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Deputy PM visits new Police Academy

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and the Acting Minister of Awqaf During an inspection tour of a new Police Academy in Al Jewan, isfaction and appreciation to all those involved in the security and Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khalid has lauded the accompanied by the MoI Undersecretary of Sulaiman Fahd, he projects. He said that the ministry is keen on providing better security projects aimed at protecting the safety of the citizens. praised the various security agencies. Al-Khaled expressed his sat- security services for the state. Crime Report

Bike accident kills 28-year-old Kuwaiti

KUWAIT: A 28-year-old Kuwaiti was killed instantly when he lost control over his bike near Al-Rehab cooperative and flew off seri- ously hurting his skull, said security sources noting that the man’s skull was broken. In a similar incident, a 26-year-old Indian delivery man broke his leg in a bike accident in Farwaniya.

Ethiopian maid attacked An expat working for the Interior Ministry was recently arrested for attacking his Ethiopian maid along with his rel- atives in the desert area. Security sources said that the sus- pect’s wife and their daughter also took the maid’s KD450 savings, $100 and 31 grams of gold. Case papers indicate that the suspect reported that his housemaid had been practicing sorcery and witchcraft and that she had bewitched his daughter. A case was filed and further inves- tigations are in progress.

Asian found dead An Asian was found dead in Jahra, said security sources noting that detectives are conducting a wide scale investigation to determine the cause of his death. The body had traces of assault. In another similar case, a 17-year-old girl was rushed to Jahra hospital by her family. Initial examination showed that she was already dead before she was brought to the hos- pital. The girl’s body was sent to forensic experts to determine the cause of her death.

Two Egyptians arrested Two Egyptians were arrested for forging work permits for Ahmadi traffic campaign KD300 each, said security sources. Also, a Moroccan was recently arrested for the possession of illicit drugs, said securi- By Hanan Al-Saadoun Mahboula. There were over 600 traffic citations. 68 vehicles ty sources. Also, a simple traffic violation led to the arrest of were also seized. The campaign was ordered by MoI’s two citizens in possession of 64 psychotropic pills and other KUWAIT: In collaboration with Ahmadi municipality, Ahmadi Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Maj general illicit drugs in Adan. Security sources said that the suspects’ traffic police recently launched an inspection campaign in Abdullah Al-Muhanna and was supervised by Ahmadi traffic nervousness led police officers to search them. Fahaheel industrial area, Jaber Al-Ali, Abu Hlaifa and police Captain, Rashid Zuwair and other officers. LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 96% of people in MENA considering going green

DUBAI: The Bayt.com “Green Workplaces in the Middle East and respondents saying they are “very aware” of the concept), there is a portation to go to work. That’s a very positive number. Also, imagine North Africa”, a poll recently conducted by Bayt.com, the region’s significant desire for MENA residents to begin living more sustain- if alternative fuel vehicles were adopted by the 39.3% of respon- number one job site, has revealed that there is a keen desire in the ably. dents who drive themselves to work. It could mean significant car- region to adopt a greener lifestyle, both at work and at home, in the Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, are bon savings.” When at work, more than half (52.3%) of respondents Middle East and North Africa (MENA). For 72.5% of respondents, considered to be the most up-and-coming technologies by 71.3% of say that they reuse items rather than throwing them away. Paperless going green is something that they consider to be very important to respondents. Alternative fuel vehicles, such as those that run on offices are popular, with 49.1% stating they are encouraged to use their lifestyle, with a further 23.2% considering it to be ‘moderately’ electricity, will take off in the future according to 16.3%. Four in 10 email or online resources all the time rather than printing out docu- important. 80% state that environmental issues, such as pollution, (42.3%) of respondents currently use public transportation to travel ments, and 30.2% state that they are ‘sometimes’ encouraged to do conservation of natural resources and so on, concern them ‘to a to their workplace. “There seems to be growing awareness on the so, though they still rely heavily on printouts on certain occasions. large extent’, demonstrating that despite low awareness of technical importance of sustainability and green energy,” said Suhail Masri, VP 20.6% of respondents say that they are required to have hard concepts such as carbon footprint (with only 27.7% of survey of Sales, Bayt.com. “More than 40% of respondents use public trans- (paper) copies of everything. LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

KFH maintains positive outlook for construction industry

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Finance House, in a fresh report, “As such we maintain our outlook for the country’s plant, Al-Zour North power plant (second phase), and has maintained a positive outlook for the Kuwaiti con- construction sector for 2014, which should see real the Kabd solid waste recycling plant. Project compa- struction industry, on the back of strong domestic growth of 5.7% y-o-y,” despite having one of the more nies are to be established for the assets by the selected demand in the economy and a pick-up in government developed public-private partnership models in the bidders and it is expected that a 60% stake in the proj- capital spending. “While we remain fundamentally cau- GCC, which should give the market an edge in the ect company will then be publically offered. tious about the country’s medium-term investment out- highly competitive and lucrative region. It was Of the shares being publically offered 40% will be look, we note that higher growth in bank lending over announced in mid-December 2013 that Kuwait is set to open to foreign investors, 50% to Kuwaiti nationals, the last few months of 2013 and signs of progress on finalize $1. 4 billion worth of financing from a consor- and 10% for government bodies. There is plenty of some of Kuwait’s development projects have improved tium of lenders as part of the country’s first public-pri- potential in the Kuwaiti market, should investor inter- growth prospects,” the KFH said in its latest report. vate partnership (PPP) for the first phase of the 1.5GW est remain and the government carries out its pro- Since the election of a new parliament in July 2013, Al-Zour North power plant and desalination facility. In posed spending plans. The government’s 2014/15 the government has attempted to move forward on February, the Kuwaiti parliament voted to probe the budget is expansionary, with expenditure growth of long stalled infrastructure development projects and tender, after accusations of irregularities awarding the 3.2%, to KD21.9 billion ($77.3 billion). Although lower implement increases in public capital expenditure. This contract. average crude prices and near-flat non-oil revenue seems to be paying off; looking at government expen- In another development there are plans to offer growth could lead to a decline in government income, diture on construction, loans for private sector con- shares in three of Kuwait’s largest planned projects by Kuwait should benefit from a moderate increase in oil struction projects and remittances sent by Pakistani the end of 2014, as announced by the Partnerships production and exports. This budget is supportive of workers, “we note that there has been a generally Technical Bureau (PTB), and the organization in charge government is plans to invest $75bln in several ener- improving picture across the board, in line with esti- of Kuwait’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) program. gy, power and housing projects in the country by mates that the industry grew by 3.9% y-o-y in 2013. The three ventures will be the Al-Abdaliyah solar power 2016. — KUNA

Kuwait donates $5 million to fight Ebola in W Africa

GENEVA: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan expressed appreciation to the timely five million donation dollars made by the state of Kuwait to combat the spread of Ebola virus in West Africa. Chan made this remark yesterday, after receiving the donation cheque from Kuwait Permanent Delegate at the United Nations Ambassador Jamal Al- Ghunaim. “This donation is a live example of human solidarity and positive action towards pressing crises.” “This Kuwaiti contribution is the first from an Arab country. It was made in a time when West African countries have been strug- gling to bring this deteriorating situation under control,” she pointed out. On his part, Al-Ghunaim said that the donation comes in line with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s directions and the country’s policy toward Kuwaiti aircraft arrives in Egypt for Gaza medical relief humanitarian work. He added that His Highness the Amir pays special attention to the African continent’s state of being because of numerous diplomatic bonds and because Kuwait is the current Kuwait aircraft with aid president of the African-Arab Summit. Chan explained to the Kuwaiti envoy how the donation will be spent to stop the acceler- ation of this outbreak. On Thursday, WHO warned that the num- supplies heads to Gaza ber of people affected by the Ebola virus could rise to 20,000 with- in the next nine months and a projected half a billion dollars would be needed to fund efforts aimed at stopping the spread of CAIRO: A Kuwaiti military aircraft arrived in Ismailia airport, north- Palestinian people. the disease. — KUNA eastern Egypt yesterday carrying two ambulances to provide Algerian authorities have prepared a special program to aid medical assistance and relief supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Palestinian associations working in social and humanitarian Strip. Gaza’s health and medical sectors were heavily damaged by fields, she added. For his part, the Palestinian Ambassador the recent Israeli attacks. The Kuwaiti medical team will help in applauded the Algerian efforts as “an extension of the relation- transporting those wounded and injured to hospitals, as well as ship of brotherhood and solidarity between two countries.” He delivering medical supplies and medicines to the Strip’s hospitals stressed on the difficulty of humanitarian situation in Gaza espe- and medical centers, Abdulrahman Al-Aoun, Director-General of cially with the high number of displaced Palestinians. The recent Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), stated to KUNA. Israeli attacks on Gaza lasted for 51 days with more than 2,140 Coordination is currently underway with the Egyptian Red victims, destruction of more than 50,000 homes and more than Crescent Society for entry and delivery of the Kuwaiti aid to the 260,000 Palestinians homeless, many waiting for relief aid, he Gaza Strip via Rafah Crossing, Al-Aoun noted, praising at the same added. — Agencies time Egypt’s coordination and cooperation regarding delivery of the Kuwaiti aid to the Palestinians in Gaza. This aircraft is the fourth to arrive in Ismailia airport as other previous Kuwaiti planes delivered 40 tons of medicines to Gaza hospitals, he said, point- ing out that the Kuwaiti medical aid is provided to the Gaza Strip under the directions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Algerians gather tons of aid In another development, Algerian activists gathered via social networking sites more than three tons of medicines and food supplies to help the children of Gaza. The activists launched a campaign weeks ago via social networking sites, urging Algerian youth to collect food and medicines at various neighborhoods and cities in Algeria. Algerian authorities praised the initiative of Minister of National Solidarity, Family and Condition of Women Mounia Meslem, saying it “is a habit of the Algerian people to relieve the Palestinian people.” The minister said in a statement to Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Algerian radio that she discussed with Palestinian Ambassador in Margaret Chan with Kuwait Permanent Delegate at the Algiers Louay Mohamed Aissa ways of delivering the humanitari- United Nations Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim. an contributions as well as the ministry’s solidarity with the

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Tehran confirms US Coast IS’s appeal presents Minister defends army role Guard fired at fishing boat 8 Jordan with new test 9 in defusing Pakistan crisis 11

KIEV: Military attaches examine a Russian weapons cache displayed in Kiev yesterday. The Russian weapons, seized by Ukrainian forces from pro-Russian separatists following clashes in the east of the country, were displayed for inspection by foreign military attaches accredited in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the government is seeking to join NATO and is submitting a relevant bill to parliament to end its official ‘non-bloc’ policy. — AFP NATO tells Russia to halt ‘illegal’ actions Residents flee Mariupol as rebels seize villages

BRUSSELS: NATO told Russia yesterday to halt its was not closing the door to Ukraine’s possible ridor between Russia and Crimea on the Black between Russia and the West since the Cold War. “illegal” military actions in Ukraine after the West membership of the alliance after the government Black Sea. Residents of Mariupol, a strategic gov- Poland, which is deeply fearful of Russia, accused Moscow of direct involvement in the said it was taking steps to join. Russian President ernment-held port on the Azov Sea south of the described the situation as a “war”. The latest ten- escalating conflict. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied Moscow is main insurgent bastion of Donetsk, were fleeing sions sent the Russian ruble and the Ukrainian Fears of a wider confrontation have spiralled fuelling the conflict or having any troops on the after rebels seized several villages nearby. currency nosediving and pushed stock markets after NATO said Russia had sent troops to fight in ground in the former Soviet state. The sharp escalation came just days after down. But Putin dismissed the concerns and defi- Ukraine and funnelled huge amounts of heavy Putin held talks with Ukraine’s President Petro antly described the insurgents as defenders of weaponry to pro-Kremlin rebels in what Kiev ‘20,000 troops on border’ Poroshenko but failed to make any significant New Russia, a Tsarist-era term for Moscow’s for- described as an invasion. “This is not an isolated And yesterday, he demanded that the breakthrough. “Russia has deliberately and mer imperial holdings in the region that the action, but part of a dangerous pattern over Ukrainian government hold “substantial” talks repeatedly violated the sovereignty and territorial strongman has revived since annexing Crimea. many months to destabilise Ukraine as a sover- with the separatists who took up arms against integrity of Ukraine, and the new images of He praised rebel successes in halting Kiev’s eign nation,” NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Kiev in April, apparently emboldened by Russia’s Russian forces inside Ukraine make that plain for advances in the counter-offensive in the south- said after an emergency meeting of the alliance. annexation of Crimea the month before. the world to see,” US President Barack Obama east that has left government troops battling for “We urge Russia to cease its illegal military “I believe that what is happening in Ukraine said. “This ongoing Russian incursion into Ukraine survival in the town of Ilovaysk. actions, stop its support to armed separatists, and right now is in principle our common colossal will only bring more costs and consequences for He called on rebel forces to open a “humani- take immediate and verifiable steps towards de- tragedy and it is necessary to do everything for it Russia.” tarian corridor” for the besieged Ukrainian troops. escalation of this grave crisis.” to stop as soon as possible,” he said. Top rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko-who Kiev and the West have accused Russian NATO on Thursday said Russia had sent at ‘Defenders of New Russia’ has said the Russian troops in Ukraine were “on troops of being behind a lightning counter-offen- least 1,000 troops to fight alongside the rebels, Germany warned the crisis was spiralling “out holiday”-told Russian television his men would be sive that has seen the rebels seize swathes of along with air defence systems, artillery, tanks of control”, as EU foreign ministers met after talk willing to let government troops withdraw if they southeastern territory from government forces, and armoured vehicles, and had massed 20,000 of more possible punitive measures on Moscow. give up their weapons. Ukrainian security chiefs dramatically turning the tide in the four-month troops near the border. The United States and the European Union lashed out at the Russian proposal, saying it conflict. And in a move certain to anger Kiev’s for- The new rebel advance has raised fears that have already imposed a series of punishing sanc- proved rebels were “controlled directly from the mer masters in Moscow, Rasmussen said NATO the Kremlin could be seeking to create a land cor- tions on Moscow over the worst standoff Kremlin”. —AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Bahrain: No invitation to expelled US diplomat

MANAMA: Bahrain has denied that it Labor Tom Malinowski. ments contained inaccuracies about the about a lack of accountability of abuse by offered an invitation to a top US diplomat Abdulla was responding to comments kingdom and that it does not need “out- security forces, reports of mistreatment who was earlier expelled after he met with by US State Department spokeswoman side observers.” He added that Bahrain is and torture in detention facilities and a leading Shiite opposition group, extend- Jen Psaki earlier this week, who said committed to making political reforms “ongoing harassment and imprisonment ing a rift between Washington and the Malinowski had received an invitation and and that it does not prohibit freedom of of persons exercising their rights of free- tiny, strategic Gulf nation. that a trip was being planned. expression. dom of expression.” The island kingdom’s undersecretary of Bahrain is an important ally for Psaki told reporters Monday that Bahrain ordered Malinowski to leave in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdulla Washington because it is the longtime Bahrain has “much to do” to meet its own early July, after he met with the main Abdullatif Abdulla, said in comments post- home of the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. The commitment to reforms, and that it is Shiite opposition group, Al Wefaq. ed by the official Bahrain News Agency on country has seen more than three years of “unfortunate that they have not taken Manama said he had intervened in the Thursday evening that no invitation has unrest as its majority Shiites push for advantage of opportunities to hear from country’s domestic affairs by holding been made to US Assistant Secretary of greater political rights from the Sunni outside observers.” meetings with some groups at the State for Democracy, Human Rights and monarchy. Abdulla said that Psaki’s com- Washington, Psaki said, has concerns expense of others. — AP Iran hopes to reach nuke accord before deadline

MOSCOW: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran hoped to reach a “positive result” in talks with world powers on its nuclear programme ahead of a November deadline, thanks in part to support from Russia. “In that short period of time that is left, we hope that we can reach a positive result,” said Zarif, speaking through a translator at a news conference on Friday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Iran and global powers are working to strike a compre- hensive agreement by a Nov. 24 deadline, under which Iran would curb its nuclear activities in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions that have crippled its econo- my. The talks include the United States, Britain, Russia, China, Germany and France together with Iran, a format known as the 6 +1. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow advocated a solution that would acknowl- edge Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear activity. “We expect that the continuing 6+1 talks will allow the conclusion of such a resolution,” he said. Moscow has helped to bridge differences between Iran and other world powers over Tehran’s nuclear activities, which the West fears could be a front to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says it needs nuclear power to generate electricity. Earlier this month, Russia and Iran announced a big oil- JALAWLA: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters check a factory during a patrol in Jalawla, 130 kilometres (80 miles) northeast of for-food deal, highlighting the problems both countries Baghdad and only 30 (18 miles) from the border with Iran, yesterday. Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga forces on August 22 face in overcoming Western sanctions. Tehran’s economy launched an operation to retake the flashpoint town of Jalawla from Islamic State jihadist fighters, Kurdish officials said. has been struggling for years, while Russia’s has been hit Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party official Shirko Mirwais said the battle to reclaim the town lost to IS fighters on by sanctions against its finance, oil and defence sectors August 11 had already left several dead on both sides. — AFP over the Ukraine crisis. Few details were disclosed, but sources told Reuters in January that the two sides were negotiating a deal worth Tehran confirms US Coast $1.5 billion a month that would enable Iran to lift oil exports substantially, Western diplomats say there has been little or no narrowing of differences on the issue of Guard fired at fishing boat Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium, an activity that can have both civilian and military uses. — Reuters TEHRAN: The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Dhows are traditional wooden boats com- Gaza war and vowing “defensive” support Guard navy confirmed in remarks published mon to the region that are typically used for for the Palestinians. yesterday that a US Coast Guard vessel fired trade and fishing. American, Iranian and Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the top com- on an Iranian fishing boat in the Arabian other countries’ military vessels routinely mander of the Guard, congratulated the Gulf this week but insisted the incident was patrol the Arabian Gulf, a key route for inter- people of Gaza on their “victory” in the 51- not a “clash.” national oil shipments, usually without inci- day conflict between Israel and the Hamas The US Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet dent. Speed boats from Iran’s Guard, how- militant group, and said the Palestinians said that personnel on a small boat dis- ever, have passed close to US ships in inci- should add to the “volume, range and accu- patched from the US Coast Guard patrol dents that have raised alarm in Washington. racy of their missiles,” in a statement posted boat Monomoy fired a single shot on Fadavi, the Iranian officer, also said the on the Guard’s official website. Tuesday when they saw the crew on a near- Americans “should be fearful” as long as He added that the West Bank should also by Iranian dhow training a .50-caliber they are present in the Gulf. Tehran has long have its own “defense” systems. Earlier this machine gun on them and preparing to fire. decried the US presence in the critical week, Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, head of No one was hurt in the encounter, which waterway as a source of tension in the the Guard’s paramilitary wing, said “arming came as the two countries work to hammer region. The West and Israel believe Iran’s the West Bank has already begun and out a lasting deal over Iran’s nuclear pro- nuclear program is aimed at building am weapons will be provided to the people of gram. The shot from the US patrol boat was atomic weapon. Iran denies the charge, say- the area.” Neither general elaborated on fired “in the air about three miles away” ing its nuclear activities are for peaceful pur- what kind of aid might be provided to the from the Iranian boat, Adm. Ali Fadavi of poses only, such as power generation and West Bank, which is controlled by Israel but Iran’s Guard was quoted as saying by the medical research. governed by Western-backed Palestinian MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) greets Tasnim News Agency. “It wasn’t a clash but While the Guard appeared intent on eas- President Mahmud Abbas. Iran refuses to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif upon his a single shot in the air ... there was no clash ing tensions with the United States over the recognize Israel and has long backed mili- arrival for a meeting in Moscow yesterday. Zarif began a between Iranian and American forces,” shooting incident, it struck a strident tone tant groups in the region, including the mini-tour that will take him to Russia, Italy, Luxembourg Fadavi said, adding that “Americans feared toward Israel yesterday, hailing the “victory” Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas and the and Belgium, Iranian media reported. — AFP and felt danger from a fishing dhow.” of Palestinian militants in this summer’s Palestinian Islamic Jihad. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Israel identifies body as missing American student

JERUSALEM: Israeli forensic investigators media speculated that he had fallen or in the days after their son disappeared. death really united the community, yesterday identified a recently found body died of dehydration. He was buried in the “They’re overwhelmed. At the same time, brought a lot of good out in people. And as that of a US religious student who disap- town of Beit Shemesh. Sofer’s body was there is some relief that Aharon has been there’s a lot of solace in that,” Lichtenstein peared while hiking in Jerusalem last week, found Thursday night in the same area found,” said Meir Lichtenstein, a commit- said. Lawmakers across the state offered Israeli police said, adding that he had been where he disappeared last week. The 23- teeman in Lakewod Township, who was condolences Thursday, including New buried near Jerusalem. year-old from Lakewood, New Jersey, had with Sofer’s family in New Jersey on Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said been hiking with a friend in a hilly, forested Thursday. Lichtenstein said that the com- “We add our thoughts and prayers to the body was confirmed early on Friday area on the outskirts of Jerusalem. He was munity had held out hope that Sofer those of so many in New Jersey and morning to be that of seminary student an ultra-Orthodox student at a yeshiva, a would be found, but his death ultimately around the world for this family and the Aharon Sofer. “There is no suspicion of foul Jewish religious school, named for its brought the community together. community of Lakewood,” Christie said. play,” Samri said by telephone, giving no founder Rabbi Tzvi Kaplan. Sofer’s parents “The silver lining in the cloud is that “Together, we can help them deal with this further details on how he died. Israeli had flown to Israel to assist with the search Aharon’s disappearance and eventually awful tragedy.” — AP

IS’s appeal presents Jordan with new test

AMMAN: He had a good job and a loving family, but it wasn’t enough for a 25-year old Jordanian who abandoned his life of privilege in Amman to join the Islamic State group that has seized swathes of neighbouring Iraq and Syria. Handsome, courteous and highly regarded in his profes- sion as a radiologist, the man, whose name has been with- held for security reasons, disappeared in early August after the Muslim Eid holiday. He did not tell his family where he was going. He later called his parents from an undisclosed location to say he had “forsaken his life for the glory of Islam”, said a relative. “His father is heartbroken, and his mother is in hospital from shock,” he said. He is among the first known cases of Jordanians joining Islamic State since the group declared a “caliphate” in June after dramatic territorial gains in Iraq and Syria. His story points to the widening support for Islamic State among Jordanian Islamist fundamentalists inspired by its recent advances in countries that border Jordan to the east and north. With that support come new risks for a U.S. ally mostly unscathed by the Middle Eastern turmoil of recent RAFAH: Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, stand guard during a visit by deputy chair- years. Jordan’s powerful intelligence services appear to be man of Hamas’ political bureau Mussa Abu Marzuk (unseen) to relatives of killed senior commander Mohammed Abu deploying their full range of tools to counter the threat. King Shamala yesterday in Rafah in the southern of Gaza Strip. — AFP Abdullah has said the country has never been better pre- pared to face the radical threat sweeping the region. Islamic State’s gains have sparked a fierce debate among Jordanian Islamists from the ultra-orthodox Salafist move- Gaza peace prospects shaky ment on whether to back the group, whose brutality has been criticised even within radical Islamist circles. But buoyed by territorial gains, Islamic State’s sympathisers appear to be after Hamas refuses to disarm winning the argument. “Many youths have changed their distorted view of the Islamic State after they saw their actions on the ground, their Netanyahu claims victory over militants achievements, and how the West has ganged up against it,” a well-known Jordanian militant told Reuters under the GAZA CITY: Prospects of a final deal on a is here a military achievement of the high- army said in a statement. Political analyst assumed name Ghareeb al-Akhwan al-Urduni. long-term Gaza truce between Israel and est order, as well as a diplomatic achieve- Shimon Shiffer, writing in top-selling news- Hamas were seen as shaky yesterday after ment because they dropped all of their paper Yediot Aharonot, said Israeli hopes ‘A dream’ realised its leader ruled out Israeli demands to dis- demands,” he told a visiting delegation that Western-backed Palestinian president Since the civil war erupted in neighbouring Syria in 2011, arm the Palestinian militant group. from the US House of Representatives Mahmud Abbas could carve out a strong hundreds of Jordanians have joined a Sunni Islamist-led “The weapons of the resistance are Armed Services Committee. role in post-war Gaza were unlikely to be insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. More than sacred and we will not accept that they be “They got to this point the hard way. realised. Netanyahu, he wrote, will “have to 2,000 men, ranging from underprivileged youths to doctors on the agenda” of future negotiations with They kept testing us and every time we get used to negotiating on arrangements and - in one case - an air force captain, have abandoned Israel, the exiled Meshaal told a news con- struck them but the last time, given this with Meshaal, whether he likes it or not.” Jordan for jihad in Syria, according to Islamists close to the ference on Thursday in Doha. accumulation of blows, they were persuad- subject. At least 250 of them have been killed there. Israel has consistently linked the recon- ed,” he said. But talks on crunch issues such Carrots and sticks But the Islamic State’s recent accomplishments are help- struction of the Gaza Strip, devastated dur- as Hamas’s demands for a port and an air- A poll published Friday in Israel’s Maariv ing to galvanize support like never before among radical ing its 50-day war with Hamas that ended port and the release of prisoners, as well as newspaper indicated that 58 percent of Islamists who dream of erasing borders across the Muslim last Tuesday, to the territory’s demilitarisa- Israel’s calls to disarm militant groups, have Jewish Israelis regard the current open- world to establish a pan-Islamic nation. tion. “It has become abundantly clear that been put on hold until negotiators return ended ceasefire as a mistake. It raises the prospect of yet more Jordanians crossing the unless Hamas is disarmed and its tools of to Cairo within a month. Only 33 percent believed it would help border to fight, but also the risk of Islamic State sympathisers control removed, there can be no peace Meshaal said his group’s weaponry bring about a negotiated Gaza settlement, striking in Jordan itself - a country that has suffered Islamist and security for either Israelis or “guarantees that our demands will not be in the poll, for which the number of militancy before, notably bomb attacks on Amman hotels by Palestinians,” Israel’s Foreign Minister overlooked”, although he acknowledged respondents and margin of error were not al Qaeda-linked militants during the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Avigdor Lieberman warned, quoted on his that not all its conditions for a ceasefire given. Israel HaYom freesheet, seen as The appearance of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al- ministry’s website. had been met. “Not all our demands have close to Netanyahu, said that continued Baghdadi, the self-declared “caliph”, calling for the support of France’s President Francois Hollande been satisfied... but an important part,” he Egyptian-mediated talks with Hamas Muslims in the pulpit of a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul also backs the disarmament of the coastal said, referring to the easing of Israel’s would have to balance toughness with last June acted like a magnet for young Jordanian Islamists. strip where Hamas is de facto ruler. “Gaza blockade of the impoverished territory. incentives. “Their dream was setting up the caliphate, and now they can no longer be an army base for Hamas, Both Israel and Hamas have hailed the “Hamas did not surrender,” it wrote. “To see it being achieved. This made people consider very seri- or an open-air prison for its inhabitants. truce as a “victory”. The seven-week con- deny it any motivation to fire again...Israel ously joining, especially since the Islamic State had officially One should move towards a progressive flict claimed the lives of at least 2,140 should combine carrots and sticks.” “It invited them,” said Bassam Nasser, a Jordanian Islamist schol- lifting of the blockade and the demilitarisa- Palestinians, more than 70 percent of them should be generous in opening the cross- ar. The roots of Islamic State can, in one sense, be traced to tion of the territory,” he told French diplo- civilians according to the United Nations, ings and the passage for goods so that it Jordan. It was Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian, who mats on Thursday. and 65 soldiers and six civilians on the will be clear to Hamas what it stands to founded the Iraqi arm of al Qaeda that would eventually Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is Israeli side. An Israeli soldier seriously lose, and it should be clear about the mutate into Islamic State. —Reuters claiming victory over the Palestinian mili- wounded by rocket fire in southern Israel a immediate meaning of the violation of the tants. “Hamas was hit very hard and there week ago died of his injuries on Friday, the ceasefire - a return to warfare.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Turkey’s new cabinet unlikely to spell major policy shift

ANKARA: Turkey’s new Prime Minister, times, in a step opponents fear heralds Ahmet Davutoglu, will announce his cabi- more authoritarian rule. “The doors of Great net on Friday, a day after Tayyip Erdogan Turkey have been opened,” the main head- was sworn in as president, with the new line in the newspaper Sabah said yesterday, government not expected to signal any praising the transfer of power along with major changes in policy direction. other pro-government newspapers. Davutoglu was scheduled to arrive at But Sozcu a newspaper fiercely critical of the presidential palace to present the list to Erdogan, declared “He made an oath he Erdogan at 11:30 am (0830 GMT). He will won’t keep,” referring to his pledge in par- hold a news conference an hour later to liament to remain bound to the secular announce the names, his office said on its principles of the modern republic’s website. The current economic team, founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. including Deputy Prime Minister Ali Erdogan’s opponents warn that his Babacan and Finance Minister Mehmet roots in Islamist politics mean his move to Simsek, is expected to remain largely intact. the presidency will bring widening religious EU minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is seen as influence in public life. leading contender for foreign minister. Victory in Turkey’s first popular presiden- Erdogan aide Yalcin Akdogan was also tial election this month gave a him a fresh expected to take up a position in cabinet, mandate to push on with what he sees as a possibly as a deputy prime minister. historic mission to transform Turkey domes- ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (2nd L) leaves the Erdogan, who had been prime minister tically and as a regional power. Erdogan has Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, after Friday prayers, yesterday. Turkish President since 2003, was sworn in as president on made clear he plans to establish an execu- Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved a new cabinet stacked with loyal allies just a Thursday, cementing his position as tive presidential system, expanding the day after he moved from premier to head of state, with former Europe minister Turkey’s most powerful leader of recent role’s current powers. — Reuters Mevlut Cavusoglu promoted to foreign minister. — AFP

Swedish PM warns Support for Scottish of refugee costs independence growing GAEVLE: Sweden’s prime minister has warned of public spending curbs to meet the cost of a rising wave of refugees, sparking a furore about making immigration an GLASGOW: Support for Scottish inde- away. Cameron had kept a low profile on “I’ve got friends and family who go to a issue in next month’s general election. pendence is increasing three weeks ahead the campaign trail, due to his centre-right food bank every day to get food to feed A poll at the weekend showed the governing conser- of a referendum, a poll published yester- Conservative Party’s unpopularity in their kids because the living wage they’ve vative coalition, led by Fredrik Reinfeldt’s Moderate day showed, amid attempts by British Scotland. got is not enough,” said Michael Larkin, 34, Party, lagging more than ten percent behind the opposi- Prime Minister David Cameron to make But he re-entered the fray in his speech an illustrator. Other protesters criticised tion in a campaign dominated by jobs, education and the business case for retaining the union. on Thursday, saying the UK was “one of the austerity policies of the Conservative welfare. Cameron on Thursday urged Scottish the oldest and most successful single mar- party, which has just one MP out of 59 in The left has promised more funding for schools and people to reject independence in a rare kets in the world” and that Scotland does Scotland, where the opposition Labour welfare and accuses the government-which introduced speech in Glasgow in which he argued the twice as much trade with the rest of the party is far more popular. sweeping tax cuts and social welfare reforms since taking union was a strong economic advantage. UK as the rest of the world put together. “David Cameron isn’t welcome in power in 2006 — of dismantling Sweden’s welfare mod- However the ranks of those who want “Our single market is one of our union’s Scotland because Scotland don’t vote Tory el, creating the fastest growing income gap in the OECD. to end more than 300 years of union with greatest advantages. If we stay together, (Conservative),” said Samuel Cook, 18, a But ahead of an August 16 election rally in Stockholm, the rest of the United Kingdom appear to Scottish businesses have better opportu- student. “I want independence because I Prime Minister Reinfeldt unexpectedly raised the issue of be swelling. A Survation survey found 47 nities, Scottish consumers have more want Scotland to make its own decisions. I immigration-in a country where all but one anti-immi- percent of respondents would vote “Yes” choice and Scottish people have more want to get rid of the Tory party because gration party support generous asylum policies-shifting to independence, compared to 53 percent secure jobs,” Cameron said. “Why put that Scotland has a Tory government we do the focus to an upsurge in refugees from conflict zones. who would vote “No”, excluding people great advantage at risk by going into the not vote for,” he said. “I can already say that there will be substantial costs who were undecided. great unknown?” The pro-independence campaign for receiving these people,” he told reporters, adding This was a considerable narrowing of argues that the British government’s eco- that his party would “promise almost nothing” in the the gap between the two sides in a similar ‘Cameron isn’t welcome’ nomic policies are unfairly skewed in election campaign because of increased budgetary pres- poll three weeks earlier, in which 43 per- Outside the venue for Cameron’s favour of London and southeast England. sures. cent said they would vote “Yes”, versus 57 speech, about 120 protesters gathered, Salmond greeted the pro-indepen- “Now I ask the Swedish people to have patience with percent who would vote to remain in the chanting and waving the Scottish blue dence letter from business leaders by this. To have solidarity with the world around us.” Left- union. The poll was commissioned by the and white flag and banners such as declaring industry was “waking up to the leaning critics accused the prime minister of using Scottish Daily Mail newspaper to assess “Another Scotland is Possible”. opportunities of independence”. —AFP refugees to bring the debate back to the economy where reaction to the final public debate his track record is strong. between the leaders of the pro and anti- independence campaigns. Victim of own success “Yes” campaign leader and Scottish Sweden boasts one of Europe’s strongest economies First Minister Alex Salmond was widely with falling unemployment and three percent growth seen to have won the debate against “No” expected next year. The coalition government has also campaign leader Alistair Darling. pledged to turn a relatively small 2014 budget deficit of Cameron said the union between 2.2 percent of GDP to a surplus by 2017 and has attacked Scotland and England was the “greatest the opposition for unrealistic spending promises. merger in history” as he addressed a con- But that may not be enough to convince voters to ference of the Confederation of British give them a third time in office. “There’s been a major Industry (CBI) in Glasgow. discussion in Sweden about youth unemployment, prob- His visit came on the day that 200 com- lems with schools and railways... and many now consider pany heads signed an open letter to say that the government lacks the answers,” said political sci- independence was in Scotland’s “best ence professor Ulf Bjereld at Gothenburg University, interest”-underlining the polarised views adding that it is rare to win a third term in office. over the issue three weeks from the Others argue that the government had become a vic- September 18 referendum. tim of its own economic reforms. “There’s a feel-good Questions over whether Scotland’s factor now that often helps parties on the left,” said economy could do well alone have been Stefan Foelster, a former head of the Confederation of at the heart of the campaign. Swedish Industry. “If you have a job, you earn more The “Yes” and “No” camps have traded GLASGOW: Protesters hold banners and shout outside the venue where Britain’s because of tax cuts, good wage increases and low infla- statistics and accusations on everything Prime Minister David Cameron was to address the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner in tion... There’s an impression that we can afford to spend from whether Scotland could keep using Glasgow on Thursday. British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Scottish people more on welfare, healthcare and schools.” —AFP the pound to what share of Britain’s national debt it should take on if it broke to reject independence in a rare speech in Glasgow. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Freed Pakistani academic taught Taleban captors’ children

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani academic freed after four years in Taleban captivity yesterday told how he taught the militants’ children maths and English and met their feared former leader Hakimullah Mehsud. The Pakistani Taliban abducted Ajmal Khan, vice-chancellor of Islamia College University Peshawar, the capital of northwestern troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in September 2010. The mil- itary said “security forces safely recovered” the professor, but gave no details of how he came to be freed. Khan, 63, was similarly reluctant to discuss details of his release but said he was delighted to be reunited with his family. “Thanks be to God, I have come back to home,” he told reporters. “They did not torture me, but being away from home is itself a torture. I can’t explain how it is to see my children after four years.” He said that during his captivity he had spent time with Mehsud, then the commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who was killed by a US drone in November 2013. Khan, who wore a long beard and appeared in good health despite his long captivity, said the militants had treated him well, giving him medication for his heart condition and a radio to let him keep up with current affairs. He had appeared in several video messages asking the govern- ment to negotiate his release with the TTP, which began a bloody insurgency against the state in 2007. Government officials said despite many rounds of back-channel talks in the past, Taleban had refused to release Khan, demanding the release of important Taleban commanders held by security forces. Khan said he got used to life in the remote locations where he HYEDERABAD: An Indian man rides a scooter carrying his family in the rain in Hyderabad yesterday. The annual mon- was held and had even helped educate the militants’ youngsters. “I soon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions was very worried initially but then I adjusted to the situation-they of people. — AP used to make my contact with my family after every eight or nine months,” he said. “During the abduction, one day two children came to me and I started teaching them. The number of such children grew and at the Minister defends army role end I was teaching English and maths to 32 of the Taliban’s children.” Pakistan rights activists, university teaching staff and students in the northwest had protested against Khan’s kidnapping many times but in defusing Pakistan crisis all efforts to recover him were futile. Northwest Pakistan suffers from chronic insecurity, largely connected to the semi-autonomous tribal belt near the Afghan border. Khan’s release rekindled hopes for the Gen Sharif to mediate to end standoff sons of two prominent politicians held by the Taleban, but he said he had no news of their fate. — AFP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister said Khan announced General Sharif would medi- told supporters. yesterday the intransigence of anti-govern- ate and later the army chief met them both, Military influence ment protest movements had left no alterna- according to a military spokesman. Interior Khan alleges the 2013 general election tive but mediation by the army to end a two- Minister Chaudhry Ali Nisar Khan told parlia- that swept Sharif to power in a landslide was week political crisis that has shaken the ment the protesters’ unwillingness to trust rigged, though international observers said nuclear-armed nation. anyone had left no alternative but army the vote was largely free and fair. The country’s powerful army chief mediation. Qadri has demanded wholesale changes General Raheel Sharif was named mediator “Again and again they said they only trust to Pakistan’s political system and called for on Thursday in the standoff between the the army and will only have talks through the an interim “unity government” while they are government and protesters led by populist army,” he said. “When a group or two parties implemented. The leaders have drawn thou- cleric Tahir-Ul-Qadri and cricketer-turned- has no faith in the judiciary, the opposition, sands to the streets in Islamabad but their politician Imran Khan. lawyers or civil society and has no confi- call has not mobilized mass support in a The move has raised fears of increased dence in anybody, what option remains for country of 180 million people. But the stand- military dominance over the civilian govern- the government?” A furious row blew up off has weakened Sharif and led a number of ment in a country ruled for more than half its almost immediately, over the chain of events observers to say the military would use the life by the army. leading up the army stepping in. The interior crisis to reclaim a hold over its traditional Thousands of demonstrators led by Khan minister and PM told parliament the request spheres of influence in Pakistani politics- and Qadri are camped outside the parlia- for military help had come from the camps of defense and foreign policy. ment building in Islamabad demanding the Khan and Qadri. The army is widely viewed as hostile PESHAWAR: Ajmal Khan (right), vice-chancellor of Islamia prime minister step down. More than a week Qadri, who is usually based in Canada, toward Sharif’s efforts to normalize ties with College University Peshawar, is offered sweets by a col- of government efforts to negotiate an end to hotly denied this and demanded Sharif India-the perceived threat from Pakistan’s league following a press conference in Peshawar yester- the standoff made little headway, with Khan resign. “This is a lie, a lie, a lie. This request giant neighbor is a big part of the justifica- day, a day after his recovery from the Taleban was adamant the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been made by the prime minister and tion for the military’s large budget and secured. — AFP must resign. Late on Thursday, Qadri and the government and I reject his claim,” he prominent role. —AFP Top Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions WASHINGTON: As President Barack Obama warns of banks, and the fund has been working to replace Western conflicting goals - punishing Putin’s circle without damag- stepped-up economic punishments against Russia for its investors and lenders in future deals with money from Asia ing American companies already doing business in Russia. military incursions inside Ukraine, US sanctions have so far and the Middle East. “We can’t have a situation where a business entity is avoided one prominent financial institution: the $10 billion The fund’s director, Kirill Dmitriev, told The Associated immune from (sanctions) designation because it does Russian Direct Investment Fund, which has partnered with Press on Thursday that the petrochemical company, Sibur, some good things and some bad things,” said Jimmy brand-name American companies and whose advisers has not been targeted by Western sanctions but otherwise Gurule, a senior Treasury Department enforcement official include top US and European private equity executives. declined to discuss RDIF investments. The fund is backed in the Bush administration and law professor at Notre Despite its ties to Russian state businesses and officials, by a sanctioned Russian bank, VEB, and a sanctioned Putin Dame University. the Russian Direct Investment Fund has managed to oper- aide, Sergei Ivanov, is among its supervisors. Along with its Obama said Thursday that he expects US and European ate unaffected by the sanctions imposed by the US and EU team of Russian managers, the fund’s international adviso- allies to take additional steps to respond to the Russian mil- in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military ry board includes private equity executives Stephen itary’s apparent invasion of Ukraine. “Capital is fleeing. actions in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government said Russian Schwarzman of The Blackstone Group LP, Leon Black of Investors are increasingly staying out,” Obama said. A troops invaded southeastern Ukraine on Thursday with Apollo Global Management LLC and David Bonderman of Republican-backed bill in the Senate would extend sanc- two columns of tanks and military vehicles. In one recent TPG Capital LP. tions to executives, companies and investment funds, deal, the RDIF paid $700 million to a Russian petrochemical The fund has so far escaped the effects from sanctions including the $10 billion Russian fund, and penalize company that is partially owned by a sanctioned business- because it has not been explicitly targeted. The situation Americans who work with them, according to congression- man and recently struggled to secure loans from Western illustrates the Obama administration’s struggle to achieve al staffers. —AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Armored China vehicles cause alarm in Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Hong Kong democracy advocates expressed alarm yesterday after Chinese army vehicles were photographed travel- ling down a major thoroughfare, in what they condemned as a show of “military might” ahead of expected protests. At least four People’s Liberation Army (PLA) armored personnel carriers were seen in the small hours of Thursday near the busy Jordan and Yau Ma Tei regions of the city, the Apple Daily news- paper reported. The vehicles, with short guns mounted on turrets, were spotted at a time of heightened public discontent in the semi-autonomous city over perceived interference by Beijing and a debate over how the next chief executive will be chosen under planned reforms. Beijing has promised the former British colony will be able to vote for its own leader in 2017. But it has insisted on vetting candi- dates through a pro-Beijing nominating committee, a move activists fear would disqualify anyone critical of the mainland authorities. A pro-democracy group, Occupy Central, has pledged to mobilize thousands of protesters to block the financial district if authorities refuse to allow the public to choose candidates. Organisers plan to hold a rally on Sunday when the top com- mittee of China’s rubber-stamp legislature is expected to announce its decision on what form the political changes will take. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency warned early yesterday in a strongly worded article that the central government has “compre- Rescue workers recover a body in the aftermath of a landslide at Yingping village in Fuquan city in southwest China’s hensive jurisdiction” over Hong Kong and “will always be Guizhou province. Hundreds of rescuers hunted yesterday for survivors of a massive landslide in southwestern China involved” in its affairs. that killed at least a dozen people. —AP “China will not squeeze Hong Kong’s autonomy, but anti-cen- tral government groups should cast off the illusion that Hong Kong is under full autonomy,” it added. Pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo said she believed the movement of the armored carri- Japan defense ministry ers was a deliberate attempt to frighten activists ahead of the protests. “It’s a show of military might to scare off Hong Kong people who are about to stage some large-scale civil disobedi- ence activity. The timing is very suspicious” she said. asks for record budget

‘Creating fear’ Occupy co-founder Chan Kin-man said the movement would Tokyo bolsters military amid China worries not be cowed. “The central government is intentionally creating fear in the community so that they can scare away our support- ers,” he told AFP. Lai Tung-kwok, Hong Kong’s security chief, TOKYO: Japan’s defense ministry yesterday made its biggest ever the Abe cabinet decided late last year to set aside roughly 24.7 vowed to crack down on anyone taking illegal direct action. budget request, as Tokyo bolsters its military amid worries over trillion yen between 2014 and 2019 to spend on things including “The Hong Kong police and various departments have made China’s expanding naval reach. The ministry wants 5.05 trillion drones, submarines, fighter jets and amphibious vehicles, in a all the necessary preparations,” Lai told reporters. “The basic line is yen ($48.7 billion) for the year, with the focus on boosting protec- strategic shift towards the south and west. they cannot breach the law,” he added. tion of a string of southern islands that stretches from Kyushu to Japan and China have routinely butted heads over the owner- Lai said he had “no knowledge” of PLA movements this week waters near Taiwan. ship of the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku Islands, which Beijing but added: “Since there are PLA stations in Hong Kong, the move- The request, if approved, would mark the third straight annual claims as the Diaoyus, with official Chinese ships and aircraft reg- ment of the vehicles is a common phenomenon.” The PLA did not defence budget increase and a 3.5 percent rise from the budget ularly testing Japanese forces. immediately respond to AFP inquiries. The Chinese army and navy for the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2015. Separately, Chinese naval ships and military jets are seen have bases in Hong Kong but have generally kept a low profile The trend reflects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wish to build a increasing their activities around Japan, while an unpredictable ever since the former colony was handed over to China in 1997. more active military, with an eye on a possible escalation of ten- North Korea continues its missile and nuclear programs. Tanks are often viewed by Hong Kongers as a symbol of Beijing’s sions with China. Japan is increasingly wary of Beijing, which is Conservative ideologue Abe has tirelessly travelled abroad to autocratic tendencies. During frequent pro-democracy protests in seen by several countries in the region as becoming increasingly reinforce ties with foreign leaders, particularly those in Southeast the city, activists often make homemade tanks in reference to the aggressive in various sovereignty claims, including a separate row Asia, in a bid to counter China’s efforts to expand its sphere of famous “Tank Man” photograph taken during the bloody over island ownership with Tokyo. influence. Abe has also worked to strengthen Japan’s military Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 4, 1989. “Oh no, its really Among items on the defence ministry’s shopping list are 20 alliance with the United States. His defense efforts, however, have going to be a copy of June 4th,” Teresa Leung, an Apple Daily “P1” maritime patrol aircraft, with a combined price tag of 378 bil- provoked unease in China and South Korea, which were victims reader, commented on their report. “If they use force to suppress lion yen. It also wants five MV-22 “Osprey”-crossover aircraft that of Japan’s aggressive military campaigns through the end of Occupy Central, the result would be unimaginable,” Tina Ho have the manoeuverability of helicopters and the range of air- World War II. Ahead of the announcement, Chinese defense min- added on the paper’s website. The city was handed over under an planes-along with three “Global Hawk” drones and six high-tech istry spokesman Yang Yujun called on Tokyo to remember the arrangement where it is guaranteed civil liberties and freedom of F-35 stealth fighters. The ministry also wants to set aside money past. “It is important to draw lessons from history and adopt a speech unseen on the mainland. China’s Global Times tabloid, to launch a new amphibious brigade, to be assigned to protect development path that is peaceful, which we believe is conducive which has close links to the ruling Communist Party, said that the Nansei Shoto islands, which lie between the East China Sea not only to the interest of Japan but also to the regional peace “extremists” in Hong Kong cannot win out. —AFP and Pacific Ocean. The augmented budget request comes after and stability,” he told reporters. — AFP UN chief ‘concerned’ by Ukraine crisis

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: UN Secretary reports of intensifying fighting”. region and beyond,” he said. Ukraine and General Ban Ki-moon yesterday expressed Ban said he was concerned about the the West on Thursday said Russian troops grave concerns about the intensifying con- situation on the Ukraine-Russia border, and were involved in the fighting tearing the flict in Ukraine after Kiev and the West said reports that arms and heavy weaponry east of the country apart, raising fears of a Russian troops were actively involved in were flowing into Ukraine from its former direct military confrontation between Kiev fighting in the country’s east. His com- Soviet master. and Moscow. ments came as the United Nations said in a “There is an urgent need to ensure a NATO said at least 1,000 Russian troops report that nearly 2,600 people had been secure border between the two countries were on the ground supporting pro- killed by the conflict in eastern Ukraine with international verification,” he added. Kremlin separatists who have been fight- since mid-April. “I’m gravely concerned by Ban also said it was critical that early parlia- ing against Kiev’s rule since April. The NUSA DUA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the deteriorating situation in Ukraine,” Ban mentary elections scheduled for October United States and European Union have (right), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a UN conference on the Indonesian 26 in Ukraine go ahead. imposed a series of sanctions on Russia (center) and East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao (left) resort island of Bali. He said recent talks “We have to redouble our efforts to over the Ukraine crisis, the worst standoff prepare to pose for a group photo during the sixth United aimed at resolving the crisis had “quickly solve the conflict in Ukraine, lives are at between Moscow and the West since the Nations Alliance of Civilizations conference in Nusa Dua on been overshadowed by alarming new stake, peace in Ukraine means peace in the Cold War. — AFP the resort island of Bali yesterday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 India, Japan eye deals during Modi visit Over a dozen top businessmen in delegation

TOKYO: Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by flows. That’s partly because of India’s restrictive policies toward for- also, not just nuclear but also renewable energy. India has been lag- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, eign investment and partly because Japanese companies have been ging on that and needs help from Japan,” said Rajiv Biswas, chief energy and IT tycoons that begins today in the ancient capital of so focused on China. Asia-Pacific economist at IHS Economics. In the run-up to their meet- Kyoto. The two countries have complementary economies, given Analysts expect Modi’s visit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ing, Abe and Modi have been exchanging endearments on Twitter. “I Japan’s wealth and technological prowess and India’s natural yield some substantial agreements, and possibly a long-awaited deal deeply respect his leadership & enjoy a warm relationship with him resources and drive to modernize its economy. So far, though, they on cooperation in nuclear power generation technology. But in the from previous meetings,” Modi wrote of Abe, adding that he hoped have failed to capitalize much on those mutual interests. The two long run, Modi must deliver on promises to improve his country’s to take to take the relationship “to a new level.” countries signed an economic cooperation agreement in 2011 that is investment environment while balancing India’s growing engage- “India has a special place in my heart. I am eagerly waiting for gradually dismantling tariffs, but trade between the two - despite ment with both Japan and rival China. your arrival in Kyoto this weekend,” tweeted back Abe, who is taking gains - remains a tiny fraction of their overall import and export “I think there’ll be some very big agreements, on the energy side the unusually cordial step of traveling to Kyoto to escort Modi and his delegation before they fly to Tokyo late Sunday. Since taking office in late 2012, Abe has been trotting the globe to help clinch big con- tracts for Japanese industrial giants like Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as part of his “Abenomics” agenda to help restore the country’s economic dynamism. India, which plans to spend some $1 trillion on roads, railways and other infrastructure in 2012-2017, is a VIP customer. And Modi will be trying to woo Japanese investment in three of his favorite projects, including railway modernization, an industrial corridor between New Delhi and Mumbai, and a plan to build 100 “smart cities” with high-tech communication facilities and modern infrastructure. “Who is a better expert in bullet train technology than Japan?” said Kunal Singh, a researcher at the Center for Policy Research, a New Delhi think tank. The financial newspaper Nikkei reported Thursday that the two sides may also expand cooperation on India’s mining of rare earths, as Tokyo diversifies away from a longstanding reliance on China for the minerals used in many high-tech applica- tions. To help move things along, India needs to attract investment by slashing red tape, experts say. Yet it remains unclear if Japan would proceed with sales of nuclear technology and related equip- ment to India. Such exports have been hampered by sensitivity in Japan over India’s atomic tests and its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. “It is not an easy ride, definitely,” Singh said. But he added that while India is balking at limits Japan wants to TOKYO: Indian and Japanese students play at Global Indian International School in Tokyo yesterday. Japan and India both impose, the personal camaraderie between Abe and Modi might have much to gain from a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT help, adding “the personal equations have to kick in, and we know tycoons that begins today in the ancient capital of Kyoto. —AP they share a good bonhomie.” —AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Suit claims police brutality at Ferguson protests ST LOUIS: A federal lawsuit filed on Thursday ages and names Ferguson Police Chief Thomas alleges that police in Ferguson and St. Louis County Jackson, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent Ferguson officer Justin Cosma, several unnamed bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread officers identified collectively as John Doe, and the unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old city and county governments. Michael Brown. Shabazz said the suit could be broadened to The five plaintiffs in the suit in St. Louis include a include additional plaintiffs. A St. Louis County clinical social worker who said she and her 17-year- police spokesman referred inquiries to County old son were roughed up and arrested after not Counselor Patricia Redington, who said she had not evacuating a McDonald’s quickly enough. They seen the suit and declined comment. A public rela- also include a 23-year-old man who said he was tions consultant working for the city of Ferguson shot multiple times with rubber bullets and called did not immediately respond to a request for com- racial slurs by police while walking through the ment. In the immediate days after Brown’s shoot- protest zone to his mother’s home, and a man who ing, local police in riot gear fired tear gas and rub- said he was arrested for filming the disturbances. ber bullets at protesters who refused to disperse “The police were completely out of control,” and, at times, broke into nearby stores. Missouri said attorney Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Gov. Jay Nixon eventually placed the State Justice, a group whose members sought to quell Highway Patrol in charge of securing Ferguson tensions at the nightly protests that stretched for with a more relaxed approach. Nixon later imposed more than week after Ferguson officer Darren a curfew that was lifted after several nights of clash- Wilson, who is white, shot the unarmed Brown, es between police and protesters, and called in the ST LOUIS: Malik Z Shabazz, president and founder of Black Lawyers for Justice based in who is black. “In those initial days, it was virtually a National Guard, whose members have since Washington, DC, holds a news conference in front of the federal courthouse in St Louis on police riot.” The lawsuit seeks $40 million in dam- departed Ferguson.—AP Thursday. — AP

No criminal US admiral urges China on charges in fatal gun South China Sea disputes range shooting ‘Beijing must behave like a regional leader’ WHITE HILLS, Arizona: County law enforcement officials in Arizona said on Thursday no criminal charges are pending after a HONOLULU: China should act like a regional leader and help but has taken no steps to assert it. probe into a gun range incident in which a 9-year-old girl fatally resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea without coercion Locklear cited a series of steps Beijing has taken to sharpen the shot her instructor with an Uzi, adding it was “being viewed as an instead of raising tensions, the head of American forces in Asia and dispute, including sending an oil rig into waters near Vietnam, the industrial accident.” But state occupational health and safety offi- the Pacific said Thursday. dredging of disputed islands and reefs, new laws governing disput- cials were conducting their own probe of the Monday morning Adm. Samuel Locklear said China should reverse recent actions ed areas and “their lack of desire to go forward with international incident that was captured on video at a gun range that caters in that assert its claim to virtually the entire strategically important law forums.” part to tourists visiting nearby Las Vegas. The shooting at the region, calling them provocative and disruptive. He urged Beijing “If you take a look at the last year, there has been a significant Arizona Last Stop in White Hills, near the Nevada border, has to refer its claims instead to international legal forums. progress by China in changing the status quo in their favor,” he touched off debate over shooting ranges offering machine guns “China Is a regional leader. It is a global leader. They have a said. While Beijing feels it has a strong historical claim, other parties to casual visitors and the wisdom of giving children access to responsibility to lead in this dispute . to reach a compromise on to the disputes feel equally strongly, Locklear said. China may have high-powered firearms. these hard issues with their neighbors,” Locklear told a group of convincing arguments to make, but it needs to put those in a mod- “Based on the video, the Sheriff’s Office has determined no international journalists. The group was brought together by the ern legal framework, he said. charges are pending,” the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a Honolulu-based East-West Center, a non-profit center that focuses “What we ask them to do is to be more transparent,” Locklear statement, adding that the shooting was “being viewed as an on fostering relations between the United States and Asia. said. “They may have a good argument in their favor but we won’t industrial accident.” A video clip released by the sheriff’s office of The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei claim parts of the know that until they put it in an international forum.” He said all the moments just before the shooting and circulating on the South China Sea, dotted with tiny islands and home to key ship- claimants must avoid provocative actions and then find a mutually Internet shows Charles Vacca giving a girl in pink shorts and a ping lanes, rich fishing grounds and valuable oil and gas deposits. agreeable solution. “They need to look at a win-win solution that braided ponytail hands-on instruction as she aims the Uzi at a Taiwan shares an overlapping claim with China to the entire area can be achieved without coercion,” Locklear said. — AP black and white target shaped like the silhouette of a man. Vacca is heard encouraging the girl and asking her to squeeze off one shot. Then he tells her, “All right, full auto” and the weapon unleashes multiple rounds as the video cuts off. It was apparently moments later that Vacca was shot in the head when the girl lost control of the submachine gun. Vacca, 39, had been standing next to the girl when the recoil forced her arm over her head, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities have not said how many times Vacca was hit but NBC News reported he was killed by a single bullet to the head. A spokeswoman for the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health confirmed that the agency was investigating the incident, but said state law prevented her from disclosing details.

‘Where can I shoot a machine gun?’ Some Uzi models are capable of firing up to 1,700 rounds per minute, or almost 30 rounds per second, according to the manu- facturer’s website. The Last Stop is a a tourist hub that also includes a restaurant, bar, RV park and general store and is deco- rated with paintings of firearms, faux bullet holes and crosshairs and a mural depicting a gun-toting Sylvester Stallone in the film “Rambo.” An employee at the scene said the range had resumed opera- tions but gave no further comment, and gunfire could be heard coming from inside. Owners of the gun range could not be reached for comment by Reuters on Thursday. The girl, whom police did not identify, was at the outdoor range with her parents while visiting Nevada from New Jersey. “It’s an unfortunate inci- dent and I lost a good friend and a brother,” Sam Scarmardo, the OKLAHOMA CITY: Canine officers and their handlers from around the state stopped at the casket of K-9 Kye following funeral Last Stop gun range operator, told Reuters.—Reuters services for the dog in Oklahoma City on Thursday. K-9 Kye died on Aug 25 after being stabbed by a burglary suspect on Aug 24. —AP Tesco slashes dividend 16 Weak Japan data turn17 Big-spending Britons 20 Businessafter profit warning heat on policymakers drive economy SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Draghi dials R for Reform; Line is busy 18

TOKYO: Pedestrians wait to cross a street at Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s vital signs remained weak in July as wages fell further and household spending dropped, signaling continued weakness in the world’s third-largest economy. — AP (See also Page 17) US consumer spending dips 0.1% Auto, retail sales decline in July

WASHINGTON: US consumer spending fell in more people working and falling gas prices, Federal Reserve’s inflation target of 2 percent, stems from strong job growth this year. Jobs July, with a drop in auto purchases accounting for which will give consumers more to spend on oth- although it is up from its recent lows of 1 percent gains have averaged 244,000 a month since most of the weakness. Income growth also er items, is expected to lift spending in coming increases year-over-year. February, the best six-month string in eight years. slowed. Consumer spending edged down 0.1 months. The government reported on Thursday that Those gains have pushed the unemployment percent last month after a 0.4 percent increase in Paul Dales, senior US economist at Capital the overall economy grew at an annual rate of 4.2 rate down to 6.2 percent. An improving job mar- June, the Commerce Department reported yes- Economics, said he was still forecasting overall percent in the April-June quarter, even faster ket means rising household incomes, greater terday. It was the first decline in spending since economic growth will come close to 3 percent in than the previous estimate. It was a solid rebound consumer confidence and thus, more consumer January. Income growth slowed to 0.2 percent in the July-September quarter. The July spending after the economy went into reverse in the spending. Financial markets are looking for signs July, the weakest showing in seven months. decline reflected a 0.7 percent drop in purchases January-March quarter, shrinking at an annual that the Federal Reserve will begin raising interest The fall in spending came primarily from a of durable goods such as autos and a smaller 0.1 rate of 2.1 percent. That setback came in the rates out of concerns over inflation. However, Fed decline in auto sales, which took a breather in percent dip in purchases of nondurable goods. wake of unusually cold weather that kept shop- Chair Janet Yellen in remarks last week at an July after posting big gains in recent months, Spending on services was flat, which reflected in pers away from the malls, reduced factory pro- annual conference at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, although spending in other areas was also weak. part less spending on utilities because of cooler- duction and disrupted other economic activities. gave no hint that she is ready to support an Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent than-normal weather in July. increase in the Fed’s benchmark short-term inter- of economic activity, so it needs to recover for the With a slight income gain and spending Q2 momentum est rate, which has been near zero since economy to keep its momentum in the second declining, the personal saving rate rose to 5.7 per- Analysts are hopeful that the momentum that December 2008. half of the year. cent of after-tax income in July, up from 5.4 per- emerged during the second quarter will keep Many economists believe the first rate hike Economists had expected spending would cent in June. The July saving rate was the highest pushing the economy forward in coming months. will not occur until next summer. Still, some slow in July based on reports of weak retail sales, since it stood at 10.5 percent in December 2012. Many expect growth in the current quarter to believe that if the job market keeps surpassing but they said the slowdown should be temporary An inflation gauge tied to consumer spending come in around 3 percent, and they believe the expectations, the central bank may see the need given the fact that job growth has been so edged up 0.1 percent in July and was 1.6 percent economy will expand by around 3 percent in the to raise rates sooner, possibly as early as next strong. The combination of rising incomes from higher than 12 months ago. That is still below the fourth quarter as well. Much of that optimism March. — AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Africa needs to make agriculture create wealth not just food

KIRINYAGA, Kenya: Nancy Njeri lugs a sack of fresh coffee berries to a hilltop factory from her small farm, which produces one of Kenya’s main cash crops yet earns barely enough for her family of seven children. “We are toiling hard and the coffee does not give us good returns,” she said, after reaching the processing plant where the berries from her 200 coffee trees are de-husked and the extracted beans are graded and dried ready for roasting. On big estates, one tree can produce 10-15 kg of coffee berries a year using fertilisers and other chemicals. But these are too costly for Njeri and other small-scale farmers. Their trees on the small plots in Kirinyaga County produce just 3-5 kg. This means that with a little help, Njeri’s earnings of equivalent to $300 to $500 a year could be doubled. It is a story repeated across Africa, where export crops like coffee, tea, cotton and cocoa are often produced by smallholders whose incomes can- not both support families and pay for products to improve har- vests. Many smallholders are reduced to growing food staples, adding to Africa’s farming inefficiency. “Africa has to move away from agriculture for food in the stomach to agriculture for wealth into the economy and into the pockets of farmers,” said Martin Bwalya, the head of The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), an African Union (AU) initiative. Experts say that this needs action from governments and others to invest in research LONDON: A Tesco supermarket is pictured in north London yesterday. British supermarket giant Tesco yesterday issued to produce higher-yielding crop varieties, improve marketing and another profits warning and slashed its shareholder dividend by 75 percent, blaming challenging trade and high invest- add more value to produce instead of exporting raw commodi- ment costs. — AFP ties from which others profit. Bwalya’s CAADP has led a drive for change, but progress has been slow. Under a CAADP initiative, African presidents commit- Tesco slashes dividend ted in 2003 to lift annual agriculture funding to 10 percent of their budgets. More than a decade later and only eight of the AU’s 54 nations have reached and maintained that goal, although some others are improving. Bwalya said 40 nations now devoted after profit warning 5-6 percent of their budgets to farming, up from just 3 percent.

Value at home Investing more could yield significant returns. In Kenya, farm- New CEO Lewis to start one month early ing accounts for nearly a quarter of national output, a common figure across the continent. As agriculture is also a huge employ- LONDON: Tesco will slash its dividend and changing British shopping habits. remained largely stable while Morrisons, the er of Africa’s roughly 1 billion people, supporting farms, which investment spending to give its new boss The large out-of-town stores it long country’s fourth largest player, has also are mostly small, helps many people. Edward George, the head of more firepower to rebuild Britain’s biggest championed are now less in demand with struggled. The cut to the interim dividend, research for soft commodities at Ecobank in London, said farming retailer, after a second profit warning in two more shoppers preferring to shop little and which analysts estimate could save Tesco was being held back by a failure to invest in crop processing and months showed the scale of the task he often at local stores or buy online. Costly 800-900 million pounds assuming a similar building local African demand. faces. The grocer said yesterday that as a mistakes abroad, such as a failed U.S. ven- cut to the final dividend, and the 400 million Pointing to African cotton farmers, he said only 30 percent of result of its worsening performance, former ture, have also taken their toll on Tesco. pound reduction in capital spending plans their harvest was turned into yarn and textiles locally, with the Unilever turnaround specialist Dave Lewis Britain’s largest private sector employer, will give Lewis greater financial firepower to rest exported in the form of lint bundles. “It is possible there is a would start on Monday - a month earlier with over 500,000 staff, started losing cut prices and win back shoppers. cotton farmer in Burkina Faso who is wearing a shirt made with than planned - with a remit for a major ground in its key home market in the latter Other more radical options open to the the cotton that he grew, but the shirt was made in China,” review of the 95-year-old business. years of CEO Terry Leahy’s tenure, after he new boss include a shake-up of Tesco’s George said. Developing local consumption of farm products in The latest profit warning lays bare the had transformed the group into the clear store structure to create different formats Africa could encourage more local industry, avoiding the fate of need for a change at a company once con- market leader. His successor Philip Clarke, for different areas, including a chain to com- cocoa farms in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, who earn just 7-8 per- sidered an unstoppable engine of growth, who spent more than 1 billion pounds on a pete with discounters, one to target the cent of the value of a chocolate bar made from their cocoa beans, with annual trading profit now expected to failed recovery plan, issued his first profit mid-market and a third to challenge the he said. It is a similar picture elsewhere. Kenya, Uganda and come in around 25 percent lower than last warning in January 2012, and another in upmarket sector. Rwanda, which are some of the continent’s main coffee year - a third straight year of decline. While July as he quit. With industry data showing The retailer’s brand and image could exporters, mostly send beans abroad but farmers and producers analysts said a 75 percent cut in the half- Tesco’s UK market share continuing to slide also be revamped, costs and staffing num- could earn more if value was added at home. —Reuters year dividend was much deeper than at an alarming rate, the group turned to bers could be cut, while international units expected, hammering Tesco’s share price, Lewis as its first external CEO appointment could be sold or spun off. “Dave is really they added the move would give Lewis in its history. keen to get started and the board recog- greater flexibility to revive the world’s No.3 nized the need to get on and address these retailer, such as by cutting prices. Alarming decline challenges,” a source familiar with the situa- “We are not expecting a quick turn- “The board’s priority is to improve the tion told Reuters. around,” said Niall Dineen, a portfolio man- performance of the group,” Chairman Clarke, a 40-year Tesco veteran, will ager at AGF International Advisors, who Richard Broadbent said. “Our new Chief remain on hand to help with the transition upped his holding in Tesco yesterday morn- Executive, Dave Lewis, will now be joining through to January. The Tesco tactics ing. “We think it will be a couple of years for the business on Monday and will be review- appear to be following the same route as margins to recover and we think the share ing every aspect of the group’s operations. those taken by Sainsbury’s in 2005 when price could be under pressure for a while.” This will include consideration of all options Justin King halved the dividend and its mar- Shares in Tesco, which have been languish- that create value for customers and share- gins in order to fund a raft of price cuts ing at 10 year lows, slumped 5 percent to holders.” designed to get customers returning to its wipe 1 billion pounds off its market valua- Data on Wednesday showed Tesco’s stores. The dividend cut will come as a blow tion. An initial fall of 8.5 percent marked its sales decline had worsened, hurt by the though to those attracted by its 6 percent greatest one-off drop in two and a half weakest overall market growth in a decade, yield, compared with the average FTSE 100 years. with its sales down 4.0 percent year on year company yield of 3.8 percent. However with Rival Sainsbury’s fell 4.5 percent and in the 12 weeks to Aug. 17. falling profits, analysts had said the cost of MALANG CITY: Residents of Malang city in East Java Morrisons dropped 4 percent on fears that Its market share has dipped to 28.8 per- the payout was unsustainable. province wait to fill up their containers with subsidized Lewis could plough cash into slashing prices cent from the 30.7 percent it held when Tesco now expects trading profit for fuel at a petrol station posted with a sign saying “subsi- and spark an industry-wide battle. Clarke took over in March 2011, as it lost 2014/15 to be in the range of 2.4-2.5 billion dized fuel finished” yesterday while major cities across Tesco has been hit by fierce competition ground to both discounters Aldi and Lidl pounds ($4.0-$4.2 billion), compared with the country are hit with panic buying forcing long lines of from discounters at the lower end of the and upmarket grocers such as Waitrose. an analyst forecast range of 2.7-2.8 billion customers and closure of fuel stations. — AFP market as well as by rivals at the top, and by Rivals Sainsbury’s and Wal-Mart’s Asda have pounds. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 India’s economy grows 5.7% in Q1, best in 2 years

NEW DELHI: India said yesterday its economy grew by 5.7 percent in the first financial quarter, its fastest pace in over two years, as the election of a new right-wing government spurred business confidence. The economy’s strong expansion in the three months to June beat a consensus market forecast of 5.5-percent growth and marked the clearest sign yet that Asia’s third-largest economy is accelerating out of a long slowdown, economists said. Manufacturing output grew by 3.5 percent in the first quarter from a year ago while farm production rose by 3.8 per- cent. Construction activity increased by 4.8 percent. India has been mired in its longest spell of sub-five-percent growth in a quarter-century. But new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his party to the first single-party majority in three decades in India’s lower house of parlia- ment, is perceived as more business friendly than the previous left-leaning Congress government. Analysts say the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s election victory has boosted confidence, and money has flooded back into the Indian stock market. The first-quarter growth was faster than the 4.6-percent expansion logged in the previous three months, and was the best performance since the January-to-March quarter in 2012. The improved performance reflects stronger business and consumer spending fuelled by “optimism related to elections”, Dariusz Kowalczyk, economist at Credit Agricole CIB Asia Research, said in a note to clients.

Cutting red tape Last month, the central bank forecast growth of 5.5 percent in the financial year to March 31, 2015, saying the economy was “poised to make TOKYO: People shop at a supermarket in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s vital signs remained weak in July as a shift to a higher growth trajectory”. The central bank’s target was slightly wages fell further and household spending dropped, signaling continued weakness in the world’s third- below the government’s target of 5.8 percent. largest economy. —AP In the past two years, growth slowed to around half of the near double- digit levels seen a few years ago, hit by high interest rates to curb stub- born inflation, a weaker global economic backdrop and a fall in foreign investment as corruption scandals embroiled the Congress government. Weak Japan data turn Economists say India needs at least eight to nine percent growth to create jobs for a ballooning youth population. To help boost growth, Modi has pledged to hasten introduction of a long-awaited goods-and-services tax heat on policymakers to replace India’s patchwork of levies that make business transactions more complex and costly. He has also eased foreign investment ceilings and sought to reduce India’s notorious bureaucratic red tape to make it easier for investors to do Concerns grow over faltering recovery business. In one tangible sign of change, Modi ditched the Planning Commission-a relic of socialist policies put in place by India’s first prime TOKYO: Japan’s economy slowed markedly last month 15-year-low of 3.5 percent in May. Japan’s labor market minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who was impressed by the former Soviet as consumer spending dropped and factory output ran had been showing signs of tightening, with rising Union’s centralized planning and five-year economic blueprints. Modi has out of steam, data showed yesterday, underscoring con- demand for workers expected to push up wages and also clubbed departments under super-ministries to simplify administra- cerns about the state of the country’s recovery. The spur spending. tion and accelerate decision-making. Modi has also been seeking to jump- weak figures come after Japan suffered its biggest quar- But a key jobs market index known as the jobs-to- start India’s investment pipeline by easing a cumbersome bureaucratic terly contraction since the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, applicant ratio was unchanged last month, suggesting approval process but many big-ticket industrial projects remain stalled by as an April sales tax rise slammed the brakes on growth that the trend was weakening. “This marked the first environmental concerns and other factors. He has urged foreign compa- in the world’s number three economy. time since the launch of Abenomics that the index has- nies to set up shop in the country, telling them “Come, make in India. Sell While deflation remained at bay, consumer price n’t improved,” Thieliant said. anywhere, but manufacture here.” — AFP growth stalled in July, and the fresh figures were sure to “The recovery of the labor market may soon have run heap pressure on the Bank of Japan to usher in another its course,” he added. Tepid wage growth and con- round of monetary easing to kickstart growth, analysts sumers facing higher prices dug into spending nation- said. The recent data will also force Prime Minister wide, after millions of shoppers had made a last-minute Shinzo Abe’s administration to take a hard look at dash to stores before sales taxes rose to 8.0 percent whether to raise sales taxes again, after the April 1 hike- from 5.0 percent. “Reaction to the April tax hike is reced- seen as crucial to shrinking Japan’s mammoth debt- ing, but the impact of decline in income will likely con- dented growth. tinue for a while,” said Taro Saito, senior economist at Abe launched a high-profile growth blitz last year, NLI Research Institute in Tokyo. dubbed Abenomics, in a bid to kickstart an economy “The Bank of Japan may have to announce additional beset by years of deflation and slack growth. easing measures by the end of this fiscal year (through “Today’s data on industrial production and retail March 2015),” he added. The central bank last year sales show that the economy continued to stagnate at unleashed a massive monetary easing plan as a corner- the start of the third quarter,” Marcel Thieliant from stone of Tokyo’s growth efforts, with the BoJ setting a Capital Economics said in a note. 2.0 percent inflation target by next year. “What’s more, inflation moderated in July and is set The move marked an all-out war on deflation, but to decline further, which should increase the pressure economists have widely cast doubt on the bank’s ambi- on policymakers to do more.” The latest data showed tious timeline. The data yesterday showed consumer Japan’s industrial production inched up a tepid 0.2 per- inflation rose 3.3 percent in July from a year earlier, cent in July on-month after tumbling 3.4 percent in unchanged from the previous month, while core prices- June. excluding the impact of the tax rise-came in at 1.3 per- While the fresh reading was a modest rebound, it cent, Dow Jones Newswires said, quoting a BoJ formula. was well below market expectations for a 1.2 percent Other factors that helped boost inflation include rise in factory output. higher gasoline prices and electricity bills, reflecting Japan’s post-Fukushima energy mix following the shut- GANDHINAGAR: Then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi (third Consumers cut back spending down of its nuclear reactors. The country was forced to from right), Japanese Ambassador to India Takeshi Yagi (fourth from Spending among the nation’s households dropped turn to expensive fossil fuel imports to plug the gap left left) and other participants raise their hands as they pose for photos 5.9 percent from a year earlier-falling for the fourth by turning off nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 during the inauguration of the 6th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit month in a row-while the unemployment rate inched atomic accident, which resulted in a ballooning trade (VGGS) in Gandhinagar, India. —AP file photo up again to 3.8 percent in July, after hitting a more than deficit. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Draghi dials R for Reform; Line is busy Super Mario’s mojo fails to click

FRANKFURT: Two years ago, euro-zone gov- tough position because “there is very little ernment leaders hung on Mario Draghi’s every leverage to accelerate this reform process.” word. Now the European Central Bank chief is struggling to get through to them. What has Bargaining power happened to ‘Super Mario’s’ mojo? Draghi is not having much luck with his For financial markets, Draghi’s words still reforms push - yet. German Finance Minister count. But therein lies a problem - his promise Wolfgang Schaeuble has insisted the ECB presi- in 2012 to do “whatever it takes” to save the dent was “over-interpreted” in suggesting that euro has reassured investors and driven down fiscal policy could play a greater role in promot- government borrowing costs to near record ing growth. In France, President Francois lows. Euro-zone governments, however, seem Hollande has reshuffled his government to to have forgotten the caveat. Draghi delivered boost his reform agenda but is struggling to his famous “whatever it takes” speech, and galvanise his Socialists behind the plan. He also backed it up with a plan to buy “unlimited” complains about the euro’s strength, pressing amounts of bonds issued by stricken euro the ECB to do more. In Italy, Renzi has yet to members - but only after governments agreed deliver break-through reforms, though he has to his call for a “fiscal compact” on tougher made many promises and taken some small budget discipline. steps. Draghi has one trump card: quantitative Now he is trying to cajole governments easing (QE) - essentially printing money to buy into agreeing a common approach to reform- assets. The ECB is preparing other stimulus ing their economies - a drive he sees as neces- measures, but markets have factored those in. It sary to allow the stagnant euro zone to grow is the possibility of QE that excites them, and with verve. “The essential cohesion of the some governments - even if its merits are dis- (European) Union depends on it,” Draghi said puted. Departing from his Jackson Hole speech in July, repeating the plea on Aug. 7. text, Draghi noted “significant declines at all He is having a hard time selling the mes- horizons” in inflation expectations - a hint he is sage. Like a groom dieting for his wedding Mario Draghi concerned, and may act. At 0.3 percent in day, many euro-zone countries shaped up to Speaking at the annual conference of cen- tating reform. “It’s much easier to introduce August, euro zone inflation is far below the gain entry to the euro-zone, only to let them- tral bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on these (structural) reforms, to get people to ECB’s target of just under 2 percent. The ECB is selves go once that big day was behind them. Aug. 22, Draghi said it would be “helpful for accept these changes, if you have growth,” not ready for QE yet, but signs of serious With their borrowing costs now low thanks the overall stance of policy” if fiscal policy said Portes. “And at the moment it’s really progress on reforms in France and Italy could to market reaction to Draghi’s bond-buy offer, could play a greater role alongside the ECB’s tough, and everybody is out there trying to smooth the way. “It may be hard to get a con- governments feel less pressure than at the monetary policy, adding: “and I believe there defend their special interests.” sensus within the (ECB Governing) Council to height of the euro zone crisis to give him what is scope for this”. In effect, Draghi extended a thinly veiled launch QE if the politicians are seen to be drag- he wants. Translated from opaque central banker- invitation to those countries with the room - ging their feet on reforms,” said RBS economist Draghi is seeking “common governance speak, the comments indicate that having cut such as Germany - to pursue a more expan- Richard Barwell. “But with the bond market no over structural reforms” - or a coordinated ECB interest rates to record lows and injected sionary fiscal policy as part of a three-pronged longer threatening to tear the (euro-zone) mar- push to shape up by, for example, liberalizing money into the economy to support a recov- policy approach including ECB stimulus and riage apart and a growing consensus that the labor markets. Passing structural reforms is a ery, Draghi is now also ready to back fiscal structural reforms. ECB will be forced to launch QE, Draghi is play- tricky business at the best of times. But doing stimulus over austerity. Sarah Hewin, head of research for Europe at ing with a much weaker hand now. Politicians so under the banner of closer European coop- Fiscal stimulus could boost growth, facili- Standard Chartered, said Draghi was in a may be willing to call his bluff.” — Reuters eration is trickier still after voters’ noisy ‘no’ to deeper EU integration at European parliamen- tary elections in May. There are also vested interests to contend Worrying euro-zone with. France’s new economy minister ran into trouble with trade unions on Thursday for sug- gesting companies be allowed exemptions to the French 35-hour week. “All these structural inflation sags to 0.3% reforms involve challenging and defeating lobbies. They’re small, but they’re powerful - they have big voices,” said Richard Portes, pro- Economic pressure puts pressure on ECB fessor of economics at London Business School. FRANKFURT: Inflation in the 18 countries Core inflation, which excludes volatile because they think prices will fall further. Sharon Bowles, who worked with Draghi as that use the euro sank to 0.3 percent in food and energy, sent only a modestly Europe’s economy grew for four quarters but chairwoman of the European Parliament’s August, a worrying sign of economic weak- brighter signal as it rose to 0.9 percent from then the recovery came to a halt in the sec- Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee ness that is putting pressure on the 0.8 percent. ECB President Mario Draghi has ond quarter of this year as core economies until July, said his push for governments to European Central Bank to take drastic steps warned that inflation expectations are wors- France and Germany stalled. Most econo- coordinate reforms and “to learn to govern to save a stalling recovery. The figure was ening and says the bank will add more stim- mists predict growth will resume in coming together” was too much too soon. “But I think down from 0.4 percent in July, the EU statis- ulus if needed. quarters but it is feared that uncertainty over he’s got to keep pushing so that there is no tics agency said Friday, and is the lowest Many analysts predict the ECB will even- the crises in Ukraine and the Middle East will slip back,” she added. since October 2009. Back then the euro-zone tually launch large-scale purchases of finan- keep the recovery too weak to reduce high was deep in recession after the collapse of cial assets to pump more money into the unemployment. Draghi has said that if need- Change of tack US investment bank Lehman Brothers threw economy. The bank’s governing council ed the bank could make large-scale purchas- The experience of the euro-zone crisis has global markets into a tailspin. Italy, the euro- meets on Thursday, but experts generally es of financial assets, known as quantitative shown that only when faced with the prospect zone’s third-largest economy, said it is seeing think it will hold off for several more months easing, or QE. That step adds newly created of ‘divorce’ - or the currency union breaking deflation for the first time since 1959, with as it waits to assess the impact of earlier stim- money to the economy and in theory can up - do governments get serious about budg- prices dropping 0.1 percent in the year to ulus efforts. lower longer term borrowing costs for com- et tightening and reform. In Italian Prime August. The bank has already taken steps to boost panies and increase the rate of inflation. Minister Matteo Renzi, Draghi faces a young The figures heighten concern over the growth and prices, cutting its key interest “Today’s data should provide fresh fuel for man in ‘dash-for-growth’ mode who wants to health of the modest recovery in Europe’s rate in June to 0.15 percent and offering speculation about broad-based bond pur- reframe the debate. currency union, a major pillar of the global cheap loans to banks on condition they lend chases (QE) by the ECB,” wrote analyst Renzi holds the rotating EU presidency for economy with some 17 percent of world out- more to companies. Consumers like low Christoph Weil at Commerzbank. “We now the second half of this year and has led calls to move from austerity to looser European budg- put. The euro-zone showed no growth at all inflation because it makes their paychecks put the probability of QE at 60 percent.” By et rules. in the second quarter as fears about the go further in stores. But it is a sign of overall considering more stimulus, the ECB is lean- Draghi has cut him some slack. After Ukrainian crisis weighed on consumers and weak demand. And it has been so low for so ing in the opposite direction from that of the months of pressing governments - principally investment decisions. Unemployment long that it has raised fears of deflation, a US Federal Reserve, which is expected to halt France and Italy - to reform with little effect, remained high at 11.5 percent in July, crippling downward price spiral that comes its asset purchases later this year as the U.S. the ECB president has changed tack. unchanged from the month before. about when people hold off buying things economy grows more strongly. — AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Brazil enters recession in pre-poll blow to Rousseff SAO PAULO: Brazil suffered a recession in go beyond any short-term considerations the first half of the year as investment such as the Cup. They blamed govern- plunged and the country’s hosting of the ment policies that have relied too much World Cup suffocated economic activity, a on stimulating domestic demand while major blow to President Dilma Rousseff’s failing to attract investment. already diminishing hopes for reelection They said the data underscored that in October. Latin America’s largest econo- the next president - whoever it may be - my has suffered stagnant growth for more would need to undertake deep reforms. than three years under Rousseff’s left- “The recovery from here will be slight,” leaning policies, which have dented con- said Eduardo Velho, chief economist at sumer and business confidence and INVX Global, an investment fund in Sao caused heavy losses for financial investors. Paulo. “We need a new economic pro- The economy took an even bigger down- gram based on fiscal tightening, mone- turn in the second quarter, contracting 0.6 tary flexibility, and improvements in pro- percent from the first quarter, according ductivity.” Investment plummeted 5.3 to government statistics agency IBGE. The percent in the second quarter compared agency also revised down its estimate for to the previous quarter, its worst perform- first quarter activity to a 0.2 percent con- ance since early 2009. Industry also suf- traction, meaning the economy entered a fered its fourth straight quarterly decline, recession. down 1.5 percent. News of the recession, Brazil’s first Following the data, some economists since the global financial crisis of 2008-09, BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for reelection with the said they would revise down their fore- will give a powerful weapon to Rousseff’s Workers Party (PT), gives the thumbs up during a campaign rally at the casts for full-year economic growth to opponents in the Oct. 5 election at pre- Confederation of Agricultural Workers headquarters in Brasilia on Thursday. — AP zero. Rousseff has blamed the slowdown cisely the moment that her candidacy is on continued economic weakness at its most vulnerable. Polls over the last hammered Rousseff for being weak on hosted the World Cup in June and July, abroad, such as in Southern Europe. week have shown Rousseff falling behind inflation and ruining the economic which caused a slowdown at many facto- The second quarter contraction was centrist candidate Marina Silva in the momentum that made Brazil a Wall Street ries and retailers as cities declared public worse than expectations of a 0.4 per- event of a second-round runoff, which darling last decade. Civil construction and holidays on game days to prevent logisti- cent contraction, according to the medi- appears likely. Silva and the other main manufacturing especially suffered during cal problems such as heavy traffic. an forecast of 47 analysts polled by candidate, Senator Aecio Neves, have the second quarter, data showed. Brazil Yet economists said Brazil’s problems Reuters. — Reuters Malaysia Airlines to slash 6,000 jobs in survival bid CEO being sacked to stave off bankruptcy

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines will slash shed about 6,000 — or 30 percent-of the air- 6,000 jobs, trim its route network, and replace line’s nearly 20,000 employees. Ismail its CEO under plans announced yesterday to Nasaruddin, head of Malaysia’s flight atten- stave off bankruptcy after two air tragedies dants union, said the union was awaiting plunged the already troubled carrier deeper details on how the layoffs would be carried into crisis. State investment fund Khazanah out. “The numbers are pretty high,” he said. “A Nasional, which controls the failing flag carrier, lot of frustration is in the air. That’s obvious.” said it would pump 6 billion ringgit ($1.9 bil- MAS also will “rationalize” its flight net- lion) into the airline, hoping the changes will work-a term it has used previously for cutting return the company to profitability within unprofitable routes-to become a “principally three years. regionally focused” carrier, Azman said, giving Khazanah’s Managing Director Azman no further details. A new CEO would be cho- Mokhtar said, however, there were no plans to sen by end-2014, though current under-fire change the carrier’s name-now deeply tar- boss Ahmad nished by its association with the MH370 and Jauhari Yahya would stay in charge until MH17 tragedies, which have pummelled July 2015 to ensure a smooth transition. bookings. “The combination of measures Azman added that Khazanah may sell stakes in announced today will enable our national air- the carrier to strategic buyers from the private line to be revived,” Azman said. Aviation ana- sector in the future. lysts, however, said it was far too early to pre- Khazanah Nasional, which already owns 70 dict success, citing a lack of details in the percent of Malaysia Airlines, announced plans plans, intense industry competition, and the in early August to acquire all remaining shares KUALA LUMPUR: Managing Director Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Azman Mokhtar poses airline’s sullied image. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and de-list the company’s stock as it works to with the Malaysia Airlines Re-structuring plan during a press conference at the Khazana has bled money for years, with analysts blam- revive it. That process is still under way, and it Nasional office in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. — AFP ing poor management and a failure to keep up remains unclear whether Khazanah will be essentially a government bailout. MAS announced that it posted its sixth with industry competition. able to carry out its plans. Even before this straight quarterly loss in the April-June period But the outflow has become a torrent due year, aviation analysts have long said the air- ‘Throwing good money after bad’ and predicted more losses this year as the dis- to this year’s disasters. MH370 mysteriously line needed wholesale reform. “This is throwing good money after bad,” asters’ impact on bookings intensifies. vanished on March 8 with 239 passengers and Some also have complained that MAS CEOs said Shukor, who called the plans “piecemeal.” MH370 inexplicably diverted from its Kuala crew aboard. MH17 went down July 18 — have come from non-aviation sectors, blaming “Returning to profitability in three years is Lumpur-Beijing course. The Malaysian govern- believed hit by a surface-to-air missile-in rebel- that for a series of poor business decisions wishful thinking. Its brand is now severely ment believes it went down in the Indian lion-torn eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 on the over the years. The carrier has controversially damaged.” He said Khazanah was part of the Ocean, but no trace has been found. plane. MAS previously had a solid safety been kept aloft for years by transfusions of problem, noting that previous turnaround The government and Malaysia Airlines record. public money, and Azman stressed that “pub- strategies under it have failed. came under fierce global criticism over their lic accountability for the use of the funds” Adrian Ng, analyst with Kenanga Research, failure to account for the jumbo jet, a slow- Regional focus means the carrier cannot remain on life sup- said too little was known about the company’s footed response and accusations of secrecy. The airline released a statement saying its port “at any cost”. future focus to say whether MAS can become Western leaders say MH17 was shot down by flights would operate as normal during the But Shukor Yusof of aviation consultancy self-sustaining. “The industry is tough, and the pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine. An investigation restructuring. Azman said the company will Endau Analytics said Khazanah’s plans were competition is very stiff,” he said. On Thursday, is ongoing. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Big-spending Britons drive economy House prices surge 0.8% on month

LONDON: Big-spending Britons powered the August 2007, around the start of the financial economy in August as they became more con- crisis, underlining how consumer spending fident about the recovery and their finances, will remain a staple of Britain’s swift economic though mixed house price data suggested the recovery. outlook for the property market was less clear- Nick Moon, managing director of social cut. research at GfK, said it looked like consumer Consumer confidence figures beat expecta- confidence might be entering a new period of tions, rising in August to match a nine-year stability. “There is no guarantee how long this high hit in June - serving up a reminder of stable position will last - a rush of good or bad Britain’s reliance on shoppers to drive its economic news could set off a marked rise or strong economic upturn. fall, but things could stay like this for a while,” According to mortgage lender Nationwide, he said, pointing to previous periods of stabili- house prices rose 0.8 percent on the month in ty. Signs from recent surveys that the housing August, far outstripping forecasts for a 0.1 per- market - another important source of growth - cent increase and pushing the annual rate of might be moderating were contradicted by growth to 11.0 percent. But a separate survey Nationwide, which reported house prices rose from data company Hometrack showed prices 11 percent in the year to August, up from 10.6 in England and Wales grew just 0.1 percent for percent in the year to July. a second successive month in August, with Its chief economist Gardner noted that London lagging behind. mortgage approvals fell by almost 20 percent Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief econo- GLASGOW: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the CBI Scotland Annual between January and May. “However, there mist, said the outlook for the housing market - Dinner in Glasgow. British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Scottish people to reject was a modest rebound in June and it is described by Bank of England Governor Mark independence in a rare speech in Glasgow in which he argued union was a strong eco- unclear how much of the slowdown was due Carney as the No.1 domestic risk to Britain’s nomic advantage. Cameron said the union between Scotland and England was the to the introduction of Mortgage Market economy - was highly uncertain. “greatest merger in history” as he addressed a conference of the Confederation of British Review rather than an underlying loss of But overall consumer demand was expect- Industry (CBI) in Glasgow. — AFP momentum,” he said, referring to tighter ed to have stayed strong with Fabrice ing support for our November (interest) rate record low of 0.5 percent early next year. affordability checks introduced in April. Montagne, economist at Barclays, saying the hike call,” he said. BoE policymakers broke The more downbeat Hometrack survey confidence data pointed to improved retail ranks over interest rates for the first time in Consumer clout showed only 11 percent of London post codes sales figures for August. three years this month, although the central Polling company GfK said its monthly con- registered rising house prices in August, com- “This month’s consumer confidence print bank dented expectations of a first interest sumer confidence index rose to +1 in August pared with 87 percent in February. Earlier this seems pretty solid, showing that the expected rate hike this year by slashing forecasts for from -2 in July, beating forecasts for a smaller month, a report from the Royal Institute of slowdown in activity will happen only gradual- wage growth. A Reuters poll of economists increase to -1 in a Reuters poll. GfK’s major Chartered Surveyors suggested the housing ly in (the second half of 2014), hence provid- showed the BoE will raise interest rates from a purchases index rose to its highest level since market was starting to cool. — Reuters Indian power station coal stocks lowest since 2012 blackouts

NEW DELHI: Half of India’s thermal power sta- decide whether to scrap the awards of more than areas suffering shortages to tap supplies from Adani declined to comment. An unusually hot tions have less than a week’s supply of coal on 200 of these ‘captive’ blocks, or instead fine other regions. August has meant that city dwellers have kept hand, according to weekly data, the lowest level license holders, promising further uncertainty Utility Adani Power Ltd has reduced output at their air conditioners running. since mid-2012 when hundreds of millions of before new mines can ramp up output. The its Mundra facility in Gujarat by about 2,300 States that could be hit with blackouts include people were cut off in one of the world’s worst Indian Express reported yesterday that 10 out of megawatts due to a shortage of coal, two senior Maharashtra, whose capital is the financial hub blackouts. There was a sharp fall in power output 13 thermal plants that have suffered forced out- officials at the state-owned Power Grid Corp of Mumbai, and the northern state of Haryana, one on Thursday from a plant in the western state of ages are state-run, raising questions over exactly India Ltd said. As a result of the cut, India’s total power grid official said, declining to be named as Gujarat that left India more than 9,000 how Coal India allocates supplies. A Coal India generation capacity on Thursday was about 9,110 he was not authorised to speak to the media. megawatts short of peak demand, according to spokesman had no immediate comment. MW less than its potential demand at peak peri- Yesterday was a holiday in parts of India, includ- two officials at the state grid operator. ods of the day. That gap was nearly twice as wide ing Maharashtra, easing power demand, but it is Any grid collapse would cast doubt on the cri- Alarming situation as at the beginning of the week, according to expected to ramp back up once the entire coun- sis management skills of the new government led Many of these regional state power compa- Power Grid data. try gets back to work on Monday. — Reuters by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose achieve- nies have imported less than required due to ment in ensuring 24-hour power supplies as pre- financial stress, having run up losses because mier of Gujarat state helped him to election victo- they must pay market prices for coal but can only ry in May. Commenting on Thursday, Power and sell power at regulated rates. “The current coal Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said: “I don’t know stock situation is indeed alarming,” said Viresh about the possibility of a breakdown ... There is a Oberoi, chief executive of mjunction, an online problem, I think, with many of the coal supplies.” commodities trader that is a joint venture The shortage has come about as a fall in between Tata Steel and Steel Authority of India hydroelectricty generation due to weak monsoon Ltd. India produced 565 million tonnes of coal in rains forced the government to ask coal-based the fiscal year to March, making it the world’s power stations to raise output, an industry source third-largest producer. Even so, it is also the fifth- said. biggest importer of coal and the crunch could India suffered unprecedented power cuts on offer a sales opportunity to exporters. Indonesia July 30-31, 2012, that affected 620 million people expects to raise its shipments to India this year by - nearly a tenth of the world’s population - in 22 10 million tonnes to around 100 million, Bob states across the north and east of the country. Kamandanu, chairman of the Indonesian Coal Asia’s third-largest economy relies on coal to gen- Producers Association, told Reuters. erate more than two-thirds of its electricity, but Central Electricity Authority (CEA) power fig- power plants are running short because state ures for the situation on Tuesday, accessed by behemoth Coal India Ltd has been unable to Reuters on Friday, showed that 50 of India’s 100 meet rising demand. Cautious steps to open up thermal power stations had enough coal to last coal mining to competition have been thrown less than seven days. Taken as a whole, India’s into chaos by a Supreme Court ruling this week thermal power generators have six days of sup- Employees of the Josselin Gad slaughterhouse, in the Morbihan department of Britanny, that all coal block allocations since 1993 were ille- plies - far short of the 15-30 days set as an operat- western France, walking in front of their factory. French hypermarket chains gal. These went to steel, cement and power firms ing norm by the CEA. Intermarche, announced yesterday that it was ready, through its subsidiary SVA Jean that had to use the coal themselves. As well as being short on capacity, India’s Roze, to take over the Josselin Gad slaughterhouse, engaged in a judicial liquidation pro- In a second ruling next Monday, the court will power network lacks the connectivity needed for cedure. — AFP SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 www.kuwaittimes.net

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Delegates to the Eurofurence, “Europe’s biggest furry convention” pose for a pic- ture in front of the conference hotel in Berlin. Fur friends attended the confer- ence and the organizers describe them- selves as “a collection of artists, anima- tors, writers, costumers, puppeteers, and just everyday fans who enjoy car- toon animals and their kind. — AFP SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Jon Voight is proud to call Brad Pitt his son-in-law

ngelina Jolie’s father has celebrated the news of her wedding to her partner of nine years and although he wasn’t invited to the ceremony - which was held in Chateau AMiraval, France - he can’t wait to catch up with the pair soon. Appearing on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ earlier he said: “I’m very happy about it, I’m very happy that I can now legiti- mately call him my son-in-law, this wonderful fellow who I love, and that they’re very happy and the kids must have had a wonderful time at the wedding because they all had their things to do. It must have been very beautiful, I’m very happy for them.” Jon added: “She’s working now with Brad and I’ve got a couple of things to do too but as soon as we can, we’ll get togeth- er, it’s going to be exciting.” Brad, 50, and Angelina, 39, married in front of just 22 guests last Saturday and ensured their six children - Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and five-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox - all had roles in the wedding ceremony. Maddox and Pax walked their mother down the aisle, Zahara and Shiloh were flower girls, and twins Vivienne and Knox were ring bearers.

Justin Bieber investigated for attempted battery, robbery

he 20-year-old singer, who is currently on probation, alleged- Tly lashed out when a fan started taking pictures of him on a camera phone while he was enjoying a date with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Selena Gomez, 22, at Dave & Buster’s restaurant in Los Angeles. A law enforcement source told gossip web- site TMZ.com that the ‘Boyfriend’ hit- maker was furious when he saw the man capturing photographs and lunged at him in an attempt to take his phone to delete the images. Justin’s bodyguard held him back and he never made contact with the fan, he 20-year-old actress doesn’t hit the milestone for but the alleged victim wants to press another five months but she’s already planning to have charges. The insider said that Justin is Ta wild sing-song bash to mark her birthday. Speaking to now being investigated for a series of E! News, she said: “I was just thinking about it [my birthday]. I possible crimes, including attempted kind of want to go do karaoke, even though I’m terrified to do battery, attempted theft of the pic- it. But I think if I’m 21 maybe I can have something to help tures and attempted robbery of the me.” The ‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’ star also has her phone. A spokesperson for the singer sights set on having a celebratory meal at Lisa Vanderpump’s declined to comment. Justin is on two stylish restaurant. She explained: “I love Lisa. I’ve met her years’ probation stemming from the actually. I had my 16th birthday at her restaurant before the egging of his former neighbor’s house [reality TV show] ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ was a in Calabasas, California earlier this thing. I saw this fabulous woman with this cute dog and then year and was also recently ordered to it turned out it was Lisa Vanderpump.” Meanwhile, Dakota - perform five days of community serv- the older sister of Elle Fanning - finds it obscure that so many ice and attend 12 weeks of anger people are interested in her life with boyfriend Jamie management classes. Strachan, who is 13 years her senior. She said: “I just try and live the only way I know how. I just do my thing. My job is to be in films and then I have a really wonderful full personal life and it’s personal to me. I’m just so weirded out that anybody would want to know about me. “I don’t want to know about anybody else’s life. I don’t know what anybody wants to know about mine. You don’t know me or anybody who’s really in my life so I don’t know why it’s that interesting.” Dakota Fanning Dakota wants to have a karaoke party SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

he 21-year-old singer is struggling to keep up with her hectic work schedule as she travels the US spreading the Tmessage about her second LP ‘My Everything’ which came out on August 22. Ariana’s promotional tour comes after a busy weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards where she, Jessie J and Nicki Minaj performed their track ‘Bang Bang’ last Sunday. Ariana has another 16-hour day ahead of her and with Ariana her lack of sleep she is hoping for a miracle and lots of coffee to pull her though. In a Twitter post made today (28.08.14), she revealed: “Not 1 min of sleep & have a 16 hour day ahead ... ima need a starbucks n a miracle today luvs lol #happyalbum- Grande releaseweek #risenshinemissthing (sic)” Although she is feel- ing tired, Ariana’s spirits have been lifted by a gift sent to her by fellow pop star Miley Cyrus. She tweeted: “A special baby love sent me flowers ... @mileycyrus u are the cutest angel pie is feeling in da world (sic)” As she couldn’t sleep, Ariana spent her time reading messages sent to her on social media from her fans and she is overwhelmed by the love they have shown her. She wrote in a series of messages: “Another impromptu meet n greet w my ny loves until my apartment building threatened to sleep kick me out lmao ... oooops. love u so much. was fun ... Can’t sleep so creeping on the loves I met tn. I love u so so much u have no idea. like none at all. y’all are my fav in the world. my heart ... btw I meant y’all as in all my loves not only my nyc deprived loves ... don’t want anybody feelin left out! all u babies are it. for real. niiight! (sic)”

Britney Spears splits from David Lucado he ‘Toxic’ hitmaker has called time on her Me’ residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas - 18-month relationship after discovering a is said to have been left “heartbroken” by the rev- Tvideo of him cheating on her was being elations. A source told E! News: “She is heartbro- shopped around Hollywood. The 32-year-old ken. She is in Vegas. But she will get through it. singer - who is currently performing her ‘Piece of She’s a strong girl and he was never right for her.” However David - who can reportedly be seen kissing and dancing with an unidentified woman in the footage - is still hoping for a recon- ciliation between the pair. A source told TMZ: “David is very, very in love with Britney. This is unfortunate and he hopes that it all works out.” Britney also took to her Twitter account to con- firm the news. She wrote: “Ahhhh the single life!” Meanwhile, the pretty blonde - who has two chil- dren Sean Preston, eight, and Jayden James, sev- en, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline and split from former fiance Jason Trawick In January last year - is said to have been getting “fed-up” with Tracy Morgan has a her father Jamie Spears controlling her finances after a judge granted him a conservatorship fol- lowing her breakdown in 2008. It is believed ‘tough time’ recovering Britney was keen to end the legal order so she could marry her 28-year-old beau. A source told he 45-year-old actor suffered a broken femur, broken nose and bro- RadarOnline.com: “She’s so sick of all the body- ken ribs when a Walmart truck crashed into the vehicle he was trav- guards. And she wants to be out from under her Telling in on the New Jersey Turnpike three months ago, and his father’s thumb. “Her relationship with David has lawyer Benedict Morelli has revealed the ‘30 Rock’ star is “struggling.” never been stronger. She also wants the conser- Speaking to PEOPLE, Morelli said: “He’s really having a tough time. He’s vatorship to end so she can be free to marry making incremental progress. But they’ll have to wait another month him.” before they assess him cognitively.” Tracy - who was released from a reha- bilitation facility in mid-June - is still undergoing at-home therapy and relies on a wheelchair to get around, and it may be many more months before he can fully walk again. As a result of the incident - which occurred on June 7 and killed Tracy’s comedy writer friend James McNair, 62, who was travelling home from a gig with him and a group of friends - the comedian has filed a lawsuit against the supermarket chain as a way of proving that drivers are awake for too long due to big commutes. Kevin Roper, the employee who was driving the Walmart truck at the time of the crash, has pleaded not guilty to charges of death by auto and assault by auto. — Bangshowbiz SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

This picture shows Lukas Michul, a member of the ‘dream walker’ group jumping from atop the rugged rocks overlooking the azure waters of Navagio beach, one of the Greece’s most renowned leisure spots on the popular tourist island of Zakynthos. — AFP photos Precision in mid-air as rope jumpers soar on Greek isle

hen he was nine, Michal Trzajna jumped off a second-floor In a flash, he disappears and moments later, a clamor goes up balcony at the prompting of his brother-and broke both his from the beach below as his body arrows towards the bathers. Wlegs. Thirteen years later, he still can’t explain what drives Metres from the ground, it’s almost unreal how Michal’s fall breaks, him to leap from 200-metre (650-foot) cliffs at the end of a rope. “I turning instead into a smooth balancing act. This is rope jumping- used to live near an airport, and dreamt of jumping from planes,” the part diving, part rock climbing, with a touch of engineering. 22-year-old tells AFP. “This is 100-percent recommended,” says Marta Jamenes, a “When you succeed in controlling your body in mid-air, the sensa- jumper from Spain. “When you jump you learn how to control your tion is simply unique,” he says. Michal is one of a group who have body in the air and it is something like learning to swim, it’s the same. travelled from Poland to the island of Zakynthos, one of Greece’s You get your body used to free-fall,” she says. The discipline is similar most renowned leisure spots-but not to lie in the sun. On this bright to bungee jumping, only the criss-cross rope ensemble stretching summer day, he is perched high atop the rugged rocks overlooking from the rocks to the harness on the athlete’s back is much more the azure waters of Navagio beach. elaborate.

Michal Trzajna, a mem- ber of the ‘dream walk- er’ group wearing a Spiderman costume jumps from atop the rugged rocks overlook- ing the azure waters of Navagio beach.

A member of the ‘dream walker’ group jumps. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Spanish Marta Jamenes jumps from atop the rocks.

“The advantage over bungee jumping is that here, 80 percent of the jump is free-fall,” says Michal. “In contrast, the elastic rope (in bungee jumping) limits the fall to 35-40 percent of the height.” “The A member of the rope is not attached to a platform, as in bungee jumping, but to oth- ‘dream walker’ team er ropes horizontally stretched across the cliff,” explains Michal’s climbs up after companion Lukas Michul, a former paramedic, as he prepares to jumping from atop hoist his friend for another jump. “When you jump for a first time at a the rugged rocks. new location, your heart beats wildly, your legs tremble, adrenaline flows. Pleasure comes gradually with each jump,” he says.

Precision jumping It’s all about precision, a calculation of weight and height down to the last millimeter to keep the ropes taut. “We have to be aware how to control our body while falling, how to use the wind, how to use our legs and arms,” says Michal. If done properly, there is no risk, the two jumpers insist. The installation-which can take 10 days to set up-can be applied equally to mountains, cliffs and skyscrapers. “It’s very safe, because of the ropes that are here are very reliable and there has never been any accident with them, so far, in the whole world,” says Michal. Born in the ‘90s, free-fall jumping from bridges and platforms has a wide appeal-but only a few squads around the world try their hand at this extreme version. “There are groups of Russians, Ukrainians, Spaniards, Lithuanians, Frenchmen-and then there’s us,” says Lukas. The Polish team is named “Dreamjump”, and with reason, says 37-year-old squad leader Thomas Zielinski, a former high-altitude worker. “The project... will primarily take us in 80 places around the world. We want to trav- el to the most beautiful places in the world you can possibly jump from,” he tells AFP. The island of Zakynthos was their third destination this year, after the Verdon Gorge in southern France and Kjerag mountain in Norway. Next up on their program: leaps at a cave complex in Croatia, a French viaduct, skyscrapers in Las Vegas and Johannesburg, and from the rim of the Grand Canyon. “We want to share with the world how safe and beautiful this sport is,” says Lukas. “That’s why we just want to go around the world to show that this is so nice and so unique and everyone can try.” — AFP

Michal Trzajna, a mem- ber of the ‘dream walk- A jumper er’ group jumps from jumps from atop the rugged rocks. a platform. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

A file picture shows Switzerland’s Geraldine Fasnacht jumping from the top of the Brevent mountain to fly in wingsuit over the enchFr ski resort of Chamonix. — AFP photos Wingsuit daredevils risking their lives on film

laying Icarus as they leap off sheer cliffs and fly at eye-watering Philippe Gady, president of the French Association of Paraclimbing. speeds along mountainsides, thrill-seekers dressed like flam- The Base Jumping Fatality List, published on Blinc Magazine’s web- Pboyant bats have become an increasingly common sight in the site, says there were 21 wingsuit deaths worldwide in 2013. Alps. But the incredible rush of wingsuits can come at the ultimate There are thought to be around 2,000 practitioners-most of them price. On a plateau of the Brevent mountain in Chamonix, France, a in the United States and Australia. There are no tests or diplomas in group of men and women in winged bodysuits are lined up along wingsuiting, although schools in Norway, Austria and the US do offer the edge of a sheer cliff face, facing the snowy peaks of Mont Blanc courses. “What we recommend is to get insurance and do around and staring down at a 2,500-metre (8,300-foot) drop. 200 jumps from a plane, to get a mastery of the air, before jumping Suddenly, they throw themselves off, drawing gasps from nearby off a cliff,” said Malnuit. Gady jumps as many as 180 times a year. tourists. Their flight lasts barely a minute. Within eight seconds, they “With rates like that, we can afford do try technical jumps,” he said. are up to speeds of 200 kilometers per hour (120 miles per hour). Filming with GoPro cameras fixed to his helmet, he has produced They fly “by pushing against the air: it’s gravity that creates the magic films that are almost too tense to watch as he flies through narrow of it all, the wind doesn’t do anything,” said Roch Malnuit, head of the corridors or under a footbridge among the peaks of Mont Blanc. French Base Association. First tested by wingsuiters in June 2012, Brevent has quickly Makes it look easy become a renowned port of call for the discipline, along with “Video has a positive side,” said Vincent Descols, one of the first to Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland. Its fame spread as a result of Internet jump from Brevent. “It allows us to fine-tune the art of flight: the videos and within weeks there were 30 or so jumps a day. But then accuracy, the height at which to open the parachute. “But other came the first injuries, and then the first death, and the authorities in videos are a problem because they give the impression that it’s easy,” Chamonix shut the sport down there for a year before reconsidering he added, saying there were a lot of dangerous egos involved in the their decision. “They only speak about us when there are accidents,” sport. The death in August 2013 of Briton Mark Sutton, the James said Swiss wingsuit enthusiast Geraldine Fasnacht, 28. She was the Bond parachutist from the London Olympics, followed by that of first to jump from the 4,500-metre high Matterhorn in Switzerland three young wingsuiters in Switzerland during filming for extreme last June. “It’s a magnificent sport that requires an enormous amount sports channel Epic TV in March, has reignited the debate over the of preparation and work.” way films encourage risk-taking. “We had a moment of doubt after the death of Dan, Brian and Ludo because we got a lot of criticism,” A dangerous encouragement? admits Jools Benker, head of wingsuiting at Epic TV. “But they are The role of video in the sport remains controversial. Films of par- the ones taking the risks, they understand them. The fact they are ticularly daring stunts have become Internet sensations, as expert being paid does not push them to fly closer to the ground.” The wingsuiters skim perilously close to mountainsides and push them- channel, based in Chamonix, claims to have 2.7 million visitors to its selves towards the record flying speed of 363 kph. “It’s not the prac- site each month, primarily Americans, Brits and French. The videos tice itself that is the problem-it’s the way it is mediatised,” said are a hit, though they bring in little revenue to this start-up of 35 Colonel Blaise Agresti, mountaineering adviser to the police. “It gives employees which struggles to sell their footage on to outside com- ideas to people with little experience, and leads to competition for panies who remain cautious. Jean-Noel Itzstein, a pioneer of wing- the most sensational images. The game is to get as close as possible suiting, regrets the bad reputation: “People think we’re committing to the ground.” suicide by jumping. But in mountaineering, there are lots of deaths Frenchman Loic Jean Albert became a star of the sport in 2003 by every year and it’s accepted.” — AFP flying just three metres from the side of a snowy slope he hurtled down in Switzerland. “Today we see this all the time. The problem is that some do it without any experience. When they fly just two or three metres off the ground, there is no margin for error,” said Jean- SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

With a splat, paintball fires into Afghanistan

he hidden gunman, dressed in long green coveralls and a game,” he said, with his goggles pushed up to his forehead and his SWAT-team-style vest and helmet, looks ominous as he takes weapon at his side. Rizaiy said he hasn’t had many issues with the Taim and fires off a short burst. But this isn’t a Taleban attack in neighbors, though he turned down the speed at which the weapons the heart of Afghanistan’s capital - it’s just a friendly game of paintball. fire to reduce the noise. Instead, he said the biggest challenge was to The arrival of recreational paintball to Afghanistan may seem peculiar get the paintball guns as the ones he imported from India got stuck to outsiders, especially in a country that’s known decades of war, faces for six months in Afghanistan’s bureaucracy-laden customs depart- constant bombings and attacks by Taleban insurgents and is prepar- ment. ing its own security forces for the withdrawal of most foreign troops Paintball is one a small number of leisure activities that have by the end of the year. sprung up in Kabul since the fall of the Taleban. A bowling alley called However, it shows both the rise of a nascent upper and middle “The Strikers” opened up a few years ago and a number of pools class looking for a diversion with the time to spare, as well as the way around the city provide a place for residents to splash around in the American culture has seeped into the country since the 2001 US-led summer months. There’s also a 9-hole golf course a short drive out- invasion to topple the Taleban. “These people deserve to have more side of Kabul. But most of these activities are geared toward the city’s fun,” said Abbas Rizaiy, the owner of the “Eagle” paintball club in cen- small, upper- and middle-class elite who can afford the admission. tral Kabul. And customers are overwhelming male because of Afghanistan’s con- Rizaiy brought the game to Afghanistan just a few weeks ago. He’s servative society, which deems it generally not acceptable for women a longtime fan of the first person shooter video game “Call to Duty” to go to activities involving men who aren’t relatives. Rizaiy said he’d and stepped up to the next level by playing paintball in neighboring like women customers, but said women don’t want to be stared at Iran where he was born. He moved to Afghanistan 10 years ago and while wearing all the warrior gear. This year is one of many transitions eventually decided to open the club this year in Kabul, a city more for Afghanistan, with a presidential election that is still undecided and associated with real bullets than ones that splatter paint. For those foreign troops scheduled to leave the country. Rizaiy said he thinks at who have never suffered a welt from the game, paintball involves par- least some US troops likely will stay, providing stability for ticipants geared up in helmets, goggles and protective clothing firing Afghanistan. Meanwhile, his customers seem to appreciate the irony at each other using gas-powered guns that shoot paint pellets. The of firing toy guns in a country flooded with the real thing. “We can use games can be complicated affairs that last for hours or as simple as a guns for positive things and also for negative things,” customer Ali capture the-flag contest that lasts only a few minutes. Noori said. “These guns are for entertainment.” — AP

Irony of firing toy guns Naqibullah Jafari, a marketing officer in Kabul who came with his friends one day, acknowledged that they didn’t have much of a strate- gy when he took to the field - other than to shoot each other. “It is my first time that I came here, and I don’t have any special tactics in this

Men are seen having fun in a friendly game of paintball in Kabul, Afghanistan. — AP photos SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Italian actress Cristiana Capotondi poses during the screening of the movie “La Rancon de la (From left) Producer Gregory Bernard, actors Elodie Bouchez, Jonathan Lambert and a man Gloire”. dressed in a rat costume pose during a photo call to promote Reality, at the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug 28, 2014. — AP photos A brother seeks answers in ‘The Look of Silence’ hat is it like to look into the eyes of the men who killed his quizzical, open face as the now-elderly killers - some of them is one of the pupils - in which the victims are demonized and the your brother and went unpunished? It’s almost impossi- customers whom Adi fits with eyeglasses - describe how they slit killers extolled. Wble to imagine, but “The Look of Silence” provides a victims’ throats, hacked up their bodies and even drank their Adi said meeting his brother’s murderers had brought relief, glimpse at an answer. Joshua Oppenheimer’s haunting documen- blood, considered a precaution against going crazy. Adi was born though none expressed regret, “and maybe they never will.” But, tary follows Adi Rukun, whose brother died in mass killings in two years after his brother Ramli was killed - his mother had he said, “at the very least they now realize that all of us know Indonesia in the 1960s, as he tracks down the perpetrators - seek- prayed for a new child to replace her lost son - and grew up in a what happened.” And, he said, he never felt the desire for ing not revenge, but understanding. His quest is both heroic and family wracked by loss and fear. “My mother would talk about it revenge. “I really, honestly want us to be able to have reconcilia- brave. The men behind the violence, in which hundreds of thou- with me a little bit, because I was the replacement,” he told The tion and forgiveness,” he said. “Because if these kinds of events sands died, remain powerful and untouchable. Their victims - Associated Press in a Venice luxury hotel jarringly at odds with the are always met with revenge, the world will never be safe for any- trade unionists, alleged communists, and Chinese - are still demo- horror he was describing. “But no one else in the village, in the body.” — AP nized, their families cowed into silence. “Of course I was afraid,” community, none of the other survivors’ families, had the courage said Adi, a soft-spoken ophthalmologist in his 40s who traveled to talk at all about what had happened.” thousands of miles from his home for the movie’s premiere When the family visited his brother’s grave, “we had to do it in Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. secret. If we were seen going to the grave, we could be arrested.” “But fear was a part of my everyday life, and the everyday life Oppenheimer, a Denmark-based American who began filming of my family, for so long that it wasn’t a totally new thing,” he said survivors’ stories more than a decade ago, said he always knew in Indonesian as Oppenheimer supplied translation. “The Look of “The Act of Killing” would need a counterpoint, focusing on the Silence” is a companion to Oppenheimer’s Academy Award-nom- victims rather than the killers. He said recording the interviews in inated “The Act of Killing,” which tracked down former death which Adi confronted the killers “was much more frightening squad members and found them unashamed, unrepentant and than filming ‘The Act of Killing.’” willing to describe - even to re-enact - their brutal murders. The The director took rigorous precautions, taking an extra get- killers’ brazen and bizarre behavior made that film a sensation, away car to the interviews to avoid being followed and bringing both internationally and in Indonesia, where the slayings - sanc- only Danish crew members. Many of the movie’s Indonesian crew tioned by longtime military dictator and US Cold War ally Suharto are listed in the credits as “Anonymous.” The perpetrators reacted - remained a taboo topic. to Adi’s questions with evasion and sometimes anger, but - some- what to Oppenheimer’s surprise - they never grew violent. He Compelling protagonist thinks they were shocked “by the fact that Adi is saying the The follow-up, one of 20 films competing for the Golden Lion unsayable.” “The Act of Killing” opened up debate about the at Venice, is quieter but just as shocking. Adi, who like many killings in Indonesia, prompting an admission of regret from the Indonesians primarily uses one name, is a compelling protagonist, government. But truth and reconciliation are a long way off. The Frederick Wiseman poses for photographers during the calmly determined to break the silence. Oppenheimer lingers on new movie includes a scene of a primary-school lesson - Adi’s son photo call for the Golden Lion Career Award.

US actors Arielle Holmes (left) and Caleb Landry Jones pose Actor Zhang Yi poses for portraits. Slovakian born actress Barbora Bobulova poses with actor during the photocall of the movie “Heaven Knows What”. Peppino Mazzotta during the photocall of the movie “Anime Nere”. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Comedian Joan Rivers hospitalized in NYC oan Rivers remained in a New York City hospital Friday, one day after going into cardiac arrest at a doc- Jtor’s office. Melissa Rivers said in a statement Thursday that her mother was resting comfortably. She did not elab- orate on the 81-year-old comedian’s condition. She offered thanks for an outpouring of “love and support” and asked for continuing thoughts and prayers. The Mount Sinai Hospital said it had no updates Friday. On Thursday, hospital spokesman Sid Dinsay confirmed that Rivers had been taken there in the morning. New York City police officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly name Rivers, said she was taken to the hospital just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday. It was unclear why she was visiting the doctor’s office. The comedian with a half-century of show business under her belt has spawned a reputation for often-snarky red carpet fashion commentary. A show she had sched- uled Friday at the Count Basie Theatre in New Jersey, has been postponed. Rivers spoke at an employee event at Time Inc in New York on Wednesday night and appeared healthy, practically jogging when she walked in to take her seat, Shira Blum, an online project manager, said Thursday. “She seemed totally healthy,” Blum said. “She was very energetic, hilarious, funny. And it was such a shock, a sur- prise to hear the news this morning.” Rivers took questions and said she wakes up every morning and “is thankful that This picture shows models competing during the final session of the 2014 OMC world bikini model contest in Qingdao, east everything works,” Blum said. An early and outspoken pro- China’s Shandong province. Stetiarova Martina of Slovakia wins the first place while Namshir Anu of Mongolia and Karaj ponent of cosmetic surgery, Rivers’ drastically altered her Hygertajfoe from Albania respectively get the second and third place on the final contest. — AFP photos appearance over the years - and found plenty of material for jokes. (“I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”) The host of “Fashion Police” on E! network, Rivers also presides over an online talk show, “In Bed With Joan” and co-stars with her daughter on the WEtv reality show, “Joan Breaking: Hello Kitty & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” Her latest book, “Diary of a Mad Diva,” was released this summer. In 2009, Rivers emerged as the winner of NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” A documentary, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of not a cat, has never been Work,” premiered in theaters in 2010. The New York native originally entered show business with the dream of a the- ello Kitty is not a cat, the company behind Japan’s global cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not atrical career, but comedy became a way to pay the bills icon of cute insisted yesterday, despite an uproar from a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a while she auditioned for acting roles. “Somebody said, HInternet users who spluttered: “But she’s got whiskers!” two-legged creature.” And indeed, an AFP enquiry as to the sta- ‘You can make six dollars standing up in a club,’” she told The moon-faced creation that adorns everything from pencil cas- tus-feline or otherwise-of one of Japan’s most famous exports The Associated Press in 2013, “and I said, ‘Here I go!’ It was es to pyjamas the world over is, in fact, human. “Hello Kitty is a confirmed her non-cat identity. “It is a 100-percent personified better than typing all day.” After proving herself in come- cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold,” brand owner character,” a Sanrio spokesman told AFP in Tokyo. “The design dy clubs as a rarity - a woman comedian - Rivers was a Sanrio says on its website. The shocking revelation came to light takes the motif of a cat, but there is no element of a cat in Hello smash on her first booking on “The Tonight Show Starring when a Hawaii-based academic specializing in the epitome of Kitty’s setting.” Johnny Carson” in 1965. “God, you’re funny,” Carson told “kawaii” (“cute” in Japanese) asked Sanrio to fact-check captions her. — AP for an exhibition she was curating to mark the 40th anniversary of Agog at the news Hello Kitty Christine Yano, an anthropologist from the University Her real name is Kitty White, he explained, and she was born in of Hawaii, told the Los Angeles Times that she “was corrected- southern England on November 1, 1974. She is a Scorpio and very firmly” by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat. blood type A. She has a twin sister, Minny White, and lives in an “That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show,” unnamed suburb of London with father George and mother the paper quoted her as saying. “Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a Mary, according to her profile on the web. Despite her whiskers and pointy ears, just like the rest of her family, Kitty has her own pet-a “real” cat named Charmmy Kitty. Her life story has always been there, the spokesman said, adding the personification is meant to make her fans feel closer to the character “as a friend”. Web users were agog at the news. “Hello Kitty is not actually a cat. MIND BLOWN”, tweeted @killedbydying “‘Sanrio confirms that Hello Kitty is NOT a cat.’ One of the many reasons why I have trust issues”, wrote @eisakuivan “So Hello Kitty isn’t a cat? Everything I know is a lie,” said @nymbc Asked about the world- wide reaction to the shock revelation that Hello Kitty is not a cat, the Sanrio spokesman offered: “I don’t think anyone in Japan found it surprising.” “There is an explanation we have made the whole time, and I think that’s how people have understood it.” A straw poll of Japanese people within the AFP Tokyo bureau found that not to be the case, however. The Sanrio spokesman explained that Kitty and her family were given no specific nationality but were designed to be living in Britain, because many girls in Japan had strong admiration for the Western lifestyle in the 1970s. Ever since the mouthless white character first appeared in 1974 on a coin purse in Japan, she has graced tens of thousands of prod- ucts, from handbags to aircraft, in some 130 countries. But just In this file photo, Joan Rivers attends a screening of the This file photo shows the Sanrio character Hello Kitty (right) remember: she’s not a cat. — AFP Season 2 premiere of WE TV’s “Joan & Melissa: Joan paying a visit to the world’s largest Sanrio character goods Knows Best?” in New York. — AP shop upon its opening in Tokyo. — AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Google building a fleet of ‘SwaziLeaks’ package-delivering drones looks to shake up jet-setting ‘Project Wing’ to take years to become fully operation monarchy SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s secretive research laboratory is trying to build a MBABANE, Swaziland: As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fleet of drones designed to bypass prepares to end a two-year forced stay at Ecuador’s London earthbound traffic so packages can be embassy, he may take comfort in knowing he inspired resist- delivered to people more quickly. ance to secrecy in places as far away as Swaziland. The ambitious program announced In this small African kingdom a group of citizens have on Thursday escalates Google’s techno- started a social media movement called “SwaziLeaks”, which logical arms race with rival Amazon.com aims to expose the lavish lifestyles of the country’s ruling roy- Inc., which also is experimenting with als. SwaziLeaks members-who refuse to say who or where in self-flying vehicles to carry merchandise Swaziland they are, for fear of being targeted-started a bought by customers of its online store. Twitter feed a year ago. They regularly post photos of royals Amazon is mounting its own challenges purportedly abroad: partying in Los Angeles, enjoying a luxu- to Google in online video, digital adver- rious suite at London’s Heathrow airport or at other opulent tising and mobile computing in a battle locations. that also involves Apple Inc. “We wanted to try and expose some of the exploitation Google Inc calls its foray into drones and corruption of the rich and powerful,” SwaziLeaks said. “Project Wing.” Swaziland is an absolute monarchy ruled by King Mswati Although Google expects it to take III. The government is frequently accused of stifling dissent several more years before its fleet of and jailing opponents. The king has an annual household drones is fully operational, the company budget of around $60 million (45 million euros) in a country says test flights in Australia delivered a where about 60 percent of the population live on less than first aid kit, candy bars, dog treats and $1 a day. “We get information and pictures from people who water to two farmers after traveling a know or work for them,” SwaziLeaks said. “We have never distance of roughly one kilometer, or told anyone what we do and try and not put anyone in jeop- just over a half mile, two weeks ago. ardy due to the information we have.” Google’s video of the test flight, set to But determining fact from fiction can be tricky. “Swaziland the strains of the 1969 song “Spirit In is a small country and there are a lot of rumors and half-truths The Sky,” can be seen at with very little to back them up.” “We try and not tweet infor- This undated image provided by Google shows a Project Wing drone vehicle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR mation that we feel has no basis.” The government did not during delivery. Google’s secretive research laboratory is trying to build a fleet TNvWcx9Oo . respond to repeated requests for comment about of drones designed to bypass earthbound traffic so packages can be delivered Besides perfecting their aerial tech- SwaziLeaks and the veracity of its claims. to people more quickly. — AP nology, Google and Amazon still need A third world country to gain government approval to fly com- Google says it is striving to improve offering the same-day delivery service But Mlungisi Makhanya, secretary general of Swaziland mercial drones in many countries, society through the X’s lab’s research, by automobiles in parts of the San opposition party PUDEMO, is not convinced about the including the US Amazon last month but the Glass device has faced criticism Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and impact of the group. Makhanya explained that most Swazi asked the Federal Aviation from privacy watchdogs leery of the New York. “Self-flying vehicles could people do not have access to the internet and that because Administration for permission to expand product’s ability to secretly record video open up entirely new approaches to the country was a “third world country in every sense of the its drone testing. The FAA currently and take pictures. Investors also have moving goods, including options that word.” He also warned that the Swazi government will be allows hobbyists and model aircraft periodically expressed frustration with are cheaper, faster, less wasteful and ruthless in dealing with them. A PUDEMO party member was makers to fly drones, but commercial the amount of money that Google has more environmentally sensitive than recently arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the party’s name use is mostly banned. been pouring into the X lab without any what’s possible today,” Google said in a on it. “They do anything humanely possible to make sure we Project Wing is the latest venture to guarantee the products will ever pay off. pamphlet outlining Project Wing. do not critique the government.” SwaziLeaks admits that emerge from Google’s “X” lab, which has A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Google, though, seems to see its responses to their work have been mixed. “We are followed also been working on self-driving cars as Technology aeronautics professor Nick drones as something more than another by many Swazi journalists and even a few politicians and well as other far-flung innovations that Roy already has been working on step in e-commerce delivery. The aerial people within the royal sphere, which amused us.” company CEO Larry Page likens to Project Wing for two years, according to vehicles also could make it easier for “There are some people who seem angry with what “moonshots” that push the technologi- Google. The Mountain View, California, people to share certain items, such as a we’re doing, you can see the exchanges on our tweet his- cal envelope. The lab’s other handiwork company didn’t disclose how much the power drill, that they may only need tory.” “Though they don’t seem to actually live in the includes Internet-connected eyewear project has cost. periodically and carry emergency sup- country and seemingly come from privileged back- called Google Glass, Internet-beaming Drones clearly could help Google plies to areas damaged by earthquakes, grounds, so we can understand that what we share is balloons called Project Loon and a high- expand an existing service that delivers hurricanes and other natural catastro- uncomfortable for them.” — AFP tech contact lens that monitors glucose goods purchased online on the day that phes, according to Google’s Project levels in diabetics. they were ordered. Google so far is Wing pamphlet. — AP Twitter to set up shop in social-media-mad Indonesia JAKARTA: Twitter plans to open an office in Indonesia over phones and tablets, and surveys show social media is the pri- the coming months as it seeks to boost revenues in the mary reason for using mobile devices. Tweets about social-media-addicted nation, the company announced yes- Indonesia’s presidential election alone clocked some 95 mil- terday. Several market monitors have declared Jakarta as the lion tweets, from January 1 until election day on July 9. world’s most active city of tweeters. Twitter does not publi- Twitter’s main revenue source is advertising, with big cise official user numbers by country or city. “This is of great brands like Coca-Cola and Intel having promoted their prod- importance to Twitter because Indonesia loves Twitter and ucts on the platform to Indonesian users. Indonesian con- Twitter loves Indonesia,” the company’s president of global sumer engagement on Twitter is “extremely high”, Bain said, revenue and partnerships, Adam Bain, told reporters in and had “gotten the attention of the entire team back at Jakarta as he made the announcement. headquarters”. Other foreign tech companies, such as “In fact, when we think about the market overall, Indonesia BlackBerry, have rubbed up against Indonesian officials over is one of the biggest countries that are active on Twitter,” infrastructure issues and content. Bain said. Like many social networking platforms, Twitter is Bain said he was hopeful that Indonesia’s incoming gov- yet to turn a profit, but the San Francisco-based company’s ernment would be welcoming, pointing to president-elect second-quarter revenues more than doubled on-year to $312 Joko Widodo’s avid use of Twitter as a positive sign. Before million. The number of monthly active users surged 24 per- Widodo’s run for president, he was elected Jakarta governor cent to 271 million globally in the same period. in 2012, a victory largely attributable to social media-Widodo JAKARTA: Twitter president of global revenue and part- Indonesia is a major market for Twitter-it is the world’s built a wildly popular online profile as a man of the people nership Adam Bain speaks at a press conference in Jakarta fourth most populous country with some 250 million people, and diehard heavy metal fan. yesterday. Twitter plans to open an office in Indonesia and smartphone sales are surging as the middle class grows Twitter’s Jakarta office will be its sixth in the region, fol- over the coming months as it seeks to boost revenues in rapidly. lowing set-ups in Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney, Singapore and the social-media-addicted nation, the company Millions access the Internet primarily through smart- Seoul. — AFP announced yesterday. — AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

REVIEW The case against binge-watching TV

LAKE CITY, Pennsylvania: It’s no secret tech- THE PASSAGE OF TIME nology is changing our television-viewing I lose the sense of time by binge-watching. I habits. Americans are increasingly engaging in a don’t mean hours lost to television when I could practice known as television binge-watching - be doing something useful to society, like laun- going through several episodes of a TV show in dry. Many television shows follow the seasons. a single stretch. In the old days, of course, peo- Characters mark Christmas in December and ple watched one episode a week. That changed Valentine’s Day in February. Leaves are colorful with digital video recorders and Internet stream- in the fall. When I binge-watch, I don’t always ing services such as Netflix and Hulu. DVDs and get a good sense of whether something I online services also make it possible to start watched just four hours ago really took place shows from the beginning, even years after the four weeks or four months ago. I also miss hav- finale has aired. ing a week or even a summer to reflect. Instead I used some recent trips to finish Showtime’s of challenging my mind to play out potential NEW YORK: A person stands near the Apple logo at the company’s store in Grand Central “Dexter” and start CBS’ “The Good Wife.” In outcomes following a cliffhanger, I can simply Terminal, in New York. Apple will show off its newest products Sept 9, 2014. The iPhone between, I breezed through Netflix’s “Orange Is press “play” to find out in the next episode. and iPad maker set the date in invitations mailed on Thursday to reporters and others The New Black” and the second season of The last series I truly watched live was “Lost.” who typically come to see the unveiling of Apple’s latest twists on technology. — AP “House of Cards.” I have about 50 series on vari- I don’t mean watching on a DVR that night or ous watch lists - and people are continually rec- the next day. I mean watching it as it aired - usu- ommending more. I know what I’ll be doing this ally at a bar in New York filled with fans who Apple to unveil next Labor Day weekend. were quick to shush anyone who tried to talk. I So why am I unhappy about this new way to spent the week between episodes discussing watch TV? theories with friends, reading blogs and listen- products at Sept 9 event ing to podcasts devoted to the show. For the AVOIDING SPOILERS finale in May 2010, a friend in Belgium at the SAN FRANCISCO: Apple’s latest product also has been speculation that Apple may The biggest challenge with binge-watching time even dropped by our gathering in New launch will be in a setting that holds a spe- release another iPhone model with a 5.5- is avoiding mentions of plot twists and other York for a surprise visit. Alas, a friend who just cial place in its history, signaling how big inch screen. spoilers in the news media, on social networks went through the entire series online this spring this event is for the company. A bigger-screen iPhone could unleash a and in casual conversations. Although friends on didn’t have those opportunities. The Sept 9 launch, which is expected to surge of sales among Apple fans who own Facebook restrain from giving specifics, they Of course, “Lost” isn’t like most series. And it’s feature a larger iPhone and possibly a com- iPhones with smaller displays. Some ana- often say enough to signal that something sur- true that some shows are easier to follow by puterized watch, will be in the same Silicon lysts think Apple could sell at least 70 mil- prising just happened. Please! When I got to one bingeing. Twist-heavy shows such as “Revenge” Valley venue where Apple’s late co- lion units of the iPhone 6 within the first few of those episodes in question on “Game of and “Scandal” come to mind. But overall, you’re founder, Steve Jobs, took the wraps off the months after the device hits the market. Thrones” last year, I thought to myself, that’s it? losing something when you’re not watching original Mac computer 30 years ago. That Although the iPhone is Apple’s biggest It became a letdown rather than a shock as fans shows as they air. machine was hailed as a major break- moneymaker, much of the intrigue around watching at the time experienced it. through that helped bring personal com- this year’s event surrounds the possibility Worse, I knew how the serial-killer drama TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING puting to the masses. that the company may release a long- “Dexter” ended long before I got to watch the Netflix has been one of the biggest promot- These events have become an annual awaited smartwatch that could help moni- final season during a trip to California this sum- ers - and enablers - of bingeing. As it does with rite since the 2007 release of the iPhone, tor people’s health and serve as control mer. Yes, it’s my fault for not keeping up; the all other original series, Netflix released the but this year’s may be the most highly center for Internet-connected appliances finale was shown last September. But this col- entire fourth season of “Arrested Development” anticipated since the iPad came out in 2010. and electronics in the home. umn is about what I miss about watching televi- at once last year. I watched all 15 half-hour A “smartwatch” or other wearable tech- Apple CEO Tim Cook has indicated that sion the old-fashioned way. I also know what’s episodes in a single day, even after I started get- nology would mark the company’s first for- he is intrigued with wearable technology coming on “The Good Wife” three seasons from ting tired toward the end. I felt I had to race ay into a new product category since the devices, but hasn’t provided any concrete the one I’m currently watching. Then again, through the season or risk hearing about plots hearing about that plot twist this spring got me and jokes from other sources. Those final iPad came out. True to its secretive nature, clues about what the company is working interested in the legal drama. Amazon Instant episodes were less enjoyable and less memo- Apple Inc. isn’t giving any clues about on. Cook has only said he is excited about Video made it possible to start watching from rable as a result. what’s on the Sept. 9 agenda. “Wish we what Apple’s latest inventions, a sentiment Season 1. I’ve also let too much of my life slide trying to could say more,” Apple said in a succinct echoed by one of his top lieutenants, Eddy catch up on shows. In the past, when you heard white invitation mailed Thursday to Cue, who earlier this year hailed the compa- AVOIDING SPOILING about a good show, you started with the next reporters and others. ny’s product pipeline as its best in 25 years. Aware of how it feels to hear about spoilers, episode that aired, and you managed to figure The company scheduled the event at an Apple has just been redesigning and I’m careful not to “spoil” others. But it’s hard to out what was going on. Nowadays, there’s a auditorium about 3 miles from its adding features to its iPhones, iPads, iPods keep track of what I can say to whom. “How I temptation to start from the beginning, even as Cupertino, California, headquarters. It seats and Mac since the release of the iPad, rais- Met Your Mother” ended its nine-year run in new episodes air, such that it becomes over- about 2,300 people, a far larger capacity ing concerns among investors that the March. To minimize the risk of spoilers, I whelming to catch up and keep up. than the places that Apple usually uses to company had run out of new ideas after watched it the day after the finale aired on CBS. That happened to me with “The Good Wife.” I show off its new products. Apple watchers the October 2011 death of Jobs, who But my friends were still months behind and borrowed a friend’s Wi-Fi connection in Boulder, expect an iPhone with a larger screen than served as its chief visionary. weren’t available to discuss the meeting of the Colorado, to download the entire first season. I the 4-inch display on the previous two gen- Those worries have subsided during the mother with me. got through a good part of it as I traveled by train erations of the device. The iPhone 6 is past four months as the excitement has built Same goes for “Breaking Bad,” which ended from Denver to New York. All the while, I felt expected to feature a 4.7-inch screen to for Apple’s new products. Apple’s stock hit a last fall after five seasons to critical acclaim. It’s a guilty that I wasn’t doing more productive make it more competitive with larger new high of $102.78 in Thursday morning’s show many people want to watch, but relatively things, such as finishing this column that I’d been smartphones made by Samsung trading before falling back to close at few have finished. Will you hurry up so I can talk procrastinating on for months because the “play” Electronics and other rivals relying on $102.25, up 12 cents for the session. The about it? button was so easy to tap. — AP Google Inc.’s free Android software. There shares have risen 25 percent in 2014. —AP Australia’s watchdog sues US games giant Valve

SYDNEY: Australia’s consumer watchdog yesterday said it was American-based company with no physical presence in made false or misleading representations to Australian cus- taking online US video games giant Valve to court for allegedly Australia, but it is carrying on business in Australia by selling to tomers of Steam, such as saying that consumers were not enti- making “false or misleading representations” and refusing to Australian consumers, who are protected by the Australian con- tled to a refund, and that its games were not subject to statuto- offer refunds. sumer law,” the ACCC said in a statement. ry consumer guarantees. Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said “The consumer guarantees provided under the Australian told Fairfax Media his firm, which has the lion’s share of the Valve Corporation, which operates digital video games distribu- consumer law cannot be excluded, restricted or modified.” video game digital distribution market, was “making every tion platform Steam for more than 65 million customers world- Under Australian law, consumers can insist on a refund or effort to cooperate with the Australian officials on this matter”. wide, allegedly breached local consumer law. “Valve may be an replacement if a product has a major fault. ACCC said Valve The first court hearing will be in Sydney on October 7. — AFP TV listings SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

06:00 Gold Rush 01:10 Sci-Fi Science 12:15 Jessie 12:50 Siba’s Table 07:00 Dual Survival 01:35 Sci-Fi Science 12:35 Jessie 13:15 Jenny Morris Cooks The Riviera 07:50 Alaska: The Last Frontier 02:00 Close Encounters 13:00 African Cats 13:40 Guy’s Big Bite 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 02:25 Close Encounters 13:25 Austin & Ally 14:05 The Next Food Network Star 00:45 Monsters Inside Me 09:30 Storage Hunters 02:45 Mythbusters 13:45 Good Luck Charlie 14:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 01:35 Untamed & Uncut 09:55 Container Wars 00:00 Violetta 03:35 What’s That About? 14:10 Good Luck Charlie 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 02:25 Roaring With Pride 10:20 Savage Family Diggers 00:45 The Hive 14:35 Dog With A Blog 15:45 Chopped 10:45 How It’s Made 04:30 Moon Machines 03:15 Tanked 00:50 Art Attack 15:00 Dog With A Blog 16:35 Fast Food Gone Global 11:10 How Stuff’s Made 05:20 Unchained Reaction 04:05 Treehouse Masters 01:15 Art Attack 15:25 Liv And Maddie 17:25 Jenny Morris Cooks The Riviera 11:35 Street Outlaws 06:10 Science Of The Movies 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 01:40 Wolfblood 15:50 Liv And Maddie 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:25 American Chopper: Senior vs 07:00 Stephen Hawking’s Grand 05:45 Swamp Brothers 02:05 Wolfblood 16:10 Mako Mermaids 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Junior Design 06:10 Swamp Brothers 02:30 Violetta 16:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 18:40 Siba’s Table 13:15 American Chopper: Senior vs 07:55 The Unexplained Files 03:10 The Hive 06:35 Call Of The Wildman Junior 17:00 Herbie: Fully Loaded 19:05 Reza’s African Kitchen 08:45 What’s That About? 03:20 Art Attack 07:00 Call Of The Wildman 14:05 Storage Hunters 18:40 Get Frozen 19:30 Guy’s Big Bite 03:45 Art Attack 07:25 Project Puppy 14:30 Container Wars 09:40 Science Of The Movies 18:55 Mako Mermaids 19:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 07:55 Project Puppy 14:55 Savage Family Diggers 10:30 X-Machines 04:10 Jungle Junction 19:20 Violetta 20:20 Chopped 08:15 Weird Creatures With Nick Baker 15:20 Dual Survival 11:20 Moon Machines 04:20 Jungle Junction 20:05 African Cats 21:10 Chopped 09:10 Must Love Cats 16:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 12:10 Unchained Reaction 04:35 Jungle Junction 20:30 Jessie 22:00 Throwdown With Bobby Flay 10:05 America’s Cutest Pets 17:00 Fast N’ Loud 13:00 How Does That Work? 04:50 Jungle Junction 20:50 Dog With A Blog 22:25 Throwdown With Bobby Flay 11:00 Too Cute! 17:50 Idris Elba: King Of Speed 13:30 What’s That About? 05:00 Art Attack 21:15 Mako Mermaids 22:50 Pizza Cuz 11:55 Treehouse Masters 18:40 Fifth Gear 14:20 Mythbusters 05:25 Art Attack 21:40 Austin & Ally 23:15 Pizza Cuz 19:30 Gold Rush 05:50 Mouk 12:50 Must Love Cats 15:10 Scrapheap Challenge 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:20 How It’s Made 06:00 Austin & Ally 13:45 Must Love Cats 16:00 X-Machines 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 20:45 How Stuff’s Made 06:25 Austin & Ally 14:40 Must Love Cats 16:50 Science Of The Movies 22:50 Shake It Up 15:35 Must Love Cats 21:10 Container Wars 06:45 Mako Mermaids 21:35 Savage Family Diggers 17:40 Sci-Fi Science 23:10 Wolfblood 16:30 Must Love Cats 07:10 Mako Mermaids 22:00 Idris Elba: King Of Speed 18:05 Sci-Fi Science 23:35 Wolfblood 17:25 Must Love Cats 07:35 Jessie 22:50 Fifth Gear 18:30 Close Encounters 07:55 Jessie 18:20 Tanked 23:40 Car Chasers 00:00 Diggers 18:55 Close Encounters 08:20 Win, Lose Or Draw 19:15 World’s Wildest Cities: Manaus 00:30 Diggers 19:20 The Gadget Show 08:45 Good Luck Charlie 19:45 World’s Wildest Cities: Manaus 01:00 Dangerous Encounters 19:45 How Does That Work? 09:05 Dog With A Blog 20:10 Deadly Islands 02:00 Britain’s Underworld 20:10 Mythbusters 09:30 The Wizards Return: Alex vs. 00:00 Keeping Up With The 21:05 Wildest Latin America 03:00 Mega Bridges 21:00 The Future Of... Alex. Kardashians 22:00 World’s Wildest Cities: Manaus 04:00 Killing Lincoln 22:30 World’s Wildest Cities: Manaus 21:50 Alien Mysteries 10:15 Liv And Maddie 00:55 Chelsea Lately 00:20 The Gadget Show 06:00 Family Guns 22:40 Human Nature 10:40 Meet The Robinsons 01:25 Style Star 22:55 Deadly Islands 07:00 Brain Games 00:45 How Does That Work? 23:30 Moon Machines 01:50 Style Star 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 07:30 Brain Games 02:20 Keeping Up With The 08:00 Diggers Kardashians 08:30 Diggers 03:15 Extreme Close-Up 09:00 Dangerous Encounters 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 10:00 Britain’s Underworld 04:10 E!ES 00:25 Keeping Up Appearances 11:00 Predator CSI 05:05 E!ES 00:55 Doctors 12:00 A Traveler’s Guide To The 06:00 E! Entertainment Special 01:25 Casualty Planets 07:50 Style Star 02:15 Him & Her 13:00 Air Crash Investigation 08:20 E! News 02:45 Him & Her 14:00 Battleground Brothers 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 03:15 Him & Her 15:00 Brain Games 10:15 THS 03:45 Him & Her 15:30 Brain Games 11:10 E!ES 04:15 The Weakest Link 16:00 Diggers 12:05 E! News 05:00 Teletubbies 16:30 Diggers 13:05 Fashion Police 05:25 3rd & Bird 17:00 Dangerous Encounters 13:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 05:35 The Green Balloon Club 18:00 Rebuilding Titanic 14:05 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 06:00 Nina And The Neurons: In The 19:00 The Numbers Game 14:30 Style Star Lab 19:30 The Numbers Game 15:00 Keeping Up With The 06:15 Teletubbies 20:00 Situation Critical Kardashians 06:40 3rd & Bird 21:00 Doomsday Preppers 16:00 Keeping Up With The 06:50 The Green Balloon Club 22:00 Armageddon Outfitters Kardashians 07:15 The Weakest Link 23:00 Naked Science 2.5 17:00 The Drama Queen 08:00 The Vicar Of Dibley 18:00 E! News 08:40 Sinbad 19:00 The E! True Hollywood Story 09:25 Last Man Standing 20:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 10:15 Blackadder The Third 20:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 10:45 The Weakest Link 21:00 Giuliana & Bill 00:20 Hippo vs Croc 11:35 The Vicar Of Dibley 22:00 Fashion Police 01:10 Monster Fish 12:15 Sinbad 22:30 E! News 02:00 Brutal Killers 13:00 Casualty 23:30 Chelsea Lately 02:50 Crocpocalypse 13:50 Eastenders 03:45 Hooked 14:20 Eastenders 04:40 Built For The Kill 14:50 Eastenders 05:35 Brutal Killers 15:20 Eastenders 06:30 Crocpocalypse 15:55 Blackadder Goes Forth 07:25 Hooked 16:25 Blackadder Goes Forth 08:20 Mudcats 00:05 Fast Food Gone Global 16:55 Blackadder Goes Forth 09:15 Crocodile King 00:55 Grill It! With Bobby Flay 17:25 The Fat Fighters 10:10 Wild Untamed Brazil 01:20 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 18:15 Sinbad 11:05 Killer Shots 01:45 Mexican Made Easy 19:00 Live At The Apollo 12:00 Shark Men 02:10 Mexican Made Easy 19:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 12:55 World’s Deadliest Animals 02:35 Siba’s Table 20:30 Ashes To Ashes 13:50 Hippo vs Croc 03:00 Siba’s Table 21:20 Him & Her 14:45 Hooked 03:25 Guy’s Big Bite 21:50 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 15:40 Mudcats 03:50 Iron Chef America 22:20 Lee Evans: Big Live At The O2 16:35 Croc Ganglands 04:40 Chopped 17:30 Wild Untamed Brazil 05:30 Unwrapped 18:25 Hidden Worlds 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 19:20 World’s Deadliest Animals 06:10 Chopped 20:10 Hippo vs Croc 07:00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 21:00 Hooked 07:25 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 21:50 Mudcats 00:30 Street Outlaws 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:40 Croc Ganglands 01:20 The Fighters 08:15 Iron Chef America 23:30 Wild Untamed Brazil 02:10 Saint Hoods 09:05 Barefoot Contessa 03:00 Fast N’ Loud 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 03:50 Storage Hunters 10:20 Easy Chinese: San Francisco 04:15 Container Wars 04:40 Savage Family Diggers 10:45 Fast Food Gone Global 05:05 How It’s Made 11:35 Grill It! With Bobby Flay 05:30 How Stuff’s Made 12:00 Reza, Spice Prince Of India 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon DREDD ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 12:25 Charly’s Cake Angels Stewart TV listings SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

01:00 The Colbert Report Stewart 03:00 Rescue Me 08:00 Trouble With The Curve-PG15 10:00 Pawn Stars 01:30 Seinfeld 21:30 The Colbert Report 04:00 House Of Cards 10:00 Marvel’s The Invincible Iron 10:30 Pawn Stars 02:00 Seinfeld 22:00 Wilfred 05:00 Good Morning America 00:00 BASEketball-PG15 Man-PG 11:00 Storage Wars 02:30 The Mindy Project 22:30 2 Broke Girls 07:00 Emmerdale 02:00 Here Comes The Boom-PG15 12:00 G.I. Joe: Retaliation-PG15 11:30 Storage Wars 03:00 Baby Daddy 23:00 The Mindy Project 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 04:00 All American Christmas Carol- 14:00 Too Late To Say Goodbye-PG15 12:00 Counting Cars 03:30 Parks And Recreation 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 16:00 Trouble With The Curve-PG15 12:30 Counting Cars 09:00 Almost Human PG15 04:00 My Boys 18:00 The Guilt Trip-PG15 13:00 Mountain Men 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 10:00 Emmerdale 06:00 From Prada To Nada-PG15 08:00 What About Bob?-PG 20:00 Taken 2-PG15 14:00 Counting Cars Jimmy Fallon 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 22:00 The Awakening-18 14:30 Counting Cars 05:30 My Name Is Earl 12:00 Grey’s Anatomy 10:00 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most 00:00 The Carrie Diaries Wanted-PG 15:00 Counting Cars 06:00 The War At Home 01:00 Chicago Fire 13:00 The Blacklist 12:00 Something New-PG15 15:30 Counting Cars 06:30 Friends 02:00 The Newsroom 14:00 Live Good Morning America 16:00 American Restoration 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 13:45 From Prada To Nada-PG15 03:00 C.S.I. 16:00 Almost Human 17:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 My Boys 15:30 Meet The Fockers-PG15 04:00 Covert Affairs 17:00 Grey’s Anatomy 02:00 Trans World 17:30 Pawn Stars 08:30 My Name Is Earl 17:30 The Holiday-PG15 05:00 Switched At Birth 03:00 Super Rugby 18:00 Storage Wars 09:00 Baby Daddy 18:00 The Blacklist 20:00 The Stepford Wives-PG15 06:00 The Carrie Diaries 05:00 Super Rugby 18:30 Storage Wars 09:30 Trophy Wife 19:00 Almost Human 22:00 White Chicks-PG15 07:00 Last Resort 07:00 Golfing World 19:00 American Restoration 10:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 20:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:00 Scandal 08:00 International Rugby Union 20:00 Counting Cars 10:30 Friends 09:00 Chicago Fire 21:00 The Blacklist 10:00 ICC Cricket 360 20:30 Counting Cars 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 10:00 Switched At Birth 22:00 House Of Cards 10:30 Live Super Rugby 21:00 Pawn Stars Jimmy Fallon 11:00 Covert Affairs 23:00 Rescue Me 12:30 Live NRL Premiership 21:30 Storage Wars 12:00 The War At Home 12:00 Emmerdale 15:00 Super Rugby 22:00 American Pickers 12:30 My Boys 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 23:00 Storage Wars 13:00 My Name Is Earl 14:00 Scandal 01:00 Promised Land-PG15 17:00 Trans World 13:30 Friends 15:00 The Carrie Diaries 03:00 The Philly Kid-PG15 18:00 ICC Cricket 360 23:30 Storage Wars 14:00 Parks And Recreation 16:00 Emmerdale 05:00 Abandoned-PG15 18:30 Total Rugby 14:30 Trophy Wife 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:00 Oh Christmas Tree-PG 19:00 Golfing World 00:00 Silent Hill: Revelation-18 15:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 18:00 Scandal 09:00 Darling Companion-PG15 20:00 Live Super Rugby 01:45 Blown Away-PG15 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 19:00 Switched At Birth 11:00 Abandoned-PG15 22:00 Live PGA Tour 03:45 Legendary Amazons-PG15 Stewart 20:00 Covert Affairs 13:00 Bernie-PG15 16:00 The Colbert Report 21:00 The Client List 06:00 Badges Of Fury-PG15 15:00 Riddle-PG15 00:10 Oprah’s Next Chapter 16:30 The War At Home 22:00 Killer Women 08:00 Premium Rush-PG15 17:00 Darling Companion-PG15 01:00 Mob Wives 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 23:00 C.S.I. 10:00 Kung Fu Hustle-PG15 19:00 96 Minutes-PG15 01:50 Hoarding: Buried Alive 18:00 The Simpsons 12:00 Absolute Fear-PG15 21:00 Citizen Gangster-PG15 00:00 Trans World Sport 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 18:30 Parks And Recreation 14:00 The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo 23:00 Neds-PG15 01:00 PGA European Tour 03:05 Mob Wives 19:00 Enlisted Drift-PG15 07:00 Premier League Darts 03:55 Long Island Medium 19:30 The Michael J. Fox Show 16:00 Badges Of Fury-PG15 10:30 Golfing World 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 17:45 Premium Rush-PG15 11:30 Live PGA European Tour 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress Jimmy Fallon 19:30 Armageddon-PG15 14:30 Web.Com Tour 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 00:00 The Blacklist 00:45 The Best Man-PG15 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 22:00 Dredd-18 16:30 Live PGA European Tour 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 01:00 Good Morning America 02:45 Red Lights-PG15 19:30 Inside The PGA Tour 07:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 04:45 Cinderella Man-PG15 20:00 WWE SmackDown 07:50 Cake Boss 07:15 An Inconvenient Truth-PG 22:00 Live Super League 08:15 Cake Boss 09:00 The Trial-PG15 08:40 Cake Boss 11:00 I Am-PG15 09:05 Cake Boss 12:30 Cinderella Man-PG15 09:30 Six Little Mcghees 15:00 Prosecuting Casey Anthony- 10:20 My Crazy Obsession PG15 10:45 My Crazy Obsession 17:00 I Am-PG15 00:00 ICC Cricket 360 11:10 Extreme Couponing 19:00 Marie Antoinette-PG15 00:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 11:35 Extreme Couponing All-Stars 21:00 Nobody Walks-PG15 01:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 13:15 Oprah Presents: Master Class 23:00 Shadow Dancer-PG15 02:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 03:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 14:55 Little People, Big World 04:30 ICC Cricket 360 17:00 World’s Worst Mum 01:00 Austenland-PG15 05:00 IPL Highlights 17:50 Jon & Kate Plus 8 03:00 Between Us-PG15 06:00 IPL Highlights 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 05:00 Good Day For It-PG15 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 18:40 Jon & Kate Plus 8 07:00 Monsters University-PG 07:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 19:10 Jon & Kate Plus 8 09:00 You Got Served: Beat The World- 08:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 19:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 PG15 09:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 20:05 Six Little Mcghees 11:00 Magic Journey To Africa-PG15 10:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 21:00 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 13:00 Austenland-PG15 11:30 ICC Cricket 360 21:25 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 15:00 Jack The Giant Slayer-PG15 12:00 IPL Highlights 21:55 World’s Worst Mum 17:00 You Got Served: Beat The World- 13:00 IPL Highlights 22:50 Long Island Medium PG15 14:00 IPL Highlights 23:15 My Crazy Obsession 19:00 LOL-PG15 15:00 IPL Highlights 23:40 My Crazy Obsession 21:00 One Direction: This Is Us-PG 16:00 ICC Cricket 360 23:00 The Heat-PG15 16:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 17:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 18:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 19:30 Live Natwest T20 Blast 23:00 ICC Cricket 360 00:35 Dancing On Ice 01:00 A Fairy Tale Christmas 23:30 Best of ICC WT20 02:00 Emmerdale 02:45 Gnomeo & Juliet 02:55 Coronation Street 04:30 The Great Bear 03:25 Big Star’s Little Star 06:00 Problem Child 2 04:20 The Hungry Sailors 08:00 Freddy Frogface 05:15 The Chase 10:00 Planet 51 06:05 Dancing On Ice 11:30 Wizards And Giants 00:00 Storage Wars 07:30 Big Star’s Little Star 13:00 Gnomeo & Juliet 00:30 Pawn Stars 08:25 The Hungry Sailors 14:30 Fred 2: Night Of The Living Fred 01:00 American Restoration 09:20 Take On The Twisters 16:00 Curious George: Swings Into 02:00 American Daredevils 10:15 Murdoch Mysteries Spring 02:30 American Daredevils 11:10 Emmerdale 18:00 Planet 51 03:00 Storage Wars 12:00 Coronation Street 20:00 Turboosters 03:30 Storage Wars 12:30 The Chase 22:00 Fred 2: Night Of The Living Fred 04:00 Pawn Stars 13:20 Dancing On Ice 23:30 Curious George: Swings Into 04:30 Pawn Stars 14:45 Murdoch Mysteries Spring 05:00 Mountain Men 15:35 Take On The Twisters 06:00 Storage Wars Texas 16:30 Lewis 06:30 Counting Cars 18:20 Murdoch Mysteries 07:00 Counting Cars 19:10 Coronation Street 00:00 Dangerous Attraction-PG15 07:30 Counting Cars 19:35 Take On The Twisters 02:00 G.I. Joe: Retaliation-PG15 08:00 American Restoration 20:30 Lewis 04:00 Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away- 08:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 22:20 Coronation Street PG 09:00 Storage Wars Texas 22:50 Emmerdale SOMETHING NEW ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 06:00 Disturbia-PG15 09:30 Counting Cars 23:45 Murdoch Mysteries WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Summer Festival on at EC until September 13

ithin the activities of the summer festival currently going on at the WEntertainment City, the Touristic Enterprises Co. (TEC)’s PR and media department manager, Sager Al-Bader stressed that out of TEC’s keenness on pro- viding various recreational services and that the special summer offers on admis- sion tickets would go on until September 13. Al-Bader reminded this summer festival offers one free ticket with every three tick- ets of any category and three free tickets with each five. He also noted that the city would receive visitors on its regular sum- mer working hours from 5:00 pm to 1:00 am and that Mondays are allocated for ladies only. The benefits of Back to school! getting along t’s school time again! You’re probably feeling excited lunch, that’s something else that can help you feel good at Sure, it’s good to get along with your teacher because it makes and maybe a little sad that summer is over. Some kids school - whether it’s the first day or the 100th day. Help that time you spend in the classroom more pleasant. And yes, it’s good to get along with your teacher because, in general, it’s smart Ifeel nervous or a little scared on the first day of school your parents pack it the night before if you don’t like what’s to learn how to relate to the different types of people you’ll meet because of all the new things: new teachers, new friends, on the menu at the cafeteria. Try to include a variety of throughout your life. But really, there’s one super-important rea- and maybe even a new school. Luckily, these “new” worries foods in your packed lunch, especially fruits and vegetables. son why you should get along with your teacher. Kids who get only stick around for a little while. Let’s find out more about along with their teachers not only learn more, but they’re more going back to school. Get oriented comfortable asking questions and getting extra help. This makes it The first day of school is your first chance to find your easier to understand new material and do your best on tests. The first day way around a new school, or learn the pathways to new When you have this kind of relationship with a teacher, he or Most teachers kick off the school year by introducing classes in your old school. It’s a lot to learn in one day, so she can be someone to turn to with problems, such as problems themselves and talking about all the stuff you’ll be doing don’t be surprised if you need a reminder or two. It might with learning or school issues, such as bullying. As a kid in elemen- that year. Some teachers give students a chance to tell help to write a few notes to yourself, so you’ll remember the tary or middle school, you’re at a wonderful stage in your life. something about themselves to the rest of the class. When important stuff, like your locker combination and that lunch You’re like a sponge, able to soak up lots of new and exciting infor- teachers do the talking on the first day, they often go over starts at 11:43, not 12:10. Before you know it, your fingers mation. On top of that, you’re able to think about all this informa- classroom rules so you’ll know what’s allowed and what’s will fly as you open your locker and you won’t have to check tion in new ways. not. Pay close attention so you’ll know if you need to raise your notes to know what time lunch starts! Your teacher knows that, and in most cases, is thrilled to be the your hand to ask a question and what the rules are about person who’s giving you all that material and helping you put it visiting the restroom. You might already know a lot of kids A bad start? together. Remember, teachers are people, too, and they feel great in your classes on the first day. But it’s a great day to make a What if you hate school by the end of day one? Teachers if you’re open to what they’re teaching you. That’s why they want- new friend, so try to say hello to kids you know and new recommend giving things some time to sort themselves out ed to be teachers in the first place - to teach! Some kids may be ones that you don’t. Make the first move and you’ll be glad - once you know your way around the building and get able to learn in any setting, whether they like the teacher or not. you did and so will your new friend! adjusted to the new routine, you’ll probably feel better. If But most kids are sensitive to the way they get along with the teacher, and if things aren’t going well, they won’t learn as well those feelings don’t fade, talk to your mom, dad, teacher, or and won’t enjoy being in class. Moving to middle school? school counselor. Sixth grade often signals a move to middle school or jun- Here are a few final tips for a fantastic school year: What does “getting along” mean? ior high, where you’ll find lockers and maybe a homeroom. • Get enough sleep. “Getting along” means you and your teacher have a way of This is just what it sounds like - a classroom you’ll go to each • Eat a healthy breakfast. communicating that works for both of you and you both are get- morning, kind of like your home in the school. In middle • Try your best. ting what you need from the relationship. From your teacher’s per- school, you might move from classroom to classroom for • Use good work habits, like writing down your assign- spective, he or she wants to make sure you are paying attention, each subject. Your teachers know that this is a big change ments and turning in your homework on time. being respectful and polite, and trying your best to learn. from elementary school and will help you adjust. Most • Take your time with school work. If you don’t under- From your perspective, you want a teacher who is respectful to teachers let you pick your own seat on the first day, but by stand something, ask the teacher. you, answers your questions, and tries to help you learn. In every the second or third morning, they’ll have mapped out a • Keep a sense of humor. One teacher we know shows his school, kids will say certain teachers are mean or tough, but don’t seating plan. At first, it’s a good idea to write down where new students a picture of himself graduating high judge a teacher until you are in his or her class and can see for your seat is in your notebook so you don’t forget. school - a grinning ape in a red graduation cap and yourself. In the majority of cases, your teacher is on your side. And gown. This usually makes the kids laugh, and it’s a good a teacher who’s called tough may be someone who feels strongly Feeling good on day one way to remind them that school is fun! about getting his or her job done - teaching you the subject you Seeing friends you haven’t seen in a while can make the — www.kidshealth.org are supposed to learn. It’s also important to remember that mak- first day a good one. You also can make the day feel special ing mistakes is a part of learning. By pointing out your errors and by wearing an outfit you like. Maybe you got a great T-shirt helping you correct them, a teacher is teaching you. on vacation, or your new sneakers put a spring in your step. If you wear a uniform, you might wear a favorite watch, a new hair band, or a piece of jewelry to show your personal style. It can make you feel good to be prepared and have all the supplies you need. Some schools distribute supply lists before the year begins, so you can come stocked up on pencils, folders, and whatever else you’ll be needing. Once you’ve covered the basics, you might tuck an extra few dinars in your backpack for an emergency (like forgetting your lunch money). Or maybe you’d like to bring along a book or magazine to read while you’re on the bus. Whatever you put in your backpack, make sure you pack it the night before. This prevents the morning panic when you can’t find your homework or lunch box. Speaking of WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 NBK staff and volunteers clean Kuwait beaches

ational Bank of Kuwait (NBK) continues on the growing environment challenges its environmental awareness cam- being faced by Kuwait. These initiatives Npaign to help keep Kuwait beach clean include: electricity conservation and paper during the summer season. NBK staff and vol- recycling- aimed at promoting environmental unteers organized recently a day long beach awareness. cleanup event. This cleanup initiative comes as part of NBK`s annual environmental aware- ness campaign to help keep Kuwait beach clean during the summer season. “The planned environmental campaign is another manifestation of NBK’s deep commitment to the community, which by far, exceeds the role normally expected from a banking institu- tion,” said Yaqoub Al-Baqer, NBK Public Relations Officer. Al-Baqer added: “NBK`s team spent their time cleaning the beach and informing the visitors about the importance of keeping the beach clean.” NBK is an environment-friendly bank and has launched a range of initiatives in its continuous efforts to build awareness Yaqoub Al-Baqer

Nzuko Ndigbo Association hosts farewell party

he Nzuko Ndigbo Association recently organized a send- off party for one of its illustrious member Engr Colins who Tis relocating to Canada with his family. May God bless him and his family and crown all his efforts with success. Amen. HEALTH SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Potentially deadly amoeba found in Louisiana water

BATON ROUGE: A potentially deadly brain-eating which can cause injury or death if it gets to the brain, cials say it can seep through pipe cracks underground amoeba was discovered in a water system that serves usually through nasal passages. The amoeba is rare. In after the purification process. Normal purge treatment more than 12,500 people, and state officials started 2011, a child died after apparently contracting the involves raising chlorine levels in drinking water, flushing the system Thursday. No illnesses or deaths organism in St Bernard Parish, a New Orleans suburb. which produces a strong odor when water flows out have been attributed to the amoeba. The flushing The water system is located on the east bank of the taps in homes and businesses. St John the Baptist process will take two months, but the water is safe to Mississippi River, which provides drinking water for Parish is an industrial and farming community roughly drink for people in St John the Baptist Parish, which is many communities near it. The system was sampled as midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. in southeast Louisiana, the state Department of Health part of a state surveillance program launched earlier Officials said the Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER’-ee-uh and Hospitals said. this month. FOW’-lur-ee) amoeba was found in the water system Swimming or diving in freshwater lakes and rivers Water purification processes usually kill the organ- serving for people in the Reserve, Garyville and Mount is the most common way to contract the amoeba, ism before it gets into drinking water, but health offi- Airy communities. — AP

We travel with our own germs

WASHINGTON: Sorry, clean freaks. No matter how well you scrub your home, it’s covered in bacteria from your own body. And if you pack up and move, new research shows, you’ll rapidly trans- fer your unique microbial fingerprint to the doorknobs, counter- tops and floors in your new house, too. In fact, researchers who studied seven families in Illinois, Washington and California could easily match up who lived where using their microscopic room- mates. Thursday’s study is part of an effort to understand how the trillions of mostly beneficial bacteria that live in and on our bodies - what’s called the human microbiome - interact with bugs in the environment to affect our health. “We have so little information about where the microbes come from that shape our microbiome, whether it’s for health or disease,” said microbiologist Jack Gilbert of the Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago. Where do people spend most of their time? “It’s the indoor environment. The best place to look at that was the home,” said Gilbert, who led the Home Microbiome Project and included his own family. Right at birth, babies start picking up microbes on the skin, in the nose, in the gut that eventually make up living communities that will share their bodies throughout life. Many of these bugs play critical roles in digestion, the immune system and other health-inducing factors. Others may make it easier to gain weight, or influence disease. What shapes the balance of good MONROVIA: A man that was hired by the community sprays chemicals to try and prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, as local bugs and bad is a huge scientific question. Hospital studies make children look on in Monrovia, Liberia yesterday. — AP clear that someone who already is sick can catch a new infection from pathogenic bacteria left behind by a previous patient. In contrast, the new study examines healthy people, and it Scientists dig into Ebola marks an important step: Beginning to show what’s normal in a regular home, said Dr Lisa Helbling Chadwick of the National Institutes of Health. That’s a key question before scientists can explore how to possibly create healthier homes. “You have to deadly genes for clues think about the microbiome of your home as part of your home’s immune system,” said Chadwick, of NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, who wasn’t involved with Death toll tops 1,552 Gilbert’s project. “Instead of relying on killing bugs to stop the spread of infection, maybe we need to cultivate better bugs.” For the study, Gilbert recruited seven households that included 15 WASHINGTON: A single funeral caused many to seek for clues. strain of Ebola to make sure the changes the disease is making adults, three children, three dogs and a cat. For six weeks, partici- Stephen Gire and other health researchers on the ground in Africa won’t undercut science’s hurried efforts to fight it, said Pardis Sabeti, pants collected samples of the microscopic bugs living on and had some hope that the Ebola outbreak was coming under control or a scientist at Harvard University and its affiliated Broad Institute. She around them by swabbing the hands, feet, noses and paws of at least plateauing in late May. Then came the funeral of a healer in and Gire, also at Broad and Harvard, are two of the lead authors of a everyone in the household, plus doorknobs, light switches, floors Guinea. More than a dozen of the mourners contracted the disease study, published Thursday in the journal Science, that maps the there, probably by washing or touching the body, and took it to Sierra killer disease strain based on specimens collected from 78 patients. and countertops. Leone, according to a new genetic mapping of the Ebola virus that The virus has mutated more than 300 times from previous strains Back in the laboratory, Gilbert’s team identified the bugs by scientists hope will help them understand what makes this killer tick. of Ebola, Gire said. Researchers have also pinpointed about 50 their DNA, and they reported Thursday in the journal Science that “You had this huge burst after it looked like the outbreak was starting places in the genetic code where the virus has changed since this people substantially affect the microbial communities in their to die down,” Gire said. “It sort of threw a wrench in the response.” outbreak started. So far, they don’t know what any of those muta- homes. Different homes harbored markedly different bacterial Ebola exploded after that funeral and has now killed at least 1,552 tions mean, but they hope to find out. Gire said it is mutating in the populations, but they closely matched the microbiomes of their people in West Africa. It’s probably more than that, with 40 percent of faster side of the normal range for viruses of its type. That becomes residents. The big surprise: How quickly the bugs settled in. When the cases in the last three weeks, according to the World Health worrisome because as time goes on and the disease spreads, it gives three families moved - one of them from a hotel room to a house Organization. WHO officials said Thursday the outbreak continues to the strain more opportunity to mutate into something even harder - it took about a day for the microbes in their new homes to accelerate and could reach more than 20,000 cases eventually. to fight, perhaps making it stronger or easier to spread, Sabeti said. closely resemble those in the old ones. “The speed at which that Gire and more than 50 colleagues - five of whom died from Ebola It could also mutate to make it weaker. colonization happens was quite remarkable,” Gilbert said. while fighting the outbreak in Africa - have mapped the genetic By putting the genetic underpinnings of this Ebola strain out in Sure, there are some leftover bacteria from previous occu- code of this strain of Ebola, and in so doing showed how crucial that the public in a matter of days instead of the normal months or years, pants, he said. But many bacteria die or go dormant after a while May funeral was. They hope to use that to track mutations that Sabeti hopes to rally researchers worldwide to look at the data, the on a hard, air-conditioned surface. At the same time, the oil in could become more worrisome the longer the outbreak lasts. This changes in the disease, and find something that could help. “We your skin readily transfers your own bacteria to surfaces. That’s detailed genetic mapping also could eventually make a bit of a dif- need to crowd source this outbreak response,” Sabeti said. “I want not counting all those tiny flakes of dead skin that people con- ference in the way doctors spot and fight the disease, especially high school students analyzing this sequence. You want people in stantly shed, microbe-filled dust that probably just blankets the with work in preliminary vaccines. every country working to do something.” Because this “phenome- bugs that were there first, Gilbert noted. “It changed my perspec- On Thursday, officials at the National Institutes of Health nally elegant study” is in real time, not years later, “it is worth its tive almost on hotel rooms,” he added with a laugh. In another announced that they were launching safety trials on a preliminary weight in whatever, gold, diamonds, platinum,” said Dr. Anthony home, someone went on a three-day trip, and that person’s con- vaccine for Ebola. Researchers have already checked that still-not- Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious tribution to the usual household microbe mix dropped notice- tested vaccine against some of the more than 350 mutations in this Diseases. —AP ably.—AP HEALTH SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Do-it-yourself blood pressure care can beat MDs

CHICAGO: “Do-it-yourself” blood pressure measurements and the United States. Some US centers have tried self-management worked at white-collar or skilled manual labor jobs; whether simi- medicine changes work better than usual doctor-office care in approaches although more research is needed before a program lar results could be achieved with less skilled or less educated some patients, a study of older adults in England found. Those like the one studied could be widely recommended, said Dr. patients isn’t known. For self-care programs to work, patients who did their own readings at home and adjusted their medicine Laura Svetkey, a hypertension specialist at Duke University. need to be carefully selected, said Dr Mary Ann Bauman, a as needed had healthier blood pressure levels after a year than “I think we’re moving in that direction,” Svetkey said. “There’s spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. “You have to those who got standard doctors’ care. Self-care patients weren’t tremendous motivation to control health care costs and a parallel have compliant, knowledgeable patients,” said Bauman, medical completely on their own - any changes they made were part of a trend toward giving patients a bigger role in their decision-mak- director for women’s health and community relations at Integris treatment plan previously OK’d by their doctors. But the patients ing and management.” Most patients studied were white and Health, Inc in Oklahoma City.— AP didn’t need to consult their doctors every time they increased the dose if it was part of the original treatment plan. Why self-man- agement worked best is uncertain, but patients who participated were taking more medication than the others and were perhaps more vigilant than doctors treating the usual-care group, the study suggests. It’s possible usual-care doctors had “clinical inertia” - a phe- nomenon described in other research showing that physicians often fail to increase blood pressure medication doses even when office measurements show patients’ levels are too high, said study author Richard McManus, a professor and researcher at the University of Oxford. The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nearly 1 in 3 US adults have high blood pressure - measuring 140 over 90 or high- er - but only about half of them have it adequately controlled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. High blood pressure rates are similar in England, health surveys there have found. The study involved 450 patients with previous heart trouble, strokes, diabetes or kidney disease, aged 70 on average, who were followed for a year. About half got usual care; the oth- ers did self-care. Average blood pressure measurements at the study’s start were about 143 over 80. At the end, that dropped to about 128 over 74 in the self-care patients and 138 over 76 in the usual-care group. That difference would be expected to result in a drop in heart problems or other complications,” although more research is needed to evaluate long-term benefits, according to a JAMA editorial. The researchers estimate that if the self-care group’s lower lev- els could be sustained, they’d likely see a 30 percent reduction in KAMPALA: Dr Michael Haglund from Duke University stands amongst some of the donated equipment in an operating theatre, stroke risk compared with the other group. Self-monitoring blood which was formerly used as a tea room, at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. American neurosurgeon Dr pressure is common in some countries and in the United Michael Haglund and his team from Duke University have been taking part in a week-long “surgery camp”, providing complex Kingdom, and the study notes that blood pressure monitors are life-saving operations for free and training local doctors, in the Ugandan capital Kampala where public health services have widely available there, costing as little as $25 (15 pounds, 18 long been poor because of limited government funding, and many qualified but poorly paid health workers have sought euros). Similarly priced home blood-pressure monitors are sold in opportunities in Europe and the United States. — AP SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

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Arrival Flights on Saturday 30/8/2014 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 KAC 801 Cairo 09:05 Airlines Flt Route Time JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 QTR 084 Doha 00:05 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 17:45 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 SYR 351 Damascus 00:10 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 JZR 67 Beirut 00:25 IZG 4161 Mashhad 18:00 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 JZR 39 Cairo 00:30 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 MSC 407 HRG 18:20 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 MEA 406 Beirut 00:40 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:20 JZR 239 Amman 01:00 FDB 063 Dubai 18:45 FDB 056 Dubai 10:20 UAE 3871 Dubai 01:10 KAC 104 London 18:45 KAC 101 London/New York 10:25 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:25 CLX 732 Luxembourg 18:50 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 SAI 441 Lahore 01:35 IRA 669 Mashhad 18:50 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 THY 764 Istanbul 01:40 ABY 129 Sharjah 18:55 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:00 KAC 501 Beirut 11:40 JZR 1543 Cairo 01:50 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 GFA 211 Bahrain 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DHX 173 EBL 20:50 KAC 561 Amman 14:45 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 FDB 8063 Dubai 21:05 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 KLM 415 Amsterdam 21:05 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 FDB 069 Dubai 21:10 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 06:30 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 JZR 563 Sohag 06:35 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 IRC 527 Mashhad 15:30 BAW 157 London 06:35 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 AGY 683 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:40 NIA 255 Alexandria 07:10 KNE 480 Taif 22:00 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 FDB 8054 Dubai 15:50 KAC 204 Lahore 07:35 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 UAL 981 Bahrain 22:40 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 KAC 786 Jeddah 22:40 KAC 741 Dammam 16:30 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 JZR 157 Dubai 22:55 KNE 471 Jeddah 16:30 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 KNE 463 Madinah 16:30 KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 AGY 682 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:10 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:35 KAC 344 Chennai 08:20 BON 102 Sarajevo 23:15 KNE 481 Taif 16:40 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 KAC 785 Jeddah 17:00 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 JZR 513 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:30 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:00 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:10 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 Departure Flights on Saturday 30/8/2014 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 Airlines Flt Route Time QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 NIA 252 Alexandria 17:20 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 JZR 562 Sohag 00:10 TBZ 5484 Mashhad 17:30 IAW 157 Baghdad/Al Najaf 11:00 NIA 264 Alexandria 00:20 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:20 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 MRJ 4815 Mashhad 11:30 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JZR 359 Mashhad 11:40 SYR 1392 Damascus 00:35 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:50 KLM 413 Amsterdam 00:55 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 SYR 1352 Damascus 01:10 UAE 858 Dubai 18:25 SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 PIA 240 Sialkot/Islamabad 01:20 JZR 156 Dubai 18:35 JZR 241 Amman 12:40 JZR 502 Luxor 01:30 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:40 FDB 8051 Dubai 12:45 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 MEA 407 Beirut 01:40 IZG 4162 Mashhad 19:00 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 THY 773 Istanbul 02:20 MSC 408 HRG 19:20 MSR 579 Sohag 13:05 SAI 442 Lahore 02:35 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 UAE 3872 Dubai 02:40 FDB 064 Dubai 19:25 KAC 672 Dubai 13:40 RBG 556 Alexandria 02:45 KAC 287 Dhaka 19:30 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 AGY 680 Alexandria 13:55 RJA 643 Amman 03:05 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:45 FDB 057 Dubai 13:55 MEA 409 Beirut 03:10 IRA 666 Esfahan 19:55 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:15 PGT 4979 AYT 03:25 KAC 363 Colombo 20:05 KAC 546 Alexandria 14:15 FDB 070 Dubai 03:40 CLX 732 Hong Kong 20:20 JZR 779 Jeddah 14:20 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 FDB 062 Dubai 20:45 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 KNE 475 Jeddah 20:45 IRC 526 Mashhad 14:30 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:40 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 ABY 122 Sharjah 21:00 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 FDB 8053 Dubai 15:10 QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 THY 1465 Istanbul 05:00 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 KNE 470 Jeddah 15:35 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 MSR 607 Luxor 21:25 KAC 802 Cairo 15:40 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 KAC 543 Cairo 21:30 IRM 1180 Mashhad 15:45 UAE 3858 Dubai 05:40 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 KNE 462 Madinah 15:45 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 FDB 8064 Dubai 22:00 TBZ 5483 Mashhad 15:50 JZR 358 Mashhad 06:05 KLM 415 Dammam/Amsterdam 22:05 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 DHX 172 EBL 06:10 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 KNE 460 Riyadh 15:55 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 KAC 118 New York 16:00 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 JZR 240 Amman 07:05 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:20 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 FDB 051 Dubai 16:25 KAC 545 Alexandria 07:20 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 JZR 125 Bahrain 16:25 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 KNE 461 Riyadh 22:50 UAE 857 Dubai 16:45 NIA 256 Alexandria 08:10 FDB 060 Dubai 22:50 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 BAW 156 London 08:25 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 UAL 982 IAD 17:25 JZR 778 Jeddah 08:45 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:40 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 JZR 1540 Cairo 23:50 Directorate General of Civil Aviation Home Page (www.kuwait-airport.com.kw) SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

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Spain out to upset under-manned United States

SEVILLE: Hosts Spain and the rest of the field must believe US team that is much weaker than past squads. Zealand, Turkey and Ukraine in Bilbao - and D - Angola, they finally have a decent shot at knocking off the mighty And Spain have a motivated group which includes Australia, South Korea, Lithuania, Mexico and Slovenia in United States as the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup tips off brothers Pau and Marc Gasol as well as fellow NBA stalwarts Gran Canaria. None of the teams from Groups A and B can today. Serge Ibaka, Jose Calderon and Ricky Rubio, not to mention face nations from Groups C and D until the final or third The United States were clearly the better team at the Euroleague stars Rudy Fernandez, Sergio Rodriguez, Sergio place game. In addition to the United States and Spain, 2012 Olympics when LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Llull and an ageing but still dangerous Juan Carlos Navarro. another contender as of earlier this week was Lithuania. But Bryant and company knocked off Spain in the final in the 2013 European Championship runners-up saw leading London. But at the 2014 World Cup, Spain bring back Format point guard Mantas Kalnietis break his collarbone in the almost their entire team and are dying to get some revenge Because of the format of the tournament, Spain and the team’s final warm-up game, ruling him out of the full com- against an under-manned US team. United States cannot meet until the final - or the third place petition. None of that Olympic trio is back for the Americans, who game - both of which will take place in Madrid. Among the other challengers will be France, who will be have not lost in their runs to the titles at the 2008 and 2012 The tournament runs from August 30 until September missing 2013 EuroBasket MVP Tony Parker; Croatia, who Olympics and the 2010 World Championship. James and 14. Spain are drawn into Group A in Granada which also took fourth last summer in Europe; perennial European Bryant were not expected to play in Spain but the includes 2013 European champions France, Serbia, Brazil, powers Greece and Serbia; South Americans Brazil and Oklahoma City superstar Durant pulled out of the team just Iran and Egypt - with the teams playing each other in round Argentina; as well as Australia. three weeks before the start, citing exhaustion. robin fashion of five games in six days. Group A - Granada: Brazil, Egypt, France, Iran, Serbia, In addition to Paul George - who like Durant was expect- The top four teams in each of the four groups advance Spain ed to start for the Americans in Spain until the Indiana to the Round of 16. In the knock-out stages in Madrid, Group B - Seville: Argentina, Croatia, Greece, Philippines, Pacers star broke his leg - US coach Mike Krzyzewski also Group A’s teams will face the four top sides from Group B, Puerto Rico, Senegal has seen stars like Kevin Love, Blake Griffin, LaMarcus which has Argentina, Croatia, Greece, Philippines, Puerto Group C - Bilbao: Dominican Republic, Finland, New Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard all withdraw for a variety of Rico and Senegal in Sevilla. Zealand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States reasons. While Krzyzewski still has great players like Derrick Barcelona will host the knock-out stages for the teams in Group D - Gran Canaria: Angola, Australia, South Korea, Rose, Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving, it’s a Groups C - United States, Dominican Republic, Finland, New Lithuania, Mexico, Slovenia. — AFP Li and Chen keep China in contention for singles titles

Nehwal says to reduce number of entrants per country

COPENHAGEN: Chinese world number one Li Xuerui remained on course for a first world championship title after reach- ing the semi-finals of the women’s singles in Copenhagen yesterday while second seed Chen Long advanced to the last four of the men’s draw. Top-ranked Li, runner-up at last year’s Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Attiyah tournament, beat Indian seventh seed Saina Nehwal 21-15, 21-15 to move a step closer to adding to the Olympic crown she Nasser Al Attiyah won at London 2012. “The first set was pretty comfortable. In in Beirut to attend the second set some of my tactics weren’t well executed and that allowed Saina to 37th Lebanon Rally get close, but I eventually adjusted and pulled (the victory) off,” said the 23-year- BEIRUT: FIA Deputy Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Attiyah reached old, who will face Japan’s Minatsu Mitani Beirut to attend the 37th Lebanon Rally kick off which for a shot at the title. On Wednesday started yesterday at the show stage in the middle of Nehwal had sparked a war of words by Beirut. He reviewed the latest preparations related to the calling for the sport’s governing body, the rally; in addition to that he held marginal meetings with a Badminton World Federation (BWF), to number of FIA registered unions and clubs stakeholders to reduce the number of entrants per coun- set out the main guidelines for the next planned meeting try at international tournaments to curb which will be held in Beirut at the beginning of the next China’s dominance. Li, one of four initial Chinese represen- COPENHAGEN: Saina Nehwal of India plays against Li Xuerui (not in picture) of month. China during their women’s single quarter final match at the 2014 BWF Al Attiyah stated that we are here fully energetic and tatives in the women’s draw, let her per- formance do the talking for the most part Badminton World championships held at the Ballerup Super Arena in optimistic in Beirut among our brothers in Lebanon either Copenhagen yesterday. — AFP competitors or organizers, as I confirmed before that the on Friday before the topic again resur- Lebanon Rally is going to be successful before it starts, we faced in Denmark. really well and I hope to go much further,” tive singles title. After splitting the first added the 11th seed, who played down two games Chen found himself in trouble all realize the volume of insistence and firmness of these “There are good players from many concerns of fatigue having saved three in the decider but turned things around to organizers and fully acknowledged with all preparations countries. Too many restrictions is not match points the day before in a three-set prevail 21-14, 12-21, 21-17 and book a done, this all would absolutely lead us to be fully con- good for the sport. It would not be fair for win over South Korea’s Bae Yeon-ju. “I did- semi-final showdown with Indonesia’s vinced of fruitful future of this sport in the Middle East and the Chinese players who put in all the n’t feel I was tired, I just went all out. “I Tommy Sugiarto. “In the third game when the other sports organized under the umbrella of FIA. effort and training,” said Li. keep improving every time. I have to be I was 11-9 down I had to change things,” Al Attiyah also assured that all FIA - Middle East regis- P.V. Sindhu of India produced another aggressive, that’s my style. Chinese play- said Chen, whose last title came at tered clubs are trying seriously to cooperate effectively gritty performance to outlast China’s sec- ers are strong, I just played my best and January’s Korea Open. among each other throughout the organization of such ond-ranked Wang Shixian 19-21, 21-19, gave 100 percent.” Earlier, 16th seed “During that time it was dangerous. If I type of sports, today we see an effective participation 21-15 in an 85-minute marathon. Sindhu, a bronze medallist a year ago, matched her Mitani, who dumped out defending play the way I was I do think I can lose. But from Gulf countries in the International Lebanon Rally Ratchanok Intanon in the last 16, caused I told myself I can’t give up because 2014, as Qatar participates with 5 competitors, Kuwait performance from Guangzhou as she recovered from dropping the opening set another upset as she rallied to edge South maybe the condition of my opponent also and Lebanon as well, all these positive factors contribute Korean fifth seed Sung Ji-hyun 9-21, 21-18, changes. in developing the social anticipation and sport support. before displaying remarkable composure and stamina to close out a hard-fought 22-20 “I was confident once I got it to 14-all Al Attiyah added that we insist on developing our pro- though.” Sugiarto was made to work grams and activities, our guide strategy in this concept is final game. “I’m very happy. It was a really long China’s Chen survives extremely hard to see off 37th-ranked FIA’s guidelines, our goal in MENA is to go in parallel match, very equal and then I took the Men’s second seed Chen Long scraped Dutchman with the world motor sport and would come through lead,” said Sindhu, 19. through a gruelling encounter with South Eric Pang as the fifth seed reached the continuous media support, as we all work within a team- “I was trailing 16-12 in the second set Korea’s Son Wan-ho to keep China firmly last four for the first time courtesy of a 22- work. and made a very good comeback. I played in contention to win a seventh consecu- 20, 21-19 win. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014

Reds sign wayward O’Connor, code-hopper Hunt BRISBANE: Troubled international James against the British and Irish Lions last year, in our environment.” O’Connor, who can the Brisbane Broncos. Hunt, who played 11 O’Connor and code-hopping star was dumped from the national team in 2013 play in any position across the backline, has rugby league Tests with Australia and 10 Karmichael Hunt have signed for and had his contract torn up by the been signed for two seasons by the Reds, State of Origin games for Queensland, joins Queensland Reds, the team said yesterday, Australian Rugby Union for repeated disci- who are looking to improve significantly on the Reds on a three-year deal and played in a boost for the struggling side and put- pline breaches. this season’s woeful 13th place in Super junior rugby in Brisbane. ting both players in the frame for next year’s These culminated in him being prevent- Rugby. “It’s great to be coming home. Look, Reds coach Richard Graham said changes World Cup. O’Connor, 24, unwanted by oth- ing from taking a flight because he was I’m a Queensland boy through and were imperative after a difficult 2014 season. er Australian provinces, returns after spend- allegedly drunk, hours after Australia beat through,” O’Connor said. “I also think it is a “We’ve been working hard behind the ing a year overseas with London Irish follow- Argentina in a Rugby Championship match place where I can be nurtured and really ful- scenes to find the right balance for the 2015 ing divisive Super Rugby spells with the in Perth. Queensland Rugby Union chief fil my potential in Australian rugby.” squad and beyond,” Graham said. “Tonight’s Western Force and Melbourne Rebels. executive Jim Carmichael, who confirmed Hunt, 27, switches to rugby after spend- announcement reflects that, with some new The wayward back departs French cham- O’Connor had signed in May, conceded ing four seasons playing Australian Rules signings and some important familiar faces. pions Toulon to jump back immediately on there was a “risk” in signing the talented, 44- with the Gold Coast Suns and following rug- “We realise our performances on the field Test coach Ewen McKenzie’s radar for the Test utility. “There’s risk in everything in life,” by stints with Biarritz Olympique and Toulon this year were not good enough and believe World Cup in England. Carmichael said. “And where I sit at the in France. He made his name in a five-season we have put together the right squad to O’Connor, who played for the Wallabies moment, I’m very confident that he’ll thrive career in the National Rugby League with achieve our goals.” — AFP N Korea yanks cheerleaders for Asian Games SEOUL: North Korea said yesterday it won’t send cheerlead- ers to the upcoming Asian Games in rival South Korea, blam- ing what it called Seoul’s hostility for reversing a decision to dispatch the women dubbed by South Korean media as a “squad of beauties.” Many South Koreans were infatuated in past years with the cheer squads of mostly young North Korean women that came south, often lavishing more attention on them than on the North’s athletes. Before her marriage, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s wife was on a 2005 squad. Analysts say the North’s decision suggests that the country may not continue an earlier push to improve ties with South Korea. The North had said it wanted to send both athletes and cheer squads as part of a broader set of proposals to help ease tension. But talks between the rivals last month on the North’s participation broke down because of disputes over the size of the North’s delegations, the cost of stay for the cheerleaders and the size of North Korea’s flags. South Korea has rebuffed the North’s other proposals, DAYTONA BEACH: In this Feb. 23, 2014, file photo, Tony Stewart is introduced before the NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint which included stopping hostile rhetoric on both sides and Cup series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Stewart will return to Sprint Cup compe- Seoul scrapping military drills with Washington. Seoul says tition tomorrow night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus. — AP Pyongyang must first take steps toward nuclear disarmament. Son Kwang Ho, vice chairman of the North’s Olympic Committee, was quoted in state media saying that his country Stewart to return to will send 150 players, coaches, referees and other people to take part in 14 events in the games set for Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 - but no cheerleaders. competition tomorrrow North Korean media dispatches criticized South Korean delegates during last month’s talks, saying they opposed the use of North Korean national flags that are too big and raised the issue of how much South Korea should finance the stays Ends three-race hiatus after Ward’s death of North Korean cheerleaders. South Korean officials have said they tried only to find out details about the North Korean del- CHARLOTTE: Tony Stewart will return Kevin Ward Jr.”Ward had climbed from received all necessary clearances egation and raised worries that big flags could cause safety to Sprint Cup competition tomorrow his car after it had spun while racing for required to return to all racing activities.” issues for North Korean cheerleaders. —AP night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, end- position with Stewart. The 20 year-old Stewart, who has 48 career Cup wins ing a three-race hiatus taken after he walked down onto the racing surface in 542 starts, is one of the biggest stars in struck and killed a fellow driver during a waving his arms in an apparent attempt the garage. His peers have been protec- dirt-track race. to confront Stewart. Authorities said the tive of him as questions emerged in the The three-time NASCAR champion first car to pass Ward had to swerve to aftermath of the crash, and it pained has not raced since his car hit Kevin miss hitting him. The front of Stewart’s them that Stewart was grieving in pri- Ward Jr. at an Aug. 9 sprint car event in car then appeared to clear Ward, but vate and had cut off communication upstate New York. Stewart pulled out of Ward was struck by the right rear tire with so many of them. the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen the and hurtled through the air. He died of NASCAR rules state a driver must next morning, then skipped the races at blunt force trauma. attempt to either qualify or race the car Michigan and Bristol Motor Speedway. It was not clear if the 43-year-old in every points-paying event to be eligi- Stewart, who was described by police NASCAR superstar will be charged in ble for Chase for the Sprint Cup champi- as “visibly shaken” the night of Ward’s Ward’s death. Ontario County Sheriff onship, unless a waiver is granted. death, has been in seclusion ever since. Philip Povero has said investigators did Since Ward’s death, NASCAR has Stewart-Haas Racing executive vice pres- not have any evidence to support crimi- announced a rule that prohibits drivers ident Brett Frood had said the team was nal intent by Stewart. Povero said this from exiting from a crashed or disabled putting no timetable on his return to the week he has no new updates on where vehicle - unless it is on fire - until safety No. 14 Chevrolet and the emphasis was the investigation stands. personnel arrive. Last week, Denny PYONGYANG: Japanese lawmaker Kanji “Antonio” Inoki, cen- on giving Stewart time needed to get Hamlin crashed while leading at Bristol ter, poses with pro wrestlers yesterday in Pyongyang, North him “in a better place than he is.” Clearances and stayed in his car until safety person- Korea. Former NFL player Bob “The Beast” Sapp, left, and a Stewart’s only comment since Ward’s Meanwhile, Stewart will move for- nel arrived. group of brawny pro wrestlers led by a Japanese politician death was a statement the day after the ward with his career and attempt to sal- But Hamlin then exited his vehicle took their oddball attempt at sports diplomacy to the streets crash in which he said “there aren’t vage his season. NASCAR released a and angrily tossed a safety device at of Pyongyang yesterday, staging a tug-war and arm words to describe the sadness I feel statement Thursday saying that Stewart Kevin Harvick as he passed by moments wrestling competition with local children. — AP about the accident that took the life of was eligible to return because he “has later. He was not penalized. — AP Sports SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Orioles beat Rays 5-4 to stretch lead in AL East

BALTIMORE: J.J. Hardy singled in the tiebreaking run in the sev- Kuroda went the first seven innings for New York, allowing two stolen bases for the Reds. enth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Rays runs on four hits with four strikeouts. 5-4 Thursday night to lengthen their lead in the AL East. Steve Astros 4, Rangers 2 Pearce homered for the Orioles, who took three of four from the Giants 4, Rockies 1 Collin McHugh produced his sixth consecutive start allowing sinking Rays. The victory, combined with the Yankees’ loss to Right-hander Yusmeiro Petit set a Major-League record for two or fewer earned runs, leading the Houston Astros to a win Detroit, put Baltimore seven games ahead of New York with 30 consecutive batters retired while pitching the San Francisco over the Texas Rangers. McHugh (7-9) improved to 3-0 with a games remaining. With the score 4-all in the seventh, Nelson Cruz Giants to a victory over the Colorado Rockies. Petit (4-3), who was 1.91 ERA in August, allowing two runs and eight hits with six doubled with two outs off Kirby Yates (0-2). After Chris Davis promoted to the starting rotation earlier this week to fill the spot strikeouts in seven innings. received an intentional walk, Hardy hit an opposite-field bloop to vacated by demoted right-hander Tim Lincecum, started his right that gave the Orioles their first lead. Andrew Miller (4-5) streak on July 22 and continued through six subsequent relief Indians 3, White Sox 2 pitched 1 2-3 hitless innings and Zach Britton worked a perfect appearances. He set the record of 46 successive batters, when he The Cleveland Indians are headed to Kansas City on a high ninth for his 29th save. Evan Longoria homered and drove in two struck out Rockies second baseman Charlie Culberson on a curve- note after beating the Chicago White Sox. Carlos Carrasco runs for the Rays, who lost their second road series in the last 11. ball in the dirt for the second out of the third inning. Colorado pitched 6-2/3 strong innings and struck out seven for the win, It was a rough night for Tampa Bay shortstop Yunel Escobar, who pitcher Jordan Lyles, the next batter, then ended Petit’s run when allowing one run and four hits, and right-handed closer Cody made two errors, went hitless and was struck in the hand with a he doubled on a line drive to left field. Mark Buehrle had the pre- Allen got four outs for his 18th save. The Indians now head to pitch. Tampa Bay used a two-run fifth to take a 4-2 lead. Longoria vious record of 45, set in 2009 when he was with the Chicago a big series against the Royals, who are on top of the American followed two singles with a sacrifice fly and James Loney hit an White Sox. League Central and lead third-place Cleveland by 5-1/2 RBI double. The Orioles loaded the bases with one out in the bot- games. — Agencies tom half and tied it when Escobar threw wildly to first base trying Twins 11, Royals 5 to complete a double play. Second baseman Brian Dozier and left fielder Jordan Schafer Earlier, Baltimore also answered a two-run uprising with one each drove in two runs in a six-run 10th inning as the Minnesota of its own. For the fourth time in the series, the Rays scored first, Twins toppled the Kansas City Royals. Left-hander Tommy MLB results/standings this time in the first inning against Bud Norris. After Matt Joyce Milone, who is winless in four Minnesota starts since being delivered a sacrifice fly, Longoria hit his 17th home run. In the acquired in a July 31 trade with Oakland, left after 5-1/3 innings, Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 2; Detroit 3, NY Yankees 2; San bottom half, Pearce hit a solo shot and Adam Jones stole home allowing four runs on nine hits and two walks. He left with a 5-4 Francisco 4, Colorado 1; Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 4; Atlanta 6, after Cruz forced a rundown by breaking for second base. It was lead, but the bullpen failed to hold it. NY Mets 1; Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2; Minnesota 11, Baltimore’s first steal of home since Robert Andino did it in June Kansas City 5 (10 Innings); Houston 4, Texas 2; LA Angels 4, 2009. Braves 6, Mets 1 Oakland 3 (10 Innings). Left-hander Mike Minor allowed four hits in seven-plus innings Tigers 3, Yankees 2 and contributed to two run-scoring innings by the Atlanta Braves AMERICAN LEAGUE Alex Avila lined the first pitch he saw in the ninth inning to in a win over the New York Mets. The Braves remained 1-1/2 EASTERN DIVISION score pinch runner Bryan Holaday from second base and give the games behind San Francisco in the race for the National League’s W L PCT GB Detroit Tigers a victory over the New York Yankees. Victor second wild card. Martinez had lined a double over the shift into the right field cor- Baltimore 76 56 .576 - ner leading off the ninth against reliever Shawn Kelley and was Reds 7, Cubs 2 NY Yankees 69 63 .523 7 replaced by Holaday. Rookie lefty Kyle Lobstein, making his first The Reds stole second base six times in the first four innings Toronto 67 66 .504 9.5 major league start and his second appearance, allowed four hits and four were turned into runs during a win over the Chicago Tampa Bay 65 69 .485 12 in his six innings of work for Detroit (72-60) who pulled within a Cubs. Shortstop Zack Cozart had three hits and two stolen bases, Boston 58 75 .436 18.5 game and a half of first-place Kansas City. Right-hander Hiroki and first baseman Todd Frazier had two hits, two RBIs and two CENTRAL DIVISION Kansas City 74 59 .556 - Detroit 72 60 .545 1.5 Cleveland 68 64 .515 5.5 Chicago White Sox 60 73 .451 14 Minnesota 59 74 .444 15 WESTERN DIVISION LA Angels 80 53 .602 - Oakland 78 55 .586 2 Seattle 72 60 .545 7.5 Houston 57 78 .422 24 Texas 52 81 .391 28

NATIONAL LEAGUE EASTERN DIVISION Washington 75 57 .568 - Atlanta 70 64 .522 6 Miami 65 67 .492 10 NY Mets 62 72 .463 14 Philadelphia 61 72 .459 14.5 CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee 73 60 .549 - St. Louis 71 61 .538 1.5 Pittsburgh 69 64 .519 4 Cincinnati 65 69 .485 8.5 Chicago Cubs 59 74 .444 14 WESTERN DIVISION LA Dodgers 76 58 .567 - San Francisco 71 62 .534 4.5 San Diego 62 70 .470 13 Arizona 55 78 .414 20.5 BALTIMORE: Adam Jones #10 of the Baltimore Orioles singles in the fifth inning to load the bases against the Tampa Bay Rays Colorado 53 80 .398 22.5 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Thursday in Baltimore, Maryland. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Sharma ruled out of England one-day series

NEW DELHI: India opener Rohit Sharma will miss the India’s highest scorer in the test series with 402 runs at in 29 matches compared to a career mark of 35 in 193 next three one-day internationals and the one-off an average of over 40-plus including a century in the matches. “The contest between England and India is Twenty20 game against England with a finger injury first test. always challenging. We did well in the last game so the and will be replaced by Murali Vijay, the Indian cricket Suresh Raina is looking to carry on from where he atmosphere in the dressing room is very positive,” board (BCCI) said yesterday. left off in the third one-day international against Raina told reporters at Trent Bridge on Friday. “Rohit Sharma has sustained a fracture on the mid- England at Trent Bridge yesterday. “Everyone is looking forward to the next three dle finger of his right hand, and has been ruled out of The 27-year-old’s left-handed batsman’s score of games,” he said of a series that marks the start of both the ongoing ODI and T20 International series against exactly 100 was the cornerstone of world champions India and England’s preparations for next year’s World England, as a result,” BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in India’s dominant 133-run win over England in the sec- Cup in Australia and New Zealand. a statement. ond ODI at Cardiff on Wednesday. Reflecting on his dynamic 75-ball knock, featuring 12 Sharma scored 52 in India’s 133-run win in the rain- That victory put India 1-0 up in the five-match series fours and three sixes, Raina said: “It was good. God has marred second one-dayer at Cardiff on Wednesday to following Monday’s washout in Bristol and saw the been very kind. I love batting against England. help the visitors go 1-0 up in the five-match series. team return to winning ways against England after a “I have done it in the past. When I played first game Nottingham hosts the next match on Saturday. chastening 3-1 Test campaign defeat earlier on tour. against them in Faridabad, I got my first man-of-the- Vijay, a right-hander like Sharma, opened in the five- For Raina, it was his latest ODI success against an match. At the same time I am looking to the next game. match test series which England won 3-1. He was England side where his average now stands at nearly 48 I just want to continue my good form.”— Agencies England ponder S Africa beat Zimbabwe options after despite Utseya hat-trick Botham blast HARARE: Prosper Utseya became just the NOTTINGHAM: England will have criticism from all-round second Zimbabwean to take a hat-trick in a great Ian Botham ringing in their ears as they try to get back one-day international but South Africa still on level terms with India in the third one-day international at pulled off a 61-run victory in yesterday’s tri- Trent Bridge today. angular series clash. Wednesday’s huge 133-run defeat by India in Cardiff was Utseya sparked a remarkable collapse as almost a textbook demonstration of what have been he claimed the wickets of Quinton de Kock, England’s major weaknesses in one-day cricket in recent years. Rilee Rossouw and David Miller with consec- It prompted a disillusioned Botham, now a commentator with utive deliveries before finishing with career- Sky Sports, to write off England’s chances at next year’s World best figures of 5 for 36. Cup in Australia and New Zealand. “We have absolutely no However a last-wicket partnership of 36 chance of winning the World Cup as on the evidence I’ve seen between Aaron Phangiso and Imran Tahir here we are miles behind the rest,” said Botham. After the carried South Africa to a total of 231, which proved more than enough when Ryan match, England captain Alastair Cook labelled retired former McLaren and Dale Steyn took three wickets team-mate Graeme Swann a “so-called friend” for suggesting apiece to bowl Zimbabwe out for 170 in 38.3 in his new role as a radio commentator that England “do not overs. South Africa had been cruising at 142 have a cat in hell’s chance” of winning the World Cup and that without loss in the 25th over after being put the team would be better off if he didn’t lead them at the in to bat when Utseya turned the innings on tournament. England did have India in trouble early on at 19 its head, with Hashim Amla the first to go as for two but that didn’t stop them compiling 304 for six on the he was stumped for 66 off the offspinner’s back of Suresh Raina’s hundred. England’s chase never got out bowling. of first gear and they were bowled out for 161 in pursuit of a De Kock departed for 76 in Utseya’s next rain-revised target of 295 as they struggled against spin after over before Rossouw and Miller fell first ball, Mohammed Shami removed opener Cook and Ian Bell in sparking wild celebrations as the 29-year-old quick succession. For Botham, it was a wearyingly familiar Utseya joined Eddo Brandes on the list of HARARE: South Africa’s strike bowler Dale Steyn bowls during the one-day scene “We had batsmen not scoring and too many dot balls Zimbabweans with an ODI hat-trick. “At the international triangular series cricket match between South Africa and and we have three of the top four batters-Cook, Ian Bell and time I was bowling a lot slower because I Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, yesterday. — AFP Joe Root - all scoring at around the same pace, around mid- knew that I was on top and I had, I think, four 70s. “Most other countries have rates in the high 80s or 90s guys around the bat,” said Utseya. Chigumbura and Brian Vitori. been as good,” said Amla. “So in the context and that’s what wins you games, as India showed by recover- When JP Duminy was trapped lbw by “Had we scored 300 or 350 and won the of the game, we take a lot of confidence from ing from 19-2 after eight overs to amass over 300.” Utseya in the 31st over of the innings, South game, the intensity in the field wouldn’t have that.” — AFP Africa had lost five wickets for 13 runs in 39 ‘Absolutely clueless’ balls, with Utseya making the most of the SCOREBOARD Botham, a member of the England side that lost to considerable turn on offer by taking all five. Pakistan in the final of the 1992 World Cup when the tourna- Fellow offspinner John Nyumbu got in on HARARE: Scoreboard for the one-day international between Zimbabwe and ment was last staged in Australia and New Zealand, added: the act thereafter, dismissing Faf du Plessis, Ryan McLaren and Dale Steyn, before South Africa yesterday: “India also knew that all they needed to do was bring on the Phangiso and Tahir carried the Proteas to a spinners to make England look absolutely clueless. South Africa Zimbabwe more respectable total. H. Amla st Taylor b Utseya 66 T. Mawoyo run out 0 “That’s what happened...something we see everywhere we “I wouldn’t say I was confident that it was Q. de Kock c Chatara b Utseya 76 S Raza c Miller b Imran Tahir 35 go. “We also didn’t have the discipline to keep the opposition enough because I do think we were 50 or 60 F. du Plessis c S Raza b Nyumbu 15 H. Masakadza b Phangiso 25 under pressure when we had them in all kinds of trouble runs short,” said Hashim Amla, who cap- R. Rossouw c Nyumbu b Utseya 0 B. Taylor b Phangiso 0 when we were bowling.” India made hay against England’s tained South Africa in the absence of an ill AB D. Miller lbw b Utseya 0 S. Williams c Amla b McLaren 46 change seamers, with Chris Jordan’s return of none for 73 con- de Villiers. “But with these sort of totals you JP Duminy lbw b Utseya 2 M. Waller c Rossouw b Steyn 20 taining a worrying 12 wides. have to make it defendable.” Zimbabwe R. McLaren b Nyumbu 6 E. Chigumbura c Rossouw b Steyn 22 Botham urged the Sussex paceman to be left out for his twice threatened to pull off what would have D. Steyn b Nyumbu 10 P. Utseya c de Kock b McLaren 5 own good and England do have alternative options in their been a memorable upset. K. Abbott c Chigumbura b Chatara 6 J. Nyumbu c de Kock b McLaren 0 squad in left-armer Harry Gurney and Middlesex fast bowler After Tino Mawoyo was run out in the A. Phangiso c Taylor b Chatara 13 T. Chatara not out 6 Steven Finn. Finn a proven performer at international level third over, Sikandar Raza Butt and Hamilton B. Vitori c de Kock b Steyn 3 Imran Tahir not out 23 who has been making his way back after effectively losing his Masakadza played a series of adventurous Extras (2lb, 6w) 8 Extras (2lb, 12w) 14 shots against the fast bowlers before Total (all out, 38.3 overs) 170 action in Australia where he didn’t feature in the team’s 5-0 Total (all out, 49.5 overs) 231 Phangiso bowled Masakadza and Tahir Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Mawoyo), 2-43 Ashes drubbing. Fall of wickets: 1-142 (Amla), 2-147 (de removed Raza for 35. (Masakadza), 3-46 (Taylor), 4-70 “I would give Finn, whose record in one-day cricket is Kock), 3-147 (Rossouw), 4-147 (Miller), 5- Then Sean Williams and Malcolm Waller (Sikandar Raza), 5-116 (Waller), 6-138 exceptional, a go because in Australia and New Zealand his 155 (Duminy), 6-163 (du Plessis), 7-179 looked comfortable as they added 46 for the (Williams), 7-153 (Utseya), 8-153 pace and bounce will be what you want,” Botham said of the (McLaren), 8-190 (Steyn), 9-195 (Abbott), fifth wicket, only for Steyn to break the part- (Nyumbu), 9-161 (Chigumbura), 10-170 25-year-old, whose 59 ODI wickets have come at under 28 10-231 (Phangiso) nership when he had Waller caught at deep (Vitori). apiece. For Cook the knowledge that he resisted the calls of Bowling: Nyumbu 10-2-42-3, Chatara 8.5- square-leg off a top edge. Bowling: Steyn 8.3-2-36-3, Abbott 6-0-36- Botham and several other ex-England skippers to stand down 1-28-2, Vitori 6-0-50-0, Chigumbura 2-0- McLaren went on to dismiss Williams for 0, Phangiso 8-0-33-2, McLaren 7-0-24-3, during the preceding Test series with India before leading the 19-0, Williams 10-0-37-0, Utseya 10-0-36- 46 and pick up a couple of lower-order wick- Imran Tahir 8-0-32-1, Duminy 1-0-7-0. team to a 3-1 win is some kind of consolation. — AFP 5, Sikandar Raza 1-0-9-0, Waller 2-0-8-0. Result: South Africa won by 61 runs. ets, while Steyn grabbed the wickets of Elton SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Reus and Gomez back for Germany

BERLIN: Germany coach Joachim Loew yesterday named 1-0 in extra-time with a goal from substitute Mario Goetze. against Scotland in Dortmund on September 7: 18 of his World Cup winning squad for a friendly match The friendly with Argentina had been arranged in Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Roman against Argentina and the opening European Champion March before the World Cup. Loew said he was delighted Weidenfeller (Dortmund), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hanover) qualifier against Scotland next week. to have Reus back in the squad, having torn ligaments in Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Erik Strikers Marco Reus, who missed the World Cup due to his left ankle in Germany’s final World Cup warmup match Durm (Dortmund), Matthias Ginter (Dortmund), Kevin injury, and Mario Gomez, who was overlooked for Brazil, against Armenia. He returned to action for Borussia Grosskreutz (Dortmund), Benedikt Hoewedes return to the squad for the games in Dusseldorf on Dortmund in a German Cup match on August 16. (Schalke), Mats Hummels (Dortmund), Antonio R¸diger September 3 and Dortmund four days later. “We missed him in Brazil. I am sure he has some great (Stuttgart) Missing are former skipper Philipp Lahm, record tournaments ahead of him and will achieve great things,” Midfield/forwards: Julian Draxler (Schalke), Mario goalscorer Misolsav Klose and defender Per Mertesacker, Loew added. Gomez (Fiorentina/ITA), Mario Gˆtze (Bayern Munich), who have all retired from international football, and influ- Gomez, he said, had earned his way back into the Christoph Kramer (Moenchengladbach), Toni Kroos (Real ential midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, who is sidelined national squad through his own hard work. “If he is on top Madrid/ESP), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid/ESP), Thomas with a knee injury. of his game we can use all of his qualities at the heart of our Mueller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal/ENG), Lukas All will be present though as spectators in Dusseldorf in attack.” Germany squad for a friendly against Argentina in Podolski (Arsenal/ENG), Marco Reus (Dortmund), Andre the re-run of the July 13 World Cup final which Brazil won Dusseldorf on September 3 and the Euro 2016 qualifier Schuerrle (Chelsea/ENG). — AFP

Terry warns Chelsea to beware vengeful old boys

LIVERPOOL: John Terry has warned his team- mind we know it’s going to be tough. Obviously mates that two former Chelsea stars will be deter- big Rom (Lukaku) will be up front as well, with a mined to get revenge on Jose Mourinho at point to prove, him being sold from the club. Everton yesterday. “And they are going to be up for it; they always Blues boss Mourinho sold Romelu Lukaku to believe they can turn us over at home. Everton for £28 million ($46 million) in the close- “It’s a big test for us, but we go there with a season rather than give the powerful Belgian for- one-game-at-a-time mentality, and try and move ward a chance to compete for a place in the on from there.” Everton manager Roberto Chelsea team. Lukaku had already spent last sea- Martinez is not worried about Eto’o’s physical fit- son on loan at Everton and Mourinho off-loaded ness despite his lack of match action since last sea- the 21-year-old with a few choice words about his son. “I would have loved Samuel to have 10 or 11 lack of motivation. sessions before we put him in a competitive envi- That brought a barbed response from Lukaku ronment but I learned quite quickly I was wasting about not feeling wanted at Chelsea, setting the my time,” Martinez said. stage for a potentially explosive first reunion at “He wants to be helpful to the team straight Goodison Park if the striker can recover from a toe away, he wants to be involved. “And Romelu has a injury in time to start. And, even if Lukaku doesn’t very strong inner motivation and he isn’t motivat- feature, Chelsea are likely to come up against ed by who he is facing and who is in front of him, Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o, who joined the it’s more about his role and status at Everton. “He’s Toffees this week after being released by vital for us, he’s enjoying that and I’m excited Mourinho at the end of last season. about his performances.” Eto’o has insisted he has no ill feeling towards While Blues defender Terry ponders the chal- GIURGIU: Olympique Lyon’s Clinton Njie, right, challenges for the ball with Astra Giurgiu’s Mourinho despite an awkward relationship in the lenge he will face this weekend, an injury to Diego Vassilis Pliatsikas, during the second leg of a UEFA Europa League playoff soccer match in second half of last season culminating from a joke Costa has been shown not to be as serious as first Giurgiu, Romania, Thursday. — AP about his ‘real’ age that was caught on camera and feared as Chelsea look to maintain a 100 percent broadcast, but he would clearly love to mark his start to their Premier League campaign. Everton debut by showing he can still cut it at the Costa suffered a muscle injury in a training ses- Zenit face first real highest level. sion on Wednesday but tests although confirmed Terry is aware of the potential danger lying in it was a minor one the man who struggled with a wait and he said: “We’ve struggled away to hamstring problem at the end of last season may test to unbeaten start Everton in the last couple of years. “With that in require time to recover.—AFP MOSCOW: Andre Villas-Boas’s Russian league August with plenty of flights. It wasn’t easy to leaders Zenit St Petersburg face their first seri- survive it as we had to pay a lot of attention to ous test this season as they look to defend a 100 our footballers’ recovery. percent record against Lokomotiv Moscow “But now before Lokomotiv, we have some tomorrow. Last season’s runners-up Zenit have more time so I am sure that we’ll be ready to won all five of their Premiership encounters this play at out best tomorrow.” Second-placed season to remain the league’s only side with an Spartak Moscow, who beat Ufa 2-1 at Perm a unblemished record. week ago, face hosts Amkar on the same syn- But all of their wins were achieved in match- thetic pitch of the Perm Zvezda arena. es with the league’s underdogs and newly-pro- Russia’s most successful club, who have won moted clubs. The clash with two-time former four of their five Premiership matches this sea- champions Lokomotiv will be the season’s first son while Amkar are second from bottom with serious test for the Saint Petersburg outfit. just one point so far. When the two teams last met in Moscow in Spartak’s Swiss coach Murat Yakin, who took May the match ended in a 1-1 draw. That points over the former nine-time champions during loss helped cost Zenit the domestic title as they the summer break, said he was happy with the finished just one point behind CSKA Moscow. way things have been going in Moscow. Zenit go into the Sunday’s encounter on the “My team, and me personally, are experienc- back of a morale-boosting 3-0 win over Belgian ing a very intense and thrilling season and I’m club Standard Liege, which opened the door very happy to be a part of it,” he said. “I’m really into the Champions League group stage for the excited with the decision to continue my career Russian club. in Russia.” However, several Zenit players-including Another Moscow side, Dynamo, who share Brazilian star Hulk-have already suffered minor second spot with Spartak, will also have to pass injuries through tiredness, while the match with a tough test to their title ambitions at FC Lokomotiv will be their ninth outing in August. Krasnodar, who thrashed Spartak 4-0 earlier this FARMINGTON HILLS: In this Wednesday photo, Kris Bieniewicz, of Westland, and her sons Josh “We’re happy to go through to the month. Dynamo coach Stanislav Cherchesov Bieniewicz, 9, and Kyle Bieniewicz, 14, remember her husband and their father, John Champions League group stage,” said Villas- said that his team are beginning to solve the Bieniewicz, at the soccer fields of Founders Sports Park in Farmington Hills, where the boys Boas, the former Porto, Chelsea and Tottenham enigma of fitting French playmaker Mathieu have played soccer and their father officiated matches. John Bieniewicz died earlier this sum- coach. “But we have had a very busy schedule in Valbuena into their system.—AFP mer after being punched while refereeing during a soccer game in Livonia, Mich. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Deila backs Celtic to bounce back at Dundee

GLASGOW: Celtic manager Ronny Deila ed an ineligible player in the last few min- One player who could feature at Dens County head to New Douglas Park to take has backed his side to bounce back from utes, resulting in an away goals win for Park is Ghanaian international Mubarak on Hamilton. County, who sacked Derek their European disappointment when they Celtic. Tuesday’s loss to Maribor was their Wakaso. The 24-year-old arrived at Celtic Adams on Thursday, are without a point face Dundee in their Scottish Premiership fourth in just nine competitive matches Park on a season-long loan from Russian from their opening four fixtures while clash tomorrow. under new manager Deila, who was criti- side Rubin Kazan on Wednesday. Wakaso newly-promoted Hamilton sit in second The Hoops crashed out of the cised for making 10 changes to his side in had spells in Spain at Espanyol, Villarreal position with three straight wins. Champions League for a second time on the 1-0 loss to Inverness last weekend. and Elche and Deila is happy to have Aberdeen, with just three points from Tuesday when NK Maribor’s 1-0 win at Next up for the Scottish champions is added the 19-times capped winger to his their opening three games, will attempt to Celtic helped the Slovenians claim a 2-1 newly-promoted Dundee, who are yet to squad. get their season back on track when they aggregate win in their play-off match. The taste defeat since their return to the top “We’ve been looking for speed and welcome Partick Thistle to Pittodrie and tie with Maribor was Celtic’s second flight. However, Deila retains faith in his hardworking wingers, with good deliveries pointless St Mirren take on Dundee United chance to reach the group stage of the side and is confident they can avoid a third and he is a good player with good experi- at New St Mirren Park. Champions League after they were rein- straight defeat. “We are mostly thinking ence as well,” the Celtic manager said. “He League leaders Inverness Caledonian stated into the competition. about ourselves,” Deila said. “We want to will be a new player coming into the squad Thistle host Kilmarnock while Motherwell Their second-leg defeat by Legia bounce back and we will be going into the who will strengthen us and I’m looking for- will try to end a run of three straight Warsaw in the previous round was game doing everything we can to win it ward to seeing him on the pitch.” defeats when they welcome St Johnstone reversed to a 3-0 win after the Poles field- and have a good start in the league.” Elsewhere today, managerless Ross to Fir Park. — AFP St Etienne worry for PSG ahead of Euro challenge

PARIS: Big-spending Paris Saint Germain, poised for a tough Champions League campaign, turn their focus first to their stuttering Ligue 1 start when they host high-flying rivals St Etienne at the week- end. PSG were handed a tricky European group stage draw alongside four-time winners Barcelona and Ajax on Thursday, but far from the glamour of Europe eyes will be firmly fixed on the domestic grind tomorrow. PSG host Saint Etienne after a goalless draw by the Parisians at Evian followed a 2-0 home win against Bastia and an open- ing 2-2 draw at Reims. St Etienne, sitting second, have so far notched up two wins and a draw. They are also on a high after advancing to the Europa League group stages following a suspense-filled penalty shootout against Turkish side Karabukspor on Thursday. MUNICH: In this picture taken Thursday, Real Madrid play- Laurent Blanc’s Parisians are fifth, four er Xabi Alonso leaves the office of a sports doctor after a points adrift of leaders Bordeaux who check-up in Munich, Germany. — AP have a maximum nine points after three games. But the reigning two-time champi- Alonso calls Bayern ons can be encouraged by the fact that with five points from three matches they move tough decision are in the same position as last season and even have two more than in 2012-2013, MADRID: Spain’s midfield hero Xabi Alonso said yesterday that when they started with three draws. PSG moving from Real Madrid to Bayern Munich had been the tough- have been hampered by injury woes with captain Thiago Silva out with a hamstring est decision of his career and that the Spanish club had wanted SAINT-ETIENNE: Saint-Etienne’s French defender Faouzi Ghoulam (C) vies with him to stay. injury, Zlatan Ibrahimovic suffering a mus- cle tear, Gregory Van der Wiel a fractured Karabuk’s midfielder Yigit Incedemir (L) and Karabuk’s defender Fehmi Gungor Alonso spoke about his “new adventure” after Real confirmed (R) during the UEFA Europa League play-off football match between Saint- that it had reached agreement with the German champions for a vertebra and midfielder Thiago Motta a fractured nose. Etienne and Karabuk on Thursday, at the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium in Saint- transfer that Spanish media said was worth 10 million euros ($13 Etienne, central France. — AFP million). Swedish internationl Ibrahimovic has The 32-year-old passed a medical in Munich on Thursday. A however returned to training and believes Ligue 1 leaders host Bastia. Willy Sagnol’s ing a 5-4 win the French Cup last 16. member of the Spanish side that won the World Cup in 2010 and he will be ready for Sunday’s game at Parc side have three wins from as many games “The fact that it’s a derby adds spice to the European Championships in 2008 and 2012, Alonso joined des Princes. Meanwhile, last season’s run- in his first season at Bordeaux to sit two the clash,” said Bielsa. Nice, equal on four Real from Liverpool in 2009. He announced his retirement from ners-up Monaco, also need a lift despite points ahead of Saint Etienne and Lille. points with Marseille, are coming off a 3-1 international football on Wednesday, one of many Spanish stars being handed a less imposing elite Marseille coach Marcelo Bielsa will be home loss to Bordeaux, but their opening to stand down after the country’s World Cup debacle. But the European draw against Benfica, Zenit St bidding to carry the winning momentum 3-2 win against Toulouse and goalless recent purchase of German midfielder Toni Kroos had also com- Petersburg and Bayern Leverkusen. The from last week’s trip to Brittany back home draw against Lorient give them reason for plicated his future with Real, despite his role in the club’s 10th Principality side are struggling in 17th for a clash against Riviera rivals Nice at optimism. Fifth-placed Monpellier travel European Cup and Champions League triumph last season. place with just three points, and face a stiff their Velodrome Stadium. to Nantes three places below them with “It was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to take,” Alonso told test at third-placed Lille. Monaco’s new Marseille achieved their first win of the Tunisian international midfielder Jamel a press conference at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. “Leaving coach Leonardo Jardim believes however season over Guingamp last Saturday, Saihi, who has failed to feature since pick- Madrid is never easy.” “You have to know when to say goodbye that the team are “almost at their top lev- thanks to an Andre-Pierre Gignac goal, ing up a knee injury two years ago, set to and I think that this was the best moment to do so,” he added. el” after their first success against Nantes before he limped off the pitch with an play for the first time this season. “The club did not want me to go, it was my decision and I on Sunday. ankle injury. Elsewhere, newly-promoted Caen, in asked them to understand,” he said. “The club didn’t share my Lille, with the future of Salomon Kalou But Argentinian Bielsa insisted that he fourth, host Rennes, in seventh, as Nantes idea but they understood my need to start a new chapter, to start still in doubt, are coming off their was counting on Gignac against Nice, travel south to Montpellier, and Lorient from zero in a new club.” Champions League dumping by Porto this along with midfielder Mario Lemina, also host Guingamp in a Brittany derby. “After winning the ‘Decima’ (10th title), I sensed a new cycle week which they played without the key recovering from an ankle injury. Tailenders Evian travel to Toulouse; opening at the club and that I should do the same,” he said. Ivorian striker who is also uncertain to play They face a tough test against Nice Lens host Reims and Lyon, fresh from their “Thanks for everything. That’s all,” Alonso added on his Twitter against Monaco. Bordeaux will be bidding who beat them three times last season Europa League dumping, travel north to account after the press conference.—AFP to keep their winning momentum as the including twice at the Velodrome, includ- struggling Metz. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 Tough early away days for Barca, Real Madrid

MADRID: Barcelona and Real Madrid face difficult trips turn last weekend, Munir is likely to drop to the bench help Real Madrid, but the overall result comes at the in their first away games of the La Liga season tomor- as Brazilian star Neymar has returned to training follow- end of the season. row when they travel to Villarreal and Real Sociedad ing a sprained ankle which ruled him out against Elche. “We will see if we win more or less than last season, respectively. Luis Enrique enjoyed a trouble free debut Gerard Pique also returns from suspension and is but I am convinced that things will go well for them as Barca boss last weekend as the Catalans eased past expected to replace the banned Mascherano. Madrid individually and for us at a collective level.” Elche 3-0 despite having Javier Mascherano sent-off were less convincing in seeing off newly promoted Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti blamed tiredness for his towards the end of the first-half. Lionel Messi looked Cordoba 2-0 on Monday and have also seen two key side’s below par display against Cordoba after two back to his best as he scored twice, whilst 18-year-old members of the side that won the Champions League draining Spanish Super Cup ties against Atletico Munir El Haddadi impressed on his debut as he also last season. Madrid, but Real will have the advantage of a free mid- registered his first senior goal for the club. Angel di Maria has completed his British transfer week before travelling to San Sebastian to face Croatian international Ivan Rakitic also made his record transfer to Manchester United, whilst Xabi Sociedad. competitive debut at the Camp Nou and has already Alonso is on the verge of a shock move to Bayern The hosts, meanwhile, will have just returned from taken to playing alongside Messi. “I don’t need to talk Munich. However, World and European Player of the an arduous journey to Russia as they faced FK about him, we already know he is the best in the Year Cristiano Ronaldo believes summer signings Krasnodar in the Europa League on Thursday. world,” he said on Thursday. James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos can fill the void left by Champions Atletico also paid for their exertions in “I thank God that I am able to play in the same team Di Maria and Alonso. the Super Cup as they were held in the opening game as him. “I am enjoying the chance to play with the best “If this Real Madrid is better or worse than last year of their La Liga defence in a drab 0-0 draw at local rivals players in the world. I want to make the most of this we will see at the end of the season,” the Portuguese Rayo Vallecano on Monday. opportunity and the good performances motivate me captain told Madrid sports daily Marca. However, they will be heavy favourites to secure even more. “You can buy the 40 best players in the world and it their first win of the campaign when they host tiny “The most important thing is that we get better. doesn’t necessarily make you a great team. “I am not Basque club Eibar, who beat Sociedad last weekend to There have been a lot of changes in all positions, but saying that the players Real Madrid have bought aren’t celebrate their first ever match in the Spanish top flight you will see a continuos improvement.” Despite his star top players. They are great players and are going to in style. — AFP

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English Premier League Burnley v Man United 14:45 beIN SPORTS 1 HD beIN SPORTS 11 HD Man City v Stoke City 17:00 beIN SPORTS 1 HD beIN SPORTS 11 HD Everton v Chelsea 19:30 beIN SPORTS 1 HD beIN SPORTS 11 HD

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Italian Calcio League LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s Brazilian midfielder Paulinho (L) tries an overhead shot on goal that is saved during the UEFA Europa League qualifying round play-off second-leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and AEL Limassol at White Chievo Verona v Juventus 19:00 Hart Lane in London on Thursday. — AFP beIN SPORTS 12 HD beIN SPORTS 15 HD AS Roma v Fiorentina 21:45 Van Gaal targets Europe as beIN SPORTS 9 HD

German Bundesliga first step of United overhaul Leverkusen v Hertha Berlin 16:30 beIN SPORTS 4 HD MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal admits Champions League. “But that takes time. A lot of clubs have fought to VfL Wolfsburg v Eintracht 16:30 he must deliver Champions League football to Old Trafford next sea- win all those things for many years and never succeeded.” Despite son before he can turn his attention to winning silverware. United’s outlay of over £130 million ($215 million) on players during beIN SPORTS 3 HD Van Gaal faces a major rebuilding mission at Old Trafford following the close-season, including the British record £59.7 million fee they Schalke 04 v Bayern Munich 19:30 United’s fall from grace since the departure of Alex Ferguson as man- paid for Real Madrid midfielder Angel Di Maria, van Gaal is expected beIN SPORTS 4 HD ager in May 2013. to further strengthen his squad before Monday’s transfer deadline. The Dutchman inherited a side that finished seventh in the And there also look certain to be out-goings with England interna- French League Premier League last season and his reign has started disappointingly tionals Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley linked with moves away with a draw and a defeat in United’s opening two league games. from Old Trafford. AS Monaco v Lille OSC 18:00 United have 10 players absent through injury and are yet to “We have made steps in our process,” van Gaal said. “Before I start- beIN SPORTS 5 HD receive a work permit for new signing Marcos Rojo ahead of ed I said that I shall give every player a fair chance and I have done Caen v Stade Rennes 21:00 Saturday’s trip to newly-promoted Burnley - who famously beat that. “Also the players that were not in the United States - they played United 1-0 in their first home game in the Premier League in 2009-10 - against MK Dons. “I have given players a chance before September 1, beIN SPORTS 6 HD today. But van Gaal, who also saw his side crash out of the League so this gives them a reasonable chance to move or not - it is their Lorient v Guingamp 21:00 Cup against third-tier minnows Milton Keynes Dons in midweek, choice. I have always said that. “I never thought it was a good idea beIN SPORTS 9 HD insists his long-term philosophy will pay off. “This process needs time. that I came here as manager and said I want 11 new players. I have Nantes v Montpellier 21:00 We are building up a new team, I hope we will succeed,” he said. given players a chance here.” Van Gaal’s other decisions have includ- “I hope we are in the top four this season because the Champions ed making Wayne Rooney club captain, a position that he will also fill beIN SPORTS 5 HD League suits a club like United and then maybe the next step is to be with England.And the United manager believes the forward, 28, is champions and then the next step is to be the winners of the suited to leading his country. —AFP S Africa beat Zimbabwe despite Utseya hat-trick SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 SATURDAY, SportsSports 44

NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns a shot to Paul-Henri Mathieu, of France, during the second round of the 2014 US Open tennis tournament, Thursday, in New York. — AP Djokovic, Serena, Murray sail through

NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic reached the third round of a World number one Williams, chasing a third successive with a 7-6 (7/4), 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) win over German qualifi- Grand Slam for the 25th consecutive time while Serena New York title, her sixth in total and an 18th major, sent 25 er Peter Gojowczyk on the back of 26 aces and 64 winners. Williams racked up her 80th US Open win as the top seeds winners past Vania King and broke serve six times, wrap- eased into the third round on Thursday. ping up a 6-1, 6-0 victory on windswept Arthur Ashe Ivanovic, Stosur beaten They were joined in the last 32 by 2012 winner Andy Stadium in just 56 minutes. Eighth-seeded Ana Ivanovic suffered her earliest US Murray and reigning Wimbledon women’s champion Petra It was her second win over an American at the tourna- Open exit in five years when the former world number one Kvitova. ment this week after beating teenager Taylor Townsend lost 7-5, 6-4 to Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, the But former world number one Ana Ivanovic, the eighth and next she will face another in Varvara Lepchenko for a world number 42. seed, and 2011 champion Samantha Stosur were knocked place in the last 16. The Serb followed fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska out on a day when stiff winds brought new challenges at “It’s so hard to play in the wind but I am happy to get out of the tournament after the Pole had been beaten by Flushing Meadows for players already tackling plus-30 through a solid match with the conditions today,” said the Peng Shuai 24 hours earlier. degree heat (+90F). top seed whose colourful leopard print dress was as strik- The former French Open champion was undone by 29 World number one and top seed Djokovic breezed past ing as her tennis. unforced errors. France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, firing 13 aces and “It wasn’t easy, but you have to be able to adjust. I had “It’s very disappointing. It’s never easy to finish this ear- 33 winners as the 2011 champion comfortably remained fun out here, I enjoy playing out on Arthur Ashe court.” ly,” said on course for a fifth successive final appearance. Eighth-seeded Murray brushed aside 27-year-old Ivanovic. “I’m definitely going to assess what went “It’s very windy, but I managed to adjust to the condi- German qualifier Matthias Bachinger, the world number wrong and what I can work on. I really felt it wasn’t my tions that obviously are not easy for myself and my oppo- 235, with a convincing 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 win. game out there today.” nent,” said Djokovic, who next meets Sam Querrey of the Murray exhibited none of the physical problems he suf- Stosur, the 24th seed, squandered two match points in United States, after his brief 90-minute appearance. fered in the first round when he was cramping, sending a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10/8) defeat to Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi, a six- “I managed to play better in the important moments, down 36 winners past Bachinger, a contemporary from his time Grand Slam quarter-finalist. play solid, use my serve efficiently-with accuracy rather junior days. There were no such dramas for Kvitova who defeated than speed.” Canadian fifth seed Milos Raonic made the third round fellow Czech Petra Cetkovska 6-4, 6-2. — AFP