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Local Spotlight Scribbler’s Notebook No shorts at police stations The downward slope

By Muna Al-Fuzai By Jamie Etheridge

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have a new tip for all male readers and I’m not making tion! But she refused to work unless he went home and put ost of you have likely read the recent survey this up! You all recall those short messages by mobile on trousers. He was an expat, so he was not expected to put published here and elsewhere ranking coun- Icompanies warning drivers not to text while driving. Well, on a dishdasha! Mtries around the world on how friendly they I have a new one for you. Don’t drive while wearing shorts. When I first heard his story, I laughed and made a few are for expats. Kuwait, sadly, ranked at the absolute In case of an accident, you will not be welcomed at the comments about him being a subject of seduction in public, bottom of the list, coming in 61 out of 61 countries. police station unless you go home and change! but this was serious. I agreed with him that if shorts are not Believe it or not, Kuwait was beat out by The World Recently I received a call from a friend who could not allowed at the police station, then they should not be Through Expat Eyes report, created by Expat Insider - believe the way he was treated at the police station because allowed at any other place including malls and restaurants. of the clothes he was wearing. One weekend he went to the Kuwait is hot nearly all year long and shorts are very conven- polled nearly 14,000 respondents from across the beach and while he was driving back home wearing a T-shirt ient to wear for many purposes, not only for the beach but globe. The survey covered demographics, relocation and shorts, he was hit by another car. It was a minor accident for going out too. And when a man leaves a house in shorts, and various aspects of daily life in the host country. and both parties agreed to go to the police station to com- he doesn’t expect to be involved in an accident. This man Countries were weighed according to five sepa- plete the formality of procedures and paperwork. No one was forced to go home, change and come back for a task rate indexes that included general quality of life, ease was hurt. that only took a few minutes. So for those who like shorts, of settling in, work, family life and personal finance. When they arrived at the police station and went to the keep a pair of pants nearby. You don’t know when you Additionally respondents were asked: “how satisfied office of the investigator, she refused to process the paper- might need them! are you with life abroad in general?” In the Quality of work and asked him to go home and change because of the Life Index, Kuwait ranked just above Nigeria overall shorts he was wearing. He told her that when he left the but fell below it in personal happiness and leisure beach, he was going home and did not expect to have an options. I don’t really agree with this ranking first accident. He went directly from the street to the police sta- because there are a growing number of things to do in Kuwait - but it’s up to the individual or family to seek them out. Secondly, personal happiness is affected by a variety of factors that reach far beyond location. One need also consider personal finances, family relationships, societal acceptance. Think Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Kuwait can be reward- ing on a variety of levels but really it’s up to the indi- vidual to make themselves happy, not the place where they live. In the Ease of Settling In Index, Kuwait ranked worst in Feeling Welcome, Finding Friends and Friendliness. No surprise there. This is a common complaint among all expatriates. Though I find that expats also can be as clique-ish and unwelcoming as locals. The report reminded me of another recent analysis where Kuwait struck rock bottom. In the WEF Global Competitiveness Report 2014, Kuwait ranked among the worst on index after index. From foreign direct investment to educational standards, from bureaucracy to transparency in government, Kuwait not only fell far below its regional peers but rivaled several impoverished African and Asian states for last place. The sad part is that Kuwait’s deterioration is whol- ly unnecessary. The country has the resources - both human and capital - to build a thriving, modern urban oasis. It also has the peace and as much securi- ty as pretty much any country in the region can expect. So to see it decline is heartbreaking. Two students from Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) recently asked me what I thought about Kuwait in 2004 vs 2014. I could only shake my head. When I first arrived in 2004, Kuwait was at the beginning of a new chapter, a fresh start after the many years of life next door to a hostile neighbor. Ten years on, she is despondent. A country without a vision and without an idea of how or when it will build its future. Kuwait may be simply experiencing a difficult peri- od, a downward slope in the graph line of its long evolution. As we all know, what goes down, may also rise again and so I am hopeful that Kuwait will one day be a thriving regional hub, a friendly destination for expatriates, a booming economy and a beautiful modern country - a 21st century pearl of the Gulf. Insha’Allah.

KUWAIT: Baskets designed with a local flavor in mind at a Ramadan exhibition this past summer. More and more exhibi- tions, markets and outdoor events are incorporating local flavor, styles and imagery into their events as part of a grow- ing support for remembering and capturing Kuwaiti heritage. — Photo by Zara Khurshid

Start of planting season ups visits to local nurseries

By Nawara Fattahova

UWAIT: With the beginning of the planting season, the nurseries in Al Rai (on the Fourth Ring Road) are gearing up for one of their busi- Kest shopping seasons. Visitors are seeking plants, mostly outdoor plants for gardening and are looking for bargains. “Four days before Eid, we recorded huge sales. I felt as if people were celebrating Eid with flow- ers and plants. The planting season has just started, and many people are coming to buy plants for their garden. Most of my plants are for outdoor planting, and they are heat resistant,” Nathem Khaleel, Assisting Manager at Beirut nursery in Al Rai area told the Kuwait Times. Local5

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KD 5000 plant Among the most popular at the nurseries are fruit and olive trees. “The most expensive plant in my nurs- ery is a Spanish olive tree that is 800 years old and it costs KD 5000. This tree does not produce many olives, due to the hot weather here in Kuwait. So we only get few olives. Then I also have a two pepe Italian olive tree that costs KD 1850. Furthermore we have expensive palms from Italy such as the Shamiropis palm, which costs KD 2250 for the big size, and the Bashmarga silver palm that costs KD 1850,” added Nathem. Fruit trees are also popular, though struggle in the arid Kuwaiti climate. “We have the Lebanese tangerine trees worth KD 35, Kimi kuwa trees producing small oranges that are eaten with its skin and others. We also have plants that are used for cooking or consumption such as the rosemary plants used as herbs for cooking or the lemon grass used to boil and drink as green tea,” explained Nathem. He also has some less expensive plants. “I have the Fitna Aptosa tree that costs between KD 5 - 450, depending on the size. It takes about seven years to grow from the small to the medium size which is worth KD 200. Also I have the Bohemia Hong Kong that ranks between KD 35 - 450 and is imported from Malaysia. Then there is the Adenium that ranks between KD 10 - 450,” he pointed out. This nursery imports its plants and trees from differ- ent countries such as Italy, Spain, Lebanon, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and few from Australia. “We import about 75 - 80 containers every year. Some custom- ers also make their special order of plants that reach a whole container or more. All outdoor plants are resistant to hot weather. Also we have a farm where we prepare and plant some trees and plants, and we then transport it to this nursery,” he concluded.

Local varieties Local palms are cheaper than imported ones. At another nursery in the same area, local varieties of kinds of plants and trees can be bought. “There is high demand for palms which price differs according to its size and kind. It can rank between KD 90 - KD 400. We have a few here on display, while we have more at the farm. We can arrange transport and also provide a three-month after-sales warranty. Furthermore we have artificial and natural grass, while the natural is cheaper,” said Raouf, salesman at the Gulf Palms nursery. He agreed that the fall season and holidays are the best times for the nurseries. “Sales during this holiday were much higher than in regular days. People like to buy flowers and plants during the holiday, rather than coming while they have work. We sold the seasonal flowers and plants,” he further said.

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KUWAIT: Colorful teapots displayed at the Mubarakiya market in downtown Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Let the positives overcome the negatives

Letter to the Editor ecently, in our role of being responsible for The KD2 as a tip, which he graciously refused. I said “please!” he only weapon we have is love!” He replied, “Jayed! Salvation Army members and centers in the Middle said, “Pastor, I am happy with the agreed amount!” He A’jabanihaqqan! That is good!” It was time to move on, but REast region, my wife and I left our base here in Kuwait wished us a safe trip! wow, what a great welcome! to visit our centers in the UAE. The Salvation Army is an We moved into the airport, passing the great guys at Our colleagues in UAE greeted us and we travelled to international church and charity with congregations, com- Boodai Aviation Travel Kiosk and gave each other a mutual their apartment in Sharjah, where I was able to eat two of munity centers, care programs, clinics, and much more in greeting! You would find it hard to discover more helpful my favorite cakes - Lemon drizzle cake and walnut cake! 130 countries around the world. Our presence in this and pleasant young men! The officer at baggage control Somehow they had discovered it was my birthday. Our region comes about through expatriate members of the looked at my passport and ticket, smiled and gave a joking days in UAE were happy, with other pleasant surprises, and church coming to work here, and in recent years, leaders salute, “Major!” He’d remembered me from a previous we believe it was productive. came first to Kuwait to commence church services in a occasion when I’d passed through the airport in my full uni- We made our return to Kuwait. more official way. form with my name and rank badge. On this trip I was in My wife and I have had the responsibility and privilege summer uniform. Keep up the good work of leading our church and social care work in Kuwait and At passport control the young officer greeted me with a We got off the plane and made our way to the passport around the Middle East for the last four years. We also have smile. She applied herself to looking at my passport. She control queue. I stood waiting and the man at the diplo- officers (pastors/leaders) in the UAE and make an annual raised her head and beamed, exclaiming: “Happy Birthday mats and crew section signaled me to come over to him. visit there. So off we went for the 2014 visit. On the day we Mr Stewart!” I complemented her on how observant she “Salem!” “Salem!” He took my passport, turned the pages, left, I was feeling a bit down. I was concerned about the was. She replied: “That’s my job! Have a safe trip and lovely looked up at me a few times, then said; “you are a pastor?” I state of the world and the region and saddened, as I’m sure birthday!” said, “yes, sir!” He said, “where?” I replied, “my congrega- we all were, by a number of news reports. I had just heard We called into the duty free shop. We wanted some tion meet at the National Evangelical Church Kuwait com- of the passing of a man who had played an important role Crunchy Bars or something with honey. The young lady pound. We are called The Salvation Army.” He closed my in my life. who served us, I think should receive sales person of the passport, passed it back to me, took my hand and shook it My youngest son was reporting to me his despondency year - she had no Crunchy Bars but she enthusiastically saying, “Keep up the good work!” wow, another warm wel- at finding it hard to get accommodation in London for his searched every shelf and eventually found huge Swiss come! second year at Imperial College - you know how it goes; “I Chocolate bars with honey and nougat. We said we’d take We got one of the airport taxis back to our home. Every might as well give up dad!” I had also recently had a con- two. “But Madam, if you buy three you get one free!” We time we were to go over a road bump - of which there are versation with someone who was a complete downer on said, “But we only need two”. She continued, “But maybe many of them in our district, I informed the driver. Every Kuwait - (I think really he was a negative person). for a special occasion?” My wife said, “It’s my husband’s time he turned, flipped his gutra, smiled and said, birthday today!” Then to our amusement the sales lady “Shukran!” We stopped outside our building, the driver Experiences said, “Buy them for him!” and started to sing happy birth- again graciously took our cases out of the trunk. I gave him To be honest, I’ve been influenced by such things day to me! We purchased -three large bars and got one free the agreed KD5 and KD2 tip. He smiled and took the KD5 including smokers in your face where it says no smoking, -the kids in church had far more chocolate pieces than we and offered back to me the KD2 - and this time I was more every service is bad (I don’t agree), people interrupting had intended! assertive and said, “No, please you take it with our thanks!” your conversations because they feel their words are more He bowed his head and I think he said, “Allah ybarek- important than yours, lack of respect on the roads, etc. Oh, Our weapon is love feekom!” and mobile phones ringing and being answered when On arrival in Dubai, the two young Emiratis at passport We might ask what is the “good work” the passport offi- you’re preaching! Plus, I wish I had planned our trip for control, pleasantly smiled and apologized for the long cer referred to? It’s being as positive, friendly, accepting, another date, because there were important matters here, queue and delay we had experienced. After a brief conver- welcoming and encouraging - participating in the good and it was also a special day for me. sation, they raised their hands and burst into “Kul ‘am work of building a positive, relational, accepting world! The day started like this: the south Indian taxi driver waantumbekheir/Mabrook” - birthday greetings to me, Thanks be to God, for all those wonderful people! This picked us up in good time. In his car, he had a bold clear extolling the virtues of the UAE and suggesting places I region isn’t just about a very warm climate - it’s full of very sign on the front dashboard, “Please refrain from smoking! should visit. “You’ve been here before? warm people! Please do up your seat belts! May God bless You!” Wow I Then one looking at my badge boldly asked, “Salvation Stewart Grinsted (Major) thought that’s a great way to start a trip! We arrived at the Army?” Conscious of others in the queue, I tried to quickly Regional Commander airport and the driver kindly took our suitcases from the respond with an answer. The man said, “Church with The Salvation Army Middle East trunk. I gave him the agreed amount of KD5 and handed guns?” I said, “No, no! We are an Army without guns. The International Church and Charity Local FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Crime Kuwait, Japan sign two Report Harassers may transportation deals face deportation

KUWAIT: Director General of Criminal Detectives Maj General Mahmoud Al-Tabbakh said “any expat who vio- Al-Sabeeh inspects Tokyo metro system lates law during holidays and special events, or harass girls in public places will be immediately deported, according to the authority given to the director general of detectives. Maj General Al-Tabbakh, excluded cases that were referred to courts to safeguard the people’s right of litigation. “Sometimes some women refuse to file complaints of harassment for fear of being exposed; in this case, the director general can deport that expat, who did not respect the country and its citizen,” he said, adding that any attempt to take advantage of any national event, Eids and other holidays to break the law will be met with instant deportation.

Fights in shopping malls Farwaniya police have sent 18 persons, including seven security guards to criminal detectives follow- ing a fight in a shopping mall. In another develop- ment, police rushed to a shopping mall after they received a midnight call about the fight in the mall. Al-Sabeeh inspects Tokyo metro system 11 persons were arrested including seven gulf TOKYO: Kuwait and Japan yesterday signed the 2015-2020 National Development Plan, m. Passengers using Shinjuku-sanchome nationals and four citizens. two bilateral cooperation agreements on with putting focus on ways to monitor the Station, like most of key subway stations in transportation and public work projects such plan, exchange experts on that field and spur Tokyo, also enjoy the adjacent underground as expertise exchange and human resource Japanese private sector’s involvement in the shopping street, which is connected to nearby Asian ‘prostitutes’ nabbed development. The memoranda of cooperation development plan. According to Al-Sabeeh, buildings and shopping complexes, allowing Criminal detectives have arrested three Asian women for (MOC) were signed by visiting Kuwaiti Ota also expressed gratitude to the Kuwaiti commuters and shoppers to avoid bad weath- prostitution, under the pretext of massage. The three used Minister of State for Development and Cabinet for its decision in July to suspend the er. a flat in Salmiya to receive their customers for KD10 per Planning Affairs and Minister of Social Affairs offset program. “Minister Ota said the decision “We are honored to show the minister our one hour session. Criminal detectives who gathered infor- and Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh and Japanese Land, will encourage Japanese companies to make subway network today. I hope she will realize mation about the three, formed a team to put an end to Infrastructure and Transport and Tourism more investment in Kuwait. Kuwaiti our safe and stable operation system,” Tokyo their illicit activities. An undercover agent was sent to the Minister Akihiro Ota in a ceremony yesterday. Ambassador in Japan Abdulrahman Al-Otaibi Metro Senior Manager Director Kenji Irie, who flat, then after making the deal, he gave a signal to other Under the agreement between Kuwait’s and the Kuwaiti delegation accompanying Al- accompanied Al-Sabeeh in the inspection detectives to storm the flat. The three suspects are also Ministry of Communications and Japan’s Sabeeh, including Secretary-General of the tour, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and Iqama law violators. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kuwaiti Supreme Council for Planning and Kuwait TV. The history of subways in Tokyo and Tourism, the two countries promote their cooperation in the transportation through exchanges of information. Another agreement Uniform man kidnapped was between Kuwait’s Ministry of Public A uniformed man told Saad Al-Abdallah police that he Works and the above-mentioned Japanese was kidnapped at gun point by his neighbor with the ministry, which is designed to promote coop- help of two of his friends. He said the three suspects eration in the field of public work projects, asked him to go with them to Jahra Industrial area and such as infrastructure development, environ- threatened to kill him. Detectives have launched an mental security and protection, and contracts. investigation. Also, detectives have arrested a gulf The scope of the cooperation includes national for posing as a policeman after he beat up a cit- development of human resources through izen in front of his family. The citizen went to Sulaibkhat dispatch of experts and organizing of semi- police station and complained against the man. nars. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and Kuwait TV after the ceremony, Ota said, “The two MOCs will greatly help Kuwait, which Sri Lankan woman murdered has long-standing relationship with Japan, to Detectives have arrested an Afghani man who is accused push forward its infrastructure development. of murdering his girlfriend. Security officials combed the We are willing to contribute to Kuwait’s infra- Fahaheel area in search of the suspect who was later structural development with our high tech- apprehended after 12 hours. nology.” Kuwaiti and Japanese officials during the signing of the transportation and infra- Noting that during Japanese Prime structure projects. Minister Abe’s visit to Kuwait in August last year, the two countries signed MOC for the Development Hashim Al-Rifai also attended began back in 1927 and Tokyo Metro takes Lebanese girl raped policy dialogue on Kuwait’s national develop- the signing ceremony. advantage of the expertise on subway con- An Iranian barber has been detained by criminal ment between the Japanese Ministry of struction, management, and maintenance it detectives for allegedly raping a 15-year-old Lebanese Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade Tokyo metro system has built up since then. girl, after luring her to the roof of a building. The girl and Industry, and his ministry and the Kuwaiti Meanwhile, Al-Sabeeh yesterday inspected As one of the largest subway operators in told her family about what happened, so her father Supreme Council for Planning and subway lines in Tokyo, as Kuwait plans to Asia, the company currently operates 179 sta- took her to the police station where she explained Development, Ota said yesterday’s deal launch its own metro system soon. The minis- tions on nine lines covering 195.1 km of track what happened. The Iranian was arrested and he is brought the pact into shape. “We had a fruit- ter rode the Marunouchi Line, Tokyo’s second- in and around central Tokyo with over 2,700 being questioned. ful meeting. I also thank the minister for her oldest subway network with 50-year history, cars, carrying 6.4 million passengers each day consideration in facilitating various Japanese and the Fukutoshin Line, the newest, which and making a daily ticket revenue of about $8 companies their contribution to the develop- completed in 2008. Al-Sabeeh was briefed on million. In addition, Tokyo Metropolitan Municipality ‘lost’ KD14 m ment of Kuwait.” Tokyo Metro Co’s advanced technologies, Bureau of Transportation run by the Tokyo Al-Sabeeh said the MOCs on transporta- operation system, facilities of trains and sta- Metropolitan government operates 106 sta- KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality paid KD14 million on lost tion are include all kinds of cooperation which tions, safety measures and disaster prevention tions on four lines and the 109 km track. cases caused by some of its employees and officials. A the Kuwaiti side requires from Japan, includ- steps as well as facilities for disabled people. As of 2013, the combined subway network report by the committee examining cases lost by the ing railway service. Echoing Ota, the Kuwaiti The Fukutoshin Line connects 13 stations of the two metro companies cover 290 sta- municipality revealed that the reasons for losing such cas- minister said, “Today’s MOC is an activation of on the course of 11.9 km in west-central tions and 13 lines, carrying more than 8 mil- es include inaction by some officials, surveyors mistakes, the agreement which was signed last year Tokyo. According to Tokyo Metro, the lion passengers daily. Under its ambitious issuing licenses in violation of law, loss of files due to negli- with attendance of the two prime ministers, Fukutoshin Line is one of the deepest subway National Development Plan, Kuwait plans to gence or a human act and lack of coordination between and enables Japan to pass on its know-how to lines in the Japanese capital, with an average build a nationwide metro system, which is the technical departments and the legal department. The Kuwait. We also agreed to follow the empow- depth of 27 m. At Shinjuku-sanchome Station, designed to address the growing issue of con- huge loss and its causes prompted the committee to rec- erment of this new pact.” where Al-Sabeeh stopped over, the gestion and create a better environment for ommend holding those responsible to account and taking Al-Sabeeh went on to say that she dis- Fukutoshin Line passes under the Marunouchi growth in commercial, business, industrial and the necessary action to avoid such mistakes. cussed with Ota Kuwait’s mega projects under and above the Shinjuku lines at a depth of 15 residential markets. — Agencies 9 Local FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Trimming poverty tops agenda as News finance ministers, bankers meet in brief World Bank boss underlines Kuwait’s role Kuwait funds WASHINGTON: The US capital is sched- nations of the globe. Palestine, Yemen and Liberia. Moreover, Bosnia school uled to host, today, annual meetings of However, he cautioned that such an the conferees are due to examine other the World Bank Group and the approach warrants tackling basic eco- topics, namely climatic changes and International Monetary Fund, grouping nomic problems, namely unemploy- alternative energy and future plans to SARAJEVO: Kuwait’s ambassador to Bosnia and finance ministers, governors of central ment. “It is an integrated process,” Dr minimize contaminating emissions into Herzegovina Nasser Al-Mutairi yesterday officially banks and representatives of private Hassan said. Conferees are scheduled to the atmosphere. opened a new elementary school funded by Kuwait. In a banks from 187 states, with a long list of discuss important role of the private sec- The World Bank contributes to mega speech marking the occasion, the ambassador stressed agenda on the table including global tor in promoting development in various infrastructural projects in poor countries, strategies to boost development and countries, Dr Hassan said. Among the such as construction of dams and high- Kuwait’s earnestness in funding infrastructure projects trim poverty. other “hot issues” to be examined by the ways, he said, indicating at a new plan that contribute to sustained development and econom- In an exclusive interview with Kuwait participants is Ebola and role of the WB designed to create “an alternative fund,” ic growth of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He said that the News Agency (KUNA), World Bank and other concerned international agen- whereby funding with easy terms would relationship between the two countries rested solidly on Executive Director and Dean of the cies to face this virus,” he said, noting be secured, in coordination with the pri- mutual cooperation that brings benefits to their peo- Executive Board Dr Mirza Hassan said the that the WB has earmarked up to $500 vate sector, to press ahead with such planned two days of deliberations million to fund action and precautions development schemes. Furthermore, ples. Attending the school’s opening were mayor of among the world top monetary and against the epidemic. they will deliberate other issues concern- Sarajevo and other senior government officials. banking strategists would deal with Middle Eastern issues, namely plight ing the WB itself, such as disbursement basic issues concerning international of mounting refugees, are also on the of allotted funds. Concerning Kuwait’s development and economy, namely the table, Dr Hassan said, noting in particu- role at these levels, he underlined its sig- Kuwait crude price drops WB aspiration to “get rid of poverty by lar necessity of aiding countries that nificant role at the bank namely in 2030.” The WB has mapped out an inte- hosting them. “Attention must be resolving some internal differences. KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti crude oil slid down in yester- grated strategy to realize “this dream,” devoted to fragile and weak nations that Kuwait is taking part in the major group- he said, indicating that the major plan constitute sources of poverty and prob- ing with a delegation topped by Minister day’s transactions by a whopping $1.10, settling eventually envisages execution of multiple devel- lems,” Dr Hassan elaborated in the inter- of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, CBK Governor at the level of $87.25 per barrel compared to $88.35 a day opment schemes worldwide and secur- view with the Kuwaiti news agency, indi- Dr Mohammad Al-Hashel and other before, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yester- ing fair resources’ distribution among cating in particular at Iraq, Libya, leading banking figures. —KUNA day. Crude price shrinkage was attributed to reemerging fears regarding the status of the world economy, in view of the recent IMF projection that there will be reduced eco- nomic growth worldwide this year, perhaps no more than 3.3 percent. The oil price drop is happening at a time when the oil markets await information from the US Energy Agency on the US crude oil inventories which are expect- ed to be higher than previously thought. The Agency had forecasted earlier that US oil production would reach 9.5 million barrels a day for the year 2015 at a time when OPEC is forecasting a reduction in its production levels which would lead to weaker demand for crude oil in the interna- tional markets. Price of US crude futures for November delivery registered its lowest level since April 2013 reach- ing only $87.46 per barrel in yesterday’s transactions.

OAPEC to meet in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Executive Bureau of the Organization of Arab Oil Producing Countries (OAPEC) will hold its 139th meeting in Kuwait on October 11-12. The meeting will group representatives of the bureau Third Secretary in the Permanent Kuwait Mission to the United Nations Abdullah Al-Sharrah member states and will be chaired by Hassan Al- Rafeei of Iraq, according to an OAPEC statement released yesterday. The meeting agenda includes discussions about OAPEC’s projected budget for Kuwait supports UN 2015, choosing a theme for the scientific research and preparations for the 10th Arab Energy Conference, due in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, on development plans December 21-23.

NEW YORK: Kuwait announced its full support for sustainable providing other least developed countries with all kinds of ‘All loopholes’ fixed development plans in accordance with the United Nations financial aid since its independence in 1961, he also added. Millennium Development Goals, and creating international Kuwait is also committed to the rules of the UN’s millennium KUWAIT: A ministerial source said the government has cooperation with the UN to achieve this matter. The goals, which state that all donor countries must provide 70 fixed “all loopholes” in the development plan as its pri- announcement came in a speech by the Third Secretary in the percent of their total income for the sake of sustainable devel- orities will be approved in coordination with the Permanent Kuwait Mission to the United Nations Abdullah Al- opment by the year 2015, said Al-Sharrah. National Assembly. The source said that fixing the loop- Sharrah, in a meeting of the Economic and Financial The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) consist of Committee of the UN’s General Assembly yesterday. eight international development goals that were established holes “provides success conditions to the plan and pre- Al-Sharrah praised the efforts of the sustainable develop- after the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000. vent any halt to its implementation”. He said a govern- ment team, noting the reports they presented on the needs The goals include reducing the number of undernourished mental-Parliamentary team will meet to coordinate the and priorities of countries in the field of social, economic and people, achieving universal primary education, creating gen- priorities to be presented to the Assembly at the start of environmental development, to fight poverty and execute the der equality, empowerment of women, lessening the rate of the term. Priorities will include projects that aimed at plans of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development children’s death, improving maternal health, fighting HIV, held in 2012. malaria and other diseases, providing environmental sustain- pushing the development wheels forward, needs of Kuwait is considered as one of the developing countries ability and creating an international partnership for develop- government systems and coordinating the proposed with a high income, he said, however, the country has been ment. —KUNA laws that need urgent approval. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Saudi activists Families torn Off-duty St Louis rev up women’s apart as Western cop kills man, right-to-drive girls join IS sparking protest campaign12 14 15

SANAA: Yemeni security forces and Shiite Houthi militiamen stand next to pools of blood on the ground after a powerful suicide bombing rocked the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday, leaving at least 47 people dead, as it targeted a gathering for supporters of Shiite insurgents, a rebel-linked television said. — AFP Suicide bombings in Yemen kill 67 Attack comes amid deep crisis over naming new PM

SANAA: Suicide bombers targeting Yemen’s powerful Shiite Houthi bomber drove a car laden with explosives towards an army camp, Protest group and an army camp killed at least 67 people in two separate while gunmen tried to storm the facility, a local official and witnesses A new Yemeni government is due to be appointed under a attacks yesterday, hours after a political crisis forced the new prime said. The soldiers beat back the attackers, but SABA said 20 soldiers power-sharing accord signed last month aimed at bringing the minister to step down. At least 47 people were killed, including four were killed and 13 were wounded. There was no immediate claim of Houthis into government. Once a new administration is nomi- children, when a suicide bomber detonated a belt packed with explo- responsibility for either attack, but the incidents mirror previous nated the Houthis are meant to withdraw their forces from the sives at a Houthi checkpoint in the centre of the capital Sanaa where bombings carried out by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), city, allowing the army and police to resume their duties. Houthi supporters were preparing to hold a rally. which has targeted state institutions, including the armed forces, and The Houthis on Wednesday rejected Hadi’s nomination of Body parts were scattered across Tahrir Square and pools of blood which sees members of the minority Zaydi sect of Shi’ite Islam as bin Mubarak as prime minister, and bin Mubarak announced formed on the asphalt after the blast, which also wounded at least 75 heretics. US ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller condemned the early on Thursday he had agreed not to take up the position. people. In eastern Yemen, where the militant group Al-Qaeda in the Sanaa attack and urged Yemenis to implement the power-sharing Houthi followers had been preparing to demonstrate in Tahrir Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has waged repeated attacks on army instal- accord, which aims to resolve a decade-long Houthi insurgency and Square yesterday to voice opposition to the nomination of bin lations and government facilities in recent months, at least 20 soldiers pull the country out of a crisis precipitated by the 2011 uprising that Mubarak, previously the head of Hadi’s office, on the grounds were killed in a suicide car bombing and gun attack on an army out- forced veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. that his selection had been imposed by Washington. The United post, state news agency SABA reported. A southern secessionist movement and the AQAP onslaught on States has denied the allegation. The attacks occurred just hours after a showdown between the security forces has already stretched the resources of the impover- The Houthis pushed ahead with the protest despite the Houthis and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour forced Prime Minister- ished country of 25 million and alarmed neighboring Saudi Arabia, attack, and thousands of supporters, some armed, converged on designate Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, whose appointment on the world’s top oil exporter, and other conservative Gulf Arab states. the square chanting slogans against the government and cor- Tuesday under a power-sharing deal signed last month had angered “The Yemeni people have lived with senseless violence for far too ruption. Houthi leaders, to turn down the post. The Houthis have emerged as long and the recent increase in hostilities against innocent civilians “This terrorist attack would not deter us from holding this Yemen’s main power brokers since their paramilitary forces seized the only undermines the progress Yemen has made since the 2011 revo- demonstration,” a local organizer told Reuters. The Houthis said capital on Sept. 21, following weeks of anti-government demonstra- lution,” the US embassy said in a statement posted on its website. they had foiled another attack by two cars on the square earlier tions. A policeman guarding a local bank near Tahrir Square in central “Yemen’s challenges are political and therefore must be resolved in the morning, destroying one vehicle, while attackers in a sec- Sanaa said a man apparently wearing a suicide belt approached the through political solutions.” Western and Gulf Arab countries are wor- ond car managed to escape. On Wednesday evening Houthi Houthi checkpoint. “He then exploded amidst the (Houthi) security ried that instability in Yemen could strengthen Al-Qaeda and have leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi called for mass protests against and ordinary people nearby,” he told Reuters. supported a UN-backed political transition since 2012 led by Hadi “foreign interference” he said was behind the appointment of In Buroom, a coastal region of Hadramout province, a suicide meant to shepherd the country to stability after decades of autocracy. Bin Mubarak. —Reuters

International FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 IS fighters seize large areas of Kobani Kurds still holding out • US rules out Syria ground assault

MURSITPINAR, Turkey/BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters seized Unrealistic expectations for a very long time before deciding to take action against the more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitor- Despite Kurdish appeals for help, Turkey’s Foreign Minister catastrophic events happening in Syria,” he added. ing group said yesterday, as US-led air strikes failed to halt their Mevlut Cavusoglu played down the likelihood of its forces going Turkey has long advocated action against Assad during the advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without interven- to the aid of Kobani. “It is not realistic to expect Turkey to conduct civil war, which grew out of a popular uprising in 2011. However, ing. With Washington ruling out a ground operation in Syria, a ground operation on its own,” he told a joint news conference the United States called off air strikes on Damascus government Turkey described as unrealistic any expectation that it would con- with visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. However, he added: forces at the last minute last year when Assad agreed to give up duct a cross-border operation unilaterally to relieve the mainly “We are holding talks.... Once there is a common decision, Turkey his chemical weapons. Retired US General John Allen, tasked by Kurdish town. The US military said Kurdish forces appeared to be will not hold back from playing its part.” President Barack Obama to oversee the creation and work of the holding out in the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory, Ankara resents any suggestion from Washington that it is not anti-Islamic State coalition, was in Ankara on Thursday and Friday following fresh airstrikes in the area against a militant training pulling its weight, but wants broader joint action that also targets for talks with the Turkish leadership.President Tayyip Erdogan camp and fighters. the forces of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. “We strongly reject says he wants the US-led alliance to enforce a “no-fly zone” to pre- However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said allegations of Turkish responsibility for the ISIS advance,” said a vent Assad’s air force flying over Syrian territory near the Turkish Islamic State, which is still widely known by its former acronym of senior Ankara government source. border and create a safe area for an estimated 1.5 million Syrian ISIS, had pushed forward yesterday. “ISIS control more than a “Our allies, especially the US administration, dragged their feet refugees in Turkey to return. — Reuters third of Kobani - all eastern areas, a small part of the northeast and an area in the southeast,” said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory which monitors the Syrian civil war. The commander of Kobani’s heavily outgunned Kurdish defenders confirmed that the militants had made major gains in a three-week battle that has also led to the worst streets clashes in years between police and Kurdish protesters across the frontier in southeast Turkey. Militia chief Esmat Al-Sheikh put the area controlled by Islamic State, which has already seized large amounts of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq, at about a quarter of the town. “The clashes are ongoing - street battles,” he told Reuters by telephone from the town. Explosions rocked the town throughout yesterday, with black smoke visible from the Turkish border a few kilometres (miles) away. Islamic State hoisted its black flag in Kobani overnight and a stray projectile landed 3 km (2 miles) inside Turkey. The United Nations says only a few hundred inhabitants remain in Kobani but the town’s defenders say the battle will end in a massacre if Islamic State prevails, giving it a strategic garrison on the Turkish border. They complain that the United States is giving only token support through the air strikes, while Turkish tanks sent to the frontier are looking on but doing nothing to defend the town. However, the US Central Command said it conducted five air strikes near Kobani on Wednesday and yesterday, and that the Kurdish fighters in the area appeared to “control most of the city and are holding out against” the militants. The strikes had damaged an Islamic State training camp and destroyed one of its support buildings as well as two vehicles, A huge plume of smoke rises after an airstrike in eastern Kobani, Syria, behind a hilltop where militants with the Islamic CENTCOM said in a statement. They also hit one small unit and State group had raised their flag on Monday, as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants as seen from one large unit of militant fighters. Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. — AP Palestinian unity Saudi activists rev up women’s govt holds first right-to-drive campaign RIYADH: Activists in Saudi Arabia said yesterday they are ‘It’s our right’ Gaza meeting revving up a right-to-drive campaign using social media in the Saudi Arabia is OPEC’s biggest oil exporter and the country’s world’s only country that bans women from getting behind economy has been one of the best performing in the Group of GAZA CITY: The Palestinian unity government held its first ever the wheel. An online petition asking the Saudi government to 20 leading nations, according to the International Monetary meeting in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip yesterday as its rival fac- “lift the ban on women driving” has attracted more than 2,400 Fund. Several Saudi women holding corporate CEO and other tions presented a common front ahead of a major donors’ confer- signatures ahead of its culmination on October 26. senior management positions were included in this year’s ence. The gathering came more than four months after the gov- “The issue is not that of simply a vehicle driven by a Forbes list of 200 most powerful Arab women, but they cannot ernment was sworn in following a landmark reconciliation deal woman, but the acknowledgement and recognition of the drive in their own country. between Fatah and Hamas. humanity of half of society and the God-given rights of Last year, activists also focused their demands on October Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah crossed into Gaza women,” the petition states. It adds the ban is a result of tradi- 26 — which they simply call a “symbolic” date as part of efforts yesterday where he visited some of the areas of the Strip worst- tion and custom because there is “no single Islamic text” or to press for women’s right to drive. At least 16 were fined for hit by a 50-day Israeli military operation against Palestinian mili- judicial ruling prohibiting women from taking to the king- taking the wheel on that day. Sada said that if women are afraid tants. He later met with his ministers at the Gaza property of pres- dom’s highways. of such reprisals from authorities, or from the men in their lives, ident Mahmud Abbas, an AFP correspondent said. “What we The petition website, www.oct26driving.com, includes activists hope they could still drive and post their actions, even have seen today is dreadful and painful, and it has become clear short videos of women driving while clad in the head-to-toe anonymously. “We are trying to change women’s thinking,” she to us that the rebuilding (of Gaza) is at the top of our list of priori- black robes they are required to wear, with only their eyes said. “We believe it’s our right... and we don’t want anyone to ties,” Hamdallah said. exposed. control our lives”. Saudi women still need permission from a The conflict, which ended on August 26, killed nearly 2,200 It features an “honour wall” naming 108 women whom it male guardian to work and marry, while restaurants are divided Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side, said have defied the kingdom’s driving ban. into “family sections” and separate areas for single men. mostly soldiers and also left 100,000 Gazans homeless. Activists are also encouraging women to post pictures of The ultra-conservative Wahhabi Islamic tradition is predomi- Earlier Hamdallah told reporters that rebuilding Gaza required themselves driving using a Twitter hashtag, #IWillDriveMyself, nant in the kingdom, where it applies to both religious and a functioning unity government. as well as on Instagram and YouTube. “This year will be big- political life. Last November the kingdom’s top cleric, Sheikh “We are facing a humanitarian and moral duty to our people ger,” one Tweet vowed, following a similar campaign last year. Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh, said the female driving pro- in Gaza,” he said after entering Gaza via the Israeli-controlled Erez “We are trying to do something to refresh this demand” hibition protects society from “evil” and should not be a major crossing. “We have put the years of division behind us, and the that women be allowed to drive, one activist, Nasima Al-Sada, concern. Hardline clerics protested when King Abdullah, in most important priority of the government is to guarantee a said. “It doesn’t stop,” she said of the national campaign. “We January last year, decided to give women a 20 percent quota in return to normal life for Gazans and unity with the West Bank.” At are asking the ladies to sit behind the wheel and take action” the previously all-male Shura Council of 150 members. The a press conference after the cabinet meeting, Gaza’s former on October 26 “or any day”, Sada said from the kingdom’s Shura Council is appointed by the king and advises the prime minister Ismail Haniya, a leader of Hamas, urged Fatah and Eastern Province, home to most of the country’s oil reserves. monarch on policy, but cannot legislate. — AFP Hamas to follow through with their reconciliation pledges.—AFP International FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 13 French writer Modiano wins Nobel ‘Crystal clear and resonant’ prose on Nazi occupation

STOCKHOLM: Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study “At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things acknowledged that a leak in 2008 made the odds for Le Clezio plummet of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the but insisted there was no leak this year. “That was a leak, and Ladbrokes Prize in literature yesterday for what one academic called “crystal clear return to an enigmatic past.” French President Francois Hollande con- saw that too and stopped the betting,” he said. “I believe we have elimi- and resonant” prose. gratulated Modiano, the 15th French citizen to win the Nobel for litera- nated that leak now.” Englund noted that the writers with the lowest Modiano, a 69-year-old resident of Paris, is an acclaimed writer in ture, saying he “takes his readers right to the deep trouble of the occupa- odds in Nobel betting this year - including Kenyan writer Ngugi wa France but not well known in the English-speaking world. The Swedish tion’s dark period. And he tries to understand how the events lead indi- Thiong’o, Japan’s Haruki Murakami and Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus - Academy said it gave him the 8 million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize for viduals to lose as well as find themselves.” did not win. evoking “the most ungraspable human destinies” and uncovering the Betting on Modiano to win the Nobel surged in the last week, raising With the choice of Modiano, the prize returned to Europe after the humanity of life under Nazi occupation. Jewishness, the Nazi occupation and loss of identity are recurrent themes in his novels, which include 1968’s “La Place de l’Etoile” - later hailed in Germany as a key post- Holocaust work. Modiano’s novel “Missing Person” won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978 and is among the more than 40 of his works pub- lished in French. Some have been translated into English, including “Ring of Roads: A Novel,” “Villa Triste,” “A Trace of Malice,” and “Honeymoon.” Dervila Cooke of Dublin City University, author of a book about Modiano, said his works deal with the traumas of France’s past but have a “darkly humorous touch.” “His prose is crystal clear and resonant,” she said. “A common description of his work is of its ‘petite musique’ - its haunting little music.” Modiano was born in a west Paris suburb in July 1945, two months after World War II ended in Europe, to a father with Jewish-Italian origins and a Belgian actress mother who met during the 1940-44 occupation of Paris. He has also written children’s books and film scripts, including co-writing the 1974 movie “Lacombe, Lucien” with director Louis Malle and the 2003 movie “Bon Voyage” with director Jean-Paul Rappeneau. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 and won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012. Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish PARIS: French novelist Patrick Modiano points during a press PARIS: Books by French novelist Patrick Modiano are on Academy, said Modiano’s works often explore the themes of time, mem- conference at his publishing house in Paris yesterday. —AP ory and identity. “He is returning to the same topics again and again sim- display in a Paris bookstore yesterday. —AP ply because these topics, you can’t exhaust them,” Englund told journal- questions about a possible leak. David Williams of bookmaker Ladbrokes academy picked Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 and Mo Yan of ists in Stockholm. “You can’t give a definite answer to: Why did I turn into said Modiano’s odds had shortened from 100-1 a few months ago to 10- China in 2012. The Swedish Academy often chooses writers whose works the person I am today? What happened to me? How will I break out of 1 before the announcement. Something similar occurred in 2008, the are little-known to readers outside their native country, but the sales the weight of time? How can I reach back into past times?” last time there was a French Nobel winner for literature, Jean-Marie effect of that varies. Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 literature winner, Englund, who wasn’t able to reach Modiano before the announce- Gustave Le Clezio. But Williams said the betting pattern on Modiano was became a far more popular writer because of the Nobel, while Austrian ment, said the French writer also liked to play with the detective genre. In not suspicious. Elfriede Jelinek, who won in 2004, is just slightly better known now than “Missing Person,” he wrote about a private detective launching his last Nobel betting before. investigation - finding out who he is because he has lost his memory. “We are experts in analyzing betting patterns and we kind of know The announcements continue with the Nobel Peace Prize today and “I’ve always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective what a leak looks like. This doesn’t look like a leak. It just looks like his fans the economics award on Monday. The awards will be presented on Dec. novels,” Modiano said in a rare interview last week in Telerama magazine. got behind him and gave him a bit of momentum,” he said. Englund 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. —AP International FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 New star emerges in N Korea amid speculation

SEOUL: The man in the olive drab uniform and and rose to be its second-in-command, according oversized Soviet-style military cap who strode to North Korea experts and South Korea’s through South Korea’s main airport last week Unification Ministry. At the time, the OGD was has climbed from an obscure desk job in North headed by Kim Jong Il, the father of the current Korea to the most powerful position outside the leader. Hwang was associated with Kim Jong Un ruling Kim family. Hwang Pyong So, now a top in the late 2000s when the young man was first military aide to the North’s leader Kim Jong Un, named in state media reports announcing his par- has had an unprecedented rise to the top rungs ty and military credentials. of North Korea’s leadership in the space of a few years. With intense speculation on the where- Coterie abouts of Kim after his disappearance from offi- When Kim Jong Un took power after his cial media for over a month, Hwang is even father’s death in 2011, Hwang was among his more in focus. coterie of advisers. As others fell by the wayside, Last week, Hwang was at the head of a delega- Hwang became chief of the General Political tion that visited South Korea for the closing cere- Bureau of the army, a powerful position that mony of the Asian Games in the city of Incheon mobilizes the military for the leader, earlier this with little advance notice. year. Last month, he also became vice chairman of He is the most senior official from the North to the National Defence Commission, considered have ever come to the South, and opinion is divid- one of the most important posts in North Korea. ed on whether this could be a sign of turmoil in Kim Jong Un is chairman. Jang Jin-sung, a North Pyongyang. Hwang, who is 64 or 65, was in the Korean defector who previously worked at a prop- Organization and Guidance Department (OGD), a aganda unit in the North’s ruling party, said it was SEOUL: People watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at the powerful and secretive body that finalizes unusual for an OGD veteran to rise to such a Seoul Railway Station in Seoul yesterday. — AP appointments within North Korea’s leadership, prominent position.—Reuters

Families torn apart as No national funeral Western girls join IS for Haiti’s Duvalier PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude Over 100 Western girls in IS-held areas in Syria, Iraq “Baby Doc” Duvalier will not receive a state funeral after all, his lawyer said yesterday, after public outrage that a PARIS: Foad, a French truck driver of the phone to be rescued from militants A video recorded in secret by a woman man accused of corruption and mass killings could Moroccan origin, travelled alone whom she called “hypocrites” and in the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa in receive such an honor. through Syria to rescue his 15-year-old “liars”. While Western governments have Syria and broadcast last month on France Duvalier will instead be remembered at a family cere- sister from an Islamist group she said focused on the thousands of male 2 TV gave a glimpse of the reality: women mony tomorrow in the chapel of his former Catholic was holding her captive. But when they jihadist volunteers who have left to Syria walking in burqas and one called to order school Saint-Louis de Gonzague in Port-au-Prince, more finally stood face to face, in tears, she and Iraq, security officials in Europe are by Islamic police for not adequately cov- than a quarter-century after he was driven into exile by a would not leave. expressing alarm about a smaller but ering her face. While women do not fight popular uprising. When the 63-year-old died of a heart Foad is convinced that his sister Nora, steady stream of female groups heading - although some form police units - their attack last week, Haiti’s President whom he described as an impression- the same way. homes are near combat zones and Michel Martelly declared in a tweet that he had been able teen who loved Disney movies Making up about 10 percent of all exposed to bombing from coalition war- “an authentic son of Haiti,” and his spokesman told AFP before leaving for Syria one afternoon in departures for Islamist-held areas, planes fighting the Islamic State. Women that a national funeral would be the appropriate protocol. January, stayed on because she was according to government officials and have little hope of escaping if they have But the idea that a man accused of overseeing the looting threatened with execution by the terrorism experts, young women are regrets. Austrian media reported that a French-speaking commander, or emir, seen as prizes for fighters keen to marry. girl of Bosnian origin, who left for Syria in of Haiti by a corrupt elite and of unleashing the murder- of the group she joined. Teenaged Westerners are often targeted April, had been killed in fighting. Reuters ous Tonton Macoute militia against his opponents be The former high school student is by older, female recruiters, many of has not been able to verify the report. honored in such a way outraged opposition groups and among dozens of European girls, many whom are based in Europe and use Foad said all contact with his sister had surviving victims of his regime. of them her age, living with such groups social media, phone calls and false been cut off since his May visit. “Of the It could also have embarrassed Haiti’s international in Syria. It is an aspect of the conflict friendships to convince them to do char- young women whom we follow, none partners, who have stuck by Martelly’s government that is beginning to worry European itable work in war-torn areas. Others have returned alive,” said Dounia Bouzar, despite its ties to figures from the former Duvalier regime. governments previously more focused need little convincing, keen to have a a French anthropologist in charge of a The Duvalier family lawyer, Reynold George, expressed on the flow of young men to join the role in what they perceive to be jihad, or French mission to de-radicalize candi- bitterness that the government, “rather than stand by its ranks of Islamic State and others. Many holy war. dates for jihad.—Reuters principles, has ceded to pressure from certain figures.” of the youngest girls are lured with “There will be no official ceremony. The government promises of humanitarian work. It is only has reversed its decision. The funeral will be organized by once in Syria that they discover their the family,” he told AFP. A state protocol official, speaking fate: forced marriage to a fighter, strict on condition of anonymity, said he did not expect there adherence to Islamic law, a life under to be an official announcement about the funeral. surveillance and little hope of returning home, say parents, relatives and radical- ‘The ultimate insult’ ization experts. Duvalier came to office in 1971 aged only 19 after the “When she saw me enter that room, death of his still more feared father and fellow president she couldn’t stop crying and holding on for life, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier. He ruled the impov- to me. At one point I said, ‘So, are you erished Caribbean nation for 15 years until driven into coming back with me?’” Foad, 37, told exile by protests. Reuters. “She started to bang her head He returned in 2011 on the first anniversary of a devas- against a wall saying, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I tating earthquake, saying that he wanted to help Haiti can’t.’” rebuild, but found himself exposed to lawsuits from the Foad, who asked not to be identified victims of his rule accusing him of graft and human rights by his full name to protect his family in abuses. The victims were dismayed when Duvalier’s sur- France, said Nora had told him her first prise death deprived them of a chance to confront him location was in Aleppo. He declined to with his alleged crimes in court, and human rights groups give the location of their second have vowed to keep the cases alive as an act of national encounter because he said French memory. police had asked him not to reveal They were even more angry when it emerged that details relevant to investigations. Duvalier might receive state honors, and joined opposi- Foad said a conversation he over- tion political groups in taking to social media and the heard between his sister and the emir CAIRO: Arab League general secretary Nabil Al-Arabi (left) meets with US Special radio to denounce the idea, gathering thousands of sig- suggested she was warned to stay. Nora Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State organization (IS) General natures to an online petition. —AFP had repeatedly asked her family over John Allen (right), at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo yesterday. — AFP International15 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Mexico’s junk food taxes hitting Pepsi, Coke

NEW YORK: No wonder Coke and Pepsi are spending millions of dollars to fight proposed taxes on sugary drinks in California. PepsiCo reported a higher quarterly profit yesterday as global sales rose, but one weak spot was Mexico. The company said snacks sales volume declined by 3 percent, hurt by a new tax on junk foods. Recent declines suffered by Pepsi and Coke in Mexico underscore why the beverage industry is fighting tax proposals on sugary drinks in in San Francisco and nearby Berkeley. PepsiCo - which makes Frito-Lay chips, Gatorade and Tropicana - reported similar declines in its snacks business for the first half of the year, starting when the tax went into effect. Coca-Cola, which reports its third quarter results Oct. 21, has also reported beverage volume declines in Mexico for the first half of the year, citing a similar tax on drinks. Mexico has the world’s highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola drinks. Hugh Johnston, chief financial officer for PepsiCo, said in a phone interview that declines in Mexico were in line with what the com- pany expected. To mitigate the impact of the tax, he said PepsiCo plans to target different package sizes for different outlets. The taxes in Mexico add one peso, about 7 cents, to the cost of a liter of sugary drinks, and 5 percent of the price to foods with 275 calories or more per 100 grams. It’s not yet clear whether the taxes’ impact on consumption will last or how significant it will be over time. And while PepsiCo monitors such tax initiatives around the world, Johnston said he doesn’t expect them to become more common. Back in the U.S., San Francisco and Berkeley are seeking to become the first cities to pass per-ounce taxes on sugary drinks Crowds confront police near the scene in south St Louis where a man was fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police offi- in the upcoming November election. The measures are being cer on Wednesday. — AP closely watched because many say defeats in the Bay Area, which is known for its liberal politics, would be a major blow to advocates of such taxes as a way to improve nutrition. Similar Off-duty St Louis cop kills measures in other US cities have failed. Health advocates have pushed taxes as a tool to cut consumption of calorie-laden junk food, similar to tactics that have successfully been used man, sparking protest against cigarettes. Makers of such products say they are being unfairly singled out. —AP Protesters liken shooting to August killing

ST LOUIS: An off-duty St Louis police officer shot and killed a he said, noting that the 9mm gun was recovered. black 18-year-old who had fired at him, authorities said yester- The officer, a six-year veteran of the St. Louis police force day. The killing led to an angry demonstration, with some pro- whose race wasn’t immediately known, fired off 17 rounds. testers likening it to the August killing of an unarmed black Dotson said he didn’t know how many of those bullets struck 18-year-old by a white officer in nearby Ferguson. the suspect, or why the officer, who wasn’t hurt, fired that St Louis Police Chief Col Sam Dotson said the 32-year-old many shots. “An investigation will decide if the officer’s behav- officer, whom he didn’t identify, was patrolling the historic ior was appropriate,” he said. People who described them- Shaw neighborhood in his police uniform for a private security selves as relatives of the man who was killed told The St. Louis company at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when he saw three Post Dispatch that he was not armed. males, and one of them ran off before stopping. Hours after the shooting, a crowd gathered at the scene When the officer did a U-turn, all three ran, so the officer near the Missouri Botanical Garden. Some shouted “Hands up, gave chase, first in his car and then by foot. During the chase, don’t shoot” in reference to the fatal shooting in August of an he got into a physical altercation with the one he eventually unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown, by a white police officer killed, Dotson said at an early-morning news conference. in nearby Ferguson. That shooting led to weeks of sometimes Dotson said that at one point, the suspect’s shirt raised and violent unrest in the St. Louis suburb. The officer, Darren PATERSON: Melissa Vazquez stands in her living room in the officer saw what he thought was a gun. “The officer said Wilson, has not been charged in the shooting. Dotson said Paterson, NJ on Wednesday as she talks about a shooting he wanted to be certain it was a gun and did not fire at that some in the crowd Wednesday night shouted obscenities at incident which hit her home on North 7th Street. The point,” he said. officers and damaged police cars, but that the officers house was struck by bullets Tuesday night, with one hit- The chief said the suspect, whom he didn’t identify, ran up “showed great restraint.” ting a mattress on which one of her kids was sleeping, and a hill, turned and opened fired on the officer, who returned He added: “Any police officer use of force certainly will another piercing the living room walls where two of her fire and killed the man. Ballistic evidence shows that the teen draw attention.” No demonstrators were arrested and by 1 am other kids were. — AP fired three shots and tried to fire again but his gun jammed, yesterday the crowd had largely dispersed. — AP US police: Ambush suspect’s journal ‘chilling’

PHILADELPHIA: Authorities say a journal left foot, a botched getaway he termed a “disas- according to the affidavit. quiet after that. Another cop approached the by the man suspected of opening fire outside ter,” according to a police affidavit filed Authorities are analyzing the document one I just shot. As he went to kneel, I took a a Pennsylvania State Police barracks provides Wednesday. but are convinced it was written by him. “I shot at him and (he) jumped in the door. His a “cold-blooded and absolutely chilling Frein is charged with first-degree murder will tell you, after reading this cold-blooded legs were visible and still,” according to the account” of the night he allegedly killed one and other offenses in the Sept 12 ambush and absolutely chilling account, I can only affidavit. The shooter then ran to his Jeep trooper and injured a second. that killed Dickson and wounded Trooper describe Eric Frein’s actions as pure evil,” said and sped off. He turned down an access road Eric Frein wrote that he saw his shot and Alex Douglass. Hundreds of law enforcement Lt Col George Bivens at a news conference to avoid a roadblock and wound up in the took it, watching from a distance as his victim officials have been looking for Frein - Wednesday. retention pond, the journal said. - who turned out to be Cpl. Bryon Dickson - described by authorities as a survivalist and Bivens said the journal contains details “Disaster,” Frein allegedly wrote. Other dropped to the ground. “I was surprised at expert marksman with a grudge against law that only would’ve been known by the items found by police - including Frein’s how quick,” he wrote, according to police. enforcement - in the woods around his par- shooter. Notably, police said, the author checkbook and phone - indicate he might Authorities found the multipage journal in a ents’ home in the Pocono Mountains. does not identify the troopers by name, sug- have left the campsite in a hurry under pres- bag of trash at a wooded campsite they The journal was found Sept. 29, when gesting they were targeted at random. sure from the manhunt. Police say he used believe was used by the 31-year-old suspect. authorities discovered a hastily abandoned After describing how the first victim the phone to call his parents six days after The document describes how Frein fled the campsite at which they also found explo- dropped to the ground after being shot, the the shooting, and they were able to trace the shooting scene in a Jeep, but inadvertently sives, ammunition, food, clothing and a journal’s author wrote: “I took a follow-up signal to a location about three miles (five ran into a retention pond and took off on water bottle whose DNA matched Frein’s, shot on his head/neck area. He was still and kilometers) from the home. —AP International16 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Obama: Not much margin for error in Ebola fight WASHINGTON: An extra level of screen- countries hardest hit in the outbreak, David Rodriguez and other top com- strengthening its response, Frieden ing at major airports will reach more than were appealing to the World Bank for manders, President Barack Obama said a sought to tamp down expectations. 9 of 10 people traveling to the US from more help for their nations. “What we’re top priority is to ensure the safety of “We can’t make the risk zero here. We Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, paying for now is our failure to have those troops. wish we could,” he said, adding that there the White House announced on the same invested in those countries before,” said “We have unique capabilities that are no plans to ban travel from the out- day that the first person to be diagnosed Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank’s chief nobody else has,” Obama said. “Our mili- break zone because that would harm with Ebola in America died. economist for Africa. They had only mini- tary is essentially building an infrastruc- efforts to send in health workers to fight About 150 travelers a day will have mal health facilities even before Ebola hit. ture that does not exist in order to facili- the epidemic. Ebola isn’t contagious until their temperatures checked using no- In Washington on Wednesday, tate the transfer of personnel and equip- symptoms begin, and it spreads through touch thermometers. Health officials Secretary of State John Kerry made a plea ment and supplies.” direct contact with the bodily fluids of expect false alarms from fevers due to for more nations to contribute to the fight The new US airport screening will patients. Obama called the new screening malaria. The extra screening likely would- against Ebola, saying the international begin tomorrow at New York’s JFK measures “really just belt and sus- n’t have singled out Thomas Eric Duncan effort was $300 million short of what’s International Airport and then expand to penders” to support protections already when he arrived from hard-hit Liberia last needed. He said nations need to step up Washington Dulles and the international in place. Border Patrol agents now look month, because he had no symptoms quickly with a wide range of support, airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark. for people who are obviously ill, as do while traveling. Duncan, died Wednesday from doctors and mobile medical labs to “We expect to see some patients with flight crews, and in those cases the CDC is in Dallas. basic humanitarian aid such as food. fever. That will cause some obvious and notified. Speaking by teleconference with The disease has killed at least 3,800 The US military is working to build understandable concern at the airport,” mayors and local officials, Obama said he people in West Africa with no signs of medical centers in Liberia and may send said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the fed- was confident the US could prevent an abating. Yesterday, the presidents of up to 4,000 soldiers to help with the Ebola eral Centers for Disease Control and outbreak. But he warned them to be vigi- Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the crisis. Meeting at the Pentagon with Gen Prevention. While the government is lant. — AP Gay couples dismayed after flurry of rulings

LAS VEGAS: Gay couples in Las Vegas hoping their luck had final- ly turned were disappointed as county clerks turned them away amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions over same-sex mar- riage. Jefferson Ruck was first in line with his partner of 14 years, Thomas Topovski, at the marriage license bureau in Las Vegas on Wednesday, watching as heterosexual would-be brides and grooms walked to windows ahead of them. But as the day drew to a close, Ruck, 61, heard that the Clark County clerk would not issue gay marriage licenses Wednesday, and probably not yesterday, either, until officials know that the marriages can legally proceed. “My take is, it’s going to happen,” he said. “So, we wait.” The confusion across Nevada was also happening elsewhere. A Supreme Court decision Monday effec- tively made gay marriage legal in about 30 states. But for several, how and when that would happen remained in doubt. In South Carolina, for example, a judge issued a license for a handful of gay couples, but no one got married as the state’s attorney gen- eral asked the Supreme Court for a stay. In Idaho, there were no weddings after Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a ruling early Wednesday that dashed hopes of couples who had headed to courthouses before clerks offices opened. WASHINGTON, DC: Sierra Leone President Bai Koroma and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf join a meeting via At 8:01 am, Ada County Clerk Chris Rich handed the Supreme video link with Finance ministers and representatives from around the world. — AFP Court memo to a lawyer and told a small crowd of gay couples and their supporters gathered in a Boise courthouse: “We’re not issuing same-sex marriage licenses today.” The announcement Global Ebola response left the room in stunned silence except for a small child asking over and over, “Why?” “We were past the metal detectors, we were just a few feet away from the clerk,” Amber Beierle said. “And then our attorney was handed a one-page document. slow: S Leone leader Apparently, it was Justice Kennedy telling us, No.” Beierle said the toughest moment was when she called her mother, who was driving into town to help celebrate. “There’s just something about hearing your mom’s voice that Ban calls for 20-fold increase in resources makes everything seem a little more real,” she said. Beierle began to choke up on the phone as she tried to fight back tears. She said she and her partner, Rachael Beierle, were not going to give WASHINGTON: Sierra Leone’s president yesterday assailed zations and others to ramp up the Ebola response. up their fight, but it was an especially bitter moment because the global community’s slow response to Ebola as United Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease they had never been that close to getting married. —AP Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for a “20-fold” increase in Control and Prevention, told the group that the intensity and resources to battle the epidemic. danger of Ebola’s spread was something unseen since the out- President Ernest Bai Koroma told Ban and the heads of the break of AIDS. International Monetary Fund and World Bank that the global “I would say that in the 30 years I’ve been working in public reaction “has been slower than the rhythm of transmission of health, the only thing like this has been AIDS,” he told a top- the disease.” “This slower-than-the-virus response needs to level Ebola forum in Washington. UN chief Ban said resources change,” he said via video conference from his country, one of to support the fight need to be increased 20-fold, and urged the three in West Africa severely hit by Ebola, which has so far everyone involved not to hesitate to act. killed nearly 3,900 people. “This is an unforgiving disease,” he said. “Cases are growing “Because of the time delay, it is going to cost us a lot exponentially.” He said that government officials and others more.... What is required is required yesterday,” he said. involved in the fight need to move immediately when they Koroma, Guinea President Alpha Conde and Liberia President see a threat. “Do not wait for consultation. Just take action,” he Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pressed the group for a more rapid roll- said. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim admitted that the out of support to fight the spread of Ebola. world was “behind the curve” in the fight against Ebola. Conde said his country needed the rapid establishment of The Bank warned earlier this week that if Ebola is not fully treatment centers with 1,500 more beds and 5,000 health care contained in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia by the end of workers. Sirleaf also stressed the need to ramp up support the year, the economic cost to the whole of West Africa KANSAS CITY: Angela Schaefer (left) and partner Jennifer within weeks to prevent the disease from devastating the could rise to nearly $33 billion next year. “The answer to this Schaefer hold an application for a marriage license at the region’s economy. The three leaders were addressing a high- crisis is to stop it where it lies... we have just got to get mov- clerk’s office at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, level, emergency session of officials from top global and ing,” Kim said. “Spending more now is the smartest thing Kansas City. — AP national health and relief agencies, non-governmental organi- that we can do.” — AFP International FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 US drone strikes kill 5 militants in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Two suspected US drone strikes killed at in June in North Waziristan, a rugged tribal area that has soldiers and listening to a briefing of the military opera- least five militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal long been home to local and foreign militants, including tion’s progress. “We are winning this war. This is a war for region where the military has been fighting insurgents Al-Qaeda. The US has long pressed Pakistan to do more the survival of Pakistan,” Sharif told the troops. In a since June, Pakistani intelligence officials said yesterday. to combat militants in the tribal regions, who carry out speech broadcast live by state TV, Sharif said he hoped Hours later, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a rare visit attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kabul and the success of the military operation in North Waziristan to North Waziristan announced that Pakistan was “win- Islamabad have long accused each other of turning a would bring a durable peace to all of Pakistan. ning the war against terrorism” in the troubled area. The blind eye to militant groups operating along the rugged, The military says it has killed over 1,100 militants in visit was a show of strength for the Pakistani leader who porous border. the operation and that more than 80 percent of North faces weeks-long street protests in the capital, US drone strikes are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, Waziristan is now under its control. The army has also Islamabad, where opposition leaders are demanding his where they are seen as a violation of national sovereign- said that over 800,000 people who were displaced resignation over alleged vote fraud last year. ty that too often results in the killing and wounding of because of the ongoing offensive would soon be The latest drone strikes came just hours apart. In the civilians. President Barack Obama has defended the use allowed to go back to their homes. first strike, two drone-fired missiles hit a moving vehicle of drone strikes as a way to target militants who threaten Sharif’s visit comes amid over month of anti-govern- in the village of Datta Khel in North Waziristan late on the United States from areas where local governments ment rallies in the capital, Islamabad. Led by Pakistan’s Wednesday night, killing at least two militants, the offi- cannot or will not act against them. famous cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and a cial said. Two more missiles flattened a militant com- US officials rarely comment on the specifics of the fiery cleric Tahir-Ul-Qadri, thousands of demonstrators pound and killed three militants in the same region early covert drone program. On his visit to North Waziristan, have camped outside Parliament since August to seek yesterday, the officials said, speaking on condition of Sharif was greeted by army chief Gen Raheel Sharif in the Sharif’s resignation over alleged rigging in the 2013 vote anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to region’s main town of Miran Shah. Pakistani state-run tel- that brought him into power. Sharif has refused to quit media. The Pakistani military launched a major offensive evision showed the prime minister shaking hand with and the rallies have started fizzling out. — AP

Big Brother Modi is watching India’s bureaucrats

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi has earned a reputation as a something of a control freak since becoming Indian prime minister, ordering bureaucrats to throw out office junk and go to work on a public holiday to clean the toilets. Now he has taken things a step further by launching an electronic surveillance system that will track whether 100,000 government officials are showing up for work on time. Not only is Big Brother watching the ‘babus’, as India’s pen push- ers are known, but the public can also keep track of them through a web site - attendance.gov.in - that quietly went live at the end of September. The dashboard of the Biometric Attendance System dis- plays a dynamic, real-time chart of how many people are at work. It is also possible to click through and check when an individual checks in and logs out of the system. “It all started with the prime minister giving the idea,” said project coordi- nator Shefali Sushil Dash of India’s National Informatics Centre, the agency for e-government initiatives. The system is based on the Aadhaar (Foundation) biometric identity card system launched by the last government that now covers 680 million people, and refines a pilot project launched by tech- no-bureaucrat Ram Sewak Sharma in the state of Jharkhand. ARNIA: Indian villagers rest at a border migrant camp in the village Deoli of Arnia sector, some 40 km from Jammu yes- terday. — AFP ‘No sense of intrusiion’ Using their Aadhaar numbers, more than 50,000 govern- ment workers at 148 government bodies in the capital, New India and Pakistan trade Delhi, have been enrolled in the system. The plan is to double that figure. Staff can clock in using a fingerprint scan at the entrance of their offices. Top-ranking civil servants can do so, warnings over fighting without queuing, with devices attached to their workstations. Dash said there had been “no complaints” from those enrolled in the scheme that it was intrusive. “This system is Over 17 killed in latest hostilities meant to make people’s life easier,” she told Reuters. Based on a straw poll of his sources, Suhaib Ilyasi, editor of ARNIA, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: heavily populated civilian areas. India says it three wars, two over Kashmir. There has not Bureaucracy Today - a magazine for and about Indian Pakistan said yesterday it was capable of will not talk to Pakistan or stop firing until its been a full-blown war since they both tested bureaucrats - says the response has been positive. “People responding “befittingly” to Indian border neighbor backs down first. nuclear weapons in 1998. Exchanges of spo- like it even though they have to be punctual,” he said. shelling, and warned against an escalation of This is the first major fighting with radic fire are common along the de facto “Officers are government servants. They should be serving the worst fighting between the nuclear- Pakistan that India’s nationalist Prime border dividing the region, despite a cease- the people. There is no sense of intrusion.” Keeping the noses armed rivals in more than a decade. Minister Narendra Modi has dealt with since fire pact signed in 2003. But the extent and of officials to the grindstone is bullish for India, a country India earlier warned Pakistan it would pay taking office in May. It comes after weeks of intensity of the latest violence and the num- where even the most basic bureaucratic task can prove an “unaffordable price” if it persisted with destabilizing anti-government protests in ber of civilian deaths is unusual. daunting, according to one investor. “Modi’s view is if I get shelling and machine-gun fire across a heavi- Pakistan and just a few days ahead of Indian India’s Defense Minister Arun Jaitley the little things right, if I get the civil servants to work, to clear ly populated border area in the lowlands of state elections, for which Modi has been called Pakistan an “aggressor” and accused it files, then I’m 80 percent of the way there,” said Avinash Kashmir. Both claim all of Kashmir’s campaigning. of making unprovoked attacks on Indian- Vazirani, manager of Jupiter Asset Management’s India fund. Himalayan mountains and fertile valleys. “I don’t need to speak, our guns will do it. controlled Kashmir. He threatened heavy “This is Big Brother stuff but very effective. It’s not just the Their shared border is among the most heav- We have responded with courage to cease- retaliation. “If Pakistan persists with this central government. The state governments are trying to ily militarized in the world and travel fire violations,” Modi said at a campaign rally adventurism then our forces will continue to emulate this.” The Prime Minister’s Office will also take part in between the two nations is kept to a mini- yesterday, replying to opposition criticism fight,” Jaitley told a news conference in New the scheme, said Dash, although it was not clear whether mum. Nine Pakistani and eight Indian civil- that he had not been vocal during the crisis. Delhi. “The cost of this adventurism will be Modi would be enrolled. ians have been killed since both sides’ securi- One senior Indian army officer in Kashmir unaffordable.” He did not give more details. Project mastermind Sharma, who holds the rank of secre- ty forces started heavy shelling more than a said the violence suited both sides, with Pakistan’s Major General Khan Tahir tary at the government’s Department of Electronics and week ago along a 200-km (125-mile) stretch Pakistan’s army taking a more assertive role Javed Khan, responsible for the section Information Technology, could not immediately be reached of border in the disputed, mostly Muslim in politics and India’s Modi, ahead of state of the border where the violence has for comment. The Biometric Attendance System showed he region of Kashmir. More were injured yester- polls, fulfilling his promise of a more muscu- broken out, said that India had fired had signed in at work at 13:55:16 pm yesterday. day. Both countries accused each other of lar foreign policy. Since they split 67 years 20,000 shells so far this year, compared starting the latest hostilities that have hit ago, the nations have fought each other in to just 200 in 2012. — Reuters International FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Hong Kong calls off talks with student activists

Prosecutors to probe payout to avoid perception of bias

HONG KONG: Hong Kong called off talks with protesting students yesterday, deal- ing a heavy blow to attempts to defuse a political crisis that has seen tens of thou- sands take to the streets to demand free elections and calling for leader Leung Chun-ying to resign. The government’s decision came as democratic lawmakers demanded anti-graft officers investigate a $6.4 million business payout to Leung while in office, as political fallout grows from the mass protests in the Chinese- controlled city. It was not immediately clear what the students’ next move would be - whether to ramp up the street protests or make plans to fight another day. They were to hold a news conference later in the evening. “Students’ call for an expansion of an uncooperative movement has shaken the trust of the basis of our talks HONG KONG: A protester holds an umbrella during a performance on a main and it will be impossible to have a con- road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong’s structive dialogue,” Chief Secretary Admiralty in Hong Kong yesterday. — AP Then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) holds the Carrie Lam said on the eve of the head of a tranquilized five-year-old Siberian tiger as planned dialogue. week that engineering firm UGL Ltd paid impossible for him to continue accept- researchers put a collar with a satellite tracker on in a Russian She blamed the pull-out on students’ Leung a total of $6.4 million in 2012 and ing huge payment to help promote UGL Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia’s Far East. — AP unswerving demands for universal suf- 2013 in relation to its acquisition of DTZ or DTZ,” Democratic Party chief execu- frage, which she said was not in accor- Holdings, a property consultant that tive Lam Cheuk-ting said in a letter to China on lookout for dance with the Asian financial centre’s employed Leung as its Asia Pacific direc- the Independent Commission Against mini-constitution, the Basic Law, and tor before he took office in July 2012. Corruption seen by Reuters. Putin’s roaming tiger what she described as their illegal occu- Leung’s office denied any wrongdo- “There’s reason to believe that CY pation of parts of the city. ing. DTZ was not immediately available Leung was eyeing the unpaid remunera- BEIJING: China is on the hunt for a Siberian tiger released into the Hours earlier, Hong Kong’s Justice to comment, while UGL said it was under tion by UGL so that he continued with wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said yesterday, Department handed to prosecutors the no obligation to disclose the agreement. the agreement. Even worse, since CY after the animal roamed across the border, likely in search of food. investigation of the business payout to As part of the contract Leung signed Leung honored the agreement and The tiger, named Kuzia, was one of three of the rare wild cats that Leung by an Australian engineering with UGL in December 2011, he agreed accepted the payment, how could he Putin helped release into Russia’s remote Amur region in eastern company. Part of the brief includes “con- to promote the “UGL Group and the DTZ not declare to the Executive Council?” Siberia in May. Tagged with a tracking device, it has been spotted in sidering and deciding whether prosecu- Group as UGL may reasonably require, said Lam, who is a former anti-graft China’s Taipinggou nature reserve in northeastern Heilongjiang province, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing officials. “A tion action is warranted” against Leung, including but not limited to acting as a agency official. Russian expert called to tell us the location of the tiger and expressed who has refused to stand down in recent referee and adviser from time to time”, The ICAC said it did not comment on the hope that we can protect it,” nature reserve director Chen weeks over protesters’ calls for Beijing to according to a copy seen by Reuters. individual cases. UGL said the agreement Zhigang told Xinhua. Chen said forestry officers would set up dozens keep its promise of universal suffrage. Leung’s office said in a statement that was simply a non-compete arrangement of cameras to capture images of the tiger and notify local farmers. The department said its decision was such assistance would only be provided to ensure that Leung would not move to The tiger should find plenty of food among the reserve’s wildlife, aimed at avoiding “any possible percep- in the event that he failed to be elected a competitor, set up or promote any Chen said, though officials were prepared to “release cattle” into the tion of bias, partiality or improper influ- Hong Kong leader, and providing that business in competition with DTZ, or area to feed it. Putin was feted by Russian media in 2008 for suppos- ence”. The campaign against the former such assistance would not create any poach any people from DTZ. edly saving a television crew from an attack when he shot a Siberian property surveyor and son of a police- conflict of interest. Leung stepped down Emily Lau, head of the Democratic tiger with a tranquilizer gun after it escaped from wildlife specialists man has extended from the streets to from DTZ on December 4, 2011, two Party, told Reuters it would try to form a at a national park. the city’s legislative chambers where days after signing the deal with UGL, select committee to investigate and pos- The former KGB spy has carefully cultivated a macho image with democrats have threatened to veto which acquired the property consultan- sibly impeach Leung, although the for- other wildlife stunts, activities he has said are worthwhile because major decisions and potentially cause cy. Leung was sworn in as Hong Kong mation of such a group would have to they draw attention to conservation projects. policy paralysis. chief executive in July 2012. be backed by the entire 70-seat legisla- China’s insatiable demand for tiger products, often used in “After CY Leung became CE (chief ture and there was no guarantee that Chinese medicines, has helped drive indigenous subspecies of the Leung denies wrongdoing executive), he should have terminated would happen, given the pro-Beijing animal in the wild to the brink of extinction. — Reuters Australia’s Fairfax Media reported this the contract, because as a CE, it was majority. —Reuters Japan summons S Korea envoy over reporter’s libel charge

TOKYO: Tokyo summoned a Seoul envoy yes- has not been the subject of any complaint. the subject of the paper’s column was “clearly” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday that terday to protest after a Japanese journalist was The story picked up rumors circulating in the in the public interest. the US is “aware of” Kato’s indictment as “we’ve charged with defamation in South Korea over a South Korean media that Park was with a man been following the investigation by Seoul pros- story about President Park Geun-Hye. at the time of the sinking. The Japanese foreign ‘Extremely abnormal action’ ecutor since its initiation”. “We broadly support Tatsuya Kato, who until October 1 was ministry summoned Kim Weon-Jin, a minister at South Korean prosecutors began question- freedom of speech and expression,” she told bureau chief of the conservative Sankei the South Korean embassy in Japan, “to convey ing Kato on 18 August as a result of complaints reporters, noting that the State Department’s Shimbun newspaper, was indicted late our message that we are gravely concerned filed by an association of South Korean citizens, past reports have expressed “our concerns Wednesday on suspicion of criminally libelling about the indictment... in light of press freedom the group noted, adding he remains under sur- about the law on the books in South Korea” Park, a charge that could see him jailed for up to and the Japan-South Korea relationship,” Chief veillance and his freedom of movement has which stipulates criminal defamation. No one seven years. Kato, 48, has been under investiga- Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told been curtailed. Takamitsu Kumasaka, President from South Korea’s prosecuting authorities was tion since August-and has been banned from reporters. The Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ of the Sankei Shimbun, a paper known for being available to comment. The Sankei is one of leaving the country-over an August 3 column Club on Wednesday issued an open letter to critical of South Korea and which is unpopular Japan’s more robust papers. It is proudly centre- about “rumors” concerning Park’s whereabouts Seoul’s Prosecutor General Kim Jin-Tae, which in that country, said he “strongly protests and right and frequently lambasts Japan’s critics at on the day the Sewol passenger ferry sank with says the SFCC “is deeply concerned that... its demands retraction” of the indictment. “It is an home and abroad. Earlier this year it inveighed the loss of 300 lives. decision of indictment could result in severely extremely abnormal action for a democratic against foreign journalists working in Tokyo, While he used some original quotes from his interfering with the journalists’ right to report- country which makes provision for freedom of accusing them of lapping up “anti-Japan propa- own sources, Kato’s story was chiefly based on ing”. Media freedom group Reporters Without expression in its constitution,” the Sankei said in ganda by China and Korea” for reporting on information already available online, and which Borders has also defended the Sankei, arguing its editorial. United States State Department Japan’s wartime record of sex slavery. —AFP FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

How to be Emirati in a sea of foreign influence Page 20 Lifestyle FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 How to be Emirati in a sea of foreign influence

A fully veiled woman walks with a companion in Dubai on September 15, 2010. (Right) A picture shows a foreign woman in shorts, pushing a baby stroller as she walks past fully-veiled women in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. — AFP photos hink of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf battling jihadists in Syria and Iraq and with a attracted foreign workers. Musallam believes a majlis to citizens seeking favors or wanting to and what springs to mind? Billowing white woman F-16 fighter pilot reportedly leading the solid cultural front-rooted in tribal customs-is register complaints. Trobes against desert dunes, camel racing country’s contingent-the UAE remains a conser- essential in countering the influences of large When Emiratis do venture out, they are and falconry or futuristic buildings needling sky- vative Muslim nation. But much of the federation foreign communities, an apparent reference to instantly distinguishable by their wafting per- wards? Probably all of the above, and therein lies is relatively open socially, with foreign women in Asians and Westerners. “Dress, lifestyle at home fumes, traditional clothing and obvious signs of the crux for UAE citizens, who comprise just one western dress mingling with Emirati women in and popular arts linked to camels and falconry wealth. Protocol expert Ghassan Hajjaj said UAE in 10 of their own country’s population. Emiratis head-to-toe abayas in the malls of the glitzy city are essential pillars of the national identity that nationals are known for their love of heady fra- are trying to preserve their tribal customs, state Dubai. Torn between the temptation to we want to safeguard,” he said. grances based on oud, amber, musk and rose, including the Bedouin lifestyle, against a tsunami open up and the risk to their identity, Emiratis Emiratis lead quite separate lives from the products that were historically part of the of alien influences from a foreign labor force that are actively seeking to conserve a culture they expatriate population, who have their own region’s caravan trade. Major manufacturers pro- has transformed their lives. hope to pass on to coming generations. schools and enjoy freedom of worship-but can- duce special perfumes for the Gulf Arab states, As a small minority in a sea of foreigners — 11 not obtain citizenship even after decades in resi- and traditional kanduras and headgear can carry percent of a population of 8.5 million-they wear Social anchor dence. And as for marriage, Emirati men are top western designer labels. traditional clothing and observe local customs as For an Emirati, tribal affiliation is a social expected to marry one of their own-although In addition to promoting identity through a statement of their identity. Men don the white anchor, along with customs like camel racing in some have taken foreigners as second wives, stir- outward appearance, the government wants to ankle-length kandura, and women loose black which the best animals can cost millions of dol- ring lively local debate. ensure young Emiratis qualify to join the labor abaya cloaks, setting themselves apart from non- lars. “Our society is tribal in nature,” said the force, to reduce the dependence on foreigners. nationals lured by the beacon of economic pros- writer and intellectual Said Hamdan. “There are Obvious signs of wealth The Emiratis’ challenge, Musallem said, is to pre- perity. desert tribes, coastal tribes and mountain tribes. Despite rapid modernization, as transformed serve their identity in a society transforming “We’d be wiped out if we were unprepared “Tribes themselves matter, as does belonging to city landscapes bristling with skyscrapers attest, under the twin effect of immigration and new for cultural confrontation with certain people,” a tribe, and the heritage of each tribe.” elderly Emiratis prefer the old way of life, receiv- technologies illustrated by plans to send an said Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, director of heritage The UAE was formed in 1971 as a federation ing and entertaining guests in their majlis or unmanned probe to Mars by 2021. at the Department of Culture and Heritage in of six emirates-Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, meeting room. In the majlis of their own homes, “Should we change to adapt to modernity Sharjah, one of the seven emirates. “This massive Fujairah, Sharjah and Umm Al-Quwain. The sev- men are served cardamom-flavored Arabic cof- when building a state, or preserve our culture?” presence of non-Emiratis pushes us to stick to enth, Ras Al-Khaimah, joined a year later. Its oil fee and dates as they discuss the issues of the he asked. “For the past 40 years, we have our identity.” Despite joining the US-led coalition wealth and flourishing economy has long day, while the country’s rulers also open their remained the same.” — AFP In fiction, fact and photo, books explore fall of Berlin Wall

estselling British author Ken Follett says held annually in western Germany. Although the ment”, the Glasgow-based writer said. it’s a “happy coincidence” that his epic works are diverse, they have been inspired by “In the same kind of way it was crushed by Bnew Cold War novel hit bookstores weeks the tumultuous events leading to Germany’s democratic means.” Story-telling about life before the 25th anniversary of the fall of the 1990 reunification. They seek to shed new light behind the Iron Curtain still inspires German Berlin Wall. “It didn’t strike me until about a year on them, or simply to look back and remember. authors too. The novel “Kruso” by Lutz Seiler ago when I was discussing the promotion of the about the demise of the former German book with my German publishers,” he said on ‘Crushed by democratic means’ Democratic Republic won the German Book the opening day of the Frankfurt Book Fair “The Leipzig Affair” by first-time novelist Prize this week, the award’s third winner to deal Wednesday. “And they said ‘Did you know, Fiona Rintoul, which comes out on November with the subject. there’s going to be a really, really big party in 10, is set in the city that became the centre of “But they are quite different novels and show Berlin on November 9 next year?’” the 65-year- East Germany’s snowballing peaceful protest a need over and over for another perspective. old, whose 30 books have sold more than 150 movement. It begins in 1985 with a young lin- Everything has simply not yet been told and all million copies, told reporters. guist, Magda, desperate to flee to the West fathomed out,” said Johanna Links of publishers Kicking off in 1961, “Edge of Eternity”, the when she meets Scottish university student Ch. Links Verlag. The Berlin-based publishing concluding part of Follett’s ‘Century Trilogy’, Robert, and ends after the Wall has gone with house was set up by her father Christoph Links charts world-changing events through the eyes his return to Leipzig in search of answers. on the very day that East German censorship of five families, including JFK’s assassination, the Rintoul, 50, said the characters were fictional but ended a few weeks after the Wall fell. It has been US civil rights movement and the Berlin Wall the setting had been inspired by her own expe- pleased with demand so far for one of its new being torn down on November 9, 1989. The nov- rience as “one of a smattering of foreign stu- books “Zweite Heimat” (Second Home) by el, which is topping bestseller lists after its dents” at Leipzig University in 1986. “Pretty Markus Decker outlining the stories of former launch mid-September, is among a slew of much the first word I learnt when I got to East West Germans who, for various reasons, moved books throwing the spotlight on the quarter- Germany was ‘Stasi’,” she told AFP in a tele- to the former East after reunification, Links said. century milestone. phone interview, referring to the communist For the 25th anniversary, it has also brought out From political memoirs and fictional tales to regime’s feared secret police. The fall of the Wall “Herbst der Entscheidung” (Autum of Decision), true escape stories, photo chronicles and graph- still captures imaginations because it drew a line month also prompted parallels with the end of a comic book for older teenagers and adults ic novels, many of them are showcased at the once and for all under the end of World War II, East Germany, albeit on a much lesser scale, as about a 17-year-old youth who doesn’t want to fair, the publishing industry’s biggest gathering she said. Scotland’s independence vote last the yes campaign became a “grass roots move- join the East German army. —AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

File photo shows part of the DKNY Ramadan collection is seen on display at a shopping mall in Emirati- Afghan fashion designer Rabia Zargarpur, left, and Fashion Designer Abeer Al Dubai. Suwaidi, founder of Fashion Arabia Group, attend a session at the Fashion Forward in Dubai. Muslim hijabi hipsters fusing fashion with faith

ashion-conscious Muslim women from Kuala Lampur to Los moting it is something really similar and something we have in com- Angeles who wear the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, mon between our religions,” she said. “We should both be working Fhave had to get creative. By fusing both their sense of fashion together to embrace this idea and expand it.” There are also chal- with their faith, this growing group is reinterpreting traditional lenges from within the Muslim community, as well. Women in hijab notions of what it means to dress conservatively. They’re spawning a wearing eye-catching styles often find themselves at odds with con- new market for niche fashion brands and finding unexpected sup- servatives who say hijab should be about covering a woman’s beauty porters among some mainstream brands, as well as from conservative and concealing it from strangers. Photo shows Summer Albarcha, owner of photo-sharing Christian and Orthodox Jewish women who also dress modestly. “People are resistant to change and people like to keep things the Instagram account ‘Hipster Hijabis’, talks during a Fashion “We want to be current in fashion and adhere to the tenets of our same,” said fashion blogger Maria Al-Sadek. “It’s just like a stigma to Forward session in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. — AP photos faith,” said Ibtihaj Muhammad, who owns Louella, a fashion brand be stylish and resemble Western wear sometimes.” Last year, a group catering to women who combine modest dressing with fashion. The called Mipsterz, or Muslim Hipsters, made a short video of a group of Los Angeles-based brand has sold nearly 4,000 pieces since its launch American Muslim women skateboarding in heels and showing off three months ago. Muhammad, a professional athlete and member of their ultra-stylish hijabi styles. The video drew mixed reactions, includ- the United States fencing team, said she struggled trying to find long- ing criticism from people who thought it bent too much toward sleeved, floor-length dresses to wear when she traveled on speaking Western notions of beauty and went against Islamic principles of tours on behalf of Team USA and the State Department. humility. Her line, which include floor-length sheer cardigans and dresses, Marwa Atik, 23, was in the video and saw it as a chance to position ranges from $45 for a colorful, Picasso-inspired print cardigan to $100 her fashion line, Vela Scarves, which she produces in Los Angeles. The for a pink lace, empire-cut dress. Though there are countless Muslim- graduate of Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los owned companies around the world making clothes that cater to Angeles says she sold more than 3,200 scarves last year and plans to women who wear the hijab, many are selling traditional black-flowing expand her offerings to include apparel. For her, wearing the head- robes known as abayas. “I just got tired of spending money and chas- scarf has never been a barrier to being fashionable. “It’s very easy to ing this idea of this perfect modest dress,” she said. get into the stereotypes and start to feel insecure,” she said. “I made Some mainstream designers also have started to cater to this sure people see me as I see me.” Fashion insider Bong Guerrero, growing demand for stylish modest wear. This summer, DKNY founder and CEO of Fashion Forward, a platform in Dubai for local released a collection during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan that designers to showcase their collections, says the explosion of design- sold exclusively in the Arabian Gulf. Karl Lagerfeld also brought his oriented clothing has given “a new perspective on hijabi style.” Fashion bloggers Dee Mohamud, second left, with black tur- Chanel Cruise Collection this year to Dubai, unveiling designs inspired “Because hijabi has an archaic and demure connotation, adding ban and Maria Al-Sadek, next to her with white turban attend a by the rich culture and patterns of the Middle East. Still, the market is hipster to it adds color and fun,” he said, but “is it modest fashion? It is session at the Fashion Forward in Dubai. ripe for more investment said Albert Momdijan, founder and CEO of conservative fashion? Is it Islamic fashion?” For Atik in trend-setting Dubai based Sokotra Capital. California, the word hipster is already out of style. But modesty, she “The Muslim population is the second largest population in the says, is here to stay. “I am not looking at the name of hipster, but the world with roughly 1.8 billion people so it’s a large population that hijabi girl that is much more stylish,” she said. — AP you definitely cannot ignore. And 50 percent are below the age of 25,” he said. “It’s a young population, it’s a growing population and it’s a large addressable market.” The hipster hijabi movement is the byproduct of a young generation of Muslim women coming of age. It grew organically and continues to take on new meaning by the women who embrace it. Summer Albarcha coined her photo-sharing Instagram account “Hipster Hijabis” in 2012, when the teenager from St Louis, Missouri was just 16. She now has almost 23,000 people following her on Instagram. Her loyal following prompted New-York based label Mimu Maxi, run by two Orthodox Jewish women, to send her one of their popular maxi skirts to model. The collaboration caused a stir, with many Jewish customers blasting Mimu Maxi for featuring a Muslim woman in hijab. Albarcha says the experience only reaffirmed the uni- versal struggle women of all faiths and backgrounds have when try- File photo shows models walk among the guests at the Chanel ing to find stylish conservative pieces to wear. Cruise Dubai show revealing the French Maison’s new Cruise collection for the 2014/15 season, staged on a private island in Stigma to be stylish An Arab man talks with one of the presenters at the Fashion Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “It came out that our ideas of wanting modest fashion and in pro- Forward in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Lifestyle FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Indian director says film censor ‘infantilizing’ viewers n Indian director whose award-winning new film tells the story of a bisexual teenager Awith disabilities has accused her country’s censor board of “infantilizing” viewers. Shonali Bose’s movie “Margarita, With a Straw”, named Best Asian Film at the Toronto film festival last month, is due for release in India early next year. But it has yet to receive clearance from the coun- try’s all-powerful censor board, which imposed stringent cuts on an earlier film by the director. “I am opposed to the very existence of a censor board,” the director told AFP from Los Angeles, where she lives, after her win in Toronto. “I think This April 7, 2013 file photo shows Sting performing as part of Final Four Big This Sept 21, 2012 file photo shows Billie Joe Armstrong of there should be a non-political rating board like Dance Concerts at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. — AP Green Day on stage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival at the they have in the US that just sets the ages of who MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. can see what.” Bose’s 2005 film “Amu”, about India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots, went from cinemas to a DVD release because cuts required by censors for television broadcast “were equivalent to banning Green Day, Sting, Withers the film,” Bose said at the time. She said the film was not restricted because of sexual or violent scenes, but because it focused on an episode of history the censors would rather among rock hall nominees have forgotten. Asked how viewers would relate to the unconventional content of her new film, the he punk trio Green Day, the short-lived British band Motown’s The Marvelettes; the Los Angeles rap collective coming-of-age tale of an 18-year-old girl with cere- The Smiths, “Lean on Me” singer Bill Withers and N.W.A.; Philly soul singers The Spinners and the rock and bral palsy set in Delhi and New York, Bose said the TSting are among the first-time nominees for soul band War. With “Dookie” and “American Idiot,” problem “is not with audiences”. “It’s with the gov- enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Six of Green Day scored two of the biggest albums of the 1990s ernment infantilizing our audiences and feeling the 15 nominees for the hall’s Class of 2015 announced and 2000s. Withers, who hasn’t released new music in that they have the right to control what an audi- yesterday are on the ballot for the first time. More than nearly three decades, had a string of 1970s era hits “Ain’t ence can and should see,” she said. 700 artists and other members of the music community No Sunshine,” “Just the Two of Us” and “Lovely Day.” The Toronto jury said “Margarita, With a Straw”, will vote on the inductees, with the results announced in Sting is already in the rock hall as a member of The which stars Kalki Koechlin, had “created a character December. Police. The Smiths, a quartet led by the duo of singer- and a world that embody a love letter to life... in Other first-time nominees are the abrasive rockers songwriter Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, had an spite of overwhelming physical limitations”. While Nine Inch Nails and the late blues guitarist Stevie Ray intense five-year run in the 1980s before crumbling. Nine the story is fictional, Bose says it is based on her Vaughan. To be eligible, a musician had to release a Inch Nails’ signature hit, “Hurt,” was memorably covered cousin who suffers from cerebral palsy. “I grew up recording in 1989 or earlier. With its ninth nomination by Johnny Cash. The 2015 induction ceremony will be knowing everything about this at close hand. But it since 2003, Chic is once again hoping for some good held in April in Cleveland, home of the Rock and Roll Hall only struck me to do a film on a character with this times. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was nominated for of Fame and Museum. Television plans have not been disability when (my cousin) candidly expressed to the fourth time. New York rocker Lou Reed, who died last announced. — AP me that she wanted to have sex,” Bose said. “It October, was nominated for the third time and the first opened my mind to an aspect I had not considered since 2001. and that had not been explored pretty much in In this June 21, 2006 file photo, Bill Other nominees are Joan Jett and her band, the world cinema, leave alone India.”—AFP Withers poses in Beverly Hills, Calif. Blackhearts; German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk; Patton files for divorce from Thicke aula Patton has filed for divorce from Robin Thicke and is asking for joint Pcustody of their son. The “Precious” and “2 Guns” actress filed for divorce from the “Blurred Lines” and “Give It 2 U” singer Friday in Los Angeles, citing “irreconcilable differences.” The 38-year-old actress and 37-year-old singer announced they were separating in February after nine years of marriage. They have a 4-year-old son. Patton was the inspiration behind much of Thicke’s music and appeared in some of his videos. The crooner’s latest album, “Paula,” sold only 24,000 units in the US when it was released in July. Thicke’s previ- ous album, “Blurred Lines,” sold 177,000 units when it debuted last year. Thicke pro- moted “Paula” with several public appear- ances that were accompanied by reconcili- ation pleas. — AP In this photograph taken on January 15, 2014, Indian Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin poses for a photograph during the In this Wednesday, Oct 23, 2013 file photo, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton attend the sixth 59th ‘Idea Filmfare Awards 2013’ pre-awards annual GQ Gentlemen’s Ball in New York. — AP party in Mumbai. — AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Reviews Downey and Duvall battle in ‘The Judge’

ust put Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall in scenes dishing out justice on the bench in a movie a room together and you’ll have a movie, a tru- called “The Judge”) is in his wheelhouse, playing a Jism that “The Judge” does its damnedest to tough-talking, joke-dishing old man, but one disprove. David Dobkin’s film doesn’t leave a melo- haunted by regret and humbled by encroaching dramatic stone unturned, adding to its courtroom old age. drama a sentimental tsunami of story lines: a moth- er’s funeral, a father-son reckoning, a fight with A coming-home tale cancer, a dash of alcoholism, a custody battle, a Downey, too, is in typical form, though he’s nev- mentally challenged younger brother, and a hint of er much tested to go beyond his easy, hyper-verbal possible incest, to boot. Objection! Badgering the charm. But his live-wire act remains a thing to moviegoer. behold. Where one actor reacts once, Downey But for a moment, the big-budget sheen of “The reacts half-a-dozen times, alert to every word and Judge” and its contrived, kitchen-sink emotionality gesture. Seemingly anxious that in today’s cinema is forgotten. Downey’s big-city, high-priced lawyer, there’s no place for a simple courtroom drama or a Hank Palmer, helps his ailing father, Duvall’s Judge coming-home tale, “The Judge” fuses the two Joseph Palmer, in an excrement-soiled bathroom, together. This is, after all, Downey’s first drama pulling him into the shower while they both strug- since 2009’s “The Soloist”; he’s had “Iron Man” and gle for an excuse to keep Hank’s young daughter “Sherlock Holmes” franchises to attend to. outside. Dobkin (largely a director of broad comedies This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Miles Teller, left, and JK Simmons in a Even with the scene’s gratuitous realism, it’s the like “Wedding Crashers”) won’t rest his constantly scene from’Whiplash.’—AP one natural moment in the otherwise schematic moving, always swooping camera. Large portions “The Judge.” As it is, the considerable appeal of see- of the movie are over-lit by cinematographer ing two fine actors as perfectly opposite each other Janusz Kaminski, who has shot some beautiful like Duvall and Downey - one a rigid old cowboy, movies (“Lincoln,” “The Diving Bell and the Review: Blood on the the other a manic pinball - is limited by the film’s Butterfly”), but his penchant for flares and blown- ceaseless heart string-pulling. This is a movie that out windows here gives the film an artificial flat- uses Bon Iver’s mawkish “Holocene” - the cheapest ness. jazz drums, in ‘Whiplash’ of ploys - not once, but twice. If in eight years, Downey’s dramatic output Hank is a glib Chicago defense attorney (“inno- amounts to “The Judge” and “The Soloist,” we can f you’ve ever sat in a jazz club or concert and teachers who raises you up just to cut you down. cent people can’t afford me”) turns to his Indiana only feel that something is being squandered. thought the band was just riffing the night There are many movies where a hard-charging hometown for his mother’s funeral and a reluctant Instead, we get a perpetually watchable film in that Iaway with nary a care in the world, “Whiplash” teacher - think John Houseman in “The Paper reunion with his domineering father, from whom lazy-afternoon-cable-movie kind of way. If “The should whip that feeling out of you faster than a Chase” - runs roughshod over a student, only to he’s long been estranged. Despite being a commu- Judge” proves anything, it’s that talented, likable really up-tempo drum solo. Rarely has a movie make the student better at the end, and you know nity pillar, Judge Palmer is arrested for running over actors like Downey, Duvall, D’Onofrio and Farmiga shown so viscerally the utter pain that can accom- that’s where you’re going. But here, we have no and killing a man he once put in jail. can keep a mediocre movie humming. “The pany the bliss of creating good music. And, in the idea where we we’re going. Andrew could end up Hank defends him, along with a sheepish local Judge,” a Warner Bros release, is rated R by the case of the aspiring jazz drummer at the center of lying insane in a gutter, for all we know. lawyer (Dax Shepard) against a severe prosecutor Motion Picture Association of America for “lan- “Whiplash,” played by the fast-rising Miles Teller (Billy Bob Thornton). The case is less the driver of guage including some sexual references.” Running (“The Spectacular Now,” “Divergent”), we mean Melodramatic plot twist the story than the frame for Hank’s return to his time: 141 minutes. Two stars out of four. MPAA rat- physical pain as well as mental: We’re talking Andrew isn’t wholly a victim here. His dreams roots (Vincent D’Onofrio and Jeremy Strong play ing definition for R: Restricted. Under 17 requires chafed, bleeding fingers leaking droplets onto the of greatness grow into an obsession. His early suc- his brothers, Vera Farmiga his ex-girlfriend) and accompanying parent or adult guardian. — AP cymbals, the blood mixing with sweat, and yes, cess emboldens him to ask the sweet young bonding with his father. some tears, too. woman at the movie-theater counter on a date; Duvall (who perhaps ought to have had more The engaging Teller, whose boyish, upbeat this adorable scene makes full use of Teller’s demeanor always seems to be suggesting some- uneasy bravado. But then he sabotages their bud- thing darker and more desperate underneath, is ding relationship with his limitless ambition. just one of the reasons “Whiplash” is such an Andrew’s no picnic for his family, either. He’s dis- engrossing film. Another is the ingenuity of missive of his dad (Paul Reiser, sensitive in a small writer-director Damien Chazelle, who, in only his role) for having abandoned dreams of being a second full-length film, is clearly working from the writer. heart, having played jazz drums himself in high It all comes to a head on the high-pressure school. stages of musical competition - but this ain’t And the third is the wonderful J.K. Simmons - “Glee.” No smiles, hugs or happy mashups. The you’ve seen him in everything from “Spider-Man” final act will test just how demonic Fletcher can to “Juno” to “Burn Before Reading,” but you’ve be, and just how far Andrew will go to be great. never seen him burn through the screen like this, It’s here that things hit a bit of a snag, alas, with a savoring the role of a lifetime as a teacher who rather melodramatic plot twist. Though it con- inspires, terrifies, bullies and downright abuses, in tains some cool drumming (Teller does his own, ways that leave you wondering whether you the result of many hours of lessons), the plot con- should call 911 from your seat. tortion strains credulity on several levels. It’s a fascinating student-teacher dynamic - But by this point, Chazelle, Teller and though often excruciating to watch - and it allows Simmons have us so firmly in their grip on this Chazelle to raise the question not only of how weird and absorbing journey, we don’t mind all much one should suffer for one’s art, but also that much. We’ll riff along. “Whiplash,” a Sony what makes us truly learn. Is it encouragement, Pictures Classics release, is rated R by the Motion pressure, or pain? Is it joy, or is it fear? Picture Association of America “for strong lan- Teller plays Andrew Neiman, a 19-year-old stu- guage including some sexual references. dent at a top conservatory. He longs to play in the Running time: 106 minutes. Three and a half jazz ensemble led by Terence Fletcher (Simmons), stars out of four. — AP a brilliant conductor who isn’t averse to hurling out sexist and homophobic slurs, and heck, even hurling a chair at a player who can’t quite capture the right tempo. But Andrew, who dreams of Buddy Rich -like greatness, is thrilled when Fletcher invites him in. This photo released by Warner Bros pictures shows, Robert Downey Jr, left, as Hank Palmer He’s caught the teacher’s attention. He’s on the and Billy Bob Thornton, right, as Dwight Dickham in Warner Bros Pictures’ and Village rise. Or so he thinks. But Fletcher is one of those Roadshow Pictures’ drama ‘The Judge,’ a Warner Bros Pictures release. — AP 24 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

A Vegan Delight: Delicious and healthy vegan recipes

egans practice abstaining from the use of animal products in diet, as well as following an associated philosophy that rejects Vthe commodity status of sentient animals. What you may not know is eating an exclusively plant-based diet can be incredibly satis- fying and tasty—especially with these hearty recipes.

Asian Hot Pot

Ingredients 3.75-ounce package cellophane (bean thread) or thin rice noodles 1 tablespoon olive oil 8 ounces mushrooms and stems discarded 6 cups vegetable broth 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger 4 carrots, thinly sliced 8 ounces green beans, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces

Preparations Prepare the noodles according to the package directions. Drain and cut into 3-inch lengths. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 min- utes. Add the broth, soy sauce, ginger, and chili sauce (if desired) and combine. Bring to a boil. Add the scallions, carrots, and green beans. Simmer until the vegetables are tender, 5 to 6 minutes. Divide the noodles among individual bowls and ladle the soup over the top.

Pasta with Green Olive Pesto

Ingredients 1 pound spaghetti 2 garlic cloves, peeled 1/4 cup (3 ounces) of green olives, pitted 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 cup pitted black olives, chopped

Preparations Cook the spaghetti al dente, according to the package directions. Reserve ½ cup of the pasta water and drain. Meanwhile, add the garlic, green olives, parsley, and basil to a food processor. With the motor running, slowly add the oil and process until fully incorporated. In a large skillet, over medium heat, cook the olive pesto for 2 minutes. Add the spaghetti, reserved pasta water, black olives, and salt and cook until the water is absorbed and the spaghetti is heated through. 25

Linguine with Green Olive Sauce

Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 1 26-ounce jar marinara sauce 6.75-ounce jar Spanish olives, drained and roughly chopped 1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped 1-pound box linguine

Preparations Heat the oil, garlic, and crushed red pepper in a large saucepan over medium heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add the marinara sauce, olives, capers, parsley, and lemon zest. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cook the linguine according to the package instructions. Drain and add to the sauce, tossing to coat. Transfer to a serving dish.

Rigatoni Peperonata

Ingredients 12 ounces rigatoni (3/4 box) 1/4 cup pine nuts 1/4 cup olive oil 3 bell peppers 1/2 cup pitted olives 1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 2 tablespoons chopped capers

Preparations Heat oven to 400º F. Cook the pasta according to the package direc- tions. Spread the pine nuts on a rimmed baking sheet and toast, tossing oc- casionally, until golden brown, 4 to 6 minutes. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bell peppers and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 5 to 6 min- utes. Add the olives, parsley, capers, vinegar, red pepper, and ¼ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Cook, stir and heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the pasta and pine nuts to the skillet and cook, toss for 1 minute.

Black Beans and Rice

Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cups long-grain rice 1 medium onion, chopped (1 cup) 1 large green or red pepper, chopped (1 1/2 cups) 2 medium cloves garlic, finely chopped (1 tablespoon) 2 15-ounce cans black beans, undrained 1 cup vegetable or chicken broth 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparations In a medium saucepan, combine 4 cups of water with 1 teaspoon salt and 1½ teaspoons of the oil. Bring to a boil. Stir in the rice, cover, and reduce heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes or until the rice is tender. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat. Sauté the onion, green pepper, and garlic until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the beans, broth, vinegar, bay leaves, black pepper, cumin, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 10 minutes. Technology26

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Awww! The guys who make evil look cute Unveiling Windows 10 The latest Microsoft OS to re-define your PC

icrosoft has unveiled its next version of the Windows software which pres- ently powers about 1.5bn PCs in use on the planet. Windows 10 will aim Mto entice users put off by Windows 8, whose lack of a start menu was more suitable for touch interfaces than a keyboard and a mouse – even though keyboard- reliant users outnumbered touch users by millions to one. Windows 8 was a radical departure from the tried and tested Windows interface introduced in Windows 95. Users were puzzled at best, and businesses were slower to update than usual. Micro- soft hopes Windows 10 will bring users back and entice businesses to ditch the older iterations of their famous OS.

Start Menu After complaints from users about its absence, the start menu is back. Clicking the start button brings up a menu, which – although isn’t exactly the same as Windows 7 or those before it – is more familiar than the full-screen tiled interface of Windows 8. This should be much more useful for desktop users, but the tiled interface from Windows 8 is tacked on to the side.

Continnum Windows 10 attempts to blend the best of Windows 7 with Windows 8. One of the smartest things Microsoft has added is Continuum, which detects the state of the computer and presents the right interface depending on whether a keyboard and mouse is being used or the screen is being touched. For machines like the Surface Pro (which has a detachable keyboard), when the keyboard is attached it behaves like a desktop machine; without it, Windows switches to a more touch-friendly inter- face with an on-screen back button and other touch elements to make things a bit easier with fingers on a screen.

One Windows for all devices Microsoft has talked a lot about Windows being more than simply desktop computer software. Windows 10 is meant to unify desktop PCs, Windows tablets and Windows Phone smartphones with one interface, one way of operating and one account. Apple has taken a similar route with its iCloud accounts and the upcoming Continuity feature between iPads, iPhones and Mac computers – although its iOS software on the iPhone and OS X on the desktop have been kept separate.

Universal apps Along with the “one Windows for all devices” idea, Microsoft is pushing what it calls “universal Windows apps”, which is the new name for apps downloaded from the Windows Store. The idea is that one app will be able to run on all Windows platforms, including Windows Phone. Microsoft has been talking about this for over Technology27

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a year. How it will work is not yet clear, but it is likely that new Windows apps will have a condensed version for Windows Phone and full-size versions for tablets and computers. Apple’s universal apps do something similar between the iPhone and iPad, but are not the same as the desktop OS X apps.

Windowed Store apps Bringing back the start menu has given the traditional Windows desktop more prominence again. To help merge the Windows 8-style “modern” apps from the Windows Store with the traditional desktop, Windows 10 can now run the newly renamed “univer- sal apps” in windows on the desktop, as though they were any other desktop app.

Improved snapping The snapping feature, which automatically resizes windows on the desktop to fill part or all of the screen, has been enhanced, allowing tiling of windows, snapping side-by- side and an array of new layouts to including virtual multi-desktop modes to try to help computer and tablet users be more productive with both universal apps and traditional desktop Windows apps.

Availability and cost Microsoft showed off Windows 10, but it won’t actually be available to users until 2015, after Microsoft’s developer conference in April called Build. Microsoft will be courting businesses before consumers, but Windows 10 is unlikely to appear in most businesses until the end of 2015 at the earliest. Most consumers will buy Windows 10 with a new PC, but for those feeling adventurous and wanting to have a poke around Microsoft’s latest and greatest, the company is allowing users to sign up for early pre- views of the software still in testing. How much the final retail edition of Windows 10 will cost Microsoft hasn’t said. Windows 8.1 costs £100 from Microsoft, but a Windows 10 introductory discount is likely.

Why 10? What happened to 9? Yes, Microsoft did skip from Windows 8 (or 8.1 to be precise) straight to Windows 10. What happened to Windows 9? Perhaps Microsoft has been using base 9, so 9 is actually 10. Or does 10 just sound better? The Xbox 360 (aka the Xbox 2) and its successor the Xbox One (aka the Xbox 3) are proof that Microsoft is happy to throw out conventional numbering when it feels like it. 28

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Pet ra Secrets of Jordan’s

lost city ast stacks of sandstone loom over the arid valley of Wadi Musa like giant handfuls of sun- baked clay. But even in this parched landscape, there are places where the sun casts no light. VWalls 200m high keep the Siq permanently cast in shadow – it’s as though the long, narrow canyon passes through the dark heart of the mountain itself. Utterly silent at dawn, there is not even a bird’s chirrup to accompany solitary footsteps along its patchwork floor of rock and sand. Through a lightning-bolt shaped opening, Petra announces itself with deliberate drama. The vast façade of the Treasury, precisely carved into the soft sandstone, towers over the young Bedouin men, camels and stray cats that congregate at its base.

The rediscovery of Petra ‘It is one of the most elegant remains of antiquity existing,’ the Swiss explorer Jean Louis Burckhardt wrote in his diary in 1812. When Burckhardt crossed Petra’s threshold, he was the first outsider to do so for over 600 years – hidden by its natural fortifications, the city had remained obscure to the West since the time of the Crusades. Though known to local Bedouin tribes, they were reluctant to reveal its existence, justifiably fearing an influx of treasure hunters. In Petra’s heyday, the city had been anything but anonymous. Home to some 30,000 people, whose surviv- al in this desert landscape was maintained by a complex system of water management, it was the centre of a kingdom four times the size of modern Jordan. At its helm were the Nabataeans, a once-nomadic Arab tribe who had used their knowledge of the desert to amass vast wealth in the caravan trade, most lucratively that of frankincense and myrrh. The Treasury’s grand edifice was a statement of their wealth, sending a powerful message to weary traders emerging through the Siq, but was essentially an empty shell. Built as a tomb for a Nabataean king, its misnomer ‘the Treasury’ came from the belief that the urn carved into the centre of the second tier contained hidden gold. The vessel is pockmarked with bullet holes, evidence of past attempts to uncover the mythical bounty. But the treasure Burckhardt sought was Travel29 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 intellectual rather than mercenary; he moved to Aleppo in Syria, mastered Arabic, converted to Islam and took the name Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah. A deep tan and full beard further obscured the 27-year-old’s ethnicity, and he became a master of disguise, adopting local customs and testing his alias among the Bedouin.

Burckhardt’s secret plan When, travelling south to Cairo, he heard rumor of ruins hidden among the mountains of Wadi Musa, he was quick to devise a ruse: ‘I pretended to have made a vow to have slaugh- tered a goat in honor of Haroun (Aaron), whose tomb I knew was situated in the extremity of the valley,’ he wrote, ‘and by this stratagem I thought that I should have the means of seeing the valley on the way to the tomb.’ His plan worked. Upon entering the city he was barely able to conceal his wonder from his guide. As the two made their way deeper into the valley, Burckhardt was gob-smacked by the sight of countless tombs and the great amphitheatre carved into the rock. He couldn’t resist scrambling up to explore. Then, as now, these caves were utterly bare; unadorned but for the veins of color striped through the rock like a sort of natural wallpaper. Having surprised his guide with his incursions, Burckhardt was hurried to the city’s parched core, the Colonnaded Street and the temple of Qasr Al-Bint. His attempt to wander the ruins of the latter was the final straw. ‘I see now clearly that you are an infidel!’ his guide exclaimed. Fearing that further aggravation might lead to the discovery of his own most treasured possession, his diary, Burckhardt dared venture no further.

Away from Petra’s tourist trail Few tourists venture beyond Petra’s main sites, and with every camel hoof-step away from the city we are more alone – until there isn’t a single other person in sight. If the stretch from the Treasury to Qasr Al-Bint is Petra’s high street, these outlying hills are the city’s suburbs. Though the weather-worn rock face is still peppered with ancient dwellings and sepul- chers, many are more modest. Some grander efforts lay unfinished – vestiges of an urban sprawl that came to an abrupt halt – and with these edifices it is possible to see the Nabatae- an technique of carving from top to bottom. Ascending further into the hills, we come across what must be one of the last tombs still used as a Bedouin family home. Small but ornate, its dark entrance-way has been filled with a solid door, and there’s a garden of plants and fruit trees. With the sun directly above us in the sky, we reach Haroun’s Terrace. From here, a small white mosque is visible. This is Jebel Haroun, thought to be biblical Mount Hor, where Moses’ brother Aaron (Haroun to Muslims) is buried – a sacred place for both Christians and Muslims. Cultural melting-pot The style displayed in Petra was a hodgepodge of influences absorbed along their trading

routes: Egyptian, Assyrian, Hellenistic, Mesopotamian and Roman imagery injected with their own creative flourishes. Nowhere is the scale of their ambition more apparent than at Petra’s biggest monument, the Monastery, carved deep into the mountainside. It is easy to imagine the hours of chiseling and carving that went into its creation. Even reaching the Monastery requires work – it sits at the top of an 800-step rock-cut path, following the route trod by the faithful when this was a place of worship. The Monastery’s name is misleading – built in the 3rd century BC as a tomb, it was prob- ably later used as a temple. Crosses etched into the internal walls show that the Byzantines used it as a church – Petra is a place that has borne witness to the rise and fall of one civiliza- tion after another. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the fictional doctor’s quest for the Holy Grail led him to Petra. Burckhardt didn’t even make it as far as the Monastery. Though a letter back to his col- leagues reporting his discovery caused wild excitement, he never got to enjoy a moment of his fame. He lived out the rest of his life travelling the Middle East and Africa as Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah, before dying from dysentery in 1817, at the age of just 32. In the two centuries that followed, countless others – explorers, scholars and the simply curious – have followed in his wake, but still Petra remains a place full of untold secrets.

Exploring Jordan For many people Jordan begins and ends with the magical ancient Nabataean city of Petra. And it’s true, Petra is without doubt one of the Middle East’s most spectacular, un-missable sights, battling it out with Machu Picchu or Angkor Wat for the title of the world’s most dra- matic ‘lost city’. Yet there’s so much more to see in Jordan - Jordan’s capital Amman is a modern, cultur- ally diverse Arab city which is light years away from the typical clichés of Middle Eastern exoticism. The country also offers some of the wildest adventures in the region, as well as an incredibly varied backdrop ranging from the red desert sands of Wadi Rum to the brilliant blues of the coral-filled Gulf of Aqaba; from rich palm-filled wadis to the lifeless Dead Sea. Ultimately it’s the sensual delights of daily life in the Middle East that you’ll hanker for longest after you return home; the bittersweet taste of cardamom coffee or the smell of a richly scented nargileh (water pipe); the intoxicating swirl of Arabic pop sliding out of an Amman doorway and the deafening silence of the desert. Jordanians are a passionate and proud people and the country truly welcomes visitors with open arms. Despite being squeezed between the hotspots of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Jordan is probably the safest and most stable country in the region. Regardless of your nationality, you’ll be greeted with nothing but courtesy and hospitality in this gem of a country. —www.lonelyplanet.com Interview30 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Giving yourself to charity

By Sherif Ismail

arna Kumara is one of the most unique businessmen in Sri ’s most generous men Sri Lanka Lanka. He runs two successful industrial and touristic busi- Wnesses but almost all of his profits go to charities that help the poor, needy and handicapped. From the moment he greeted us, his humble nature and sharp intelligence was obvious and this made conversing with him all the more pleasurable. He invited us to his house and expressed his great respect to Kuwait Times. We heard a lot of his charity activities and got the chance to sit down and talk to him about them; here are the excerpts from our interview with the simple and modest Mr Kumara. Warna Kumara at his home in Negombo.— Photos by Sherif Ismail

KT: What can you tell us about yourself? KT: Would you like to share a special message to A: My name is Warna Kumara. I started my practical the people of Kuwait? life when I was 14 with the help of my eldest brother and A: I call upon people around the world, especially like many others, the advice of my mother. I used to go to Kuwait to visit our cities, as we work day and night for the school and work at the same time from 1985 until 1998, comfort of our visitors. Thisara Hoildays Company is ready after that I formed a large company for car tires and bat- to receive them and organize tours and accommodate teries here in my local town of Negombo. As for the char- them in anyway possible, bearing in mind that their stay ity work, I started it with the help of one of my relatives with us will open a window to the lives of the poor and with 96000 rupees. I believe that all what I get is to help needy as well as the handicapped. Thank you. An interview with one of with interview An people. When I started off, I was giving more than 50% of my wealth to charity projects.

KT: Tell us more about the beginning years A: I met a Sri Lankan Doctor who is known for mak- ing artificial limbs for the poor. He brings raw materials from England at his own expense, manufactures them and then distributes the limbs for free. He has spent all his wealth on this helpful import. This prompted me to do the same and assist him with the finances so together we can provide an almost normal life to those in need of such limbs completely free of cost.

KT: What are your expenses like? A: The price of each limb may reach $2500 and more, and the Sri Lankan government does not help, so we Kumara’s car tires and batteries shop in Negombo. Giving orphans a new leash on life. hope that they start aiding us, like exempting us from tax, water and power bills for this factory. We are not a factory that looks for profit, nor are we a 5 star hotel. We give the poor a hope of special taste and feelings they have not experienced for a very long time. Honestly, we believe that you should have just enough wealth for the clothes on your back and a good meal on your plate.

KT: Do you have any plans to further improve the growing tourism industry in Sri Lanka? A: The idea came to my mind to employ workers mainly from the poorer districts of the country and help them support their families. So I established Thisara Holi- days Company, in order to attract tourists to my country, and increase national income. This was also an opportunity to create jobs for the poor of Sri Lanka. All my extra money goes to charities that help the handicapped and needy. There are more than 2,600 workers in my companies of various special- ties, the latest of which is tourism. I work day and night so my people can live happily. In fact, when I return to my tires and batteries shop in Negombo, I have no problem working like any other employee in my shop. I always make sure to tell my workers that we are working for the comfort of others. Chandral one of Kumara’s employees shows us the villa’s of Thisara Holidays Company. Leisure FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

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This could be one of those Iran 0098 Thailand 0066 days when people are more likely to take a gamble because Iraq 00964 Toga 00228 trating eyes are apt to spot things that are easily pocketed, Ireland 00353 Tonga 00676 even though you know deep down that those things aren't they're unrealistic about how things are going to work out. Don't Italy 0039 Tokelau 00690 meant for you to keep. Your imagination might try to convince be surprised if the stock market jumps as a result of the dollar Ivory Coast 00225 Trinidad 001868 you that it's OK to pull such sneaky maneuvers, and you may signs that people imagine. It will be hard for others to resist when Jamaica 001876 Tunisia 00216 be tempted. Don't deceive yourself. people receive promises of a big payoff. Japan 0081 Turkey 0090 Jordan 00962 Tuvalu 00688 Kazakhstan 007 Uganda 00256 Kenya 00254 Ukraine 00380 Kiribati 00686 United Arab Emirates00976 Health FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Can dogs transmit Ebola? Spanish nurse critical, Madrid

PARIS: Following the uproar over the killing of an Ebola blames infection on human error patient’s dog in Spain, experts said yesterday there was a risk of canines carrying the deadly virus but none that they could MADRID: The health of a Spanish nurse infect humans. A study published in 2005 pointed to a theo- with Ebola worsened yesterday and four retical risk that dogs could pass the virus to humans through other people were put into isolation in urine, faeces or saliva, but there is no evidence of this ever Madrid, while the country’s government having happened, virologists said. They recommended cau- rejected claims its methods for dealing tion given the lack of firm data. “The wise move is to... with the disease weren’t working and assume they (dogs) do represent a risk to humans,” Andrew blamed human error. Teresa Romero, 44, is Easton, a professor at Britain’s Warwick University, told AFP. the first person to have contracted Ebola Spanish authorities on Wednesday put down the pet dog outside of Africa, after becoming infected of a nurse hospitalized with Ebola after treating two patients by a Spanish priest repatriated from Africa who died of the disease in Madrid. The decision sparked with the disease. protests from animal rights groups, some of whom scuffled In total seven people are in isolation, with police outside the apartment where the dog, Excalibur, though only Romero has tested positive had been left by his owners when they were taken into quar- for Ebola. The others include the nurse’s antine. Bats are known to carry the Ebola virus in central husband and two doctors who cared for Africa without showing symptoms. Monkeys and apes also her. Three other people were released get the virus and get ill in the same way as humans. But a lack of data on domestic animals has clouded the issue. The only from the isolation unit late on Wednesday research into the question was a study published in the jour- after testing negative. A health official at nal Emerging Infectious Diseases nine years ago. the Carlos III Hospital where Romero is Investigators probing a 2001-02 Ebola outbreak in Gabon being treated said yesterday: “Her clinical situation has deteriorated but I can’t give found traces of antibodies to the virus in dogs-a tell-tale sign SPAIN: A banner reads “informative meeting for Ebola level 4 protocols” and that the animals had at some point been infected. The dogs any more information due to the express wishes of the patient.” “Excalibur, you never been alone, we will always remember you, hoping you were from areas where there had been several cases of Ebola had a peaceful death” as a local police officer guards the entrance to the apart- in humans and wild animals. The study was unable to say The European Commission asked for an explanation of how Romero’s infection ment complex of Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in whether the dogs had picked up the virus from a natural Alcorcon, near Madrid. — AP source, such as bats, monkeys, apes-or from humans them- happened in a high-security ward. “It’s selves. Nor was it designed to answer the bigger question: obvious that the patient herself has recog- per El Pais, the doctor detailed treating died on Wednesday and the US govern- could the dogs, in turn, infect humans? nized that she did not strictly follow the Romero during a gruelling 16-hour shift ment ordered extra screenings at five “The answer is that we don’t know, because no one has protocol,” Ruben Moreno, spokesman for during which he was not told she had the major airports. actually studied it,” said Easton. “But if those dogs are carry- health for the ruling People’s Party, said in Ebola virus. He said he only learned of this ing the virus, they are definitely a potential source. They have a television interview. German Ramirez, via the press. Calls for calm to be considered a risk to anyone who handles the dogs or one of the doctors at the hospital where The Ebola virus has killed nearly 4,000 In Madrid, health workers at a major hos- comes into close contact with secretions or faecal material Romero is being treated, said on people in West Africa since March in the pital protested about inadequate training to from those dogs.” Excalibur, a Spanish cross-breed, was not Wednesday she had told him she touched largest outbreak on record. It causes hem- deal with the virus while unions have diagnosed as having the virus but was killed as a precaution- her face with her protective gloves. orrhagic fever and is spread through direct demanded the resignation of Health ary measure. Spanish authorities obtained a court order to On Thursday another doctor, who contact with body fluids from an infected Minister Ana Mato. A union official said euthanize the dog, citing a risk that it could be a virus “carri- cared for Romero and is among those now person. The World Health Organization training for staff to deal with expected Ebola er”. “There is no scientific evidence that domestic animals in isolation, said the sleeves on the protec- has said it sees no evidence of the disease cases was inadequate.”In some places they play an active role in the transmission of this disease to tive suit he wore while handling her had being brought under control in Liberia, are carrying out drills, in others not, there is humans,” Bernard Vallat, director general of the World been too short. In a letter to healthcare Sierra Leone and Guinea. The first person a lack of co-ordination,” union official Rosa Organization for Animal Health (OIE), told AFP. —AFP authorities, published by national newspa- diagnosed with Ebola in the United States Cuadrado told Reuters. —Reuters Information FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

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KANDAHAR: An Afghan watermelon vendor waits for customers at the roadside in Kandahar province yesterday. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance. —AFP Euro-zone economic outlook darkens Exports from Germany, France drop sharply

BERLIN: The outlook for the euro-zone dark- own economic forecasts. Earlier this week, both A policy of easy money, as currently prac- immediate costs of a small deficit, he argued. ened yesterday as top think tanks slashed their the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ticed by the European Central Bank, was not the forecasts for German growth-traditionally the Organization for Economic Co-operation and cure-all for Europe’s problems, the institutes Budget tensions bloc’s economic engine-both this year and next. Development (OECD) warned about a loss of argued. “Monetary policy is trying its best to The institutes’ call for increased public Data also showed a sharp drop in exports from momentum in the euro-zone recovery as the stimulate the euro-zone economy and interest spending will please Germany’s euro-zone part- its neighbor France. German economic engine stalled. rates are very low in Germany as a result. ners, such as France, which are arguing for a The four institutes-Ifo in Munich, DIW in “After gross domestic product contracted in “However, the latest raft of measures are relaxation of the single currency bloc’s budget Berlin, RWI in Essen and IHW in Halle-predicted the second quarter and likely stagnated in the unlikely to provide any additional impulses for rules, despite fierce resistance from Berlin. in their widely-watched half-yearly report that third quarter, the economic engine is finding it the economy,” the institutes warned, referring At an informal meeting of EU leaders in Milan the German economy would grow by just 1.3 difficult to get going,” the report said. “The to the ECB’s contested plans to buy bonds and earlier this week, French President Francois percent in 2014 and 1.2 percent in 2015. That is German economy is stagnating. And there’s no other assets in order to inject cash into the econ- Hollande threw down the gauntlet to German much lower than the 1.9 percent and 2.0 per- indication for the moment that that will change omy. Chancellor Angela Merkel by saying that instead cent they had previously expected. And they before the end of the year,” DIW economist The onus was therefore on governments. of further austerity measures to trim France’s argued instead of always trying to balance its Ferdinand Fichtner told a news conference. And Berlin should increase spending in the pub- budget deficit, the rules should be eased to books, Berlin should ramp up investment in the lic sector, the experts believed. reverse flagging growth across the euro-zone. public sector as a way of reigniting the flagging ECB measures can’t help “The government isn’t making sufficient use At the four institutes’ new conference, economy. Domestic demand was weak, with the con- of the margin for financial manoeuvre with Roland Doehrn of RWI, acknowledged that the In neighboring France, exports dropped by sumer climate deteriorating and companies regard to investment, such as in infrastructure,” budget question was a “source of tension.” But 1.3 percent, pushing the trade deficit up to 5.8 continuing to scale back investment. And for- said DIW’s Fichtner. “On the spending side, pub- Oliver Holtemoeller of IWH insisted: “It’s not a billion euros, the highest figure since January. eign demand was also weak, with “only sluggish lic spending should be increased in those areas measure of spending as much as possible,” but France’s big trade deficit is worsening with the growth in the global economy and slowing which can potentially boost growth,” the insti- kick-starting the moribund economy. United States and with Asia, notably because of momentum in the euro area,” the institutes said. tutes said. Berenberg Bank economist Christian Schulz a decline in Airbus deliveries. Earlier yesterday, trade data for both France Fichtner suggested that balancing a country’s said he expected the German economy to “Economic growth in Germany has cooled and Germany further darkened sentiment for books “isn’t necessarily an end in itself from an expand by a meagre 0.1 percent in both the noticeably,” said the institutes’, whose reports the euro-zone as a whole, as exports from its economic point of view.” In fact, it could cost more third and fourth quarters “and we cannot even are used by the government as a basis for its two biggest economies dropped sharply. in the long run, in terms of low growth, than the rule a mild technical recession.” —AFP Business FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 38 Applications for US jobless claims fall WASHINGTON: Slightly fewer Americans sought unemploy- ment benefits last week, pushing the average number of appli- cations in the past month to an eight-year low. The Labor Department said yesterday that weekly applications fell 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000 in the week ended Oct. 4. That is the fourth straight week that applications have been below 300,000, a clear sign of a job market on the mend. Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They have fallen 9 per- cent in the past month. That suggests employers are keeping their workers, likely because they expect continued economic growth and may be contemplating more hires. The four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, dropped 7,250 to 287,750, the lowest level since February 2006, nearly two years before the Great Recession began. The decline in applications has corresponded with robust hiring. Employers added 248,000 jobs last month, and hiring in the previous two months was healthier than previously believed, the government said last week. That helped push the unemployment rate down to 5.9 percent, a six-year low. The number of people receiving benefits has also fallen steadily to just 2.38 million in the week ended Sept. 27, the lat- est data available. That is the fewest since May 2006. Many for- mer recipients have gotten jobs. But another key reason for the drop is that many of the long-term unemployed are no longer eligible. Jobless aid lasts for 26 weeks in most states. The number of available jobs soared to a 13-year high in August, according to a separate government report Tuesday. That suggests employers will keep adding jobs at a healthy clip in the coming months. MIAMI BEACH: Jean Meryot, 38, of Miami, waits to be interviewed during a job fair at Fontainebleau Miami Still, companies have been wary about filling positions, frus- Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. The Fontainebleau had 50 positions available and was looking to hire cooks, trating many job-seekers. Some employers say they can’t find servers, bartenders and hostesses among other positions. —AP workers with the right skills. Many economists, however, say that firms may not be offering high enough pay to attract qual- ified applicants. Oil resumes fall back to The job market continues to bear scars from the recession. More than 7 million people hold part-time jobs but want full- time work, up from 4.6 million before the downturn. And there are still twice as many people unemployed for longer than six $91 on economy worries months as there were before the recession, even though that figure has steadily declined in the past three years. —AP Brent heads towards two-year lows

LONDON: Brent oil fell to $91 a barrel yesterday, heading back eBay brands itself to over two year lows, as a supply glut and concerns about global growth have pushed it 20 percent down from its peak in as a place to June. Brent for November delivery was down 34 cents at $91.04 by ‘shop the world’ 1005 GMT, having fallen to $90.98 minutes earlier. The front- month contract fell as low as $90.57 on Wednesday, the lowest NEW YORK: E-commerce site eBay is kicking off a global since June 2012, before recovering to close at $91.38 - still down branding campaign that aims to draw attention to the 73 cents. US November crude lost 3 cents to $87.27 after ending wide array of goods it has available ahead of the holiday the previous session down $1.54. In the previous session, it hit shopping season. its lowest level since April 2013 at $86.83. It’s the first time eBay has created a campaign with the Weak German economic data emphasized the cloudy eco- same message across four of its biggest markets: the US, nomic outlook in the region. German exports plunged in ISHINOMAKI: Local residents enjoying a party for Australia, Germany and the UK, with more countries August by their largest amount since the height of the financial the newly-built fishermen’s house at Nagatsuraura crisis and leading institutes slashed forecasts for growth, expected to be added in 2015. And it comes as eBay preps port in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northern for a split next year with payments unit PayPal, its fastest fuelling debate on whether Berlin is doing enough to prop up the domestic and European economies. Japan. Secours Populaire Francais and Nippon growing segment. “Supply is strong, inventories are high and demand in Foundation contributed to the rebuilding of the Central to the campaign is an ad that will run in 15-, 30- Europe is terrible,” said Michael Hewson, head analyst at CMC facility which was washed away by a tsunami caused and 60-second versions that shows goods like a surfboard Markets. Crude inventories soared a more-than-expected 5 mil- by a large earthquake on March 11, 2011. —AFP and a smartphone in action in scenes around the world, as lion barrels in the week to Oct. 3, data from the US Department well as iconic images like Dorothy’s red shoes in the of Energy’s Energy Information Administration showed on “Wizard of Oz” and the guitar of rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Wednesday. A build of 1.5 million barrels had been forecast by Then it cuts to items shoppers were inspired to buy. analysts polled by Reuters. Egypt inflation “It’s a great big world and it can all be yours here and Investors also watched the Middle East where Islamic State only here,” a voiceover states. The goal is to put eBay at fighters on Wednesday launched a renewed assault on Kobani, falls to 11.1% the forefront of shoppers’ minds leading up to the holiday close to the Syrian-Turkish border, as US and coalition war- CAIRO: Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation fell to 11.1 percent in season, said Chief Marketing Officer Richelle Parham. planes attacked IS targets in Syria. Top diplomats from Iran, the September from 11.5 percent in August, CAPMAS, the official statistics The campaign aims to “drive great traffic into the eBay European Union and the United States, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, will meet in Vienna next week, to try to agency, said yesterday. Egypt’s economy has been in turmoil since a pop- stores of our sellers,” she said. The company, which is ular uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, deterring tourists based in San Jose, California, doesn’t sell items itself but make progress towards a long-elusive deal to end a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program by a Nov. 24 deadline. and foreign investors and straining the country’s finances and foreign provides the platform for third parties to sell goods. Softer domestic demand probably pulled down growth in reserves. Parham added that the campaign will help people China’s imports, investment and retail sales to multi-month or Annual inflation reached its highest rate in nearly four years in understand the “real eBay” as it works to shed its image as multi-year lows in September, raising questions about whether November, then began falling back until the government introduced fuel an auction site and become known globally as an overall policymakers should do more to fight the economic slowdown. price increases in July, triggering a rise over the past two months. Annual e-commerce retailer. Parham noted that 80 percent of the However there are signs that the slump in crude prices are core inflation - which strips out subsidized goods and volatile items such items on the site are new and 78 percent are fixed-price tempting Chinese buyers to move heavily into the physical mar- as fruit and vegetables - declined to 9.15 percent in September from merchandise. The ad starts running on TV and online ket. A 20 percent drop in global oil prices has whetted top energy 10.07 percent in August, the central bank said. Despite billions of dollars Monday. —AP consumer China’s appetite for crude with PetroChina snapping in aid from Gulf states and two stimulus packages, economic recovery in up more than 8 million barrels in just over a week. —Reuters the most populous Arab nation has been slow. —Reuters Business FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 39 French court suspends Airbus insider trading trial PARIS: French judges yesterday effectively suspended a trial involving allegations of insider trading in the shares of Airbus Group to allow a higher court to rule on whether the long- awaited procedure was constitutional. The latest abrupt twist in one of the most high-profile corporate cases of recent years came after defense teamsurged the French court system to take note of a recent European judgment upholding the right not to be tried twice. Seven current or former managers and two former indus- trial shareholders are accused of illegally selling shares in what was then known as EADS, in March 2006, in the knowl- edge that things were about to go wrong at Europe’s largest aerospace firm. All deny the charges and argue the trial is unwarranted because they were cleared by the French stock market regula- tor AMF in 2009, breaching the ‘double jeopardy’ rule upheld in March by the European Court of Human Rights. “When you have been found innocent once and then you have to go through the whole thing again, this is complete torture,” Olivier Gutkes, a lawyer for former EADS co-chief executive Noel Forgeard, told Reuters. Forgeard, 67, is one of four former executives charged with abusing privileged knowledge that deliveries of the world’s largest jetliner, the A380, would be delayed and that costs of that plane as well as the newer A350 were rocketing higher. Current managers facing similar charges include John Leahy, the sales chief of planemaking unit Airbus who was not in court; Alain Flourens, who heads the A380 program; and WASHINGTON, DC: (L-R) International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, World Bank Andreas Sperl, former Airbus finance director and now head Group President Jim Yong Kim, Guinea President Alpha Conde and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- of a freighter unit. moon attend a meeting on the Ebola crisis with other global finance and health officials during the Also on trial are two former industrial shareholders, French International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group annual meetings yesterday. —AFP media group Lagardere and German car firm Daimler , which reduced their stakes in April 2006. The charges carry the risk of substantial fines and up to two Finance chiefs meet under years in jail, though prison sentences are rare. On June 13, 2006, the announcement of new delays on the A380 and a staggered profit warning wiped 26 percent from the EADS cloud of Euro-crisis, Ebola stock price, erasing 5.5 billion euros of market value. —Reuters WB to launch new infrastructure fund

WASHINGTON: Stagnation in the euro-zone, geopolitical Ebola threatens world economy crises, and a menacing health disaster in West Africa confront Also on the list of imminent threats to the IMF’s forecast of the world’s leading finance officials as they meet in 3.8 percent global growth next year are the tensions in the Washington beginning yesterday. Middle East and Ukraine, and the still-uncontrolled Ebola out- Six years after the financial crisis, the world economy is break in three countries in West Africa. The World Bank growing, at a modest 3.3 percent annual pace, and could pick warned this week that if the epidemic, which has killed nearly up next year, according to the International Monetary Fund. 3,900 people, is not under control by the end of the year it But the benefits of that are fragmented, and many pitfalls con- could spread throughout West Africa to an economic cost of front the world’s central bankers and finance ministers as they nearly $33 billion dollars next year. gather at the annual IMF-World Bank meetings. On Thursday morning, the leaders of the three affected “The global economy faces the prospect of prolonged sub- countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, will discuss the par growth, accompanied by high unemployment and rising outbreak in person and via video conference with top devel- inequality,” warned IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde opment officials at the IMF-World Bank meetings. HANOI: A farmer checking dried paddy as she dries on Wednesday. “There is a very real risk that the world could “The international community must find ways to get past newly harvested rice on a village communal house’s get stuck for some time with a new ‘mediocre’ level of logistical roadblocks and bring in more doctors and trained yard in Quoc Oai district on the outskirts of Hanoi. growth.” medical staff, more hospital beds, and more health and devel- World Bank forecasts 5.4 percent GDP growth for While “mediocre” is much better than the performance of opment support to help stop Ebola in its tracks,” said World Vietnam in 2014 in a report published this week in the economy just a few years ago, what it means for people in Bank President Jim Yong Kim. —AFP Hanoi. —AFP many countries could be flat incomes and not enough job generation to lower high rates of unemployment. The IMF and World Bank are pressing governments to push reforms that Stocks wilt after Sri Lanka cuts energy will boost growth, to target spending on job-creating activi- ties like infrastructure development, and to strengthen their Fed-driven surge prices, raising finances to be able to handle potentially rough seas ahead. “The challenge for both advanced and emerging market LONDON: A rally in world stocks sparked by Federal economies is to go beyond the general mantra of ‘structural prospect of snap poll Reserve assurances it will not rush US rate hikes ran out of reforms,’ to identify which reforms are most needed, which steam yesterday as the dollar remained in the grip of its reforms are politically feasible,” said IMF chief economist COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president slashed gas prices by 10 per- worst run in months. Olivier Blanchard. cent yesterday after making hefty cuts to fuel and electricity The Fed’s message had helped settle nerves about The World Bank will officially launch a new fund for sup- tariffs that have been widely seen as sweeteners ahead of fragile global economic growth and revived risk appetite. porting infrastructure development. The IMF, which has snap elections. But there were signs as US trading approached that - with pressed governments to rein in spending and cut their debts, President Mahinda Rajapakse ordered treasury chief third quarter earnings also getting into gear amid con- has now turned around: it says they can borrow more to build Punchi Banda Jayasundera to reduce gas prices by just over cerns that recent dollar strength may have weighed on US and rehabilitate roads, power facilities, and other public infra- 10 percent, the government information department said. exporters - the effect was starting to wear off. Wall Street structure to add value to their economies. Speculation that Rajapakse will call a snap presidential poll was expected to open lower, beaten-down oil and com- But both are particularly worried about stagnation in the has mounted, after his party opened an election campaign modity prices were sliding again and bond yields in much huge euro-zone economy. In its newest outlook on the global office last month. of Europe, which have plunged during years of cheap economy this week, the IMF said there is a 40 percent chance The move came after the ruling United People’s Freedom funding from the Fed and the world’s other major central the region could slide into a third recession since the financial Alliance saw its vote plummet by over 20 percentage points in banks, hit record lows. —Reuters local elections. crisis erupted. Business FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 BCC warns of Europe risks, US caution ‘alarm bell’ for could delay UK rate rises British recovery

LONDON: The British Chambers of Commerce warned of a BoE keeps benchmark rate at record low “first alarm bell” for Britain’s rapid economic recovery after firms reported the weakest export growth in almost two LONDON: The risk of a new recession in the euro-zone and caution economy had been gentle so far and Germany’s economy could years and a big slowdown in manufacturing. The BCC’s quar- from the US Federal Reserve are weighing on expectations of the tim- bounce back if the ceasefire in Ukraine holds and eases concerns that terly economic survey - the largest of its kind in Britain - ing of a first increase in British borrowing costs, potentially delaying it. have weighed on the economies of eastern Europe. showed that while domestic demand for services continued The Bank of England, as expected, kept its benchmark interest rate at “Still, the key point is that if euro-zone, and especially German, sen- to grow at a near-record pace, the picture for other parts of a record low at 0.5 percent yesterday, the level at which it has sat since timent and growth does not turn up over the next few months then the economy deteriorated sharply. “The strong upsurge in the financial crisis. the BoE could delay a rate hike,” said Wood who is chief UK economist manufacturing at the start of the year appears to have run its Although Britain’s economy has surged since mid-2013, the BoE at Berenberg bank. “Our base case is that the BoE will hike in February, course. We may be hearing the first alarm bell for the UK,” has kept rates on hold due to a combination of weak pay growth and but latest developments raise the risk that the BoE will wait longer to said BCC director-general John Longworth. inflation below its 2 percent target. So far, only two of the Monetary hike.” Global financial markets have grown jittery in recent days Policy Committee’s nine members have voted for a hike. But expecta- after the International Monetary Fund downgraded euro tions have been strong that rates could start to rise in February next Blame europe zone growth forecasts and Germany reported the biggest fall year. The BoE made no statement alongside its monthly policy in industrial orders since the financial crisis. Thursday’s sur- Now British policymakers are casting a nervous eye at the euro- announcement, which included a commitment to maintain at 375 bil- vey adds to signs that Britain’s economy is facing increasing zone and in particular Germany, which this week announced a string lion pounds ($607.5 billion) the stockpile of assets which it acquired overseas headwinds as it tries to reduce its reliance on of far weaker than expected economic data. Adding to the sense that under its program of government bond purchases. domestic consumer demand, and last month the Bank of rate rises might come later than recently thought, the Fed has sound- Minutes of the MPC’s meeting are due to be published in just England warned of the risks from the euro-zone. ed worried about the impact on the US economy of the slowdown in under two weeks’ time. The minutes of last month’s meeting suggest- On Tuesday, weak industrial output data prompted the Europe and in Asia. ed growing concern at the situation in Europe. In September, MPC NIESR think tank to estimate that British gross domestic British Finance Minister George Osborne called on the European members saw only a modest direct impact of the euro zone’s slow- product growth fell to 0.7 percent in the third quarter from Central Bank to do more to help growth, despite the concerns of down, but minutes of their meeting showed they felt “a prolonged 0.9 percent in the second quarter. Germany about the risks of the central bank buying government period of poor growth and very low inflation could have a larger Longworth said the BCC survey and sterling’s recent bonds, the most powerful stimulus at its disposal. impact if it led once again to uncertainty about the sustainability of strength boosted the case against an early interest rate rise “You need credible fiscal plans, and the Germans would certainly euro-area public and external debt”. by the BoE. Most economists polled by Reuters expect the agree with me on that, but I think you also need the European Central Data on Tuesday showed German industrial output in August BoE to raise rates from their record-low 0.5 percent by the Bank doing its bit to help,” he told the BBC. plunged at its steepest rate since the depths of the financial crisis. The first three months of next year, but some see a chance that In Britain, there are some tentative signs of a cooling. The British International Monetary Fund has given a nearly 40 percent probability this may be put on hold if the outlook darkens. Chambers of Commerce warned of a “first alarm bell” for the recovery that the euro zone would enter recession over the next year. The The BCC said growth in goods exports as well as export after firms reported the weakest export growth in almost two years British economy struggled to grow during 2011 and 2012 when the orders for goods and services was its lowest since the fourth and a big slowdown in manufacturing. euro-zone was deep in a debt crisis that threatened to break up the quarter of 2012. Services exports grew at the slowest rate British house prices nationwide showed their smallest increase in single currency area. since the third quarter of 2012. Manufacturers’ growth in 15 months, according to a survey this week. If sustained, the slow- Economists say the current growth problems in the single cur- domestic sales and orders slowed sharply from a record high down could feed into next year’s general election and Conservative rency area will not deliver as big a hit to Britain. But the slowdown in the second quarter to its lowest since the second quarter Prime Minister David Cameron’s bragging rights over an improved is a problem for the British manufacturing sector which accounts of 2013. However, sales remained strong in the services sec- economy. Investors earlier yesterday showed they were less con- for about 10 percent of the country’s total economy. Data pub- tor and confidence stayed high across the board. The BCC vinced that the BoE would raise interest rates in early 2015. Short-dat- lished earlier this week showed British manufacturing edged up urged the government to make things easier for small busi- ed gilt prices rallied with other major government bonds and short just 0.1 percent between August and July. Surveys have suggested nesses by freezing local property taxes paid by businesses sterling interest rate futures, bets on when rates will rise, rose strongly. that problems in the euro-zone weighed on the sector more heavi- and improving access to finance.—Reuters Rob Wood, a former BoE economist, said the cooling of Britain’s ly in September. — Reuters Australia’s jobless rate edges up to 6.1%

SYDNEY: Australia’s unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in (RBA) as they adjust monetary and fiscal policies during the rebal- the lack of a chief statistician. Economists said the central bank September, official data showed yesterday, as the statistics ancing away from mining. was likely to rely more on forward labor market indicators while bureau revised down readings from previous months amid uncer- Treasurer Joe Hockey said he was “unhappy with the volatility the statistics bureau looks into the measures it uses to read its tainty over how the figures are calculated. Some 29,700 jobs were of the series” and had asked the Treasury Secretary to look into data. “The RBA would no doubt have been looking at the shed from the economy last month as part-time positions fell by the problems at the ABS. panoply of labor market indicators and, while probably disap- 51,300, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. Just over “It is a broader issue beyond the ABS’s current challenges with pointed by the volatility of the official numbers, they are unlikely 21,000 full-time jobs were added. The seasonally adjusted jobless the monthly unemployment data,” Hockey said, adding that the to have been perturbed,” HSBC’s chief economist for Australia rate, the highest since July 2003, was broadly forecast by econo- bureau faced structural issues such as insufficient resources and Paul Bloxham said.—AFP mists. But there were ongoing question marks about the accuracy of the data following the bureau’s announcement Wednesday that it was temporarily dumping its seasonally adjusted figures for unadjusted ones, saying there was “little evidence of seasonal- ity in the July, August and September months for 2014”. The decision meant the July unemployment rate of 6.4 percent was revised down to 6.0 percent, and the August rate adjusted from 6.1 percent to 6.0. The ABS said if it had not removed seasonality in its September figures, employment would have fallen by 172,000 jobs. “At face value today’s data suggest that labor market condi- tions have stabilized in recent months,” ANZ economists Savita Singh and Riki Polygenis said in a note. “However it is important to note that these figures will be revised next month, with today’s preliminary figures based on a ‘stop-gap’ methodology until the ABS can determine what the new appropriate seasonal pattern is.” The unemployment rate has been pushing higher over the past year as the Australian economy shifts away from a depend- ence on resources-led growth amid a expected sharp fall-off in mining investment after an unprecedented boom. The participation rate-which measures the proportion of adults in work or looking for work-has been declining during this period, and fell a further 0.2 percentage points to 64.5 percent in September. The jobs figures have been key indicators of the econ- SYDNEY: Two building workers at a construction site in Sydney’s central business district. Australia’s unemployment omy’s health for the government and Reserve Bank of Australia rate rose to 6.1 percent in September, official data showed yesterday. — AFP Business FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Global jobs market hits soft spot: Data

PARIS: Improvement in the jobs market appears to have stalled in recent months, according to data released yesterday, amid ris- ing concern of a slowdown in the global economy. While the unemployment rate in the 34 advanced nations in the OECD dipped by 0.1 points to 7.3 percent in August, there has not been significant improvement since the beginning of the year. The OECD unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in the final quarter of last year. The International Monetary Fund warned of stagnation in advanced economies on Tuesday when it trimmed its growth forecast for the whole world by 0.1 percentage point to 3.3 percent. After a drop from 6.7 percent to 6.3 percent in April, the US jobless rate has improved only to 6.1 percent in August, accord- ing to OECD harmonized data for international comparison. The situation is similar for the euro-zone, where the jobless rate has been stuck at 11.5 percent for several months after com- ing down slightly from 11.9 percent in the beginning of the year. Japan scored a 0.3-point drop in August to 3.5 percent, but this brings it back to the level of the first quarter after rising for several months. Korea has been on a similar trend, with its jobless The future crew members pose for a photo in front of the new twin engine EC 135 Airbus helicopter for the Chinese airborne emer- rate edging up 0.1 points to 3.5 percent in August. gency medical services operations, on display during the delivery event in a hangar of Airbus helicopters in Donauwoerth, southern While there is a lag in the delay from Britain, the non-euro- Germany yesterday. Airbus helicopters delivered this first fully-equipped air ambulance for the “Beijing 999” today, as the first zone country appears to be posting steady reductions in the rotorcraft outfitted for dedicated helicopter emergency medical services missions in the country. — AFP unemployment rate. At 6.2 percent in June, the jobless rate was down considerably from the 7.1 percent in the final quarter of last year. The overall euro-zone rate masks the diverging fortunes of its members. While steady at 10.5 percent in France in August, the jobless French not in the rate is up from 10.2 percent in the final quarter of last year. It has held roughly steady in Germany and Italy in recent months, but there have been improvements in Spain, Austria and the Netherlands. — AFP mood for reforms Arms crossed, heels dug in amid govt moves

Gold climbs on PARIS: In his pristine dispensary on a quiet corner in Paris, chemist tions from the get go and going on strike is a last resort, in France the Antoine Louguot never thought he would hang up his white coat in strike is usually part of the negotiating process. lower dollar protest and go on strike. But fury at a government proposal to dereg- “Sometimes aggressiveness is a sign of weakness,” said Garelli. “It ulate pharmacies saw Louguot, 40, join an unusual group, including would not be unusual that when you start a negotiation in a compa- notaries, doctors and bailiffs, in walking off their lucrative jobs recent- ny, people will start to strike just to say you know we are serious about LONDON: Gold climbed to its highest in two weeks yester- ly over a similar threat to their respective monopolies. it and this is what it may cost you, and then after they may negotiate.” day as the dollar fell after minutes of the latest Federal Analysts say that even in a country known for its legendary labor With three decades of mounting unemployment, people feel their Reserve policy meeting drove markets to push back expec- disputes, the action showed an extraordinary level of defiance against jobs are all the more uncertain, worsening the confrontation, he said. tations for the likely timing of an interest rate rise. Spot gold a deeply unpopular government, making much-needed economic But Groux argues that while “spectacular” strikes involving rail work- rose to its highest since Sept. 23 at $1,231.50 an ounce early reforms nearly impossible to implement. ers and pilots are hugely visible in France, due to their disruptiveness, on Thursday and was trading up 0.7 percent at $1,229.50 by “This strike was a strong action against the government and a sign the overall number of strikes in the country is now just a tenth of that 1140 GMT. to the people that it is we who have the power,” said Louguot. recorded 40 years ago. It rebounded nearly 4 percent from a 15-month low of “When we stand together they cannot change our way of life.” $1,183.46 hit on Monday, under pressure from better than Guy Groux, a specialist in labor conflict said that while there was a Reforms in the face of defiance expected US jobs data. US gold futures jumped more than 2 “folkloric culture of striking” amongst some French workers, the wave The latest wave of strikes comes as France tries desperately to bat percent to a two-week high of $1,231.80 an ounce. “The air of action by self-employed professionals was highly unusual. away criticism that it is paralysed by economic failure and unwilling to has been cleared and we know that an early interest rate “In France today we have not only an economic crisis, we have a change. Prime Minister Manuel Valls insisted Monday the country was increase in the United States is not as likely as people had political crisis, even a moral crisis some say, which involves a very determined to carry out economic reforms during a trip to London. expected,” said Bernard Sin, senior vice-president at pre- strong defiance towards the executive,” said Groux. His charm offensive came after another blow to the collective psy- cious metals and financial services group MKS SA. Hardly a day seems to go by without a cortege of striking workers che, when Andy Street-director of retailer John Lewis — described “A lot of people were expecting the market to break weaving their way through the streets of France, angrily trying to pre- France as “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat” and “finished”. Garelli down, so those who have been caught short will continue vent a change to the status quo. said that with the lowest overall working hours in Europe-at 1,600 to buy back in the near term.” And it has been white-collar workers leading the charge recently. hours a year, compared to 1,949 in the United States-France’s sacro- The dollar was down 0.3 percent against a basket of High earning Air France pilots last month held a record two-week sanct 35-hour work week was a “catastrophe for business”. Anything major currencies, a drop to its lowest level in two weeks. strike which cost a hefty estimate of 500 million euros ($623 million) approaching a suggestion to rethink the sacrosanct 35-hour work Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 16-17 meeting, and ended in stalemate. They fear they could be replaced by cheaper week is “a kind of taboo”, says Garelli. released on Wednesday, showed that Fed officials want to pilots as Air France launches into the low cost flight market, seen as tie an interest-rate rise to US economic progress, though vital to remaining competitive in the cut-throat world of aviation. they expressed concern about the dual threat of a rising dollar and economic slowdown in Europe and Asia. A nation of strikers? That prompted investors to bet that the Fed is in no rush The long-held view that striking is somewhat of a national sport in to tighten after years of monetary stimulus. The dollar had France is not entirely unjustified. France topped European charts in posted weekly gains for 12 consecutive weeks and its terms of strike volume between 2001 and 2010, according to Kurt strength, coupled with a string of positive US economic Vandaele of the European Trade Union Institute, who said there were data, had been driving gold’s declines over the past few however no data available for Greece, and records were patchy for weeks. Investors tend to withdraw from non-interest-bear- Italy and Portugal. Economist Stephane Garelli, an expert in world ing assets to seek higher yields elsewhere when the dollar competitiveness, agreed, saying that with 43 days lost to strikes per gains. 1,000 habitants for the three years ending in 2012, France was “one of European shares were little changed after hitting two- the biggest sinners on the market.” month lows in the previous session. Ironically, this is because French unions are relatively weak and Equity markets and gold have both benefited from the divided, with only eight percent of workers unionized, said Groux. low interest rates and increased central banks’ liquidity that “The reform problem is completely different when you have very have prevailed in the years after the 2008 financial crisis. weak, divided unions all looking to protect themselves.” Despite a rebound in gold prices, which rose for four con- Add this to a highly politicized society, and you have-from LYON: French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, speaks secutive sessions, longer-term sentiment remains bearish Revolution to the Recession-a nation quick to its feet when it feels its during the 69th Congress of the Association of Chartered on the prospect of further gains in the dollar.—Reuters way of life is threatened. Accountants at the Congress Centre in the southwestern city Whereas in countries like Germany, unions take part in negotia- of Lyon, yesterday. — AFP Sports42 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Vonn’s mixed feelings at rival’s retirement

BERLIN: US ski queen Lindsey Vonn admits to like there is now a big hole in the World Cup.” January after re-injuring her right knee, which back to racing. having mixed feelings on the eve of the World The 29-year-old American started training ruled her out of February’s Winter Olympics in “I will start the intensive training in Cup season with former rival Maria Hoefl- in the Austrian Alps last week as she looks to Sochi, Russia. November in Vail, when the snow is Riesch now retired from downhill racing. end nearly two years of injury misery with Vonn, who has 59 World Cup race victories ready,” she said. “From a sporting perspective, it will be easi- German rival Hoefl-Riesch, who beat her to the to her credit, just three short of the record held “I have a month to get ready for Lake er without Maria because she was always a 2011 overall World Cup title, now retired. by Austrian legend Annemarie Moser-Proll, Louise and I hope I can really give it my all.” rival, but personally it will be harder,” Vonn, The season starts in Soelden at the end of badly injured her right knee while competing The downhill specialist admits her rehabilita- who is returning from a serious knee injury, October, but Vonn will make her comeback at in a super-G at the 2013 World Championships. tion programme took a lot of patience after told German broadcaster ZDF. Lake Louise, Canada, in December. Having not won a World Cup race month of strength training on her damaged “Maria was always a good friend and it’s Vonn underwent major knee surgery in since January 2013, Vonn is eager to get knee. —AFP

IAAF had no choice over listing Gatlin for award LONDON: To athletics fans around the world wondering just how double-doper Justin Gatlin could be short-listed for the IAAF’s ath- lete of the year award, the unpalatable answer is, that having served his bans, the governing body had no real choice. Gatlin’s stellar year of sprinting, when he posted six of the fastest 100 metres times with his 9.77 second run in Brussels last month the fastest-ever by an over-30, made the 32-year-old an automatic inclu- sion the 10-man list. “Gatlin, as an eligible athlete who has had a great season is, logi- cally, also eligible for consideration for the Athlete of the Year con- test in the absence of any bylaw to prevent that happening,” an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) spokesman told Reuters yesterday. However, fellow nominee Robert Harting felt so strongly about the American former Olympic champion’s inclusion that he asked to be removed from the list. The German world and Olympic discus champion wants previ- ously-banned athletes to be prevented from being nominated and said he would not be involved with this year’s award so long as Gatlin remained on the list. IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe also said this week that he was not happy about Gatlin’s inclusion but recognised that the rules allowed it. “The only thing I would say is he is entitled to compete; but I’m not particularly comfortable about it,” said Coe, the former double Olympic 1500 champion who has worked hard within the IAAF to restore four-year bans for doping. Gatlin won Olympic 100m gold in 2004 and the 100m/200m world championship double in 2005 after returning from a one-year ban for testing positive for a stimulant in 2001. NANNING: Kohei Uchimura (L) of Japan, compatriot Yusuke Tanaka (R) and Max Whitlock of Britain listen to the In 2006 he failed a second test, for testosterone, which should Japanese national anthem on the medals podium after Uchimura won the men’s all-around final, Whitlock have led to a lifetime ban, later reduced to eight and then four years. placed second and Tanaka finished third at the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, in China’s south- ern Guangxi province yesterday. —AFP Magnificent form Gatlin returned to action in 2010 and took bronze behind Usain Bolt in the 100m and a 4x100m relay silver in the 2012 Olympics in No limits for Chusovitina London. This season he has been in magnificent form in both 100m and NANNING: Uzbek gymnast Oksana left ankle six months ago, and tore liga- “So far I have ability. I am still a medal 200m and his 19.68 in Monaco in July remained the fastest 200 Chusovitina’s latest bid for a world champi- ments in the same foot while training for contender and I’m still training for my sev- metres time of the year. onship medal ended before it could begin the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. enth Olympics,” said the gymnast, who is He is by no means the only former drugs cheat back plying his or after she pulled out of the competition in She defied the injury to compete in her 153 metres (five feet) tall. “I have no limits her trade at the top level of athletics and three other 2012 100m China due to an injury suffered at last favoured event, the vault, and took the sil- at this point.” finalists have also served time for doping offences. month’s Asian Games. ver medal. Coach and former Unified Team team- Consequently the IAAF had little choice, based on performances, But the 39-year-old, the oldest entrant But lingering pain and advice from her mate Svetlana Boginskaya said Chusovitina but to include him on the list. at the world tournament in Nanning, has doctors forced her to give up plans to com- was “definitely not an ordinary person”. Indeed, his compatriot LaShawn Merritt, the former Olympic and already returned to training as pain in her pete in the all-around in Nanning. “She’s definitely, I don’t even know, world 400m hurdles champion who served a 21-month doping ban left foot receded. “Every medal has a meaning to me but maybe an alien,” Boginskaya said. Even on from 2010, is also included. Harting sits on the Athletes’ Council but said he would not con- “I’m okay now. I’m starting slowly to the silver medal means a lot,” said the the sidelines in Nanning, Chusovitina has a tinue if the current situation remained unchanged. work on it but I still can’t tumble,” the Uzbek, who has collected two Olympic and role to play for her teammates, about half “I am ready to stand for election again but only if athletes who Soviet-trained gymnast told AFP after 11 world championship medals-including her age. have misbehaved are scrapped from this year’s list and are subject working out with her teammates, aged four golds-as she switched her affiliation “They are pushing themselves harder of a general nomination ban in the future,” he told German media. between 16 and 20, at a championship from the Soviet Union to Germany and her and, of course, when I give them pointers It is too late for any such change to affect this year’s award, training hall in Nanning yesterday. native Uzbekistan. and tips, they greatly appreciate it and try which will be announced on Nov. 21. “I’m getting ready for more competi- “Every person and athlete has their own to do their best,” she said. However, the IAAF does have a bylaw that prohibits convicted tions,” she said, with her sights firmly set on limits, physically. For me, at this point, I “I feel perfect being around with these dopers from being elected to its Hall of Fame and the Athletes’ her seventh Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in don’t feel any different than I felt 20 years young gymnasts,” she said, quipping: “I Commission is likely to press for a similar rule to be introduced for 2016. ago,” said Chusovitina, whose top-level think they are more intimidated by me than the Athlete of the Year award from next year. —Reuters Chusovitina underwent surgery on her career began in 1991. I’m intimidated by them.” —AFP Sports FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 43

Hamilton, Rosberg carry on their F1 contest

SOCHI: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg recovery crane at the Suzuka course dur- happened to Jules it suddenly didn’t seem Rosberg said. “Everybody was really into it, take their Formula One fight to untested ing rainy conditions. Governing body FIA relevant anymore. My thoughts and all the Russian fans, so I think there will be ground at the Russian Grand Prix this has started an investigation into the acci- prayers are with him and his family. a lot of people coming to watch us. It’s a weekend, with the circuit still recovering dent, which has revived a safety debate in new circuit, so we’ve spent a lot of time in from the horrific crash of Jules Bianchi last Formula One. New experience the simulator practicing it to learn all the week. The accident overshadowed Hamilton’s “This weekend is a new experience. I lines and the gears as best we can.” Hamilton leads his Mercedes teammate victory over Rosberg in Suzuka. Hamilton’s like a challenge and a new circuit always The Russian fans are sure to support by 10 points going into the race in Sochi, eighth win of the season increased his lead provides that. Of course, we’ve run Daniil Kvyat, the home driver who is leav- the Black Sea resort that hosted the Winter to 10 points. Each victory is worth 25 points, through plenty of laps on the simulator, ing Toro Rosso to replace four-time cham- Olympics in February. With four races and but the last race in Dubai will count double. but you never really know what it will be pion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull. 125 points still at stake, the title will not be Hamilton, like all drivers, will face an like until you get out there and feel your “I am sure there will be a lot of atten- decided at the Sochi Autodrom around unfamiliar course as the Sochi Autodrom way into the track,” Hamilton said. With tion on me, but I am ready for it and will the Olympic Park. But Mercedes can seal makes its debut on the circuit. “It’s difficult the well-being of Bianchi foremost on his enjoy it in a way, so really I will just do my the constructors’ title with a victory by one to know what to say after a weekend like mind, Rosberg said he was looking for- usual job the best I can,” said Kvyat, who of its drivers, who will be the favorites.In the one in Japan,” Hamilton said. “As I ward to the race in Russia. has a grandstand on the course named Japan, Bianchi is in critical but stable con- crossed the line, obviously I was pleased to “We did actually do a demo in Moscow after him. Russia did stage two grand prix dition after suffering a severe head injury have finally won at Suzuka, but as soon as a couple of years ago where I drove round races before, but that was before World when his Marrussia car ploughed into a we got back to the pits and heard what the Kremlin, which was really cool,” War I in St. Petersburg. —AP Family to unite at Bianchi’s bedside Perez calls for more use of safety car

YOKKAICHI: A brother and a sister of Sergio Perez said yesterday, as drivers ple run out of brakes, so many factors SOCHI: (L to R first row) Red Bull Racing’s German crashed French Formula One driver Jules reflected on Jules Bianchi’s horrific crash you never expect, and if the tractor is driver Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari’s Spanish driver Bianchi were to join their parents at his in Japan last weekend. there it’s a big problem,” added the Fernando Alonso and McLaren Mercedes’ British bedside in a Japanese hospital, a source Mexican. “You don’t want to expose any- driver Jenson Button, (second row) Williams’ close to the family said yesterday. Stable codition one like that. We have to take care of the Tom and Melanie Bianchi were due in Bianchi has been in hospital since the marshals.” Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, Sauber’s German driv- Japan later and expected to visit the Mie accident at Suzuka, the last medical bul- Formula One’s governing body, the er Adrian Sutil and Toro Rosso’s Russian driver General Medical Center in Yokkaichi, letin issued on Tuesday saying the International Automobile Federation Daniil Kvyat attend a press conference at the where their brother was taken after the Frenchman had suffered a traumatic (FIA), has opened an enquiry into the Sochiautodrom circuit in Sochi yesterday ahead of horrific smash at the Suzuka Circuit on brain injury and was in critical but stable accident with a number of questions to the Russian Formula One Grand Prix. —AFP Sunday. condition. be addressed. Lorenz Leclerc, a young man whom Bianchi’s supporters described as his Alonso backs calls to best friend, joined his parents at the hos- pital earlier yesterday. Bianchi, 25, was test closed cockpits knocked unconscious in a high-speed SOCHI: Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso yesterday crash into a recovery vehicle during added his voice to calls for Formula One to consider the introduc- Sunday’s rain-sodden Japanese Grand tion of closed cockpits, In the wake of Jules Bianchi’s life-threat- Prix at Suzuka. ening accident at the Japanese Grand Prix, the Spaniard told a The Frenchman underwent emer- news conference ahead of this weekend’s inaugural Russian gency brain surgery, with doctors saying Grand Prix that he welcomed proposals to look at the plan. he was in critical but stable condition. It could be weeks before doctors know “I probably tend to agree we should at least check and try or how badly damaged Bianchi’s brain is, a test the idea,” he said. “We are in 2014. We have the technology. specialist warned. Motor racing’s govern- We have aeroplanes and many other examples used in a success- ing body the FIA said Wednesday it had ful way. So why not to think about it?” ordered a report into the crash to be Frenchman Bianchi remained ‘critical but stable’ in hospital in supervised by its top race director. Japan following Sunday’s race in which his Marussia collided with FIA president Jean Todt has asked a recovery vehicle. Bianchi, 25, suffered severe head injuries. Charlie Whiting, the Formula One race Ferrari driver Alonso added that he had enjoyed a lucky director, “to carry out a report on the escape in 2012 when he was involved in a massive multiple colli- precise circumstances which led to the YOKKAICHI: Parents of injured Marussia driver Jules Bianchi of France, sion amid flying debris at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix. accident”, the federation said in a state- Philippe Bianchi (L) and Christine (C) speak with his friend Lorenz Leclerc He said: “All the biggest accidents in motorsport in the last ment sent to AFP. (R) at the Mie General Medical Centre in Yokkaichi yesterday. —AFP couple of years have been head injuries-so it’s probably one of Bianchi suffers a diffuse axonal injury- the parts where we are not on the top of the safety. trauma that is spread across the brain The 25-year-old Marussia driver, a How and when tractors are deployed “Even in my case, in 2012 at Spa, I probably could have died rather than in one place-caused by the Ferrari test driver who was an emerging to remove crashed cars has been a con- there, in corner one, if it had been 10 centimetres closer to my shockwave from the sudden impact of talent, aquaplaned off in rain and poor cern in Formula One for years and has head.” the crash travelling through the brain. visibility and crashed into the back of a come under renewed scrutiny. Closed cockpits have been considered by Formula One in the This causes bruising and kills cells. tractor that was removing a crashed “For the good of him, for the good past, but were rejected because the teams believed that their The body’s response to the injury- Sauber. of his family, we need to really move introduction would make their cars look too ugly. swelling-exacerbates the problem “In the future, when there is a tractor forward in terms of safety on what The Williams team’s deputy team principal Claire Williams told because it restricts blood flow to the picking up a car, we need a safety car no happened to Jules,” said Perez of the an audience at the Leaders in Sport conference in London on brain, causing more damage. Experts say matter the conditions because there is popular Bianchi, who was Force India Wednesday that she favoured considering closed cockpits and recovery rates from this kind of injury, always a risk,” Force India driver Perez reserve in 2012. “Hopefully in the said driver safety was more important than the look of the cars. which is frequently caused by vehicle told reporters at the new Russian Grand future you will never see an accident Williams driver Brazilian Felipe Massa, who survived life- crashes, are not encouraging. Prix Circuit. like this in the whole of Formula One; threatening head injuries when struck by an errant spring from Formula One should deploy the safe- “You expose the marshals, a lot of Being a tractor there and then a car another car during qualifying at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, ty car whenever a tractor is used to people, so we need a safety car if the colliding with it cannot happen. We supported Alonso’s call for action. —AFP retrieve a car from the track, Mexican tractor is on track. “You could have peo- cannot have this.” —Agencies Sports FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 44

Cricket: Pakistan look for confidence boosting win

DUBAI: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq said his team will look series, for the sake of the team and the management. won the only Twenty20 in Dubai by six wickets on Sunday. The for a confidence-boosting win over Australia in the second day- “Winning is always very important and it is more important third and final game will be played in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. night international in Dubai today. with the World Cup coming up,” said Misbah of the global Pakistan lost by 93 runs in the opening match of three in event to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in Teams (from): Sharjah on Tuesday and looked well short on confidence. February-March next year. “A win puts all the things in the Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Ahmed Shahzad, Umar Steven Smith hit a maiden hundred to bolster Australia to 255- right place. It is very important that you keep working hard and Akmal, Fawad Alam, Sami Aslam, Umar Amin, Asad Shafiq, 8 before paceman Mitchell Johnson and spinner Nathan Lyon don’t lose hope,” said Misbah, who is also under pressure to Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shahid Afridi, Raza Hasan, shared five wickets to bowl out Pakistan for a low 162 in 36.3 perform after flopping on the last tour of Sri Lanka in August. Mohammad Irfan, Anwar Ali, Wahab Riaz, Zulfiqar Babar, Sohail overs. Misbah said his batsmen needed one good innings to He managed just 67 runs in the two Tests and as many runs Tanvir. get them going. “At the moment our confidence is shaky,” said (67) in the three-match one-day series in Sri Lanka when Australia: George Bailey (captain), David Warner, Aaron Misbah yesterday. “When your confidence is bad even a Pakistan lost both. He was dismissed for a first-ball duck in Finch, Phil Hughes, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Brad Haddin, straight ball becomes difficult for you, all these players have Sharjah. Left-arm spinner Raza Hasan has recovered from a James Faulkner, Sean Abbott, Kane Richardson, Mitchell performed well before but at the moment they need one good shoulder injury and is likely to replace allrounder Anwar Ali. Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Xavier Doherty. innings to restore that confidence.” Australia too have brought in left-arm spinner Xavier Umpires: Nigel Llong (ENG) and Shozaib Raza (PAK) Misbah said levelling the series was important. “Yes, it is Doherty for Mitchell Marsh (ruled out of the tour with a ham- Tv umpire: Richard Illingworth (ENG) very important to level the series, for the sake of saving the string injury) and may replace him with a fast bowler. Australia Match referee: Javagal Srinath (IND). —AFP Pietersen says England return on if ECB chief quits LONDON: England exile Kevin Pietersen said he could yet return to international duty if England and Wales Cricket Board chair- man Giles Clarke quits his post. Thursday saw Pietersen’s controversial autobiography finally go on general sale after days of pre-publicity in which the South Africa-born batsman, England’s leading all-time run-scorer, high- lighted a “bullying” culture within the England dressing room and was severely critical of the management methods of former England coach Andy Flower. It is hard to imagine the circumstances in which Pietersen might make an international return-not least because he did not play County Championship cricket for Surrey last season. But the 34-year-old has not given up hope and having previ- ously focused much of his ire on Flower and several former team-mates, yesterday saw him turn his attention to Clarke. “What would have to happen for me to be recalled by England?” Pietersen asked in an interview with the London Evening Standard. “Clearly, the boss would have to go. “Clarke would have to go, and I’ve been hearing that could happen in the next few months. That’s all hearsay, you never know. If there is a change at the top, there is potential, but we will wait and see.” It was Clarke who oversaw an uncomfortable press confer- ence alongside Pietersen in Colombo in 2012 where he star batsman was formally reintegrated into the England team. That followed a three-month banishment after Pietersen sent text messages critical of then England captain Andrew Strauss to BILOXI: Jermain Taylor, left, puts pressure on Sam Soliman during the IBF middleweight championship on opposition South Africa players during a home series with the Wednesday, at Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. —AP Proteas. “Giles pulls a lot of strings. In terms of cricket, I believe Andy Flower pulls a lot of strings too,” Pieterseb told the Standard. Taylor takes title over “He has Giles Clarke in his pocket.”

Boycott sympathy The ECB have steadfastly declined to respond to Pietersen’s limping Aussie Soliman autobiography and they had no comment to make regarding his comments about Clarke. But England great Geoffrey Boycott said he could understand BILOXI: Former undisputed world champion draw and 5-0 in his comeback run, claimed the same thought I would have. He kept fighting.” why Kevin Pietersen felt angered by the way his England career Jermain Taylor captured the International undisputed middleweight title in 2005 after Soliman suffered a torn right knee ligament was brought to an abrupt halt without a specific explanation. Boxing Federation middleweight title defeating Bernard Hopkins, but retired in 2009. in a 2007 loss to fellow Aussie Anthony Former captain Pietersen, having been a key figure in one of Wednesday with a unanimous decision over Soliman, who turns 41 next month, took Mundine. Soliman had won nine fights in a row the most successful of all England cricket sides, was effectively Australian Sam Soliman, who finished 12 command in the early rounds but was forced since a 2008 loss to Mundine. sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board following the rounds despite a right leg injury. to his right knee by a Taylor jab in the seventh “I’m not going to take up table tennis just team’s 5-0 Ashes series loss in Australia concluded in January. Taylor hung up his gloves for two years and then favored the leg to the end of the yet,” Soliman said when asked if he might “I’d be miffed if my career had been finished for no reasons after suffering bleeding in the brain and losing fight. Former dock worker Soliman, who fell to retire. given,” said Boycott. four of five fights over two years before return- 44-12, suffered a torn right knee ligament in a Soliman had won the crown with a unani- “It’s actually a pretty big thing when you’ve got a very talent- ing to the ring in 2011. But his comeback has 2007 loss to fellow Aussie Anthony Mundine. mous decision over Felix Sturm last May. The ed player ... (and) a country says, ‘Fine, we want to move on with- been controversial for health issues and legal Soliman had won nine fights in a row since a Melbourne fighter had defeated Sturm in 2013 out you’,” Boycott told the Cricinfo website. ones. 2008 loss to Mundine. but that verdict was changed to no contest Boycott added the root cause of the bitterness was in 2009 Taylor is out of jail on bail after being “It wasn’t an injury that came back because after Soliman tested positive for the banned when Pietersen was sacked as England captain after voicing his charged with two felonies after allegedly of bad luck. It was because of Jermain,” stimulant methylsnephrine, leading to a nine- concerns about Peter Moores’s suitability as a coach. shooting and wounding his cousin during an Soliman said. month ban. Moores lost his job within the England set-up and was August dispute. “If he wasn’t as good a fighter as he was, he Taylor sent Soliman down in the eighth and replaced by his former assistant Flower, with whom Pietersen But he achieved the crowning moment of wouldn’t have come up with the goods.” the Aussie fell again before a right hand to his had also clashed. Foolowing this year’s Ashes debacle, Flower his ring return when judges awarded the 36- Limping in the ring at times but always able to chin sent him falling backward, unable to keep stood down and was replaced by Moores. year-old American the verdict by scores of 116- perform well enough to pass muster, a gritty weight on his right leg. Reflecting on the change of command in 2009, Boycott said: 111, 115-109 and 116-109. “I heard it before. Soliman stayed in to the end even as the refer- Soliman fell again in the ninth in evading a “You have two people (Pietersen and Flower) who resent the sit- Now I’m hearing it again,” Taylor said of the ee and ringside doctor each questioned if he powerful right hand from Taylor, who sent uation, both in prime positions-one the best batsman and the ring announcement of his new title. could continue. Soliman to the canvas a final time with a left other the coach in charge. —AFP Taylor, who improved to 33-4 with one “He’s a warrior,” Taylor said. “He did the jab at the end of the 11th round. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Another big step in return of Jarrod Lyle

NAPA: Jarrod Lyle takes another step back in his amaz- Wednesday. “I still cry when I look at it. These guys were The Frys.com Open was not on his schedule. Lyle ing return from twice beating leukemia, and this one taking 30 seconds out of their day to jump on camera received a sponsor’s exemption to the tournament might be the biggest one yet. to wish me all the best, guys that I probably haven’t next week in Las Vegas. He did not receive one to the He earned his spot in the Frys.com Open through a spoken to much or haven’t played with before. But to Frys.com Open, so he decided to go through Monday playoff at Monday qualifying. And he’s back among the see those guys get on there and just wish us all the qualifying. Nothing comes easily to Lyle, and he never best players in the world on the PGA Tour, part of a best, that meant the world, and it showed me how complains. family he never knew was so large. much support that I had from my competitors and my Instead, he shot a 66 to get into an eight-man Lyle got choked up Wednesday talking about a DVD peers over here.” playoff for four spots. He made a 20-foot birdie putt he was given shortly after leukemia returned in March This is the third time Lyle has returned to a tour. on the second hole and was in. “I sort of a gave 2012, right about the time his wife was due to give The most emotional was at home in Australia last myself a little fist pump and thought, ‘I’ve done it.’ birth to their daughter. Golf Channel arranged for play- December, when he made the cut riding a wave of But in the car on the way home, I kind of screamed ers at Bay Hill to say a few encouraging words to the support. He came back to America this summer to like a little girl that I’d finally done it and got myself Australian. play on the Web.com Tour as he continued to work into a tournament that I wasn’t going to be playing. I “I watched it and I cried for 45 minutes,” Lyle said on his game. came up here with a job to do.—AP A new season, and higher goals for Jimmy Walker

NAPA: Jimmy Walker ended his remarkable season with a high standard of golf that probably didn’t get the attention it deserved. That’s not much different from how it started. Walker captured his first PGA Tour title a year ago at the Frys.com Open, and then added two more wins before the tour reached the Florida swing. That was easy to overlook by the end of the year when Rory McIlroy came on strong with a pair of majors and a World Golf Championship. It’s not that Walker tapered off - he had three top 10s in the majors. It’s just that winning is hard, and he happened to make it look easy. It got him into the Masters for the first time. He led the FedEx Cup almost the entire year until McIlroy overtook him in August. And he made his first Ryder Cup team. He finished strong, minus a reason to celebrate. Europe already had clinched the Ryder Cup when Walker capped off the strongest performance by any American on the final day at Gleneagles. Playing in the penultimate match, he made eight birdies in 16 holes and needed them all to beat Lee Westwood, who made six birdies. “I’ve played with Jimmy and knew he was a very good player,” Westwood said. “Whenever he’s played with me, unfortunately, he’s played well. You’re more upset when you lose a game if SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy, left, watches as fellow pitcher Tim Lincecum throws during you’ve not played well, but I don’t really mind the fact that I lost a baseball practice in San Francisco, Wednesday. The Giants are to play the St. Louis Cardinals in baseball’s NL game to somebody that shot 8 under through 16 holes on Championship Series. — AP Sunday of a Ryder Cup. That’s pretty impressive stuff.” The question for Walker is what he does for an encore. A new PGA Tour season begins Thursday with the Frys.com Open, the Giants, Cards, Royals first chance for Walker to defend a title. He’ll have to do it on a different golf course, with the tournament moving from CordeValle to Silverado, the resort amid the vineyards and and Orioles chase title foothills of Napa Valley. The final hour of last year’s tournament was a blur. Walker closed with a 66 and rallied past Brooks Koepka. It was his first WASHINGTON: It has been about 30 years since Major League playoff series win over Detroit. victory in eight years on tour, and Walker never imagined what Baseball fans in Baltimore and Kansas City have enjoyed a World Royals pitchers has a 1.74 earned-run average against the Los would follow. He won a shootout at Waialae in the Sony Open, Series, but one of those droughts will end this month. Angeles Angels in the prior round with relievers allowing only one run and then held on to win the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. And the opponent for whichever club reaches the best-of-seven over 12 innings. “We feel pretty comfortable with 11 pitchers right “Three wins in eight starts doesn’t happen a lot,” Walker said final will be either the St. Louis Cardinals or San Francisco Giants, now,” Yost said. Kansas City will threaten with stolen bases, having led Wednesday. “I feel like the rest of the year was good. You win, familiar faces in the playoff final four over the past five seasons. the major leagues with 153 this season. The Royals were successful in and the question is when are you going to win again? And then The drama begins Friday when the Kansas City Royals visit the 81 percent of steal attempts, including all five attempts in seven to win so fast, and then a third time, it’s like I jumped that whole Baltimore Orioles to open the best-of-seven American League cham- games against Baltimore. “We’ve got to make stuff happen,” Yost said. ‘get the second win and the monkey off your back’ and then was pionship series while the National League matchup between the “We have to be aggressive on the base paths and we have to try to an established play. And then you have to play well in the majors. Giants and Cardinals begins Saturday in St Louis. take advantage of every situation to get into scoring position.” The Orioles, whose 96 regular-season wins are the most of the four Orioles manager Buck Showalter is less worried about stolen bases ‘There is always the next step’ remaining teams in the title hunt, have not reached the World Series and more concerned about denying the Royals base runners. The next step is to develop some consistency, although since winning it in 1983. They had not reached the AL final since 1997. “The focus still has to be on keeping people off the bases as Walker certainly wasn’t lacking. He had top 10s at Augusta Until this year, the Royals had not reached the playoffs since winning always,” he said. National (his Masters debut), Pinehurst No. 2 and made a late bid the 1985 World Series. at Valhalla to get into the mix before he tied for seventh. He also While the Royals had the fewest home runs in the major leagues Cards, Giants have history tied for sixth at The Players Championship. this season, the Orioles led the majors with 211 homers, 107 of them St Louis, which lost to Missouri state rival Kansas City in the 1985 And yet he heard too often that he didn’t win again after at home in Camden Yards. That has Royals manager Ned Yost plan- World Series, has a berth in a fourth consecutive National League final Pebble in February, and that his three wins came before the inter- ning to use Yordano Ventura as his starting pitcher in game two, in while the Giants are in their third NL title series in five seasons. national stars began showing up in America. Walker knows how part because Ventura allowed only 14 homers this season, the fewest “Seems like it’s inevitable that we match up with the Cardinals at hard he worked with Butch Harmon to ignore any criticism, or the of any pitcher certain to be in the Royals rotation against Baltimore. some point,” Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt said. “They probably lack of attention. If the trophies or the growing bank account “That plays into it,” said Yost. feel the same way about us.” San Francisco trailed st. Louis 3-1 in the were not enough, it was the reaction from the people who matter Both teams used 11 pitchers in the divisional playoff round but 2012 NL finals before the Giants won the final three games-by a com- - the other players.”Just the way they look at you, the way they could add another before today’s deadline to set the series roster. bined 20-1 run total-to eliminate the Cardinals and went on to sweep nod at you,” he said. “I think I’ve got respect from my peers, and The Orioles looked Tuesday at left-handed pitchers T.J. McFarland Detroit in the World Series. The Giants have a still-ongoing run of 11 that’s what matters to me.”—AP and Brian Matusz, neither of whom was in the lineup for the opening wins in their past 12 playoff starts.—AFP Sports FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Early pro player and teacher Braden dead at 85

LOS ANGELES: Vic Braden, a 1950s tennis ure,” tennis legend Billie Jean King tweet- Jimmy Evert, the father of Hall-of-Famer be greatly missed.” standout who became a top US instructor, ed. “He was always on the cutting edge of Chris Evert, and George Richey, the father Braden and Kramer later co-founded an has died of complications from congestive science in tennis, and is an all-time great in of future standouts Cliff and Nancy Richey. instructional club that developed such tal- heart failure. He was 85. our industry.” “Rest in Peace, Vic Braden,” Chris Evert ent as Hall-of-Famer Tracy Austin. “So sad Melody Braden, his wife of 43 years, Braden turned professional before the wrote on Twitter. “Innovative, cutting to hear of the passing of tennis coach Vic said he died Monday in his Southern advent of the Open Era, joining Jack edge kind of guy. Will miss his enthusi- Braden, a pioneer, innovator, and true leg- California home. “Tennis has lost a treas- Kramer’s tour alongside such rivals as asm and knowledge of the game. He’ll end in our sport!” Austin tweeted. — AFP Alba blunt Spurs, Green apologises for remark BERLIN: Alba Berlin have sealed a shock 94-93 victory over NBA champions San Antonio Spurs, whose point guard Danny Green had to apologise for an Holocaust remark posted on Twitter. Alba became the first German team to beat an NBA side at Berlin’s O2 Arena on Wednesday with Jamel McLean scoring the hosts’ winning points right on the final buzzer to seal a dramatic win. But the match was played against a backdrop of controversy after Spurs’ Green posted a selfie on social media network Twitter taken at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial with the caption: “You know I had to do it one time lol #Holocaust”. He later removed the picture and posted an apology. “Yes, mistakes do happen. I want to sincerely apologize for the insen- sitivity of my post! “I have great respect n (sic) understanding for this country’s history n (sic) wanted to continue chronicling my experience in Berlin. “But showed poor judgement...sorry once again.” Green later played in the one-off exhibition match between reigning German champions Alba and NBA champions Spurs on the Americans’ pre-season tour of Europe. McLean was the star of SHANGHAI: Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a shot against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan in their men’s the show as the American sealed the hosts’ shock win with the singles third round match at the Shanghai Masters Tennis Tournament in Shanghai, China, yesterday. —AP last throw of the game. “That was a throw without pressure, I just did it,” beamed the match winner who scored 18 points for Berlin with pop star Lady Djokovic survives scare Gaga amongst the 14,500 fans watching in Germany’s capital. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said the hosts deserved their win against the five-time NBA champions who included stars Tim Duncan and Tony Parker on their roster. as Murray falls in China “Berlin were simply better,” he said before his team travelled to Turkey to play Fenerbahce Istanbul on Saturday. “They fought SHANGHAI: Reigning Shanghai Masters champion Novak was a crushing setback for Murray, who has won seven of their hard and finished things well, their coach did a good job. Djokovic survived a scare as he overcome his 85th-ranked previous 12 meetings and must now scramble if he is to make “You can see that there are good teams all over the world.” It opponent to make the quarter-finals yesterday, while Britain’s next month’s season finale in London. could be a while before an NBA side visits Germany’s capital Andy Murray crashed out. “Hopefully I can play well the last couple of tournaments, try again with no future plans for a return trip. “At the moment Meanwhile, third seed Roger Federer eased through, beat- and make a push for London,” he said following his defeat. there are no concrete plans,” said the NBA’s new commissioner ing Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-2. Djokovic, the top A day after Rafael Nadal was one of five top-10 players to Adam Silver. seed in Shanghai, arrived at the tournament in the form of his fall, Murray started the third-round match brightly, going 5-1 “We will look at the market and consider where it makes life, but was forced into a third set by Mikhail Kukushkin as he ahead within 25 minutes before closing the first set 6-2 with his sense to hold future games.” The NBA will come to Europe again claimed a hard-fought 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory. fifth ace. But fifth seed Ferrer took the initiative in the second in January when London hosts a match between the New York The world number one began in predictable style, breaking set with increasingly powerful groundstrokes, snuffing out the Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks. —AFP his opponent on his final service game in the opening set as he threat from Murray’s aggressive serving game. looked to be heading for a routine win. But in the second set, The 27-year-old Scot earned just one break point in the sec- the Kazakhstani proved to be no pushover against an oppo- ond set, as he made a series of mistakes dealing with Ferrer’s top- nent who was seeking his 27th successive victory on Chinese spin. And the Spaniard continued to torment early in the decider, soil. breaking serve at his second attempt after Murray drove a routine The 26-year-old broke the Serb on his opening service groundstroke into the net. He then broke again to charge ahead game, and then staged his first attempt to take the set as he at 5-2 before sealing it in one hour and 55 minutes. earned a break-point with the scores at 5-3. Djokovic danced Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer have already qualified jubilantly when he saved set-point, and moments later for the World Tour Finals, leaving five spots up for grabs. But appeared to have snuffed out the unexpected challenge when most of the players gunning for the remaining positions have he broke back. But Kukushkin refused to submit to the 7-times already lost in Shanghai, with only Tomas Berdych, in seventh Grand Slam winner and stole Djokovic’s serve again to set up a place, remaining. And the Czech sixth seed strengthened his decider. bid when he won his third round match against Croatian Ivo Djokovic battled hard in the third set, losing his trademark Karlovic 6-3, 6-4 in just one hour four minutes. coolness as he shouted and pumped his fist at almost every Berdych will meet Gilles Simon in the last eight, after the point won. He made a breakthrough in the fifth game, taking French player continued his fine form at the tournament, Kukushkin’s serve to march to a 4-2 lead, which ended any fur- dumping out Malek Jaziri of Tunisia 6-2, 6-3. Simon had ousted ther heroics from his opponent. Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka in the second round. Elsewhere, Feliciano Lopez of Spain powered into the Setback for Murray quarter-finals after beating 13th-seed American John Isner 6-3, Djokovic will face David Ferrer in the quarter-finals Friday 6-4. Lopez, who dumped out Nadal in the last round, will meet after the Spaniard overcame 11th seed Murray 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. The Russian Mikhail Youzhny in the quarters after he overcame BERLIN: ALBA’s Clifford Hammonds from the US, result was a blow to Murray’s hopes of making the end-of-sea- Juan Monaco of Argentina 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. left, and the team’s mascot celebrate after an NBA son World Tour Finals. Meanwhile, Julien Benneteau of France beat American Jack Global Games basketball match between US team The world number 11 took the first set with ease before Sock 6-3, 6-4, and will meet 17-times Grand Slam winner San Antonio Spurs and German team ALBA Berlin in crumbling, as Ferrer powered back to leapfrog Murray into Federer in the next stage. The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Berlin, Germany, Wednesday. ALBA defeated San ninth place in the race to reach the eight-man year-ender. It event concludes in Shanghai on Sunday. —AFP Antonio Spurs by 94-93. —AP Sports FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 UEFA unlikely to support overseas Premier League matches

LONDON: Any ideas England’s Premier don’t think it will change.” FIFA execu- Direct jurisdiction been widely reported in Britain that clubs League might have of playing matches tive committee member Michel UEFA would only have direct jurisdiction have discussed the idea again and that the overseas would be unlikely to get any D’Hooghe, speaking to Reuters after over games being played outside of revised plan would be for one of the exist- backing from UEFA, a top official of Infantino’s address, was asked if he sup- England if they were played elsewhere in ing 38 rounds of 10 fixtures to be played at European soccer’s governing body said ported the idea of a round of games Europe, and would not be directly involved various venues around the world. yesterday. being played overseas. if matches were played in a member associ- Overseas television rights earn the UEFA failed to support the idea when “My personal opinion is that this is a ation of another confederation. Premier League more than two billion it was first mooted six years ago, and very dangerous precedent and I am not However, they were against the idea in pounds ($3.22 billion) under the current Gianni Infantino, UEFA’s general secre- in favour,” he said. “I understand the rea- 2008 and it is inconceivable that FIFA would three-year contract, of which almost half tary, told delegates at the Leaders In sons why they would like to do it, they ignore UEFA objections if the matter came comes from Asia. Sport Summit that he did not think UEFA are financial I suppose, but if you start before them. Matches could only be played One stepping stone, reports said, was for would change its stance on the issue. doing that, where does it end? overseas with the approval of the host the annual August Community Shield fix- “Whenever these kind of things are “If there is one thing I have learned in nation, the confederation involved, and ture between the league champions and FA discussed, we have to act in a responsi- my 40 years as president of the Belgium FIFA. The Premier League’s chief executive Cup winners to be played overseas, as hap- ble way within the rules that we’ve all Football Association you must be afraid Richard Scudamore was widely criticised six pens in Italian football. agreed together,” Infantino told dele- of the word ‘precedent.’ If you do some- years ago for a plan to introduce an extra A Premier League spokesman did not gates. “Let’s see what is the decision of thing special for one why refuse it for match for each club-the so-called “39th deny the plans had been discussed but said: UEFA on this. I don’t think it will change someone else. “If it would be my deci- game”-at venues in Asia, the United States, “There are currently no proposals on the (from 2008), it would be discussed, but I sion at FIFA, I would not allow it.” Australia and elsewhere. However, it has table.” — Reuters

Win or bust for former African giants Egypt

JOHANNESBURG: Record seven-time continental champions Egypt must defeat Botswana in Gaborone today to retain a realis- tic chance of reaching the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. A disastrous Group G start last month saw the Pharaohs lose 2-0 away to Senegal and 1-0 at home to Tunisia, leaving them bottom of the table, six points adrift of the front-runners. Botswana are equally desperate for maximum points at the National Stadium having lost 2-1 away to Tunisia and 2-0 at home to Senegal. Egypt won three consecutive Cup of Nations titles between 2006 and 2010 but then failed to qualify for the 2012 and 2013 tournaments. Coach Hassan Shehata, mastermind of the title hat-trick, quit after the 2012 exit and American Bob Bradley was in charge for the 2013 campaign. Shawky Gharib, assistant to Shehata and Bradley, was promoted and his pre-qualifiers promise that Egypt would regain the title seems extraordinarily optimistic. Angry Egyptian football officials have warned the former national team midfielder that he will be sacked if the country suf- fers the humiliation of a third consecutive qualifying flop. “National team results are the responsibility of the coaches and we will hire a foreigner if Gharib fails to take the team to Morocco,” football association president Gamal Allam warned. Gharib suffered a late blow when one of seven overseas- based players in a 25-man squad, Hull City wing-back Ahmed LOS ANGELES: Goalie Antti Niemi #31 and Jason Demers #5 of the San Jose Sharks watch the rebound after a Niemi save against Elmohamady, withdrew injured. Egypt are a team in transition the Los Angeles Kings in their NHL season opener at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The Sharks won 4-0. — AFP and Gharib has not found a new ‘spine’ to replace retired defend- er Wael Gomaa and midfielder Mohamed Abou Trika and injured striker Mohamed ‘Gedo’ Nagy. Botswana, who are 10 places Sharks rout LA Kings 4-0, below Egypt in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) rank- ings, were unlucky losers in Tunisia before failing to match the classy Senegalese. Former West Ham United and West Bromwich crashing Cup celebration Albion midfielder Peter Butler coaches a squad skippered by South Africa-based midfielder Joel Mogorosi and composed largely of locals. LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Kings gath- properly.” Los Angeles started its playoff think we’ve gained a little bit (of ground) on Senegal hope Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse can main- ered at center ice while the Stanley Cup was charge with a seven-game, first-round victo- them (in the offseason). We’re more hungry tain his hot English Premier League form when they host Tunisia lowered from the scoreboard, and they ry over the Sharks, who went through an off- and we really want to do the details right this in Dakar today. —AFP watched their championship banner raised season of rigorous self-evaluation. San Jose time.” to the rafters in a stirring pregame ceremony. stripped the captaincy from Joe Thornton The home team had won 20 of the last 22 Those good feelings were largely gone by and parted ways with defensemen Dan Boyle games in this rivalry before this one-sided the time the Kings stumbled back to their and Brad Stuart. win by the Sharks, who were an interesting dressing room after a blowout loss to the San Yet little else changed about the perenni- choice of opponent for the Kings’ celebration Jose Sharks, who seized the chance to erase al playoff team, and the Sharks returned in night. San Jose had a 3-0 series lead in the a bit of last season’s bad memories. their usual regular-season form. “It’s been a first round before the Kings stormed back to Tommy Wingels scored two goals, Antti long summer, thinking about this game,” win the series in seven games, becoming the Niemi made 34 saves in his 28th career Wingels said. “When the schedule came out fourth NHL team to rally from such a deficit. shutout, and the Sharks crashed the Kings’ and we saw that this was our first game, the The Sharks stayed in their dressing room Stanley Cup banner celebration with a 4-0 media loved it, the fans loved it, and we as while the Kings celebrated their second victory in the season opener Wednesday players loved it, too. There’s not a better way championship with an on-ice ceremony star- night. The pregame celebration was the only for us to start the season, and for us to be ring the Stanley Cup, which was lowered thing that went according to plan for the able to come in here and have this kind of from the scoreboard in a glass case. Kings, who commemorated their 26-game success, it’s a big win.” Former Kings Marcel Dionne and Rogie playoff run to their second title in three Vachon then brought out the new banner, years. After the standing ovations and cele- Rivalry and the Kings raised it amid a lengthy stand- brations, San Jose largely dominated the Patrick Marleau had a goal and an assist. ing ovation. Kings in the first two periods with superior Wingels and Matt Nieto scored 14 seconds The Kings then lost on their banner night puck possession and movement. apart in a three-goal second period that sent for the second time. Chicago beat Los “That’s just an excuse,” Kings captain the Sharks to their NHL-best fifth straight Angeles 5-2 in January 2013. “I thought the GELSENKIRCHEN: New head coach Roberto Di Matteo, left, Dustin Brown said. “We’ve been there before. season-opening victory. mood in the room was good, but it didn’t leads his first training session of Bundesliga soccer club FC ... There are worse problems to have, so it’s Niemi withstood a two-man advantage translate once the game started,” Kings Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, yesterday. Former one of those things that goes with the terri- for the Kings in the final 1:07 of the third defenseman Alec Martinez said. “You can’t Chelsea manager Di Matteo replaces Jens Keller, who was tory. That wasn’t why we were sloppy. We period. “Losing the way we lost to them, we come out like that against a hockey club of dismissed on Monday. — AP were sloppy because we didn’t prepare waited a long time for today,” Niemi said. “I this caliber.” —AP FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

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