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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 MUHARRAM 1, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net

MoI draws plan to protect Min 20º mosques during Muharram Max 35º High Tide 00:40 & 12:53 Hundreds held in crackdown • ‘Butcher’ busted • Jail beating refuted Low Tide 04:52 & 17:40 40 PAGES NO: 17007 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior has set a plan to safe- guard mosques and husseiniyas with the start of the month of Muharram, Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al- Fahd said yesterday. The plan aims to protect lives and valuables as well as to ensure the safety of all worship- pers, “which we refuse to compromise in any way”, a state- ment by the ministry quoted Fahd as saying. “Diligent efforts on the part of security forces are key to the success of this plan,” the undersecretary noted. Moreover, Fahd underscored the need of diligence and cooperation between government bodies to ensure that the plan goes off without a hitch. Meanwhile, a comprehensive security inspection cam- paign in various governorates resulted in arresting 417 people, including eight wanted for criminal cases, 53 wanted for civilian claims, 56 absconders, 187 for not holding IDs, seven for drug possession, eight for alcohol possession, 83 with expired residency visas and 14 want- ed people, in addition to filing 776 traffic tickets. Also, a ‘butcher’ was arrested for collecting dead sheep from the desert, cleaning them at his house and selling them, said security sources. KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd holds a security meeting yesterday. (Right) Residents board a police bus during a nationwide crack- Separately, the interior ministry’s relations and security down yesterday. — MOI media department yesterday strongly denied social media rumors about a central prison inmate who was PAGE PAGE beaten. It explained that during a routine inspection last Senior people given Liverpool move second, Tuesday, prison authorities found some illegal items in the prisoner’s possession and confiscated them, after tak- proper care: Subaih Chelsea back on track ing standard measures followed to deal with the smug- gling of illegal items into prison. White House race hits new low Trump drags sex scandals into campaign

WASHINGTONA: Donald Trump indicated in an interview posted late Friday. in a new interview that he’s ready to drag He added: “Hillary Clinton was married Duterte defiant ex-president Bill Clinton’s sex scandals into to the single greatest abuser of women in the White House campaign, after the history of politics,” referring to Bill over call to kill Democrats lashed out at the billionaire’s Clinton (president 1993-2001). “Hillary was Twitter rant against a pro-Hillary ex-Miss an enabler, and she attacked the women 3m drug dealers Universe. Trump told The New York Times who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I that he believes talking about the sex scan- think it’s a serious problem for them, and MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dals that stained the career of Hillary’s hus- it’s something that I’m considering talking refused to back down yesterday over his stated band Bill would turn female voters away about more in the near future,” he told the desire to slaughter millions of people, as global con- from her. “She’s nasty, but I can be nastier newspaper. demnation built against him likening his crime war than she ever can be,” Trump told the Times Continued on Page 13 with Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews. Duterte on Friday drew parallels with the Nazi’s mass murder of Jews and his anti-drug crackdown, which has left more than 3,000 people NEW DELHI: Indian workers from the eastern state of Bihar gather in a hotel on Sept 29, dead and raised con- 2016 after they were repatriated by the Indian government from Saudi Arabia. — AFP cerns about the rule of law crumbling in the Indian migrants return chaotic Asian democracy. Facing a fierce inter- national backlash, home, recall nightmare Duterte’s spokesman released a statement NEW DELHI: They left India for Saudi die” by their employer Saudi Oger, the Rodrigo Duterte Arabia with big dreams, but have once-mighty firm led by Lebanon’s bil- insisting the president returned with only harrowing tales after lionaire former prime minister Saad Hariri. did not want to be com- an oil price slump threw the economy The company, which at one time had pared with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler but confirmed into turmoil, leaving thousands of poor some 50,000 workers on its payroll, was he was prepared to kill three million people in his migrant laborers stranded. The workers hit by a drop in income from its core con- crime war. “We do not wish to diminish the pro- from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the struction business after Saudi Arabia found loss of six million Jews in the Holocaust,” Philippines were left destitute, without delayed or cancelled projects in the face presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a enough money to get home or even to of plummeting oil revenues. “They closed statement. “The president’s reference to the buy food after losing their jobs. This week down the mess (canteen) suddenly. For slaughter was an oblique deflection of the way he around 40 workers from the impover- three days we did not have even water to has been pictured as a mass murderer, a Hitler, a ished east Indian state of Bihar finally drink. label he rejects.” Continued on Page 13 GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan: US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrived home with stories of being “left to Continued on Page 13 pays his respects at former US President Gerald Ford’s tomb on Friday. — AFP Aleppo hospital hit, army presses assault ALEPPO: The largest hospital in rebel-held east gency cases” when the bombardment began. Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that “the sys- Aleppo was bombed yesterday for the second SAMS radiologist and hospital administrator tematic targeting of structures and health time in days as Syrian government forces Mohammad Abu Rajab made an urgent call for workers is particularly unjustifiable”. pressed a Russian-backed offensive to retake help on Saturday morning from inside M10. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council the entire city. Aleppo, once Syria’s vibrant “The hospital is being destroyed! SOS, every- urged the UN Security Council to “immediately commercial powerhouse, is now at the heart of one!” he said in an audio message distributed intervene to stop the aggression against a major military campaign by President Bashar to journalists. M10 had already been hit on Aleppo”. The World Health Organization has Al-Assad’s fighters and his steadfast ally Wednesday along with the second-largest hos- called Syria the most dangerous place in the Moscow. The offensive, announced on pital in the area, known as M2. That bombard- world for health workers, and Aleppo in partic- September 22, has seen dozens of civilians ment heavily damaged the two facilities and ular has seen much of its medical infrastructure killed and residential buildings flattened in the left only six fully-functional hospitals in the destroyed or heavily damaged. Since fighting east, where an estimated 250,000 people live city’s east, according to SAMS. first broke out there in 2012, Aleppo has been under government siege. At the bombed hospital, an AFP journalist divided by a front line between rebel forces in As the situation for civilians grows increas- saw bloodstained hospital beds and dented the east and government troops in the west. ingly dire, the largest hospital in east Aleppo equipment lying in disarray beneath blown-out After the government launched its offensive was hit by barrel bombs, the medical organiza- windows. “A new barrel bomb fell this after- last month, more than 220 people have been tion that supports it said. “Two barrel bombs hit noon in front of the hospital, forcing medical killed by bombardment on Aleppo’s east, the M10 hospital and there were reports of a staff... to evacuate all patients to another one including six children and 12 other civilians on cluster bomb as well,” said Adham Sahloul of and leave the hospital,” a doctor at M10 told Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). AFP. European Parliament president Martin Human Rights. In west Aleppo, rebel rocket fire KAFR BATNA, Syria: A Syrian man carries the body of a girl following an air strike Sahloul said a small group of patients and doc- Schulz called the hospital bombing a “war killed 15 civilians and wounded 40 on Friday, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on tors “were inside the hospital for basic triage, crime”. “Intl community must unite to prevent state television reported. Friday. — AFP bandaging, and cleaning services for emer- city annihilation,” he tweeted. French Foreign Continued on Page 13 LOCAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir was received at the airport by His Highness KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir is being received by National Assembly KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir is being received by Sheikh Nasser Al- the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.—KUNA Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim. Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Amir returns home from US visit

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh recently held at the United Nations. His Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier, Minister of Amir’s Office Ahmad Fahad Al-Fahad, Advisor Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, accom- Highness the Amir was received at the airport Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Finance and Acting Oil Minister Anas Al- at the Amiri Diwan Mohammad Abdullah panied by Deputy Chief of the National Guard by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Saleh, besides senior state officials. Abu Alhasan, Chief of the Amiri Diwan Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir’s accompanying Protocols Sheikh Khaled Al-Abdullah Al- and his official delegation, arrived back home Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim, sen- Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh delegation comprised Advisor at the Amiri Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah and head of the from the US after leading a Kuwait’s delega- ior sheikhs, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah and Deputy Premier and Diwan Sheikh Fahad Saad Al-Abdullah Al- Media and Cultural Affairs at the Amiri Diwan tion to the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Salem Al-Sabah, Director of His Highness the Yusuf Hamad Al-Roumi.—KUNA

Half of men living in Kuwait cannot local spotlight identify prostate cancer symptoms Issue of parentage and citizenship Survey underlines need for more education on prostate cancer

KUWAIT: The Patient Helping Fund Society or holding back urine, weak or interrupted important for men to learn about both East,Samer Al-Hallaq, said: “AstraZeneca is together with global biopharmaceutical flow of urine and painful or burning urina- non-aggressive, slow-growing forms of delighted to be supporting Patient Helping company, AstraZeneca, have launched a tion.” prostate cancer and aggressive forms of Fund Society to increase awareness of nationwide appeal for all men in Kuwait to “More often than not however, it’s not this disease through conversations with prostate cancer throughout September educate themselves on prostate cancer fol- until the more advanced stages of the dis- their doctors,”Dr. Al-Sharhan said. with the ‘Protect What’s Precious’,” he said. lowing alarming survey results which ease that symptoms begin to surface. That’s “Unfortunately the survey found that “We aim to encourage men to become By Muna Al-Fuzai revealed 56 percent were unable to cor- why it’s important for men to also learn men avoided visiting their doctor because more aware and understand the need for rectly identify the symptoms of the disease. about the risk factors of prostate cancer 54 percent believe they could fix the issue early detection.” With September marking prostate can- and ensure they are regularly visiting their themselves and 22 percent because they cer awareness month across the globe, The GP so they remain one step ahead.” are too busy but regularly going to the 5 THINGS MEN SHOULD LEARN Patient Helping Fund Society and According to the Prostate Cancer doctor is extremely important and even if ABOUT PROSTATE CANCER AstraZeneca are working together through Foundation, the older you are, the more you feel fine, you should still see your doc- 1. Prostate cancer is the second most [email protected] their ‘Protect What’s Precious initiative’ to likely you are to be diagnosed with tor for check-ups. These visits can help you common cancer in men and the second encourage men to take the time to speak prostate cancer. Although only 1 in 10,000 avoid or better treat problems in the leading cause of cancer death in men he issue of the children of Kuwaiti women men under age 40 will be diagnosed with future.” worldwide. to their doctor throughout the month and married to non-citizens has been a matter of learn about the symptoms and risks of the prostate cancer, the rate shoots up to 1 in “We hope these survey results can help 2. Prostate cancer can occur at any age, concern for a long time. This topic is an old second leading cause of cancer death in 38 for ages 40 to 59, and 1 in 14 for ages 60 men and their family realize the impor- although men 65 years and older are at T men worldwide. to 69. Race and family history of prostate tance of regularly visiting their doctor and higher risk. one, but sensitive too. It has turned into a ticking Chairman of Patients Helping Fund cancer can also affect a man’s risk in devel- staying informed so they can take control 3. Men with a family history of prostate time bomb over the failure to reach a solution Society, Dr Mohammad Al-Sharhan, said oping the disease. of their health and avoid unnecessary risks,” cancer have an increased risk of developing that treats these women fairly and clearly, once the nationwide survey, which was commis- The survey results also highlighted the he added. Patient Helping Fund Society cancer. The closer the relation, the higher and for all. sioned by AstraZeneca Gulf, involved more fact that there was little awareness of launched its partnership with AstraZeneca the chances. We know that wives and children usually follow than 250 people in Kuwait and highlighted prostate cancer screening options, with 84 Gulf in June this year with the aim to 4. Obesity and smoking is linked to a the name and nationality of the husband, but in the need for more education on prostate percent of respondents admitting they increase awareness and education of all higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer. Kuwait, this subject has become complicated to cancer. were unaware screening existed. cancers in Kuwait through the campaign 5. Symptoms of prostate cancer include: the point where some MPs and activists are call- “We all know that education and aware- Although recommendations on prostate ‘Protect What’s Precious’ which aims to aid * A need to urinate frequently, especially ing to amend the Kuwaiti nationality law, like ness is vital for an early diagnosis and suc- cancer screening can vary, screening can in early detection and successful prognosis at night some Arab countries that allow women to grant cessful prognosis of any disease but this is help identify cancer early on when treat- of the disease. During prostate cancer * Difficulty starting urination or holding citizenship to their children. Some women resort especially true with prostate cancer. When ment is most effective. A normal PSA test, awareness month, Patient Helping Fund is back urine to divorcing their non-Kuwaiti husbands to obtain it is diagnosed early, the five-year survival combined with a digital rectal exam, can encouraging all men to start regularly visit- * Weak or interrupted flow of urine Kuwaiti citizenship for their children. This is the rate of prostate cancer is almost 100 per- help reassure you that it’s unlikely you have ing their doctor to learn more about the * Painful or burning urination prejudice suffered by Kuwaiti women married to cent3, that’s why the survey results are so prostate cancer. Screening is something disease and avoid unnecessary health risks * Blood in urine foreigners, compared to Kuwaiti men married to concerning,” Dr Al-Sharhan said. men between 40-70 years old should also in the future. * Frequent pain or stiffness in the lower non-Kuwaiti women. “Symptoms of prostate cancer can discuss with their doctor. Speaking on its recent collaboration back, hips, or upper thighs. There are plenty of defenders of the rights of include a need to urinate frequently, espe- “One in seven men will be diagnosed with Patient Helping Fund Society, Area Speak to your GP to find out about oth- Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaitis, because Vice President for AstraZeneca Middle er prostate cancer symptoms. cially at night, difficulty starting urination with prostate cancer in their lifetime, so it is they see it as unjust that a woman can’t give Kuwaiti nationality to her children, who are forced Kuwait delegation in the Hague to take the nationality of the father. The problem Ministry combating is compounded when the husband is a stateless BRUSSELS: A delegation of Kuwaiti held constructive discussions with Ronny person (bedoon). lawyers and legal personnel from the Abraham, the chief judge of the I really wonder why these women do not unjustified price Chamber of Industry and Commerce has International Court of Justice, and a num- accept reality and the nationality of their chosen visited headquarters of the Permanent ber of judges, focusing on mutual coopera- husbands. I frankly believe that marital partner- hikes: Al-Shemali International Criminal Court in The Hague, tion and prospects of Kuwait’s employment ship means acceptance of each party as they are getting acquainted with latest applied of the judges’ expertise. and who they are, whether over nationality or By A Saleh added that distribution of the cards would technologies and mechanisms in interna- The 20-member delegation of Kuwaiti position. resume Monday, and strongly denied sell- tional criminal judicial tasks. attorneys and legal figures, during the There are calls for amending Article 2 of the cit- KUWAIT: Ministry of Commerce and ing any of these cards, warning that doing Tareq Al-Shmaimri, counselor at the week-long visit which concluded on izenship law to stipulate that a Kuwaiti citizen is Industry Undersecretary Khaled Al- so would be illegal. State of Kuwait’s Embassy and head of the Friday, attended a trial session and met someone who is born in Kuwait or abroad to a Shemali stressed that the ministry is com- financial panel of the international tribunal, the dean of Leiden Law School of Leiden Kuwaiti father or a Kuwait mother. I believe this is bating unjustified price hikes, considering Smuggling attempt told KUNA yesterday that the delegation University. —KUNA difficult to achieve on the ground and under the it as a crime committed against all con- Cairo airport customs foiled an attempt current Kuwaiti demographics. Some state the sumers. Shemali explained that well-stud- to smuggle rare stuffed animals to Kuwait. success of some Arab legislation that allow ied prices set according to international women to naturalize their sons, like in Egypt, but pricing and costing methods are accept- Foodstuff monitoring the laws in the Gulf states, for example, do not able and are being closely followed up by Municipality Director Ahmed Al- allow this. Defenders of these laws claim that special committees. Manfouhi strongly denied the presence of amending them to keep up with social changes is any foul food items including pork and Afia cards stressed that all foodstuff imported in not a sufficient or logical reason. MoH’s official spokesperson Dr Ahmed Kuwait is meticulously examined to make It is natural that a citizen receives privileges in Al-Shatti announced delivering 9,100 ‘Afia’ sure it is hygienic and safe. Mubarak Al- his homeland, and this is not prejudice, because cards to retirees covered by the new Kabeer municipality inspected stores and naturalization involves material concessions, health insurance system till Thursday restaurants at Qurain markets and co-ops, especially in the GCC. But for some to seek divorce night. Shatti added that the Afia care cen- which resulted in confiscating and in Kuwait and then remarry outside the county to ter received over 4,075 calls from citizens, destroying 72 kg of chocolate, pastries, avoid registering and documenting the marriage which indicates positive interactions from biscuits and sweets, in addition to filing 55 to ensure the naturalization of the children is citizens inquiring about the system. Shatti citations. BRUSSELS: The delegation meets with the chief judge of the International Court of unacceptable in my opinion. Justice Ronny Abraham.—KUNA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 LOCAL

Frankly Speaking Is intelligence a blissful realm?

Jeri Al-Jeri

imilar to the concept of heaven in all the religions, paradise can only be a blissful realm in which all Sone’s wishes are granted to him, at no expense of any of his resources, not to mention his time nor his will power! Such a place, is to die for. But away from the reli- giosity of this age of old concept of paradise, how can we relate it to worldly intelligence? And how much of a para- dise can we engineer in this worldly life? KUWAIT: The at-grade road opening starts from the Ali Al-Sabah Academy, and extends to the roundabout at the intersection of the Mohammad Bin Al-Qasim Street in both Intelligence gave us medical advancements, astrologi- directions. cal and subatomic measurements, linguistically gram- mar, and the joy of literature. As well as the facilitation of wealth circulation among satisfied societies, as it should. Any thinker realizes that intelligence reduces the expens- es of our time and resources in our way to obtain what- Service road on Jahra ever it is that we desire, however there are a more illuso- ry meanings that might not be obvious for most thinkers, such as the invisibility of heaven itself to whom are not “meant” to be in it. There is a vast array of meanings that might not be very obvious to everyone. What are these project opens partially meanings? To what degree can intelligence make our life heavenly? Neurons, brain cells, fire electrochemical signals to each other in order to communicate bits of information Ministry issues advisory for road users that are observed by our senses or computed mentally, “figuring things out”. The bigger the network of neurons KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works partial openings of both elevated and the more “enlightened” the person is. Case in point, the announced yesterday another partial service roads witnessed recently on this more complex and abundant the networks are about a service road opening on the Jahra Road project contributes to the on-going particular field of knowledge the happier the brain is and Development Project. The at-grade road improvement of traffic patterns in the the deeper a state of “flow” is reached, because none of opening starts from the Ali Al-Sabah surrounding areas. With a major open- all the neurons can activate a communicational process Academy, and extends to the round- ing expected soon, a significant without both the secretion and the observation of a list of happiness hormones, such as the famous dopamine about at the intersection of the improvement will be felt by all road and the less acknowledged, serotonin; not to mention Mohammad Bin Al-Qasim Street, in both users.” the rest of the list of “life is sweet “ hormones that are directions. “The Ministry of Interior and the secreted during all positive cognitions. We can only spec- The entrance to Jahez Street will be General Directorate of Traffic have been ulate how a 30 years old career in writing or surgery or temporarily closed, and road users working closely with us, and inspections even cuisines, washes our brain with these hormones, going to the hospital area will need to have been carried out to ensure that all lifting the spirits to an kind of paradise that is simply use the alternative road through the safety standards and necessary opening unimaginable for whom are not “enlightened” by this Islamic Medicine Center (IMC). However, procedures have been met. As always, unknown circuitries. However, how can we relate the for those wanting to exit onto Jahra we seek to ensure minimal disruption, concept of paradise with the notion of time and reservoir Road from the hospital area can do so and the opening will take place during of will power? using Jahez Street. low periods of traffic. We ask the public Engineer at the Jahra Road 8.0 km of ramps), including a trough at Humanity’s first heart catheterization was in Al- Engineer Ahmad Al-Hassan, the to be cautious when using the new Development Project. This mega project the 2nd Ring Road intersection, 10 Andalus, by the surgeon Abu-Kasim Al-Zahrawi in 8th Assistant Undersecretary for Road roads as openings and changes have an involves the construction of 17.7 km of pedestrian bridges, and service roads. century. It was time consuming compared to the Kuwaiti Engineering Sector at the Ministry of effect on the flow of overall traffic pat- viaducts (7.3 km of mainline Jahra Road, The Jahra Road project also includes Professor Ibrahim Al-Rashdan’s CMT method, Carina Public Works, commented: “The series of terns,” added Yasser Boudastour, Project 2.4 km of bridges on linked roads and major utilities relocation works. Modification Technique, which dramatically decreases the catheterization period, this exemplifies how the advancement of intelligence brings us closer to the instant satisfaction of the heavenly life. Plus, what FM discusses situation in Aleppo with Arab officials defines paradise is, security. Being safe for as long as pos- sible from suffering or “penance”. How much of this quali- KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and an situation in Syria’s Aleppo, and to kidney failure and illnesses. Maha Al- The KRCS has been involved, since ty we need? Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled make necessary appeals to the interna- Barjas, the KRCS General Secretary, said flare-up of the Syrian crisis, in various Wise men are thought to be reserved characters, Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday had con- tional community and humanitarian in a statement to KUNA that the new humanitarian activities to help the Syrian restrained from all worldly forums of indulgence, abstain- tacts with Egyptian Foreign Minister organizations. stage, due for six months, would get refugees, estimated at 1.5 million. ing from evil, in modern terms, costs and negatives. The wise, will not eat nor drink to harm himself , such MSG’s, Sameh Shukry, GCC Secretary-General The Foreign Ministry said in a state- underway early next month. Meanwhile in Lebanon’s eastern aspartame products such sodas and junk foods, securing ment yesterday it had also called for an The Kuwait Red Crescent, in coordina- Bekaa valley, a team of the Kuwait Abdul-Latif Al-Zayani, Arab League’s his physiological and psychological serenity. Keeping Secretary-General Ahmad Abul-Gheit urgent and extraordinary meeting of the tion with the Lebanese Red Cross, Medical Association conducted on Friday away from bad social groups, and managing his wealth in and Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation launched the project to provide medical a number of surgeries for Syrian a way that optimizes the use of his earnings, regardless of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the level of delegates. Kuwait’s aid for the Syrian refugees suffering from refugees. The association chairman, Dr. all the temptations. From fires and caves, to heaters and (OIC) Iyad Madani. During the calls, they permanent delegate at the Arab League, kidney problems more than two years Mohammad Al-Mutairi, told KUNA that air-conditions, from scrolls to Google, from pigeons to discussed the current deteriorating and its Consul in Jeddah and delegate at ago. Meanwhile, the manager of the the team would also carry out cardiac twitter, from ghost folklore to psychiatric therapy, and humanitarian situation in Syria’s Aleppo, the OIC have started relevant procedures state-run hospital in the northern city, Dr operations. Dr. Khaled Al-Sehlawi, mem- from smoke signals to Kuwait Times, intelligence is ‘para- and how to coordinate efforts in order to in this regard. Khaled Kamal Eddine, said the KRCS aid ber of the association, said a number of disical’. In conclusion, the age old concept of paradise of resolve it. depicted the great message by the State ill children and elderly were examined in the hereafter, in all religions is conceptualized as a pleas- Kuwait also called for an urgent and Kidney patients of Kuwait, explaining that the assistance the refugees’ camps and were given the urable realm of desires automatically and instantly met, extraordinary meeting of the Arab Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) is included various equipment and devices needed treatment. The association without costs nor worries of any ills. Such a place can be League at the level of delegates in order launching a new phase in its campaign necessary for treating the kidney humanitarian campaign proceeds for found on earth in its more limited version. The more intel- to discuss the deteriorating humanitari- to treat Syrian refugees suffering from patients. three days. —KUNA ligent we are, the closer we will be. Knowledge is light.

KUWAIT: Passengers being rescued from the wreckage of a car yesterday. Firemen rescue six men from vehicle wreckage By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: Six people were trapped inside a vehicle when it News turned over in an accident along Airport Road, said securi- I n b r i e f ty sources, noting that firemen rushed to the scene and had to cut open the wrecked car to free the injured and KPC announces LPG prices for Oct send them to hospital. KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced Subhan fire: Fire broke out in a restaurant in Subhan, new prices of liquefied petroleum (LPG) for the month of said security sources. Firemen found that the fire started in October. The price of propane will be sold at $340 per the restaurant’s chimney. No casualties were reported. meteric ton; butane will be sold at $370 per meteric ton, Family rescued: A Kuwaiti family was rescued when their KPC said in a statement on Friday. Propane or butane are vehicle got swamped on Khwaisat’s muddy beach. flammable mixtures of hydrocarbon gases; they are used Jabriya fire: A fire broke out in a first-floor Jabriya apart- as fuel in heating appliances, cooking equipment, and ment, said security sources. The building was evacuated vehicles. Prices of liquefied gases are affected by interna- and the fire was controlled without any casualties. tional oil prices, the performance of the US dollar against Wanted Arabs arrested: Kuwait Interpol officials arrested other main currencies, natural disasters, economic crises four wanted Arabs based on requests from their respective and geopolitical factors. countries’ Interpol offices. Security sources said the sus- pects included a Saudi wanted for bribery, two Egyptians sentenced to life and another Egyptian sentenced to 15 Kuwaiti Gen visits exhibition in Baku years in prison for rape. MOSCOW: Commander of the Kuwaiti Ground Forces Caught with weapons: A citizen was arrested with unli- Maj Gen Sheikh Khaled Saleh Al-Sabah on Friday visit- censed weapons, ammunition and drugs, said security ed the 2nd Azerbaijan International Defence Exhibition sources. in Baku. Speaking to KUNA, Kuwaiti Ambassador in Expat arrested: A 54-year-old unemployed Iranian was Baku Saud Abdulaziz Al-Roumi said. Sheikh Khaled arrested for stealing the contents of vehicles after closely Saleh Al-Sabah and his accompanying delegation were watching owners who had withdrawn money from the impressed by the highly-organized exhibition and mili- bank. tary equipment and technology put on display. LOCAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

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KUWAIT: A view of the Kuwait Scientific Center from the sea. —KUNA KFH takes part in 5th Youth Empowerment Symposium Sheikh Salman inaugurates Tamkeen symposium

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) took them to benefit from the projects and ideas Islamic products and services, not to mention a part in the inaugural ceremony of the 5th presented in the symposium. In addition, it high standard of innovation and client service. youth empowerment symposium as part of its grants them the opportunity to listen to suc- KFH manages its operations in the GCC, 5th consecutive year of partnership with cess stories of local and global figures who con- Asia, and Europe through over 446 branches, Tamkeen. tribute to add a lot to the youth by providing including KFH-Turkey, in order to offer services Minister of Information and Minister of them with outstanding ideas and experiences. for the bank’s clients in Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi State for Youth Affairs in Kuwait Sheikh Salman Tamkeen is deemed as one of the significant Arabia, Bahrain, Germany, Jordan, and Dubai. Al-Homoud inaugurated the Tamkeen sympo- youth initiatives in Kuwait that aims at invest- KFH’s mission is to achieve highest levels of sium in assurance of the commitment towards ing in the youth and helps them to build a excellence and innovation in the field of client supporting the national youth and sponsoring promising future by organizing forums and service, while developing common interest for their projects and activities as they are major conferences that include elite group of lectur- all those concerned with the financial institu- pillars for the future development. ers from different nationalities. tion. KFH’s vision is to spearhead the global KFH affirmed its commitment to assume the KFH was established in Kuwait in 1977 and is development in Islamic financial services, and social responsibility and support the youth. The enlisted in the Kuwait Stock Exchange. KFH to upgrade the bank into the level of becom- bank underlines the importance of the sympo- Group is a global pioneer in the field of Islamic ing the most sustainable profitable Islamic sium as it hones the youths’ skills by enabling banking services, where it offers a wide array of bank in the world. KFH PR team with Sheikh Salman Al-Homoud.

KUWAIT: The Charge d’ Affaires of the United States of America Joey R Hood hosted a welcome reception to officially introduce Press New Kuwaiti envoy Attache Heather Ward and Cultural Attache Dr Zennia Paganini on Wednesday at the Radisson Blu Hotel. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat presents credentials to Belgian FM BRUSSELS: Kuwait’s new ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, Jasem Mohammad Al-Budaiwi, met here Thursday the Head of Protocol at the Belgian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Francoise Gustin and handed her over a copy of his credentials, according to a Kuwait embassy statement here. Ambassador Al-Budaiwi asserted during the meeting the deep relationship between the two countries and the special ties between the two Royal families of the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Belgium. He also stressed that the fifty years of diplomatic relations between the two countries reaffirmed a great friendship which brought the two countries closer together and greater coordination at the bilat- eral and multilateral levels. From her side, Ambassador Gustin welcomed Ambassador Al- Budaiwi to Belgium and affirmed Belgium’s commit- ment to deepen its ties with the State of Kuwait. She also recalled King Philippe’s former visit to Kuwait where he headed a number of economic delegations, noted the statement. Al-Budaiwi who previously was Kuwait’s ambassa- dor in South Korea arrived in Brussels only on Wednesday to take up his new post in the Belgian capital. —KUNA LOCAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

KUWAIT: Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Al-Sabeeh attends ‘International Day of Older Persons’ ceremony.—KUNA Senior people are given proper care: Al-Subaih

KUWAIT: Senior people are given proper non-Kuwaitis. There are a set of strict rules care in all aspects of their lives, Minister of and regulations to accept elders at the Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih home care service, the Minister pointed stressed yesterday. out, explaining that her Ministry does not Al-Subaih, who is also Minister of State encourage tearing families apart. However, for Planning and Development, made this if seniors do not have proper care at home, statement to mark “International Day of the Ministry is obligated to provide the Older Persons;” a holiday that raises aware- best services for them and the best staff to ness about issues affecting the elderly. look after them. According to statistics made by the senior In 1991, the United Nation General care administration at the Ministry last Assembly decided to mark October 1 as month, the number of senior citizens who International Day of Older Persons to raise benefited from mobile care amounted to awareness on the essential requirements 3,219, including 918 males and 2,301 for the well-being of older persons. KUWAIT: The National Guard Deputy Commander Lt General Hashim Abdul Razzaq Al-Refa’e received at his office the National females. According to the UN latest statistic, almost Guard Operations Commander Brigadier, Bader Abdullah Hamad and the Protection Brigade Commander, Brigadier Hamad Senior home care services, meanwhile, 700 million people are now over the age of Salem Ahmed. He honored them for their sincere efforts upon instructions from HH the Amir and commander in chief of Kuwait sponsored 30 elders, 16 Kuwaitis and 14 60. —KUNA Armed forces.

Call to reinforce monitoring of cardiovascular health World Heart Day 2016

KUWAIT: The World Heart Federation Global preventing premature deaths by taking interventions Policy Call The World Heart Federation calls some key steps toward better surveillance of l To support evidence-based advocacy, on all governments to implement reliable their populations policy development and coordinated action and fit for purpose surveillance and moni- Dr Mohammed Al-Jarallah Director and l To ensure that appropriate prevention toring systems for cardiovascular disease Head of the Department of Cardiology , and treatment services are provided based (CVD) in order to better prevent, treat and Sabah Al Ahmad Cardiac Center said : In on need control the world’s biggest killer. The World establishing systems for monitoring the bur- l To reinforce political commitment to Heart Federation is emphasizing the need to den and treatment of CVD governments prevent and control ensure that every country has information should prioritize the following actions: Dr Raja Dashti, Chairman and Head of on the World Health Organization Global l Strengthen vital and cause of death Internal Medicine and Consultant Action Plan (GAP) Targets and a set of meas- registration systems (to better record statis- Cardiologist Amiri Hospital comments: CVD - ures or indicators on quality of care appro- tics on births and causes of death) including heart disease and stroke - is the priate to a range of contexts including the l Include details of CVD key interven- leading cause of death globally, claiming primary healthcare level. This call is tied to tions (for example services provided, num- 17.5 million lives each year. However, at least the strengthening of health systems, in par- bers of people being treated) in existing 80% of premature deaths from CVD could ticular monitoring and surveillance, by pro- health information systems be avoided by addressing risk factors such viding complementary recommendations to l Collect information on a representative as tobacco use, raised blood pressure and governments drawn from the World Health subsample of the population on the preva- physical inactivity; and improving the use of Organization NCD Global Action Plan 2013- lence and quality of care of patients with simple treatments after a heart attack or 2020 and the Health Data Collaborative, hypertension and CVD; and undertake peri- stroke. supported by the World Bank, USAID and odic data collection on the behavioural and “CVD is the world’s number one cause of WHO. metabolic risk factors (harmful use of alco- death and tackling it must happen on the Dr Salim Yusuf, President, WHF, says: “We hol, physical inactivity, tobacco use, global stage. To achieve this we need accu- know that robust monitoring and surveil- unhealthy diet, overweight and obesity, rate data upon which countries can build lance are key to guiding what policies and raised blood pressure, raised blood glucose, their health strategies, so we very much wel- strategies we implement and whether they and hyperlipidemia), and determinants of come this call on national government to are successful in reducing CVD rates. risk exposure such as marketing of food, improve surveillance and monitoring of Countries that measure these rates are also tobacco and alcohol in a sub sample of the CVD. No matter what the country, we all the ones which demonstrate the greatest population. benefit from shining the spotlight on the reductions in CVD. “We are calling on gov- Why is this needed? gaps and opportunities in global data col- ernments to reinforce their commitment to l To monitor public health/health system lection.” Dr Rajesh Rajan , Cardiologist Sabah Al Ahmad Cardiac Center, Amiri Hospital point- ed out the impact such preventive care and activities and also said it will help in follow- ing: l Develop and/or strengthen CVD sur- veillance capacity l Effective national and regional policies for the prevention and treatment of CVD l Progress towards meeting the Global Monitoring Framework (GMF) Targets including; reduction in raised blood pres- sure, reduction in tobacco use, improved access to essential medicines and technolo- gies, improved access to drug therapy and counselling l Every country has reliable information on o CVD mortality o Prevalence of CVD (number of people living with CVD) o Prevalence of CVD risk factors (at least hypertension and smoking) o Quality of pre- ventive, primary and acute care Cardiovascular disease burdens individ- uals in their most productive years by cre- ating deaths, disabilities and illnesses at early ages that are largely preventable. In Kuwait the impact of CVD is much higher and around 45% of the total death are due to CVD. Cardiovascular disease and non- communicable diseases threaten interna- tional development by placing an incredi- ble strain on national economies due to high medical costs and lower worker pro- ductivity as a result of premature death and disability. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Anbaa Report Hotshots Asian duo arrested for working as barbers By Saad Al-Motesh KUWAIT: Two Asians were arrested pending deportation for working as barbers without any licenses or observing hygiene conditions. Security sources said the suspects ome people believe that as soon as they practiced their illegal profession in the open and attracted grab a pen, they can become hotshots many customers, as they charged only 100 fils from Asians and write whatever they wish without and 250 fils from Arabs for haircuts and 50 fils from Asians S and 100 fils from Arabs for shaves. realizing the problems they could incur upon themselves. This also includes many people who talk and believe that by recording some

Drug-trafficking —Al-Anbaa videos, they have become role models for Narcotics detectives were tipped off by Saudi authori- others. ties concerning a citizen involved in drug trafficking. Prices Many of these hotshots record videos on Security sources noted Saudi authorities also said that Citizens their mobile phones and upload them on social the suspect was originally a Saudi citizen sentenced to media networks like Instagram in seek of fame, death for drug trafficking, and that he fraudulently with a belief that such fame would satisfy who- obtained Kuwaiti citizenship to escape death. Security ever asked them to publish those videos in the sources said that the suspect made an agreement with a citizen to add him to his family file in 1991, and got first place without even knowing that the citizenship in 1996. The Saudi was arrested, while the citizen helped him fled the country. He who understands this

Multiple robberies anecdote will surely realize how A Saudi and three bedoons were arrested in Rumaithiya for Al-Anbaa such people do themselves and multiple robberies. those close to them harm by Yahoo scandal describing themselves with Forgery Three Arab expats were arrested for forgery, said securi- unreal traits. ty sources, noting that the suspects specialized in forg- By Osama Ahmed ing KD 20 bills and that they had printed a total of KD 1,060 to check if they could sell it. The suspects claimed he international media recently reported the hack- 2007. This is when I totally stopped using Yahoo and it videos do them and their families more damage that the mastermind is a citizen, who is still at large. ing of the personal data of over 500 million users of became a story of the past. However, a few months ago, I than they do to others. TUS technology giant Yahoo in 2014. This seems to started noticing that several attempts had been made to To make myself clearer, let me tell you this Counterfeit currencies seized be the largest hacking in history. It included getting hack my Yahoo email by several hackers in various Asian story from the Abbasid era: A man from access to names, email and South American countries. I An Egyptian was arrested in Salmiya with KD 300 in fake KD accounts, phone numbers, did not care then because I had Damascus visited Baghdad where he saw a little 20 notes, said security sources, adding that the suspect birthdates and passwords. The already stopped using it. But on child. “You look very much like me...has your confessed to buying the fake money cheaply. By the way, I did not create company believes that a certain hearing news about the hacking mother ever been to Damascus?” the man asked country was behind the hacking my account using my real of millions of Yahoo accounts, I the kid. “No, sir. My mother has never been out and urged all users to change realized that I was right in giving of Baghdad, but my father once told that my Mother threatened their passwords. up Yahoo, which now seems as a personal information. I used grandfather used to work as a goldsmith in A female citizen filed a complaint against her 16-year- My personal experience with technology from ancient times, old daughter, accusing her of threatening her with a Yahoo stretched for years, long fake information. Then, just like prehistoric dinosaurs! Damascus!” the boy stunningly answered. knife after she blamed her for being preoccupied with before the new social media Finally, I advise everybody to He who understands this anecdote will surely her mobile phone all the time and neglecting her stud- networks were developed. Facebook launched in 2004, shift to using other more reli- realize how such people do themselves and ies. A search is on for the girl, who fled the house when Millions of people, including and I started using it in 2007. able services that have high those close to them harm by describing them- her mother called the police. me, had been using Yahoo’s security measures. such as those selves with unreal traits. This usually happens email, browser and the popular from Google or Microsoft. You Messenger software. can also use Facebook for immediate communication with social media fame-seekers, who do not Major arrested By the way, I did not create my account using my real with family and friends because it is the best. The deci- mind doing so even at the expense of their fam- A police major was arrested red-handed receiving a KD personal information. I used fake information. Then, sion is up to you. ilies and relatives! 800 bribe to release an Asian in custody, said security Facebook launched in 2004, and I started using it in —Translated by Kuwait Times —Translated by Kuwait Times sources. —Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa Ghanim Al-Najjar wins KD500,000 in Gulf Bank quarterly trio draw

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has announced the Customers can open a new Al-Danah winners from its successful 3 in 1 quarterly account at any one of the 56 Gulf Bank draw event that took place Thursday on branches in Kuwait. Those who already Marina FM’s Diwaniya Show. 3 Draws took have an account can increase their place at the same time and location. The chances of winning by increasing their Al-Danah draw was held for the cash prize deposits. This will also increase their of KD 500,000, while the Salary & Red chances of winning one of the two Account draws included a brand new 2016 KD1,000 prizes, which are drawn each Cadillac CTS and cash prizes up to working day. KD1000. The draw event was held in the Furthermore, new Red Account or presence of a representative from the Salary Account customers who open an Ministry of Commerce and Industry. account and transfer their student Gulf Bank would like to congratulate allowance or salary will also be eligible to the winner Ghanim Hamad Abdulrahman enter the monthly cash draws for a chance Al-Najjar (KD500,000 winner). to also win up to KD 1,000. In addition, the In addition Gulf Bank would like to con- quarterly car draw will be for 1 lucky win- gratulate the Bank’s Salary and Red ner who will have a chance to win a new account draw winners, which included the Cadillac. following: Ahmad Abdulaziz Qasem Al- For further information about the Al- Matrood (2016 Cadillac CTS), Rashed Danah, Salary and Red accounts and prize Salem Rashed Al-Hajri (1000 KD winner), draws, visit one of Gulf Bank’s 56 branches, Ahmad Abdullah Ahmad Al-Naqah (1000 or call Gulf Bank’s Customer Contact KD winner). Center on 1805805. General information To participate in the Al-Danah draws, about Gulf Bank’s products and services, customers must have an Al-Danah can also be found at the Bank’s website at account containing at least KD 200. www.e-gulfbank.com

Kuwaiti Al-Najat Charitable Society offer help to the Syrian Refugees in Jordan. KFAS, AOU sign agreement to educate Syrian refugees

KUWAIT: Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement education and vocational training for Syrian dent for other nations to follow,” he said. ment, she added that it will further solidify packages, from food rations to educational of Sciences (KFAS) and Arab Open University (AOU) refugees residing in Lebanon, which will pro- Meanwhile, speaking to KUNA, President of Kuwait’s status as a bastion of philanthropy. and health services, have been delivered to signed an agreement to earmark a sum of vide them with job opportunities. Speaking on AOU’s branch in Lebanon Dr. Fairouz Sarkees thousands of Syrian refugees in various parts $900,000 to educate Syrian refugees in Lebanon. the inaugural year for the agreement, he not- said that this agreement will ensure a pleasant School bags distributed of Lebanon. KRCS will continue providing life- KFAS Director General Dr Adnan Shihab- ed that a sum of $10 million has been allocat- livelihood for these refugees, adding that the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) distrib- saving assistance to the unfortunate Syrians, a Eldin told KUNA that the endeavor comes as a ed, while the amounts for the remaining years university is welcoming them with open arms. uted school bags to Syrian refugees in East team member of KRCS Awatif Al-Qallaf point- follow-up to His Highness the Amir Sheikh will be decided shortly. Shihab-Eldin also said Similarly, President of AOU’s branch in Kuwait Lebanon, on Friday. KRCS delegate to Lebanon ed out. She added that Kuwaiti Government Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s pledge to that through a sound education, this project Mouthi Al-Humoud said that the university Dr Musaad Al-Enezi told KUNA that the aid and its people are avid supporters to this donate $300 million in humanitarian aid for will save the teenage demographic from social will put forth strenuous efforts to ensure the agency has been giving out assistance to the humanitarian crisis and will strive to alleviate Syrian refugees. Moreover, he disclosed that ills. “Kuwait has been exemplary in its humani- success of this project, as she described edu- Syrian refugees since they have sought refuge some of the hardships the refugees suffer on a the four-year agreement features a college tarian aid for Syrian refugees, setting a prece- cation as one of life’s necessities. On the agree- in Lebanon in 2011. Different kinds of aid daily bases. —KUNA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 New India-Pak salvos as UN chief Local Muslims wary of Hungary’s anti-migrant referendum offers to mediate Page 10 Page 11

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) addresses MPs at the Turkish National Assembly (TBMM) during the opening of the 2nd legislative year of the 26th term yesterday. — AFP Erdogan stirs trouble over 1923 treaty Neighboring Greece and secular opposition alarmed

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a fraction of the territory controlled by the the War of Independence against Greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. Junior for- ‘Betray History’ has stirred up controversy over the treaty that Ottoman Empire. modern Turkey was founded in 1923 as a state eign minister for European affairs Nikos Turkey’s main opposition party leader almost a century ago set the borders of mod- stretching from the Mediterranean to Persia. Xydakis told SKAI TV “Erdogan’s surprise out- spoke out against Erdogan’s comments, ern Turkey, alarming both neighboring Greece ‘Is this a Victory?’ The military victory and Lausanne Treaty bursts” were becoming customary. “He is fac- describing them as a betrayal of history. “Don’t and secular opposition at home. In a speech “You see the Aegean, don’t you?” Erdogan reversed the outcome of the 1919 Treaty of ing great pressure inside,” he said, pointing to forget that you sit on that chair thanks to Thursday, Erdogan for the first time rejected told local officials in the speech at his presi- Sevres which, if implemented, would have the July 15 failed coup and the troubles in Lausanne,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the the notion that the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne dential palace. “In Lausanne, we gave away seen modern Turkey reduced to a rump neighbouring Syria and Iraq. Republican People’s Party (CHP), the party was a “victory” for Turkey and wistfully lament- islands (so near that) your voice can be heard around Istanbul and Anatolia. Erdogan’s comments were indeed surpris- founded by Ataturk which sees itself as the ed the loss of Aegean islands which are now if you shout across to them. Is this a victory?” Under the new borders enshrined in ing, given that on the 93rd anniversary of the guardian of his secular principles. “Nobody has Greek territory. The treaty - the founding basis he asked. “They were ours. There are our Lausanne, all the Aegean islands went to treaty on July 24 he lauded the treaty as the the right to betray their history.” Yusuf Kaplan, of the modern Turkish state out of the ruins of mosques, our shrines there.” Erdogan rounded Greece, with the exception of Gokceada “founding document of the Republic” and a columnist in the pro-government Yeni Safak the Ottoman Empire - has usually been seen on those who negotiated the treaty who (Imroz) and Bozcaada (Tenedos). Several “victory won with our glorious people’s faith, newspaper, however described Lausanne as a inside the country as a triumph of its secular included Ismet Inonu, Ataturk’s right-hand- islands however had already been captured courage and sacrifice”. Aykan Erdemir, a senior “death warrant” and praised Erdogan for leadership led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. man who would later succeed him as presi- from the Ottoman Empire in a 1912 war. fellow at the Washington-based Foundation throwing “taboos on the trash”. “Turkey could For the secular opposition in Turkey, dent and still a hero for secularists. “Those who for Defense of Democracies, said Erdogan’s “U- not be invaded from outside but was captured Erdogan’s comments have represented anoth- sat at that table could not make the best of ‘Dangerous for Relations’ turn” marked a crumbling of unity with the inside by being secularized from the top by er dangerous lapse into neo-Ottomanism, sig- the agreement. Today we are suffering the Athens, which has had generally solid rela- secular opposition in the aftermath of the July secular elites.” But Hayri Inonu, mayor of the naling his regret that Ankara does not control consequences.” tions with Ankara during Erdogan’s rule, said 15 coup. “Now that the Turkish president has Sisli district in Istanbul and grandson of Ismet territory stretching from Balkans to Africa as After the Ottoman defeat in World War I, the controversy would not do ties any good. reestablished full control over the country, he Inonu, said the proof of Lausanne’s success is Constantinople did in Ottoman times. But for the existence of any future Turkish state had “Calling the Treaty of Lausanne into question ... feels comfortable to go back to his anti-repub- the existence of “the (Turkish) Republic itself” pro-Erdogan commentators his remarks were been in question. However thanks to the is dangerous both to relations between our lican and polarizing narrative,” Erdemir told where the crescent and star Turkish flag would a timely reminder that modern Turkey has just strategic brilliance of Ataturk and victory in two countries and the wider region,” Greek AFP. wave forever. “The rest is empty talk.” — AFP Turkey extends mandate Car bomb kills 2 in Mogadishu for troops in Iraq, Syria MOGADISHU: At least two people were killed areas from which they launch guerrilla opera- tions, pushing them to between Oct 23 and and five injured yesterday when a car loaded tions. Somalia last month announced a further Nov 10, with the president elected no later than ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament yesterday and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). with explosives blew up near a restaurant in delay in already-postponed parliamentary elec- Nov 30. — AFP overwhelmingly approved a one-year Only the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Mogadishu, a security official and witnesses said. extension of an existing mandate to use Democratic Party (HDP) voted against. The car was parked in front of the Blue Sky Turkish troops abroad in Syria and Iraq. According to the state-run Anadolu news restaurant, near a busy road close to the head- The mandate was first approved by par- agency, the new mandate will run until quarters of the Somali National Intelligence and liament in Oct 2014 and was renewed for Oct 30, 2017. Security Agency (NISA) in a southern district of another year in Sept 2015. It allows mili- In his speech marking the opening of the city. The blast was detonated remotely out- tary action in Turkey’s two southern parliament, President Recep Tayyip side the restaurant, security forces spokesman neighbors against Islamic State jihadists Erdogan said the initial goal of the Syria Mohamed Dahir told AFP, adding that “informa- and other groups deemed by Ankara to operation was to create a “safe area free tion we have gotten so far indicates that two be terror organizations. of terror organizations” some 5,000 sq km civilians were killed in the blast”. Using the existing mandate, Turkey on in size.Erdogan hailed the results of the Sources said the restaurant is frequented Aug 24 launched an unprecedented operation so far in the Syrian town of both by security personnel and civilians. “I saw operation inside Syria dubbed Euphrates Jarabulus, saying its population had two dead bodies and five wounded, most of Shield to back pro-Ankara rebels fighting expanded from 2,000 to 40,000 since them civilians who were passing by the area,” IS jihadists and a Kurdish militia. Ankara being captured from IS jihadists. As well added eyewitness Abdukadir Shilow. “There is is also believed to have an unspecified as targeting the jihadists, the operation is chaos around the restaurant and Somali forces number of troops in the Bashiqa camp also aimed against Kurdish People’s sealed off the road after the blast.” outside IS-controlled Mosul in northern Protection Units (YPG) militia which There was no immediate claim of responsi- Iraq involved in training Iraqi fighters Ankara regards as a terror group. bility although immediate suspicion fell on the who plan to recapture the city. Erdogan said he believed that Mosul Al-Qaeda linked Islamist group Shabaab, locked The bill passed easily on the first day could be taken from IS but warned in battle against the Somali government and of the new session of parliament with Baghdad and Turkey’s Western allies that which regularly mounts attacks in the city. support from the ruling Justice and Ankara had to be involved in any opera- Despite being driven out of the capital in 2011 Development Party (AKP), secular oppo- tion and included in the decision-making by an African Union force deployed in 2007 the MOGADISHU: A Somali soldier and bystanders stand near the wreckage of a car and a body sition Republican People’s Party (CHP) process. — AFP group still control vast swathes of outlying rural after an explosion yesterday. — AP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 US rail safety under microscope after deadly crash

NEW YORK: This week’s train crash at a major trans- Expensive Technology port hub to Manhattan - the fifth deadly US rail acci- A federal law passed in 2008 required rail compa- dent in under three years - spotlighted safety con- nies to adopt Positive Train Control, a technology cerns and chronic underinvestment in America. One designed to help prevent accidents, by the end of woman was killed and more than 100 people injured 2015. The date was then pushed back to 2018, but when a commuter train traveling “at a high rate of with the technology expensive and state budgets speed” plowed into the station at Hoboken, New tight, many parts of the country are still lagging Jersey during the morning rush hour on Thursday. behind. The system slows a train automatically if the Experts said it was miraculous that more people conductor does not abide by signals or the mandat- were not killed given that the train was carrying 250 ed speed limit. passengers and the first carriage flew into the air But it has yet to be installed on any New Jersey before slamming into the interior wall of the termi- trains or track segments, and no staff have been nal, collapsing portions of the roof. Investigators said trained how to use it, according to an NJ Transit Friday that it could take days before they can com- report filed two weeks ago with the department of ment on the cause of the crash, but experts high- transportation, the Daily News reported. The vice lighted safety problems and sluggish investment in president of the National Transportation Safety upgrading railroads in a country where most people Board, while refusing to speculate on the cause of travel by car or plane. Thursday’s destruction marked Thursday’s crash, confirmed that investigators the fourth deadly rail crash in less than three years would examine what role the system could have on the East Coast alone. New Jersey’s Republican played in this case. Governor Chris Christie, a prominent ally in Donald Speeding was the cause of both an Amtrak Trump’s race to become president, in July temporari- derailment in Philadelphia in 2015 that killed eight ly shut down $2.7 billion worth of New Jersey Transit people and wounded 200 others and the Metro- projects in a political dispute with state Democrats. North crash in New York in December 2013 which His transportation official denied any culpability in killed four people and wounded 67. Robert NEW YORK: Afternoon rush hour commuters are seen in a NJ Transit train prior to departure at Penn Thursday’s crash, saying that no safety or mainte- Halstead, a railroad accident reconstruction special- Station on Sept 29, 2016. — AP nance expense had been affected. But New Jersey ist based in Syracuse, New York, told AFP that Transit, which ferries hundreds of thousands of com- around half the country has so far adopted the “The problem is the cost: It costs between said. “Nationwide the cost to equip everything with muters to and from work each week, has suffered Positive Train Control technology, with California the $75,000 and $100,0000 to equip one single locomo- PTC is $10-$15 billion - and that is money taken out from poor investment for years. most advanced. tive. Then there is the cost of equipping the line,” he of the maintenance budget,” he said. — AFP

Trump’s habit of fuming over slights comes at political cost

NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s five-day feud Judge Gonzalo Curiel with a former beauty queen is only the latest In May, Trump said that the federal judge example of his insistence on airing and re- presiding over a lawsuit brought by former airing his grievances no matter the political Trump University students had an “absolute cost. The Republican nominee’s brash, con- conflict” in handling the case because he is frontational style has thrilled his millions of “of Mexican heritage”. Trump, who at the supporters, who have cheered the celebrity time was the presumptive Republican nomi- businessman’s tenacity and thirst for verbal nee, claimed that US District Judge Gonzalo combat. He bragged in the early weeks of his Curiel - he was born in Indiana - had “an campaign last year, “When people treat me inherent conflict of interest” because Trump unfairly, I don’t let them forget it.” plans to build a wall along the border Critics say that stubborn refusal to back between the US and Mexico. down is born of a thin skin and overwhelm- Trump’s comments were condemned by ing pride - and it gets him into political trou- Democrats and Republicans alike. House ble again and again. He repeatedly brings up Speaker Paul Ryan described what Trump perceived slights, breathing new life into said as the “textbook definition of a racist damaging storylines, instead of making the comment”. The episode lingered for days, politically savvy calculation to move on. and while Trump eventually released a Other feuds that have dogged his campaign: statement saying his comments were being “misconstrued”, he did not apologize or sug- Alicia Machado gest that Curiel was treating him fairly. The 1996 Miss Universe winner has been Trump University is the target of two law- at the center of the campaign since suits in San Diego and one in New York that Democrat Hillary Clinton noted in this accuse the business of fleecing students week’s debate that Trump had ridiculed the with unfulfilled promises to teach secrets of Venezuela-born actress for gaining weight success in real estate. and dubbed her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”. Trump fumed on stage and Pastor in Flint, Michigan the next morning, in an interview, said that Trump earlier this month visited Flint, Machado’s “massive” weight gain had been where he intended to further his recent “a real problem” for the pageant, which he pitch to African-American voters while high- then owned. As Machado did a series of lighting how the federal government had interviews attacking Trump, the celebrity failed the impoverished city. But in a speech businessman and his allies hit back, prolong- to a traditionally African-American church, FORT PIERCE, Florida: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton takes a selfie with supporters after speaking at a rally about national ing the story’s lifespan. he was cut off, chastised and then heckled service at the Sunrise Theatre on Friday. — AFP And then Trump took to social media after he began to attack Clinton. “Mr Trump, I before dawn Friday to unleash a tweetstorm invited you here to thank us for what we’ve on Machado, saying she had a “terrible” past done in Flint, not give a political speech,” Clinton wins endorsements, but that a “duped” Clinton had overlooked said the Rev Faith Green Timmons, the pas- before holding her up “as an ‘angel’” in the tor of the Bethel United Methodist Church. first presidential debate. He also accused the The Republican nominee stopped, then they may not hold much sway Democrat’s campaign of helping her get US said: “OK, that’s good. Then I’m going to go citizenship but offered no proof. “Did back to Flint” and its water crisis that had Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sickened its citizens. But Trump went after ‘Unbiased’ USA Today also slams Trump sex tape and past) Alicia M become a US citi- the pastor the next morning during a “Fox zen so she could use her in the debate?” read and Friends” interview. He claimed that the NEW YORK: “A clear and present danger to our company is run by Trump friend David Pecker and the impact they used to,” says Mark McKinnon, co- a missive from Trump posted on his verified pastor was “a nervous mess” and accused her country.” “Xenophobia, racism and misogyny.” whose content usually focuses on celebrity scan- host of Showtime’s political show “The Circus” and Twitter account at 5:30 am. Clinton later of having a political agenda while insisting “Beneath our national dignity.” Those aren’t dal. Trump scorned the negative editorials Friday, a longtime adviser who has worked with former Friday ripped Trump, calling the series of that he thought “something was up”. excerpts from attack ads by Hillary Clinton’s cam- tweeting that “The people are really smart in can- President George W Bush and Sen. John McCain posts “unhinged, even for him.” paign. Those are longtime Republican newspa- celling subscriptions to the Dallas & Arizona of Arizona, the GOP’s 2008 presidential candidate. Ted Cruz pers disavowing Donald Trump. If newspaper papers & now USA Today will lose readers! The “There are just way too many other sources of Family of Capt Humayun Khan A day after accepting the Republican endorsements equaled victory, Clinton would be people get it!” “I don’t read USA Today,” he said lat- information for voters today.” Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a Muslim- presidential nomination at his party’s con- in line for a historic landslide. She has been er to WZZM13 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “It’s not “They are just part of the wave,” says political American family whose son, Capt Humayun vention, Trump suddenly pivoted back to the endorsed by dozens of papers ranging from such much of a newspaper as far as I’m concerned.” historian Rick Perlstein, who is in the midst of a Khan, was killed while serving in Iraq in GOP primaries, choosing to re-litigate a pair expected backers as The New York Times to such If Clinton’s overwhelming advantage among multivolume series on the rise of the conservative 2004, became one of the most dramatic of months-old battles with rival Ted Cruz. In once-certain GOP advocates as The Dallas editorial boards mirrors the revulsion Trump has movement and has written in depth about elec- moments at July’s Democratic National what should have been a feel-good victory Morning News, the Arizona Republic and the inspired from officials in both parties, the tions of the 1960s, ‘70s and beyond. “They don’t Convention. Khzir Khan denounced the can- lap the morning after his thundering accept- Cincinnati Enquirer, which on Sept 23 called for “a endorsements may also illustrate the decline in start anything, and probably didn’t determine didate’s plan to temporarily ban Muslim ance speech, Trump instead defended his leader who will bring out the best in Americans, newspapers’ power to shape opinions and the much - but betoken a widespread disgust in the immigrants from entering the United States, decision to retweet an unflattering photo of not the worst”. strength of Trump’s anti-establishment appeal. air.” accused Trump of sacrificing “nothing and Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and returned to wondering On Friday, USA Today ended its tradition of not Polls show Clinton trailing in Texas, Arizona and Readers may not let editorials tell them how to no one” and produced his pocket copy of the about possible links between Cruz’s father taking sides and published an anti-endorsement, Ohio despite the unexpected support of GOP vote, but they care enough to respond. Dallas Constitution while suggesting Trump had and President John F Kennedy’s assassin. contending that Trump “lacks the temperament, papers. During the primaries, the venerable con- Morning News editor Mike Wilson recalls a group never read it. “All I did was point out the fact that on knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America servative paper the New Hampshire Union Leader of about a dozen people demonstrated against Trump hit back in an interview days later - the cover of the National Enquirer there was needs from its presidents.” The paper didn’t back endorsed Chris Christie, only to have the New the endorsement across the street from the he implied that the soldier’s mother stood a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Clinton but advised readers to “Stay true to your Jersey governor lose the state decisively, drop out paper. Wilson went down to talk with them. In a silently alongside her husband during the Oswald having breakfast,” Trump said in front convictions”. The same day, The San Diego Union- and back Trump. The Arizona Republic favored series of tweets, he described a discussion that speech because her religion restricted her of a group of bewildered supporters in Tribune endorsed Clinton - the first Democrat it John Kasich in the state’s GOP primary, but Trump began angrily but settled into a serious dialogue. from speaking - and then returned to it on Cleveland. “Did anybody ever deny that was has endorsed in its history. won easily, and the Ohio governor finished “I got a few words in and persuaded zero people,” social media. “Mr Khan, who does not know the father? They’re not saying, ‘Oh, that Trump, meanwhile, is supported by far fewer fourth. he tweeted. me, viciously attacked me from the stage of wasn’t really my father.’ It was a little hard to publications. They include a paper owned by son- Wilson said he’s received some messages from the DNC and is now all over TV doing the do. It looked like him.” Actually, Cruz had in-law Jared Kushner (the New York Observer) and Impact Clinton supporters thanking the newspaper for same - Nice!” he tweeted. The back-and-forth ridiculed the idea as “nuts”. He also declared the National Enquirer, a tabloid whose parent “Newspaper endorsements don’t have nearly the editorial, but hasn’t heard that it changed between the nominee and the Khans rapidly that, two days after Cruz was loudly booed anyone’s mind. “They’re not really meant to end escalated, prompting several top at the Republican National Convention for arguments, they’re mean to start discussions, and Republicans and the Veterans of Foreign not endorsing the new nominee, he would US police release video of this one certainly did that,” he said. “One of the Wars, a nonprofit service organization with never accept the Texas senator’s backing. reasons we exist is to take editorial positions on 1.7 million members, to denounce Trump, Last week, Cruz said he would support things that can improve lives in our community,” whose poll numbers soon sank. Trump. — AP fatal shooting of black man he said. “That is one of the core functions of a newspaper.” LOS ANGELES: Following days of protests, the crowd and five people were arrested. “Our Peter Bhatia, editor and vice president of audi- police in San Diego on Friday released video goal today is to clarify and hopefully calm the ence engagement at the Cincinnati Enquirer, said footage of the fatal shooting of an unarmed community’s concerns regarding the recent he knows that the impact of editorial endorse- black man, saying the decision was made to officer-involved shooting,” police chief Jeff ments has lessened. “The days of people taking counter “misinformation” being circulated Davis told reporters on Friday as he released the endorsements of an editorial board and going about the incident. The grainy cellphone the video footage. “Our only concern at this into the polling place with them are pretty much and surveillance videos show the victim, point was community safety,” he added. “We long gone,” he said. But he still considers it an Alfred Olango, 38, a Ugandan immigrant, felt that the aggression of some of the pro- important obligation. The newspaper’s editorial pacing back and forth as he is confronted testers was escalating to the point where it board came to consensus pretty quickly so they by two police officers in the parking lot of a was necessary to release some information.” decided to get it out. strip mall. Davis said several stores had shut down on As anticipated, some readers lashed out. He is then seen being tasered and shot as Friday and schools had let out students early, Bhatia said he received some 150 angry emails he points an object at one of the officers. The fearing more violence. The shooting took and there were some canceled subscriptions. “I cylindrical object turned out to be a vape place as the United States is reeling from a am impressed by how thoroughly rehearsed inhaler. The deadly confrontation in El Cajon, string of police shootings of black men, some of the attacks on Hillary Clinton are,” he said. a suburb of San Diego, has prompted daily including one earlier this month in Tulsa, “They have a very familiar bent to them.” He also street demonstrations that turned violent late Oklahoma, and another in Charlotte, North cites their incivility, but doesn’t find that unusual Thursday after protesters blocked some Carolina, that also ignited protests and in the Internet age. He said there also have been a streets, hurling bottles and rocks at passing heightened racial tensions. Local officials in El few dozen positive notes. He said he gave an vehicles and police and smashing car win- Cajon have vowed a thorough and transpar- interview to CBC radio in Canada and got a long dows. One person was also pulled off his ent investigation and initially refused to email from someone who found his arguments motorcycle. release the video of the incident pending the convincing. Just one problem: The person lives in Davis said police used tear gas to disperse outcome of a probe. — AFP NOVI, Michigan: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at a rally Canada and can’t vote. — AP Friday. — AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL 100-day countdown ticks in Venezuela crisis CARACAS: The next 100 days in Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) has head of the Venezuelan Institute for Venezuela could mark a turning point in set a petition drive on Oct 26-28 aimed at Social and Political Studies. According to the South American country’s seething collecting four million signatures, or 20 pollster Venebarometro, seven in 10 political crisis, deciding whether the percent of voters, supporting a recall Venezuelans want a change in govern- socialist president and his party stay in vote. The coalition insists that the referen- ment and 76.4 percent disapprove of the power. On Jan 10, 2017, President dum should be held in 2016. job Maduro is doing. Nicolas Maduro will have completed Nevertheless the CNE, which the opposi- If voters overwhelmingly want a four years of his six-year term at the tion says is beholden to Maduro’s govern- recall vote, “it will be difficult if the helm of the major oil exporter, whose ment, says there is not enough time left authorities don’t hold a referendum,” economy is reeling from sharply lower to review the petition signatures and economist Luis Vicente Leon, head of the global crude prices. Yesterday began the organize the vote this year. With the research firm Datanalisis, told AFP. “But 100-day countdown for Maduro’s oppo- prospect of holding a referendum in 2016 they will do it in 2017 and it remains to sition to mount a recall referendum. dim, analysts have projected at least be seen what the opposition response If the recall vote occurs before Jan 10 three scenarios in the unfolding crisis. will be. It would raise tensions,” he and Maduro is ousted, early elections added. The authorities for now have sup- will be held. But the National Electoral Recall in 2017 ported Maduro, because he is at risk of Council (CNE) has announced that, The MUD wants the petition drive’s losing “Chavismo”, the movement according to the rules, the referendum required 20 percent minimum of sup- named for Maduro’s late predecessor could only be held in the middle of the port for success to be calculated on a and mentor, the socialist firebrand Hugo first quarter of 2017. If Maduro loses the nationwide basis. But the CNE has said Chavez. “The demons will be let loose recall vote post-January 10, he would be the 20 percent threshold will be deter- beginning January 11 when the fighting replaced by his hand-picked vice presi- mined state-by-state. The opposition is over the presidential succession begins,” CARACAS: Workers and mayors from cities and municipalities rally in opposi- dent, defeating the opposition’s hope to “very likely” to muster the required sig- said Benigno Alarcon, a political science tion to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gather at the vice-presidency in change government. natures because of the “vision of change” professor at Andres Bello Catholic demand of more resources from the government on Sept 29, 2016. — AFP The center-right opposition coalition in the country, said Francine Jacome, University. — AFP

Shakira joins Colombia stars supporting FARC peace deal BOGOTA: Some of Colombia’s most famous national daily El Tiempo. “What do I want?” artists, athletes and writers, from singer Valderrama asked in an interview with AFP Shakira to soccer star Falcao, are lending in early September in Bogota. “For my chil- their support to the peace accord with dren and grandchildren to live in peace, and Marxist rebels that aims to end a half-centu- me as well in the years I have left,” he ry of war. Shakira, along with Juanes and answered. Carlos Vives - two Colombian musicians Nairo Quintana, a winner of the Vuelta popular across the Spanish-speaking world de Espana, Spain’s most important cycling - sang stirring messages of reconciliation, race, also urged his fellow countrymen to forgiveness and love after President Juan vote “Yes” today. So have writers and poets Manuel Santos signed the peace pact like Hector Abad Faciolince, Santiago Monday with the head of the Revolutionary Gamboa, Piedad Bonnett, and Juan Gabriel Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Rodrigo Vasquez. Also supporting a “Yes” vote is the Londono. “As Colombians, our most impor- Colombian-American actor John tant mission now is to pardon,” Juanes Leguizamo. wrote on Twitter. Colombians on Sunday will cast ballots Some ‘No’ Votes as Well in a national referendum to approve the However a minority of Colombian accord, which if approved would put a final celebrities have publicly opposed the peace end to a fratricidal war that has left more deal. Novelist and filmmaker Fernando than 300,000 people dead or missing. “My Vallejo has denounced president Santos as a Colombia, we have much to do; taking care “low-life” for negotiating peace terms with of our children and educating them will “the most harmful and criminal group pave the path of peace,” Shakira said. A Colombia has ever known: the bandits of video from Carlos Vives spoke of the impor- FARC”. Writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza claims tance of signing the peace pact, but cau- that the pact could transform Colombia into tioned that there was still a “long road a 21st-century socialist country. CULIACAN, Mexico: A red line prevents access to burned cars, part of a military convoy, which was ambushed by gunmen on Friday. — AFP ahead before we can reach a durable And John Jairo Velasquez, a former peace.” In 2014, two years after peace talks enforcer for drug lord Pablo Escobar who were launched in Havana between the has admitted to killing at least 250 people Colombian government and FARC, Vives but who now presents himself as a deeply composed the song “A Step Toward Peace,” remorseful truth-teller, has called for Gunmen ambush Mexico which he recorded along with some 30 oth- Colombians to embrace the far right and er Colombian artists. “stand together in favor of the ‘No’.” The most prominent opponent is the Alvaro ‘A Country that can Forgive’ Uribe, the popular hardline former presi- military convoy, kill five Two Colombian soccer stars, Falcao and dent (2002-2010). Uribe, now a senator, Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama, added their own claims that the peace deal gives impunity to words of support. “I imagine a country capa- atrocities and opens the doors to “Castro- Sons of ‘El Chapo’ likely behind ambush ble of forgiving,” Falcao - whose full name is Chavismo,” a reference to the leftist regimes CULIACAN, Mexico: The sons of imprisoned unfortunately this group acts in a premeditated, waits for a Mexican judge to decide whether he Radamel Falcao Garcia Zarate - wrote in the in Cuba and Venezuela. — AFP drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman were cowardly, treacherous way, using firearms and can be extradited to the United States, a ruling probably behind a grenade attack on a military grenades,” Duarte said. that he could appeal, although US officials convoy in northern Mexico on Friday, killing five The general said Guzman’s brother, believe he could be in US territory before the soldiers, authorities said. Some 60 gunmen, who Aureliano Guzman Loera, alias “El Guano,” is bat- end of the year. also fired several rounds from assault rifles, freed tling for control of drug production against the His capture dealt a blow to his cartel, but the a wounded suspect who was being escorted by Beltran Leyva drug cartel in the remote region. gang still has a strong leader, his longtime asso- the soldiers in an ambulance during the pre- One of Guzman’s sons, Jesus Alfredo, was kid- ciate, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who has never dawn ambush in Culiacan, capital of the state of napped by rivals for a few days in August. spent a day in prison. Guzman’s sons are also Sinaloa, state and military officials said. Another son, Ivan, is also allegedly involved in accused by the authorities of having roles in the Guzman’s sons were “very probably” respon- cartel activities. President Enrique Pena Nieto criminal group. But in a sign of the cartel’s vul- sible for the attack, which freed a suspect iden- vowed on Twitter that the assailants “will nerability, one of them, Jesus Alfredo Guzman tified as Julio Oscar Ortiz Vega, alias “El Kevin,” answer to the law.” Sinaloa is one of Mexico’s Salazar, 29, was kidnapped in a restaurant in the General Alfonso Duarte, a regional commander, most violent states and the ambush came as Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta in August, told reporters. The gunmen stole the ambu- murders are on the rise this year across the apparently by members of the rival Jalisco New lance while a military Humvee caught fire in the country. Generation drug cartel. assault, which left 10 people injured, including Two US government officials, who requested a Red Cross worker. Four of the injured were in Guzman Woes anonymity because they were not authorized to surgery. Guzman is hailed as a Robin Hood-type fig- speak publicly, have told AFP that the son was The soldiers were returning with the wound- ure in his stronghold, and his cartel is still con- released days later and the reasons for the ed suspect after another shootout in the moun- sidered a fearsome force despite his capture. abduction are unclear. One of the US officials tain community of Bacacoragua, part of the The cartel leader was arrested in the Sinaloa said the kidnapping appeared to be a “non- municipality of Badiraguato, the region where coastal city of Los Mochis in January, six months sanctioned event” committed by lower ranking Guzman and other notorious drug lords were after he escaped from prison near Mexico City members of the New Generation cartel, and CALI, Colombia: A placard urging to vote “YES” in the upcoming referendum on the born. The suspect was “being transferred to by sneaking through a 1.5-km tunnel that that their bosses ordered them to release peace agreement is seen at the Ermita church on Friday. — AFP Culiacan for immediate medical attention... but opened into his cell’s shower. Guzman now Guzman’s son. — AFP Tourists fooled by octopus ferry disaster Powerful Hurricane Matthew barrels towards Jamaica, Haiti NEW YORK: Ever heard about the gargantuan city will come and take it away,” he said, adding Puzzled tourists looking for the memorial octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and that it takes two people to break it down. “It’s museum on Staten Island and its supposed col- MIAMI: Caribbean residents are prepar- and left thousands homeless when it its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 definitely an experience when you see people lection of wreckage with “strange suction-cup- ing for a weekend of heavy rain and slammed the Caribbean coast of years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated who don’t know about it. They get this strange shaped marks” sometimes wonder into the Snug flooding as powerful Hurricane Matthew Nicaragua in Sept 2007. to the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G look on their face, they stare out at the water and Harbor Cultural Center asking for directions. The barrels towards Jamaica, Haiti and even- Kolff recently appeared in Battery Park at the walk away,” he said. “I sit close by with a fishing staff at the nearby Staten Island Museum admits tually Cuba. For several hours overnight Haiti, Jamaica Prepare southern tip of Manhattan, erected a stone’s pole and fish. I eavesdrop on the conversations.” it too was puzzled at first. “We kind of scratched Matthew became a Category 5 storm - Residents in Jamaica and southern throw from a handful of other somber memori- Sometimes, he said, when he overhears peo- our heads and said we don’t know where it is the strongest on the 1-5 Saffir-Simpson Haiti scrambled to prepare as the storm als to soldiers, sailors and mariners lost at sea or ple saying, “How come nobody has ever heard of and started looking further into it, and realized it scale, and the most powerful Caribbean headed in their direction. Forecasters on the battlefield. But if you can’t recall the dis- this?” he’ll interject, offering that the disaster was a hoax,” said spokeswoman Rachel Somma. storm since Hurricane Felix in 2007. By said that 25-38 cm of rain could fall aster it could be because the artist behind the happened on Nov 22, 1963, a day that the news “Most people have the feeling that it’s not a real- early yesterday, Matthew had weakened across the region. In Haiti, authorities memorial, Joseph Reginella, made the whole was dominated by the assassination of President ity. It’s a treasure hunt for them. It’s fun. That’s into a still dangerous Category 4 hurri- warned residents of the country’s south- thing up. John F Kennedy. “It creates a plausibility for what we love about it. ... It’s great that it gets cane, the Miami-based National ern islands that they were “first at risk,” The 250-pound monument, which depicts a them, and they shake their head ‘Maybe.’” people out here,” she added. — AP Hurricane Center said. and urged them to prepare. “We invite Staten Island ferry being dragged down by giant The storm was swirling off the north- them to secure the area surrounding octopus tentacles, is part of a multi-layered hoax ern coast of Colombia and Venezuela their homes and begin to stock up on that also includes a sophisticated website, a doc- packing winds of 250 km per hour, with water and food,” Edgar Celestin, a umentary, fabricated newspaper articles and higher gusts. The center of Matthew was spokesman for the Haitian civil protec- glossy fliers directing tourists to a phantom located 365 miles south of the Haitian tion agency, told AFP. Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum capital Port-au-Prince, and 420 miles In Jamaica, Local Government across the harbor. It took Reginella six months to southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, the NHC Minister Desmond McKenzie told The put it together. said. The storm is currently moving Star newspaper that Prime Minister He said the idea for the project came to him towards the west at seven miles per Andrew Holness had instructed authori- while he was taking his 11-year-old nephew hour, but is expected to turn towards the ties to “go full speed ahead” with efforts from Florida on the ferry between Manhattan northwest on Saturday. to prepare for and respond to the hurri- and Staten Island. “He was asking me all kinds of Matthew became a Category 1 hurri- cane. That includes placing some 2,000 crazy questions like if the waters were shark- cane on Thursday afternoon, then swiftly homeless people in shelters, McKenzie infested,” he said. “I said ‘No, but you know what rose to Category 4 a day later. Late Friday told the newspaper. Separately, the US did happen in the ‘60s? One of these boats got it strengthened into a powerful Category embassy in Jamaica said it will be closed pulled down by a giant octopus.” “The story just 5 storm. The NHC’s long-term forecast tomorrow and Tuesday for consular serv- rolled off the top of my head” and the idea for a has Matthew hitting the southern coast ices “due to the anticipated effects of mock memorial was born. of Cuba late Monday or early Tuesday Hurricane Matthew”. Heavy rain from It evolved to become “a multimedia art proj- after tearing across Jamaica. As for Matthew “may produce life-threatening ect and social experience - not maliciously - threats to US soil, “it is too soon to rule flash flooding and mud slides” in the about how gullible people are,” said Reginella, out possible hurricane impacts from affected area, the NHC warned, saying who creates artworks for store windows and NEW YORK: In this Sept 29, 2016 photo, artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo in the Staten Matthew in Florida,” the NHC said. isolated areas could be lashed with up to amusement parks. The monument never stays in Island borough with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims Hurricane Felix killed some 150 people 25 inches of rain. — AFP one spot for more than two days “because the of the steam ferry Cornelius G Kolff. — AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Spain’s crisis-hit Socialists in leadership showdown MADRID: Spain’s crisis-hit Socialists which was voted down in parliament al deadlock and allow Rajoy to lead a gathered for a key meeting yesterday to earlier this month. “Tomorrow’s federal right-wing government by abstaining in attempt to help end the country’s pro- committee meeting faces a decisive a vote of confidence, rather than voting longed political deadlock and decide the debate,” against as it did earlier this month. The fate of embattled party leader Pedro Sanchez made his first public appear- PSOE’s place is “in the opposition,” said Sanchez. ance late Friday since senior party mem- Socialist lawmaker Eduardo Madina, The roughly 300 members of the par- bers tried to oust him on Wednesday. His who opposes Sanchez. ty’s federal committee were summoned face was sombre as he said the commit- Sanchez opposes another Rajoy to Socialist headquarters in Madrid for a tee would face a “decisive debate”. term, pointing to repeated corruption showdown between allies of Sanchez The Socialist Party (PSOE) has been scandals hitting the PP and inequalities and opponents who want him out. The wracked for months by internal dissent, sparked by years of austerity. “Spain outcome could see the party lift its veto and tensions boiled over into open war- doesn’t deserve another four years of on a new government led by acting con- fare after 17 members of the party’s 35- Mariano Rajoy at the head of the servative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, a strong executive quit together in a bid Spanish government-four more years move that could be key to unblocking to force Sanchez out. The ill-feeling was with a prime minister who has systemat- Spain’s nine-month political paralysis. evident again Saturday as Sanchez sup- ically lied to Spanish society,” he said With feelings running high, the meet- porters shouted “no means no, no Friday. ing started late and the committee then means no,” in showing their backing for This fundamental divergence in views agreed to go into recess to determine his continued opposition to a Rajoy-led is what will be at stake in Saturday’s the parameters of the debate and if administration. meeting.Sanchez hinted he would step there would be a vote after it, El Pais Dozens of PSOE members backing down if a majority of those at the federal reported on its website. Since December Sanchez were out bright and early at committee reject his vision of what MADRID: Supporters of Spain’s Socialist party leader Pedro Sanchez hold plac- 2015, the country has been without a party headquarters to roundly boo his direction the party should take-in other ards that read: “No Popular Party” as they shout slogans outside the party fully-functioning executive as rivals fail opponents, decrying them as words if they favoured abstaining. headquarters in Madrid, yesterday. —AP to agree on a government following two “putschists” and “fascists” as they showed “Obviously I could not put into prac- elections in which none of the main par- for the meeting. tice a decision that I don’t agree with,” he unblocking the situation and avoiding a elect a new leadership, and the future ties won an absolute majority. said. If his critics get their way and he third round of elections. would be a lot more uncertain. Spain’s Even Rajoy, whose Popular Party won Hints at resignation quits, an interim leadership will be If Sanchez wins, though, he will parliament has until October 31 to pro- both elections though without enough Sanchez detractors want the PSOE appointed which would likely direct the press ahead with his plans to appeal duce a government or new elections will seats to rule alone, was forced into to use the 85 parliamentary seats it won Socialists to abstain if Rajoy decided to directly to grassroots members by call- be called in December-the third in a negotiating a minority government in June polls to help unblock the nation- go for another vote of confidence, thus ing primary elections on October 23 to year. — AFP South African universities say academic year in peril

JOHANNESBURG: South African protesters members of the Wits teaching staff, many lob rocks at security guards at one of the in red and black academic robes, rallied on continent’s leading universities. Police fire the Great Hall steps to demand more state rubber bullets at students on another cam- funding and an end to violence. “No cops pus. Vice-chancellors warn that students on campus!” read a placard. About 10 might not be able to finish the academic police vehicles were stationed on a nearby year if a national dispute over financing campus road and in a parking lot besides higher education is not resolved soon. the Origins Centre, a university museum Twenty-two years after the end of white that explores human evolution. On Sept 20, minority rule, grievances over economic protesters at Wits threw stones at private inequities are fueling unrest that has forced security guards, smashing glass at the the closure of some of South Africa’s most Great Hall entrance. Some guards picked prominent universities, which are strug- up projectiles and threw them back, con- gling to cover costs. Opinion has splintered tributing to an image of a prestigious cen- among students, faculty, parents and the ter of learning as a chaotic battleground. In government, which acknowledges funding a separate incident, the government shortfalls but accuses a radical minority of blamed student activists for the death of a bringing campuses to a standstill. university worker who was hospitalized One target of protesters’ condemnation after being affected by a fire extinguisher is Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the sprayed by protesters. University of the Witwatersrand in Wits is charging between $2,200 and Johannesburg, also known as Wits. Habib, $4,200 for tuition for a first-year undergrad- in turn, has suggested it is ironic that Wits, uate in 2016. In addition, there are book, whose student population is mostly black, travel and lodging costs. The government could unravel because of protesters who says it will pay tuition for students from say they are committed to “decolonization.” households with up to $43,700 in annual He tweeted: “The tragedy of our income, a measure expected to benefit moment.” The protests are smaller than about 80 percent of undergraduates. BUDAPEST: A man arrives for prayers at a mosque in Budapest, Hungary, Friday. Muslims in Hungary say they are wary of the government’s widely popular demonstrations in 2015 On Wednesday, police fired rubber bul- anti-migrant referendum which has boosted xenophobic feelings. —AP that forced the government to suspend lets and arrested 11 students during a university fee increases this year. protest for free education at Rhodes Demonstrations picked up again after the University in the city of Grahamstown. That Muslims wary of Hungary’s government said universities can increase prompted the vice-chancellor, Sizwe fees by up to 8 percent next year, although Mabizela, to say students should not it will pay about $180 million to cover the become “collateral damage” in the dispute costs of poor students in 2017. over costs. Vice-Chancellor Max Price of the anti-migrant referendum Wits and the University of Cape Town University of Cape Town on Friday met 200 hope to resume the academic program on protesters who oppose the university’s re- Monday. Some students vehemently opening on Monday. Separately, about Polls could boost xenophobic feelings oppose that plan. Once a student demand 2,000 students and staff, some holding for free education is met, “we are willing to books, held a silent rally urging the BUDAPEST: Muslims in Hungary say they are live in Hungary, according to the 2011 census, return to their homeland.” Government bill- go back to class. I mean, we are here resumption of classes, Price said on the uni- wary of the government’s anti-migrant referen- the latest available. boards and media ads have drawn a direct link because we want to study and get versity’s website. dum this weekend, which polls suggest has On Friday, about 30 people took part in a between migration and terrorism, warned degrees,” said Mzwanele Ntshwanti, a stu- “There’s a lot of uncertainty. There are a boosted xenophobic feelings. The government, “Muslims living among us” walking tour in a Hungarians that millions more migrants may dent leader at Wits who wore a jacket with lot of different political positions and views contending that there is a direct link between Budapest neighborhood, an effort to counter soon be headed for Europe and asserted that an emblem of the Student Representative on campus,” said Mehita Iqani, an associate migrants and terrorism, is seeking a popular prejudice. “In the past year, especially since the cases of harassment of women in Europe have Council. professor of media studies at Wits. There mandate in Sunday’s vote for its opposition to migrant crisis is causing tension in Hungarian risen greatly since the start of the migrant crisis. “We’ve managed to disrupt the system are also expectations of more violence. Wits accepting any mandatory European Union quo- society, this is one of our most popular walks,” Speaking last September at a meeting of because that’s the only language that they Vuvuzela, a university newspaper, advises tas for resettling asylum seekers. said tour guide Anna Lenard. “We present Hungarian diplomats, Orban said the Muslims in understand,” he said Friday in a reference to students how to respond to stun grenades, “I’m starting to feel that my own homeland is Hungarian Muslim communities and try to show Hungary were a “valuable asset” and wanted to university administrators and the govern- rubber bullets and tear gas in a section repudiating me,” says Timea Nagy, a Hungarian their human face because people living here get avoid causing “awkward situations, even at the ment. Ntshwanti was standing outside the titled: “What to expect from the police and Muslim. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said a lot of false information from the media.” verbal level” for them. “We are truly glad that Great Hall, a temple-like building whose tall how to stay safe.” Hungarians have “no problems” with the local The tour in the city’s so-called “New Buda” there are kebab shops on our avenues. We like columns evoke Western academic tradi- Around the corner from the Great Hall Muslim community, but he believes any EU quo- neighborhood stretching to the Danube River buying lamb from Syrian butchers at Easter,” tions that irk some South African students at Wits is a piece of graffiti with instruc- tas to relocate asylum seekers, including many includes stops in several shops and mosques, as Orban said. “We are going to honor this Muslim who demand a curriculum more focused tions. It starts: “How to make a petrol Muslims, would destroy Hungary’s Christian well as presentations and chats by community community in Hungary, but we don’t want their on African affairs. As he spoke, about 100 bomb: a guide for students.”— AP identity and culture. Orban hopes that a rejec- leaders. proportion to grow suddenly.” tion of EU quotas in the referendum will be mim- “We could say that this (referendum) cam- Local Muslims said the problems they faced icked by others and force Brussels to reconsider paign is against the migrants but in reality it is in light of the government’s referendum cam- the scheme. covertly against Islam, that’s how people mostly paign were far beyond awkward. A poll taken in August by the Publicus understood it,” said Tayseer Saleh, imam of the “I consider myself a good Hungarian and I Institute for the Vasarnapi Hirek newspaper Darusallam Mosque. “We do not support the want to be one, too,” Timea Nagy said. “But if found 35 percent of the 1,000 people asked said migrants coming to Europe,” Saleh said. “We sup- people are surrounded by this kind of propagan- it was obligatory to help refugees, down from 64 port putting an end to the problems there and I da and they are so impressionable, it often percent in September 2015. Some 5,600 Muslims guarantee that 90 percent of the people will makes you wonder.” — AP Belfast protest ends as police let parade pass

BELFAST: Pro-British protestants ended a three-year protest in Belfast yesterday after authorities allowed them to complete a march marking a 17th century military victory, passing a neighbor- hood dominated by rival Catholics. Protesters began their vigil in July 2013 at the point where police halted the parade marking King William of Orange’s victory over the Roman Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, which helped secure Protestant supremacy in Ireland. Parades are staged annually by Protestant unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. The tradi- JOHANNESBURG: A student wears a noose around her neck as lecturers and staff of tion is seen as provocative by Catholic Irish nationalists who want Witwatersrand University demonstrate in support of the free education movement to be part of a united Ireland. The Parades Commission, a body set and against violence on campus yesterday in Johannesburg. —AFP up to resolve Northern Ireland’s annual “marching season” ten- sions, brokered a compromise between the rival sides under which local residents agreed to end their protests during the outbound leg of the of the march from the city centre to a parade ground. In Russia risks ‘pariah’ exchange, the marchers agreed a moratorium on the return leg back past the Catholic area, which routinely sparked rioting in the status: Johnson evening of every July 12. Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein described the agreement as LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Boris Russians themselves have been doing that. heralding a “new era of peace building” in North Belfast. Early yes- Johnson said Russia was in danger of “We are trying to document that fully terday morning, two Orange Order bands and more than a hun- becoming a pariah nation, as he hit out at because that is in my view unquestionably dred marchers passed the Catholic estate, with some 60 protesters alleged “double tap” bombing raids in Syria, a war crime.” He said Britain and the United looking on with signs reading: “walk of shame”. hitting aid workers. “They drop one bomb States were looking at a “range of options” A caravan that had been used to house the protesters at the and then they wait for the aid workers to designed to ramp up the pressure on vigil was towed away. Over 600 police, many in riot gear, were on come out, civilian people pulling the Moscow. duty for yesterday’s march. The cost of policing the protests injured from the rubble, and then five min- “The single most potent weapon we since 2013 has been in excess of 21 million pounds ($27 million), utes later they drop another bomb,” he told have is shame,” he said. “The world’s attitude police said. The Sun newspaper. towards Russia has been hardening and I A 1998 peace agreement paved the way for a power-sharing Johnson said the British government think people now believe that Russia is in government of unionists and nationalists, meant to end decades of had evidence that Russian jets had carried danger of becoming a pariah nation. “If they BELFAST: Police line the route as Orange Order members parade along the sectarian and political killings in Northern Ireland. out such attacks, which were “unquestion- continue like this they will forfeit any sym- Crumlin Road adjacent to the nationalist Ardoyne district in north Belfast, Violence has subsided, but police say the threat from dissident ably a war crime”. “We have evidence. We pathy and any admiration in the world at all, North Ireland, yesterday. —AP groups opposed to the peace deal remains high. — Reuters have good ground to believe that the and I think they do care about that. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Pakistan bans Bollywood films as tensions escalate ISLAMABAD: Indian films have been banned in cin- disputed Kashmir. The rare public admission of the border have also weighed in on tensions over online reactions across the border. Indian movies emas across Pakistan as tensions between such an action on alleged “terrorist” targets prompt- the past week. Bollywood star Salman Khan saw a are screened in a majority of Pakistani cinemas, as Islamabad and nuclear-armed rivals New Delhi over ed furious rhetoric from Pakistan, with both sides vicious social media backlash after he was reported filmmakers in the South Asian nation strive to revive recent scuffles in the disputed Kashmir region reporting fresh cross-border firing but no casualties as saying that Pakistani artists should not be equat- its struggling motion picture industry. Many spilled into the world of Bollywood and celebrity. early yesterday morning. ed with terrorists. Pakistani singers and film actors have been cast in The tit-for-tat retaliation came after Pakistani actors “It is deeply regrettable that a film trade body, While singer Adnan Sami, British-born but of the Indian films in a bid to improve people-to-peo- and technicians were banned from working on the IMPPA, has passed a resolution to ban Pakistani Pakistani origin who received Indian citizenship last ple contact between the rival countries. Cinema Bollywood sets by the Indian Motion Pictures stars and technicians from working in India,” a state- year, has been slated on Twitter by Pakistanis since employees in Karachi were seen removing the giant Producers Association (IMPPA). ment from Pakistan’s Film Exhibitors and praising Indian forces. Indian filmmaker Mahesh posters advertising Indian films over the weekend Tensions have been simmering for months Distributors group said late Friday. Bhatt received a similar roasting when he posted an and replacing them with banners for Pakistani and between India and Pakistan, but were dangerously “(Following) the IMPPA decision... the majority image of himself calling for peace. Hollywood movies. India and Pakistan have fought ratcheted up Thursday when India claimed it had stake holders of the (Pakistani) film industry have “Sadly, there isn’t much difference in the level of three wars since they gained independence from carried out “surgical strikes” across the heavily mili- decided to suspend the screening of all Indian films sanity on both sides,” observed Pakistani media Britain seven decades ago, two of them over the dis- tarized Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in until normalcy returns.” Celebrities on both sides of website Mango Baaz in a story comparing the puted Himalayan region of Kashmir. — AFP India-Pakistan tensions stir wartime memories

NAUSHERA DHALLA, India: As he sur- tect their property from potential looters. veyed his largely deserted village along Speaking to an AFP correspondent India’s border with Pakistan, Kuldeep Singh while huddled in the centre of the village, cast his mind to his childhood when his those who have remained all said they felt home was on the frontline of a full-blown they couldn’t afford to do otherwise but war between the two arch rivals. “All of this had no illusions about what was at stake. reminds me of when I was a boy back in 1971 and I can now understand what my Theatre of war father must have felt like sending me away Lakhvinder Singh, a 58-year-old tailor, to live with his relatives back then,” said the said he too had vivid memories of the 1971 father-of-three. war when Naushera Dhalla also emptied in “My wife and kids are already getting a matter of hours and soldiers took over restless to come back home after three their rudimentary mud-hut homes. “The days. I’m also missing them but we don’t shelling and firing started around 5.15pm yet know what’s going to happen, so it’s in the evening and we left by around better to wait another day or two.” The 54- 9.30pm the same night,” he said. “We could year-old farm laborer sent his wife and see the light of bombs and gunfire in the three children to live with relatives after a dark night from both the sides. “It is tense dramatic escalation of tensions between at the moment but I don’t think there will the two nuclear armed-rivals this week be war-there shouldn’t be a war. “But if which saw India carry out a series of strikes there is, it’s people like us who will lose the on the Pakistani side of the de facto border most. Even though we are happy for what in divided Kashmir. our government has done with an attack The evacuation order was delivered over on terrorists, we don’t think war will do us the loudspeaker from the local gurdwara any good.” (temple) in what is a mainly Sikh village. The 1971 war, which began after India The Singh family’s village of Naushera intervened in the war of separation which Dhalla in the northern Punjab state is led to Bangladesh’s (formerly east Pakistan) around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the independence. Sikh holy city of Amritsar and barely a kilo- Since then, both countries have become metre from the border. nuclear powers, which means that any Like Kashmir, Punjab was also divided sharp downturn in relations sends alarm between India and Pakistan when both bells ringing in diplomatic circles. In anoth- gained their independence at the end of er village even closer to the border, Sohan British colonial rule seven decades ago and Singh said he could remember way back to parts of the state became battlefields when partition when Punjab became the main the two countries went to war in 1965 and setting for the largest mass migration in most recently in 1971. history before becoming a war zone. While India says it has no desire for a Sohan Singh, who gave his age as further escalation in the situation, it has “about 85”, said there was no way that he JAMMU: Indian army soldiers stand on a tank transporter outside an army camp in the village of Jourian, Akhnoor Sector west of Jammu yester- nevertheless ordered thousands of vil- would take to his heels and desert the day. — AFP lagers to move away from the border in small village of Danoi Khurd also close to case they once again become a theatre of the border. “Where would we go? If we war. While most of Naushera Dhalla’s 4,500 leave, we will starve,” said Singh, surround- residents have sought shelter elsewhere, a ed by around two dozen male villagers India, Pakistan troops few male residents have stayed behind to who were all discussing the tensions. “I’ll be look after their land and livestock and pro- here for as long as I am alive.” — AFP open fire amid tension UN chief offers to mediate as border villages evacuated NEW DELHI: Indian and Pakistani troops have fought three full-blown wars in the last mum restraint and take immediate steps to de- exchanged fresh fire across their border yester- seven decades-including two over Kashmir. escalate the situation”, a statement from his day as UN chief Ban Ki-moon offered to medi- The Himalayan region, the Indian side of which spokesman said after the meeting. ate between the nuclear-armed neighbors fol- forms the bulk of the country’s only Muslim lowing an alarming spike in tensions. majority state, is at the heart of the latest ten- Mediation offer Two days after Indian troops carried out a sions which have been mounting in the last The UN chief said India and Pakistan should series of surgical strikes on militant camps three months. address differences through diplomacy and across the Pakistani side of their dividing line Since a charismatic Kashmiri separatist was dialogue, and offered to mediate. in Kashmir, officials said there had been cross- shot dead by Indian soldiers in early July, more “His good offices are available, if accepted border skirmishes further south. than 80 civilians have been killed in the region, by both sides,” the UN spokesman said. Lodhi Although there were no casualties, the pre- many of whom had joined street protests in told AFP “the time has come for bold interven- dawn exchanges heightened the fear among defiance of a curfew order. tion” by Ban while India’s UN mission said there villagers living along the border, tens of thou- A Pakistan-based militant group then car- was “no desire to aggravate the situation”. sands of whom have already been ordered to ried out a raid on an Indian army base in mid- But aware things could yet escalate, India leave home. “There was small arms fire and September which killed 19 soldiers, the dead- has evacuated thousands of people from near mortar shells fire from across the border in liest such attack in over a decade. Amid mas- the northern border in Punjab state as well as Akhnoor sector which lasted for around two sive public anger over the raid, India has in Jammu. An AFP correspondent in the Punjab hours,” Pawan Kotwal, a top civilian official in sought to isolate Pakistan-whom it accuses of village of Naushera Dhalla said most of its India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, said. sponsoring militant groups-and has managed 4,500 residents had moved out, leaving only a A Pakistan military statement said its troops to persuade nearly all its other neighbors to small number of men to guard their land. The had “befittingly responded to Indian unpro- boycott a regional summit which was to have village was also evacuated in 1971, the last voked firing” in the Bhimber sector on the been held in Islamabad in November. time the pair fought an all-out war. “We take AMRITSAR: Indian volunteers from the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Pakistani side. India’s announcement that it had carried turns to patrol the main road to make sure no Committee (SGPC) distribute free food to villagers of the India -Pakistan border area The exchanges came shortly before Indian out “surgical strikes” in the early hours of thieves or robbers come into the village,” said in the village of Dhanoa Khurad, some 40kms from Amritsar yesterday. —AFP army chief Dalbir Singh travelled to Northern Thursday on militant posts on the Pakistani Jamshed Singh, one of those remaining. Command headquarters, which are in Jammu side of the Kashmiri frontier in turn provoked “I haven’t had a drop of alcohol for the last and Kashmir, to meet soldiers involved in fury in Islamabad whose prime minister, Nawaz four nights because if there is an emergency Thursday’s strikes. Singh was able to “personal- Sharif, denounced what he called “naked and any of us are drunk, we may not be able to Children hit by artillery in ly compliment officers and men who success- aggression”. react as fast as we need.” Meanwhile in the fully executed surgical strikes” during his visit, A Pakistani envoy, Maleeha Lodhi, met Ban Battal sector of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, restive northern Myanmar the army said on Twitter. at UN headquarters in New York overnight to normal life has also come to a halt. “Our mar- The two countries, who were separated at ask the veteran diplomat to intervene person- ket is closed as no one dares to venture out- YANGON: A two-year-old girl was killed borderlands have been rocked by sever- birth at the end of British colonial rule in 1947, ally. Ban called on “both sides to exercise maxi- side,” said shopkeeper Shujaat Kazi. — AFP and two children injured yesterday after al outbreaks of violence in recent weeks, their village was hit by heavy artillery in only a month after Suu Kyi launched a Myanmar’s rebel-held north, an activist major peace dialogue aimed at ending and local resident said, the latest vio- the simmering insurgencies. Chinese navy ships lence to threaten the new government’s Her summit brought many key play- peace bid. ers to the table for early peace talks, arrive in Myanmar The shots were reportedly fired in though several powerful ethnic militias Pu Wang village in northern Shan state, actively clashing with state troops did for five-day visit an area bordering China where ethnic not attend. minority rebels are locked in a long-run- The US Embassy in Yangon said in a BEIJING: Two Chinese navy ships have arrived in ning battle with the Myanmar army. statement Friday it was “deeply con- Myanmar’s main city of Yangon for a five-day visit, state Sporadic clashes in the region have dis- cerned” by ongoing fighting in Kachin, a media said yesterday, the latest move by Beijing to rein- placed tens of thousands of people and state just north of the town where the force military ties with its strategically-located southern dampened enthusiasm for a peace push children were hit yesterday. “The neighbor. driven by Myanmar’s newly elected increase in conflict in this area has led to China has been on a diplomatic offensive since the leader Aung San Suu Kyi. suffering and dislocation of local popu- government of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu “It happened in the morning today lations. It also has the potential to Kyi came to power in April, aiming to forge good ties with when these three children were playing. undermine the progress and goodwill the resource-rich country. Suu Kyi visited China in August, Six powerful shots were fired into the generated by the recent Union Peace where President Xi Jinping told her he wanted to ensure village,” Ying Sau, a pastor in the ethnic Conference,” the embassy said. the “correct direction” of relations, and a senior Chinese Kachin village, told AFP. His nephew’s Around 100,000 people are currently military officer went to Myanmar last month. two-year-old daughter was killed, while displaced in Shan and Kachin states due The two warships, the Xiangtan and the Zhoushan, two children, ages 5 and 6, were injured to the violence, according to UN figures. arrived on Friday, and were met by senior Myanmar mili- and taken across the border to a hospi- More than a dozen ethnic minority tary officers, the official Xinhua news agency said. China tal in China, he said. groups have waged insurgencies had a close relationship with Myanmar’s former military- Khon Ja, an activist from the Kachin against the Myanmar army since the run government, and has looked on with some nervous- Peace Network, also reported the death country won independence from Britain ness at its democratization process. and posted photos on Facebook of the in 1948. China has been pushing Myanmar to resume work on injured children receiving treatment in Suu Kyi, whose new civilian govern- the Chinese-invested $3.6-billion Myitsone dam project, 90 China’s Yunnan province. ment ends five decades of military rule, is percent of whose power was originally planned to have Both blamed the heavy firing on the determined to end the fighting. But the gone to China. In 2011, then-President Thein Sein angered Myanmar army, which AFP could not conflicts are complex and experts say the JAMMU: Indian villagers, who have migrated from their village close to the border China when he suspended work on the dam, at the conflu- reach for comment. Myanmar’s restive peace process will take years. —AFP with Pakistan, walk with their bags in Khor in Akhnoor Sector west of Jammu yester- ence of two northern rivers in the Ayeyarwady river basin, day. — AFP over environmental protests. — Reuters SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL ASEAN ministers seek ways to ease South China Sea tension Terror threats to Southeast Asia growing: Singapore

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii: Countries need to discussed improving coordination and coopera- their aims, Eng Hen said. Over 1,000 Southeast look for practical ways to defuse incidents in the tion between their militaries to keep the region’s Asians have flocked to join Islamic State’s self- South China Sea, where China is pitted against waterways open. He said he asked the heads of declared “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, Ng said. smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over the US Navy and US Coast Guard to hold a meet- “Every year we meet, the situation and threat islands, Singapore’s defense minister said. Ng ing with ASEAN partners next year to share their from extremist terrorism rises,” Ng said. Eng Hen told reporters Friday on the sidelines of best practices for maritime security. “Compared to, say, a year or even two years ago, a meeting in Hawaii that incidents may not nec- they’re more organized...they’re more net- essarily involve military ships. He noted navies Terror threats worked, they’re more clear in their articulation of have established protocols for when they The threat that violent extremist groups what they want to achieve.” encounter each other at sea. pose to Southeast Asia is growing each year as Security officials said in June that Southeast Instead, confrontations may develop they become more organized and focused in Asian militants who claim to be fighting for between fishing vessels or other civilian ships, Islamic State said they had chosen one of the the defense minister said. Defense ministers most wanted men in the Philippines to head a from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations regional faction of the group. Authorities in the BEIJING: Visitors gather on Tiananmen Square during National Day in Beijing yester- (ASEAN) and US Defense Secretary Ash Carter region have been on heightened alert since day. China celebrates its National Day to mark the 67th anniversary of the People’s talked at their Hawaii meeting about ways to Islamic State claimed an attack in the Indonesian Republic of China. —AFP prevent such incidents from escalating, Ng said. capital Jakarta in January in which eight people Singapore doesn’t have any claims to disput- were killed, including four of the attackers. Ng ed islands, but Ng said it’s interested in the issue cited a recent plot in which an Indonesian cell North Korea building new because the South China Sea is a major shipping coordinated by an Islamic State member in Syria route and many economies depend on it. had planned to shoot up hotels in Singapore’s submarine: US think tank China claims virtually the entire South China Marina Bay area. The plot was foiled by Sea as its own, citing historical reasons. That has Indonesian authorities, he said. “They have SEOUL: Recent satellite imagery suggests called on North Koreans to abandon their pitted it against the Philippines, Vietnam, gone beyond networks to push the flow of North Korea may be building a new, larger country yesterday and defect, just a day Malaysia and Brunei, all members of ASEAN. funds, weapons. They are already plotting,” Ng submarine for ballistic missiles, a US think after a soldier walked across the heavily for- China has recently developed shoals and coral said. US defense officials believe that hundreds tank has said, as the isolated state pushes tified border into the South. In a rare mes- reefs into seven islands with massive land-recla- of citizens from Southeast Asia have returned to its nuclear weapons program. sage directly addressed to rank-and-file mation work. Some of the islands have airstrips their home countries after joining Islamic State The news comes after the North in troops and North Korean citizens, the presi- capable of handling military aircraft. in Iraq and Syria, raising concerns that they may August test-fired a submarine-launched dent invited North Koreans to relocate to In July, an international arbitration tribunal try to launch a wave of attacks. Ng said missile (SLBM) 500 kilometres (around 300 the “bosom of freedom” in the South. ruled against China’s claims, saying they were Southeast Asian defense chiefs believe that if miles) towards Japan, which leader Kim “We are well aware of the gruesome illegal. Beijing has rejected the ruling and con- Islamic State were destroyed in its base in Iraq Jong-Un said put the US mainland and the realities you face,” said Park during a speech tinued its activities. Ng said the tribunal’s ruling and Syria, that would actually increase the risk to Pacific within striking range. marking the country’s Armed Forces Day. is law, but there are “practical concerns” to con- their region in the short-term, because seasoned “Commercial satellite imagery strongly “The universal values of freedom, democra- sider. “For Singapore, a non-claimant sate, our Islamic State fighters would likely return home. suggests that a naval construction program cy, human rights and welfare are the pre- main interest is, either with or without a ruling, The United States is leading an air campaign to is underway at North Korea’s Sinpo South cious rights you should also enjoy,” she how do you make sure the region is still stable HONOLULU: Singapore’s Dr Ng Eng Hen, dislodge Islamic State from Iraq and Syria. Shipyard, possibly to build a new subma- added. and to make sure you actually have mechanisms Minister for Defense, speaks at a press con- “They would decide to come back, some re- rine,” the US-Korea Institute at Johns “We will keep the road open for you to to prevent any escalations?” he said. ference at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on energized, some trained and the networks Hopkins University said on its closely- find hope and live a new life. Please come Carter told reporters he and his counterparts Friday in Honolulu. — AP would still be existing,” Ng said. — Agencies watched website, 38 North. “If this activity to the bosom of freedom in the South is indeed to build a new submarine, it whenever you want.” The call comes a would appear to be larger than North month after North Korea’s deputy ambassa- Hong Kong leader calls Eight dead, Korea’s GORAE-class experimental ballistic dor to Britain defected to South Korea, missile submarine, which has a beam of handing Seoul a major propaganda coup at 19 missing after approximately 7 meters.” a time of rising tension on the divided for unity with China Analysts say that while Pyongyang has Korean peninsula. made faster progress in its SLBM system Ties between the two Koreas are at the HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader called on Kong boycotted the event. Former protest China landslides than originally expected, it is still years lowest ebb since the height of Cold War in the city to unite behind its current political leader Nathan Law, who at 23 is the BEIJING: At least eight people have died and around away from deployment. A proven SLBM the 1970s, with Pyongyang test-firing more system yesterday in the face of increasing youngest ever member of the Legislative 19 are still missing after devastating landslides swept system would take North Korea’s nuclear than 20 missiles and carrying out two calls for independence from China, as pro- Council, said he stayed away because of through two eastern Chinese villages, local authorities strike threat to a new level, allowing nuclear tests this year alone. testers were bundled from the auditorium what he described as China’s human rights told the official Xinhua news agency yesterday. deployment far beyond the Korean penin- Park said defections by North Koreas where he was speaking. Leung Chun-ying violations. “As long as they don’t recognize Heavy wind and torrential rains brought by sula and a “second-strike” capability in the fleeing hunger and oppression were was giving an annual address as part of that what they are doing is wrong, we Typhoon Medi triggered the landslides on Wednesday, event of an attack on its military bases. increasing “drastically”. “There have been National Day celebrations which mark the shouldn’t go and celebrate this kind of holi- burying dozens of homes from the villages of Sucun South Korea’s military authorities persistent defections, even by North founding of the People’s Republic of China day,” Law said, listing the Cultural and Baofeng in Zhejiang province’s Suichang county. believe Pyongyang is eyeing a submarine Korean elites who have been supporting by Mao Zedong in 1949, after communist Revolution and the disappearance last year More than 4,000 rescue workers with 180 diggers were capable of carrying multiple SLBMs, to the regime”, she said. In April, 12 waitresses forces won a civil war on the mainland. of five booksellers from Hong Kong as scrambling to find survivors but persistent rain and replace an existing experimental subma- and their manager who had been working Hong Kong is governed under a semi- among the incidents. poor road conditions had hindered rescue efforts, the rine used for the August test, according to at a North Korea-themed restaurant in autonomous “one country, two systems” The booksellers worked for a publishing agency reported. Video footage of the landslide on Seoul’s Yonhap news agency. North Korea China made headlines when they arrived in arrangement-a deal made when the city house known for salacious titles about social media showed torrents of water and rock pour- is barred under UN resolutions from any South Korea in a rare group defection. was handed back to China by Britain in Beijing leaders. All surfaced in detention in ing down a mountain towards houses in the valley use of ballistic missile technology, but this Over the years, nearly 30,000 North 1997. The agreement protects Hong Kong’s China. Law led mass pro-democracy rallies below while terrified onlookers screamed. year alone it has test-fired more than 20 Koreans have fled poverty and repression freedoms for 50 years, but there are grow- in 2014 which failed to win concessions Typhoon Megi had already claimed one life on missiles and carried out two nuclear tests. in their country and settled in the South. ing fears those liberties are being eroded by from Beijing. He is now calling for self-deter- Wednesday morning, when a flash flood tore through Its fifth and most powerful nuclear test on But the number of defectors-who once Beijing, leading to increasing tensions. mination for the city. Since the 2014 rallies, the home of a villager in the coastal province of Fujian, September 9, when Pyongyang detonated numbered more than 2,000 a year-has Leung described the system as the “most there have been increasing demands for a according to reports. what it said was a miniaturized atomic nearly halved since Kim Jong-Un took pow- beneficial and most practical” for Hong break from China. Newly elected pro-inde- At least 2.09 million people from three provinces bomb, provoked worldwide condemnation er after the death of his father and former Kong. “One country, two systems needs pendence lawmaker Yau Wai-ching also have been affected by the typhoon, which has and prompted the UN Security Council to leader Kim Jong-Il in December 2011. each and every Hong Kong resident to boycotted the event. “It’s not the national destroyed roughly 1,200 houses, the People’s Daily begin work on a new sanctions resolution. Those who still managed to flee in defend it to their utmost,” Leung said. day of the Hong Kongers,” she said. Large reported Saturday. The storm is estimated to have Also this month, the North claimed to recent years often had families already set- He also encouraged young Hong red banners calling for Hong Kong inde- caused China 5.53 billion yuan ($835 million) in dam- have successfully ground tested a new, tled in the South, or were relatively well-off Kongers to visit China, saying there was pendence were draped across several uni- ages. The typhoon smashed into Taiwan earlier in the high-powered rocket engine, a move Seoul and well-connected members of the elite “deep kinship” between the two sides.A versity buildings yesterday. A small group of week, leaving a trail of destruction and killing seven as said was designed to showcase its progress in search of better lives. group of pro-democracy lawmakers inter- protesters led by rebel lawmaker Leung it raked across the island. — AFP towards being able to target the US east The latest defection occurred Friday rupted the speech shouting: “CY step Kwok-hung, known as “Long Hair”, gathered coast. when a man crossed the military demar- down!”. Security escorted them from the outside the convention centre calling for cation line on the central-eastern part of hall at the harbourfront convention centre, the release of political prisoners in China. Call to defect the border. There was no exchange of with one district councillor carried out. They held up a makeshift coffin scrawled Porn film plays on South Korean President Park Geun-Hye fire. — AFP Veteran Democratic Party legislator James with the words “In memory of the people’s To, among the protesters, said Leung had heroes”, and threw “hell money”-paper replicas Jakarta billboard, “caused divisions in the city and has made of bank notes traditionally burned at funerals. Hong Kongers feel they can’t go on (with Around 50 pro-Beijing supporters wearing red police probe Leung in charge)”. t-shirts marched through the city’s Tsim Sha Tsui retail district Saturday afternoon waving JAKARTA: An explicit pornographic video was broadcast ‘Hong Kong independence’ large Chinese flags and blaring the national on a public billboard in broad daylight in Jakarta, with Several new legislators who won seats in anthem. They also sang patriotic songs and police and cybercrime specialists yesterday searching for elections last month and are calling for self- shouted “we are Chinese” and “oppose Hong the culprit behind the gaffe. determination and independence for Hong Kong independence”. — AFP The offending clip of a couple engaged in a steamy tryst beamed at peak hour on Friday, shocking and amusing motorists in equal measure as they crawled along the major road in heavy traffic. The power was quickly shut off to the “videotron”-as the giant advertising screens are locally known-but not before the whole scandalous incident was captured on motorists’ phones and sent viral on social media. The hash- tag “videotron” was quickly trending, with much specula- tion about who was responsible for the X-rated gaffe, which broadcast just a stone’s throw from the South Jakarta mayor’s office. The video file-titled “Watch Tokyo Hot”-appeared to be streaming from a personal computer, prompting sugges- tions that someone’s week was about to take a turn for the worse. But police were still searching for a motive behind the “videotron” scandal, Jakarta metropolitan police said in a statement yesterday. A specialist cybercrime unit had joined the investigation to determine whether the broad- cast was deliberate or hacking was involved, the police’s head of public relations Awi Setiyono said. Police have seized a computer from the offices of a pri- vate company as part of their investigation, he added. Access to pornographic websites is blocked in Muslim- HONG KONG: Protester carry a fake coffin during a march organized by the League majority Indonesia, and romantic scenes in films and televi- GYERYONG: South Korean President Park Geun-hye, standing at bottom right on the of Social Democrates on China’s National Day of celebrations in Hong Kong yester- sion programs are heavily blurred or cut altogether by car, waves to cadets during the 68th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the day.—AFP state censors. — AFP Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong, South Korea, yesterday. —AP Passport-forger ‘confesses’ to dismembering dead man

BANGKOK: An American accused of running a pass- was handcuffed and detained. confessions made in Thai police custody, where Little is known about the three men other than port-forgery ring in Bangkok confessed to dismem- “He admitted only that he dismembered the many have alleged being beaten by officers. that La Fon was wanted by the FBI in 1979 on bering-but not murdering a man found in his freez- body but said he had no involvement in murdering Forensic experts are still working to identify the charges of credit card fraud. A US Embassy official er, Thai police said yesterday, as detectives continue the Hungarian man,” Bangkok’s police chief Sanit man found in the freezer but said they believe he confirmed American law enforcement agencies are to piece together details of the macabre crime. The Mahathavorn told reporters yesterday. “I cannot dis- was Hungarian and middle-aged. “Initially we think assisting with the case. Thailand is a hub for a fake 63-year-old suspect, who police initially struggled close the details, but I can say that his testimony he was Hungarian. We don’t know the time of his documents trade that has helped shield countless to identify because of his numerous passports, was was useful. As for (his claim) that the motive of the death because the body had been frozen for a long criminals and migrants from local and foreign arrested one week ago alongside two other killing was debt, police are not really convinced by time,” Udomsak Hunvichit, head of Chulalongkorn authorities. Americans accused of producing fake travel docu- this,” said Sanit, adding that officers were up until Hospital’s forensic department, told local broadcast- In February Thai police arrested an Iranian man ments from their crime den in the Thai capital. 3am interrogating the American. er Channel 3. known as “The Doctor” who crafted pristine pass- Police also found guns, drugs and the bagged It was not immediately clear what La Fon’s expla- The gruesome case has gripped the Thai public ports from his home in a Bangkok suburb and sold body parts of a foreigner in their freezer. Herbert La nation for possessing or cutting up the corpse was. as it provides a glimpse into Bangkok’s shadowy the documents to thousands around the globe- Fon, described as the gang’s ringleader, allegedly Police have stressed that his story keeps changing. underworld, long a haven for foreign criminals and including gangsters, rebels, refugees and migrant opened fire on police during the raid before the trio It is also not uncommon for suspects to later retract fugitives. workers. — AFP NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

Aleppo hospital hit, army presses assault Continued from Page 1 relief that the rebels were being pushed back, but said they feared retaliation. Majed Abboud, 32, said he was The official news agency SANA said 13 people were happy about the army’s advance. “But I’m afraid that wounded Saturday in the western Al-Midan neighbor- with these ferocious clashes, there will be some kind of hood, also by rebel shellfire. reaction from the armed groups.” The assault has seen government forces seize territo- The battle for Aleppo has sparked some of the most ry in both the Suleiman Al-Halabi neighborhood in the brutal violence since the March 2011 beginning of city center and on the northern edges of Aleppo. Syria’s conflict, which has killed more than 300,000 peo- Yesterday, regime loyalists backed by heavy raids ple and displaced over half the population. The Doctors advanced on the edges of the Bustan Al-Basha neigh- Without Borders (MSF) medical charity warned Friday bourhood in Aleppo’s north, the Observatory said. An that “bombs are raining” over the city, turning east AFP correspondent said clashes and the loud booms of Aleppo into “a giant kill box”. Diplomatic efforts to end shelling were heard around the Suleiman Al-Halabi and the fighting across the country have all but collapsed. Bustan Al-Basha fronts throughout the night. Russia on Friday accused Washington of protecting An official at the Suleiman Al-Halabi pumping station jihadist groups in its effort to overthrow Assad. British in the rebel-held area said most of Aleppo had water Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Russia was in dan- cuts on Saturday because of damage by the continued ger of becoming “a pariah nation” and the Aleppo bombing. Residents of regime-held areas expressed attacks were “unquestionably a war crime”. — AFP

Indian migrants return home, recall... Continued from Page 1 tion rates, according to a government report in 2007. Many leave to escape an exploitation-ridden rural There was no power either,” electrician Imam economy in the absence of any local enterprise or Hussain told AFP after landing in New Delhi this week. industry. “I was even arrested because my identification docu- Migration offers an easy opportunity to the often ments were not renewed by my employer. The situa- semi-literate workforce to earn relatively good wages tion there was worse than hell,” said the 27-year-old. abroad. “In Siwan district where I live they used to Hussain was among millions of poor Asians work- make public announcements about overseas job ing in the Gulf states, where human rights groups say vacancies with the beating of the drum,” said Zakir many suffer exploitation and abuses with no channels Hussain, who went to Riyadh in 2013 and was making for redress. Under the kingdom’s kafala system, most some 30,000 rupees per month ($450) before the foreign workers are barred from moving to a new job problems began. “I have 15 members in my family and without their boss’s consent before their contracts it (going abroad) was my only chance at a better life. end, leaving many trapped. It has been criticized by “But look what happened. I have not been paid since rights groups as a form of bonded labor or even slav- December. All my dreams are shattered. I just hope I ery. Hussain and his fellow migrants had spent several will get back my dues someday,” he said. days in Delhi as they waited to go home to Bihar, In August, the Indian foreign ministry stepped in to sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a budget repatriate thousands of Indian migrant workers who hotel’s garage and eating on a filthy, open terrace. did not even have money to buy their tickets. The But their huge relief at coming home meant they Saudi government then took action, providing food barely noticed the discomfort. “We are just so relieved and medicine to Indians staying in camps while prom- to be back home finally. All we want is to see our fami- ising to provide free passage to all those who wanted A herd of camel walk through the wild in Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, yesterday. — AP ly and start our lives afresh,” said Santosh Singh, a low- to go back to India. Saudi Arabia has also said it will wage construction laborer as he waited to board a handle legal claims of the Oger workers in an effort to train to his native village. Saudi Arabia is the favored get their money back. destination for Indian laborers, with nearly three mil- Sheikh Dilsher, who worked for Oger for 18 years, is White House race hits new low lion working mainly in the construction sector. still unable to come to terms with the sudden turn his A 2014 report by Amnesty said close to a thousand life has taken. “I slogged all my life for them,” he said, izing a woman, which is clearly one of his most frightening Continued from Page 1 low-wage migrant laborers are provided clearance to tears welling up his eyes. “But what did I get in return? characteristics,” she wrote in her post in Spanish, next to a travel to Saudi Arabia every day. Bihar, which has All my benefits which come to some 42,000 Saudi photo of herself draped in an American flag. In an apparent effort to pre-empt the attacks, the some of the worst rates for poverty, malnutrition and riyal (around $11,200) have been withheld. I have no Separately, the website Buzzfeed posted a clip from a Clinton campaign released audio of Bill Clinton talking life expectancy in the country, has the highest migra- money and no hope now.” — AFP about his marriage with Hillary. “I think that she has literally 2000 soft porn Playboy video in which Trump welcomes spent a lifetime dealing with not only her joys and her playmates to New York. In the clip Trump opens the door blessings, but also heartbreaks and disappointment, and of a limousine as the models emerge. He then pops a bot- sometimes unfair treatment,” a reflective Bill says. tle of champagne, and a splash of fizzy liquid lands on the Duterte defiant over call to kill 3m... Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Florida yesterday, Playboy bunny logo. The Clinton campaign pounced on described Trump as “unhinged” after the Republican presi- the story. “There’s been a lot of talk about sex tapes today Continued from Page 1 that context, President Duterte’s comments are a signif- dential candidate unleashed a volley of pre-dawn tweets and in a strange turn of events, only one adult film has icant departure from that tradition. And we find them early Friday against former beauty queen Alicia Machado. showed up today and it’s star is Donald J Trump,” wrote Nevertheless, Abella confirmed Duterte had intend- troubling.” The Venezuela-born Machado claims the billionaire bullied Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill. ed to say he wanted to kill millions of people in the US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter also described her mercilessly after winning the Trump-owned Miss Clinton pulled ahead of Trump by three percentage Philippines to achieve his mission of eradicating illegal Duterte’s comments as “deeply troubling”. The United Universe beauty pageant in 1996. “Did Crooked Hillary points in a Fox News national poll out Friday, besting the drugs. “Duterte was referencing to his ‘willingness to Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M billionaire 43 to 40 percent. Although Clinton’s lead is with- kill’ three million criminal drug dealers - to save the Adama Dieng, warned in a statement that Duterte may become a US citizen so she could use her in the debate?” in the poll’s margin of error, it shows a bump for Clinton, future of the next generation and the country,” Abella be in danger of committing crimes against humanity. said Trump, in one of a series of virulent tweets. who beat Trump by only one percentage point in the same said. On Friday Duterte raised the example of Hitler’s Dieng called on Duterte to “exercise restraint in the use According to the fact-checking website Snopes, poll two weeks ago. The nationwide results come as genocidal campaign against Jews, as he talked about of language that could exacerbate discrimination, hos- Trump’s sex tape allegation apparently refers to Machado’s Clinton’s numbers improve in a number of critical swing his efforts to extinguish the illegal drug trade in the tility and violence and encourage the commission of appearance on a reality TV show in which she is shown in states following the debate. Florida - with its prodigious Philippines. criminal acts which, if widespread or systematic, could bed, under covers, with another participant. Machado also number of electoral votes - has swung back toward “There are three million drug addicts (in the amount to crimes against humanity”. appeared in Playboy magazine. But a pornographic video Clinton since Monday’s debate, polling shows. Meanwhile Philippines). I’d be happy to slaughter them,” Duterte Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director for Human Rights circulated in recent years purporting to star the former a Detroit News-WDIV-TV four-way matchup conducted in said. “At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines Watch called on the US and the European Union to act, Miss Universe was debunked as a fake. the battleground state of Michigan found Clinton leading would have,” he said, then paused. “But you know, my saying Duterte’s comments could further embolden Clinton, who mentioned Machado in the Monday Trump by seven percentage points after the debate. victims, I would like to be (sic) all criminals to finish the police and other armed groups to “lawlessly slaughter” debate, has blasted Trump’s history of abusive remarks Also out late Friday was a video deposition from June in problem of my country and save the next generation fellow Filipinos. At home, Duterte congressional allies that included humiliating the ex-beauty queen over her which Trump acknowledged that he lost business after dis- from perdition.” Sarah Elago and Marjohara Tucay of the small Kabataan weight gain and Latina origins, nicknaming her “Miss paraging Mexicans at the start of his campaign. Trump Duterte, 71, won elections in May in a landslide after (Youth) party drew the line on the Hitler comments. Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”. “Who gets up at the at appears answering questions relating to a lawsuit involving a campaign dominated by his pledge to eradicate drugs “When it comes to your independent foreign policy... three in the morning to engage in a Twitter attack against celebrity chefs Jeffrey Zakarian and Jose Andres, who pulled by killing tens of thousands of people. Since Duterte we can lend you unequivocal support. But if you start a former Miss Universe?” Clinton asked supporters in out of a deal to work at the real estate magnate’s new took office on June 30, police have killed more than comparing yourself to Hitler, we will not have any of it,” Florida on Friday. “His latest Twitter meltdown is unhinged, Washington DC hotel because of the candidate’s comments. 1,200 people and about 1,800 others have died in unex- they said in a statement. even for him,” she said. Trump was unapologetic. “For those The Macy’s department store and the Spanish-language plained circumstances, according to official figures. Duterte has in recent months faced relentless criti- few people knocking me for tweeting at three o’clock in Univision network cut ties with Trump after his tirade. The United States, a former colonial ruler of the cism from Western governments and rights groups the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to Trump acknowledged that “a few bad days of press” Philippines and until Duterte’s ascension its most over the apparent extrajudicial killings. US President answer the call!” he wrote. came after his statement, and a loss of some business. “I important ally, condemned his Hitler comments. “I’ll Barack Obama called on Duterte to fight his drug war Machado dismissed the fresh attacks with a message don’t know how I can quantify it, but I think we were stress that it (relationship) has to be one that’s based “the right way”, and respect the rule of law. Duterte, on Instagram, calling them “cheap lies” from a man intent hurt,” he said. The video was released at the request of on shared values, democratic values, respect for human 71, has typically reacted with defiance abusive lan- on defaming her. “By way of his hate campaign, the several media outlets despite opposition from the Trump rights, and words matter,” US State Department deputy guage to his critics, while insisting he is not doing any- Republican candidate insists on discrediting and demoral- campaign. — AFP spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington. “And within thing illegal. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 ANALYSIS

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By James Pheby

itter internal strife, plunging support among voters and surging populism: Has there ever been a worse Btime to be a center-left party in Europe? A dozen years ago, left-of-center giants seemed a natural source of government in many European states. But today the tally of parties that are declining, sidelined or ideological- ly adrift is long. The sick list is headed by Britain’s Labour Party, where veteran radical Jeremy Corbyn last week eas- ily won a leadership challenge by centrist MPs angry at his part in the shock Brexit vote. But political analysts say the venerable party - found- ed in 1900 - faces electoral oblivion despite his victory. Its dismal standing in the opinion polls is mirrored across Washington Watch Europe. As with Labour, Spain’s Socialist Party is in the grip of a fratricidal war over the performance of its leader, Pedro Sanchez, at a time of national crisis. In Germany, the Social Democratic Party has lost half its members since 1998. In France, President Francois Hollande is the JASTA: Irresponsible and dangerous most unpopular president in his country’s modern histo- By Dr James J Zogby intelligence professionals carefully review was flawed, pledging to “fix” it in the next ernment official were knowingly support- ry and would be routed if he stands in next year’s presi- all available information.” The implication term. They understood that they were ive of the 9/11 plotters.” dential elections, according to opinion polls. ongress’ vote to override President of his argument is that it is dangerous to wrong and still voted to override the That being the case and that being Center-left parties recently lost power in Denmark, a Obama’s veto of the Justice Against take this serious process out of the hands veto. known by Members of Congress, one stronghold of social democracy, and registered their Sponsors of Terrorism Act was both of the professionals and turn it over to The problem is that damage has been might reasonably ask why they wouldn’t worst-ever results in Finland and Poland. In Greece, sup- C embarrassing and irresponsible. The bill, tort lawyers, juries, and local judges. done that no “fix” will cure. Not unlike the have been honest with the families of the port for the once dominant Pasok has plunged to just six Dubai Ports controversy of a decade ago, victims - and their lawyers who were percent. “Social democracy is a shadow of itself,” German known as JASTA, amends the Foreign The president’s second concern was political analyst Albrecht von Lucke said on NDR televi- Sovereign Immunities Act allowing US that in passing this bill, Congress upends JASTA has shaken Arab trust in the United pressing them to act - and warn them of sion channel. “We are dealing with decline of historic pro- citizens to sue foreign governments and the long standing principle of foreign States putting at risk business partner- the dangers and the ultimate disappoint- portions.” entities for damages resulting from acts sovereign immunity. This, he warned, ships and national security relationships. I ment of moving down this path? Was it For many commentators, the finger of blame points at of terrorism committed on US soil on or would open the door for other govern- have already heard from Arab business- because they lacked political courage or globalization. They say immigration has become a light- after Sept 11, 2001. Clearly directed at the ments to pass similar legislation that men who are saying that they are recon- was it because in an election year they ning rod for anger, with older manual workers blaming government of Saudi Arabia, JASTA has would “allow their domestic courts” to sidering investments in and partnerships took the more expedient path of passing an influx of foreign labor for job insecurity and lower caused enormous concern and not only hold the US liable for actions committed with American businesses. This happened JASTA? wages. “The metropolitan elite think ‘great, free move- in that country. In his veto statement, by US personnel or “members of an after Dubai Ports and it will happen once Here’s what might happen now. The ment, we’re all multicultural,’ but the working class don’t President Obama cited three reasons for armed group that received US assis- again in the aftermath of JASTA. tort lawyers who “represent” the families really see the benefits and feel threatened by it,” says his strong opposition to the bill. tance...or abuses committed by police While Members of Congress will argue will try to shop around for a friendly juris- Isabelle Hertner, a lecturer at King’s College London. “The In the first place, JASTA takes the units that received US training.” This that they passed JASTA out of concern for diction in which to file their case. They average person doesn’t necessarily benefit, just the best authority to determine whether a state would put the assets of the United States the families of the victims of the 9/11 ter- will hope to make their case before a qualified people. It’s difficult for center-left parties to has become a sponsor of terrorism away and the foreign holdings of American ror attacks, their motives were simply not sympathetic jury, playing on their sympa- bridge that gap.” from the federal government and places businesses at risk. that pure. More to the point, I suspect thies, their fears, and their prejudices. Any it in the hands of local courts which the Finally, the president noted that JASTA that they were motivated by crass oppor- decision will be appealed and at some Far-Left Insurgency President noted could make “consequen- would “create complications in our rela- tunism: exploitation of the continued level will be overturned. Along the way, Other perceived factors in the center-left’s decline are tial decisions...based upon incomplete tionships with even our closest partners” pain of the families of 9/11 victims, the both the Saudi government and the fami- the 2008 financial crisis, China’s entry into the world information...[about] the culpability of endangering our nation’s ability to seek pervasiveness of anti-Arab sentiment lies will pay millions in legal fees; more economy, shrunken public coffers and technological individual foreign governments and their “their cooperation on key national securi- (with Saudi Arabia being an especially damage will be done to the US-Arab rela- innovation. Put together, these have savaged the credi- role in terrorist activities against the ty issues.” soft target), and electoral considerations. tionship; and, in the end, no one will ben- bility of the “third-way” politics championed by Bill United States”. This, he argued, is “neither In voting to override Obama’s veto, efit except the lawyers, themselves. The Clinton, Tony Blair and other Social Democrats once rul- an effective nor a coordinated way for us Disturbing Congress ignored the fact that there is no problem is that the Members of Congress ing Europe. The model embraced capitalism, globaliza- to respond to indications that a foreign In overriding the strong case the presi- evidence that the government of Saudi who created this heartbreaking mess for tion and vast public spending programs to vacuum up government might have been behind a dent made in issuing his veto, Congress Arabia was responsible for the 9/11 ter- the families, the United States, and the votes among both the comfortable middle classes and rorist attacks. As the White House US-Arab relationship will most likely not industrial heartlands during the booming 1990s and ear- terrorist attack”. acted in a manner that was irresponsible, ly 2000s. The president went on to note that the dangerous, and damaging to the national spokesperson made clear after the vote, be held accountable or feel responsible Post-crash, the traditional far-left became embold- US takes its responsibility seriously and interests of the United States. Most dis- the US 9/11 Commission Report “conclud- for what they have done. ened by the apparent failure of the center-left’s vision of only designates a foreign government of turbing was the fact that, on the day of ed that they were not able to find any evi- capitalism, and with its subsequent austerity programs. being a state sponsor of terrorism after the vote, 28 Senators released a letter in dence that the Saudi government as an NOTE: Dr James J Zogby is the President “A lot of center-left parties were actually in power, so you “national security, foreign policy, and which they acknowledged that the bill institution or that any senior Saudi gov- of the Arab American Institute think ‘you have not regulated financial markets, so what’s the point in voting for you?’” said Hertner. Anti-establish- ment feeling and the organizational opportunities afford- ed by social media helped more radical, tech-savvy left- Change not part of Trump character - or appeal ists take over Britain’s Labour Party and fuelled the boom of populist leftist parties across Europe. By Julie Pace while a Clinton White House would be nothing more Judge Gonzalo Curiel, claiming his Mexican heritage “Right across Europe, you’ve had a trend for new par- than an impenetrable roadblock. made him biased against Trump in a legal case. Trump ties to set up with an activist base,” said Patrick Dunleavy onald Trump will not change. He may surround emerged from the party conventions this summer locked of the London School of Economics (LSE), citing Podemos himself with new staff and even listen to their Examples in an ugly fight with Khizr Khan, an American Muslim in Spain, Italy’s Five-Star movement and Syriza in Greece. Dadvice for a while. He may stick to a scripted, But Republicans might also worry that Clinton’s ability whose son was killed serving the US Army in Iraq. “There’s been a tendency for parties that were much more measured message if it looks to be working. But to get under Trump’s skin so easily has provided a blue- The latest controversy came at one of the most critical more digitally organised, and much more aiming at he’ll always be the man who can’t let go of a grudge, print that world leaders like Russia’s Vladimir Putin could stages of the campaign - on the debate stage in front of a recruiting a mass membership.” whether it’s with a judge who ruled against him or a use to rile him as president. And they should have no illu- televised audience of 84 million people and with early military father whose son was killed fighting for the sions that the brash businessman can control his bel- voting already underway in some states. Trump strug- Populism’s ‘Silver Bullet’ United States overseas. ligerent behavior and avoid offending many Americans. gled in Monday night’s debate to fend off Clinton’s criti- Britain’s Brexit referendum revealed that many voters He’ll always be the man who embarrassed a young Trump’s decades in the public eye are littered with exam- cism of comments he made about Machado two decades in Labour’s working-class heartlands turned to rightwing beauty queen about her weight, then defended his ples of long-held grudges with business associates and earlier. When Clinton accused him of calling the former populism, blaming foreign competition and immigration comments two decades later when Hillary Clinton for hastening their demise. “Populists claim that complex demeaning comments about women. One of his first Miss Universe “Miss Piggy,” he said, “Where did you find problems can be solved by simple, invariably divisive, raised them in a debate. And the man who on Friday - moves after clinching the Republican nomination was to this? Where did you find this?” solutions,” Nick Clegg, the former leader of Britain’s center- just 38 days away from potentially being elected presi- start a feud with Rather than let the matter go, he defended himself left Liberal Democrats wrote in a newly-published autobi- dent of the United States - deepened his highly person- US District the next morning, apparently blind to how offensive his ography. “Pull out of the EU. Pull apart the UK. Reduce al criticism of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado in a C o u r t comments seemed. “She gained a massive amount of immigration. Blame Islam. Arrest bankers. Stop free trade. predawn Twitter tirade. “Did Crooked Hillary help dis- weight,” said Trump, who owned the pageant at the time Populism offers silver-bullet solutions to our problems.” gusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become she won. “It was a real problem. We had a real problem.” With the rights that social democrats fought hard to a US citizen so she could use her in the debate?” Trump Surely by week’s end, Trump was aware that his criticism secure now entrenched in western Europe, these parties wrote in a message timestamped 5:30 am. of Machado risked damaging his campaign and giving are also finding it difficult to convince voters of their rea- Some voters may applaud Trump’s moves. Some Clinton fresh fodder to argue that he is too thin-skinned son for existing, said Hertner. The future is bleak, former may prefer his stubborn refusal to censor himself. to serve as commander in chief. That made his decision Spanish Socialist Party boss Felipe Gonzalez told Spanish Enough voters may ultimately elect him president. But to keep the story alive Friday and deepen his denigration magazine Jot Down in July. “There is no alternative to end- Trump’s pattern of abrasive behavior has left him of Machado all the more perplexing. “Using Alicia M in ing the crisis... and the politics of ‘austericide’ other than a deeply unpopular with many Americans, particularly the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that social democrat manifesto,” he said. “The paradox is that women and minorities, who hold significant sway in Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT! Hillary social democracy isn’t currently fit to offer this.” — AFP presidential elections. If Trump does win in November, was set up by a con,” Trump wrote in one of three early he’ll have to figure out a way to lead a country where morning messages about the Venezuelan-born Machado, many people believe he’s racist, sexist and uncivil. who is now an American citizen. Most Republican leaders long ago gave up hope Clinton advisers can hardly believe their good fortune All articles appearing on these pages are that Trump would make a full-scale pivot into a more as the race barrels toward the finish line. The Democrat the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait palatable politician in the general election. But has been dragged down by decades of her own baggage Times takes no responsibility for views they’ve still found ways to rationalize their support for and has struggled to persuade voters she is honest and him, to look past his most volatile moments and trustworthy. And the race with Trump is far closer than expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites offensive rhetoric. Some Republicans hinge their most Clinton supporters expected. But the core of readers to voice their opinions. Please send hopes on a belief that if Trump is elected president, Clinton’s case against Trump has always been that the submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- he’ll surround himself with high-quality experts to Republican is too hypersensitive to be trusted in the Oval times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 help guide his decision-making. House Speaker Paul Office. And just over five weeks from Election Day, Trump Ryan and Texas Sen Ted Cruz, both of whom have is giving her more evidence. “When something gets Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right their own designs on the White House, argue a Trump under Donald’s thin skin, he lashes out and can’t let go,” to edit any submission as necessary. presidency would at least give them a chance of Clinton wrote in her own Twitter message Friday. “This is implementing conservative legislation in Congress, dangerous for a president.” — AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 SPORTS

NBA - No 1 draft pick Kuwaiti athletes win 5 golds, Inter’s De Boer cracks Simmons breaks foot two silvers in Malaysia Open whip, slams Brozovic KUALA LUMPUR: A contingent of Kuwait athletes has clinched MILAN: Inter Milan coach Frank De Boer has warned his players over the use NEW YORK: Number one draft pick Ben Simmons faces a delayed start to his five gold medals and two silvers in the Malaysia Open Athletics of social media and their lack of professionalism in two shock defeats that NBA career after suffering a broken foot during training with the Phildalephia Championship, after bagging three golds and two silvers yes- have dented their European prospects. Inter, who sit third in Serie A, four 76ers, the team confirmed on Friday. The 20-year-old Australian rookie sus- terday. Essa Zankawi and Yaqoub Al-Yoha both won gold in the points behind champions and leaders Juventus, travel to Roma on Sunday tained the injury after rolling an ankle during the session at Stockton University discus throw and 110 meters hurdles events respectively, with looking to get back to winning ways after a disappointing 1-1 in New Jersey. X-rays and an MRI scan revealed a fracture of the latter administering a new record of 13.83 seconds. home draw with Bologna last week and another poor showing in the fifth metatarsal bone on Simmons’ right foot, the Sixers Moreover, Majid Al-Zaid snagged the gold medal in the Europe. While De Boer slammed Inter’s lack of focus on said. “Further medical evaluation and treatment options are decathlon contest, while Ali Al-Sabagha won silver in the pole the pitch, Marcelo Brozovic has been slammed for his being considered at this time and additional updates will vault. Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Ambassador to Malaysia Saad Al- conduct off it. As Inter were losing 3-1 to Sparta be provided when appropriate,” a Sixers statement said. Asousi feted the athletes for their accomplishments, as he told Prague in the Czech capital in the Europa League Metatarsal fractures are common in the sports world and KUNA that the athletes were well prepared for the champi- on Thursday, Croatian midfielder Brozovic was depending on the severity can take between six to eight onship. Speaking on the support given by the country’s leader- posting pictures of himself and his girlfriend on weeks to heal. The injury means Simmons is all but certain to ship, Al-Asousi said it was instrumental to the success of the the social media platform Instagram. Already miss the start of the Sixers new season, which gets under athletes in international events of such magnitude. sidelined due to disciplinary problems, he has way against the Oklahoma City Thunder on October Furthermore, Kuwait’s Mishary Suror won gold in the shot put been left out of the squad to face Roma on 26. Simmons, the first top pick for the Sixers contest with a record of 19.54 meters, while his compatriot Sunday. “All my players need to realise that social since Allen Iverson in 1996, averaged 19.2 Khaled Al-Subaie bagged the gold in the triple jump. The cham- media is important, but can also be dangerous,” points and 11.8 rebounds in his lone US pionship, which kicked off on Friday, features participation of De Boer said. “They need to know when not to college season at Louisiana State.—AFP athletes from 10 Asian nations. — KUNA use it, that goes for everyone. —AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Giants third baseman Gordon Beckham dives in vain for a grounder by Los Angeles Dodgers’s Charlie Culberson during the second inning of a baseball game on Friday, Sept 30, 2016. — AP Red Sox overpower Toronto Blue Jays

BOSTON: David Ortiz hit a tiebreaking two- cards. Two games are left, and the Orioles’ run homer in the seventh inning, and the magic number for a postseason berth is two. TIGERS 6, BRAVES 2 MLB Results/Standings Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Trumbo and Jones homered off Michael Miguel Cabrera hit two home runs, Ian on Friday night. The AL East champion Red Sox Pineda (6-12), who started with 3 2/3 hitless Kinsler and Justin Upton also connected and Results from the MLB games on Friday: Baltimore 8, NY Yankees 1; Miami 7, Washington 4; NY Mets 5, snapped a three-game losing streak and innings and suddenly became ineffective. Detroit moved up in the playoff race. The Philadelphia 1; Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 3; Boston 5, Toronto 3; Detroit 6, Atlanta 2; Texas 3, Tampa Bay 1; stayed a half-game ahead of Cleveland in the Schoop tied his career high with five RBIs. Tigers won their third straight and pulled with- Colorado 4, Milwaukee 1; Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 3; Cleveland 7, Kansas City 2; St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh 0; race for home-field advantage when their Yovani Gallardo (6-8) won for just the second in a half-game of Toronto for the second AL Arizona 5, San Diego 3; LA Angels 7, Houston 1; Seattle 5, Oakland 1; San Francisco 9, LA Dodgers 3. playoff series begins next week. The Blue Jays time in nine starts since Aug 5, allowing two wild card. The regular season is scheduled to AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE fell one game behind Baltimore in the wild- hits, three walks and Mark Teixeira’s sacrifice fly end Sunday, but the Tigers might need to play EASTERN DIVISION EASTERN DIVISION card race and are now within range of Detroit in six innings. Eliminated on Thursday, New beyond that. They were rained out against W L PCT GB Washington 93 67 .581 - and Seattle in the fight for the AL’s final post- York rested two regulars and pulled four oth- Cleveland this week and would have to make Boston 93 67 .581 - NY Mets 86 74 .538 7 season berth. With his image mowed into the ers by the sixth inning. up that game if it impacts their playoff Baltimore 88 72 .550 5 Miami 79 80 .497 13 1/2 grass in center for the final regular-season chances. Detroit’s Daniel Norris (4-2) gave up Toronto 87 73 .544 6 Philadelphia 70 90 .438 23 series of his career, Ortiz hit his 38th homer of METS 5, PHILLIES 1 one run and struck out eight in 6 2/3 innings. NY Yankees 83 77 .519 10 Atlanta 66 93 .415 26 1/2 the year - and No 541 of his career - to help Jay Bruce homered for the third straight The Braves, playing their final series at Turner Tampa Bay 66 94 .413 27 Boston rally from a 3-1 deficit with four runs in game and drove in three runs, Robert Field before moving north to the suburbs next CENTRAL DIVISION the seventh. Dustin Pedroia had three hits for Gsellman threw six sharp innings and the Mets year, had won 10 of 11. Matt Wisler (7-13) got CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago Cubs 102 57 .642 - Boston, and Brad Ziegler (2-3) picked up the moved closer to securing a wild-card berth. the loss. Cleveland 92 67 .579 - St. Louis 84 76 .525 18 1/2 win with one inning of scoreless relief. Craig The defending NL champions reduced their Detroit 86 73 .541 6 Pittsburgh 78 81 .491 24 Kansas City 81 79 .506 11 1/2 Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his 31st save. magic number to one. The Mets began the MARLINS 7, NATIONALS 4 Milwaukee 71 89 .444 31 1/2 Chicago White Sox 78 82 .488 14 1/2 Devon Travis had three hits, including a pair of night atop the wild-card race, with San Christian Yelich homered for Miami, and Cincinnati 67 93 .419 35 1/2 doubles, and Jose Bautista homered for Francisco one game back and St Louis two Dee Gordon’s infield single in the sixth inning Minnesota 57 103 .356 35 1/2 Toronto. Joe Biagini (4-3) got the loss. behind. Gsellman (4-2) scattered seven hits scored the go-ahead run. The game began fol- WESTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION and struck out seven. Philadelphia starter Alec lowing a 1 hour, 43 minute rain delay. The LA Dodgers 91 69 .569 - Texas 95 65 .594 - RANGERS 3, RAYS 1 Asher (2-1) allowed three runs and five hits in series opener came a day after a memorial San Francisco 85 75 .531 6 Yu Darvish looked playoff-ready with a sea- six-plus innings. service in Florida for Jose Fernandez. The Seattle 86 74 .538 9 Houston 83 77 .519 12 Colorado 75 85 .469 16 son-high 12 strikeouts in six innings, and Texas Marlins ace died in a boating accident Sunday. San Diego 68 92 .425 23 clinched home-field advantage throughout CARDINALS 7, PIRATES 0 Mike Dunn (6-1) got the win and AJ Ramos LA Angels 73 87 .456 22 Oakland 67 93 .419 28 Arizona 67 93 .419 24 the postseason. The Rangers have the Carlos Martinez pitched seven sharp pitched the ninth for his 40th save. Anthony tiebreakers over fellow contenders Boston and innings, Matt Holliday hit an emotional home Rendon and Stephen Drew hit back-to-back Cleveland. The AL owns home-field advantage run and St Louis stayed in the middle of the NL home runs for Washington in a four-run a double in a four-run third, homered off the League record. The Texas Rangers previously in the World Series thanks to its win in the All- wild-card race. The Cardinals began the day fourth. Sammy Solis (2-4) got the loss. Bryce left-field foul pole in the seventh. Kansas City’s held the record with 23 winning pitchers in Star Game. Darvish (7-5) allowed one run and trailing San Francisco by one game for the sec- Harper went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts in his Yordano Ventura (11-12) gave up four runs and 2014. Mike Trout set a club record with his three hits. Shin-Soo Choo returned to Texas’ ond wild card. The Giants hosted the Los return to the Nationals lineup after sitting out six hits in six innings. 114th walk of the season, breaking Tony lineup after missing 39 games with a fractured Angeles Dodgers later Thursday night. the previous four days with a left thumb Phillips’ previous Angels record set in 1995. left forearm. Choo pulled a single to right in Martinez (16-9) gave up five singles, walked injury. ROCKIES 4, BREWERS 1 Trout stole two bases, bringing his season his first plate appearance since Aug. 15 and one and struck out nine. Holliday, who broke Nolan Arenado hit his NL-leading 41st total to 29. The Angels broke the game open went 1 for 4. Matt Andriese (8-8) gave up three his left thumb when he was hit by a pitch Aug CUBS 7, REDS 3 homer for Colorado, and Chad Bettis pitched with a four-run second inning. Brad Peacock runs and seven hits, including solo home runs 11, asked the club to activate him Friday to Ben Zobrist homered twice and drove in effectively into the seventh inning. Bettis (14- (0-1) loaded the bases with no outs for Kaleb to Carlos Beltran and Rougned Odor. make what could be his farewell appearance three runs, helping the Cubs to the win. Jake 8) allowed one run and eight hits in 6 2/3 Cowart, who doubled to empty them. Kowart in a Cardinals uniform. The Cardinals are not Buchanan (1-0) pitched five shutout innings as innings while extending a career high in wins took third on the throw, allowing him to score ORIOLES 8, YANKEES 1 planning to pick up their $17 million option Chicago improved to 14-3 against Cincinnati this season. He struck out five in the Rockies’ while Ji-Man Choi was caught in a rundown Baltimore’s Mark Trumbo hit his major on his contract for 2017. Holliday received a this season with two games to play. The right- first win in four games against Milwaukee this two batters later. league-leading 47th home run, and Jonathan standing ovation before he pinch-hit in the hander allowed two hits in his first start since season. Carlos Estevez got four outs before Schoop and Adam Jones also went deep in a seventh and responded with his 20th homer, 2014 with Houston. Anthony Rizzo also drove Adam Ottavino worked the ninth for his sev- MARINERS 5, ATHLETICS 1 six-run fifth inning. The Orioles opened a one- and then came out for a curtain call. in two runs for the NL Central champions, who enth save. Chris Carter connected in the fourth Robinson Cano hit two home runs, Taijuan game lead over the Blue Jays and remain 1 1/2 Pittsburgh’s Tyler Glasnow (0-2) pitched five were coming off a rare tie in Pittsburgh due to inning, becoming the sixth player in Brewers Walker pitched six effective innings and games in front of Detroit for the AL’s two wild innings of one-run ball. rain. Joey Votto hit a two-run homer in the history to reach 40 home runs in a season. Seattle moved within one game of the second ninth for last-place Cincinnati, which Brent Suter (2-2) got the loss. AL wild-card spot. Seattle, which has won sev- announced before the game that manager en of nine, is one game behind Toronto for the Bryan Price would return next season. Josh GIANTS 9, DODGERS 3 second spot. The Mariners also trail Detroit by Smith (3-3) was charged with two runs and Madison Bumgarner lined a key two-run a half-game. Cano had a two-run homer in the three hits in five-plus innings. double in the sixth and emphatically pumped first. He added his 38th home run in the third, his arms while yelling in celebration at second a solo shot that gave him 100 RBIs for the sea- WHITE SOX 7, TWINS 3 base, and San Francisco maintained its slim son. Norichika Aoki and Nelson Cruz also Carlos Rodon tied an AL record by striking lead for the second NL wild card. Brandon Belt homered off Raul Alcantara (1-3), who was out the first seven batters and Tim Anderson added a three-run homer in the seven-run tagged for five runs on seven hits in two-plus had three hits to help the White Sox hand the inning and Bumgarner (15-9) beat the innings. Walker (8-11) allowed one run on two Twins their 103rd loss - the most since the Dodgers for the first time in seven starts since hits in six innings, but walked five in a 113- franchise moved to Minnesota. Rodon (9-10) May 21, 2015. It was win No 100 of his career. pitch outing. The only run came on Ryon finished with 10 strikeouts in six innings and The Mets stayed one game ahead of the Healy’s 13th homer to open the sixth. Evan was charged with three runs and three hits. Giants for the top wild card, while San Scribner, Nick Vincent and Steve Cishek each Anderson also drove in two runs in Chicago’s Francisco remained a game up on St Louis for pitched a scoreless inning of relief. sixth win in seven games. Tyler Duffey (9-12) the second spot. Angel Pagan might have gave up five runs in two-plus innings to made the play of the night - without his glove DIAMONDBACKS 5, PADRES 3 ensure Minnesota won’t have a 10 game win- or bat. He body-slammed a male fan in the left Paul Goldschmidt and Chris Owings each ner while reaching the most losses since the field grass during the fourth inning after he hit a two-run home run and Arizona opened Washington Senators went 50-104 in 1949. ran onto the field. Once Rich Hill left the game, its final series of a disappointing season with a The 57-103 Twins have two games left. San Francisco pounced against Brandon win. Ryan Schimpf hit a two-run home run for McCarthy (2-3). San Diego. Randall Delgado (5-2) pitched an INDIANS 7, ROYALS 2 inning of relief to get the victory. Patrick Ryan Merritt retired his final 13 batters ANGELS 7, ASTROS 1 Corbin threw 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief while pitching five strong innings in his first Jefry Marte homered and scored twice and before Daniel Hudson came on to get Wil big league start and Francisco Lindor hit a Daniel Wright earned his first major league Myers to pop out to first for his fifth save. three-run homer for Cleveland. Merritt (1-0) victory to help the Angels beat Houston. In Edwin Jackson (5-7) gave up five runs and sev- gave up a run on three hits in the first, but Wright’s ninth big league appearance, he limit- en hits in five innings to take the loss. The nothing after that. Merritt, who had made ed the Astros to one run and six hits while crowd for the matchup between the bottom SEATTLE: Shortstop Ketel Marte #4 of the Seattle Mariners fields a throw from catcher three relief appearances after being promoted striking out five. Wright (1-5), who was claimed two teams in the NL West was announced at Mike Zunino #3 of the Seattle Mariners as Marcus Semien #10 of the Oakland Athletics Sept. 11 from Triple-A Columbus, threw 62 off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds on Sept. 42,651, the second-largest of the season at steals second base during the fifth inning of a game at Safeco Field on September 30, pitches, striking out four and walking none. 4, became the 24th pitcher to get a win for the home for the Diamondbacks. Only the season 2016.— AFP Lindor, who snapped an 0-for-29 drought with Angels this season, setting an American opener drew more.—AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 SPORTS Kumar floors New Zealand with five-wicket haul

KOLKATA: Indian fast bowler Bhuvneshwar wickets early tomorrow morning and it Kumar said he was in dreamland yesterday would be nice if we do better in the second after his debut five-wicket haul at home innings,” India’s wicketkeeper Wriddhiman left New Zealand tottering at 128 for seven Saha, who notched a half century earlier in on day two of the second Test in Kolkata. At the day, told reporters after stumps. Kumar stumps after a rain-hit day’s play at Eden got Taylor caught at first slip on another Gardens, the Black Caps were still trailing one of his deliveries that had the right line India, who posted 316 in their first innings, and length. by 188 runs with BJ Watling on 12 and Jeetan Patel on 5 battling to survive. Missed hat-trick Getting good support from new-ball Kumar wreaked havoc in the 33rd over partner Mohammed Shami, who struck first the innings to pick up two wickets- with the wicket of opener Tom Latham, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry-off con- Kumar made life difficult for the visiting secutive deliveries only to miss out on a batsmen. The 26-year-old Kumar recorded hat-trick. Watling and Patel then played his fourth five-wicket haul in 15th Test, but through the final few overs of the day it was also his first on home soil. “It was one under murky conditions before umpires of my dreams to take five wickets in India. called bad light. Earlier the hosts, who When I saw that the wicket would help me, started the day on 239 for seven, were bol- I told myself I want to take five wickets,” stered by Saha’s unbeaten 54, which Kumar told India’s Star Sports television included 7 fours and 2 sixes. network. “In India you rarely get this kind of Saha and Jadeja, who scored 14, put on wicket (that helps the pacers), so I wanted 41 runs for the eighth wicket to add some to make full use of it, I really wanted to useful runs to the team’s first innings score. make use of the opportunity and I’m very “They are making runs at the end of the happy with how I bowled.” innings, which had made a difference. Martin Guptill, who is in the middle of a Today they were 240 overnight and then woeful run of form, was bowled for 13 by a they made 300 and whatever, that’s a big DHAKA: Bangladesh’s players pose with the trophy after winning their series against Afghanistan in Dhaka, Bangladesh yesterday. — AP beautiful Kumar delivery that left the bats- chunk of runs from the last three wickets,” man in two minds. Stand-in-skipper Ross said Ronchi. “That is something we have to Taylor (36) and Luke Ronchi (35) managed improve on to stay in this Test, or in this Bangladesh crush Afghanistan 62 runs for the fourth wicket to put up series even, going forward. some resistance but Ravindra Jadeja had “Hopefully tomorrow we can do the DHAKA: Opener Tamim Iqbal smashed a brilliant other ideas. Left-arm spinner Jadeja broke same thing with our tail, make some runs century as Bangladesh crushed Afghanistan by through Ronchi’s defences after trapping and they’ll be very valuable runs in the situ- 141 runs in the third one-day international (ODI) SCOREBOARD the batsman lbw, although television ation we are in.” Saha, who registered his to clinch the three-match series 2-1 in Dhaka replays suggested that the ball may have third Test fifty in 17 matches, looked in fine yesterday. Tamim helped Bangladesh reach 279- DHAKA: Scoreboard of the third one-day international between Bangladesh and Afghanistan at the Sher-e-Bangla missed the leg stump. Ronchi failed to capi- form but ran out of partners at the other 8 with 118 in as many balls, his seventh ODI cen- National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: talise on a reprieve when he was on 16 end. New Zealand recalled pacer Henry tury - the highest for his country - before the when substitute fielder Gautam Gambhir claimed three wickets while Trent Boult, home side dismissed Afghanistan for 138 runs in Bangladesh Hashmatullah Shahidi c Tamim b Mosharraf 0 dropped the ball at point off Shami. Neil Wagner and Jeetan Patel took two 33.5 overs in a lopsided contest at the Sher-e- Tamim Iqbal c Sub b Nabi 118 Asghar Stanikzai run out 1 A nearly two-and-a-half hour rain inter- each. “A lot of us were quite surprised when Bangla National Stadium. Soumya Sarkar c Shahzad b Ashraf 11 Samiullah Shinwari c Rahim b Taskin 13 ruption, which forced an early tea, did not we saw the grass on the wicket... People are Left-arm spinner Mosharraf Hossain grabbed Sabbir Rahman c Mangal b Shah 65 Mohammad Nabi c and b Mosharraf 3 change New Zealand’s fortunes as the visi- surprised the seam bowlers have taken as 3-24 runs playing his first match in more than Shakib Al Hasan c Shahzad b Dawlat 17 Najibullah Zadran c Sabbir b Mosaddek 26 tors lost three wickets in the final session. many wickets as they have, from both eight years while paceman Taskin Ahmed Mushfiqur Rahim lbw b Rashid 12 Rashid Khan run out 17 “It’s important that we get those three sides,” said Ronchi. —AFP chipped in with 2-31. This was Bangladesh’s Mahmudullah not out 32 Mirwais Ashraf not out 4 sixth consecutive series victory in ODIs. The win- Mosaddek st Shahzad b Rashid 4 Dawlat Zadran c and b Shafiul 0 ning streak started in November 2014 when Mosharraf Hossain c Najibullah b Nabi 4 Extras (b1, w4) 5 SCOREBOARD they blanked Zimbabwe 5-0 at home. The pur- Mashrafe Mortaza c Mangal b Ashraf 2 Total (all out; 33.5 overs) 138 ple patch also included three series wins against Shafiul Islam not out 2 Fall of wickets: 1-5 ( Shahzad), 2-52 ( Mangal), 3-52 Extras (b2 w8,nb2) 12 (Hashmatullah), 4-55 (Stanikzai), 5-83( Samiullah ), 6-88 KOLKATA: Scoreboard at stumps on day two of the second Test India against New Zealand in Kolkata much fancied Pakistan, India and South Africa. Total ( eight wickets, 50 overs) 279 (Rahmat), 7-89 (Nabi), 8-132 (Rashid), 9-132 ( yesterday: India 1st innings (overnight 239/7; W. Saha 14 not out, R. Jadeja 0 not out) During the period, Bangladesh also reached the World Cup quarter-finals in Australia-New Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Soumya), 2-163 (Sabbir), 3-212 Najibullah), 10-138 (Dawlat) S. Dhawan b Henry 1 T. Latham lbw b Shami 1 Zealand last year. (Tamim), 4-226 (Shakib), 5-230 (Rahim), 6-235 Bowling: Mortaza 6-2-15-1 (w1), Shafiul 5.5-0-28-1 (w1), M. Vijay c Watling b Henry 9 H. Nicholls b Kumar 1 The victory in the third ODI was not assured (Mosaddek), 7-248 (Mosharraf), 8-270 ( Mortaza) Shakib 6-0-34-0, Mosharraf 8-1-24-3, Taskin 7-0-31- C. Pujara c Guptill b Wagner 87 R. Taylor c Vijay b Kumar 36 until Bangladesh, who elected to bat first, got a Did not bat: Taskin Ahmed 2(w1), Mosaddek 1-0-5-1 (w1) V. Kohli c Latham b Boult 9 L. Ronchi lbw b Jadeja 35 commanding total for the first time in the series, Bowling: Nabi 10-1-41-1 (w1), Dawlat 10-0-58-1 (nb2, Result: Bangladesh won by 141 runs Series result: A. Rahane lbw b Patel 77 M. Santner lbw b Kumar 11 which was otherwise dominated by Afghanistan. w4), Ashraf 8-0-43-2, Shinwari 3-0-28-0, Rashid 10-0-39- Bangladesh won series 2-1 R. Sharma c Latham b Patel 2 BJ. Watling not out 12 Tamim made the most of a dropped catch early 2 (w1), Shah 8-0-59-1 (w2), Mangal 1-0-9-0 Man of the match: Tamim Iqbal R. Ashwin lbw b Henry 26 M. Henry b Kumar 0 in his innings to give Bangladesh the kind of Toss: Bangladesh W. Saha not out 54 Jeetan Patel not out 5 platform they were looking for, but an unexpect- Afghanistan Umpires: Shamshuddin Chettithody (IND) and R. Jadeja c Henry b Wagner 14 Extras (b 5, lb 4, w 5) 14 ed collapse in the middle-order denied them a Mohammad Shahzad b Mortaza 0 Sharfuddoula Saikat (BAN) B. Kumar lbw b Santner 5 Total (7 wickets; 34 overs) 128 bigger total. Afghanistan skipper Asghar Nawroz Mangal lbw b Mosharraf 33 TV Umpire: Masudur Rahman (BAN) M. Shami c Henry b Boult 14 Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Latham), 2-18 (Guptill), 3-23 Stanikzai missed an easy catch when Tamim had Rahmat Shah c Sub b Taskin 36 Match Referee: Richie Richardson (WI) Extras (b 8, lb 10) 18 (Nicholls), 4-85 (Ronchi), 5-104 (Taylor), 6-122 just opened his account and the left-hander nev- Total (all out; 104.5 overs) 316 (Santner), 7-122 (Henry) er looked back, completing his century with a was spinning a bit early on. Leg-spinner Rashid Khan stopped the run Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Dhawan), 2-28 (Vijay), 3-46 Bowling: Kumar 10-0-33-5, Shami 11-0-46-1, single off Dawlat Zadran. The wicket was hard and dry. I took my time flow, along with Nabi, with two crucial wickets (Kohli), 4-187 (Pujara), 5-193 (Sharma), 6-200 Jadeja 8-3-17-1, Ashwin 5-2-23-0 Substitute fielder Naveen-ul-Haq took the and finally got a hundred,” he said. Bangladesh and finished with 2-39. Medium pacer Mirwais (Rahane), 7-231 (Ashwin), 8-272 (Jadeja), 9-281 To bat: N. Wagner, T. Boult catch at long-off off Mohammad Nabi to end the skipper Mashrafee Moratza said the series win Ashraf also played his part with two wickets for (Kumar), 10-316 (Shami) Toss: India onslaught of Tamim, who hit 11 fours and two will give his team the desired confidence in the 43 runs. Mahmudullah staged a late recovery Bowling: Boult 20.5-9-46-2, Henry 20-6-46-3, Umpires: Richard Kettleborough (ENG) and Rod sixes. Tamim got very good support from one upcoming matches against England who arrived for Bangladesh with an unbeaten 32 from 22 Wagner 20-5-57-2, Santner Tucker (AUS) down Sabbir Rahman, who scored his career here on Friday. “A lot of important series are balls. Afghanistan captain Stanikzai blamed 23-5-83-1, Patel 21-3-66-2 TV umpire: CK Nandan (IND) best 65 off 79 balls and put 140 runs for the third coming up. Hopefully the boys can keep it up. I their bowling for the loss. “We played the first New Zealand 1st innings Match referee: David Boon (AUS) wicket with the left-hander after the early dis- think that’s a sign of improvement,” he said. two games, according to the plan. Today, espe- M. Guptill b Kumar 13 Reserve umpire: Nitin Menon (IND) missal of opener Soumya Sarkar (11). “I should Bangladesh looked on course to score well cially the bowlers didn’t bowl according to the have got it in the first game. I got it in the third excess of 300 runs when Tamim and Sabbir were plan, which is why they made 279 runs on this ODI and I’m happy,” said man-of-the-match batting but dramatically they lost their way, wicket,” he said. Bangladesh will now host Tamim, who scored 80 in the first match. “It was- something that has typified their batting England in three-match ODI series starting on n’t the easiest wicket to bat on. I thought the ball throughout the series. October 7.—AFP Lynx beat Mercury

ST PAUL: Maya Moore scored 26 points and the defending WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx beat the Phoenix Mercury 96-86 on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in the semifinal series. Lindsay Whalen scored 12 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter for Minnesota, playing at the Xcel Energy Center - home of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild - for the second straight KOLKATA: India’s Mohammed Shami (right) fails to field a ball on the second day of game because of a scheduling the second cricket test match against New Zealand, in Kolkata yesterday.— AP conflict at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Rebekkah Brunson added 13 points and Boxing - Scottish boxer 11 rebounds, and Sylvia Fowles had 14 points and nine Towell dies after fight rebounds for the top-seeded Lynx. Earlier Friday, Fowles LONDON: Scottish boxer Mike Towell has on his professional record. Ross, the mother was honored as the league’s died in hospital after being seriously hurt in of Towell’s son, Rocco, said he had been defensive player of the year a fight, his management company con- “complaining of headaches for the last few and Cheryl Reeve as the coach firmed yesterday. The 25-year-old Dundee weeks”. of the year. Diana Taurasi had fighter was stretchered from the ring fol- But a spokesman for St Andrews said 31 points for the eighth-seed- lowing a fifth-round loss to Welshman Dale nobody in Towell’s management team was ed Mercury. Penny Taylor Evans in a St Andrews Sporting Club fight aware of any headache problems prior to added 16. at a Glasgow hotel on Thursday. He was the fight. Loughlin had also been in charge taken by ambulance to the city’s Queen of March’s British middleweight title fight Elizabeth University Hospital, but in the between Chris Eubank and Nick Blackwell, SPARKS 99, SKY 84 early hours of yesterday his management who had to retire after suffering a bleed on Candace Parker had 20 team said he had died with his family at his the skull during the bout. British brain points, 12 rebounds and eight bedside. injury charity Headway called for boxing to assists to help the Los Angeles TEXAS: Minnesota Lynx’s Sylvia Fowles (34) and Dallas Wings’ Plenette Pierson (22) chase after the ball in the “Within the last hour Mike Towell passed be banned in the wake of Towell’s death. rout Chicago for a 2-0 series first half of a WNBA basketball game in this file photo. Fowles was selected as the WNBA’s defensive player of away-he will always be in our hearts “We are deeply saddened to hear of this lead. League sixth woman of the year, the league announced on Friday, Sept, 30, 2016.— AP #RIPIronMike,” St Andrews Sporting Club tragic loss of life,” said Headway chief exec- the year Jantel Lavender said on Twitter. Towell’s partner, Chloe Ross, utive Peter McCabe in a statement. “Quite added 20 points, league MVP wrote on Facebook: “I’m absolutely heart- rightly, the focus at this time should be on Nneka Ogwumike had 18, and broken to say my annoying best friend supporting the family. But the question Kristi Toliver 17 in the Sparks’ Polish runner wins world’s passed away tonight at 11.02 very peace- remains: how many more lives have to be return to their home court at fully.” Boxing trainer Shane McGuigan damaged or lost before this senseless sport tweeted: “Heartbreaking news that Mike is banned?”—AFP Staples Center. They won toughest race - Spartathlon Towell has lost his life. May he rest in peace, Game 1 by 20 points in Long SPARTI: Polish runner Andrzej Radzikowski won the route of Pheidippides, an Athenian messenger sent to thoughts go out to his loved ones. Beach on Wednesday night. 245.3km historic Spartathlon race yesterday for the first Sparta in 490 BC to seek help against the Persians in British promoter Eddie Hearn said: Reserve Clarissa Dos Santos time, clocking 23 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds. the Battle of Marathon. The Spartathlon is one of the “Absolutely devastated by the passing of scored 15 points and Jamierra Radzikowski, 35, was 18th last year and two years ago world’s most difficult races, run over rough tracks, Mike Towell-all of our thoughts with his Faulkner added 14 for the Sky. finished third. Finishing second was Italy’s 39-year-old crossing vineyards and olive groves, steep hillsides and, friends and family at this time.” Towell was Elena Delle Donne watched in Marco Bonfiglio in 23:35.14 while 42-year-old Radek most challenging of all, the 1,200m ascent and descent knocked down twice in the fight before ref- street clothes again because of Brunner of the Czech Republic was third in 24:06.39. of Mount Parthenion in the dead of night. The 34th edi- eree Victor Loughlin stopped the bout in a right thumb injury. She The first woman across the line and fourth overall for tion of the race started at the Acropolis in Athens on the fifth round. Towell had been unbeaten shared the league scoring title the second year in a row was 37-year-old American Friday with 392 runners from 37 countries, and ended prior to the fight, a British welterweight with New York’s Tina Charles, Katalyn Nagy in 25:22.26. The race traces the classical in the southern Greek town of Sparta.—AFP title eliminator, with 11 wins and one draw averaging 21.5 points.—AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 SPORTS Kvitova ends title drought with Wuhan win

WUHAN: Two-time Wimbledon champi- without the practicing, it’s not possible. reached the quarter finals of on Petra Kvitova ended her 13-month But I really need to find a balance, to Wimbledon, saving a match point in a title drought with a straight set win over have some time off to enjoy a day.” three set thriller against fourth-ranked Dominika Cibulkova at the Wuhan Open After the run of early round exits at Agnieska Radwanska, and won two titles yesterday. The former world number two the start of the year, she appears to have this year. It marks an impressive come- appeared to be in a hurry to secure the turned the tide in China and the Wuhan back after surgery on her left Achilles crown her second in Wuhan-taking just title will see her move to 11th in the tendon forced her off the court for four over an hour to defeat Cibulkova 6-1, 6- rankings when next week’s leaderboard months in 2015. After a three-and-a-half- 1. Kvitova has had a year of stark highs is released on Monday. She also has an hour epic against new world number and lows-scooping an Olympic bronze outside chance of qualifying for her fifth one Angelique Kerber in the third round, medal but failing to get further than the consecutive WTA Final in Singapore. Kvitova has looked untouchable on round of 16 at any of the Grand Slams. “I Cibulkova, meanwhile, is assured of a court-hitting 143 winners in four match- need this kind of consistency all year, new career-high ranking on Monday - es. “She was really powerful from the which to be honest, I don’t think I can rising to number eight. She also now first strokes. That’s how she overpow- really do that. I’m probably the player sits at number seven on the Road to ered me today,” Cibulkova told reporters who has up and downs,” Kvitova told Singapore leaderboard but needs a after the match. “When she’s playing like reporters after the final. strong run in Beijing next week to guar- this, she can beat anybody.” “I’m happy that my ups, they are real- antee her first ever qualification in the The first point of the final went to ly high, which I love of course. The elite eight-player event.”I’m not thinking Cibulkova but Kvitova then dominated downs are very low, but that’s how it is.” about Singapore that much because for the next three games until the Czech WUHAN: Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic hits a return to Dominika The year began with a split from coach that would be a dream come true if I double faulted to concede the fourth. Cibulkova of Slovakia during the final of the WTA Wuhan Open tennis tourna- of seven years David Kotyza and she has would get there,” said Cibulkova. “I don’t The Olympic bronze medalist bagged ment in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province yesterday. — AFP since taken an unconventional approach want to make too much pressure on the first set on an ace-her seventh of the to her game and paired back her time on myself.” match. Kvitova was two points up in the breaking her serve to snatch the title on and (not missing) some easy shots,” the practice court. second when Cibulkova held her service the first match point. “I think I always Kvitova said. Both Kvitova and “I just reduced the practices and I feel ‘Power player’ game to take the score to 2-1. But the knew that I’m kind of the power player Cibulskova now travel to Beijing for the a little bit better, more in love with the Wuhan was the fifth final of the sea- six-foot Czech towered over her 5’3” on the tour. But it’s always tough for me China Open where they have first round tennis or something,” she said. “I mean, son for the newly wed Slovak who also opponent for the rest of the match, to find the balance between the power byes.—AFP China’s Qiao advances to final at Korea Open

SEOUL: China’s Qiao Bin yesterday survived great Lee Yong-Dae and partner Yoo Yeon- a stiff test from Hong Kong’s Wong Wing-Ki Seong of South Korea overcame China’s to advance to the men’s singles final at the Wang Yilyu/Huang Kaixiang 21-11, 21-16. Badminton World Federation Korea Open. The Korean couple will face Li Junhui/Liu Qiao defeated Wong 21-18, 21-16 as the Yuchen, who made their second Superseries Hongkonger, who survived a long quarter- final in two weeks. The Chinese-champions final the previous day, couldn’t quite dig at last week’s Yonex Open Japan-took their deep enough. “He was quicker than me time to get going against Malaysia’s Goh V today,” said Wong. “I think my long quarter- Shem/Tan Wee Kiong, but shot ahead in the final against Tian Houwei yesterday made end, 18-21, 21-15, 21-13. China’s Luo Ying me slightly slower”. and Luo Yu ruined Olympic Women’s dou- Qiao will clash with South Korea’s Son bles silver medalists Christinna Wan-Ho, who defeated compatriot Lee Pedersen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl’s quest for a Hyun-Il 21-13, 14-21, 21-10 to secure a berth second straight Superseries title. The Luos at the final. In the women’s tournament, made their first Superseries final this year South Korea’s Sung Ji-Hyun made her sec- with the 21-15, 17-21, 21-12 result. The twins ond straight Korea Open final by routing will now take on Olympic bronze medallists younger teammate Kim Hyo Min 21-5, 21- Jung Kyung-Eun/Shin Seung-Chan of South 10. Sung will meet with Japan’s Akane Korea, who overpowered compatriots Yamaguchi, who brushed aside compatriot Chang Ye-Na/Lee So-Hee 23-21, 21-15 in an Minatsu Mitani, 21-17, 21-11. Men’s Doubles earlier semi-final.—AFP In Ireland, Gaelic football is the only game in town

DUBLIN: The biggest crowd in Europe will ‘Here to witness history’ CHASKA: Rory McIlroy of Europe hits out of a bunker on the 12th hole during morning foursome matches of the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine not be watching detached professionals The story goes that the last time Mayo National Golf Club yesterday in Chaska, Minnesota. —AFP kissing the badge of their latest football won the trophy in 1951 they failed to pay team, but at the All-Ireland Gaelic football their respects while passing a funeral as final. Two amateur teams, Dublin and Mayo, they passed through the county on a victo- will attempt to win the coveted All-Ireland rious homecoming journey. As a result, a Emotional McIlroy leads Europe trophy for Gaelic football in a replay follow- priest apparently warned that Mayo would ing a rare draw two weeks ago. Every year never win another All-Ireland until all of players from 32 counties across the island them had died. Two of that team are still charge but US leads Ryder Cup of Ireland, plus teams of emigrants in alive. Speculation that tickets might be eas- London and New York, compete for the ier to come by second time round turned CHASKA: An emotional Rory McIlroy led Bello’s Ryder Cup debut. “This is very special for with a good friend and a countryman was GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) Sam out to be wishful thinking. Fans of both Europe’s morning charge yesterday on day two us,” Garcia said. “He was a rock out there and he extremely special,” he said. Competition contin- McGuire Cup. counties dressed in the blue of Dublin and of the Ryder Cup even as the United States clung gave me so much confidence to go for shots.” ues with four afternoon four-ball matches and Yesterday evening, fans from all over the red and green of Mayo thronged the to a 5-3 lead at Hazeltine. Third-ranked McIlroy Cabrera Bello was honored to debut alongside concludes today with 12 singles matches. globe crammed into Dublin’s 82,300-capac- streets and bars of Dublin from early and Belgium’s Thomas Pieters went off first for Garcia, mindful of the past Ryder Cup super pair- Europe need 14 points to keep the Cup while Saturday morning, many scouting for spare ity Croke Park, some having paid many Europe against Americans Phil Mickelson and ings of compatriots Seve Ballesteros and Jose- the US team needs 14 1/2 points to take the tro- tickets. Sipping a pre-match pint of multiples of the 60 euros ($67) ticket price. Rickie Fowler in morning alternate shot four- Maria Olazabal. “Having my Ryder Cup debut phy.— AFP Guinness at the Big Tree pub near Croke “The All-Ireland final will beat any World somes matches, Pieters first facing the crucible Park, Sean Duffy, 51, from the little village Cup final or European final, trust me,” says of 1,500 screaming spectators just after dawn at of Louisburgh in Mayo, told AFP he would the first tee and putting his tee shot into the fair- former Manchester United and Ireland likely “endure more than enjoy” the match. NHL 2016-17: Odds stacked football captain Roy Keane. “It’s about local way. “We’re not going down without a fight,” “I’m here to witness history,” he said. “Many McIlroy said. Americans swept Friday foursomes pride, that’s what GAA is-people represent- a man hasn’t lived long enough to see this ing their parishes and the streets where 4-0, their best start since 1975, only for Europe against Penguins repeating day so I have to be here in case we do it to go 3-1 in afternoon four-ball matches to close they grew up. today.” Few stadiums wear their heart on the gap and seize momentum. “We’re still “Gaelic football in Ireland is different. PITTSBURGH: After the Penguins paraded the death of NHL dynasties but the variance in play- their sleeves quite like Croke Park, the behind on the cards in boxing terms,” McIlroy They don’t move clubs when they get fed Stanley Cup through the streets of Pittsburgh, off teams. Of the 30 teams, 24 have made the stands of which are named after Irish patri- said. “We got hit by some pretty good punches Sidney Crosby took it to his hometown of Cole up. They represent the people they’re playoffs at least once over the past three sea- ots. It was the scene of what became out there, but we came back at them pretty well. Harbour, Nova Scotia, Evgeni Malkin to Moscow sons. “Unless you’re (cheering for) the team in brought up with.” Ireland’s national sport known as Bloody Sunday, when British Still a little bit to do, but momentum has defi- and Phil Kessel to a children’s hospital in the dynasty market, you could care less,” mixes the pace, power and skill-sets of foot- troops drove into the stadium during a nitely switched to our side. Toronto as part of the summer-long celebration. Bettman said. “All you care about is that your ball, rugby and basketball. Encounters are match in 1920 and massacred 14 people in “We’ve pulled it back a good bit, and we plan If there’s one thing champions in the NHL have team is competitive.” Competition isn’t the typically bruising affairs where fouls can be response to shootings by the IRA (Irish to pull it back even further.” learned, it is to savor those moments because problem. It’s so high that playoff teams can’t difficult to define. It is not a sport for the Republican Army). One terrace, Hill 16, was The US squad is trying to snap a three-Cup history says they won’t happen back-to-back. miss a beat or fear they’ll drop out. The Florida faint of heart. The pitch is similar to a rugby built from the rubble of the 1916 Easter losing streak to Europe, which has dominated by No team has repeated as Cup champion since Panthers look like a team just beginning a run union pitch, but larger, while the goals at Rising, the catalyst for independence from taking the trophy in eight of the past 10 editions the salary-cap era began in 2005, and the last of playoff appearances with young stars like each end are H-shaped with football-style Britain. The country will again come to a of the biennial team golf matches, including the back-to-back winners were the Detroit Red Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov, but goal nets extending behind them. standstill on Saturday evening: almost one 2012 Miracle at Medinah when Europe made the Wings in 1997 and 1998. Sorry, Penguins. And president of hockey operations Dale Tallon The scoring is relatively simple: three million people watched the last match, 70 greatest last-day rally in Cup history to keep the sorry to the San Jose Sharks, as no team in the knows it’ll come down to breaks and injuries points for a goal and one if the ball, which percent of the Irish viewing public. trophy. McIlroy’s vigorous yells of “Come on,” past eight seasons has lost in the final and got- because “it’s going to be a battle to return to is like a standard football only slightly Generations of expats will join them in during his 3-and-2 victory Friday with Pieters in ten back the next year. the playoffs.” smaller, is kicked or punched over the bar some of the furthest flung corners of the four-ball over US Open champion Dustin The Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles It’s a battle because the top teams haven’t and between the posts. Dublin, last year’s world. Paul Gorman, 50, a banking official Johnson and Matt Kuchar, were followed by Kings are rested from an unusually short spring, lost much. The Penguins made a few tweaks winners, are the hot favorites. Mayo, a from Dublin, says he would not grudge bows to the crowd, one he saw as quite hostile, the Tampa Bay Lightning boast the deepest and will be without Cup-winner Murray to start county on the western seaboard, have Mayo the win, but points out that Dublin after an eagle putt at the par-5 16th hole closed team in the league and the Washington Capitals the season, but they can turn to 2009 winner come close five times in recent years, but have not managed back-to-back champi- out the match. are virtually unchanged after dominating the Fleury and still lean heavily on Crosby, Malkin have not lifted the trophy since 1951. It is onship wins since the mid-1970s. As a “I did that little celebration at Medinah and regular season. All those things, plus playing and defenseman Kris Letang. Elsewhere in the into June, stack the odds against the Penguins East, the Lightning re-signed Steven Stamkos, the first replay in 16 years and will be worth returned emigrant from England, he says he it’s one I’ll continue to do because it’s a hostile raising the Cup again in 2017. “You’re coming the Capitals are primed for another run with more than three million euros to GAA cof- relishes every opportunity to support his environment out here and I want them to know fers. Last time out, Mayo snatched a draw team in a final. “I used to have to watch from off such a high, it’s going to be tough to get to Alex Ovechkin and Vezina Trophy winner how much it means to us,” McIlroy said. “And sort that (level) right away,” Pittsburgh defenseman Braden Holtby, and the Montreal Canadiens deep in additional time, but many analysts afar because of work commitments while I of silence them and say, ‘You’re welcome.’ It’s nice believe they deserved to win, prompting was away, so I wouldn’t miss this for the Trevor Daley said. “How you become a great should be back in contention with all-world to do that sometimes.” McIlroy, coming off a title team in this league is you have the hunger goalie Carey Price healthy after missing most of much discussion of ‘the curse’ that suppos- world now that I’m home,” he says. “There is at the US PGA’s season-ending Tour every night. Teams that are proven winners are last season with a knee injury. edly hangs over the county. simply no better place to be.”— AFP Championship last weekend, is 3-0 in winning usually the great teams, the LAs and Chicagos. Chicago has cycled pieces in and out while the Cup and hopes his victory dance inspires Pittsburgh is right up there now in that conver- winning the Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015, but teammates as well. “I wanted to put an exclama- sation. We’re hungry to do it again.” the core of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and tion point on that session for us,” McIlroy said. “I Because they have two top goalies in Matt Duncan Keith is as strong as ever. The honestly actually thought about the celebration Murray and Marc-Andre Fleury, the Penguins are Blackhawks would have liked to go deeper in before I hit the putt.” perhaps the best positioned team to repeat in last year’s playoffs, but not doing so could pay Europe captain Darren Clarke broke up his recent history. That doesn’t mean it’ll be easy. dividends this season as it has in the past. “It star pairing of Olympic champion Justin Rose Online sportsbook Bovada set the Penguins and might be good for the guys to have a longer off- and British Open champion Henrik Stenson-who Blackhawks as co-Cup favorites with the season and come back hungry for the start of went 1-1 Friday against Jordan Spieth and Capitals, Lightning, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues the season,” defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson Patrick Reed-to pair them with newcomers in and Sharks not far behind. It wouldn’t be a sur- said. Trading off years with the Boston Bruins’ yesterday foursomes. England’s Rose will join prise if any of those teams make it through a 2011 championship mixed in, the Blackhawks countryman Chris Wood against PGA World Cup of Hockey-condensed regular season and Kings know all too well about the Cup Championship winner Jimmy Walker and two- and a grueling division playoff format and get hangover that the Penguins will try to avoid. time major champion Zach Johnson, who won to celebrate in June. Peaking at playoff time and maintaining that in foursomes Friday. Stenson and England’s “The parity in the league allows for a lot of level amid injuries and bounces takes a lot, plus Matthew Fitzpatrick, the youngest player in the teams to have the same goal and actually legiti- the system is skewed against back-to-back event at 22, come up against Brandt Snedeker mately have a chance at it,” said Washington champions. “It’s more hard than before when and Brooks Koepka. winger Justin Williams, who won the Cup with teams were really dominating and could spend Carolina in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2012 and so much on salaries and they can buy different Spanish duo echo Seve-Jose 2014. “There’s a handful of teams that have players,” said Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa, The last morning match sees Spieth and Reed those aspirations and they’re real.” Rather than who lost in the final in 2008 with Pittsburgh and DUBLIN: Dublin supporter Padraic O’Reilly, flanked by Mayo supporters daughter facing Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Rafa Cabrera parity, Commissioner Gary Bettman prefers the 2009 with Detroit before winning three times and mother Sarah Barcoe and Anne Barcoe (right) pose for a photograph outside Bello, who teamed to win Friday in four-balls. It term “competitive balance,” which speaks not with Chicago. “In this modern day, it’s extremely Croke Park ahead of the GAA All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final replay match between was Garcia’s 16th tandem triumph and Cabrera only to the lack of repeat champions and the hard. ... It’s really, really hard to repeat.” —AP Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland yesterday.— AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 SPORTS Allardyce casts shadow over Premier League action

LONDON: Premier League chiefs will hope you never know what will happen in the attention returns to on-field matters this future,” said Howe. weekend after an uncomfortable few days Veteran Arsenal manager Arsene in the spotlight for English football. Sam Wenger, long spoken of as a possible Allardyce’s one-game career as England England manager, is out of contract with manager came to a shock end after just 67 the Gunners at the end of the season. “I’ve days on Tuesday following controversial said many times that my priority has always comments made to undercover reporters, been Arsenal Football Club and I have to which continued Thursday with assess how well I do until the end of the Southampton assistant manager Eric Black season,” said the Frenchman, looking to filmed offering alleged advice on giving build on his side’s 3-0 win over Chelsea bribes to officials at other clubs. away to Burnley today. Manchester City will Allardyce, 61, was also secretly filmed look to return to winning ways at giving advice on how to circumnavigate Tottenham Hotspur today after a midweek transfer rules and mocking England prede- 3-3 draw away to Scottish giants Celtic end- cessor Roy Hodgson. Appointed England ed their perfect record under manager Pep manager on a £3 million-a-year contract Guardiola. “We’re going to recover well, to ($3.9 million), Allardyce also agreed to trav- focus on White Hart Lane,” Guardiola said. el to Singapore and Hong Kong as an ambassador for their fictitious firm for a fee Stuck in a rut of £400,000. After his side’s lacklustre defeats against Liverpool and Arsenal, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte could do without another setback at Hull as he tries to revitalize a team stuck in a rut since last season. The Blues’ miserable defense of the Premier League title cost Jose Mourinho his job last term and, while it’s far too soon for Conte to fear the axe after his close-season appointment, he knows demanding owner Roman Abramovich doesn’t take kindly to prolonged spells of poor form. Conte, whose cause isn’t helped by the LIVERPOOL: Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke (centre) in action with Everton’s Ashley Williams (left) and Phil Jagielka during their English ankle injury that continues to sideline cap- Premier League soccer match Everton versus Crystal Palace at Goodison Park, Liverpool on Friday, Sept 30, 2016. — AP tain John Terry, said: “I’m lucky because Mr Abramovich is very passionate about foot- ball. “To talk with him about football is very Lukaku, Benteke strike interesting. To discuss and explain my idea BOLTON: Former England soccer team of football. “We haven’t got a magic wand manager Sam Allardyce leaves his home to change the situation in two months, in Bolton, England. Even by English soc- three months, four months. “We don’t for- cer’s standards, the latest embarrassment get the past. The past is there, it’s very clear. as Palace hold Everton is a new low after Sam Allardyce was We finished in 10th place last season. forced out in disgrace after one game in “When you finish 10th, it means you have charge of the national team. —AP problems. We must change the situation City, who have a maximum 18 points, visiting had handled the ball as he raised both arms to England Under-21 coach Gareth and we must work hard together and we Tottenham Hotspur in second on 14. protect himself. “I have chased the ball and put Southgate has been placed in caretaker are doing this.” Everton 1 “It’s a good point in the end. We defended set my head in,” said Jagielka. “I got a bit scared and charge for the upcoming World Cup quali- Southampton, fresh from a 3-0 win over plays and second balls well against a difficult tried to protect myself and ended up hand- fiers, but, with the Football Association still West Ham, travel to Leicester City, with the team,” said Everton manager Ronald Koeman. balling it. It is a natural reaction to a high boot. to appoint a permanent replacement, a Premier League champions beating Porto “The team performance was outstanding, The ref knew that. It was his decision.” succession of Premier League managers 1-0 in the Champions League following a 4- Palace 1 although we’d like to create more opportunities. Alan Pardew thought his Palace side were have found themselves being asked if they 1 defeat by Manchester United. Liverpool, “We’ve had a good start to the season. The posi- hard done by with the foul given against them. “I would like a shot at the England job. who thrashed Hull 5-1 last week, are away tion in the table is not everything at the was a bit disappointed that the referee gave the Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe, one of to Swansea while bottom of the table LONDON: Everton moved up to third place in moment and we need to improve, but we’re free-kick. It was a bit harsh,” he said. Palace have English football’s rising managerial stars, Sunderland will seek a first league win of the Premier League despite being held to a 1-1 doing a good job.” Having lost their unbeaten proved lucky opponents for Lukaku, who has ruled himself out of replacing Allardyce-for the season at home to West Brom. United, draw by Crystal Palace as Belgium strikers league record at Bournemouth last weekend, scored four goals in his last five top-flight the time being. “I think I have said in many for whom Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in a 1- Christian Benteke and Romelu Lukaku both Everton looked hungry to make amends and, appearances against the south London side who interviews that the England job is the ulti- 0 home win over Zorya Luhansk in the got on the scoresheet in a battling encounter propelled by the fleet-footed Yannick Bolasie stay in seventh spot. However, his Belgium team mate job....It sounds arrogant but I am not Europa League on Thursday, face strug- on Friday. Benteke headed the equaliser for playing against his former club, they quickly mate Benteke denied Everton the victory when interested in the (England) job now, but gling Stoke at Old Trafford today.—AFP Palace five minutes into the second half after took the initiative. he powered a header past helpless goalkeeper Lukaku opened the scoring in the 36th and A Bolasie cross came close to picking out Maarten Stekelenburg from Joel Ward’s cross. He remarkably it was the Everton forward’s first Lukaku at the far post after 14 minutes before has now scored five goals in six games against Premier League goal from a direct free kick the Belgium targetman did make his mark on Everton. There were nine yellow cards handed Ranieri challenges out of the 65 he has scored. The draw took the scoreboard 10 minutes before the break. He out at Goodison Park-the most in the top flight Everton to 14 points from six matches before bent a superb free kick over the wall after this season-but it was more competitive than their rivals play this weekend with a top-of- Damien Delaney was penalized for a high boot dirty as both sides battled for points in another superstitious Vardy the-table clash that sees leaders Manchester on Phil Jagielka, although the Everton defender of this season’s Friday night matches.—Reuters

LEICESTER: Leicester City manager Claudio Prize scalp Ranieri has challenged Jamie Vardy to With Vardy not so prolific this season prove his curious pre-match drinking ritual and Leicester still adjusting to their new Man City’s Guardiola expects still works by ending his goal drought status as a prize scalp for opposing teams, against Southampton today. Vardy the champions have made an inconsistent revealed in his new autobiography that he start to the season. Ranieri is still trying to superstitiously drank a glass of port out of a find the right blend between the players sparks to fly at Tottenham Lucozade bottle the night before every that won the title and his pre-season sign- match last season. ings. Nampalys Mendy, one of the new LONDON: After a ding-dong 3-3 draw with Guardiola and his Spurs counterpart Mauricio and Tottenham are both teams in that way. The England international striker’s arrivals, could feature today after recover- Celtic in the Champions League, Manchester Pochettino employ an aggressive, high-pressing “I think it’s fantastic what happened in unusual habit worked a treat as he left ing from an ankle injury. The French mid- City manager Pep Guardiola anticipates another style and the City manager thinks the fans at Glasgow. One attacked, then the other did, it opposing defenders punch drunk en route fielder, who joined from Nice, was out for breathless encounter in this weekend’s Premier White Hart Lane today could be in for a treat. was 3-3 and the fans enjoyed it and the people to scoring 24 times in Leicester’s incredible over a month, but has returned to training League showdown with Tottenham Hotspur. “What I like is teams who are active and you see here watching did too. “The fans for Man City Premier League title triumph. and may replace Daniel Amartey. With six wins from six matches, City are the that when they play, they want the ball,” said were disappointed because they didn’t win, but But Vardy, 29, who also said he con- Right-back Danny Simpson could return league leaders and early title favorites, but Guardiola, who could become the first manager were happy with what they saw. They saw until sumes three cans of Red Bull and two after being dropped for the Porto clash. Tottenham, four points back in second place, are to win his first seven Premier League matches. the last moment they tried to win. “That is what I espressos on the day of a game to boost his Southampton manager Claude Puel hopes enjoying their best start to a top-flight campaign “They want to keep it and they are so aggressive am after. Until the last minute, try to win the energy, has only three goals this term and his decision to rest several key players will since 1965. without the ball. I like to see that and Liverpool games, it doesn’t matter what happened. “At the has gone five matches without scoring. pay off at the end of a grueling schedule end I went to the locker room and the players Keen to keep him on his toes, Ranieri ques- that sent his team to London, Israel and were tired. They were exhausted. So much so tioned if the ritual had lost its magic follow- Leicester in the space of seven days. After that they couldn’t talk and that is what I want ing Vardy’s latest blank, in Leicester’s 1-0 beating West Ham 3-0 last Sunday to from my players.” Champions League win over Porto on secure successive Premier League wins, Pochettino’s managerial career has been Tuesday. Puel’s side drew 0-0 at Hapoel Be’er Sheva closely entwined with Guardiola’s, the two men “He took it before Porto? Why didn’t he in the Europa League on Thursday. having started life as top-level coaches in the score?!” Ranieri said. “A nutritionist gives With little time to recover between fix- same city and during the same season. In his first them something to eat but after they go tures, Puel left out in-form Charlie Austin, game as a head coach, former Argentina centre- home they are professional and can eat Ryan Bertrand, Steven Davis and captain back Pochettino saw his Espanyol team hold and drink what they want. “For me it’s Jose Fonte in Israel. “It was important to take Guardiola’s Barcelona to a 0-0 draw in a Copa del important to watch on the pitch, when some players to keep fresh for a game in two Rey tie in January 2009. A month later, Espanyol they play and train well I am happy. days,” said Puel, whose assistant Eric Black sensationally won 2-1 at Camp Nou to end a 27- “Sometimes the players do something just has denied any wrongdoing after featuring year wait for a derby victory and give Pochettino because, ‘Ah, I scored a goal and I want to in the Daily Telegraph’s investigation into his first win as a manager. It was Barcelona’s first continue’. It’s okay. It’s the doctor who has corruption in football this week. “Israel is very league loss in six months and one of only three to investigate and say the port is good or hard, it’s a long journey, a difficult opponent. home defeats that Guardiola suffered in a maid- not good. “Jamie is doing a fantastic career, All my players have done well because it’s en season that concluded with a league, Copa from non-league to national team. I don’t not easy at this level. “It’s a good experience del Rey and Champions League treble. believe port can do something. It is a glass for the future to win away at West Ham and of red wine. It is okay. For me it is only take one point with the difficulties here with Kane, De Bruyne absent superstition, nothing more.” all this travel, the journey.”— AFP Guardiola and Pochettino were effusive in their praise of each other in Friday’s pre-game press conferences. The Spaniard called Pochettino “one of the best football managers in Modric injury adds to the world”, while Pochettino branded Guardiola “the best manager in the world”. But underpin- Real Madrid problems ning the mutual affection is a keen awareness of the threat posed by the other and with Spurs already four points adrift of City, Pochettino is Real Madrid are set to be news conference on Saturday before Real’s BARCELONA: desperate not to lose further ground. “It’s very without influential midfielder Luka Modric game with Eibar today, when they will look early to start to speak about whether it’s an for up to a month due to a knee injury. The to pick up a first win in four games follow- important game to prove something,” he said. Croatian sustained the injury in Tuesday’s ing draws with Villarreal, Las Palmas and “It’s only the beginning, but we know three 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund although Dortmund. Real twice squandered the lead points is already important to reduce the gap. he managed to complete the 90 minutes. in their last two games, drawing 2-2 It’s a very important game for us and them, but “Following tests carried out on Luka against Las Palmas and Dortmund, but the it’s only a game. “At the beginning of the season, Modric at the Sanitas La Moraleja coach said he was not concerned about we play against City, who are unbeaten in the University Hospital, he has been diagnosed the team’s displays. Premier League. It’s first against second in the with an injury to the articular cartilage in “When you draw twice it means some- table, a very tough match, and very important his left knee. His recovery will continue to thing, especially when you had the game for both teams.” Spurs recorded a league double be monitored,” Real said in a statement. under control. We had a lot of chances but over City last season, cruising to a 4-1 home win Modric is set to miss Real’s La Liga fixtures I’m not worried,” Zidane said. “We’ve con- in the equivalent fixture a year ago. Pochettino with Eibar, Real Betis and Athletic Bilbao ceded twice in the last two games and that hopes to have Eric Dier, Mousa Dembele and and Alaves as well as their Champions hasn’t happened to us for a long time. Now Danny Rose back after hamstring injuries, while League game at home to Legia Warsaw, we have to get back to winning, because Moussa Sissoko is expected to overcome a bang while he is a doubt for the return trip to we always want to win. The most impor- to the head sustained during the 2-1 win at Poland. tant thing is to be at our best from the Middlesbrough. Striker Harry Kane, a scorer in He will also miss Croatia’s World Cup start to the finish.” Zidane confirmed mid- last season’s 4-1 win over City, remains sidelined qualifiers against Kosovo and Finland. fielder Isco would take Modric’s place by an ankle injury, with Vincent Janssen due to Modric’s prolonged absence is the latest against Eibar and make his first start of the deputise again. Guardiola reported no new midfield blow for Real, who recently lost season. Isco was named in the Spain squad injury problems. Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Casemiro for up to two months with a frac- for World Cup qualifiers against Italy and GLASGOW: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola gives instructions during the Champions Bruyne and Fabian Delph all have muscular tured fibula. News of Modric’s injury Albania despite playing just 55 minutes of League, Group C soccer match, Celtic versus Manchester City, at Celtic Park, Glasgow on injuries and are only expected to return follow- emerged after Zinedine Zidane gave a league football this campaign. — Reuters Wednesday Sept 28, 2016.—AP ing the international break.—AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 SPORTS Payet’s magic rescues spluttering West Ham

utes after kick-off. Middlesbrough had only two wins in their 22 previous trips to London but they came close to the opener West Ham 1 through striker Jordan Rhodes, who nearly marked his first Premier League start with a goal when he headed just wide. West Ham’s build up to such a significant game wasn’t Middlesbrough 1 helped by claims Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph got drunk after Bilic told captain Mark Noble to take the squad for a morale- LONDON: Dimitri Payet produced an early boosting night out on Monday. contender for goal of the season as the No blame was attached to Noble, but West Ham star’s sublime strike salvaged a the midfielder could have felt the fates 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough yesterday. were conspiring against him when he Slaven Bilic’s struggling side were in danger unleashed a powerful curling effort just of a fifth successive Premier League defeat before half-time, only to see it hit the cross- after Cristhian Stuani put Middlesbrough bar and rebound to safety. Middlesbrough ahead early in the second half at the took advantage of that escape to open the London Stadium. But Payet finally showed scoring in the 51st minute when Viktor a glimpse of last season’s fine form to drag Fischer’s corner reached Stuani and he rose West Ham level with a superb individual highest to head goalwards. Noble almost effort that brought the France playmaker cleared before the ball crossed the line, but his first league goal this term. referee Neil Swarbrick signalled it had gone Even Payet’s heroics couldn’t completely in after consulting the goal decision sys- lift the gloom over the east London club, tem. West Ham fans responded by chanting who remain in the relegation zone with their displeasure at the club’s decision to only one win from their first seven league leave Upton Park for their new home at the games. Middlesbrough, with only one vic- former Olympic Stadium, a venue which tory since winning promotion last season, has been marred by problems on and off are two points and two places above the the field since they took residency. But PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Uruguayan forward Edinson Cavani heads the ball during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint- Hammers after ending a three-match los- their singing had a more celebratory tone Germain and Bordeaux at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris yesterday. — AFP ing streak. After leaking 16 goals already in the 57th minute thanks to Payet’s bril- this season, West Ham had the worst liant equalizer. After a sluggish start to the defense in the top-flight going into the season, Payet was back to his mesmerizing weekend’s fixtures. best as he span away from Antonio Clinical Cavani lifts PSG And Bilic’s beleaguered rearguard suf- Barragan, cut across the edge of the penal- fered another blow when right-back Sam ty area past three more defenders before Byram was carried off in visible discomfort angling a low shot beyond goalkeeper PARIS: The oft-maligned Edinson Cavani was at after a six-year ban. hour mark as Layvin Kurzawa’s low ball in from after suffering a hamstring injury just min- Victor Valdes.— AFP his clinical best yesterday with a first-half brace “The atmosphere was good. It is more posi- the left was deftly back-heeled in by Cavani. It to help champions Paris Saint-Germain ease to a tive for the team and shows it’s special to play at was the former Napoli striker’s eighth goal of the 2-0 victory over Bordeaux in Ligue 1.Cavani the Parc des Princes.” Cavani has extra responsi- season in Ligue 1 and his 13th altogether for struck twice in the first half-hour at the Parc des bility as the spearhead of the champions’ attack club and country since the campaign began. Princes as PSG built on their midweek since the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but Fortunately for Bordeaux there was no more Champions League win away to Ludogorets in he came in for huge criticism for an erratic dis- scoring, although Di Maria did have a second- Bulgaria and got back on track domestically. play in last month’s Champions League draw half effort disallowed for offside. Paris had come into the weekend in fourth spot with Arsenal, despite opening the scoring that Di Maria was later replaced by teenager in the table having lost at Toulouse last time out, night. And yet with his brace on a bright autumn Jonathan Ikone, who came on to make his Ligue their second defeat in just seven league matches afternoon in the French capital, the Uruguayan 1 debut, while summer signing Hatem Ben Arfa under new coach Unai Emery. has now scored nine times in PSG’s subsequent also came off the bench towards the end for the But this was a comfortable victory against a five matches in all competitions. first time after being left out of PSG’s last five disappointing Bordeaux side, and it lifted PSG to Cavani got the breakthrough inside three games. Monaco could go provisionally top with within a point of leaders Nice, who host Lorient minutes, attacking an Angel Di Maria cross from a win away to Metz, while Toulouse can climb on Sunday. “It’s possible that was our best the left at the near post and heading past Cedric back above Emery’s side if they beat Caen in match of the season, but in the second half we Carrasso in the Bordeaux goal. Carrasso was kept Normandy. The big game of the weekend sees could have scored a third goal to make things busy, tipping a Thomas Meunier shot around the Lyon entertain sworn enemies Saint-Etienne in easier and boost our confidence,” said Emery, post as PSG came forward in search of a second the Rhone-Alpes derby today evening.—AFP who welcomed the return of the club’s ultras goal. They duly doubled their lead on the half-

GERMAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP Bayern held at WATFORD: AFC Bournemouth’s Jack Wilshere (left) and Watford’s Valon Behrami bat- tle for the ball during their English Premier League soccer match at Vicarage Road, home as Ancelotti Watford yesterday. —AP misses record Bournemouth and Watford BERLIN: Leaders Bayern Munich dropped their first share the spoils, draw 2-2 Bundesliga points of the season yesterday as their 1-1 draw at home to Cologne denied Carlo Ancelotti a ent tap-in by sending the ball against the record-equaling sixth straight win. Joshua Kimmich’s post, while Stanislas saw a free-kick come first-half header at Munich’s Allianz Arena was can- Watford 2 back off the bar.— AFP celled out by Anthony Modeste’s volley to break the Bavarian giants’ 100 percent record in the league this season.It meant Ancelotti missed out on equalling the Bundesliga record of six straight wins for a coach in his Bournemouth 2 Matches on TV debut season in Germany’s top flight. “We were good (Local Timings) in the first half and controlled the game, then we lost the cohesion and order in our game,” admitted WATFORD: Nigerian forward Isaac Success ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Ancelotti. rose from the bench to head in a second- Man United V Stoke City 14:00 “We haven’t played well in the last two matches, but half equalizer as Watford drew 2-2 at home beIN SPORTS 2 HD we have to keep going after the international break.” to Bournemouth in the Premier League Cologne could easily have claimed a rare win in yesterday. Eddie Howe, linked with the Leicester V Southampton 16:15 beIN SPORTS 9 HD Munich. Simon Zoller sprinted clear of the defense and vacant England job this week, twice saw his his shot beat Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, but Bournemouth side go ahead through Tottenham V Manr City 16:15 beIN SPORTS 2 HD rolled agonizingly past the post two minutes into Callum Wilson and Joshua King. But Troy injury time. Ancelotti made seven changes to the side Burnley V Arsenal 18:30 Deeney scored his 99th Watford goal to which lost 1-0 at Atletico Madrid on Wednesday in the beIN SPORTS 2 HD cancel out Wilson’s opener and Success Champions League. Only Manuel Neuer, Javi Martinez, headed in a second equaliser in the 65th Xabi Alonso and Robert Lewandowski kept their start- minute to spare manager Walter Mazzarri SPANISH LEAGUE ing places. “I don’t think we have rotated too much,” MUNICH: Cologne’s Yuya Osako (top) and Bayern’s Xabi Alonso challenge for the ball from defeat on his 55th birthday. Valencia v Atletico de Madrid 13:00 added Ancelotti when asked if his policy of rotation during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Bournemouth, who have won just once beIN SPORTS 3 HD Cologne at the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich yesterday. —AP in 16 league visits to Vicarage Road, had been a factor. Real Madrid v SD Eibar 17:15 “I trust all my players and a few were tired, so it was climbed to 12th, level on points with 11th- beIN SPORTS 3 HD place Watford. Bournemouth had appropriate to rotate.” Bayern took the lead on 40 min- RCD Espanyol v Villarreal 19:30 SPANISH LEAGUE ROUNDUP impressed in a 1-0 win over Everton last utes when left-back Juan Bernat skipped through a beIN SPORTS 3 HD weekend and Howe named an unchanged tackle to deliver a superb cross, which Kimmich team, but it was Watford who bossed the Malaga v Athletic de Bilbao 19:30 launched himself at to head the ball home past early exchanges. Mazzarri’s men enjoyed a beIN SPORTS 9 HD Cologne goalkeeper Timo Horn. The visitors drew level Sevilla fly high in Spain near monopoly on possession and saw Celta de Vigo v Barcelona 21:45 on 63 minutes when Modeste volleyed Marcel Risse’s Odion Ighalo drag a shot wide from strike beIN SPORTS 3 HD cross over Neuer. after Ben Yedder brace partner Deeney’s flick. But after home goal- It was only the second goal Bayern had conceded at ITALIAN LEAGUE keeper Heurelho Gomes had tipped an in- home this season in five games at the Allianz Arena. BARCELONA: Two flicks of the heel were excellent early chance when he hit the post swinging free-kick from Junior Stanislas Empoli v Juventus FC 13:30 Bayern could have gone back in front, but Germany enough for Sevilla to provisionally pull level with only goalkeeper Sergio Rico to beat. over the bar at the other end, the visitors beIN SPORTS 4 HD star Thomas Mueller was left with his head in his hands with Real Madrid on points at the top of Before the late flurry of goals, the match went in front in the 31st minute. Atalanta v SSC Napoli 16:00 when Horn deflected his close-range shot onto the far the Spanish league yesterday. Wissam Ben was marred by several leg injuries, with all Stanislas sent a cross into the box and beIN SPORTS 4 HD post with 76 minutes gone. The result leaves Bayern Yedder scored his second of two goals in the injured walking off the pitch when sub- Wilson got ahead of his man at the near Bologna FC v Genoa 16:00 three points clear while fourth-placed Cologne pre- stoppage time to snatch a 2-1 win over a stituted. Alaves lost Kiko Femenia and post to meet the ball with a header that beIN SPORTS 13 HD EN serve their unbeaten record this season. tough Alaves side at Ramon Sanchez Daniel Torres in the first half, while Sevilla squirmed beneath Gomes. Watford With Borussia Dortmund playing Bayer Leverkusen Pizjuan Stadium. Ben Yedder’s winner went lost forwards Samir Nasri and Luciano emerged for the second half with the bit Cagliari Calcio v Crotone 16:00 later, Hertha Berlin took their chance to claim second in off the side of his left heel, deflecting Vietto in a three-minute span with a half- between their teeth and after Deeney had beIN SPORTS place with a 2-0 win at home to Hamburg. Vedad Victor “Vitolo” Machin’s low cross under hour to play. Referee Mateo Lahoz also had seen an improvised ‘scorpion kick’ volley Sampdoria v Citta di Palermo 16:00 goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco. The French to be replaced late because of a calf prob- beIN SPORTS 7 HD Ibisevic’s scrambled shot gave Hertha a first-half lead at saved by Artur Boruc, the hosts leveled. forward’s first goal came in the 74th when lem. Madrid hosts Eibar today when Nordin Amrabat’s trickery took him to the AC Milan v Sassuolo Calcio 19:00 Berlin’s Olympic Stadium before he also converted a second-half penalty. Hamburg stumbled to their fifth substitute Ganso passed superbly to set Barcelona, which trails Madrid and Sevilla byline on the right and from his cut-back, beIN SPORTS 4 HD him up. Ganso had his back to the goal and by a point, visits Celta Vigo. straight defeat and their first under new coach Markus Deeney equalized. Bournemouth almost Torino v ACF Fiorentina 19:00 was falling forward from a collision, but still Gisdol after Bruno Labbadia was sacked last week. went ahead again moments later when beIN SPORTS 12 HD EN managed to flick his left boot back and Granada 0, Leganes 1 Jack Wilshere struck the post with a low, AS Roma v Internazionale 21:45 Along with Bayern, Cologne and RB Leipzig, send a perfect assist for Ben Yedder to fire Leganes continued its excellent debut in curling effort after a trademark jinking run. beIN SPORTS 4 HD Hoffenheim remain one of the four unbeaten home. Alaves was clinging to a point until the top flight with a third win in seven Just before the hour, Boruc had to display Bundesliga teams after their 2-1 win at Ingolstadt, Ben Yedder struck again after defender rounds. This latest pushed Granada to the razor-sharp reflexes to repel a header from GERMAN LEAGUE achieved thanks to first-half goals by Sandro Wagner Victor Laguardia scrambled in the equalizer bottom of the standings. Leganes defender Deeney. and Kerem Demirbay. Having drawn four of their six from a corner kick in the 84th. It has shaped Alexander Szymanowski struck in the 76th Bournemouth retook the lead in the Wolfsburg v FSV Mainz 05 16:30 beIN SPORTS 5 HD games this season, Hoffenheim are seventh. up to be quite a week for Ben Yedder, one with a left-footed shot from the edge of the 62nd minute, King turning Valon Behrami Freiburg are in mid-table after Vincenzo Grifo’s early of Sevilla’s most important offseason sign- area after Robert Ibanez sprung a counter- Schalke 04 v Monchengladbach 18:30 inside-out and netting via a deflection off effort gave them a 1-0 win at home to Eintracht ings as it overhauled its squad for new attack. “The key was (to) not make mistakes beIN SPORTS 5 HD Younes Kaboul within seconds of coming Frankfurt. Werder Bremen’s 2-2 draw at Darmstadt left coach Jorge Sampaoli. On Tuesday, the for- and wait for our opportunity,” Leganes on for Jordon Ibe. But Mazzarri had a super mer Toulouse standout also scored in a 1-0 coach Asier Garitano said. All three of FRENCH LEAGUE them just above the relegation places. Bremen’s sub of his own up his sleeve and three min- Senegal defender Lamine Sane and Germany Under-21 victory over Lyon in the Champions Leganes’ victories have come away from the utes later Success, 20, equalized with a fine Angers v de Marseille 16:00 winger Serge Gnabry, with his second since joining League. “I’m very happy for (Ben Yedder),” modest club’s home stadium in Madrid. header that gave him his first Watford goal beIN SPORTS 6 HD from Arsenal, netted their goals while Antonio-Mirko Sampaoli said. “He was having difficulties Granada’s latest loss ruined the debut of its since signing from Granada. The visitors OGC Nice v Lorient 18:00 Colak scored twice for Darmstadt. On Friday, Leipzig’s adapting to Seville, to the language, his caretaker coach, Lluis Planaguma, who took came closest to snatching victory amid beIN SPORTS 6 HD teammates, understanding my orders, our over managing duties following the firing of frantic exchanges in the latter stages, twice 2-1 victory at home to Augsburg saw them go a sixth Lyonnais v Saint Etienne 21:45 game unbeaten, giving them the best start to a season system, many things. But in these two Paco Jemez. In June, Leganes earned pro- rattling the woodwork. On-loan Arsenal beIN SPORTS games he has shown why he is at Sevilla.” motion to Spain’s first division for the first midfielder Wilshere squandered an appar- by a team making it’s debut in Germany’s top flight after promotion.— AFP Alaves’ Edgar Mendez squandered an time in the club’s 88-year history.— AP Ancelotti misses Watford and record; Bayern Bournemouth held at19 home share19 the spoils

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SWANSEA: Swansea City’s Borja Baston (left) and Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho (centre) in action during their English Premier League soccer match at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea yesterday. — AP Milner spot on as Liverpool sink Swansea

today.” Brazil forward Firmino scored Liverpool’s equalizer wasted an early chance to endear himself to the locals by but he headed wide. Klopp’s worries deepened when early in the second half and won the crucial penalty that heading over from Wayne Routledge’s fine cross. Adam Lallana had to be withdrawn with a groin injury, a Swansea 1 Milner converted in the final minutes. Struggling Liverpool’s defence was looking surprisingly fragile problem that will put the attacking midfielder in doubt Swansea’s fifth defeat in seven league games will increase despite Lovren’s return to action and Fer made the most for England’s upcoming World Cup qualifiers against the pressure on manager Francesco Guidolin, who has of the instability to put the home side ahead. Malta and Slovenia. Little was going right for Liverpool Liverpool 2 had to deal with speculation he is set to lose his job. and Daniel Sturridge was rightly booked by referee Ryan Giggs and Bob Bradley are among the names Backlash Michael Oliver for diving in the Swansea penalty area. reportedly lined up as potential replacements for Borja atoned for his earlier lapse when he rose above However, Liverpool looked invigorated after half-time SWANSEA: James Milner propelled Liverpool to second Guidolin.”I don’t know. It’s not my decision,” Guidolin said Joel Matip at the far post to get his head to Gylfi and Swansea were suddenly on the back-foot as place in the Premier League as his late penalty secured a when asked about the reports. “It’s just for me to prepare Sigurdsson’s corner. He nodded down into the goal- momentum swung in the visitors’ favour.It was left to 2-1 win against Swansea City yesterday. Milner’s spot-kick for the game and the team. I know the situation. It’s a pos- mouth, where Fer applied the finishing touch from close Firmino to be the Liverpool saviour when he nodded sealed an impressive comeback for Jurgen Klopp’s team sibility. The important thing is to prepare with patience.” range. There were suspicions of offside, but Fer got the past Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski from skipper and enabled the Reds to move to within two points of Klopp made one change to the side that thrashed Hull benefit of the doubt and sprinted off in celebration of his Jordan Henderson’s lobbed cross. Determined Swansea Premier League leaders Manchester City, who face City 5-1 at Anfield a week ago, with Dejan Lovren return- fourth goal this season. A Liverpool backlash was expect- defending kept Liverpool at bay for a while, but the Tottenham Hotspur today. Liverpool trailed to an early ing to the starting line-up at centre-back in place of ed, but Swansea belied their lowly status as they enjoyed hosts cracked at last with six minutes left. The incessant Leroy Fer goal at the Liberty Stadium and looked second- Ragnar Klavan. the upper hand against high-flying opponents. Liverpool pressure paid off when Swansea substitute best before Roberto Firmino took control to inspire his There was a solitary change, too, in the Swansea team Fer exemplified their self-belief when he tried his luck Modou Barrow made a mess of trying to clear his lines, side’s fourth successive league victory. following their 3-1 defeat by Manchester City as striker from distance, only to see his shot veer off target, before the ball ballooned up in the air and Angel Rangel fouled “We showed a reaction, were more organized, clear in Borja Baston started a league game for the first time in Jack Cork had a shot on the stretch comfortably saved. Firmino. Milner, traditionally a midfielder but deployed all situations and we deserved to win,” said Klopp. “The place of the injured Fernando Llorente. Former Atletico Borja should have doubled the lead midway through the at left-back this season, showed no mercy with a cool performance was not perfect, but it was good enough Madrid forward Borja was in the thick of the action, but first half when Lovren misjudged Sigurdsson’s free-kick, finish from the penalty spot.— AFP Sunderland grateful to Van Chelsea back to winning ways Aanholt but remain winless

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Chelsea 2 West Brom 1 KINGSTON UPON HULL: Willian and Diego Costa scored twice in six second-half minutes as Chelsea won 2-0 at Hull City yesterday to claim a first win in SUNDERLAND: Substitute Patrick van four Premier League games. Willian struck in the Aanholt scored with just seven minutes left 61st minute after Chelsea launched one of a series to earn struggling Sunderland a 1-1 draw at of increasingly dangerous counter-attacks. Costa’s home to West Bromwich Albion in the pass picked out the Brazilian, who checked, putting Premier League yesterday. It looked as if his defender out of the game in the process, before Nacer Chadli’s classy first-half opener would curling an unstoppable shot into the top-right cor- give the Baggies all three points until ner of the Hull goal. Dutchman Van Aanholt, on for the injured Six minutes later the game was put beyond Jan Kirchhoff, conjured an equalizer at the Hull’s reach in similar fashion. Having powered into Stadium of Light. The result will come as the area, Nemanja Matic saw a shot blocked by something of a relief to the Sunderland fans Curtis Davies, but Costa latched onto the rebound and beleaguered manager David Moyes, but to bend a shot past Hull goalkeeper David Marshall they are still without a win and have only for his sixth goal in seven games. Victory provision- two points from seven matches. ally lifted Chelsea to sixth place in the table and saw No strangers to a slow start, it is the third Patrick van Aanholt Hull drop to 15th. Yet Hull had forced Chelsea goal- time in four seasons that the Black Cats have keeper Thibaut Courtois into the only two saves of KINGSTON UPON HULL: Hull City’s Scottish goalkeeper David Marshall (left) makes a save under pres- gone winless through their opening seven lines after finding himself clean through. significance in the first half and, in between, gave as sure from Chelsea’s Spanish midfielder Pedro during the English Premier League football match games of the campaign, but at least the Fortunate to be only one goal down at the good as they got against a club they have not beat- between Hull City and Chelsea at the KCOM Stadium in Kingston upon Hull yesterday. — AFP draw prevented them from equaling their break, things got worse for Sunderland early in the second half when German midfielder en in 28 years. life and on 16 minutes the Brazilian just missed the Hazard behind him. That combination should have own record for the worst start to a Premier Kirchhoff had to be taken off to be replaced After just four minutes, and a David Luiz foul on far post with a low, driven shot. Moses also might brought about an opening goal on 58 minutes. League season. West Brom had come from by Van Aanholt. Dieumerci Mbokani, Robert Snodgrass’s terrific 25- have won a penalty on another day, with replays Kante’s through-ball was perfectly weighted and behind with a late goal to draw at another Pickford then saved well from Darren yard free-kick forced the Chelsea keeper into a suggesting he had been tripped by Adama allowed Costa to round Marshall before shooting struggling side, Stoke City, last time out but twisting save as he turned the ball over his crossbar. Diomande. But for all Chelsea’s possession, there goalwards, the ball passing through the legs of Sam on this occasion it looked as if they would Fletcher before the home side began to rally In first-half injury time, Ryan Mason gathered the was not a serious moment of concern for Marshall Clucas and striking the foot of the post. hold on for the victory after going in front. and only a fine block by Jonny Evans ball 25 yards from goal and unleashed a strong shot in the Hull goal over the opening 45 minutes. His The rebound fell kindly for Kante, but the for- On a sunny day in the north-east of England, stopped Defoe from leveling. Van Aanholt that Courtois appeared to see late as he forced it first real test came in the opening minutes of the mer Leicester City midfielder hurried his follow- Jermain Defoe sliced a great early chance had been dropped from the starting line-up behind for a corner. Chelsea started with a three- second period as Eden Hazard turned his man just up attempt, sending the ball high and wide. With wide for the hosts before Sunderland goal- as Moyes made five changes to his team fol- man defence, a tactic adopted by manager Antonio inside the home half and darted towards goal Chelsea looking more and more menacing a goal keeper Jordan Pickford was forced into a lowing last week’s 3-2 home defeat to Conte in the second half of last weekend’s 3-0 before dispatching a curling shot that Marshall soon followed and matters might have worsened good save from Chadli. Crystal Palace, and he perhaps felt he had a defeat by Arsenal, which meant Branislav Ivanovic diverted over. for the hosts three minutes later as Costa saw an However, the Belgian, a summer signing point to prove as he grabbed the equalizer. lost his place. The move saw winger Victor Moses The ensuing corner was only half-cleared by the 18-yard shot parried by Marshall following anoth- from Tottenham Hotspur, opened the scor- The former Chelsea player started the move make his first start for the club since May 2013 at home side and N’Golo Kante latched onto the er break. Costa, with a wild shot from the corner ing 10 minutes before the break, finishing down the left and found Duncan Watmore. wing-back, underlining Conte’s desperation to end rebound with a low shot that Marshall smothered of the six-yard box, and Oscar, whose low coolly into the bottom corner after being set He got the ball back to the Dutchman and his team’s recent run of poor form. easily. The pressure was mounting, with Chelsea attempt was pushed away by Marshall, might up by Matt Phillips. There was then a huge his scuffed effort went in, the point lifting Willian looked a lively performer for the visitors looking particularly threatening on the counter- have further extended the visitors’ lead in the let-off for Moyes’s side as James McClean- Sunderland off the bottom at least until as he attempted to spark them into some attacking attack, through Costa and the pairing of Willian and closing minutes. — AFP playing against his former club-fluffed his Stoke play Manchester United today. — AFP German minister heads to Iran, business ties still limited Page 22

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HONG KONG: A woman walks past a display of the Hang Seng Index that sank 442.32 points or 1.9 percent to 23,297.15 at a bank in Hong Kong, Friday. Global stock markets were sharply lower Friday as investor sen- timent was dented by renewed worries about the financial health of Deutsche Bank following reports that some hedge funds were moving their businesses out of Germany’s biggest bank.— AP Yuan joins elite club of IMF currencies

BEIJING: China’s yuan joins the some central banks add yuan assets to their International Monetary Fund’s basket of official reserves. Critics argue that the move reserve currencies yesterday in a milestone is largely symbolic and the yuan does not Trump win would for the government’s campaign for recogni- fully meet IMF reserve currency criteria of tion as a global economic power. being freely usable, or widely used to settle hit Mexico like The yuan joins the US dollar, the euro, trade or widely traded in financial markets. the yen and British pound in the IMF’s spe- U.S. Republican presidential nominee a ‘hurricane’ cial drawing rights (SDR) basket, which Donald Trump has said he will formally determines currencies that countries can label China a currency manipulator if he MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s central bank chief said receive as part of IMF loans. It marks the wins November’s election. on Friday that a Donald Trump victory in the US first time a new currency has been added China stunned investors by devaluing presidential election would hit Mexico like a hur- since the euro was launched in 1999. the currency last year and the yuan has ricane. The IMF is adding the yuan, also known since weakened to near six-year lows, as the renminbi, or “people’s money”, on adding to worries about already feeble Speaking on local radio, Agustin Carstens also the same day that the Communist Party global growth. said that “it was a reality” that there was a corre- celebrates the founding of the People’s Some China watchers also fear that lation between the country’s weakening curren- Republic of China in 1949. Beijing’s commitment to further market cy and the Trump campaign. The Mexican peso “The inclusion into the SDR is a mile- opening and financial sector reforms will has fallen about 11 percent against the dollar stone in the internationalisation of the ren- fade after its diplomatic success, despite this year. minbi, and is an affirmation of the success repeated reassurances from Beijing it will Asked whether the Republican nominee’s vic- of China’s economic development and continue with the process. tory would be like a category five storm for the results of the reform and opening up of the US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on country, Carstens said “yes, it would be a financial sector,” the People’s Bank of China Thursday the yuan was “quite a ways” from WASHINGTON: File photo, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine stronger hurricane” than if Democratic nominee said in a statement. true global reserve currency status. The Lagarde speaks during a news conference, in Washington. On Friday, Lagarde called Hillary Clinton wins. China will use this opportunity to fur- new IMF status recognises the “enormous” the inclusion of China’s renminbi as the fifth currency in an elite group of the world’s Carstens added that the scenario for Mexico ther deepen economic reforms and open change in China in the last 10 years that reserve currencies “an important and historic milestone” for the international finan- was better with a Clinton win in the Nov. 8 presi- up the sector to promote global growth, had made the yuan more open, but Beijing cial system. — AP dential election. In a radio interview later on the central bank added. still had work to do to make its currency Friday, Carstens said that he does not expect the minimal impact on foreign demand for back, allowing for renewed deprecation,” it The IMF announced last year that it and its economy more market-driven, he government’s currency commission to hold any yuan assets, so “offers little support” for the said in a research note. The IMF on Friday would add the yuan to the basket, so actual said. “Being part of the SDR basket at the extraordinary meetings prior to the U.S. election. inclusion is not expected to impact finan- IMF is quite a ways away from being a glob- currency. fixed the relative amounts of the five cur- “If anything, the risk is that official inter- rencies in the basket for five years, based The commission’s next scheduled meeting is cial markets. But it puts Beijing’s often al reserve currency,” he said. Nov. 17. Mexico’s central bank on Thursday hiked opaque economic and foreign exchange Capital Economics said inclusion of the vention to keep the renminbi stable ahead on their average exchange rates over the its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points, to policy in the international spotlight as currency in the IMF’s SDR basket will have of its inclusion will subsequently be paired past three months. —Reuters counter the peso’s decline, concerned it could fan inflation. In Friday morning trade, the peso was 0.96 Deutsche Bank market pressure percent stronger, at 19.335 per dollar. Trump has vowed he would build a wall on the border with Mexico and renegotiate or scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement if he is elected. eases as US fine looks smaller The United States is Mexico’s main trading part- ner, and Wall Street analysts say concern over NEW YORK: Heavy market pressure on tive to the timing of the news, shares ting a historic low of 9.90 euros. This BAILOUT LESS LIKELY any potential trade restrictions have weighed on Deutsche Bank eased Friday as a knowl- added 6.4 percent at 11.57 euros. sparked fears that a banking meltdown The bank has suffered for months from the peso. edgeable source told AFP the US fine over Deutsche Bank and the Justice reminiscent of the 2008 crisis was in the perceptions of a weak capital base. The peso has become a vehicle used to cover toxic debt it sold would be only $5.4 billion, Department declined to comment on the making, potentially dragging other In June it flunked the US Federal against the risks linked to the November elec- not the $14 billion originally demanded. news of a deal, as did the German finance European banks and global markets down Reserve’s stress test. A month later tion, Carstens said. Queried about Trump, he A person familiar with the talks between ministry. But worries about the impact of with it. Deutsche Bank chief executive John Deutsche was among the worst performers added that “one candidate’s” unconventional Deutsche Bank and the Department of the case on Deutsche Bank had spread Cryan managed to lift the mood with a let- in a European Banking Authority stress test, ideas posed a risk to the economies of Mexico, Justice said an agreement could come in through markets and into the political ter to staff Friday insisting the bank was not although Cryan insisted the exercise had the United States and the world. When asked the next few days to settle the US govern- realm over the past week, unnerving at risk. “At no time in the last two decades demonstrated the institution’s resilience to what would happen if Clinton wins, Carstens said ment charges that the bank knowingly sold investors. Adding to the rising concerns has Deutsche Bank been as safe as it is future crises. A settlement with US authori- that if the factors that cause volatility reduce, the high-risk mortgage securities ahead of the were conflicting reports in German media today,” Cryan wrote. ties of $5.4 billion would be just shy of the peso could strengthen. 2008 financial crisis. on whether Berlin would come to the trou- “In a situation like this, the most impor- total Deutsche Bank has set aside in provi- “Without a doubt, I agree with the possibility The final amount of the settlement bled bank’s aid if necessary. tant factor is our liquidity reserves. sions for outstanding legal actions. that the peso could appreciate under certain sce- could also be slightly different, said the per- Currently they still amount to more than CMC Markets analyst Jasper Lawler said narios in the future,” he said. son, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ‘NO BASIS FOR SPECULATION’ 215 billion euros ($241.7 billion),” he said. that improved match of figures “may make Carstens added that the bank had to use its The news powered the shares of Then late Thursday the bank’s US-trad- “This is an extremely comfortable buffer. a rights issue more palatable and makes a judgment in using tools such as the sale of dol- Germany’s biggest lender dramatically ed shares plunged on news that a number This is clear proof of how conservatively we government bailout much less likely.” higher as worries about its financial stabili- of hedge funds that clear derivatives busi- have planned.” “There is therefore no basis Still, the US toxic mortgage-securities lar-denominated foreign reserves. Trump’s visit ty under the pressure of a potentially mas- ness through Deutsche Bank had pulled for this speculation,” he added. “Nor can case is just one of 8,000 legal challenges to Mexico City in August to meet President sive US fine ebbed. out money. uncertainty about the outcome of our liti- burdening Deutsche Bank. An investigation Enrique Pena Nieto sparked outrage across the US-traded shares of the bank finished The shares also tumbled as the Frankfurt gation cases in the US explain this pressure by New York regulators over allegations of country, and led to the resignation of Luis up 14 percent at $13.09, while in Frankfurt, stock market opened Friday, falling by on our stock price, if we take the settle- money laundering at its Moscow office Videgaray as finance minister.— Reuters in part due to different market hours rela- more than nine percent at one point, hit- ments of our peers as a benchmark.” looms.—AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 BUSINESS NBK organizes mega draws event at the Avenues

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German minister heads to Iran, 3 mistakes employers business ties still limited make when hiring

BERLIN: German Economy Minister Sigmar He cited signs of movement in the German Iran’s official news agency IRNA said Tehran fresh graduates and Gabriel heads to Iran next week with a planeful banking sector, which has been reluctant to would reject those demands. “Iran considers of industry executives keen to rebuild trade ties, underwrite business deals for fear of running defending the rights of the Palestinians as insep- but remaining US sanctions and political con- afoul of remaining U.S. sanctions imposed on arable part of its foreign policy and will not relin- how to avoid them cerns are holding back a hoped-for business Iran for what Washington says is Tehran’s money quish supporting the Palestinian ideals under boom. laundering, support for terrorism and human any circumstances,” it quoted Foreign Ministry Gabriel says a German-Iranian business com- rights abuses. spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying. BAYT.COM WEEKLY REPORT mission will meet for the first time in 15 years, “Economic cooperation won’t perform mira- Ilse Aigner, economy minister of the German and forecasts concrete business deals will be cles but it can open up countries and stimulate state of Bavaria, says she raised those concerns KUWAIT: Fresh graduates are a valu- ease’ and in their element, so they can announced, but also warned Tehran on Friday societal change,” Gabriel, who leads the Social during two visits to Iran over the past year, but able addition to any company. Not fully deliver. You may even want to that to normalise ties it must accept Israel’s right Democrats, junior partner in the ruling centre- says hardliners could oust Rouhani unless he only are they excited and motivated consider having more than one inter- to exist, and stop what he called Iran’s decisive right coalition, told the online site weekly maga- produces tangible benefits from the nuclear by the prospect of their new careers, view, in varying styles, as well as role in the Syrian war. zine Der Spiegel. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter deal. but they are also up-to-date on the assigning them a task or two to com- Tehran said there could be no precondition Steinmeier, a fellow Social Democrat, in February Aigner returned from Tehran earlier this latest trends and technologies. Fresh plete. This will enable you to better for Iran-Germany relations and that it rejected invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to visit month with agreements by three Iranian banks graduates can bring in new ideas and judge their abilities and potential that the interference of any third party in its state Germany. But Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to open branches in Munich, which could a fresh perspective to your experi- is hidden by their nervousness. affairs. Gabriel is making his second visit to Christian Democrats, anxious about managing smooth the way for more trade in coming years. enced team. However, choosing the Tehran since the Islamic Republic reached a deal ties with two fierce Iran foes, Saudi Arabia and One big issue for small- and medium-sized right hire among a plethora of recent 2. Failing to highlight the incentives with world powers in July last year to lift eco- Israel, oppose a state visit now. firms is the inability to secure letters of credit for graduates is not a simple task. Hiring Some of the most important job nomic sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear shipments of goods, said Werner Schroeppel, fresh graduates is different than hiring attributes that fresh graduates value programme, in return for curbs on its nuclear NO ‘RED CARPET’ FOR ROUHANI FOR NOW managing director of IMO GmbH, which exports an experienced professional. Since today don’t revolve around the salary activities. “Rolling out the red carpet for Rouhani in components for wind energy facilities in Iran. factor. According to the Bayt.com Industrial giant Siemens AG and automaker Europe could be misunderstood as a signal that Schroeppel’s firm is now using third parties most recent graduates have little to Daimler will be among the first German firms to Iran is already an accepted partner in the world to do business in Iran, but hopes the process no experience, some recruiters find it ‘Fresh Graduates in the Middle East benefit from opportunities in Iran, but they are community,” said Juergen Hardt, foreign policy can be streamlined so it can take part in an very difficult to discern whether or and North Africa’ survey conducted in proceeding carefully and only after legal reviews. spokesman for Merkel’s conservatives. expected boom in Iran’s wind energy sector. The not the candidate would be a fit. July 2016, over half of the respon- Exports to Iran jumped 15 percent in the first half Hardt said he expected Gabriel to hammer Europaeische-Iranische Handelsbank AG in Indeed, there are a few mistakes hir- dents do not expect a salary higher of the year to 1.13 billion euros and could reach 4 home Germany’s concerns about Iran’s support Hamburg offers such instruments already, but ing managers tend to make when hir- than USD 750 in their first job. billion euros in the full year, said Michael Tockuss, for the “terror regime” of Syrian President Bashar Germany’s two biggest banks, Commerzbank ing fresh graduates. It is very impor- Generally speaking, the salary expec- head of the Hamburg-based German-Iranian al-Assad, its “unspeakable” anti-Israeli rhetoric AG and Deutsche Bank AG said they remain tant to know what these mistakes are tations of fresh graduates are lower Chamber of Commerce. and human rights abuses in Iran. cautious. — Reuters and how they can be avoided. than the average market rate. Fresh Here, the experts at Bayt.com, the graduates highly value other benefits, Middle East’s #1 job site, present you such as alternative working arrange- with a list of the top 3 mistakes you ments, training and growth opportu- need to avoid when looking for new nities, employee wellness programs, Volkswagen reaches $1.2bn employees from a pool of fresh gradu- flexible working hours, and a work ates: culture that is well suited to them. If your company offers these incentives, 1. Judging the book by its cover make sure to highlight them during settlement with dealers Do you remember your first job the job interview or screening process interview after graduation? A job and as early as the initial job descrip- SAN FRANCISCO: Volkswagen has agreed to agreement filed Friday in federal court in San approve the settlement before it can go into interview is a nerve-racking process. tion. Doing so will show the graduate pay its US dealers up to $1.2 billion to com- Francisco. effect. Volkswagen previously reached an For many recent graduates it is proba- that your company is a great place for pensate them for losses they said they suf- Under the terms of the deal, dealers can agreement with attorneys for car owners. That bly the first time they truly have to them to start their career with fered as a result of the company’s emissions choose to opt out and pursue their own law- deal calls for it to spend up to $10 billion buy- market and sell themselves. When hir- cheating scandal, according to a settlement suits against Volkswagen. A judge still has to ing back or repairing about 475,000 vehicles ing, be very aware of this. Many fresh 3. Undervaluing their abilities involved in its scandal and paying their own- graduates don’t perform their best Once you’ve hired a candidate, you ers an additional $5,100 to $10,000 each. during an interview and have trouble are invested in them. There is no rea- Details about the vehicle repairs have not fully conveying their skills and abili- son to undervalue their abilities and been finalized. Attorneys for vehicle owners ties. Their potential may not shine to not encourage and push them to said in a court filing on Friday that more than through because of their nervous- work at their full potential. These 311,000 people have registered for the deal ness. As a result, it can prove difficult young minds will shape the future of and less than 3,300 people have opted out. to truly assess their aptness. your company. Therefore, it is impor- “There is resounding support for this con- What we suggest is trying to make tant not to belittle them or their expe- sumer class settlement and the substantial the job interview as comfortable as riences. Instead, use them to your benefits it provides,” Elizabeth Cabraser, lead possible for fresh graduates. Most advantage, encourage their participa- attorney for Volkswagen owners, said in a recruiters make their hiring decision tion in brainstorming sessions, value statement. The settlement also includes $2.7 within the first few minutes of an their input, and take their ideas into billion for unspecified environmental mitiga- interview. It is exceedingly important serious consideration. Fresh gradu- tion and an additional $2 billion to promote to avoid this with young candidates. ates are very eager to learn and are zero-emissions vehicles. Instead, take your time, have both for- determined to prove themselves com- US District Court Judge Charles Breyer gave mal and informal conversations with petent in their new careers. You have the deal preliminary approval in July, and he is them, walk them around the office to the ability to train and mold new expected to make a final decision on Oct. 18. show them the workplace, and offer graduates and ultimately transform The deal does not cover about 85,000 DETROIT: Volkswagen engineer James Robert Liang, left, leaves court, Friday, in Detroit, after them coffee or a quick snack if possi- them into your future top-achievers more-powerful Volkswagens and Audis with 3- ble. In general, help them feel more ‘at and the ideal fit within your company. pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy in the company’s emissions cheating scandal, Liang liter engines also caught up in the emissions has agreed to cooperate in the widening criminal investigation. — AP scandal. — AP

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Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 231.430 Nepalese Rupees 3.830 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036891 0.039641 Turkish lira 103.160 Malaysian Ringgit 73.990 Indian Rupee 0.004253 0.004642 Swiss Franc 314.840 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.695 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 233.640 Japanese Yen 0.002916 0.003096 Japanese Yen 2.993 Thai Bhat 9.700 US Dollar Buying 301.050 Turkish Lira 102.000 Kenyan Shilling 0.003108 0.003108 Indian Rupees 4.542 Korean Won 0.000264 0.000279 Pakistani Rupees 2.885 GOLD Malaysian Ringgit 0.070079 0.076079 Srilankan Rupees 2.072 20 Gram 268.710 Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002804 0.002974 Nepali Rupees 2.839 10 Gram 137.270 Pakistan Rupee 0.002740 0.003030 Singapore Dollar 224.200 5 Gram 69.480 CURRENCY BUY SELL Philippine Peso 0.006237 0.006537 Hongkong Dollar 38.971 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Bangladesh Taka 3.853 Europe British Pound 0.385950 0.395950 Singapore Dollar 0.217526 0.227526 Philippine Peso 6.310 South African Rand 0.016285 0.024785 Thai Baht 8.742 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004555 0.016555 Danish Krone 0.041469 0.046469 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001654 0.002234 Euro 0.0333735 0.0342735 Taiwan 0.009493 0.009673 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Thai Baht 0.008374 0.008921 Saudi Riyal 80.643 Norwegian Krone 0.033267 0.038467 US Dollar 302.450 Romanian Leu 0.083750 0.083750 Qatari Riyal 83.070 Canadian Dollr 229.805 Arab ani Riyal 785.473 Slovakia 0.008997 0.018997 Sterling Pound 392.985 Swedish Krona 0.031355 0.036355 Bahraini Dinar 0.795023 0.803523 Bahraini Dinar 803.110 Euro 340.530 Egyptian Pound 0.024009 0.029127 UAE Dirham 82.335 Swiss Franc 0.305467 0.316467 Swiss Frank 294.247 Turkish Lira 0.097808 0.108108 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Bahrain Dinar 799.545 Iraqi Dinar 0.000182 0.000242 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 82.575 Australasia Jordanian Dinar 0.422075 0.431075 Egyptian Pound - Cash 29.050 Qatari Riyals 83.785 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.423 Australian Dollar 0.222798 0.234798 Saudi Riyals 81.375 New Zealand Dollar 0.213191 0.222691 Lebanese Pound 0.000146 0.000246 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.214 Jordanian Dinar 426.180 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019737 0.043737 Tunisian Dinar 137.760 Egyptian Pound 33.962 America Nigerian Naira 0.001245 0.001880 Jordanian Dinar 426.640 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.071 Omani Riyal 0.778515 0.784195 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.015 Canadian Dollar 0.224365 0.233365 Indian Rupees 4.527 Georgina Lari 0.136487 0.136487 Qatar Riyal 0.082196 0.083645 Syrian Lira 2.0155 Pakistani Rupees 2.881 Saudi Riyal 0.079500 0.080800 Morocco Dirham 31.484 US Dollars 0.298100 0.302800 Bangladesh Taka 3.848 US Dollars Mint 0.298600 0.302800 Syrian Pound 0.001280 0.001500 Philippines Pesso 6.270 Tunisian Dinar 0.133780 0.141780 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 159.409 Turkish Lira 0.097808 0.108108 US Dollar Transfer 302.250 Asia Japanese Yen 3.985 Bangladesh Taka 0.003299 0.003883 UAE Dirhams 0.080853 0.082553 Euro 341.090 Syrian Pound 2.410 Yemeni Riyal 0.001366 0.001446 Sterling Pound 395.340 Chinese Yuan 0.043770 0.047270 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 BUSINESS Deutsche Bank settlement overshadows US equities

NEW YORK: Deutsche Bank will likely cast a pall banks , suffered big losses, as a group, on Monday over equity markets next week as the largest and Thursday because of the turmoil surrounding German lender navigates a possible multi-billion US WALL ST WEEK AHEAD Deutsche Bank. Separately, the grilling of Wells dollar settlement with the US Department of Justice “Once they come to some resolution on the dif- “My sense is we’re not really going to have the Fargo’s chief executive in Congress over fraudulent over the sale of mortgage-backed bonds. ference between what they are charged, $14 billion, kind of clarity that investors like to have ... for prob- business practices also weighed on bank shares. Deutsche shares traded in the United States hit a and what they are going to pay, call it $5 or $6 bil- ably weeks.” AFP reported, citing a person familiar Frankfurt’s stock exchange will be closed tomor- record low, falling as much as 24 percent since the lion, the market is going to be afraid there is a prob- with the matter, the settlement could be row for the Day of German Unity. Equity investors DOJ asked the bank to pay $14 billion to settle lem,” Hogan said. announced in the next couple of days. will also focus next week on the 10 speeches by top charges related to its sale of toxic mortgage bonds Deutsche’s market capitalization of near $18 bil- Analysts stopped short of comparing the pres- US Federal Reserve officials, with the highlight from before the financial crisis. lion makes it much smaller than its U.S. peers like ent turmoil at Deutsche to the bankruptcy of U.S. Vice Chair Stanley Fischer on Friday, and clues to But the stock had its best day in five years Friday, Bank of America , at $155 billion, or Citi, at $133 bil- investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, part of a monetary policy. Key economic data, including on record volume, after news agency AFP reported lion. financial crisis that triggered the deepest recession September’s employment report on Friday, will that Deutsche was nearing a much-lower $5.4 bil- However its trading relationships with the in decades for the US economy. keep traders on tenterhooks. lion settlement with the DOJ. world’s largest financial institutions make a poten- “Deutsche Bank is not Lehman and does not “We got our own troubles here with the econo- Analysts at Morgan Stanley estimated Deutsche tial breakdown at Deutsche a bigger risk to the threaten a 2008-like ‘sudden stop’ to the global my slowing down, next week we’ll know if (week could pay about $6 billion to settle with the DOJ. wider financial system than any other global bank, economy,” said Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic data) was a blip or a trend,” said Phil Orlando, chief Stocks on Wall Street broadly tracked Deutsche over the International Monetary Fund said in June. adviser at Allianz. equity strategist at Federated Investors in New York. the past few days and will likely continue to do so, “Its world print and eurocentric role are unri- The concern, he said, lies in this being “a He added: “The market has to have a healthy analysts say. “While it is in the headlines, it is an valed, so it is going to drive the narrative next reminder of the fragility of some European banks” respect for the downside in the event the DOJ overhang,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at week,” said Peter Kenny, senior market strategist at and an additional headwind to European growth. and Deutsche don’t find a reasonable agree- Wunderlich Securities in New York. Global Markets Advisory Group in New York. The S&P 500 rose for the week but the index’s ment.” — Reuters Iraq’s economic recovery plans tied up by US budget tussle

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: Iraq’s plans to raise new fiscal year began on Oct. 1. $2 billion on international debt markets to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s help fill a budget gap caused by low oil financial advisor, Mudher Salih, who has prices were thwarted this week by the US worked closely on the bond issue, and a Congress’ refusal to guarantee half the source familiar with the matter told Reuters bonds’ value. the guarantee had been held up by As part of a 2017 budget endorsed by Republicans in Congress, without providing the International Monetary Fund, Baghdad details. said it would seek to issue a $1 billion bond Republicans have majorities in both the fully guaranteed by the United States in House and Senate, but it was unclear if order to lower borrowing costs before issu- they had a particular objection to putting ing another $1 billion. up more funding for Iraq, which has already Those funds would complement a received billions of dollars in military, eco- three-year $5.34 billion standby loan, nomic and humanitarian aid from which the IMF approved in July in Washington since the U.S.-led invasion that exchange for economic reforms. Baghdad toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. hopes the IMF deal will unlock more than Many members of Congress are frustrat- $12 billion in additional aid from sources ed with Iraq’s government. They worry that such as the World Bank and the Group of the United States has sent far too much Seven leading industrialised nations. money to Baghdad, with too few results, Western allies have acknowledged the due to corruption and incompetence. need to guard major OPEC producer Iraq’s Many also view the Iraqi government as fragile economy from a collapse that would being too close to Iran, and are angry with risk undermining military gains against its Shi’ite leaders for alienating minority Islamic State by a US-led coalition and local Sunni Muslims. forces that are looking to retake the mili- The Iraq loan guarantee could still be tant stronghold of Mosul later this month. included in spending legislation that must While the Obama administration pass in order to keep the government open requested the guarantee be included in a past Dec. 9, when the temporary spending “continuing resolution” - stopgap legisla- bill expires. tion that keeps the US government run- Salih told Reuters on Thursday that Iraq ning while more permanent spending deci- was likely to delay the bond issuance until sions are agreed - it did not end up in the at least early 2017, in part because of the final version passed by Congress on lack of a US guarantee. Wednesday. Baghdad’s latest budget proposal for QINGDAO: Chinese workers load modular equipment at an offshore oil engineering platform in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province yes- Lawmakers said they had tried to keep 2017 forecasts expenditures of 90.224 tril- terday. Manufacturing activity in China continued its rebound in September on improving production and demand, government data showed side issues out of the spending bill in order lion Iraqi dinars ($77.6 billion) with a short- yesterday — a positive sign for the world’s second-largest economy. — AFP to ensure it would go into effect before the fall of around 12 trillion dinars. — Reuters

Texas businessman Wyly China factory activity strikes $198m deal with SEC expands again in Sept NEW YORK: Texas businessman Sam request for comment yesterday. The SEC Wyly has agreed to pay $198.1 million to sued Sam Wyly and his brother Charles resolve claims by US securities regulators Wyly in 2010, alleging they earned $553 BEIJING: Activity in China’s manufacturing sec- debt levels continuing to rise. China’s slowing economy and problems with that he engaged in a long-running secu- million in undisclosed profits by trading tor expanded again in September, an official sur- Industrial profits rose at the fastest pace in industrial overcapacity have also reduced invest- rities fraud to hide trades in companies in four companies they controlled using vey showed yesterday, which may indicate that three years in August, with rising sales and high- ment opportunities, a view reinforced by Fan he controlled using offshore trusts, trusts in the Isle of Man. recent positive momentum can be sustained. er prices stimulated by a construction boom and Gang, a member of China’s central bank mone- according to a court filing. Both denied wrongdoing. Charles The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) heated property market. tary committee. Private investment grew just 2.1 According to papers filed by the US Wyly died in 2011, and his estate was stood at 50.4 in September, identical with the percent in the first eight months of the year, Securities and Exchange Commission on substituted as a defendant. After a jury in previous month’s level. A reading above 50.0 STILL STRUGGLING remaining at record lows. Friday in Manhattan federal court, Wyly is May 2014 found them liable for securities shows growth on a monthly basis. But profits remained uneven, as traditional A similar official survey showed activity in also in talks to resolve tax claims by the fraud, a federal judge ordered Sam Wyly September’s 50.4 reading matched the pre- heavy industries with excess capacity such as China’s services sector expanded at a slightly Internal Revenue Service after he was to pay $198.1 million and Charles Wyly’s diction of a Reuters poll. After a significant pick- steel still struggled for growth. Sectors like high- faster pace, with the official reading at 53.7 in ordered to pay $1.11 billion. estate to pay $101.2 million. up in March, China’s official PMI slipped, falling tech, auto manufacturing and shipbuilding September from 53.5 in August. The settlement is subject to approval Sam Wyly, who last appeared on below 50 in July before showing expansion in showed strong expansion, the survey showed. A measure of the construction industry rose by SEC commissioners and a federal Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest August. Jobs were again lost, though at a slower pace, as the government has gone on an infrastruc- bankruptcy judge in Dallas, where the Americans in 2010 with a net worth of $1 In an encouraging sign, new export orders with the employment sub-index rising to 48.6, ture spending spree. The services employment once-reported billionaire filed for billion, and Caroline “Dee” Wyly, Charles increased in September, rising to 50.1 from the compared to 48.4 in August. Job losses could be sub-index rose in September, but still indicated Chapter 11 in 2014 amid the SEC’s pur- Wyly’s widow, subsequently filed for previous month’s 49.7. In September, output rising as the government has pledged broad services companies were cutting staff. suit for monetary sanctions. bankruptcy. edged up to 52.8 from 52.6 in August, but the capacity cuts across a range of industries. Beijing has been counting on a strong servic- Under the settlement agreement, The IRS in bankruptcy court took both index for total new orders slipped to 50.9 from Industrial overcapacity remains one of the es sector to pick up the slack as it tries to shift Wyly, 81, and his family have agreed to to trial, alleging Sam and Charles Wyly 51.3. A sub-index for smaller firms fell, while per- main drags on economic growth. Beijing has the economy away from a dependence on heavy take steps to have the offshore trusts at committed tax fraud by shielding much formance at larger companies improved, a sign pledged to quicken the pace of its industrial industry and manufacturing exports. A private issue in the Isle of Man make payments of their wealth in offshore trusts. that the government’s dependence on big state capacity cuts, particularly in steel, after falling business showed on Friday that factory activity to satisfy a judgment the SEC obtained in US Bankruptcy Judge Barbara Houser firms for growth this year has not changed. behind earlier in the year. expanded in September but the improvement 2015. in Dallas earlier this year found Sam Wyly Economists say the pattern over the past few China’s state planner rejected a request in was marginal and manufacturers continued to The SEC will meanwhile cooperate liable and ordered him to pay $1.11 bil- months suggested sustained economic growth, September by the nation’s steel makers for coal shed jobs. with ensuring Wyly receives a credit lion in back taxes, interest and penalties. but a growing dependence on government mines to ramp up coking coal output to help The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing against his federal income tax liabilities The case is US Securities and spending and an overheated property market ease supply tightness that has triggered a fren- Managers’ index for September rose to 50.1 from of nearly $181 million. Exchange Commission v. Wyly et al, US may pose increased risks later this year with zied price rally. a no-change level of 50.0 in August. — Reuters Neither the SEC nor a spokesman for District Court, Southern District of New Wyly responded immediately to a York, No. 10-5760. — Reuters Indians disclose $10bn in tax evasion amnesty

NEW DELHI: A government amnesty targeting tax evasion in India has prompted tens of thou- sands of suspected tax dodgers to disclose nearly $10 billion in undeclared income, the finance minister said yesterday. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out about 700,000 notices earlier this year to suspected evaders to coax them to declare hidden income and assets, known as “black money” in India, promising they would not be pursued by authorities if they came clean and paid a penalty. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters the four-month scheme that closed on Friday had led to 64,275 declarations, resulting in a provisional 652.5 billion rupees ($9.8 billion) in undisclosed wealth. Jaitley added the final figure would likely be higher. Factoring in taxes owed and penalties of 45 percent, the government could raise more than 293.6 billion rupees ($4.41 billion) from the declared income, according to Reuters calcula- tions. There was no public target for the initiative, but government officials had an internal goal to raise about $7.5 billion in back taxes. During the 2014 elections, Modi pledged to bring back billions of dollars in “black money” if elected. Modi, in a tweet, called the outcome of the scheme “successful” and said it was “a great MANILA: In this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, a man changes his US dollar bills to Philippine contribution towards transparency and growth of peso beside a sign showing the exchange rates at a money changer in Manila, the economy.” Philippines. Analysts and businessmen point to uncertainties about Philippine In a country of 1.3 billion, fewer than 18,000 NEW DELHI: File photo, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addresses a press conference in President Rodrigo Duterte’s policies and flip-flopping pronouncements as largely to people declared annual income of 10 million New Delhi, India. Tens of thousands of Indians have declared a total of $9.5 billion in black blame for foreign selling in the stock market and the peso’s plunge to a seven-year rupees or more in 2012/13, the latest figures money as part of a one-time opportunity to come clean under a government scheme, Jaitley low, reversing initial optimism after June 30 inauguration. — AP show. — Reuters said yesterday. — AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 BUSINESS

PARIS: Models remove a cover to unveil the new Porsche Panamera at the Paris Auto Show in Paris, France, Friday. PARIS: Members of the public attend the Paris Motor Show at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Centre in Paris Many major automakers are finding the Paris auto show, held in a city whose mayor wants to ban diesels to yesterday. The Paris Motor Show runs from October 1 until October 16. — AFP reduce pollution, as a fine place to show off new zero-emission electric cars. —AP From Ferraris to SUVs: 5 cars that shone at the Paris show

PARIS: An obscenely powerful hybrid sports LaFerrari supercar offers the pleasures of power; the car accelerates to 100 kph (62 eight devices. There’s no shortage of power always, the market will provide the answer. car, a family-friendly SUV with enough space open-top driving in a car that performs pretty kph) in just 4.6 seconds and reaches a top for towing, with three diesel variants of 180, The U.S. manufacturer’s suggested retail price for seven adults, and an electric vehicle that much like a Formula One racer. It’s a hybrid, speed of 270 kph (168 mph). 240 and 258 horsepower and a 340 horse- is $37,495, which doesn’t count the tax break promises to keep going for over 300 miles meaning its electric motor assists the mon- It can go up to 50 kilometers (31 miles) on power gasoline engine. Prices start at 50,900 of up to $7,500. (500 kilometers) on a single charge - these are ster 12-cylinder internal combustion engine just the battery - making the vehicle a little euros and head north to 74,300 euros. some of the notable vehicles shining on the to add even more powerful acceleration. The quieter than, say, the company’s 911 sports BMW X2 display stands under bright overhead lights at car does 0-100 kph (0-62 mph) in less than car - and emits a relatively low 56 grams per OPEL AMPERA-E BMW showed off a potential new addition the Paris auto show. three seconds, and offers a top speed of 350 kilometer of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse This is the European version of the to its X-series of SUVs and crossovers, this one Executives at this year’s show are talking kph (217 mph). With the top off, aerodynamic gas blamed by scientists for global warming. Chevrolet Bolt five-door hatchback going on offering a sportier take with a flat roofline about how the industry can adapt to - or, bet- design channels away the airflow so that the The vehicle goes on sale in November. The sale this year in the United States and early and big air intakes giving the grill a wider, ter yet, profit from - disruptive change such as two occupants can conduct a conversation price in France is 110,222 euros ($123,680), next year in Europe. It has attracted attention more aggressive look. The company calls it a electric engines, networked vehicles, car shar- even at high speeds. That’s if they’re not rel- including value-added tax. by getting a range rating of 238 miles (383 “sport-activity coupe,” referring to its lower ing, and autonomous driving. All that could ishing the finely tuned roar of the engine, or kilometers) under the U.S. standard on a full roofline - more like the sloping shape of a start coming together between 2020 and its “soundtrack,” as the company puts it, JAGUAR LAND ROVER DISCOVERY charge; the company promises a 310-mile coupe than a boxier SUV. BMW tweaked the 2025, some think. promising “full, harmonious sound that’s The first complete redesign of the (500 kilometer) range as measured by the trademark kidney shaped twin grilles, flip- Right now, however, they have some cars more intoxicating than ever.” All 200 are Discovery in 12 years, this family oriented European standard. It claims drivers can add ping them upside down so that they narrow they want to sell. already sold at prices of 1.8-2.0 million euros large SUV has room for seven adults in three 150 kilometers (93 miles) in 30 minutes of from bottom up. The look is enhanced with a Here are five of the vehicles getting the ($2.0-$2.2 million). rows. The seats can be rearranged remotely charging. different slant to the windshield and lower most attention at the Paris Mondial de through a smartphone app even when the Those distances may not be equaled in stance. “The BMW X2 is really tapping into a L’Automobile, which opens to the public PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 E-HYBRID operator is outside the vehicle, and the sec- everyday driving, with the European test new market, the sort-of coupe style SUV. It is Saturday and runs through Oct. 16. If you are It’s a comfortable four-door sedan. No, it’s ond and third rows can fold flat in 14 sec- standard, for example assumptions relatively showing that SUVs are not just about being lucky enough to be in the City of Light, an a high-performance sports car. If it’s the onds. The suspension automatically lowers gentle acceleration. Many obstacles remain practical, they can be fun and they can be adult ticket costs 16 euros ($17.90). Panamera, it’s a little bit of both. The all- the car 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) to make it before all-electric vehicles reach widespread sporty as well,” says Jim Holder, editorial wheel drive car draws on the technology easier to get in and out. There are six charg- acceptance. Will this car be a significant jump director of Autocar, automotive magazine. It’s LAFERRARI APERTA used in the company’s 918 Spyder supercar ing points, places to store iPads, 9 USB ports, toward making electrics seem more practical still a concept car, meaning no date for it to This limited edition of the Ferrari’s so that the electric motor continually adds and a 4G WiFi hotspot that can handle up to to price-conscious regular car buyers? As go on sale or price information. — AP Will Germany Deutsche Bank become the next Lehman?

FRANKFURT: Germany’s biggest bank is looking derivatives and has struggled for years to turn its into effect Jan. 1, are intended to protect taxpay- shaky and some investors fear it could collapse business around, particularly its investment ers from failing banks. In some circumstances and endanger the wider financial system. banking unit. Before the financial crisis of 2007- they require shareholders and creditors to take Some even wonder whether it might become 2008, it earned much of its money from invest- losses before a bank can turn to taxpayers. the next Lehman Brothers, the US bank whose ment banking. New regulations have pushed failure heralded the worst of the global financial banks to hold larger financial buffers and reduce WOULD ITS COLLAPSE BE ANOTHER ‘LEHMAN crisis in 2008. Experts warn against drawing such their risky investments. That has made invest- MOMENT’? quick conclusions. Deutsche Bank’s shares are ment banking less profitable. And compliance That’s the big question, but analysts say prob- down 51 percent so far this year and it’s negoti- with all the rules has imposed costs as well. ably not. ating a multibillion fine in the U.S. that it could Like other European banks, its profit margins Lehman Brothers was, like Deutsche Bank have trouble paying. have been squeezed by record low benchmark and other major financial groups, closely con- But it’s exactly because it is so big and impor- interest rates. Low rates reduce the difference at nected to other banks. But Lehman’s finances tant that it is unlikely to be allowed to simply fail, which a bank can borrow money and lend it out. were, by some accounts, far shakier. After The campaign visual the way U.S. authorities did with Lehman. The International Monetary Fund said in June Lehman imploded, inquiries showed that the Here are some questions and answers about that Deutsche Bank was the biggest source of company used accounting tricks to mask $50 bil- KFH announces winners of the bank and what it might mean for the rest of systemic risk among the globe’s big financial lion in debt, making it look like it was in better the world. institutions. shape than it really was. Banking Cards 11th draw Deutsche Bank has passed a “stress test” this WHAT’S AILING DEUTSCHE BANK? WILL IT NEED A BAILOUT? year that has required it to open up its books to ‘Use KFH Cards and You May Win The recent turmoil was triggered by a It’s too soon to tell. regulators. It has more reserves it can readily tap demand by US authorities that Deutsche Bank One of the things that unnerved investors - over 200 billion euros ($224 billion) - whereas Mercedes and Cash Prizes up to $200,000’ pay $14 billion to settle an investigation in mort- this week is that the German government has Lehman had trouble paying back customers gage-backed securities, the investments that refused to say it would rescue the bank, if need- who wanted their money back. KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) the second car Mercedes Benz GLE 450 turned out to be duds and helped trigger the ed. But that’s likely because there’s a general Also, the European Central Bank can make announced 7 winners of the 11th draw of Coupe, and will be held after 100 days of global financial crisis. That sum is about the election next year in Germany and politicians available big, ultra-cheap, short-term loans for the new banking cards campaign themed the launch for purchasing conducted from same as Deutsche Bank’s entire market value as don’t want to be seen promising taxpayer mon- banks if the system as a whole gets into trouble. “Use KFH Cards and You May Win up to 2 day 51 to day 100 of the campaign. of Friday. ey to save a bank after spending billions during Mercedes-Benz SUV’s and Cash Prizes up to KFH strives to continuously offer its It’s unlikely the bank would pay the full the financial crisis. THEN WHY ARE INVESTORS WORRIED? $200,000” in an attempt to encourage clients new promotions and discounts in amount - industry peer Goldman Sachs paid $5 If push comes to shove, experts say, the Burned by the experience of the financial cri- clients to use KFH credit, prepaid and debit order to distinguish them among peers, not billion in a similar investigation. But the fact that German government would be under pressure sis, it seems investors may be faster to respond cards while making purchases in Kuwait to mention to further bolster the bank’s pio- it could get hit with a big bill increased the pos- to step in to help. Deutsche Bank is the country’s to perceived dangers. “In banking, perception is and overseas. neering position in the field of banking sibility that it may have to tap investors to raise biggest financial group and has links to many everything, and in times of stress investors tend The winners are: cards. KFH marketing campaigns play a sig- the cash. That would dilute shareholders’ stakes other banks. As such, it is considered systemical- to shoot first and ask questions later,” said Ahmad Aladwani, Meshari Almutairi, nificant role in underlining KFH’s principles and send shares down even farther. ly important - its failure could conceivably Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Abrar Alaushaz, Abdulaziz Alsaeidi, Salem that include boosting sales, while benefit- endanger the stability of the European or even Markets. Alshebani, Ahmad Alenezi and Marwan ting clients and merchants. IS THAT IT? global financial system. At the very least, it looks like Deutsche Bank Aday. This new campaign is part of KFH’s No, Deutsche Bank also has more fundamen- Yet new European rules on bank bailouts will have to raise capital, and that tends to hurt For every KD 10 spent on their KFH cards, efforts to reward its clients and grant them tal problems. could limit the government’s choices and the share price. The bank has tried to bring in clients will gain a chance to enter a draw additional value; thus achieving customer It is loaded with risky financial trades called expose investors to losses. The rules, which went money this week by selling a subsidiary for 1 bil- and win up to 2 Mercedes-Benz cars and a satisfaction and boosting their confidence. lion euros ($1.12 billion). But analysts say that chance to win the value of their purchases The campaign also aims at enhancing the ultimately it will likely have to tap shareholders up to $2000 daily for 100 days ending bank’s presence, especially that it domi- for cash. Others have suggested it merge with October 11th 2016. It is worth noting that nates the largest market share in the field of another weak German group, Commerzbank, KFH Credit and Prepaid cards used in banking cards. KFH has won several awards which this week announced it was cutting thou- domestic and international purchases and in the field of banking cards which reiter- sands of jobs to save on costs. KFH Debit cards used in international pur- ates its success and efficiency in banking More broadly, Deutsche Bank’s problem chases are eligible for the daily draw. cards market. KFH enjoys high confidence highlights how weak many European financial Moreover, clients will gain the chance to and leadership in the market in addition to groups still are. Unlike in the U.S., where banks enter 2 draws to win 2 Mercedes-Benz cars. high quality products which have enabled it were made to restructure aggressively in the The first draw will be for the first car to achieve growth in cards market and wake of the financial crisis, European banks Mercedes Benz GLE 400. This draw will be increase the number of customers. KFH have been slow to clear out soured investments held after 50 days of the launch for purchas- occupies the leading position as the issuer from their books and to readjust their business ing transactions conducted from day 1 to of banking cards and one of leading banks models. — AP day 50, while the second draw will be for at the GCC level. Historic takeover of Puerto Rico’s finances begins

SAN JUAN: A federal control board on that detail how the government is adhering restructure a portion of a nearly $70 billion Friday took over Puerto Rico’s finances and to its budget. Members also voted on which public debt that Garcia has said is unpayable. several government agencies for the first Puerto Rico government agencies would Carrion is one of four Republicans on the time in the US territory’s history in a bid to come under the board’s oversight. They board, along with three Democrats. Also on haul the island out of an acute economic cri- include the island’s central government, its the board is a representative of Puerto Rico’s sis. The seven-member board met in New largest public university, its heavily indebted governor who is barred from voting. During York and was briefly interrupted by protest- utility companies, a Government a televised address on Thursday, Garcia ers who yelled, “This is slavery!” and “Stop pil- Development Bank that is running out of urged the board to make the public pension laging Puerto Rico!” The meeting was cash and a public pension system under- system one of its priorities. He also request- livestreamed over the internet following funded by more than $40 billion. ed that the board consider intervening in a pledges that the board would operate with “We’re working as quickly as possible,” trial in which a federal judge is expected to transparency. said Jose Carrion III, who was elected board soon rule on whether Puerto Rico will have FRANKFURT: In this Jan. 27, 2016 file photo a sign reading “cash point” stands near the head- It ordered Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla to president, to reporters after the meeting. to pay its debts even though the U.S. legisla- quarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Worries over the financial stability of produce a fiscal plan in two weeks and sub- The board was approved by Congress in tion signed in June also protects the island Deutsche Bank returned to the fore Friday sending shares in Germany’s biggest bank into a mit weekly and monthly revenue reports June and is charged in part with helping from lawsuits through February 2017. — AP tailspin and to a record low. — AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 BUSINESS KSE ends September with mixed performance

BAYAN INVESTMENT MONTHLY REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended September while the other four recorded increases. The Consumer with mixed performance. The Price Index closed at 5,398.39 Goods sector headed the losers list as its index declined by points, down by 0.39% compared to the closings of the 3.21% to end the month’s activity at 1,132.32 points. The month before, the Weighted Index increased by 1.30% Insurance sector was second on the losers’ list, which index after closing at 351.87 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index declined by 2.31%, closing at 975.19 points, followed by closed at 814.10 points increasing by 1.53%. Furthermore, the Oil & Gas sector, as its index closed at 756.96 points at a last month’s average turnover decreased by 8.68%, com- loss of 1.31%. The Technology sector was the least declin- pared to the preceding month, reaching KD 6.02 million, ing as its index closed at 968.08 points with a 0.24% whereas trading volume average was 56.38 million shares, decrease. recording decrease of 9.34%. On the other hand, last month’s highest gainer was the The stock market indices’ closings were mixed as a Banks sector, achieving 0.81% growth rate as its index result to the different traders’ preferences, where there closed at 794.59 points. Whereas, in the second place, the was a purchasing trend on some leading and operational Health Care sector’s index closed at 1,069.57 points record- listed stocks headed by the Banks Sector stocks, which ing 0.56% increase. The Industrial sector was the least positively affected the Weighted and KSX-15 indices’ per- growing as its index closed at 1,154.56 points with a 0.41% formance to end the month in the green zone, while the increase. small-cap stocks continued its pressure on the Price Index to end the last month with some loss due to the quick Sectors’ Activity speculations and the profit collection operations wit- The Financial Services sector dominated total trade vol- nessed by such stocks during most of the daily sessions of ume during last month with 359.71 million shares chang- the month. ing hands, representing 39.88% of the total market trading The market performance during the month of volume. The Real Estate sector was second in terms of trad- September was reflected on the total market capitalization, ing volume as the sector’s traded shares were 27.07% of which gained around KD 314 million, despite the last month’s total trading volume, with a total of 244.16 decreased number of trading days during the month, due million shares to the Adha Eid holiday, as the market cap reached by the On the other hand, the Banks sector’s stocks were the end of the month KD 23.64 billion, compared to KD 23.32 drop on both levels, the volume and the value, compared to last month recording 3.86% annual loss compared to its highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of KD billion at end of August, and with a growth of 1.34%. the month of August. Also, the market is currently witness- closing in 2015, while the Weighted Index decreased by 27.97 million or 29.03% of last month’s total market trad- On the other hand, the market witnessed during the last ing a general state of watch and cautious in dealing, as the 7.82%, and the KSX-15 Index recorded 9.59% loss. ing value. month a refrain from trading by some traders, waiting for traders are waiting for the listed companies 9 months 2016 The Financial Services sector took the second place as positive motivators to arise and to push them to invest their results, which contributed to the decline in the trading Sectors’ Indices the sector’s last month turnover of KD 18.13 million repre- money in the market, which caused the trading activity to activity. For the annual performance, the Price Index ended Eight of KSE’s sectors ended last month in the red zone, senting 18.81% of the total market trading value.

Gulf Bank announces winners of the Al Danah daily draws

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al Danah daily draws on 25 September 2016 announcing the names of its winners for the week of 18 September - 22 September 2016. The Al Danah daily draws include draws each and every working day for two prizes of KD 1,000 per winner.

The winners were: Nissan catapults product line-up to new level (Sunday 18/9): Fatemah Ahmed Habib Shakrallah, Naser Matar Sameer Kayed (Monday 19/9): Mohammed Ahmad Taleb Taleb, to deliver innovation at Paris Motor Show Yagoub Rekan Abdulrahman Al-Khaldi (Tuesday 20/9): Nasser Khalaf Nasser Al-Mutirat, DUBAI: Nissan is delivering innova- electric vehicle (EV), the Nissan LEAF, Rabab Khalaf Haji Ibrahim tion and excitement to the Paris Nissan is always testing cutting-edge (Wednesday 21/9): Samir Aloun, Salman Hussein Motor Show, catapulting its product applications for EV technologies. ● Ghloum Mohammad line-up to a whole new level with the Intelligent Integration: EV bat- (Thursday 22/9): Mohammad Rabi Amin Morelly, rebirth of the iconic Nissan Micra. The tery technology has moved to a Abdulaziz Al-Hassan Essa Ahmad company is also building on its whole new level as Nissan partners Gulf Bank’s Al Danah 2016 draw lineup includes daily Intelligent Mobility vision, with Eaton on a residential home draws (2 winners per working day each receive announced at the Geneva Motor energy storage unit called xStorage KD1000). The final Al Danah draw for 1 Million Show, with the 100 percent electric and joins forces with Enel on trials of LEAF not only on display but used as vehicle-to-grid technology in Kuwaiti Dinars will be held on 5 January, 2017 where- a mobile energy source to power Denmark and the UK. by the Al Danah Millionaire will be announced. Open exhibits on Nissan’s stand using vehi- As a showcase of this cutting-edge an Al Danah account now or deposit more to cle-to-grid technology. technology, the Nissan stand at Paris increase your chances of winning the Millionaire Paul Willcox, Chairman, Nissan is powered in part by the Nissan LEAF, Draw! Europe, said: “We’re delivering on our using its pioneering bio-directional commitment of innovation and charging to deliver energy from the Five reasons why the Al Danah account is the excitement for everyone with the car to the show. Best: launch of the new Micra - a modern The company has also beaten its 1) Kuwait’s single biggest yearly cash prize of KD 1 car for modern city living that rein- previous European sales figures, Million forces our position as a leader in auto- recording double-digit growth in a 2) Kuwait’s biggest quarterly cash prizes, up to motive design and style. number of markets and countering KD500,000 “This year we have continued to economic headwinds with strong 3) Two winners of KD1,000 every working day strengthen our product line up, not sales of its market-leading crossovers 4) The most chances to win only with the rebirth of the Nissan and EVs. 5) Only Bank that transfers your chances to win from Micra but with the new, more brazen In Western Europe sales at the end year to year Win Big, Live Big, with Al Danah 2016. Nissan GT-R supercar and the Nissan of FY15 (March 2016) were up 9.4% Al Danah also offers a number of unique services Murano crossover in Russia. We’re also versus FY14, a record-breaking year, including: the Al Danah Deposit Only ATM card keeping one eye firmly on the future with major markets including Spain which helps account holders deposit their money at with our Intelligent Mobility vision, (+19.3%), Germany (+13.2%), Italy their convenience; as well as the Al Danah calculator redefining how cars are driven, pow- (+8.8%), UK (+4.2%) and France to help customers calculate their chances of becom- ered and integrated into society, and (+3.9%) seeing significant increases. ing an Al Danah winner. the Micra itself features many of the Sales in Europe of Nissan’s crossovers Gulf Bank’s Al Danah account is open to Kuwaiti building-blocks of this vision.” were more than 432,000 in FY15, mak- and non-Kuwaiti residents of Kuwait. Customers who Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision, ing the company’s range the best-sell- open an account and/ or deposit more will enter the a framework to move customers ing in the category. draw within two days. around the world towards a safer and Willcox added: “Our product line- To take part in the Al Danah 2016 upcoming more sustainable future, is already up has never been as strong or more quarterly and yearly draws, customers must have being realised right here today. cohesive - showing that we’re unafraid an Al Danah account containing at least KD 200; ● Intelligent Drive: Hot on the to reinvent ourselves across all seg- customers can visit one of Gulf Bank’s 56 branches, heels of the debut of Nissan’s Pro ments and disrupt the status quo. transfer on line, or call the Customer Contact PILOT autonomous drive technology While others take a cautious view, we Center on 1805805 for assistance and guidance. in the Nissan Serena minivan in Japan, continue to invest in our vision of the Customers can also log on to www.e- Nissan is set to premiere the technolo- future, right now.” gulfbank.com/aldanahwinners, to find out more gy in Europe in the new Nissan This year also marks two important about Al Danah and its winners. Qashqai next year. manufacturing milestones for Nissan - ● Intelligent Power: Starting with 30 years in Sunderland, UK, and 10 producing the world’s best-selling years in St Petersburg, Russia. BUSINESS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 Boursa Kuwait participates in 8th Euromoney conference

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait participated at the 8th Euromoney conference that was held on 27th September, 2016 at the JW ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Marriott - Kuwait City. The conference themed ‘Meeting the Challenge of Partners co-sponsors 8th Financial Innovation and Reform’ addressed challenges and opportunities Annual Euromoney Kuwait facing the Kuwaiti economy in an era of global uncertainties. Boursa Kuwait Vice Conference 2016 Chairman and CEO, Khaled Abdulrazzaq Al Khaled, highlighted the company’s KUWAIT: ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners role in developing the overall financial (ASAR), Kuwait’s leading and most prominent market status and upgrading standards corporate law firm and one of the region’s of the capital markets to the internation- top tier firms, co-sponsored and participated al level. at the yearly Euro money conference that Al Khaled commenced by highlight- took place at Kuwait on September 27th. The ing the objective behind the establish- platform included the participation of senior ABK announces ment of Boursa Kuwait and the role it government officials, market experts and plays in the wider national vision for the Vice Chairman and CEO Boursa Kuwait, businessmen, discussing the challenges and winners of 22nd State of Kuwait. Al Khaled said: “Boursa Khaled Abdulrazzaq Al Khaled. opportunities facing the Kuwaiti economy in Kuwait was founded in April, 2014 by the an era of global uncertainty. Capital Markets Authority Kuwaiti private sector. The central theme of ‘Meeting the ‘Double Your Challenge of Financial Innovation and Commissioners’ Council resolution No. Since it officially assumed responsibili- Ahmed Barakat Reform’, discussing Kuwait’s fiscal, monetary 37/2013 dated 11/20/2013 and perme- ties of the stock exchange in April, 2016, Salary’ weekly Boursa Kuwait has come a long way and and economic diversification strategy includ- frameworks dealing with private/public part- able to Law No. (7/2010), to replace the ed topics such as Digitalization, Innovation nership projects and foreign direct invest- Kuwait Stock Exchange. The company’s was able to address some of the chal- draws lenges and weaknesses it identified dur- and the future of Kuwaiti business, finance ment in Kuwait. strategy focuses on a) creating a compet- and governance. There was also a strong In closing, Barakat added :”As experienced itive securities exchange at the regional ing the planning phase. Its approach KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) held its underlying theme in the programme to corporate lawyers, we applaud the govern- level by creating an attractive issuer base focused mainly on delivering and rein- explore the role of Kuwait in the international ment and parliament for taking proactive 22nd ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draw on 27th and broadening the investor base, and b) forcing transparency, whereby it financial system. The event was a unique and positive measures to fill in the legislative September, 2016 at the Bank’s Head Office in the upgrading the standards of the capital launched the Company Information opportunity for Euro money and the audi- gaps in such a challenging market like presence of a representative from the Ministry of markets to the international level by Portal (CIP), a tool designed by Boursa ence to interact with senior government offi- Kuwait.” Commerce, announcing the names of the win- increasing depth and breadth of prod- Kuwait, with the aim of providing a credi- cials in an informal setting. With dedicated offices in Kuwait and ners for this week. 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INFINITI VC-Turbo engine technology presented in Paris

PARIS: INFINITI is giving attendees of the 2016 Paris 2018. This new generation of power trains will help our 8:1 (for high performance) and 14:1 (for high efficiency). Motor Show (Mondial de l’Automobile) a glimpse into global growth and expansion of the INFINITI product With a development target power output of approxi- automotive future today (29 September 2016), with the portfolio.” Making its European debut in Paris is the mately 200 kW (268 hp / 272 ps) and 390 Nm torque, reveal of ground-breaking new engine technology. INFINITI QX Sport Inspiration Concept, laying down the VC-Turbo engine will be comparable to certain six- INFINITI’s new VC-Turbo (Variable Compression markers for the design of future INFINITI QX models. The cylinder gasoline power trains for performance, while Turbo) is the world’s first production-ready variable daring new concept has received some design significantly outperforming them in efficiency. compression ratio engine. Promising to be one of the upgrades since its global reveal at the Beijing Auto The four-cylinder VC-Turbo engine achieves lower most advanced internal combustion engines ever creat- Show in April 2016, and explores the brand’s vision for a levels of noise and vibration than conventional internal ed, VC-Turbo technology combines the power of a high- next-generation, mid-size premium SUV. combustion engines, particularly diesel, and is lighter performance 2.0-liter turbo gasoline engine with the and more compact than V6 units with comparable pow- torque and efficiency of an advanced diesel power train VC-Turbo er outputs. - without the equivalent emissions. The first production-ready INFINITI’s VC-Turbo technology marks a significant Roland Krueger, President of INFINITI Motor variable compression engine leap forward for the internal combustion engine, join- Company, commented: “The pioneering new VC-Turbo Transforming on demand, INFINITI’s VC-Turbo tech- ing other renowned power train innovations such as liq- power train represents a leap forward for engine devel- nology uses an advanced multi-link system to seamless- uid-cooling, fuel injection, catalytic convertors, and tur- opment. Vehicle engineers believe that a breakthrough ly raise or lower the reach of the pistons, detecting the bo charging. The arrival of the variable compression in internal combustion technology would come from car’s driving condition and driver inputs, and instantly ratio engine will establish new benchmarks - for power, mastering the variable compression ratio. INFINITI will selecting the most suitable compression ratio. The efficiency and emissions - against which future power be the first to bring this technology to the market in engine is able to offer any compression ratio between trains will be measured. Demand for Alaska cruises growing again

ANCHORAGE: A growing consumer demand for Alaska cruis- Alaska itineraries and bringing bigger ships to Alaska ports, affected by a $46 passenger head tax approved by voters in Elvejord, the Holland America spokesman, said every desti- es has put the state back in the million-passenger club as it we expect the growth to continue next summer,” Leonard said 2006, although some have questioned how larger role it nation tends to be cyclical as far as passenger numbers go. In rebounds after a leaner stretch. And next year is expected to Friday in an email to The Associated Press. played. Alaska’s case, demand has ramped up even more in recent be even better with larger capacity ships added to the Far John Binkley, president of Cruise Lines International The cruise association sued the state over the tax, but months. North lineup. Association Alaska, says the 2017 season is expected to bring dropped the suit after a tax cut approved by state lawmakers “The interest is growing,” Elvejord said. The southeast The millionth passenger was recently counted as the up to 45,000 additional passengers from this year’s tally. That was passed into law in 2010. Alaska town of Sitka is among communities enjoying the Alaska cruise industry’s season was nearing its end. Final pas- would break the old record set in 2008. Around the same time, state funding was increased for growth spurt that’s been building since completion of a deep senger totals are expected to be slightly higher. The number of sailings also is expected to slightly grow, travel industry marketing. That boost lasted only a few years water dock in 2012. This summer, an estimated 130,000 pas- “Alaska’s very popular,” Holland America Line spokesman from 477 this year to 481 next year. Alaska’s last previous mil- before the state’s current financial crisis cut into funding, sengers visited the town, a figure that’s expected to grow to Erik Elvejord said Friday. “We’ve been getting a lot of interest lion-passenger season was in 2009. “It’s been slow to build Binkley said. more than 160,000 next year, according to dock manager in it.” Overall visitor numbers also are growing, with a record of back,” Binkley said, noting the state’s competition with other “We had some very robust years of marketing that brought Chris McGraw. Before the dock’s construction, cruise ship pas- more than 2 million travelers in the state last year. This sum- markets as the cruise industry booms globally, particularly in Alaska back into competition really with other destinations,” sengers were brought to shore in smaller boats. That still occa- mer’s season is projected to be “just as positive” and expected Asia markets. he said. The increasing demand is prompting Holland America sionally happens when there are two ships at port, but for the to continue next year as well, according to Sarah Leonard, The drop in passenger numbers also has been blamed on Line to replace two smaller vessels with larger capacity ships most part passengers are disembarking at the dock. president of the Alaska Travel Industry Association. other factors, including the national recession that ate into for Alaska sailings next year. Altogether, Holland America uti- “It’s making Sitka more attractive for the cruise companies,” “With continued interest by cruise companies including discretionary income. Binkley also says the numbers were lizes seven vessels in Alaska. McGraw said. — AP technology SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 US government cuts cord on internet oversight

WASHINGTON: The US government yesterday yesterday confirming the transition of the Internet ended its formal oversight role over the internet, Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). “As of handing over management of the online address October 1, 2016, the IANA functions contract has system to a global non-profit entity. The US expired,” he said. Stephen Crocker, ICANN’s board Commerce Department announced that its con- chairman and one of the engineers who devel- tract had expired with the Internet Corporation for oped the early internet protocols, welcomed the Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages end of the contract. the internet’s so-called “root zone.” “This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, That leaves ICANN as a self-regulating organiza- yet it was the tireless work of the global Internet tion that will be operated by the internet’s “stake- community, which drafted the final proposal, that holders”-engineers, academics, businesses, non- made this a reality,” he said in a statement. “This government and government groups. The move is community validated the multi-stakeholder model part of a decades-old plan by the US to “privatize” of Internet governance. It has shown that a gover- the internet, and backers have said it would help nance model defined by the inclusion of all voices, maintain its integrity around the world. US and including business, academics, technical experts, ICANN officials have said the contract had given civil society, governments and many others is the Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the best way to assure that the Internet of tomorrow internet’s “root zone” where new online domains remains as free, open and accessible as the and addresses are created. But critics, including Internet of today.” some US lawmakers, argued that this was a “give- The Internet Society, a group formed by inter- away” by Washington that could allow authoritari- net founders aimed at keeping the system open, an regimes to seize control. said the transition was a positive step. “The IANA A last-ditch effort by critics to block the plan-a transition is a powerful illustration of the multi- lawsuit filed by four US states-failed when a Texas stakeholder model and an affirmation of the prin- federal judge refused to issue an injunction to ciple that the best approach to address chal- stop the transition. Lawrence Strickling, who lenges is through bottom-up, transparent, and ATLANTA: People work on a job search on a computer at an office in Atlanta. The US government heads the Commerce Department unit which has consensus-driven processes,” the group said in a plans to cede control of some of the internet’s core systems, namely, the directories that help web managed these functions, issued a brief statement statement. — AFP browsers and apps know where to find the latest weather, maps and Facebook musings. — AP A year of Alphabet: Great for Google, less so for moonshots Google’s revenue growth accelerates

SAN FRANCISCO: Reorganizing itself under the X lab, where the company is building robotic profile self-driving car project and its Nest line of umbrella company Alphabet has done wonders cars and designing the stratospheric balloons internet-connected devices. Alphabet also has for Google - but less so for a grab bag of eclectic designed to beam internet service to remote scaled back plans to expand its Fiber service to projects ranging from robotic cars to internet- areas. Other “Other Bets” include the biotech dozens of US cities. beaming balloons, which are suffering costly firm Verify and medical-research firm Calico, Creating a holding company also was sup- growing pains. A year after Alphabet took shape, which has been studying ways to stop aging. posed to make it easier to diversify through Google’s revenue growth has accelerated - an Alphabet also runs funds investing in startups major acquisitions. But Alphabet’s biggest deal unusual development for a company of its size. and mid-sized companies. Page argued that so far has been the $625 million purchase of a That success, however, also underscores fencing off Other Bets would make Google “even business software maker, Apigee Corp, which Alphabet’s dependence on the fickle business of better through greater focus.” had annual revenue of just $92 million. placing digital ads in core Google products like Alphabet could make a much bigger splash if search, Gmail and YouTube video. Core successes buys Twitter, as recent reports say it is consider- As a result, it remains vulnerable to swings in That part of Page’s vision appears to be pan- ing. Twitter would give Alphabet a popular pub- marketing budgets and stiffening competition ning out. After subtracting ad commissions, lishing outlet to monitor trends, mine data and CALIFORNIA: Members of the media and invited guests take a look at the new iPad from another equally ambitious rival, Facebook. Alphabet’s second-quarter revenue jumped 22 sell even more ads. Alphabet declined to discuss Pro during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Apple announced it is Alphabet was supposed to speed the process of percent from the previous year to $17.5 billion. It whether it’s mulling a bid, which would be extending its push into selling business technology by forging a partnership with turning offshoot businesses into new technolog- was the best performance in four years, adjusted expensive; Twitter might fetch between $20 and the Deloitte consulting firm to advise companies on using iPhones, iPads and Apple ical jackpots. CEO Larry Page predicted that sep- for changes in currency exchange rates, says RBC $30 billion, despite its problems with user software in the workplace. — AP arating these smaller “moonshots” from the mas- analyst Mark Mahaney. Alphabet shares rose 25 growth and online harassment. sive search-and-advertising business would spur percent over the past year, easily outpacing innovation by fostering a more entrepreneurial major market indexes. “Folks will be hard Looking beyond Yahoo hack may become test case atmosphere. That hasn’t happened during pressed to say that Alphabet hasn’t been a suc- Google is doing so well that investors aren’t Alphabet’s first year. cess,” S&P Global Market Intelligence analyst fixating on the losses with Other Bets, Kessler for data breach disclosure rules Scott Kessler says. Alphabet declined to com- says. Only three Bets - Nest, Fiber and Verily - Making the shift ment on its first-year performance. But Sundar are generating even a smidgen of revenue. In WASHINGTON: Yahoo’s disclosure that SEC filing it did not know of “any incidents Until Page and fellow Google co-founder Pichai, who became Google’s CEO in the restruc- nine months, the Other Bets companies have hackers stole user data from at least 500 of, or third party claims alleging ... unautho- Sergey Brin created Alphabet (which turns one turing, told investors in July, “There is an amaz- lost a combined $2.6 billion on revenue of $410 million accounts in 2014 has highlighted rized access” of customers’ personal data on Sunday), investors complained that Google ing energy right now.” Among other things, million. Another big loss is expected in the shortcomings in US rules on when cyber that could have a material adverse effect was spending too much on high-risk efforts. Google has been making strides in the still- July-September quarter; the company reports attacks must be revealed and their enforce- on Verizon Communication Inc’s planned New chief financial officer Ruth Porat, who nascent field of artificial intelligence, hoping to results on Oct. 27. BGC analyst Colin Gillis still ment. Democratic Senator Mark Warner $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core busi- joined Google in mid-2015, responded by rein- create more convenient services that attract sees the gamble as prudent and expects at this week asked the US Securities and ness. Since then, Yahoo has not clarified if it ing in expenses to keep them more in line with even more eyeballs for its advertisers. least one of the projects will come up with a Exchange Commission to investigate knew of the attack before that SEC filing. revenue growth. A few months later, Page breakthrough that lessens Alphabet’s depend- whether Yahoo and its senior executives “Our investigation into this matter is ongo- announced the plan to draw a dividing line Stalled bets ence on Google. Optimism is fine as Google properly disclosed the attack, which Yahoo ing and the issues are complex,” a Yahoo between Google and the far-flung forays But the demand for financial discipline and keeps growing at a robust rate. But Wall Street blamed on Sept 22 on a “state-sponsored spokesman said last week. Alphabet now refers to as “Other Bets.” The mish- accountability appears to have taken a toll on will likely ratchet up the pressure if the compa- actor.” The Yahoo hack could become a test In his letter, Warner asked the SEC to mash includes smart-thermostat maker Nest; the Other Bets, which lose billions of dollars a year. ny falters and nothing emerges from Other Bets case of the SEC’s guidelines, said Jacob evaluate whether the current disclosure Fiber project, a high-speed internet service; and Key leaders have defected from Alphabet’s high- to help pick up the slack. — AP Olcott, former Senate Commerce regime was adequate. He cited reports that Committee counsel who helped develop fewer than 100 of 9,000 public companies them, due to the size of the breach, intense disclosed a material data breach since public scrutiny and uncertainty over the 2010. “I don’t know that we need new rules. timing of Yahoo’s discovery. But in certain situations, you may need Yahoo has not specifically addressed more aggressive enforcement,” said when it learned of the 2014 attack. And the Roberta Karmel, a Brooklyn Law School vagueness of SEC’s 2011 rules on disclosure professor. The SEC in 2014 examined and its failure to enforce them are drawing whether cyber disclosure rules needed to equal attention, privacy lawyers and cyber be strengthened and imposed new security experts said. The agency has “been requirements for broker-dealers and invest- looking for the right case to bring forward,” ment advisers but not public companies. said Olcott. The agency in 2011 told pub- licly traded companies to report hacking ‘Punish the victim’ incidents that could have a “material Some policymakers worry rules com- adverse effect on the business” but did not pelling prompt disclosure of cyber attacks define that. SEC has never acted against a could deter companies from cooperating company for failing to disclose a cyberse- with authorities. “We cannot blame execu- curity incident or threat, and it has brought tives for worrying that what starts today as just two enforcement actions against com- an honest conversation about a cyberat- panies for insufficient data protection, an tack could end tomorrow in a ‘punish the agency spokesman said. victim’ regulatory enforcement action,” Lawyers said this reflected difficulty in Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said determining if breaches were material and this week. Congress last year expanded lia- many companies’ belief that reporting on bility protections for companies that share cyber threats generally satisfies the disclo- cyber information with the government, sure requirement. Yahoo has not offered a and Pritzker urged granting companies precise timeline about when it was made temporary immunity during the response aware of the breach. On Sept 9, it said in an to a hack. — Reuters

New York Police Department to buy 1,000 body cameras CALIFORNIA: Photo shows the dashboard of the Tesla Model X car, at the company’s headquarters in Fremont, Calif. Newer cars that connect to NEW YORK: The New York Police start of 2017. New York police began a the internet are capable of collecting vast amounts of data about their drivers. Tesla Motors has used data to reveal, sometimes within hours of Department, the largest city police force body-camera pilot program in December a crash, how fast the driver was going and whether or not the company’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged. — AP in the United States, has agreed to buy 2014, six months after the death of 1,000 body cameras, officials confirmed father-of-six Eric Garner in a police Friday. The move is part of a nationwide chokehold that sparked nationwide California proposes giving more push to equip more police with the tech- protests. The tiny, flat cameras look like nology in response to a national outcry pagers and can be clipped onto uniforms over the deaths of unarmed-often to record police interactions and activi- freedom to test self-driving cars African American-men at the hands of ties in real time. police in disputed circumstances. An offi- The devices, which are far cheaper SAN FRANCISCO: California will allow compa- California has been at the forefront of the fast- control and lane-assist systems using terms like cial at the New York’s mayor’s office con- than dashboard cameras, are a relatively nies more leeway in testing self-driving cars on growing autonomous vehicle industry, fueled “autonomous” or “self-driving.” The systems firmed to AFP that the police department recent innovation in the United States but public roads while restricting how the nascent by technology companies in Silicon Valley, and help steer and keep vehicles in lanes but still had agreed to order 1,000 body cameras the New York agreement is likely to technology is advertised under revised draft is one of a handful of states to have passed reg- require a human to remain engaged. from Seattle-based Vievu LLC. The city of increase chances they will become stan- regulations released on Friday. In one of the ulations enabling self-driving car testing on Such partially autonomous systems, which more than 8.5 million people has around dard equipment in coming years. A 2012 biggest changes, the new regulations would public roads. transfer control of the vehicle between the 34,500 uniformed police officers. study by the Rialto Police Department in allow for the absence of a driver in some Currently, 15 companies have permits to driver and the car and vice versa, have come “The department worked very closely California found that for officers using the instances, provided there is two-way communi- drive autonomous vehicles on public roads in under scrutiny since a May fatality involving a with all the concerned parties in the cameras, complaints from the public cation with the vehicle. the state provided there is a licensed driver in Tesla Motors Inc driver using the company’s selection process. We are looking forward dropped almost 90 percent and uses of The original draft regulations by the the car. Now, carmakers will have to certify that Autopilot semi-autonomous system. Some to the implementation of the program,” a force went down nearly 60 percent. A Department of Motor Vehicles were criticized they have met a 15-step safety assessment consumer groups and others have criticized police spokeswoman said in a statement. series of killings of unarmed black men by by some tech companies, such as Alphabet issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety the Silicon Valley electric car maker for the The Daily News newspaper said the mostly white police officers since August Inc’s Google, and carmakers as being overly Administration. That safety assurance means choice of the name Autopilot, which could planned purchase was part of a five-year, 2014 has sparked protests, charges of restrictive and stifling innovation. Moreover, self-driving cars will no longer be required to suggest that the technology does not require a $6.42 million contract that police hope to racism and revived the debate about disabled groups complained that the require- be tested by a third-party, as in the original driver’s intervention. The draft regulations face start rolling out in 20 precincts by the excessive use of police force. — AFP ment of a driver in the car hurt the very people proposal. The changes also prohibit advertising a new period of public comment before being that autonomous vehicles would most benefit. semi-autonomous systems like enhanced cruise finalized. — Reuters SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Zika illnesses are mild at worst in US teens, young children NEW YORK: A first look at US teens and they can be more severely affected by in 10 children in a Zika outbreak on a young children who were infected with infections in general, and because their South Pacific island in 2007. Zika suggests the virus typically causes at brains are developing rapidly. “I’m really Zika is mainly spread a tropical mos- worst only a mild illness. Zika infection dur- concerned about birth through the first quito called Aedes aegypti, though it can ing pregnancy can cause severe brain- birthday,” said Dr. Carrie Byington, a also be spread through sex. Mosquitoes related birth defects. But the report seems University of Utah researcher who focus- have been spreading the virus in to confirm health officials’ belief that infec- es on infections in children. Florida’s Miami-Dade County, as well as tions after birth in children are similar to in Puerto Rico and some other US territo- infections in adults- most people don’t feel None died ries. Most of the more than 3,600 report- sick, and some develop only mild symp- None of the children studied died, ed infections in the 50 states, including toms like fever, rash, joint pain and red and none developed a paralyzing condi- about 800 pregnant women, have been eyes. tion seen in some infected adults called seen in people who traveled to and were Some experts say there’s not enough Guillain-Barre syndrome. But Guillain- infected in Zika outbreak countries. data to answer questions about the virus’s Barre is rare, seen only once in every sev- Also on Friday, the CDC updated its potential impact on the developing brains eral thousand Zika illnesses in adults. It advice to US couples who may have of infants and small children, however. The may be that kids can still get it, but there been infected with Zika and are thinking report, released Friday by the Centers for weren’t enough cases for it to surface, of having a baby. They recommend men Disease Control and Prevention, is based on said Dr. Ganeshwaran Mochida, a pedi- use condoms or refrain from sex for at 158 infections from earlier this year in kids atric neurologist at Boston Children’s least six months after returning from a ages 1 month to 17 years. Hospital. Zika-hit area. That’s longer than the eight All the children picked up the virus Zika outbreaks have swept through weeks previously recommended while traveling abroad, and the bulk of Latin America and the Caribbean in the because researchers have found that the them were older kids in their teens. Only last year, but data on infections in chil- virus can linger in semen for months. The 16 were age 4 or younger and only four MARATHON, FLORIDA: In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Aedes dren are limited. Experts have based recommendation for women to use pro- were under a year old. Experts are wor- Aegypti mosquito larvae swim in a container at the Florida Mosquito Control conclusions about how infections tection remains eight weeks from possi- ried about very young children because District Office. —AP progress in kids partly on what was seen ble Zika exposure.—AP Report: Obama administration failed to follow health law $5 billion dispute WASHINGTON: The Obama administration problems. The law specified that the fee would tion of shortchanging the Treasury to “bail out” failed to follow the president’s health care law in collect $25 billion from 2014-2016, and $5 billion the health care law. a $5 billion dispute over compensating insurers of that would go directly to the Treasury. But “The administration should end this illegal for high costs from seriously ill patients, when fee collections fell short, the Health and scheme immediately, and focus on providing Congress’ investigative arm said Thursday. Human Services Department failed to allocate a relief from the burdens of this law,” Sen. John The opinion from the Government share of the money to the Treasury, saying it Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a statement. Barrasso is Accountability Office is a setback for the White would do so later as more money came in. a leader on health care issues. House and bolsters Republican complaints that Previously, Republicans have complained administration officials bent the law as problems Cried foul that the administration flouted the law when it arose carrying out its complex provisions. The Republicans cried foul and asked the GAO to delayed a requirement that larger employers finding may complicate efforts to stabilize pre- examine the issue. On Thursday, Republicans got must offer coverage to their workers. miums in the law’s insurance marketplaces, the ruling they had hoped for. “HHS lacks author- Responding to Thursday’s GAO opinion, the where about 11 million people get coverage. ity to ignore the statute’s directive to deposit Obama administration said that the program The Obama administration said it “strongly amounts (collected under the program) in the was implemented “lawfully and in a transparent BANGKOK: In this June 26, 2013, file photo, a Bangkok Metropolitan Administration disagrees” with the GAO’s conclusion. At issue is Treasury,” the GAO’s general counsel, Susan A. manner” and “helps to reduce premiums for con- worker fogs a home with mosquito repellent. —AP how the administration has handled a little- Poling, wrote. sumers.” known, but important program called “transi- The administration’s interpretation of the law The GAO has no enforcement power over its Thailand confirms SE Asia’s tional reinsurance.” Working in the background “is inconsistent with the plain language of the ruling, but congressional opponents of the of the law’s coverage expansion, the three-year statute,” she said. It didn’t help the administra- health law could use the finding to write legisla- first Zika-linked birth defects program collects fees from employer and other tion’s case with GAO that the original HHS plan tion that forces HHS to pay the Treasury. private health insurance plans and channels the for distributing the fee money called for paying Generally, lawmakers of both parties respect BANGKOK: Authorities in Thailand have mosquito control measures. Mosquitoes money to health plans that face large claims for the Treasury. GAO’s rulings on federal budget issues. confirmed that two cases of babies with are a constant concern in Thailand because treating patients with catastrophic medical Republicans accuse the Obama administra- The reinsurance program is one of three microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, they also transmit malaria, dengue fever financial backstops created by President Barack were caused by the Zika virus, the first such and chikungunya. Statistics issued by Thai Obama’s law to support insurers as they built cases found in Southeast Asia. health officials show more than 300 con- their customer base in the new markets for sub- Dr. Prasert Thongcharoen, a senior firmed Zika cases since the start of the year. sidized private insurance. Reinsurance provides Health Ministry official, said in a statement On Thursday, US health officials advised a safety net for insurers by helping to pay large Friday that the linkage to Zika was con- pregnant women to postpone travel to 11 claims, an important consideration for compa- firmed by laboratory tests in two of three countries in Southeast Asia because of Zika nies selling coverage to a customer pool they cases of babies afflicted with microcephaly. outbreaks. The advisory covered Brunei, didn’t know. The results were inconclusive in the third Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, The marketplaces have been tough for insur- case. The World Health Organization urged Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, the ers, due in part to less-than-promised support countries in the region to take stronger Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. from a different government stabilization pro- measures to contain the virus. The UN The US Centers for Disease Control and gram. Insurers also say they’ve been swamped agency said the cases are the first of Zika- Prevention said Zika has existed in some by higher-than-expected claims and by cus- associated microcephaly in Southeast Asia. areas of Southeast Asia for years, and some tomers who sign up for coverage, use it on “Zika virus infection is a serious threat to residents may be immune. But it said a expensive care and then stop paying premiums. the health and wellbeing of a pregnant number of US travelers have become Major carriers such as UnitedHealth Group and woman and her unborn child. Countries infected in the region in the last year. Aetna have scaled back their role after forecast- across the region must continue to WHO said travelers to areas with Zika ing annual losses that will top $300 million. strengthen measures aimed at preventing, virus outbreaks “should seek up-to-date The health insurance industry is concerned detecting and responding to Zika virus advice on potential risks and appropriate over the escalating dispute between transmission,” WHO Southeast Asia regional measures to reduce the possibility of expo- Republicans in charge of Congress and the director Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh said in sure to mosquito bites and sexual transmis- administration. a statement. sion of Zika.” But it advised pregnant David Merritt, a vice president of America’s Zika generally causes a mild flu-like ill- women “not to travel to areas of ongoing Health Insurance Plans, said the purpose of rein- ness, but a major outbreak in Brazil last Zika virus transmission.” “Pregnant women’s surance is to protect the most vulnerable year revealed that it can result in severe sexual partners living in or returning from patients and keep coverage affordable for every- birth defects when pregnant women are areas with Zika virus outbreaks should one else. Any changes to the program “will put infected. The disease is spread primarily by ensure safer sex or abstain from sex for the WASHINGTON: In this photo taken April 5, 2016, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. speaks on Capitol consumers and their coverage at risk,” Merritt mosquitoes, and WHO urged private citi- duration of their partner’s pregnancy,” it Hill. —AP said.—AP zens as well as governments to take strict said.—AP

Utah man may have contracted Zika from dying father’s tears Colorado gives marijuana candy SALT LAKE CITY: A Utah man who fishing in the ocean, but those food mysteriously contracted Zika from choices and activities played no a new look to avoid confusion his infected father may have got it role in coming down with the virus, by touching his dad’s tears or sweat Swaminathan said. He and other DENVER: Wondering if that brownie contains pot? year ago but is just now taking effect because of diffi- and coffee crunch. Company founder Andrew Schrot with his bare hands, according to family members were bitten by Colorado has you covered. A requirement that edible culties implementing it. None of the other legal weed said that when he started his company in 2011 for new research that found the unusu- mosquitoes, leading him and sever- marijuana products come with a diamond-shaped states has considered a universal symbol requirement medical marijuana customers, his pot treats looked al transmission method was likely al others to come down with Zika. stamp and the letters T-H-C - not just on the packag- for marijuana products themselves, as opposed to the like any other chocolate bars. But he said the switch to caused by his dying father having His son, a healthy 38-year-old, ing but on the brownies, candies and other edibles packaging. a recreational market in which new marijuana users 100,000 times the normal level of became sick five days after visiting themselves - takes effect Saturday. The rule referenc- Candies and baked goods may be simple to stamp, were trying his products necessitated change. “This is the virus. his father in the hospital and was ing marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient was added but the label requirement gets a lot trickier for bulk not your normal chocolate bar. There’s something dif- The research done by University diagnosed with Zika. He recovered after complaints that the treats look too much their items such as granola, or marijuana-infused sodas or ferent about it. You can tell just from looking at it,” of Utah doctors and published and later told doctors that he had non-intoxicating counterparts. It is the first such powders that can be dissolved in water. The state ulti- Schrot said. Wednesday in the New England helped nurses care for his father, requirement in any legal weed state. mately settled on new packaging rules for those Colorado’s marijuana industry initially was hesitant Journal of Medicine, doesn’t give def- including wiping his eyes without Colorado’s new “universal symbol” for foods that impossible-to-stamp items, requiring that sodas about the change, pointing out in regulatory meet- inite answers to why the father’s lev- gloves. None of the nurses or doc- contain marijuana is designed to give the treats a dis- come in small single-serve bottles, for example. ings that alcohol makers aren’t required to dye their els were so high or why the son con- tors who treated his father became tinct look even after they’re out of the packaging. In Colorado also requires that edible packages con- drinks funny colors to make sure parents don’t let kids tracted the virus in a way not docu- sick, or did other family members. other words, a pot cookie being passed around a high tain the phrase, “Keep out of reach of children.” At get ahold of the booze. “Some of the industry expec- mented anywhere else. But it does Health officials and researchers school cafeteria no longer will look so innocent, giv- BlueKudu, which makes marijuana-infused chocolates, tation was, ‘Let’s keep it on the parents and the users offer new details about the events tested mosquitoes in the Salt Lake ing parents a way to identify marijuana edibles with- owners had to buy new molds for a line of candy bars in keeping it away from children or people who the led to a case that has puzzled City area and didn’t find any Zika- out smelling or tasting them. that include flavors like mint chocolate, toffee almond shouldn’t use it,’” Schrot said. — AP researchers. infected bugs. The father, 73, had been diag- The virus causes only a mild ill- Other requirements nosed with prostate cancer eight ness in most people. But during The stamping requirement comes in addition to months before his June death, the recent outbreaks in Latin America, exhaustive labeling and packaging rules that include report says. He was receiving radia- scientists discovered that infection childproof zippers and lids, along with warnings that tion therapy and anti-androgen during pregnancy has led to severe the product should be kept away from children and therapy, which may have made it brain-related birth defects. not eaten before driving or while pregnant or nursing. easier for the virus to replicate, said Researchers in this new report “We want to ensure that people genuinely know Dr. Sankar Swaminathan, chief of the concur with a previous assessment the difference between a Duncan Hines brownie and infectious diseases division at by the US Centers for Disease a marijuana brownie, just by looking at it,” said state University of Utah Health Care. But Control and Prevention that the son Rep. Jonathan Singer, a Democrat who sponsored the Swaminathan said the cancer and contracted the virus through a new law requiring stamped edibles. treatment doesn’t totally explain method other than the two main There are no numbers in Colorado or any marijua- why the man had such extremely sources: mosquito bites and sexual high levels. activity with an infected person. na state on how many children or adults accidentally But Swaminathan said the find- eat pot. But a 2016 study tracing admissions at Vague details ings don’t mean people visiting Children’s Hospital Colorado just outside Denver He became ill after returning Zika-infested areas and countries found that more kids were treated for accidental pot from a three-week trip to the south- need to wear gloves all of the time. ingestion after legalization, from 1.2 per 100,000 pop- west coast of Mexico, his native They believe the rare transmission ulation two years prior to legalization to 2.3 per country that he left in 2003 to move happened primarily because the 100,000 population two years after legalization. to the United States, the paper says. father’s extremely high levels of Marijuana ingestions remained relatively rare, The report still doesn’t provide the the virus. “There’s no risk of shak- though, with the hospital reporting 81 children treat- man’s name or the exact spot in ing hands with a person who has a ed for accidental pot ingestion between 2009 and Mexico he visited. typical Zika infection,” said 2015. Authors noted that “poor child supervision or In Mexico, he ate ceviche and Swaminathan, who treated the product storage” was present in about a third of those DENVER: In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, photo, candy bars wrapped in new packaging to indicate that soft boiled turtle eggs and went two. —AP cases. Still, reported accidental ingestions caught law- the products contain marijuana are shown in the kitchen of BlueKudu candy in the historic Five Points makers’ attention. The law was passed more than a District.—AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE In annual ritual, Delhi struggles with dengue, chikungunya NEW DELHI: Poonam Devi moans in pain the outbreak so far very poorly, the local on the stretcher in the packed hospital government has set up hundreds of clinics, emergency room, her ankles and wrists like the one where Devi was diagnosed, to swollen, an IV hooked up to left arm to treat chikungunya, dengue and malaria hydrate her. Patients like her, fevered, patients. It has canceled all vacation for aching, unable to walk or sit on their own, doctors and staff at government-run clinics are packing hospitals across New Delhi and hospitals. because of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne Hundreds of municipal workers rushed viral illness. In the Indian capital alone, cas- to trim knee-high grass in public parks and es of chikungunya soared to 3,251 so far fog the city with anti-mosquito pesticides - this year from just 64 last year, according to after many had already gotten sick. government data. Last year it was dengue, But experts say responsibility for con- another viral ailment transmitted by mos- trolling diseases spread by mosquitoes can- quitoes, that infected thousands. not be the government’s alone. Officials The cycle of illness and packed hospital conduct public-awareness advertising “fever clinics” plays out every year as mon- campaigns urging people to wear long soon rains fill puddles and open drains in sleeves, use mosquito repellent and get rid the teeming city, creating swarms of mos- of standing water. But the advice is routine- quitoes that thrive in the warm, damp ly ignored, even with municipal workers weather. Some years it’s mainly dengue; in going from home to home in some neigh- others, it’s mostly chikungunya. The epi- borhoods on the lookout for mosquito demics start promptly in August and stay breeding areas. “There’s no community par- for months, sickening tens of thousands ticipation here. People want the govern- and killing dozens, each year seeming to ment to take the entire responsibility of catch the government and population keeping their neighborhoods clean,” said unprepared for it. Dr. A.K. Gadpayle, medical superintendent “Everyone in our neighborhood is get- at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. ting it,” said Devi’s sister, Susheela, who Without the communities coming goes by one name. She sat holding her sis- together to ensure mosquitoes don’t ter’s hand inside Ram Manohar Lohia breed, “no government anywhere in the Hospital, one of the city’s largest govern- world can succeed,” he added. The annual PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND: In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 photo, hospital patient Olivia Stephenson, of Lincoln, Rhode Island, covers the ment-run hospitals. A portion of the hospi- outbreak comes as health experts and gov- lens of a flashlight as she messages back two light pulses, meaning thank you, to people in surrounding buildings from her room.—AP tal’s emergency room has been set aside ernments contemplate the potential for a for chikungunya patients like Devi. global outbreak of another mosquito- One day last week, Dr. Prerna Mor, who borne illness, Zika. Like dengue and was supervising incoming patients at the chikungunya, Zika is transmitted by the City skyline blinks in nightly hospital, had already seen nearly 300 Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mos- patients with clinical symptoms of chikun- quitoes. A recent study published in med- gunya in the first four hours of her shift. ical journal Lancet says 2.6 billion people ritual to cheer up sick kids Mor, a fellow resident and a few nurses living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at quickly assessed patients before other doc- risk of Zika infection, based on analysis of tors took over. Dengue and chikungunya travel, climate and mosquito patterns in Sparkling minute each night have killed at least 20 people in the capital those regions. so far this year, according to news reports. But experts in India caution that the PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND: For one Olivia’s story Club, a waterfront nightclub and restaurant. But statistics on the illnesses are likely con- study may exaggerate the risks because the sparkling minute each night, skyscrapers, tug- Olivia began her summer looking forward to Along with flashing its large neon sign, patrons servative since the poorest people in this Zika virus has been around since the late boats, hotels, a yacht club and police cruisers lazy days at the beach and pool, but she col- gather on the deck each night, even in cold city of 16 million never see a doctor or a 1940s and it’s not clear if the virus had send a blinking goodnight message to sick kids lapsed the day after school got out, and her life weather, to wave their flashlights and cell- hospital. Both diseases are treated only for reached these countries sometime in the inside a children’s hospital. turned upside down. Doctors diagnosed her phones. Following the nightclub were the tug- their symptoms, reducing the fever and past, allowing people to build immunity. A gesture that began with a single light six with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease. She boats of the Providence Steamboat Company. relieving the aches, until the infection pass- Zika can cause fetal death and severe years ago has become a nightly display along was adjusting to a more complicated life - diet They shine their powerful searchlights at the es. As a result, tens of thousands of people brain defects in the children of women the Providence River - and a highly anticipated and lifestyle restrictions, medication that puffed hospital and occasionally blow their horns. A are tested at private laboratories and treat- infected during pregnancy. Yet the vast ritual - inside Hasbro Children’s Hospital. “It’s up her face - when chest pains took her to the yacht club, restaurants and police officers have ed at private clinics, which don’t report on majority of people infected never get sick, special to know that people I don’t even know hospital again in August. Tests found big blood also joined in. what made their patients sick unless the and symptoms are mild for those who do, will take the time” to flash the lights, said 13- clots in her lungs. About two dozen kids who can range in age government specifically asks. Just as pre- so surveillance systems may have missed year-old Olivia Stephenson, who has been She saw Good Night Lights for the first time from 2 to 20 are in the hospital on any given dictable as the illnesses each year is the cases. No cases of Zika have been reported admitted to the hospital three times since June, after she was released from a five-day stay in a night. shifting of blame as soon as the public in India so far “In the times of rapid interna- most recently last week. windowless intensive care unit. “It’s so nice to “The first time a kid sees this, when it hap- hears of the soaring number of cases. Each tional travel, and international mass gather- To thank the invisible strangers shining their see a genuine smile on her face, because it’s pens, they’re like, ‘Are you kidding? That’s for year the government goes into overdrive ings such as the FIFA World Cup and the lights at her and fellow patients, she blinks her been a while,” said her mother, Beth Stephenson, me?’ There’s a joyful surprise in it,” Brosnihan only after hundreds if not thousands have Olympics, or religious gatherings like the own flashlight back toward the downtown sky- who has spent the hospital visits sleeping on a said. The anonymity of the exchange is what already been sickened. hajj, there is always a potential threat of line, using a two-flash response that means chair by her daughter’s side. “It’s genius. It totally Brosnihan finds most beautiful. “No one knows import of Zika infection,” said Dr. Lalit Pant, “thank you.” “They don’t know me; they could brightens the kids’ spirits and it doesn’t even who’s on the other side of the gesture,” This year is no different an infectious diseases specialist at the skip the step of flicking the flights, but they do it really cost anything.” Brosnihan said. “People often say, ‘I get goose- Stung by criticism that it has handled Public Health Foundation of India. — AP anyway,” she said after seeing the Good Night The idea began with the hospital’s resident bumps hearing about this.’” Lights display for the first time in late August. “I cartoonist, Steve Brosnihan, who has spent 26 Brosnihan said he dreams of what he calls the hope they saw the thank you.” years regaling sick kids with on-the-spot draw- “minute of magic” catching on in other cities Some of Providence’s bigger hotels have ings and word games. Brosnihan, who gets to with children’s hospitals. But he also notes that installed permanent signals that automatically the hospital by bike or bus, noticed one day in Providence’s pediatric hospital is peculiarly suit- turn on flashy messages at 8:30 p.m., to the 2010 that he could see his route home from ed to the phenomenon because it has an open delight of giddy toddlers and older children who inside the six-story hospital. Using his bike light view of a harbor and the city’s downtown sky- can spot them from their windows. But most of and flashlights, he began sending simple mes- line. Once Olivia gets back to being a “regular the lights are hand-held. One volunteer group sages tailored to individual kids. Late last year, girl” - she aims to return to her school in the gathers near the top of a 28-story office building he appealed to local businesses to send a joint town of Lincoln in January - she wants to help to flash their lights. The farthest signal comes message: Goodnight, Hasbro, using four flashes work with younger kids and expand the Good from a church group blinking from a dark shore- to represent each syllable. Night Lights ritual. “It’s special. I’m not going to line 2 miles downriver in East Providence. The first business to participate was The Hot forget this experience,” she said. —AP Zika travel advisory issued for 11 Southeast Asia countries

NEW YORK: US health officials are advising pregnant women to postpone some areas of Southeast Asia for years, and some residents may be travel to 11 countries in Southeast Asia because of Zika outbreaks in the immune. But a number of US travelers have become infected there in the region. The advisory issued Thursday targets travel to Brunei, Cambodia, last year, so there is a danger to visitors. NEW DELHI: In this Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 photo, patients receive treatment at a East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, the Most infected people suffer a mild and temporary illness, at worst. But fever clinic especially set up to cater to those suffering from fever, one of the main Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. infection during pregnancy can causes severe brain-related birth defects. symptoms of several mosquito-borne diseases, at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.—AP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Zika has been in The virus is spread primarily by bites from infected mosquitoes.—AP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 Al Multaqa Arabic short story prize announced

he Al Multaqa Arabic Short Story Prize announce the five shortlisted authors in jury announced the ten shortlisted November, 2016. The 2016 winner will be Tauthors for the 2016 prize. announced in December, 2016 at a ceremo- Over the past few months, a jury com- ny that is to be held at the American prised of accomplished writers, critics, and University of Kuwait that brings together academicians reviewed 189 collections of the five shortlisted authors and well-known short stories from published authors from 15 figures from the literary world. different countries; Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi The author of the winning short story will Arabia, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Morocco, receive USD 20,000 (Twenty Thousand US Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Oman, Kuwait, and dollars), a trophy and a certificate of recog- Algeria. The ten Al Multaqa Prize nominees nition, as well as a grant towards the transla- came as follows (listed in alphabetical order): tion of the prize-winning short story into English. The winning writer or publisher will Al Multaqa Jury Members are: communicate with the translator and l Ahmed Al-Madeeni (Chair of the Jury) arrange for publishing the story with foreign l Ezzat Al-Qamhawy (Jury Member) publishers. l Salma Saleh (Jury Member) ments necessary for short story writing. The Al Multaqa Prize was launched in l Dr Fadya Al-Faqeer (Jury Member) committee also looked at the spirit of inno- December, 2015 as a joint initiative by the l Dr Ali Ajail Al-Anezi (Jury Member) vation, novelty, and consistency of form and Cultural Circle’s Founder and Manager, Taleb Chair of the Jury, Ahmed Al- Madeeni content, as well as the presence of an inte- Al-Rifae and the American University of stated that the committee had evaluated grated humanitarian aspect in the selected Kuwait to promote and encourage writers to the submitted works based on the fulfill- short story collections. pursue and master the art of writing Arabic ment of certain criteria and technical ele- The jury will continue its work to short stories. Somali culture, Marriott International completes acquisition traditions of Starwood Hotels & Resorts worldwide oin TIES to discover Somali culture, traditions, clothing and food. 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ABK continues to support education and youth through ABK Academy

l Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) has been a interested in joining the banking sector, devel- the collaboration of Lothan Youth Achievement Hawally. The Bank’s ‘Learning and spent time witnessing firsthand, the day to day longtime supporter of education and oping their skills and equipping them to join Center (LOYAC) and the Manpower and Development’ team presented the students operations and customers’ services, as part of Ayouth. With its ABK Academy, the bank the ABK team, while raising awareness of Government Restructuring Program (MGRP). In with an educational session which focused on the overall experience. has offered internship & training opportunities Kuwait’s finance sector. this context, ABK recently hosted 45 high the banking system, ABK’s products and servic- For more information about ABK please visit to senior students in local Universities and The Bank also recently concluded its school students from the Indian Educational es and the use of marketing and communica- eahli.com or contact an ABK customer service Colleges, as it focuses on training individuals Summer Student Development Program, with School at its Learning and Development Unit in tions tools within the bank. The students also agent via ‘Ahlan Ahli’ at 1899899. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

Training Seminar held on Hazard Communication

dding on to its illustrious pathways of quality trainings and consultation in the field the trainer. Santhosh Kumar Shenoy. ried on by the trainer and effectively commu- Sunil Sadanand, Chapter treasurer , educating and empowering its mem- of Health Safety and Environment all across Santhosh Kumar; a Mechanical Engineer; nicated citing relevant industrial scenarios and thanked the speaker Santhosh Kumar Shenoy Abers, American Society of Safety different public and private sectors in Kuwait. has over 20 years of industrial experience in case studies. He elaborated the reference stan- for this initiative. The session concluded with Engineers, (ASSE) Kuwait Chapter conducted a Sanjay Jaiswal, Chapter secretary wel- HSEQ Management System in various spec- dards and EPA requirement, risk assessment the distribution of Participation Certificates to training seminar on “HAZARD COMMUNICA- comed all participants and congratulated trum of industries in Middle East and India. and management, target organs and impact, the participants. TION”on 23rd September at Kohinoor Banquet them for their interest to learn and updating Possessing the Lead Auditor & Lead Tutor cer- transportation requirements, emergency ASSE Kuwait Chapter would continue its Hall, Fahaheel. The trainer for the session was their knowledge. C Rama Krushna Chary, tification in QMS, EMS and OHSMS; Santhosh response procedure and health surveillance strive to do their best for the progress of the Mr. Santhosh Kumar Shenoy. 30 members Presidentof ASSE Kuwait chapterbriefed about has provided consultancy to more than 100 programs with the aid of power point presen- society and its members in particular, by attended the event and got benefited from the significance of the training seminar and professional organizations in Gulf Countries to tation and audio & visual demonstrations. organizing such important and remarkable this program. the importance of conducting such seminars establish the Integrated Management System. The program turned out to be very advan- events in future too. Details about the future ASSE- Kuwait Chapter lead by Chairman for the benefit of ASSE members. Mr. Sony Santhosh has the credit of training employees tageous to all the members particularly to the events would be available to the members Fadhel-Al Ali, is a non-profit organization Thomas, Head of training committee briefed from over 100 organizations safety Officers and Engineers from Oil and and community members through email which always strives to excel in providing thechapter training activities and introduced The training seminar was meticulously car- Petrochemical industries. [email protected] Magic of brass band BASS Kuwait to hold 9-day music festival

ala Mogui Kuwait presents mega Mogui’s foursome will add more glamour haratheeya Sangeetha Sabha Sharreth, is a well-known South Indian cians from India. The concert led by musical concert “LOVE YOU GOA” to shoulder the responsibilities of singing (BASS), Kuwait will hold a 9-fay clas- music director and singer. He predomi- Sharreth will be a grand feast for music KSwing to the spirit of Goa, featur- beautiful songs, Olinda Fernandes, Simon Bsical music festival starting from nantly composes film scores and songs for lovers including distinguished guests, ing Goa’s pop sensation “O’luv Rodrigues” Dias, Albino Lourenco and Cajie D’Costa, October 3 to October 11, 2016. The main Malayalam films, but has gone on to com- BASS family members and well-wishers. and Goemcho Avaz fame “Divya Naik”, a special invitee from UAE will do the attraction of the 9-day festival pose for many Tamil, Telugu BASS is a non-profitable and non-politi- also featuring Goa’s numero uno comedy honors. will be a music concert titled and Hindi films too. Known cal socio-cultural organization registered pair, Prince Jacob and Supremo Humbert. Above all for the first time an upcom- ‘Mega Indian Classical Music for his distinctive style and with the Embassy of India, Kuwait. It is con- Kala Mogui Kuwait, once again brings ing multitalented child artist will be seen Night 2016’ by great South penetrating erudition, stituted with the objective of promoting to you the magic of brass band with performing in this mega musical concert Indian musician Sharreth Sharreth has carved out a Indian classical music in Kuwait. Over the trumpet, saxophone and trombone with “LOVE YOU GOA”, a host of visiting digni- Vasudevan on Friday, October niche for himself among last three years, BASS Kuwait has held selected singers of the Konkani stage. taries will be among the invitees who will 7, 2016 at Cambridge School Indian music directors over more than 30 stage shows, including The newly crowned Queen of political grace the occasion. It will be held on Auditorium, Mangaf from 5 the last two decades. music workshops in order to create aware- songs, Olga Vaz, the undisputed voice of Friday, October 14 at Dr Kamil Al Rayes pm to 9 pm. Sharreth will be accompa- ness about Indian classical music among Goa, Saby de Divar, and challenging char- Theatre - American International School Sujith Vasudevan, better nied on stage by a team of the Indian expatriate community in acter actor/singer, Anil Pednekar, Kala Auditorium, Maidan, Hawally. known by his stage name highly-accomplished musi- Kuwait. NSH observes World Heart Day

he group discussions among the million lives each year. young staff and poster presenta- It was explained about the evil sub- Ttions on Healthy Heart took place at stances like alcohol, tobacco and improper the World Heart Day observed as part of health that lead to the heart diseases. the international campaign to spread From this program it is learnt that those awareness about heart disease and who were leading sedentary life style stroke prevention by NSH, known for its would be able to protect themselves from humanitarian and welfare programs. It this ‘killer disease’. The participants com- has also launched a wider healthy heart mented that NSH had been giving due awareness drive. attention for conducting awareness pro- World Heart Day has been celebrated grams in the workplaces. The planning annually since 2000 on September 29 to meeting was held earlier by the manage- inform people around the globe that ment team lead by Sabu, Vice President. heart disease and stroke are the world’s Cardio-vascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death, claiming 17.3 major causes of death in the world. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

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The Dead 04:20 Testing The Menu With Nic 18:30 Platinum Weddings 12:50 Deadly Islands Watt 19:00 Island Hunters 04:45 Delinquent Gourmet 19:25 Island Hunters 13:45 Village Vets 01:15 Big Miracle 05:10 Street Food Around The 19:55 House Hunters 14:10 Village Vets 03:00 Hook World 20:20 House Hunters 14:40 Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet 05:30 Monsters Inc 05:35 Confucius Was A Foodie 20:45 Hawaii Life 15:35 The Lion Queen 07:15 Monsters University 06:25 Poh & Co 21:10 Caribbean Life 16:30 Biggest And Baddest 09:00 Capture The Flag 00:20 Chaos Caught On Camera 06:50 Croatia’s Finest 21:35 Island Life 17:25 Hello World! 11:00 Atlantis: The Lost Empire 00:45 Trailblazers 07:15 Croatia’s Finest 22:00 Vacation House For Free 17:50 Hello World! 13:00 Bolt 01:35 Trailblazers 07:40 Testing The Menu With Nic 22:55 Tiny House, Big Living 18:20 Tanked 15:00 Honey, I Blew Up The Kid 02:25 Trailblazers Watt 23:20 Tiny House, Big Living 19:15 Wild Expectations 17:00 Race To Witch Mountain 03:15 Trailblazers 08:05 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By 23:45 Caribbean Life 20:10 Backcountry Justice 19:00 It Takes Two 04:05 Trailblazers The Sea 21:05 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 21:00 Marvel’s Planet Hulk 05:00 Trailblazers 08:55 Delinquent Gourmet 22:00 Tanked 23:00 Honey, I Blew Up The Kid 22:55 Hello World! 06:00 Deadliest Catch 09:20 Raw Travel 23:20 Hello World! 06:50 Misfit Garage 09:45 Raw Travel 23:50 Gator Boys 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 10:10 Tales From The Bush Larder 08:30 Gold Divers 10:35 Tales From The Bush Larder 00:00 WAGs 09:20 Garage Gold 11:00 Poh & Co 09:45 How Stuff’s Made 00:55 WAGs 01:00 The Drop 11:25 Poh & Co 01:50 E! 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News 04:00 The Ghost Inside My Child 16:00 Deadliest Catch Spaces 15:15 5 Flights Up 16:50 Fast N’ Loud 09:05 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 17:00 The Two Faces Of January 05:00 My Haunted House 15:50 The Food Files 09:55 Botched 06:00 Homicide Hunter 17:40 Misfit Garage 16:20 Testing The Menu With Nic 18:45 Tomorrowland 18:30 How It’s Made: Dream Cars 10:45 Botched 21:00 Momentum 07:00 The First 48 Watt 11:35 Botched 08:00 The First 48 18:55 How Do They Do It? 16:45 Delinquent Gourmet 23:00 Ted 2 19:20 Gold Divers 12:25 Botched 09:00 Deadly Wives 17:15 Street Food Around The 13:20 Botched 10:00 Deadly Wives 20:10 Storage Hunters World 20:35 Garage Gold 14:15 Keeping Up With The 11:00 Monster In My Family 17:40 David Rocco’s Dolce India Kardashians 12:00 I Married My Killer 21:00 Extreme Car Hoarders 18:10 Grandma’s Boy 21:50 Curiosity: X-Ray: 15:10 Keeping Up With The 13:00 It Takes A Killer 18:35 Maximum Foodie Kardashians Yellowstone 00:00 Revenge For Jolly! 14:00 It Takes A Killer 19:05 George Clarke’s Amazing 16:05 Keeping Up With The 22:40 Treasure Quest: Snake 02:00 Hot Pursuit 15:00 Homicide Hunter Spaces Kardashians Island 04:00 Father Of The Bride Part II 16:00 Deadly Wives 20:00 The Food Files 17:00 Keeping Up With The 23:30 Fast N’ Loud 06:00 Three Men And A Baby 17:00 Deadly Wives 20:25 Testing The Menu With Nic Kardashians 08:00 My Father The Hero 18:00 Forensic Squad Watt 18:00 Rob & Chyna BIG MIRACLE WORLD ON OSN MOVIES HD FAMILY 10:00 Father Of The Bride Part II 19:00 When Life Means Life 20:50 Delinquent Gourmet 19:00 E! 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Hereinafter in all my STORKS 4:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 11:30 AM dealings and documents I MUHALAB-3 STORKS 6:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 2:00 PM will be known by name of LAF WA DAWARAN 1:00 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 8:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 4:30 PM Patan Ahmmad Basha. STORKS -3D 1:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 10:30 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 7:00 PM (C 5218) LAF WA DAWARAN 3:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:45 AM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 9:30 PM STORKS -3D 5:45 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 12:05 AM 29-9-2016 LAF WA DAWARAN 7:45 PM AVENUES-1 LAF WA DAWARAN 10:00 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1:00 PM AL-KOUT.4 I, Mohammed Masood S/o LAF WA DAWARAN 12:15 AM DEEPWATER HORIZON 1:30 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1:00 PM Abdul Rehman Masood, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 3:45 PM STORKS 1:45 PM FANAR-1 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 6:30 PM FRI holder of Indian Passport No: DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:30 AM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 9:15 PM STORKS 3:45 PM G0522643 & Civil ID No: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 2:00 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 12:05 AM STORKS 5:45 PM 291050502263 has changed STORKS 5:00 PM STORKS 7:45 PM my name to Mohammad STORKS 7:00 PM AVENUES-2 LAF WA DAWARAN 9:45 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 9:00 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON-2D- 4DX 12:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:15 AM Mashood DK here after in all THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 11:45 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D- 4DX 2:45 PM my dealings and documents I MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D- 4DX 5:15 PM BAIRAQ-1 will be known by name of FANAR-2 MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D- 4DX 8:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:15 PM Mohammed Mashood DK. MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 12:45 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON-2D- 4DX 10:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 2:30 PM (C 5217) 27-9-2016 STORKS -3D 3:15 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON-2D- 4DX 1:00 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 4:45 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 5:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 7:00 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 8:00 PM AVENUES-3 LAF WA DAWARAN 9:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 10:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 1:00 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 3:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 5:15 PM BAIRAQ-2 FANAR-3 LAF WA DAWARAN 7:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:45 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 9:45 PM STORKS 2:00 PM 112

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Arrival Flights on Sunday 2/10/2016 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 KAC 676 Dubai 21:35 SAW 704 Damascus 10:45 Airlines Flt Route Time MSC 401 Alexandria 12:30 FDB 8053 Dubai 21:40 FBA 834 Al Najaf 10:50 MSC 415 Sohag 00:10 JZR 241 Amman 12:30 QTR 1082 Doha 21:55 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 THY 772 Istanbul 00:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 GFA 219 Bahrain 22:00 CCE 346 Sohag 11:10 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 FEG 933 Sohag 12:55 KAC 564 Amman 22:05 KAC 561 Amman 11:20 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 KAC 679 Muscat 11:25 CLX 852 Luxembourg 00:35 RJD 132 Abu Dhabi 13:05 NIA 151 Cairo 22:10 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:25 FEG 951 Alexandria 00:35 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:15 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 IRC 526 Mashhad 13:35 AIC 987 Chennai/Hyderabad 22:25 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 DLH 635 Doha 01:00 TBM 6313 Mashhad 13:45 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 QTR 1086 Doha 01:15 BON 101 Sarajevo 13:55 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:05 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 JZR 539 Cairo 01:20 KAC 672 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Dhabi 15:10 FDB 072 Dubai 00:30 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 KNE 529 Jeddah 15:30 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 JZR 562 Sohag 00:30 PIA 240 Sialkot 00:40 MSC 402 Alexandria 13:30 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 RJD 133 Abu Dhabi 13:50 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 NIA 251 Alexandria 15:50 KLM 413 Amsterdam 01:05 MSC 416 Sohag 01:05 FEG 932 Alexandria 13:55 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 RJA 640 Amman 16:00 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 PGT 860 Istanbul 03:30 SYR 1615 Damascus 16:00 JZR 502 Luxor 01:15 JZR 556 Alexandria 01:30 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 KAC 544 Cairo 03:40 FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 KAC 514 Tehran 03:50 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 FEG 952 Alexandria 01:35 THY 773 Istanbul 01:40 IRC 527 Mashhad 14:35 THY 1416 Bursa 04:05 JZR 535 Cairo 16:20 TBM 6314 Mashhad 14:40 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:15 JZR 257 Beirut 16:25 DLH 635 Frankfurt 02:00 CLX 852 Sharjah 02:05 PAL 669 Dubai/Manila 14:45 AVV 653 Alexandria 04:30 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:00 FEG 931 Alexandria 05:00 KAC 680 Muscat 16:55 SAI 442 Lahore 02:30 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:40 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 KAC 562 Amman 16:55 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 THY 3920 Istanbul 05:10 KAC 118 New York 17:00 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 THY 765 Istanbul 02:45 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 THY 770 Istanbul 05:15 SAW 705 Damascus 17:05 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 UAE 2571 Dubai 05:30 KKK 6505 Istanbul 02:55 IRA 669 Mashhad 17:10 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 SYR 341 Damascus 06:00 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 JZR 529 Asyut 06:00 OMA 644 Muscat 03:50 QTR 1079 Doha 15:15 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 KAC 741 Dammam 15:30 PAL 668 Manila/Dubai 06:25 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:30 JZR 1334 Al Najaf 04:00 MSC 508 HRG 15:45 CCE 345 Sohag 17:35 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 BAW 157 London 06:40 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 MSC 502 Alexandria 04:00 JZR 563 Sohag 06:55 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:00 KAC 792 Madinah 17:45 BON 102 Sarajevo 16:05 JZR 1541 Cairo 07:10 SVA 500 Jeddah 17:55 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 FDB 5061 Dubai 07:15 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 OMA 646 Muscat 16:10 QTR 1080 Doha 17:55 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 JZR 503 Luxor 07:25 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 18:20 PGT 861 Istanbul 04:30 JZR 1335 Al Najaf 07:25 QTR 1077 Doha 04:35 KNE 530 Jeddah 16:20 JZR 505 Luxor 18:25 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:20 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 MSR 620 Cairo 18:30 AVV 654 Sohag 05:30 KAC 346 Ahmedabad 07:35 THY 1465 Istanbul 06:00 KAC 563 Amman 16:30 KAC 774 Riyadh 18:35 NIA 252 Alexandria 16:50 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:40 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 FEG 934 Sohag 06:00 KAC 204 Lahore 07:40 RJA 643 Amman 06:25 SYR 1616 Damascus 16:55 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 IRM 1180 Mashhad 18:45 QTR 1087 Doha 06:30 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 THY 3921 Istanbul 06:40 KAC 675 Dubai 17:00 KAC 742 Dammam 18:50 FDB 052 Dubai 17:00 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 CLX 856 Luxembourg 18:50 UAE 2572 Dubai 06:45 KAC 344 Chennai 08:15 THY 771 Istanbul 06:45 JZR 266 Beirut 17:10 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:15 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 KAC 352 Kochi 08:20 JZR 240 Amman 06:55 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 KAC 104 London 19:00 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 KAC 362 Colombo 08:20 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 SYR 342 Damascus 07:00 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 IRA 666 Esfahan 18:10 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JZR 557 Alexandria 08:30 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:00 JZR 324 Al Najaf 07:55 SAW 706 Damascus 18:20 KAC 614 Bahrain 19:10 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 KAC 284 Dhaka 09:00 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:15 JZR 1140 Dammam 07:55 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 FDB 5062 Dubai 07:55 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 JAV 621 Amman 19:25 JZR 538 Cairo 18:30 QTR 1070 Doha 09:20 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 BAW 156 London 08:25 CCE 342 Alexandria 18:35 RJA 648 Amman 09:30 KAC 674 Dubai 19:45 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 FBA 833 Al Najaf 09:35 FDB 059 Dubai 19:50 KAC 173 Munich 08:35 KAC 1801 Cairo 18:55 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:05 KAC 511 Mashhad 08:40 QTR 1081 Doha 19:05 SAW 703 Damascus 09:45 ABY 121 Sharjah 20:10 KAC 539 Sharm el-Sheikh 08:50 JZR 238 Amman 19:15 CCE 341 Alexandria 10:00 KNE 231 Riyadh 20:10 JZR 778 Jeddah 08:50 JZR 124 Bahrain 19:20 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 SVA 505 Jeddah 19:25 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 JZR 256 Beirut 09:05 MSR 621 Cairo 19:30 JZR 1141 Dammam 10:40 JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 KAC 671 Dubai 09:15 KAC 285 Dhaka 19:40 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:10 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 JZR 325 Al Najaf 11:20 QTR 1088 Doha 20:35 JZR 534 Cairo 09:30 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:30 FDB 5053 Dubai 20:55 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 KAC 361 Colombo 19:55 ABY 129 Sharjah 11:35 KAC 174 Munich 20:55 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 ABY 124 Sharjah 19:55 IRC 6511 ABD 11:40 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:05 KAC 101 London/New York 10:00 IRM 1181 Mashhad 20:00 FDK 801 Damascus 11:45 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:05 CLX 856 Hong Kong 20:20 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 ALK 229 Colombo 21:20 RJA 649 Amman 10:15 JAV 622 Amman 20:25 IAW 157 Al Najaf 11:55 KLM 415 Amsterdam 21:25 QTR 1071 Doha 10:35 FDB 060 Dubai 20:30 AVV 651 Sohag 12:05 THY 764 Istanbul 21:30 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 stars34 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016

CROSSWORD 1387 STAR TRACK

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

There is a feeling that time is slipping away this afternoon and you may Whether you are voting this coming November or not, it is not too early to want to accomplish more than there is time for this day. Make a list and gather information on the many subjects that will be options in the voting booth. leave some of the projects for another day. Relax! A drive to the outskirts of town with a Conversation opportunities will leave you out of the loop if you are not up-to-date on at friend or loved one may find some foliage that you can take home with you for decora- least some of the issues. What sounds good may have repercussions and what sounds tions representing the fall season. If you can treat this foliage with a spray of sorts, it will suspect may be exactly what the world or community needs. You are the type of person remain beautiful for some time. Make a fun project out of your day. This may also include that can gather information and pass it on to others so that the decisions made in the vot- painting or repair of some sort. There will still be time to set aside later for a different sort ing booth will be the ones that are beneficial to all. You are occupied with local events of relaxation. You find yourself quick-witted. There is a chance to give attention to your most of this day. This could be a bazaar, a garage sale or a social event; perhaps your own family through games or time around the dinner table. This is a special time. birthday party may find you interacting with lots of friends.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) A mate, children and other people or things dear to your heart are empha- Circumstances bend to your will and situations work out smoothly. Here is a sized this morning. People have places to go and things to do and that may leave you real opportunity to complete any personal projects and work out difficulties. You should alone for a great deal of the day. Left to your own resources you may choose to do noth- be able to get your ideas across with ease. Today and the next few days are wonderful ing. After all, sometimes it is more fun to do work or projects with others. However, today times to enjoy a short trip or begin a vacation. General good feeling and a sense of sup- is a day to think about what you might like that the usual people around you today really port and harmony make this a happy time. There are makings for a bright and witty day. do not care to do. Have a beauty treatment, whether you are male or female. Perhaps-a Your communication skills are at a high-water mark. Psychological values and material scary movie with lots of popcorn and butter. Another idea might be to go begin a winter possessions become very important for you now and they are in a state of change: what is garden for enjoying fresh vegetables. A phone call from a friend will invite you to join him old and familiar is left behind or changed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable. This can or her and try out for a play or music forum-do it! be a very productive time in your life.

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

Today is a good time to take risks or to start something new. You will pros- A family member or friend may want a loan for personal or business rea- per through new insights, inventions and an independent point of view. You may decide sons. He or she will be able to pay back the loan quickly. Self-control and to go organic around your place-others are interested at this time. If each person is setting limits are important in love and other games of chance: think long-term and be responsible for one vegetable to grow, a winter garden could appear. You can expect a lit- realistic in your approach to these things. Emotional seriousness, a sober adjustment and ACROSS DOWN tle boost, some sort of extra support or recognition from those around you. You may feel a practical awareness of time are keynotes of your deepest feelings. Frustration, especially 1. A caustic detergent useful for removing 1. A single splash. that you are in touch and in harmony with others as the lines of communication seem in getting things accomplished, may set today’s mood but you can change it to a wait- and-see sort of attitude. Exercise some control and be ready for possible delays. While grease. 2. English film actress (1913-1967). wide open. Neighbors poke their heads out the door to wave or stop to chat when they 3. A range of mountains (usually with jagged see you in the yard. People that may have lost touch and want to reconnect call you on waiting you could take notes on the next step. Do not push too hard. The evening can be 4. An aircraft that is supported in flight by peaks and irregular outline). the phone. You will enjoy this day and the people in it. enjoyed by all and may even include a bit of competitive sport. unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or 4. Cause to be more favorably inclined. blades). 5. become turned or set on end. 12. Preserve of crushed fruit. 6. After the expected or usual time. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 15. United States architect (born in China in 7. The ball-shaped capsule containing the ver- Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 1917). tebrate eye. This is a rewarding day-a time when the new and unexpected may figure in 8. United States writer of children's books Professional advice today and tomorrow will be good for your listening 16. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat your living situation or surroundings. An insight about your support system: your family (1904-1991). members may be important. A visitor from some distant part of the family may become pleasure. Financial savvy and a practical turn of mind are qualities that take on greater importance in your life. This could be a real-estate situation or an auction of some sort. You trimmed off. 9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows your best friend. Your house may not hold all the family for the entire visit but future are good at what you do and seem to have a knack for knowing when to purchase the phone calls could hold your interest for a lifetime. You may enjoy a student or a young per- 17. A federal agency established to coordinate you to contribute a limited yearly sum best buys. You also play the role of a facilitator and this can prove to be quite a rewarding programs aimed at reducing pollution and toward your retirement. son who trusts you with personal feelings today. There is the possibility of new visions or day. You value fairness in all things and go out of your way to be just. You appreciate oth- sudden insights into your own self-image or into your ideals and dreams. Something you protecting the environment. 10. A state in New England. ers who have been successful and may surround yourself with those in power-be they 11. A religious belief of African origin involving learned from your past will be beneficial to this person; just stop and think how you need- 18. A statement that deviates from or perverts politicians, officials, etc. Your sense of quality and discrimination may amount to some sort witchcraft and sorcery. ed some insight in your youth. There is much compassion all day long. of livelihood. You could make your living with your good taste. the truth. 12. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers. 19. A historical region in central and northern 13. Someone who copies the words or behav- Yugoslavia. ior of another. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 20. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liq- 14. God of death. uid used as an inhalation anesthetic. 21. 100 thebe equal 1 pula. Something you started last weekend can be finished this weekend. Today you receive advice whether you want it or not. This advice may be helpful but it is also Beginning a diet is favored today. Making peace with the past and coming 23. The total output of a writer or artist (or a to terms with karmic debts are some of the issues that come to your attention as well. 22. On a shore or reef. something you possibly already know-perhaps a reminder is a good thing. It is a fun to substantial part of it). Setting new goals and throwing yourself into some community project are where the give advice, uneasy to need it and normal to pay no heed to it. A new project emerges this 25. Forming viscous or glutinous threads. 24. Rise or heave upward under the influence energies are well spent today. You accomplish much for others and in turn you are reward- 26. Cut or impressed into a surface. of a natural force, as on a wave. afternoon and you will find that today is a very good day for planning on how to manage ed for your efforts. Some of this day is special-for you. You must learn to set aside some the new project. Before the winter sets in, you may do a bit of shopping. Either your coat 28. The month following July and preceding 27. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to time each day to meditate and create a sense of peace. Lovers, children and other people needs cleaning or you need a new one and you may have noticed that this is the day of a or things dear to your heart are emphasized at this period in your life. You set the example September. gallinules. big winter sale. Some news this evening may give you a thrilling notion for a plot, or an 29. An undergarment worn by women to sup- of how to live a good life and how to excel in the art of happiness. You are at your most 32. A state in midwestern United States. idea for a job that someone in your family might appreciate. port their breasts. elegant on a date this evening. 34. Of or relating to the velum. 30. A port and tourist center in southwestern 37. A small flat triangular bone in front of the Italy. knee that protects the knee joint. 31. A state of commotion and loud confused Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) noise. 39. Of a temperature scale that registers the Questions about recycling will encourage you and your family to find all 33. A river in north central Switzerland that A yearning for the stimulation of new ideas and ideals is emphasized now. freezing point of water as 32 degrees F sorts of objects that can be made into useful or unique items. Some things could be runs northeast into the Rhine. Learn and teach the word no . . . It will do you more good than learning and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at turned into a bird feeder or a lawn ornament or any other number of useful creations. This 35. Being two more than fifty. some other language. New friends and an involvement in some fun group event grab one atmosphere of pressure. is a rewarding day. You may find that a few items will bring in a little extra money for your your attention this afternoon. If you are not working today, you make plans to attend this 36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially pockets. Some civic duty may be in order later this afternoon. If you are asked for your 41. One of the most common of the five major in Turkey). activity and in turn, meet new people. Listening to some of the conversations today, you ideas, you will find you are not challenged. An individual that you find difficult and who may realize that politics could be a stimulating, interesting subject and you might be wise classes of immunoglobulins. 38. South African plant widely cultivated for its usually seems obnoxious will have little to say. Sports, a movie, a short weekend trip- to inform yourself of the upcoming voting issues. You may decide to take a stand and 42. A public promotion of some product or showy pure white spathe and yellow whatever you are in the mood to do, others will follow. You feel healthy and natural. A make yourself be known when it comes to certain issues. Careful-you may go where special thank-you note is important to write and ready for the mail service. spadix. angels fear to tread. Lend a listening ear but also enjoy the fun, food and cheer. 40. A collection of objects laid on top of each 43. The month following March and preceding other. May. 45. A large bonnet that shades the face. Word Search Yesterday Solution 44. Any of several plants of the genus Freesia 46. Government agency created in 1974 to valued for their one-sided clusters of usu- license and regulate nuclear power plants. ally fragrant yellow or white or pink tubu- 48. Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for lar flowers. his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926). 47. An Eskimo hut. 50. 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PARIS: Models present creations for Balmain during the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 29, 2016. — AFP

PARIS: French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing for Balmain acknowledges the audience at the end of the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 29, 2016. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 l i f e s t y l e

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Christian Dior

PARIS: Fashion designer for Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri (C) acknowledges the audience at the end of the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection Fashion show, on September 30, 2016. — AFP photos

PARIS: Models present creations for Christian Dior during the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 30, 2016. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 l i f e s t y l e

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Chalayan

PARIS: Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan acknowledges the audience at the end of his 2017 Spring/Summer ready- to-wear collection fashion show, on Friday.

PARIS: Models present creations for Chalayan during the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on Friday. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 l i f e s t y l e

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Veronique Leroy

PARIS: Belgian Fashion designer Veronique Leroy acknowledges the audience at the end of the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show yesterday.

PARIS: Models present creations by Veronique Leroy during the 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show yesterday. — AFP photos Paris Fashion Week

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PARIS: A young couple poses for a photographer, on the Bir-Hakeim bridge in front of the Eiffel Tower on Friday. — AFP Man who got generations ‘Brangelina’ reach stop-gap deal over kids singing Oscar Mayer ngelina Jolie has reached a temporary The A-listers-given the celebrity monicker agreement with Brad Pitt giving her “Brangelina”-wed in France in August two Acustody of their six children and granti- years ago, but had been a couple since 2004. Wiener song dies ng him visiting rights, reports said on Friday. The FBI has said it is gathering information Several celebrity gossip outlets reported that before deciding whether to launch a federal he man who got generations of hot dog the divorcing couple were persuaded to agree probe into an alleged incident on a plane car- lovers singing along to the Oscar Mayer to the detente by the Los Angeles County rying Pitt and his children back from vacation TWiener song has died. Richard Trentlage Department of Children and Family Services. in France. died Sept. 21 in Libertyville, Illinois, at the age of Both will both get one-on-one counseling It has not offered any details of the allega- 87, according to an obituary posted online by a while Pitt has to undergo drug and alcohol tions but several US media outlets reported northern Illinois funeral home. testing, TMZ said, despite already voluntarily that Pitt had been involved in an angry out- With the words, “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar submitting to a test which came back nega- burst with at least one of his children. Mayer wiener,” Trentlage helped solidify the com- tive. Jolie will have physical custody of the six Multimedia celebrity news organization pany’s hot dogs as a piece of Americana. The jin- children-three of whom are adopted-while Pitt “Entertainment Tonight” said Thursday’s team gle he wrote appeared in a 1960s television com- gets a first visit under the supervision of a ther- had brought in well-known crisis manager mercial featuring cartoon children marching apist who will decide how to proceed in the Judy Smith-who was the inspiration for Kerry along and singing. The tune remained a fixture coming weeks. “This is a completely voluntary Washington’s character on “Scandal.” for the next half a century. agreement, and it is not an order or a mandate Pitt, meanwhile, hired a New York-based Trentlage was born in Chicago and began of any kind, nor is it any determination of cus- strategic communications firm, along with penning jingles as a high school student, starting tody,” entertainment website People quoted Beverly Hills divorce attorney Lance Spiegel, with one about a fictional company he called an unnamed source as saying. whose past clients include Eva Longoria, ET Modern Plastic Brooms. The idea was to dream up It said the plan was effective up until reported. Representatives for the couple as a believable sponsor for a school talent show and October 20 and that the children would well as the Children and Family services sing the jingle during commercial breaks in a per- remain with Jolie at a rented LA house. Jolie, department did not respond immediately to a formance modeled after a radio program. 41, filed for divorce on September 19 citing request for comment. — AFP The Modern Plastic Broom jingle was evidently irreconcilable differences and seeking perma- BEVERLY HILLS: In this Jan. 15, 2007 file photo, Brad Pitt, and actress Angelina Jolie arrive so memorable that his former classmates sang it nent custody of their children. during a 50th reunion. Trentlage transformed his for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards. — AP living room into a makeshift recording studio, inviting his own children to sing on audition tapes. His children even recorded “on-air” ses- sions. “We were always getting out of school to hop a train and meet our dad at a Chicago record- ing studio,” his daughter, Linda Bruun, recalled in the funeral home obituary.—AP

FOX RIVER GROVE, ILLINOIS: In this March 7, 2000 photo, Richard Trentlage, of Fox River Grove, who was the creator of the Oscar Mayer Wiener Jingle “I wish I was an Oscar Mayer Wiener “ and other jingle songs, smiles. — AP ETHIOPIA: Hamar women dance before a bull jumping ceremony in Ethiopia’s southern Omo Valley region near Turmi on September 19, 2016. — AFP