MARYLAND: PhotoshowstheNationalSecurityAgency(NSA)inFortMeade,Maryland.—AFP mosques protect Kuwait deployed to Patrol teams

els bycuttingoutput ifneeded,dramaticallyswitched my amuch-neededfillip. under pressurewhilegivingthebattered globalecono- putting thebudgetsofmanyoil-producing nations $45. Theyhavesincerecovered,but onlytoaround$60, rel-and lateJanuary,whenithit asix-yearlowunder Intermediate (WTI)crudestoodat about$106perbar- percent betweenJune2014-whenWestTexas oversupply andboomingUSshaleoutput,collapsed60 pumps onethirdoftheworld’scrude. gathering ofthe12-nationoilproducers’cartelthat Arabia’s OilMinisterAliAl-Naimitoldreportersafterthe will besurprisedhowamicablethemeetingwas,”Saudi than threeandahalfyears.“Theceilingisthesame.You 30 millionbarrelsperday-whereithasstoodformore Exporting Countries’(OPEC)officialcollectivetargetat ing inVienna,leavesOrganizationofthePetroleum maintain outputlevels,madeatakeyproductionmeet- tion fromtheUSshaleenergyboom.Thedecisionto preserve marketshareandfendoffcheapercompeti- despite thelowoilprice,extendingitsnewstrategyto VIENNA: SUBSCRIPTION But OPEC,which hastraditionallydefendedpricelev- The globaloilmarket,plaguedwithdemandworries, despite lowoilprice OPEC keepstapsopen OPEC hasagaindefiedcallstocutoutput 5 150 Fils AUDY UE6 05 HAA 9 46A No:16543 1436 AH SATURDAY, SHAABAN19, JUNE6,2015 US governmenthitby NSA warnsofdigital‘armageddon’;Chinesehackers’suspected massive cyber-attack ing themeeting. —AFP sion,” saidKuwait’s OilMinisterAliAl-Omair,upon leav- month shed47centsto$57.53.“It wasaverygooddeci- noon Londondeals,whileNewYork’s WTIforthesame July dipped30centsto$61.73per barrelinearlyafter- fell backintonegativeterritory.Brent oilfordeliveryin terday’s decision,oilpricesrebounded atfirst,butthen International EnergyAgencydata. Inresponsetoyes- supplies fromSaudiArabiaandIraq,accordingto is actuallypumping31.2millionbpd,duetoincreased nations fromAfrica,LatinAmericaandtheMiddleEast- we respondtothedemand.”OPEC-whichcomprises added El-Badri. to loseourmarketshareforlessefficientproducers,” ity” oflowerpricelevels.“Atacertainstageweneeded reporters, notingthatOPECwasnowfacinga“newreal- we havebeenenjoying100plusdollars,”hetold said yesterday.“Asamatteroffactforthelastfouryears the target,OPECSecretary-GeneralAbdullahEl-Badri mitment fromalltheministersthattheywilladhere”to that slashedrevenuesforitsmembers.“Thereisacom- tion unchanged-despiteadramaticoilpricecollapse strategy lastNovemberwhenitoptedtoleaveproduc- “As weseenow,thedemandisgettingstrongerso blast, floods petrol station killed inGhana More than150 7 search ofcomputer hackingbyforeigngovernments orothers.—AFP Agency hasreportedly beengivenwiderpowers tospyonInternettrafficin to protectingfederal systemsandinformation.” TheNationalSecurity ger was“heightenedbyweaknesses inthefederalgovernment’sapproach warned inAprilofgrowingcyber threatsagainstAmericaandsaidthedan- grids orairtrafficcontrolsystems. TheGovernmentAccountabilityOffice groups orspyagenciescould targetcriticalinfrastructuresuchaspower necessary inthefuture.There isgrowingconcernthatcriminals,terror tal accesstoUSinfrastructuresystems, sotheycanlaunchacyber-attackif “armageddon.” most likelydangertotheUnitedStates,ratherthanapotential digital James Clappersaidasteadystreamoflow-levelcyber-attacks posedthe conventional weapons.InFebruary,USDirectorofNational Intelligence Cyber Command,hassaidthatfutureattackscouldprompta response with Admiral MichaelRogers,whoheadstheNationalSecurityAgency andUS voiced anincreasinglystridenttoneaboutcyber-attacksinrecent months. of acyber-force”withinthePeople’sLiberationArmy.TheUnited Stateshas power. apparatus, withtherulingCommunistPartymaintainingaresolute gripon as not“particularlygood.”Chinaoperatesavastsecurityand surveillance cyber-attack capabilitiesas“verygood,”Iran’s“good,”andNorthKorea’s of theUSInternalRevenueService.ObamahasrankedChinaandRussia’s Hackers stoleinformationon100,000taxpayersfromtheonlinecomputers unclassified computersystemsattheWhiteHouseandStateDepartment. government. LastyearRussianhackersarebelievedtohaveaccessed series ofmajorbreachesthathaveshownthevulnerabilityfederal connections anddeployinganti-malwaresoftware.Itisjustthelatestina affected. trols,” addingthatgovernmentstaffwillbenotifiedfromJune8iftheyare begun latelastyearand“predatedtheadoptionoftoughersecuritycon- director KatherineArchuletasaid.Heragencysaidtheintrusionmayhave cyber incidentsisofthehighestpriority,”OfficePersonnelManagement services atnocost.“Protectingourfederalemployeedatafrommalicious ment will,throughathirdparty,offer$1millioninidentitytheftprotection ties tomeasuresthatcouldpreventfraudandidentifytheft.Thegovern- able thosewhoposeathreatincyberspace.” The FBIinastatementsaidit“willcontinuetoinvestigateandholdaccount- Department ofHomelandSecurityaresaidtobeleadingtheinvestigation. dance withChineselawsandregulations,”headded.TheFBI of allforms.Chinahasmadegreateffortstocombatcyberattacksinaccor- embassy spokesmanZhuHaiquansaid.“Chineselawsprohibitcybercrimes ing hypotheticalaccusationsisnotresponsibleandcounterproductive,” would notbeallowedunderChineselaw.“Jumpingtoconclusionsandmak- government officialsassayingthatChinesehackerswerebehindthebreach. the intelligencecommunity.TheWashingtonPostandotherUSmediacited hack affectedPresidentBarackObama,otherseniorgovernmentofficialsor prospective employeeseachyear.Itwasnotimmediatelyclearwhetherthe sands ofsensitivesecurityclearancesandbackgroundinvestigationson individuals.” Itaddedthatadditionalexposures“maycometolight.” Management saidit“willsendnotificationstoapproximatelyfourmillion a resultoftheincident,”uncoveredinApril,OfficePersonnel employees, inavastcyber-attacksuspectedtohaveoriginatedChina.“As accessed thepersonaldataofatleastfourmillioncurrentandformerfederal WASHINGTON: He saidforeign“actors”areconductingreconnaissanceandgaining digi- In arecentwhitepaper,Beijingsaiditwould“expeditethedevelopment The newmeasuresincluderestrictingremoteaccess,screeningbusiness Officials refusedtoassignattributionormotive,butpointedaffectedpar- But theChineseembassyinWashingtoncounteredthatsuchattacks The government’spersonneldepartmenthandleshundredsofthou- in Berlin the treble clash for Barca, Juve 47 The USgovernmentyesterdayadmittedthathackers Series ofbreaches Max Min 46º 31º LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Egyptian cable thieves busted

cables belonged to the Ministry of Electricity and Water and had obtained them from a Pakistani in Ahmadi.

Apartment fire A fire broke out in a second floor flat in Salmiya, said security sources. Firemen from Salmiya and Hawally rushed to the scene where they evacuated the whole building and controlled the fire. No injuries were reported.

Massive fire in Rai factory A huge fire recently broke in a factory located over a 3,000 square meter area in Rai that contained paints, lumber, metal, and plastic, said security sources. Firemen from Shuwaikh industrial area, Ardiya, Shuhada, Kuwait City, Subhan, Farwaniya, Salmiya, Sulaibikhat, and other backup units rushed to By Hanan Al-Saadoun the scene and surrounded the burning area to prevent the flames from spreading to adja- KUWAIT: Two Egyptians were recently arrest- cent facilities. A fire officer sustained an eye Sulaibikhat, said security sources adding the Citizen killed in accident ed for stealing 50.25 tons of stolen electric injury and had to be evacuated to Al-Bahar incident happened over some family dis- A citizen died in a car accident in cables in Hawally, said security sources. After hospital for treatment while five other fight- agreements. The suspect was later found to Mishref, said security sources noting that being tipped of the suspects’ illegal activity, ers were treated on site from dehydration and have a criminal record in drug-related cases. on arriving to the scene, Mishref firefight- an undercover agent was tasked to make a thermal stress. ers found the driver already dead, his body deal and pretended to buy some cables from Two children die jammed in the wreckage. Meanwhile, an them. Storming the suspects’ store in Hawally, Citizen shoots at brothers A five-year-old Indian died when she fell Egyptian was instantly killed when his vehi- detectives found 127 sacks loaded with cut A citizen was arrested for shooting at his from her parents’ apartment in Jleeb. Similarly, cle collided into a truck along King Fahd cables, worth around KD110,000. After ques- brothers without injuring any of them and a Chinese boy died instantly when he fell from expressway while the Indian truck driver tioning, one of the suspects admitted that the setting fire to the family’s diwaniya in his parents’ residence in Mina Abdullah. was injured. Mother accuses daughter of stealing her car, KD 900

KUWAIT: A citizen recently accused her arrival at Kuwait International Airport for daughter of stealing her vehicle with KD 900 attempting to smuggle some marijuana. in it, said security sources. Stepping out of Case papers indicated that airport rangers her house in Haten, the mother found her noticed that the two suspects, arriving vehicle missing, so she rushed to the police from Bangladesh, seemed nervous and on and reported that her daughter stole her car searching their luggage, they found the and money. drug hidden inside some tamarind.

Meth dealer arrested Fight over traffic A 45-year-old Egyptian was recently Two citizens reported that they fought arrested in Farwaniya for selling crystal with two others along the Fifth Ring road meth, said security sources adding after because of traffic congestion and right-of- being tipped of the suspect’s activity, detec- way. Security sources noted that the four tives made an ambush and arrested him sustained injuries and one was immediate- with the possession of four bags of meth. A ly operated on at a hospital because of search warrant was later issued and the sus- stab wounds he received during the fight. pect’s house was searched, where they found 120 grams of the same substance. A ‘Jealous lover’ case was filed and the suspect was referred An Iranian was recently arrested for to relevant authorities. incinerating his Egyptian friend’s vehicle in Hawally out of jealousy, said security Police officers summoned sources. After initially denying what he Following strict orders to military person- did, the suspect later admitted to the nel not to post their photos in uniform on crime. He justified his crime - saying that a any social media network, ministry of infor- girl who rejected him later befriended his KUWAIT: Under auspices of the Health Minister, Dr Ali Al-Obaidi, The Blood Bank recently mation’s monitoring and inspection depart- friend. celebrated its golden jubilee anniversary. During the ceremony, outstanding donors ment recently summoned a number of were honored. MOI’s Training and Education Sector was honored for coming Fifth police officers for breaking the rules and amongst the top donors. posting their “uniformed” photos on their Home-made liquor social media accounts. An Indian was recently arrested in Ahmadi with 85 home-made liquor bot- Arab youth deported tles, said security sources. Malaysia, GCC to resume FTA talks An Arab youth was recently deported for KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and the Gulf ed in 2011 following the signing of a frame- driving his father’s vehicle without a license, Taxi driver flees Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will work agreement to boost economic, com- said security sources. Case papers indicated The lawyer of a taxi company recently resume talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) mercial, investment and technical coopera- that a police patrol spotted the boy driving filed a complaint against a Pakistani driver this year, said International Trade and tion between the two parties. Mustapa said 30 kilometers above the speed limit in who leased a taxi in 2009, who has since Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa the Arab market was an important destina- Salmiya and on stopping him, police found neither paid nor returned the vehicle to Mohamed. “Later this year, I hope the negoti- tion for Malaysia and the market had grown he was not carrying any ID, telling the police the company. In another development, a ations will start again. I plan to visit the head- threefold in the past decade to RM 61.94 bil- that he was in Kuwait on a family visit visa. citizen has accused his Sudanese shep- quarters of the GCC in Riyadh to follow up on lion ($16.7 billion) last year from RM 27.12 bil- herd of stealing KD 1140, after he had giv- the status of the agreement,” he told lion in 2004 ($7.1 billion). Last year, he said Drug smugglers nabbed en him the money to buy some sheep. reporters after officiating the Arab Malaysian Malaysia’s trade with the Arab league coun- Two Asians were recently arrested on —Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa Chamber of Commerce annual general meet- tries grew 8.5 per cent, driven by expansion ing here today. Malaysia-GCC FTA talks start- in import. —KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Al-Sabeeh and ILO director tackle labor related issues

GENEVA: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Sabeeh Al-Sabeeh held a meeting with International Labor Organization (ILO) Director-General Guy Ryder to address steps for providing technical expertise to Kuwait, and the Gulf region so as to cope with the latest developments on labor rights. The talks were held on the sidelines of the 104th Session of the International Labor Conference (ILC) in Geneva. They also dis- cussed mechanisms for qualifying the staff of Kuwait’s Public Authority for Manpower. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim Experts can be brought to Kuwait to provide them with necessary training. They can also take part in training courses, regional and Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for international, she added. In the meantime, Minister Al-Sabeeh MPs and government to Planning and Development Hind Sabeeh Al-Sabeeh with stressed Kuwait’s keenness on guaranteeing and maintaining labor International Labor Organization (ILO) Director-General Guy Ryder. rights, referring to the country’s cooperation with the ILO. —KUNA discuss internal security

KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said that the Assembly is coordinating with the government on a near Kuwaitis turn to farming future meeting to discuss the security situation in the country. Responding to a question by Kuwait TV regarding the participa- MILAN: Acting Chairperson and General Director of the Public nature, tackle the problems of water scarcity and reclaim tion of the National Assembly in the Kuwaiti pavilion at Milan Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) desert land. “The new legislations facilitated the citizens’ acqui- Expo 2015, he said he had received an invitation to that effect Nabila Al-Khalil said that the Kuwaiti government has adopted sition of farmland and helped create the necessary conditions from the Minister of Information and State Minister for Youth policies and legislations that encouraged the citizens to turn to for farming and fish farming,” she added. The Forum themed Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, adding that the farming to produce food. The government introduced the “The Zero Hunger Challenge - United for a sustainable world,” National Assembly would take part in the pavilion after coordina- state-of-the-art agricultural technologies which helped address gathered agriculture ministers from 115 countries and High- tion between the ministry and the Assembly General Secretariat. the challenges of weather and nature, she said in a speech to level Representatives of the UN Rome-based Agencies. It pro- In that vein, the Speaker welcomed (in his office) at the National the International Agriculture Forum which opened at Expo vides an opportunity for a global reflection and discussion of Assembly the undersecretary of the Ministry of Information Tariq Milan on Thursday. the role that agriculture and the rural world will play in the Al-Mizram who is Kuwait’s envoy to the Milan Expo and a number She extolled His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad challenges of providing enough food to feed the projected 9 of officials from the ministry and from the National Council for Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for backing the efforts of PAAFR to tame billion people in 2050. — KUNA Culture, Arts, and Letters. They all discussed the Kuwaiti pavilion’s contribution to the Expo. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

16th group of students graduate from ‘ABK Academy’

KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) recently congratulated the Bank and to the sector as a whole.” The ABK Academy was launched as an educational platform 16th group of students who graduated from the ‘ABK Academy’. A He continued saying: “Kuwait’s youth have always been a pri- that focuses on training students and individuals seeking a job ceremony was held for the 29 participants who successfully com- mary interest at ABK. With the launch of the ABK Academy in 2009, opportunity in the banking sector. By engaging with these partici- pleted the four week intensive program, on 21 May, 2015. the Bank has been able to take this to the next level by encourag- pants, the Bank is able to build on existing potential and talent, Commenting, Jasem Salman, Assistant General Manager Human ing youth to consider the banking sector as a career. The academy and better identify the areas in the bank, in which they could put Resources at ABK said, “ABK Academy has graduated a total of 405 covers multiple areas in the banking profession, with particular this positive energy to work and excel. ABK will continue to play an candidates to date; preparing a substantial number of individuals focus on customer service, which is the backbone of any successful active role through the ABK Academy and through opportunities to take on jobs within the Bank. This type of involvement and con- company. We look forward to witnessing the great results these that arise in the future. For more information about ABK please tribution is of tremendous value not only to national youth, who strong skilled students can achieve during their time with the visit www.eahli.com, contact an ABK representative via ‘Ahli Chat’ gain a wealth of insight into banking as a profession, but to the Bank.” or contact a customer service agent via ‘AhlanAhli’ at 1899899. IICO to rebuild two Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon

BEIRUT: The Kuwait-based International Islamic Charity swift action taken by ICCO is due to help displaced Organization (IICO) Director General Salem Hamada Syrians. According to UN statistics, more than one million announced yesterday that IICO will rebuild two Syrian displaced Syrians in Lebanon, where a large proportion refugee camps in Lebanon, which caught fire Thursday of them in random camps spread over various Lebanese and Wednesday. On Wednesday a refugee camp in regions. Beqaa, eastern Lebanon, was burnt and six refugees were Also, IICO yesterday handed out at least 1,000 food killed and scores others injured. In a statement to KUNA, quotas to Syrian refugees living in Lebanon’s Bekaa Hamada said, after a meeting with Lebanese Minister of Valley. In a statement to KUNA, Hamada said toys and Social Affairs Rashid Darbas that “the organization con- gifts were delivered to children. He affirmed that Kuwait sidered camp fire as an emergence case and take a quick has been aiding Syrian refugees since the outbreak of the decision to rebuild it and to provide aid to displaced country’s crisis, hoping that the aid would contribute to refugees.” Hamada added that IICO already began pro- alleviating the suffering of refugees facing tough times. viding aid to those displaced and affected by the fire fol- Meanwhile, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) lowing the incident. yesterday wrapped up its humanitarian campaign IICO chief said that the organization will also rebuild a designed for vulnerable people in Lebanon. Head of second burnt camp for the Syrian refugees in northern KRCS delegation to Lebanon Musaed Al-Enzi told KUNA Lebanon, pointing out that his delegation will pay field that the society has distributed food aid to at least 1,000 visits to camps, particularly those affected by the fire. Lebanese families in northern Lebanon, saying five Kuwaitis in S Korea advised to Hamada said that the restoration of the camps comes in batches of aid were handed out to cover 5,000 families coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs in living in different areas. According to official statistics, take precautions against MERS Lebanon, conveying thanks by Minister Darbas to Lebanon is hosting more than 1.2 Syrian refugees; mostly Kuwaiti efforts in this regard. Hamada stressed that the in Bekaa, northern Lebanon, Akkar, Tripoli and other areas. Kuwait, through its institutions, is a major country SEOUL: The Kuwaiti Embassy in South Korea has urged nationals visit- that has been supporting Syrian refugees in Lebanon ing or residing in the Asian nation to take maximum precautions after since the outbreak of the crisis. local authorities declared a fourth Corona death since the epidemic outbreak here on May 21. The embassy, in a statement released yester- Somalia, Djibouti day, said Kuwaiti citizens present in South Korea ought to be aware of In another development, Arab League Secretary the Corona virus outbreak, urging them to abide by the local authori- General Nabil Al-Araby has called on all governments, ties’ precautionary instructions to stay safe. Kuwaiti nationals, in need Arab and international organizations, to provide immedi- for further help or guidance, can contact the embassy on the emer- ate humanitarian aid to Somalia and Djibouti, due to the gency telephone number: 00821067483688. increased burden and influx of local Somali and Yemeni Earlier, the South Korean Ministry of Health announced that num- refugees into the two countries. The remarks were made ber of people who have died in the country due to the Middle East by Al-Araby during a meeting with Somalia’s Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has climbed to four Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to since its outbreak here on May 21. A 76-year-old man passed away, the League Abdullah Hassan Mahmoud. In a statement late on Thursday, at a hospital where he had undergone futile treat- by the League, the meeting highlighted developments ment of the Coronavirus. He had been admitted to the hospital on of the situation in Somalia in light of security develop- May 21 after he was infected with the communicable virus from ments in Yemen and the resort of thousands of Somalis another patient in the country. A fifth infection case was recorded and Yemenis to different parts of Somalia, including the yesterday, putting total number of the patients suffering from the dis- northern region and Punt Land State. The statement ease to 41, since May 21. The first case, recorded in the nation on May added that League will take all appropriate actions 21, was of a 63-year-old South Korean, who had returned home from a IICO distributes 1,000 food quotas to Syrian across different ministerial councils to help address this business trip to Bahrain. — KUNA refugees in Lebanon. serious humanitarian situation. — Agencies LOCAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Zain to provide exams results for free via SMS

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading Telecom company in Kuwait, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, announced that it would provide the final exam results for free through SMS once they were officially announced by the ministry. Zain added that students could have the results directly sent to their cell phones free-of-charge by sending a message stating their exam seat number and sending it to 99909, noting that the results will be sent as soon as it was made available. In this regard, Zain Added Value Services Executive Manager Nadiya Al-Saif stressed that Zain had been annually providing the service to share in the students and their families’ joy. No meat shortage, and price increase during Ramadan

KUWAIT: Kuwait Livestock Trade and Transport Co (KLTT) in a statement said that it was fully prepared to provide local mar- kets with all the needed meat in a bid to prevent price increas- es and meat shortage during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. In this regard, KLTT CEO Osama Khalid Boodai said that his company currently provides 75 percent of the local market’s supply of live sheep and is ready to provide 100 percent dur- ing Ramadan. Boodai also noted that the company was expecting two shipments of live sheep from Australia soon. “In order to pre- vent any unjustified price increases, the arrival of those ship- ments had been meticulously scheduled to avoid any short- AUK Mass Communications age at this particular season when there is high demand on meat,” he explained pointing out that KLTT had decided to students visit Ooredoo reduce its prices from KD 45 to KD 42 per sheep at all of its 30 retail outlets. KUWAIT: In addition, Boodai denied allegations that KLTT monopo- A group of AUK students visited Relations department explained to the Corporate Communications department lized meat markets in Kuwait. “The market is open to every- Ooredoo’s headquarters in Kuwait City students the different roles they play, plays in the company. The presentation body and there are over 50 companies importing sheep in last week as part of their course work in which includes developing content for was followed by an open discussion ses- addition to three importing live sheep from Australia,” he said the mass communications department. different media channels like newspapers, sion where students’ questions about the pointing out that KLTT imports chilled and frozen meat from Ooredoo held an orientation workshop radio and television, as well as updating different roles of the department were all over the world and that live sheep could only be imported for the students about the company’s the public on the company’s latest activi- answered. Ooredoo places great impor- from Australia because it was the only country capable of future vision for the field of ties and various products and offers. tance on youth, believing that they play exporting up to 80,000 heads per shipment at a time with rea- Communications and Public Relations. Students were also given a presenta- an essential role in impacting positive sonable prices. — Al-Rai Ooredoo employees from the Public tion about the special role that the change in the future. Patrol teams deployed to protect Kuwait mosques Public urged to report any suspicious movement

By Faten Omar especially after the bombings that took statement that the religious sites are their authorities. Earlier, a suicide attack targeted place in Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, patrol responsibility. He added that the role of the a mosque east of Saudi Arabia, leaving KUWAIT: Security patrols were deployed in teams were dispatched to various regions Ministry of Interior is to prevent any attack. scores of people dead. Some 21 people all the exits and entrances of Sunni and of the country to guard the mosques during He expressed his hope for joint coordina- were killed and more than 80 wounded Shiite mosques in Kuwait to ensure the Friday prayers. tion and cooperation in order to boost when a suicide bomber detonated an security of mosques from any terror attacks. The Head of Public Relations and Moral security measures and counter any attempt explosive-laden belt at a mosque packed This comes in anticipation of any operations Guidance at the Ministry of Interior to harm worshipers -urging people to with worshippers in the eastern province of that would threaten the security of citizens Brigadier General Adel Al-Hashash said in a report any suspicious movement to the Al-Qatif.

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ACCRA: Ghanian Police patrol the remaining structure of a gas station and houses in Accra, Ghana, yesterday. The death toll from a huge gas station explosion and flooding in Ghana’s capital has more than doubled to 150 people, the president said Thursday night. — AP 150 killed in Ghana petrol blast, floods

ACCRA: More than 150 people have died in a dence, appeared to have engulfed a bus full of the fire and flooding,” he said. stuck. They struggled to gain access to the devastating petrol station blast during heavy passengers that was waiting at the station, an “UNDP (United Nations Development scene.” At least two days of rains have caused flooding in Ghana’s capital, prompting the AFP reporter at the scene said. Dozens of Programme) officials are also joining us in our chaos in Accra, leaving many suburbs sub- nation’s leader to call three days of national charred motorcycles and cars were visible on efforts to bring succour to those affected.” merged and people stranded, with roads mourning over the “catastrophic” loss of life. the forecourt. blocked and cars swept away or overturned by The fire hit a filling station in Accra late on Local residents said many people had sought Fire service stuck the flood waters. Wednesday, causing an explosion at the pumps refuge under the filling station canopy from Mahama extended his condolences to the Already sketchy power supplies had been cut that killed dozens of people seeking shelter days of heavy rains that have engulfed Accra. families of those who lost loved ones and said to some communities as electricity sub-stations from torrential rains and widespread flooding in Flood waters had reached knee level on the “precautionary measures” needed to be taken were under water, said communications minis- the area that also claimed numerous victims. road beside the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) against the flooding that hits the city every year. ter Edward Omane Boamah. “As of yesterday (Thursday) we have recov- petrol station in the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area “Our first priority now is to save lives and pre- Boamah, who called the situation a “national ered more than 150 corpses. Sixty people have of the city before the fire, which caused an vent any further suffering of our people but emergency”, said the armed forces, police, fire been taken to the hospital,” Red Cross disaster explosion at the pumps, according to eye-wit- beyond that, we’ll take the tough measures that and the National Disaster Management management coordinator Francis Obeng told nesses. are necessary to prevent such disasters from Organisation had been deployed to help those AFP yesterday, raising the toll from Thursday’s The inferno quickly spread to a nearby phar- occurring in the future,” he later added. affected. count of at least 90 killed. macy and several buildings next to the filling The GOIL filling station is next to a large open “The general public is kindly advised to avoid As he toured the scene of the disaster, station. The explosion was heard and seen drain that carries water from surrounding areas fast-moving rainwater and areas they know Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama across the capital. It was not immediately clear to the sea. have big drains. Stay on higher ground, where described the loss of life as “catastrophic and exactly how the victims died, with reports that But like many gutters in the city, it was necessary, to prevent loss of life,” he added. almost unprecedented” and announced three some had drowned after being knocked uncon- blocked with rubbish, causing water to spill Ghana police spokesman Arthur Cephas said days of national mourning from Monday, with scious and falling into the flood waters. onto the streets. Flooding is exacerbated by the situation was under control. flags flying at half-mast, after rescue operations Obeng said rescuers as well as dozens of vol- construction work in the city. “Police are protecting lives and properties as finished. unteers were currently providing relief materials One witness, Edgar Wiredu, told GTV 24 tele- well as ensuring that evidence that would assist “A lot of people have lost their lives and I am to those displaced or affected by the disaster. vision: “Because of the construction work, the in the investigation is not tampered with,” he lost for words,” he told reporters. The fire, which “We are providing blankets, mats and drugs to whole of (Kwame Nkrumah) Circle was flooded. told AFP. “We have commenced investigations is thought to have spread from a nearby resi- residents in the seven communities affected by “When the fire service got to the scene, they got into this monumental national tragedy.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Yemen rebels say to attend Geneva peace talks DUBAI: Yemen’s Huthi rebels agreed on Friday to attend talks,” Isbahi told AFP. He said the meeting would involve ‘Catastrophic’ crisis UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, which the war-torn “consultations on implementing Resolution 2216.” The Security Council this week heard a report from new country’s exiled government confirmed it too would attend. The April Security Council resolution imposed an arms UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien who described Yemen’s “We accepted the invitation of the United Nations to go embargo on the Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels and humanitarian crisis as “catastrophic,” with 20 million civilians to the negotiating table in Geneva without preconditions,” demanded they relinquish seized territory. After overrun- — 80 percent of the population-in need of aid. Confirmation said Daifallah al-Shami, a politburo member of the rebels’ ning the capital Sanaa in September, the Huthis seized that the government and the rebels would both send dele- political wing. Speaking to AFP, he added that the rebels “will much of the country, prompting a Saudi-led bombing gations to Switzerland follows a flurry of diplomacy after the not accept conditions” from other parties. campaign that began on March 26 in support of exiled United Nations was forced to abandon plans to convene Ezzedine al-Isbahi, information minister of the Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. Sunni-dominated talks last week. Hadi’s government refused to attend unless government exiled in Riyadh, said it would send a delegation Saudi Arabia feared the Huthis would take over all of the rebels pulled back from at least some of the territory they to the talks provisionally scheduled for June 14. UN envoy Yemen and move it into the orbit of the kingdom’s have seized in line with Resolution 2216. On Tuesday, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on regional rival Iran. Pro-government forces have been Washington said Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Wednesday that the government had agreed to attend but fighting the rebels and their allies in a war which the Affairs Anne Patterson had met Huthi representatives in that he was still in consultation with the rebels. United Nations says has killed more than 2,000 people neighbouring Oman to try to persuade them to join the pro- “The government agreed to participate in the Geneva and forced more than half a million from their homes. posed Geneva conference. — AFP

Israelis, Palestinians march for W Bank town set for demolition

SUSYA: Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched yesterday in support of a West Bank village slated for demolition, a plan they said epitomises the Israeli occupation. The march in Susya, south- east of Hebron, took place on the anniversary of what the Palestinians call the Naksa (Setback), when Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 Six Day war displaced hundreds of thou- sands of people. Israel’s High Court ruled in May that Susya’s 340 residents could be relocated and its structures demolished, which Human Rights Watch derided as “a grave breach” of Israel’s obliga- tions to the Palestinian populace under its military rule. HRW said the villagers built the homes in 1986 on agricultural land they owned, after being evicted by Israel from their previous dwellings on land declared as an archeological site. Authorities then argued that the new site was unsuitable for habitation due to its remote location, HRW said. It lies in the area of the West Bank where Israel wields full control over planning mat- ters and rarely grants building permission to Palestinians. Members of Combatants for Peace, an NGO that brings together former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants to promote peace, held signs reading “There is another way.” Dov Hanin, a Jewish member of parliament with the Arab Joint DIYARBAKIR: An injured man is carried out from the site of an explosion which injured several people during a rally by the pro- List, said no place was more suitable than Susya to mark the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) yesterday in Diyarbakir, two days ahead of legislative polls. The HDP has been targeted by anniversary of the 1967 war. “Susya tells the entire story in a nut- several attacks ahead of June 7 elections and clashes at its rally in the eastern city of Erzurum on june 6 left dozens wounded. — AFP shell,” he told marchers. “The residents are told ‘you’ve no place on the face of the earth.’” The event was organised by Combatants for Peace activist Shai Eluk, 24, himself an ex-soldier who served in the Pro-Kurdish party may tip area three years ago. “The demonstration today was because of the recent court decision,” he told AFP. “The Palestinian members asked that the demonstration to mark 48 years of occupation take balance in Turkey polls place in Susya.” The Israeli army has refused to say when it plans to demolish HDP’s trump card is Demirtas the new Susya, but said it can legally do so at any time, in accor- dance with the court ruling. MARDIN: The result is, admits Peoples’ outside,” Demirtas told AFP after a rally in HDP rules, a man and a woman must share Since 1996, Israel has granted only a few hundred building per- Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin the southeastern province of Mardin near the chairpersonship and Demirtas’ co-chief mits for Palestinian structures in the area. Amnesty International Demirtas, balanced on a “knife-edge”. But the Syrian border. While the party’s strong- is Figen Yuksekdag. The party also considers says only 76 were issued between 1996 and 1999. the rise of his pro-Kurdish party means it hold is still in the Kurdish-majority south- itself a champion of Turkey’s small but his- And from 2000-2014, only 206 permits were issued, Israeli NGO could play the decisive role in determining east, Demirtas said the key was to win extra torically important Christian minorities. Bimkom says. In 2014, Israel granted a single building permit in the the outcome of Turkey’s legislative elec- votes in the Aegean Sea region dominated “We oppose any move to use religion as area, which covers more than 60 percent of the West Bank. — AFP tions. All predictions forecast that the HDP by secular Turks who despise the Islamic- a political tool. The HDP is the guarantee of will come fourth in the elections tomorrow rooted rule of the AKP. “I am sure we’ll pass democratic secularism that cherishes free- with just below or above 10 percent of the the threshold with the votes we will receive doms,” said the HDP’s candidate from vote. But the 10 percent figure is the divid- from the west,” he said. Mardin, Erol Dora, a Syriac Christian who is ing line between triumph and wipe-out. seeking a second term in parliament. Only if a party polls above this figure can it ‘A party of all’ send MPs to the Turkish parliament, in a Under Demirtas, the HDP has sought to ‘Stop the AKP’ notoriously strict threshold rule. Should the broaden its appeal beyond Kurds, who But Demirtas has taken a huge gamble HDP win more than 10 percent, it could make up around 20 percent of Turkey’s by fielding candidates as a party and risks stymie the ruling Justice and Development population and many of whom are AKP sup- having zero MPs if the HDP fails to clear Party’s (AKP) dream of changing the consti- porters. the threshold. In the past, pro-Kurdish tution to give President Recep Tayyip With its leftist economic policies, some politicians ran as individuals on independ- Erdogan more power, and may even force it compare the HDP to the radical anti-austeri- ent tickets and the HDP had 29 MPs in the to form a coalition. ty coalition Syriza in Greece, which symbol- outgoing 550-seat parliament. Erdogan The HDP’s trump card is Demirtas, 42, ised the return of the left in Europe. and the AKP have fired multiple salvos at nicknamed the “Kurdish Obama”. He is the The only Turkish party with a strong the HDP in recent weeks, with such only Turkish politician to rival Erdogan’s emphasis on women’s and gay rights, the aggression that one could think it was the HEBRON: Palestinians, foreigners and Israeli peace rhetorical skills, and also boasts a fine HDP says it is reaching out to every segment main opposition party. The AKP argues it activists hold banners as they demonstrate in the south- singing voice and talents on the baglama of Turkish society. “We are a party of all. We is already giving Kurds greater rights and ern West Bank village of Susya against the demolition of (Turkish lute). “We will clear the threshold are a party of all oppressed,” Demirtas told working for a peace deal to end the the Palestinian village and in support of the citizens in the and achieve strong presence in the parlia- AFP. “We will garner votes from all over decades-long insurgency by the Kurdistan southern area near the town of Hebron yesterday. — AFP ment... There’s no option for us to remain Turkey,” he said. Uniquely in Turkey, under Workers’ Party (PKK). — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

From Myanmar to Pakistan: A rustic love story

DHUDIAL: Now aged in her 90s, Ayesha Bibi doesn’t remem- Asia Pacific, moved to the US as “GI brides” after the war that has been Bibi’s life as the wife of a Pakistani farmer for ber her real name, who her father was or much about her under a new law for military wives. decades. “Muzzaffar always wanted me to die in his hands. hometown in Myanmar. But marriages within Asia between colonial forces and He did not betray me, it’s God’s order that he has died. It What she does remember is that in the 1940s, as Allied other subjects of the empire were far less common. would have been better if I died before him,” she sighed, gaz- forces fought one of the bloodiest battles of the Second Retired General Abdul Majeed Malik, who joined the ing into the yard, bathed in late spring sunshine. World War, against Japanese forces, she fell in love at first British Indian Army in 1939 and later served as a government Muzaffar died almost a month ago, leaving the old sight with a soldier from what is now Pakistan. minister, said such cases were exceptionally unusual. woman a small landholding and a heart full of sadness. Her Her parents had been buried alive after their house col- “I never heard about any brides coming here with soldiers family and neighbours believe she won’t last long. lapsed in bombardments by Japanese forces. Distraught, she who went for WWII,” he told AFP. “If any WWII bride from Because they had no children, the property will be divid- left the site and came upon a nearby barracks-where she met Burma exists here that is an individual case and I must say the ed among Muzaffar’s nephews when after Bibi dies. For now Sepoy Muzaffar Khan of the British Indian Army, which pro- most rare one.” The couple’s love story spanned more than she is living in the house of their nephew Sajid Mehmood, vided some 2.5 million soldiers for the Allies. 70 years-a period which saw both Myanmar, then called whom they were closest to. Eventually they married and settled in Dhudial, a village in Burma, win its independence from Britain in 1948 and the And she has no fears about the future. the heart of Pakistan’s breadbasket province of Punjab. Khan birth of Pakistan in 1947. “I will now die with the orders of God in the hands of died a few weeks ago, ending a love story that began in the But in Dhudial time seems almost to have stood still. these relatives, they have taken care of me well,” she said. chaos of war. “When my parents died during bombardment and nobody was left in my family, I simply walked into the Rural life Waiting for death soldiers’ camp and asked Muzzaffar to take me along. Arriving a timid young girl, Bibi spent months learning Manzoor Hussain, 75 and oldest nephew of Muzaffar Because I trusted him,” Bibi, a small sparrow of a woman with the language and her husband’s religion, Islam, among the Khan, recalls a happy couple who never quarrelled during papery skin and cloudy blue eyes, said in fluent Punjabi. shimmering fields. their lifetime. “They loved a lot each other. They lived a very “I liked Muzaffar. We initially started communicating in Outside, farmers harvest the golden wheat crop and cat- good life, they never quarrelled for whole their life,” he said. sign language because I didn’t know his language.” More tle graze. The tractors roar as they plough the fields around “After his death, she was crying a lot: ‘Muzaffar Khan, who are than 100,000 women, mostly from across Europe but also her house and women collect water in a typical rural scene you leaving me with? I have nobody here except you’.” — AFP Bosnian town believes in its ‘miracle’

MEDJUGORJE: For believers, the Bosnian town of Medjugorje is as sacred as Lourdes or Fatima, a place where the Virgin Mary appeared to children that decades on has become a huge pilgrimage site. And ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to the capital Sarajevo on Saturday, the Catholics who flock to this small town hope the Vatican may finally recognise its controversial shrine, as it does the “official” ones in France and Portugal. Pilgrims, praying aloud, climb the steep rocky hill in Bosnia’s south where the Madonna is said to have “appeared” to six adolescents in 1981 — and continues to “appear” to one of them daily. Though he considers it a gift, 50-year-old Ivan Dragicevic, a teenager when the first “vision” occurred, says he has carried a “heavy responsibility for 34 years”. “Believe me, it is not easy, it is not simple to be with the Virgin everyday, to speak with her every- day,” he said. “After each meeting with her, I find it difficult to return to the reality of this world.” But even if the pope says nothing during his visit, Dragicevic’s and other believers’ faith in the Medjugorje “miracle” will remain unshaken.

‘ A work of God’ “We don’t need to rush anything,” Father Marinko Sakota, chaplain MUNICH: Activists have installed balloons decorated with the portraits of (L-R) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister at St. James, the parish church in Medjugorje, told AFP. “Here we feel Matteo Renzi, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, British Prime Minister David Cameron and that this is a work of God, that God wants it. When the place is recog- US President Barack Obama yesterday in Munich, southern Germany, during a protest activity against the G7 summit. — AFP nised, well, it does not depend on us, it is not part of our duty.” Each year about one million people visit Medjugorje, some 25 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of Mostar and not far from the Croatian border Merkel pursues ambitious — compared to four to six million who visit Lourdes. Even Bosnia’s 1990s war did not stop pilgrims from coming. For locals, the religious tourism has been like manna from heaven, agenda for G7 summit bringing prosperity in a poor Balkan country where Catholics make up 10 percent of its population of 3.8 million. Climate change at the top of Merkel’s agenda Guest houses and small hotels have cropped up over the years and numerous small shops do a busy trade in souvenirs, including home- BERLIN: When Germany last hosted a sum- global financial crisis and come out stronger France, Italy, Canada, Japan and the United made brandy in bottles marked with the Virgin, plaster statues of mit of the world’s leading industrialized than ever. It has been getting increasingly States in the Schloss Elmau hotel at the base Mary, icons and rosary beads. Near St. James, a pilgrim prays on his democracies, Chancellor Angela Merkel was involved internationally, as one of the key of the Alps, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) knees before a stone statue of the Virgin, as the large square behind a relative newcomer on the world stage. With countries involved in trying to resolve the south of Munich. the church packs with faithful from all over the world ahead of less than two years in office she focused on Ukraine crisis, helping to arm Kurdish militias evening prayers. Wearing a white shirt and speaking calmly, one major theme: the fight against climate fighting the Islamic State group and serving Expectations are high Dragicevic describes to gathered pilgrims the first meeting-on June change. as a key broker in the negotiations with Iran Bavarian police say they’re braced for 24, 1981 — with the one who called herself the “Queen of Peace”. Heading into this weekend’s meeting of over its nuclear program. protests, and have mobilized 17,000 police “The Virgin has a grey dress, a white veil, blue eyes, pinkish cheeks, what is now the G-7 - after Russia’s removal Climate change is still at the top of officers from around the country in the black hair. She is floating on a cloud and has a crown of stars,” he said. from the club over its actions in Ukraine - Merkel’s agenda, but for this year’s talks the biggest operation in their history. Thirty heli- The six witnesses, all of whom have had repeated “appearances”, are Merkel is pursuing a much broader agenda, chancellor says she will pursue an “ambitious copters will patrol the skies and temporary backed by local Franciscan priests, including Father Sakota, but the bolstered by Germany’s growing clout and agenda” to address a wide range of other cells have been built out of shipping contain- local clergy’s involvement has been a thorn in the side of Bosnian her own increased political prominence. issues. These include terrorism, Ukraine, ers and installed on a nearby former US mili- Catholic church officials. “In 2007 Merkel was a world leader, no health emergencies like the Ebola outbreak tary base. Austrian police plan to have 2,000 Bishops have criticised the Franciscan priests who manage the doubt, but now she’s consistently been rated and global economic growth and trade officers on hand across the nearby border. Medjugorje parish and the “authenticity” of the Virgin’s visitation has one of the most powerful leaders in the deals. On the climate front, expectations are divided Bosnian Catholics. A wary Vatican finally sent a commission in world,” said Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Trans- “We are going to use the 24 hours that high. Merkel has indicated that she supports 2010 to examine the reported sightings and though they concluded Atlantic Fellow with the German Marshall we’re together for some very intensive talks “de-carbonization” - a pledge of zero carbon their report in January 2014, nothing has been officially announced. Fund think tank. “The United States and over a lot of questions that are affecting the emissions - and said in an interview with the In his dark brown robe, rope belt and sandals, Sakota says the many other countries recognize Germany to world,” Merkel told foreign reporters in Berlin Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Germany and Medjugorje events are a continuation of Marian visions recognised by be a leader,” she said. “So I think the tone will this week. The Sunday-Monday summit France would make a joint push at the G-7, the Vatican, and that Mary conveyed all that in a message to one of be different.” Since the 2007 summit, whose motto is “think ahead, act together,” but at the moment “there is not yet agree- the six witnesses. “The Virgin said, ‘What I began in Fatima and Germany has successfully weathered the assembles the leaders of Germany, Britain, ment” among the nations. — AP Lourdes, I will complete in Medjugorje’.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Delayed return of Germanwings victims’ remains sparks anger

BERLIN: Relatives of those killed when a Germanwings The first burials of the Haltern students, who were quickly as possible in the interests of the relatives,” a flight was deliberately crashed into the French Alps flying back from an exchange trip to Spain when the Germanwings spokesman said, without specifying any have angrily complained to parent company Lufthansa, co-pilot crashed the jet, had already been planned for dates. after a delay in the return of victims’ remains, their June 12. A regional newspaper, the Cologne Express, has said lawyer said yesterday. However, Lufthansa this week informed relatives of that mistakes in the translation of the death certificates The bodies were due to be repatriated on June 9 “new administrative requirements” that had temporari- from French were behind the delay. and 10 but Lufthansa contacted the families this week ly delayed the repatriation of the victims’ remains, Investigators only last month finished identify- to announce a hold-up, said Elmar Giemulla, the lawyer according to the families. ing the remains of all 150 people aboard the flight for victims from the northwestern German town of Contacted by AFP Thursday, Germanwings con- that crashed en route from Barcelona to Haltern. firmed that mistakes had occurred in the issuing of Duesseldorf. “The anger and despair are increasing,” wrote the death certificates, whose validity had expired and had They say that 27-year-old German co-pilot families of 16 teenagers who were among the 150 peo- to be re-issued, leading to an “interruption.” Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of severe depres- ple killed in the March 24 crash. “We’re working intensively on finding a solution as sion, intentionally downed the plane. — AFP

Romanian president calls for PM to resign over corruption

BUCHAREST: Romania’s centre-right President Klaus Iohannis yesterday asked for the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who is facing investigation by the country’s anti-corrup- tion agency. A decision by the powerful DNA anti-corruption agency to probe Ponta for alleged money laundering and tax evasion puts the country in “an impossible situation”, Iohannis said after talks with his political rival, a social-democrat. “The worst that could happen would be to have a political crisis” in the small and struggling EU country, Iohannis said. But Ponta, who lost to Iohannis in a bid for the presidency in November, appeared set to hold tight on the premiership. “Only parliament can unseat me,” he said on Facebook. “I respect the president’s public position but I was named to this position by parliament”, where the leftwing coalition led by his social-democrat party has a large majority. “The respect of constitutional principles is essential to our society and in no case could I accept that a prosecutor be above parliament, the government and citizens,” Ponta added. If that were the case it would be “dictatorship”, he added, a strong slur in a country that ousted its communist regime 25 YOLA: In this file photo taken on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, rescue workers at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a market in years ago. Romania’s prosecutors earlier yesterday said they Maiduguri, Nigeria. Two suicide bombers attacked the city of Yola yesterday, and more than 60 people have been killed were launching a criminal probe into Ponta on suspicion of over the past few days in Maiduguri. — AP involvement in tax evasion, money laundering and conflict of interest. The prosecutors will file a formal request for an investiga- Death toll from market blast in tion with parliament, which would have to strip the premier of his immunity for the probe to proceed, said a statement from the country’s anti-corruption agency DNA. The head of gov- Nigeria’s northeast rises to 45 ernment is suspected of “forging documents ... (and) continu- ous complicity in tax evasion” and money laundering when he Scores killed since president’s first week in office was a lawyer in 2007, said the agency, which is part of the prosecutor’s office. The case is linked to another corruption YOLA: The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the rebels were still to be reckoned with. probe against his political ally Dan Sova, a member of parlia- northeastern Nigerian town of Yola rose to 45 yesterday, authorities ment who briefly held the transport portfolio in the cabinet said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but it bore the Fake fight from March to June 2014. hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Yola had been seen as a relative safe haven in Nigeria’s embattled The probe is the latest in a string of anti-corruption The suicide bomber struck at around 1900 GMT on Thursday in northeast, with no confirmed Islamist attacks in several years. enquiries carried out by the powerful agency, probes that the Jimeta district of Yola, the capital of Adamawa state. With explosives strapped to their bodies, the bombers entered have led to the removal of several influential Romanians over “Ten more people died this morning,” police spokesman Othman the Jimeta Main Market after sundown on Thursday and “pretended the past months. —AFP Abubakar told Reuters, adding to the 35 bodies that a senior police- to be fighting”, said area police spokesman Othman Abubakar. man, who wanted to remain anonymous, earlier said he had seen at The staged fight between the two men “attracted the attention of the bomb scene. Around 40 people were wounded, said Abubakar. people nearby to see what was happening,” he told AFP. “When peo- Boko Haram has waged a six-year insurgency to try to set up a ple had gathered, they detonated their explosives.” The coordinator “caliphate” in the northeast of Africa’s biggest oil exporting country, for the National Emergency Management Agency in Yola, Sa’ad Bello, but government counter-offensives this year have retaken much of gave casualty figures of 31 dead and 38 injured. the territory held by the jihadists. No group claimed responsibility but the blast bore the hallmarks But bomb attacks have resurged since the inauguration of newly of Boko Haram, who have frequently targeted crowded markets. The elected President Muhammadu Buhari last week, with 80 people Maiduguri explosion outside the Maimalari Barracks at about 5:00 pm killed in a series of attacks over the past few days. killed four people and also resembled past strikes by the insurgents, In his inaugural speech, Buhari - a Muslim - promised to eradicate who have made suicide attacks against the military a key feature of the “mindless, godless” group and rescue hundreds of women and their uprising. children held captive by the jihadists, including 200 girls taken from Separately, a military statement said troops had repelled attack by the town of Chibok a year ago. “a band of terrorists” and killed several late Thursday in the Borno vil- Buhari visited his counterparts in Niger and Chad earlier this week lage of Shetimari, roughly 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the city, to discuss strategies against Boko Haram. providing no further specifics. The insurgents controlled territory around the size of Belgium at the start of the year, but Nigeria’s military, aided by forces from Regional cooperation neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon, says it has since pushed Buhari was in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Thursday for talks with Boko Haram back to the remote Sambisa forest. his counterpart Idriss Deby after visiting Niger on Wednesday. BUCHAREST: Romanian Prime Minister exits the Anticorruption Boko Haram denied any such battlefield reverses in a video aired “Your troops have stood shoulder to shoulder and fought gallant- National Department (DNA) headquarters in Bucharest, Romania on social media on Tuesday. ly with ours in the fight against the forces of evil,” the 72-year-old for- yesterday. Romania’s prosecutors said they had launched a crimi- A new video released by the group-its first for several months and mer military ruler told Deby. For his part, Deby “reaffirmed Chad’s nal probe into Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who is suspected of first under the banner of the “Islamic State in West Africa”-insisted the involvement and availability” to work with Nigeria.— Agencies tax evasion and money laundering. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

India launches hunt for militants, 20 soldiers killed

GUWAHATI: India’s army launched an operation in the ethnic and religious groups since independence from British machine guns, army officials said. Two of the military trucks northeastern state of Manipur yesterday to hunt tribal sepa- rule in 1947. carrying soldiers caught fire. The militants may have ratist guerrillas who killed at least 20 soldiers in the deadliest Manipur is one of seven northeastern provinces attached escaped across a porous border to hideouts in Myanmar, a attack on security forces in the state in more than two to the rest of the India by a thin strip of territory arching trek of at least four hours through thick forest from the site decades. above Bangladesh. In culture and appearance, its people of the attack, according to intelligence officers. The operation involves hundreds of soldiers on foot with have more similarities with Southeast Asia than mainland Three rebels groups active in the area, the National the support of helicopters in the remote mountainous India. Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang faction), Kanglei forests close to the border with Myanmar, where insurgents About 2,000 people have been killed in the violence in Yawol Kanna Lup and Kangleipak Communist Party, claimed are demanding autonomy for their tribal groups or inde- Manipur over the last decade, according to the South Asian responsibility for the attack. Recently several rebels groups pendence, army and intelligence officers told Reuters. Terrorism Portal. from the region formed a unified group named United The central government asked the army to “trace and A senior intelligence officer said about 50 tribal guerrillas National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia. eliminate the insurgents” involved in the attack, a military were involved in the ambush of the three-vehicle convoy on “Generally, violence in Manipur is on the downward commander said, asking not to be identified because he is a narrow road on a remote hillside about 100 km (60 miles) trend,” said Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for not authorised to speak to the media. from the state capital, Imphal, on Thursday. Conflict Management in New Delhi. “But this is a reminder As in much of India’s remote and underdeveloped north- The militants fired rocket-propelled grenades, detonated well-armed groups, which are reasonably well coordinated, east, Manipur has been the scene of recurring strife between improvised explosive devices and peppered the trucks with are able to carry out opportunistic attacks.” — Reuters Eight out of 10 Malala shooting suspects cleared

PESHAWAR: Eight of the 10 men supposedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually cleared, officials said yesterday. Malala was shot in the head in October 2012 by Pakistani Taleban militants who boarded her school bus in an attack that also wounded two of her friends and shocked the world. In April, legal and security officials announced that a court had sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment over the attack, following a trial in Malala’s hometown of Mingora, in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat district. The suspects had been detained by the army during a major anti-militant offensive and the existence of the trial was kept secret until after its conclusion. No media were present for any hearings. Salim Khan Marwat, the Swat district police chief, said that con- trary to the earlier announcement, the anti-terrorist court had cleared all but two of the suspects. “Two of them were sentenced to life imprisonment while eight others were acquitted,” he told AFP. “I have no knowledge where the eight persons are now-either in military custody or released.” Azad Khan, the deputy inspector general of police for Malakand division, of which Swat forms a part, confirmed the details and said the trial had been held under military supervision. KABUL: In this Sept. 11, 2005 file photo, Shukria Barakzai, then an independent candidate for parliament, visits day A senior court official with close knowledge of the case also laborers during her campaign in Kabul, Afghanistan. In an unprecedented step, representatives of the Taleban met this confirmed the news, which emerged in a report in Britain’s Mirror week with a delegation of female Afghan lawmakers and peace negotiators, including Barakzai, according to the Afghan newspaper. “Two of them were convicted and eight others were government and the Taleban. — AP acquitted because of insufficient evidences and no proofs,” the official told AFP. “The two, Israrullah and Izhar were sentenced to 25 years jail term, which is equivalent to life imprisonment.” A Afghan Taleban say informal senior security official in Mingora insisted the court had sen- tenced all 10 men to life imprisonment, accusing the police of lying. talks took place in Norway Malala, now aged 17, survived the attempt on her life and in October last year became the youngest winner of the Nobel Discussions could not be categorized as ‘peace talks’ Peace Prize in history for her courageous and determined fight for children to have the right to go to school. — AFP KABUL: Taleban representatives have been he said, speaking on condition of anonymity their insurgency. He has promised trans- meeting this week with female Afghan law- as he was not authorized to speak publicly parency in all dealings with the insurgents, makers and peace negotiators in the on the matter. Female members of who have been fighting Kabul for 14 years - Norwegian capital Oslo, a Taleban Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, a govern- since being ousted from power by a U.S.-led spokesman and the Afghan president’s ment body charged with negotiating an end invasion in December 2001. office said yesterday. to the war with the Taleban, had also attend- The Afghan official said the Taleban’s rep- In an email statement, the Taleban’s ed in an unofficial capacity, the official said. resentatives to the talks were Sher Zabihullah Mujahid said the discussions The office of President Ashraf Ghani Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, a former sen- were informal and could not be categorized issued a statement saying all Afghan citizens ior official of the Taleban regime that con- as “peace talks.” had the right to “work for peace where and trolled Afghanistan until December 2001, An Afghan official told The Associated whenever they want.” and Mohammad Zahid Ahmadzada, who Press that talks took place on June 3 and 4 as “We appreciate these are non-govern- was a junior diplomat in that regime. part of a long-term Afghan peace initiative ment talks, they are not representing the by the Norwegian government. Norway’s government of Afghanistan,” the statement Targeted Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen said. The involvement of high-profile women said the meetings would conclude yester- The Norwegian Foreign Ministry con- in such a meeting is an indication of con- day. At least five female parliamentarians, firmed the discussions had taken place cerns about what, if any, concessions might including prominent women’s rights advo- between “Afghans of different political back- be made to the Taleban by the Afghan gov- BIRMINGHAM: In this Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, Malala cates Fawzia Koofi and Shukria Barakzai, had grounds ... expressing their personal views.” ernment in order to bring peace. Ghani, and Yousafzai poses with a bouquet after speaking during a media taken part, attending as “independent repre- The meeting is the third face-to-face con- his wife Rula, have said there will be no roll- conference at the Library of Birmingham, England, after she was sentatives” from parliament, the Afghan offi- tact between Taleban and Afghan officials in back of hard-won constitutional protections named as winner of The Nobel Peace Prize. Pakistani police say cial said. recent months, though both sides have for Afghan women as part of any peace deal. that eight out of 10 militants charged with involvement in the “They are not part of any (Afghan) gov- stressed their informality. Nevertheless, rights to equality and pro- 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai were actually ernment initiative, and were invited to an Ghani has prioritized bringing the tection from violence are widely regarded as acquitted in April - not sentenced to life in prison as reported at unofficial meeting, not as official delegates,” Taleban to the negotiating table and ending vulnerable to Taleban demands. — AP the time. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Aung San Suu Kyi to make first China trip next week

YANGON: Myanmar’s opposition leader and democracy Suu Kyi has been feted by world leaders on her regular response to the plight of Myanmar’s unwanted Rohingya champion Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China for the first time travels aborad in recent years but it was not clear from the Muslims who are at the centre of a migrant crisis engulfing next week, Beijing and her party said yesterday, at a time of statement which Chinese officials she would meet. the region. cooling relations between the once closely-bonded nations. But confirming the visit Nyan Win, spokesman from her While in Beijing, she will likely face calls to raise the case Beijing was a key backer of Myanmar’s military junta National League for Democracy Party, said he understood of fellow Nobel laureate Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, sen- while it was under Western sanctions, but conflict in a bor- that “she will meet with the President (Xi Jinping) and tenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for circulating a petition der area as well as fears over resource-grabbing by China Chinese premier Li Keqiang”. calling for democratic reforms. He was awarded the Nobel have chilled ties. Since launching reforms in 2011, Myanmar Peace Prize in 2010, an accolade that angered China. President Thein Sein has also reached out to the United Cooling ties In recent months relations between China and Myanmar States, which is hankering after friends in Southeast Asia. Suu Kyi became one of the world’s most famous political have cooled as an ethnic insurgency raging in the southeast Suu Kyi’s opposition party is set to contest elections in prisoners during her house arrest for much of the 1990s and Asian country spilled over its border with the Asian giant. November, which the US has backed as a key stepping stone 2000s because of her outspoken opposition to military rule. Conflict in the Kokang region, where ethnic Chinese towards democracy in a nation cloistered from the world for She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. rebels are fighting the Myanmar army, has claimed decades by the former junta. “At the invitation of the Although her star power is expected to steer her party to an scores of lives. In March a Myanmar warplane dropped a Communist Party of China, a delegation of the National election victory this November, Suu Kyi is barred by a junta- bomb in a sugarcane field, killing five Chinese people League for Democracy of Myanmar led by Chairperson scripted clause in the constitution from the presidency-a and injuring eight others. Beijing was infuriated and Aung San Suu Kyi will pay a visit to China from June 10th to clause she is battling to change. Her global image as an responded by sending fighter jets to patrol the border 14th,” China’s ruling Communist Party said on an official upholder of human rights has also lost some of its lustre and area, with its Premier Li Keqiang promising to “resolute- website. has been criticised by rights groups for a slow and measured ly” protect citizens. — AFP

Taiwan executes six death-row inmates

TAIPEI: Taiwan executed six death-row inmates yester- day after calls for heavier punishments for serious crime were prompted by the death of a girl who had her throat cut at school. The executions of the six, ordered by Justice minister Luo Ying-shay, were carried out in four prisons on the island, according to a statement read by deputy justice minister Chen Wen-tang at a press confer- ence. “Whatever the motives of the crimes, they were cruel and cold-blooded, and what’s more, they have shown no remorse. The crimes they committed have gravely impacted social order and caused panic among the general public,” Chen said. “Since all of them have been convicted in final rulings, in order for social justice, the justice ministry has to carry out the sentences accord- JIANLI: Rescue workers rest next to empty stretchers on the river bank next to the turned around capsized passenger ship as it is lift- ingly.” ed by cranes in the Yangtze river in Jianli in China’s Hubei province yesterday. Relatives of passengers missing after a Chinese cruise Separately convicted on charges of murder, forced sex ship capsized expressed agony and anger after an official admitted there is no hope of finding more survivors. — AFP and robbery the six had caused nine deaths, he said. The inmates were anaesthetised and then shot, Chen said, adding that there are now 42 prisoners on death row. Agony for relatives, hopes The executions came after an eight-year-old girl was attacked on the campus of her school in Taipei by a job- less man last week, who admitted to the crime but end in China ship sinking claimed he had problems at work and was unhappy with his life. The second-grader died two days after the attack while the suspect has been put in custody and placed Boat raised to allow rescuers to search under investigation. In the wake of the horrifying attack, tens of thousands JIANLI: Relatives of passengers missing China’s worst shipping disaster in nearly 70 media access to the site have been tightly of people have endorsed a call on a Facebook page for after a Chinese cruise ship capsized years. Reports citing witnesses said the controlled, and any online criticism of the an amendment to the law under which perpetrators of expressed agony and anger yesterday after boat overturned in under a minute, and search operation quickly doused. any attack on school children would face the death an official admitted there is no hope of weather officials said a freak tornado hit the Relatives of those on board clashed with penalty. Taiwan Alliance to End Death Penalty, a leading finding more survivors, while cranes slowly area at the time. Rescuers used massive police earlier this week, and angry scenes activist group pushing for the abolishment of the death raised the vessel out of the water. cranes Thursday night to right the Eastern occurred at an official press conference in penalty, was irked by what they said was a “disappoint- Just 14 of the 456 people-mostly Star at the site of the disaster in Hubei Jianli on Friday. “What we have received ing” decision by the government. tourists aged over sixty-who were on board province’s Jianli county. Images from state are the words, selected wisely, which are “Damn the government!” Lin Hsin-yi, executive direc- the “Eastern Star” when it overturned in a broadcaster CCTV yesterday showed the full of untruths,” an elderly relative who tor of the rights group, wrote on her Facebook page. storm on Monday have been found alive. ship upright but with much of it still sub- sneaked into the briefing told reporters, “The government should not choose this juncture to car- A total of 97 have been confirmed dead, merged. Work was proceeding to hoist it before officials escorted her away. ry out executions, a move which is aimed only to divert as floating cranes yesterday began to hoist out of the water, the state-run Xinhua news A petition posted by family members on the attention of the public. This showed the government the vessel where bodies of the more than agency reported. Lifting the 76.5 metre social media service WeChat called for “key has displayed no desire to reduce the crime rate,” she 340 missing may still be trapped. Rescuers long (250 feet) and 2,200 tonne vessel is a state leaders” to apologise and an investi- told AFP. But justice ministry officials insisted that the decided to overturn the ship “on the gener- delicate and risky operation that could gation into the shipping company and decision had been made before last week’s attack. al judgement that there is no possibility of destabilise the wreck. Photos on Friday compensation. It also demanded a “death Taiwan resumed executions in 2010 after a five-year survival,” Xu Chengguang, a transport min- showed oil slicks in several places near the sentence” for the ship’s captain, one of the hiatus, putting four people to death. There were five exe- istry spokesman, told a press conference ship and Xu said efforts were underway to few survivors of the disaster, who is in cutions in 2011, six in 2012 and another six in 2013. late on Thursday. contain the leakage. In signs of the grim police custody. The state-run China Daily But the government has defended the policy, citing He added yesterday that the boat would task ahead, an AFP journalist saw what on Friday identified him as 52-year-old polls showing that more than two-thirds of Taiwanese be raised completely above the water’s sur- appeared to be a full body bag being Zhang Shunwen, who it said has 35 years of support capital punishment, believing it to be a strong face, allowing rescuers to search through it. loaded onto a small boat near the vessel as experience and was rescued two hours deterrent for violent crime. Gao Rufu, whose 62-year-old sister is well as another two small craft also carrying after the accident by a patrol ship. Taiwan reserves the death penalty for serious among the dead, told AFP: “I feel sad, so what appeared to be full body bags. Local reports said other ships in the crimes including aggravated murder and kidnapping, sad”. vicinity had dropped anchor after a warn- but the political elite is divided over whether or not to The possible death toll of 442 would Relatives’ anger ing of heavy storms, but the Eastern Star retain it. — AFP make the sinking on the Yangtze river Information about the sinking and continued on. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Crossing minefields Violence looms large over to get to school in Colombia Mexico elections

COCORNA: Nine-year-old Sebastian’s mom makes the sign of the MEXICO CITY: Mexicans vote tomorrow in cross over him before sending him to school, reminding him not to midterm elections after one of the rockiest stray from the path through the mine-strewn field along the way. campaigns in recent years, with candidates Sebastian lives in an area where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of murdered and rebel teachers burning bal- Colombia (FARC), the Marxist guerrilla group that has waged a half- lots in efforts to block the polls. century war on the country’s government, used to have a base. The radical CNTE teachers union has Today, the abandoned guerrilla camp in Cocorna, in the north- protested all week in impoverished southern western department of Antioquia, has been turned into a school. To states, ransacking buildings of the National get there, Sebastian has to walk half a kilometer (500 yards) through a Electoral Institute and regional offices of field sown with anti-personnel mines, which have claimed more vic- President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party in tims in Colombia than in any other country in the world outside anger at his education reform. Afghanistan: 2,000 killed and 9,000 wounded since 1990, 10 percent Despite the unrest, authorities say they of them children. “I warn him before he goes out not to set foot any- are confident the elections to pick 500 mem- where off the path,” Sebastian’s father, farmer Argiro Duque, told bers of the lower-chamber of Congress, AFP, saying he is “very afraid” of the buried mines. around 900 mayors and nine governors, will An army battalion is currently at work sweeping the village for go on. mines. But until they finish, the children are confined to small patch- It is the first major electoral test for Pena es of safe space. Sebastian, who loves football, plays often with his Nieto, who has struggled to accomplish his friends on the playground at school. But they are strictly forbidden to 2012 election promise to bring “peace” back step off the pitch, into the territory beyond the fence where red signs to Mexico after years of drug cartel violence. GUERRERO STATE: A police officer stands guard next to a wall with a graffiti with skulls on them warn the area is mined. Opinion polls show that his Institutional calling to boycot upcoming elections and asking for the 43 missing students in “We’re always losing the ball. We ask the soldiers to please get it Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its allies will Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero State, Mexico on June 4, 2015. Mexicans will for us. Sometimes it sits there for two or three days,” he said. If he retain their majority in Congress despite vote tomorrow for 500 members of the lower chamber of Congress, mayors in tries to get it himself, he said, he knows he could end up “legless, political scandals and discontent over securi- nearly 900 municipalities and governors in nine states. — AFP headless, lifeless.” His teacher, Edwin Ramirez, tried to shield them ty. Voters angry at the traditional parties from the truth, telling them they had to stay close because there could still give politicians a wake up call by thousands of ballots. On Thursday, protest- certain states, affecting some 5,000 out of were wild animals in the trees. He regrets that “the playground is at electing a blunt candidate nicknamed “El ers took furniture and papers from PRI 148,000 polling stations nationwide. once theirs and not theirs,” he said with a shake of his head. Bronco” as the first ever independent gover- offices in Oaxaca’s capital and burned them In addition to protests, Guerrero has But despite his efforts to protect their innocence, most of the stu- nor, in the industrial state of Nuevo Leon. outside. Others torched political pamphlets been plagued by drug-related violence, dents know the real reason for their confinement. But the specter of violence looms large in front of PRI headquarters in Guerrero. including last year’s presumed murder of 43 on election day in the south. The educators have continued their students by a gang in league with crooked Invisible threat “This has been the most difficult and protests even though the government police. Two mayoral hopefuls were mur- Nearly all the actors in Colombia’s messy conflict have used mines tumultuous campaign, with more murders decided last week to suspend mandatory dered in recent months in Guerrero, while at some point, from guerrilla groups to right-wing paramilitaries to of candidates and campaign staff members,” tests for teachers, a key plank of Pena Nieto’s gunmen threatened a candidate for gover- the army. The military stopped using them after the government Javier Oliva, a security expert at the National education legislation. An elections observer nor who was heading to the city of Chilapa. signed the Ottawa Treaty against land mines in 1997. It has accused Autonomous University of Mexico, told AFP. from the Organization of American States Elsewhere in Mexico, a former vigilante the guerrillas of continuing to use them. voiced concern over how the protests could leader who had taken up arms against a drug Now, for the first time, the army and the FARC have begun work- Southern protests affect the vote. cartel was killed during a campaign event in ing together to clear land mines as part of peace talks they opened in The biggest concerns are in Guerrero and “The election is very vulnerable,” Oliva neighboring Michoacan in May. — AFP November 2012. — AFP Oaxaca, where teachers have torched tens of said. But, he added, the risks are limited to On Tuesday, a federal congress candidate INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Family of man shot by terror investigators shocked by claims

BOSTON: A man shot to death by terrorism investigators immediately respond to an email early yesterday. believes they wanted him dead. showed no signs of radicalization, and his family was com- Rahim, 26, was fatally shot Tuesday after investigators said “You can capture elephants, lions and tigers without killing pletely shocked by allegations that he planned to kill police he refused to drop a military-style knife as they sought to them,” Faaruuq said. “The intent was not to capture him and officers, the family’s attorney says. question him about “terrorist-related information.” Police keep him alive.” Ronald Sullivan, a Harvard Law professor, said Thursday have said the video shows officers backing up and Rahim Rahim was buried yesterday, but the family is keeping it that Usaama Rahim’s family considered him “an energetic moving toward them before they fired. private. Geller is a combative personality known for provoking young man trying to make his way in this world” and saw no Muslims by campaigning against a mosque near the World behavior or changes in demeanor that would lead them to Regrets posting Trade Center site, sponsoring inflammatory advertisements suspect he would espouse violence. Sullivan said Rahim’s brother Ibrahim Rahim, a well-known and organizing Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) cartoon contest Surrounded by Rahim’s brothers, mother and wife on the imam in Boston, regrets posting a Facebook message based in Texas “They want to make an example out of me to frighten sidewalk where Rahim was shot, Sullivan said Thursday that on incorrect, third-hand information claiming that his brother the rest of the US into silence and submission,” Geller wrote in they hope to work “productively and cooperatively” with had been shot three times in the back. an email to the AP on Thursday. “This is not about me. This is investigators in a “joint effort to search for the truth.” “We now know we simply did not have all the facts at that about whether the US will stand for freedom or submit and “Let me be clear: The family is not making any substantive time,” Sullivan said. Police Commissioner William Evans said cower before violent intimidation.” claims at this time about what happened in this case,” Sullivan Rahim had talked about beheading blogger Pamela Geller The FBI said Rahim and his nephew, David Wright, plotted said. The family and Sullivan met with Suffolk County District before deciding to target police officers. “There was some to commit some kind of attack, and that Rahim ordered three Attorney Daniel Conley later Thursday and viewed video of mention of that name,” said Evans, who dismissed the idea as large knives on Amazon.com a week earlier. the shooting. In deference to their wishes, the video will not “wishful thinking” while speaking on the “Today” show. The FBI said police confronted Rahim after he told Wright be released publicly until after Rahim’s funeral, Conley said in A Muslim leader said Thursday that his killing by Boston Tuesday that he had changed his mind about beheading an a statement. Conley promised a “thorough, impartial and Police and the FBI was reckless and unnecessary. Imam out-of-state victim, and instead planned to kill local police unbiased investigation,” into the shooting. Sullivan did not Abdullah Faaruuq, who is close to the Rahim family, said he officers either Tuesday or Wednesday. — AP Sister: Brother had sexual relationship with Hastert ‘Agreed to pay $3.5 million to someone to stay quiet’ WASHINGTON: A Montana woman says the phone messages sent to his son, Ethan On Thursday, Daniel Reinboldt, who still FBI interviewed her last month about her Hastert, were also not answered. lives in Yorkville, refused to talk to the AP allegations that her brother had a sexual rela- The FBI did not respond to a request for about whether his brother was abused by tionship while in high school with Dennis comment on Burdge’s allegations. Reinboldt Hastert. Another sister, Carol Reinboldt, of Hastert, the wrestling coach who would died in Los Angeles in 1995 at the age of 42. Lakewood, Colorado, did not respond to become speaker of the House. Burdge told ABC that he died of AIDS. messages from AP. Hastert was charged last week in a federal An obituary published in The (Aurora) Burdge said her brother told her about his indictment that alleges he agreed to pay $3.5 Beacon News said Reinbolt had “a unique past with Hastert in 1979, after she graduated BERTHOUD: Alvin Allmendinger points to where the roof used million to someone from Yorkville, the Illinois and fascinating mind” and was drawn to the high school, but never brought his story out to be in the half-gutted home of his brother-in-law, where town where he taught and coached high arts, especially film, drama and music. into the open because he feared “nobody Allmendinger and family members rode out the previous night’s school wrestling, so the person would stay He was a manager of the wrestling team would believe him.” tornado in the basement, southwest of the town of Berthoud, quiet about “prior misconduct.” that Hastert coached, the AP found. He was The relationship with Hastert affected Colo., yesterday. A tornado that touched down in northern Jolene Burdge of Billings, Montana, told also manager of the football team, student him “in a big way,” Burdge said. “He never Colorado damaged homes and brought flooding and marble- The Associated Press on Thursday that the council president and a member of the pep had a life,” she said. “He spent his life trying to sized hail to some areas. — AP FBI interviewed her in mid-May about club, letterman’s club, the French club and run away from it and trying to dull the pain.” Hastert. She said her brother told her before the yearbook staff. The federal indictment, announced May Tornadoes damage 6 he died in 1995 that his first homosexual con- He graduated in 1971 and later moved to 28, accuses Hastert of evading bank regula- tact was with Hastert and that the abuse last- the Los Angeles area, where he worked for tions in withdrawing hundreds of thousands homes in Colorado ed through all of his high school years. Columbia Pictures in sales and distribution. of dollars and lying to the FBI about the rea- Burdge would not disclose her brother’s He also worked for several software compa- son for the withdrawals. The document says LONGMONT: A tornado touched down in northern Colorado and name to AP but said he graduated from nies. Hastert agreed to pay a total of $3.5 million damaged several homes Thursday as storms brought flooding and Yorkville High School in 1971 and that “He wanted to be in TV and film and all to someone identified only as “Individual A” marble-size hail to some areas. At least three homes were destroyed Hastert was his teacher and wrestling coach. that,” his brother, Daniel Reinboldt, told The to “compensate for and conceal (Hastert’s) in the town of Berthoud, about 40 miles north of Denver, said Lori Hastert was a teacher and coach in Yorkville Associated Press on Thursday. “He went to prior misconduct” against that person. But it Hodges, director of the Larimer County Office of Emergency from 1965 to 1981, according to the indict- New York and L.A., back and forth trying to does not go into any detail about the alleged Management. No injuries were reported. ment. get into the movie business.” misconduct. — AP Crews were checking on reports of about 25 other homes that In an interview aired yesterday on ABC’s were possibly damaged or destroyed, but they were hindered by “Good Morning America,” Burdge identified foul weather and darkness. “The rain is so heavy in that area with her brother as Stephen Reinbolt, and said hail that they are not able to get more damage assessments,” Hastert had been a father figure to him at Hodges said. high school. But she also said she believed The National Weather Service the tornado was first spotted east that relationship had caused irreparable of Lyons. Flooding has become a more immediate concern, she harm. said, with pelting rain expected to continue into the night. The area “He damaged Steve, I think, more than is still recovering from devastating floods in 2013. Scott Oliver, who any of us will ever know,” she told the morn- lives in northern Boulder County, told The Daily Camera newspaper ing show. The AP could not independently he went to move his car because of hail when he saw the tornado verify her allegations. A person familiar with touch down. “It was probably on the ground two minutes,” he said. the allegations in the indictment has told The “It was just kicking up everything. It was terrible.” Associated Press that the payments men- Oliver said that when he saw a piece of roof go flying by, “it was tioned in the indictment were intended to clear it packed a punch. “When the roof blew by, we knew it was conceal claims that the Illinois Republican serious,” he said, adding that his neighbor was forced to dive sexually molested someone decades ago. beneath a tractor and then into a ditch as the tornado approached. The person spoke to the AP on the condition The Red Cross was responding Thursday night to help people who of anonymity because the investigation is have been displaced. Meanwhile, Boulder County sheriff’s deputies ongoing. were helping assess the damage and asking that people stay out of the area, Cmdr. Heidi Prentup said. Allegation The National Weather Service said at least two other tornadoes Hastert has not been charged with sexual TEGUCIGALPA: Sympathizants of the National Party, who governs Honduras, touched down Thursday afternoon near the tiny town of Simla, abuse. But Burdge’s story indicates there protest helping the President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa yester- about 60 miles southeast of Denver. Elbert County officials said at could be more victims beyond the day. The Congress Secretary Mario Perez read an extense report which reveals least six homes were damaged there, one severely. No injuries were “Individual A” named in the indictment. that the National party, who governs Honduras, received at least 94,000 dol- reported from that string of storms. Hastert did not respond to a message left lars from the Honduran Social Secure during the political campaign of the Forecasters had warned that the Front Range and the Eastern on his cellphone early yesterday. Emails and president Hernandez. — AFP Plains could experience severe weather Thursday. — AP Greece postpones 300m German economy shifts Tokyo investors eye revised Businesseuro IMF repayment 16into higher gear 17 Japan GDP data next week 20 SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Norway pulls sovereign wealth fund out of coal 18

WASHINGTON: This April 3, 2015 file photo shows two men as they deliver flowers to a hotel in Washington, DC. The US economy pumped out 280,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department announced yesterday, far more than expected in a solid sign of growth after a winter stall. — AFP US unemployment rate ticks up to 5.5% Nonfarm payrolls increase 280,000 in May

WASHINGTON: US job growth accelerated central bank will meet on June 16-17, but the The labor force participation rate, or the Walmart, the largest private employer in sharply in May and wages picked up, signs of economy’s sluggishness has left financial mar- share of working-age Americans who are the United States, this week announced it momentum in the economy that could put a kets doubting whether the Fed will be able to employed or at least looking for a job, would raise minimum wages for more than September interest rate hike from the Federal raise rates this year. increased 0.1 percentage point to 62.9 per- 100,000 US workers, its second wage hike this Reserve back on the table. US gross domestic product contracted at a cent last month. year. Nonfarm payrolls increased 280,000 last 0.7 percent annual pace in the first quarter, A broad measure of joblessness that Payroll gains last month were broad- month, the largest gain since December, the although the drop probably exaggerated the includes people who want to work but have based, though the mining sector purged Labor Department said yesterday. While the economy’s weakness given a mix of tempo- given up searching and those working part- more jobs as it works through the thousands unemployment rate rose to 5.5 percent from rary factors at play. time because they cannot find full-time of cuts announced by oil-field companies. a near seven-year low of 5.4 percent in April Even so, growth is off to a slow start in the employment was unchanged at 10.8 percent. Manufacturing employment increased 7,000 that was because more people, likely new col- second quarter, in part because of the linger- The increase in average hourly earnings after adding 1,000 jobs in April. Mining pay- lege graduates, entered the labor force, indi- ing effects of a strong dollar and spending took the year-on-year gain to 2.3 percent, the rolls fell 18,000, logging the fifth straight cating confidence in the jobs market. cuts in the energy sector. largest rise since August 2013. month of declines. Payrolls for March and April were revised Wages are poised to push higher against Schlumberger has announced about to show 32,000 more jobs created than previ- Wages push higher the backdrop of firming demand for entry-lev- 20,000 layoffs this year. Baker Hughes and ously reported. That together with an eight Economists polled by Reuters had forecast el workers and a better composition of jobs Halliburton are also cutting thousands of jobs. cent gain in average hourly earnings suggest payrolls rising 225,000 last month and the that are being created. In addition, many Construction employment increased a September rate hike is now a possibility. unemployment rate steady at 5.4 percent. states have raised the minimum wage and 17,000, reflecting a strengthening housing The Fed has kept overnight rates near zero May payroll gains lifted job growth above last some large corporations have been increasing market. The average workweek was steady at since December 2008. Officials from the U.S. year’s average of 260,000 jobs per month. pay for workers. 34.5 hours. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Could a digi-drachma avert a Grexit?

LONDON: Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis may “If you’ve got all these assets, why don’t you use them to It would use a “bitcoin-like algorithm in order to make have been joking when he tweeted about Greece adopting back up a digital currency?” said Lee Gibson-Grant, founder the system transparent, efficient and transactions-cost-free” bitcoin, but some financial technology geeks say an asset- of Coinstructors, a consultancy for those wanting to use bit- and could provide “a source of liquidity for the govern- backed digital currency could be a solution to the country’s coin’s underlying technology-the blockchain-to start busi- ments that is outside the bond markets”. cash crisis. nesses. Greece faces 1.5 billion euros of repayments to its credi- If Greece’s assets could be tokenised and issued as a dig- IOU currency tors this month, having been locked in talks on a cash-for- ital currency, argues Gibson-Grant, public-sector wages and Greece’s radical left is not alone in having considered a reforms deal for months. Failure to agree could trigger a pensions could be paid with it. That would preserve scarce parallel currency. The European Central Bank has analysed Greek default and potential exit from the euro zone, deal- euros for repaying the country’s creditors and help avoid a a scenario in which Greece pays civil servants with IOUs, ing a big blow to the supposedly irreversible currency sell-off of valuable assets at rock-bottom prices. which would rely on future tax revenue in a similar way to union. Varoufakis himself, who on April 1 tweeted a link to a the FT coin, creating a virtual second currency in the euro In order to avoid such a “Grexit” some reckon Greece satirical story that reported him as saying Greece would bloc. could adopt a bitcoin-like parallel digital currency with adopt bitcoin if a deal with its creditors could not be ECB experts decided it would not work, as public sector which it could pay its pensioners and public-sector workers. reached, blogged in 2014 about the possibility of a parallel workers would receive payment in the IOU currency rather It could be called the “digi-drachma”, after Greece’s pre- “Future Tax (FT) coin”. than in euros, putting further pressure on Greek banks euro currency. The FT coin, said Varoufakis, an academic economist because those workers were likely then to plunder their sav- But unlike bitcoin, which is totally decentralised and giv- whose radical-left Syriza party was then not yet in govern- ings. Furthermore, the basis for both such ideas relies on an en value simply by its usefulness, it would be issued by the ment, would be denominated in euros but backed by implicit assumption that the Greek state will not collapse-by state and backed with the country’s substantial assets. future tax revenues. no means guaranteed in the current climate. — Reuters Ethiopia eyes bond trading in cautious capital markets

ABABA/NAIROBI: Ethiopia is seeking to create a secondary market for local currency Treasury bonds, possibly in a year or so, the World Bank said yesterday, a move seen as a cautious step towards liberal- ising one of Africa’s fastest growing economies. Ethiopia, once brought to its knees by communist purges and famine, has become an increasingly attractive destination for foreign investors although the government tightly controls what sectors they can invest in. There is no stock market. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn told Reuters last month that Ethiopia was open to having a bourse but said it would take time. Lars Christian Moller, the World Bank’s lead economist and pro- gramme leader for Ethiopia, told Reuters the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund had offered advice to Ethiopia’s central bank on developing a secondary debt market that could help the government raise funds. THESSALONIKI: People use ATM machines in Thessaloniki yesterday. Greece bought time in debt crisis negotiations with A spokesman for the central bank, the National Bank Of Ethiopia, official creditors when it moved to bundle four looming IMF loan payments into one, to be paid by the end of June. The had no immediate comment when asked about the plan. rare move, permitted by the International Monetary Fund only once before, allowed Athens to avoid a Friday deadline “The benefit from the goverment’s perspective is that you can to remit about 300 million euros ($340 million) to the crisis lender. — AFP tap into more investors, so in that sense you can run a higher domes- tic fiscal deficit,” Moller said. That could help the state keep up the pace of its ambitious infrastructure investments, which have pushed Greece postpones 300m annual growth to about 10 percent and built new roads, railways and dams. A secondary bond market could start in about a year but foreign- ers would most likely be barred, Moller added. Foreigners are already euro IMF repayment blocked from investing in banks or retail, while the telecoms industry is a state monopoly. Investors in Ethiopian Treasury bonds are most- PM Tsipras to brief parliament on debt talks ly state institutions which keep the debt to its maturity, which means the government has firm control on setting interest rates. The last ATHENS: Greece delayed repayment of an end of June and if no cash-for-reforms deal the euro.” transaction made on the interbank market was in 2008. IMF loan yesterday and a deputy minister is done by then, default would seem certain, An opinion poll published on Friday on Under plans for a secondary bond market, the price of traded said Athens might call snap elections to shunting the euro zone into uncharted the website Newsit showed that three out of debt would be driven by market forces not only the central bank. break an impasse with lenders that threat- waters and opening the way for Greece to four Greeks wanted to stay in the 19-nation “That would be an important further step in the direction away from ens to push the country into bankruptcy and exit the single currency. euro zone, while almost one in two was in the 1991 communist socialist planning mode to the market-based out of the euro. Tsipras, elected in January on a promise favour of the government reaching a com- approach,” Moller said. — Reuters European stocks fell and Greek bond to end years of grinding austerity, is due to promise deal.Some 37 percent of people yields shot higher as investors worried that brief parliament at 1500 GMT, with his party questioned in the Alco survey supported months of bitter negotiations between showing little willingness to back down. early elections to resolve the standoff. Greece and its international creditors might “The lenders want to impose hard meas- “It is more likely that there will be elec- yet end in failure. Raising the stakes in the ures. If they do not back down from this tions than not,” Costas Panagopoulos, head talks, Greece decided to postpone payment package of blackmail, the government ... of ALCO pollster, told Greek radio. of the 300 million euro ($338 million) loan - a will have to seek alternative solutions, elec- highly unusual step, but one that does not tions,” Deputy Social Security Minister Negotiating tactic yet signal a formal default. Dimitris Stratoulis, a hardliner in the govern- Tsipras had indicated late on Wednesday The surprise decision was taken on ment, told Antenna TV. that Athens would hand back the IMF loan Thursday, just hours after Prime Minister Greek Economy Minister George on Friday. But less than 24 hours later, his Alexis Tsipras was presented with a tough Stathakis said the latest deal, drawn up earli- government changed direction, deciding compromise deal from lenders that crossed er this week by top level officials, including instead to bundle together some 1.6 billion many of his “red lines”, including tax hikes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was euros it owes the Washington-based lender privatisations and pension reform. unacceptable, but stressed that his country in June into a single payment at the end of The offer is aimed at shoring up Greek did not want to leave the euro zone. the month. It was the first time in five years state coffers, but it has triggered fury in “Our government has a mandate to of crisis that Greece has postponed a repay- Greece’s ruling Syriza party. Early elections remain in the euro and get a better deal to ... ment on its 240 billion euro bailouts from would be a way to seek public legitimacy for try to change the terms of the agreement euro zone governments, the European PARIS: OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria addresses the 2015 the difficult decisions needed to secure that we have with European partners,” he Central Bank and the International Monetary International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean more cash. Greece’s bailout expires at the told BBC radio. “Greece has to remain within Fund. — Reuters at the Ministry of Economy in Paris yesterday. — AFP Business SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Burundi tax revenues slide as unrest bites into businesses BUJUMBURA: Burundi’s tax revenues fell in May com- the crisis, and this has a direct negative impact on tax Burundi to boost tax revenues to support fragile govern- pared to a year ago, the latest sign that the economy is collection,” said the official, who asked not to be named. ment finances. The state depended on donors to fund seizing up after more than a month of unrest triggered The official central bank exchange rate for Burundi’s roughly half its annual budget. by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term, offi- franc is 1,548/1,573 to the dollar. But on the black market Tax revenues rose 21 percent to 166.5 billion francs in cial data showed yesterday. the currency has steadily fallen, trading at 1,950/2,000 the three months to March from a year before, but The poor African nation’s semi-autonomous revenue this week. dropped in April to 43.1 billion francs from 62.8 billion board (OBR) said it collected 33.9 billion francs ($22 mil- Demonstrations flared on April 26, a day after francs a year earlier, OBR figures showed. lion) in May, a third less than the 49.9 billion francs tar- Nkurunziza declared he would run again, a move demon- Tensions had been building for weeks before protests geted. It was also 17 percent lower than May 2014, it said. strators say violates the constitution’s two-term limit. flared at the end of April, depressing business activity, Burundians complain of rising food prices and a short- Nkurunziza cites a constitutional court ruling saying he experts said. age of dollars even on the black market where the cur- can stand. OBR had predicted a tax revenue collection of 720.8 rency has steadily weakened since protests erupted in Burundi, dependent on aid and export revenues from billion francs this year against 653.7 billion francs in 2014, the capital. Traders say they have few customers, particu- tea and coffee, is facing its worst political crisis since an expecting a higher collection and efforts to end corrup- larly for imported goods. ethnically charged civil war ended in 2005. Activists say tion. That target will prove harder to meet the longer “Since the outbreak of protests against the third more than 30 people have been killed in the unrest, unrest continues. term, economic activities are paralysed,” said one OBR which has seen frequent clashes between armed police OBR was set up in 2010 with the support of donors official. and stone-throwing protesters. such as Britain and the World Bank to boost tax collection “Imports, trade, banks’ activities are all affected by The International Monetary Fund has been pressing and transparency. — Reuters

Gold slips German economy shifts ahead of US into higher gear Economy ‘reaping benefits of favourable labour market’ jobs data FRANKFURT: The German economy, “Enterprises still consider their situation overall trend remains upwards. Additional Europe’s biggest, has slipped into higher to be exceptionally good,” it said. impulses can be expected from the recov- LONDON: Gold fell yesterday ahead of US employ- gear powered by low unemployment, According to the survey published by ering economy in the euro area,” the min- ment data that could bolster prospects for an interest higher wages and the weak euro, the the German Chamber of Commerce and istry said. rate increase this year and the precious metal was head- German central bank, or Bundesbank, said Industry (DIHK) in the early summer, nine Economists were cautiously optimistic. ing for its third straight weekly slide. yesterday. After notching up growth of out of 10 firms were “at least content” with “For now, the data are only signalling a Traders awaited the key US non-farm payrolls report 1.6 percent last year, Germany would see their situation. Other leading sentiment stabilisation of industrial production. due later in the day for more clues on the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) expand by surveys, such as Ifo and the Centre for Order intake needs to continue rising in biggest economy and how it might impact the Federal 1.7 percent in 2015, 1.8 percent in 2016 European Economic Research, painted a the coming months if production and thus Reserve’s interest rate policy. and 1.5 percent in 2017, the Bundesbank similar picture. GDP is to grow more strongly again in the Spot gold was down 0.1 percent at $1,174.96 an said in its latest monthly report. That “Firms are also looking to the future second quarter,” said Commerzbank econ- ounce by 1133 GMT, within reach of a five-week low of marked an “appreciable” upgrade from with a fair amount of confidence. That omist Ralph Solveen. $1,172.55 hit in the previous session. The metal was the central bank’s previous economic pro- said, their sense of optimism is not as pro- UniCredit economist Andreas Rees said heading for a 1 percent fall on the week. jections in December, when it had pen- nounced as it was at the beginning of last the better-than-expected orders data A break below technical support of $1,171 could trig- cilled in growth of 1.0 percent for this year year,” the Bundesbank cautioned. were “the first signs that the improvement ger a decline to a March low of $1,143, ScotiaMocatta and 1.6 percent for next year. With those Concrete data are coming in better than in business sentiment in the eurozone said in a note. “Clearly the market is going to look at growth rates, “the German economy expected. translated into higher demand and arrived the US data ... As long as the market is confident that would expand at a faster pace than poten- in Germany.” BayernLB economist Stefan the US economy continues to grow after a weak first tial output at an annual rate of 1.2 per- Orders beat expectations Kipar was also confident. quarter, then there is this belief that the Fed is going to cent,” the Bundesbank wrote. “Compared Earlier, the economy ministry in Berlin “Given the ongoing weakness of the move forward as planned,” Julius Baer analyst Carsten with the December projection, GDP said that factory orders-a key measure of euro and the emerging recovery in the Menke said. growth expectations for 2015 and 2016 demand for German-made goods-beat United States, we see further upwards The non-farm payrolls data, seen as a key barometer have been raised appreciably by 0.7 and analysts’ expectations in April, rising by 1.4 potential in the coming months. Domestic of the US economy, is forecast to have increased to 0.2 percentage point, respectively,” it said. percent month-on-month. demand remains intact and the outlook 225,000 in May from 223,000 in April, according to a The German economy effectively Despite a dent in domestic orders, “the remains optimstic,” he said. — AFP Reuters poll. Strong data would keep the Fed on track ground to a halt in the middle of last year, to raise interest rates later this year, a move that could but picked up again at year’s end to show hit demand for non-interest-paying bullion. growth of 0.7 percent in the final quarter Better-than-expected data this week has already tak- and expansion of 0.3 percent in the first en its toll on bullion, with cautious investor positioning three months of this year. ahead of the jobs report further dragging on prices. The dollar rose 0.2 percent versus a basket of curren- Recovered from lull cies, while European shares fell after Greece delayed a “The German economy has recovered debt payment to the International Monetary Fund due from the lull in mid-2014 more quickly yesterday. The delay came as German Chancellor than expected and has returned to a path Angela Merkel said talks on a cash-for-reforms deal of growth that is supported by both inter- were still far from reaching an agreement. Greek Prime nal and external demand,” the Minister Alexis Tsipras demanded changes to tough Bundesbank said. On the side of domestic terms from international creditors for aid to stave off demand, the economy was “reaping the default. benefits of the favourable labour market Trading in physical markets was bleak despite the situation and substantial income growth,” lower prices. A tight price range and expectations of the report said. more declines, in a seasonally quiet period for bullion, This was boosting private consumption kept consumers away from gold jewellery, bars and and housing construction. While foreign coins. business was currently burdened by Premiums in major trading centres across Asia, the “dampening effects emanating from the top consuming region, have barely moved in the past global economy ... this is balanced out by few weeks. Spot platinum rose 0.2 percent to $1,099.50 the depreciation of the euro and the an ounce. It was still trading at the cheapest to gold improving economic recovery in the euro since January 2013, with a $90 an ounce discount to the area,” it continued. “Moreover, the global CAPE TOWN: (From L) TV anchor Beatrice Marshall, South African President Jacob yellow metal. Silver rose 0.2 percent to $16.15 an economy is likely to pick up steam again in Zuma, Group Executive Director of Standard Chartered V Shankar, CEO of Multilateral ounce, while palladium edged 0.3 percent higher to the near future,” the Bundesbank added. Investment Guarentee Agency Keiko Honda, former British prime minister Gordon $754.50 an ounce. — Reuters The bright outlook for Germany was Brown, and CEO of the Development Bank of SA Patrick Dlamini take part in a session reflected in positive sentiment, it con- called “Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge”, on the final day of the World Economic tinued. Forum (WEF) meeting on Africa in Cape Town yesterday. — AFP Business SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

UK markets watchdog names Mark Steward as new enforcer

LONDON/HONG KONG: Britain’s markets watchdog has complaints about mis-sold loan insurance, the largest fine regulatory change. appointed the Hong Kong Securities and Futures imposed by the FCA in the country’s most expensive con- Steward, an Australian, will report to Wheatley, his previ- Commission’s Mark Steward as its top enforcer, it said yester- sumer scandal. ous boss at the SFC. The Hong Kong regulator has come day. Steward, prior to joining the Hong Kong’s Securities and under fire in recent weeks amid fears the Hong Kong stock Steward has clocked up several high profile victories as Futures Commission (SFC), held a similar position at the market is falling prey to manipulators following a series of head of enforcement at the Hong Kong watchdog, including Australian Securities and Investment Commission. His con- strange price movements, including dramatic plunges in the the first criminal prosecution for insider trading in 2009, and tract at the SFC expires in September. shares of Chinese firms Hanergy Thin Film and Goldin the first forced liquidation of a listed company for fraud in Financial. February. HK regulator under fire Steward’s aggressive style earned him a fearsome reputa- On his move to Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority Britain’s FCA also announced that Barbara Frohn will be tion during the early years of his tenure, particularly in 2009 (FCA), he will lead efforts to toughen enforcement. Since the its new director of risk and compliance oversight. when he strong-armed bank executives into repaying 2007-09 financial crisis, British regulators have been shaking “These are two vital roles within the UK regulatory system investors most of the money they’d put into structured prod- off a “light touch” reputation by pursuing “credible deter- and it says a lot about the FCA that we have been able to ucts linked to Lehman Brothers. rence” with tougher actions. attract such high calibre candidates to fill them,” FCA Chief But waning confidence in the SFC’s capability more The results have been mixed as scandals continued with Executive Martin Wheatley said in a statement. recently may cast a shadow over his legacy, said regulatory banks fined for trying to rig benchmark interest rates. The FCA’s top enforcer post became vacant after Tracey experts. Yesterday the FCA levied a record 117 million pound fine McDermott moved into a supervisory role, broadening her Market insiders said there were no obvious Hong Kong- on Lloyds bank as it seeks to draw a line under a string of mis- experience at the watchdog. She is seen as a leading candi- based candidate to replace Steward, and that the regulator selling scandals stretching back more than two decades. date to replace CEO Martin Wheatley when he moves on would likely have to look abroad, possibly again to Australia’s Lloyds was fined for failing to handle properly customer from overseeing Europe’s biggest market at a time of huge ASIC, for a suitable successor. — Reuters Vodafone in talks with Liberty Global on swap

LONDON: Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile tele- coms company, said yesterday it was in talks with Europe’s largest cable operator, Liberty Global, about an exchange of “selected assets” but was not discussing a full-blown merger. “Vodafone is not in discussions with Liberty Global concerning a combination of the two companies,” the company said in a statement responding to media speculation. Vodafone’s shares were down 1.7 percent at 243.8 pence by 1121 GMT following the statement. The stock is still trading up 7 percent since May 19 when renewed speculation about a combi- nation began, after John Malone, the US ‘King of Cable’ and chair- man of Liberty, said in an interview that the two companies would make a “great fit”, as fixed and mobile telecom markets converge. Liberty Global, which has operations in 12 European countries including Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, has a market capitalisation of $46 billion, while Vodafone’s is 66 billion pounds ($102 billion). Vodafone did not say yesterday which businesses were being SVALBARD: Coal mine workers, from left, Morten Oernebakk, Oeivind Brenli and Tom Mortensen stand on March 9, discussed. “There is no certainty that any transaction will be 2012 in Mine 7 in a small coal mine in Svalbard. Norway’s parliament voted yesterday to sell the coal assets of its state agreed, nor is there certainty with respect to which assets will ulti- pension fund, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, in what is seen as a major victory for environmentalists. — AFP mately be involved,” the company said in its statement. However, an industry banker said he believed that Vodafone’s primary interest is in acquiring Liberty’s UK arm Virgin Media, Norway pulls sovereign while the main attraction for Liberty is Vodafone’s German cable business. Liberty, which already owns Unitymedia, Germany’s second- biggest cable operator, has long coveted its bigger rival Kabel wealth fund out of coal Deutschland, which Vodafone bought in 2013 for $10 billion. Meanwhile Vodafone in the UK is facing the rapid convergence of fixed line and mobile markets following broadband giant BT’s Decision to affect 50 and 75 international companies $19 billion deal to buy EE, the country’s biggest mobile network, with the avowed aim of building “a single, seamless converged OSLO: Norway’s parliament voted yesterday to pull its sovereign ahead of an international climate conference to be held in Paris in platform.” — Reuters wealth fund-the world’s biggest-out of coal, in what is seen as a major December. “This could influence the way other big investors view victory for environmentalists. coal as an investment,” said Marianne Marthinsen, an opposition The parliament voted unanimously that the fund-worth almost Labour member of parliament. 7,000 billion kroner (793 billion euros, $890 billion) — must sell its “The rest of the world is taking note of this decision.” Norwegian holdings in mining and power companies that generate more than 30 MPs also pointed out that their decision was not just a response to cli- percent of their output or revenue from coal. mate change, but also based on financial considerations: coal assets The decision is expected to affect between 50 and 75 international are bound to plunge as climate change efforts increasingly call for companies, representing holdings of 35 to 40 billion kroner, according coal use to be reduced. to finance ministry calculations. However, environmentalists say the effects could be even more Coal’s days numbered? wide-reaching, with some estimates talking of 122 companies repre- For Truls Gulowsen, the head of Greenpeace Norway, the parlia- senting 67.2 billion kroner. The stakes will have to be sold by January ment’s decision will “most likely” be followed by others. The Church of 1, 2016. The names of the companies affected have not been dis- England, financial groups like French insurance company Axa, and closed. The fund has shares in more than 9,000 companies overall. Oxford and Stanford universities have also recently announced plans According to a study done by a coalition of non-governmental to either divest from coal or reduce their holdings. organisations, the measure will affect 35 US companies, a dozen “Coal has always posed a problem from a moral point of view Chinese companies, eight from Japan, German energy giants EON and because of its effects on the climate. Now, even its profitability is under RWE, Britain’s SSE, India’s Reliance Power, Italy’s Enel, Spain’s Endesa, pressure,” Gulowsen told AFP. “I think and I hope that coal’s days are Portugal’s EDP, South Africa’s Sasol, South Korea’s Korea Electric numbered.” Coal giants Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore will MIAMI: Alberto Rodriguez a Dish Network technician restocks Power, Sweden’s Vattenfall and Denmark’s Dong. Given the size of however not be affected by the Norwegian decision, because their oth- his truck on Thursday, in Miami, Florida. Reports indicate the Norwegian fund, the step is seen a major victory for the interna- er mining activities are so massive that their coal businesses represent that Dish Network, the satellite television company, is in tional campaign to end the use of highly-polluting coal, six months less than 30 percent of their overall revenues. — AFP talks to acquire the wireless provider T-Mobile US. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

For risk-wary gold miners, small is beautiful

TORONTO: Bigger isn’t better for the “If there’s going to be something child for problem-plagued mega- ing a stake in its Papua New Guinea world’s gold miners, who are increas- go wrong, you’d rather it go wrong mines. Its Pascua Lama project in the mine as a first collaborative step with ingly making “bite-sized” develop- after you’ve spent $1 billion than $3 Andes was mothballed in 2013, the Chinese miner. Newmont Mining, ments that carry less risk of budget billion or $4 billion,” said Goldcorp Inc bogged down by environmental the world’s No. 2 gold producer, decid- disasters and fewer of the political and Chief Executive Chuck Jeannes. issues, labor unrest, political opposi- ed to start small with its recently- environmental disputes that have Goldcorp, the world’s most valuable tion and development costs that bal- announced Long Canyon project in derailed mega-mines in recent years. gold miner by market capitalization, looned to $8.5 billion. “A phased Nevada. Newmont Mining is a prime exam- owns stakes in a number of joint-ven- approach to developing large, com- The first phase is a $250 million to ple of how companies are responding tured assets such as the Alumbrera plex capital projects makes a lot of $350 million development funded to bleak industry conditions by build- gold mine in Argentina and the sense,” said Barrick spokesman Andy with cash flows and available cash, ing mines on a smaller scale than in Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Lloyd. “There is potential to mitigate using existing staff. Payback is project- the past, with the price of gold down Dominican Republic. The price of gold development risks, reduce upfront ed in just over four years. Rather than almost 40 percent from its peak in has fallen as concerns about inflation capital requirements and expedite ini- building all the infrastructure for future 2011 and banks avoiding the sector. receded and the U.S. dollar rose tial cash flows from the project, which phases up front, this approach makes The cautious approach will likely against most major currencies. Gold is could be used to fund future expan- each successive phase carry and pro- persist even if conditions improve, often used as a hedge against infla- sions.” vide its own return-on-investment, with miners increasingly teaming up tion, as prices typically rise when the Barrick has no new mine plans cur- said Newmont CEO Gary Goldberg. on big, complex projects to share dollar weakens. rently, as it sells assets to trim a $13 bil- “From an investor standpoint, it’s a costs, expertise and risk, senior mining Barrick Gold, the world’s largest lion debt. Last week, it announced a good thing because it minimizes the executives and industry watchers said. bullion producer, could be the poster strategic tie-up with Zijin Mining , sell- risk involved,” he said. — Reuters Oil industry slashes costs after price drop Standardisation taking place, but at slow pace LONDON: The slump in crude prices could be hit hard. offer savings in project designing, a has jolted the oil industry into deep In the North Sea, an area that has company spokeswoman said. cost cutting which, unlike the previous suffered in recent years from particular- It also standardizes and replicates downturn, could last for a few years at ly high operating costs, well drilling equipment including subsea well least. costs are expected to drop by an aver- designs, known in the industry as After overspending by the industry age of 30 percent by the end of next “Christmas trees”, which has helped during the boom years, the collapse in year due to a surplus of rigs in the mar- shrink the gap between order and prices in the second half of last year laid ket, according to Malcolm Dickson, delivery by up to 12 months. bare the need to reduce costs and Principal North Sea Analyst at oil con- BP is also focused on standardisa- Alan Bond introduce efficiencies. sultancy Wood Mackenzie. tion. “We’ve built a habit of every proj- Oil producers globally have “The industry has been through ups ect as a new challenge that needs a Colourful Australian embarked on billions of dollars in sav- and downs before, but this is a different new solution and this has led to some ings in recent months, forcing oil serv- situation,” Dickson said. great new technology. But in fact there businessman Bond dead ice providers and contractors, in turn, “We believe there will be a more sus- is often a real case for using more solu- to slash rates by as much as 50 percent tainable deflation effect from this drop- tions off the shelf,” CEO Dudley said. SYDNEY: Alan Bond, the high-flying Australian businessman, in some cases. off because companies have realized “We have now dramatically reduced America’s Cup hero and convicted fraudster, died yesterday A partial rebound in crude prices you need to focus more on costs and the number of versions of hardware aged 77 following complications from open heart surgery. His this year will give service companies value over volume. The supply chain that we use. We now have the same children John, Craig and Jody announced his death outside such as Baker Hughes, Schlumberger has realized that as well and is collabo- subsea control pods on the seabeds in the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, where he had been in an and Petrofac little respite. rating more.” the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan, the induced coma since surgery on Tuesday. Unlike the previous collapse in 2009, same well-heads in the West Nile delta “His body finally gave out after heroic efforts of everyone when prices plunged 75 percent only STANDARDISATION TREND of Egypt and Trinidad.” involved here at the intensive care unit at Fiona Stanley to rebound within months, industry Brent crude, at around $65 a barrel, Some of the standardisation efforts Hospital,” their statement said. analysts forecast a very gradual recov- is still 40 percent lower than a year ago are expected to take place through “He never regained consciousness after his surgery on ery in prices this time, which means and a Reuters poll sees it rising only to consolidation in the oil services and Tuesday.” costs will need to fall a lot further still. $75.90 on average in 2017 as ample supply sector, such as this year’s $35 Bond, a larger-than-life entrepreneur, became a national “Higher prices have led to cost infla- supply and US shale production keep it billion merger of Baker Hughes and hero when he led a team that won the America’s Cup yachting tion over the past years and now we in check. Halliburton. crown from the United States in 1983, bankrolling Australia II’s need to reverse that trend,” BP’s Chief Wood Mackenzie sees Brent still well James West, senior managing direc- historic victory over Dennis Conner’s Liberty. Executive Officer, Bob Dudley, told the below $100 in 2018, at $85 a barrel. tor at Evercore ISI investment bank, But his empire crumbled in the 1990s and he was eventual- OPEC seminar in Vienna on The current downturn has forced expects more consolidation in the serv- ly bankrupted. In 1996 he was convicted of swindling Aus$1.2 Wednesday. major oil companies to cut hundreds of ices sector. billion (US$800 million at the time) to prop up his ailing Bond “This will be tough and will require jobs in the North Sea alone. It has also “There is a drive towards standardi- Corporation. some very new thinking, but I believe it significantly accelerated a move zation but we believe that at this stage He served three years in jail for what was then Australia’s will lead the industry leaner and thin- towards standardisation of kit including it isn’t enough to generate big biggest corporate fraud. ner into the future to use capital more everything from complex subsea economies of scale,” Wood Mackenzie’s Bond, who emigrated from Britain at 11 with his parents efficiently.” equipment to pipes, ladders, doors and Dickson said. and left school in Australia at 14, worked first as a signwriter, Rig rates and service costs rose by paints. That means not just more cost-cut- before making a fortune in property development. up to 35 percent between 2010 and Companies see the introduction of ting, but a change in mentality as well. It allowed him to start the Bond Corporation which had 2014 as oil prices held above $100 a standardised equipment across the John Catlow, cost efficiency project brewing, mining and media assets, including Australia’s Nine barrel. entire production chain as a vital way manager, at Total UK exploration and television network which he bought from fellow tycoon Kerry Since prices reversed companies are to reduce costs. production division, sees a need to Packer before later selling it back to him. scrambling to trim costs wherever they For example, some North Sea plat- challenge design requirements and At its height, it was one of Australia’s biggest business can: from hardball negotiations with rig forms use eight different types of lad- implement “good enough” solutions, empires, owning overseas interests including the St Moritz suppliers and contractors, to cutting rig ders and stairwells, and 20 types of rather than the best technology solu- workers’ onshore leave and changing paint are used for subsea equipment, tion. hotel in New York, which he bought from Donald Trump, and supply ship travel patterns. Some rig according to industry sources. “Engineers who become contract the Lippo Centre in Hong Kong, which used to be called the operators are now sharing vessels and Shell is working with energy, pro- managers always go for the best engi- Bond Centre. helicopters to shuttle staff offshore. curement and construction companies neered solution, so they are having to The corporation also provided a vehicle for the Australian But that may be only the tip of (EPCs) to integrate the engineering be taught to think about the cost,” to purchase Van Gogh’s Irises painting for US$54 million. It what’s to come, and service providers data, in what it calls Project Vantage, to Catlow said. — Reuters was later sold to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Indian firms to sign giant power deals with Bangladesh DHAKA: Top Indian conglomerates “The MoUs will be signed tomor- pany has not yet decided the location Gowher Rizvi, an adviser to Prime Reliance and Adani plan to invest bil- row (Saturday),” PDB chairman for the plant. Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the lions of dollars in Bangladesh’s rickety Shahinul Islam Khan told AFP, adding He added Adani would set up a Indian investors are being wooed as power sector, officials announced yes- that “the deals are non-binding and 1,600 megawatt coal-fired power part of the government’s move to terday on the eve of a visit to Dhaka are still in primary stage.” plant at southern Bangladesh island raise the country’s power generation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The two companies have planned of Maheshkhali, which is identified as capacity to 20,000 megawatts by The two companies will sign mem- to invest around $5 billion,” Khan a new power hub for energy-starved 2019. orandums of understanding with said. Reliance would set up a 3,000 Bangladesh. Bangladesh, whose economy has Bangladesh’s Power Development megawatt capacity gas-fired power Japan recently announced a plan growing at six percent annually for Board during Modi’s two-day visit to plant by importing LNG (Liquefied to invest billions in a coal-fired power the last decade, suffers from frequent Dhaka starting today. Natural Gas), he said, adding the com- plant on the island. power shortages. — AFP

Iranian entrepreneurs Tokyo investors eye revised thirst for foreign funding, expertise Japan GDP data next week BERLIN: Tohid Tasoujian is a co-founder of online fashion store Taxi Moda and one of a growing breed of Internet entrepre- Fresh growth figures for Jan-March due Monday neurs in sanctions-hit Iran. He set out his stall this week at a conference of more than 80 TOKYO: Japan’s revised first quarter GDP shares fell 0.41 percent, or 6.83 points, to agreement on its debt repayments by Iranian start-ups in Berlin, the biggest event of its kind outside data will be among the key trading cues 1,667.06. It shed 0.39 percent over the agreeing with the IMF to bundle four Iran, as the country gears up for a possible easing of sanctions for Tokyo investors next week, after the week. looming loan payments into one imposed because of its nuclear programme. market ended in negative territory yes- “Players appeared to have gotten totalling 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion). A graphic designer, Tasoujian went back to school three terday. exhausted from buying after the Nikkei The move gives Athens until the end years ago to study for an MBA at the University of Tehran. When Fresh growth figures for January- marked its 12th consecutive rise,” said of the month to hammer out a deal with he graduated, ecommerce was on the rise, and he persuaded a March are due Monday with initial esti- Toshikazu Horiuchi, a broker at its creditors, but a Greek government friend to found the digital shopping platform with him. mates showing the world’s third-largest IwaiCosmo securities. source said there were key differences “I liked graphic design but I thought: ‘We can do more,’” the economy expanded by 0.6 percent in the “But buying sentiment is not that between the two sides, describing the 38-year-old told Reuters. The desire to do more is gripping an first three months of the year, crawling weak since the decline was still limited creditors’ position as “extreme” and increasing number of young, tech-savvy Iranians, who have back from a brief recession. despite sizable profit-taking,” he added. “unacceptable”. used their country’s isolation under U.S. and EU sanctions as A survey of economists by the leading Tokyo followed Wall Street lower after “An all-out default is quite possible, well as domestic censorship of foreign rivals to develop home- Nikkei business daily predicted growth the International Monetary Fund slashed although the European Union and grown versions of Amazon, eBay or YouTube. would be revised upward to 0.7 percent, its forecasts for US growth this year, cit- European Central Bank will probably do A support system of mentors, seed funders and venture-cap- while April current account figures and a ing a ports strike, bad winter weather, a their best to avoid the worst-case sce- ital funds has begun to take shape, but financing can still be government economic sentiment report strong dollar and the oil downturn. nario,” Daiwa SB Investments strategist hard to find and, while Iran produces many top-class computer are also out next week. Fund head Christine Lagarde also Soichiro Monji told Bloomberg News. engineers, business experience is still scarce. After the Nikkei’s 12-day rally-its called on the Federal Reserve to refrain In Tokyo share trading, Sony fell 1.04 “Access to finance for start-ups is still at a very nascent longest since 1988 — came to an end from hiking interest rates until 2016, say- percent to close at 3,733.5 yen, Toyota stage,” Mohsen Malayeri, co-founder of the Iran earlier this week, the Japanese market ing conditions were not supportive of a was down 0.66 percent to 8,470 yen, Entrepreneurship Association, told Reuters at the iBridge con- struggled to recover as concerns about move this year. while mobile carrier SoftBank rose 0.12 ference. the US economy and cash-strapped percent to 7,357 yen. “We have talented engineers but understanding market Greece hit sentiment. Deadline Bank shares were down with Japan’s dynamics is different.” Some Iranian start-ups have flourished Yesterday, the benchmark Nikkei 225 Her comments came as markets await biggest lender Mitsubishi UFJ falling 1.93 with backing from Sarava, Iran’s first venture-capital fund, which index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange the release yesterday of US jobs growth percent to 906.4 yen while rival Mizuho has invested in online retailer Digikala and Google Android app dipped 27.29 points to close at for May, which is used by the Fed to Financial Group shed 1.82 percent to store Cafe Bazaar, two of Iran’s best-known Internet companies. 20,460.90. Over the week it lost 0.50 per- guide rate policy. 264.2 yen. On currency markets, the dol- Digikala went on to attract a $10 million investment from a cent. Investors were also jittery after lar fetched 124.50 yen, up from 124.37 European fund last year, making headlines as this valued the The Topix index of all first-section Greece pushed back the deadline for an yen in New York. — AFP company at $150 million, while Cafe Bazaar’s co-founder Hessam Armandehi is a poster child for Iran’s high-tech scene. “We tried to create a Silicon-Valley culture inside Iran. It’s a hard thing to create. It’s very different from the mindset of investors and the government there,” said 29-year-old Armandehi, who has founded two other start-ups. Cafe Bazaar, which offers mostly Iranian apps for social media, messaging and other uses, is already used by 21 million of Iran’s estimated 30 million smartphone owners and is grow- ing at a rate of about 35 percent every quarter, Armandehi said. His example has given hope to other entrepreneurs that they need not leave Iran to find success in the United States or Europe - as many continue to do in a brain drain that has been going on for decades. That is also the hope of the conference’s organisers, a com- munity of expatriate Iranians that started in Silicon Valley, home to many prominent entrepreneurs of Iranian origin including former eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar and ex-Yahoo technology chief Farzad Nazem. “We said maybe we should hold a conference because whenever Iran is mentioned in the media it’s always bad news,” said iBridges core member Kamran Elahian, co-founder of multi- ple start-ups including Cirrus Logic and now primarily a venture capitalist and philanthropist. The first iBridge conference was held at the University of California, Berkeley, last year and just 20 Iranians managed to get visas. A key reason for holding the next one in Berlin was the German government’s willingness to give 300 visas, he said. Silicon Valley angel investor Dave McClure, a friend of Alahian’s, was a star attraction at the Berlin conference and found himself surrounded by dozens of hopefuls frantically KARACHI: A Pakistani worker arranges motor bikes for sale on a street in Karachi yesterday. Pakistan has missed its eco- pitching their companies. — Reuters nomic growth target for the current fiscal year but per capita income rose significantly, giving hopes for ambitious GDP growth in the coming year. — AFP 2015

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Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor arrives on the ‘green carpet’ for the IIFA Rocks! concert as part of the three-day long International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday. The 16th IIFA is scheduled for June 5-7 in Malaysia.

SEE PAGE 24 SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 One Direction to ‘go on a break’

he band - made up of Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Liam Payne - is reportedly set to go on hiatus Twhen the group has finished promoting and touring for their upcoming fifth studio album in 2016. It is said each of the boys wants some time to “step back and consider what they want to do next” after Louis, 23, was reportedly offered a spot on this year’s ‘The X Factor’ judging panel next to their record label boss Simon Cowell and Harry, 21, is thought to be considering a solo career. A source said: “The band are to go on a break after promoting the fifth album next year, possibly with a number of live tour dates around the world. “Simon Cowell is supportive of what they need to do because he wants the band to stay together in some form for a very long time. “They have been working non-stop for five years, sold millions of albums and become some of the biggest celebri- ties in the world. At some point they have to take time off to step back and consider what they want to do next. “What’s almost certain is there will be no 1D music next year.” It is reported Louis, Liam, 21, and Niall, 21, are all keen to reunite following their time off but doubts about the future of the boyband lie with Harry, who was also recently said to have been offered the chance to star in a Hollywood blockbuster by legendary film producer, Harvey Weinstein. An insider told The Sun newspaper: “The reality is that once a boyband takes a break, it’s often the beginning of the end. They’re adults now and have their own interests. “Niall, Louis and Liam would want to get back together after the break but the big question mark is over Harry, who has lots of options.” However, Harry recently insisted he has no plans to follow in former member Zayn Malik’s footsteps after he quit the group in March this year and has urged his bandmates to stay “focused”. He said: “We have the album and the tour that we’re working on right now. And I think, when you have so many goals that you feel you have yet to achieve, it’s kind of hard to see past those. “I think it’s important to focus on what’s going on and don’t lose track. We’re all working toward the same thing right now, and I don’t think we’re thinking much past that.” Ellie Goulding Bieber pleads guilty to assault ‘matchmaker’ for Harris and Swift

he ‘Boyfriend’ hitmaker - who also Developing my relationship with God has accepted a careless driving charge - been the coolest thing I’ve experienced, to Tmade the plea in connection with a traf- know that I’m not alone and I don’t have to fic accident near his home town of Stratford live in fear.” in Ontario, Canada, in August last year. The 21-year-old singer - who appeared in court via video link yesterday (04.06.15) - was arrested after the incident which saw a mini van collide with an ATV during a “peaceful retreat” with his then on-off girlfriend Selena Gomez. The pair’s trip was said to have been “disrupted” by the paparazzi and according to Ontario Provincial Police the drivers of both vehicles then “engaged in a physical alterca- tion”. According to CBC News, Justin was giv- en a sentence of absolute discharge over his assault charge and fined $750 for careless driving while another charge regarding dan- gerous driving was dropped. It isn’t the first he ‘Burn’ hitmaker has confessed she was course she would hang out there. She’s so down time Justin has found himself in trouble with keen to set up her long time friend Calvin to earth and that would be important to her.” the authorities over his on road antics. Last Twith the 25-year-old singer as she thought Meanwhile, another close friend of the music year he was ordered by a judge to make a they would be “brilliant together”. She said: “I producer believes the couple’s blossoming rela- charitable donation and take an anger man- did play matchmaker, that’s true. Calvin is a real- tionship is going so well as Calvin sees the agement course after pleading guilty to ly great mate and he’s so fantastic, and Taylor is Grammy Award-winner as his “equal”. They said: another careless driving charge and resisting such a cool person who I love. I thought, “Women throw themselves at him. He can never arrest following a DUI incident in Miami, ‘They’re both really awesome and both really tell if they are really interested in him as a per- Florida. However, the star insisted he had tall, they’ll be brilliant together’.” The 31-year- son or if the attention is just because of his fame turned over a new leaf earlier this year and is old DJ is thought to have been dating the and fortune. But when he met Taylor, it was dif- now looking to his “relationship with God” to blonde beauty since February and the pair ferent. For the first time in a long time here was help him stay positive in the wake of his mul- haven’t been shy when it comes to putting on someone who was his equal. “They have a tiple run-ins with the law. He recently wrote romantic displays since. Calvin has even visited mutual respect for one another. They under- on his Instagram account: “I’m not religious Taylor’s native Nashville and Ellie, 28, thinks its stand one another. They are on the same level nor do I think I have ANYTHING figured out only a matter of time before Taylor joins the and that’s been a good starting point for both of that’s why I call out on God to help me Scottish-born star for a trip to his home town them.” through what I can’t do on my own. Dumfries. She told The Sun newspaper: “Of SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Kylie Jenner thinks ‘everyone is judging’ her he 17-year-old reality TV star has confessed she struggles to cope with the level of attention she Tgets from appearing on ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ and claims it is “extremely difficult” to deal with criticism after people watch her “making mistakes” on the E! show. The raven-haired beauty - who recently came under fire after she admitted having had tempo- rary lip fillers - said: “I feel like this life comes with so many blessings but it’s also just difficult. “It’s extremely difficult and you are growing and making mistakes and everyone is judging you. So, that is definitely hard but there are so many blessings that come along with it Vaughn thinks it is ‘insane’ too...” However, her older sister Kendall, 19, tries to focus on the positive side of fame and insists its also nice to have “so many people love you”. She explained: “I think that drugs are illegal having so many people love you is such a blessing.... I didn’t expect this many people to care about you and he ‘Wedding Crashers’ star insists the world is in a “ridiculous” place because of the want to see you succeed, so it’s really awesome and we black market narcotic industry and doesn’t believe everyone who uses illicit sub- really appreciate it.” The model added she and Kylie - Tstances is “dangerous”. He said: “I look at the drug wars and they are absolutely ridicu- who recently launched their own clothing collection for lous. There is a black market and the prisons are overcrowded and it’s not preventing drug Topshop - consider themselves to be “normal” teens. She use. “There’s a corruption that goes all the way to the top. “[Would I decriminalize drugs?] told Entertainment Tonight: “I mean, we are normal peo- Yes of course. It’s insane. I’m not saying that drugs can’t be dangerous but not everyone that ple. We go through our normal emotional days or our does drugs is going to go out and hurt somebody.” The 45-year-old actor believes “experi- hard, rough days... we are just like everyone else. “I mean menting” with drugs is just a part of growing up. Speaking about the early days of his career, it’s not much different from someone working and deal- he told Britain’s GQ magazine: “I enjoy a few drinks and there was a stage back there where I ing with that or whatever... and I know we probably have realized I was going out and drinking until 2am five nights a week, but you grow out of that some things that are different from the norm, I guess. stuff. “Just like experimenting with drugs, it’s part of growing up, a choice that everyone has But... we are normal for the most part and we go through to make or not make. You realize what works or what doesn’t work.” the same stuff.”

Kardashian’s second child is due in December

he reality TV star - who already has a 23-month-old daughter ment. A source said: “Kim has told a handful of people that she had North with her husband, rapper Kanye West - confirmed she in vitro and that two eggs were fertilized. She is waiting to see if Thad fallen pregnant once again earlier this week and is expect- they both ‘stick’ before she makes any kind of announcement. “She ing to give birth in December, a source has told E! News. It is also has to wait and see if they are both OK. And she is waiting to get an thought the blossoming family could have two more mouths to OK from her doctor that both the fertilized eggs are healthy.” Kim feed by Christmas after sources close to the star revealed she is has also confessed she’s suffering from “really bad” morning sick- expecting twins. While the raven-haired beauty has been open ness and has struggled to get out of bed since she fell pregnant. She about her struggle to conceive for the second time after undergoing said: “To be honest, I’ve had really bad morning sickness, day sick- IVF, it has since been reported she is having a double pregnancy fol- ness, night sickness - I can barley get out of bed.” lowing her attempt to have two eggs fertilized during the treat-

Cyrus ‘totally over’ Schwarzenegger

he ‘We Can’t Stop’ hitmaker appeared to be fully over her split from the 21-year- old actor as she enjoyed a karaoke night with gal pals Katy Perry and Selena TGomez despite nearly running into her ex. A source said: “Miley looked amazing and didn’t seem to care Patrick was even there. She seems totally over it!” During the party - which was to celebrate jewelry designer Markus Molinari’s birthday - the pair stayed “far apart” with Patrick reportedly not “even trying” to get near to the 22-year- old singer. The eyewitness added to the New York Post’s Page Six column: “Everyone was having a blast and singing and dancing, but Miley and Patrick stayed far apart. “They arrived at different times and left separately at different times. He didn’t even try to get close to her.” Meanwhile, Miley previously insisted she is “secure in being alone” and believes her future doesn’t “rely” on being in a relationship. She said: “There are times in my life where I’ve had boyfriends or girlfriends. And there are times where I just love being with myself and don’t want to give part of myself away to someone else ...”I think that’s a new freedom for women, especially. I don’t know that my mother would have been able to be 22 and secure in being alone. But my future doesn’t rely on having a partner.” — Bangshowbiz SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Living dead come out to play in Spanish zombie games

s night falls in a small Spanish village, horror movie fan Danny Boyle’s 2010 cult film “28 Hours Later” about a pan- Noelia Vacias prepares for a night as a zombie invasion global epidemic that turns people into cannibalistic zombies Asurvivor, her eyes glowing white from tinted contact has been held in several cities. In Canada, a summer camp for lenses, her arms covered in fake blood. Nearby Enrique adults provides lessons on how to survive “an attack by the liv- Morales wears a helmet and dark glasses and carries a fake ing dead”. gun. Like the hundreds of others waiting in the park, for the A man wearing cinema style make-up to resemble the living next eight hours they will flee the living dead with blood drip- Fascinated by zombies dead wrestles with anther during the game. ping from their wounds to avoid being contaminated and Diego de la Concepcion, the organizer of the “Survival turning into zombies themselves. Zombie” role-playing games in Spain, said other creatures did “A zombie does not have the power of other characters” in not spark as much interest. “We tried with other themes, with science fiction, says Vacias, a 35-year-old logistics expert. aliens and predators, but they did not have as much success,” “Before being zombies there were normal people. But they he said. The goal of the game is for participants to stay alive never get tired and that is what is frightening.” For Morales, a until morning by avoiding getting touched by a zombie. 23-year-old telecoms engineer, meanwhile, the game is “a way The contestants need to find clues that will help them to take part in reproducing a zombie apocalypse”. reach a safe haven, the end point of the contest. They are not The scenario, which resembles a scene from the TV series allowed to attack the zombies so their only means of survival “The Walking Dead”, involves over 400 participants. “Survival is by avoiding the living dead. For French sociologist Maxime Zombie”-held recently in the village of Olias del Rey, 70 kilo- Coulombe, author of the book “The Small Zombie metres (40 miles) south of Madrid-was the 22nd edition of the Philosophy”, the appeal of the games is simple. People are fas- event in Spain since it was launched in 2012, with more and cinated by zombies, he says, and “contemporary societies are more people turning out in each town that hosts a zombie obsessed with the end of the world”. — AFP invasion. A group of actors dressed as soldiers are also involved in the game, helping some players against the zom- bies or making it harder for others to solve the clues to sur- A man disguised as a soldier stands with his weapon during vive. Some of the largest zombie games in Spain have drawn the game. up to 3,000 participants and even involved tanks or helicop- ters.

‘Fighting to survive’ Most participants are men aged 17-40, even if the game is open to anyone over the age of 10. Pablo Lueiro, 33, and his friend Juan Carlos Fernandez, 44, are hooked on the adrena- line provided by the all night roleplaying game and have tak- en part in several editions. “When you play, you are almost convinced that you are fighting to survive,” said Lueiro, who works as a video game tester, adding that he felt fear even if it was only “psychological”. His friend, who carried a flashlight and a walkie talkie, said the game revived memories of playing catch as a child. “We walked nearly 50 kilometers during another zombie night,” he said. Zombies have been in fashion since the begin- ning of the 2000s in the movies, literature and video games, according to Jerome-Olivier Allard, who has a doctorate in film studies from the University of Montreal in Canada and is a fan of the genre. The games allow people to tap into their “survival fan- tasies”, he said. In addition to Spain, Zombie-themed events have proved popular in other countries as well. In the United States and Canada zombie marches started being held in the early 2000s, drawing several thousand people in some cities, before the fashion spread to other continents. In Britain, a People wearing cinema style make-up to resemble the living dead walk along a street during the role game ‘Survival Zombie’ zombie chase game called “2.8 Hours Later”, inspired by in Olias Del Rey. — AFP photos SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Piano-man brings calm, one player at a time

ith his plastic bag of clothes resting by the “If you can play a broken piano,” he said tri- bench, Bruce Chorzelewski is sitting down at umphantly after his time at the keys, “you can play Wan upright piano in front of City Hall and anywhere.” “I think this is the greatest thing they’ve improvising a tune. It’s the first chance he’s had to ever done out here,” said Mack, 42, who sang along as play a piano since last fall, when he was in a mental he played. “There’s a lot of talent here.” The Camden health center. The instrument is weather-worn, some one certainly isn’t the first public piano. In a project keys are missing and others, he says, are dead, but that does not include the Camden instrument, British playing brings calm to a man whose life has been tur- artist Luke Jerram has been putting pianos in public bulent. places since 2008. More than 1,300 pianos have been “It relaxes me,” says Chorzelewski, 51, who remem- put in 46 cities worldwide, each with the instruction, bers the 1980s - before a brain injury, two heart “Play Me, I’m Yours.” attacks and a stroke, depression, alcohol addiction Camden, a former industrial hub across the and stints of homelessness - when he played guitar in Delaware River from Philadelphia, is different from clubs with a band called Destiny. The piano is part of a most places. About 40 percent of the 77,000 residents pop-up park that opened last year on Roosevelt Plaza, live in poverty, and one-third of the adults do not a new park in Camden, a city that ranks among the have high school degrees. There were 32 homicides in country’s most impoverished and crime-ridden. the city last year - and that was a huge improvement Chorzelewski, a former supermarket manager who from 2012, when there were a record 67. has been living on the streets for the past few days after a rift with his roommates, had been eyeing the Reinvent the city Reinaldo Suarez keyboard for a while but played it for the first time on There’s an almost constant effort to reinvent the a hot day last week after an appointment at a mental city. In the past few years, the county government has health center. He likes guitar best, but given his finan- taken over police patrols and hired more officers, and cial condition, doesn’t have one right now. The piano the state has taken over operations of the school dis- is his instrument. It’s everyone’s. trict. State tax incentives are also being used to attract more businesses. The pop-up park that includes the piano is part of a project to bring life to underused open places. It’s on the site of the former Parkade building, which housed offices and a big parking garage. That building went up in 1955 as a way to try to keep suburbanites coming to the city’s department stores - now all long gone. The building stood for decades as an eyesore, and then things got worse in 2003, when the Legionnaires’ disease bacterium was detected there. Construction worker Kobie Mack, 42, plays the Now, it’s a green oasis in the city’s heart that has piano. won a handful of design awards. Professionals from years of heroin addiction and talks about how, when City Hall eat lunch there on nice days, people coming he was in prison in Philadelphia more than 20 years or going to a methadone clinic across the street sit on ago for auto theft, he spent his time getting his GED benches, and sometimes women hand out religious and making music. He’s self-taught, he says, and plays pamphlets. Joe Sikora, president of Sikora Wells only his own songs - another trait shared by several of Appel, the landscape architecture firm that designed the people playing. “When you write a song,” he said, the park and dreamed up including the piano, said “you’ve got to write a song from your heart.” — AP the plan was to put the instrument away for the win- Suarez plays the weathered Inner-peace ter. But it became such a part of peoples’ routines that keys of the piano set up in The players that day had different stories. Yet for it could not be removed. He said it will be replaced in front of City Hall. all of them, the public piano meant a place to achieve coming weeks with another used - and possibly more a few moments of inner peace. Kobie Mack dropped durable - instrument. by during a lunch break from his work as a plumber Reinaldo Suarez, whose gray beard falls to the mid- on a construction project a few blocks away to play dle of his chest, said he has been playing his salsa some neo-soul/R&B/rock and roll compositions of his compositions on it since the piano arrived under a own, his hard hat sitting by the bench. small tin roof. He shows the marks on his arms from

Reinaldo Suarez plays a piano set up in Roosevelt Plaza Park, in front of City Hall in Camden, NJ. Anyalise Boykin, (left) 2, and her brother Noah Boykin, 5, play a piano set up in front of City Hall, The piano is part of a pop-up park that opened last year on Roosevelt Plaza, a new park in front of their mother Deborah Boykin (back left), talks with Reinaldo Suarez. City Hall in Camden, a city that ranks among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the coun- try. Suarez says he was one of the first to play when the piano was set-up. — AP photos SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Summer music fests expected to draw huge crowds

he summer music festival season is “It is a much more competitive market today expected to draw hundreds of thousands than it was 20 years ago,” said Ken Hays, who Tof concertgoers in major cities and small founded Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Gathering of towns around the United States and translate the Vibes, which began 20 years ago as a hom- into big financial returns for promoters. With an age to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, and estimated 900 festivals scheduled for North takes place in late July. “There are just so many America alone this year, there is a sense from weekends in a summer and limited dollars to go the promoters of these rock extravaganzas that around.” But the business is so robust that it has the modern music festival business cannot get attracted the undivided attention of the world’s much better than this. biggest concert promoter, Live Nation “All the major markets, and even secondary Entertainment, which was formed through the ones, have developed their marquee festivals merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. and they’re all doing great,” said Jordan In April, Live Nation acquired control of Wolowitz, co-founder of Governors Ball, which is Bonnaroo, the 100,000-capacity Tennessee fes- expected to draw some 50,000 people this tival due to start on June 11. In 2014, the com- weekend to New York’s Randall’s Island. “But pany paid $125 million for control of the pro- like any business, you should only enter if the moters behind Chicago’s Lollapalooza and market has a need for what you are offering.” Austin City Limits festivals. “I wouldn’t be sur- Last year, live music ticket sales in North prised to see a shakeout at some point,” said America totaled $6.2 billion, a large part earned Tony Margherita, who manages Chicago band during the festival season that unofficially Wilco, which organizes the Solid Sound festival kicked off in April with California’s Coachella held in late June at art museum MassMOCA. Valley Music and Arts Festival, according to con- “But while we may be in peak festival mode, for cert-trackers Pollstar. Tens of thousands of con- now it works well. “You get a maximum dosage certgoers are expected to turn out for The Black of music and culture, it’s efficient, and lots of Keys, Robert Plant, St Vincent and other artists fun.” — Reuters this weekend at Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music England’s musician Gordon Sumner, better Festival, Toronto’s Field Trip, Houston’s Free US singer Akon performs during the 14th known as Sting, performs on stage at Morocco’s Press Summer Fest and Mountain Jam at New edition of the music festival Mawazine. biggest music event, the Mawazine Festival, in York’s Hunter Mountain. Rabat, Morocco. — AP photos Brian Wilson’s music genius, mental issues are focus of film

ith a shuffling gait and wearing jeans, sneakers and a blue at first, “Pet Sounds” is now considered one of the most influential ‘He’s in the music’ plaid shirt that matches his eyes, Brian Wilson is at the center compositions in popular music. But it was such a sonic departure that “That was probably my favorite week of acting ever,” Dano said, Wof a Hollywood whirlwind. This day, he’s been rushing to it caused a rift in the band, which exacerbated an emerging personal “doing those scenes in the studio where he recorded ‘Pet Sounds’ in screenings, giving interviews and posing for photos at a Los Angeles crisis for Wilson. He began showing signs of mental illness, hearing the ‘60s.” Already a guitarist, Dano learned to play piano for the role hotel as his new biopic prepares to hit theaters on Friday. “It’s a trip,” cacophonous voices and sounds in his head. John Cusack plays and also does his own singing on screen. Though he and Cusack each Wilson says. Ten years in the making, “Love & Mercy” takes an Wilson in the 1980s, a broken man, heavily medicated and terribly spent ample time with Wilson, both actors said they gleaned much of unflinching look at Wilson’s powerful creative energy and debilitating insecure, under constant watch by his Svengali-like psychotherapist, their insight into him by listening to his music. “That’s what brought mental illness, demystifying the man who created the sunny sounds Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). While shopping for a Cadillac, the trou- me closest to the character, was playing and singing for sure,” Dano of the Beach Boys before descending into a dark world of personal bled musician forms an instant connection with saleslady Melinda said. “He’s in his music.” demons. “The first time I watched it, it was like a real test for my emo- Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), who would go on to liberate him from Both actors said they were honored to portray such a sensitive, tions,” Wilson said in his typical clipped diction. “It portrays me so well Landy’s care and become Wilson’s second wife. intuitive and creative character, and that spending time with him was that I felt like I was being pushed into the movie.” Director Bill Pohlad interweaves the two narratives, creating a por- its own source of inspiration and light. “I also think about a guy who’s That meant re-experiencing some of his highest highs and lowest trait both painful and triumphant. “I was looking at how to get into that free and unformatted, because those people are very important lows. “Love & Mercy” focuses on two formative periods in the musi- the story in a way that wasn’t a typical biopic. I hate that,” said Pohlad, for us,” Cusack said. “When you see his music, you see he’s a spirit - a cian’s life, separated by 20 years. Paul Dano plays the younger Wilson a longtime producer whose credits include “Wild” and “12 Years A celestial spirit that can do anything, his imagination brings it - and we at perhaps the peak of his creative genius, when he stayed behind Slave.” “If we were going to do a movie about Brian, I wanted it to be need those north stars.” from the Beach Boys’ world tour to create his opus “Pet Sounds.” intimate. I wanted to know what this guy was all about.” Wilson and As for Wilson, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, he says Feeling confined by surf music and inspired by the Beatles’ 1965 Ledbetter were involved with the making of the film, spending time these days, exercise makes him happy - “I go to a park and walk and album “Rubber Soul,” Wilson wanted to expand the Beach Boys’ and sharing personal stories with the director and his cast. walk and walk” - and, of course, music. He’s preparing to tour the U.S. sound and give form to the melodies and harmonies he imagined. Wilson said he was nervous about the movie and found parts of it this summer and the UK in the fall. Though he’s having an “off period” upsetting to watch (“Some of it was pretty rough”), but he also came where he hasn’t written for a few months, the 72-year-old knows Influencing the world away inspired - reminded, perhaps, of that feeling of all-encompass- there’s more music in him. It’s his language, he said, his means of com- He employed an orchestra, climbed inside a piano to plink its ing creativity. “I can see Paul Dano doing it in the studio, but I cannot munication. “It’s all done through music, that’s how I explain it,” strings with a bobby pin, and incorporated everyday sounds like keys remember actually recording in the studio,” Wilson said. “It brings Wilson said. “As a person, I couldn’t explain nothing. But with music, I jangling or dogs barking into the songs. Commercially disappointing back memories, like ‘How could I have done that?!’” can explain something.” — AP

This photo provided by Roadside Attractions shows, John Cusack, left, as Brian Wilson (older) This photo provided by Roadside Attractions shows, Paul Dano as Brian Wilson, in a scene and Elizabeth Banks as Melinda Ledbetter, in a scene from the film, “Love & Mercy.”. from the film, “Love & Mercy.” — AP photos SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 ‘Entourage’ latest TV show to hit big screen eautiful cars, beautiful women, Hollywood hysteria and all- guys-together adventures-”Entourage” is the latest TV series Bto hit the big screen, albeit to decidedly lukewarm reviews. Adapted from the hit HBO show which ran from 2004-2011 and won six Emmys, the film-out Wednesday in the United States- reunites Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his hilarious buddies. There is his friend-manager Eric (Kevin Connolly), failed actor brother Johnny (Kevin Dillon), friendly Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and above all his ferocious agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven). The latter is inspired by several real celebrity agents in Hollywood, mostly Ari Emanuel, the actual agent of actor Mark Wahlberg, whose adven- tures form the basis for “Entourage.” Billy Bob Thornton and Haley Joel Osment join the series’ cast in the big-screen version, playing a no-nonsense Texas businessman and his talented but shady son. “Entourage” is also sprinkled with appearances by celebrities including Jessica Biel, American football star Tom Brady, and bil- lionaire investor Warren Buffett. Critics have accused the film, which includes dozens of scantily clad women, of sexism. “This world is very male-dominated, whether you like it or not,” said actress Emmanuelle Chriqui, who plays Eric’s girlfriend. “Things in the show were maybe exaggerated for entertainment purposes, but it is what it is.” This June 1, 2015 file photo shows (from left) actor Billy Bob Thornton, writer/director Doug Ellin, actor Adrien Grenier, bas- ketball player Russell Westbrook and actor Kevin Dillon as they pose on arrival for the premiere of the film “Entourage” in Los Dismal rating Angeles, California. — AFP The movie, which has been savaged by the critics-it has a dis- mal 32 percent rating on the Rotten Tomatoes movie review web- For studio accountants, making a film from a TV show is a bit reality,” said director Doug Ellin recently, adding that Twitter didn’t site-plays on a wide variety of cliches. But it is undeniably enter- like making a comic-book superhero movie-it’s based on a proven even exist when the TV series started. taining in its way, above all due to the misadventures of Ari Gold. popularity, so limits the risk of producing a flop. For “Entourage” Those who decide which films get made and which don’t are a “Entourage” is the latest TV series to be adapted for the big the film, which starts five days after the end of the TV series, different species now. “They want to make money ... now it’s these screen, after “Sex and the City,” also a buddy movie but for girls Vincent Chase has already drawn a line under his short-lived mar- oil or hedge fund people who don’t even watch the movie, that’s and set in Manhattan rather than the new film’s City of Angels. “21 riage, and decides to go into directing. kind of sad but it’s good for the comedy,” concluded Ellin. — AFP Jump street” also made the switch from the small screen, as did Ari Gold has meanwhile taken over as head of a big film studio. “Charlie’s Angels,” “Mission Impossible” and “Veronica Mars” Both are struggling to deal with moneymen who have little time among others. “Bored to Death,” about an eccentric detective star- for artistic vision. “Hollywood has changed. TMZ wasn’t even ring Jason Schwartzman, is also being turned into a film. around. The paparazzi were always around but now it’s another

16th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards

Bollywood Superstar Hrithik Roshan gestures Bollywood actress Jacqueline US dancer and actress Lauren Gottlieb (center) addresses members of the media during the towards his fans at a shopping mall on the first day Fernandez speaks. IIFA weekend press conference of the 16th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Kuala Lumpur. — AP/AFP photos

Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor addresses members of the Actor Arjun Kapoor, foreground, dances Indian actor and producer Anil Kapoor, poses with Jacqueline Fernandez and media. during the press conference. Sonakshi Sinha. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Jack Black performs. Honoree Steve Martin accepts his award at the Queen Latifah speaks at the 43rd AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Tribute Gala.— AP photos 43rd AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Tribute Gala at the Dolby Theatre on Thursday, June 4, 2015, in Los Angeles. Diane Keaton, Martin Short sing to AFI honoree Steve Martin

ina Fey called him a genius. Sarah Silverman said he was her Carell compared Martin to Charlie Chaplin. Poehler called him “the inspiration. Carl Reiner described him as “the most versatile best of comedy.” Aykroyd credited him as a founder of the Blues Thuman being there is on our planet as far as show business and Brothers. “I owe you a living, man,” he said. Clips were shown from his making people laugh.” Steve Martin was the object of this affection many films, including “Father of the Bride,” “Planes, Trains and Thursday night when he received the American Film Institute’s Life Automobiles,” “All of Me,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Three Achievement Award during a private ceremony at Hollywood’s Dolby Amigos!” Theater, where almost a dozen actors appeared on stage to toast his Diane Keaton and Martin Short almost brought the guest of honor talents. to tears when they each sweetly sang a song he recently wrote with After being feted by Silverman, Fey and Reiner, along with Amy Edie Brickell called “Friend of Mine.” As he accepted the award from Poehler, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Steve Carell and others, Martin Mel Brooks, Martin said, “When you called my name, it was a total sur- asked, “How do I top this parade of stars who’ve been so, so funny?” prise.” He said he loved sharing such an evening with his friends, even “Easy,” he joked. AFI honored Martin for making it look easy, with suc- “darkly evil Martin Short,” and was “humbled, honored and thrilled” cessful careers as a comedian, actor, writer and now musician. A few by the recognition. He thanked his many colleagues, including Lorne of his colleagues even paid tribute in song. Michaels, who put him on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1970s. “Lorne is Jack Black opened the evening, set to air as a special June 13 on really responsible for my being here tonight,” Martin said. “Lorne, TBS, with an earnest rendition of “I’m Picking Out a Thermos for You” thanks for driving.” — AP from Martin’s 1979 breakthrough film, “The Jerk.” Queen Latifah sang a few bars from “Tonight You Belong to Me,” from the same movie. Tina Fey speaks at the 43rd AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Josh Trank Josh Trank explains his decision to leave ‘Star Wars’ osh Trank has cited the pressures of directing the “Star Wars” Erratic behavior spinoff, following four years of work on “Fantastic Four,” as the Speculation emerged following the announcement that Trank Jkey reason for dropping out of the Disney-Lucasfilm project a been fired from the “Star Wars” film due to erratic behavior on the month ago. In his first public interview since the May 1 announce- set of “Fantastic Four” and that a rift had opened up between Trank ment, Trank told the Los Angeles Times that he wants to do a lower and “Fantastic Four” producer and co-writer Simon Kinberg-also a profile project rather than a “Star Wars” movie after working on producer on the “Star Wars” spinoff. Trank denied those rumors, as Fox’s “Fantastic Four.” did Kinberg, who was also there for the Times’ interview. “None of “I want to do something original after this because I’ve been liv- those facts were true - and any of the facts that were true were spun ing under public scrutiny, as you’ve seen, for the last four years of in such a maliciously wrong way,” Trank said. my life,” he told the newspaper. “And it’s not healthy for me right Kinberg noted that Trank’s vision for “Fantastic Four” persuaded now in my life. I want to do something that’s below the radar.” him to sign on to produce that project. “This, I would say, is particu- Trank’s statement on May 1 said only that he made a “personal deci- larly cruel,” Kinberg said of the rumors. “I haven’t really seen this lev- sion to move forward on a different path. I’ve put a tremendous el of vehemence against a filmmaker. And it’s surreal and unfair.” amount of thought into this, and I know deep down in my heart Trank also said he and Kimberg have become “closer” friends as a that I want to pursue some original creative opportunities.” result. “It feels sometimes like I’m living in a Paddy Chayefsky script He told the Times that he had hoped there would be no lin- or something like that,” he said. “Every misconception that could gering fallout from the decision to leave the “Star Wars” movie. possibly be made about this has been made to a hilariously satirical That has not been the case, Trank asserted. “At first I was like, ‘I’m degree. And it’s people who haven’t met me before. If they met me just not going to say anything because it will blow over,’” he said. - I don’t know, I feel like I’m a pretty harmless person.”—Reuters “But I was shocked - it just hasn’t blown over. People get so excit- ed to raise their pitchforks. I knew that this was going to be ques- tioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left ‘Star Wars.’ And it was hard. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my life.” SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Albania Fashion Show

Albanian models display wedding dress creations at the Armand Peza fashion show held at the Palace of Brigades state residence in the Albanian capital Tirana. Designer Peza holds the show at the start of summer when many Albanian emigres return home for vacations and more weddings are usually held around this time. — AP photos

First edition of ‘The Victim’s family sues ‘Suge’, Hobbit’ sold for £137,000 Dr Dre and Ice Cube first edition of “The Hobbit” accompanied by a hand- he family of a man allegedly killed by Suge Knight has filed a written note in Elvish by British author JRR Tolkien was wrongful death lawsuit against the ex rap mogul as well as Dr Asold by Sotheby’s at auction on Thursday for £137,000. TDre, Ice Cube, Sloan and Universal Studios, court documents The book was a gift from the author and is dedicated to Miss show. Knight already faces criminal charges of murder, attempted Katherine (“Kitty”) Kilbride, one of his first students at Leeds murder and hit-and-run over the death of Terry Carter, 55, and the University in the 1920s. The lines in Elvish-a language invent- wounding of Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, in a parking lot in Compton in ed by Tolkien-are extracts from a verse in “The Lost Road”, a January. But he and the other rappers and the studio now face a civil time-travel tale that Tolkien never completed. The book dates lawsuit filed in Los Angeles late Wednesday by Carter’s family, seek- from 1937 and the price it fetched beat the previous auction ing unspecified damages over his death. record for “The Hobbit” of £50,000 in 2008, Sotheby’s said in a The lawsuit alleges that Knight “carelessly, recklessly, violently and statement. negligently” drove his vehicle towards Carter and Sloan. It also claims Kilbride was an invalid and Tolkien sent her letters and cards the producers of a film called “Straight Outta Compton,” including Dr throughout his life, as well as supplying her with copies of his Dre and Ice Cube, hired known gang members to provide security for books as they were written. Kilbride’s thank you letter for the the production, which focuses on the emergence of the rap group volume sold on Thursday is in Oxford’s Bodleian Library and NWA. notes “what fun you must have had drawing out the maps”. The Lawyers for Knight-whose criminal trial starts on July 7 — have popular book, which introduced characters such as Bilbo argued he acted in self-defense after being attacked by Sloan and Baggins who would re-appear in the “Lord of the Rings” epic, others in broad daylight. Knight, who has fallen ill and required hospi- was turned into a hugely successful fantasy film series by direc- talization at previous court hearings in the case, co-founded Death tor Peter Jackson. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”, Row Records along with hip-hop music king Dr Dre in the early 1990s. released at the end of last year, was the last of six films adapted Former rap mogul Suge Knight arrives in the courtroom in The label launched stars such as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur from Tolkien’s books. — AFP Los Angeles, California on May 29, 2015, for his hearing on but collapsed in 1996 when Knight was jailed for violating a proba- the assault case. — AFP tion order by beating up a rival in Las Vegas. —AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Amazon, Google race to get your DNA into the cloud

NEW YORK: Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seek- ing both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth $1 billion a year by 2018. Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud computing offerings - Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services - spurring the two to one-up each other as they win high-profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts. That growth is being propelled by, among other forces, the push for personalized medicine, which aims to base treatments on a patient’s DNA profile. Making that a reality will require enormous quantities of data to reveal how par- ticular genetic profiles respond to different treatments. Already, universities and drug manufacturers are embarking on projects to sequence the genomes of hundreds of thousands of people. The human genome is the full complement of DNA, or genetic material, a copy of which is found in nearly every cell of the body. Clients view Google and Amazon as doing a better job storing genomics data than they can do using their own computers, keeping it secure, controlling costs and allowing it to be easily shared. The cloud companies are going beyond stor- age to offer analytical functions that let scien- tists make sense of DNA data. Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines are also LITHIA SPRINGS: Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal speaks during a ceremony announcing a $300 million expansion of Google’s data center competing for a slice of the market. The “cloud” operations. The new facility will be located next to the existing data center, one of 13 in the world, and will add 25 jobs to the 350 refers to data or software that physically resides employees currently employed there.—AP in a server and is accessible via the internet, which allows users to access it without down- genetic variations found in at least 1 percent of are “generally pretty porous,” said Ryan Permeh, demand in genomics now as “a perfect storm,” loading it to their own computer. Now an esti- humans, reside at both Amazon and Google chief scientist at cybersecurity company Cylance as the amount of data being created, the need mated $100 million to $300 million business “without charge,” said Kathy Cravedi of the U.S. Inc., of Irvine, California, and the security of fed- for collaboration and the move of genomics into globally, the cloud genomics market is expected National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the eral government computers is “not at the top of clinical care accelerate. Experts on DNA and data to grow to $1 billion by 2018, said research ana- project’s sponsors. Other paying clients with a the class.” While academic and pharmaceutical say without access to the cloud, modern lyst Daniel Ives of investment bank FBR Capital. more specific focus are picking sides. research projects are the biggest customers for genomics would grind to a halt. By that time, the entire cloud market should Google, for instance, won a project from the genomics cloud services, they will be overtaken Bioinformatics expert Dr. Atul Butte of the have $50 billion to $75 billion in annual revenue, Autism Speaks foundation to collect and analyze by clinical applications in the next 10 years, said University of California, San Francisco, said that up from about $30 billion now. the genomes of 10,000 affected children and Google Genomics director of engineering David now, when researchers at different universities “The cloud is the entire future of this field,” their parents for clues to the genetic basis of Glazer. Individual doctors will regularly access a are jointly working on NIH and other genomic Craig Venter, who led a private effort to autism. Another customer is Tute Genomics, cloud service to understand how a patient’s data, they don’t have to figure out how to make sequence the human genome in the 1990s, said whose database of 8.5 billion human DNA vari- genetic profile affects his risk of various diseases their computers talk to each other. In March, NIH in an interview. His new company, San Diego- ants can be searched for how frequently any giv- or his likely response to medication. cleared the way for major research on the cloud based Human Longevity Inc, recently tried to en variant appears, what traits it’s associated “We are at that transition point now,” Glazer when it began allowing scientists to upload import genomic data from servers at the J. Craig with and how people with a certain variant said. Matt Wood, general manager for Data important genomic data. “My response was, it’s Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland. respond to particular drugs. Science at Amazon Web Services, sees cloud about time,” Butte said. —Reuters The transmission was so slow, scientists had Amazon is hosting the Multiple Myeloma to resort to sending disks and thumb drives by Foundation’s project to collect complete- FedEx and human messengers, or “sneakernet,” genome sequences and other data from 1,000 he said. The company now uses Amazon Web patients to identify new drug targets. It also won In ‘year of Apple Pay’, many Services. So does a collaboration between the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and which has similar aims. Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health Systems to retailers remain skeptical sequence 250,000 genomes. Raw DNA data is GENETIC GOLD CHICAGO: In a January earnings call with 98 that had brick-and-mortar outlets (two of uploaded to Amazon’s cloud, where software Amazon charges about $4 to $5 a month to investors, Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook the top 100 sell only online). Eighty-five sup- from privately-held DNAnexus assembles the store one full human genome, and Google made a confident prediction: “2015 will be plied detailed responses, and 11 others sup- millions of chunks into the full, 3-billion-letter about $3 to $5 a month. The companies also long genome. DNAnexus’s algorithms then charge for data transfers or computing time, as the year of Apple Pay,” he said. plied information only about whether or not determine where an individual genome differs when scientists run analytical software on Since then, the company has aggressively they accept Apple Pay. Two did not respond. from the “reference” human genome, the com- stored data. Amazon’s database-analysis tool, courted retailers - and claimed significant While some of the country’s top mer- pany’s chief scientist Dr. David Shaywitz said, in Redshift, costs 25 cents an hour or $1,000 per success. “We’ve spoken to all of the top 100 chants said they use and like the mobile pay- hopes of identifying new drug targets. terabyte per year, the company said. A terabyte merchants in the US, and about half will ment system, fewer than a quarter of the is 1 trillion bytes, or 1,000 gigabytes, about accept Apple Pay this year, with many more retailers said they currently accept Apple Pay, HOSTING FOR FREE enough to hold 300 hours of high-quality video. the following year,” a company spokesperson and nearly two-thirds of the chains said cate- Showing how important Google and Another part of the cloud services’ pitch to recently told Reuters. gorically they would not be accepting it this Amazon view this business, and how they hope would-be customers is that their analytic tools But interviews with analysts, merchants year. Only four companies said they have to use existing customers to lure future ones, can fish out genetic gold - a drug target, say, or a and others suggest that Apple’s forecast may plans to join the program in the next year. each is hosting well-known genomics datasets DNA variant that strongly predicts disease risk - be too optimistic and that many retailers The top reasons retailers cited for not for free. from a sea of data. Any discoveries made remain skeptical about the payment system. accepting Apple Pay were insufficient cus- Neither company discloses the amount of through such searches belong to the owners of The service is one of Apple’s biggest bets, tomer demand, a lack of access to data gen- genomics data it holds, but based on interviews the data. “On the local university server it might a chance to tie customers more tightly to its erated in Apple Pay transactions and the cost with analysts and genomic scientists, as well as take months to run a computationally-intense” phones and its new smart watch, as well as to of technology to facilitate the payments. the companies’ own announcements of what analysis, said Alzheimer’s project leader Dr. take a tiny bite from every retail transaction. Some merchants said they were holding out customers they’ve won, Amazon Web Services Gerard Schellenberg of the University of To assess Apple’s progress, Reuters because they plan to participate in a new may be bigger. Pennsylvania. “On Amazon, it’s, ‘how fast do you worked from the National Retail Federation’s mobile payment system to be launched by a Data from the “1000 Genomes Project,” an need it done?’, and they do it.” list of the top 100 U.S. retailers, surveying the coalition of retailers later this year.—Reuters international public-private effort that identified Another selling point is security. Universities TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Japan firm sells human India launches ‘Lost and Found’ website to pillow cellphone holder find missing children

TOKYO: What’s shaped like your friend and even NEW DELHI: The Indian government has launched a sounds like your friend, but isn’t actually your “Lost and Found” website to help families trace the tens friend? Why, a human-shaped pillow with a slot of thousands of children in the country who go missing in its head for a cellphone, of course. every year - often abducted for forced labor or sexual One Japanese venture is looking to solve that exploitation - and are never found. The “Khoya Paya”, or problem of feeling distant when speaking on the “Lost and Found”, website khoyapaya.gov.in was telephone by offering cushions that look a little launched by India’s Minister for Women and Child like small people, with a skin-like texture, that Development Maneka Gandhi, who said the portal can hold your mobile device. The “Hugvie”, would allow parents to register details of missing chil- which has a head, a torso and short limbs-think dren and citizens to report sightings. Casper the Friendly Ghost, but without any facial The information will be shared in real time with police features-is the result of a collaboration between robot engineers, a futon vendor and a textile firm and state authorities, who are mandated to register the Users put their phone inside the Hugvie when complaint and investigate the case. “It was felt that we making call, and then embrace it, in what one could have this portal, where if a child goes missing, researcher dubbed “cushion-style communica- families can put the details and the picture onto Khoya tion media”. Paya,” Gandhi said on Tuesday at an event to launch the Engineers at the Advanced website, which is the first of its kind in India. “Then if you Telecommunications Research Institute see the child anywhere, you can upload information and International (ATR) said they worked on the prin- then the police see if they can correlate it.” Around ciple that people feel closer to whomever they 70,000 children go missing every year in India, Gandhi are speaking when two or more senses are said, citing figures from the National Crime Records engaged, such as hearing and touch. Bureau. But only 73,597 children have been traced “Hugvie is a simple device that uses voice and between January 2012 and April 2015, she added. tactile senses. It creates a strong sense that the Child rights activists and government officials say that user is hugging the other person, a feeling that many of the country’s missing children come from poor cannot be attained via mobile phones,” ATR and rural areas or urban slums where they are at high risk. its collaborators Kyoto Nishikawa and industrial “Most of the missing children are trafficked for labor, for materials maker Toyobo said. sexual exploitation, abducted, or kidnapped ... They And it actually is rooted in science: research could be runaways from home, or simply be lost,” said a has shown that physical contact with a simple, government statement. “This is the reason that it is not inanimate object decreased levels of cortisol, the only important to get the information related to these hormone associated with stress. JAPAN : This handout picture released from Japanese bedding manufac- The Hugvie-a portmanteau of “hug” and the missing children, but it is equally important that the turer Kyoto Nishikawa shows a woman hugging a bodypillow “Hugvie” French word for “life”-measures 80 centimetres information is exchanged speedily to locate the chil- in Kyoto, where the pillowwill go on sale in September. Users put their by 55 centimetres (31 inches by 21 inches), and dren.” It said that social media could play “a pivotal role” phone inside the Hugvie when making call, and then embrace it, in what will sell for 10,000 yen ($80) in Japan when it in the search for missing children, as it would mean one researcher dubbed “cushion-style communication media”. —AFP goes on sale in September. —AFP faster reporting.—Reuters Deal between T-Mobile and Dish could spell trouble for Sprint

NEW YORK: A merger of T-Mobile US Inc and with T-Mobile. “If T-Mobile is acquired before T-Mobile aside and hook up with Dish. In The chance for a merger with Sprint could satellite TV company Dish Network Corp they get that chance, Sprint’s in a world of 2013, Dish made a bid for Sprint, although it still be on Dish Chief Executive Charlie Ergen’s could force Sprint Corp to pursue a deal or hurt,” Moffett said. dropped out and SoftBank took a controlling mind, New Street’s Kurn said. “Ergen is a man partnership itself. T-Mobile and Dish are in stake. who keeps his options open.” —Reuters early-stage merger talks, a source familiar SPRINT’S OPTIONS with the matter told Reuters. Besides trying its luck again with a T- Dish’s trove of wireless airwaves, or spec- Mobile bid, heavily indebted Sprint could sell trum, would turn No. 4 US wireless company off its own spectrum assets. With viewing T-Mobile into a much stronger competitor to habits shifting from television to online Sprint, the current No. 3. It also comes as big- devices, the pay-TV and wireless industries are ger rivals AT&T and Verizon have been invest- converging, and Sprint could also potentially ing in strengthening their networks and look- partner with a cable company looking to ing to extract revenue from online video con- enter the wireless market, analysts said. tent in addition to wireless services. Sprint representatives could not be imme- “If Dish buys T-Mobile they’ll become a lot diately reached for comment. A $48.5 billion stronger, their spectrum portfolio will double merger of AT&T with Dish’s biggest rival and they will have a real competitive edge DirecTV is expected to receive approval with against the rest of the industry,” New Street some conditions in coming weeks. Charter Research analyst Spencer Kurn said. Communications Inc is seeking to remake the Sprint is in the midst of a turnaround plan U.S. cable television industry by acquiring No. to stanch subscriber losses and improve its 2 cable company Time Warner Cable Inc for balance sheet. The company, which is sitting $56 billion, after regulators rejected the bid on excess spectrum of its own, has been burn- by their biggest rival Comcast Corp. ing cash to sign up subscribers and upgrade “Sprint is going to need to do something its wireless network. It “is running out of good following the recent M&A wave we’ve seen options,” Craig Moffett, an analyst with just over the last 12 months,” S&P Capital IQ MoffettNathanson said. analyst Angelo Zino said. Kurn and Moffett agreed on one route: By hooking up, cable or satellite TV Sprint itself could bid for T-Mobile.Sprint providers and wireless companies can pool abandoned just such a deal last year due to resources and spectrum to scale up and also regulatory concerns. The question is whether capture growth in the online video market. it could find a way to try again, ideally waiting Comcast could be a potential suitor for until after the 2016 US presidential election, Sprint from the cable industry, but it may not assuming a more business-friendly have the appetite. Regulatory opposition led Republican president wins the White House. Comcast to drop a plan to buy Time Warner Japan’s cash-rich SoftBank Corp, which Cable, and it may not be ready for another MIAMI: A T-Mobile store is seen on June 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. Reports indicate that owns an 80 percent stake in Sprint, acquired fight yet, analysts said. Dish Network, the satellite television company, is in talks to acquire the wireless provider the company with the hope of merging it Another possibility may be to try to push T-Mobile US. —AFP TV listings SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

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20:00 Super Rugby Highlights 21:30 Live World Rugby U20 Championship 23:30 Super Rugby Highlights

02:00 Live NHL 07:30 NRL Full Time 08:00 Live NRL Premiership 10:30 Live NRL Premiership 12:30 Live NRL Premiership 14:30 Live PGA European Tour 19:30 Live PGA Tour

00:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 22 00:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: Hants v Kent 15:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: Hants v Middx 16:30 Live Natwest T20 Blast : Durham v Birmingham 20:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 22 23:00 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: Durham v Warks

00:45 Return To Amish 01:35 My 600lb Life 02:25 Body Bizarre 03:15 Extraordinary Pregnancies 04:05 Soul Food Family 05:00 Soul Food Family 06:00 17 Kids And Counting 06:25 Toddlers & Tiaras 07:15 Toddlers & Tiaras 08:05 Bakery Boss 08:55 Bakery Boss MACHETE KILLS ON MARS ON OSN ACTION MOVIES HD 09:45 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 10:10 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 12:15 Ben 10: Omniverse 07:50 Disappeared 07:30 Jake And The Neverland 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 16:00 Pawn Stars 10:35 Shopping Is My Life 12:40 Ninjago: Masters Of 08:40 Disappeared Pirates 00:45 Calimero 16:30 Pawn Stars 11:25 17 Kids And Counting Spinjitzu 09:30 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 07:55 Sofia The First 01:00 Zou 17:00 Pawn Stars 11:50 17 Kids And Counting 13:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 09:55 Who On Earth... 08:20 Doc McStuffins 01:15 Loopdidoo 17:30 Pawn Stars 12:15 17 Kids And Counting Spinjitzu 10:20 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 08:45 Loopdidoo 01:30 Art Attack 18:00 Pawn Stars South Africa 12:40 17 Kids And Counting 13:30 Transformers: Robots In 10:45 Who On Earth... 09:00 Limon And Oli 01:55 Henry Hugglemonster 18:30 Pawn Stars South Africa 13:05 17 Kids And Counting Disguise 11:10 The Will 09:10 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 02:05 Calimero 19:00 Storage Wars 13:30 Say Yes To The Dress 13:55 Matt Hatter Chronicles 12:00 The Will 09:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 02:20 Zou 19:30 Storage Wars 13:55 Say Yes To The Dress 14:20 Teen Titans Go! 12:50 Blood Relatives 10:00 Sofia The First 02:30 Loopdidoo 20:00 Storage Wars 14:20 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 14:45 Uncle Grandpa 13:40 Nightmare Next Door 10:25 Jake And The Never Land 02:45 Art Attack 20:30 Storage Wars 15:10 Cake Boss 14:57 Uncle Grandpa 14:30 On The Case With Paula Pirates 21:00 Storage Wars 15:35 Cake Boss 15:10 Uncle Grandpa Zahn 10:55 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 21:30 Storage Wars 16:00 Cake Boss 15:23 Uncle Grandpa 15:20 On The Case With Paula The Whirlpool 22:00 Counting Cars 16:25 Cake Boss 15:35 The Amazing World Of Zahn 11:20 Messages From Miles 23:00 Pawn Stars 16:50 Cake Boss Gumball 16:10 Disappeared 11:25 Doc McStuffins 23:30 Pawn Stars 17:15 Shopping Is My Life 16:00 The Amazing World Of 17:00 Stalked: Someone’s 11:50 Henry Hugglemonster 00:00 Shipping Wars 18:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter Gumball Watching 12:15 Sofia The First 06:00 Boyster 00:30 Storage Wars 18:55 Say Yes To The Dress 16:12 The Amazing World Of 17:25 Stalked: Someone’s 12:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 06:10 Randy Cunningham: 9th 01:00 Storage Wars 19:20 Say Yes To The Dress Gumball Watching 13:05 Sofia The First Grade Ninja 01:30 Storage Wars 19:45 Say Yes To The Dress 16:25 Clarence 17:50 I Was Murdered 13:30 Sofia The First 06:35 Mini Ninjas 02:00 Storage Wars 20:10 Say Yes To The Dress 17:15 New Steven Universe 18:15 I Was Murdered 13:55 Sofia The First 07:00 Ultimate Spider-Man 02:30 Storage Wars 20:35 Say Yes To The Dress 17:40 Incredible Crew 18:40 I Almost Got Away With It 14:20 Sofia The First 07:25 The 7D 21:00 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 18:05 Teen Titans Go! 19:30 I Almost Got Away With It 14:45 Sofia The First 07:50 Supa Strikas 21:50 Oprah’s Next Chapter 18:55 The Amazing World Of 20:20 I Almost Got Away With It 15:10 Messages From Miles 08:15 Supa Strikas 22:40 Angels Among Us Gumball 21:10 I Almost Got Away With It 15:15 Sofia The First 08:40 Mighty Med 23:05 My 600lb Life 19:07 The Amazing World Of 22:00 California Investigator 15:40 Sofia The First 09:05 Mighty Med 23:55 My 600lb Life Gumball 22:25 California Investigator 16:05 Nina Needs To Go 09:30 Phineas And Ferb 19:20 The Amazing World Of 22:50 Deadly Women 16:10 Lilo & Stitch 17:00 Skyrunners Gumball 23:40 True CSI 16:35 Adventures Of The Gummi 18:30 The 7D 03:30 Nine Lives Of Chloe King 19:32 The Amazing World Of 00:30 I Was Murdered Bears 18:45 Supa Strikas 04:30 End Game Gumball 00:55 I Was Murdered 17:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 19:10 Phineas And Ferb 05:30 Transporter: The Series 19:45 Adventure Time New 01:20 Blood Relatives Rangers 19:40 Phineas And Ferb 06:30 The Listener 20:10 Adventure Time 02:10 California Investigator 17:25 Ducktales 20:05 The 7D 07:30 The Listener 20:35 Regular Show 02:35 California Investigator 17:50 Jake And The Neverland 20:30 Ultimate Spider-Man 08:30 Revenge 21:25 Teen Titans Go! Pirates 21:00 Lab Rats 09:30 Revenge 03:15 Ninjago: Masters Of 21:45 Transformers: Robots In 18:00 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 21:25 Kickin’ It 10:30 End Game Spinjitzu Disguise The Whirlpool 21:50 Mighty Med 11:30 How I Met Your Mother 22:05 Ben 10 18:25 Messages From Miles 22:15 Kirby Buckets 03:35 Ninjago: Masters Of 12:00 Scrubs 22:35 Johnny Test 18:30 Sofia The First 23:00 Programmes Start At Spinjitzu 12:30 Scrubs 04:00 Teen Titans Go! 23:10 Regular Show 18:55 Nina Needs To Go 6:00am KSA 13:00 MasterChef - The 04:45 Grojband 23:55 Teen Titans Go! 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 05:05 Total Drama World Tour 00:40 Grojband 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster Pirates Professionals 05:30 Adventure Time 01:00 Grojband 03:20 Calimero 19:30 Loopdidoo 13:40 MasterChef - The 06:00 Ben 10 01:25 Total Drama World Tour 03:35 Zou 19:45 Doc McStuffins Professionals 06:25 Ben 10 01:45 Regular Show 03:45 Loopdidoo 20:00 Adventures Of The Gummi 14:20 MasterChef Australia 02:30 Johnny Test Bears 06:50 Ninjago: Masters Of 04:00 Art Attack 03:00 American Pickers 15:30 Lone Star Legend 20:30 Sofia The First Spinjitzu 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 04:00 Counting Cars 16:30 The Bridge 20:55 Cars Toons 07:15 Transformers: Robots In 04:35 Calimero 05:00 Counting Cars 17:30 Wayward Pines 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue Disguise 04:50 Zou 05:30 Counting Cars 18:30 Happy Endings Rangers 07:40 Matt Hatter Chronicles 05:00 Loopdidoo 06:00 American Restoration 19:00 Happy Endings 21:25 Ducktales 08:05 Teen Titans Go! 05:15 Art Attack 10:00 Big Rig Bounty Hunters 21:50 Lilo & Stitch 19:30 MasterChef Australia 08:55 Uncle Grandpa 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 11:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 22:15 Zou 20:10 MasterChef Australia 09:20 The Amazing World Of 05:50 Calimero 12:00 Counting Cars 22:30 Art Attack 21:00 According To Jim Gumball 03:00 Serial Killers 06:00 Zou 13:00 Storage Wars Texas 22:55 Limon And Oli 21:30 According To Jim 09:45 Clarence 03:45 Fatal Encounters 06:15 Loopdidoo 13:30 Storage Wars Texas 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 22:00 Lone Star Legend 10:10 Adventure Time New 04:30 Devil In The Details 06:25 Limon And Oli 14:00 Storage Wars Texas 23:20 Calimero 23:00 The Bridge 10:35 Adventure Time 05:20 Nightmare Next Door 06:35 Art Attack 14:30 Storage Wars Texas 23:35 Zou 10:47 Adventure Time 06:10 True Crime With Aphrodite 07:00 Calimero 15:00 Shipping Wars 00:00 Lone Star Legend 23:50 Loopdidoo 11:00 Regular Show Jones 07:10 Zou 15:30 Shipping Wars 01:00 Transporter: The Series 11:50 Ben 10: Omniverse 07:00 Fatal Encounters 07:25 Nina Needs To Go 00:05 Art Attack 02:00 Army Wives WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

KERA holds Vasantholsavam 2015

ERA (Kuwait Ernakulam Residents Association) conduct- School - Manager ) Abdul Fattah Thayyil (Malayali Media forum of various competitions were also distributed during the ed “VASANTHOLSAVAM 2015”, a cultural extravaganza convener) jointly lighted the lamp. KERA Treasurer Anil Kumar event. Colorful cultural programs including classical dances, Kat United Indian School Auditorium - Abbassiya on 22nd S, Legal Advisor MV Varghese, & Vanitha vedhi convener cinematic dances, orchestra by Gulf Beats, instrumental fusion May 2015. The inaugural function was presided by the Acting Theresa Antony, also adorned the dignitaries on the dais. music, mimics etc were performed by the talent group of President of KERA, Sebastian Peter. KERA General Secretary, Premchand, Jino George etc were the other prominent digni- KERA, coordinated and controlled by Dennis John - Arts Benny KO welcomed the invitees and audience. The cultural taries present. The souvenir named Paarvanam was released Convener. Gifts were distributed to all the participants of the program was inaugurated by the chief guest of the program, during the event by Souvenir Editor Ajo Abraham - offering program. Events Coordinator Binil Skaria rendered thanks to AK Shrivastava- Cultural Secretary (Community Affairs and the first copy to Yesudas Xavier. everyone. KERA members and friends around 800 including Education) of Indian Embassy in Kuwait. KERA honored the brilliant students from families of kids, arrived to the venue in transport arranged from all loca- Adv Manoj C Nair, Dr Noble Zakkaria, prominent business Ernakulam District, with gold medals for their academic excel- tions of Kuwait. Food committee was led by KERA general co- person Thomas K Thomas, Adv. John Thomas (United Indian lence in the annual examinations. The prizes for the winners coordinator PM Sadashivan.

Message from Indian Embassy

he Government of India under the aegis Certifications. Their details have also been of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), uploaded on Passport India Portal:- TNew Delhi, had declared the launching http://passportindia.gov.in of a new scheme in Bhopal (M.P) on 26 May /AppOnlineProject/pdf/ISO_Certification.pdf called INTERNSHIP also known as PASSPORT The MEA has made many quantitative and SEVA MITRA. All relevant details in this matter qualitative improvements in the delivery of has already been uploaded on Passport India passport services in the country through suc- Portal with the following link;- http://pass- cessful implementation of Passport Seva portindia.gov.in /AppOnline Project/pdf Project (PSP). The objective is to deliver pass- /Passport_seva_mitra.pdf ports to the citizens of India all over the world The Passport Seva Project has recently quickly in a comfortable manner. The location achieved a rare distinction of becoming the of the PSKs/RPOs may be accessed at the India’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) supporters in Kuwait celebrated one year of NDA first Mission Mode Project to receive three ISO Passport Portal www.passportindia.gov.in. government on May 26, 2015.

KALA-Kuwait 100 centers for Malayalam classes

athrubhasha Samithi under the aus- area is ready with 35 centers spread through pices of Kerala Art Lovers Association, Fahaheel down town, Suksabha, Mangaf, Abu MKALA-Kuwait has scheduled to con- Halifa, Mehabulla & Fintas Areas.16 different duct 100 centers all over Kuwait, for Free centers are planned in Salmiya, Rassalmiya, Malayalam Education program during the Hawally, Kuwait City, Sharq, Khaitan & Reggae. vacation. Mathrubhasha Samithi Chairman John This year, Mathrubhasha samithi took ini- Mathew and Gen Convener Sam Pynummodu tiative to train teachers to effectively commu- appealed the Keralite community in Kuwait to nicate with children though different contem- utilize this opportunity for the benefit of their porary & innovative techniques. K. P children. They also urged the well-wishers to Ramakrishnan, well known personality of the cooperate with this mission and yearlong education field and active member of Kerala Silver Jubilee Celebrations, sponsored by Al- Sasthra Sahithya Parishad conducted different mulla Exchange, by providing space for class- sessions benefiting the teachers last month. rooms and to volunteer as teachers. The fol- Kala (Art) Kuwait Aaswas endowment The centers are scheduled under areas sur- lowing shall be contacted for further details. rounding Abbassiya, Salmiya & Fahaheel Fahaheel: 66117670, 97262978, Abbassiya: ala(Art) Kuwait leaders handed over a DD to Pushpakumari, who was admitted at Adan hospi- areas. 55 Centers will function in Abbassiya, 94069675, 99456731, Salmiya: 99630856, tal, as part of their monthly endowment scheme ‘Aaswas’. Aaswas scheme aims to help Indian Farwaniya, Hassawi, Jleeb & Jahra. Fahaheel 55484818 Kcitizens who are in need for urgent treatment. Kala (Art) Kuwait President Jayson Joseph, members Mukesh, Sameer, Thasleena, Vibin, Ashraf and Santhosh visited her in Adan Hopittal. WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

‘Festival of Praise’ at LAIF

t was an awesome moment yesterday as Christians from various denominations Icongregated at the Life Abundant International Fountain Church for the ‘Festival of Praise’. The Special guest speaker Apostle Dr James Maina urged Christians to follow the footstep of Christ. The 5-day anointing packed event which started on Thursday fea- tures deliverance services, bible teachings, ministrations and praise worships. Splash ‘Heart of Gold’ Writers’ forum bids this Ramadan farewell to Dr Sethi, wife

riters Forum dedicated an evening to bid farewell to ducted the proceeding in an incredibly awesome manner. The Gobind Rani Sethi and her husband Dr Sarvan Kumar program began with warm welcome and best wishes by mem- WSethi - a scientist and a professor in the Kuwait bers to Sethi and Dr Sethi for their future endeavors after which University on 29th May 2015 at the residence of Tajwer Sultana. Dr Mirza Umer Beg - a well known story writer and previous The couple decided to leave Kuwait for good and to settle in President of the forum presented the plaque of honor to Vancouver. Gobind Rani has been an active member of the Gobind Rani Sethi on the behalf of the Writers’ Forum. Writers’ Forum for last nine years. She is an established and Gobind Rani extended her thanks to every member. She well acclaimed Hindi poet and is particularly known for the use also shared the story on how she joined the forum - which of simple language and metaphors in her poetry to deal with became a platform to inspire her to complete her first book the complex subjects such as patriotism, abolition of child Kavita Kalash. The chief guest Dr Sarvan K Sethi presented his labor, unsatisfactory social and economic conditions in Indian views about the Writers Forum. He said he learned more from society. In her poetry, her zeal for the abolition of child labor the Writers Forum than his academic and professional achieve- and unsatisfactory social and economic condition of the labors ments. He emphasized that the power of pen is immense and in India is deeply reflected in her book Kavita Kalash. urged the writers and poets of the forum to change the mind The evening was presided over by Umesh Sharma, set of politicians and rich people in India for the socio-econom- President of the Forum and Dr Sarvan Sethi was the chief ic developments in India. He also mentioned his future plan of he holy month of Ramadan is when you stop, take a guest. Tajwer Sultana, the General Secretary of the forum con- writing a book on his experiences in Kuwait. moment, reflect and be thankful for what you have been Tblessed with and be giving to the needy. Keeping in sync with the spirit of Ramadan and the emotion of gratitude, Splash has launched a ‘Heart of Gold’, campaign which will honor 30 unsung heroes over the 30 days of Ramadan. This initiative has been instituted as a tribute to unsung heroes who devote their time, money and effort selflessly to the cause of humanity. These are people from every walk of life, who espouse the cause of humanity in their own unique way without expecting anything in return and whom you may have seen, known or heard of; people who strive to improve the lives of others around them, without expecting anything in return. Examples could be many ranging from an ordinary person who devotes time for the cause of the underprivileged to a per- son who displays a sense of humanity towards stray animals by caring for them and could be a complete stranger, an acquain- tance or even your family member. An online process you need to send in your entries on www.splashfashions.com/heartofgold with supporting pictures of why you think a particular person has done a commendable act of kindness and he or she will enter the Heart of Gold recognition initiative. We truly believe that these are the people with a #SplashHeartofGold . The award will be a pure gold Splash Heart. HEALTH SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

Doctors perform first skull scalp transplant

WASHINGTON: US doctors hailed a com- operation, performed at Houston Methodist done with tools that one would use to make ney and pancreas issues and the immuno- plex operation as a world first after perform- Hospital, was conceptualized almost four a fine Swiss watch,” he said. suppression medications he was on because ing a skull and scalp transplant on a cancer years ago, but wasn’t carried out until May Boysen, a resident of Austin, was diag- of them, made scalp reconstruction difficult. patient who also received a new kidney and 22, some 20 hours after doctors were told nosed with leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer Doctors solved the dilemma by carrying out pancreas during the procedure. James appropriate organs had become available. that attacks smooth muscle, on his scalp in all procedures at once. “When I first met Jim, Boysen, a 55-year-old software developer, “This was a very complex surgery 2006. The cancer was treated successfully I made the connection between him need- underwent 15 hours of surgery performed because we had to transplant the tissues uti- but left a large wound on his scalp and skull. ing a new kidney and pancreas and the with the help of more than 50 medical pro- lizing microsurgery,” said Michael Klebuc, The Texas man, who was also diagnosed ongoing anti-rejection medication to sup- fessionals, the MD Anderson Cancer Center lead surgeon from the Houston Methodist with diabetes at age five, had undergone a port them, and receiving a full scalp and in Houston said Thursday. Hospital plastic surgery team that helped previous double-organ kidney and pancreas skull transplant at the same time that would It said that the historic surgery made perform the skull-scalp transplant. “Imagine transplant in 1992, but those organs were be protected by those same medications,” Boysen the “first patient to receive the connecting blood vessels 1/16 of an inch needing transplanting again. Because of his said MD Anderson’s Jesse Selber, one of the simultaneous craniofacial tissue transplant under a microscope with tiny stitches about skull and scalp wounds, however, that pro- lead surgeons. “This was a truly unique clini- together with solid organ transplants.” The half the diameter of a human hair being cedure was not possible. Meanwhile his kid- cal situation,” he said. — AFP

French court upholds choice for euthanasia

STRASBOURG: Europe’s rights court upheld yesterday the decision of a French court to allow a man in a vegetative state to be taken off life support, in a ruling that could become a benchmark on the continent. For over a year the fate of Vincent Lambert, who was left severely brain dam- aged and quadriplegic as a result of a 2008 road accident, has torn apart his family in a judicial tug-of-war over his right to die. Lambert’s mother Viviane says her son is merely handi- capped and any attempt to stop life-sustaining treatment would amount to “disguised euthanasia” while his wife Rachel insists he would not want to be kept alive artificially. A panel of judges at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights voted 12 to five that a French court deci- sion to stop intravenously feeding Lambert did not violate Europe rights laws. The legal drama began in January 2014, when Lambert’s doctors, backed by his wife and six of his eight siblings, decided to stop the intravenous food and water keeping him alive in line with a 2005 passive euthanasia law in GAUHATI: Packs of Maggi noodles stored after being removed from the shells of a grocery store. — AFP France. However, his deeply devout Catholic parents, half- brother and sister won an urgent court application to stop the plan. In an appeal, the French supreme administrative Nestle pulls Maggi court, known as the State Council, ordered three doctors to draw up a report on Lambert’s condition and in June ruled that the decision to withdraw care from a man with no hope after safety scare of recovery was lawful. Lambert’s parents then took the case to Europe’s rights court which ordered France to keep the patient alive while it decided whether the State Council’s Tests found lead levels above statutory limits decision was in line with the European Convention on Human Rights. NEW DELHI: India’s food safety regulator about the safety,” he said at a press confer- superstar Amitabh Bachchan. The scare met yesterday banned Nestle from making and ence in New Delhi. “The safety of our con- with a mix of outrage and disappointment in Parents to fight on selling its hugely popular Maggi instant noo- sumers is paramount. We are working with India, where it was one of the top trending While the decision relating to the contentious euthanasia dles, calling them “unsafe” and “hazardous” the authorities to clear up this confusion.” topics on Twitter yesterday. Many users wel- debate is likely to have an impact across Europe, the bitter after tests found they contained excessive At least six states including India’s capital comed the ban and the best-selling novelist Lambert family battle is set to continue in France. The deci- lead. The Food Safety and Standards have announced temporary bans on the sale Chetan Bhagat tweeted that Maggi was “junk sion to stop intravenous food and water “was taken by a Authority of India (FSSAI) said it was ordering of the instant noodles in the past few days, being sold as emotional nectar to Indians dai- doctor and can only be carried out by this doctor”, said Jean Nestle to halt manufacturing after tests by after officials said test results showed high ly”. Others defended the product and said Paillot, the lawyer for Lambert’s parents said before the some states found lead levels above statuto- lead levels. The FSSAI said the presence of they had been eating it for decades with no court made its decision. However this doctor is no longer ry limits. lead “beyond permissible levels” could make ill effects. working with Lambert and his parents plan on seeking a Nestle, which denies the charges and says the product “unsafe and hazardous”, citing “My work often involves travel and odd new medical decision and taking it to court once again if it the noodles are safe to eat, had already risks of damage to the kidneys and the nerv- hours, which over the years made Maggi my goes against their wishes. announced it was pulling the product from ous system. Activists in the eastern city of favorite snack,” 30-year-old IT worker Puneet Laurent Pettiti, the lawyer for Lambert’s wife Rachel said sale as it seeks to contain growing safety con- Kolkata on Thursday burned packets of the Raheja told AFP. “I think that this controversy it was difficult to imagine “how an administrative judge cerns. An FSSAI statement said it was order- noodles in protest, underscoring the scale of will soon blow over.” The scare began when could go against the decision of the European Court and ing Nestle India to “withdraw and recall all public anger. Nestle has been selling its food inspectors in Uttar Pradesh said they State Council.” Ahead of the court ruling on Friday, the nine approved variants of its Maggi Maggi brand for over three decades in India, had found high lead levels in two dozen Lambert’s mother Viviane said she was “very disappointed” Instant Noodles from the market... and stop and has 80 percent of the country’s instant Maggi noodle packets during routine testing, in the family wrangling. further production”. It said tests had found noodle market. along with the flavor enhancer MSG “We know our son better” than the family members seek- the noodles to be “unsafe and hazardous for (monosodium glutamate), which is not listed ing to stop life-sustaining care, she told French television. human consumption”. Nestle, which says the Celebrity backers in the ingredients. The state last weekend She said he had “never left a note” explaining his wishes. lead content in its Maggi noodles is well The product-marketed as a quick and filed a criminal complaint against Nestle India Viviane believes her son is showing signs of progress, such below the limit, had already announced it healthy snack-grew increasingly popular as over the findings, while a separate legal peti- as lifting his leg or swallowing and just needs better care. would withdraw the product from sale as it more and more Indians moved away from tion was filed against Bollywood stars who His parents want him moved to a new medical facility. “They tries to contain the growing scandal. their homes to study or seek work. It have advertised the noodles. Nestle has said are trying to make us say we don’t want him to go, but it is Yesterday its global chief executive Paul emerged as one of India’s five most trusted it does not use MSG in its Maggi products not at all the case, we don’t want him to be snuffed out,” she Bulcke said the product was “safe for con- brands in a consumer survey conducted last sold in India, but that glutamate is a naturally said earlier this year. — AFP sumption”. “We decided to take off the noo- year. Several celebrities have endorsed occurring substance and may be present in dles from the shelves as there was confusion Maggi over the years, including Bollywood some of the ingredients. — AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Rare black rhinos find new sanctuary in Kenya First rhino tracks on the ground after 30 years

LEWA: Nasha was first to go down, a red-feathered jaw and a jab from a cattle prod that made Nasha dart sticking out of his thick-skinned rump. Next it lurch forward into the crate positioned at his head. was Syrah’s turn as Matthew Mutinda, a vet, fired In past captures, the impact of the heavy, fast- his tranquillizer gun from a low-hovering helicop- moving rhino hurling itself at the far end of the ter. Minutes later the one-ton rhinoceros crashed crate has sent rangers and photographers flying. headfirst into the ground in a cloud of dust. Frantic Each rhino was put into his own wooden box, activity followed. Batian Craig, a conservationist strengthened with metal bracing, and loaded by specializing in wildlife security, revved up a chain- crane onto the flatbed of a truck for the four-hour saw and sliced off the rhino’s horn. Then he drilled drive north to their new home. into the remaining stump and stuck a radio trans- mitter in the hole. An oxygen tube was inserted Space for wildlife up the rhino’s snout, blood samples were taken This month’s relocation of black rhinos is being and cooling water poured over his back. Nasha’s hailed as proof of Kenya’s success in breeding the breaths were deep and steady. His skin felt like a critically endangered animals, and its commitment hot, damp carpet. to securing space for them to roam. There are The darting of Nasha, 14, and Syrah, 10, was the around 5,000 black rhinos left on the planet and culmination of years of efforts to establish a new they are threatened by Asian demand for rhino rhino sanctuary in northern Kenya, the first on land horn, which has a market value of more than owned by a local community rather than in a gov- $65,000 a kilo. In 2011, the western black rhinocer- ernment park or private reserve, and in a place that os, a subspecies last seen in Cameroon, was stopped being home to rhinos when poachers declared extinct. There are an estimated 20,000 killed the last one decades ago. white rhinos, mostly in southern Africa, but only “The euphoria of that first rhino track on the five of the northern white subspecies, including ground after 30 years? You can’t put it into words,” NAIROBI: Black rhinoceros stands in a capture crate at the Lewa wildlife conservancy in just one male. said Ian Craig, conservation director at the Laikipia county, some 258 km north of the capital. — AFP “Kenya’s problem is not just poaching, it’s Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and architect of space for wildlife. Kenya needs a new sanctuary the rhino relocation from Lewa Wildlife said. Sera is among 33 community conservancies weeks of drought-breaking rain, brushed against like this every year,” said Ian Craig. Sera’s sanctuary Conservancy to Sera Conservancy Trust. For set up by NRT. Its 59 rangers patrol the rhino sanc- his belly as he ran. Pilot Mike Watson, Lewa’s chief is big enough for 55 rhinos-the target population if Reuben Lendira, Sera’s manager and the man ulti- tuary, the wider 345,000-hectare (853,000-acre) executive, lowered the aircraft close to the ground the animals breed successfully-but despite the mately responsible for the safety of the 21 black conservancy of which it is a part and the area and manoeuvred it like a matador in a bullring to fence, keeping them safe is still a full-time job. rhinos that will live on 10,700 hectares (26,000 beyond, where the rangers have police reservist direct the rhino to a flat, open area where a truck- Rangers follow the rhinos wherever they go, keep- acres) of fenced wilderness, the animals are a status allowing them to carry weapons and arrest mounted crane could be parked and a fortified ing eyes on them constantly. The radio transmit- means to an end. “It creates job opportunities and criminal suspects, whether poachers, cattle rustlers wooden crate lowered to the ground. ters in their horns relay the animals’ position to a improves security,” said Lendira. or thieves. Nasha slackened then keeled over. “By the third control room at Lewa which is also manned 24 For Nasha and Syrah the day began like any minute you can see the animal high-stepping and hours a day. The cost of security is around $850 Darted, crated, trucked other with a tussle over territory that left both ani- by around the seventh minute it goes down,” per rhino per month. Nasha and Syrah, who bolted “Sera was a prone area for bandits, so since we mals bloodied and torn. Then the helicopter Mutinda said afterwards. furiously from their crates when they were established security it has really improved, for both appeared over the acacia trees with Mutinda, the The dehorning, installation of the radio trans- released, were to join a mixed-sex group of 21 wildlife and people. It will also improve income Kenya Wildlife Service vet, strapped in and leaning mitter and taking of samples took little more than breeding-age rhinos being moved to Sera from because we can get more tourists and that will out, dart gun in his hands. After being shot Nasha 20 minutes. Mutinda woke the rhino up again with Lewa as well as from Kenyan national parks at improve life for the community around Sera,” he charged about. The long savannah grass, fed by an antidote injected behind the ear, a slap to the Nakuru and Nairobi. — AFP SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

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DETROIT: Jesse Hahn allowed one run in seven calling Cleveland’s sixth win in eight games. innings and the Oakland Athletics completed a three-game sweep of Detroit on Thursday, win- TWINS 8, RED SOX 4 ning 7-5 and handing the Tigers their seventh Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval mis- straight loss. handled a throw on Joe Mauer’s bunt in the Josh Phegley hit a two-run triple in the sec- ninth inning, and Minnesota broke away from ond inning, and the A’s won for the sixth time in Boston for a four-game split. seven games, although they still have the worst Torii Hunter hit his 200th home run in a record in the American League. Twins uniform and added two singles. Hunter’s Hahn (3-5) gave up five hits. He struck out 339th career homer was a three-run shot. Kurt five and walked one. Detroit scored four times in Suzuki singled three times, helping Minnesota the ninth, including a three-run homer by Tyler to its ninth win in 12 games. Blake Swihart hit his Collins. Tyler Clippard got two outs for his ninth first major league homer and Dustin Pedroia save. also had a solo shot for Boston, which has lost Shane Greene (4-5) allowed six runs - four eight of 11. The Twins trailed 4-0 going into the earned - and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings. He made fifth. It was 4-all in the ninth when Minnesota a throwing error that contributed to Detroit’s put runners on first and second with no outs trouble. against Koji Uehara (2-3). Aaron Thompson (1-1) worked a scoreless inning for the win. CARDINALS 7, DODGERS 1 Michael Wacha pitched seven effective RAYS 2, MARINERS 1 innings, Jason Heyward and Kolten Wong drove Erasmo Ramirez beat his former team, com- in two runs each, and St. Louis beat Los Angeles bining with four relievers to help Tampa Bay in the opener of a four-game series between the defeat Seattle. Ramirez (4-2), who was traded to National League’s top two teams. The Cardinals, the Rays on March 31, held Seattle to one run who knocked the Dodgers out of the playoffs in and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked one each of the previous two seasons, increased and struck out five. Xavier Cedeno, Brandon their Central Division lead to 6 1-2 games over Gomes, Jake McGee and Kevin Jepsen gave up the idle Pittsburgh Pirates while the Dodgers’ three hits and no runs over the final 3 2/3 West Division advantage shrunk to 1 1-2 games innings. over the idle San Francisco Giants. Jepsen picked up his second save in four Wacha (8-1) allowed a run and seven hits opportunities. Mark Trumbo, acquired by Seattle without walking a batter and had five strikeouts, in a six-player trade with Arizona on Wednesday, five days after the Dodgers beat him 5-1 at St. had a pair of singles in his Mariners debut. Louis in a game that was delayed more than 2 Roenis Elias (2-3) went eight strong innings, hours by rain. This was the right-hander’s first allowing two runs and five hits in the loss for the road start against the Dodgers, whom he defeat- Mariners - their sixth straight. Seattle had won ed twice in the 2013 NL championship series six in a row against Tampa Bay. while shutting them out in 13 2-3 innings. ORIOLES 3, ASTROS 2 INDIANS 6, ROYALS 2 Adam Jones had three hits, including a solo Brandon Moss hit a two-run homer and homer that lifted Baltimore over Houston. With Cleveland beat Kansas City in a game called in the score 2-all in the eighth inning and two outs, the eighth inning because of rain. Jones drove a pitch from Chad Qualls (1-3) to Trevor Bauer (5-2) allowed only a long two- left field. Jones has five hits in his last two games DETROIT: Oakland Athletics center fielder Billy Burns makes the catch on a fly ball hit run homer by Lorenzo Cain over 6 2-3 innings to following an 0-for-12 slump. by Detroit Tigers’ Nick Castellanos during the ninth inning of a baseball game. —AP continue his hot streak. The 24-year-old right- Wei-Yin Chen yielded two runs in 6 1-3 hander has allowed two runs or fewer in each of innings with a season-high nine strikeouts. and six hits with seven strikeouts. innings, Brandon Phillips had three hits and two his last four starts, getting to the seventh in each Darren O’Day (2-0) struck out two in one inning RBIs and Cincinnati beat Philadelphia to avoid a of them. and lowered his ERA to 0.89. Zach Britton got CUBS 2, NATIONALS 1 three-game sweep. After struggling to score the previous night, four outs for his 14th save in 15 chances, stop- Jake Arrieta pitched six strong innings, and DeSclafani (4-4) allowed four runs and six the Indians pounded away against Chris Young ping Baltimore’s five-game losing streak. Chicago made a pair of first-inning runs hold up hits. He left with two runners on in the eighth (4-2) over the first five innings. They sent eight Hank Conger homered for the AL-best to beat Washington. Arrieta (5-4) rebounded and both scored. Aroldis Chapman, whose batters to the plate during a four-run third Astros. Orioles manager Buck Showalter was from a pair of subpar outings, pitching six streak of 29 straight saves ended Wednesday inning, and Moss added his second homer of the ejected in the second for arguing balls and innings and giving up a run and six hits. Hector night, tossed a perfect ninth for his 10th save in series with nobody out in the fifth. The game strikes with plate umpire Brian Gorman. Rondon pitched the ninth for his 10th save. 11 tries. Aaron Harang (4-6) had his worst start was delayed with one out in the bottom of the Houston lefty Dallas Keuchel matched his Washington’s Anthony Rendon, who missed 53 with the Phillies, allowing a season-high six runs eighth as lightning and heavy rain rolled into shortest start this season at six innings after con- games due to injuries, had two hits in his season - five earned - and six hits with five walks in 5 2-3 the area. The umpires waited 44 minutes before secutive complete games. He allowed two runs debut. He was up with runners on first and sec- innings. Harang pitched at least six innings in ond and two outs in the ninth when Cubs catch- each of his first 11 starts and gave up more than er David Ross picked off Clint Robinson at first to three earned runs once. His ERA rose from 2.02 MLB results/standings end it. Gio Gonzalez (4-3) allowed two runs and to 2.45. four hits over six innings. He struck out six and tied a season high with four walks. The start of Oakland 7, Detroit 5; Baltimore 3, Houston 2; Minnesota 8, Boston 4; Chicago Cubs 2, Washington 1; METS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 2 the game was delayed nearly two hours by rain. Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4; Texas 2, Chicago White Sox 1 (11 innings); Cleveland 6, Kansas City 2 (8 innings); Matt Harvey stopped his three-game losing NY Mets 6, Arizona 2; Tampa Bay 2, Seattle 1; St. Louis 7, LA Dodgers 1. streak, John Mayberry Jr. had a two-run homer RANGERS 2, WHITE SOX 1 among his career-high four hits, and New York American League National League Shin-Soo Choo’s single beat Chicago and its picked up a rare road win by beating Arizona. Eastern Division Eastern Division defensive shift, sending Texas to the win. Leonys W L PCT GB NY Mets 30 25 .545 - Martin led off the inning with his third single Harvey (6-3) was sharp in his return to Chase NY Yankees 29 25 .537 - Washington 29 25 .537 0.5 Field, where he made his major league debut Tampa Bay 29 26 .527 0.5 and moved to second on Hanser Alberto’s sacri- Atlanta 26 27 .491 3 three years ago. He struck out nine in seven Toronto 25 30 .455 4.5 Miami 22 32 .407 7.5 fice. Choo grounded the ball to the right of Baltimore 24 29 .453 4.5 Philadelphia 21 34 .382 9 Chicago shortstop Alexei Ramirez, who was strong innings for his first win in six starts. Boston 24 31 .436 5.5 Central Division Though the right-hander gave up solo Central Division shifted toward second base. St. Louis 36 18 .667 - Dan Jennings (1-2) was the losing pitcher. homers to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Paul Minnesota 32 21 .604 - Pittsburgh 29 24 .547 6.5 Kansas City 30 21 .588 1 Goldschmidt, he had the rest of the Chicago Cubs 28 24 .538 7 The win went to Tanner Scheppers (2-0). White Detroit 28 27 .509 5 Cincinnati 23 29 .442 12 Sox rookie left-hander Carlos Rodon struck out a Diamondbacks swinging through pitches, strik- Cleveland 26 27 .491 6 ing out at least nine for the fifth time this sea- Chicago White Sox 24 28 .462 7.5 Milwaukee 18 36 .333 18 career-high 10 batters in six innings. He allowed Western Division Western Division one run, five hits and three walks. Texas starter son. Kevin Plawecki hit a two-run double off Houston 34 21 .618 - LA Dodgers 31 23 .574 - Yovani Gallardo gave up three hits Dominic Leone (0-1), and the Mets banged out LA Angels 28 26 .519 5.5 San Francisco 30 25 .545 1.5 14 hits to win for the second time in 11 road San Diego 27 28 .491 4.5 Texas 28 26 .519 5.5 games. Jeurys Familia got five outs for his 16th Seattle 24 30 .444 9.5 Arizona 25 28 .472 5.5 REDS 6, PHILLIES 4 Oakland 23 33 .411 11.5 Colorado 24 28 .462 6 Anthony DeSclafani threw seven effective save. —AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Cheyenne, shares LPGA lead ONTARIO: Cheyenne Woods, niece of 14-times major winner Tiger, upstaged the game’s biggest names as she birdied five of her last nine holes to share the first-round lead at the Manulife LPGA Classic in Cambridge, Ontario on Thursday. The 24-year-old American, playing her first full season on the LPGA Tour, picked up shots at the 10th, 11th, 12th, 16th and 17th to set the early tournament pace with a course record, nine-under-par 63 at Whistle Bear Golf Club. Late in the day, Cheyenne was caught at the top by sea- soned American Cristie Kerr, who signed off with four consec- utive birdies, and Thailand’s PK Kongkraphan. Germany’s Sandra Gal and Laetitia Beck, who in December became the first Israeli golfer to qualify as an LPGA Tour play- er, opened with 64s but most eyes at Whistle Bear Golf Club were focused on Woods. “I had one bogey, which was a stupid three-putt (at the sixth), but overall I played solid,” Cheyenne, the daughter of Tiger’s half-brother Earl Junior, told reporters. “It was very relaxed ... that’s sometimes when I play my best and I guess it worked out. “It’s great to be in this position,” she said of her perch atop the leaderboard after the opening round. “I’m just going to go out there (tomorrow) ... go into it with the same mindset and just go play golf.”—Reuters Matsuyama in tie, Tiger toils

OHIO: Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama piled up four birdies on each nine to surge into a tie for the lead at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, on Thursday as Tiger Woods fought back from a messy start to open with a one-over 73. Japanese Matsuyama, who won last year’s title in a playoff with American Kevin Na, took advantage of relatively soft condi- tions on a calm, overcast day at Muirfield Village to fire a flawless eight-under-par 64. That put the 23-year-old Asian joint top at the tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus, level with American Bo Van Pelt, who birdied six of his first nine holes before losing some momentum after the turn. “I hit the ball very well today, had a lot of birdie TAMPA: Chicago Blackhawks right wing Kris Versteeg (23) collides with Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Ben Bishop (30) dur- putts and putted well so I’m very happy with the round,” ing the second period in Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final. —AP Matsuyama, speaking through an interpreter, told Golf Channel. Scotland’s Russell Knox and American Jason Dufner carded 66s while world number two Jordan Spieth, the highest-ranked player in the field, recovered from a slow start to card a 68. Blackhawks get early Woods, however, covered his first nine holes in an ugly four-over 40 before scrambling on his second nine with three late birdies to salvage his round. “Some of the shots I hit were really, really jump on Lightning good, but then I also had some really bad shots,” the former world number one said. “And we need to work on that, and elimi- nate the bad ones.” Woods, a five-times champion at Muirfield TAMPA: When the Chicago Blackhawks “It’s not talked about enough, the sup- vere and show confidence, and trust Village whose world ranking has plummeted to 172nd, ended his were seven minutes away from losing port that we have, guys that have come that you’re going to get it done through roller-coaster round with five birdies, four bogeys and a double at the Stanley Cup Final opener, it wasn’t in and really made a huge difference. the process.” the tricky par-four 18th, his ninth hole of the day. Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane or Duncan “When you’re trying to find ways to Tampa Bay realizes it has only a frac- He is playing only his fifth PGA Tour event of the season after Keith who stepped up and perpetuated win a tough series, you can rely on your tion of Chicago’s experience and depth. struggling with his game, and has not competed since tying for this team’s reputation for big-game grit. best players, but at the same time you After all, the Lightning missed the play- 69th at the Players Championship last month. Teuvo Teravainen, a 20-year-old Finn need guys to come out of the wood- offs only two years ago, and coach Jon Masters champion Spieth, already a double winner on the U.S. who debuted with the Blackhawks in work. Maybe guys that you don’t expect Cooper has been on the job for only two circuit this season, was delighted with his score after teeing off at January, scored the tying goal and set firsthand to make big plays.” full seasons. But the Lightning also rec- the 10th. “It’s not easy to start on number 10, it’s a brutal hole,” up the winner by Antoine Vermette - Deep in their third straight lengthy ognize the narrow gap between success said the 21-year-old American. “Great up-and-downs the first four who didn’t pull on a Blackhawks sweater playoff run, it’s clear the Blackhawks and failure in the NHL postseason, and holes before I finally hit a wedge in there tight on 14 and a good until March. Corey Crawford, the goalie have done a remarkable job collecting they already regret allowing the up-and-down out of the bunker on 15 for birdie. “To shoot two- who briefly lost his job six weeks ago, enough talent to thrive in the taxing Blackhawks back into Game 1. under on the back nine is a great score. Most of the chances are quietly shut out Tampa Bay for the final NHL postseason. Other teams have stars, “You wake up in the morning on the front. Very pleased with the round.” —Reuters 55 minutes of a one-goal win. but nobody else has developed enough (Thursday), you should be a little angry, The Blackhawks are going for their depth to beat almost any opponent at a little (ticked) off that we had a chance third title in six seasons because they’re its own game while still sticking to their to take Game 1,” Lightning forward much more than a cluster of stars. No basic principles of defensive responsibil- Brian Boyle said. “Again, it’s just Game 1, matter what style they must play to win, ity. but it was a good opportunity for us to the Blackhawks have a culture that sets They can grind. They can pick up the start the series the way we wanted to.” them up for steady success in the caul- pace. They simply adapt and excel. And While the Blackhawks showed off dron of the Stanley Cup Final, which it hasn’t been Toews or Kane leading the their ability to adjust in the opener, the continues with Game 2 on Saturday. way. “Since I got here, it’s something I’ve Lightning depend on the confidence Chicago captain Toews thinks it’s noticed,” said Vermette, a late-season they’ve gained from three rounds of about time to recognize his ever-chang- trade acquisition. “Didn’t come as a sur- tough matchups. ing supporting cast and the coaches prise, though. I played against these “We just played Mike Babcock and who keep it all together. guys for quite a long time. If you’re the storied Detroit Red Wings,” Cooper “Everyone wants to talk about this going to be successful at that time of said. “We just played the Montreal Blackhawks team that keeps coming the year, if you’re going to push yourself Canadiens. Enough said. We just played OHIO: Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan hits on the 14th hole back to the Stanley Cup Final, the com- and be good at it, you’re going to have the New York Rangers and beat them in during the second round of the Memorial golf tourna- mon players that have been on those to face adversity. Certainly, in key their building. ... We respect everybody, ment. —AP teams, what they do well,” Toews said. moments like that, you need to perse- but there’s no fear in the room.” —AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Hurricanes claim top spot

DUNEDIN: The Wellington-based Hurricanes recovered from a shock loss last weekend to brush aside the Dunedin-based Highlanders 56-20 on Friday, sealing the top qualifying spot and a home semifinal in Super Rugby. Also, the ACT Brumbies stayed in playoffs con- tention and moved into the provisional lead in the Australia conference by beating the last-place Western Force 33-20 for a fourth straight time. The Hurricanes have been atop the overall standings for most of the sea- son, but last weekend’s 35-18 loss to the Christchurch- based Crusaders left them vulnerable to a late challenge overall and in the New Zealand conference. They faced pressure to show the loss to the Crusaders was an aberration and did so emphatically, claiming a four-try bonus point on their way to a 30-13 lead by half- time, then adding four more tries after halftime. The Hurricanes’ 13th win from 15 games drew them 14 points clear of the Highlanders in the conference, which they have won, and guaranteed home advantage in the playoffs as they pursue their first Super Rugby title. Scrumhalf TJ Perenara scored tries in each half - his ninth and 10th of the season - and center Ma’a Nonu came off the bench for a quick second-half double as the Hurricanes overcame with surprising ease their closest conference rival. The Dunedin-based Highlanders won four of their last five matches to draw within nine points of the Hurricanes, and were one of the hottest teams entering the penultimate round of the regular season. OAKLAND: Golden State Warriors forward Marreese Speights (5) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers forward James But they were swept aside by the Hurricanes’ out- Jones (1) during the second half of Game 1 of basketball’s NBA Finals. —AP standing first-half performance, and weren’t able to con- tain the Hurricanes in the second half in a match which was played at a constant, high tempo. Warriors beat Cavs in The Hurricanes wore black armbands in memory of long-serving teammate and former All Blacks flanker Jerry Collins, who was killed with his wife in an auto acci- dent on a French motorway hours before the game. Game One OT thriller Hurricanes captain Conrad Smith said Collins was an inspiration for the team. “Things were a bit overshad- OAKLAND: The Golden State Warriors, led block from behind by Kyrie Irving, then time after an awkward fall. owed tonight by the passing of one of our club mem- by the league’s Most Valuable Player LeBron James missed a jump shot for the Irving had been in dazzling form for his bers, but it was a nice way to recognize him,” Smith said. Stephen Curry, drew first blood in the Cavaliers with only 3.6 seconds remaining. team at both ends of the court with 23 “This was a step in the right direction for us but there’s a best-of-seven NBA Finals with a thrilling Curry had a team-high 26 points on 10- points, seven rebounds and four steals. wee way to go. There’s still a lot of work to be done but 108-100 overtime victory over the of-20 shooting while James weighed in With James sparking the offense and we’re proud of our efforts and to get where we have has Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One on with 44, his most ever in a Finals game, in Tristan Thompson spearheading a stifling taken a lot of hard work.” All Blacks flyhalf Beauden Thursday. Curry put the Warriors ahead at a losing cause as the Cavaliers were defense, the Cavaliers initially outshot the Barrett returned to the lineup after a month-long layoff 102-98 in extra time with two pairs of free outscored 10-2 in overtime. Warriors from the floor and they streaked with a knee injury, but while he took a full part in general throws before Harrison Barnes made it Asked how his team had coped with 14 points in front before ending the first play, he conceded the goalkicking duties to fullback 105-98 with a three-pointer at a raucous the offensive threat posed by James, who quarter with a 29-19 lead. James Marshall, who finished with five conversions and Oracle Arena in Oakland, and there was no is back in the NBA Finals for a fifth consec- Marreese Speights, off the bench, and two penalties. way back from there for Cleveland. utive year, Curry replied: “These guys stick Curry, who poured in a couple of threes, “We were able to scrap tonight,” Curry to the game plan. We know what he is inspired a stirring fightback in the second The Brumbies fully exploited a Western Force weak- said courtside after the Warriors outscored about and what he’s capable of. quarter as Golden State twice moved five ness, the rolling maul. Mauls led to all three of flanker the Cavaliers in shooting from the field by “Our guys guarded him all night and points ahead before Cleveland took a slen- David Pocock’s tries, and another weakened the Force 44.3 percent to 41.5 with five of their play- made it tough on him. This is a long der 51-48 advantage into halftime. defense for replacement prop Allan Alaalatoa to score ers getting into double digits. series.” James also added eight rebounds A running bank shot by Irving early in seven minutes after going on. “The three-pointer in the corner (by and six assists while big center Timofey the third gave the Cavaliers a seven-point The other try went out wide to an unmarked Christian Barnes) opened the game up and they Mozgov contributed 16 points for cushion but the Warriors, roared on by Leali’ifano, who also made four conversions. ACT led 33- scored just two points in overtime, that’s Cleveland. Adding further concern for increasingly vocal fans, clawed back to 6 with more than 10 minutes to go, and their bench huge.” The score was tied at 98-98 with Cleveland, however, was the sight of their end the quarter tied at 73-73, and set up a cleared, when the Force scored two consolation tries in 31.9 seconds left in regulation before inspirational All-Star point guard Kyrie gripping finale. Game Two is tomorrow in their home finale.—AP Curry was denied a layup by a superb Irving limping off the court during over- Oakland.—Reuters Brumbies seal Super Rugby playoff spot

PERTH: Wallabies openside David Pocock the 66th minute gave Pocock his second hat- South Africa on Saturday. The rolling maul, with Pocock tucked in grabbed a hat-trick of tries as the ACT trick of the season to put a gloss on a hard- Taking the national conference title would with the ball at the back, has been used to Brumbies secured a place in the Super Rugby fought victory. secure a top-three finish and potentially a bye great effect by the Canberra-based Brumbies playoffs for a third straight year with a 33-20 “It was really tough conditions out there,” through the first week of the playoffs before a all season and the Force had no answer to it in victory over Western Force in Perth yesterday. Brumbies skipper Stephen Moore said in a home semi-final. the 10th and 28th minutes. Pocock scored twice off the back of the rolling pitchside interview. “I knew we had to get the Western Force, who got consolation tries Lealiifano’s 17th minute effort and his con- maul and flyhalf Christian Lealiifano also five points and I’m really happy with that.” from prop Tetera Faulkner and winger Luke version of the first three tries ensured the visi- crossed before halftime with prop Allan The win sent the twice champions clear of Morahan in the last 10 minutes, have long tors turned around 21-6 ahead but they had Alaalatoa securing the crucial bonus point New South Wales Waratahs at the top of the been out of the reckoning for post-season to wait until the 59th minute before Alaalatoa with the fourth try around the hour mark. Australian conference pending the reigning play after a miserable season in which they crashed over under the posts to secure post- Another catch-and-drive from a lineout in champions’ match against the Cheetahs in have managed only two wins. season play. —Reuters SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Gatlin clocks 9.75 in winning 100 meters

ROME: Justin Gatlin came within 0.01 sec- two fractures to her wrist and a dislocation. onds of his world-leading time in the 100 “She’s been given pain medication, and is meters, clocking 9.75 at the Golden Gala on being seen by one of the top orthopedic sur- Thursday. Then the American declared he geons in Rome,” Joske said on Friday. “What could approach Usain Bolt’s world record of that means for the rest of the season, we 9.58 at the world championships in Beijing in don’t know. At least it’s not her legs. And she August. “I feel confident running times is a fighter.” around 9.70,” Gatlin said. “9.60 should be pos- The world championships, where Pearson sible in summer.” With the wind in his favor, is defending champion in the hurdles, begin Gatlin finished several strides ahead of the on Aug. 22 in Beijing. American rival Brianna rest of the field then flexed his biceps for pho- Rollins also failed to finish, while Sharika tographers in the finish area. Nelvis of the United States won in a personal- Running strong all the way to the finish best 12.52. “I ran my own race and didn’t see despite his lead, Gatlin took one tick off the any of those falls,” Nelvis said. Emerging clock from Bolt’s meet record of 9.76 set in Cuban standout Pedro Pablo Pichardo leaped 2012. European indoor champion Jimmy 17.96 in the triple jump to break Jonathan Vicaut crossed second in 9.98, and Gatlin’s fel- Edwards’ meet record of 17.60 set in 1998. low American, Mike Rodgers, was third with Pichardo earned the year’s best jump of 18.08 the same time. last week. Gatlin clocked 9.74 seconds in the Renaud Lavillenie won the pole vault at Diamond League opener on May 15 in the 5.91 but failed in three attempts to clear 6.01. sweltering heat of Doha, Qatar. Only four He was far off his world-leading 6.05 in sprinters have ever run faster, including Bolt, Eugene, Oregon, last weekend. who set 9.58 in 2009. Two-time European champion Ruth Beitia “The key thing to keep winning is to not of Spain beat a stellar field in the high jump at think about it,” Gatlin said. “I do not think of 2.00. Croatian standout Blanka Vlasic finished beating Usain Bolt now because the champi- second at 1.97, and appeared content after onship is not tomorrow. We still have some three injury-plagued seasons. Vlasic wiggled a time.” Also in the fourth stop of the Diamond little dance after clearing 1.94 on her third try League, Olympic champion Sally Pearson of then unleashed a fist pump when she made Australia sustained a broken left wrist after 1.97 on her first attempt. ROME: Justin Gatlin, of the United States celebrates after winning the men’s 100m event hitting the fifth obstacle in the 100 hurdles. Olympic champion Anna Chicherova set- at the Golden Gala IAAF athletic meeting, in Rome’s Olympic stadium. —AP She will undergo surgery in Rome late yester- tled for sixth at 1.94. Jeneba Tarmoh of the day. Organizers said Pearson was taken to the United States won the women’s 200 in 22.77 48.13, edging fellow American and Olympic 12:58.39, the year’s best time. And local Gemelli Hospital, and her manager, after Olympic 100-meter champion Shelly- silver medalist Michael Tinsley by 0.21. The Mohammed Aman, another Ethiopian, Sydney-based Robert Joske, later confirmed Ann Fraser-Pryce withdrew. 17-year-old world junior champion Yomif clocked 1:43.56 in the 800 for another fastest to The Associated Press that she sustained Also, Johnny Dutch won the 400 hurdles in Kejelcha of Ethiopia won the men’s 5,000 in time of the year.—AP Distance and rivals challenge American Pharoah’s Triple try

NEW YORK: All that separates Preakness Stakes, and Belmont, and American Pharoah galloped another miss. “There’s a lot of anxi- most of them ride. American Pharoah from being the failed since 1978. Now it’s American around the big Belmont oval on ety,” said Bob Baffert, the only train- American Pharoah’s California- first US Triple Crown winner in 37 Pharoah’s turn today. Thursday before visiting the pad- er to lose the Belmont three times based jockey, Victor Espinoza, has years is 1 1/2 miles (2,400 meters) The bay colt with the unusually dock where he will be saddled on with horses that won the first two experience in the Belmont, having and seven rivals determined to short tail appears to have come race day. He is the heavy 3-5 early legs. “I don’t even think about the lost two other Triple tries, with make him earn a victory in the through the Derby and Preakness favorite. He either follows history.” If there’s rain in the fore- California Chrome last year and War Belmont Stakes. Twelve horses with energy to spare, and he’ll need Affirmed’s sweep in 1978, and cast, give the edge to American Emblem in 2002. before him have tried to complete it in the longest and most grueling boosts the struggling horse racing Pharoah, who romped to a seven- “If he’s happy, it’s all going to be the sweep of the Kentucky Derby, race of the three. industry in the US, or becomes just length win in the Preakness after a easy,” Espinoza said. “If he’s not massive downpour occurred as the happy, you’re going to force things horses were going to the starting and he’s not ready to do it.” gate. The colt’s grand-sire, Empire American Pharoah will be the Maker, won the 2003 Belmont, only horse to run in all three Triple spoiling Funny Cide’s Triple Crown Crown races this year. Five of his bid. This time, the competition rivals already lost to him in the seems committed to sticking closer Derby, one was beaten by him in to American Pharoah, whose pre- the Preakness, while another is new ferred running style is at the front, to the series. Madefromlucky, who although he’s shown he can sit off along with Materiality are trainer the early pace and win. How many Todd Pletcher’s two entries, has of the horses press the early pace trained and won at Belmont Park. will determine who has enough gas How American Pharoah handles left for the 1,097-yard (1,003-meter) the extra quarter-mile (400 meters) run down the final straight. in the Belmont will be crucial to his “I want him to break cleanly and chances. “If American Pharoah can freely,” Baffert said, “and have Victor get a mile and a half today, all of our put him in the mode where he’s hats will be off to him,” said Jerry comfortable. I’m sure they’re all Crawford, who owns 20-1 shot Keen going to be pretty close together.” Ice. “But it’s our job to do what we Just as horses aren’t used to run- can to make the race honest.” ning 1 1/2 miles, jockeys aren’t used Kiaran McLaughlin, who trains 5-1 to riding races that long, either. The second choice Frosted, said: “We Belmont has undone some who hope people are booing us after the have moved too soon and burned race. We don’t mind a Triple Crown out their horses. Others have winner, just not this year.” moved too late and let the leaders Luck - either good or bad - plays get away. a role in the Belmont, too. Real The track’s deep, sandy surface Quiet was denied horse racing can prove tiring to run on, the turns immortality in 1998 by a nose, are sweeping, and the poles used which still haunts trainer Baffert. by jockeys to judge their location “One-and-a-half miles is the biggest HOT SPRINGS: In this March 14, 2015, file photo, American Pharoah (4), jockey Victor Espinoza (up) runs are placed differently than at the issue,” he said. “It’s a test of great- down the stretch to win the $750,000 Rebel Stakes horse race at Oaklawn Park. —AP mile (1,600-meter) tracks where ness and he’ll let us know.” —AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Ex-investigator: FIFA can no longer protect itself

MELBOURNE: The US-led investigations into cor- “Somewhere above that there is a veneer of not because of his work there or the unfolding was persuaded there was much to be done from ruption at FIFA have pierced the veil of secrecy people who make decisions who have the ability scandal. However, he said he nearly quit only this report and that investigations would be open,” that protected soccer’s top power-brokers and to intercept or be involved in some way in the vast months after starting work in earnest last October, said Davidson, who credited Cornel Borbely, chair- more dominoes can be expected to fall, said a for- money that goes around.” following the departure of FIFA’s independent man of the ethics committee’s investigatory cham- mer investigator on the governing body’s ethics “Those people had been protected by that lay- investigator Michael Garcia. ber, for talking him round. committee. er of, if you like, working together. Now that layer, The former US attorney submitted a report of Nicholas Davidson, a prominent lawyer and that veneer, has been pierced. And so they will his 18-month investigation into the controversial FRUSTRATION honorary president of New Zealand’s football asso- talk. People talk. As Prince William said, this is the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Davidson declined to comment on the scope of ciation, resigned from his role on FIFA’s investiga- ‘Salt Lake City moment’. And I think we’ve just Cups, which are now the subject of a probe by his work, only to say it was separate from the alle- tory chamber before Swiss police arrested seven scratched it.” Swiss authorities. A summary of that report gations swirling around the officials and media senior officials in Zurich last week. English FA president Prince William last week released by FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert executives indicted last week. While defending the work of the ethics com- compared the FIFA scandal to the Salt Lake City in November found some impropriety by bid Though he ultimately decided to stay on until mittee and its “fearless” personnel, Davidson said Olympics corruption crisis that ultimately sparked teams, but not enough to re-open the bidding recently, Davidson expressed his frustration that, the governing body’s lack of transparency had set deep reform of the International Olympic process for the showpiece events due to be held in as a member of the investigatory chamber, he was it up to fail. Committee and the bidding process for Games. Russia and Qatar respectively. denied access to both Garcia’s report and the “It strikes me from my observations of the peo- Garcia, who complained the summary misrep- American’s appeal brief against Eckert’s summary. ple who work in the business, and I’m talking GARCIA REPORT resented his report, resigned in December after his He said the report, still under wraps despite about ordinary employees, (they are) hugely skilful, Davidson, who feels world soccer is going appeal against Eckert’s statement was rejected by promises that it will be published, should be talented people, and dedicated,” Davidson said in through a similar “sea-change”, stressed he left a FIFA committee. released so long as it would not prejudice any a phone interview from Christchurch yesterday. FIFA due to a change in his professional life and “At that stage I was going to step down, but I ongoing investigations or prosecutions.—Reuters

Could Russia and Qatar lose their World Cups? FIFA discloses Ireland received NEW YORK: If there is enough evidence of wrongdoing, $5 million over Henry’s handball FIFA has the power to strip the World Cup from both Russia and Qatar. Soccer’s governing body, currently engulfed in the worst NEW YORK: In the midst of an escalating corruption scandal in its 111-year history, has a provision financial scandal, FIFA admitted Thursday which allows it to revoke hosting rights for “unforeseen to giving Ireland $5 million in compensa- contingencies and force majeure.” tion for missing a place at the 2010 World “If there is still evidence that a substantial amount (of Cup after Thierry Henry’s handball set up votes) have been bought by illegal means, then of course it France’s winning goal. could be changed,” Swiss law professor and anti-corruption FIFA disclosed the payment after the expert Mark Pieth told The Associated Press. “I would not money was mentioned in a radio inter- totally rule it out, and of course there are many other ques- view by Football Association of Ireland tions linked to it.” So far, the Russians and Qataris don’t chief executive John Delaney. Neither seem to be worried. FIFA nor the FAI had previously disclosed FIFA has been plunged into crisis since seven officials the agreement to stave off legal action were arrested in dawn raids last week at a luxury Zurich following the contentious 2009 playoff hotel ahead of the FIFA congress. They were among 14 game. indicted by US authorities on corruption charges. In a sepa- The revelation was made two days rate probe, Swiss authorities are investigating the 2018 and after FIFA President Sepp Blatter 2022 World Cup bidding contests, which went to Russia and announced under pressure that he will Qatar. In the wake of the two investigations, FIFA President resign, likely by March. Blatter, who has Sepp Blatter announced his decision to resign. That came headed FIFA since 1998, was re-elected only four days after he was re-elected for a fifth, four-term. to a fifth term last Friday despite criminal US authorities are also looking specifically at the 79-year- investigations into FIFA that included U.S. old Blatter, but he has not been formally charged. Russia criminal charges against executive com- was awarded the 2018 World Cup and Qatar was given the mittee members and arrests at the FIFA 2022 tournament in an executive committee vote in Zurich Congress in Zurich. in December 2010. Accusations of vote-buying followed The loan highlights the lack of trans- PARIS: France’s Thierry Henry (left) passes the ball as Ireland’s goalkeeper quickly, and FIFA appointed American lawyer Michael parency that plunged FIFA into the Shay Given (right) tries to stop it, just before William Gallas (unseen) scored Garcia as the lead investigator into possible wrongdoing. biggest scandal of its 111-year history. the goal for France during their World Cup qualifying playoff second leg soccer Garcia submitted his report late last year, but soon resigned Northern Ireland’s Jim Boyce, who retired match. FIFA has admitted to giving Ireland $5 million in compensation for after a disagreement over what was in the file. Garcia’s full as a FIFA vice president last week, called missing out on a place at the 2010 World Cup after Thierry Henry’s handball report has never been released, but FIFA turned over the for an investigation into the Irish loan. that set up the French winner. —AP document to the Swiss authorities who are still investigat- In November 2009, Ireland was furious ing possible corruption. that Henry’s handball in extra time national stadium and opened in 2010. ciation’s error-prone record, earlier said Several members on that 24-man executive committee enabled William Gallas to score and give “The terms agreed between FIFA and the the FAI could not discuss details of the have been largely discredited since the vote, including a life France a 2-1 aggregate win and a place in FAI were that the loan would be reim- FIFA payment as part of a confidentiality ban for Qatari official Mohammed Bin Hammam and some the 32-nation field on South Africa. bursed if Ireland qualified for the 2014 clause. Speaking hours before FIFA’s resignations and shorter bans for others. Swedish referee Martin Hansson was criti- FIFA World Cup,” the FIFA statement said. statement, Delaney said he angrily con- Besides the Swiss investigation, Australia has added to cized heavily for not making a handball “Ireland did not so qualify. Because of fronted Blatter face to face in November the pressure with its own police investigation. Australia was call. FIFA rejected requests by the FAI this, and in view of the FAI’s financial situ- 2009 at a meeting in Switzerland days one of the losing bidders in the 2022 contest. that the game be replayed and Ireland be ation, FIFA decided to write off the loan after the second leg of the playoff. FIFA has made late changes to big tournaments before, added to the field as an extra team. The as per 31 December 2014.” Delaney said Ireland was threatening though not on the same scale. Colombia withdrew as the compensation deal risks setting a prece- The FAI responded to the FIFA state- to sue FIFA unless it received compen- host of the 1986 World Cup four years before kickoff dent that other disgruntled teams could ment by calling the payment a “legal set- sation, either through an exceptional because of economic problems and Mexico stepped in. The try to apply if in-game decisions go tlement agreement” rather than a loan entry for its team into the 2010 compe- 2003 Women’s World Cup was switched from China to the against them. and saying it was 5 million euros not 5 tition or financial compensation. He United States with only six months’ notice because of the “While the referee’s decision is final, million dollars, as FIFA said. said that while Blatter mocked the Irish outbreak of the SARS virus. and the Football Association of Ireland “FIFA’s settlement with the demands in public, FIFA behind the England, Germany and the United States could be poten- ultimately accepted it as such, in January Association has at no time influenced the scenes quickly offered a confidential tial replacement hosts for the next two World Cups. The 2010 FIFA entered into an agreement FAI’s criticism of FIFA as demonstrated by financial settlement. “We felt we had a FIFA executive committee - the powerful panel of officials with FAI in order to put an end to any our consistent criticisms of Sepp Blatter,” legal case against FIFA,” Delaney on RTE that awarded the World Cup to Russia and Qatar in the first claims against FIFA,” FIFA said in a state- the Dublin-based governing body said. radio on Thursday. “Also the way Blatter place - would likely have the final say on where the next two ment. “FIFA granted FAI a loan of $5 mil- “Furthermore the settlement was made behaved, if you remember on stage, World Cups will be played. And the position of some of the lion for the construction of a stadium in without any conditions other than confi- having a snigger and having a laugh at top executives and possible contenders to succeed Blatter Ireland. At the same time, UEFA also dentiality.” us. So that day when I went in and I told as president are complicated, especially when it comes to granted the FAI funds for the same stadi- FAI Chief Executive John Delaney, him how I felt about him, and there Qatar’s bid, the most contentious.—AP um.” The 56,000 seat Aviva Stadium was who faces heavy domestic criticism for were some expletives used, we came to built on the site of the Lansdowne Road his own 360,000 euro salary and the asso- an agreement.”—AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015

SINGAPORE: Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the biennial Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore’s National Stadium. —AFP Southeast Games open in Singapore

SINGAPORE: The 28th Southeast Asian Finally, the torch was handed to Fandi tion outside its own borders, but for the 11 this year as part of its 50th anniversary of Games opened in a blaze of colour and Ahmad, Singapore’s most celebrated foot- competing countries, the stakes could hardly independence from Malaysia. pageantry at Singapore’s new national baller, who made over 100 appearances for be high. The year-long celebrations have taken on Stadium yesterday, providing the sports his country and scored 55 goals. Held every two years since 1959, the SEA added poignancy following the death in world with a brief moment of celebration He was joined by his 17-year-old son Irfan, Games feature a rich mixture of sports, many March of Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee after a week of soccer-related scandal. who is a member of the Singaporean team that are on the Olympic program but also a Kuan Yew. In keeping with tradition, the Games were competing at the SEA Games, and together few that keep faith with the region’s unique More than 400 gold medals will be hand- declared open by the host nation’s head of they lit the cauldron, setting off a dazzling sporting interests, including the exotic pen- ed out before the Games close on June 16. state, Singaporean president Tony Tan, after a fireworks display at the stadium and in other cak silat, sepak takraw and dragon boat rac- Over a dozen gold medals have already spectacular opening ceremony showcasing parts of the city. ing. been decided with the host-nation winning the region’s cultural diversity and spectacular Like all regional multi-sports events, the Singapore last hosted the Games in 1993 seven, Vietnam four, Thailand two and economic growth. SEA Games struggles for mainstream recogni- but specifically asked to stage the SEA Games Malaysia one. —Reuters About 50,000 spectators filed into the gleaming new stadium at Singapore’s $1 bil- lion SportsHub for the two-hour multi-mil- lion-dollar ceremony which ushered the Ice sports to debut at SEA Games region’s biggest multi-sports event into the tiny city-state. SINGAPORE: The 2017 Southeast Asian Winter Games. “There will be two ice skat- and pick up to eight events-often to the More than 4,000 athletes from the eclectic Games in Malaysia will have an uncharacter- ing disciplines, figure skating and short frustration of others. group of 11 nations that make up Southeast istically frosty feel for the tropical partici- track speed skating,” Singapore Ice Skating In 2011, Indonesia controversially Asia marched into the stadium, led by Brunei pants after ice skating and ice hockey were Association president Sonja Chong told the dropped table tennis and added bridge and and followed by Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, added to the biennial multi-sport event for paper. wall climbing, while Myanmar opted for the Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, East the first time. The two winter sports were “It is the legacy I hoped to leave for win- martial arts of kenpo and vovinam over ten- Timor and Vietnam. surprisingly approved by the South East ter sports in Singapore-winter sports being nis and gymnastics two years ago. The host nation Singapore came in last, Asian Games Federation and will not have played side by side with summer sports.” “As a member of the SEA Games with teenage swimmer Quah Zheng Wen, to enter as demonstration sports, local The move is likely to be welcomed by Federation, I personally want to correct who is attempting to win an unfathomable 12 media reported yesterday. Thailand, who said the SEA Games should things to make the Games better,” gold medals at the Games, carrying his coun- “It will be a medal sport,” Ice Skating move away from featuring so many regional Thailand’s Charoen Wattanasin told the try’s flag. Association of Malaysia president Mohamad sports. “Sports at the Games should only be paper. “But it is not easy because many The SEA Games flag was raised and Micky Fadzil Johan was quoted as saying by the Olympic disciplines,” Sakol Wannapong, countries are reluctant to do so. They want Lin, the captain of Singapore’s netball team, Singapore’s Today Newspaper. governor of the Sports Authority of to have their traditional sports in the read the athletes’ oath. The ceremony centred “Apart from Singapore and Malaysia, we Thailand (SAT), was quoted as saying by Games. “The SEA Games should be a venue on the aspirations of a young child who dared have been assured of participants from Friday’s Bangkok Post. for young athletes to hone their skills for to dream big and create a brighter future, a Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and The Thais are the most successful bigger events like the Asian Games and the narrative drawing heavily on Singapore’s Cambodia, who are all members of the Olympic nation in the region with seven Olympics,” he said. transformation from a sleepy British colonial International Skating Union.” golds, just ahead of Indonesia’s six. But no The head of the Thai Taekwondo outpost to a global financial powerhouse that Philippines have sent athletes to four other Southeast Asian nation has won an Association said that wasn’t the case cur- is now home to many of the world’s mega- Winter Olympics and Thailand three, while Olympic event. rently. “It is just for friendship and not for rich. The torch relay began in the city centre East Timor sent one skier to Sochi, Russia But installing Olympic-priority change at sporting excellence, so we are not sending at the iconic Marina Bay and was passed last year but the other eight Southeast the SEA Games will be tricky, with host our best athletes to the SEA Games,” Pimol between generations of Singapore’s best ath- Asian nations have never participated in a nations allowed to change the programme Srivikorn said. —Reuters letes. SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Juventus, Barca clash for the treble in Berlin

BERLIN: Both Juventus and Barcelona are looking to cap fan- tastic seasons by completing rare trebles when they meet in the Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin today. Juventus are appearing in their first Champions League final in 12 years as they look to win the European Cup for the third time, but Barcelona, inspired by Lionel Messi, are the favourites to win a fifth European Cup and fourth in the last decade. Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri and his Barcelona counter- part Luis Enrique have already enjoyed excellent debut sea- sons in charge of their respective clubs, both winning domes- tic league and cup doubles, and both are now within touching distance of making it a glorious treble. For Barcelona, it would be a second such treble following their fantastic first season under Pep Guardiola in 2008-09, but such an achievement is very rare indeed. Only six other clubs have ever won a domestic league and cup double and the European Cup in the same season, with Celtic’s Lisbon Lions of 1967 the first. Since then, Ajax (1972), PSV Eindhoven (1988), Manchester United (1999), Inter Milan (2010) and Bayern Munich (2013) have repeated the feat. Barcelona can therefore become the first club to do it twice, and their current team contains several members of that 2009 vintage under Guardiola. “We are still a young team. There are still quite a few play- ers from the Guardiola era,” said Luis Enrique. “This could turn out to be an historic season for us.” Juventus, meanwhile, will either join that elite group of clubs or become the first club to have lost six European Cup finals. The Italian champions’ main task is to blunt Barcelona’s razor-sharp attack of Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez which has sliced through defences on the road to Berlin. The South American trio have scored a stunning 120 goals between them this season, compared to the 103 managed by the entire Juventus team. With 58 goals in all competitions, four-time world player of the year Messi is in the best form of his illustrious career, but Juventus can ill-afford to focus on containing his talents NEW ZEALAND: Angel Correa (center) of Argentina is tackled by Markus Blutsch (left) and Daniel Rosenbichler of Austria alone. Messi destroyed Guardiola’s Bayern Munich with two during the FIFA Under-20 World Cup football match. —AFP goals in the first leg of their semi-final before setting up Neymar for the third at the Camp Nou. But in the return it was Suarez and Neymar who did the damage, combining for two first-half goals at the Allianz NZ thrash Myanmar, Arena which put the tie beyond Bayern. To make Juve’s task even harder, centre-back Giorgio Chiellini was ruled out of the final after tearing a calf muscle in training. Argentina crash out ‘GAME OF OUR LIVES’ But Juventus have neither flown to Berlin just to witness Messi’s magic first hand nor do they wish to see him become the first player to score in three Champions League finals. WELLINGTON: Noah Billingsley beyond doubt in the final 25 minutes. but was denied by some superb saves “This is the game of our lives,” said Juve goalkeeper scored one goal and set up two others New Zealand are third in Group A from Tino Casali. The River Plate strik- Gianluigi Buffon, their sole survivor from their last Champions as hosts New Zealand beat Myanmar on four points. Ukraine won the group er also unintentionally blocked a goal- League final, the defeat to AC Milan in 2003. 5-1 to put themselves on the brink of with seven points after a 3-0 win over bound shot by Nicolas Tripichio in the “I would always want to be starting off as a favourite, but the knockout phase of the under-20 the United States in Auckland. The 10th minute. we have our weapons to try and make Barcelona’s job more World Cup for the first time, while six- Americans finished second on six In Auckland, Emmanuel Boateng’s difficult,” added Buffon, who along with Pirlo won the World times champions Argentina crashed points. Argentina, the pre-tournament 74th minute goal was enough to send Cup at the same stadium with Italy in 2006.—AFP out yesterday. favorites drew their final game 0-0 the 2009 champions Ghana through Billingsley scored before halftime against Austria in Wellington. The to the knockout phase.—Reuters then set up Monty Patterson and Joel Latin American side finished Group B Stevens after the break before Sam with just two points following a draw Brotherton and Clayton Lewis sealed with Panama and loss to Ghana, who the victory to give Oceania, FIFA’s won the group with seven points after Matches on TV weakest confederation, the opportu- they beat the Central Americans 1-0 in (Local Timings) nity of two sides advancing to the Auckland. round of 16. Austria finished second in the Tournament debutantes Fiji had group on five points, with Argentina UEFA Champions provided a massive upset with a 3-0 third. Humberto Grondona’s side have League win over Honduras in Group F on no chance of qualifying as one of the Thursday and could also conceivably four best-placed third teams who also advance to the knockout stage after advance to the round of 16 along with Juventus V Barcelona 21:45 the final matches. each of the group winners and run- beIN SPORTS 1 HD New Zealand had to battle back ners-up. beIN SPORTS 2 HD after Myanmar’s Aung Thu scored a Four other third-placed teams, beIN SPORTS 3 HD 28th minute goal before Billingsley including New Zealand and Fiji, beIN SPORTS 5 HD GERMANY: Juventus’ French midfielder Paul Pogba takes equalised in the 40th. Patterson already have more points than beIN SPORTS 6 HD part in a training session prior the UEFA Champions added the second goal seven minutes Argentina. Argentina’s Giovanni beIN SPORTS 7 HD League Final football match between Juventus and after the break before Stevens, Simeone had several chances in the beIN SPORTS 11 HD Barcelona. —AFP Brotherton and Lewis put the game first half to ensure his side advanced Warriors beat Cavs in Game One OT thriller SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 SATURDAY, SportsSports 43

PARIS: Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka returns the ball during the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament against France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Roland Garros stadium. —AP Wawrinka sinks French hopes

PARIS: Stan Wawrinka shattered French could have gone either way,” Wawrinka said. give him the first set on a baking hot day sion of break points. hopes of a first men’s singles champion in 32 “He had chances to break me in the third which saw the temperature nudging above But this time it was the Swiss who handled years yesterday when he outlasted Jo-Wilfried set, but he had a great tournament and 30 degrees. the tie-break better, taking four points in a Tsonga 6-3, 6-7 (1/7), 7-6 (7/3) 6-4 in the first deserves just as much as me to be in the The Swiss eighth seed was clearly on top row from 3-3 to go two sets to one up. of the semi-finals. final.” The semi-finalists, both aged 30, had and he broke again to start the second set. That proved to be a hammer blow for It was a consummate performance from met twice before at Roland Garros, each win- Wawrinka’s first serve was regularly in the Tsonga who immediately dropped his serve the Swiss stylist and he will harbor high hopes ning in five sets, but their most recent 210-215 kph range and that, coupled with the to open the fourth set. Tsonga adopted the of taking a second Grand Slam title on Sunday encounter was a superb four sets Davis Cup fast, bouncy conditions, left Tsonga strug- drop shot as his weapon of choice to get back when he goes up against either top seed final win for Wawrinka in November. gling to cope. on serve, but he failed to convert two more Novak Djokovic or third seed Andy Murray. That sent Tsonga’s form into a tailspin But the Frenchman was finally given a look break points as Wawrinka moved 2-0 up. The 2014 Australian Open winner reached the made all the worse by a bad wrist injury that in when Wawrinka twice double-faulted in the Both men were looking leg-weary as the final in Paris for the first time having lost just sidelined him until March. But Roland Garros eighth game and he took full advantage to semi-final nudged up to three and a half two sets along the way. saw him back to near his best, defeating level the set scores when Wawrinka shanked a hours in hot and humid conditions and For Tsonga, the dream of emulating fourth seed Tomas Berdych and fifth seed Kei forehand wide. The Swiss player failed to con- Wawrinka failed to take a succession of break Yannick Noah, the last Frenchman to win at Nishikori to reach the semis for the second vert five break points in a marathon 11th points that would have put him 5-2 up. In the Roland Garros in 1983, was over for another time. Wawrinka, a straight-sets winner over game and he paid a full price in the ensuing end though he did not need the extra break year. The last Frenchman to reach the final countryman Roger Federer in the quarter- tie-break which Tsonga dominated to win 7-1. as back-to-back service holds saw him was Henri Leconte in 1988. finals, struck first, clawing his way back from The roles were reversed in a bruising third through to the championship match for the “It was a huge battle, very difficult physi- 0-40 down to break Tsonga’s serve for a first set with Tsonga comfortably holding serve first time in what is his 11th campaign at cally, a lot of intensity on both sides and it time in the fourth game. That was enough to and Wawrinka needing to stave off a succes- Roland Garros. —AP