start ing the sacking of the unpopular Rafa Benitez, under Real Madrid 20 13 4 3 57 19 43 Bilbao never looked like troubling Barca once they whom they failed to impress against any of their Villarreal 20 12 4 4 26 16 40 went a man down and Neymar made it 2-0 when he main rivals. Celta Vigo 20 10 4 6 32 30 34 lifted the ball over substitute keeper Iago Herrerin. The victory may have come at a cost, however, as Sevilla 20 9 5 6 28 22 32 Suarez struck two minutes into the second half after Benzema was also forced off after hurting his foot in Eibar 19 8 6 5 27 20 30 exchanging passes with Neymar and the Brazil for- a collision with team mate James Rodriguez. Zidane Deportivo 20 6 10 4 27 24 28 Athletic Bilbao 20 8 4 8 27 28 28 ward set up Ivan Rakitic to make it 4-0 in the 62nd said Bale would need a scan to determine the extent Getafe 20 7 5 8 24 28 26 minute. Suarez netted his second seven minutes later of the injury, while Benzema had suffered a knock Valencia 20 5 9 6 25 21 24 from Arda’s pass and completed his treble to move that was probably less serious. “It’s been a fantastic Malaga 20 6 6 8 15 17 24 clear at the top of the scoring chart on 18 goals, two start because it’s not easy to score five goals twice in Real Sociedad 20 5 6 9 23 28 21 more than Ronaldo and Benzema. “The sending off a row,” Zidane told a news conference. “We’re only at Espanyol 20 6 3 11 18 33 21 changed things completely and we were able to take the beginning though and what we want is to win at Real Betis 20 5 6 9 13 28 21 advantage during the rest of the game,” Suarez, least one trophy at the end of the season.” Gary Las Palmas 20 4 6 10 19 30 18 BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Argentinean forward clutching a match ball, told Spanish television. Neville’s disappointing start as Valencia coach con- Granada 19 4 5 10 20 36 17 Lionel Messi poses with his fifth Ballon d’Or trophy “I’m going to put this in the museum once I get it tinued when the ambitious Singapore-owned club Rayo Vallecano 20 4 4 12 23 45 16 before the Spanish league football match FC signed by my team mates,” added the Uruguay strik- drew 2-2 at home to lowly Rayo Vallecano and Sporting Gijon 19 4 3 12 17 34 15 Barcelona vs Athletic Club Bilbao at the Camp Nou er. Real tore into promoted Gijon in Zidane’s second slipped to 11th, prompting more rumblings of dis- Levante 20 3 5 12 17 36 14 stadium on January 17, 2016. — AFP game in charge and were 4-0 ahead inside the first content from the fans. — Reuters Shell ditches major Abu Dhabi gas field project Page 22

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TEHRAN: Vehicles driving on a street in front of the Azadi Tower in the capital Tehran yesterday. — AFP OPEC sees oil market rebalancing in 2016 Iran orders oil output boost, UAE sees ‘harm’ LONDON: OPEC forecast yesterday that oil sive supply sources such as US shale oil and Production including returning OPEC member more supply into a market glut that has routed Saturday revoked sanctions that had cut Iran’s supply from non-member countries will post a forced companies to delay or cancel billions of Indonesia fell by 210,000 bpd to 32.18 million global crude prices. Tehran has not outlined oil exports by about 2 million barrels per day larger-than-expected decline this year due to dollars worth of projects, putting some future bpd in December, the report said, citing sec- what this would mean for exports but has also (bpd) since their pre-sanctions 2011 peak to the collapse in prices, boosting the need for supplies at risk. ondary sources. The report points to a pledged to boost production further in the little more than 1 million bpd. In the first com- crude from the producer group. Supply out- US output will average 13.50 million bpd 530,000-bpd supply surplus this year if the coming months. Oman, which is not a mem- ment by a Gulf OPEC member about Iran since side the Organization of the Petroleum this year, the report said, down 380,000 bpd group keeps pumping at December’s rate, ber of the Organization of the Petroleum sanctions were lifted, UAE Suhail bin Exporting Countries (OPEC) would decline by from 2015 and the largest drop outside OPEC. down from 860,000 bpd implied in last Exporting Countries (OPEC), said it was not Mohammed Al-Mazroui said that any new pro- 660,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, led by Output is also vulnerable in places such as the month’s report. OPEC left its 2016 global oil worried by the prospect of extra Iranian sup- duction coming into the market would delay the United States, OPEC said in a report. Last North Sea, Latin America and Canada, OPEC demand growth forecast little changed, pre- ply because the market was already awash the rebalancing of the market and “that’s the month, OPEC predicted a drop of 380,000 bpd. said. But OPEC’s report makes no mention of dicting global demand would rise by 1.26 mil- with oil but said it was ready to cut output. Oil bad news”. “The analysis indicates that 2016 will be a the supply impact of the lifting of Western lion bpd, marking a slowdown from 1.54 mil- prices hit their lowest since 2003 yesterday as “Does Iran have the right to do so? Yes supply-driven market. It will also be the year sanctions on member-country Iran, which yes- lion bpd in 2015. the market braced for additional Iranian because they are a member of OPEC. Is it when the rebalancing process starts,” OPEC terday said it was increasing output by exports, but later turned positive. Benchmark going to help the situation? No,” Mazroui told said. “Non-OPEC marginal barrel production in 500,000 bpd - which would fill most of the Iran boosts output Brent crude was trading at around $29.25 at reporters on the sidelines of a conference in the next six months will be sensitive to sus- hole left by non-OPEC members. Iran has ordered a rise in oil output by 1220 GMT. Abu Dhabi. Oman was ready to cut output by tained low oil prices.” The United Arab Emirates’ energy minister, 500,000 barrels a day following the lifting of “Iran is able to increase its oil production by between five and 10 percent to stabilize the A drop in non-OPEC supply would reduce a in the first comment by a Gulf OPEC member sanctions, official media reported, but fellow 500,000 barrels a day after the lifting of sanc- oil market and urged all producers should do supply glut which has prompted oil prices to about Iran since most sanctions were lifted on OPEC member the United Arab Emirates said tions, and the order to increase production the same, Omani Oil Minister Mohammad bin collapse to below $28 a barrel, the lowest Tehran, said anyone increasing output during any extra crude would delay the market’s was issued today,” Deputy Oil Minister Hamad Al-Rumhy said. On Sunday, the head of since 2003. OPEC’s 2014 strategy shift to the current oversupply would worsen the situ- recovery. Rokneddin Javadi, who also heads the Italy’s Eni SpA said Iran would need to attract defend market share and not prices helped ation. Iranian officials have said repeatedly in National Iranian Oil Company, was quoted as $150 billion to become a major producer, and deepen the decline. The price drop has started For now, OPEC said it pumped less oil in recent days that they were ready to raise out- saying by Iran’s Shana news agency. that “is not something that can be done in a to slow the development of relatively expen- December, reducing the excess in the market. put by half a million barrels per day, pouring The United States and European Union on second”. — Reuters Gulf markets stabilize, Russian ruble hits a year low as oil prices weaken Dubai, Qatar pare gains MOSCOW: The Russian ruble, bat- set the official exchange rate at over cent from the federal budget which tered by weak oil prices, yesterday 85 rubles to the euro yesterday. Oil, was drafted with oil prices of $50 a dropped to new low and broke an all- the mainstay of the Russian economy, barrel in mind. All Russian ministries MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS time record against the euro. The recently plummeted to under $30 a are expected to present their pro- national currency was down 1.8 per- barrel, a 13-year low. The ruble is also posed cuts by the end of the months DUBAI: Gulf stock markets stabilized yesterday after register- year-on-year improvement in net income is because of the cent at 79 rubles to the dollar by 5 pm under pressure from economic sanc- with a view of cutting 500 billion ing heavy losses the previous few days, but the mood impact of the one-off losses in the fourth quarter of 2014,” NCB Moscow time (1400GMT), its lowest tions that the West imposed on Russia rubles ($6.3 billion) in government remained nervous after Brent oil briefly slumped below $28 a Capital said in a note. mid-trading level since December for its involvement in the Ukraine cri- expenses, Finance Minister Anton barrel to its lowest level since 2003. The Saudi benchmark, Some bargain-hunters bought mid-cap stocks that had 2014. sis. Russia is running a budget deficit Siluanov said. Prime Minister Dmitry which had tumbled 5.4 percent on Sunday, flip-flopped tumbled this year. Knowledge Economic City and Emaar The ruble fell to an all-time low of 3 percent of GDP this year, and the Medvedev, in televised comments between positive and negative territory before closing 0.1 per- Economic City, developers of new urban areas in the kingdom, cent higher. rose 2.4 and 5.5 percent respectively. Egypt’s main index against the euro as the Central Bank government is looking to cut 10 per- yesterday, said that the — AP Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the kingdom’s largest compa- rebounded 3.1 percent, trimming this year’s losses to 15.2 per- ny by market value, fell as low as 60.00 riyals after reporting a cent as most stocks advanced more than 1.0 percent. Foreign 29.4 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit caused by lower fund managers, who have been aggressively cashing out of prices for its products, missing analysts’ forecasts. But it came Cairo’s market, remained net sellers yesterday, bourse data off its low to close at 63.00 riyals, a 3.5 percent decline. showed. But local and regional investors bought on dips. National Shipping Co (Bahri), the exclusive oil shipper for oil The two most traded stocks were Orascom Telecom and giant Saudi Aramco, fell 10 percent in a second day of heavy investment firm Qalaa Holdings, which surged 5.8 and 8.3 per- trade. Bahri had gained 5.9 percent on Sunday before report- cent. ing a huge jump in fourth-quarter net profit that exceeded analysts’ forecasts. UAE, QATAR Most other oil-linked stocks also retreated as petrochemi- Dubai’s index could not sustain an early rebound, closing cal companies’ earnings were weak and crude prices contin- 0.3 percent down at 2,678 points, off its intra-day high of ued to test fresh lows. But the banking sector, the largest sec- 2,756. Gainers outnumbered losers 20 to 11, however. Builders tor by value on the exchange, firmed with Riyad Bank rising Arabtec and Drake & Scull advanced 1.9 percent and 2.5 per- 1.4 percent. The kingdom’s fourth-largest lender by assets said cent; Drake had hit a record low on Sunday. Gulf General it had reached a preliminary agreement to sell land in the sec- Investment, an industrial conglomerate, was the top gainer, ond largest city, Jeddah, for 202.5 million riyals ($54 million). surging 6.6 percent in unusually heavy trade. Emirates NBD The Kuwait index retreated 0.9 percent to 5,055 points. closed 0.9 percent higher at 6.50 dirhams, well off its high of Saudi Electricity Co jumped 5.8 percent. The largest utility 6.85 dirhams. Dubai’s largest lender posted a 74 percent rise in company in the Gulf reportd a loss of 1.45 billion riyals in the fourth-quarter net profit to 2.13 billion dirhams ($579.9 mil- three months to Dec. 31, compared with a loss of 1.8 billion lion); analysts at Beltone Financial and HSBC had forecast 1.31 riyals in the same period a year earlier. Analysts polled by billion dirhams and 1.71 billion dirhams. It also recommended MOSCOW: People walk at a street passing an exchange booth in Moscow, Russia yesterday. The Russian ruble, bat- Reuters had estimated SEC would lose 1.4 billion riyals. “The a higher annual dividend. — Reuters tered by weak oil prices yesterday dropped to new low and broke an all-time record against the euro. — AP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 BUSINESS News Saudi’s SABIC says can cope in brief

OPEC basket price down to $24.74 pb with more competition VIENNA: The OPEC daily basket price stood at $24.74 a barrel Friday, compared with $25.00 the previous day, the RIYADH: Saudi Basic Industries Corp producing and then ramp up production. “A have no concerns at all,” Benyan said when concerns about a global economic slow- OPEC said yesterday. The OPEC monthly average price hit (SABIC) can adapt to any new petrochemi- competitive environment is always healthy asked if Iran’s re-entry threatened market down, especially in China, are threatening $33.64 pb in December against $40.50 pb in November, it cals supply entering the market from out- and this is the way we love to play, so we oversupply. Supply questions are coming as demand. Benyan said SABIC’s sales in China said. The OPEC yearly average price amounted to $49.64 pb side the kingdom, its acting chief executive had not been impacted so far, although last year, it added. The new OPEC Reference Basket of said yesterday, as Iran’s release from sanc- diminished growth in emerging Asian and Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: Saharan Blend tions promises increased global oil supply. mature European economies had stunted (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy Petrochemical companies in the kingdom demand - the value of sales in the fourth (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export have been struggling with falling oil prices, quarter of 2015 dropped 21.9 percent year (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar both as product prices are closely linked to on year to 34.16 billion riyals. Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE) crude and cheaper oil erodes the competi- Going forward, it was looking to expand and Merey (Venezuela). During their recent meeting in tive advantage which Saudi manufacturers its business in Africa as well as South East Vienna, OPEC member countries had decided to maintain accrue over non-oil producing nations due Asian markets including Vietnam, Indonesia their production at 30 million barrels per day (bpd) despite to subsidised energy and feedstock. and Malaysia, where it was looking to a surplus in the market estimated at over a million barrels. SABIC, one of the world’s largest petro- switch from being a seller of petrochemicals chemicals companies, announced a 29.4 in the region to a manufacturer. US dollar stable against percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit on To weather the difficult market condi- Sunday, its sixth straight quarterly profit tions, SABIC has been implementing a cost- Kuwait dinar at 0.303 decline - results which sent its shares 5.4 cutting strategy and Benyan said the com- KUWAIT: The exchange rate of the US dollar against the percent lower as of 0935 GMT. pany hoped to see the benefits in the com- Kuwaiti dinar yesterday was stable at KD 0.303, while the The pressures could be amplified further ing year. This program would also help euro dropped to KD 0.330 compared to the exchange with Iranian oil being reintroduced to glob- SABIC to absorb a rise in feedstock prices rates for Sunday, said a statement by the Central Bank of al markets: the prospect has already driven announced by the government at the end Kuwait (CBK). According to the CBK, the exchange rate of crude prices to a 12-year low. of last year, Benyan said. The company is still the Sterling pound went up to KD 0.433 while the Swiss Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan told a news committed to a feasibility study related to a franc dropped to reach KD 0.301. Exchange rate of the conference in Riyadh that he wasn’t sure $30 billion oil-to-chemicals plant, Benyan Japanese Yen remained the same at KD 0.002. about the state of Iran’s petrochemicals RIYADH: The headquarters of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) in the Saudi cap- said, adding it remained purely a SABIC industry but, in general, it takes between ital Riyadh. Shares of Saudi petrochemical giant SABIC traded almost five percent lower project when asked if it could bring in a Egypt’s 5-year, 10-year three and five years to come to market, start after the firm reported a drop of 19.57 percent in full-year net profit. — AFP joint-venture partner. — Reuters treasury bond yields rise CAIRO: Yields on five-year and 10-year treasury bonds rose at an auction yesterday, data from the central bank Shell ditches major Abu showed. The average yield on Egypt’s five-year bond rose to 13.627 percent from 13.426 percent in the previous auc- tion, on Jan 4, while yields on the 10-year bond also rose to 15.748 percent from 15.556 percent on Jan 4. Dhabi gas field project Kingdom Holding closes refinancing of 350m euro loan UAE says not worried by Shell pullout DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding, the invest- ment firm of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell said yesterday gas field that involves treating potentially larly in the economic climate prevailing in Dhabi. “The reason most probably will be completed the refinancing of a 350 million euro ($381.3 it had decided to exit the multi-billion dol- deadly gasses. the energy industry,” Shell said in a state- (a) commercial reason because now the million) loan facility, it said yesterday. The loan, backed lar plan to jointly develop the Bab sour gas The joint venture was also seen at the ment yesterday. cost of gas and the price of gas and LNG by the Four Season Hotel George V, was extended by a field in Abu Dhabi, citing the downturn in time as a stepping stone for Shell to renew ADNOC was expected to hold 60 per- has dropped more than 50 percent,” Suhail consortium of three banks, Kingdom Holding said in an the oil market. The Anglo-Dutch company a coveted concession to develop the cent of the Bab sour gas project, while Shell bin Mohammed Al-Mazroui said on the emailed statement. Credit Agricole Corporate and said that “following a careful and thorough United Arab Emirates’ largest onshore oil would have held 40 percent. Shell shares sidelines of a conference in Abu Dhabi. Investment Bank, Natixis Pfandbriefbank and Societe evaluation of technical challenges and field. The Bab sour joint venture envisaged were up 1.2 percent at 1136 GMT, com- “We are not worried about supply of Generale Corporate and Investment Banking acted as costs” it will stop further joint work on the the construction of a 1 billion cubic feet pared with a 1.6 gain for the broader sector gas. We are planning well, if the company is co-lead arrangers, the statement said, while Credit project with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co sour gas processing plant for domestic index. pulling out I’m not worried,” Mazroui said. Agricole acted as facility and security agent. The trans- (ADNOC). market consumption. The United Arab Emirates’ energy minis- The Anglo-Dutch company had said earlier action closed on Oct. 16, it added. Shell won in 2013 a tender that was val- “The evaluation concluded that for ter said yesterday the UAE was not worried yesterday that it would stop further joint ued at the time at $10 billion to develop Shell, the development of the project does about Royal Dutch Shell’s pullout from the work on the project with the Abu Dhabi Oil producing nations over a 30-year venture the complex sour not fit with the company’s strategy, particu- joint Bab sour gas field project in Abu National Oil Co. (ADNOC). — Reuters to sell $240bn assets Oil firms after hitting 2003 Azerbaijan considers this year: JP Morgan low on lifting Iran sanctions tighter currency controls LONDON: Oil-producing countries will sell $240 billion of interna- tional assets this year, mostly stocks and bonds, in an attempt to LONDON: Oil prices rose yesterday, recovering In a further sign of the pain low prices is hold together budgets blown apart by the slump in oil prices, from a 2003 low as the market braced for addi- inflicting on oil producers, OPEC forecast that BAKU: Azerbaijan’s president, participation of local and foreign according to estimates from JP Morgan. tional Iranian exports after the lifting of sanc- supply outside the organization would decline Ilham Aliyev, has ordered measures experts, while proposals on the That sum will come from running down their foreign tions against the country over the weekend. by 660,000 bpd in 2016, led by the United to support the economy and the recovery of problematic banks exchange reserves and Sovereign Wealth Fund holdings. They will The United States and European Union on States. Last month OPEC predicted a drop of ailing manat currency, including a were also under consideration. also raise some $20 billion by selling government bonds of their Saturday revoked sanctions that had cut Iran’s 380,000 bpd. possible tightening of currency Aliyev said that measures on own to help cover a current account shortfall of $260 billion, the oil exports by about 2 million barrels per day HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver said controls, help for banks, and a sell- deposit insurance and the issuance US bank predicts. These countries will sell holdings of US (bpd) since their pre-sanctions 2011 peak to lit- the price of oil is likely to settle between $25 off of state assets, state television of state bonds would also help to Treasuries and other bonds worth about $110 billion plus $75 bil- reported yesterday. support the currency. The State Oil lion of equity investments, up from $45 billion and $10 billion last tle more than 1 million bpd. Iran, a member of and $40 in a year’s time. “Major producers are the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting currently delivering 2-2.5 million bpd more Azerbaijan’s manat currency, has Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) sold a year. The remaining funds will come from liquidating other assets lost 33 percent of its value against total of $193.9 million on the for- such as cash, real estate and private equity. Countries (OPEC), issued an order on Monday than demand, so the question is how long they “The lower the oil price, the higher the potential depletion of to increase production by 500,000 bpd, the can continue to overproduce at that level.” he the dollar in the past month. The eign exchange market on Monday SWF assets as oil-producing countries struggle to prevent their country’s deputy oil minister said. said at the Asia Financial Forum in Hong Kong country has burned through more in a bid to prop up the weakening spending from declining too much,” JP Morgan strategists wrote Worries about Iran’s return to an already yesterday. Iran has at least a dozen Very Large than half its foreign currency manat. It was the fund’s third inter- in a client note late on Friday. “For 2016 we look for FX reserve oversupplied oil market drove down Brent Crude Carrier super-tankers filled and in place reserves trying to defend it against vention this year. It has sold $539.9 depletion of $100 billion and a decline in SWF assets of $140 bil- crude to $27.67 a barrel early on Monday, its to sell into the market, and traders are betting the effect of falling oil prices. million in total so far, while $100 lion,” they wrote, noting that asset sales last year, when plunging lowest since 2003. The benchmark was at that oil prices will drop again. Speaking at a meeting of the gov- million was sold by the country’s oil prices also left some countries with budget shortfalls, totalled $29.28 by 1158 GMT, up 33 cents from The lifting of sanctions will unlock more ernment, Aliyev said parliament central bank. $70 billion. These estimates are based on the price of Brent crude Friday’s close. than $100 billion in Iranian frozen funds, per- would convene in an extraordinary Azeri state oil company SOCAR oil averaging $31 a barrel this year, sharply down from $53 from session today to debate govern- said yesterday it had offered to buy last year, which would see producer countries’ oil revenues plum- US crude was up 23 cents at $29.65 a barrel, mitting Iran to finance imports. Iranian met by $300 billion to $440 billion. Brent has tumbled 22 percent not far from a 2003 low of $28.36 hit earlier in President Hassan Rouhani plans to visit Italy ment proposals to strengthen regu- back its outstanding Eurobonds so far this month to a 12-year low of $27.67 thanks to a slowing the session. But oil prices recovered later in the and France next week on his first European trip lations on the currency market, worth up to $500 million and demand growth and bumper supply. The slump has rocked global session, with analysts suggesting the return or since sanctions were lifted, a diplomatic source state TV reported. maturing in 2017. The cost of bor- world markets and hit the finances and markets of oil producers Iranian exports has already been priced in. “We said yesterday. There were no details on which rowing for Azerbaijan’s govern- especially hard. Saudi Arabia’s currency, the riyal, has fallen to a were watching Asia when it opened, in terms “The legs of Iran’s economy are now free of regulations would be tightened. ment has gone up as investors per- record low against the dollar on the forward market, while of how markets digested (the news) over the the chains of sanctions and it’s time to build Parliament is dominated by Aliyev ceive the risk of holding the coun- Russia’s ruble has hit a record low and Gulf region stock markets weekend, and it did suggest to a fair degree and grow,” Rouhani tweeted on Sunday. Iran’s loyalists. In other measures to shore try’s assets to have increased. are at multi-year troughs. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil that it (the lifting of sanctions) has been priced transport minister said that Tehran plans to up public finances, Aliyev said the Buying back the Eurobonds could exporter, could face a budget deficit approaching 20 percent of in,” said Miswin Mahesh, of Barclays Capital. purchase 114 aircraft from Airbus. — Reuters government had prepared a large- save Azerbaijan money in the gross domestic product, according to some estimates. — Reuters scale privatization plan with the longer time. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.960 Asia 20 Gram 226.690 Jordanian Dinar 429.370 Bangladesh Taka 0.003524 0.004124 10 Gram 116.040 Japanese Yen 2.597 Egyptian Pound 38.814 Chinese Yuan 0.044655 0.048155 5 Gram 58.700 Indian Rupees 4.507 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.123 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036961 0.039711 Pakistani Rupees 2.901 Indian Rupees 4.563 Indian Rupee 0.004225 0.004615 Pakistani Rupees 2.902 Srilankan Rupees 2.122 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000017 0.000023 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Bangladesh Taka 3.877 Nepali Rupees 2.819 Japanese Yen 0.002510 0.002790 Philippines Pesso 6.470 Singapore Dollar 212.350 Kenyan Shilling 0.002969 0.002969 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Cyprus pound 580.550 Hongkong Dollar 39.050 Korean Won 0.000241 0.000256 Australian Dollar 203.08 Japanese Yen 3.595 Bangladesh Taka 3.878 Malaysian Ringgit 0.066139 0.072139 Canadian Dollar 218.17 Syrian Pound 2.380 Philippine Peso 6.381 Nepalese Rupee 0.002886 0.003056 Swiss Franc 310.48 Nepalese Rupees 3.850 Thai Baht 8.391 Euro 335.10 Malaysian Ringgit 69.735 Pakistan Rupee 0.002640 0.002920 US Dollar 304.45 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.740 Philippine Peso 0.006345 0.006625 GCC COUNTRIES Sterling Pound 444.75 Thai Bhat 9.355 Sierra Leone 0.000071 0.000077 Saudi Riyal 81.217 Japanese Yen 2.63 Turkish Lira 101.100 Singapore Dollar 0.208167 0.214167 Qatari Riyal 83.661 Bangladesh Taka 3.881 South African Rand 0.012183 0.020683 Omani Riyal 791.060 Indian Rupee 4.560 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001766 0.002346 Bahraini Dinar 808.820 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.118 Taiwan 0.008949 0.009129 UAE Dirham 82.920 Nepali Rupee 2.850 Thai Baht 0.008073 0.008623 Pakistani Rupee 2.901 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 0.08285 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.500 Bahraini Dinar 0.8091 Europe Bahraini Dinar 0.800536 0.808536 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.942 Egyptian Pound 0.03879 British Pound 0.427714 0.436714 Egyptian Pound 0.035165 0.039501 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.421 Jordanian Dinar 0.4330 Czech Korune 0.004241 0.016241 Tunisian Dinar 150.690 Omani Riyal 0.7906 Danish Krone 0.040316 0.045316 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000086 Jordanian Dinar 429.130 Qatari Riyal 0.08394 Euro 0.325820 0.333820 Iraqi Dinar 0.000201 0.000261 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.029 Saudi Riyal 0.08115 Norwegian Krone 0.030304 0.035504 Jordanian Dinar 0.425343 0.432843 Syrian Lira 2.170 Romanian Leu 0.087320 0.087320 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.061 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009099 0.019099 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Swedish Krona 0.031348 0.036348 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021558 0.045558 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Franc 0.296069 0.306269 Nigerian Naira 0.001259 0.001894 US Dollar Transfer 304.400 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.096113 0.106413 Omani Riyal 0.784229 0.789909 Euro 435.320 US Dollar 304.800 Qatar Riyal 0.082900 0.084113 Australasia Sterling Pound 436.210 Canadian Dollar 216.885 Saudi Riyal 0.080287 0.081237 Sterling Pound 443.575 Australian Dollar 0.201948 0.213448 Canadian dollar 210.440 Syrian Pound 0.001290 0.001510 Euro 334.510 New Zealand Dollar 0.190615 0.200115 Turkish lira 100.120 Tunisian Dinar 0.146850 0.154850 Swiss Frank 304.295 America Swiss Franc 304.700 Bahrain Dinar 806.370 Canadian Dollar 0.204131 0.212631 Turkish Lira 0.096113 0.106413 Australian Dollar 211.860 UAE Dirhams 83.225 US Dollars 0.300300 0.304800 UAE Dirhams 0.081896 0.083045 US Dollar Buying 303.200 Qatari Riyals 84.445 US Dollars Mint 0.300800 0.304800 Yemeni Riyal 0.001376 0.001456 TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 BUSINESS China’s chief stock regulator has offered to resign

BEIJING: Xiao Gang, the embattled head of Indexes later rebounded around 25 per- China’s securities regulator, has offered to cent from their August lows, but have this resign, sources said, after perceived mis- month dropped back into bear market ter- management wiped more than $5 trillion ritory - usually a reference to a market’s 20 off the value of the Shanghai and percent slide from its last cyclical peak. The Shenzhen stock markets since they peaked turbulent start to 2016, with currency and last June. The 57-year-old chairman of the stock markets tumbling, has stoked con- China Securities Regulatory Commission cerns that Beijing’s policymakers are fum- (CSRC) tendered his resignation last week bling as China heads towards its slowest after his brainchild - a “circuit breaker” annual growth in a quarter of a century. mechanism to limit stock market losses - China is expected to report its weakest was blamed for exacerbating a sharp sell- quarterly economic growth in nearly seven off, a source with ties to the leadership and years on Tuesday, putting policymakers a financial industry source told Reuters. under more pressure to take bolder steps. The “circuit breaker” was deactivated on Jan 7, just three days after its introduction. SHORT-LISTED “The (Communist Party) central (leader- The party’s Organisation Department, or ship) is extremely unhappy with Xiao Gang. personnel ministry, has short-listed three It is certain he will change jobs,” the source candidates to succeed Xiao, the sources close to the leadership said, adding it was said. Xiang Junbo, who turns 59 this month unclear where he would go next. and is chairman of the China Insurance “Xiao Gang handed in his resignation Regulatory Commission (CIRC), is the lead- last week,” said the financial industry ing candidate, they said. The CIRC declined source. Both sources requested anonymity immediate comment. Another candidate is because they were not authorized to speak Huang Qifan, 63, mayor of the southwest- to the media. It’s unclear whether Xiao’s ern metropolis of Chongqing, who is also resignation offer has been accepted by the tipped to become secretary-general of the central government. The CSRC did not State Council, or cabinet, and may concur- immediately respond to requests for com- rently serve as CSRC chairman, the sources ment. said. PARIS: French President Francois Hollande delivers his speech as he presents his New Year greetings to Employment and Union Xiao’s term does not formally expire If confirmed as cabinet secretary-gener- forces at the Economic, Social and Environemental Council in Paris, yesterday. —AP until end-2018. Before taking over at the al, Premier Li Keqiang’s right-hand man, CSRC in 2013, Xiao was chairman of the Huang would have to tackle a stalling country’s fourth-biggest lender, Bank of economy and market turbulence as well as China Ltd for a decade. oversee the entire spectrum of portfolios: French president declares from industry to agriculture, energy, the MARKET MELTDOWN environment, state planning and technolo- On Saturday, Xiao gave a speech at an gy, according to a Reuters report last week. annual meeting in which he said the stock The identity of the third short-listed can- economic emergency market rout highlighted the problems fac- didate is not known. “The Organization ing the CSRC’s regulatory mechanisms. Department has sounded out all three can- “The abnormal stock market volatility has didates and completed background France to spend over 2bn euros to fight unemployment revealed an immature market, inexperi- checks,” said the source with leadership enced investors, an imperfect trading sys- ties. PARIS: French President Francois Hollande has Hollande also pledged yesterday to spend of its workers,” he said. Under the new measures to tem and inappropriate supervision mecha- Xiao, Xiang and Huang could not be declared what he called “a state of economic more than 2.0 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on a pack- stimulate recruitment, companies employing few- nisms,” he said. reached for comment. The benchmark emergency” and says it’s time to redefine age of measures to fight the stubbornly high er than 250 people will receive a 2,000-euro bonus The abrupt suspension of the “circuit Shanghai Composite Index, the share mar- France’s economic and social model. unemployment that has dogged his four years in for each new employee with a contract of more breaker” followed a flurry of measures by ket most closely watched by Chinese Hollande laid out a series of proposed eco- power. Hollande said France was in “a state of eco- than six months, under certain conditions. the CSRC last year - including halting short investors, last week fell below the lows nomic measures yesterday in an annual speech nomic emergency” and needed new measures Hollande dismissed suggestions that he was try- selling and banning share sales by major seen during last year’s crash, closing on to business leaders to boost long-stagnant urgently, but he promised that they would not ing to “artificially” reduce unemployment as he shareholders - in a bid to stabilise markets Friday at 2,900 points - its weakest close French growth and reduce chronic unemploy- come from tax rises. These two billion euros will prepares for a bid to secure re-election in the 2017 after major indexes plunged more than 40 since December 2014. The index rose 0.4 ment. The first measures he proposed are rela- not be financed through extra taxes of any kind. presidential election, but the new measures were percent in the summer. percent yesterday. —Reuters tively modest, and he said they would not “put They will be financed by savings,” Hollande said in greeted with scorn by the opposition. into question” the 35-hour workweek. He did not a speech to business leaders. “What planet are Francois Hollande and his seek to assume any new emergency powers. One billion euros will be spent on training government living on if they think it is enough to schemes for unemployed people. Joblessness, pay a company that takes someone on a cheque Joblessness which stands at around 10 percent or 3.57 million of 1,000 or 2,000 euros?” said Guillaume Larrive, of Hollande stressed the urgency of updating people in the eurozone’s second-largest economy, the right-wing Republicans led by former presi- France’s labor-friendly business model in a fast- was the “only issue which ranks above security for dent Nicolas Sarkozy. moving, increasingly globalized and online the French people”, the president said. Hollande, a After several years of sluggish growth, the economy. The measures included a loosening of Socialist, said France needed to “increase the pace French economy took another blow with the some worker-friendly measures to encourage of reforms” and innovation was “key” to getting jihadist attacks in November that killed 130 companies to hire, and new training for half a people back to work. “France must also increase people, which slowed activity in the fourth million workers. training, education and the level of qualifications quarter. —Agencies India’s NALCO revives $2bn Tata Steel to cut Iran smelter complex plan 1,050 more jobs NEW DELHI: India’s national aluminum ernment, part of Prime Minister company NALCO will soon send an offi- Narendra Modi’s asset sales plan which in Britain cial team to Iran to explore setting up a looks set to fall well short of its goal smelter complex worth about $2 billion, this fiscal year. The company has LONDON: Indian steel giant Tata Steel will cut 1,050 more jobs in Britain, a trade union said yesterday, following SHANGHAI: Two men stand at the bund near the Huangpu river across the its boss said, as world powers lift sanc- agreed to repurchase 10 percent but tions on Iran that had made negotiations says it also needs money for expansion thousands of cuts in the industry announced last year. Pudong New Financial district, in Shanghai yesterday. —AFP Tata Steel is planning to cut 750 jobs at its Port Talbot site difficult. - including the Middle East project - in Wales and 300 more at other plants around the coun- NALCO Chairman Tapan Kumar Chand and to diversify into sectors such as try, the steel union Community said. Tata Steel has 4,000 Spain growth seen robust told Reuters yesterday that the ending of nuclear energy. people at Port Talbot, which also employs 3,000 contrac- sanctions on Iran in return for the coun- NALCO is a rare Indian aluminum tors and temporary workers. “It is yet another chapter of try’s curbs on its nuclear program could company managing to make money the UK’s ongoing steel crisis and the lack of a proper gov- amid political deadlock help the company finally move ahead despite a sharp drop in the metal’s ernment response,” Community said in a statement. with its long-held goal to set up a prices and rising imports from China Contacted by AFP, Tata Steel declined to comment. MADRID: A political logjam in Spain expected kicked even further down the road smelter there to make use of cheap gas that have badly hurt private competi- Britain’s steel sector is in crisis and there have been thou- to last at least several months is set to slow the “(Regional financing) is an urgent matter, the resources. tors such as Vedanta Ltd and Hindalco. sands of layoffs in recent months, with companies blam- pace of economic reforms sharply, storing up system is faulty and needs to be addressed,” said “It’s a major bottleneck which has One factor is its easy access to raw ing high energy costs and cheap Chinese imports. Tata obstacles for growth in a country seeking to Angel de la Fuente, an economist at Madrid- been cleared,” Chand said. “As far as Iran materials such as bauxite, an alumini- Steel in October announced 1,200 job cuts in Britain. It extend a recovery from deep crisis. With the based think tank Fedea. is concerned they have already informed um ore. As a result, NALCO enjoys total also said in December that it was in talks with investment 2016 budget already passed and a strong eco- fund Greybull Capital to sell some of its European assets, nomic tailwind from record low oil prices and FEW INCENTIVES us that they are ready to receive the liquid reserves of about 120 billion employing a total of 4,700 people. —AFP interest rates, Spanish politicians have little or It is not all bleak. Without further changes team.” Cash-rich NALCO will also visit rupees ($1.77 billion), around half of no pressure to reach a deal on a coalition gov- this year, Spain’s economy is still expected to Oman and Qatar in the next two months that in cash, Kumar said. ernment following inconclusive elections. get through 2016 in resilient form. But that may to work out the best place to set up a The finance ministry, which has man- Just shy of a month on from the vote, the further reduce any incentive for reforms in the 500,000-tonnes-per-year smelter and an aged to raise less than a fifth of the eurozone’s fourth largest economy has no set- short term. associated power plant in the Middle roughly $10 billion it had projected in tled government nor any sign of getting one Improving tax revenues, for instance, have East. divestments for 2015-2016, now wants soon. In the meantime, the pile of reforms many taken some of the heat off the regional financ- Balvinder Kumar, the secretary of the NALCO to shell out about 32.5 billion see as essential to furthering the turnaround - ing dilemma, which revolves around how such mines ministry that controls NALCO, said rupees ($481 million) to buy back including changing the way regions are income is distributed, Fedea’s De la Fuente said. the company’s interest was at a prelimi- shares out of the 89 percent holding financed, overhauling the social security system Meanwhile solid consumer spending should nary stage though it should invest the government has in the company. and further fixes for the job market - is building push firms to hire, chipping away at an eye- aggressively to expand wherever possi- “We’re working on the 10 percent up fast. wateringly high unemployment rate of over 20 ble. but a call on the rest will be taken by Some analysts believe that at best, a return percent. A weak euro is drawing more tourists the board,” Chairman Chand said, to political stability in the months ahead, includ- than ever to Spain’s beaches, and a stimulus SHARE BUYBACK adding the buyback demand comes ing via fresh elections, could allow for more pol- plan from the European Central Bank is keeping NALCO is trying to push back on a amid the fall in aluminium prices, icy adjustments, but only in 2017. This would borrowing costs in check. finance ministry request to buy back eroding profitability and the need to come after economic legislation already took a “There are a number of factors that for now 25 percent of its shares from the gov- have funds to grow. —Reuters backseat last year in the run-up to the Dec. 20 can offset any slowdown in investment growth election. or any instability,” said Miguel Cardoso, Chief The centre-right People’s Party of acting Economist for Spain at BBVA, which sees output Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy - which passed expanding by 2.7 percent in 2016, slightly less landmark bills, including a reduction of firing than in 2015. “The economic reforms that were costs in 2012 that was lauded by many econo- brought in over recent years that can sustain mists but contested by progressive parties - growth in the coming quarters, and there is also steered clear of divisive reforms at the end of the ECB’s bond buying program,” he added. But the year after the spending cuts it imposed dur- the political deadlock could end up taking its ing the recession alienated many voters. toll, especially if it remains unclear for a pro- “The momentum for reforms is not there longed period which way economic policy is even if there were a stable government,” said going. Yvan Mamalet, a senior economist at Societe Some in business circles fear a reversal of the Generale. “We do not see any significant most recent labor legislation as promised by the reforms in 2016.” Yet economic measures to help Socialist party or leftist newcomer Podemos. At companies get back on their feet after insolven- the same time Spain is still under scrutiny from cy or to launch start-ups more easily, coupled the European Commission over how it can go with an education overhaul to kick-start Spain’s further on the jobs front and reduce employers’ perennially weak productivity levels, could abuse of temporary contracts, a problem that is make a difference. More reforms could push also dragging on productivity. Spain’s potential long term growth prospects to Even a quicker resolution to the political an annual rate of 2 percent, rather than the 1 impasse than expected by most may not percent projected by Societe Generale, advance the economic agenda. The demands of Mamalet said. parties trying to partner up could likely take A redesign of Spain’s lopsided system of precedence, Fedea’s De la Fuente said. An inde- financing its autonomous communities, mean- pendence drive in Catalonia, where a separatist while, would allay some of the country’s difficul- local government is promoting a roadmap to ties in meeting spending targets. It was put off secession, will also be high on the list of issues TEHRAN: A passenger plane is seen through a sculpture as it prepares to by Rajoy’s party until 2016 but could now be to tackle. —Reuters land at Mehrabad airport in the Iranian capital Tehran yesterday.—AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 Eurozone banks put a lid on rise in shares

LONDON: Eurozone banks weighed on Portugues fell 4-6 percent. Italy provided drop in European shares driven by weak oil sanctions on Iran were lifted. Top climber lower in the afternoon, Sydney shedding European stocks yesterday after news that the many of the sector’s top fallers, with Banco prices and concerns over China. “This week’s overall was Adidas, up 8.4 percent, after 0.7 percent by the end and Wellington European Central Bank was scrutinizing some Monte Paschi down 13 percent, and Banco ECB meeting might highlight that the ECB has it appointed Henkel’s Kasper Rorsted as 1.1 percent lower. There were also sharp non-performing loans, although oil and gas Popolare , UniCredit and Mediobanca down 4- some options available, we doubt that this CEO. Henkel’s shares fell 4.5 percent. losses in Manila and Jakarta. But companies supported the broader market. 7 percent. will be sufficient to stop the downward pres- Mobile telecoms gear maker Ericsson Shanghai again swung in and out of pos- The eurozone bank sector fell 2.5 percent, Italian banks outperformed their peers last sure in the medium term,” strategists at RBC rose 4.2 percent after Nordea Markets itive territory, having plunged almost with traders citing news over the weekend year, but brokers are starting to turn more said in a note. raised its rating on the stock to “buy. nine percent last week. The benchmark that the ECB is quizzing a number of euro negative on the sector. Bank stocks weighed The FTSEurofirst 300 edged up from its Insurer CNP climbed after Nomura index ended 0.4 percent lower. Energy zone banks about non-performing loans as it on the euro zone-only Euro STOXX 50 , which lowest level in more than a year, helped partly raised its recommendation on CNP to firms were among the big losers, with ramps up efforts to tackle the region’s moun- fell 0.3 percent, underperforming the pan- by a slight recovery in oil & gas firms. Energy “buy” from “neutral”, but French super- CNOOC in Hong Kong down four percent tain of bad debt. European FTSEurofirst 300, up 0.1 percent at was the top sectoral riser, up 1.6 percent, after market retailer Casino fell 7.5 percent and PetroChina shedding 0.5 percent. Spain’s Banco de Sabadell, France’s Credit 1,298.63. Some said that the ECB might act to both Brent and US crude turned positive hav- after ratings agency Standard & Poor’s Sydney-listed mining giant BHP Agricole and Portugal’s Banco Comercial provide more stimulus, given the 10 percent ing hit their lowest levels since 2003 after threatened to downgrade its debt to Billiton was 2.9 percent lower and junk status. Woodside Petroleum retreated 2.6 per- cent. Inpex slipped 1.5 percent in Tokyo. Asian extends losses The Chinese market was given some sup- Oil prices plunged below $28 a barrel port by the People’s Bank of China’s deci- early yesterday, hitting energy firms and sion to increase the yuan’s rate against extending losses across Asian markets the dollar. Its recent weakness has been a after sanctions were lifted against Iran, key contributor to a rout in global mar- allowing the key producer to resume kets that has characterized the start of crude exports. While the decision to free 2016. Tehran of the strict embargoes had been In a bid to prevent cash outflows well telegraphed, the news hammered which have also hit the yuan, the PBoC Middle East equities Sunday, which were said yesterday it would require foreign already under pressure as the price of oil banks to hold reserves of the currency. sits at 12-year lows. Overseas lenders have until now been set Most Asian equities followed suit, with a reserve requirement ratio-the amount Tokyo closing down 1.1 percent near of depositor funds they must keep aside- one-year lows, Hong Kong one percent of zero. —Agencies TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 BUSINESS

KUWAIT: The First Trading Company, one of Mutawa Alkazi Group of companies, launches the latest cars of BAIC Motor Group at the Auto-Moto 16 Exhibition at 360 Mall. The exhibition began with a ribbon cutting and the announcement of BAIC Motor in Kuwait by Chief Executive Officer of Mutawa Alkazi Company, Omar Sulaiman Alkazi, Vice President of BAIC Motor in the Middle East and North Africa Sun Zhiyong, BAIC GCC Manager Gao Yunfei, Sales Manager Jiang Dong, and General Manager of New Car Sales at Mutawa Alkazi Company Ahmad Abulhuda. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

Mutawa Alkazi Group launches BAIC Motor at Auto-Moto 16 Exhibition in 360 Mall First Trading Company is BAIC agent in Kuwait

KUWAIT: The First Trading Company, one of der, 2.0 L capacity 177 horsepower, with a six- mirrors which are electrically folding, turn sig- expressed his gratitude for his presence at the HIGH SALES Mutawa Alkazi Group of companies, launched speed automatic transmission and manual use nals with camera. It comes in a wide range of launch of BAIC Motor Groups’s new X65 in Sun talked about the sale of the car and the latest cars of BAIC Motor Group at the ability which gives it more power with eco- colors to satisfy all the wishes of clients with Kuwait today. He was glad for the announce- he said they have risen dramatically in Auto-Moto 16 Exhibition which was held under nomic advantage that doesn’t exist in a lot of different tastes and desires, such as black, grey, ment of new X65 BAIC car in front of a wonder- recent years as a result of the demands the patronage of the Minister of Information other cars. silver, white, dark green, Burgundy and orange ful crowd of car enthusiasts. Mr. Sun also increased due to high quality and specifica- and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Sheikh and blue. BAIC X65 model embodies all the expressed his pride in the partnership with tions as well as appropriate pricing that Salman Al-Homoud Al-Sabah. A large number SAFE AND POWERFUL concepts of grace and luxury in one affordable Mutawa ALkazi Group, which is considered one could make many of those wishing to of people attended the ceremony at the 360 Alkazi also noted some of the advantages for everyone. of the oldest car companies in Kuwait. It is acquire a great car is possible either in China Mall including several modern car lovers. and specification of X 65 BAIK new car like its known by its good reputation and extensive or abroad. The company sold more than two The exhibition began with cutting of ribbon basic safety factors as high-strength steel INTEGRATED SERVICES experience in the field of cars and engines for million four hundred thousand cars in 2014, and the announcement of BAIC Motor in which is up to 95 percent in the passenger As for maintenance and parts availability decades, and its services to clients, during sale making them occupy fifth place in the auto- Kuwait by Chief Executive Officer of Mutawa compartment. In addition, using the finest Alkazi assured that the company provides all and after sale services such as repairing and motive sector in terms of revenue and prof- Alkazi Company, Omar Sulaiman Alkazi, Vice materials and passing the most durability and original spare parts and in suitable prices for its maintenance. its, it won third place in terms of value Brand President of BAIC Motor in the Middle East and maximum resilience tests, which gives her customers. Maintenance and repair centers of The company makes sure to provide spare level China. Today BAIC set ranked 207 on North Africa Sun Zhiyong, BAIC GCC Manager strength in confronting the dangers of the Al-Mutawa ALkazi are spread in Al-Ahmadi and parts in suitable prices with guaranteed quality the Fortune Global 500. Gao Yunfei, Sales Manager Jiang Dong, and road however diverse and varied with the Shuwaikh. These centers are supervised by maintenance. General Manager of New Car Sales at Mutawa strength of the front body and its streamlining, elite group of senior engineers and technicians He talked about group BAIC motor, which PERFECT AND BALANCED PERFORMANCE Alkazi Company Ahmad Abulhuda with the as well as independent suspension system that highly experienced and qualified to perform all achieved consecutive successes and sequential Sun described BAIC X65 car as a magnifi- participation of attendees who expressed their improves the vehicle performance can be con- maintenance and repairs quickly and with high and continuous development since 55 years, cent car in everything, it gives the driver admiration of the car and its praiseworthy trolled easily and wheels of 17 inch aluminums, accuracy. This all is for ensuring secure and reli- until it got to be one of the top five cars in unrivalled pleasure and dynamically bal- specs. As well as having a dual front and sides airbags, able driving. There is a special section for paint- China. He noted that the number of personnel anced for the driver and his companions, as The company’s CEO Omar Suleiman Alkazi SRS side air curtains also to provide all aspects work and smithery which contains the latest cadres and workers which corresponds to well as it has luxury features which makes initiated his speech by thanking the Minister of of safety, PEPS system to enter and run a car German ovens to ensure quality work and 90,000 employees, and its main offices in everyone admire her excellent performance. information and Minister of State for Youth without a key. achieve the best results. Beijing, and has many factories distributed It gives us strength to go anywhere not wor- Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Hammud Al-Sabah on throughout China. Office design is located in rying safety because security has better and the sponsorship of (Auto-Moto 16)event. Then ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP AND CONFIDENCE the Italian city of Turin. richer benefits and specifications of safety he welcomed the crowd for their participation Alkazi gave elaborated about the modern Alkazi, during the ceremony, expressed his factors, quality manufacturing, it has an and attendance at the launching ceremony of techniques; vehicle interior contains computer joy and pride on the partnership with BAIC car QUALITY AND PROFESSIONALISM striking exterior and sophisticated design, BAIC MOTOR new cars. screen technology advanced and integrated. It set, as well as the trust of the customers earned Sun noted that the group has certain char- for gourmets seeking excellence in the Alkazi continued by talking about the part- is also has 7-inch screen, DVD player with LCD by the company in Kuwait. This relationship of acteristics in its work and production ; many acquisition vehicle is perfect in every way. nership between The First Trading Company touch screen. Moreover, it is equipped with a trust goes for years where the company pro- quality properties and exceptional professional- During the launching of BAIC ceremony and BAIC set motor car as the leading camera to see 360 degrees as well as a GPS vided the best products from cars and engines, ism, along with much of the extensive experi- the program had many segments and sur- automaker in China and the world, adding to navigation system. Furthermore, it has ample and provided exceptional driving experience ence gained as a result of partnerships with prises that entertained the audience by dis- the consecutive successes achieved by the and comfortable seats made of leather, and the to guarantee their comfort and pleasure on the many leading car manufacturers in the world, tributing valuable gifts and entertainment. company, not only in China but also in Asia and driver’s seat is adjusted electrically in eight road, and in different weather conditions and starting with the Swedish Saab and Hyundai, The innovative Osama Fuda played a signifi- Africa. It is reaching for Europe and America, directions, plus more specifications and fea- natural. Alkazi invited the audience to discover Korean, German, Mercedes-Benz company, cant role in the introduction and added an and increasing sales growth and increased tures. the advantages of the vehicle up close and where the company launched the so-called atmosphere of fun and pleasure to the audi- demand for their products. He mentioned Alkazi added: In order to keep BAIC X65 enjoy its advantages and special specifications, partnership project (Beijing Benz) with car mak- ence by asking questions to the public some cars specification as one of the most model in the forefront it was manufactured wishing everyone success in choosing the car ers Daimler to manufacture Mercedes Benz C about Mutawa Alkazi Group and its history, powerful and safest car, the most trusted and with integration and filled with sophisticated that suits them and check their wishes always. class and E class and off-road vehicles GLK pur- from cars to its customers and its distribu- reliable dependable with many models. In gadgets from all sides, power sunroof, and tint- He concluded his speech by thanking every- pose marketed and sold in the Chinese market, tion in Kuwait. In addition to maintenance addition, Alkazi especially talked about X65 ed glass panoramic. Also the front lights are one for attending this ceremony. as well as import many vehicles components of centers, as well as about BAIC models cars model which has 4 cylinder engine, tur- Xenon with LED. The taillights are also LED The vice president of BAIC in North Africa global suppliers with high reputation in the and its industry, and the winners received bocharged engines equivalent to the 6 cylin- high lighting. The vehicle has adjustable side and the Middle East, Mr. Sun Zhiyong motor industry (BOSH and DURR) German. valuable and variety of prizes. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 BUSINESS Kuwait again No 21 in Nespresso launches professional annual Agility ranking of world’s emerging markets barista machine, the Aguila 220 Exceptional functionality with sleek and durable design KUWAIT: For the second year, Kuwait ranks and depressed prices for commodity 21 in the annual Agility Emerging Markets exports. Of the 10 countries that slipped Logistics Index, a closely watched ranking furthest in the Index, six are in Latin KUWAIT: To satisfy evolving perature regulation, three pro- of the world’s 45 leading emerging mar- America: Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, demands in the out of home mar- grammable cup sizes (Ristretto, kets. Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. Even so, ket, Nespresso is introducing the Espresso and Lungo), 4 one-touch The Index, in its 7th year, ranks emerg- Chile continues to be the top-ranked Aguila 220. With a smaller footprint recipes and 12 pre-programmed ing economies based on their size, business emerging market with GDP under $300 and the same pioneering technolo- hot milk-based coffee recipes, all conditions, infrastructure and other factors million. gy as the Nespresso Aguila 420 first prepared at the touch of a button, that make them attractive to logistics l Russia, hurt by Western sanctions and launched in 2011, the Aguila 220 is ensure that the Aguila 220 delivers providers, freight forwarders, shipping isolated economically since it began designed to meet the needs of all added value from both a service lines, air cargo carriers and distributors. backing rebels in Ukraine and inter- premium large HORECA establish- and operational perspective. China, the world’s second-largest econo- vened militarily in Syria, fell from No. 7 ments, such as hotels, restaurants, Further convenience is ensured my, remains the leading emerging market to No. 9 in the Index. Tension with Russia cafés and bakeries, and proposes through a link to the cash register by a large margin. Among the countries at and the loss of economic output in the an unmatched choice of one-touch which helps cater to even the most the top of the Index rankings, United Arab breakaway Crimea region have hurt gourmet recipes for extraordinary high-pressure service and opera- Emirates (No 2), India (3) and Malaysia (4) Ukraine, as well. Ukraine fell four spots coffee quality and exceptional cof- tional requirements. leaped over the commodity-dependent to No 34. fee moments. “Our professional customers are economies of Saudi Arabia (5), Brazil (6) l Nigeria (No 17) and Egypt (No 22) As consumers become ever very important to us and we are and Indonesia (7). Rounding out the top 10 climbed 10 spots in the data-driven por- more knowledgeable and dis- thrilled to extend the Aguila range were Mexico (8), Russia (9) and Turkey (10). tion of the Index, the biggest gains by cerning about coffee, as well as to include the innovative and com- Kuwait scores highest - 9th - in areas of any country in seven years of rankings. keen to enjoy new beverage pact Barista machine, Aguila 220,” the Index that measure a country’s busi- The potential of Nigeria, Africa’s largest experiences, hotels and restau- said Reto Bruegger, Head of Out of ness climate. However, it ranks No 29 in economy, has come into sharper focus rants see a premium coffee offer- Home channel, NestlÈ Nespresso “connectivity,” a gauge of infrastructure, since the government updated the ing as a means of differentiation. SA. “The Aguila range reflects transport links and customs efficiency. methods it uses to track economic per- In true Nespresso fashion, the Nespresso’s desire to provide our The Index includes a survey of more formance. Egypt’s economy and busi- high-performance Aguila 220 professional partners with the than 1,100 supply chain industry execu- ness climate have stabilized under its helps professionals achieve this highest quality coffee, choice, con- tives. In the survey, Kuwait moved up seven government. goal whilst at the same time venience and service that con- spots to No. 20 among countries with the ensuring convenient operation Feature-rich for exceptional possible for an average of 2,000 sumers have come to expect of most potential for investment by logistics Other survey findings: and simple maintenance. The service, quality, choice cups of coffee to be served a their coffee experiences.” companies. Supply chain executives l Industry executives view oil prices and launch of the Aguila 220 further and customer care month, thus satisfying the market The Aguila 220 has been avail- answering the survey expect an uptick in China’s economy as the leading risks to strengthens Nespresso’s profes- The Aguila 220 combines excep- need for different serving capaci- able in six European markets emerging markets growth in 2016, despite the global economy in 2016. Logistics sional proposal, which includes a tional functionality with sleek and ties and efficient use of space. (Switzerland, UK, Germany, France, concerns about further slowing in China, executives see “economic shock” as the complete machine portfolio, 11 durable design and ease of use Two extraction heads allow Netherlands and Sweden) as from fluctuations in oil prices, and the possibility top risk in Asia Pacific, a sign of concern Grand Cru coffees for every taste together with a wide variety of cof- simultaneous and fast beverage April 2015 and has been launched that the US economy could weaken. that a slowdown in China could ripple and occasion and exceptional fee recipes. preparation during peak hours. in Kuwait Market as of January After a year of turbulence, 61 percent of through economies and supply chains customer service. Its robust brewing unit makes it Unparalleled milk foam, milk tem- 18th, 2016. logistics industry executives surveyed say elsewhere in the region. A significant they are unclear on the direction of the percentage (38 percent) said they are global economy or expect more volatility in reassessing their China strategies. In the Oil shock is hurting US economy: Expert 2016. In spite of their wariness, roughly the past, industry executives said natural same proportion (59.4 percent) say the disasters and corruption were the top LONDON: Slumping oil and gas prices and a downturn in invest- International Monetary Fund forecast of 4.7 risks in Asia. ment are proving to be major headwinds for the economies of percent growth in emerging markets is l For the first time, logistics professionals the United States and other key important petroleum producers. “about right.” Emerging markets growth see consumer spending in Africa as a Economists tend to think of oil and gas as simply an input was an estimated 4.2 percent in 2015, more important driver of growth than into the production process for other goods and services, which down from 4.5 percent in 2014. energy and minerals. They identified is why they tend to think of falling fuel prices as a positive influ- For the first time, supply chain profes- Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya ence on economic activity. But the production and refining of oil sionals surveyed see India - rather than as Africa’s most promising markets. In and gas is also a major industry in its own right, so a downturn in China - as the emerging market with the spite of recent growth and investment, drilling can have a big negative effect on growth in the short to most growth potential. And in the overall Sub-Saharan Africa remains a frontier medium term, until the positive effects on other industries and Index rankings, which are based on eco- market for most supply chain execu- consumption dominate in the long run. nomic and social data, India climbed two tives: only 21.2 percent said they have By turnover and investment, petroleum exploration, produc- spots to No 3, behind only China and operations there. tion, refining, transportation and marketing is one of the largest United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the l The logistics industry is intrigued by the industries in the United States and around the world. strength of economic reforms launched by possibility that Iran will emerge from its In the United States, businesses engaged in oil and gas the government of Prime Minister long economic isolation as the result of extraction and refining spent almost $200 billion on new equip- Narendra Modi. an agreement to curtail its nuclear pro- ment and structures in 2013, the most recent year for which data gram. In the survey, Iran moved up 12 are available. Other Index findings: spots - from No. 27 to No. 15 - among Oil and gas extraction and refining accounted for more l UAE, home to the powerhouse countries with potential as major logis- than 14 percent of all new capital expenditures in the United economies of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, has tics markets. States in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. the best business climate and the best “It was a volatile year for emerging mar- Oil and gas drilling and associated services on their own “connectedness,” a measure of infra- kets, and you see that in the Index. Eight of accounted for more than 13 percent of whole-economy capital structure and transport connections, of the top 10 emerging markets shifted expenditures (“Annual Capital Expenditures Survey” Table 4a). any emerging market. As a result, UAE places,” said Essa Al-Saleh, President and The oil and gas drilling boom drove an enormous amount ranks as the world’s No. 2 emerging mar- CEO of Agility Global Integrated Logistics. of extra expenditure and provided a significant boost to the ket after China, even though China’s “Despite the turbulence, the fundamentals entire economy. Between 2003 and 2013, capital spending by economy is 25 times larger; India’s is five driving growth remain consistent - a rising oil and gas drillers quadrupled from $40 billion per year to times larger; and Brazil’s is six times larg- middle class with spending power, almost $160 billion. er. progress in poverty reduction, growing Capital expenditures surged even further in the first half of l The most business friendly conditions populations. That’s why we are still positive 2014 as the boom reached its peak but since then have been are found in Gulf states. UAE, Qatar and on the outlook for emerging markets and cut sharply. Unsurprisingly, the collapse in investment spend- Oman have the best business climates - see them driving global growth.” ing has produced a measurable slowdown in the broader a combination of market access and risk, Transport Intelligence (Ti), a leading economy. regulation, foreign investment, urban- analysis and research firm for the logistics The downturn is evident in everything from data on indus- DAKAR: A car stops next to a fuel dispenser at a petrol station outside Dakar ization and wealth distribution. Other industry, compiled the Index. trial production to freight movements by road and rail. on Sunday. The Senegalese government reduced the price of fuel and other Gulf states also rank near the top in John Manners-Bell, Chief Executive Ti, Formerly booming states like Texas, North Dakota and petroleum products, amid calls by unions of transport workers for further business conditions: Saudi Arabia (No. said: “The world’s economy is still riven by Oklahoma, and cities like Williston and Calgary, in the heart of reduction. —AFP 5), Kuwait (9) and Bahrain (11). instability, and emerging markets such as the oil patch, now face severe readjustment or even recession. l UAE, Malaysia, China, Chile lead in “con- China and Brazil have not been immune. The slowdown has even caught the attention of New York nectivity,” meaning they have the best However others, such as Mexico, are in a far Times columnist and Nobel Economics Laureate Paul Krugman, Zain Group promotes infrastructure and transport links, along stronger position and will benefit from the who blames the impact on an important nonlinearity in the with the most efficient customs and economic growth experienced in the U.S. effects of oil prices fluctuations. “Small oil price declines may border administration. and Europe. More than ever, investors in be expansionary through the usual channels but really big AbdulGhaffar Setareh l Countries in Latin America are losing emerging markets need to be discerning declines set in motion a process of forced deleveraging among ground to other emerging markets as a and the results of our Index are critical to producers that can be a significant drag on the world econo- result of recession and political turmoil providing clarity in a confusing and com- my,” Krugman wrote in an article published on Saturday (“Oil to Chief Risk Officer in Brazil, the region’s biggest economy, plex world.” goes nonlinear,” New York Times, Jan. 16, 2016). KUWAIT: Zain Group, the leading telecom innovator across the Middle East and Africa announces the promotion of Kuwaiti national, AbdulGhaffar Setareh to the posi- tion of Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for Zain Group. The newly created executive role will see Setareh reporting to the Board Risk Committee, being responsible for deliver- ing the global risk framework and strategy across all operations within Zain Group. An accomplished corporate executive with over 30 years of operational, engineer- ing, insurance and risk management expe- rience in mobile telecommunications and technology sectors across the Middle East effectiveness of the Group’s risk oversight and Africa, Setareh first joined Zain in 1995 and control assurance processes, which is as a senior transmission engineer, having critical to our efforts to transform into an spent the previous 10 years with the integrated digital lifestyle operator, with a Kuwait Ministry of Communications engi- particular emphasis on enterprise solu- neering department. tions.” Setareh has led the Zain Group Risk As the Zain Group Chief Risk Officer, Department, as its Director since July 2005 Setareh will continue to promote risk man- DAFZA and LinkedIn join hands and previously to that was the company’s agement culture throughout the Group, Corporate Security Manager, a position he regularly enhancing the enterprise-wide held since 2002. Key milestones during his risk governance framework currently in DUBAI: The Dubai Airport Freezone Authority destination, and further build DAFZA as a globally Rajai El Khadem, Head of Public Sector at impressive tenure to date include the place and ensuring that the Group’s risk (DAFZA) and LinkedIn, the world’s largest profes- reputable employer brand. LinkedIn MENA, said: “DAFZA, as one of the key establishment of an enterprise-wide risk levels and business processes are consis- sional network on the internet, officially formed an DAFZA’s Human Capital Team will be able to freezone offerings that differentiates Dubai as a management framework for all business tent with its risk appetite, internal risk poli- alliance to strategically collaborate on Human access and directly connect with 400 million pro- business-friendly hub, will realise immense benefit units at every level across Zain Group, cies, and regulatory requirements for risk Capital and Sales & marketing endeavors. fessional members of LinkedIn worldwide, 17 mil- from a strong employer brand and an investor- which included eight Middle East opera- management. The move was announced during a special lion of whom are from the Middle East. This friendly engagement tone on LinkedIn. tions (2005 to 2015) and 15 African opera- The incoming Zain Group CRO, meeting that took place at DAFZA headquarters in alliance thus marks a major milestone in DAFZA’s Professionals now value an employer’s and part- tions (2005 to 2010). He also established AbdulGhaffar Setareh said, “I appreciate the the presence of Amna Lootah, Assistant Director ongoing efforts to strengthen and promote its ner’s brand more than ever, and a strategic invest- group-wide Information Security and confidence that has been placed in me by General for Finance and Commercial at DAFZA, digital presence in line with the country’s smart ment in establishing the right presence will only Business Continuity Management initia- the Zain Group Board Risk Committee and and Rajai El Khadem, Head of Public Sector at transformation initiatives. bring business value to DAFZA.” tives based on global leading practices and senior management, and look forward to LinkedIn MENA. This alliance will enable profes- Amna Lootah, said: “this alliance with LinkedIn To solidify this alliance, Workshops will also be oversaw a group-wide Insurance program further strengthening the company’s risk sionals working at DAFZA to expand DAFZA’s is an excellent opportunity for us to further extend organized under DAFZA Business Lab (D-Lab) to for over 16,000 employees and families. management capabilities and ensuring awareness, reach and employer brand on LinkedIn DAFZA’s thought leadership in the labor market as educate the Freezone’s clients on how to grow Commenting on the appointment, Zain that Enterprise Risk Management at Zain is as well as access knowledge, information & insights well as our contributions to the UAE’s economic their businesses through social media and Group CEO Scott Gegenheimer said, “It is a a business and strategic enabler in achiev- from the world’s largest professional network. development. It also reflects DAFZA’s full commit- through LinkedIn’s support in particular. The ses- pleasure to promote AbdulGhaffar Setareh ing our objectives.” Further, this LinkedIn platform will be a good ment to cementing its global stature as an sions will share the latest social media best prac- demonstrating the importance that the Setareh graduated with a enabler for potential investors around the globe to employer of choice and the base of some of the tices, trends and insights. SOCIALEYEZ, DAFZA’s company places on fulfilling its human Telecommunications Engineering degree from easily connect with and access DAFZA and its key region’s best talents and industry names, which digital engagement agency, will help organize the resources policy to develop its people and the Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications, stakeholders as well as attract professionals and will be reflected on DAFZA’s LinkedIn page, along workshops for companies operating at DAFZA in capitalize on gifted leaders from within.” Rabat, Morocco in 1984 and is fluent in Arabic, talent from various industries to the Freezone. with its relation with the business community of cooperation with LinkedIn and other industry Gegenheimer continued, “Risk English, and French. An Affiliate of the London For its part, DAFZA will leverage its affiliation investors and companies. We will work closely leaders. Among the workshop themes being con- Management is a top priority at Zain and based Institute of Risk Management, Setareh is with LinkedIn to attract the best talents to the with LinkedIn to ensure the successful application sidered are Social Selling, Social Media Reputation critical to the company’s future prosperity. a Certified Information Security Manager Freezone, actively engage investors and entrepre- of best digital practices, which in turn will help in Management, Social Media Crisis Management, Setareh’s extensive experience will ensure (CISM) and Certified in Risk and Information neurs interested in DAFZA’s potential as a business achieving the objectives of this cooperation.” and Employee Advocacy. we continue to enhance the operational Systems Control (CRISC). TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 TECHNOLOGY

Robots, new working ways to cost 5 million jobs by 2020: Davos study

DAVOS/MUNICH: Disruptive labor market size of the additional job losses is sobering. sales representatives. Women will be the business and software services firm Infosys. the findings. Globally, while almost two- changes, including the rise of robots and Two-thirds of the projected losses are biggest losers as their jobs are often con- Almost 80 percent globally said they thirds of those queried said they felt posi- artificial intelligence, will result in a net loss expected to fall in the office and adminis- centrated in low-growth or declining areas had to learn new skills not taught them in tive about their job prospects, those in of 5.1 million jobs over the next five years trative sectors as smart machines take over such as sales, office and administrative school and that rapid technology change - developing markets Brazil, China, India and in 15 leading countries, according to an more routine tasks, according to latest find- roles, the report said. While men will see the threat of being overtaken by robots or South Africa were far more optimistic than analysis published in Davos yesterday. The ings, which are based on a global survey of approximately one job gained for every smart systems - required constant learning their peers in developed markets. projection by the World Economic Forum personnel and strategy executives. three lost over the next five years, women of fresh skills to compensate. While in India, 60 percent said they (WEF), which is holding its annual meeting The WEF has made “the fourth industrial face more than five jobs lost for every one The study surveyed around 1,000 think they have the skills needed for their in the Swiss ski resort this week, assumes a revolution” - a topic covering robotics, nan- gained. young people each in Australia, Brazil, careers, just a quarter were similarly opti- total loss of 7.1 million jobs, offset by a gain otechnology, 3D printing and biotechnolo- Britain, China, France, Germany, India and mistic in France, the poll found. The survey of 2 million new positions. gy - the official theme of this year’s Davos Losing jobs to machines the United States, as well as South Africa, also showed that the level of confidence The 15 economies covered by the sur- meeting, which runs from Jan. 20 to 23. The Another international survey published where a smaller sample of 700 was polled. which young people had in their technical vey account for approximately 65 percent “Future of Jobs” report concluded that jobs yesterday has found Four out of ten young Infosys Chief Executive Vishal Sikka said skills correlated with their beliefs in their of the world’s total workforce. The assess- would be displaced in every industry, people believe machines will be able to do technologies have evolved far faster than future career prospects. ment highlights the challenges posed by although the impact would vary consider- their jobs within a decade. Nearly half of what was thought possible even 10 years The survey was conducted by London- modern technologies that are automating ably, with the biggest negative losses likely young workers surveyed in Western coun- ago, while the educational system remains based ICM Unlimited. It was released ahead and making redundant multiple human to be in healthcare, reflecting the rise of tries said their education did not prepare wedded to practices initially designed for of the annual World Economic Forum tasks, from manufacturing to healthcare. telemedicine, followed by energy and them to do their jobs. agrarian societies 300 years ago. “We must meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which is With the International Labor financial services. The skills gap is especially pronounced transition away from our past; shift the focused on what it describes as the “Fourth Organization, part of the United Nations, At the same time, however, there will be in Europe, according to a poll of 9,000 16- focus from learning what we already know Industrial Revolution,” the broad social and already forecasting an increase in global a growing demand for certain skilled work- to 25-year-olds in nine of the world’s to an education focused on exploring what economic shifts taking place due to disrup- unemployment of 11 million by 2020, the ers, including data analysts and specialist biggest nations commissioned by Indian hasn’t happened yet,” he said in response to tive digital technologies. — Reuters Kuwait Oil Company Opts for Cisco Security Solutions for High-Security Network KUWAIT: Cisco yesterday announced management to control user access - that Kuwait Oil Company has selected whoever, wherever and from whatever Cisco(r) security solutions for its network device. hardware refresh. Kuwait Oil has Also integrated into Kuwait Oil’s net- installed Cisco Network Admission work will be the Cisco Identity Services Control (NAC), a powerful, easy-to- Engine, which helps conquer enterprise deploy admission control and compli- mobility challenges and safeguard the ance enforcement component of the evolving network. It is a security policy Cisco TrustSec(r) solution. management and control platform that With comprehensive security features, automates and simplifies access control in-band or out-of-band deployment and security compliance for wired, wire- options, user authentication tools, band- less and VPN connectivity. The Identity width and traffic filtering controls, Services Engine offers an easy onboard- ing experience, so that personal devices can be secured and granted access through a simple self-service portal. The Identify Services Engine is primarily used to provide highly secure access and guest access, support bring-your-own- device (BYOD) initiatives, and enforce usage policies in conjunction with Cisco TrustSec technology.

Executive Quotes: Abdulsalam Al-Matrouk, Senior Engineer Telecommunications, Kuwait BOSTON: In this Friday, Jan 15, 2016, photo, an iPad with a Boston Symphony Orchestra interactive program is displayed on the conductor’s Oil Company: stand at Symphony Hall in Boston. — AP “The number of devices and applica- tions accessing Kuwait Oil Company’s Tech at the symphony: Boston network both inside and outside our fire- wall has been steadily growing, thereby creating more attack vectors for hackers orchestra loaning patrons iPads to exploit. Cisco’s broad set of solutions covering the broadest set of attack vec- BOSTON: A night at the symphony usually means with a concert official as they gave running commen- More engaged Abdulsalam Al-Matrouk tors, leveraging both global and local silencing cellphones and mobile devices before the tary during select performances. Jeremy Rothman, vice president for artistic plan- intelligence, met our company needs music starts. But as part of an effort to draw in a ning at the Philadelphia Orchestra, says concerns Network Admission Control is a compre- perfectly. Cyber-attacks are getting younger audience, the Boston Symphony Orchestra Changing expectations over its LiveNote app, which debuted this season at hensive offering for controlling and increasingly sophisticated and discreet is loaning select patrons iPads loaded with content Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of select concerts, have diminished as concertgoers securing networks. and are driven by financial or political specific to each performance. American Orchestras, an approximately 800-mem- and musicians alike saw the technology in action. It will help Kuwait Oil to implement gain. The good news is that the O&G They will be able to view sheet music for the ber group based in New York, says orchestras are The app, he says, has helped some patrons security, access and compliance poli- organizations like ours can put measures pieces being played, video interviews with musi- trying to appeal to a new generation’s changing become more informed and therefore more cies through a central management in place to counter attacks.” cians, podcasts about the composers and analysis expectations for the concert experience. engaged in the performance while the app’s point rather than configure policies Ziad Salameh, Managing Director and on the works themselves. They will also get a close- “It’s about enhancing the visual experience of design-grayscale text on a black background-mini- throughout the network on individual General Manager Gulf, Levant and up view of the conductor from the musicians’ point listening to a symphony orchestra,” he says. “It’s also mizes the impact on others. “No one is more con- devices. Pakistan and Middle East Services Leader, of view from video monitors set up in the hall. about making the experience more intimate and cerned about preserving the live concert experi- The Cisco Annual Security Report Cisco: The storied orchestra, which was founded in creating a more visible contact between the per- ence as we are,” Rothman says. “This is absolutely at 2015 notes that malware encounters are “We applaud the Kuwait Oil Company 1881, is the first to offer audience members use of former and the audience, which is something the core of what we do. So we asked a lot of the on the rise in the energy, oil and gas sec- for putting security at the forefront of its customized iPads, according to Kim Noltemy, the younger audiences really seem to value.” The Boston really hard questions up front and are continuing to tors. Maintaining network security and agenda. Cisco has been helping securing group’s chief operating and communications offi- orchestra is rolling out the iPads as part of a broader listen to feedback now that we’ve put it in people’s operational efficiency in today’s distrib- countries, cities and businesses of all cer. But other orchestras are also trying to incorpo- effort to draw patrons, particularly younger ones, to hands.” uted enterprise networks demands new sizes for decades, and we understand the rate technology. their underperforming Friday concerts. In Boston, Noltemy says the symphony orchestra technology. A more holistic approach to rapidly changing security landscape. Our The Philadelphia Orchestra is among a handful During “Casual Fridays,” symphony tickets are has taken steps to make sure it isn’t alienating its that has developed its own mobile application to being offered at significantly lower prices, ranging core audience. For now, the iPads will be offered network access security incorporates: continued investment in software, data let audience members follow along with program from $25 to $45, down from as much as $145, only to the 110 people seated in the rear orchestra. * Accurate identification of every user analytics and threat intelligence along notes, like translations of vocal parts, in real time patrons are being encouraged to dress casually, and That section is under the balcony overhang, she and device with our assessment, monitoring, from their personal devices. the hall is hosting pre- and post-concert receptions notes, helping limit the impact of screen glow on * Easy onboarding, provisioning and response and operational capabilities The Los Angeles Philharmonic rolled out “VAN with live music, snacks and a cash bar. other audience members. securing of all devices offer advanced threat protection across Beethoven,” a customized van that gave residents last The first performance was Jan. 15; two others The devices will also be on a dim setting, and * Centralized, context-aware policy the entire attack continuum.” fall a chance to enjoy a performance of Beethoven’s have so far been scheduled for Feb 12 and March patrons will be given headphones to tune into Fifth Symphony using virtual reality headsets. And 18. Efforts to appeal to new audiences are not with- the video and audio segments. “We’d prefer peo- EMC Showcases Range of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Virginia out opposition from symphony traditionalists. ple watch the iPad podcasts before the concert Symphony Orchestra are among those offering “There’s been resistance all along to screens in con- during the pre-concert reception,” Noltemy says. Edge-to-core Video Surveillance “tweet seats,” specially designated sections where cert halls” observes Rosen, of the League of “But, as you can imagine, we have no control Solutions at Intersec 2016 concertgoers are encouraged to interact on Twitter American Orchestras. over that.” —AP

DUBAI: EMC announced its participa- significant safety, security and even city SpaceX fails to stick ocean tion at Intersec 2016 being held at planning and development objectives, Dubai World Trade Centre from 17th enterprises are in need of trusted, scala- until the 19th of January. ble enterprise storage solutions. landing after satellite launch Considered one of the world’s largest At the event, EMC is showcasing safety and security exhibitions, the open, flexible, edge-to-core video sur- LOS ANGELES: SpaceX’s unmanned Falcon 9 event is slated to bring together over veillance solutions that enable enter- rocket broke apart Sunday as it tried to land on a 24,000 professionals from across the prises to store, manage and access fast floating platform in the Pacific, marking the region to discuss the latest trends and high resolution digital videos with com- fourth such failure in the company’s bid to recy- technologies in the realm of commercial plete simplicity and reliability. cle rockets. However, the primary mission of the security, information security, fire and Participating through partners like launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in rescue, safety and health in addition to Axis Communications and Milestone, California went as planned, propelling into orbit a $180 million US-French satellite called Jason-3 homeland security and policing. visitors have access to in-depth demon- to study sea level rise. The announcement comes as the strations of the EMC Video Surveillance “Well, at least the pieces were bigger this region continues to witness an increase Solution that is composed of EMC VNX- time!” Elon Musk, the CEO of the California- in the uptake of HD, megapixel cam- VSS100 and EMC Isilon that is designed based company, wrote on Twitter. SpaceX is try- eras in light of steadily increasing to meet the needs of targeted highly ing to land its rockets back on Earth in order to prices, ease of deployment and increas- distributed video surveillance environ- re-use the parts in the future, trying to make ing government regulations mandat- ments. spaceflight cheaper and more sustainable than ing the need for retaining data longer. Fredy Issa, Manager, Enterprise Sales before. In addition, the region is also seeing for the Isilon Video Surveillance Practice The firm succeeded in landing its Falcon 9 significant investments in various at EMC also presented a session on how first stage-the long towering portion of the rock- smart city and urban planning cam- enterprises can go about optimizing et-on solid ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida in paigns that are founded on effective video surveillance investments and December. Even though an ocean landing is CCTV security and surveillance. overcome storage challenges at the more difficult, SpaceX wants to perfect the tech- With the need for 24/7 connectivity, Intersec Critical Infrastructure Security, nique because ship landings “are needed for rapid transfer and analysis of steadily Protection and Resilience Conference high velocity missions,” Musk tweeted. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE: In this NASA TV image, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen at the Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 East with the Jason-3 spacecraft increasing volumes of data to achieve yesterday. “Definitely harder to land on a ship,” he added after the latest foible. “Similar to an aircraft carri- onboard, during launch, January 17, 2016, in California. — AFP er vs land: much smaller target area, that’s also tipped over after landing,” Musk said. SpaceX The technology will monitor global sea sur- Ukraine warns of more malware translating and rotating.” said the rocket landed within 1.3 meters (yards) face heights, tropical cyclones and help support Currently, expensive rocket components are of the droneship’s center. seasonal and coastal forecasts. During a five-year attacks after Kiev airport hit jettisoned into the ocean after launch, wasting mission, its data will also be used to aid fisheries hundreds of millions of dollars. Competitor Blue Oceans satellite management and research into human impacts KIEV: Ukraine’s Computer Emergency of log-files and information traffic,” CERT- Origin, headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, There was no hitch in the launch itself, and on the world’s oceans. Response Team (CERT-UA) warned yes- UA said. A virus, similar to one which succeeded in landing a suborbital rocket in the blast off at 10:42 am of the rocket and satel- The satellite is the fruit of a four-way partner- terday of the threat of possible further attacked three Ukrainian power firms in November. However, no other company has lite went flawlessly. The satellite aims to offer a ship between the National Oceanic and attempted the ocean landing that SpaceX is try- virus attacks after malware was found in late December, was detected in a com- more precise look at how global warming and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US ing to achieve. In the end, the problem on the IT system of Kiev’s main airport over puter workstation of the IT network of sea level rise affect wind speeds and currents as space agency NASA, the French space agency Sunday was not due to high speed or a turbu- close as 0.6 miles (one kilometer) from shore, CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) and the weekend. “Attention to all system Kiev’s main airport Boryspil, according to lent ocean, but came down to a leg on the rock- administrators ... We recommend a check the airport’s press service. — Reuters whereas past satellites were limited to about 10 the European Organization for the Exploitation et that did not lock out as anticipated. “So it times that distance from the coast. of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). — AFP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE No reason to stop drug trials despite death

PARIS: There is no reason to stop medicine disorder medication being tested by trials in France, the country’s health minis- French laboratory Biotrial on behalf of ter said yesterday, despite the death of a Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial. man during testing for a new drug. “There One died on Sunday after being rendered is a major problem-massive, unprecedent- brain dead. The other five, aged 28 to 49, ed in France-and we must understand were said to be in a stable condition. A what happened, but there is nothing to total of 108 volunteers took part in the tri- justify stopping clinical trials,” Marisol al, 90 of whom received the drug at vary- Touraine told France’s RTL radio. Touraine ing doses while the rest were given place- voiced concern that she was only informed bos. Those hospitalized had received the of the accident four days after the patient highest dose. who later died was rushed to hospital. “A Three separate probes have been quicker alert would have been appreciat- launched to determine whether the ed,” she said. tragedy was caused by a procedural error “Faced with such a serious situation, we or by the substance. Biotrial, which has would expect the laboratory to approach been carrying out drug trials since 1989, the health authorities more quickly.” Six said Sunday that the situation is “even people were hospitalized after taking part more upsetting given that there is as yet in a Phase I trial for a new pain and mood no explanation”. —AFP

CALIFORNIA: In this file photo, Justin Balido, peer health coordinator and senior health educator with Health Connected, speaks to a ninth-grade Teen Talk High School class at Carlmont High School in Belmont, Calif. —AP In Omaha, and much of US, debate over sex education rages on

‘Let’s empower our children to say no to sex outside of marriage’ RENNES: French Health Minister Marisol Touraine gestures as she arrives to OMAHA, Nebraska : Rival factions yelling at one another encouraged skeptical citizens - whether public school Congress move toward equal funding earmarked for address the media during a press conference held in Rennes, western amid angry pushing. Tirades about condoms, and claims parents or not - to attend school board meetings to vent comprehensive and abstinence approaches. In the France, Friday. —AP of misinformation. A parent declaring that children are their displeasure. meantime, Ascend and its allies are working to scrap being force-fed course material “straight from the pits of the term “abstinence-only,” which they felt was a detri- Sanders proposes tax hike to pay hell.” Such has been the tenor of recent school board Inaccurate criticisms ment. They now describe their approach as “sexual risk meetings in Omaha as board members contemplate the Comprehensive sex education “is pornography under avoidance” and contrast it with what they call a “sexual for universal health care first update in three decades of the school district’s sex the guise of education,” the group contends. “The values risk reduction” (SRR) approach in comprehensive sex- education curriculum. that it promotes are ones that most parents would never ed programs. “There’s room for both, but we have to be CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Vowing to ing capital gains and dividends on families A public meeting in October ended in chaos after agree with.” Many of the opponents’ allegations have clear they are different,” Huber said. “Our approach achieve universal health care, Vermont Sen earning more than $250,000 a year, elimi- shouting and shoving broke out between supporters and been categorically denied by the school district, includ- sends a cultural message that it’s better if teens don’t Bernie Sanders released a sweeping pro- nate deductions for wealthy Americans and opponents of the update who had packed by the hun- ing claims that the new curriculum was designed by have sex; the SRR message is normalizing teen sex if posal hours before Sunday’s Democratic raising the estate tax. dreds into an auditorium. This month, as board members Planned Parenthood, would authorize school staff to take the risks can be mitigated.” presidential debate to create a new single- The plan would also raise income taxes sat in stoic silence, activists from both sides vented their students to get abortions, and would provide them with According to the CDC’s latest figures, from 2013, 44 payer health care system in the United on Americans making more than $250,000 feelings during three hours of public comment - reflect- birth control. Goding, the board president, said counter- percent of female teens and 47 percent of male teens States paid for with a variety of widespread a year, including a top tax rate of 52 per- ing divisions that have bedeviled school boards nation- ing inaccurate criticisms has been a challenge. “Once the between 15 and 19 have had sexual intercourse - signifi- tax increases. Sanders’ “Medicare for all” cent for those earning $10 million annually wide, as well as state legislatures and even Congress. misinformation has been disseminated, it’s hard to gather cantly lower than 25 years earlier, but up slightly from plan was poised to play a starring role in or more. While Sanders’ proposal is similar Kathryn Russell, a grandmother who formerly worked for it back up,” she said. 2011. Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education the final Democratic debate before the to the single-payer health care plan that he the Omaha school district, said the proposed curriculum Board members stress that none of the sex-ed cours- and history at New York University, worries that many leadoff Iowa caucuses and came as rival has introduced nearly a dozen times since “rapes children of their innocence.” It was another critic in es will be mandatory - parents must opt their children adolescents are learning about sex via pornography on Hillary Clinton has ramped up her critique joining Congress in 1991, it is a reversal of Omaha, Jesse Martinez, who used the “pits of hell” refer- into the classes offered in 4th, 5th and 6th grade, and can the Internet. Online porn and misinformation can best of Sanders’ health care plans. his campaign rhetoric. In December, he ence, calling elements of the course material “garbage. “ keep them out of the classes in middle school and high be countered by accurate online information, said Clinton has pressed Sanders for details promised to raise taxes on the middle class Supporters of the update - ranging from the presi- school. Topics for 4th graders include puberty and how to Zimmerman, who praised initiatives that enable teens on whether middle-class families would only to pay for a plan to provide paid family dent of the city council to students who spoke - exhorted stay safe from sexual abuse; by middle school students to ask questions and get answers from health educators face a higher tax burden under his plan, leave. His other programs, like tuition-free the school board to equip students with reliable informa- are learning about methods of contraception. The board via text message. “It isn’t that schools shouldn’t try, but which she has warn would undermine college and health care, would be paid for tion that would help the Omaha region lower rates of plans to vote on new standards for the sex-ed program historically they’re incredibly limited in what they can President Barack Obama’s signature health with higher taxes on the wealthy. “I think it teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases that on Jan. 20, then work on details of a new curriculum in do,” Zimmerman said. “We’re so divided about sexuality - care overhaul. Her campaign noted is appropriate to ask the wealthy and large are above the national average. “I have a right to this time for any changes to be implemented next fall. Some so they come to the lowest common denominator.” Sanders’ plan was released a little more corporations to start paying their fair share information,” said Ryleigh Welsh, a sophomore at Omaha’s opponents have urged the board to hold off on imple- than two hours before the debate. “When of taxes,” he said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Central High School. “Sexual health is more than just sex. mentation until parents can review the final version of Sensitive sexual topics you’re running for president and you’re It’s about understanding and taking care of your body the proposed curriculum. Sex education is taught in var- Planned Parenthood - a longtime advocate of com- serious about getting results for the America’s Future and being prepared for a healthy future.” ied forms and under different rules across the 50 states. prehensive and candid sex education for adolescents - American people, details matter - and Sen Some liberal activists said Sanders’ plan, According to the National Conference of State has recently developed a set of digital tools to provide Sanders is making them up as he goes like other federal programs such as Social Modifications and updates Legislatures, 22 states and the District of Columbia sex education on mobile phones. One app is designed along,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon. Security, would deliver a better value for In Omaha, as in many US communities, some parents require public schools to teach sex education. In other to help young women identify what methods of birth Sanders would replace the nation’s low and middle income taxpayers. “If you and conservative activists insist that any school-based sex states, including Nebraska, it’s generally up to individual control would best meet their needs; two other apps existing employer-based system of insur- had a universal health care plan people education emphasize sexual abstinence as the wisest school districts to decide what form of sex education, if emphasize the importance of using both condoms and ance with one in which the government wouldn’t have to pay premiums. They course. Yet as more young people turn to social media any, is offered. In 35 states, parents are allowed to keep a more effective form of birth control. At the Jan 4 becomes a “single payer,” providing cover- would gain far more than they would shell and online resources - including pornography- for sex- their children out of sex-ed classes. In some states, there meeting in Omaha, the public debate focused on age to all. It would eliminate co-pays and out in taxes,” said Roger Hickey, a co-direc- related information, there’s pressure on schools from oth- have been recent steps to ensure that the sex-ed curricu- whether schools or parents should be the primary deductibles, and Sanders’ campaign tor of the Campaign for America’s Future. er quarters to offer accurate, candid information that can lum includes positive instruction about different sexual sources of information on sensitive sexual topics. argued, bring health care spending under “Social Security wouldn’t have existed if compete with and correct what’s available beyond the orientations and gender identities, and to address sexual Conservative activists said such subjects should be left control. “Universal health care is an idea FDR had said, ‘I’m not going to raise any- classroom. “The notion that sex education is limited to harassment and violence. to the parents, and suggested the school district could that has been supported in the United one’s taxes.’” Advocates of creating a single- what happens in school is an antiquated one,” said Bill create a website that would assist them in that task. States by Democratic presidents going payer health care system say it wouldn’t Albert, chief program officer of the National Campaign to Emergency contraception “The schools could teach health risks of promiscu- back to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry immediately slash spending. Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. It is one of sev- There’s no detailed nationwide breakdown of how ity,” said Dave Meyer of Nebraskans for Founders’ Truman,” Sanders said in a statement. “It is With health care accounting for 18 per- eral organizations that’s developing online sex education the 13,500 school districts in the U.S. handle sex educa- Values. “Parents should lead the private discussions of time for our country to join every other cent of the economy, a change to such an to supplement school-based programs. tion, although the Centers for Disease Control compiles sexual expression.” However, Cheri Duryea of the major industrialized nation on earth and approach would be a shock with wide- Quality online programming “is not buffeted by politi- partial data. Its latest report, with data from 2014, sug- Women’s Fund of Omaha, which supports the update, guarantee health care to all citizens as a reaching consequences. The US still would cal fights over what teens can and should learn,” Albert gests that programs in a substantial majority of school said many parents don’t talk to their children about sex, right, not a privilege.” be likely spend more on health care than said. “It allows for real-time modifications and updates, it districts stress the benefits of sexual abstinence, while a even if the children would welcome that. “We know any other economically advanced country. offers anonymity, and it meets teens where they are, smaller portion offer instruction in high school about that in most homes it doesn’t happen or it’s incomplete Current health Instead, single-payer would aim to slow the which increasingly is in front of screens.” In Omaha, school usage of specific contraceptive methods, including con- and unhelpful,” she said. His campaign said the plan would cost rate of growth in costs by putting hospitals board president Lou Ann Goding said one of the motiva- doms and emergency contraception. In most of the US, Many of the parents attending the meeting were $1.38 trillion a year, but would save $6 tril- on budgets, negotiating drug prices with tions for updating the sex-ed curriculum is to counter fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle black or Hispanic, reflecting the fact that racial minori- lion over the next decade compared to the pharmaceutical companies and eliminating misinformation that students might encounter outside of schools teach all 16 topics recommended by the CDC as ties comprise about 70 percent of the school district’s current health care system, citing an analy- much of the waste that many experts school. essential components of sex education. students. Several black civic leaders were among the sis by Gerald Friedman, an economist at believe characterizes the US health care “There’s so much social media and other sources that “Lack of effective sex education can have very real, supporters of the curriculum update, including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. system. Any expected savings from a sin- they can go to that are not always reliable,” Goding said. very serious health consequences,” said Dr. Stephanie head of the Urban League of Nebraska, the president of But much of the cost would be paid for gle-payer system would likely take time Zaza, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and the Douglas County Board of Health, and City Council through a 6.2 percent payroll tax paid by before it showed up, especially when the Social conservatives School Health. “Young people who have multiple sex President Ben Gray. However, black and Hispanic employers and a 2.2 percent “health care costs of the transition to such an approach Several of the update supporters who spoke at the partners, don’t use condoms, and use drugs or alcohol activists who oppose the update were among the most premium” on workers. It also relies on tax- are factored in. —AP Jan. 4 public meeting echoed this concern. Among them before sex are at higher risk for HIV and other sexually vehement speakers. Gwen Easter, a black woman who were fourth graders Samantha Bourne and Hadley transmitted infections.” Leslie Kantor, vice president of runs a community center and preschool program, Forsen, who said they already were getting “nonfactual” education for Planned Parenthood, said the statewide assailed the proposals to teach acceptance and under- information from their friends on sex-related topics. “We policies are not a good barometer for what’s happening standing of gay and transgender youth. need help to learn this curriculum at this age,” said the school by school. Whether or not there was a statewide girls, reading their statement in unison. “This will be way mandate, an individual district might do a good job or Social media too embarrassing for us to ask our parents when we’re bad job with its course, she said. Dr John Santelli, an ado- “That’s the real agenda - the same-sex stuff,” she older.” Sex education in America has a long and check- lescent medicine specialist at Columbia University’s declared during fiery remarks that drew cheers from ered history, winning the backing of the US Public Health Mailman School of Public Health, says there has been a her allies in the crowd. Hispanic activist Amelia Den Service in 1940, gaining traction in the 1980s during the slight decline in the teaching of comprehensive sex edu- Hartog said comprehensive sex education would fuel early years of the AIDS epidemic, but generating steady cation, including instruction on condom use. He finds promiscuity. “The most important sex organ is the opposition from social conservatives. that worrisome, citing research that casts doubt on the brain,” she said. “Please teach the students to use their Omaha Public Schools, which serves about 52,000 effectiveness of abstinence-only programs. brain... Let’s empower our children to say no to sex out- students in its district, has taught sex education since “There’s been a decline in support for sex education at side of marriage, teach them to have self-control. They 1986 as part of a course called Human Growth and the political level,” Santelli said. “People are getting fed up are not animals.” In all, more than 40 people addressed Development. The process that’s been underway since - they’d rather avoid the whole issue.” While the federal the school board, with opponents of the update out- early last year marks the first comprehensive review of government has no direct role in dictating sex-education numbering supporters roughly 2-1. Among the oppo- the course. Abstinence is encouraged in the curriculum, curriculum, it has influence in the form of federal funding nents was Deanna Rabuck, who became widely known which also covers such topics as reproductive anatomy, for various programs. From 1981, the start of Ronald on social media after her comments at the stormy pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted diseases. Reagan’s administration, through 2009, such funds went October meeting were captured on cellphone video As initially proposed, the updates would add discussion predominantly to abstinence-only programs; since 2010, and aired on local TV stations. of sexual orientation and gender identity in 7th and 8th under President Barack Obama, abstinence funding has “I have five daughters! Five daughters! Who’s going grades, and discussion of abortion and emergency con- been reduced and larger sums appropriated for compre- to keep them pure?” Rabuck shouted. “I am! Not OPS!” traception in 10th-grade lessons on birth control. hensive sex-ed programs. Rival advocacy groups lobbied At the Jan 4 meeting, Rabuck was more soft-spoken, The school district conducted a telephone survey of hard in Congress last year to get a favorable outcome for but urged the school board to reject the updates. “You about 1,500 parents last year, and reported that a sizable their approach. The end result - a compromise between have captured the attention of every community in majority supported adding those topics to the curricu- Democrats and Republicans - maintained annual spend- Omaha,” she said. “I hope we have captured your lum. But the margins of support for the abortion and ing at about $100 million for the Teen Pregnancy attention as well.” Supporters of the update included emergency contraception components were smaller Prevention Program, which incorporates comprehensive Sofia Jawed-Wessel, an assistant professor at the than for other topics, and school officials now plan to sex education, and doubled spending from $5 million to University of Nebraska-Omaha. She has two sons - the omit them. Over the course of 2015, some churches and $10 million to abstinence-oriented programs elder a kindergartener already coming home with other groups began to circulate criticisms and warnings questions about sex-related comments by classmates. about the district’s plans. Spearheading the opposition is Sexual risk avoidance “We are behind the curve on this,” she said. “People SOUTH CAROLINA: Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders, I- a conservative Christian group, Nebraskans for Founders’ Valerie Huber of Ascend - formerly the National are looking to us to make a good call. The country is V, speaks during the First in the South Dinner at the Charleston Mariott Values, which has held briefings at local churches and Abstinence Education Association - would like to see watching.” —AP Saturday in Charleston. —AP TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE ‘WISH’ announces behavioural insights forum and report for 2016 conference

DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health WISH, an initiative of QF, is closely aligned with science for medical commissioners and practition- generate interdisciplinary, evidence-based reports (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation for the mission of reinforcing Qatar’s pioneering role as ers for prevention, treatment and well-being,” added on topics including Autism, Cardiovascular Disease, Education, Science and Community Development an emerging centre for healthcare innovation while Halpern. The report will also present a shortlist of Healthy Populations, the Economic Benefits of (QF), announced that a ‘Behavioural Insights’ Forum also unlocking human potential. In addition, WISH the interventions that have the most potential, Investing in Health, and Precision Medicine. will be held during its 2016 conference on the 29th serves as a key platform for the dissemination of while stressing the importance of continually test- Internationally renowned experts will chair the and 30th November in Doha, Qatar. The healthcare innovation and best practices, and ing new ideas and adapting to the results they gen- forums. For the first time, WISH will also report on Behavioural Insights Forum will present ground brings together thousands of high-level policymak- erate. Commenting on the announcement, WISH’s its on-going impact locally and globally on issues breaking, evidence-based research showing how ers, academics, and professionals. David Halpern, CEO Egbert Schillings said: “As with previous sum- previously highlighted at the Summit, such as citizen’s health can be maintained and improved Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team mits, WISH seeks to present pioneering and com- Diabetes, Accountable Care, and Patient Safety. through better understanding and application of and Board Director, and chair of the forum said, prehensive scientific research that provides answers Along with new health policy research forums, the the latest evidence on the factors which influence “Behavioural factors - such as around diet, smoking, to some of the toughest questions facing the summit will also feature innovation showcases behaviour, led by a UK government-owned social and accidents - now account for the majority of healthcare sector today. from around the world that shape the design, deliv- purpose company, The Behavioural Insights Team. healthy years of life lost. Within medical practice, ery, and financing of care, as well as a cohort of Using a broad definition of health, the report will behavioural factors also loom large in the transmis- Healthcare challenges young innovators; emerging health care leaders cover three main areas: quality of life and wellbeing, sion of infectious disease, medical adherence, and The Behavioural Insights Forum will no doubt be under the age of 30, whose contributions to global public health, and delivery of healthcare. It will fur- clinical errors. Yet these behavioural factors have an important component in the body of research health deserve wider recognition. The second ther demonstrate how behavioural insights can be received comparatively little attention, and the that will be presented at the 2016 conference.” The WISH Summit was held in February 2015, bringing applied at the macro level of high-level policies and behavioural models within the medical community WISH 2016 Summit will feature six ground breaking together more than 1,200 delegates from 93 coun- system design, as well as at the micro level of exper- remain surprisingly undeveloped.” research forums that highlight and address some of tries to discuss and debate practical, lasting, and imentation, in order to achieve incremental “This forum and report will draw out the practi- the world’s most pressing healthcare challenges. In innovative solutions to global healthcare chal- improvements for the benefit of societies. cal implications in recent advances in behavioural addition to Behavioural Insights, the forums will lenges. Baby ape recovers after ordeal in Indonesia, finds new playmate

JAKARTA: A baby orangutan found aban- doned and almost dead has made a swift recovery at an Indonesian rescue center, and has been filmed playing happily with another young ape. Gito was discovered dumped in a cardboard box in August under the baking sun on the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with rescuers initially believing the primate was dead due to his “mummified” appear- ance. A team from International Animal Rescue (IAR) picked up the endangered Bornean orangutan, who had been kept as a pet by a local village head, and rushed him to their center. Gito-who is less than a year old-was suf- fering from multiple ailments but has recov- NEW YORK: A worker wearing a contamination suit was carted up to a Dubois ered strongly, and was recently released from County farm, Friday, Jan 15, 2016, that was confirmed to be the location of the quarantine and introduced to another male first case of bird flu in the United States in June. —AP baby orangutan, Asoka. New footage released by IAR showed their first encounter, US deploys newly minted bird with the apes appearing wary when initially introduced at the orangutan rehabilitation flu plan to protect humans, poultry center on Borneo. However, it was not long before the pair were playing happily togeth- CHICAGO: US farm and health officials are racing Officials have never dealt with this strain before, er on a wooden climbing frame. to assess the threat that a type of bird flu never and wild birds are thought to spread the disease Asoka was also rescued on Borneo several JAKARTA: Gito, a baby orangutan, receives treatment following his rescue. —AFP photos before seen in the country poses to humans and to farms through feces dropped from the air, mak- months ago after a villager found him aban- poultry, employing emergency plans drawn up in ing infections difficult to prevent. US officials have doned in the jungle and handed the ape over the wake of a devastating outbreak in birds last taken to heart lessons from last year’s outbreak, to IAR, although he was in a far better condi- year. The federal government sprang into action when USDA workers could not always kill infected tion than Gito. Gito is doing much better on Friday after confirmation overnight that the flocks fast enough to contain the virus. Workers than when he was found suffering from virus had hit an Indiana turkey farm, alerting other are now trying to cull sick flocks within 24 hours of dehydration, malnutrition and a skin infec- states to the danger and putting workers who diagnoses, following a goal the agency set in the tion, but his caregivers warn there is a long might have been exposed to the virus under sur- autumn. Most turkeys at the infected farm were road ahead. veillance. Last year’s outbreak led to the deaths of killed within a day, but it was 29 hours before all IAR program director for Indonesia, more than 48 million chickens and turkeys, either were dead, said Denise Derrer, spokeswoman for Karmele Llano Sanchez, said Gito would still killed by the virus or culled to contain it. No cases the Indiana State Board of Animal Health. No need to take part in “jungle school”-a scheme were reported in humans. human infections associated with the new strain designed to prepare orangutans for life in the Strains similar to the new virus, known as have ever been reported, according to the USDA. wild-before he could be released. “It’s going H7N8, have on rare occasions made people ill and to take five to seven years before he is ready the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), US Especially deadly to poultry to be released into the wild,” she told AFP. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Still, people who interacted with infected Bornean orangutans are classified as endan- and state officials aim to reduce the risk of human turkeys were quickly placed under a new moni- gered species by the International Union for infection. They also want to blunt the impact on toring plan developed in response to last year’s Conservation of Nature and are protected the poultry industry, which suffered billions of dol- outbreak, Michael Jhung, a medical officer at the under Indonesian law. But their jungle habi- lars in losses in last year’s outbreak. Egg supplies CDC, told Reuters. The agency also plans to con- tats are being destroyed by the rapid expan- shrank and prices surged to record highs. “We are duct lab tests and animal studies of the virus. sion of palm oil and pulp and paper planta- hopeful that as we respond very quickly to this Similar H7 viruses - which share the same surface tions, while locals view the apes as pests and virus that we can get it contained and hopefully proteins - have caused problems in people rang- sometimes target them. Hundreds of not see an extensive outbreak like we did last year,” ing from mild, flu-like symptoms to serious respi- Bornean primates were also rescued last year said TJ Myers, an associate deputy administrator ratory illness, Jhung said. “We know very little as massive, smog-belching forest fires rav- for the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection about this particular virus because we haven’t aged the island. The fires, started to clear Service. seen it, but we want to take as many precautions land for plantations, are an annual occur- Even if the response is fast, the government’s as we can to prevent any human infections,” he rence, but in 2015 were the worst for some ability to contain the disease is far from certain. said. —Reuters years.—AFP JAKARTA: Gito inside a box following his rescue. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

KDMCA Kuwait Chapter unveils 2016 Calendar

The Roudhat Al-Riqqa Kindergarten organized an awareness day on the service of people with special uravilangad Deva Matha College Alumni Association (KDMCA) Kuwait Chapter Calendar - 2016 was released on the needs and their families. Khazna Al-Hadhrami, psychologist and programs’ coordinator at the Kuwait 30th December 2015 by Anit Peter (CEO- Bluestar Logistics, Kuwait). Anit Peter handed over the unveiled copy of Kthe Calendar to Raju Zacharias, Advisory Board Chairman of KDMCA. Shri K.J John (President), Shri Jose Mathew Autism Center gave a lecture on how to diagnose autism, as well as best ways to provide care for autis- (Secretary), Shri Shaju Bharathan (Treasurer) and senior members of KDMCA Shri Boby Patani, Jojo Alunkal, Jayash John, tic children and assistance to their families. Boby Joseph, Vins Sebastian were also present on the occasion. NSS Kuwait’s Mannam birth anniversary on January 22

he 139th birth anniversary of Nair Service Society, Kerala. The chief Bharath Kesari Mannathu guest of the occasion will be TPadmanabhan will be celebrated Sreekumaran Thampi, eminent music by Nair Service Society (NSS) Kuwait director, lyricist, script writer and film January 22, 2016 (Friday) at Marina director. The function will be inaugu- Hall, Touristic Park, Abbassiya from 5.30 rated by Sunil Jain, Ambassador of pm onwards. Mannaathu Inida to Kuwait. There will be a very Padmanabhan was a social reformer, colorful cultural evening with dance freedom fighter and was the founder of and music performances by talented artists from Kerala. Bharathanatyam performance by Paris Laxmi, actress and well-known Bharathanatyam dancer, will be a great attraction of the event. Kalamandalam Sunil, the talented Kathakali artist from Kerala will be performing ‘Poothanamoksham’. The musical treat will be served by the trio Sachin Warrier, Malavika with their melodious voices and Asianet fame Anoop with his keyboard talents. Kalabhavan Satheesh will entertain you with his comedy numbers. Entry is restricted through invitations only. Indian Embassy on amnesty to residency violators in Kuwait n 10 January 2016, the Ministry of fines for leaving the country to avail the above Keralites pay homage to KM Abdu Raheem Interior, Kuwait has announced special opportunity. Odispensation (partial amnesty) for all 2) The Embassy is ready to provide all nec- n a solemn function organized by KIG, leaders He was not just a President of Malayali Islam Presentation Committee (IPC). illegal residents in Kuwait. As per the essary assistance to all those seeking the above from various leading Malayalee organizations Samajam and UMO and KIG but he earned enor- The Indian community witnessed his leader- announcement, residency violators will be special dispensation by issuing Emergency Iand their associates paid their tributes to K M mous respect and social capital through his ship quality during the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait allowed to pay their fines and either legalize Certificates (travel document) expeditiously if Abdu Raheem sahib, who has died last week at humility, support for humanitarian causes, in 1990. With his sincere efforts he did so much their status or leave the country without being required by the local authorities who are pro- the age of 79. The outpouring of love, gratitude bridging various communities together under in bringing confidence, arranging food, burying black-listed. But this would apply to those who cessing their documents under above scheme. and fond memories which the packed audience one unified umbrella and commitment towards the dead, registering Indians through the center voluntarily participate in the above scheme The requirement for issue of Emergency certifi- of Pravasi auditorium at Abbasiya had witnessed grassroots creativity and innovation. He shared arranged in Salmiya Indian community school. and that the Residency Affairs Departments cate is as under: was a testimony to the way K M Abdu Raheem this capital with everybody who came in contact He helped many sick and pregnant ladies by across the country are ready to receive violators (a)Prescribed format for issue of EC (copy Sahib touched so many lives in Kuwait with his with him. KM Abdu Raheem Sahib had an finding a place in the aircraft of former foreign in order to rectify their legal status, for payment enclosed) sincere services. extraordinary ability to make most ordinary peo- minister IK Gujaral and thus making their evacu- of fines for leaving the country. (b) Three recent passport size photograph; A towering personality, visionary thinker, ple in his company. ation easy. 1) There are approximately 28,000 Indians (c)A copy of the passport (relevant pages) teacher, writer, orator, philanthropist, legendary The Amazing part is that he found time for Taking leadership role, he spent days and illegally staying in Kuwait due to residency/visa (c)Payment of KD 5.000 consular fee for EC social worker, K M Abdu Raheem Sahib was all the younger generation and he worked closely nights along with other KIG volunteers in the violations. All Indian illegal residents are urged 3)For any query/clarification in the matter, these and so much more. In a prolific expatriate with them to foster their innate talents and dusty and crowded ‘no mans land’ in Amman - to avail the above dispensation to either legal- please contact Shri AK Srivastava, Second life in Kuwait spanning more than three and half made their services available to the society. He arranging the controlled and coordinated evacu- ize their status or leave the country after pay- Secretary (PIC/CW) Tel. No. 22531716 and decades, he took leadership role in the forma- maintained intimate relationship with eminent ation of Indians through Amman. To Speed up ment of fines without being black-listed. They Mobile No. 97229914 or Shri BK Sinha, tion of various organizations such as Malayali Kuwaitis and Philanthropists like Abu Bader, the evacuation by getting more aircraft he even should contact the concerned Residency Affairs Assistant (CW) at Mobile No. 97164067 and Mr. Samajam, United Malayali Organization (UMO), Nadir Al Nouri, Dr Abdul Rahman Al Sumaith, utilized his personal relationship with then MP Department of Kuwait with available docu- Mohammad Ashfaq Durrani, Local Staff mem- Federation of Indian Muslim Association (FIMA), Abdul Qader Al Ajeel, Dr Nasser Al Sanea, Dr KP Unni Krishnan of Badagara constituency who ments to rectify their status or for payment of ber, Mobile-66680031. Kerala Islamic Group, Cultural Association of Hassan Hath Houth, Professor Abubacker Sayeed came there personally to oversee the arrange- Muslim Youth (CAMY) and Friday Forum. among others and was a founding member of ments.

Al Mulla Exchange making headlines

l Mulla International Exchange, the pre- mier Exchange company in Kuwait is Amaking headlines in Kuwait by organiz- ing their first edition of ‘Al Mulla Exchange Champions Trophy’. With a lineup of 32 Teams, the tournament looks to provide an even plat- form for teams to compete in a very healthy and competitive environment. The tournament has been touted as one of the best in terms of prize money and team line up in Kuwait. Unlike other tournaments in Kuwait, there are no reg- istration fees to pay to play in the tournament. The tournament is being conducted at the Sulaibiya Cricketing Grounds opposite to Agility. The tournament was inaugurated by HormuzdaDavar, Director of Trading, and Manufacturing& Financial Services at Al Mulla Group. Also attending the inaugural function was Rajesh Gairola, Divisional General Manager of Al Mulla Exchanges. Speaking on the occa- sion, Davar said ‘ Al Mulla Exchange believes in contributing to the community at large and we cannot underestimate the power of cricket in shaping the millions of people around the world. We hope that this tournament will pro- vide a good platform to the teams to perform and bring out a healthy competition.’ He con- cluded by wishing the best team to win. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

Exciting start of the year at Jumeirah Beach Hotel & Spa

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa has an exciting range of activities for Ja luxurious start to the year with friends and family. General Manager, Hakan Petek said: “As we mark another successful year and begin 2016, we con- tinue to raise the bar in creating excep- tional experiences through our activities and offers that deliver memorable experi- ences for our guests.” The luxurious landmark property’s popular restaurants have and abundance of offers this month. Olio, with authentic Italian cuisine, presents a selection of fresh homemade pastas in the special La Pasta Fresca four-course set menu. Pepper steakhouse, offers meat lovers a chance to delight in an ‡ la carte menu of tenderized gourmet cuts from the USA throughout the month. Garden CafÈ, the main venue for international delights, is seasoning the month with the return of Mexican-themed buffet every Tuesday. Devoted to luxuri- ous pampering and complete rejuvena- tion, Talise Spa has special gift vouchers for an ultimate relaxation experience. Also newly available are unique Wellness and Detox packages designed for optimal wellbeing and revitalization. Marina Hotel Kuwait tailors a special weekend package

arina Hotel Kuwait has customized an and dinner at the renowned Atlantis Kuwait, and the Marina Crescent, which hous- attractive and indulgent weekend Restaurant with the finest dishes from around es a variety international restaurants and cof- Mpackage for residents and locals in the world and views of the Arabian Sea. The fee shops, Marina Hotel is an ideal location for Kuwait. At a location where luxury meets package also includes a 20% discount on buf- family leisure. The award winning hotel is the modernity, and where an attractive sea view, fet lunch and dinner for guests dining at the destination to be for its dedication to a works harmoniously together with the latest Atlantis Restaurant. Within close proximity to unique guest experience and high standard of technological systems, guests are invited to Marina Mall, one of the best shopping malls in service quality. enjoy their weekends in style in the midst of absolute comfort. With a multitude of facilities and services, guests can break the daily routine and enjoy some peace of mind with a choice of room packages. Perfect for a short break or a weekend getaway, guests can choose from any of the superior rooms and enjoy state-of-the- art facilities the hotel offers without missing out on other activities including shopping, wellness, sports and much more. They can further enjoy the vibrant white sands of the private beach along with the three pools and the pool bar - all not far away from the ultimate shopping destination, Marina Mall. The package offers special rates for weekenders in the superior rooms at a rate starting from KD 88 which includes a buffet breakfast, free access to the hotel’s health club, beach and pool area. Guests and their families can experience a luxurious escape after an exhaustive week and indulge them- selves with a complimentary buffet breakfast for two persons at the Six Palms Restaurant. Guests whose taste palettes crave for unique and diverse cuisines can watch authentic innovations spring to life for lunch McDonald’s #BigMacMoment The Sultan Center now offers ollowing the unveiling of the express their love of the Big Mac and newest members of the Big Mac showcase their video-making skills, for a Ffamily -the Mini Mac and the Grand chance to win an all-paid-trip to paper bags across its stores Mac, McDonald’s Kuwait continues its cel- Barcelona to meet Neymar Jr, the profes- ebration with the Big Mac Moment com- sional Brazilian football star of FC petition. In honor of its signature sand- Barcelona. n and around Kuwait plastic bags can Tom Hammer, CEO of Retail at The wich, McDonald’s invites customers to To enter the competition, customers be seen along the sides of roads, in the Sultan Center, said: “We actively listen to must submit a video expressing the way Idesert, on trees, outside people’s hous- our customers and want to engage them in they celebrate any of their achievements es. They litter our beaches and threaten our eco-friendly initiatives. Our customers whilst featuring the iconic Big Mac sand- marine life. As part of The Sultan Centre’s have told us they want the option of hav- wich. Videos must be uploaded to www.mcdonaldsarabia.com. Moreover, (TSC) ongoing commitment to the commu- ing their groceries packed in paper bags. customers can share their submission on nity and safeguarding the environment, Many of our shoppers are environmentally social media using #BigMacMoment. TSC has recently launched a new initiative conscious and they want to reduce plastic “What better way is there to celebrate the in its stores whereby shoppers are given usage. As part of giving back to the com- Big Mac, than by offering diners a once in a lifetime experience to meet one of today’s the option to choose plastic bags or paper munity in which we operate, we’re always biggest football icons. We invite all our bags (at a nominal charge). Not only are on the lookout for ways in which we can customers across Kuwait to be as creative paper bags stronger than plastic bags, they help protect the environment. as they can, have fun and make their own are made from a renewable resource and This new initiative falls in line with our videos showing their Big Mac Moments, they are easily recyclable, which makes goal to reduce our ecological footprint. We for a chance to win this exciting trip to Barcelona,” commented Sherif Coutry, them environmentally friendly. are giving our customers a choice: plastic Marketing Director at McDonald’s Kuwait. TSC is committed to protecting the envi- or paper. In either case, the most important Coutry further commented, “Winners ronment. Not only is it important for our thing is to recycle those bags so they don’t will be chose via random draw, therefore generation, it’s about taking care of care of end up in the sea, beaches, streets, and the more videos that they submit, the more chances that they have to win. We the environment for generations to come. landfills, or become litter.” Just a few small look forward to seeing all the submissions TSC’s reduce, reuse and recycle initiative lifestyle changes can go a long way in mak- and we wish all participants the best of aims to keep as many recyclable materials ing a big difference for the environment. luck.”The Big Mac Moment competition out of landfills as possible. Essentially, the TSC is working together with its customers will be running until February 26. Details regarding the Big Mac Moment and how goal is to minimize waste, and offering to make an even greater impact by making to submit the videos are available on paper bags throughout their stores will go it easier for them to incorporate sustain- McDonaldsArabia.com. a long way in serving that purpose. able choices into their daily lives. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

17:25 Liv And Maddie 05:30 Young & Hungry 14:00 Happy Gilmore 17:50 Jessie 06:00 Til Death 16:00 Blues Brothers 2000 18:15 Austin & Ally 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 18:00 The Devil Wears Prada 18:40 I Didn’t Do It 08:30 Young & Hungry 20:00 Stand Up Guys 19:05 First Class Chefs 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 22:00 The Babymakers 00:20 Misfit Garage 19:30 Violetta Jimmy Fallon 01:10 Gold Rush 20:20 The Next Step 12:00 Til Death 02:00 Gold Divers 20:45 Good Luck Charlie 13:00 Young & Hungry 02:50 Catching Monsters 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 16:30 Til Death 03:40 Storage Hunters UK 22:00 Binny And The Ghost 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 04:05 The Liquidator 22:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A 18:30 The Goldbergs 01:00 The Melancholy Fantastic- 04:30 Storage Wars Canada Teenage Witch 19:00 Modern Family PG15 05:00 What Happened Next? 22:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 03:00 What Maisie Knew-PG15 05:30 How Machines Work Teenage Witch Jimmy Fallon 05:00 Foreverland-PG15 06:00 Yukon Men 23:10 Wolfblood 21:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 07:00 10 Years-PG15 06:50 Wheeler Dealers Wilmore 09:00 Middle Of Nowhere-PG15 07:40 Misfit Garage 22:30 You’re The Worst 13:00 The Truth About Emanuel 08:30 Storage Hunters UK 23:00 The Big C 15:00 Late Bloomers-PG15 08:55 The Liquidator 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 17:00 Middle Of Nowhere-PG15 09:20 Storage Wars Canada 19:00 Blood-PG15 09:45 What Happened Next? 00:00 Fashion Police 00:55 The Grace Helbig Show 21:00 Foxcatcher-PG15 10:10 How Machines Work 23:30 Fort Bliss-18 10:35 Gold Rush 01:25 Keeping Up With The 11:25 Gold Divers Kardashians 00:00 Defiance 12:15 Catching Monsters 02:20 E! News 01:00 Quantico 13:05 Storage Hunters UK 03:15 Escape Club 02:00 Rosewood 13:30 The Liquidator 04:10 Beyond Candid With 03:00 Allegiance 13:55 Storage Wars Canada Giuliana 04:00 Switched At Birth 14:20 Yukon Men 05:05 E! Entertainment Special 05:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:00 Secret Window 15:10 Wheeler Dealers 06:00 Kourtney & Kim Take New 06:00 White Collar 03:00 Half Of A Yellow Sun 16:00 Misfit Garage York 07:00 Switched At Birth 05:00 Jodorowsky’s Dune 16:50 What Happened Next? 06:55 Kourtney & Kim Take New 08:00 Witches Of East End 07:00 Rushmore 17:15 How Machines Work York 09:00 Quantico 09:00 Lost Christmas 17:40 Bride Of Jaws 07:50 Style Star 10:00 White Collar 11:00 Jodorowsky’s Dune 18:30 Dual Survival 08:20 E! News 11:00 Switched At Birth 13:00 Half Of A Yellow Sun 19:20 Ed Stafford: Into The 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 12:00 Coronation Street 15:00 The Man Who Would Be King Unknown 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 12:30 Coronation Street 17:15 Lost Christmas 20:10 The Liquidator 12:05 E! News 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 19:00 Short Term 12 20:35 Storage Wars Canada 13:05 House Of DVF 14:00 Witches Of East End 21:00 A Civil Action 21:00 Bear’s Wild Weekend With 14:05 Fashion Bloggers 15:00 Live Good Morning America 23:00 Mobius Stephen Fry 15:00 Kourtney And Khloe Take 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 21:50 Dual Survival The Hamptons 18:00 Witches Of East End 22:40 River Monsters 16:00 Kourtney And Khloe Take 19:00 Complications 23:30 Wheeler Dealers The Hamptons 20:00 The Night Shift 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 22:00 Supergirl 18:00 House Of DVF 23:00 Scream Queens 00:45 Breakout-PG15 19:00 WAGs 02:30 Before I Go To Sleep-PG15 20:00 Christina Milian Turned Up 04:15 HairBrained-PG15 21:00 Keeping Up With The 06:00 Billy Elliot The Musical-PG15 Kardashians 09:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 00:35 Mythbusters 22:00 E! News 11:00 Divergent-PG15 01:20 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 23:00 Dash Dolls 13:30 Curve-PG15 02:08 Strangest Weather On Earth 00:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 15:00 Tinker Bell And The Legend 02:55 What Could Possibly Go 01:00 Good Morning America Of The NeverBeast-FAM Wrong? 03:00 Downton Abbey 16:30 Guardians Of The Galaxy 03:42 How The Universe Works 04:00 Blood & Oil 18:45 Unbroken-PG15 04:29 Mythbusters 05:00 Good Morning America 21:00 Believe-PG15 05:16 Strangest Weather On Earth 07:00 Coronation Street 07:30 Coronation Street 23:00 Neighbors-18 06:03 What Could Possibly Go 00:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives Wrong? 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:00 Staten Island Cakes 09:00 Supernatural 06:50 Prototype This 02:00 Mystery Diners 07:37 How Do They Do It? 10:00 Coronation Street 03:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 10:30 Coronation Street 08:23 Mythbusters 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:08 How The Universe Works 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 05:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 12:00 Resurrection 01:00 Marco Macaco 09:53 Prototype This 06:00 Chopped 02:45 Blue Elephant 2 10:38 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 13:00 Shark Tank 07:00 Man Fire Food 14:00 Supernatural 04:30 Blackie And Kanuto 11:23 How The Universe Works 08:00 Chopped 06:00 The Heart Of The Oak 12:08 What Could Possibly Go 15:00 Survivor: Cambodia 09:00 Grandma’s Secret Cookbook 16:00 The Voice 07:45 Egon And Donci Wrong? 10:00 The Kitchen 09:45 True Story Of Puss’n Boots 12:53 Prototype This 18:00 Shark Tank 11:00 Barefoot Contessa: Back To 19:00 Supernatural 11:15 Jungle Shuffle 13:38 Mythbusters Basics 12:45 Blue Elephant 2 14:23 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 20:00 Resurrection 12:00 Chopped 21:00 Shark Tank 14:30 Mamma Moo And Crow 15:10 How The Universe Works 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 16:00 Charlie And The Chocolate 16:44 What Could Possibly Go 22:00 Downton Abbey 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 23:00 Blood & Oil Factory Wrong? 15:00 Man Fire Food 18:00 True Story Of Puss’n Boots 17:31 Prototype This 16:00 Chopped 20:00 Daddy I’m A Zombie 18:18 How The Universe Works 17:00 The Kitchen 22:00 Mamma Moo And Crow 19:05 Mythbusters 18:00 Siba’s Table 23:30 Charlie And The Chocolate 19:50 Food Factory 18:30 Grandma’s Secret Cookbook Factory 20:15 Food Factory 19:00 Chopped 02:00 Maximum Risk NEIGHBORS ON OSN MOVIES HD 20:40 What Could Possibly Go 20:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 04:00 Falcon Rising Wrong? 21:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 06:00 Superfast 06:00 I Survived 08:00 Calimero 22:50 Gummi Bears 16:55 Gamers Guide To Pretty 21:25 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 22:00 Man v Food 08:00 The Outsider 07:00 Crime Stories 08:10 Zou 23:20 Lilo And Stitch Much Everything 21:50 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 23:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 09:45 Star Trek 08:00 Surveillance Oz 08:25 Loopdidoo 23:45 Cars Toons 17:25 K. C. Undercover 22:15 How The Universe Works 12:00 Justice League: Throne Of 09:00 Surveillance Oz 08:40 Jake And The Never Land 23:50 Zou 17:50 Supa Strikas 23:00 Food Factory 00:00 Police Story-PG15 Atlantis 10:00 I Killed My BFF Pirates 00:05 Henry Hugglemonster 18:15 Lab Rats 23:22 Food Factory 02:00 Free Birds-PG 14:00 Jaws III 11:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 09:05 Sofia The First 00:20 Calimero 18:40 Mighty Med 23:45 What Could Possibly Go 04:00 Beast Of The Bering Sea 16:00 Stranded 12:00 Crime Stories 09:30 Miles From Tomorrow 00:35 Zou 19:10 Annedroids Wrong? 06:00 A Stranger In Paradise-PG15 18:00 The Outsider 13:00 Homicide Hunter 09:55 The Hive 00:50 Loopdidoo 19:35 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 08:00 Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear 14:00 I Survived 01:05 Art Attack 20:00 Kirby Buckets 20:00 Justice League: Throne Of 10:00 The Mistle-Tones-PG15 10:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Atlantis 15:00 I Killed My BFF 10:35 Doc McStuffins 01:30 Henry Hugglemonster 20:25 Gamers Guide To Pretty 00:10 Pick Me! 11:45 Need For Speed-PG15 16:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 01:45 Calimero Much Everything 01:05 Emmerdale 22:00 Max Payne 14:00 Befriend And Betray-PG15 11:00 Sofia The First 17:00 Crime Stories 11:30 Jake And The Never Land 02:00 Zou 20:55 K. C. Undercover 01:30 Coach Trip 16:00 Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear 18:00 The First 48 02:15 Loopdidoo 21:20 Supa Strikas 02:00 Coronation Street 18:00 Next Goal Wins-PG Pirates 00:15 California Investigator 19:00 I Survived 12:00 Miles From Tomorrow 02:30 Art Attack 21:45 Lab Rats 00:40 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 02:30 Murdoch Mysteries 20:00 The Calling-PG15 20:00 Homicide Hunter 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster 22:10 Mighty Med 03:25 Endeavour 22:00 A Haunted House-18 12:25 Special Agent Oso 01:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 21:00 Crime Stories 12:40 The Hive 22:40 Super Matrak 01:30 The Haunted 05:15 The Chase 22:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 23:05 Super Matrak 06:10 Cook Me The Money 12:50 Handy Manny 02:20 Ghost Lab 00:00 Maximum Risk-18 23:00 When Life Means Life 13:15 Jungle Junction 23:30 Boyster 03:10 True Crime With Aphrodite 07:05 Coach Trip 00:00 They Took Our Child, We Got 00:00 Programmes Start At 7:00am 07:30 Endeavour 02:00 Falcon Rising-PG15 13:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Jones 04:00 Superfast-PG15 Her Back 14:00 Sofia The First KSA 04:00 California Investigator 09:20 Murdoch Mysteries 10:15 The Chase 06:00 The Outsider-PG15 14:25 Doc McStuffins 04:25 California Investigator 07:00 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 11:10 Coach Trip 07:45 Star Trek-PG15 04:30 Man In The Moon 14:50 Henry Hugglemonster 04:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 07:25 K. C. Undercover 11:35 Pick Me! 10:00 Justice League: Throne Of 06:10 Island Of The Lost 15:15 Zou 05:10 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 07:50 K. C. Undercover 12:30 Cook Me The Money Atlantis-PG15 07:40 Agent Cody Banks 15:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 05:30 The Haunted 08:15 Lab Rats 13:25 Emmerdale 12:00 Jaws III-PG15 09:20 Agent Cody Banks 2: 15:55 Loopdidoo Nickelodeon HD 06:20 Deadly Affairs 14:00 Stranded-PG15 16:10 Miles From Tomorrow 08:40 Annedroids 03:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 13:50 Coach Trip Destination London 03:05 Calimero 07:10 True Crime With Aphrodite 16:00 The Outsider-PG15 16:35 Jake And The Never Land 09:10 Kirby Buckets 03:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 14:20 Coronation Street 11:00 Of Mice And Men 03:20 Zou Jones 18:00 Justice League: Throne Of Pirates 09:35 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 03:48 Henry Danger 14:45 Murdoch Mysteries 12:50 Pork Chop Hill 03:30 Loopdidoo 08:00 Dr. G: Medical Examiner Atlantis-PG15 17:00 Sofia The First 10:00 Rocket Monkeys 04:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 15:35 Pick Me! 14:30 Clifford 03:45 Art Attack 08:50 On The Case With Paula 20:00 Max Payne-PG15 17:25 Jungle Cubs 10:25 Ultimate Spider-Man 04:36 The Haunted Hathaways 16:30 Vera 16:00 Man In The Moon 04:10 Henry Hugglemonster Zahn 22:00 Ironclad: Battle For Blood-18 17:50 Aladdin 10:50 Boyster 05:00 Winx Club 18:20 Cook Me The Money 17:40 Duplex 04:20 Calimero 09:40 Fatal Encounters 18:15 Gummi Bears 11:20 Boyster 05:24 Sanjay And Craig 19:10 Coronation Street 19:10 Of Mice And Men 04:35 Zou 10:30 Murder Shift 18:40 Jake And The Never Land 11:45 Pair Of Kings 05:48 Sanjay And Craig 19:35 Pick Me! 21:00 The Believer 04:45 Loopdidoo 11:20 Deadly Affairs Pirates 12:10 Pair Of Kings 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 20:30 Vera 22:40 A Fish Called Wanda 05:00 Art Attack 12:10 True Crime With Aphrodite 19:05 Miles From Tomorrow 12:35 Lab Rats 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:20 Coronation Street 00:25 Les Miserables (1998) 05:25 Henry Hugglemonster Jones 19:30 Sofia The First 13:00 Lab Rats 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 22:50 Emmerdale 02:45 Life Of Sin 05:35 Calimero 13:00 The Will 19:55 Doc McStuffins 13:30 Phineas And Ferb 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 13:50 I Almost Got Away With It 23:15 Cook Me The Money 05:50 Zou 00:00 Fading Gigolo 20:15 Jake And The Never Land 13:55 Phineas And Ferb 07:48 Sanjay And Craig 14:40 California Investigator 06:00 Loopdidoo 02:00 Life Of Crime Pirates 14:20 Kickin’ It 08:12 Harvey Beaks 15:05 Dr. G: Medical Examiner 06:15 Art Attack 04:00 Mr. Wonderful 20:45 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 14:45 Kickin’ It 08:36 Breadwinners 15:55 Fatal Encounters 06:35 Henry Hugglemonster 06:00 Simon Birch 21:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 15:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 09:00 Get Blake 16:45 On The Case With Paula 06:50 Calimero 15:15 Rocket Monkeys 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 08:00 Blues Brothers 2000 03:00 Killer Kids 21:35 Sofia The First Zahn 02:30 The Big C 07:00 Zou 15:40 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 09:48 Henry Danger 10:00 Mr. Wonderful 04:00 Ms. Homicide 22:00 Jungle Cubs 17:35 Murder Shift 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 07:20 Loopdidoo 16:05 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 12:00 Tooth Fairy 05:00 Born To Kill 22:25 Aladdin 18:25 I Almost Got Away With It Jimmy Fallon 07:35 Art Attack 16:30 Kirby Buckets 10:36 The Haunted Hathaways 19:15 The Will 11:00 Winx Club 20:05 Deadly Affairs 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 20:55 True Crime With Aphrodite 11:48 SpongeBob SquarePants Jones 12:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 21:45 California Investigator 12:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 22:10 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 13:00 Breadwinners 22:35 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 13:24 Breadwinners 23:00 Deadly Sins 13:48 Get Blake 23:50 Deadly Women 14:12 Rabbids Invasion 14:36 100 Things To Do Before High School 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 00:00 Violetta 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:45 The Hive 16:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 17:00 Sanjay And Craig Teenage Witch 17:24 Harvey Beaks 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 17:48 Breadwinners Teenage Witch 18:12 Henry Danger 01:40 Wolfblood 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 02:05 Wolfblood 19:00 100 Things To Do Before 02:30 Violetta High School 03:15 The Hive 19:24 Max & Shred 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants Teenage Witch 20:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Witch 21:00 Breadwinners 04:10 Wolfblood 21:24 Breadwinners 04:35 Wolfblood 21:48 Sanjay And Craig 05:00 Violetta 22:12 Sanjay And Craig 05:45 The Hive 22:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 05:50 Mouk 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 06:00 Lolirock 23:24 Henry Danger 06:25 Sofia The First 06:50 That’s So Raven 07:15 Gravity Falls 07:40 Jessie 08:05 Shake It Up 08:30 Shake It Up 04:00 Rake 08:55 That’s So Raven 05:00 54 09:45 Austin & Ally 06:30 Bottled Up 10:35 A.N.T. Farm 08:00 Day In The Life: Samuel L. 11:25 Jessie Jackson 11:50 Jessie 08:20 Print The Legend 12:20 Hank Zipzer 10:00 The Great Train Robbery 12:45 Fish Hooks Pt.1 13:10 Good Luck Charlie 11:30 The Great Train Robbery 13:35 I Didn’t Do It Pt.2 14:00 Dog With A Blog 13:00 Barking Water 14:30 H2O 14:20 The Sunshine Boy 14:55 Girl Meets World 16:10 The Odds 15:20 Liv And Maddie 17:40 Choking Man 15:45 Jessie 19:00 Writers’ Room 16:10 Violetta 19:30 Barking Water 17:00 The Next Step GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ON OSN MOVIES HD 21:50 ATP: All Tomorrow’s Parties Classifieds

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

Kuwait

KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (14/01/2016 TO 20/01/2016)

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Arrival Flights on Tuesday 19/1/2016 KAC 672 Dubai 14:45 Departure Flights on Tuesday 19/1/2016 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 Airlines Flt Route Time KAC 284 Dhaka 14:45 Airlines Flt Route Time JZR 324 Al Najaf 14:25 BBC 143 Dhaka 00:05 KAC 788 Jeddah 14:50 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 PAL 669 Dubai/Manila 14:55 MSC 415 Sohag 00:05 GFA 221 Bahrain 15:00 FDB 072 Dubai 00:40 KAC 673 Dubai 15:00 KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 00:20 KNE 472 Jeddah 15:05 MSC 404 Asyut 00:55 FDB 058 Dubai 15:10 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 OMA 645 Muscat 15:30 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:55 QTR 1079 Doha 15:10 JZR 539 Cairo 00:40 NIA 251 Alexandria 15:30 MSC 416 Sohag 01:00 FBA 832 Al Najaf 15:15 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 KAC 562 Amman 15:40 BBC 143 Chittagong/Dhaka 01:35 AXB 394 Kozhikode 15:20 THY 772 Istanbul 01:05 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:45 KLM 411 Amsterdam 01:35 KAC 617 Doha 15:45 DLH 635 Doha 01:35 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 KAC 283 Dhaka 02:10 SVA 501 Jeddah 15:45 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 JAD 301 Amman 15:55 THY 773 Istanbul 02:30 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:45 PGT 858 Istanbul 02:00 QTR 1072 Doha 16:10 DLH 635 Frankfurt 02:35 KAC 613 Bahrain 15:50 UAE 853 Dubai 02:30 FDB 051 Dubai 16:30 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:30 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:40 KAC 381 Delhi 03:30 KAC 741 Dammam 15:55 OMA 643 Muscat 02:55 RJA 640 Amman 16:55 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 KNE 473 Jeddah 16:05 FDB 067 Dubai 03:05 KAC 542 Cairo 16:55 PGT 859 Istanbul 03:55 JZR 554 Alexandria 16:10 RJA 644 Amman 03:05 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 OMA 644 Muscat 03:55 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:25 MSR 612 Cairo 03:10 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 FDB 068 Dubai 04:00 NIA 252 Alexandria 16:30 QTR 1076 Doha 03:15 KAC 540 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:45 MSR 613 Cairo 04:10 OMA 646 Muscat 16:30 KKK 6507 Istanbul 03:20 MSR 614 Cairo 17:50 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:15 JAD 302 Amman 16:40 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:25 JZR 325 Al Najaf 17:50 KKK 6508 Istanbul 04:20 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 PGT 5620 Istanbul 04:35 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:55 QTR 1077 Doha 05:00 JZR 238 Amman 17:30 THY 6376 Istanbul 05:05 KAC 502 Beirut 18:00 THY 765 Istanbul 05:15 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:30 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:40 UAE 875 Dubai 18:00 JZR 560 Sohag 06:10 FDB 052 Dubai 17:35 THY 770 Istanbul 05:55 FDB 063 Dubai 18:05 PGT 5621 Istanbul 06:25 QTR 1073 Doha 17:40 FDB 5061 Dubai 06:30 JZR 177 Dubai 18:20 FDB 070 Dubai 06:30 JZR 538 Cairo 17:45 BAW 157 London 06:40 KAC 680 Muscat 18:25 THY 6376 Dubai/Istanbul 06:35 UAE 858 Dubai 17:45 PAL 668 Manila/Dubai 06:55 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 JZR 164 Dubai 06:55 RJA 641 Amman 17:55 KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 07:15 ABY 123 Sharjah 18:45 RJA 645 Amman 07:05 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 07:20 QTR 1080 Doha 18:55 THY 771 Istanbul 07:05 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 QTR 1086 Doha 07:40 KAC 742 Dammam 19:05 FDB 5062 Dubai 07:10 JZR 184 Dubai 18:40 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 KAC 614 Bahrain 19:10 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:15 MSR 615 Cairo 18:50 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:25 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 JZR 124 Bahrain 19:10 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 19:30 QTR 1087 Doha 08:40 FDB 064 Dubai 19:20 OMA 641 Muscat 08:00 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:30 BAW 156 London 08:45 ABY 124 Sharjah 19:25 KAC 354 BLR 08:15 KAC 618 Doha 19:35 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 UAE 876 Dubai 19:30 KAC 206 Islamabad 08:25 KAC 104 London 19:40 OMA 642 Muscat 08:55 GFA 218 Bahrain 20:15 KAC 352 Kochi 08:30 KAC 674 Dubai 19:45 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:25 KAC 361 Colombo 20:45 UAE 855 Dubai 08:40 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:05 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:40 QTR 1081 Doha 20:50 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:50 FDB 061 Dubai 20:20 KAC 513 Tehran 09:45 KAC 351 Kochi 20:50 KAC 362 Colombo 08:50 OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 KAC 101 London/New York 09:55 KAC 343 Chennai 21:00 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:00 FDB 5053 Dubai 20:50 KAC 541 Cairo 09:55 MSR 607 Luxor 21:05 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:20 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:55 UAE 856 Dubai 09:55 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:10 QTR 1070 Doha 09:25 JAI 572 Mumbai 20:55 KAC 561 Amman 10:00 OMA 648 Muscat 21:20 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 QTR 1088 Doha 21:00 KAC 671 Dubai 10:05 FDB 062 Dubai 21:20 IRC 6507 Shiraz 10:30 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:20 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:25 DLH 634 Doha 21:45 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 MEA 402 Beirut 21:20 KAC 501 Beirut 10:30 FDB 5054 Dubai 21:50 IRA 675 Lar 10:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:25 FDB 056 Dubai 10:35 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 UAE 873 Dubai 11:05 UAE 859 Dubai 21:40 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:00 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:55 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:15 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 QTR 1089 Doha 22:00 JZR 165 Dubai 11:30 QTR 1082 Doha 22:00 KAC 539 Sharm el-Sheikh 11:25 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:10 MEA 404 Beirut 11:55 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:00 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:25 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:10 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 KLM 415 Amsterdam 22:05 IRC 6508 Shiraz 11:30 MEA 403 Beirut 22:20 MSC 401 Alexandria 12:30 AIC 987 Chennai/Hyderabad 22:25 IRA 674 Lar 11:40 ALK 230 Colombo 22:25 JZR 561 Sohag 12:45 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:25 RBG 554 Alexandria 11:55 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:30 UAE 871 Dubai 12:50 FDB 059 Dubai 22:30 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:20 UAE 860 Dubai 22:55 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 PIA 239 Sialkot 22:35 UAE 874 Dubai 12:30 KAC 345 Ahmedabad 23:00 KAC 382 Delhi 13:50 JZR 239 Amman 23:05 MEA 405 Beirut 12:55 QTR 1083 Doha 23:05 FBA 831 Al Najaf 14:05 JZR 185 Dubai 23:15 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 KLM 415 Dammam/Amsterdam 23:05 QTR 1078 Doha 14:10 JZR 555 Alexandria 23:25 KAC 679 Muscat 13:00 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:10 FDB 057 Dubai 14:10 FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:15 KAC 514 Tehran 14:10 THY 764 Istanbul 23:50 MSC 402 Alexandria 13:30 FDB 060 Dubai 23:35 AXB 393 Kozhikode 14:20 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:55 JZR 176 Dubai 13:45 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 MSC 403 Asyut 23:55 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:35 DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION stars34 TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 CROSSWORD 1142 STAR TRACK

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

A busy day at work brings about plenty of opportunities to make mis- There is something that you may suspect is worth checking out in the work takes, be slowed by interruptions and have difficult communications. Your positive atti- world. This could mean a new way to invest or ideas for a presentation. Some of your work tude and focus creates a most successful day, from which others could learn. It is mon- classification could be changed now. Your drive to succeed is strong. You can feel the eymaking time and you should see results from your hard work. You could feel great trends of the times and you will make the right moves to improve your finances as well. support from the people around you for whatever you want to accomplish now. You This is a time to get ahead by taking action. Everything comes about to reveal you at your enjoy an enticing meal and a finely set table for your meals-consider low-fat, smaller most elegant, particularly in social situations. Turn a negative situation into a positive one meals. Place a few orange slices beside half of a baked chicken and a few string beans, a by helping another with little chores and distancing your emotions. There is a chance to salad and you will have a gourmet meal! We are talking healthy and beautiful now, you understand those around you and to have a special time with someone you love. You will are on the right track; stay creative. have an opportunity to renew a friendship very soon.

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

You have a great deal of compassion for others and you are valued for Business or career projects may need adjustments now. With so many your ability to act and get things done. This is a time when you can expect a little things on your mind just now, it may be hard to concentrate on routine matters. However, encouragement. Whatever support you need will be available to you, when you need this is where your accomplishments are today: concentration and continuing your rou- it. There is a feeling that anything is possible if you set your sights high enough. This tine. To get the best results in financial affairs you need to be less concerned about securi- afternoon it is time to convene with nature. When you leave work you might enjoy vis- ty and more willing to take risks. Never would anyone be wise to suggest gambling. Your iting a pet or nature store-perhaps meeting with someone in your family to shop and instincts are strong-you know just what to do. High-tech equipment impinges on the enjoy each other’s company. You make every effort to be with each person in your domestic environment. An eccentric relative attracts some attention and you prove help- family-young or not. Family is very important to you and you teach that to the other ful. Later this evening you may decide to enjoy some relaxing entertainment; movies, members. Close relationships offer a potential for growth. books or any other healthy form of escape could prove enjoyable.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Intuition hits again today and you can log your thoughts in that notebook You might like to ignore responsibilities and do some socializing, but reali- of yours. Your talents or the way in which you perform your work will pay ties may demand that you tend to business and forget your friends for the moment. You ACROSS 86. An additional tax on certain kinds of off well at this time. You will have authority figures watching as you successfully deal with have practical ideas and you are able to lend a helping hand when someone needs it. problems at work. An urge for social interactions with your friends may have to be put on 1. The state of matter distinguished from the income that has already been taxed. You may receive some recognition or special attention regarding your particular skills hold just now as you are much more intensely focused on accomplishing a particular solid and liquid states by. 87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made and abilities in the workplace today. This is a great time to reflect and understand your goal. You may find yourself working into the early evening hours. You certainly will not be 4. An imaginary place of great wealth and from aba cloth. own situation, just how you feel about yourself. Emotions in particular, or the feelings of bored with any part of the day and there are plenty of opportunities to use your mind and opportunity. those around you, may be very clear. You could be helping children through a puppet or your creativity. There is time for you and a loved one to break away for a little relaxation, 12. North American republic containing 50 DOWN mime class this afternoon. This evening there are new and unusual ways of appreciating perhaps to enjoy an evening at a new restaurant. states - 48 conterminous states in North 1. United States paleontologist and populariz- and loving. You may discover something new about love. America plus Alaska in northwest North er of science (born in 1941). America and the Hawaiian Islands in the 2. Essential oil or perfume obtained from Pacific Ocean. flowers. 15. A member of the Siouan people inhabit- 3. Something of sentimental value. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) ing the valleys of the Platte and Missouri 4. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo- Temporary obstacles appear this morning. However, you have a lot of opti- rivers in Nebraska. Christian mythology. Someone you helped yesterday may be helping you today. Communicating and getting your message across to others is at a high just now. Your timing mism to see yourself through most situations. You are willing to put a great 16. The act of removing the contents of some- 5. The capital and largest city of England. deal of effort into a work project and you are creative in your ability to find quick results. thing. 6. Any orchid of the genus Disa. should be perfect and those around you should find you most natural and receptive. This is a time of good fortune when things open up in a very positive way. Situations are almost Your creative mind allows you to excel in the most interesting areas of science. With a cou- 17. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation 7. State of disgrace resulting from detestable ple of accomplishments, you gain respect from the people with whom you work. You will equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated mate- behavior. custom-made and it is easy to see how to proceed with your plans. There are plenty of opportunities where choices of expression are concerned-you may find yourself able to do work now on reducing your debts. Being able to provide monetary relief from unplanned rial. 8. A motley assortment of things. financial situations decreases the stress level. A family, living debt-free, is never faced with 18. (Sumerian) Sun god. 9. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradual- almost anything. You may enjoy probing into your own psyche. Learning tools that make communication easier are fascinating. the fear of the consequences that come from being in debt during thin times. 19. A person who holds a commissioned rank ly heating and cooling. in the United States Navy or Coast Guard. 10. The district occupied entirely by the city of 20. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as Washington. true without proof. 11. An unabridged dictionary constructed on Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 22. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) historical principles. Leo (July 23-August 22) issues from volcanos. 12. The capital and largest city of Mongolia. Your schedule presents a lot of motivation to get everything scheduled and You should be enjoying some lifestyle changes at this time. You have a 24. Smeared thickly. 13. The language of the nomadic Lapp people organized. Someone may ask if you need help and you are flattered. The routine you move unique way of dressing and others are supportive and fascinated by your ability to coordi- 26. Marked by the reception of pay. in northern Scandinavia and the Kola through each day works well but does not seem to be a fast as it could be. You may prom- 27. A small amount of residue. Peninsula. nate colors and patterns that would not otherwise have been considered. You enjoy ise yourself to chart out a new plan on paper to see how the steps will work. You are excited 28. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was 14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. where you are in your life at this time and you look forward to new and better, always by new concepts, inventions and ideas. Today you will gain some insight that will help you improving and growing. You work hard to be self-sufficient and to have self-sufficient formed by an explosion. 21. An organization of countries formed in in your work. A co-worker may call you later this afternoon and tell you of a change in think- kids. It is important to you that they have good judgment. There is a relationship you have 29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the 1961 to agree on a common policy for the ing; you see a positive outcome. A lover or child who is bright and articulate plays a bigger with an older person that is like a mentor relationship-open your mind to hearing what is alkali metal group. sale of petroleum. role in your life. You may be teaching this person how to investigate, to research or to being said to you. 30. A colorless odorless gaseous element that 23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of expand on his or her own personal talents. give a red glow in a vacuum tube. the Old World. 32. Increased pressure in the eyeball due to 25. Any of numerous low-growing cushion- obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor. forming plants of the genus Draba having Virgo (August 23-September 22) 37. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes Pisces (February 19-March 20) the external persona) that is in touch with the of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems. unconscious. 31. Surpassing what is common or usual or You may find co-workers and friends understand your position or situa- You are the one to catch any mistakes today at work and there may be a 40. A gray lustrous metallic element of the expected. tion and they are supportive of your efforts at this time. There is optimism as well as a ten- few. If you have doubts about calculations-go back and check it out when you can; per- haps crosscheck with someone. This is a great time to be with others and to work togeth- rare earth group. 33. Goddess of dawn. dency to take chances towards gaining new work opportunities. If you are actively work- er. You may be sought after as just the person for a particular job. Your business expertise 42. A bachelor's degree in science. 34. A member of the Siouan people formerly ing on your life’s progress now, you will see some positive results. Stay in the moment and is in high focus. You could be most persuasive with others and persuasive in your commu- 43. Cleaning implement consisting of living in the Missouri river valley in NE do not worry about things you cannot control. The preparations you have been making for your future are about to pay off now. Observe people today, imagine them in different nications. Your involvement in a neighborhood activity proves successful. Instead of allow- absorbent material fastened to a handle. Nebraska. situations and try not to laugh. You may find yourself being put to good use by your ing others to dump all the work on your back today, you seem to have learned to allocate 44. The unit of measurement for the propor- 35. A state of individual psychological well- friends this afternoon. Rent a comedy video this evening and take some time with your the jobs to others. Good for you! A young person becomes independent this evening. This tion of gold in an alloy. being based upon a sense of confidence and loved one or even by yourself, to refurbish your energies. is the direction of your goals, now let go! 45. A person who is rejected (from society or usefulness and purpose. home). 36. South American cavy. 48. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square 38. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution meters. leaves and small flowers. 49. The branch of computer science that deal 39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the with writing computer programs that can heaviest of the halogen series). solve problems creatively. 41. (New Testament) The sages who visited 51. Essential oil or perfume obtained from Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus flowers. was born. 53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 46. A liquid preparation used on wet hair to it Chad. a tint. 55. The formation of frost or ice on a surface. 47. English prelate noted for his pessimistic 56. A river that rises in central Germany and sermons and articles (1860-1954). flows north to join the Elbe River. 50. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent 57. A public promotion of some product or metallic element (resembles arsenic and anti- service. mony chemically). 58. A person who announces and plays popu- 52. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil lan- lar recorded music. guage or the language itself. 60. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring 54. Declare or acknowledge to be true. on the sea or ships. 59. English writer of macabre short stories 62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. (1863-1943). 64. (informal) Of the highest quality. 61. A silvery ductile metallic element found 66. Set down according to a plan. primarily in bauxite. 69. The brightest star in the sky. 63. Take back what one has said. 73. Bottle that has a narrow neck. 65. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a 76. United States prizefighter who lost his larger political movement. world heavyweight championship to Cassius 67. A linguistic element added to a word to Clay in 1964 (1932-1970). produce an inflected or derived form v 1. 77. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal 68. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann. of a farad. 70. A river in northern England that flows 80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which southeast through West Yorkshire. the pilot is talked down by ground control 71. Relatively small fast-moving sloth. using precision approach radar. 72. A native or inhabitant of Great Britain. 81. A period marked by distinctive character 74. Someone who works (or provides work- or reckoned from a fixed point or event. ers) during a strike. 82. Of or relating to or characteristic of 75. God of love and erotic desire. Bahrain or its people or language. 78. A river in north central Switzerland that 84. A barrier constructed to contain the flow runs northeast into the Rhine. or water or to keep out the sea. 79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 85. Slightly insane. 83. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.

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Kuwaiti experience highlighted in Boumedjeria’s maiden book By Hassan Abdel Bari Islamophobia. Throughout the pages of her Anti-Muslim acts book, she welcomes her readers into a religious “The situation has become dramatic in pending only a year in Kuwait to study journey, filled with astonishing and moving France, as anti-Muslim acts are now increasing Arabic at Kuwait University’s language memories that she recalls. All the energy she throughout the planet as if we are responsible Scenter, French activist and writer of puts into her fight against negative ideas is felt, for all human tragedies”, Boumedjeria told Algerian origin Farida Boumedjeria seems to as she draws from her divine nectar, precious Kuwait Times, noting that no one should be have had such a wonderful experience, that she treasure and endless sources. She speaks about held responsible for the actions of others and keeps remembering it and even highlighted her fervor and prayers to God with modesty, that some French citizens do not make any this experience in her first book published in but also with openness regarding the events in distinction between the majority of Muslim Paris - Lignes De Foi, Lignes Devie (Lines of her life, her feelings, her studies, her trip to believers, who hold a humanist message and Faith, Lines of Life). Kuwait to learn literary Arabic and her wonder- respect cohabitation with other beliefs, and ful meeting with Fatima. the violent practices of a minority of adher- ents. She allocates a considerable proportion Original style of her book to counter the Islamophobia pre- The author reveals her personality and vailing in France as well as throughout Europe explains, as a coach, why learning can occur at and the world. any age, and why we should never give up or On the other hand, Boumedjeria highly lose hope. This book was conceived as a guide appreciated her stay in Kuwait, and in her for good practices and written in an original book, describes the trip as “wonderful” due to style, as a source of inspiration for those who “warm welcome of Kuwaitis, the serenity, the would like to focus on the way they should live diversity and the tolerance of this magnificent their lives. Racism often stems from ignorance, country”. She even added a full section at the prejudice and stereotypes, since we humans end of the book with photos showing her cul- fear differences. We defend ourselves by resort- tural participations in Kuwait. During her stay ing to distrust or even brutality against other in Kuwait as a KU student, she took part in two human beings whose appearance, tradition, cul- international events bringing together stu- ture or religion do not match ours. Seeing dents from various countries worldwide. today’s difficult context, it is important to Boumedjeria also notes that her Charity encourage goodwill regarding actions, to organization, Acreamana, organized two actively participate in the structure of a human events with KU’s petroleum engineering stu- society, of a multicultural France where commu- dents at Khaldiya campus and at KU’s women nication is possible and essential. campus in Kaifan in 2012. Boumedjeria’s fasci- Boumedjeria’s strong temperament enables nation with Kuwait is very clear in the preface The title of her book resonates like an echo her to express her indignation, but also her dedicated to KU’s language center’s acting coming from the deepest part of her soul, joys, thanks to the tip of her pen and the but- director Ibrahim Nasser, language teachers mainly because she is a woman, but also as her tons of her keyboard. Indeed, Boumedjeria Khaled Al-Fadhli and Yaqoub. The dedication work reveals a testimony and a narrative with writes a lot! In her own way, she proclaims her also shows gratitude to the Kuwaiti govern- particular tendencies. She uses both the genre fight against indifference and in favor of “better ment for hosting her and sending her for of autobiography and the makeup of stories living together”. While the strength that leads umrah. She thanked the Embassy of France in inspired by real facts in order to direct attention her and the conviction and faith to which she Kuwait and many of her friends at KU’s female to the ills of society. In her own way, holds are part of her inspiration, the ink of her dormitory in Kaifan. In conclusion, Boumedjeria proclaims her fight against indif- thoughts is as brilliant as the timeless spaces Boumedjeria stressed that she intends to ference and in favor of “better living together” where the divine spirit reigns, as luminous as translate her book into both Arabic and against the confusion that is increasingly wor- the Kuwaiti landscapes that dazzled her, that English in order to allow more Arabic (namely rying the Muslim community, namely regard- are as pure as the sand of the desert where little Kuwaiti) and non-Arabic readers to benefit ing topics that involve headscarves and princes meet. from her experience. Penn tells ‘60 Minutes’ he was ‘Stunned’ by El Chapo Meeting

illions of people were surprised that actor But the actor rebuked the notion that he did that the escaped convict would be able to kill the Sean Penn was able to meet with escaped not press Guzman harder on his transgressions. “ I article if he didn’t like what was written about MMexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” think the policy of the war on drugs, which so him. “What was brokered for me to have the Guzman for an article that would make its way into deeply affects all of our lives, seems not to interview with El Chapo was that I would- finish the pages of Rolling Stone. Sean Penn was one of change. It seems to be so unmovable. And it the article, send it to him, and if he said no, then them. In an interview with CBS News anchor occurs to me that often, because we want to sim- that was no harm, no foul to any reader,” Penn Charlie Rose on “60 Minutes” Sunday evening, the plify the problem, and we want to look at a black said. Penn believes he failed to accomplish his actor told Rose that he assumed Mexican officials hat and put our resources into focusing on the goals, which was to talk about the US govern- were aware of what he was doing, and that the bad guy and na- and- and- and I understand ment’s was on drugs. “We all want this drug prob- meeting was indeed a risk for Guzman as well as that. I absolutely understand justice and- and the lem to stop. himself. “I was- I was stunned- that- that- that he w- rule of law,” Penn said. And if you are in the moral right, or on the far would risk- our trip. I was stunned,” Penn said in the “And so I do what I call experiential journal- left, just as many of your children are doing these interview, according to a transcript provided by ism. I don’t have to be the one that reports on drugs, just as many of your brothers and sisters, CBS News. “I was baffled by his will to see us,” Penn the alleged murders or the amount of narcotics your mothers and fathers, the teachers at school, added later on in the talk. that are brought in. I go and I spend time in the are doing these drugs. Just as many,:” he said. Guzman was free after escaping one of company of another human being, which every- “And how much time have they spent in the last Mexico’s most secure prisons last July, making one is. And I make an observation and try to par- week since this article come (SIC) out, talking Penn’s visit to see him exceedingly dangerous, allel that, try to balance that with the focus that about that? 1- 1%? I think that’d be generous.” and, some have charged, something that skirts we- that I believe we- we tend to put too much Even so, Penn said he has no regrets about his the borders of journalist ethics. Among the reac- emphasis on.” actions, and was simply trying to offer readers a tions to the Rolling Stone article, published look at a hard-to-reach figure in order to illumi- online January 9, were questions over whether Illuminate discussion nate discussion around a heated issue. “I’m really Penn should have pressed for more answers The actor, known for his roles in such film as sad about the state of journalism in our country,” regarding Guzman’s many crimes and the effects “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Mystic River,” he told Rose. “It has been an incredible hypocrisy his distribution of narcotics had on those who In this file photo, Sean Penn arrives at the 5th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI “Milk” and “Dead Man Walking,” acknowledged he and an incredible- lesson in just how much they bought them. HOME Gala Benefiting at the Montage Hotel on in Beverly Hills, Calif. — AP gained access to “El Chapo” under the condition don’t know and how disserved we are.” — Reuters ‘High School Musical’ stars reunite for 10th anniversary

he stars of “High School Musical” are reuniting for a 10th-anniversary tribute Tto the TV movie. Actors Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, The new album of Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman share David Bowie is on memories of the movie when it airs again at 8 display at a record pm EST tomorrow on the Disney Channel. Zac shop in London, Efron, who played Troy opposite Hudgens’ Monday, Jan 11, Gabriella, couldn’t attend the pre-taped group 2016. —AP reunion because it conflicted with promotion of his movie “Dirty Grandpa,” a channel spokes- woman said. Efron recorded separate remarks Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ debuts at that will be included in the broadcast. The “High School Musical” reprise comes during a wave of TV musical popularity. NBC No 1, his first chart-topper has aired a series of live musicals and is aiming to put “Hairspray” on in December, while Fox is avid Bowie’s last album, “Blackstar,” debuted Bowie dislodged the previous No 1, Adele’s “25,” showing a live production of “Grease” on Jan. number one on the Billboard charts, the which slipped to No 2 after seven weeks on top. The 31 and ABC has plans for a “Dirty Dancing” TV Dfirst chart-topper for the late musician. 2002 compilation “Best of Bowie” also rocketed up movie. The Disney movie and its sequel, “High Since it was released two days before Bowie died of the charts to No 4 with 94,000 units sold. Altogether, School Musical 2,” will be repeated on cancer on Jan 10, “Blackstar” has sold 174,000 10 Bowie albums landed on the Billboard 200, which Thursday and on Sunday, Jan 24, on Disney copies, according to Nielsen Music. It’s the best measures sales and streams. The 1972 classic “The Channel. The Freeform cable channel will sales week for Bowie since Nielsen began electroni- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From show “High School Musical” on Saturday and cally tracking music purchases in 1991. Mars” rose to No 21. — AP Sunday, Jan. 23 and 24. — AP lifestyle TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 AWARDS

Steve Golin, left, and the cast and crew of “Spotlight” accept the award for best picture at the 21st annual Critics’ From left, Courtney Eaton, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Zoe Kravitz accept the award for best Choice Awards. — AP photos director on behalf of George Miller for “Mad Max: Fury Road”. ‘Spotlight,’ DiCaprio, Larson win at Critics’ Choice Awards

Josh Singer poses in the press room with the award for original screenplay for “Spotlight,” Amy Schumer accepts the Critics’ Choice Alicia Vikander accepts the award for best Sylvester Stallone accepts the award for Rami Malek accepts the award for best actor which he accepted on behalf of himself and MVP award. supporting actress for “The Danish Girl”. best supporting actor for “Creed”. in a drama series for “Mr Robot”. Tom McCarthy. he investigative journalism drama “Star Wars” director JJ Abrams was in atten- Pinkett Smith even posited on Twitter that per- Harshly criticized Winners List “Spotlight” won the top prize at the Critics’ dance to present the Genius Award to Industrial haps people of color should refrain from partici- Sylvester Stallone followed his Golden Globes TChoice Awards on Sunday, while awards Light & Magic, which Chief Creative Officer John pating in the Oscars altogether. coup by winning best supporting actor for his favorites Brie Larson and Leonardo DiCaprio won Knoll accepted. But it was “Spotlight’s” night in “We are rarely recognized for our artistic reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in “Creed.” BEST PICTURE:“Spotlight” the top acting prizes for “Room” and “The the end. The film also picked up Best Acting accomplishments,” Smith wrote. “Black-ish” star “Before I get into any more trouble I want to say ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant Revenant.” Both actors won Golden Globe Ensemble, winning out over films like “Straight Anthony Anderson joked early on about the lack thank you to my director Ryan Coogler. He is a ACTRESS: Brie Larson - Room Awards and are considered front-runners for the Outta Compton” and “The Hateful Eight.” It was of diversity at the Oscars. “A lot of actors who win genius. He really made it all happen,” Stallone DIRECTOR: George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road Academy Awards, too. the only award that N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta said. He also called co-star Michael B Jordan a COMEDY: The Big Short “Mad Max: Fury Road” was the most nominat- Compton” was up for at the show, but the film “great talent.” At the Golden Globe Awards, ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Christian Bale - The Big Short ed film of the evening with 13 nominations from was on everyone’s minds on the blue carpet and Stallone forgot to thank his co-star and director ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Amy Schumer - Trainwreck the Broadcast Film Critics’ Association. While it in the early moments of the evening after it during the televised portion of the evening and SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl lost out for the top prize, it did win a number of received only one Academy Award nomination was harshly criticized for the oversight. He has SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sylvester Stallone - Creed awards, including Best Director for George Miller, for screenwriting just days earlier. since apologized for the mistake. Alicia Vikander ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy best action movie, and best action movie actor won best supporting actress for “The Danish Girl” Lack of diversity - Spotlight and actress for Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. and also accepted the best sci-fi film award for ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Charles Randolph and Adam The financial crisis dramedy “The Big Short,” “They got snubbed, but there are lots of oth- “Ex Machina.” McKay - The meanwhile, won for best comedy and best er great films that got snubbed as well,” said Neil The Critics’ Choice Awards do get stars to turn ACTING ENSEMBLE: Spotlight comedic actor for star Christian Bale, who kissed Brown Jr before the show began. Brown Jr out in droves, like Matt Damon, who did not end YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS: Jacob Tremblay - Room both his wife and director Adam McKay on his played DJ Yella in the film which has picked up SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE: way up to the stage to accept his award. Both its share Guild nominations this season. “Just Ex Machina ACTION MOVIE: were up for best picture Oscar heavyweights like everybody talking about it is enough of an Oscar Mad Max: Fury Road “Spotlight,” “The Revenant” and “The Martian,” as for us,” he added. The lack of diversity this awards ANIMATED FEATURE: Inside Out well as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which was season came into focus on Thursday when there ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Tom Hardy - Mad Max: added after initial nominees were announced were once again no actors of color among the Fury Road and went home empty handed on Sunday. Academy Awards nominees. On Saturday, Jada ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson EDITING: Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel COSTUME DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan HAIR & MAKEUP: Mad Max: Fury Road VISUAL EFFECTS: Mad Max: Fury Road SONG: Furious 7 - See You Again Bradley James, left, holds the micro- FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: phone for Jacob Tremblay as he accepts Son of Saul DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Amy the award for best young actor/actress SCORE: for “Room”. The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone TELEVISION: the Critics’ Choice go on to win the Academy COMEDY SERIES: Award,” said Anderson when presenting an early Master of None - Netflix DRAMA SERIES: Mr Robot - USA award with co-star Tracee Ellis Ross. “For you, Christian Bale accepts the award for best ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Rami Malek - Mr Robot - Tracy, that means only half of you gets to go to actor in a comedy for “The Big Short”. the awards.” While Anderson was joking about USA Ross’s mixed race background, the Critics’ Choice up winning anything. This year some of the big ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Carrie Coon - The Awards winners do often reflect who will go on winners of the evening failed to come out, Leftovers - HBO Sir Patrick Stewart, left, looks on as Christian Slater, from third left, Chad Hamilton, to win the Oscar, making the ceremony an inter- though, like Brie Larson, who is shooting “Kong: ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jeffrey Tambor - Portia Doubleday, Steve Golin, Rami Malik, Carly Chaikin, and Sam Esmail accept the esting barometer for the season as everyone Skull Island” in Hawaii, and Leonardo DiCaprio, Transparent - Amazon award for best drama series for “Mr Robot”. gears up for the Guild Awards and, eventually, who is promoting “The Revenant” in Europe. ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Rachel Bloom - Crazy the Oscars on Feb 28. DiCaprio accepted his award via a pre-taped Ex-Girlfriend speech. This is the first year the Critics’ Choice BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Andre Awards has combined movies and television Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine nominees into one ceremony, similar to the SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Mayim Golden Globes. Bialik - The Big Bang Theory MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES: Irreverence and sincerity Fargo - FX Big television winners in the acting cate- ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMIT- gories include Jeffrey Tambor for “Transparent,” ED SERIES: Idris Elba - Luther - BBC America Idris Elba for “Luther, and Rachel Bloom for “Crazy ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIM- Ex-Girlfriend.” “Fargo” won for best limited series and earned Kirsten Dunst a best actress in a lim- ITED SERIES: Kirsten Dunst - Fargo - FX ited series award too. Aziz Ansari’s “Master of SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Christian None” won for best comedy series, while “Mr Slater - Mr Robot - USA Robot” picked up the best dramatic series award, SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Constance as well as best actor for Rami Malek and best Zimmer - UnREAL - Lifetime supporting actor for Christian Slater. Host TJ GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Margo Miller, who stars on the HBO show “Silicon Valley” Martindale - The Good Wife - CBS hosted the show, which straddles a delicate line REALITY SHOW - COMPETITION: The Voice - NBC of irreverence and sincerity. It’s not quite the SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVI- Golden Globes, but it’s not of the Academy’s cal- SION OR LIMITED SERIES: Jesse Plemons - Fargo -FX iber just yet. SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVI- “Celebrities, don’t worry. I’m not going to SION OR LIMITED SERIES: Jean Smart - Fargo - FX Ricky Gervais this thing,” Miller said at the begin- GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Timothy ning of the show. “Trainwreck” director Judd Olyphant - The Grinder - Fox Apatow wasn’t afraid to let his true feelings shine ANIMATION SERIES: through, though. BoJack Horseman - Netflix REALITY SHOW HOST: When presenting the previously announced James Lipton - Inside the Actors MVP award to “Trainwreck” star and writer Amy TALK SHOW: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - HBO Schumer, he joked that the only way to get her UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Anthony Bourdain: Parts there was to make up an award just for her. Unknown - “Somebody already told us we lost best comedy to ‘Carol,’” Apatow laughed. “Trainwreck” did lose CNN OTHER AWARDS: best comedy in the end - not to “Carol,” but to MVP AWARD: Amy Schumer “The Big Short.” Schumer, however, did win for GENIUS AWARD: Industrial Light and Magic — Reuters Adam McKay, right, and the cast and crew of “The Big Short” accept the award for best comedy. best actress in a comedy. — AP lifestyle TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 FASHION Missoni, Ferragamo splash color during Milan Fashion Week he worlds of music, fashion and art con- tinued their long collaboration on the Tmenswear runways of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday. Missoni creative director Angela Missoni says collaborations between the art world and fashion, which her father pioneered decades ago, have become ever more natural. “There are fewer taboos between art and fashion. Today there is a mingling of all that is contemporary,” Missoni said last week at an event marking the clo- sure of show at a contemporary art museum in nearby Gallarate, where the family busi- ness was born, exploring her parents’ artistic

inspiration throughout the decades. Some highlights from Sunday’s shows, including menswear previews for next fall and winter by Missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bottega Veneta and Prada.

Himalaya trekking Angela Missoni trekked metaphorically into the Himalayas on her global search for menswear inspiration, returning with a back- pack full of energy-enhancing tassels, con- templative mirrors and colors ranging from orangey sunsets to deep sky blues. Missoni, creative director of the family-run fashion house, said the looks interpret the 1970s rock star who sought meaning in the world’s highest mountains. Models trampled dried leaves on the frigid, wind-swept outdoor runway, while the fashion crowd gratefully wrapped themselves in felt blankets left expressly on their seats. The looks featured the fashion house’s famed knitwear adorned with tassels and mirrored details, creating a breastplate effect. The pieces were layered with heavier sweaters, sweeping blanket coats or anoraks, and worn chiefly with cargo pants, often in practical knit. Motifs included padded circu- lar patterns on both tops and matching trousers, creating both warmth and harmo- ny. Backpacks and garment bags created for Missoni by Porter, the Japanese luggage and Models present creations for fashion accessories maker, while Italian footwear house Missoni during the Men Fall - manufacturer customized its classic hiking Winter 2016 / 2017 collection shows at the boot with Missoni patterns. Milan’s Fashion Week. —AP/AFP photos

Models present creations for fashion house Prada. lifestyle TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 FASHION

Models present creations for fashion house Prada.

A mariner’s tale printed shirts - one showing Nina Simone danc- graphic motifs, such as swimming fish, a candle- Miuccia Prada is taking fashion on a sea voy- ing with a Medieval knight while a Roman sena- stick or an arrow-pierced heart. Scarves were the age back in time to explore the human condition, tor wrestles a friar, while another featured fantas- accessory of choice, worn bandanna-like over contemplating such present-day crises as the tical animals. sweaters for a casual effect or knotted at the neck unrelenting flows of migrants arriving in Europe Prada topped the looks with sailor caps, and under a shirt collar for a more sophisticated look. by sea. Prada’s looks for next season are seafaring, hung clusters of keys on chains at the waist and Ferragamo’s suits, double- and single-breasts, but nothing of the jolly neat little square boxed mariner. The mood was purses tucked in their somber and melancholy, pockets. As she has done in recent seasons, Prada mixed in female looks, including a few serious numbers that suggest reluctantly mourning sea widows: a snug wrapped black dress worn with argyle tights, and a calf-length dark velvet frock with a plunging neckline. “Sometimes you feel that the history didn’t change so much, if you are pessimistic,” Prada said backstage. “I am not pessimistic. There is something to think

Fashion Week Fashion about, something about the past.”

Clashing, popping and also deeply roman- patterns tic, as the designer said Color and pattern she wanted “to reflect enliven Ferragamo

Milan what is happening now menswear looks for the with what is happening in history. To see if we next cold weather season. Creative director were worn with printed silken shirts with a tie out have something to learn.” For the venue, her the- Massimiliano Giornetti made traditional hound- cut from the same cloth, creating a dressy camou- ater was transformed into a sort of town square, stooth, chevron, check and plaid prints the flage. The look was sometimes finished with a where people of all walks of life meet, she said. bedrock of the collection - with black and white contrasting silken scarf peeking from beneath the Sturdy coats and capes, in black, navy, tan evolving into technicolor, not unlike the film collar. The silk was so fine and the colors so calm- and white, had weather-worn collars and lapels, industry of yesteryear. ing that it never looked busy. Overcoats were which were deconstructed and then detached. He then deconstructed the patterns, and enriched with fur, shearling or velvet collars. Pants Trousers were cropped and cuffed, footwear had popped them with color - bold reds, oranges, rus- are slim and taper at the ankle to reveal the Andy leather fringe. Prada lightened the mood with set and blues - and clashed them with modern Warhol-inspired paint-spattered shoe.

Models present creations for fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo. lifestyle TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 FASHION Fashion Week Fashion Milan

Discreet detailing Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier gave some rock ‘n’ roll edge to a decidedly wintery wardrobe. Amid the tweeds and wools, plaids and checks, the German designer incorporated stage-worthy statements, from velvet double-breasted suits that catch the light in burgundy and a deep peacock blue, to leather trousers with eye-catching zippers all the way down the front of the leg, silken Henley shirts with tuxedo ruffle details and long scarves, silken and woolen both, that added drama with every step. Maier joined other Milan designers in tipping his hat to music and fashion icon David Bowie with the occa- sional felt brimmed chapeau to create an aura of mystery. The overall silhouette of the collection was long and lean, something Bowie could have worn well, with pants that gently flair at the square-toed boot and elegant coat lengths below the knee. Details set the pieces apart, including diagonal buckle to close the collar on cash- mere overcoats to the coated tweed wool coat that had an eye-catching sheen. Maier said in his notes that the collection has “no tricks, nothing ostentatious. It is very discreet.”

Save Venice Models present creations for fash- British designer Vivienne Westwood is imploring the ion house Bottega Veneta. world to “be specific.” By that she means to be specific about what needs to be changed, part of her runway activism. For her latest menswear preview show, Westwood added a plea to save Venice from cruise ships. To drive the point home, the invitation featured a repro- duction of a painting of the canal city’s historic canals with an enormous cruise ship hulking in the background. Westwood’s collection was nothing if not eclectic, including loose-fitting pinstriped suits, sheer open- backed sweaters, a dramatic hooded burgundy cape, and a silvery dress worn suggesting a knight’s chainmail over a turtleneck sweater. The designer paid tribute to Bowie, playing “Starman” for the finale. —AP

Fashion full-circle: Derek Zoolander hits cover of Vogue

t was 15 years ago that Ben Stiller’s Derek Zoolander first unleashed his signature Blue Steel Ifashion face on an unsuspecting public, and a lot has changed. Mega-model Gigi Hadid was kinder- garten age. Netflix didn’t exist, let alone selfies. So why bother taking on “Zoolander 2,” the upcoming quirky sequel to his long-ago quirky “Zoolander?” Because, why not, especially now that the actual fashion world is laughing out loud. With a few more wrinkles, Stiller’s not-so-bright supermodel hit the February cover of Vogue with actual beauty and co- star Penelope Cruz. The cover and an inside photo spread were shot by actual photographer phenom Annie Leibovitz. Stiller tells the magazine of his first go-round with Owen Wilson at his side: “We were on our own - both in the fashion world and with the studio, too. They were just like, ‘We don’t quite know what this is.’” That was before Zoolander and Wilson’s Hansel crashed the Valentino show at Paris Fashion Week last year, bringing the usual jaded crowd to its feet as they strutted down the runway. The first comedy wasn’t a runaway success, released less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks, though it eventually turned a profit. Thanks to DVDs and cable, it developed a loyal following. So what can we expect this time? There’s Cruz, for one, as Valentina Valencia, a motorcycle happy Interpol agent in the fashion division. “I’m one of those people who’s seen the first ‘Zoolander’ four or five times,” she tells Vogue in the issue that hits news- stands Jan 26. “I’ve done comedy in Spain, in my own language, but I’ve always said I want to do more comedies in English. I do all these intense dramas, and all my characters are always suffering. For many reasons I need to once in a while do a crazy comedy.” Stiller’s crossing fingers, joking: “There’s that saying - ‘They want a sequel until they get one.’” —AP Models present creations for fash- ion house Vivienne Westwood. ‘Spotlight’ wins Best Picture at Critics, Choice Awards

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Indian models showcase creations by designer Vikram Phadnis during a fashion show in Mumbai. — AFP Calais migrant camp gets its own Jungala Radio station

This file photo shows migrants listening to a guitarist performing in a makeshift A makeshift theatre, where migrants take part in theatre and music lessons, in Migrants listening to a guitarist performing in a makeshift theatre, in the so- theatre, in the so-called “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais, northern France. the so-called “Jungle” migrant camp. called “Jungle” migrant camp. — AFP photos n the heart of the Calais migrant shantytown unteers and charity workers try to take the edge for a while, and his mantle has been taken up by in northern France known as the “Jungle”, a off with entertainment and education. another karate expert from the camp. New York deal to limit Icover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” rings Next door to the well-stocked Jungle library, “We don’t shape what goes on, and we don’t out from the ramshackle headquarters of the a volunteer is struggling to teach some basic dictate whether you come to confront your situ- camp’s very own radio station. Hashemi, a French to a small group of Sudanese and ation or escape from it, or just to have a bit of horse-drawn carriage rides Syrian in his 20s, is editing his first program for Afghans-a sign that at least some people in the fun,” says Joe Robertson, one of two British Jungala Radio, a music show featuring perform- camp are now considering asylum in France friends who helped set up the theatre. “Many ances by artists from the sprawling camp in rather than Britain. The young volunteer shows people have come here who are down,” adds his northern France. It’s a chance to lighten the heroic patience as she tries to explain the word co-organizer Joe Murphy. “Being part of a cre- mood at a time when freezing temperatures “bienvenue” (“welcome”) — a word that her ative theatre community has turned them have made conditions in the camp even grim- pupils have rarely heard since arriving in Europe. around and given them a role to play, which is mer for the thousands trapped here, looking for hugely important for their mental well-being.” a way to reach Britain from the port city. Mental well-being Back at Radio Jungala, Hashemi is putting the “I’m trying to find the voice and the feelings On the other side of the camp, a young finishing touches to his music show with the of the refugees,” says Hashemi, giving only his Afghan is on stage in the large white dome of the help of Ciaran, a 22-year-old media graduate first name. “I want to share what is happening Good Chance Theatre, giving an impromptu from Britain who helped launch the initiative. here with the whole world.” Jungala Radio song and dance performance while a visiting “We are only here for tech support and construc- launched its first program on New Year’s Day via British artist jams on the guitar. Since launching tive criticism. We want the people here to take Facebook and Soundcloud and is gradually a few months ago, the theatre has evolved in sur- ownership and control of it,” says Ciaran. building a team of producers and journalists prising ways-such as the Eritrean circus troupe Hashemi says he loves his new job. “I never from the camp community. One of their bud- that come to teach and practice their tricks and thought of doing radio in my life, but now I hope ding hacks is a 15-year-old Iraqi Kurd who has backflips a few times a week. A member of the to do more,” he says. “I’m just trying to be the been living in the Jungle for three months. Iranian national kung fu team gave lessons here best that I can.” — AFP He is enthusiastically hunting out interviews with one of the recorders bought by Radio Jungala via a crowd-funding campaign, though he says it is a tough gig. “I like learning new A horse drawn carriage carrying tourists passing outside of Central Park. —AFP things, but this is difficult. When I have to ask ew York reached a deal late Sunday forward to working together on the final people questions, I feel a bit embarrassed,” he that will almost halve the number of details of this legislation and getting this says with a smile. But the boy, who wished to Nhorses licensed to perform carriage passed,” it added in a statement. remain anonymous, remains determined to rides in Central Park after the mayor called The agreement demands that by make the most of his time in the camp, having them inhumane to animals. The agreement, October 1 2018 stables will be established already helped out in an aid distribution center which will keep the industry alive, comes in Central Park to house 68 carriages and 75 where he could practice his English and make after Mayor Bill de Blasio promised two horses, the city council said. Horses not at friends. “Everyone wants to go to the UK, but it’s years ago to abolish the rides popular with work must be on furlough outside the city, very hard and we need something to do while tourists, loved-up couples and immortal- and no carriage can operate for longer than we wait,” says the teenager, who learned his ized in movies. The deal, which will start to nine hours a day by December 1. English watching Harry Potter and Hollywood come into effect from June 1 and take three NYClass, one of the groups demanding action movies with his older brother in years to be fully implemented, will reduce a ban on carriage rides, has collected Kurdistan. from 180 to 110 the number of licensed more than 35,800 signatures in an online horses by December 1, the city council said. petition. The petition calls the carriage Desperate frustration The ultimate goal is to reduce the num- horse industry “cruel, inhumane and As the French and British authorities tighten ber to 95 and to give 75 horses a long-term unsafe” and demands the horses to be security around the port, and smuggling aboard home in Central Park stables, therefore retired to sanctuaries. “Horses do not lorries and trains has become ever-more diffi- banning public horse rides on the streets of belong in a congested, urban setting cult, the Jungle has taken on a more permanent feel. A high street of shops, restaurants-even a Manhattan. “We are pleased to have where they constantly breathe exhaust nightclub and barber shop-have sprung up as reached an agreement in concept on the while dodging dangerous traffic,” it says. tents have been replaced by semi-permanent future of New York’s horse carriage indus- The group was not immediately reachable wooden shacks. But the Jungle is still a place of Migrants taking part in theatre and music lessons in a makeshift theatre, in the so-called try,” said the mayor’s office said. “We look for comment to the deal. — AFP filth, boredom and desperate frustration, so vol- ‘Jungle’ migrant camp.