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TRIPOLI: A poster of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a phrase reading in Arabic, “God protect you” is seen on a highway in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli yes- terday. — AFP

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PHOTO OF THE DAY Samson Kuwait

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By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected]

hile Saudi Arabia has been actively arresting a number of people accused of corruption and Wstealing millions in public funds, newspapers in Kuwait published reports that became a subject of com- parison and comments among Kuwaitis. “Samson”, a mafia leader in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, was arrested by police, end- ing a chapter of fear and theft against Bangladeshi and other Asian street vendors selling vegetables and used clothes. He is not a minister, official or even a citizen. He is a Bangladeshi expatriate who had a chance to get rich and powerful without any restrictions or fear. We have all read about and saw Samson in several movies and cartoons. He was introduced to us as a man of superhuman strength who nonetheless could not escape tragedy. Samson is the biblical Hercules and he was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Samson breaks vows, marries outside of the people of Israel twice, and functions more as a vigilante than a leader. The reports said Farwaniya security officials ended A golden sunset at Marina Crescent. — Photo by Sameer Alabdullah / KUNA Samson’s reign as the mafia leader of hawkers at the It is sad that there are files that are stuck, full of allegations of theft Why did we accept laziness? that no one can or dares to reveal. IN MY VIEW

“thieves market” in Jleeb. He used to allocate land to sell- ers and impose royalties and rent on them by force. The By Jeri Al-Jeri Souq Al-Haramiya (thieves market) in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh is full of vegetables and stolen goods, so security forces [email protected] decided to clear it and prepared a security plan based on information received about the presence of a person lead- n Gulf countries, laziness is predominant. It is why we well, such as the shaming of girls who wear sports attire ing a gang. are so vulnerable to many long-term illnesses, and why and run around in parks and the odd stares a guy in his 30s Samson used to impose “taxes” on hawkers in return we don’t have that special zest for life we once had in gets every time he hops on a bicycle. Let’s not even men- for protecting them from harassment. Legal proceedings I the 1970s and 1980s, when going to the desert was a carni- tion the dress code of long dresses for both sexes that are being taken against him in preparation for deporting val-like experience, and shopping was a reason to cele- hardly helps me climb the stairs. Add to this the merciless him from the country. I hope he gets jailed first. I am cer- brate. I will attempt to discuss some of the reasons why humidity and sizzling sun that helps teens get YouTube hits tain that the arrest of “Samson” is good work by the interi- remote controls became heavy and why the second floor by preparing their morning omelets on cars! or ministry, but it also raises concerns by some Kuwaitis feels like Mount Everest! Moreover, the technology of television with its hypnotic about how many more Samsons are there in Kuwait. Such Is it all due to that fact that our very generous sun burns waves threw our brains into a meditative wavelength of people are dangerous for the future of Kuwait and its more of our already-scarce oxygen? Factually, food plays a alpha, in which the body relaxes and the lower lip expands, funds and economy, and must be exposed even if they are tremendous role in this - the lowering of our pH levels and making word articulations more difficult. Limbs become former officials and are out of service now. hormonal dysfunctions from eating junk food and sugars. sluggish and eye pupils widen, all due to the magic of our I completely understand the people’s reaction and Plus, our tradition of using bread as spoons and adding friendly TV screens. Now screens are everywhere, with comparison. We should not be blamed for the irony of the meat to everything as if it is a salad, and not the other way worthless viewing experiences of advertisements and bor- situation. It is sad that efforts have been made to arrest a round! In think our terrible nutritional habits were magni- ing movie “fillers” strengthening the hypnosis our brains are small-time villain who exploited corruption and chaos to fied by the sudden shock of wealth. The transition of any cast into. make himself a mafia leader and make money, but at the society from poverty to wealth has its ups and downs, but So how can we deal with all of this? Realistic approach- same time, there are files that are stuck, full of allegations the fantastical boom in our luxurious lifestyle - and our shift es are certainly needed to push for more sports for women of theft that no one can or dares to reveal. from working hard and moving around a lot to sitting and in a manner that does not go against our customs, not to I think the mockery of the situation in Kuwait is justi- being waited on hand and foot - stunned our society. This mention increasing our pH levels by drinking larger fied, and it is regrettable too. Thanks to the security men tremendous surge of wealth made us staggeringly numb to amounts of water mixed with lemon or cucumber, which for arresting Samson. Perhaps, expatriates in Jleeb are lead an active life. was a rarity for our ancestors. happier and relieved now - until the emergence of a new Nevertheless, housemaids and drivers in every house is We also ought to cut down on all forms of carbs, such as alternative, because unless security men thoroughly moni- not the only reason for our deadly laziness that has caused baked products. Finally, we always have to spread the word tor, clean this area and eliminate corruption, a new Samson us physical and psychological misfortunes. that an active life is actually more pleasurable than all the is bound to arrive. There are environmental and sociocultural reasons as luxuries of this finite world!

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Sabah Al-Ahmad By Athoob Al-Shuaibi

abah Al-Ahmad Sea City was a mere vision in the mid-1980s of the late Khalid Yousef SAl-Marzouq, who dreamed of creating a whole new urban center in Kuwait. His vision was translated into reality by his son, property devel- Sea City oper Fawaz Al-Marzouq. The city is situated in the south of Kuwait near the Saudi border, and is expected to house around 250,000 people, overlooking 200 km of beaches on manmade canals off the Arabian Gulf. The multibillion-dollar project has faced many challenges, like developing salt marshes (sabkhas) and land for an environmentally-sustainable building project, in addition to the heat of the summer. The project is expected to be completed within the next 11 years. Friday 5 Local Friday, November 10, 2017

The city is situated “in the south of Kuwait near the Saudi border, and is expected to house around 250,000 people, overlooking 200 km of beaches on manmade canals off the Arabian Gulf.

KUWAIT: Photos show the growing development of chalet along the channels of the Sabah Al-Ahmed Sea City in Khairan. — Photos by Dr Moayad Hussain 6 Friday Local Friday, November 10, 2017

Images are projected onto the Louvre Pyramid in Paris at night on November 8, 2017 to mark the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum on Saadiyat island in the Emirati capital. — Photos by Agencies

The museum’s rich and rare collection of antiques and Louvre Abu Dhabi paintings are amazing and its unique architectural design is “cultural proude for the countries of the region”, he said, adding that he is pride of representing His Highness the Amir architectural Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at this remark- able cultural event in the United Arab Emirates. He lauded masterpiece, the deeply-rooted, strong and sisterly relations between Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al says Amir’s envoy Maktoum, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and French President Emmanuel Macron ABU DHABI: Envoy of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah opened Wednesday the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier and Finance In attendance were King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Minister Anas Al-Saleh expressed admiration of the Louvre King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, President Abu Dhabi Museum. “The museum is a wonderful architec- Mohammed Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, and a host of tural masterpiece that brings together the cultures of the guests representing several brotherly and friendly countries. Eastern and Western worlds,” he said on Wednesday on the The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first museum to bear the ABU DHABI: Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh sidelines of the Museum,s opening ceremony. Louvre name outside France. — KUNA (left) attends the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum.

Moroccan King Mohammed VI looks at a painting titled “Whistler’s Mother” by James Abbott French Minister of Culture Francoise Nyssen (2L), French President Emmanuel Macron (3L), McNeill Whistler (1871) as he visits the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum during its inauguration in French architect Jean Nouvel (4L) the wife of Macron (2R) Brigitte look at a piece of art during Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday. the inauguration of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum. Friday 7 Local Friday, November 10, 2017 Kuwaiti FM meets Qatari counterpart

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with visiting Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met yesterday with visiting Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. The meeting was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah, Assistant Foreign Minister for the First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister’s Office Ambassador Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Assistant Foreign Minister for Protocols Ambassador Dhari Al-Ajran and several other senior officials of the Foreign Ministry. — KUNA

Yemeni info minister highlights Kuwait’s role

BRUSSELS: Yemen’s information minister Muammar Al-Iryani highly praised yesterday Kuwait’s distinguished role in sup- port of the Yemeni people, underscoring its hosting of two peace conferences last year. “Kuwait plays a historic and dis- tinguished role in Yemen. Kuwait has its imprints with the Yemeni people. There is a university called the Kuwait Uni- versity and there are Kuwaiti schools and hospitals,” he said in an interview in Brussels. “The Yemeni people love Kuwait, its leadership, its government, its people, except the Houthi militias who only like Iran,” said Iryani. He stressed that the role of Kuwait is important and central referring to the hosting by Kuwait of two rounds of peace talks on Yemen last year. “It had a big impact and the Yemeni government offered big concessions during these meetings but the Houthis in the end refused to sign the agreement be- cause their instructions come from Tehran,” he said. “We continue to count on Kuwait’s role. It has a role in the coalition for the return of the legitimate government under President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi,” he said. “We will never forget what Kuwait is offering in humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people and we count on Kuwait to put pressure on the Houthis to lay down their arms and accept the political process,” he added. The Yemeni minister called on the EU to condemn the crimes being committed by the Houthi militias in the country. Iryani said he came to Brussels to attend a seminar on Yemen, and he will also meet some members of the European Parliament to inform them about what the Houthi militias are doing to destroy the cultural heritage of Yemen. A seminar on Yemen’s history and culture was held today at the Brussels Press Club. It was organized by the Avicenna Institute which is based in the French city of Lille. Speaking at the seminar, Iryani said the real cause of the crisis in Yemen was due “to the revolution against a democratic government by the Houthi rebels sup- ported by Iran.” He expressed support to the Gulf Coopera- tion Council Initiative to resolve the crisis and said the government is ready to return to the peace talks. On his part, the President of the Avicenna Institute Mohammad Al-Bechari appealed to the international community and the UN to save the destruction of Yemen’s cultural and historical heritage from the hands of Houthi militias. Bechari said he will organize similar seminars in other European countries to raise aware- ness of the destruction of Yemen’s cultural and historical her- itage by the Houthis. — KUNA 8 Friday Local Friday, November 10, 2017 600 violators arrested in October raids in Jleeb ‘Tea boy’ busted for blackmailing deportees

KUWAIT: Nearly 600 people were sent to The suspect was sent to the public prosecution. narcotics. He was arrested and taken to Far- proper authorities for deportation following waniya police station after being cleared by their arrest during police crackdowns in Jleeb Domestic violence medics. Further check also revealed that the man Al-Shuyoukh last month, a report shows. The A man went to Bayan police station and is wanted by authorities on a civil case. deportees include 38 women of African and lodged a complaint against his wife who works Asian nationalities who were arrested on charge for the health ministry for beating him, said a se- Smuggling foiled of prostitution in raids at 19 places suspected to curity source. The woman was summoned and Nuwaiseeb customs officers foiled an at- be used as brothels, according to a report sent argued during questioning that she was sub- tempt to smuggle 50 boxes of cigarettes outside recently from Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Police station’s jected to physical and verbal assault from her of Kuwait. The busted material has an estimated administration to Director General of Farwaniya husband. Both submitted medical reports with value of KD24,000. Security Major General Saleh Matar. Nearly their complaints. The woman said the incident 30,000 bottles of homebrewed liquor were also followed a domestic dispute, but refused to say Robbery confiscated in raids at eight places where alco- what it was about. A deliveryman told Waha police that he was holic drinks were made in violation of the law, robbed by a man wearing a niqab. The Indian the report said. Assault national, who works as a deliveryman for a Hawally detectives are looking to identify and restaurant, said he was delivering a meal to a peared to be in an abnormal condition, then they Deportees’ robber caught arrest a number of people who attacked two house in Waha, but was stopped on his way by found tablets suspected to be drugs on him. In another case, a man working in providing men in Rumaithiya. A Kuwaiti young man told a woman, who turned out to be a man wearing a Separately in Qurain, patrols spotted an SUV beverages at the deportation center was ar- police that he and his friend were attacked by niqab. The man said that the suspect pulled him parked in the parking lot of the area’s co-op so- rested for blackmailing and robbing people held unknown persons who drove a luxury vehicle in out of the vehicle then drove off with it. The man ciety. The driver was sleeping in the car with a there pending their deportation process. Inves- Bedaa. The suspects escaped following the as- had left his wallet which contained his civil ID, joint in hand. Another person soon came out of tigations revealed that the man took advantage sault, the plaintiff said. ATM card and KD 39 in cash inside the vehicle. the co-op and headed to the vehicle, and he be- of his work to approach deportees and learned came nervous when he saw police, so he was about where they lived. He would then head to DUI Drug possession stopped, searched and a joint was found with the deportees’ houses and rob their contents, A citizen in his thirties was involved in a head Three citizens were arrested in Mubarak Al- him. The two were arrested and taken to the taking advantage of the fact that they would not on collision with a bus, and it was later discov- Kabeer in possession of drugs. The first case proper authorities for further action. be sent back home to collect their belongings. ered that he was driving under the influence of happened when police stopped a driver who ap- — Translated from the Arabic press

Weather to remain unstable but moderate in coming days

KUWAIT: Weather in Kuwait is forecast to remain unstable in the coming days; tending to be moderately hot during day time and moderate at night. The unstable weather is largely the result of varying air pressure, said Abdul Aziz Al-Qarawi, the weather forecaster at Kuwait Mete- orological Center (KMC), in a statement yesterday. Temperature dropped in most regions of the country over the past days; coupled with high humidity, thus fog formed during early morning and night times causing drastic drop of visibility, particularly at Kuwait International Airport. Relative heat and humidity will persist particularly at coastal regions, with prospected light fog along with scattered clouds as well some rain, expected tomorrow. Today’s weather is forecast to witness winds (8-28 km/h), with maximum heat at 29-32 degrees. At night, the winds are ex- KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality inspector confiscated 85 pected to be in the range of 8-32 km/h be partially cloudy, with northwesterly to along with scattered rainfalls. At night, the kilograms of expired foodstuff during a recent crackdown and minimum heat at 14-17 degrees. northeasterly winds (10-32 km/h). Tem- weather would be moderate with minimum on restaurants and stores in Jahra. A total of 13 tickets were Qarawi said the weather tomorrow would perature is forecast at 28-31 degrees, heat at 19-22 degrees. — KUNA also issued during the campaign. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun Friday 9 Local Friday, November 10, 2017 Lawmaker calls for regulating election campaigns; funding

Lawyer’s jail term upheld

By Meshaal Al-Enezi Meanwhile, MP Ahmad Al-Fadhel submitted state security charges after the ministry sued the middle of this a proposal to amend the construction licensing him over claims he posted on his Twitter account month. Campers are re- KUWAIT: MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari sub- law of Kuwait Municipality, whereby a license in which he said that a Bangladeshi man working quired to submit a re- mitted yesterday a draft law to regulate funding is only given to a contractor who builds at least at a public hospital has impersonated a Kuwaiti fundable KD 300 election campaigns, saying that campaigns of one parking level in the building’s basement. doctor for 40 years, and has performed numer- deposit to receive their candidates running for parliament have been Also yesterday, MP Majid Al-Mutairi proposed ous medical procedures during that span. The license, and the amount funded without control in the past years. The building a comprehensive city dedicated to man was taken in custody, charged accordingly is returned after the lawmaker explained that his proposal would people with special needs, and name it after His after investigations revealed that his accusations camping season con- provide ‘fair competition’ and an equal oppor- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- were false, and was sentenced by the court of cludes in March 15, tunity for every candidate. There has been sev- Jaber Al-Sabah. first instance to five years in jail. The lawyer now 2018. Kuwait Munici- eral complaints in recent years about the has the option to appeal the verdict to the court pality Director Ahmad MP Abdulkareem alleged involvement of ‘political money’ to push Sentence upheld of cassation, whose ruling is final. Al-Manfouhi mean- Al-Kandari certain candidates ahead of others in the elec- The appeals court yesterday upheld a five- while explained that tion race, but the lack of a legal framework to years-in-jail sentence against a lawyer who was Camping season some locations near the regulate the process of funding campaigns found guilty of spreading false rumors that dam- Campers can approach Kuwait Municipality Wafra Road leading to the Sabah Al-Ahmad made it difficult to take legal action concerning aged the Health Ministry’s integrity and caused starting from Sunday to license their camps for City are now banned for camping, while camp- those claims. public disturbance. Lawyer Hani Hussein faced the upcoming camping season, which starts in ing there was allowed in recent years.

Kuwait renews Over 85% call to ‘reform’ completed orders UNSC at Council

NEW YORK: The State of Kuwait has called KUWAIT: The number of government and pri- anew for “reforming” the United Nations Secu- vate bodies’ orders listed on the municipal coun- The Municipal Council’s building rity Council (UNSC) noting the high need for cil’s scheduled agenda has reached more than 85 in Kuwait City. broader representation in the council. The Hassan Abulhassan percent, said Director General of Kuwait’s Mu- Kuwaiti stand was re-affirmed in an address by nicipality Yosif Al-Saqoubi yesterday. Hassan Abulhassan, the second secretary of the Saqoubi explained that the assigned commit- stitution in Salmiya, Al-Saqoubi added. Kuwaiti mission, to the UN General Assembly The second secretary called for improving tee in charge of monitoring the council’s work, Saqoubi said the council also approved a re- second session during a debate, late on Wednes- the UNSC work methods; with more efficiency agreed during its third meeting last night, led by quest by the Ministry of Social Affairs and day, about just representation in the council and and transparency, and enabling small states to Mohammad Bu-Shehri, on a project designed Labor to allocate a land for the construction of prospects of increasing its members. occupy seats. Moreover, the right of Arab and and supervised by Ahmadi municipality’s branch. a building to host various social ceremonies like Abulhassan called for focusing on overhaul- Islamic nations to represent must not be neg- The committee also approved allocation of a weddings, in any of the areas in Jahra gover- ing relationship of the UNSC with the other UN lected, he said, noting that these nations are en- headquarters for the GCC Joint Production In- norate. — KUNA apparatuses to ensure jurisdictions’ separation, titled for representation, compatible with their where the council sole mission must be safe- significance and contributions for defending guarding international peace and security. Any the UN objectives and charter. Furthermore, idea, under examination for “reforming” the he expressed the State of Kuwait full support UNSC, must emanate from “everybody’s keen- to the Arab states’ demand for permanent rep- ness on enabling the council to be more repre- resentation in the UNSC. Abulhassan indicated sentative of the member states, “reflecting the that the issue of reforming the UNSC had been ety (SRCS), KRCS’ head of the field team in international situation that has largely changed repeatedly examined since 24 years ago how- KRCS Sri Lanka Khalid Al-Mutiari said. The team since establishing the United Nations in 1945,” ever no progress had been made due to “lack will supervise the distribution of the aid on the said Abulhassan. of political will.” —KUNA remaining affected governorates, he added. distributes aid KRCS responded to SRCS’ appeal after heavy rains and floods hit the country causing include competitions for camels, birds, horses severe damage to homes and forced them to flee to Colombo. KRCS will build and recon- and sheep, Sharar, also and the registration for in Sri Lanka Heritage Village struct a number of the damaged homes in var- these competitions will begin next Wednesday. ious governorates, he said. The village will have new attractions this season, COLOMBO: Kuwait Red Crescent Society The total aid offered to the Sri Lankan including an old Kuwaiti town with all details, the kicks off (KRCS) yesterday distributed the first batch governorates reached 4,000 food parcels and old walls of Kuwait and extra seating areas for of humanitarian relief to the displaced Sri 4,000 cooking and personal hygiene sub- visitors, he said. Meanwhile, the official noted Lankans in Hanola and Padukka villages in stances, to be distributed in cooperation and early Dec that the village also contains a large theater to Colombo, after a wave of heavy rains and coordination with Kuwait’s Embassy in Sri host folkloric ceremonies and events, as well as floods struck the country lately. Lanka and SRCS. Kuwait is always a pioneer a large children’s playground with old and mod- KUWAIT: Sabah Al-Ahmad Heritage Village “The humanitarian relief included 8,00 in aiding people affected by conflicts and nat- ern entertainment equipment. It also includes food parcels, 800 cooking and personal hy- ural disasters as part of its commitment to continues to prepare for holding the National restaurants, coffee shops, children’s cinema, Heritage Festival early December, said the vil- giene substances distributed in Colombo in offer aid to people in need from various parts green spaces, lakes, a hotel and folkloric muse- cooperation with Sri Lankan Red Cross Soci- of the world, Mutairi affirmed. — KUNA lage’s Director Saif Al-Shallahi. The festival will ums, he noted. — KUNA International FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Macron: France could join new fronts against IS Anti-IS forces retake last jihadist bastion in Syria Page 12 Page 11

BRUSSELS: US Defense Secretary James Mattis (right) speaks with Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Minister of Defense Mohammed Al-Ayeesh during a round table meeting on the second day of a defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels yesterday.—AFP Saudi calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon 201 detained in sweep over $100bn in corruption

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday urged its citi- prime minister may be held against his will in men had been detained. They are being held at which have been uncovered is very large,” the at- zens to leave Lebanon “as soon as possible”, Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials have denied Hariri five-star hotels across the country, including the torney general said, adding that based on inves- days after Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri is under house arrest. Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. Critics and observers say tigations over the past three years, at least $100 announced his resignation while visiting the Saudi Arabia meanwhile announced yester- the purge that has targeted top princes, officials, billion has been misused through corruption. kingdom. A foreign ministry source, quoted by day it has detained 201 people as part of a military officers and businessmen is a power grab The government has declined to name the in- state news agency SPA, also called on Saudis not sweeping probe, estimating that at least $100 by the crown prince to sideline potential rivals dividuals being questioned, saying it is respecting to travel to Lebanon because of “the situation” billion has been misused and critics. their privacy during this phase of the process. An in the country, without elaborating. through embezzlement Among those de- estimated 1700 bank accounts have been frozen Meanwhile, the political party of Prime Min- and corruption in past Lebanon tained are billionaire belonging to individuals. Al-Mojeb confirmed ister Saad Hariri is calling for his immediate re- decades. The kingdom’s Saudi Prince Alwaleed that action was taken to suspend personal bank turn to Lebanon after he announced his Attorney General Saud PM’s party bin Talal and two of the accounts, but did not disclose any figures.The resignation in strange, pre-recorded statement Al-Mojeb said in a state- late King Abdullah’s sons, government has stressed that only personal from Saudi Arabia. Following a meeting of his ment that 208 people calls for including Prince Miteb banks have been frozen, leaving companies and Saudi-aligned Future Party in Beirut yesterday, had been called in for who until Saturday had businesses so far untouched. the party issued a statement saying it was “nec- questioning since Satur- his return headed the powerful Na- For years, Saudis have complained of rampant essary” for Hariri to return “to restore Lebanon’s day evening, and that tional Guard before he corruption and misuse of public funds by top of- dignity and respect.” seven people were re- was ousted and detained. ficials in a system where nepotism is also wide- The statement read by former Prime Minister leased without charge, Prince Miteb was once a spread. Royal family members have long received Fuad Saniora seemed to indicate that Hariri is leaving 201 people still in detention. The figure contender for the throne and was believed to be undisclosed monthly stipends from state coffers being held in Saudi Arabia against his will. Hariri released by the government is far larger than opposed to the king’s 32-year-old, Mohammed built up during years of higher oil prices. The resigned his post abruptly on Saturday in a pre- previously reported as it appears more arrests bin Salman, becoming successor as crown prince. government, however, has been forced to intro- recorded speech from Saudi Arabia and has not were made throughout the week. The crown prince is leading the probe as the duce austerity measures since oil prices fell three returned to Lebanon.In his absence, Lebanon Overnight Saturday, when the surprise arrest head of a newly-formed anti-corruption commit- years ago, reducing subsidies and driving up has been awash with speculation the 47-year old began, 11 princes and 38 officials and business- tee. “The potential scale of corrupt practices costs for average Saudi nationals. —Agencies Friday 11

International Friday, November 10, 2017 Macron says France could join new fronts against IS President tours French naval base in Abu Dhabi near new Louvre

ABU DHABI: The battle against Islamic State in Speaking to France 2 television, Macron ap- the Levant is nearing its end, French President peared to go a step further by suggesting that Emmanuel Macron said yesterday, but he left the France could be ready to act elsewhere across door open to Paris engaging elsewhere to tackle Africa if required. Islamist militant groups if needed. “We also have to be very careful about the “We have won the war in Raqqa, and the projects that these Islamist terrorist groups coming weeks ... will enable us to win completely have, such as in the Horn of Africa, Libya and the on a military level in the Iraqi-Syrian zone,” Sahel. “There will be theatres of operation in Macron said in a speech which our soldiers are at a French military base present, such as in the in Abu Dhabi where he Sahel, but there will un- is on a two-day visit. deniably be new battle- France has supplied We have grounds against Islamic weapons and training to State, Al-Qaeda or Boko local forces in Syria and won war Haram,” he said. Iraq, has special forces Some analysts have operating in the region in Raqqa warned that France’s mil- and has been one of the itary is already over- main countries bombing stretched, but politicians militants as part of the may find themselves in a US-led coalition. In total, it has some 1,200 position where it is difficult to refuse demands troops in its Levant operation. by some of its allies, especially the United States, “This fight will not be finished. In the Gulf, to commit more troops in areas such as ABU DHBAI: French President Emmanuel Macron poses for selfies with students at Paris- passing through south-east Asia and the Sahel, Afghanistan. Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi yesterday. —AFP there are lots of places where the military fight Macron visited the naval base at Abu Dhabi’s will continue,” he said. France’s other main area Port Zayed, which sits just across the waters ofthe and walked through the French frigate Jean Bart. surrounding waters. “We have won in Raqqa and of combat is West Africa, where it has some Gulf from the new Louvre Abu Dhabi, which he The French president later addressed gathered in the coming weeks, the coming months, I believe 4,000 soldiers as part of a counter-terrorism helped inaugurate Wednesday night. The mu- sailors there. He described the base as a crucial it strongly, we will completely win on the military operation against al-Qaeda-backed militants seum’s saltshaker-like dome sits in sight of the part of France’s battle against extremists in the re- level in the Iraqi-Syrian zone,” Macron said, re- and where there appears little prospect of Paris base. A military band played “La Marseillaise” and gion like the Islamic State group, as well as theef- ferring to the one-time self-described capital of being able to disengage anytime soon. an honor guard met Macron before he boarded fort to stop smugglers and piracy in the Gulf and the Islamic State group. —Agencies

Kurdish-held villages and towns in nearby man showed a video he had filmed depicting Kurds displaced countryside, said Mayor Shalal Abdul. the crushed body of a relative. Family mem- The mayor himself fled to the village of bers said the victim had been shot in his car, by Iraq advance Zinana, 120 km east of Tuz Khurmato, dragged out alive by paramilitaries and run where he spoke to Reuters. Most residents over by a tank. “He was crushed to death in have no plans to return home, citing re- front of me, by those monsters,” said Abu Netanyahu grilled fear reprisals ports of continuing attacks. “We can’t Alan, the relative who filmed the body. “He cope if it continues like this,” said the chief was a good man from a good family.” again in graft probe if they return of police in Zinana, adding that the gov- A video circulated on the internet, ap- ernment and aid groups had been too slow parently of the same incident, shows a tank JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ZINANA, Iraq: Four hours after first hear- to respond. “Families have taken over running over a body while uniformed para- questioned by police yesterday evening in connection with two ing gunfire outside his home, Abu Riwar school buildings, houses and the hospital, militaries stand by. separate investigations into alleged corruption, Israeli public radio bundled his wife and six children into his but we can’t turn them out on the streets.” The paramilitaries deny carrying out said. It said that detectives arrived at Netanyahu’s official resi- car and drove to a remote village 120 km According to the United Nations, more any abuse. “Joint patrols by the PMF and dence in Jerusalem shortly before 5.00 pm (1500 GMT). (75 miles) away. “We left with the clothes than 180,000 people were displaced by government forces are securing the town, Police refused to confirm the reports. Netanyahu has previ- on our back and nothing else,” said Abu the Iraqi government offensive on disputed to prevent any attacks against Kurds,” said ously been questioned four times as part of the investigations. Riwar, a member of the Kurdish security territories last month. Aid agencies say Ali Al-Hussaini, a spokesman for the PMF He is suspected to have received luxury gifts from wealthy sup- forces from the ethnically mixed town of most of those displaced are Kurds, though in northern Iraq and a commander of the porters, including Israeli businessman and Hollywood producer Tuz Khurmato, seized last month by Iraqi members of other minorities, including largest of the armed groups, the Badr Or- Arnon Milchan, a longtime friend who reportedly sent boxes of troops and Iran-backed Shi’ite paramili- some of Tuz Khurmato’s Sunni Arabs and ganisation. “It’s our job to keep Tuz safe expensive cigars and other items with a value of tens of thou- taries. “If the militias found out I was Pesh- Turkmen, also fled. Until Baghdad’s offen- for all sects.” The mayor, who is collecting sands of dollars. merga, they’d have slaughtered me.” sive, Tuz Khurmato had been jointly ad- stories and evidence of abuse, said seven Milchan was again questioned in September. The second affair They burned his home to the ground in- ministered by Kurdish forces, local police people were killed when the town was over which Netanyahu has faced police questioning involves sus- stead, his neighbors, who captured it on and the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization captured, including the man who was picions he sought a secret deal for favourable coverage with the camera, told him. Tuz Khurmato was part Forces (PMF) paramilitaries, allied with the crushed by the tank and three other civil- publisher of top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot. The alleged deal, of disputed territory, outside the Kurdish town’s Shi’ite Turkmen population. ians. He said he also knew of three women not believed to have been finalised, would have seen Netanyahu region of northern Iraq but held by Kurdish Though the Turkmen and the Kurds had and one man who had been raped. Reuters receive positive coverage in return for helping curb Yediot’s com- forces known as Peshmerga, until last worked together to push Islamic State mili- could not verify those accusations. More petitor, the pro-Netanyahu freesheet Israel Hayom. month, when the central government re- tants out in 2014, the town’s fragile coalition than 1,000 businesses and 2,000 homes Netanyahu has consistently denied any wrongdoing and says soon fell apart and led to open hostilities. In captured it in a lightning advance to punish were looted, burned down or demolished, he has been the target of a campaign by political opponents. Ear- the run-up to the Kurdish independence the Kurds for staging an independence ref- the mayor said.He showed Reuters images lier in the week, Netanyahu confidants Yitzhak Molcho and David referendum, tension escalated between the of houses and shopfronts in Kurdish areas, erendum that Baghdad called illegal. The Shimron, partners in a law firm and both relatives of the premier, majority of Tuz Khurmato’s 50,000 Kurds- communities. In Zinana, displaced Kurds blown up and scorched, their residents’ were questioned by police as part of a probe into suspected cor- around half of the population of the ethni- told Reuters stories of abuse at the hands of belongings being carted away by men in ruption around the purchase of German submarines. —AFP cally mixed city-fled the Iraqi advance to the paramilitaries who captured Tuz. One military fatigues. —Reuters 12 Friday International Friday, November 10, 2017 Anti-IS forces retake last jihadist bastion in Syria Albu Kamal’s liberation means failure of IS in region

BEIRUT: Syrian troops and allied militiamen yes- Leading the battle for the town were the terday expelled Islamic State group fighters from Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah and ad- Albu Kamal, the last significant town the jihadists visers from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, as still held in their disintegrating “caliphate”. The ji- well as fighters from mostly Shiite Iraqi militias, ac- hadists’ latest rout left them with only the dregs of cording to Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman. a self-styled “state” that once spanned huge ter- He said that even as IS still controlled half of ritory in Iraq and Syria, with surviving IS fighters the town and fighting raged earlier Thursday, the melting away into desert hideouts. jihadists retained one escape route to the north. Anti-IS forces stormed into the town just Abdel Rahman said that “IS withdrew to across the border from Iraq on Wednesday and desert areas in eastern Deir Ezzor” province, while fighting was initially reported as fierce, the where they are likely to encounter US-backed outcome of one of IS’s last major battles was never Kurdish-led fighters. in doubt. “Our armed A senior Iraqi army forces units, in coopera- commander told AFP that tion with allied and auxil- his forces shot dead four iary forces, have liberated IS members who had tried the town of Albu Kamal in Thousands to cross into Iraq, where Deir Ezzor province,” a of people the group holds the small statement carried by the town of Rawa, near the DAMASCUS: Syrian children tour their damaged school yesterday in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta official SANA news displaced border. town of Saqba, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, following air raids by government forces on agency said. The jihadists’ flight the area the previous day. —AFP “Albu Kamal’s libera- from the town, where IS tion is very important leaders used to meet and self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Euphrates valley, but while the military phase because it means the failure of the IS terrorist were once considered untouchable, caps a remains unclear. He has been reported killed or of the fight against IS was nearing its end, the hu- group in the region,” the army statement said. The process which has seen the group relinquish any wounded many times but IS has never offered any manitarian crisis it sparked was still in full swing. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain- ambition as a land-holding force and return to the confirmation. “In the last few weeks, an estimated 120,000 based monitor of the war, said much of the fight- desert to fight a clandestine guerrilla war. The capture of the group’s last urban strong- people were displaced from Albu Kamal,” the ing had been done by allied militias rather than Many of the group’s top leaders have been hold had always looked to be a matter of days after United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office in the regular army. killed as Syrian and Iraqi forces with backing from Syrian forces last week retook provincial capital Damascus said. The capture of Albu Kamal was the last in a Russia, Iran and a US-led coalition rolled back the Deir Ezzor and Iraqi forces reconquered Albu The head of the UN’s humanitarian taskforce string of setbacks that saw IS lose its urban bas- territorial losses that saw the jihadists declare a Kamal’s twin town of Al-Qaim just over the border. for Syria, Jan Egeland, questioned whether all was tions of Mosul and Raqa within a few weeks and “caliphate” roughly the size of Britain in 2014. There was little to slow the advance of the Syrian being done to protect civilians as mass displace- its embryonic state shrink to a rump. But the whereabouts of the first among them, army and its allies after their victories further up ment continued. —AFP

conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm Al- Egypt fears influx Sheikh late Wednesday, Al-Sisi said it was only “natural” that IS militants would flee to Libya, rebel backer Turkey in July, is now seeing increas- of militants which has been mired in chaos since its own 29 civilians ‘will die’ ingly dire conditions, he said. 2011 uprising. “We must have the military ca- “Since September, it has been completely after IS defeat pabilities that compensate for that imbalance if not evacuated from sealed off,” he said, pointing out that UN convoys in the region and to counter terrorism,” he are now the only lifeline to the area, and more said. “This is a threat not just faced by us, but often than not, those convoys are unable to get SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Egyptian Presi- also by Europe.” Eastern Ghouta: UN through. dent Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi says Islamic State Libya is split between two governments, “We cannot continue like that. If we get in militants are making their way to his country each backed by an array of militias. Egypt GENEVA: Some 400 civilians are in urgent need only a fraction of what is needed, it would be a via Libya after the defeat of the extremist supports Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, a mili- of medical evacuation from Syria’s Eastern Gh- complete catastrophe,” he said. UN staff last group in Syria and Iraq. tary leader in the east who is at odds with UN- outa region, including 29 who will die if they are week entered the area for a few hours and as- backed authorities in Tripoli. Forces allied to not allowed to leave immediately, the United Na- Egypt has been battling a powerful IS affil- sessed that there are now “a growing number of iate in its northeastern Sinai Peninsula for the the UN-backed government drove IS from its tions warned yesterday. acutely malnourished children,” meaning they are “Around 400 men, women, children... need to last three years, and has recently seen an main Libyan stronghold last year. “very close to dying”, Egeland said. uptick in attacks in its vast western desert re- Egypt has long sought to portray terrorism be evacuated now,” Jan Egeland, head of the He said many were babies whose mothers UN’s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, told re- gion, which borders chaotic Libya. Al-Sisi said as a threat originating outside its borders, but had been too malnourished themselves to a “strategic imbalance” caused by the regional porters in Geneva, adding that 29 of them, includ- breastfeed. He pointed out that since May, ef- experts say the insurgency in Sinai is rooted ing 18 children “will die if they are not evacuated.” turmoil had forced Egypt to build up its mili- in longstanding local grievances. New militant forts to carry out desperately needed medical tary in recent years. The country has spent As of now, “we have confirmation of seven pa- evacuations from the area have largely failed, groups have emerged elsewhere in Egypt in tients dead because they were not evacuated, more than $10 billion since 2014 on a wide the wake of the 2013 military overthrow of an with only about a dozen patients evacuated to array of weaponry, including French-made some of them children,” he said. The Eastern Gh- elected but divisive Islamist president, which date. This has created a situation where hun- Rafale fighter jets and helicopter carriers, outa region, near the capital Damascus, is one of dreds of civilians, most of them women and chil- was led by Al-Sisi. MiG-29 fighter jets and assault helicopters the last strongholds of rebels fighting Syrian dren, need to be evacuated. from Russia, and submarines from Germany. Last month, militants attacked Egyptian se- President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. They are currently languishing “in clinics, in The shopping spree comes at a time when curity forces west of Cairo in what appeared Egeland said the region was now “the epicen- basements, in makeshift hospitals inside the East- Egypt’s economy is struggling to recover from to be an elaborate ambush. The Interior Min- tre of suffering” in the war-ravaged country, with ern Ghouta besieged towns and villages,” Ege- some 400,000 civilians stuck in a dozen be- years of unrest since the 2011 uprising. Egypt istry said 16 police officers were killed, but se- land said. “They range from acutely malnourished curity officials said the toll exceeded 50. sieged towns and villages. children ... to severely wounded civilians, children, secured a $12 billion loan from the Interna- Al-Sisi said subsequent operations by security The region, where a “de-escalation zone” deal women, men. We really cannot understand that tional Monetary Fund last year to bolster re- was agreed by regime allies Iran and Russia and they can’t be evacuated,” he added. —AFP form efforts, and it receives some $1.3 billion forces have killed the 14 militants he said par- a year in US military aid. Speaking at a news ticipated in the attack. —AP Friday 13 International Friday, November 10, 2017 NATO allies boost support to war in Afghanistan

BRUSSELS: After months of lobbying NATO allies to in- thorized to discuss the numbers publicly so spoke on con- crease their troop contributions and support to the war dition of anonymity. in Afghanistan, the alliance came up short yesterday, NATO defense ministers are meeting here to provide meeting a bit more than 90 percent of the military re- their countries’ latest decisions on troop contributions, quirements mapped out by commanders, according to under pressure from US and NATO leaders to beef up NATO officials. US military leaders, however, said they their commitments. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sent have been encouraged by the continuing discussions with letters to some allies in recent weeks urging them to fill several nations, who may eventually agree to increase critical gaps. their commitments. “Coming out of today, it won’t be at The additional trainers are critical to reaching the 100 percent today,” said US Army Gen. Curtis stated US and NATO goal of building up the Afghan Scaparrotti, NATO’s top military officer. “We’re still in forces so that they can take control of their own country’s discussion with more than a few nations that are looking security. At the same time, officials want to use the in- at an increase above the initial one given at the force gen- creased military pressure to force Taleban leaders to the eration conference. So, I’m encouraged.” peace table. Scaparrotti told reporters that, at the end of The gap, said Gen. John Nicholson, top US com- the day, there will still be a need for additional trainers and mander for Afghanistan, has contributed to the lowest advisers, particularly at schools for Afghan forces. “This is level of capabilities and the “highest level of risk we a complex world and there’s a lot of demand on the mili- faced” in the 16-year war. tary, and so all these nations have to make hard choices Nicholson and Scaparrotti declined to provide details between Afghanistan, internal responsibilities and other on the numbers, but other NATO officials confirmed that missions,” Scaparrotti told reporters traveling with Mattis. BRUSSELS: Commander of NATO forces in Europe US General coming out of the meeting yesterday there would be a “We also have budget constraints that each of the nations Curtis Scaparrotti (right) gestures as he speaks to reporters at shortfall approaching 10 percent. The officials weren’t au- are dealing with. It’s just a fact of life today.” — AP NATO headquarters in Brussels yesterday. — AFP 14 Friday International Friday, November 10, 2017 Undignified spat rips through Romania’s proud royal family

‘When successions are involved, it’s normal to have a drama’

BUCHAREST: Three generations of Romania’s spectful and Christian way.” Michael is suffering royal family were embroiled in a very public row from leukemia and skin cancer, and the royal yesterday as a disinherited prince’s attempts to house recently announced that his condition had see his ailing grandfather led his own mother to deteriorated. Romania is a republic and the renounce him. Princess Elena accused her son, monarch no longer has any constitutional pow- Nicholas Medforth-Mills, of disregarding “the ers, but Romanians associate their royal family privacy, suffering and dignity” of her 96-year- with an elegance and dignity that they say their old father, former King Michael, in a statement politicians lack. The head of the royal house issued by the royal house. Her comments came looks after the family’s properties and bestows after the royal house filed a complaint to Swiss honors. police Tuesday alleging Medforth-Mills had Medforth-Mills, 32, Michael’s only grandson, tried to force his way in to his grandfather’s was one of the most popular members of the home in Aubonne, Switzerland, and had “physi- Romanian royal family. His good looks, down- cally and verbally ag- to-earth manner and gressed” three staff love of cycling and ecol- members. “My son has ogy endeared him to shown contempt for Ro- Romanians. mania, her people and Physically But in August 2015 the principles of the and verbally his grandfather suddenly BUCHAREST: In this file photo Romania’s former King Michael stands next to Prince Nicholas Medforth-Mills Royal House. For me, his stripped Nicholas of his on the balcony of his residence in Bucharest, Romania. —AP mother, this behavior is aggressed title and his position as devastating,” she added. third in line to the throne Medforth-Mills accused behind his aunt and his married to Michael’s mother, leaving Michael to to have a drama, it’s something Shakespearean” his relatives of trying to mother. Shocked Roma- be king when he was only 5. Carol later did be- Stelian Tanase, a commentator told The Associ- discredit him and playing nians speculated that a come king. ated Press, adding: “However, I would have ex- “a dirty game.” “These statements gravely harm jealous relative had sought to edge him out of Princess Elena said yesterday that Michael pected a level of decency in Romania, which is the image of what the Royal House should be, the succession. It later emerged that Nicholas was refusing to see his grandson over his failure not a monarchy.” “The Royal House lives from its history, its values and its dignified stance may have fathered a child with a Romanian to clarify the paternity of the child, now 2. Many prestige. The king has enormous prestige, but which my grandfather and his forebears tried to woman, a situation that was said to have affected Romanians took to social media to defend him, others have to earn it.” Michael is one of the few live by and keep,” Medforth-Mills said in a Michael badly as an echo of his own unhappy saying as the ex-king’s only grandson he should leaders from the years of World War II still living. statement on Facebook. childhood. His father, Carol II, married three have been permitted to see his dying grandfather He occupied the throne during 1927-1930 and “I, Nicholas, just wanted to see my grandfa- times and was forced to give up the succession and have the opportunity to reconcile. again from 1940 until 1947, when communists ther and say goodbye to him in a peaceful, re- to the throne over an affair while he was still “When successions are involved, it’s normal forced him to abdicate. —AP Putin says US willing to pay to settle its commitments to the plotted doping Brexit talks resume 28-nation bloc. The Brexit bill- estimated by the EU at somewhere around 60 billion euros amid warnings that ($70 billion) - is a key sticking point preventing scandal to swing the EU from allowing talks to move on to trade and future relations. Russian vote time is running out With Britain due to leave the EU in March 2019, the UK is eager to start discussing future relations, including a hoped-for free trade deal MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin yesterday BRUSSELS: The European Union’s chief Brexit and a two-year transition period after Brexit. accused the United States of inventing doping negotiator warned Britain again that time is But the 27 other EU leaders refuse to ad- allegations against Russian athletes to influ- running out to reach an agreement, as officials dress that until “sufficient progress” has been ence next year’s presidential election he is from the two sides met yesterday for an abbre- made on the divorce terms. They will decide in widely expected to contest and win. “In re- viated round of divorce talks. While EU offi- mid-December whether to move forward. sponse to our alleged interference in their cials watch with concern as crises over Brexit, EU leaders agreed last month to speed up election, they want to create problems for the Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with factory sexual harassment and other issues rattle the the Brexit talks, but this new round has taken election of the president of Russia,” Putin said workers as he visits the Chelyabinsk Compressor Plant in UK government, EU negotiator Michel Barnier time to organize and is scheduled to last just in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk. Putin has not the Urals city of Chelyabinsk yesterday.—AFP said “time is pressing.” two days, as opposed to the usual four. Few ex- said whether he will contest the March election In a speech in Rome, Barnier said EU lead- pect a major breakthrough. UK officials insist but he is widely expected to run and extend his pected to meet US President Donald Trump. progress is being made behind the scenes, say- ers wanted to keep up the dynamic of talks Kremlin term to 2024. Relations between Russia and the United ing repeatedly that the two sides are close to a “and I’m in the same frame of mind. But the mo- “Here is what worries me: the Olympics start States have plummeted as a Washington probe ment of real clarification is coming.” Technical deal on the status of 3 million EU citizens in in February, and when are our presidential elec- has accused Trump’s former campaign aides of talks were being held on the first day of the Britain and 1 million Britons in other EU coun- tions? In March,” Putin told factory workers. secretly meeting Kremlin-connected officials. two-day round, as the sides look to move for- tries. Brexit Secretary David Davis - who is due “There is a strong suspicion that this is all Russia has vehemently denied allegations of in- ward on the key issues of Britain’s financial to meet Barnier in Brussels on Friday - said this happening in order to create a situation useful terfering in the US election last year that commitments, the status of Irish borders and week that “safeguarding the rights of EU citi- to some, one of disappointment for sports fol- zens is our top priority in negotiations.” brought Trump to power. Putin spoke after the the future of citizens hit by Britain’s departure lowers and sportsmen in which the state al- But the European Parliament’s Brexit steer- Russian Ski Federation announced on Thursday from the bloc. legedly participated in violations,” he said. EU leaders are increasingly frustrated with ing group says “there are still major issues that that four Russian cross-country skiers were Putin spoke ahead of a trip to Vietnam where Britain’s reluctance to signal how much it is have to be resolved” on citizens’ rights. —AP found guilty of doping by the International he will take part in an APEC summit and is ex- Olympic Committee (IOC). —AFP Friday 15 International Friday, November 10, 2017 Pence, Abbott attend vigil for victims of church shooting Worst mass shooting at a church in US history: Pence

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas: Vice Presi- sociated Press on the condition of anonymity. dent Mike Pence joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott The same US official confirmed that the at- at a memorial service for the victims of Sunday’s tacker’s cellphone was an iPhone and that the massacre at a small-town Texas church. Pence FBI had not yet asked Apple for help obtaining told the crowd Wednesday evening that the data from the device. shooting at the First Baptist Church of Suther- The church regularly recorded its services, land Springs was the worst mass shooting at a and the footage investigators have seen shows church in American history and called the gun- several minutes of the attack because there was man “deranged.” “no one to turn it off,” according to a law en- “Whatever animated the evil that descended forcement official who has seen the video. The on that small church, if the attacker’s desire was official also spoke on condition of anonymity to silence their testimony because that person was of faith, they failed,” the not authorized to speak vice president added. publicly about an ongo- Abbott began the serv- ing investigation. The ice by praying “for heal- Attacker cannot law enforcement official ing and for help.” The was among those who governor said Texans silence the went inside the First come together at times testimony of faith Baptist Church after the FLORESVILLE: Family members of victims pray during a Prayer Vigil Honoring Victims of the First Baptist of crisis and tragedy. “It’s attack and said several Church Shooting at the Floresville High School in Floresville, Texas on Wednesday. —AFP what we do,” Abbott of the pews were over- said. People in the crowd turned, although it was responded “amen.” unclear if that was from “The whole country is praying over you,” he Donald Trump had ordered federal agencies to He also proclaimed Tuesday a statewide day the attack or from rescue efforts. Bullets had told one man who lost his sister-in-law. He provide extensive help to the investigation, in- of prayer. Authorities have reviewed video from splintered the walls and pews, leaving shards of stopped to talk with John Holcombe, whose fam- cluding 100 on-site FBI agents. inside the church where a gunman killed more wood all over the floors. ily was decimated by the shooting. Holcombe, The agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio than two dozen, including footage that shows Pence arrived in Texas on Wednesday, vis- who suffered shrapnel wounds, lost his wife division said Tuesday that agents had not been the assailant shooting victims in the head during iting wounded victims at a San Antonio hospi- Crystal - who was pregnant with their first child able to retrieve data from Devin Patrick Kelley’s Sunday services, a US official said Wednesday. tal and later meeting families of the dead in - three of her children, his parents, a brother and cellphone. In a statement Wednesday evening, The official’s account of the video is consis- Floresville, not far from Sutherland Springs. a toddler niece. Pence hugged 7-year-old Eve- Apple said it’s offered the FBI technical advice tent with statements made by survivors of the Pence went from table to table at a high school lyn Holcombe, who managed to survive by run- after learning the bureau was trying to access attack. The official was not authorized to dis- library attempting to console devastated fam- ning out of the church during the attack. the phone. The company said the FBI had not re- cuss the matter publicly and spoke to The As- ily members. Earlier Wednesday, Pence said President quested its assistance.—AP

to appear regularly on prime-time net- Study: More work series in the 2017-18 season, 6.4 percent are identified as gay, lesbian, bi- LGBTQ characters sexual and transgender or queer. That’s a hotel, killing 58 people and wounding hun- the biggest percentage on network shows Las Vegas shooting dreds. The connection is one of about 25 made on TV series, found in the study’s 22 years, topping last so far through the Facebook page. Nearly six year’s record-high of 4.8 percent. The victims still weeks after the massacre, Ashton Zyer’s social fewer women numbers also are up on cable and stream- media creation continues to generate new ing platform series, although the study searches for heroes who in some cases saved found fewer depictions of LGBTQ charac- searching lives and in others simply provided what com- LOS ANGELES: TV series are including ters of color on streaming as well as fort they could. more LGBTQ characters and adding gen- broadcast. for their heroes Zyer, a Las Vegas singer/songwriter, said der-nonconforming ones, but there’s a For the first time, GLAAD counted she started the page after seeing several people in her large social media network post about need for richer, more complex stories “non-binary” characters - those that don’t LOS ANGELES: As soon as Chris Gilman knew she would survive the gunshot wound she sus- trying to find someone. about them, according to the media advo- identify strictly as male or female. It found tained in the Las Vegas massacre, she wanted Meghan Earley posted that she was looking cacy group GLAAD. four non-binary characters across all TV to find the two strangers who saved her life - a for a security guard and a Las Vegas police of- LGBTQ depictions increased in the cur- platforms, including actor Asia Kate Dil- man and woman whose names she didn’t even ficer who helped her escape. “Because of their rent season across broadcast, cable and lon’s Taylor Mason on Showtime’s “Bil- know. She found a Facebook page called “Find bravery I only have a sprained ankle, cuts and streaming platforms, the group’s annual lions.” The study also looked at how My LV Hero” and posted a plea. “Looking for bruises, as well as a concussion and some bro- Where We Are on TV study released yes- women fare on TV and found it wanting. husband and wife who were by the VIP bleach- ken teeth,” she wrote on Oct. 14. “You both are terday found. Shows contributing to the While women make up an estimated 51 ers and helped me get out,” wrote my heroes forever!!!” change include NBC’s reboot of “Will & percent of the US population, they’re 43 Gilman, of Bonney Lake, Washington. “My Myrna Lopez is looking for a paramedic who Grace” and “The Deuce” on HBO. percent of the regularly appearing charac- wife gave the husband her shirt and the wife gave the socks off his feet to her friend when he “While we’re pleased to see numbers ters on broadcast TV - a 1 percent drop held it against my side to stop bleeding as saw her running barefoot. “We just wanted to on the rise, consideration of how LGBTQ from last season, GLAAD said. Among reg- they carried me through the VIP area out to find him and thank him,” Lopez wrote on Oct. characters are woven into story lines and ular and recurring LGBTQ characters on the street.” 24. “We saved those socks as a reminder that whose stories are making it to screen is broadcast networks, lesbian representa- Despite the scant details in Gilman’s post, God was with us that night. He clothed us when we weren’t clothed.” crucial for judging progress of the indus- tion rose to 24 percent on broadcast and it worked. Three days later, Gilman connected with her rescuers, Alex and Wanda Valiente, Andrea Kelly, a 41-year-old nurse from Cal- try. And there is still work to be done,” 21 percent on cable, both representing a 7 off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s gary in Alberta, Canada, posted last week that Megan Townsend, GLAAD’s entertain- percent increase after the 2016-17 season deputies who were at the Oct. 1 concert where she was looking for a wounded young woman ment research and analysis director, said in which a number of lesbian or bisexual a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of she can’t get her out of her mind. —AP in a statement. Of the 901 characters set female characters were killed. —AP 16 Friday International Friday, November 10, 2017 Delhi restricts vehicles as smog envelopes India and Pakistan Authorities have barred lorries from entering the city

NEW DELHI: New Delhi banned all construction, jab and Hariyana have caused the levels of danger- barred lorries from entering the city and announced ous pollutants in the air to spike to many times the stringent restrictions on private car use yesterday, levels considered safe. seeking to combat a massive spike in pollution Figures on the US embassy website showed lev- across large swathes of India and Pakistan. Tens of els of PM2.5 — the smallest particulates that cause thousands of schools in Delhi and surrounding most damage to health-spiked at over 1,000 on states remained closed as a hazardous fog of toxic Wednesday afternoon in Delhi, though by Thursday pollution cloaked the region for a third day, bring- afternoon they had fallen to 400. The World Health ing growing calls for urgent government action to Organization’s guidelines say 25 is the maximum tackle what doctors are calling a public health level of PM2.5 anyone can safely be exposed to emergency. over a 24-hour period. Doctors say the microscopic “The situation in Delhi is so bad and if the pol- particles can penetrate deep into the lungs, increas- lution can be brought down in any way, we will do ing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. it,” the city’s transport minister Kailash Gahlot told “Delhi once again has become a veritable gas reporters as he an- chamber with denizens nounced plans to limit pri- finding it difficult to vate car use to alternate breathe,” The Times of days from next Monday. I am feeling India said yesterday, join- Authorities in the city had ing growing calls for gov- earlier ordered a ban on burning ernment action to curb the all construction work and chronic pollution, which barred lorries from enter- in my eyes the Indian Medical Asso- AMRITSAR: An Indian resident walks over the tracks at a railway crossing amid heavy smog in Amritsar. —AFP ing the city as public ciation this week termed a pressure on the govern- public health emergency. nesses and eye infections caused by the pollu- the world’s most polluted capital with air quality ment mounted. Around “Air pollution during win- tion. The PakAirQuality network, which publishes worse than Beijing-has faced such high levels of 50,000 mostly diesel-fuelled lorries pass through ter months has become a catastrophe for large unofficial air reports on social media, said the PM2.5. Media reports said the thick smog had India’s capital every night and they are a major con- parts of north India,” the country’s most read Eng- concentration of PM 2.5 in the city had topped also led to a series of road accidents in north tributor to the pollution plaguing the city. lish-language newspaper said in an editorial blam- 300. Motorcycle riders wore green face masks India. Eight students were killed late Wednesday Air quality typically worsens before the onset of ing “political apathy”. and goggles as they tried to cope with the smog, when a truck ploughed into them as they waited winter as cooler air traps pollutants near the but for some the protection was not enough. “I for a bus on a roadside in Punjab. Since 2014, ground and prevents them from dispersing into the ‘Burning in my eyes’ am feeling burning in my eyes,” said laborer when WHO figures showed the extent of the cri- atmosphere, a phenomenon known as inversion. In neighboring Pakistan’s second largest city Zawar Hussain. “I will visit a doctor in the sis, authorities in Delhi have closed power plants Low winds and the annual post-harvest burning of Lahore, near the Indian border, hundreds flocked evening.” temporarily and experimented with taking some crop stubble in the northern farming states of Pun- to hospitals seeking treatment for respiratory ill- It is the second year running that Delhi-now cars off the road. —AFP

India rolls out the red carpet

Azaad Alessandro Alocco, the group’s rep- Pakistan shuts resentative in Pakistan, said in a statement. for 100-year-old voter “As the only major hospital providing free, quality healthcare in the area, the closure of down last MSF MSF’s activities will leave a major gap and have serious negative implications for the facility in health of people living in Bajaur.” No reason was given for the closure order, it added. Foreign nationals and groups working in tribal areas the sensitive region, plagued by some of Pakistan’s poorest healthcare and lowest ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday told literacy rates, require no-objection certifi- medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres’ cates from the government, but their re- (MSF) to shut its last remaining facility in newal has been denied to MSF. The interior SHIMLA: Indian voter Shyam Saran Negi, center, 100, arrives to vote in the northern Himachal Pradesh state the impoverished tribal belt bordering ministry, responsible for the issue of the elections in Kalpa, around 145 miles from the state capital Shimla. —AFP Afghanistan, the health organization said. documents, did not respond to a Reuters’ request for comment. The closure ends MSF’s four-year stint in SHIMLA: Authorities in a remote Himalayan Negi has now voted in 16 parliamentary and Large swaths of land in the region have the Bajaur region of the Federally Adminis- village in northern India rolled out the red car- 13 state elections, often braving heavy snow to been ravaged by militant groups battling tered Tribal Areas (FATA), where healthcare pet yesterday for a 100-year-old man who has reach his local polling station. Shyam’s son C.P access is limited, and hits 120 staff working Pakistan’s army for the better part of a voted in every election since independence to Negi told AFP his father now usually stayed there. The move comes seven weeks after decade. The conflict left tens of thousands cast his ballot. Retired school teacher Shyam home by the fireplace, but was still very enthu- the medical charity was ordered to shut homeless and devastated education, health Saran Negi was given a special escort to the siastic about elections. “He keeps himself in- down two health facilities it ran for 14 years and housing facilities. Pakistani NGOs and polling booth in Himachal Pradesh state to re- formed through radio and is a particularly keen in the nearby Kurram district, plagued by journalists also face restrictions when work- tain his record of voting in every Indian elec- follower of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s militancy over the past decade. ing in the tribal regions. Security concerns tion since 1947. “I have voted 29 times since monthly radio show,” the son added, without “Healthcare services are very limited in have prompted stiffer conditions in recent the first general election in 1951,” Negi told saying who his father had voted for. Shyam the area and most of our patients cannot af- years for aid and research organizations journalists in Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh, which urged voters at his polling booth to exercise ford to pay even for basic medical care,” that seek permits to work there. —Reuters is holding state elections, after walking up a their constitutional right and “elect good people specially laid red carpet to cast his ballot. who form a pro-people government”. —AFP Friday 17 International Friday, November 10, 2017 Controversial IVF scheme gives India’s vanishing Parsis hope

Program provides free in-vitro fertilization treatment

MUMBAI: A government-funded IVF program persecution in Persia. They follow the teachings that aims to help save India’s shrinking Parsi of the ancient Prophet Zoroaster and worship in community from extinction is delivering bundles fire temples. of joy and controversy. Some 120 children have The group flourished under British colonial been born through the “Jiyo Parsi” fertility ini- rule and became one of India’s wealthiest and tiative since it was launched four years ago in a most powerful communities, boasting a number bid to help reverse a of famous industrialists dramatic decline in including the Tata, India’s Zoroastrian pop- Wadia and Godrej fam- ulation. The program, ilies. But their popula- which provides Parsi tion has been dwindling couples with free in- Jiyo Parsi is a for decades. Across vitro fertilization treat- India, where the major- ment, has been hailed a big blessing ity of the world’s success by many in the Zoroastrians reside, influential community. their numbers have But critics say the halved since 1940. At scheme, which has also the last census, in 2011, seen the launch of an advertising campaign ef- 57,264 Parsis were recorded in India. fectively damning Parsis that are not having chil- dren, amounts to selective procreation and Threat to existence reinforces orthodox Zoroastrians views that Par- The population slide has led to warnings that sis should only have children with each other. For the community’s very existence is under threat. Aspi and Persis Kamakhan-from Mumbai, where So in 2013 the Indian government started “Jiyo MUMBAI: This picture shows a newborn Parsi child being introduced to family most of India’s 57,000-odd Parsis live-it repre- Parsi”, meaning “Live Parsi” in Hindi. “Jiyo Parsi friends outside a Fire Temple after offering prayers in Mumbai. —AFP sented a unique opportunity to have a child after has two fundamental purposes-first to arrest the trying to conceive for twelve years. decline of Parsis, and second to increase their couple, a lifeline for those desperate for a baby ernaz Cama, the founder of Parzor, every baby “We had lost all hope but Jiyo Parsi was a big population,” Katy Gandevia, who counsels but short of funds. born offers a glimmer of hope that the group will blessing and completely changed our lives,” 38- prospective parents on the program, said. The It is run in partnership with the Bombay Parsi survive long into the future. “We have had 120 year-old Persis, now mother to a 3-year-old girl, scheme provides financial assistance ranging Punchayet, Mumbai’s leading Parsi organization, births in four years. The program has increased said. Parsis are Zoroastrians who first arrived in from 50 to 100 percent of the cost of IVF de- a community NGO called the Parzor Foundation the number of Parsi babies born every year by India more than 1,000 years ago after fleeing pending on the combined annual salary of the and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. For Sh- 18 percent,” she said. —AFP

Suicide bomber Part-time jobs kills four in could fix India’s SW Pakistan farming crisis QUETTA: A suicide bomber struck a ve- hicle carrying a deputy inspector general HYDERABAD: As farmers in India struggle with dwindling in- of police in the southwestern city of comes and soaring costs, with huge debts triggering a wave of Quetta yesterday, killing him and three suicides, experts said one solution may be to only work part- other officers, Pakistani officials said. The time on the land. About 60 percent of people in India make their Taliban claimed responsibility. Nine peo- living from the land, but earnings from agriculture have plunged ple, including police officers, were also QUETTA: Pakistani police officer examines a vehicle hit by to one-third of a farm family’s income from two-thirds in the wounded in the attack that targeted suicide attacker in Quetta, Pakistan. —AP 1980s. “There is a strong case for part-time farming: when op- Hamid Shakil, who had played a key role portunities arise elsewhere, they must go there. And when there in arresting militants and members of are new opportunities on the farm, they can return there,” said small separatist groups in recent years, stroyed police vehicles and rescuers low-level insurgency by Baluch sepa- Michael Lipton, a development economist. said police officer Naseeb Ullah. transporting victims to hospitals. Prime ratist groups. Islamic militants also oper- “That is what makes most sense, rather than have the farmer He said the attack took place when Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in a ate in the region. Also yesterday, the tied to his land all the time,” the professor from Britain’s Univer- Shakil’s convoy passed through a resi- statement praised the slain officers for military in a statement that a group of sity of Sussex said on a visit to the southern Indian city of Hy- dential area. Hours after the attack, the sacrificing their lives and said such cow- militants from neighboring Afghanistan derabad. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of farmers Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Tal- ardly attacks could not weaken the attacked one of the army’s newly built have killed themselves across India, with debt or bankruptcy iban Pakistan, claimed responsibility. In a morale of security forces in the fight border posts, triggering a shootout in cited as the main reason. Problems usually stem from failed mon- statement, police said the attacker used against terrorism. which one soldier and five militants were soon rains or low prices due to a supply glut in produce like 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of explosive Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan killed. The incident took place in the lentils and cereals. —Reuters material. TV footage showed badly de- province, which has been the scene of a Khyber tribal region. —AP 18 Friday International Friday, November 10, 2017 Trump prods Xi to work hard and fast on N Korea Trump praises Xi, calls him ‘a very special man’

BEIJING: Donald Trump showered Chinese leader works on it hard, it will happen. There’s no doubt Xi Jinping with praise during talks in Beijing yes- about it,” he said, while thanking Xi for his efforts terday, but prodded his host to work fast to help to restrict trade with Pyongyang. The US adminis- resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, warning tration thinks China’s economic leverage over North “time is quickly running out”. Speaking on the sec- Korea is the key to strong-arming Pyongyang into ond day of a trip to Beijing marked by pomp and halting its nuclear weapons and missile programs. pageantry, the US president also decried China’s Xi said the two countries reiterated their “firm com- “one-sided and unfair” mitment” to the denu- trade surplus with the clearization of the Korean United States but told Xi “I peninsula and the imple- don’t blame China”, as the mentation of UN resolu- two countries signed more “I don’t tions. He also repeated than $250 billion in busi- his plea for the issue to be ness deals. blame resolved through negoti- Xi hosted Trump at the ations, saying China was imposing Great Hall of the China” ready to discuss the People, next to Tiananmen “pathway leading to en- Square, for the main event during peace and stabil- of the US president’s five- ity on the peninsula”. nation tour of Asia. While the two leaders ex- Though China has backed UN sanctions, US offi- changed pleasantries in keeping with their cials want Chinese authorities to clamp down on professed friendship-with Trump calling Xi a “very unauthorized trade along the North Korean border. BEIJING: US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for the state din- special man”-the former property magnate made But China has resisted taking more drastic ner with the first ladies at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.—AP clear that he expected China to do more to rein in steps, such as halting crude oil exports to the North Korea. “We must act fast. And hopefully North. Beijing fears that squeezing Pyongyang too Vladimir Putin at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam ing $37 billion worth of planes from Boeing- China will act faster and more effectively on this hard could cause the regime to collapse. US Sec- on Friday, also urged Russia to “help rein in this po- Trump said he did not blame Beijing. “After all, problem than anyone,” Trump said. retary of State Rex Tillerson said there are signs tentially very tragic situation”. who can blame a country for being able to take “China can fix this problem easily and quickly, that sanctions are “creating some stress within the Washington has made no secret of its frustra- advantage of another country for the sake of its and I am calling on China and your great president North Korean economy” but that Xi told Trump tion at China’s massive trade surplus with the citizens?” He blamed past US administrations “for to hopefully work on it very hard,” the US leader they could take “a little while” to make a dent. United States, but at a signing ceremony for over allowing this out-of-control trade deficit to take said. “I know one thing about your president: If he Trump, who may meet with Russian President $250 billion in US-Chinese business deals-includ- place and to grow”. —AFP

Indonesia probes corruption in Bangladeshi academic anti-graft missing amid spike monument tender in disappearances DHAKA: A Bangladeshi professor internationally respected for JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities in- his work on Islamic extremism has gone missing, police said yes- vestigating corruption during the cre- terday, with activists fearing the worst amid a spate of disappear- ation of an anti-graft monument and ances in recent months. Mubashar Hasan, an assistant professor park project have named 18 civil ser- of political science at Bangladesh’s North South University vants and businessmen they suspect of (NSU), has not been seen since Tuesday afternoon, his family said. misappropriation of public funds. The “We are very concerned. We hope law enforcement agencies will park and sculpture-depicting golden find him and return him to us,” his uncle Monzur Hossain said. dragon tails twisting around a tradi- Hossain said his nephew, a former journalist, had become in- tional dagger-on the island of Sumatra creasingly concerned about his safety just before his disappear- were inaugurated late 2016 on Interna- ance. Hasan had installed CCTV cameras around his home just last tional Anti-Corruption Day and aimed RIAU: Students stand near a sculpture, symbolizing Riau province’s fight against graft, in Pekanbaru, Riau province.—AFP week after an unidentified man paid him a visit at home, his uncle to symbolize the province’s fight said. Police said Hasan’s mobile phone was switched off early against graft. Tuesday evening after the prominent professor of political Islam But Riau province prosecutors now Riyanta, a special crime assistant for nature of the case has underlined the attended a conference. “We are trying our best to find him. There say that the tender process was rigged then prosecutors office. “Public ser- uphill struggle facing authorities try- is no shortage of sincerity on our part,” Anwar Hossain, deputy by 13 public servants and five business- vants deliberately falsified certain doc- ing to tackle corruption in the graft- commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said. men, alleging on Wednesday that the uments... so only one party could win.” plagued nation. Rights groups in Bangladesh say Hasan disappearance is the group had conspired in a plot that The suspects, who have not been Indonesia was ranked 90th out of ninth high-profile case since July, with opposition political figures, caused Rp 1.2 billion ($89,000) in detained, face a number of charges, in- 176 countries and territories in a businessman and journalists among others to vanish. “He has losses. “We suspect the project in- cluding corruption, falsifying docu- Transparency International’s Corrup- done some research on Islamist extremism in Bangladesh. His dis- volved them working together. They ments, and breaking a law that tion Perceptions Index in 2016. A appearance could be linked to his work,” prominent rights activist made up things to win the tender and prohibits public servants to be in- number one ranking represents the Nur Khan Liton said. —AFP give it to the contractor,” said Sugeng volved in tender projects. The brazen least corrupt.—AFP FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 www.kuwaittimes.net

This photo shows a model parading a creation from the ‘Hu Sheguang’ collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing. — AFP

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Friday, November 10, 2017 Lifestyle | Music/Movies Rihanna, Amal and Donatella named Met Gala 2018 hosts

t’s the most sought after invitation in the celebrity universe- in New York. Held every year on the first Monday in May, the and on Wednesday, Amal Clooney, Rihanna and Donatella Ver- black-tie extravaganza is the chief source of income for the Met- Isace were named co-chairs of next year’s glittering Met Gala ropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, reportedly raising more than $13 million in 2016. Tickets are said to cost $30,000 each or $275,000 for a table, This winter go blonde ruling out all but the most elite coterie of A-list Hollywood actors, best-selling music superstars, top models and fashion designers. Clooney-the British-Lebanese wife of Hollywood heartthrob George and new mother of twins-is the 39-year-old feted as much for her fashion sense as her work as an international human rights lawyer. Rihanna, 29, needs no introduction as one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, also lauded for her bold style, and Versace is the 62-year-old legendary Italian designer and sister of Gianni, who was murdered in Miami in 1997. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour-who has singlehandedly transformed the ball into the hottest ticket in town-is also co-chair of the event, which will be held on May 7. But there’s one person definitely not invited. Wintour told “Late Late Show” host James Corden last month that she would never invite back Donald Trump-who has attended with wife Melania attended in the past, before he was elected US president. Wintour was a prominent Hillary Clinton fundraiser. The theme is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imag- ination,” which the Museum also announced is the title of next By Real Fouz year’s exhibition at The Costume Institute. The exhibition, which will open May 10, will feature papal robes and accessories flown s we’ve all heard before, wintertime is all about dark from the Vatican that will serve as the “cornerstone” and show- tones and dark hair. This is why it came as a shock to This file photo shows Rihanna attending her 3rd Annual case the influence of liturgical vestments on designers, the mu- Apeople on social media when I dyed my hair blonde Diamond Ball benefitting The Clara Lionel Foundation seum said. Designers in the exhibition will include Balenciaga, last month. I felt like I needed a change and a breath of fresh at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. —AFP Chanel, Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, the Versaces and Vivienne air and going blonde during this season was the perfect way Westwood.—AFP for me to switch it up and get out of my comfort zone. I was inspired to refresh my look and add some variety to what we’re all used to. I specifically chose a honey blonde shade because warm colors instantly give life and energy, and can Plummer to replace brighten any winter look. Going blonde is definitely a commitment and requires con- Spacey in new film stant maintenance if you want to keep your hair healthy, shiny and fresh. Purple shampoo is a great tool for blondes to calm unwanted brassy tones, however it’s best to use it once a week and not over use it to keep your color from becoming eteran actor Christopher Plummer will replace fallen star Kevin overly dull and also to avoid buildup. Another tip to maintain Spacey in the Ridley Scott police drama “All the Money in the the freshness of your color is to deep condition your hair at VWorld,” a source at Sony said on Wednesday. Spacey’s career home using a natural treatment of your choice like coconut is in free fall over sexual assault allegations, the latest of which emerged oil or argan oil, and then wash off with a DIY vinegar rinse. earlier Wednesday. “Plummer will swap for Spacey,” as the crew race The mixture consists of part water, part white vinegar with to reshoot scenes from the film which Sony’s TriStar still plans to release a few drops of peppermint oil to kill the vinegar smell. I’ve on December 22, the source said. “They are committed to the 12/22 noticed that this trick prevents my color from fading, adds Panamanian composer and musician Erika Ender date-if anyone can pull it off its Scott,” the source added, asking for shine and volume. The vinegar also dissolves all of the buildup anonymity. Plummer will now play US millionaire J. Paul Getty in the in your hair also getting professional treatments at the salon story about the 1973 kidnapping of his teenage grandson John Paul once a month is important. There are endless types of treat- Getty III. A Massachusetts mother on Wednesday accused Spacey of ments available at salons but one of my favorites for colored sexually assaulting her 18-year-old son on the holiday island of Nan- The woman behind ‘Despacito’ hair that works wonders for me is the Olaplex treatment. tucket last year and said police had opened a criminal investigation. Olaplex is a bond-multiplying system that helps keep the Police could not confirm or deny any such report was filed but the hair strong from the inside out. It can be mixed with the hair rika Ender, the co-writer of “Despacito”-the Spanish-lan- woman’s accusation is the latest against Spacey, who was dropped last dye when bleaching your hair to make the whole process less guage dance hit that turned into a worldwide sensation-has week by Netflix. He was its star actor in the hit series “House of Cards.” damaging or it can be used on its own as a hair strengthening a few ideas about the secrets to its success. One thing, she According to British media, London police are investigating Spacey E treatment. Another product that I love to use in my daily rou- says, is its message to take it slow in a fast-moving world (“de- for an alleged assault in 2008. He has also been publicly accused of at- tine that makes a world of a difference is the Pantene Colored spacito” is the diminutive of “slow”). Another is the fact that she, tempting to rape a 15-year-old boy in New York and of making ad- Hair Repair Oil Replacement. It nourishes my hair by adding a female songwriter, shaped its portrayal of seduction, even vances on actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14 years old, more than a protective layer to shield the hair against damage and also though the song was recorded by men (her songwriting partner three decades ago.—AFP protects against styling and blow-drying damage breakage. Luis Fonsi and rapper Daddy Yankee, later joined in a crossover It’s important to use products like these when you go version by pop star Justin Bieber). blonde because your hair is already weak and after it has Then there is the song’s seemingly magical ability to cross bor- been bleached and colored, protecting it against further ders at a time when there is much talk of building walls (it tied the damage from styling and blow-drying is crucial. This record for most weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 fall/winter season is all about switching it up and trying new chart-where non-English music rarely appears-just as US Presi- things. As I always say, my hair really brings out my person- dent Donald Trump fights for a border wall to keep out Latin ality and reflects my mood, and blonde hair is all about good American immigrants). But Ender’s bottom-line answer to the energy and good vibes. It’s true what they say, ‘blondes do question of what made the song such a success? “I have no idea,” have more fun.’ US actor Kevin Spacey, left, and Canadian actor Christo- she says with an infectious laugh, her eyes alight beneath an ex- pher Plummer uberant fiesta of blonde curls. —AFP Friday 21

Friday, November 10, 2017 Lifestyle | Fashion Designer Gaultier to make racy theater show of his life Christian Dior chief Toledano to step down

hristian Dior’s chief executive Sidney Toledano is stepping down after nearly Ctwo decades at the helm of the French lux- ury goods house, its parent company LVMH said Wednesday. Toledano, who is 66, oversaw the expansion of the Christian Dior brand, especially in men’s fashion thanks to the collections of star designer Hedi Slimane between 2000 and 2007. French designer He also took the decision to kick out John Jean Paul Gaultier Galliano from the LVMH group in 2011 after the poses during an British designer disgraced himself with an anti- interview with the Semitic outburst in a Paris cafe. Associated Press in He will be replaced by Pietro Beccari, the Paris, France. managing director of Fendi, another company in — AP photos the LVMH empire. The leadership changes are to take effect early next year. “Sidney Toledano is ll the corsets, sparkle and provocation of the driving force behind the huge success of French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier are Christian Dior Couture across the world,” LVMH coming to a theater near you. The 65- chief Bernard Arnault said in a statement, adding A that Beccari’s appointment would signal “a new year-old announced Wednesday that he has a racy, music-filled “show” in the works for fall 2018 era”. He notably credited the 50-year old Beccari - in which he will retell his colorful life from his with “expertly harnessing the creativity of Karl roots as a nascent-designer to achieving world- Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi”. wide fame. “This show is the story of my life,” the Founded around 70 years ago, Christian Dior designer said inside his Paris atelier during an in- employs some 5,000 staff worldwide and sells its terview with The Associated Press. products almost exclusively in a dedicated net- work of 198 stores. It has doubled its sales over the past five years. Christian Dior’s chief designer is Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri, who took up the job last year. —AFP

“It starts in 1976 - not my birth date, my first his life. In 1990, he was devastated when his part- collection,” said the humor-prone designer in a ner, Francis Menuge, died of complications from playful French accent. It will, he said, snake AIDS. “At that moment, I thought that maybe I through four decades of his life - “different peri- should stop (doing) fashion....I wanted to stop. ods of my career”- from his dressing up of his And, after I said ‘no,’ it is not possible. I’ll go on childhood teddy bear aged nine, to the city of because (it was) our baby, what we had done to- Paris in the heady 80s and on to his collaboration gether,” he said. He said the epidemic that ravaged Gaultier will draw from the people who have with Madonna for whom he designed the famed the gay community on both sides of the Atlantic inspired his fashions - from filmmakers to pop “Blond Ambition” tour corset. should not be forgotten, and education about the stars - for the revue style production that will With exuberance, the designer showed The AP impact of the illness must continue. combine singing, dancing and acting and fulfill his previews of shiny, geometric corsets that were de- With Gaultier, serious subjects flit back and childhood dream of making theater. He plans to signed for Madonna, Kylie Minogue and BeyoncÈ forth with quirky ones - and sometimes both take the production - called “Fashion Freak and worn by all three. “It’s all going in. Every- merge. Posing on a fluffy bridal carriage designed thing,” Gaultier said of the garments. The show for his most recent haute couture show, Gaultier Show” - on an international tour after it debuts in This file photo shows President and Chief Executive Paris in Oct 2018. Although the show is not yet also will feature a surprise celebrity appearance, also said that the show will feature “a gay mar- he said. But Gaultier, whose sense of humanity is riage.” It will reference the divisive protests of Christian Dior Couture, Sidney Toledano in fully written, around half of the cast and produc- Cannes, southern France. — AFP tion staff has been chosen since he started work- always palpable even through his humor, said the against the same-sex marriage law approved in ing on the project two years ago. show will also touch on the darkest moments of France in 2012.—AP 22 Friday

Friday, November 10, 2017 Lifestyle | Features Nigerian artists Davido, Wizkid taking Afrobeats to next level

op star Davido gets the same reaction wher- “They created a sound for all of Africa. They Africa is one of the most popular channels in ever he goes in Africa, whether it’s in Guinea created the first pan-African music,” Claveau said. French-speaking Africa and about a third of its pro- Por Mozambique, Botswana, Kenya or Sierra Banning Eyre, an African music specialist, added: gramming is exclusively Nigerian. Omorogbe said Leone: teeming crowds and adoring fans. The 24- “It’s very interesting for me, because it’s totally dif- the channels “broke the boundaries. Now Africa year-old icon is one of the favorites for best artist ferent from what we’ve seen in the African scene for makes one boundary, not 53”. The increase in festi- at this year’s All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), the past 30 years.” vals and events such as AFRIMA has equally al- which take place in Lagos this weekend. AFRIMA- lowed artists to meet, exchange ideas and sponsored by the African Union-are the continent’s Breaking boundaries collaborate. Wizkid, for example, sings on “My equivalent of the American Grammy Awards, with Afrobeats (with an ‘s’) — a name given in hom- Soweto Baby” with the South African DJ Buckz. interest reflecting the continent’s rich seam of age to the Afrobeat (without an ‘s’) of the 1970s- Ivory Coast’s DJ Arafat and Nigerian Iyanya use emerging talent. was born about 10 years ago with pioneers such as their song “Fever” to call on “Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Davido and his Nigerian compatriot Wizkid, 2Face, D’Banj and P-Square. The internet and satel- Nigeria” to dance together. The internet has again Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz, Sarkodie of Ghana lite television channels did the rest. “Music channels been a game-changer. Kenyan afro-pop star “Sauti and Ivory Coast’s DJ Arafat are leading a musical like MTV or Channel O made a big impact on ex- Sol sent me a beat and I liked it, I thought it was revolution: Afrobeats. The genre was born in Nige- porting Nigerian music,” said Efe Omorogbe, cool,” said Kritzbeatz, a 22-year-old Nigerian music ria but has spread across Africa as fast as the 2Face’s manager and the head of the Now Muzik producer. “So I did a mix with my sound and now rhythm of the bass in a nightclub. “Nigerians knew Limited label. “For the first time you could sit at how to mix all the influences of Afropop: Congolese home in South Africa and you see the best of Niger- soukous, Ivorian coupe-decale, Ghanaian Highlife, ian artists.” In its wake came the French channel Jamaican dancehall,” said video journalist Hugo TRACE, which in turn led to TRACE Naija (slang Claveau, who wrote and directed the documentary, for Nigeria) two years ago, where Nigerian music “Afrobeats, From Nigeria to the World”. accounts for about 60 percent of its output. TRACE

Nigerian singer Wizkid proud of their music and very resistant to what’s coming from the outside.” In Nigeria, music is business, where sponsors US-Nigerian rapper Davido and patrons can invest hundreds of thousands of we have ‘Whine for me’. He came to Lagos for an dollars to finance a concert. By signing Wizkid, event, so we took this opportunity to shoot the Davido or D’Banj, record labels Sony and Universal video clip.” are finally turning towards African pop music in- stead of the “world music” of Salif Keita or Youssou Huge market N’Dour to conquer the African market. The finan- African pop stars are fighting among themselves cial rewards are considerable. to work with Nigerians in hope of breaking into a “There are all falling over themselves to sign con- huge market of nearly 190 million people, where tracts with Nigerian artists,” said Claveau. “But the pop music is ever-present. “Smaller markets natu- guys developed their business by themselves. They rally look towards Nigeria,” said Oris Aig- conquered the continent and don’t need them to fill bokhaevbolo, a journalist with the Music in Africa stadiums in Africa. “What they want now is export This file photo shows a large poster with the portraits of African music icons, displayed during the All magazine. “Tanzanians can’t afford to do music for themselves to the United States or Europe but for Africa Music Awards in Lagos. — AFP photos the Tanzanian market only. But Nigerians are very that the main players are still timid.” — AFP

loathed figure. Country traditionally has been the favorite music of conservative white Americans Politics free? Even country and the Country Music Association had especially urged journalists not to ask about gun control in the wake of the latest mass shootings. music awards poke Trump The awards gala switched to a reverential tone to pay tribute to the 58 people killed on October 1 when a local man opened fire on a Las Vegas country music festival from his hotel in the dead- wo top country music stars jabbed US Tweets” with an eye on the social media-loving liest mass shooting in modern US history. Under- President Donald Trump for his itchy Twit- president. Paisley joked that Trump was sitting on wood, surrounded by candles and her eyes Tter finger at an awards show Wednesday a “gold-plated White House toilet seat” tweeting moistening, sang the American gospel hymn after organizers unsuccessfully tried to keep poli- about football players, political rivals and “cov- “Softly and Tenderly” as a screen flashed por- tics out. The Country Music Association had ear- fefe,” Trump’s infamous typo that became a neol- traits of victims of the massacre, as well as coun- lier warned journalists covering its annual gala in ogism of sorts for his rhetorical style. try music stars who died in the past year. Nashville not to focus on politics, although it “It’s fun to watch it / That’s for sure / Until ‘Lit- The Country Music Association Awards, one quickly revised its guidelines after a backlash. tle Rocket Man’ starts a nuclear war / And then of two major prizes in the industry, for the second Opening the nationally televised show, co-host maybe next time he’ll think before he tweets,” straight year gave its top prize of Entertainer of Carrie Underwood teasingly said that the 2017 Paisley sang, using Trump’s insult for North Ko- the Year to 55-year-old mega-star Garth Brooks. awards were a “politics-free zone.” rean strongman Kim Jong-Un. Yet the barbs on Taylor Swift, a country prodigy turned pop sen- Co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood She and co-host Brad Paisley promptly went Trump were more light-hearted than biting, a con- sation whose latest album comes out Friday, won speak onstage at the 51st annual CMA Awards into a rendition of Underwood’s song of jealousy trast to major events in the pop music and film Song of the Year for “Better Man,” which she at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, “Because He Cheats,” turning it into “Because He worlds in which the president has become a wrote for the group Little Big Town. — AFP Tennessee. — AFP Friday 23

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Pictures of ‘natitas’ (snub-nosed) human skulls taken at the Central Cemetery of La Paz during the annual traditional ritual. — AFP photos

ome wear glasses. Others have sombreros said. In Bolivia and other parts of Latin America, and a cigar. These are Bolivia’s “natitas”- “nato” refers to a snubbed nose, like those of the Shuman skulls with miracle-working powers. skulls. Worshippers arrived early to pay tribute in On Wednesday thousands of people and their the passages of the graveyard which dates from skulls converged on La Paz’s oldest cemetery as 1826, one year after the republic’s establishment. Ac- part of a pre-Hispanic tradition. Some arrived with cording to authorities, many of the skulls were ex- music bands or mariachis, others with food and tracted from graves or forgotten tombs in the same drink. The skulls are usually adorned with som- cemetery. Others have been passed down through breros, wool hats, or crowns made from flowers or the generations, and are normally kept at home in- cloth, while some worshippers fill the skulls’ eye side an urn. “Here’s Andrea, Alex, Julia,” a man tells cavities with cotton. the ATB TV channel, showing a box with three skulls They light candles and recite prayers in the belief wearing colorful cold-weather hats and sunglasses. the skulls possess special powers. According to in- “They take care of us, they have a little room in the digenous Andean tradition, skulls offer protection to house.” The festival takes place eight days after the believers, ensuring health and prosperity. “We have start of the Catholic “All Saints” celebration, and had about 10,000 visitors and around 700 ‘natitas’ events are carried out in numerous cemeteries were on display,” cemetery official Ariel Conitzer across the country.—AFP 24 Friday

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Ingredients Servings: 8 Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours 2 medium eggplants, about 1 1/2-2 pounds total 1 teaspoon granulated garlic olive oil mister (or nonstick spray) 1 15-ounce container part-skim ri- cotta cheese 1 egg white 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 teaspoons dried Italian herb sea- soning 5 cups baby spinach 1 cup shredded part-skim moz- zarella cheese 4 cups prepared marinara sauce (no sugar added) 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper Make an eggplant Parmesan without extra oil

Melissa D’arabian a healthier veggie-filled version that are actually The recipe makes enough for eight, so a small until slices are tender, but not falling apart, and then quite easy to pull together, and freeze beautifully. family can freeze half for a second meal, or divide allow to cool enough to handle. Lower the oven ake-ahead meals and cooking for the To make my healthy tweaks, I focused on an up leftovers into individual servings for DIY single- temperature to 350 F. Meanwhile, mix together in freezer, once relegated to suburban su- eggplant Parmesan dish, simply because I felt the serving frozen meals. You can also double the a small bowl the ricotta, egg white, Parmesan Mpermoms who had it more together than pasta would be missed less. The eggplant, usually recipe and really load up that freezer. I buy a bunch cheese, Italian herb seasoning, black pepper and the rest of us, are now trendy with the healthy-eat- breaded and fried, was simply seasoned and of foil baking pans at a warehouse store, because remaining salt. Spray the inside of a medium-sized ing crowd. Sure, we call it “meal prep” but it’s roasted, and no one in my family missed the extra just seeing a stack of those pans in my cupboard in- baking or casserole dish. Place 1/2 cup of the mari- pretty much the same thing: Make good food in ad- breadcrumbs or oil. I added in baby spinach, which spires me to cook double and stock up the freezer. nara sauce at the bottom of the pan. vance, so that we can eat it sometime in the future. contributed nutrients but also a nice layered Layer in order: half the eggplant, half the ricotta In the past, this was primarily to save meal-plan- lasagna-like element to the dish. EGGPLANT AND SPINACH PARMESAN cheese, half the spinach, half the 1 cup of moz- ning stress, dishwashing time, and money. Now, we Without actual pasta, though, I knew I needed zarella, half the (remaining) sauce. Repeat the lay- are recognizing another implicit benefit: We are to keep some serious cheese. Using part-skim ri- Preparation ers, ending with sauce. Top with remaining 1/4 cup more likely to make healthy food choices if some- cotta as the main component worked well, and I Preheat the oven to 375 F. Slice eggplant into 1/4- of mozzarella cheese. Cover with oven safe lid or thing tasty and nutritious is already prepared. boosted the flavor with just a little bit of nutty inch slices. Place on a large baking sheet fitted with with foil (spray lightly with oil to avoid sticking), Cook once but eat twice has long been the battle Parmesan, and a reasonable quantity of mozzarella a baking rack. Sprinkle with half the garlic and 1/4 and bake until hot and bubbly, about 45 minutes, cry of the make-ahead meal, with Italian comfort for melty-stretchy goodness. Luckily, marinara teaspoon of the salt, and spray lightly with an olive removing cover halfway through the baking time. foods such as lasagna and eggplant parmesan per- needs no makeover, as long as you buy or make oil mister. Bake for 10 minutes, and then flip over Let sit at least 10 minutes before serving. haps being the poster-children of this eat-one- one without extra sugar or preservatives. My ver- the slices. Season the second side with the remain- freeze-one movement. So I overhauled these Italian sion is vegetarian, but feel free to add a pound of ing garlic, another 1/4 teaspoon of salt and spray Chef’s Tip: The dish will firm up as it cools, if you casseroles into my Eggplant and Spinach Parmesan, lean browned ground turkey or beef if you want. with olive oil. Bake for an additional 10 minutes, or are trying to cut neater squares. Friday 25

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t The Culinary Institute of America, we are now, you’re probably mentally going down your list Latkes served with rhubarb jam before you make them mini). Though we don’t usually think of fried firm believers that fresh food is the best trying to decide what you can start knocking out. any decisions. A perfect twist on the Hanukkah fa- foods as a good make-ahead item, they reheat re- Afood. That’s why the storeroom at our Hyde But you might not have all the information you vorites, these latkes will be a hit on your dinner ally well. Cook the latkes all the way, then freeze in Park, New York, campus sends out tons of fresh need, so check out this recipe for Parsnip-Potato table or as a small bite at a cocktail party (make one layer on a baking sheet. Once they’re frozen, fruits, vegetables, and proteins to all of our kitchen you can transfer them to a zip-top bag. On the day classrooms every day. We like teaching students to of, bake the latkes from frozen in a hot oven, about use seasonal, fresh ingredients so that the plates PARSNIP-POTATO LATKES Preparation 400 F, until they’re nice and crispy again. they create are flavorful and nourishing. Ingredients In a medium bowl, combine the parsnips, po- Though we love the traditional combination of But as the holidays creep up around us, freshly Servings: 6 tatoes, onion, and salt. Let rest for about 5 minutes. potato pancake and applesauce, we experimented prepared food becomes less of a rule and more of Start to finish: 35 minutes (Active time: 30 min- Squeeze the mixture by the handful over the sink with some new flavors, and this one stood out. CIA a fantasy. Thoughtful, time-consuming dinners are utes) (or in a fine-mesh sieve) to remove any excess liq- chef Bruce Mattel says, “The parsnips add a touch the first thing to go when time is at a premium, and 1 pound parsnips, peeled and finely grated uid. Add the garlic, pepper, and tapioca starch and of sweetness and complexity that sets these apart we find ourselves leaning on takeout and conven- 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and finely stir to coat. Form the parsnip mixture into thin pat- from the typical latke.” If you don’t use parsnips ience foods. And that’s just leading up to the holi- grated ties, about 1/4 cup per latke, squeezing out any much, this is a great place to start. You can use days, when we’re dodging cocktail parties and 1 medium yellow onion, finely grated additional moisture as you go. Transfer to a parch- them just like a carrot, but they have a unique pep- recitals. What about those dinners we’re hosting? 1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt ment-lined baking sheet as done. Heat about 1/4 pery flavor that stands out against the potato. The best thing you can do for yourself is to start 2 cloves garlic, finely grated inch of vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium We like the latkes topped with sour cream and planning your holiday menu early, making sure it 1 teaspoon ground black pepper heat. Transfer the latkes to the pan, working in a little bit of caviar, too. If you’ll be serving them includes plenty of make-ahead items. Have a week 6 tablespoon tapioca starch batches as needed, and fry until golden brown on for Hanukkah, Chef Mattel gave us the scoop on of dinners to use up everything in your freezer, then Vegetable oil, as needed for frying both sides, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to a Brooklyn-based Black Diamond caviar, made from start loading it up with soups, stocks, appetizers, Rhubarb Jam towel-lined tray or rack set over a baking sheet to a non-endangered kosher fish. If your latkes don’t and pies. When the time comes, you can pull things Sour cream, as needed for serving drain before serving. Serve with rhubarb jam, sour make it all the way to the holiday, though, we won’t out to defrost, and then you’re just doing a lot of Caviar, as needed, for serving cream, and caviar, if desired. blame you. They also make the perfect emergency reheating and a little bit of day-of assembly. By weeknight dinner - way better than takeout! 26 Friday

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Ingredients Serves 4 to 6 Start to finish: 20 minutes 1 1/2 pounds kale 1 1/2 cups heavy cream Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Pinch red pepper flakes 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese

By Katie Workman with fried potatoes and creamed spinach. And If you want, you can use baby kale in this recipe, hands to squeeze as much water as you can out of after belts had been loosened, perhaps a piece of which isn’t as tough as fully grown kale, and has no the kale. Place the cream in the pot you used to cook y father and grandfather, both no longer key lime pie. I think that for most of us, to like thick ribs to remove, which makes the prep easier. the kale. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, here, loved nothing better than a serious creamed spinach is to love creamed spinach. You This begs to be served up next to a roast chicken, a and then lower the heat to medium and continue to Msteak dinner at their favorite steakhouse, have to go all in if you go at all. And I love creamed piece of seared or roasted fish, or, in the most perfect simmer until reduced by about 1/2, about 4 minutes. Peter Lugar’s, in New York City. If there was some- spinach. But because envelopes need the occa- of all worlds, a juicy T-bone steak. Season with salt and pepper, and the red pepper thing to celebrate, an out-of-town guest to impress sional pushing, I recently decided to cream up flakes. Add the blanched kale and simmer, stirring or the desire to indulge an extravagant comfort-food some kale with a generous amount of cream and CREAMED KALE WITH PARMESAN often, until the cream sauce is further reduced and craving, there was one clear choice. Parmesan cheese in memory of my dad and Preparation coats the kale, about 3 minutes. Stir in the Parmesan Ordering was easy: a starter of thickly sliced grandpa. I know that in some circles kale is con- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. If you until the cheese is melted and everything is well tomatoes and onions with the house dressing, sidered the king of the greens, and in others it’s are using mature kale, trim the tough middle rib from blended. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve hot. which was also the house steak sauce (think of considered “over.” I don’t belong to either camp, the leaves, and roughly chop the leaves. If you are Nutrition information per serving Worcestershire sauce disguised as a thick dress- but I do love cooking with kale. using baby kale, roughly chop that. Rinse them in a 272 calories; 223 calories from fat; 25 g fat (15 ing), and possibly a wedge salad with bacon and It has similar nutritional perks to spinach (not that colander. Add the kale to the boiling water and boil g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 88 mg cholesterol; 332 blue cheese. To follow, there was a T-bone steak, I am selling this particular recipe as healthy), and for 4 to 5 minutes, until the kale is fairly tender. Drain mg sodium; 9 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 3 g sugar; sliced but with the bone served up for nibbling, holds up to heat with more presence. in a colander, rinse with cold water, and then use your 6 g protein. Friday 27

Friday, November 10, 2017 Lifestyle | Food Why should summer have all the leafy fun? Try a winter salad

Ingredients 1 teaspoon minced shallot Servings: 4 A few turns of freshly ground black pepper Start to finish: 30 minutes By Melissa D’arabian Salad: Preparation ingredients that I always seem to have on hand. Ap- 2 large tart apples (such as Granny Smith), cut Preheat the oven to 425 F. Place the cubed apple ples, leftover from apple pie, are the salad’s real star, ummer may officially be the season of green into 1-inch cubes (unpeeled), about 3 cups on a parchment-line baking tray and spray with while the pumpkin vinaigrette - also of pie fame - salads, but wintertime versions have advan- 2 teaspoons fresh minced rosemary an olive oil mister to coat the cubes. Sprinkle on plays an important supporting role. Stages that make them worth exploring. The 5 cups baby spinach or kale, or other hearty the minced rosemary and salt, and gently toss I cut the apples into small cubes and quickly cooler weather seasonable greens are hearty and greens the cubes to coat. Bake just until tender and roast them in a little salt and rosemary at high heat, darker green, which makes them nutrient-rich. And, 1/2 cup baby tomatoes, halved or quartered edges are starting to turn golden, about 12 min- and the little cubes turn into sweet, herbaceous these thicker-leaved greens such as kale or spinach, 1 1/2 cups shredded cooked white meat chicken utes. Remove from oven and set aside to cool nuggets of flavor - like raisins, but better - and can hold up to the addition of warm ingredients, or turkey just a few minutes. While the apples are roasting, make other ingredients almost unnecessary. I add opening up the possibilities for topping your salad 1/4 cup marcona almonds make the vinaigrette. Place the pumpkin puree, leftover turkey for protein, almonds for crunch and with roasted goodies in a way that delicate butter 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt water, vinegar and maple syrup in a small bowl. tomatoes for a tiny bit of acid. lettuce never could. Olive oil in a mister Whisk the olive oil into the mixture until well- You could even add blue cheese or feta if you Have some hearty root veggies in the fridge? Pumpkin Vinaigrette: blended. Add the rosemary, shallot and black happened to have some floating around the house, Toss them (and some whole garlic cloves - yum!) in 1/4 cup pumpkin puree pepper and stir. To assemble the salad: place the leftover from a cheese party platter. Feel free to some olive oil and roast them up, and add warm to 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar spinach in a bowl or platter and top with the swap out ingredients to match your pantry: As long raw kale leaves with lemon juice, Parmesan and 1 tablespoon maple syrup tomatoes, chicken, almonds and warm, roasted as you are topping winter greens with something black pepper and you’ve got a winter salad rivaling 1 tablespoon olive oil apples. Drizzle with pumpkin vinaigrette, toss, warm, whether roasted Brussels sprouts or pan- anything you’d make in July. Today’s recipe takes in- 1/2 teaspoon minced rosemary and serve. seared salmon, you’ll be on your way to a tasty spiration from this season’s holiday cooking pantry winter green salad. 28 Friday

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For many travelers, Italy is seen as roman- and the public’s outrage and resistance in the tic, mysterious and a bit chaotic, with torpid wake of bombings that killed two anti-Mafia heat, gorgeously rich colors and irresistible magistrates and others with them in 1992. food. In reality, of course, every region has a distinct culture and identity. But Palermo, the Palermo’s mosaic ancient capital of Sicily and jewel of the Before being bombed by Americans in Mediterranean, lives up to the Italy of popular World War II and ransacked by the Mafia after imagination. It’s joyful and colorful, rich in art the war, Palermo was for centuries one of Eu- and cuisine, but also disorganized, unable even rope’s most splendid cities, rich with churches, to reliably collect the garbage. palaces, theaters, villas. Much of that illustri- Life is busily lived on the streets here. ous past remains, albeit faded, but so does Clothes hang haphazardly from balconies. deep poverty. Motor scooters zip down narrow alleyways There are medieval Arab-Norman palaces (often driven by children going the wrong (La Zisa, La Cuba, the Norman Palace), fantas- way). People shout in Sicilian - a dialect in- tic churches (the main cathedral with tombs of comprehensible to many Italian speakers - Norman royalty and the Cathedral of Mon- back and forth across streets and from win- reale with extraordinary mosaics), art-filled dows. They gesture, sing and openly observe Spanish palaces, the grand Teatro Massimo others. All this plays out in a city steeped in opera house, and much more. What makes the religious rituals, intricate history, stunning art city unique is the mixture of cultures across and stunning decay. It’s a place living amid the centuries: a tapestry of Phoenician, Greek, past - a past lost in so much of today’s mod- Roman, Arab, Norman, Jewish, French, English, ernizing Italy. Spanish and Italian influences. It’s also a culture that can seem oddly fa- “You need an encyclopedia to describe the miliar to outsiders, likely due to the waves of Palermitan,” says Pietro Tramonte, a retired Sicilians who emigrated to the U.S. and made accountant who runs an eccentric outdoor their mark on everyday American life in every- bookstore. “Here you find a laboratory, just thing from food to pop culture. Part of “The like when life began. It’s an impossible mosaic. Godfather” was filmed here and the Mafia re- But we’re forced to live together.” Just then, a mains a force despite government crackdowns man in a car hails Tramonte from the end of 30 Friday

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the alleyway. He’s dropping off a strange do- swordfish. Things sizzle in pots and pans of Your senses are assaulted by mounds of Capital of culture nation: hardbound books about fascism by the kiosks: chickpea fritters (panelle), potato and olives and dried tomatoes, bunches of rose- Palermo recently restricted most cars from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. egg rolls (crocche), stuffed rice balls mary and bay leaves, cheeses. “We were born the city center. “Now you can hear your own “Palermo is the fountain of serendipity,” (arancine). here and we will die here,” says Francesco An- footsteps, you can hear your voice. That was Tramonte continues. “When a foreigner comes Your head spins at the movement, the dolina, a fruit and vegetable vendor whose taken away when there were cars,” says Sara to Palermo, he should let himself go. Let your- flashes of life: A fellow brushes by with a family has been getting up before dawn and Cappello, a folk singer and storyteller. And in self be a feather in the wind and you can find pushcart full of sardines for sale; another tries working until dusk in the Ballaro market for 2018, Palermo is being celebrated as Italy’s that that wind can take you to beautiful to catch your attention to buy a bouquet of generations. Capital of Culture. “We deserve to be the places.” flowers. You admire displays of oranges, But Palermo’s most famous market, the Vuc- cultural capital because we are a wonderful lemons, apples, strawberries, lettuce heads, ciria, is a shadow of its former self. Merchants city,” Cappello says. She then thinks of the The markets broccoli and tomatoes as mouth-watering now offer antiques and souvenirs to tourists. city’s continuing problems: Trash piling up, Outdoor markets are some of the best works of art. You’re in a stream of people, The streets are no longer slick with vegetable corruption, unregulated development, places to revel in Palermo. Vendors shout out moving, buying, looking, talking, bumping into and fruit remains. “All the people want to go to poverty. “We mistreated our city so badly,” prices. Butchers slice, pound, weigh meat. each other with bags full of food. A scooter the supermarkets with their carts,” Andolina she says. “But maybe this too is the fascina- Fishmongers’ stands display decapitated blows its horn and plows through. says and mockingly pretends to push a cart. tion of Palermo.” — AP Friday 31

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16:00 Hollywoodland 12:05 Hysterical Blindness 03:20 Our Little Family 17:30 Doctors 18:15 One Day 13:45 In The Gloaming 04:05 Toddlers & Tiaras 18:00 Doctors 20:00 Disconnect 14:50 Clear History 04:50 Your Style In His Hands 18:35 Casualty 22:00 You Again 16:30 Dirty War 05:35 Say Yes To The Dress UK 19:30 Friday Night Dinner 18:05 John Adams 06:00 Our Little Family 20:00 Poldark 01:15 Nick Of Time 00:35 Carol 19:30 Superheroes 08:15 Outdaughtered: Busby Quints 21:00 Poldark 02:55 Larceny 02:40 Lorenzo’s Oil 21:00 Chance 09:00 Say Yes To The Dress UK 22:00 Benidorm 04:25 X-Men: First Class 05:00 The Beat Beneath My Feet 22:00 Berlin Station 09:25 Obsessive Compulsive Clean- 22:50 Bad Move 06:45 Tekken: Kazuya’s Revenge 06:40 The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister 23:00 Dane Cook: Vicious Circle ers 23:25 Carters Get Rich 08:20 Spooks: The Greater Good & Pete 00:00 Rake 10:55 Love, Lust Or Run 23:50 Doctors 10:15 Larceny 08:35 The Last King 01:00 Vernon, Florida 13:10 Oprah’s Master Class 11:50 The Net 10:25 Lorenzo’s Oil 02:00 Hap And Leonard: Mucho Mojo 13:55 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 13:50 X-Men: First Class 12:45 The Wave 03:00 The Code 14:40 Cake Boss 16:05 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 14:40 Waiting For Superman 04:00 Francine 17:00 7 Little Johnstons 18:00 Frontera 16:40 The Manchurian Candidate 05:20 Rendezvous 17:50 Cake Boss 19:55 Warcraft: The Beginning 18:55 A Birder’s Guide To Everything 05:35 Five Star 00:00 Grimm 18:20 Cake Boss 00:05 Another Period 22:00 Universal Soldier: The Return 20:30 Bulworth 07:00 Ping Pong Summer 01:00 Once Upon A Time 18:50 Outdaughtered: Busby Quints 00:30 Idiotsitter 23:25 Assassins Tale 22:25 Danny Collins 08:30 Miss Firecracker 01:50 Stan Lee’s Lucky Man 19:40 Cake Boss 00:55 Detroiters 00:50 Lone Star Law 10:15 Orbit Ever After 02:40 Lethal Weapon 20:10 Say Yes To The Dress UK 01:20 Ridiculousness Arabia 01:45 Treehouse Masters 10:40 Discovering: Coldplay 03:30 S.W.A.T. 20:35 Say Yes To The Dress UK 01:48 Inside Amy Schumer 02:40 Bad Dog 11:30 Music For Mandela 04:20 Grimm 21:00 Outdaughtered: Busby Quints 02:10 Broad City 12:50 Ping Pong Summer 05:20 Chicago Med 21:50 Sister Wives 02:35 Real Husbands Of Hollywood 14:20 Close Up With THR 06:10 Criminal Minds 23:30 Return To Amish 03:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 15:20 Miss Firecracker 07:00 Good Morning America Noah 01:15 Legend Of The Sea 17:00 Discovering: Coldplay 09:00 The View 03:25 Dara O Briain - Crowd Tickler 02:40 The Apple & The Worm 17:55 Music For Mandela 09:45 The Chew 04:20 Urban Tarzan 00:55 The Ghost And The Darkness 04:05 Space Dogs 2: Adventure To 19:15 Cole 10:30 Supergirl 04:45 Framework 02:55 The Blackcoat’s Daughter The Moon 21:00 Movie Talk Legends: Marilyn 11:20 Chicago Med 05:30 Hungry Investors 04:40 Escape 05:30 Pacific Pirates Monroe 12:10 Criminal Minds 06:20 Disaster Date 06:10 Edge Of Winter 07:00 Azur & Asmar: The Prince’s 21:30 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 13:00 Once Upon A Time Food Network HD 08:30 Tosh.0 07:50 Glass Chin Quest 22:00 It’s Not Yet Dark 13:45 Lethal Weapon 00:00 Siba’s Table 10:35 Kroll Show 09:25 Edge Of Winter 08:45 Izzie’s Way Home 23:20 Copenhagen 14:30 The View 00:30 Siba’s Table 12:40 Impractical Jokers VII Special - 11:05 The Blackcoat’s Daughter 10:10 The Adventures Of The Ameri- 15:15 The Chew 01:00 Jenny And Reza’s Fabulous Practically Live! 12:50 Escape can Rabbit 16:00 Criminal Minds Food Academy 13:30 Catch A Contractor 14:20 Falsely Accused 11:40 Micropolis 17:00 Good Morning America 01:30 Jenny And Reza’s Fabulous 14:20 Ridiculousness Arabia 15:50 The Field 13:10 Legend Of The Sea 19:00 Chicago Med Food Academy 15:35 Impractical Jokers VII Special - 17:50 Pressure 14:35 The Apple & The Worm 20:00 Once Upon A Time 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives Practically Live! 19:30 Runaway Jury 16:00 Oops Noah Is Gone OSN Series Comedy HD 21:00 Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 16:20 Lip Sync Battle UK 21:45 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost 17:35 The Adventures Of The Ameri- 00:15 Malcolm In The Middle Hustlers 03:00 Man Fire Food 16:45 Lip Sync Battle UK Dimension can Rabbit 00:40 Malcolm In The Middle 22:00 The Amazing Race 03:30 Man Fire Food 17:10 Impractical Jokers 23:25 Mirrors 19:05 The Incredible Adventures Of 01:05 According To Jim 23:00 WWE Experience 04:00 Chopped 19:15 Ridiculousness Arabia Professor Branestawm 01:30 According To Jim 05:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 19:45 Detroiters 20:15 Amila’s Secret 01:55 Fresh Off The Boat 06:00 Barefoot Contessa 20:07 Workaholics 21:30 Oops Noah Is Gone 02:20 Fresh Off The Boat 06:25 Barefoot Contessa 20:30 Ridiculousness Arabia 23:05 Izzie’s Way Home 02:45 Trial & Error 06:50 Anna Olson: Fresh 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 03:10 Late Night With Seth Meyers 07:15 The Kitchen Noah 04:00 The Tonight Show Starring 08:05 The Pioneer Woman 21:30 South Park 01:00 The Dog Lover Jimmy Fallon 08:30 The Pioneer Woman 22:00 Josh Widdicombe - And An- 02:45 The Wild Thornberrys Movie 04:50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:55 Siba’s Table: Fast Feasts other Thing 04:15 Snow Day 05:40 Mad Love 00:20 The Heroic Legend Of Arslan 09:25 Siba’s Table: Fast Feasts 22:50 Lip Sync Battle UK 05:50 The Great Gilly Hopkins 00:45 V/H/S 2 06:05 Til Death 00:45 The Heroic Legend Of Arslan 09:55 Bake With Anna Olson 23:15 Idiotsitter 07:30 The Dog Lover 02:25 Sahara 06:30 2 Broke Girls 01:15 Dark Matter 10:25 Bake With Anna Olson 23:40 The Daily Show With Trevor 09:15 The Tale Of Despereaux 04:35 Miss You Already 06:55 Superstore 02:05 Warehouse 13 10:55 The Kitchen Noah 10:50 The Wild Thornberrys Movie 06:30 Steve Jobs 07:20 Late Night With Seth Meyers 02:55 Stargate SG-1 11:45 Cooking For Real 12:20 Swan Princess: Royally Under- 08:40 The Theory Of Everything 08:10 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 03:40 Sanctuary 12:10 The Pioneer Woman cover 10:50 Baby’s Day Out 09:00 The Tonight Show Starring 04:30 Warehouse 13 12:35 The Pioneer Woman 13:50 Rio 12:35 Sahara Jimmy Fallon 05:15 Smallville 13:00 Siba’s Table 15:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks: The 14:40 National Security 09:50 Young & Hungry 06:00 Warehouse 13 13:30 Siba’s Table Road Chip 16:15 Nacho Libre 10:15 Young & Hungry 10:25 Stargate SG-1 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 17:05 The Sound Of Music Live! 17:55 Hail, Caesar! 10:40 Mad Love 13:50 Face Off 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 19:25 True Heart 19:50 Dreamgirls 11:05 Til Death 15:40 Evan Almighty 15:00 Chopped 00:00 Island Life 21:00 Swan Princess: Royally Under- 22:05 Training Day 11:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 17:20 Pokemon VII: Destiny Deoxys 16:00 The Kitchen 00:30 Island Life cover 12:20 2 Broke Girls 19:10 Equilibrium 17:00 Bake With Anna Olson 01:00 Renovation Raiders 22:30 Rio 12:45 Superstore 21:00 Men In Black 17:30 Bake With Anna Olson 02:00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt 13:10 Malcolm In The Middle 22:50 Channel Zero: No-End House 18:00 Chopped 02:30 Island Life 13:35 Malcolm In The Middle 23:40 The Heroic Legend Of Arslan 19:00 Iron Chef America 03:00 Caribbean Life 14:00 According To Jim 20:00 Extreme Cake Wars 03:30 Caribbean Life 14:25 According To Jim 21:00 Paul Hollywood - City Bakes 04:00 Island Life 14:50 Mr. Sunshine 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 04:30 Island Life 15:15 Young & Hungry 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 05:00 Caribbean Life 00:00 Underworld: Blood Wars 01:15 Saving Private Ryan 15:40 Young & Hungry 23:00 Chopped 05:30 Hawaii Life 01:35 Bravetown 04:00 Hollywood On Set 16:05 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:00 Extreme Homes 03:30 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Pe- 04:25 Hollywood On Set 17:00 2 Broke Girls 07:00 House Hunters culiar Children 04:55 Hollywood On Set 17:30 Superstore 00:00 Married At First Sight 07:30 House Hunters 05:40 After Words 05:20 Hollywood On Set 18:00 Malcolm In The Middle 02:00 Mom vs. Matchmaker 08:00 House Hunters 07:15 Aloha 05:50 Hollywood On Set 18:30 Malcolm In The Middle 02:30 Mom vs. Matchmaker 08:30 House Hunters 09:00 Spotlight 06:15 Hollywood On Set 19:00 According To Jim 03:00 MAFS: The First Year 09:00 Giada At Home 09:30 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Pe- 06:45 Whitney 19:30 According To Jim 04:00 Black Box 00:10 Holby City 09:30 Giada At Home culiar Children 08:15 True Colors 20:00 Marlon 05:00 House Of DVF 01:05 Bad Move 10:00 World’s Most Extreme Homes 11:40 Now You See Me 2 10:10 Days Of Our Lives 20:30 Fresh Off The Boat 06:00 Married At First Sight 01:35 Cold Feet 10:30 World’s Most Extreme Homes 13:50 Center Stage: On Pointe 10:50 Days Of Our Lives 21:00 The Tonight Show Starring 08:00 Mom vs. Matchmaker 02:25 Last Tango In Halifax 11:00 Killer Kitchen Makeover 15:25 Nerve 11:30 Days Of Our Lives Jimmy Fallon 09:00 MAFS: The First Year 03:15 Call The Midwife 11:30 Killer Kitchen Makeover 17:05 Deepwater Horizon 12:10 Days Of Our Lives 22:00 Family Guy 10:00 Black Box 04:10 Doctors 12:00 Flea Market Flip 18:55 Suicide Squad 12:50 Days Of Our Lives 22:30 Better Things 11:00 House Of DVF 04:40 EastEnders 12:30 Flea Market Flip 21:00 A Monster Calls 13:30 Shall We Dance? 23:00 Trial & Error 12:00 Married At First Sight 05:10 Cold Feet 13:00 Tiny House, Big Living 22:50 Split 15:15 Adventureland 23:25 Late Night With Seth Meyers 14:00 Mom vs. Matchmaker 06:00 Doctors 13:30 Tiny House, Big Living 17:00 Coach Carter 15:00 MAFS: The First Year 06:30 EastEnders 14:00 House Hunters 19:15 Cop Land 16:00 Black Box 07:00 Casualty 14:30 House Hunters 21:00 Saving Private Ryan 17:00 Mistresses 07:50 Holby City 15:00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt 23:45 Good Will Hunting 18:00 Project Runway 08:45 Doctors 15:30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt 01:15 Hit By Lightning 20:00 Making Mr. Right 09:15 Doctors 16:00 The High Low Project 02:50 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 21:00 Grey’s Anatomy 09:45 Doctors 16:30 The High Low Project 04:40 Barbershop: The Next Cut 00:00 The Knick 10:15 Doctors 17:00 Flea Market Flip 06:35 Fierce Creatures 01:00 Girls 10:45 Doctors 17:30 Flea Market Flip 08:10 Wayne’s World 2 01:30 Girls 11:15 Casualty 18:00 Going Yard 09:50 Life Or Something Like It 02:00 Snowfall 12:10 Holby City 18:30 Going Yard 11:40 Fierce Creatures 00:45 One Day 03:00 Mr. Robot 13:00 EastEnders 19:00 Daphne Dishes 13:20 Barbershop: The Next Cut 02:30 Cypher 03:50 The Sinner 13:35 EastEnders 19:30 Daphne Dishes 15:15 The Grand Seduction 04:15 Cold Mountain 04:40 State Of Play: Culture Shock 00:20 Say Yes To The Dress UK 14:05 EastEnders 20:00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt 17:10 Cops And Robbersons 06:45 The Machinist 05:25 Nixon By Nixon: In His Own 00:42 Say Yes To The Dress UK 14:35 EastEnders 20:30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt 18:45 Meet Dave 08:20 Jane Eyre Words 01:05 90 Day Fianc?: Happily Ever 15:10 Casualty 21:00 Yard Crashers 20:20 The House Bunny 10:20 Shattered Glass 06:40 Path To War After? 16:00 Doctors 21:30 Yard Crashers 22:00 Vacation 12:00 Silver Linings Playbook 09:25 White Mile 01:50 Say Yes To The Dress 16:30 Doctors 22:00 House Hunters 23:40 The Overnight 14:15 Cypher 11:00 John Adams 02:35 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 17:00 Doctors 22:30 House Hunters Friday 33 TV Listings Friday, November 10, 2017

13:40 Mythbusters 05:36 How Do They Do It? 21:00Tangled: The Series 04:44Max & Ruby 12:36 Rabbids Invasion 14:30 Pick A Puppy 06:00 Food Factory 21:25K.C. Undercover 05:06The Day Henry Met 13:00 Breadwinners 14:55 Pick A Puppy 06:24 Evil Knows! In The Name Of Sci- 21:50K.C. Undercover 05:12Nella The Princess Knight 13:24 Sanjay And Craig 15:20 Storm Chasers ence 22:15Bizaardvark 05:35Shimmer And Shine 13:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Animal Planet HD 16:10 Bear Grylls: Born Survivor 07:12 Junkyard Wars 22:40Bunk’d 05:58Wallykazam! 14:12 The Thundermans 00:50 Lone Star Law 17:00 Deception With Keith Barry 08:00 How Do They Do It? 23:05Rolling With The Ronks 06:21Zack & Quack 14:36 100 Things To Do Before High 01:45 Treehouse Masters 17:50 Guinness World Records 08:26 Junkyard Wars 23:20Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug & 06:32The Day Henry Met School 02:40 Biggest And Baddest Smashed New Zealand 09:14 Nextworld Cat Noir 06:38Blaze And The Monster Ma- 15:00 Big Time Movie 03:35 Going Ape 18:15 Guinness World Records 10:02 Futurescape With James Woods 23:45Lolirock chines 16:12 School Of Rock 04:00 Gorilla School Smashed New Zealand 10:50 How Do They Do It? 07:00Rusty Rivets 16:36 School Of Rock 04:25 Whale Wars 18:40 Mythbusters 11:14 Food Factory 07:13Paw Patrol 17:00 School Of Rock 05:15 Whale Wars 19:30 How It’s Made 11:38 Mythbusters: The Search 07:37Dora The Explorer 17:24 School Of Rock 06:02 North America 19:55 How It’s Made 12:26 Junkyard Wars 08:00Nella The Princess Knight 17:48 School Of Rock 06:49 Lone Star Law 20:20 Now That’s Funny 13:14 Mythbusters 08:23Bubble Guppies 18:12 Henry Danger 07:36 Meet The Orangutans 21:10 Deception With Keith Barry 14:02 Nextworld 08:45Blaze And The Monster Ma- 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 08:00 Meet The Orangutans 22:00 Guinness World Records 14:50 Futurescape With James Woods chines 19:00 School Of Rock 08:25 Going Ape Smashed New Zealand 15:38 How We Invented The World 05:00Bali 09:07Paw Patrol 19:24 Game Shakers 08:50 Gorilla School 22:25 Guinness World Records 16:26 Man Made Marvels China 05:15Chuck And Friends 09:31Shimmer And Shine 19:48 The Thundermans 09:15 Treehouse Masters Smashed New Zealand 17:14 Building The Biggest 05:40Kit ‘n’ Kate 09:54Nella The Princess Knight 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 10:10 Biggest And Baddest 22:50 Bear Grylls: Born Survivor 18:02 Mega Builders 05:50Kit ‘n’ Kate 10:04Nella The Princess Knight 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:05 North America 23:40 Storm Chasers 18:50 Gamechangers: Inventing The 05:55Boj 10:15The Day Henry Met 21:00 The Loud House 12:00 Going Ape World 06:10Lucky Fred 10:21Paw Patrol 21:24 Sanjay And Craig 12:28 Gorilla School 19:40 Gamechangers: Inventing The 06:25Thomas And Friends 10:43Rusty Rivets 21:48 Rabbids Invasion 12:55 Whale Wars World 06:40Chirp 11:06Wallykazam! 22:12 Breadwinners 13:50 Whale Wars 20:30 Nextworld 06:55My Little Pony 11:29Bubble Guppies 22:36 Harvey Beaks 14:45 Biggest And Baddest 21:20 Futurescape With James Woods 07:20Qumi Qumi 11:52Team Umizoomi 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:40 North America 00:00 How 2 Win 22:10 Gamechangers: Inventing The 07:35Sandra, The Fairytale Detective 12:15Shimmer And Shine 23:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 16:35 Lone Star Law 01:00 United Stuff Of America World 07:50Playdate 12:38Shimmer And Shine 23:48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 17:30 Treehouse Masters 02:00 History’s Greatest Blunders 23:00 How The Universe Works 08:00Barney And Friends 13:01Max & Ruby 18:25 Keeping Up With The Kruger 02:30 History’s Greatest Blunders 23:50 Kings Of Construction 08:30What’s The Big Idea? 13:23Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 19:20 Dogs 101: New Tricks 03:00 Serial Killer Earth 08:40What’s The Big Idea? 13:34Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 19:48 Dogs 101: New Tricks 03:50 Ancient Aliens 08:45Transformers: Rescue Bots 13:45The Day Henry Met 20:15 Biggest And Baddest 04:40 True Monsters 09:10Om Nom Stories 13:50The Day Henry Met 21:10 Gorilla School 05:30 How 2 Win 09:20Kids Crafting 13:55Blaze And The Monster Ma- 21:38 Gorilla School 06:20 United Stuff Of America 09:25Littlest Pet Shop chines 22:05 Keeping Up With The Kruger 07:10 The Universe 09:50Franny’s Feet 14:17Blaze And The Monster Ma- 23:00 Dogs 101: New Tricks 08:00 History’s Greatest Blunders 10:15Mouk chines 00:15 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 23:28 Dogs 101: New Tricks 08:30 History’s Greatest Blunders 00:05Disney Mickey Mouse 10:30Boj 14:40Zack & Quack 00:25 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 23:55 North America 09:00 Serial Killer Earth 00:10Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 10:45Kit ‘n’ Kate 15:01Shimmer And Shine 00:38 The Fairly OddParents 10:00 Ancient Aliens Witch 10:55Kit ‘n’ Kate 15:23Nella The Princess Knight 01:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 11:00 True Monsters 00:35Binny And The Ghost 11:00Chuck And Friends 15:35Paw Patrol 01:20 Toon Marty 12:00 How 2 Win 01:00Hank Zipzer 11:25Bali 15:58Little Charmers 01:30 Toon Marty 13:00 United Stuff Of America 01:25Alex & Co. 11:40My Little Pony 16:10Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 01:40 Bunsen Is A Beast 14:00 History’s Greatest Blunders 01:45The Hive 12:05Lucky Fred 16:21Dora The Explorer 02:00 Pig Goat Banana Cricket 14:30 History’s Greatest Blunders 01:50Evermoor Chronicles 12:20Thomas And Friends 16:44Max & Ruby 02:20 Rabbids: Invasion 00:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill 15:00 Serial Killer Earth 02:15Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 12:35Qumi Qumi 17:06The Day Henry Met 02:31 Sanjay & Craig 01:00 The First 48 16:00 Ancient Aliens Witch 12:50Transformers: Rescue Bots 17:11Nella The Princess Knight 02:53 Sanjay & Craig 02:00 Britain’s Darkest Taboos 17:00 True Monsters 02:40Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 13:15Barney And Friends 17:22Nella The Princess Knight 03:14 The Penguins Of Madagascar 03:00 Bill Cosby: The Women Speak 18:00 The Universe Witch 13:45Om Nom Stories 17:35Shimmer And Shine 03:36 The Penguins Of Madagascar 04:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill 19:00 Ultimate Guide To The... 03:05Binny And The Ghost 13:55Kids Crafting 17:59Wallykazam! 03:58 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 05:00 The First 48 20:00 History’s Greatest Blunders 03:30Binny And The Ghost 14:00Chirp 18:22Zack & Quack 04:20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 06:00 Britain’s Darkest Taboos 20:30 History’s Greatest Blunders 03:55Hank Zipzer 14:15Kit ‘n’ Kate 18:32The Day Henry Met 04:43 Mysticons 07:00 Homicide Hunter 21:00 Serial Killer Earth 04:15The Hive 14:25Kit ‘n’ Kate 18:38Blaze And The Monster Ma- 05:05 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 08:00 Crimes That Shook Australia 22:00 Ancient Aliens 04:20Hank Zipzer 14:30Littlest Pet Shop chines 05:14 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 09:00 It Takes A Killer 23:00 How To Lose The Presidency 04:45Alex & Co. 14:55Mouk 19:00Rusty Rivets 05:25 Toon Marty 09:30 It Takes A Killer 05:10Alex & Co. 15:10My Little Pony 19:13Paw Patrol 05:35 Toon Marty 10:00 Homicide Hunter 05:35Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 15:35Sandra, The Fairytale Detective 19:37Dora The Explorer 05:49 Bunsen Is A Beast 11:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill Witch 15:50Playdate 20:00Nella The Princess Knight 06:11 The Fairly OddParents 12:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill 06:00Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 16:00Thomas And Friends 20:23Bubble Guppies 06:35 SpongeBob SquarePants 13:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill Witch 16:15Chuck And Friends 20:46Blaze And The Monster Ma- 06:58 Rabbids: Invasion 14:00 Homicide: Hours To Kill 06:25Binny And The Ghost 16:40Franny’s Feet chines 07:00 Back At The Barnyard 15:00 It Takes A Killer 00:20 Monster Croc Hunt 06:45The Hive 17:05What’s The Big Idea? 21:08Paw Patrol 07:22 Back At The Barnyard 15:30 It Takes A Killer 01:10 Prehistoric Predators 06:50Rolling With The Ronks 17:15What’s The Big Idea? 21:31Shimmer And Shine 07:44 Harvey Beaks 16:00 Crimes That Shook Australia 02:00 Cougar v. Wolf 07:00Jessie 17:20Barney And Friends 21:54Nella The Princess Knight 07:55 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 17:00 The First 48 02:50 Wild 24 07:25Tangled: The Series 17:50Qumi Qumi 22:15The Day Henry Met 08:08 The Adventures Of Jimmy Neu- 18:00 The First 48 03:45 Wild Case Files 07:50Tsum Tsum Shorts 18:05Lucky Fred 22:21Paw Patrol tron, Boy Genius 19:00 Nightmare In Suburbia 04:40 Animals Gone Wild 07:55The Zhuzhus 18:20Om Nom Stories 22:43Rusty Rivets 08:30 Hey Arnold! 20:00 It Takes A Killer 05:35 Cougar v. 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Health Friday, November 10, 2017 Delhi’s poor bear the brunt of deadly smog Inhabitants turn to nose filters, indoor plants to mitigate crisis

NEW DELHI: Rickshaw driver Sanjay can only fuelling the crisis. Rickshaw drivers, street ven- afford a handkerchief to shield his face from the dors and tens of thousands of homeless families smog-filled streets of Delhi, even as many resi- endure the full force of pollution that doctors dents rush to buy protective masks to combat warn can do irreparable damage to the heart, the toxic menace. Better off inhabitants of the brain and lungs, especially in children. Sanjay, world’s most polluted capital are swarming sell- who like many Indians goes by one name, spends ers of face masks-costing more than the 300 ru- his days waiting for passengers, breathing in the pees ($5) that Sanjay earns in a day-and poisonous mist so thick that often he cannot see high-tech air purifiers that could easily cost his the other side of the road. “I don’t have a mask. annual wage. Delhi authorities Wednesday or- The masks are too expensive. I have a hankie,” dered all 6,000 schools to shut until Sunday he said, bringing out cotton square. after choking smog descended on northern He knows however that putting the rag over his India, while people with breathing difficulties nose and mouth does next to nothing against the have been told to stay indoors. onslaught of fine particles-so small they bury deep On top of expensive European air purifiers, in the lungs-that sear his eyes and throat. “My inhabitants are turning to nose filters, indoor eyes are fire,” he said, pulling back an eyelid to ex- plants and even yoga to mitigate the crisis. But pose an irritated, bloodshot iris. Laborer MK doctors say that none of it will be enough to pre- Sharma also cannot afford a smog mask. He vent deaths in the metropolis of 20 million people thought the scarf wrapped around his face-a battling a pollution crisis for the second year. method favored by motorcyclists and street work- Some streets in the Indian capital have recorded ers-made things “a little better”, but he wasn’t pollution levels 40 times the World Health Or- sure. “It is better than nothing,” Sharma said hope- ganization recommended safe level since Mon- fully. Rupesh Kumar paid $4 for a cheap, poorly- NEW DELHI: An Indian auto rickshaw driver covers his face to protect himself from pollution day, with still weather and the annual fitted fabric mask. It was all he could afford. “I as he waits for customers at the roadside in New Delhi.—AFP post-harvest burning of crop stubble in Punjab want to save myself from Delhi,” he said. —AFP ClassifiedsEstablished 1961 Friday, November 10, 2017

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Commerzbank on track for In China’s e-commerce Talks on Pacific Rim trade 38 2017 after Q3 profit boost 40 boom, it takes a village 41 pact minus US at summit

NEW YORK: This May 2, 2017 photo shows corporate signage at Macy’s flagship store in Manhattan, in New York. Macy’s Inc reported earnings yesterday. —AP US jobless claims rise more than expected

Macy’s beats Q3 profit forecast, but sales miss estimates

WASHINGTON: The number of Americans fil- The Labor Department noted that it is now market trends as it irons out week-to-week Macy’s profits double ing for unemployment benefits rose more than processing backlogged claims in Puerto Rico volatility, fell 1,250, to 231,250 last week, the Macy’s Inc. reported that its third-quarter expected last week, suggesting that claims pro- though its operations in the Virgin Islands re- lowest level since March 31, 1973. That suggests earnings more than doubled as it continues to cessing disrupted by recent hurricanes has main severely disrupted. US Treasury yields ongoing job growth in an economy many re- cut costs. But the department store chain re- begun to improve. Initial claims for state unem- held near session highs gard as near full em- ported weaker-than-expected sales as it contin- ployment benefits increased 10,000 to a sea- after the data, while the ployment, with the ues to have a hard time pulling in shoppers into sonally adjusted 239,000 for the week ended dollar trimmed losses. jobless rate at a 17-year its doors. The report, released yesterday, under- Nov 4, the Labor Department said yesterday. US stock index futures Hurricane low of 4.1 percent. scores just how challenging the holiday shop- Claims had fallen to 229,000 in the prior week, were slightly lower, a The so-called con- ping season will be. Like all department stores, near a 44-1/2-year low, and remain well below day after Wall Street backlog tinuing claims rose Macy’s has wrestled with weak sales as cus- the 300,000 level generally regarded as signal- closed at a record high. clears 17,000 to 1.90 million. tomers go online and also increasingly spend on ing a healthy labor market. Last week marked Economists polled by things other than clothing. It’s facing stiff com- Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the 139th straight week Reuters had expected petition in the clothing world as online leader claims rising to 231,000 in the latest week. that claims remained continuing claims of Amazon expands further into fashion. To turn its They have declined from an almost three-year below the 300,000 1.89 million. The four- business around, Macy’s has cut jobs and closed high of 298,000 hit at the start of September threshold. That is the longest such stretch since week moving average of continuing claims fell some locations. It’s been expanding into off- in the aftermath of hurricanes that ravaged 1970, when the labor market was smaller. 750, to 1.90 million, the lowest level since Jan. price stores and launched a loyalty program last parts of Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the The four-week moving average of initial 12, 1974, suggesting a continued decline in month that it hopes will bring more shoppers to Virgin Islands. claims, considered a better measure of labor labor market slack. its stores. — Agencies 38 Friday Business Friday, November 10, 2017 Commerzbank on track for 2017 after Q3 profit boost Bank in the throes of a restructuring plan

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany’s second- reports growing loans and deposits, but the re- Looking ahead to the full year, the group largest lender Commerzbank yesterday re- tail banking unit saw lower profits over the upheld its forecast of a “slightly positive” net ported higher profits in the third quarter first nine months despite revenues at around result in 2017, after reporting 66 million euros thanks to one-off effects, saying it was on track the same level. Meanwhile, the group’s corpo- net profit over the first nine months-down 31 to meet its targets for the full year. Net profit rate banking business, which lends to many of percent year-on-year. Commerzbank’s latest at the bank reached 472 million euros ($548 the “Mittelstand” small- and medium-sized earnings report comes after weeks of rumors million) between July and September, com- business that make up the backbone of the that foreign banks including France’s BNP pared with a 288-million-euro loss in the third German economy, added 3,500 new clients be- Paribas and Italy’s Unicredit are eyeing it as a quarter last year. tween January and September. possible merger target. Operating, or underlying profit climbed 47 But the division complained of weak mar- But the lender would have to boost its per- percent year-on-year to 629 million euros, on kets and historic low interest rates in the euro- formance before a sale can go ahead, as the the back of revenues up 3.0 percent at 2.5 bil- zone translating into lower revenues and German state is loath to lose money on the 15- lion euros. The group’s profits. Operating, or percent stake it owns in the lender following a earnings were boosted underlying profit at the rescue in the throes of the financial crisis. by around 500 million corporate bank fell 24 For his part, finance director Stephan En- euros in one-off effects percent year-on-year in gels dismissed the merger reports as a product as it sold off its Frank- Takeover talk as the third quarter, to 241 of the summer “silly season” in the media. furt HQ building-Ger- foreign banks million euros. “We’re concentrating on making our bank many’s tallest profitable for the long term and creating added skyscraper-to lease it eye merger Takeover talk value for our shareholders,” he told reporters LYON: Member of the Executive Board of the European Cen- back. It also sold a Nevertheless, “we during a telephone conference. tral Bank Benoit Coeure speaks during the 10th Journee de share in payment have made good Investors took the executives at their word, l’Economie (Economy Day) yesterday in Lyon. —AFP processor Concardis progress in laying the shooting Commerzbank to the top of the DAX and ended consumer loan cooperation with foundations for our transformation this year,” index of German blue-chip firms as the stock come in higher than the 12.5 percent France’s BNP Paribas. chief executive Martin Zielke said in a state- gained 2.4 percent to trade at 12.01 euros recorded at the end of 2016, the bank said. Excluding all three one-off items, revenues ment. Commerzbank is in the throes of a re- around 1230 GMT. One factor juicing the Commerzbank has also managed to pare shrank 9.0 percent to 2.0 billion euros. Com- structuring dubbed “Commerzbank 4.0” shares’ popularity could have been the lender’s down its stock of non-performing loans merzbank’s renewed focus on winning fresh designed to secure “sustainable long term high capital ratio, a measure of the buffer it has linked to shipping firms by 30 percent or 1.5 customers has seen it add 450,000 retail profitability”, which includes digitizing some on hand to weather financial shocks. billion euros since January, faster than ob- clients since the beginning of 2017. The lender 80 percent of its internal processes. By the end of the year, the figure should servers expected. —AFP

start of the year, the biggest draw for over a US gasoline and decade, and are now 12 million below year-ago levels. Distillate stocks have fallen by 37 million profitability. We are also seeing the benefit barrels so far in 2017, compared with a 10-year diesel markets average of just 4 million, and are now 24 million Emirates airline from various initiatives across the company to enhance our capability and efficiency with below the same point in 2016. new technologies and new ways of working,” look tight Gasoline and distillate stocks have been tight- profit rebounds said chairman and CEO Sheikh Ahmed bin ening consistently most weeks since March, and Saeed Al-Maktoum. “Moving forward, we now appear tight given underlying growth in de- will continue to keep a careful eye on costs LONDON: US stocks of gasoline and diesel con- mand in domestic and in export markets. Stocks on cost savings while investing to grow our business and tinue to fall, despite record refinery runs, in a sign of both fuels were under pressure even before provide our customers with world-class of strong demand at home and in export markets. Hurricane Harvey caused widespread disruption products and services,” he said. US refineries processed a seasonal record 16.3 to the major Gulf Coast refineries in late August DUBAI: Leading Middle East airline Emi- and September. Domestic gasoline consumption rates said yesterday its half year net profit The rise in profit was helped by reducing million barrels per day (bpd) of crude in the week its workforce by 3,000 employees to 102,670 to Nov. 3, according to data published by the US has been running at record levels most weeks rebounded strongly from a slump last year since April, while exports, mostly to Latin Amer- during the period due to “natural attrition and Energy Information Administration. due to cost saving measures and favorable ica, have remained strong, and spiked higher in exchange rates. slower pace of recruitment.” Sheikh Ahmed Refinery runs were 600,000 bpd more than in 2016 and 1.5 million bpd more than the 10-year recent weeks. The Dubai flag carrier said it posted a net said the boost in profit was achieved despite Distillate consumption at home has been more profit of $452 million in the period from April key challenges. “Our margins continue to face seasonal average, as they have most weeks since April, with a brief interruption caused by Hurri- mixed but fairly strong and exports have been to September, up 111 percent on the same strong downward pressure from increased running at record levels. Stocks of both fuels are period last year. That was more than the competition, oil prices have risen, and we still cane Harvey. Despite record runs, refineries are struggling to meet strong demand from gasoline now becoming uncomfortably low from an oper- $340 million net income for the whole of the face weak economic and uncertain political and diesel in the United States and customers in ational perspective once inventories are adjusted last fiscal year to March 31. realities in many parts of the world,” he said. for rising demand. The rise in earnings was driven by “ca- Latin America. Emirates, which has just welcomed the Gasoline consumption is being boosted by If winter temperatures are in line with the pacity optimization and efficiency initiatives 100th Airbus A380 superjumbo jet to be the long-term average, heating oil consumption will across the company, steady business growth, relatively cheap fuel, strong economic growth, world’s biggest customer of the plane, said job creation, rising traffic volumes and the pur- be significantly higher than last winter, but if the and a more favorable foreign exchange situ- half-year revenues were up six percent to winter proves colder than normal, stocks could ation compared to the same period last chase of larger vehicles. Diesel is being driven $12.1 billion. In the six-month period, the feel tight. year,” the airline said. Emirates, which oper- by the rise in industrial activity and freight company carried 29.2 million passengers, up Gasoline and diesel prices have been rising ates a fleet of 264 aircraft, had blamed fierce movements, as well as increases in oil and gas four percent on last year. The airline has re- drilling, which relies on off-grid diesel-electric even faster than crude to encourage refiners to competition, currency devaluations and US maximize crude processing. Hedge funds and travel restrictions for the 82.5 plunge in its ceived 10 new wide-body aircraft in the pe- generators. riod-four Airbus A380s and six Boeing US gasoline stocks fell by 3.3 million barrels other money managers have amassed a record profit in the previous fiscal year. bullish position in US heating oil and a near- “The easing of the strong US dollar 777s-and is scheduled to receive nine more compared with the prior week, while distillate record one in gasoline anticipating prices will rise against other major currencies helped our by March next year, it said. —AFP stocks were down by 3.4 million barrels. Gasoline stocks have fallen by 27 million barrels since the even further. —Reuters Friday 39 Business Friday, November 10, 2017 US slams World Bank lending to rich countries like China Beijing biggest borrower with $2.4bn in loans this year WASHINGTON: World Bank lending to coun- However, income is only one factor taken into tries like China that are rich enough to finance consideration when the World Bank decides their own development hurts poor countries that whether to graduate a country. And some coun- need help, a senior US Treasury official said tries that graduated had to resume borrowing, Wednesday. including South Korea during the Asian financial David Malpass, Treasury’s undersecretary for crisis of the 1990s. International Affairs, cited China as a prime ex- The current income level to begin to consider ample of the practice, as the World Bank’s graduation is $6,895 per capita, and while Mal- biggest borrower with $2.4 billion in loans this pass singled out China, it was just over $8,200 year. The Trump adminis- last year.Uruguay was tration will push the nearly double that fig- World Bank to move ure at $15,200, accord- countries towards gradu- Lending ing to World Bank data. ation, as their economies A World Bank grow and they are able to policy hurts spokesman told AFP the access private sources of institution’s sharehold- financing, he told a House the poor ers-of which the United subcommittee. States is the largest- “Many graduation-el- ”are engaged in ongo- igible countries, even ing discussions over those with strong market access, have continued how to support countries in moving up the de- to demand (World Bank) financing,” he said in velopment spectrum to increase their contribu- prepared testimony. “Adherence to the gradua- tion to global growth and stability” and to In this file photo, a recruiter from the postal service, right, speaks with an attendee of a job tion policy has progressively weakened.” Mal- “maximize finance for development.” fair in Cheswick, Pa.— AP pass said that since 2009, countries eligible for graduation from World Bank aid have received, Move to graduate sury has not found these graduation discussions the quality of the institution’s portfolio, but on average, 40 percent of the institution’s lend- Malpass, however, said the World Bank has to be serious or meaningful,” he said. “We have said, “We think the World Bank can do a better ing.Currently 25 countries have incomes above failed to follow its own guidance and pursue dis- strenuously argued for a more rigorous, trans- job meeting its commitments to poorer coun- the graduation threshold, and six are considered cussions with countries ready to graduate, to parent, and rules-based process.” He acknowl- tries while still pursuing a financially sound high income, exceeding $12,475 per capita. phase them out of the lending program. “Trea- edged that lending to richer countries helps business model.” —AFP

the Dominican Republic, up until now the world’s Tropical fruit trade second-largest avocado producer, prompting FAO to predict a 35 percent drop in this year’s harvest may be able to replace some of what could hap- from 2016. set to reach new Rise of the machines: pen in voice,” Eric Simonson, managing partner The Mexican avocado trade, already facing of research at Everest Group, a management uncertainty in light of treaty re-negotiation with peak in 2017: UN FAO Philippine outsourcing consulting and research firm, told Reuters. the United States, was hit further by bad weather. AI, which combs through large troves of Output growth in the world’s largest producer is industry braces for AI raw data to predict outcomes and recognize ROME: Global trade in avocados, mangos, pineap- projected to fall to 1 percent this year, versus 5.5 patterns, is expected to replace 40,000 to ple and papaya is set to reach a new peak in 2017 percent average annual growth between 2007 and MANILA: The outsourcing industry in the 50,000 “low-skilled” or process-driven BPO though climate change threatens the output of 2016.“The threat of climate change and associated Philippines, which has dethroned India as the jobs in the next five years, said Rey Untal, pres- tropical fruit in many growing regions, the United extreme weather events looms heavily over the country with the most call centers in the world, is ident and chief executive officer of the IT & Nations food agency (FAO) said yesterday. Ex- sector, given that tropical zones have acute vul- worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) Business Process Association of the Philippines ports of the four main tropical fruits have been nerability to the phenomenon,” Altendorf said. will eat into the $23 billion sector. AI-powered (IBPAP). Contact centers make up four-fifths growing faster than all other internationally traded Most of the world’s tropical fruit is grown on translators could dilute the biggest advantage the of the Philippines’ total BPO industry, which food commodities, as consumers in the United farms measuring less than five hectares. Only 5 Philippines has, the wide use of English, an indus- accounts for 12.6 percent of the global market States, Europe and now parts of Asia have devel- percent of what is grown is exported, with most try meeting was told this week. Other AI appli- for BPO, according to IBPAP. oped a taste for crops that are still mainly grown of it representing a vital source of nutrition and cations could take over process-driven jobs. BPO firms in the Philippines list Citibank, for subsistence in developing countries. income generated locally. But FAO said shifts in The Philippines’ business process out- JPMorgan, Verizon, Convergys and Genpact Rising incomes and perceived health benefits consumption as people get richer are likely to sourcing (BPO) industry is an economic lifeline among their clients. While the United States re- are fuelling demand for “super fruits”, which are boost the traded share, underpinned by freer for the Southeast Asian nation of 100 million main the biggest customers for the industry, now among the priciest food commodities, FAO trade, better market access and technological ad- people. It employs about 1.15 million people demand for BPO services from Europe, Aus- said in a biannual report on global food markets. vances which could lead to lower prices and and, along with remittances from overseas tralia and New Zealand is also growing. In 2017, producers including Mexico, Costa wider distribution. workers, remains one of the top two earners of The Philippines’ share of the global out- Rica and India are set to ship some 7 million tons, Affluent consumers in China are particularly foreign exchange. “I don’t think our excellent sourcing pie, estimated to reach about $250 5.2 percent more than last year, with a global ex- keen on the novelty and exclusiveness associated command of spoken English is going to really billion by 2022, is forecast by the industry to port value of around $10 billion. with tropical fruits. This has led demand for be a protection five, 10 earsy from now. It really reach 15 percent by that year. To get there “Trade prospects overall would have been pineapples to outstrip domestic production, and will not matter,” said Rajneesh Tiwary, chief de- however, the Southeast Asian nation must higher, had it not been for adverse weather con- shipments of avocados to grow an estimated 124 livery officer at Sutherland Global Services. The prove to the world it has more to offer than just ditions in the leading exporting countries,” FAO percent annually since 2013, with some 44,000 Philippines, which was an American colony in a pool of English-speaking talent. BPO execu- analyst Sabine Altendorf said in the report. Over tons arriving this year. Lured by high market the first half of the 20th century, overtook India tives said the country has to take on high-value the past two years, drought has disrupted harvests prices, Chinese growers have also started to grow in 2011 with the largest number of voice-based outsourcing jobs in research and analytics and of mangoes in Asia, South America and Africa, pa- more avocados for consumption at home, FAO BPO services in the world. “There’s definitely turn the headwinds from Artificial Intelligence paya in some regions of South America, and avo- said.The first harvest on the new plantations is due reasons to be concerned because technology into an opportunity. —Reuters cados in southern Africa. Hurricanes have battered in autumn 2017. —Reuters 40 Friday Business Friday, November 10, 2017 In China’s e-commerce boom, it takes a village Villages re-invent themselves as manufacturing bases for Alibaba XUZHOU, China: Workers wielding screeching “It’s a new way for people here to make more hand-held wood sanders toil overtime in Cheng money and get rich. It has really changed peo- Huaibao’s bunk bed factory, rushing to prepare ple’s fates,” said Cheng, 28. The high-school for the wave of orders about to break on manu- graduate previously worked in an electronics facturing businesses like his across China. factory and later sold home appliances. China’s November 11 orgy of e-shopping strikes In 2010, he scraped together 2,000 yuan Saturday, with hundreds of millions of con- ($300) and began making children’s bunk beds sumers expected to seize on promotional dis- to sell on Taobao. It was a propitious choice-in counts to place up to a billion pent-up orders 2016 China relaxed its “one-child policy” to for everything from food allow families a second to furniture and elec- child. Bunk beds are tronics. suddenly hot. So-called “Double People to Cheng says his busi- 11”, or “Singles Day”, is ness is now worth 20 mil- the biggest day of the make more lion yuan. He has year for Cheng, account- purchased several homes ing for around one-sixth money and and parks his Mercedes- of his annual orders and Benz and Audi outside a illustrating the impact get rich factory that’s grown to that China’s years-long 25,000 square feet and e-commerce boom is 200 employees. “I’m driv- having right down to some of the country’s ing a one-million-yuan car. I never dared to dream poorest villages. of such a day before,” he said. XUZHOU: In this photograph taken on November 8, 2017, laborers work inside a furniture factory Cheng’s town of Shaji in eastern Jiangsu in a “Taobao Village” in Xuzhou. —AFP province once relied on farming and, later, pro- Sweet Spot cessing waste plastic. Today, furniture produc- Alibaba seized on Double 11 beginning in Alibaba says Double 11-related sales last merce in China under boss Jack Ma, one of tion fattens wallets in Shaji, one of more than 2009 as China’s online answer to the late-No- year reached $17.8 billion in gross merchandise China’s richest men. 1,300 communities across China dubbed vember US “Black Friday” shopping spree, find- value, up 32 percent from 2015 and roughly The company’s stock has doubled this year “Taobao Villages”, areas that re-invented them- ing a sweet spot combining China’s love of a equal to the annual GDP of Mozambique. This as revenues surged. It recently passed Amazon selves as manufacturing bases to supply e-com- good bargain and the national addiction to year’s shopping fest will put an exclamation to reclaim the crown as the world’s most valu- merce giant Alibaba’s Taobao platform. smartphones and one-click payments. mark on Alibaba’s growing dominance of com- able e-commerce company. —AFP

nance service whose name literally means “just spend” in Chi- Chinese binge on nese. Ji, 21, will pay back the loan in six months at an interest rate of 4 percent. China’s factory-gate On a colourful online advertisement sprinkled with cartoon easy credit tied to skateboards and hamburgers, Huabei also offers borrowers a prices maintain chance to win up to 4,999 yuan worth of shopping on spending Singles Day sales receipts of just 200 yuan. Huabei, launched by Alipay, an e-payment firm connected strength in October to Alibaba, also offers special Singles Day credit limit exten- SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Days ahead of China’s biggest retail sions. BEIJING: Chinese factory prices continued to surge in October, event of the year, lenders and retailers are going all out to get JD Finance, the lending arm of JD.com, is giving shoppers with data yesterday showing a bigger-than-forecast jump consumers to borrow and to spend - from topping up credit the opportunity to enter into a draw with 1,111 chances to win owing to an anti-pollution clampdown that has driven up com- lines to offering loans that come with chances to win even more prizes ranging from “red packets” of cash to having their shop- modity prices. In a drive to clean up the country’s smog-ridden cash. Over a 24-hour period on Saturday, billions of dollars of ping bills paid by the firm. Fenqile.com, a small online loans cities the government has moved to wind down production at discounted goods are expected to be sold online on Singles firm, offers 12-month interest-free credit for some goods if some at steel factories and smelters, and President Xi Jinping Day, China’s version of Black Friday. loans are made for Singles Day purchases, and PPmoney.com, last month emphasized environmental protection at the Com- Chinese e-commerce colossus Alibaba Group Holding last another small online credit company, is offering 8,888 yuan munist Party congress. The clean-air policy, which has been year reported transactions topping $14 billion, and deals are worth of credit that can be spent on the platform. The number stepped up going into the winter when pollution worsens, has expected to grow this year. The annual Singles Day, originally 8 is considered lucky among Chinese. led to tighter supplies in turn lifting prices. a day for young college students to celebrate singlehood, has The push by newer online lending firms and retailers to bol- And the National Statistics Bureau said the producer price become a barometer of China’s sprawling e-commerce sector. ster consumer spending aligns with Beijing’s plans to swivel a index (PPI), an important barometer of the industrial sector, The rise in consumer spending in a country traditionally manufacturing-led economy to one driven by consumer de- held still at 6.9 percent last month, beating expectations of 6.6 viewed as a nation of savers has coincided with a sharp in- mand and services. percent in a Bloomberg News survey. The consumer price crease in consumer borrowing in recent years. But analysts warn that while household debt is low by West- index (CPI), a key gauge of retail inflation, hit 1.9 percent, While consumer borrowing in China is still modest com- ern standards, risks are rising as the economy cools. higher than the 1.6 percent in September and also slightly beat- pared to mortgage loans and corporate borrowing, economists “People over-extend themselves without considering the ing Bloomberg’s forecast. warn that household leverage is building up too rapidly. long-term consequences on their future financial wellbeing,” The figures will likely provide a boost to China’s leadership For Rose Ji, a student from the northern port city of Tian- said Rui Yao, associate professor at the University of Missouri. as they strive to retool the world’s number two economy so it jin, the pull of a deep discount on Singles Day for a personal “Impulsive purchases on credit have been a growing problem is driven by domestic demand and away from one reliant on photography session prompted her to borrow an otherwise for consumers.” state investment and exports. Authorities have targeted around unaffordable amount from a consumer lending firm. “I’ve al- For student Ji, the part-time work she does will pay a tenth three percent in the CPI this year. “China’s reflation story re- ways wanted to be photographed, but the original price was of her Huabei loan. The rest, she says, will be covered by her mains alive, for now,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Eco- 5,000 yuan ($754),” said Ji. “On Nov. 11, it’s only 1,800 yuan.” parents. —Reuters nomics said in a research note. —AFP Ji borrowed the full amount from Huabei, a consumer fi- Friday 41 Business Friday, November 10, 2017 Talks on Pacific Rim trade pact minus US at summit Vietnam underlines importance of salvaging TPP

DANANG, Vietnam: Talks aimed at salvaging a It’s unclear if the TPP members will manage Pacific Rim trade pact rejected by President to reach a consensus on the trade pact that was Donald Trump resumed yesterday on the side- billed by the administration of former President lines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Barrack Obama as the “gold standard” for trade Economic Cooperation forum. rules for the 21st century. While APEC operates Trade and foreign ministers of 11 members of by consensus and customarily issues nonbinding the Trans-Pacific Partnership were seeking to statements, TPP commitments would eventually agree in principle on how to proceed without be ratified and enforced by its members. US involvement after Trump pulled out from the In Danang, reaching agreement on a draft of formerly US-led initiative earlier this year. even the nonbinding APEC declaration ap- Trump and other leaders are heading to Vietnam peared to be a struggle. APEC foreign and for the 21-member APEC summit, which begins trade ministers extended their talks for an extra today in this coastal re- morning yesterday as sort city. the officials sought to As a developing close gaps in their posi- country with a fast- US withdrawal tions. It was unclear growing export sector, means pact what those sticking Vietnam has a strong in- points might have been. DANANG: Trade ministers and delegates from the remaining members of the Trans Pacific Part- terest in the TPP’s suc- needs to be But the US pushback on nership (TPP) attend the TPP ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic cess. At the outset of “free trade,” evidenced Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit yesterday in Danang, Vietnam. —AP yesterday’s meeting, amended in “America first” policy, Tran Tuan Anh, the trade has raised eyebrows in minister, emphasized the region after decades For Vietnam, the summit is an occasion to year, its GDP per capita is still one of the lowest “the importance of reaching an agreement in of US pressure on opening markets. “Over the showcase the progress its economy has made among APEC members at less than $2,200. principle right here.” last year, things have changed a lot,” Alan Bol- thanks largely to foreign investment and trade. Many of its 95 million people remain poor and Japan and Australia likewise have shown lard, executive director of the Singapore-based Danang, Vietnam’s third largest city, is in the vulnerable to natural disasters such as storms strong enthusiasm for reaching a framework APEC Secretariat, said in an interview. “The midst of a construction boom as dozens of re- that lashed the coast near Danang just days be- agreement that drops a requirement that it be new US administration does have a markedly sorts and smaller hotels pop up along its scenic fore the APEC meetings. APEC’s members are ratified by at least six member countries with a different view about trade policies and regional coastline. Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong combined GDP equal to 85 percent of the orig- economic integration,” he said. “We’re trying The country is a major garment exporter and Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, inal accord. Since the US GDP accounted for 60 to get more clarity about what they’re comfort- the largest production base for Samsung Elec- Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, percent of that total, its withdrawal meant the able with and what the response of other mem- tronics’ mobile phones. But even though its Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, pact had to be amended. bers is.” economy grew at a brisk 6.2 percent pace last the US and Vietnam. —AP

clined immediate comment on the report. British shell Britain says it is doing more than most coun- tries to tackle illicit money flows. ered another set of strong results and are fully companies linked It is the only country to have introduced Adidas reports on track to achieve our ambitious 2017 financial a functioning, publicly-available register of targets,” he said in a statement. to 52 money true beneficial owners of companies. How- spike in Adidas continues to expect group sales to ever, the system is poorly policed. Compa- grow by 17 to 19 percent in 2017 to achieve net laundering scandals nies House, the body which overseas British profit between 1.36 and 1.39 billion euros. corporate records, does not have the re- Q3 profits Like its smaller homegrown rival Puma, Adi- sources to verify the information submitted das has been gaining ground in the US at a time LONDON: British shell companies have to it. when market leaders Nike and Under Armor are been linked to 52 money laundering scandals Also, successive British governments have FRANKFURT: German sportswear giant Adidas stalling. “The retail landscape is changing dra- involving 80 billion pounds ($105 billion) in sought to make it easy to register compa- yesterday reported a spike in third-quarter matically in the US,” Rorsted told reporters in a nies, for example allowing people to do so profits powered by strong demand for its own- conference call. The only major market where the past 14 years, according to researchers brand products, as it drafted in Victoria Beck- Adidas didn’t see growth in the third quarter at campaign group Transparency Interna- online and without verifying their identifica- ham to help boost its struggling Reebok unit. was Russia, with the group blaming a 17-percent tional. Tax evasion and financial crime has tion, in the hope this spurs entrepreneurship. The Bavarian company, which sponsors English decline in sales there on store closures and “on- shot to the top of the international agenda This has led to a small industry of formation Premier League giants Manchester United, said going challenging consumer sentiment” in the in recent days following reports based on agents establishing blocks of companies and net profit soared to 526 million euros ($611 mil- face of a sluggish economy. By the end of this leaked documents from Appleby, a promi- partnerships which they then make available lion) between July and September, up 36 per- year, Adidas will have shuttered 200 stores in nent offshore law firm founded in Bermuda. to overseas parties. cent on the same period last year. Russia, Rorsted said. But the report from Transparency Inter- Transparency International found that Group revenues grew by nearly nine percent national’s UK arm said it’s not just around half of the 766 companies alleged to to 5.7 billion euros, driven by brisk online sales Teaming up with Beckham Caribbean islands that are used to hide il- have been involved in money laundering in all regions and the success of Adidas’ retro- Another cloud came from the group’s trou- licit money flows and that Britain was a key schemes were based at just eight UK ad- inspired Originals trainers and its Adidas neo bled Reebok brand, which saw sales increase by link in many of the largest corruption scan- dresses. urban fashion line. Demand was especially ro- just one percent over the third quarter. The US dals of recent years. “Financially these scandals could bust in the key markets of China and North market was particularly disappointing with sales Fraudsters in eastern Europe and else- amount to 80 billion pounds or more in il- America, where sales of the three-striped brand falling by 22 percent. But Rorsted instead there where often channel money through UK- licit wealth, with some of them threatening increased by around a third, Adidas said. was life yet in the brand, and pointed to a col- registered entities because they appear to Chief executive Kasper Rorsted said he was laboration announced Wednesday with British the financial stability of whole economies. many people as more legitimate than tax The human damage inflicted on the victims pleased “with the quality of our growth” as he fashion designer Victoria Beckham as a sign of haven-registered companies, the non-gov- reaffirmed the group’s 2017 outlook. “We deliv- Adidas’ commitment to Reebok. —AFP of these crimes is still being counted,” the ernmental body said. The UK Treasury de- report said. —Reuters 42 Friday Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Predicting NFL is becoming more difficult than forecasting weather

DALLAS: Predicting what’s ahead in an NFL blades of grass under a receiver’s hands as he season is no easier than forecasting the weather. cradles (or doesn’t) a pass - and the NFL rule- Given all the variables, it’s probably harder. The book remains far too complex, officiating will team of September, the Chiefs, went mediocre continue to play a huge role in outcomes of on us in October and early November. Those games. One request: no more reversals like what struggling Patriots who were 2-2 now seem on we saw in Falcons-Lions and Patriots-Jets that course for yet another hosting role in the AFC fans will be questioning into the new year. playoffs. Early season woes for the Giants that were dismissed as temporary have become HOTTER SEATS chronic. That ugly 0-2 start for the Saints has Other than Hue Jackson in Cleveland, the fire turned into a beautiful six-game winning streak. figures to burn very hot under the Buccaneers’ See? No matter. Here are some things to look Dirk Koetter; the Giants’ Ben McAdoo; the Ben- for as we move through gals’ Marvin Lewis, November and December. whose contract is up The NFL this year; the Colts’ MORE QB INJURIES Chuck Pagano, who This has been the over- rulebook could get a pass be- riding story of the season, cause he’s had no, with Aaron Rodgers, Car- remains far ahem, luck with his son Palmer, sensational passer; and possibly rookie Deshaun Watson too complex the Lions’ Jim Caldwell. and Sam Bradford all New York and Detroit going down. Ryan Tan- are among the league’s nehill didn’t even make it biggest underachiev- out of the preseason, and Andrew Luck’s shoul- ers, and that likely won’t change in 2017. der didn’t heal enough after winter surgery for MIAMI: Miami Dolphins running back Damien Williams (26) dives over the goal line to score a him to suit up. Speculating who might be the PASSION IF NOT SKILL touchdown in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders. —AP next quarterback or three who will suffer a It would be difficult to find a club that would major injury is ghoulish. Consider, though, that trade its roster for what the Jets or Bears have. but they sure are pesky. Give tremendous credit EARLY CLINCHINGS nine teams (Tampa Bay, Minnesota, Green Bay, It also would be tough to point out any teams to coaches Todd Bowles and John Fox. And ex- With two highly regarded divisions, the Arizona, Tennessee, Oakland, Houston, Miami that play with more passion and dedication. pect more of the same from both teams the rest AFC West and North, turning soft, watch for and Baltimore) have had to go to backups be- There’s no reason to believe either of them will of the way. the Steelers and Chiefs to be selling playoff cause of injured starters. stop giving their all for 60 minutes. New York is tickets by mid-December. Same for the Patri- 4-5 in a year some projected it wouldn’t win a A TIE OR TWO ots, but that’s a yearly occurrence in the OFFICIATING CONTROVERSY game and was tanking for the top overall draft One thing we’ve learned from the reduced mediocre AFC East. This one is unavoidable, and will occur pick. With any finishing power, the Jets would be overtime period (from 15 minutes to 10) is that a Barring a stunning turnaround, the Ea- weekly. Seems as if no weekend goes by without in the playoff hunt. Chicago is 3-5 despite an tie is hardly unlikely. Indeed, getting more than gles, at 8-1 the league’s top team, will be a pool reporter being sent to talk to game offi- inept passing game, and has beaten Pittsburgh one possession in OT can be problematic. So ex- making postseason plans about a month cials about a decision. As video replay becomes and Carolina. The Bears simply don’t go away. pect at least one deadlock down the stretch, and from now. The Saints, too, if their defense more refined - we can just about count the Maybe they aren’t the Monsters of the Midway, let’s hope it won’t figure into playoff tiebreakers. remains stout. —AP

broken into, and in some cases clean urine used to cover up doping Russian gold medalist was tampered with, revealing unnatural levels of salt and even DNA from the wrong gender. Legkov’s gold medal was a marquee Russian Team Britain has success at the Sochi Olympics, which was a national priority for disqualified for President Vladimir Putin and cost $51 billion to prepare for and host. The cross-country skier won gold in the individual 50-kilome- evacuation plans for Sochi doping ter freestyle race in a Russian podium sweep on the last day of competition. The Russian trio received their medals in the main Pyeongchang Olympics Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony. Legkov had earlier GENEVA: In a landmark verdict that indicates Russia conspired to taken silver in the 4x10-kilometer relay. Legkov said last year he run a doping program at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a cross-country had never failed a doping test, claiming he was tested so often LONDON: British Olympic leaders have plans in place to skier who won a gold medal was disqualified by the IOC on Wednes- evacuate athletes from the 2018 Pyeongchang Games amid that he couldn’t have doped without being caught. “You’d have to day. All results for Alexander Legkov in Sochi were wiped from the be a complete kamikaze to do that in Russia if you’re an athlete heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula. While the record and he was banned for life from attending another Olympics. British Olympic Association is not expecting to have to im- representing our nation,” Legkov said then. A second Russian cross-country skier was also disqualified However, McLaren’s investigation said the Russian doping plement those emergency procedures in South Korea, it is and banned by the International Olympic Committee on Wednes- preparing for the worst-case scenario. Tensions have risen in program was enabled by the country’s government, anti-doping day, while cases implicating 26 more Russian athletes in a Sochi agency and testing labs, plus sports governing bodies. The sec- the region as North Korea has built up its nuclear weapons doping conspiracy are pending. With calls to ban Russia’s team program and has accelerated weapons tests in recent months. ond cross-country skier who was disqualified and banned, from next year’s Pyeongchang Olympics likely to increase, the Evgeniy Belov, did not win a medal. Lawyers for the two skiers Dire threats traded by President Donald Trump and North IOC’s executive board will meet next month to discuss the matter. disputed the IOC panel’s ruling while accepting a doping pro- Korean leader Kim Jong Un have further stoked fears of war, The IOC disciplinary panel did not have a positive doping test gram was in place. “So there is neither Prof. McLaren’s assertion just as South Korea prepares to host its first Olympics since from Legkov but used evidence of cover-ups and tampering of nor proof that individual athletes have really participated in the the 1988 Seoul Games. sample bottles that was first gathered last year by World Anti- system that has undoubtedly existed,” German law firm Wiesche- “The South Koreans have lived with this for 60 years and Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren. “The IOC showed tensions have gone up and down. There seems a higher level its determination to protect clean athletes from the very beginning mann said in a statement. this time obviously,” British Olympic Association chief execu- of the case,” said the Olympic body, whose board meets Dec. 5- Russia’s sports minister during the Sochi Olympics, Vitaly tive Bill Sweeney said Wednesday. “We are working on all 7 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mutko, told the Russian state news agency Tass that the IOC ruling possible contingency plans. The only one you have in the sit- “inspires great alarm and bewilderment.” “The correct and just de- uation of the extreme event you mentioned (about a potential Cover up cision is to file an appeal with CAS (the Court of Arbitration for North Korean attack) is evacuation.—AP The IOC panel did not give details of the evidence Wednesday. Sport),” said Mutko, who is now a Deputy Prime Minister and heads McLaren has said that glass sample bottles were scratched when the organizing committee for soccer’s 2018 World Cup. —AP Friday 43 Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Ball injured as England takes lead over Cricket Australia XI

ADELAIDE: Jake Ball added to England’s pace bowl- ered from some loose overs to take two late wickets ing woes with an ankle injury as the tourists took a in an over before the home side cheekily declared on lead over a Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide yesterday. 233 for nine in reply to the tourists’ 293. The CA XI declared their first innings 60 runs adrift Tim Paine and Simon Milenko struck half-cen- to get in five overs at the tourists under the lights at turies for CA XI. Former Test and one-day interna- Adelaide Oval, but England reached stumps on the tional player Paine, who has failed to feature in second day of the four-day game at five without loss. Tasmania’s Sheffield Shield side this season because Mark Stoneman was not out on four with under of Test incumbent wicketkeeper Matthew Wade’s pressure Alastair Cook on one. Nottinghamshire quick move to the state, combined with Matt Short (45) to Ball appeared to lose his footing in his delivery stride rescue his side from a precarious 57 for five. England and turned his right ankle as he tried to bowl the fifth extended their innings lead by five without loss to ball of his fourth over. Ball collapsed on the pitch and the close with Cook, who has been out cheaply in was surrounded by con- both his innings on tour so cerned team-mates as far, surviving a couple of medics hurried onto the edgy moments. The day- field. He left the ground un- Broad night match is England’s aided and was later diag- pinpoints second of three tour games nosed with a sprained before the first Test against ankle, sitting out the re- Warner as Australia in Brisbane starts mainder of the day’s play to on November 23. have ice treatment. danger man Ball’s setback comes Broad sees Warner after fellow pace bowler as danger man Steven Finn was ruled out of the tour earlier this England paceman Stuart Broad has pinpointed week due to a knee injury, with Tom Curran sched- David Warner as Australia’s danger man in the Ashes ADELAIDE: England’s paceman Jake Ball reacts in pain as he falls on the ground while bowling to Cricket uled to join the tourists today. The England team is series, while admitting a begrudging respect for his Australia XI batsman Jake Carder on the second day of a four-day Ashes tour match. —AFP already without star all-rounder Ben Stokes, who re- aggressive mentality. The pugnacious opener fired mains at home awaiting the outcome of a police in- up the tourists last month by comparing playing vestigation into his involvement in a brawl outside a against England to “war” and said he planned to take he told the Sydney Morning Herald Thursday. drives teams forward,” Broad said of Warner. “He’s Bristol nightclub on September 25. “some sort of hatred” into the Tests, which start in “(But) you have to have a plan B, and with some- one of those blokes who is not that enjoyable to play All-rounder Moeen Ali is also missing the four- Brisbane on November 23. Broad said Warner, one like Warner you have to go to plan B quicker against, but if he’s in your team you love him. “You day match with a side injury. England had a better known for his fiery nature on the field, was a peren- than a lot of other batters.” have characters like that in most successful sports day against the CA XI, with leg-spinner Mason nial danger. While captain Joe Root said before leaving Eng- teams, don’t you? “Someone who if he’s in the field, Crane claiming three for 78 and pacemen James An- “I think someone like Warner you’ve got to try land that Warner’s comparison to war was “extreme”, will stay in the battle, looking someone in the eye all derson and Chris Woakes each snaring two wickets. bowl a lot of balls at him with the new ball, be- veteran Broad acknowledged teams needed charac- the time, keep his bowlers moving ... someone who Crane bowled Will Pucovski with a gem and recov- cause it’s your best chance of getting him out,” ters like him to make them great. “He’s someone that can take the game away from you quickly.” —AFP

It was the first in a series of announcements over Olympic Club gets the next month that fills out the PGA of America’s schedule for its biggest events over the next PGA Championship decade. The PGA Championship still has open- nately, my current custody situation is keeping me ings for 2024 through 2027, with Southern Hills USA hope to end in California,” the 28-year-old said in a statement and Ryder Cup in Tulsa, Oklahoma, taking one of those spots. posted on her Twitter account. “Even though I will A return to Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky not be in Minsk for the final my heart is always with also is expected, along with a return to Quail 17-year Fed Cup my country and my team and I will cheer for them SAN FRANCISCO: The Olympic Club in San Hollow in North Carolina and possibly Aron- from afar.” The US team is made up of world num- Francisco is leaving its US Open heritage to host imink outside Philadelphia. The Ryder Cup goes ber 10 CoCo Vandeweghe, US Open champion the PGA Championship in 2028 and the Ryder to Whistling Straits in 2020 and Bethpage Black title drought Sloane Stephens, Shelby Rogers and Alison Riske. Cup in 2032. The announcement Wednesday in 2024, which leaves a vacancy for 2028. Bevac- American team captain Kathy Rinaldi said she adds to the growing list of major golf events on qua said the PGA of America prefers to have two believed in her team’s prospects in the final. “We’ve the West Coast, which typically have stronger events (PGA Championship and Ryder Cup) MINSK: The United States aim to end their longest selected the players who have been playing for the television ratings because they can be shown in within four years of each other to build energy Fed Cup title drought when they meet a Belarus team team this year and were instrumental in getting the prime time on the East Coast. in the city. Bethpage and Whistling Straits are missing former world number one and two-time Aus- team to the Fed Cup final,” she told Wednesday’s The PGA Championship also is scheduled for hosting both events five years apart. tralian Open champion Victoria Azarenka in this news conference. “This is my A-team, I believe in Harding Park in 2020. The US Open will be held Olympic’s fabled Lake Course will be the weekend’s final. The 17-time champions USA claimed its strength and the work that we have done to get four times in California over the next 10 years - 22nd golf course to host the US Open and the their last title in 2000 and have lost three finals since- this far. “The players really care for each other, so twice at Pebble Beach, once at Torrey Pines and PGA Championship, and the deal with the PGA to France in 2003 and Italy in 2009 and 2010. we are very excited and ready to go. We respect once at Los Angeles Country Club. “For us, it has of America likely signals the end of its US Open This time they are missing the Williams sisters, Belarus, they have a strong, talented team which been a strategic priority to bring more of our history, which dates to 1955 when Jack Fleck de- who have not played in the Fed Cup this season, but have had a great year and reached the final.” events to the West Coast,” Pete Bevacqua, the feated Ben Hogan in a playoff. There have been all the members of American team are ranked higher The USA won their only previous Fed Cup en- PGA of America’s chief executive officer, said in occasions when a US Open course hosted the than Belarus’ top available player, Aryna Sabalenka, counter with Belarus, whitewashing the former So- a telephone interview. “It’s no secret these West PGA and then returned to holding the US Open, who is 78th in the world. Belarus have battled into viet republic 5-0 in the World Group II Coast events perform strongly in television rat- such as Pebble Beach (1977 PGA) and Winged their maiden Fed Cup final but will be without opening-round tie in February, 2012. Belarus team ings being able to show them in prime time.” Foot (1997 PGA). Azarenka because of an ongoing custody battle skipper Eduard Dubrov said he believed that both The USGA was negotiating to bring the US over her baby son. Azarenka was forced to skip the teams had even chance of winning the title. “One Return to Valhalla Open back to Olympic for 2027 when negotia- US Open in August after a Los Angeles judge ruled can consider us to be the final favorites. I have noth- Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry tions stalled. The San Francisco Chronicle re- that 10-month old Leo could not leave California ing against it but we don’t even think about it,” he Bonds brought in the Wanamaker Trophy during ported that disagreements on financial matters, until the case had been settled. said. “We just come onto the court and play. For a press conference at Olympic Club. Bonds was such as the cost to restore the adjacent Ocean “It is heart-breaking for me to not have a chance me it’s really hard to guess which team have the bet- part of the gallery watching Tiger Woods when Course that housed temporary US Open struc- to play and help Belarus in the final but unfortu- ter chance to win.” —AFP the Presidents Cup was at Harding Park in 2009. tures, led to an impasse. —AP 44 Friday Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Celtics roll past Lakers for 10th straight win

BOSTON: Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) goes between Los Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball (2) and Brook Lopez during the fourth quarter of Boston’s 107-96 win. —AP

LOS ANGELES: The injury-riddled Boston Celtics Brandon Ingram scored 18 points for the Lakers, ished with just nine points on four-of-15 shooting PISTONS 114, PACERS 97 won their 10th straight game by cruising to a 107- who were guilty of 21 turnovers. Wednesday also from the field in 39 minutes of playing time. “It’s Tobias Harris scored 23 points and first-place 96 win Wednesday over the Los Angeles Lakers in marked the first pro meeting between Celtics just in my head, to be honest,” said Ball. “I know I Detroit won for the sixth time in seven games, a matchup between two of the NBA’s most storied rookie and third overall pick Jayson Tatum and can shoot the ball.” beating Indiana. Andre Drummond added 14 franchises. Australia’s Aron Baynes scored a career Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball. But the matchup was Ball is also dealing with the recent arrest of his points and 21 rebounds for the Pistons. They lead high 21 points during the game which saw the shortened after Tatum had to leave the game be- younger brother Li Angelo Ball in China on suspi- Cleveland by three games in the Central Division. Celtics compile a 21 point first-half lead before the cause of an ankle problem. cion of shoplifting. Ball doesn’t think the case will Indiana lost its fourth straight. Victor Oladipo led Lakers closed the gap in the third. But Los Angeles The Celtics effectively passed over Ball at the be a distraction for him. “I mean, it’s still my little the Pacers with 21 points, but Indiana has allowed allowed the Celtics to pull away again in the fourth draft by trading down from the number one pick brother. But I got to come out here and play,” he at least 100 points in 10 of 12 games this season. when it mattered most. The 30-year-old Baynes, to get Tatum at number three. The Celtics knew said.The Lakers other point guard is Jordan Clark- The Pacers were without injured big man Doman- who was born in New Zealand but grew up in Tatum was going to be available in that position son who came off the bench to tie for a team high tas Sabonis (bruised right calf). Cairns, Australia, also grabbed eight rebounds and because the Lakers planned to take Ball at number 18 points in just 27 minutes of action. had three assists in front of a crowd of 18,600 at two. Tatum finished with MAGIC 112, KNICKS 99 the Boston Garden. “We have such great creators five points and had one WARRIORS 125, TIM- Nikola Vucevic scored 24 points and Evan on this team,” said Baynes, a member of the Aus- rebound and one assist in BERWOLVES 101 Fournier added 23 to help Orlando beat New York. tralian national team. “I just found myself in the nine minutes during the Klay Thompson scored Jonathon Simmons scored 15 of his 16 points in the right position. I was just trying to make the right first half. He didn’t return We have such 28 points with six 3-point- second half. He had 11 straight points early in the play, and I’m trying to finish as best I could. “It’s a for the second half. ers, Stephen Curry had 22 fourth quarter to push the Magic’s lead back to compliment to the other guys on the team getting The 19-year old Tatum great creators points, eight assists and double figures. The Magic, benefiting from the re- me the ball in great position.” had been given a more on this team eight rebounds, and turn of starting point guard Elfrid Payton, snapped Boston’s Kyrie Irving overcame a poor shooting prominent role because Golden State beat Min- a two-game losing streak. New York, playing with- night to finish with 19 points, six rebounds and five of an opening night injury nesota for its fifth straight out scoring Kristaps Porzingis (ankle and elbow in- assists. But the banged-up Celtics are the hottest to Gordon Hayward. He win. Even without injured juries), had its three-game winning streak come to team in the NBA for a reason. They are getting has responded by aver- Kevin Durant, the defend- an end. Tim Hardaway Jr. led New York with 26 contributions from everyone with different players aging 14.3 points and 6.5 rebounds in his first 11 ing champs began to look like their dominant old points. stepping up each game. On Wednesday it was games. The Celtics, who are already without Hay- selves. Draymond Green posted another all-round Baynes’ turn along with Marcus Morris, who had ward for the season, were also missing Al Horford balanced performance with seven points, six re- HEAT 126, SUNS 115 18 points, and Terry Rozier who added 14 points on Wednesday. He is out with a possible concus- bounds, six assists and two blocks for the Warriors, Former Phoenix guard Goran Dragic scored a and eight rebounds. sion. who played without NBA Finals MVP Durant as he season-high 29 points in the Miami Heat’s 126-115 “Until we have only four (players) left, I guess Point guard Ball was loudly booed during the nursed a bruised left thigh. Andre Iguodala started victory over the Suns on Wednesday night. The we’re just going to keep playing,” Boston coach pre-game introductions and jeered every time he in place of Durant, and the 2015 Finals MVP scored Heat made 12 3-pointers, shot 53.1 percent overall Brad Stevens said. “And then I don’t know what touched the ball. Celtics fans are still upset at his a season-high 11 points. Andrew Wiggins scored 17 and never trailed. Hassan Whiteside added 23 you do at four, but keep playing. “Most impor- father LaVar Ball who said publicly that the points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 16 points and points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots for tantly, and I don’t want to make light, the most im- younger Ball wouldn’t play for the Celtics. Ball’s 12 rebounds as the Timberwolves had their five- Miami. Devin Booker led Phoenix with 30 points. portant (thing) is those guys get back healthy.” shooting woes continued on Wednesday as he fin- game winning streak snapped. The Suns have lost four straight. —AP Friday 45 Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Italy legend Cannavaro returns to Chinese champions Guangzhou

SHANGHAI: Italian World Cup winner Fabio by the Chinese government to improve the for- Cannavaro was named manager of Chinese tunes of the underachieving national side by pro- Super League champions Guangzhou Ever- moting local players. “I am sure that players from grande yesterday, returning to the club that cut Evergrande can not only serve Evergrande, but him loose in 2015. The 44-year-old former Juven- what we hope even more is that they can serve tus and Real Madrid defender, who quit Tianjin the national team,” said Cannavaro, cautioning Quanjian earlier this week, signed a five-year however that would take time. contract and replaces Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari at China’s perennial league winners. Mobbed by fans Cannavaro will be expected to continue Cannavaro, who resigned as Tianjin boss just Guangzhou Evergrande’s domination of the Chi- days after steering them into the Champions nese Super League League for the first time (CSL) — on Saturday in their history, was in they lifted a seventh charge at Evergrande for consecutive league title- seven months to June and inspire them to a 2015. But he was re- third AFC Champions placed by World Cup- League crown. Speaking I said that I will winning coach Scolari at the Italian’s unveiling, after what Cannavaro club boss Xu Jiayin, come back one day described at the time as a China’s richest man, said “consensual resolution” Cannavaro will also be of his contract. Can- GUANGZHOU: This file photo taken on November 4, 2017 shows players of Tianjin Quanjian tasked with fielding a navaro’s abrupt depar- throwing up their head coach Fabio Cannavaro as they celebrate their victory against side of only Chinese players by 2020. ture in 2015 disappointed many Evergrande Guangzhou Evergrande during the Chinese Super League (CSL) football league. — AFP In the summer they lost Brazilian international supporters and he left with the team top of the midfielder Paulinho to Barcelona, but their over- league and in the quarter-finals of the Champions seas contingent still includes three other Brazil- League. League One and then to third in the CSL-and a Tianjin. Two-time former Champions League ians and Colombian striker Jackson Martinez. “I Hundreds of fans had mobbed him at the air- Champions League play-off berth-by beating winners Evergrande reached this season’s quar- am flattered and happy to come back here, I said port as he departed the southern Chinese city. Evergrande 2-1 away on the final day of the sea- ter-finals before being narrowly beaten over two that I will come back one day,” Cannavaro told The Italian former international defender, who son on Saturday. legs by Andre Villas-Boas’s Shanghai SIPG, their the media. “I am excited by Evergrande’s plan in captained his country to World Cup glory in The Tianjin players tossed Cannavaro up in nearest domestic rivals. Cannavaro is among a the next few years and happy to work together 2006, winning FIFA World Player of the Year, the air afterwards in celebration, but speculation trio of big-name Italians coaching in China, with with the club.” next managed for a brief time in Saudi Arabia be- was already swirling that he was poised to leave Fabio Capello at Jiangsu Suning and Marcello Cannavaro said that he was relishing building fore returning to China with ambitious Tianjin. He to go back to Guangzhou. Former Portuguese in- Lippi-formerly in charge at Evergrande-manager a team of homegrown stars, part of a bigger push led them to promotion from China’s second-tier ternational Paulo Sousa replaced Cannavaro at of the national side. — AFP

Kuwaiti players rack up Basketball Association wins in local forms new committee KUWAIT: The Basketball As- tournament sociation formed a five mem- ber committee to run the association during a meeting of KUWAIT: The Kuwait Tennis Association its general assembly that was had recently organized the Kuwait Inter- held yesterday at the Kuwait national Professional Tennis Tournament Olympic Committee premise. organized by and under the supervision The committee includes: of International Tennis Federation (ITF). • Dhari Barjas, chairman of the The tournament included the participa- board tion of a distinguished group of players • Sheikh Ali Al-Khalifa Al- representing 27 countries including Italy, Sabah, Deputy Chairman USA, Russia, France, Switzerland, Zim- • Haitham Baroun, secretary Dhari Barjas babwe, India, Holland, Japan, Germany, • Salem Al-Marta, Treasurer Abdallah Maqdes Mohammad Al-Ghareeb Romania, South Africa, Belgium, Turk- • Ahmad Al-Daihani, member to run the association and call menistan, Uzbekistan, Austria, Bosnia The Public Authority for for elections during a period Herzegovina, Spain, Croatia, Sweden, major part in their win by the score of 7/6 from Spain by the score of 6/3 - 4/6 - sports dissolved the associa- that does not exceed 90 days. Norway, Canada, Turkey, Serbia, Bahrain - 6/3. The Kuwaitis will next meet Roma- (10/6). The Kuwaiti partners will meet the tion a year ago after most of The general assembly saw ten and Lebanon in addition to the host nia’s George Botezanand his partner Gio- tournament’s top ranked team from Aus- the board members resigned. out of 12 clubs attending as country Kuwait. vani Samaha from Lebanon in the quarter tria Maximilian Neuchrist and David Later, it formed a five-member Kuwait, Kazima, Nasr, Su- During the second week of games, finals. Pichler. Elsewhere, Kuwait’s Ali Al-Shatti committee to run it and this laibkhat, Sahel, Jahra, Yarmouk, Kuwait’s Mohammad Al-Ghareeb and Kuwait’s Abdelrahman Mohammad Al- and his partner Essa Qabazard lost to prompted the general assembly Tadamon, Qurain, and Shabab Abdallah Maqdes defeat India’s Lakshit Awadhi and Abdelhameed Mahboub George Botezan and his partner Giovani to interfere and they in turn were present while Al-Qadesya and Chandril Sood. The superior experi- Jumaa defeated Anurag Nenwani from Samaha by the score 2/6 - 2/6. The tour- formed a temporary committee and Arabi were absent. ence of the Kuwaiti players played a India and his partner Jose Vidal Azorin nament will continue until November 19. 46 Friday Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Italy set to face World Cup nightmare against Sweden ‘A World Cup without Italy isn’t a World Cup’ MILAN: For football giants Italy the next few Marcello Lippi with the hope that with their days could be a nightmare as they face a dou- experience, talent and skill they could continue ble-headed playoff against Sweden to avoid the to prevail in years to come. But despite a run humiliation of missing the World Cup for the to the Euro 2012 final they have failed to de- first time in 60 years. “A World Cup without liver consistency on the big stage, although Italy isn’t a World Cup” has become the catch- former Juventus boss Conte led them to the phrase of many Italians-four-time world cham- quarter-finals of Euro 2016 with wins over pions-who are perplexed at how the Spain and Belgium. once-mighty Azzurri have fallen so low. After Conte’s departure for Chelsea the fed- The last time Italy missed the World Cup was eration turned to veteran journeyman Ventura, the 1958 edition which was hosted in Sweden. who had coached clubs in Italy at all levels over “I don’t even consider the idea of not qualifying. 41 years. The 69-year-old has often however ap- We’ll go to Russia for sure,” insisted coach Gian peared overwhelmed by the task, preferring to Piero Ventura, who took over from Antonio stick to his 4-2-4 tactical system to the detriment Conte after the 2016 European Championship. of the creativity of stars such as Marco Verratti, “We’re Italy and missing out on the World Cup Lorenzo Insigne, Ciro Immobile and Andrea Be- is not an option,” added experienced centre- lotti. Confidence took a knock during a tough back Leonardo Bonucci. The playoff puts Italy’s qualifying campaign during which they lost 3-0 proud record of World Cup participation in dan- to Spain, and also struggled past Israel (1-0) and ger. The Azzurri are tied with Germany for most Albania (1-0) while labouring to a dismal 1-1 appearances by a European nation, 18. But Ger- draw at home to Macedonia. many have already made sure of a 19th berth. Italy are also the only one of the eight pre- Buffon record FLORENCE: Italian players run during a training session ahead of Friday’s World Cup play-off vious winners not yet sure of their place in this Italy travel to Sweden for the first leg of soccer match against Sweden, at the Coverciano training center. —AP World Cup. “Italy is Italy and has a particular their playoff today in Stockholm with the return standing in world football. And it’s inevitable leg in front of a sell-out crowd in Milan’s San top scorers among the eight playoff teams, with Pagliuca was injured. Italy were held 1-1 but qual- that they are favorite,” said former Italy inter- Siro on Monday. The four-time winners have 26 goals in 10 games. ified in the return leg. Two decades on Buffon-now national and ex-Manchester City coach missed just two World Cup finals-the first in “They (Sweden) create a sense of fear because the Italy captain and record holder of 173 caps- Roberto Mancini. “It’s sure at 100 percent that 1930 when they chose not to compete and in they always do the same thing but they do it well,” will be hoping his international career does not we’ll be at the World Cup. And historically when 1958 when they did not qualify. But veteran said Buffon, 39, who ironically made his Italy debut end where it began with a playoff. “We mustn’t feel we struggle to qualify then we usually make a goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon-bidding to reach a during their last World Cup play-off 20 years ago the pressure because it won’t help us,” insisted big tournament.” record sixth World Cup finals in Russia-and against Russia. Buffon, then 19, came on as a sub- Buffon. “The important thing is the result is the Italy last won the World Cup in 2006 under Italy’s defense need to beware of Sweden, the stitute under the snow in Moscow after Gianluca same as in 1997.” —AFP

CadenaSer. “Morata is a very good No. 9, as is Spain well-served Rodrigo, and Aspas, and Diego when he is with ensure qualification. A draw will also suffice for us.” Costa’s last game was in the qualifier at ‘Knives to throats’ long-time World Cup absentees Morocco, who with strikers Macedonia, where he scored the winner in the take a one-point Group C advantage over the 2-1 victory. Since then, Spain has outscored op- Ivory Coast to Abidjan. England-born Baxter ponents 15-0 in four games. Morata has three as South Africa was upbeat this week despite a serious of despite goals, including in the decisive 3-0 win against blows, and the 64-year-old insists star-stacked Italy in September. Aspas scored twice as seeks miracle Senegal can be beaten twice. “We have knives Costa’s absence Liechtenstein was routed 8-0 a few days later, to our throats,” he admitted, “but maybe we can and Rodrigo found the net when Albania was sneak into the World Cup through the back MADRID: Spain will remain without Diego beaten 3-0 in October, which secured Spain an- JOHANNESBURG: South Africa coach Stuart door. “There is lots of pressure on Senegal be- Costa at least until next year, and nobody is re- other trip to the World Cup. Baxter says his team have “knives to their cause almost everyone expects them to qualify. ally worried about it. Thanks to a good run by throats” as they attempt an extraordinary qual- They do not want to throw it all away. “We must its deep stock of strikers, La Roja is well-served Attacking options ification for the 2018 World Cup. Bottom-of- replicate the aggression shown in our win over in attack seven months out from the World Cup. The trio has also been thriving with their clubs. the-table Bafana Bafana (The Boys) face Burkina Faso last month,” said Baxter, who Alvaro Morata, Iago Aspas, and Rodrigo all have Morata netted the winner against Manchester Senegal in Polokwane and Dakar between Fri- failed to get South Africa to the 2006 World been in top form, helping to put aside any talk United last weekend, Rodrigo is coming off a run day and Tuesday and must win both matches Cup during a prior spell as coach. about Costa’s absence. of three goals in Valencia’s last three games, and to snatch first place in Group D. Senegal top South Africa have lost two midfielders with Costa has not been called up by coach Julen Aspas netted three times in Celta Vigo’s last two the table with eight points from four matches, Hlompho Kekana pulling out after his mother- Lopetegui since June because he has not played matches. “We are very happy with all the strikers Burkina Faso and Cape Verde have six from in-law died and Thulani Serero shunning a call- competitively since transferring from Chelsea to that we have and when it’s time we will decide five, and South Africa four from four. up because he was not guaranteed a starting Atletico Madrid. The Spanish club is serving a who will be the starter,” Lopetegui says. “And the South Africa and Senegal have an extra place. However, Baxter cheered the arrival at transfer ban from FIFA and can’t register any player who gets to start the first game of the match because the 2-1 win by Bafana last No- training of goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune, two new players until January, so Costa has been World Cup may not be the one who plays in the vember was annulled due to FIFA finding the days after officials said a fractured bone above practicing but can’t play. Lopetegui says he will second game, we will have to wait and see. But Ghanaian referee guilty of “match manipula- his eye would sideline him for six weeks. The not consider bringing back the veteran until he they will all get their chances.” tion”. Africa will send five teams to Russia next 30-year-old long-time star hopes to face the starts playing competitively again. That hasn’t Forwards Vitolo and Jose Callejon were also year and three places are still up for grabs after Senegalese Teranga Lions using a protective been cause for concern. called up by Lopetegui for the friendlies against Nigeria and Egypt secured places last month. mask. Originally doubtful because of a ham- The other forwards have been getting the job Costa Rica on Saturday and Russia on Tuesday. Tunisia hold a three-point lead over the Dem- string injury, star Senegal attacker Sadio Mane done, leading Spain to a World Cup berth with- There are also other attacking options, including ocratic Republic of Congo in Group A and need is now set to play having helped Liverpool tri- out having to go through the playoffs. “We are Marco Asensio, David Silva, Luis Alberto, Saul a draw at home against unpredictable Libya to umph at West Ham last weekend. — AFP very happy,” Lopetegui tells local radio station Niguez, Suso, and Isco. —AP Friday 47 Sports Friday, November 10, 2017 Opportunity knocks for young England and Germany hopefuls

LONDON: With both squads beset by injuries, after long spells on the sidelines. Neither player today’s Wembley friendly between England and has played for Germany since November 2016, Germany represents an opportunity for fringe Gundogan due to a serious knee injury and players and untested youngsters to stake claims Goetze-whose goal against Argentina won the to World Cup places. Harry Kane, Dele Alli and last World Cup-because of a debilitating meta- Raheem Sterling are among the players to have bolic disorder. withdrawn from England’s squad, while world England manager Gareth Southgate’s cup- champions Germany are without Manuel Neuer, board is nowhere near as well stocked, with mid- Jerome Boateng and Thomas Mueller. fielders Adam Lallana, Jordan Henderson, Harry Whilst the fans who Winks and Fabian Delph make their way to Eng- also out of action. South- land’s national stadium gate’s squad already may lament the absences Rubbing their looked inexperienced of so many well-known after he chose to call up stars, the players who re- hands in the uncapped Joe Gomez, main in contention are Ruben Loftus-Cheek and rubbing their hands in anticipation Tammy Abraham. He has anticipation. “I’ve never since been obliged to played there,” said 22- draft in another interna- year-old Germany de- tional newcomer in Burn- fender Niklas Suele, who could partner his Bayern ley’s Jack Cork, with Everton defender Michael Munich club-mate Mats Hummels at centre-back Keane and West Bromwich Albion midfielder in Boateng’s absence. “It’s one of the biggest and Jake Livermore also joining the squad. best stadiums in the world and it would be huge for me to be able to run out there.” ‘The best there is’ Hummels is expected to be fit despite sitting Nevertheless, Southgate always intended to BERLIN: Players jog during a training session of the German national soccer team. —AP out training on Wednesday with a knock, but use today’s game-and Tuesday’s meeting with Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos is doubtful Brazil-to test his options with a view to next we can see what’s possible here. How can we in the build-up to the World Cup. Germany, who due to a gastrointestinal infection. Midfielders year’s World Cup in Russia. “We had to qualify, evolve the team? How can we take it forward?” are unbeaten in 19 games, host France on Tues- Ilkay Gundogan and Mario Goetze are hoping so to fiddle too much with the team and change Neither England nor Confederations Cup cham- day and will play Spain and Brazil in March, to prove themselves worthy of a berth in Ger- the team while you are still having to win is dif- pions Germany are cutting corners when it while a friendly against Italy awaits England in many coach Joachim Loew’s World Cup squad ficult,” he said. “Now we’ve got a phase where comes to the caliber of the teams they will face their first game of 2018. —AFP

Conakry on February 10, 1995 and as a one of the best I’ve worked with in 20 Naby Keita: child used to enjoy kicking anything years of professional football,” enthused round-often with expensive results. Leipzig’s director of football Ralf Rang- Leipzig’s nick. Keita made an immediate impact at Broken lampshades Leipzig, coming off the bench to score Liverpool-bound “I always looked forward to going to the winning goal as his Bundesliga debut Peru’s WC quest the supermarket with my mother,” he told finished with a shock 1-0 victory over midfield engine Bundesliga.com. “There were a lot of Borussia Dortmund. faces Kiwi test round things to play football with. “Un- Alongside playmaker Emil Forsberg, fortunately, there were also things like who set a new German league record of WELLINGTON: High-flying Peru open their World Cup play-off BERLIN: Liverpool-bound Naby Keita lampshades, which got broken. “My mum 17 assists in a season, Keita was out- against New Zealand tomorrow as red-hot favorites to win the has hit the headlines for allegedly using a always says that shopping with me was standing in Leipzig’s midfield as they fin- two-legged tie and end a 36-year absence from football’s show- forged driving license in Germany, but he very expensive.” While still a teenager, he ished second to Bayern Munich. Keita piece tournament. On paper, it should be no contest-”Los Incas” is RB Leipzig’s midfield engine who one left his hometown club of Horoya AC to netted eight goals and provided just as are currently at an all-time high of 10th in the FIFA world rank- day hopes to play for Barcelona. The 22- join FC Istres in 2013 when the club were many assists in his 31 league games last ings, above the likes of England (12), Italy (15) and fellow South year-old box-to-box midfielder was a in France’s second division. season and has so far managed one goal Americans Uruguay (17). key component in Leipzig’s stunning first He netted four goals and provided and assist in his eight Bundesliga games Oceania champions New Zealand lie 112 places beneath them season in the Bundesliga when they seven assists in 23 appearances during in 2017/18. He has never been shy about and no team in play-off history has overcome such a ranking dis- briefly kept Bayern Munich off top spot an impressive Ligue 2 campaign which his ambitions. crepancy to reach the World Cup. But Peru suffered a major blow before finishing second in the 2016/17 attracted the attention of Austrian out- “I wish for good health, that I am the in the lead-up to the first leg in Wellington when goal-scoring tal- campaign. fit Red Bull Salzburg in 2014. The move best African footballer in the world and isman Paolo Guerrero of Brazilian giants Flamengo was sus- He has had a tough start to this season yielded five titles as he helped the club that I play one day for Barcelona,” he told pended over an “abnormal result” from a drugs test. following the August announcement that win the Austrian league and cup dou- the RB Salzburg’s club magazine before They also face a potentially tricky opponent in New Zealand, he will join Liverpool for 2018/19. Keita ble in 2014/15 and again in 2015/16, his move to Germany. Keita is a central with skipper Winston Reid (West Ham) marshalling the defence was sent off three times in seven games when he picked up the Austrian Bun- midfielder comfortable in either half of and striker Chris Wood (Burnley) looking to continue his fine form for club and country including a yellow- desliga’s Player of the Year award. All the pitch. He does not shy away from in the English Premier League. The physical All Whites want to red in the German Cup, second round, five trophies were achieved while he crunching tackles or fulfilling his midfield avoid conceding away goals at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium, defeat at home to Bayern Munich last was still just 21. duties and is popular with team mates. piling further pressure on a young Peru team already shouldering month. He also fell offside with German He made his debut for Guinea in 2014 “Naby is friendly and approachable. It’s a huge weight of expectations. police when it emerged at the weekend with a goal against Mali and he helped his hard not to get along with him,” said The South Americans have not qualified for a World Cup since that he is accused of forgery after twice country reach the quarter-finals of the Rangnick. His arrival at Anfield will see 1982 and President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski made it clear when using a fake Guinea licence in his at- 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. Keita’s im- him fight with Emre Can, Gini Wijnaldum the team left for New Zealand that they were carrying the dreams tempts to obtain a German driving per- pressive two-year spell in Austria saw and Jordan Henderson for a place in Liv- of a football-mad nation. “We are all warriors and we are going mit. He is appealing a reported fine of him move for 2016/17 to newly-promoted erpool’s midfield when Jurgen Klopp-one to win,” he told the players. “I know that Peru will win and I am 415,000 euros (£366,731, $480,009). RB Leipzig, despite admiring glances of Keita’s many admirers-finally gets his here to wish them all the best. —AFP Keita was born in Guinea’s capital from some of Europe’s top clubs. “He’s wish to bring him to Merseyside. —AFP Established 1961 h i il i h bi lf

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