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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 SHAABAN 26, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Call to stop Clashes as Algerian Djokovic, planting Pakistan cleric capital aims Murray cruise conocarpus returns to lead to reconquer in Wimbledon trees 3 ‘revolution’11 its21 seaside openers17 Kuwait denies recalling Max 45º Min 32º ambassador from Iraq High Tide 09:05 & 23:03 Sunni uprising wins support in Gulf despite official unease Low Tide 03:03 & 16:35 40 PAGES NO: 16206 150 FILS KUWAIT: The Foreign Ministry refuted yesterday media claims that it has recalled its ambassador and other Kerry backs Iraq against ISIL threat diplomats from Iraq. In a brief statement, the ministry said that the Kuwaiti diplomatic mission is still function- BAGHDAD: US Secretary of State John Kerry yester- ing in Iraq, but it has been downsized due to the unrest day pledged “intense” support for Iraq against the in the country. The denial came after Reuters reported that Kuwait has withdrawn its ambassador from Iraq “existential threat” of a major militant offensive due to the security situation there. “We told our ambas- pushing toward Baghdad from the north and west. sador and diplomatic team (to leave) more than a week Kerry’s surprise visit came as Sunni insurgents led by ago ... This is because of the security situation in Iraq. the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) made When we feel the situation has become stable and nor- major advances in a strategic town and along the mal again they will go back,” Khaled Al-Jarallah, Kuwaiti country’s border with Syria. The assault has not only Foreign Ministry Undersecretary, allegedly told Reuters. put Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki under pressure, The Sunni uprising in Iraq has received enthusiastic but also displaced hundreds of thousands and support from many Gulf Arabs, despite official unease threatened to tear the country apart. over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, branded a Kerry met with Maliki and other Iraqi leaders to terrorist group by governments in the region. While urge a speeding up of the government formation public opinion is hard to gauge in the tightly controlled process following April elections in order to face Gulf monarchies, the lightning success of Sunni fighters down the insurgents. Washington’s “support will be in routing Iraqi government forces has been hailed with intense, sustained, and if Iraq’s leaders take the nec- outpourings of vindication online and in private conver- essary steps to bring the country together, it will be sation. The strong expressions of support suggest US effective,” Kerry said at the US embassy in Baghdad’s allies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates heavily-fortified Green Zone. “This is a critical may be pulled further from Washington, which backs moment for Iraq’s future,” Kerry said. “It is a moment the government in Baghdad. of decision for Iraq’s leaders, and it’s a moment of “Today battle is waged in the Baghdad of Rasheed great urgency. Iraq faces an existential threat, and and Damascus of Waleed on behalf of the whole Islamic Iraq’s leaders have to meet that threat with the nation to restore anew its dignity. God, grant your victo- incredible urgency that it demands.” Maliki also ry,” wrote Hakem Al-Mutairi, head of a Kuwaiti move- emphasised the danger of the crisis, telling Kerry it ment of Sunnis from the austere Salafi school, on “represents a threat not only to Iraq but to regional Twitter. He was referring to mediaeval rulers in the and international peace.” BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (right) and US Secretary of State John Kerry meet at the Syrian and Iraqi capitals, once the capitals of vast Sunni Continued on Page 15 Prime Minister’s Office yesterday. — AFP Muslim empires. Continued on Page 15 Egypt jails Al-Jazeera journalists

CAIRO: An Egyptian court jailed yester- outcry and raised fears of growing media day three Al-Jazeera journalists, includ- restrictions in Egypt. Australia expressed Indemnity for ing Australia’s award-winning Peter shock and US Secretary of State John Greste, in a ruling that sparked global Kerry spoke of “a chilling and draconian private sector outrage and a US call for them to be par- sentence”, while the White House urged doned. Greste and Egyptian-Canadian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to pardon Mohamed Fadel Fahmy each got seven the journalists. “We call on the Egyptian citizens sought years, while Egyptian producer Baher government to pardon these individuals Mohamed received two sentences - one or commute their sentences so that they By B Izzak for seven years and another for three. can be released immediately and (to) Eleven defendants tried in absentia, grant clemency for all politically motivat- KUWAIT: MP Saleh Ashour said yesterday that a new including one Dutch journalist and two ed sentences,” said spokesman Josh draft law granting Kuwaiti civil servants end of serv- British journalists, were handed 10 years. Earnest. ice indemnity when they retire has excluded The verdict provoked an international Continued on Page 15 Kuwaitis employed in the private sector and threat- ened it will not be passed in this form. The draft law, which was approved by the Assembly manpower development committee on Sunday, stipulates an end of service indemnity of up to KD 27,000 or a sum equal to the salary for 18 months. The bill has apparently won the green light from the govern- ment, which initially opposed it, and is estimated to cost around KD 360 million a year. Employees who will benefit from the bill are required to contribute 2.5 percent of their salaries every month. Ashour said he was one of the lawmakers who proposed the draft law and wondered why private sector employees have been excluded. The lawmak- er said the bill must be amended to include private sector employees before it is sent to the Assembly for approval. “All employees should be treated equally,” he said. Ashour warned that if the law is passed in this form, it will cause an exodus of employees from the private sector to the public sec- tor, which is against all government plans to encour- CAIRO: Al-Jazeera news channel’s Australian journalist Peter Greste (left) and his BRASILIA: Brazil’s Neymar leaps to stop a pass during a Group A World Cup age nationals to take up jobs in the private sector. colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (center) and Egyptian match against Cameroon at the Estadio Nacional yesterday. — AP (See Page 20) Continued on Page 15 Baher Mohamedlisten to the verdict inside the defendants’ cage during their tri- al yesterday at the police institute near Tora prison — AFP in the news

Kuwait, Qatar eye old UAE jails 7 Arabs for Iran entry finally ready forming ‘Qaeda’ cell Scotland Yard hotel for US solar challenge KUWAIT: Sovereign wealth funds from Kuwait and ABU DHABI: A UAE top court jailed yesterday six Arabs TEHRAN: A solar car built by Iranian students has finally Qatar are in talks with a London developer over the for seven years after convicting them of forming an “Al- arrived in the United States for an international competi- acquisition of the original Scotland Yard headquarters, Qaeda” cell and raising funds for Al-Nusra Front, the tion after a race against the clock, their spokesman told which is being transformed into a £10,000-a-night lux- jihadist network’s Syrian affiliate. The state security AFP yesterday. A dozen students from the Qazin Azad ury hotel, reported The Telegraph. The Galliard Group court found the group guilty of “joining Al-Qaeda ter- Islamic University have taken delivery of the Havin-2 after confirmed to The Telegraph that its chief executive, it cleared US customs to race in the 2,735-km American rorist organisation and setting up a cell in the UAE... and Stephen Conway, has met individuals from the Middle Solar Challenge starting on July 2. The team will compete collecting money to support Al-Nusra Front, to finance East over the last few months, who have shown inter- against prestigious opponents including a team from terrorist activities outside” the UAE, WAM state news est in buying the historic building once construction Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the race agency said. A seventh defendant tried in absentia was has been completed in 2016, thought to be worth across seven US states from Austin in Texas to sentenced to life in prison, WAM said, adding that two £200 million. Galliard, the largest private house builder Minneapolis, Minnesota. The solar powered Havin-2 has a other defendants accused of setting up a website to in London, purchased the Edwardian site, which was 4.5-m carbon fibre chassis, with four wheels underneath a promote the ideas of Al-Qaeda have been acquitted. once home to Scotland Yard and then the Ministry of sprawling white body. The team’s entry had been uncer- The convicted men are five Tunisians, two Palestinians - Defence, in Dec 2013, with the intention of transform- tain as US sanctions imposed to coerce Iran into curbing one of whom remained at large - a Jordanian, and a ing it into a luxury hotel. Plans for the seven-floor its controversial nuclear drive caused unforeseen obsta- Lebanese national and all aged between 22 and 44, building, which featured in the 2007 film Atonement local media reported. Previously, Emirati media outlets cles when the students tried to airfreight the car. Several KUWAIT: Special forces guard a truck carrying starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, include had said the defendants, whose trial began on May 6, airlines operating in Iran refused to transport the vehicle, the new edition of Kuwaiti banknotes that suf- 235 bedrooms, a VIP suite, a vast ballroom and a high were accused of plotting attacks in the Gulf state, but despite a letter from the US Treasury Department. fered a flat tyre en route to the Central Bank. end restaurant. the allegations have not been mentioned since. p2 COPY_Layout 1 6/23/14 10:23 PM Page 1

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KUWAIT: A bag repair shop is seen in Souq Mubarakiya in downtown Kuwait City.— Photo by Sara Khurshid Health insurance law shows MoH floundering Acts against ministry’s practices

KUWAIT: Despite allocating KD dinar projects. “Spending billions ed by Communication Minister Essa 1.25 billion for building nine med- to build more medical facilities is Al-Kandari. ical facilities across Kuwait as part fine, but it’s worthless if citizens are The sources added that the of the government’s development sent to get medical services in pri- meeting will also discuss how to Steps to readjust the state plan, these huge projects and sums vate hospitals,” the sources reiterat- finance the rental of 12 planes (the seem to be acting against the ed, adding that applying the law to first of which will be delivered in subsidization program health ministry’s practices, said retired citizens means that the December) and purchasing 25 informed sources, noting that proj- retired citizens’ hospital currently Airbus aircraft, including direct pay- KUWAIT: Finance Minister Anas consumers into categories, and the proposed rates need readjust- ects to refurbish current medical being built by the social security ment or issuing a government let- Al-Saleh forwarded to the Cabinet increase the charge rate gradually ments. The state has already made facilities and build new ones con- authority would be pointless. ter of guarantee that KAC can use in the final report of a ministry com- the more electricity or water is a decision to lift subsidies entirely tradict the health insurance law Notably, the nine-building proj- applying for finance at banks, issu- mittee formed recently to discuss consumed. from diesel, while the committee Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi and ect involves adding 3,800 extra ing special bonds or other options. ways to readjust the state’s subsi- The Cabinet will study the pro- did not recommend altering the the parliamentary health commit- beds, 90 surgical theatres, 120 casu- The sources said since KAC is dization program. The report con- posal and determine when to put subsidization rate for petrol and tee recently passed. alty beds and 250 outpatient clinics owned by the PAI, the meeting’s tains proposals to organize energy it into effect or determine whether cooking gas. “Passing the law quickly to start in addition to labs, radiology and results would be later discussed serving retired citizens, then adding physiotherapy departments and with Finance Minister Anas Al- new categories later is wrong pharmacies. Saleh. because it is not clear how much it In another development, well- Notably, KAC’s board of directors would cost the state treasury,” informed sources said that the had previously contacted Kandari warned the sources, adding that Kuwait Airways board of directors requesting the government’s deci- passing this particular law indicates will meet with the Aviation sion on financing the deal after it Obaidi’s acceptance that MoH’s Supreme Council this week to dis- had already contacted five interna- medical services are of poor quality cuss the mechanism of financing tional banks to provide consultan- and that he does not trust that the carrier’s fleet renovation deal cy, since a deal of such scale Kuwait’s medical sector will be and the government’s opinion requires hiring well-experienced reformed despite the multimillion- about it through the council head- advisors.

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Charity Projects Office launches ‘Charity Convoys’ in Egyptian governorates ATMs to collect energy dues soon

By A. Saleh The project is an unprecedented will be launched. step as the ministry’s consumer The senior official announced KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity affairs department looks to improve meanwhile that the ministry man- and Water is working on a new sys- mechanisms to collect unpaid ener- aged to take readings for 91 percent tem that allows consumers to pay gy bills, said Abdullah Al-Hajri, the of meters around Kuwait. He also their bills through ATM machines Assistant Undersecretary for revealed the ministry is working located in co-op societies, malls and Consumers Affairs. Hajri added that with the Finance Ministry to collect other places, a senior ministry offi- the project is in its ‘final stages’ but KD 21 million in debts accumulated cial said. did not provide a date for when it before the 1990/91 Iraqi Invasion.

Ministry to intensify inspection campaigns against beggars

KUWAIT: The manpower authority development Munira Al-Fadhly ers’. Director of the Cooperative in cooperation with the Interior rejected applications by charity Inspection Department and acting Ministry will intensify inspection societies to approve some repre- director of Cooperative campaigns during the month of sentatives to participate in the 11th Development at the Social Affairs KUWAIT: Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahad holding talks with Ambassador Robert Bradtke yesterday. Ramadan against beggars. A project to collect donations during and Labor Ministry Hani Al- source in the authority said that Ramadan, because they are not Shimmari denied issuing any deci- Kuwait, US discuss closer security cooperation any beggar caught during the holy registered in the NGO files and do sion to stop appointment of month will be deported immedi- not have iqamas. Kuwaitis in cooperative societies. KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior Underse- gation. During the meeting, Lt Gen security media department at the ately, and the file of his sponsor will The source said that minister Shimmari described the social cretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahad met Al-Fahad emphasized the depth of interior ministry said in a statement. be suspended and dealt according Hind Al-Subaih insists on having affairs ministry’s request to send yesterday with Ambassador Robert cooperation and coordination The two sides also discussed a to the procedures of iqama viola- NGOs meet the laws and condi- the employment structure, finan- Bradtke, Senior Adviser for Intern-ation- between Kuwait and the United number of subjects of joint inter- al Coordination at the US State State, particularly in security fields, est, as well as ways to boost bilat- tors. tions that organize charity work in cial cadre and number of national Department, and US Charge underlining at the same time the eral security cooperation between Meanwhile, informed sources Kuwait, especially decisions issued workers as an organizational proce- d’Affaires in Kuwait Michael Adler, importance of exchange of expertise the two countries, added the state- said the Social Affairs Ministry by the Cabinet in this regard to dure to study and set a unified along with their accompanying dele- in order to achieve desired goals, ment. —KUNA assistant undersecretary for social protect charity work from ‘intrud- structure for all cooperatives. p3.e$S_Layout 1 6/23/14 11:02 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 LOCAL Avenues killer death sentence upheld Murder in parking lot

By A Saleh retracted earlier statements in which the end of service indemnity for she claimed that the victim was abu- Kuwaitis working in the private sector, KUWAIT: The appeals court upheld sive towards her. The Ethiopian house- while the third addresses excluding the death sentence for the main sus- maid told the court that Seham Al- companies unlisted in the Kuwait pect in the murder of a Lebanese den- Shemmari was a ‘good person’, adding Stock Exchange from paying financial tist at the Avenues Mall last year. The that she is not aware of the reasons support to Kuwaiti employees, Al- court meanwhile reduced the death why she committed the murder. Qabas reported. Meanwhile, the con- sentence for the killer’s two accom- Lawyer Bashar Al-Nassar represent- stitutional court set Sept 17, 2014 for plices to life in prison. What started as ed the victim’s father, Dr Hmoud Al- its verdict in a challenge to the consti- an argument in the mall’s parking lot Shemmari, and ended a long speech tutionality of the law that bans unli- escalated when the two sides met before the judge by demanding capi- censed public gatherings. again inside the mall. The killer tal punishment against the accused, stabbed his victim with a knife he Al-Anbaa reported yesterday. The MoH appeal bought from a shop in the mall follow- defendant’s court-appointed attorney In another case, the Ministry of ing the initial altercation. The killer Hamad Al-Humaidi requested that the Health plans to appeal an administra- denied a murder intent during the tri- accused undergo a mental status tive court verdict which overruled a al, and claimed that his actions were in examination, while court-appointed ministry order to transfer the head of self defense after the victim allegedly attorney Ali Al-Ayaf requested the the intensive care unit and anesthesia assaulted him both verbally and physi- court’s clemency. section at the Amiri Hospital to the cally in front of his friends. Infectious Diseases Hospital. Last Constitutional court week’s order stipulates that Dr. Kefayah Seham’s murderer Separately, the Constitutional Court Abdullah Malek must return back to In another case, the criminal court rejected three challenges to existing her old post which she was transferred held the first trial in the murder of a laws and decisions during trials held from in Nov 2013 under controversial Kuwaiti young woman at the hands of Sunday. The first challenge was made circumstances. The ministry hopes to her family’s domestic worker. The against a legal committee’s decision win the appeal in order to avoid cases court adjourned the case to next with regards to calculating the com- that could be filed by medical staff Sunday in order to hear the defense pensation amount for repossessing against future transfer and retirement statements. Defendant Rabiya apartments at the Sawaber Complex. decisions, said ‘legal sources’ quoted Mahmoud stood before the court and The second pertains with calculating anonymously by Annahar yesterday.

KUWAIT: Flowering and ornamental trees which are tolerant to hot arid climates beautify the landscape of Kuwait. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Recommendation to stop planting conocarpus trees KUWAIT: The environmental affairs year. Conocarpus trees are used in coordination with the Kuwait Institute committee in the Municipal Council making windbreakers, as well as medi- for Scientific Research (KISR) and the recommends that the state stop plant- cines made from material extracted Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs ing conocarpus trees in new residen- from the plant. The trees also con- and Fish Resources (PAAAFR), he tial areas and near underground serv- tribute to biodiversity enrichment in added. “Awareness programs are ices, in order to avoid the plant’s harm- the Kuwaiti environment due to their planned to notify homeowners about ful effect on the infrastructure and ability to stay green all year long. A sci- the damaging effect of conocarpus services including underground pipes entific study will be conducted to trees, in order to avoid planting them and telephone lines. The conocarpus identify the best ways to use conocar- in front of their houses,” Kamal added. tree is one of the most commonly pus trees in Kuwait, and determine Meanwhile, the committee empha- used plants in landscaping in Kuwait alternative trees that adapt well to sized the importance of recycling and due to its relatively easy cultivation Kuwait’s weather, said Dr Hassan taking advantage of agricultural and ability to withstand extreme Kamal, the committee’s rapporteur. residue for soil stabilization, or using it weather conditions throughout the The study will be carried out in to make animal feed. New sterilization system for hospitals

KUWAIT: Head of the rapid intervention unit for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) 14 Sri Lankans deported Dr Ghanem Al-Hujailan said the ministry seeks to attract all that is new and modern in the field for embassy protest of sterilizing hospitals from viruses and microbes, particularly coronaviruses. KUWAIT: The criminal investigations director Maj Gen Mahmoud He announced the invention of a new sys- Al-Tabbakh referred 14 Sri Lankans to the deportation depart- tem in Europe that totally eradicates viruses ment pending deporting them for demonstrating outside their and microbes in hospital. The source said the country’s embassy in protest of political situations there. system works within 20 minutes after closing Security sources said that the Sri Lankan Embassy had official- the room to be sterilized. Hujailan said modern ly filed a complaint to the Interior Ministry reporting that a and advanced technologies are much better group of its nationals were illegally gathering outside the than regular means to eradicate viruses. He said embassy without a license and shouting slanderous words the new sterilizing system is a quality move, as against embassy staff. Kuwait is the only country to use this modern The sources added that police patrols rushed to the scene technology in the Gulf and Middle East. where the suspects were arrested. The demonstrators said they He said the new sterilization system relies on had gathered in response to social media calls. ultraviolet radiation, which is spread in opera- The sources said that the demonstrators were referred to tion rooms to kill all types of viruses, bacteria criminal investigators and were interrogated. They revealed the and fungi, including coronaviruses. He said name of one of the demonstration’s organizers, who was also that this technology is already in use in Canada, summoned and referred for deportation with them. US and Europe, and is on its way to Kuwait.

KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait launched its third annual humanitarian campaign which includes distrib- uting gifts to outdoor workers, in order to help them cope with extreme weather conditions during summer and winter. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view Fight sexual harassment The value of human life By Mudaffar Abdullah

hat MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji proposed in a parlia- mentary session about sexually harassing a CMA Wfemale employee by a senior official was not alarming because this phenomenon is spread worldwide and especially in the Arab world. However, I find this an opportunity to shed some light on a taboo that no one had been talking about. Figures and statistics found in GCC are very alarming and ignoring them would turn the problem By Labeed Abdal into a daily one like that in Egypt. Where does the problem really lie? To answer, I will quote a promising campaign launched in Egypt under the title of ‘Harassment Map’ that relies on reporting harass- ment, its types and location so that the accumulation of such reports would help draw a map of where such lesions spread and how they are institutionally and socially responded to. [email protected] The campaign offers answers refuting some superficial concepts such as saying that with its over 20 forms, sexual he Ministry of Health provides easy measures for blood donors, which reflects a great humanitarian I believe that one of the Tvalue and appreciation of the value of human life and good health. The ministry also hosted an event most important reasons for recently to award donors on World Blood Donor Day to acknowledge their gracious step to “give life to those sexual harassment is the kuwait digest who need blood to save their lives.” social consensus to limit it to The ministry’s commitment to obtain blood supplies in order to save lives in Kuwait is met with a flowing riv- women’s bodies as ‘insignifi- ISIL, Washington er of human giving shown by donors, which is utilized by the good management at the blood bank in an cant individual cases.’ image that reflects the symbol of humanity that brings and Tehran us together. The number of blood donors in Kuwait, who include harassment is the result of poverty. It argues that some of Kuwaitis and citizens of 75 nationalities living on this those who commit sexual harassment are rich heads of land, has increased by five percent. This happy news is companies and executives. Responding to another false By Abdul Mohsen Jum’a an indication to the love that many people have for this assumption that it is the result of illiteracy, but the cam- ollowing the May 7, 2008 incidents when Hezbollah regionally granted whatever it wants and must be helped good land. paign argues that some sexual harassers are teachers. The We need blood donation campaigns to be held all argument that revealing female attires are behind harass- dominated Beirut and imposed its own decisions by by striking Iraq’s Sunnis and force them to surrender. force upon its own fellow-citizens, I wrote many arti- All these extremist organizations, be them Sunni or year long around Kuwait, combined with efforts to ment was also refuted by the fact that some harassed vic- F encourage people to donate blood, and endorsement tims were wearing niqabs. The campaign has actually cles predicting that the continuation of the practices of Shiite, that originate in Iraq in view of the conflicts going the nationalistic Iranian republic project may lead to a on Iraqi soil to carry out others’ projects pose future from public and private sectors as well as civil society uprooted misconceptions about sexual oppression, young institutions. This helps achieve social harmony, and harassers, seduction of female bodies and child harassment devastating sectarian war from Lebanon all the way to threats, especially after the civil state project in Iraq failed. sharing the responsibility of creating a blood reserve and accordingly triggered a major social activity built on Mosul in Iraq, which is already happening today in a more It also poses a threat to us. Yet, I do not think that stirring solid intellectual bases. I believe that one of the most expanded way and in a ‘constructive chaos’ manner bril- up public opinion and exaggerating the ISIL issue would for cases of emergency. important reasons for sexual harassment is the social con- liantly utilized by Iran in collaboration with Washington as be the right thing to do. I wonder who is actually broiling The health ministry’s most recent campaign was sensus to limit it to women’s bodies as ‘insignificant individ- recent statements made by both sides indicate. this topic in Kuwait, over-assessing it, demands discussing titled ‘Safe Blood’, a title that carries sentiments of ual cases’, which is mixed by social taboos and wish to keep The story of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant it in parliament and making an issue out of it. Iraq has appreciation for everyone, including Kuwaitis and our a lid on it, which all leads to one result - assuming that the (ISIL) and its pretexts says that it is a mere intelligence tool been through fiercer conflicts during the days of Zarqawi expatriate guests. issue is not very dangerous, and here lies the disaster! used by many sides. It is part of the Syrian-Iraqi scene. and the new Qaeda organization in Fallujah and Anbar Fighting sexual harassment requires encouraging vic- Those who wish to know anything about ISIL can watch than those of the Lebanon-Syria-made ISIL! On those days, tims to speak up about it to boost awareness about its the hearing Congress held for US Defense Secretary Chuck threats never actually reached us! types, having restrictive laws and boosting public aware- Hagel about the situation in Iraq. Hagel’s appearance and Therefore, inserting us in such a game and placing us kuwait digest ness about its dangers to victims’ social and psychological statements at the hearing indicate that the man knows in the line of fire on a frontier that has nothing to do with lives. Studies have shown that homosexuality is the result that ISIL only posed a limited threat and that it was intelli- us simply to fight the so-called ISIL is a regional wish that of bitter harassment experiences, according to Dr Hana Al- Let us protect Mutlaq, a psychiatrist at the King Saud University. gence-made to defend Bashar Al-Assad’s regime and justi- is bought by some of us who are well-meaning without Why do we have always to remain listening and keep fy the regionally expanding role of Hezbollah. knowing that the multiplayer project is much bigger than this good land silent? A university professor harasses students and bar- It is also meant to mobilize Iraq’s Shiites to fight a trib- it appears and that it does not initially target us. Probably gains for grades. Why do we accept ‘harassment’ of reckless al-Sunni rebellion in protest of being alienated from politi- the end requires great coordination and work on both drivers on the roads? Why do we keep silent about a clergy- cal life and the Iranian control over Iraq. Therefore, Hagel Arab and GCC levels without being carried away with dis- By Dr Abdelrahman Al-Awadhi man committing harassment under the cover of practicing said “We will not use air force to strike Shiite militia”, which tractions taking place every now and then from what is prophetic medicine? Let’s start working, declaring, legislat- sums up the whole story. Meanwhile, the White House really happening to the Syrian and Iraqi peoples by Iran hoever sees what is going on in Kuwait nowadays ing and giving the issue its due! master, his foreign secretary John Kerry and his national and the US! wonders because there is a total absence of the cre- — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida security advisor Suzan Rice believe that Iran must be — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida Wative Kuwaiti “brain”, which used to overcome the worst of problems with distinguished means and quick solu- tions based on rational, logic and love without having to get into the margins of things and narrow paths in which the kuwait digest kuwait digest human being gets lost, then forgets the original issue. We know that we have been exposed to the world these days, as if Kuwait is on a volcano of disputes, especially that Westerners lured to fight in Syria those differences began knocking at the ruling family’s door, Palestinian this wise family, which we used to refer to and found wisdom By Emma Beals and sharp vision towards the future in it. The efforts of this kind unity govt family and its solid leadership cooperated with all Kuwait peo- wo weeks ago a little-known extremist jihadist mili- sive. It has been bolstered by capitalising on the perceived ple without any discrimination, contrary to what we are hearing tant group spread across Iraq, starting with Mosul and neglect of the Syrian crisis and the growing brutality and today about the opposition and threats even against the Tspreading east toward Baghdad taking both Iraqis and political marginalisation of Sunnis in Iraq. There is also a By Rami Almeghari regime. I remember that even during the year of the Assembly the western world by surprise. The seeming jack-in-the-box growing discontent with western intervention in Mali, but and revolution, which some of those with interest on instruc- approach of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is no the lack of it in the Central African Republic. Add to that a ecent swearing-in of a new Palestinian unity govern- tions from abroad wanted, was overcome with wisdom and surprise to the people of Syria or to Muslim communities in perceived persecution of ‘Muslims’ to play on the sympa- ment comprised of seventeen independent technocrats without shedding a lot of blood, though a small number of western nations. They have watched the rise in popularity of thies to recruit fighters to the battlefields of Syria. Rand headed Dr Rami Hamdallah, prime minister in the extremist Kuwaiti youth were victims of that strife, may Allah the extreme views of ISIS and other groups within their “The western media really helps ISIS to be honest,” one last government, meets the five-week deadline set last month bestow His mercy on them. communities, as young people discover the rhetoric of the fighter who refused to give hi name said. “When they write by rival factions Fatah and Hamas. We in Kuwait do not get our issues to the point of killing and jihadist fighters online and head to Syria to join in. these terrible things about us it plays on the sympathies of The ceremony held in the presence of Palestinian war, because we are used to dialogue and revealing the truth The rapid spread of ISIS in Iraq has been successful due brothers who read about us and find out more.” Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah had been without hesitation, because if facts are not clear in front of peo- to both a broad base of popular Sunni support from insur- Recruitment of foreign fighters isn’t a unique or new delayed for a week after the Gaza Strip-based Hamas made ple, suspicions will be in control and everybody will be a sus- gent groups and local tribal groups who feel aggrieved by phenomenon. Much of the French foreign legion hails from clear it was objecting to Abbas’s decision to keep current pect. Such a bad situation is taking place in Kuwait and extrem- the political failings of an increasingly sectarian Iraqi gov- abroad and many Americans go to Israel to fight with the Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki in his post. President Abbas’s ist groups who are claiming to be Muslim under the name of ISIL and the likes are knocking at the door of strife and killing in ernment. IDF. In some cases the fighters in Syria did not begin as intention to dissolve the ministry for prisoners’ affairs and replace it with a committee under the Palestine Liberation For more than a year ISIS have been present in Syria after extremists but came to help their fellow Muslims, the Syrian Organization (PLO) also threatened the schedule for initiating spreading from the original group based in Iraq into the people. Once they arrived, however, they became further the long-awaited unity government. In the end, Al-Malki We in Kuwait do not get our country as the war stagnated during 2013.Their presence indoctrinated and exposed to more fundamentalist ideolo- retained his position and the prisoners portfolio temporarily has sparked tensions with Syrian rebels who decided they gies. went to Prime Minister Hamdallah pending future resolution issues to the point of killing had suffered enough under the repressive and brutal rule of Abu Summayah Al-Britani, a British fighter came to Syria of the dispute. During the debate on the Al-Malki issue, ISIS, and whose presence was thought to be tarnishing for- nearly a year ago and spent ten months fighting with other Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zhuri at one point said in a and war, because we are eign support, especially after the lack of support during the jihadist groups, before making ba’ya, or pledging alle- statement that while serving in the post for the past seven chemical weapons crisis in the country. giance, to ISIS recently. He has lost his passport, but even if years, the foreign minister had made some “fatal mistakes.” used to dialogue and Many of the fighters who poured into Syria through the he had it he could not return to the UK because the Home But at a meeting that involved the various political factions porous borders with Turkey were foreign fighters. They Office has suspended his citizenship. His wife and children including Hamas and Fatah, it was agreed to go ahead with revealing the truth without hailed from a variety of European, Middle Eastern and North remain in their home south of London, and today he says he the planned technocrat cabinet and announce that the differ- hesitation. African countries, and even a few Americans. has volunteered to become a suicide bomber. ences had been settled. Fatah’s Gaza spokesperson Fayez Abu Aita told The Media Line on Sunday that, “We are determined to go ahead with our neighbor Iraq. We accept having differences in the ruling of Most foreign fighters are recruited via social media. Many the national unity government. [Our] brothers in Hamas have any country, but we will not accept any foreign interference shown consent to the way the cabinet is formed. We are keen regardless of its nature. Logic says: Our Iraqi brothers must has- fighters, particularly those who speak English, use twitter, to safeguard our national project while we are already aware ten the return to where they were in the form of unity, loyalty that we will face a number of difficulties.” and love, and we were not differentiating between Sunni, Shiite instagram and facebook to talk about life in Syria. According to deputy foreign minister in the Gaza/Hamas or Christian in Iraq, and they were before all that Iraqis. government Dr. Ghazi Hammad, Hamas’s reservations to the Once we start describing people by groups and sects, then formation of the technocratic government were not substan- we would have started instability, because stability of Iraq is Many of those fighters were recruited through internet However, Al-Britani denies that he wants to go back to tial. “The unity between Hamas and Fatah is a significant step important for us, and instead of participating in calming things channels; social media, websites and the dissemination of the UK and carry out a terrorist attack there. forward that will allow both Hamas and Fatah to deal with a down in Iraq, strife began appearing in Kuwait in a different information that, combined with feelings of persecution “This idea that we want go back and start terror attacks number of outstanding issues such as restructuring the method. We must not keep quiet and accept these situations, within their home countries, inspired these foreign fighters in our country is absolute rubbish,” he said. “All of the peo- Palestine Liberation Organization and addressing the issue of and let us strike with an iron fist, and let His Highness the Amir to leave home and take up arms in the fight to restore an ple I am talking to on the ground from all of the groups, security apparatuses in both Gaza and the West Bank,” he said. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad decide on this quickly before they go Islamic State or ‘caliphate’ across Iraq and Syria, and eventu- they have no intention of going back at all. They are happy Asked what the unity deal means for Hamas, Hammad out of all of our hands, “and then it will be too late”. And this ally further afield. here.” He went on to say he thought the current rhetoric was maintained that, “Hamas will benefit in the sense it will have a decisiveness must be used by our Iraqi brothers to eradicate This proliferation of fighters, thought to be as many as the problem. chance to take a good rest from the government, boost up its strife from their land. 2,000, according to published sources, resulted in UK Prime “The government and the media are using fear-monger- popularity [among the population] and [seek rapproche- Islam does not allow a Muslim to kill his Muslim brother, and Minister David Cameron declaring them to be “a greater ing tactics, creating fear amongst the public,” a tactic he ment] with countries in the region and around the world.” this is the invention of time, because they are all groups that are making a living from Islam and use different names to hide threat than jihadis or fighters” returning from other war called counter-productive. “You will push the Muslims in the The Hamas official also noted that the unity deal with Fatah would enable Hamas to respond legally and politically behind it, but their goal is clear and known - which is their inter- zones and that they plan to “attack us here at home in the UK and the states to a point where there will be another to allegations that Hamas is a terrorist organization. “Hamas ests only. For the Kuwaiti people, let all “brainy” people and United Kingdom.” attack,” he warned. will ask for legal advisories from experts worldwide, so that it rulers meet and discuss the issue frankly, because harm reaches The calls were heightened by the release of a video on Most foreign fighters are recruited via social media. will dash Israeli allegations that Hamas is a terrorist organiza- all, and keeping silent towards it means the end of a distin- ISIS social media channels that turned up the heat on their Many fighters, particularly those who speak English, use tion dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Over the past sev- guished life that we accepted for hundreds of years. recruitment campaign. The video featured English- speak- twitter, instagram and facebook to talk about life in ‘al-sham’ en years, for example, not a single suicide bombing has been We are with the Sabah family, we are all one hand, and we ing fighters from the UK and Australia pleading with their (Arabic for Syria). One recent example, on ask.fm, a popular carried out by Hamas,” he argued. Nevertheless, Hamas will not be separated, and we do not want to be defeated by countrymen to come and join the fight in Syria and Iraq. question and answer forum, addressed a fighter named Abu remains on the US State Department list of terrorist organiza- emergent differences that target some interests of some “This dunnyah [life] is only a test. Allah sent you to this Fulan. “My brother, if I want to go to Syria for jihad with my tions and is considered as such by Israel. groups. Kuwait is for all and no one has preference on the other, dunnyah to see how much you are willing to sacrifice for wife, how do I get in? How do I find trustworthy people who Regarding Hamas’s recognition of the state of Israel, so let us protect this good land, and let our dialogue be in a Allah. Are you willing to sacrifice the job you’ve got, the car can bring me in? Hammad said that, “Hamas is merely a political party, like any national conference that includes everyone, and come out with you’ve got, the family you have? Are you willing to sacrifice Many of them buy a ticket to Turkey and continue the other party. Therefore, Hamas cannot be demanded to recog- compulsory recommendations for all. We will not let any kind of this for the sake of allah?” asked Ab Bara Al-Hindi, an ISIS journey overland into the porous border between Turkey nize a state; the Palestine Liberation Organization has already strife to dominate the talk of the society, with regret, as it fighter from the UK who went on to say: “All my brothers liv- and Syria. Despite assurances that Turkish authorities are done so.” appears in our media, and this media do not think about the ing in the west, I know how you feel. When I used to live cracking down on this practice, Abu Summayah was able Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world ethical rules that says “not all known is said”, so let us stop trade there, in the heart you feel depressed. The cure for the to cross from Syria to Turkey and back into Syria after leaders against recognizing the Palestinian unity government. in the country and encourage the love of our homeland. depression is jihad. Come to jihad and feel the honour that pledging his support to ISIS. He claims that during this Netanyahu warned that a government inclusive of Hamas We will all sacrifice for this country, and we are all the corner- we are feeling and feel the happiness that we are feeling.” journey he was stopped by the Turkish army twice but was “will not strengthen peace, but rather strengthen terrorism.” stone in a great building that stood fast and remains in front of The ISIS PR campaign has been widespread and aggres- released. — The Media Line — The Media Line every current. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa LOCAL TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

KUWAIT: The ambassador of France Christian Nakhle hosted a reception at Marina on the occasion of his country’s National Day this week. A number of high-ranking officials, diplomats and media people attended it. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Assembly by-election Strong govt support for preparations in full swing KUWAIT: The Information Ministry is highlighting the upcoming elections and ready to cover the upcoming National it will continue to do so until the final young entrepreneurs Assembly by-election which will be held results are announced, said the official. next Thursday, said an official here yes- A live-broadcast of the voting process terday. at main and subsidiary polling stations to 1000 Projects Expo hosts symposium Assistant Undersecretary at the give the viewers a better look of what is Ministry of Information Faisal Al-Mtlagem occurring on the ground, said Al- said in a press release that the ministry Mtlagem. KUWAIT: Kuwait’s 1000 Projects Expo hosted yes- as advising them on how to take their projects for- and promotion of creativity, innovation and entre- will use all of its available assets to pro- On his part, head of the main program terday a symposium on the initiatives and experi- ward. As for the Omani experience, Director of Al preneurship. “This, in turn, will help provide new vide a comprehensive coverage for the at Kuwait radio Sa’ad Al-Fandi said that ence of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member Raffd Fund branch at Omani Ad Dakhiliyah job opportunities for citizens and encourage them by-election. the radio will be covering the by-elec- states in supporting youth entrepreneurs and pro- Governorate Abdullah Al-Shukali shed light on to have private businesses and to contribute to The ministry, thus far, had provided tions, providing detailed accounts of what moting small and medium-sized enterprises four main programs for supporting youth enter- state’s GDP,” Al-Hadrami said. several media segments and programs occurring during voting day. — KUNA (SMEs). “The Kuwaiti government strongly encour- prises through Al Raffad Fund. ages and supports ambitious youth to help them “There are Mawred, Tasees, Riyada, Tazeez pro- Saudi experience have their own businesses,” Director of the Small grams,” he said, noting that Mawred program tar- Speaking about Saudi experience, Waleed Al- Arab region witnesses worst ever and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) at the gets social security groups and offers 10,000 Arenan unveiled that the Saudi Ministry of Labor Manpower and Government Restructuring Omani Riyals-loan to each youth. have ambitious programs and plans to boost SMEs humanitarian situation: Al-Araby Program (MGRP) Faris Al-Enazi said about Kuwait’s “Tasees, targets job seekers wishing to estab- in collaboration with relevant ministries and state experience. lish new projects, offers each youth a 20,000 bodies. He noted that the Ministry had assigned CAIRO: The Arab region is witnessing its worst the High Commissioner for Human Rights He pointed that one of the major objectives of Omani Riyals-loan while Riyada, which targets job an international consultancy firm to conduct a ever humanitarian situation with hundreds of Ambassador Mohammad Al-Deri said that the the MGRP is to increase Kuwaiti youth entrepre- seekers and craftspeople who wish to develop and study on SMEs in the Kingdom with a view to thousands of Arab people forced to flee their Arab region has the biggest number of refugees neurs’ contribution to the national economy. extend their existing projects of different econom- assess the current situation and propose initiatives homes to escape violence or political unrest in in the world. “There are four million Palestinian “The MGRP seeks to find innovative solutions to ic sector, offers 100,000 Omani Riyals-loan to to give impetus to that sector. their countries, regretted the Arab League refugees, 400,000 Iraqi refugees and 2.8 million enable Kuwaiti youth to launch and effectively each.” “The study set forward 36 initiatives to be Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby. “The number Syrian refugees,” he said. Al-Deri spoke highly of manage private businesses to help grow the coun- He stated that Tazeez program, which targets implemented through seven programs to devel- of internally and externally displaced people is the great role played by Kuwait in supporting try’s gross domestic product (GDP), create new business pioneers who are benefiting from finan- op an economic system to develop this sector,” growing in many Arab countries,” Al-Araby said humanitarian causes in the region and around jobs and SMEs attractive environment, “ Al-Enazi cial support of Al Raffd Fund, offers loans of up to he said. He stated that the recommendations in an event organized by the Arab League to the world. stated. 70, 000 Omani Riyals. and initiatives include the establishment of an mark the World Refugee Day. He recalled Kuwait’s hosting of the first and “It also aims to raise people’s awareness about Al-Shukali touched the mechanisms of follow- electronic portal for SMEs, support centers and “The plight of Syrian refugees is the world’s second aid pledging conferences for Syria the importance of private sector in turning Kuwait ing up budget of Al Raffd-finance projects. cooperatives. worst humanitarian crisis in the 21st century.” Al- donors which raised USD 3.9 billion in aid into an economic hub, help diversify state income, As for the United Arab Emirates, Qasim Al- On Bahrain experience, Farouk Jaffer said that Araby said that the Arab League is studying pledges, including USD 800 million donated by restructuring labor market and easing the financial Hadrami said that federal government has issued his country pays due attention to the expanding Kuwait Arab Summit’s resolution relative to the Kuwait. Al-Deri lauded the generous donations burden on the state budget.” law No. 2 of 2014 to regulate and support small and development of the SMEs, especially in the adoption of a unified Arab mechanism to coor- and humanitarian aid of other Arab countries The Expo, organized by MGRP, kicked off here and medium enterprises in the country. industrial sector. “Bahrain seeks to develop the dinate humanitarian aid distribution.World such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sunday under the patronage of His Highness the “This law will have a significant role in promot- industrial sector to diversify income resources, Refugee Day, observed by the United Nations United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman to Syrian Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. ing sustainable economic development in the reduce dependence on oil and expand the base of and countless civic groups around the world on refugees and to their hosting countries. The activities of the five-day event are held at halls UAE, strengthening the regional and international economic activity.” he said. June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising aware- Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Permanent Delegate to the No. 6 and 7 at Kuwait International Fairground in competitiveness of its economy, help diversify Jaffer disclosed that SMEs currently make up ness of the situation of refugees throughout the Arab League Ambassador Aziz Al-Deehani stat- world. It was also meant to honor the courage, ed that Kuwait has fulfilled all its aid pledges to Mishref. national economic and accelerate the state’s nearly 16 percent of the total industrial enterprises strength and determination of women, men and Syrian refugees. The exhibition is visited by a number of minis- moves towards building a knowledge-based econ- in Bahrain. A recent report by Gulf Organization for children who are forced to flee their homes He also applauded the role played by the ters and senior state officials along with key eco- omy,” Al-Hadrami said. He argued that the main Industrial Consulting (GOIC) estimated Bahrain has under threat of persecution, conflict and vio- Arab League in tackling the refugees crisis in nomic figures in Kuwait to encourage and moti- goal of the new law is backing SMEs to be a major 400 factories with 11195 workers and total invest- lence. For his part, Head of the Regional Office of Syria and other Arab countries. — KUNA vate the youth to implement their projects as well contributor in the state economic development ments $5.40 billion, he said. —KUNA LOCAL TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

KUWAIT: Capital Municipality Emergency team carried out an inspection campaign on food stores in Shuwaikh area, resulting in the confiscation of 136 kg of expired food, and issuance of 16 citations. The team was headed by Tariq Al-Qattan. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun Office owner charged Fireman arrested for in maid’s injury By Hanan Al-Saadoun teenager was taken to the Jahra Hospital, and a case was filed. role in Mirgab arson KUWAIT: A maids recruitment office owner faces charges after a woman he Attempted murder held hostage for two weeks jumped from A woman filed a case at the Mahboula a third floor apartment and was hospital- police station, claiming that her husband ‘Gunfire at gym brawl’ ized in a critical condition. Police and attempted to kill her. The Bulgarian nation- al told officers that she feels that her hus- paramedics headed to a building in KUWAIT: A fireman was arrested over his sus- was pronounced dead at the scene by para- Gym brawl Nugra in response to an emergency call, band, also Bulgarian, is serious about threats to murder her. She added that he pected involvement with a fire deliberately start- medics who arrived with police shortly after the Farwaniya detectives are looking to arrest 12 then rushed the Filipina woman to the ed at a building under construction in Mirgab. accident was reported. The paramedics took a people accused of beating up and threatening Mubarak Hospital. ran after her with a knife in hand, before she managed to escape and go to the Preliminary investigations revealed meanwhile Bahraini in his thirties to the Jahra Hospital for two men with firearms inside a gym. The two Preliminary investigations revealed that the noncommissioned officer allegedly treatment. A case was filed to investigate the cir- Syrian brothers told officers at the Andalus that the woman was locked up for two police station. Attempted murder charges were pressed. planned to set fires at other locations for reasons cumstances of the accident. police station that they got into an altercation weeks inside an apartment rented by a that remain under investigation. The man was Separately, a 44-year-old Egyptian man died with five trainees, who were soon joined by sev- domestic workers’ recruitment office, and Property damage charged with arson and suspended pending and two compatriots were critically wounded en others and started beating the two up. Three that she jumped from the window in an investigation, said the acting general director of after their car crashed into a light post at the of the suspects pointed guns at the com- attempt to escape. The Hawally prosecu- Investigations are ongoing to identify and arrest three men accused of damag- the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate. Abdaly farms area. Paramedics discovered after plainants while one pointed an AK-47 as the rest tor gave orders to file a case against the arriving to the scene that one victim had died were beating them, they added. The suspects office’s owner, and press charges of ing a Kuwaiti man’s car in Riggae. The com- plainant told local police station officers Hit-and-run from his injuries before rushing the others to fired gunshots into the air as they escaped the attempted murder and illegal imprison- that the offenders hit his car deliberately A pedestrian died in a hit-and-run accident hospital. Investigations are ongoing to reveal scene, according to the plaintiffs’ statements. ment. with their own vehicle following a traffic reported recently near the Nayef Palace. The the circumstances which led the driver to lose Investigations are ongoing. dispute. Indian man died from his injuries before para- control over the vehicle. Gang attack medics and police arrived to the scene in Gas station incident Five Kuwaiti men living in Subahiya Drunk duo response to an emergency call. No eyewitnesses Addict nabbed A man face charges after he refused to pay at reported being physically assaulted by Two people were arrested for intoxica- were able to see the license plate number of the A drug addict was arrested in Ahmadi with an Ahmadi gas station and tried to run over a eight attackers who were armed with a tion and possession of alcoholic drinks. suspect’s car, but investigators plan to use traffic possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia. worker during his failed escape attempt. The cleaver and a shotgun. The complainants The Kuwaiti and Iranian man were taken to camera tapes to help identify him. Criminal The Kuwaiti man was ordered to step outside of suspect got into an argument with the worker were able to identify two of the suspects, the Abdullah Port police station after investigators examined the scene and took the his vehicle at a checkpoint in the area after after he refused to pay him after filling his car’s but did not explain the reasons behind patrol officers caught them driving under body to the forensic department. police suspected that he was driving under the tank. The station’s supervisor, who witnessed the the fight to officers at the Fahad Al- the influence of alcohol and in possession influence. He was placed under arrest after argument, closed the station’s gate to prevent Ahmad police station. of an imported liquor bottle. Fatal accidents police found a drug pill, a freshly used syringe his escape, then called police. The man was A teenager died while her relative was injured and other drug paraphernalia in his pockets. The arrested and taken to the Ahmadi police station Teen shot by dad Armed robbery in an accident reported on the Sixth Ring Road man was taken to the proper authorities to face where he was charged with attempted hit-and- A 19-year-old-man was hospital- In Salmiya, a Lebanese man filed a case late Sunday night. The 19-year-old Bahraini girl charges. run and fraud. ized with a gunshot wound to his alleging that a man stole KD 1,000 worth back. Primary investigations showed of jewelry from his apartment at gunpoint. that the boy’s father accidently shot Investigations are ongoing to identify and him while cleaning his firearm. The arrest the suspect. KRCS offers free fast-breaking meals to thousands of refugees

AMMAN: Kuwait Red Crescent Society will Sereeh, Amrawah, Al-Kark, Al-Nuaimah and offer fast-breaking meals during the month Al-Turra. Al-Zaid praised the KRCS Chairman of Ramadan for thousands of Syrian Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, along with the board mem- refugees in Jordan, an envoy of the society bers, for the keenness on securing all possi- said yesterday. ble aid for the Syrian refugees and those in The meals will be offered throughout the need for help. whole fasting month to hundreds of Syrian The Kuwaiti society, since flare-up of the families, said the KRCS envoy to Jordan Syrian crisis, has supported the Syrian Khaled Al-Zaid, adding such humanitarian refugees by offering them food, necessary activities aim to sooth the refugees’ hard- items and pre-fabricated housing units. ships, in line with instructions of His Kuwait had donated nearly USD 250 mil- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad lion to UN agencies aiding Syrian refugees in Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to ease off their hardships. countries neighboring Syria. It had also dis- The philanthropic project, also involving patched aid directly to the refugees’ camps. the Jordanian Red Crescent, would secure On May 10, Kuwait’s second “model vil- ‘Timex’ expects growth in demand fast-breaking meals (iftars) to 21,000 per- lage” for the Syrian refugees was opened in sons for the whole month of Ramadan, Al- Al-Zaatari camp in Al-Mafraq Governorate, Zaid said, indicating that the number of northern Jordan. The village, construction of for water purification systems those who would benefit from the free which was funded by His Highness the Amir, meals was specified after distribution of consisted of 1,000 caravans, two schools, a special coupons to the refugees to get food hospital and a mosque. from certain restaurants, with which a deal Moreover, Kuwait hosted two major in this respect had been worked out. international conferences during which nations pledged financial aid for the Syrians, Model village estimated at $2.5 billion. The Kuwaiti society agreed with six His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al- restaurants throughout the Kingdom to Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, alone, had offer the free meals. They are located in Al- pledged $500 million. — KUNA Gulf Bank kicks off summer internship program

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced that its sum- Human Resources at Gulf Bank said: “Gulf mer internship program commenced on June Bank is committed to playing an active role in 1 in cooperation with Gulf University for the support of youth and education. By allow- Science and Technology (GUST), welcoming ing students to become involved in the actual two groups of 15 students. This initiative operations and systems within the Bank, we comes as part of the Bank’s Corporate Social are educating them on the different skills, the KUWAIT: According to formal studies, it is expect- industrial and commercial sectors with various Plants, wastewater treatment systems, Cooling Responsibility (CSR) strategy to support youth level of team work and commitment required ed that the average fresh water consumption will capacities up to 5000 cubic meters / hour (22,000 Towers, Power Plants and Municipal Applications. and the education sector. by each individual in the real work environ- increase in Kuwait from 370 million imperial gal- gallons per minute).” he added. NBTC the exclusive agent for Timex products in The Internship Program will start with a ment. We are pleased to welcome the stu- lons (1.7 billion liters) per day, at a total estimated “Timex Company has executed several major Kuwait assured that private sector should support two day training session held by the Bank’s dents of GUST to the Bank and hope they take cost of KD 1.5 billion a year, to about 550 million projects in water supply systems, irrigation and the government’s efforts to provide clean water Learning and Development department at its the maximum advantage of this opportunity imperial gallons (2.5 billion liters) per day of an sewage treatment, deep wells, and processing and to meet the expected increase for develop- Durrat Alkhaleej specialized Training Center and enjoy the experience.” estimated cost of KD 2.2 billion annually by 2020. output streams from factories and applications of ment requirements, population and urbanization where the interns will be provided with an Through this summer internship program, growth in Kuwait. introduction to banking, communication skills Gulf Bank aims to reinforce its belief in the In this context, the Timex Filtration and Water water injection. In addition we are able to create a and customer service. Following this, the importance of equipping young people with Systems company from Turkey expects an global trade mark that provides several solutions Mohammed Al-Baddah, Chairman of NBTC, interns will be assigned to spend 5 weeks the knowledge and insight into the business increase in the demand of water purification sys- and applications to be used at various sectors added that official statistics show that private across the Bank’s various branches and world. Gulf Bank is committed to leading by tems in all fields, especially with the drastic such as utilities, water, oil and gas and food staff,” housing is the largest consumer for water by 41 departments to experience firsthand the day- example, making real and tangible contribu- increase of individual consumption of water in he noted. Further, he stressed that Timex auto- percent, followed by the investment sector by 24 to-day operations, processes and systems. tions to the Kuwait community and specifical- Kuwait to be the third in the world. matic water purification systems have many percent, filling stations and industrial sector by 10 Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager of ly to the young people of Kuwait. Timex is associated with NBTC in Kuwait, a pre- advantages, especially at the sectors of oil, gas percent, while the agricultural sector represents 4 mier business group based in Kuwait and having and water desalination plants, including: percent, and the losses in the network represents operations in UAE, Saudi Arabia and India. NBTC * Self-cleaning without any flow interruption 5 percent. is having their presence in the Oil and Gas sector * Heavy duty products for high dirt loads of He added that the demand for water purifica- and is aggressively making their presence in other suspended solids and high flow rates tion systems for industrial uses has increased dra- sectors. In a press conference organized by NBTC * Cleaning according to “Pressure Difference” matically. The total consumption of soft drinks, Kuwait, under the auspices of the Turkish ambas- * Very small footprint juices, energy drinks, and bottled water, in Kuwait sador to Kuwait Murat Tamer, and the presence of * Very low flushing water in 2013 has risen to about 420 million liters of commercial counsellor Karim Doganay and eco- * Working under extreme duty and atmospher- water per year with an average of 120 liters a year nomic counsellor Erdal Esensoy, the General ic conditions. of which 50 million liters of bottled water of an Manager of Timex Osman stated that the recent * Manufacturing under ASME design with average of 14 liters for each person per year. studies of Kuwait market and the region, asserted stamp He noted that according to government state- the increasing need for developed water purifica- * Exceptionally high filtration area & flow per ments, Kuwait will witness construction of huge tion systems for various sectors and the condi- unit projects which may add at least 400 to 500 million tions as well as the atmosphere of the region. * Unique product for OIL & GAS Industry imperial gallons until 2030. “Timex, over a quarter of a century produces * Big improvement on OPEX and CAPEX costs He also pointed out that TIMEX systems for systems, products and various advanced solutions He pointed out that products of the company refining water provide the required tools for pro- for water purification such as advanced automatic have attracted different companies and entities ducing clean water with different degrees of puri- filters that are friendly to the environment and operating in the fields of Oil & Gas Industry, the ty according to the nature of the use through A group of interns at the ‘Durrat Alkhaleej’ Training Center. osmosis systems of different sizes to be used in applications of water injection, Desalination integrated self-cleaning and automatic filters. Philippine senator charged with plunder surrenders

Page 12 TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 4 Syrians killed in Israeli airstrikes Israel’s PM warns warring parties in Syria BEIRUT: The Syrian government said yesterday a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting its troops in retaliation for a deadly cross-border attack killed four people and wound- ed nine others, in its first comment on the overnight inci- dent. It said the attack was a “flagrant violation” of Syrian sovereignty, but in a departure from previous incidents when Israeli warplanes struck targets in Syria, the govern- ment did not vow retaliation. Israel’s prime minister yesterday warned the warring parties in Syria against any attempt to heat up tensions along the disputed frontier, hours after the Israeli air force carried out a string of airstrikes in Syria in response to the attack, which killed an Israeli teenager riding in a civilian vehicle. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would respond with even tougher force if there are any further attacks. “Last night we operated with great force against Syrian targets that acted against us, and if needed we will use additional force,” he told members of his Likud Party. “We will continue to forcefully hurt anyone who attacks us or tries to attack us.” The Israeli military said the air raids struck nine targets in neighboring Syria. A statement issued by Syria’s Foreign Ministry said five Israeli warplanes carried out the raids, which were accompanied by mortar rounds and tank shells. It said four people were killed and nine others wound- ed, adding that the attacks caused extensive damage to Syrian army positions and equipment. It did not provide ALEPPO: Emergency personnel aid an injured man following an alleged airstrike by a Syrian army helicopter in the northern city of Aleppo yesterday. Israeli warplanes further details. struck nine Syrian army positions on the Golan Heights overnight after a Syrian missile killed a teenager on the Israeli-held side of plateau, the army said. — AFP The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, said the Israeli strikes destroyed two tanks, two artillery batteries and the headquarters of Syria’s 90th brigade. The Observatory collects its information through a network of activists inside Syria. The Israeli military said “direct hits were confirmed” on the targets, which were located near the site of Sunday’s violence in the Golan Heights and included a regional military command cen- ter and unspecified “launching positions.” Israel has kept a close eye on the Syrian uprising since it began in March 2011, although it has avoided backing either side. On several occasions, artillery rounds have landed on the Israeli side of the de facto border, drawing limited Israeli reprisals. Israel also has carried out several airstrikes in Syria over the past three years, primarily targeting suspected weapons shipments allegedly destined for Hezbollah mil- itants in neighboring Lebanon. In each of the cases, the Syrian government vowed retaliation, but refrained from taking any action. The latest air raids, however, came after an Israeli civil- ian vehicle was struck by what the Israeli military said was a Kornet anti-tank missile fired from the Syrian side of the border as it drove in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

DEADLY INCIDENT A teenage Israeli boy was killed and two other people were wounded in what was the first deadly incident along the volatile Israeli-Syrian frontier since the start of the Syrian civil war. It was not clear whether the attack was by government troops or rebels. But Israeli officials said suspicion was focused on Syria or its Hezbollah allies, since both are known to possess Kornet missiles. Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau overlooking northern Israel, from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. Its subsequent annexation of the area has never been recognized internationally. Israel has repeatedly said it holds the Syrian govern- ment responsible for any attacks emanating from its terri- tory, regardless of who actually carries them out. Israeli security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to talk to the media, said they did not expect the situation to escalate immediately but that it remains tense. Much would depend on Syria’s response to the Israeli airstrikes, they said. Defense officials have feared that Hezbollah or some other militant group might try to open a new front with Israel at a time when the army is carrying out a broad operation in the West Bank. Thousands of troops have been searching for three teenagers who disappeared on June 12 and are believed to have been kidnapped by Palestinian militants. Sunday’s incident occurred in the area of Tel Hazeka, near the Quneitra crossing. The Observatory said Syrian troops had shelled nearby targets on the Syrian border earlier in the day. Israeli police identified the boy as Mohammed Krakra, 14, of the Arab village of Arabeh in northern Israel. Local media said he had accompanied his father, the truck driv- er, to work. Federman reported from Jerusalem. — AP

ALEPPO: Emergency responders help an elderly woman following a reported barrel-bomb attack by govern- ment forces on the Shaar neighbourhood of the north- ern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday. — AFP p8_Layout 1 6/23/14 10:53 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Syrian rebel groups sending children into war: HRW

BEIRUT: Militant Islamist groups in Syria Motaparthy, the author of the report across the Middle East and spilled over a local mosque that included military armed groups had taken steps to end are recruiting children as young as 15 which drew on the accounts of 25 chil- into neighbouring countries. training and commanders had asked the use of children in the conflict. The and sending them into battle after dren. It said 14-year-old youths had HRW said the number of children children as well as adults to carry out Western-backed Syrian National promising them a free education, a been used in support roles for the fight- fighting in Syria was not known. The suicide attacks, he said. Coalition said it was examining the alle- Human Rights Watch report said yester- ing. Reuters could not independently Violations Documenting Center, a Syrian “Sometimes the commanders would gations. day. The report said the Islamic State in confirm the accounts. The British-based monitoring group, had documented 194 say, “Allah chose you,” and sometimes “We take such allegations extremely Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an deaths of “non-civilian” male children in the fighters volunteered,” Majed said, seriously and are committed to ensuring made rapid territorial gains across the anti-Assad monitoring group, said on the country since September 2011, the according to the report. that anyone responsible for the volun- border in Iraq, had given children Sunday that relatives of kidnapped stu- report said. Many children followed their relatives tary or involuntary recruitment of chil- weapons training in Syria and told them dents in Syria fear that ISIL will use the or friends into the armed groups, while dren is held to account,” it told Human to carry out suicide bombings. children to carry out car bombs or sui- ‘Allah Chose You’ others lived in battle zones without Rights Watch in a letter. Citing personal accounts, the rights cide attacks. The children said they had fought in schooling or other options, HRW said. The Islamic Front, a coalition of sever- group also found evidence of children Syria’s conflict started with peaceful battles, acted as snipers, manned check- Others had taken part in protests or al rebel factions, told HRW it had investi- being mobilised by the more moderate demonstrations for political change in points, treated the wounded on battle- were angry with the government. gated the accounts and found no evi- Western-backed Free Syrian Army, the al 2011 but has descended into a civil war, fields, and brought supplies to front All of the 25 interviewed were boys, dence that its fighters included children. Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, the Islamic pitting forces loyal to President Bashar lines, the report said. but the Kurdish Democratic Union Party “We never arm a young man, or give Front coalition and security forces in al-Assad against a myriad of opposition A 16-year-old boy who gave his name (PYD) police force and its armed wing him the opportunity to join the Front, Kurdish-controlled areas. groups. as Majed said the Nusra Front recruited had enlisted girls to guard checkpoints including the Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic “The horrors of Syria’s armed conflict Infighting among opposition com- him and other boys in the southern city and conduct armed patrols in Kurdish- movement, except after a thorough are only made worse by throwing chil- batants has complicated the conflict, of Deraa near the Jordanian border. controlled areas, the report said. check of his documents, to ascertain he’s dren into the front lines,” said Priyanka which has stirred sectarian tensions The group provided free schooling at Human Rights Watch said some over 18,” it told HRW. —Reuters Iran, Russia to finalise new nuke plants deal

TEHRAN: Iran is moving to finalise plans before the end of this year, both the sup- with Russia to build at least two more plement to the intergovernmental agree- nuclear power plants on the Islamic repub- ment and the relevant contracts,” he told lic’s southern Gulf shores, media reports Russian agencies. Oil-rich Iran says it wants said yesterday. The announcement came as to operate at least 20 nuclear power plants Russia’s Rosatom deputy chief Nikolai capable of producing 20,000 megawatts of Spassky arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit electricity, as a way of decreasing depend- during which he will meet senior nuclear ency on its vast oil and gas resources. officials. “It is possible that in addition to the two Spassky will also meet Deputy Foreign nuclear power plants, we will also discuss Minister Abbas Araqchi, a senior negotiator further power plants,” Kamalvandi said. The in talks with world powers on Iran’s nuclear Bushehr power plant that came online in ambitions, the official IRNA news agency 2011 uses Russian-provided nuclear fuel, reported. and is not of international concern. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation However, Western powers in ongoing talks spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said that with Iran are seeking to ensure that its oth- after months of negotiations, the deal with er controversial nuclear activities-including Moscow would be signed this week, the enrichment of uranium-are of a purely civil- ISNA news agency reported. ian nature, and that Tehran will never be Under a provisional agreement, Russia able to acquire an atomic bomb. will build two more 1,000-megawatt plants A new round of talks is scheduled for next to Iran’s sole existing plant in the July 2 in Vienna, as Iran and the five perma- southern Gulf port city of Bushehr. nent members of the UN Security Council No further details have been reported. plus Germany work to transform an interim In Moscow, Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko deal into a lasting accord by a self-imposed confirmed the talks were “in the final July 20 deadline. stages”, but added that the deal could be Under such an agreement, Iran’s nuclear signed by the end of the year, rather than work will be curbed and subject to this week. increased monitoring in exchange for the “Talks are ongoing and they are in the lifting of painful sanctions choking its oil- final stages. We are expecting to sign reliant economy. — AFP Libyans to elect parliament WEST BANK: Israeli soldiers look for three missing Israeli teens, feared abducted in the West Bank in the town of Halhul near the West Bank city in polls key to stability of Hebron yesterday. Israel has arrested more than 350 Palestinians, most affiliated with the Islamic militant Hamas, and raidedsome 1,600 locations.— AP TRIPOLI: Libyans are to elect a new parlia- candidates, with 32 seats in the 200-strong ment yesterday, in a vote seen as crucial for GNC reserved for women and would-be the future of a country hit by months of MPs banned from belonging to any politi- Israel arrests 37 in West political chaos and growing unrest. In the cal party. past few weeks, Libya has been rocked by a The electoral commission has stressed it crisis that saw two rival cabinets jostling for is seeking only “individual candidates”-not power while violence raged in the east, necessarily independents but those with Bank, manhunt drags on where a rogue general is battling Islamists. no declared political affiliations. Jihadists and other militias who helped topple dictator Moamer Kadhafi in the ‘Shadow MPs’ 2011 NATO-backed uprising have been For the analyst Soltan, none of the can- Crushing blow to Islamist movement blamed for violence that has continued didates standing in the elections “carry the unabated since the end of the revolt. political or social weight” needed in the JERUSALEM: Israeli troops detained 37 were freed during a 2011 prisoner swap deal to encounter problems in mustering enough evi- The heavily armed rebels that ousted assembly. Palestinians in the West Bank during the night as secure the release of Gilad Shalit, a soldier held dence to put many of the detainees on trial. Ghadafi have carved out their own fief- The new parliament risks “being run by its arrest campaign entered its 11th day yester- in Gaza for five years by Hamas, the army said. Yediot Aharonot ran a similar story saying doms in the deeply tribal country, some shadow MPs, who will act according to day, with no sign of three teenagers thought Despite the operation, there has been no that within days the focus would be on more even seizing oil terminals and crippling instructions from warlords and militias,” he kidnapped by Hamas. claim of responsibility and no sign of the missing searches and fewer arrests. crude exports from a sector key to govern- said. Since the youths disappeared from a hitch- youngsters, although military spokesman “The IDF will focus on looking for the kid- ment revenues. In the more immediate future, however, hiking stop in the southern West Bank on June General Motti Almoz said on Sunday that all napped teenagers in the Hebron sector and the Commentators have warned violence there are concerns the violence will ruin 12, Israel has been rounding up hundreds of information indicated they “are alive”. Etzion (settlement) bloc, but arrests will be cut could scupper the vote, but the authorities the election, particular in the unrest-hit Palestinians in a bid to find them, while also back significantly,” the paper said. are confident it will go ahead without dis- east. “Generally, we are optimistic, but there dealing a crushing blow to the Islamist move- Operation Brother’s Keeper There was no immediate comment on the ruptions. There are hopes a new General is a risk that the vote will be disrupted in ment’s West Bank network. Pundits said Operation Brother’s Keeper was reports by the army. Palestinian president National Congress, or parliament, will work some polling stations, namely in Benghazi But with tensions rising among the “nearing its end in the present format” and Mahmud Abbas has denounced the abductions to resolve the power struggle between lib- and Derna,” strongholds of Islamists in east- Palestinian population over the crackdown would be refocused ahead of the start next week and defended his security forces’ ongoing coop- erals and Islamists that has stymied efforts ern Libya, an electoral official told AFP. which has seen four Palestinians killed by troops of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. eration with their Israeli counterparts to try to to reform Libya and brought it to its knees. Last week, the government instructed over the past week, commentators believe the “The defence establishment is troubled by locate the missing boys. “The crisis facing the country has been the interior ministry and the armed forces campaign is about to shift focus to intelligence the increase in the number of Palestinian casual- But there are growing signs of Palestinian caused by GNC members who have deviat- to come up with a security plan for the gathering rather than mass arrests. ties and the possibility that the confrontations frustration with their own security forces, with ed from the democratic path,” said analyst vote. The task is not expected to be easy. “Overnight, the forces detained 37 suspects will spill over into the month of Ramadan, which angry protesters hurling rocks a Ramallah police Salem Soltan. The GNC, which has served Authorities have been struggling to and searched 80 locations, specifically in the starts in less than a week,” wrote Haaretz defence station early on Sunday, smashing the windows as Libya’s highest political authority since build a strong army and police force and area north west of Hebron, Beit Awwa (south- correspondent Amos Harel. of two police cars. Kadhafi’s ouster, was elected in July 2012, now face defections from members of the west of Hebron) and also in (the northern city “The IDF (army) would likely prefer to signifi- Israeli rights groups on Sunday wrote to in the country’s first ever free polls. security forces who have joined the ranks of) Jenin,” a spokeswoman said. cantly reduce the size of its deployment and Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon to denounce the But it has been mired in controversy and of rogue general Khalifa Haftar who is bat- So far, troops have arrested 361 people, return to more focused intelligence gathering,” crackdown which they branded “collective pun- accused of hogging power, with successive tling Islamists in Benghazi. among them 250 Hamas members and 57 who he said, indicating that the military was likely to ishment” and a violation of basic rights. — AFP governments complaining its role as the Haftar, accused by authorities of trying executive and legislative authority has tied to mount a coup, said he would observe a their hands in taming militias. truce during the vote, but the Islamists did The crisis came to a head in February not divulge their intentions. Planned Yemen ceasefire when the assembly, whose term had been A Western diplomat, meanwhile, warned due to expire, decided to prolong its man- against electoral fraud and said the next date until December. The move sparked challenge would be if Libyans rally around street protests and forced lawmakers to the vote. “The challenge is not holding an with Shi ite rebels falters announce the election. election. The success of the vote will Almost 3.5 million Libyans are eligible to depend on whether all influential players in SANAA: A planned ceasefire Policemen clashed with armed fol- vote but only 1.5 million have registered, the country will accept its results.” between the Yemeni government and lowers of the Houthi movement - according to officials, a far cry from the Tomorrow’s vote will be held between Shi’ite rebels failed to take effect yes- named after their leader’s tribe - in a more than 2.7 registered voters two years 0600 and 1800 GMT at 1,601 polling sta- terday, hours after both sides pub- standoff outside the group’s political ago.Voters will choose from among 1,628 tions scattered across the country. — AP lished the terms of a truce to end bureau in Sanaa on Saturday. US- fighting in and around the capital allied Yemen, an impoverished coun- Sanaa. Security sources said clashes try of 25 million that shares a long continued in the city of Amran in border with the world’s top oil Yemen’s north. The Houthi insurgents exporter Saudi Arabia has been in tur- - named after the tribe of their leader moil since 2011 when mass protests - as well as the defense ministry’s forced veteran president Ali Abdullah newspaper, 26 September, posted Saleh to step down. details of the ceasefire on their web- At least 200 people have been sites late on Sunday. killed this year in battles pitting the But a local official said it had yet to insurgents against the government go into effect. “What was published in and tribal allies. Officials say the the media as a ceasefire is in actual Houthis, who have fought short but fact just a vision of how to end the devastating wars with government war,” Ahmed al-Bekry, deputy gover- forces since 2004, are getting nor of Amran said on his facebook weapons from Iran. The rebels deny page, adding that neither the military this, saying they seek autonomy and nor the Shi’ite Houthi rebels had less US interference in Yemen’s affairs. signed the deal. The fighting in northern Yemen, NAJAF: Iraqi Shiite volunteers, with the Labayk ya Hussein Brigade Since the breakdown last week of a which has taken on a sectarian tone, (Hussein at your service), take part in a training session in the previous truce reached at the begin- has further unsettled a country shrine city of Najaf, in central Iraq, yesterday after they volun- ning of the month, government forces struggling to overcome many prob- teered to protect the Shiite holy sites in central and south Iraq in and allied tribesmen have struggled lems, including a secessionist move- case of an attack by militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and TRIPOLI: Cars drive past parliamentary campaign posters in the capital Tripoli yester- to halt the militants’ advance on vil- ment in its restive South and the the Levant (ISIL). Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al- day. Libyans are to elect a new parliament today, in a vote seen as crucial for the lages just 25 miles (40 km) northwest nationwide spread of Al-Qaeda mili- Sistani said that Sunni jihadists who have overrun swathes of terri- future of a country hit by months of political chaos and growing unrest. —AFP of the capital. tants. —Reuters tory must be expelled from the country before it is too late. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Sudan release woman on Mormon woman awaits death row for apostasy

KHARTOUM: A Sudanese woman on death row for apostasy decision on excommunication had her sentence canceled and was released by a Khartoum court yesterday, her lawyer and state media said. State news agency SUNA said the Court of Cassation can- celed the death sentence against 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim after defense lawyers presented their case. Her Accused of apostasy lawyer, Eman Abdul-Rahim, told The Associated Press that Ibrahim has left prison and is with her husband and two small children, who had been with her in jail. SALT LAKE CITY: The founder of a prominent Mormon in church, but aren’t allowed to be bishops of congregations her response, spokeswoman Laurie Turner said in a statement. Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but who was raised by women’s group could find out later yesterday if she will be or presidents of stakes. Stakes are made up of up to a dozen It says the bishop wants to weigh the decision, and he will her Christian mother, was convicted of apostasy for marrying excommunicated from her church. Kate Kelly, an international congregations, known as wards. The church’s highest leaders, notify her likely. a Christian. Sudan’s penal code criminalizes the conversion of human rights lawyer, said she stands behind everything she called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, are also all men. Whatever the outcome, Kelly said she will always be Muslims to other religions, a crime punishable by death. has done since forming Ordain Women in 2013. The group The church says only men serve in the lay clergy as pre- Mormon. “I don’t feel like Mormonism is something that wash- Ibrahim married a Christian man from southern Sudan in advocates for gender equality in the faith, with the ultimate scribed in “the pattern set by the Savior when it comes to es off,” she said. “That identity is not something that they can a church ceremony in 2011. As in many Muslim nations, goal of allowing women in the lay clergy. Kelly insists that she priesthood ordination.” Kelly’s former church leaders met in take from me.” Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non- has not spoken out against church leaders or church doctrine. Virginia on Sunday in a disciplinary hearing, but no decision Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith.Ibrahim has a son, 18-month-old Martin, who was living Kelly said she was shocked to find out earlier this month was announced. Kelly did not attend the hearing in her former Positive support with her in jail, where she gave birth to a second child last from her bishop that she is facing excommunication from The congregation. Instead, she sent a letter she wrote and about Similar vigils were held in 17 countries, according to Ordain month. By law, children must follow their father’s religion. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she is a 1,000 letters from supporters. She also attended a vigil in Salt Women. “I’m overwhelmed by the positive support, and I think The sentence drew international condemnation, with lifelong member. She is accused of apostasy, defined as Lake City attended by about 200 supporters. it really demonstrates that this isn’t just happening to one per- Amnesty International calling it “abhorrent.” The US State repeated and public advocacy of positions that oppose The bishop of her former congregation emailed Kelly to tell son,” Kelly said before the vigil started. “This isn’t just happen- Department said it was “deeply disturbed” by the sentence church teachings. Women can hold many leadership positions her he and other leaders considered her status and reviewed ing to me, but it feels like the entire Mormon feminist commu- and called on the Sudanese government to respect religious nity is being put on trial.” freedoms. Yesterday, US Rep. Chris Smith, who had met with Mormon officials aren’t discussing Kelly’s case specifically. the Sudanese Ambassador to discuss Ibrahim’s case, They say they are open to questions and sincere conversations described the release as “a huge first step.” —AP about the faith, but that some members’ actions “contradict church doctrine and lead others astray.” “In the Church, we want everyone to feel welcome, safe and valued, and of course, there is room to ask questions,” church spokeswoman Ally Isom said. “But how we ask is just as important as what we ask. We should not try to dictate to God what is right for his Church.” Kelly’s group drew rebukes from church leaders in April when they marched on church property in downtown Salt Lake City’s Temple Square. The women asked to be allowed in a meeting reserved for members of the priesthood, which includes most males in the church who are 12 and older. Church leaders had previously told the group they wouldn’t be let in and warned them not to disturb the faith’s biannual general conference that weekend. Kelly is one of two well-known Mormons facing excommu- nication. John Dehlin, an outspoken advocate for gays and the creator of a website that provides a forum for church mem- bers questioning their faith, has a meeting with his stake pres- ident in Logan on June 29 to discuss his case. Scholars who study the Mormon religion say Kelly and Dehlin are the most high-profile examples of excommunica- tion proceedings since 1993. That year, the church disciplined six Mormon writers who questioned church doctrine, ousting five and kicking out a sixth temporarily. Jan Shipps, a retired religion professor from Indiana who is a non-Mormon expert on the church, said church leaders are SALT LAKE CITY: In this Sunday, photo, Kate Kelly, the founder of Ordain Women, a prominent Mormon women’s practicing “boundary maintenance,” using Kelly and Dehlin as group, walks with supporters to the Church Office Building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dur- examples to show people how far they can go in questioning ing a vigil, in Salt Lake City. Kelly could find out if she will be excommunicated from her church. — AP church practices. — AP Resort hotel also serves as military test site FORT WALTON BEACH: To the tourists who those things sticking out of it were lightning frolic in the crystal-blue surf of this pictur- rods.” The hotel was a win for both sides. It esque, white-sand beach, the Fort Walton allowed the military to make use of small Beach Holiday Inn Resort looks like, well, a section of beachfront it owns on Okaloosa Holiday Inn with a large beach ball statue on Island that is cut off by commercial develop- top. But to military officials, it is known as ments from the rest of the Eglin’s more than Eglin Air Force Range Test Site A5. 17-mile expanse of beach, Spaits said. The The combination resort hotel and military military couldn’t make good use of the land test site opened in late May in an unusual for beach training exercises or test missions partnership between the military and pri- without building a tower or other structure vate business in a time of tighter military to place equipment above the surrounding budgets. In exchange for allowing the hotels, restaurants and shopping centers. Innisfree Hotel company to build the 152- Innisfree is paying the military about room resort on Air Force land, the military $190,000 a year in rent, the Air Force said. was able to construct a rooftop station that It allowed the hotel company to build on receives radar signals and a secure confer- a prime beachfront site surrounded by pop- ence room for classified meetings. The dome ular attractions such as the Gulfarium marine hiding the military equipment is painted red, park and the nearby convention center, said white, blue and yellow like a beach ball. Ivana Coteat, the hotel’s sales director. While the Air Force has done other proj- ects with private companies before, this is Perfect location the first time it has ever merged a base with “This is a perfect location. You can see us a hotel, said Mike Spaits, the base right from the bridge on Highway 98. You spokesman. The dome was added to the cannot miss us,” she said. radar installation to make it “less military and People from the area who know about more visitor-friendly,” said Wesley Mason, a the arrangement occasionally ask for a tour contractor who helped develop the project. of the roof, but it is off-limits, Coteat said. Outside, tourists with drinks in hand floated Chris Nixon, who oversees testing at the through the landscaped, beach-front pool range, said Test Site A5 is a coveted posting featuring a rocky waterfall fountain. Inside, for workers who monitor testing and equip- families browsed the beach-themed gift ment because of its view overlooking the shop and dined at a restaurant overlooking pool and the beach. the pool. “It is a popular place to work,” he said with a laugh. The roof also features a small Limited conference room where military officials, The military presence is unobtrusive and including Brig. Gen. limited to a few people, often contract David Harris, commander of Eglin’s 96th employees without uniforms, who work on Test Wing, can hold classified conversations. the roof. Lamon Moody, a hotel guest from But Harris said the most important benefit of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, relaxed on the the partnership is the morale boost it pro- beach with his family on a recent afternoon. vides military families who get discounted Moody said he had no idea the beach ball rates at the resort. covered military equipment. “Young airmen who would never get a “I think that’s pretty cool. I’m in favor of chance to stay in place like this can bring anything that helps out the military,” he said. their families for some R and R,” he said. Another vacationer, Jeff Harwell of Fort Nathan King, a range telemetry engineer for Worth, Texas, said he and his family had Eglin Air Force Base who sometimes works at speculated about the giant beach ball. Test Site A5 jokes that the atmosphere can “We talked about it when we were first be “distracting” at times.“It is definitely an noticed it,” he said. “We thought maybe interesting place to work,” King said. — AP p10 2_Layout 1 6/23/14 11:01 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Kenyan jets hit al Shabaab bases in Somalia, kill 80

MOGADISHU: Kenyan fighter jets have than 30 al Shabaab fighters dead, three last year. envoy described as “ghost towns”. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for attacked two bases belonging to technical vehicles and one Land Cruiser AMISOM said al Shabaab had lost They say al Shabaab still controls last week’s attack on the Kenyan coastal Islamist al Shabaab insurgents in loaded with ammunition destroyed,” control of more than 10 major towns in tracts of countryside, making it difficult town of Mpeketoni that killed about 65 Somalia and killed at least 80 militants, AMISOM said. More than 50 rebels were the new push by African troops, includ- for supplies to be moved to the towns. people, although Kenyan President African Union peacekeepers there said killed in the Kuday raid, it added. ing soldiers from Uganda, Djibouti, Somalia’s government is struggling to Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed al Shabaab’s yesterday. The African Union Mission in Kenya first sent its troops into neigh- Ethiopia, Burundi and Sierra Leone. impose order since the AU peacekeep- account and said local politicians were Somalia (AMISOM), whose soldiers bouring Somalia in 2011 after several “AMISOM continues to up the pres- ers, backed by Somali troops, drove al behind it. launched a new offensive against al attacks inside its territory that it blamed sure on al Shabaab with a view to liber- Shabaab out of the capital Mogadishu in In a separate incident, an al Shabaab Shabaab this year, said Kenyan planes on al Shabaab, and later joined the ating more areas in forthcoming opera- 2011. spokesman said the group had attacked carried out the raids on Anole and peacekeeping force. The militants have tions,” the force said. Officials and diplo- More than two decades of conflict Kenyan troops near the border with Kuday in the southern Lower Jubba since carried out a string of assaults to mats have said towns cleared of Al have left Somalia in ruins, while al Kenya on Monday morning and had region. It did not say when they took punish Kenya for its intervention. Al Shabaab are in a dire state, with food Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has continued burned four trucks, killing those inside. place. Shabaab fighters killed at least 67 peo- stocks emptied and largely abandoned guerrilla-style attacks and suicide bomb- Kenya’s defence forces denied there “The air strikes in Anole left more ple in a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall by their inhabitants, creating what one ings. was any such fight. — Reuters

Kenya protest over ‘grass cutter’ gang rape case

BUSIA: Hundreds of protesters marched from the rape. The case made global head- through a Kenyan town yesterday demand- lines after it emerged that three of the ing justice for a schoolgirl who was brutally alleged rapists whom Liz identified were gang raped, ahead of the trial of suspects ordered by police to cut grass around the who were originally punished by being police station as punishment. made to cut grass. Police chief David Kimaiyo later cast “We have come out to demand justice doubt on Liz’s testimony, saying in for our girls,” said Jennifer Lucheli, 45, November that the time between her mother of five, as she marched through the screams for help and villagers coming to streets of the western Kenyan town, near her rescue was “too short for six assailants the border with Uganda. to have gang raped her”. Worldwide outrage over the punish- But the public prosecutor then ordered ment last year prompted over 1.7 million the suspects to be charged with gang rape. people to sign a petition demanding jus- “Rape has been so rampant in this area that tice. The protest comes a day ahead of the we can’t sit back, we need to stop the opening of a trial of at least one of those appalling criminal act,” said Joy Musumba, accused of carrying out the attack. 25, holding a placard that read “slashing The 16-year-old victim, known by the grass is not punishment for rape.” pseudonym Liz, was reportedly attacked, Business at the usually busy border beaten and then raped by six men as she town came to a standstill as residents and returned from her grandfather’s funeral in traders were caught by surprise by the western Kenya in June 2013. protest, with men on motorbike taxis join- The gang dumped her, bleeding and ing the march, honking horns as they drove unconscious, in a deep sewage ditch. She alongside. suffered a broken back, caused either by “We demand justice for Liz,” placards the beating or by being hurled down into carried by the protestors read. “Liz is just the pit, as well as serious internal injuries like me,” another sign read. — AFP Cameron ally accuses EU leaders of duplicity KIEV: A girl says goodbye to her boyfriend, a new volunteer recruit of the Ukrainian army ‘Azov’ battalion, after a military oath ceremony in Kiev and before his contingent heads to eastern regions, yesterday. Some 600 new volunteer recruits of the battalion, mainly representatives of the over Juncker pick eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, who followed combat training during three weeks will take part in the military operation against armed pro-Russian militants in the east of the country. — AFP LONDON: One of British Prime Minister Cameron discuss Juncker over coffee and David Cameron’s top allies yesterday biscuits. accused European leaders of duplicity over Cameron has made it clear he wants to the possible choice of Jean-Claude Juncker try to force an unprecedented vote on Ukraine urges Merkel, EU as European Commission president, some- Juncker’s candidacy if Van Rompuy seeks to thing London wants to block. push it through later this week. Speaking before a meeting between Such decisions are usually taken on the Cameron and European Council President basis of consensus without a vote. But help end pro-Russian revolt Herman Van Rompuy in London later on Cameron’s vote tactic is designed to flag up Monday, George Osborne, the finance min- his disappointment with what he sees as ister, suggested EU leaders were being others’ duplicity on the issue and to show Russia insists week-long unilateral ceasefire be extended upbeat about Juncker publicly but nega- the British media and public that he tried tive privately. hard even if, as expected, he fails to block KIEV: Ukraine pressed German Chancellor government forces in their campaign to gain the rebels despite the recent crossing of Russian “I think there’s a rather odd phenome- Juncker. Angela Merkel and other Western allies yester- independence and eventually join Russia-a drive tanks and rocket launchers across the porous non at the moment which does happen Some EU insiders say Cameron’s tactics day to help settle a pro-Russian uprising that has thus fur resisted by the Kremlin. border and into the conflict zone. believe it or not in politics which is people have so far been deeply misguided, betray- raged on in the industrial east despite Kiev’s uni- Poroshenko’s office said he told Merkel by are saying quite a lot of things privately ing a misunderstanding of the consensual lateral ceasefire. telephone that the rebels had attacked govern- Mixed Putin signals which they’re not saying publicly,” Osborne way in which the EU works. President Petro Poroshenko conducted ment positions “more than 20 times” over the EU leaders are still trying to decipher Putin’s told BBC radio. Aides have said Cameron thought from another furious round of telephone diplomacy weekend in apparent rejection of Putin’s own true intentions in what one analyst in Moscow Osborne’s comments reflect deep frus- private discussions that some other EU as his foreign minister prepared to outline the call on Saturday for both sides to halt fire. called the Kremlin’s “cat and mouse game” with tration in Britain about the way the EU is leaders shared his views about Juncker and details of Kiev’s new peace plan to EU foreign A Ukrainian military spokesman said yester- the West. Putin has in recent days both come out handling the appointment after Cameron’s the flawed nature of the selection process, ministers in Luxembourg. day that six Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in support of Poroshenko’s peace efforts and attempts to try to build an alliance against but their position changed when it came to Poroshenko was due to sign an historic EU overnight. ordered fresh military exercises across a vast the 59-year-old former prime minister of speaking out publicly . trade agreement in Brussels on Friday, crowning The 48-year-old chocolate baron stressed swathe of central Russia that immediately drew Luxembourg collapsed. On Sunday, Iain Duncan Smith, minister his May 25 election promise to make the deci- that the direct involvement of world leaders notice in Kiev. Britain opposes Juncker because it for work and pensions, said Cameron had sive move closer to Europe that the regime top- such as Merkel was instrumental in resolving a Russian actions present “a bit of a mixed pic- believes his federalist views mean he is not told him that Germany and Italy harboured pled by protests in February resisted. crisis that has both threatened his country’s sur- ture,” an EU official said. Ukrainian Foreign the right person to drive reform, something concerns about Juncker’s suitability for the The new president’s high-stakes peace push vival and plunged East-West relations to a post- Minister Pavlo Klimkin was due to outline Kiev’s Cameron has promised to deliver if re- job too. envisions talks with eastern representatives but Cold War low. persistent concerns about Russia during talks in elected next year. London also strongly But he said they felt obliged to back him not rebel leaders-a condition that Russian “The involvement of Merkel and other world Luxembourg with EU foreign policy chief believes that EU leaders, and not the because of promises they had made before President Vladimir Putin says will not help end leaders is critically important to a settlement of Catherine Ashton. European Parliament as in Juncker’s case, last month’s European elections in which the 11-week revolt. the conflict in eastern Ukraine,” his office quoted Some analysts believe Putin-still stung by the should nominate candidates. Eurosceptic parties prospered in Britain Putin threw his weight behind Poroshenko’s Poroshenko as telling Merkel by phone on loss of an ally in Kiev who could have brought The matter is likely to come to a head and elsewhere. plan over the weekend under the condition that Sunday. The White House said Poroshenko deliv- Ukraine into a new alliance of post-Soviet when EU leaders meet in Belgium on “If they give Jean-Claude Juncker a job, it also leads to constitutional changes that grant ered a similar message to US Vice President Joe nations being assembled by the Kremlin-is try- Thursday and Friday this week with Britain this is like literally flicking two fingers at the broader rights to ethnic Russians who view the Biden. Both Washington and its European allies ing to unsettle the new team and keep reins on looking increasingly isolated on the issue. rest of Europe and saying to all the people more nationalist leaders now in power in Kiev have threatened Russia with biting sanctions the Russified southeast while avoiding new out there ‘we know that you voted the way with mistrust. Russia yesterday also insisted that against entire sectors of its economy should sanctions. Washington imposed travel bans and Private and Public Views did, but you’re wrong and we’re just going the week-long unilateral ceasefire that Putin fail to take substantial steps to de-escalate asset freezes against another seven Ukraine sep- Van Rompuy’s London meeting is likely to show you how wrong you are by carry- Poroshenko ordered on Friday evening be the crisis and end his perceived support for the aratists on Friday. It also wants to see more to be frosty. Due to be held just after lunch, ing on as though nothing happened’,” he extended over the long term. “At the moment, a rebel cause. Biden told Poroshenko that determination from EU nations that are still fear- bonhomie will be in short supply as he and said. — Reuters durable ceasefire is needed as an irreversible Washington was “working closely with its G7 ful of jeopardising hugely important trade ties condition for starting practical steps towards a partners to prepare further economic sanctions with Russia. binding dialogue,” Russian Foreign Minister against Russia if Moscow did not... stop the flow The EU has so far imposed asset freezes and Sergei Lavrov’s office said after his talks with of arms and militants across the border and use visa bans on more than 60 people as part of German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. its influence to publicly call on the separatists to “Phase 2” punitive measures. But it has baulked Insurgency commanders have rejected lay down their arms,” the White House said. at broader sectoral sanctions-so-called “Phase 3” Poroshenko’s overtures and continued attacking The Kremlin has firmly denied helping arm measures tha would hurt both sides. —AFP

Poland’s PM stands by ministers in leaked tapes

WARSAW: Poland’s prime minister Luxembourg as he arrived for a “(We are) suckers, total suckers.” head Marek Belka and Interior defied expectations yesterday that meeting of European Union foreign Sikorski also said the alliance Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz he would dismiss officials whose ministers. “We don’t yet know who with the US could alienate two key where they discussed how the compromising conversations were stands behind it; we are not certain neighbors of Poland: Russia and bank could help the governing par- caught on tape in a government yet. But it is being checked and I Germany. ty win re-election in 2015, a seem- scandal the foreign minister says hope the justice system determines Earlier, Wprost released a con- ing violation of the bank’s inde- was orchestrated by organized the identities of the group mem- versation between Central Bank pendence. — AP crime. bers and, above all, of the master- Donald Tusk said he will not be minds.” He offered no proof for his dictated by the people who were statement. Critics have demanded behind these “criminal” actions and that Tusk’s center-right government will not punish his ministers for resign since the conversations of using bad language. top leaders started being leaked He spoke a day after the maga- more than a week ago. zine Wprost released a transcript of Eavesdropping is a crime under a leaked conversation in which Polish law. The magazine says the Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski recordings came from a “business- says Poland’s alliance with the US is man” who did not do the taping worthless and harmful for the east- and they were made in the private ern European country. Last week VIP rooms of Warsaw restaurants. Wprost also released a transcript of In the transcript released by a compromising conversation Wprost, Sikorski used vulgar terms between the interior minister and while telling former finance minis- the head of Poland’s national bank. ter, Jacek Rostowski, the Polish-US Sikorski asserted yesterday that alliance is not helping Poland. organized crime is behind the “The Polish-American alliance LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, shakes hands with President secret recordings. “The government isn’t worth anything. It is even WARSAW: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski delivers a state- of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, prior to their meeting, inside 10 was attacked by an organized harmful because it gives Poland a ment on the bugging scandal that has rocked Polish government yes- Downing Street, London, yesterday. — AP crime group,” Sikorski said in false sense of security,” Sikorski said. terday in Warsaw. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 India to open civilian nuke programme to greater scrutiny

NEW DELHI: India said yesterday it was ratifying an a club of countries that trade in nuclear materials, large surplus of weapons-grade uranium from mid- could help unlock tens of billions of dollars in U.S.- agreement with the International Atomic Energy without first signing a treaty that seeks to curb the 2015. The plant would be able to produce an esti- led investment in new nuclear generation capacity. Agency (IAEA) to expand oversight of its civilian spread of nuclear weapons. mated 160 kg of weapons grade uranium a year - Yet as recently as a year ago, talks on India join- nuclear programme, in a move aimed at unblocking There would be “no gain for non-proliferation” enough for five atom bombs - in excess of the ing the group were being slowed by the prospect a major nuclear partnership with the United States. said Tariq Rauf, a former senior IAEA official now at needs of India’s planned fleet of nuclear-powered that its accession might trigger similar demands by The ratification sends a strong signal that Prime the Stockholm International Peace Research submarines, IHS Jane’s said. other countries that have not signed the NPT, such Minister Narendra Modi, elected by a landslide last Institute. India, which first tested a nuclear weapon Indian officials have shown displeasure over the as Pakistan, to join. “India sees its ratification of its month, wants to bolster strategic and trade ties in 1974, is not a party to the Non-Proliferation report, with a newspaper quoting one saying it was Additional Protocol as an arrow in its quiver sup- with the United States when he meets President Treaty. That means its military nuclear programme “mischievously” timed to influence a meeting this porting its quest for NSG membership,” said Mark Barack Obama in Washington in September. “I can is not subject to inspections by the IAEA, the United week of the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group Hibbs, a nuclear expert at US think-tank the confirm that we are ratifying the Additional Nations nuclear watchdog. (NSG) in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. Carnegie Endowment. Protocol to the IAEA Safeguards Agreement,” said Both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons But the lack of verification of India’s weapons Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman for the Ministry of in 1998, setting off an arms race between neigh- Additional Protocol programme, which contrasts with tighter controls External Affairs. The move signals India’s commit- bours that have fought three wars since independ- Following the U.S.-India nuclear deal, the IAEA in on NPT signatories, would continue to be a concern. ment “to the responsible use of nuclear power”, ence. That in turn has raised tensions with Asian 2009 approved the Additional Protocol, intended to “India’s entire nuclear weapons programme is Akbaruddin added, confirming earlier domestic superpower China, Pakistan’s patron. clear the way for the NSG to grant India a waiver to totally outside the scope of its Additional Protocol,” reports. No comment was available from the IAEA. In a report last week, a defence research group trade with other countries in the civilian nuclear Hibbs added. “It isn’t clear to most people what the Yet critics say the pact fails to address concerns said one Indian enrichment facility was undergoing field. Ratification is a key step towards separating utility of the Additional Protocol in India is as a veri- that India could as a result get its foot in the door of an expansion and could be capable of producing a India’s civilian and military nuclear operations, and fication instrument.” — Reuters Afghanistan’s chief Bangladesh sentence 8 electoral officer resigns KABUL: Afghanistan’s chief electoral officer their combat mission and international aid to death in bombing case resigned yesterday in a bid to resolve a politi- declines. Both candidates have promised to cal crisis over allegations of massive fraud in sign a security pact with the Obama adminis- DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court sentenced eight the runoff presidential vote earlier this tration that would allow nearly 10,000 Islamists to death yesterday for a 2001 bomb attack month. American forces to remain in the country in a that killed 10 people and wounded scores more dur- Zia ul-Haq Amarkhail told reporters yes- training capacity and to conduct counterter- ing the country’s main celebrations for the Bengali terday that he denies any involvement in rorism operations. The delay in the New Year. The head of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jihad al fraud but he is stepping down “for the announcement of a winner would mean Islami (HuJI) outfit, Mufti Abdul Hannan, was among national interest.” One of the two candidates, another delay in finalizing that agreement. the eight sentenced to hang for planning and carrying Abdullah Abdullah has said his campaign out the bombing in Dhaka’s main park. monitors had recorded ballot box stuffing Unrealistic lead It was one of the first deadly attacks by an extrem- and other irregularities. He suspended coop- Abdullah and Karzai have proposed that ist Islamist group in the country. Metropolitan ses- eration with the vote counting process and the UN step in to mediate between the par- sions judge Ruhul Amin also sentenced six others to demanded Amarkhail be suspended. The cri- ties, and the UN mission in Afghanistan has life in prison for setting off two bombs under a tree sis has threatened what Western officials had said it stands ready to assist. Abdullah, a for- while thousands of revellers celebrated the first day of hoped would be a peaceful transfer of mer foreign minister who was the runner-up the Bengali New Year in April 2001. The attack was authority. in Karzai’s disputed re-election in 2009, won captured live on television, with the scenes of carnage Amarkhail defended the conduct of the the first round but failed to gain the majority triggering widespread outrage. June 14 balloting and called on Abdullah to needed to avoid a runoff. He raised his allega- “The attack was carried out to destabilise the resume relations with the Independent tions before any results were released, saying country and create panic,” Judge Amin said as he Election Commission and honor an agree- he had to act pre-emptively because reports delivered the verdict before a packed courtroom in ment he had signed to respect its decisions. by some 50,000 campaign monitors Dhaka’s old city. “The first day of the Bengali New Year “I want say that there has not been any deployed at the polls showed Ahmadzai is a universal celebration. This celebration is not tied pressure on me to resign,” he said at a news coming from behind with an unrealistic lead. to any religious or political group,” he added. The conference. “The only reason for my resigna- Ahmadzai, a former finance minister and Bengali New Year, celebrated on April 14, is the most tion is the national interest of my country so an ex-World Bank official, issued no direct important secular festival for the 155 million ethnic now Dr. Abdullah should end his boycott public comment, but his spokesmen have Bengalis in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. Hundreds of and ... and should respect the code of con- called for patience and to wait for final thousands traditionally gather and sing under a duct that he had signed with the commission results. According to the election commis- banyan tree in the capital’s historic Ramna Park and DHAKA: A Bangladeshi Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami leader is flanked by police officers as he on the first day.” sion’s official timetable, preliminary results the nearby grounds of Dhaka University. Prosecutors appears in court in Dhaka yesterday. A Bangladeshi court sentenced eight Islamists to death Abdullah is running against Ashraf Ghani are due on July 2, then final results on July said HuJI militants plotted the attack when they gath- for a 2001 bomb attack targeting new year celebrations in the capital Dhaka that left 10 peo- Ahmadzai in the race to replace President 23. Karzai has set Aug. 2 as the date for the ered at a mosque in Dhaka several weeks earlier. ple dead. “The attack was carried out to destabilise the country and create panic,” Judge Ruhul Hamid Karzai, who is constitutionally barred new president to be inaugurated. Amid the Amin said as he delivered the verdict in a crowded court in Dhaka’s old city. — AFP from seeking a third term. The standoff has chaos, violence has continued to plague the ‘Heinous and unprecedented’ upended the process after the Afghans country. trying to assassinate the British high commissioner war against Pakistan. Experts say the death sentences “It was a heinous attack and unprecedented in our (ambassador) four years earlier in a grenade attack. against HuJI militants and their leader are unlikely to received praise for a relatively smooth first Yesterday, the Taleban released 33 profes- history,” prosecutor Abdullah Abu told reporters after round of voting on April 5, when millions of sors and students abducted nearly two Bangladesh saw mass protests last year when sev- trigger new protests since the outfit ceased to be a the verdicts were announced.”We’re happy with the eral senior Islamists were sentenced to death after major force after most of its leaders were arrested in a voters defied a Taliban threat of violence and weeks ago in the eastern province of Ghazni. eight death sentences, but not satisfied with the sen- cast their ballots. Whoever wins will lead the The deputy provincial governor Mohammad being convicted of war crimes dating back to the 1971 nationwide sweep back in 2005. A lawyer for the tencing of six people who were given life terms. We’ll independence conflict. On Tuesday the country’s war defendants, Faruque Ahmed, told AFP he planned to country as it faces a major transition from the Ali Ahmadi said the hostages were freed after appeal against the life sentences.” only leader it has known since the 2001 US- mediation by tribal elders in the region and crime court is set to deliver its latest verdict against appeal the verdicts which he said were politically The HuJI chief, better known as Mufti Hannan, is the leader of the largest Islamist group Motiur motivated and designed to “make people happy in led invasion that ousted the Taleban. He also the staff from the office of the International already on death row after being convicted in 2008 of will govern as the US and its allies wind down Committee of the Red Cross in Ghazni. — AP Rahman Nizami for alleged atrocities during the 1971 certain quarters”. —AFP Pakistan diverts anti-govt cleric’s plane to Lahore

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan diverted a pas- people in the center of Islamabad to diverted on the instruction of Pakistani senger plane carrying an anti-govern- demand electoral reforms. authorities. ment cleric to Lahore yesterday out of This time he returned to the limelight They said the crew and passengers security concerns, said an official, leading - and the country - promising to lead were safe and that they were working on to a standoff in which the cleric refused more rallies against the government. getting passengers to their original desti- for hours to get off the aircraft while it Qadri was scheduled to arrive on an nation. The cleric’s supporters clashed with police as they tried to get to the air- port in Rawalpindi next to the capital, and the police used tear gas to try to keep them away. The Monday incident came after an even more serious altercation last week that heightened tensions ahead of Qadri’s return. Eight people were shot and killed during clashes between Qadri’s support- ers and police in Lahore on Tuesday. Both sides blamed the other for the shooting. The altercation started when police tried to remove barriers around Qadri’s resi- dence and religious center.

Cell phone service cut Authorities appeared to be preparing for similar violence with Qadri’s support- ers even before he’d arrived. They cut off cell phone service in parts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi in the morning and used KABUL: Afghanistan’s presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, second shipping containers to block off access to right, shakes hands with a supporter after a news conference in Kabul, areas of the city where there are sensitive Afghanistan, yesterday. Afghanistan’s chief electoral officer resigned yes- government offices. Senior police officer terday in a bid to resolve a political crisis over allegations of massive fraud Mirza Tahir Sikandar said 30 police were in the runoff presidential vote earlier this month. — AP injured during Monday’s clashes. waited on the tarmac. Emirates flight from Dubai Monday Once in Lahore, the government and The Pakistani cleric, Tahir-ul-Qadri, morning, but the flight was first delayed Qadri negotiated for hours as officials lives mostly in Canada but has a large fol- and then diverted in-flight to Lahore, tried to encourage him to leave the lowing in his network of mosques and said a spokesman for the Civil Aviation plane. The cleric first demanded top mili- religious centers across Pakistan. Last Authority, Abid Qaimkhani. tary figures meet him at the airport to year he threw the capital into crisis for The Dubai-based airline told The ensure his safety, said provincial Law days when he led rallies of thousands of Associated Press that the flight was Minister Rana Mashood. The government instead brought in some of Qadri’s close relatives and party officials to talk to him, said Mashood. The cleric later demanded an armored vehicle and guards be brought to the tarmac, Mashood said. The situa- tion was resolved once the provincial Gov. Chaudhry Mohamad Sarwar, called Qadri directly and agreed to meet him at the airport and escort him to his home in Lahore, said Mashood. Qadri on Twitter accused the govern- ment of hijacking the plane and demand- ed to be taken back to Islamabad. But by late afternoon he said he had accepted an offer to leave the plane with a security escort. The cleric’s return comes at a particu- larly sensitive time for the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. A little over a week ago the military launched a long- awaited military offensive against mili- SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin tants in the North Waziristan tribal area Malik, second from right in a black shirt, leads a protest march under the bordering Afghanistan. Hundreds of banner of “Quit Kashmir” in Srinagar, India, yesterday. The protest was to thousands of people have been dis- seek attention of the international authorities on Kashmir and shift focus placed as the military carries out away from the debate over Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that gives airstrikes against militant targets. — AP special status to the state. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Former top China official charged with bribery

BEIJING: The former deputy chief of China’s top eco- have been introduced to combat the endemic investigated for “serious discipline violations”, general- Ling himself, once a right-hand man of former presi- nomic planning agency was charged with bribery yes- scourge, while citizen activists calling for such meas- ly a euphemism for graft. dent Hu Jintao, was probably looming. terday, authorities said, becoming the highest-ranking ures have been jailed on public order offences. Ling Jihua’s son died as a result of a high-speed The official Xinhua news agency on Friday pub- official to date to face criminal charges in the current Allegations against Liu first surfaced two years ago crash in Beijing in March 2012 that also left two lished a commentary on one of its verified accounts graft crackdown. when a journalist at an influential business magazine women passengers hurt, one of whom was naked, on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo comparing the Prosecutors in Langfang laid the charges against accused him of fraud, graft and sending death threats. according to media reports at the time. probe into Ling Zhengce with the fall of a brother of Liu Tienan, the onetime deputy director of China’s China’s National Energy Administration, where Liu was Photographs of the crash in 2012 were briefly circu- former railways minister Liu Zhijun. National Development and Reform Commission, the formerly party chief, denied those accusations at the lated online, sparking questions about how the son of Liu was later sentenced to death with a two-year Supreme People’s Procuratorate said in a statement on time. News of the charges came the same day that the a government official could afford a luxury sports car reprieve-a penalty normally commuted to life impris- its website. Communist Party’s official news website said that the worth a reported five million yuan (around $800,000). onment-for taking 64.6 million yuan ($10.4 million) in Liu sought benefits for others by taking advantage brother of Chinese politician Ling Jihua, once a presi- The father kept his post in the ruling party’s 205- bribes. of his position, and accepted “an extremely large dential ally whose son was killed in a scandalous member central committee, but failed to rise to the Officials who have been put under investigation in amount” of financial incentives, the official Xinhua Ferrari crash, had been sacked from his post. next level-the 25-person Politburo-and was given a recent years “have built up corrupted families using news agency quoted the indictment as saying. lower-profile job heading the party’s United Front their blood or marital ties”, said the article, according He was placed under investigation last August after Serious violations department. to a repost. The original was quickly deleted but it was being expelled from the ruling Communist Party. Ling Zhengce, 62, has been removed as a vice pres- The Communist party’s leadership appointments widely reproduced by other Chinese media outlets, Chinese president Xi Jinping took office last year ident of the Shanxi provincial branch of the Chinese are decided in an opaque process which analysts say including the People’s Daily Online, the website of the vowing to root out corrupt officials ranging from high- People’s Consultative Conference, a debating chamber depends on backroom deals between competing fac- Communist party’s official mouthpiece. ranking “tigers” to low-level “flies”, and warning that which is part of China’s Party-controlled government tions, often based on regional or family ties. The commentary added such individuals “will graft could destroy the party. Corruption causes wide- structure, according to a report by cpcnews.cn. The fall of Ling’s brother-whose post carried vice- eventually bring disgrace and ruin upon themselves spread public anger in China and the drive has been The sacking comes after the party’s central discipli- ministerial rank-has sparked speculation in China’s just like the Liu brothers, no matter how high-ranking widely publicised, but critics say no systemic reforms nary body announced last week that he was being state-controlled media that an investigation against their post was or how powerful they were”. — AFP China paper slams HK democracy poll as ‘farce’

BEIJING: A state-run Chinese newspaper “The opposition in Hong Kong should yesterday slammed Hong Kong’s unofficial not have the delusion that they could, by referendum on democratic reform-which organising a street farce, achieve what has drawn more than 700,000 votes-as an London at the time was not able to do “illegal farce” that was “tinged with mincing despite making every effort possible,” it ludicrousness”. said. The poll, which opened Friday, comes as No reference to the former British tensions grow in the former British colony administration was included in the article’s over the future of its electoral system, with English version. The paper accused organis- increasingly vocal calls from residents to be ers of having a “gambling mentality”, saying able to choose who can run for the post of that Beijing will “never compromise on sov- chief executive. ereignty-related issues”. But the Global Times daily, which is “The simplest reason is that the Basic linked to China’s ruling Communist party, Law reflects the will of the whole nation as accused the pro-democracy advocates who well, and therefore more than 1.3 billion organised the referendum of being politi- people have the right to speak on Hong cally influenced by the West. It said “over- Kong’s political reform,” it said, referring to seas supporters have overestimated the Hong Kong’s constitution. effect of an illegal farce”. China’s entire pop- Hong Kong’s leader is currently appoint- ulation of 1.3 billion people had a right to a ed by a 1,200-strong pro-Beijing commit- say on Hong Kong’s future, it added. tee. China has promised direct elections for “Neither China’s central government nor the next chief executive in 2017, but has the Hong Kong government will admit the ruled out allowing voters to choose which results of the poll,” it said. candidates can stand. “It would be ridiculous to determine the Although the unofficial referendum has direction of Hong Kong’s political reform no legal standing, activists hope that a high with this informal referendum.” The organ- turnout will bolster the case for reform. The isers’ use of electronic voting was “tinged poll allows residents to choose between with mincing ludicrousness”, said the paper, three options on how the 2017 chief execu- which often takes a nationalist tone, in a tive ballot should be carried out-each of typically colourful English editorial. which would allow voters to choose candi- Beijing faces continuing tensions in dates for the top job, and all therefore con- PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian Muslim activists celebrate outside Malaysia’s highest court in Putrajaya yesterday. Malaysia’s highest court yesterday Buddhist-majority Tibet and mainly Muslim sidered unacceptable by Beijing. dismissed a bid by Christians for the right to use the word ‘Allah’, ending a years-long legal battle that has caused religious tensions in the Xinjiang, and the paper offered a possible China’s State Council, the equivalent of Muslim-majority country. — AFP clue to its wider concerns: its cabinet, said Friday that any referendum “The country would fall into tumult if all on how Hong Kong elects its leader would regions conducted similar referendums.” be “illegal and invalid”. But participation Christians lose divisive bid The Chinese version of the editorial was since voting began online Friday has beat- more vehement, reminding the organisers en all expectations-despite a major cyber- that “the state defeated the Iron Lady’s attack that the organisers have blamed on to use ‘Allah’ in Malaysia administration and took back Hong Kong”, Beijing. The more than 700,000 who had referring to the negotiation between then- voted both online and at polling booths as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Monday morning represent a sizeable and China’s then-paramount leader Deng proportion of the 3.47 million who regis- Analysts term ruling a ‘vote-winner’ for govt Xiaoping in the early 1980s. tered to vote at elections in 2012. — AFP PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s highest court yesterday dis- minorities”. “We are greatly disappointed by this judge- worship. Last October, an appeals court reinstated the missed a bid by Christians for the right to use the word ment,” he said. Outside the court, which was cordoned ban. Malaysia has largely avoided overt religious con- S Korea captures soldier “Allah”, ending a years-long legal battle that has esca- off, about a hundred Muslim activists cheered the flict in recent decades, but tensions have been grow- lated religious tensions in the Muslim-majority coun- news of the verdict. Earlier, they had shouted “Allahu ing. Two petrol bombs were thrown at a Malaysian try. The divisive case, in which the Catholic Church Akbar” or “God is great” and waved banners that read church in January, causing minor damage. Also in accused of killing five challenged a government ban on its long-time use of “Uniting to defend the name of Allah”. “I’m very pleased January, Islamic authorities seized hundreds of Bibles, the Arabic word to refer to God, came amid concern and happy that we have won the case. I hope the issue which contained the word “Allah”, from a Christian SEOUL: The South Korean army captured him, injuring a platoon leader. Yesterday, from minorities who feel their rights are under threat will be put to rest,” Ibrahim Ali, head of Muslim rights group. About 2.6 million people among the Southeast a soldier yesterday who it says killed five officials said a South Korean soldier was by rising Islamisation in the Southeast Asian nation. group Perkasa, told AFP. Asian nation’s 28 million people are Christians, who comrades and then fled into the forest wounded by suspected friendly fire. Earlier The government had previously banned the use of “We must defend ‘Allah’ because this is our religious come from mostly ethnic Chinese, Indian or indige- where he holed up with a rifle for two yesterday, troops surrounding Yim in the “Allah” in the local Malay-language edition of the obligation. I hope other communities, including nous backgrounds, while 60 percent are Muslim ethnic days before shooting himself as pursuers forest tossed him a mobile phone so he Church’s Herald newspaper, which had angered Christians, understand this.” Malay. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who took office in closed in. could talk to his father. They also threw him Muslims, who say Christians are overstepping religious 2009, has increasingly rolled back his initial reformist The massive manhunt ended when the bread and bottled water. His parents went boundaries. A seven-judge panel in the administrative Danger of conversion? and conciliatory rhetoric in a bid to please hardliners of 22-year-old sergeant, surnamed Yim, shot to the area to try to persuade him to sur- capital Putrajaya ruled a lower court decision siding The dispute first erupted in 2007 when the Home his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), himself in the upper left chest as his father render. with the government stood. “It (the Court of Appeal) Ministry threatened to revoke the publishing permit of which has ruled the country virtually uninterrupted and brother approached, pleading with It wasn’t clear what triggered the ram- applied the correct test, and it is not open for us to the Herald for using the Arabic word in its Malay-lan- since 1957 independence. him to surrender, a Defense Ministry official page; there was no indication that South interfere,” chief justice Arifin Zakaria said. guage edition. The Church launched a court case to James Chin, a political science professor at Monash said. The official, who spoke on condition of Korea’s bitter rival, North Korea, was Analysts termed the ruling a “vote-winner” for the challenge the directive, arguing “Allah” had been used University, said it was unlikely authorities would use anonymity because of department rules, involved. Yim was scheduled to complete government. S. Selvarajah, one of the church’s lawyers, for centuries in Malay-language Bibles and other litera- the verdict to start seizing Malay-language Bibles and said Yim was taken to a hospital but his life his nearly two years of mandatory military said his team would explore further ways to challenge ture to refer to “God” outside of Islam. other literature containing the word “Allah” on a large wasn’t in danger. He didn’t elaborate. service in September, according to defense the ban. “It’s a blanket ban. Non-Muslims cannot use But authorities say using “Allah” in non-Muslim liter- scale or crack down on Malay-language church servic- Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min- officials. the word. It has a major impact,” he told AFP. ature could confuse Muslims and entice them to con- es. “The idea is to use this as a political weapon to raise seok said the soldier would be handed to Initial personality tests in April of last The Herald editor Father Lawrence Andrew said the vert, a crime in Malaysia. In 2009 a court ruled in favour tensions,” he told AFP. “They (the ruling party) feel that judgement “didn’t touch on the fundamental rights of of the Church, sparking a spate of attacks on houses of this is a vote-winner for the next election.” — AFP military investigators later. Soldiers year put Yim within a group of soldiers who retrieved Yim’s rifle and ammunition at the need special attention and are unfit for site. South Koreans have worried about frontline duty, according to the Defense public safety in the wake of an April ferry Ministry. But tests last November conclud- Philippine senator charged disaster that left more than 300 people ed he had improved and could serve in the dead or missing. And some in Seoul have frontline area, defense officials said. questioned the discipline and readiness of Hundreds of thousands of troops from South Korea’s military in the face of near- the rival Koreas square off along the world’s with plunder surrenders constant threats from North Korea, which most heavily armed border. The Korean has recently staged missile and artillery Peninsula is still technically in a state of war MANILA: A Philippine senator who is the son of an 2007. His father, a hugely popular action movie actor, from anti-poverty and development funds allotted to drills, traded fire with the South at sea and as the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an ex-president surrendered to police yesterday after a was convicted of plunder but was pardoned and won lawmakers for their pet projects. threatened South Korea’s leader. armistice, not a peace treaty. court ordered his arrest on corruption charges. last year’s mayoral election in the Philippine capital. “The issuance of this warrant is a step forward in Troops had been chasing Yim since Shooting rampages against fellow sol- Jinggoy Estrada was the second celebrity politician in The senior Estrada was president from 1998 to 2001. finding out the truth, which is fundamental in authorities said he killed five fellow soldiers diers happen occasionally. South Korea’s days to end up in jail on charges of plundering the Sen. Estrada has been accused of receiving 183 strengthening the trust of our people in our institu- and wounded seven Saturday night. He military maintains a conscription system poor Southeast Asian nation’s coffers. million pesos ($4.2 million) in kickbacks in an alleged tions and processes,” presidential spokesman Edwin then fled his frontline unit with his stan- requiring all able-bodied men to serve The high-profile prosecutions bolster President scam involving the diversion of millions of dollars Lacierda said. —AP dard-issue K2 assault rifle. about two years because of the North Benigno Aquino III’s campaign promise to fight the corruption that has plagued the nation of 97 million He fired Sunday on the soldiers chasing Korean threat. —AP for decades. The problem has festered amid a culture of impunity among powerful politicians and their allies, weak law enforcement and a notoriously slow justice system. But it remains to be seen whether the arrests would lead to convictions, which have been rare in major cases. Estrada is one of three senators indicted this month on charges of receiving huge kickbacks from government development and anti-poverty funds. He arrived at police headquarters accompa- nied by his family and supporters after the Sandiganbayan special anti-graft court issued a war- rant for his arrest. Trailed by a mob of journalists, photographers and TV cameramen, Estrada first went to the house of his father, former president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada. His young daughter wiped away tears, hugging her father as they left their upscale suburban Quezon City home.

Last day of freedom Estrada denied any wrongdoing and expressed confidence that he would be acquitted. “This is the GANGNEUNG: A wounded South Korean soldier who killed five comrades in a shoot- last day of my freedom,” he told reporters before sur- MANILA: Philippine Senator Jinggoy Estrada waves from a police van prior to being whisked ing incident on a stretcher is carried to a hospital in Gangneung, South Korea, yester- rendering. “I will fight for this case to my last breath.” to his detention cell after surrendering to police authorities yesterday at Philippine National day. The South Korean army captured the soldier yesterday who it says killed five Estrada, a former movie actor, was charged with plun- Police headquarters at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Estrada, a son comrades and then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days der along with his father in 2001, but was released on of former President Joseph Estrada, surrendered after a court ordered his arrest on corruption before shooting himself as pursuers closed in. — AP bail after two years in detention and acquitted in charges. — AP

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o trace the dramatic rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the jihadists that have spearheaded an Toffensive that has captured swathes of territory, just follow the money. Thanks to a combination of racketeering, kidnapping for ransom and other criminal activity as well as donations from wealthy private individuals in the Gulf, the group has built up a financial war chest that is the envy of Defiant Maliki fights for political life militant groups the world over. And with the recent takeover of Iraq’s second city Mosul, it has further bolstered By Ned Parker in power than ever. In an election, his State of Washington is aware that Sunnis, Kurds and “Iran respects the Iraqi nation’s choice. If its finances and capabilities, creating difficulties not only for Law coalition emerged as easily the biggest other Shiites are dissatisfied. Meetings they don’t want their Prime Minister Maliki, battlefield commanders but also officials around the world n eight years in power, Iraq’s Prime Minister party, with 94 seats in the 325-seat legisla- between Maliki and US diplomats last week why should we support him?” a senior Iranian seeking to stem the flow of funds to insurgents. Nouri Al-Maliki has never faced such a ture. Two rival Shiite blocs that had hoped to were heated, according to a Western diplo- official told Reuters over the weekend. A sec- “There was a hell of a payday,” Toby Dodge, head of the Ithreat. Swathes of his country have fallen unseat him fell far short, winning only about mat briefed on the sessions by a participant. ond senior Iranian official said Iran backs Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics, said to Sunni insurgents. Rivals are seeking his 30 seats each. In a television address the US officials told Maliki he would need to step Maliki, but not unreservedly as it does Syria’s of the financial bonanza ISIL received from the Mosul downfall. Foreign sponsors in Washington morning after the vote, he mused with char- aside if he no longer had parliamentary sup- President Bashar Al-Assad. “Iran’s backing of takeover. In a matter of days this month, militants led by ISIL and Tehran are wary or worse. Even friends acteristic diffidence that he served only at the port for a third term, the diplomat said. Maliki is limited and conditional,” the second overran not only most of Nineveh province, of which Mosul are openly contemplating his demise. Yet the nation’s request. “My mother didn’t give birth “I assume he got the message, but I official said. “Iran’s ambassador to Iraq has is the capital, but also swathes of Kirkuk, Salaheddin and virtuoso player of Iraq’s political game shows to me so I could become prime minister. I was wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to get around already conveyed this message to Maliki. Iran Diyala, and recently widened an existing front in western no sign of surrendering any time soon. His born to be a farmer, labourer, student or an it,” the western diplomat said, adding a phone believes that Maliki should immediately form Anbar province. opponents say Maliki is responsible for the official,” he said. “I have the honour to serve call with Vice President Joseph Biden was ini- a wide-ranging cabinet, but at the same time In addition to military equipment and vehicles, which vehemence of the insurgency because of my country.” tially cancelled due to the friction generated believes that it might be too late.” Iraqi soldiers abandoned when faced with the insurgent policies that alienated Sunnis, pushing tribes Despite the pressure since then, Maliki by the meetings. The phone call was finally offensive, the assault also yielded monetary rewards. to back a revolt by the Islamic State in Iraq could still hold on. Infighting among his own held last Wednesday. The White House and Exposed Estimates vary as to the extent of the financial boost the and the Levant, which seized the main north- list and other Shiite candidates aspiring for the US embassy have denied any message The sudden dash across northern Iraq by Mosul takeover provided the group, but Nineveh provincial ern city Mosul on June 10 and has since his job may let him triumph again. The senior has been conveyed to Maliki to leave power. armed groups, led the Islamic State of Iraq and council chief Bashar Kiki told AFP the city’s banks had marched virtually unopposed towards Maliki ally said the premier does not want to In private, however, US officials, shorn of the Levant (ISIL) which seeks to annihilate around $400 million in cash reserves. Baghdad. end his term as the man who presided over influence and mindful of a backlash, have Shiites, has left Maliki exposed. Crucially, ISIL Washington, while publicly saying it has Iraq’s dissolution. Some, like his close friend hoped for change. fighters have received support from Sunni ‘Unique Abilities’ no plan to pick Iraq’s rulers, has made clear it Sami Askari, a former parliamentarian, say The disenchantment cuts both ways. tribes who once fought bitterly against them, a And within a 16-point document issued by ISIL in the wants more inclusive leadership in Baghdad. Iraq cannot afford a leadership change now. Maliki’s close friend Askari described the sign of widespread Sunni alienation from wake of the takeover, the group said any money kept by Iran, which has widespread influence among “People are rallying and marching behind prime minister in recent days as sour towards Baghdad since the end of US occupation. “the Safavid government” - a pejorative reference to Iraq’s Iraq’s Shiite parties, has played its cards close Maliki because of ISIL,” Askari said. “His the United States, stung by sharp criticism Maliki’s critics say his rule, particularly in the Shiite leadership - would be taken over by them “for but has conspicuously avoided rallying chances are still strong.” from members of the US Congress and over past four years, is to blame for that polarisa- Muslims’ interests”. ISIL was already making enormous sums around Maliki. Even members of Maliki’s own Ultimately, ditching Maliki may be the President Barrack Obama’s lukewarm support tion. While US troops were still in the country, of money in Mosul before the seizure of the city. According bloc now concede that the combative 64- price his State of Law bloc needs to pay to and failure to provide US air strikes. “There is a Maliki, a member of a Shiite political party that to various sources, the group was raking in up to $12 million year-old Islamist may need to go, if rival Shiite form a ruling coalition. Iraqi politicians say bitterness in Maliki’s tone when he talks ... fought underground against Sunni dictator per month on extortion, ransom payments and corruption groups as well as Sunnis and Kurds are to be the lack of endorsements from Washington about the American role, even what is going Saddam Hussein, was under strong pressure to in Mosul, a city of about two million people before it was assembled into a new ruling coalition. and Tehran have emboldened rivals to insist on in DC, with speeches in Congress and reach out to Sunnis and build an inclusive gov- overrun. Thanks to its military successes in neighbouring “Iraq after June 10 is not the same as on Maliki’s departure. But the negotiations Obama’s speech,” Askari said. “He... has no ernment. He earned Washington’s support for Syria, where it also operates, it has even been able to capi- before. Everything has changed,” said a senior have barely begun. Parliament, riven with fac- hope. He says we have to rely on ourselves.” confronting Shiite militias. In the last election talise on oil sales. “ISIL... has a long history of raising funds member of Maliki’s coalition on condition of tionalism and egos, is now set to meet by July Commenting on last week’s meetings with in 2010, just before the Americans left, Maliki through criminal enterprises,” said Matthew Levitt, a former anonymity. “Everything is on the table ... If the 1 to begin the process of agreeing the new US diplomats, Askari said: “I heard that it was tried to transcend sectarian politics, but placed deputy assistant secretary for intelligence at the US Treasury others insist they will only go forward if Maliki government, which could take months, leav- tense and I expect it because he is not happy a close second to a secularist bloc that was Department, the arm of the American government charged is not prime minister, we are ready to discuss ing Maliki in power as caretaker leader while with their way. Maliki has no time to sit with backed by many Sunnis. To stay in power, he with stemming funds to militant groups. Levitt, now director it. Maliki will be included in this decision- the war against ISIL rumbles on. anyone just to hear advice and criticism. He assembled a parliamentary bloc of religious of the counter-terrorism program at the Washington making and the transition must be smooth. I needs someone to deliver something to help Shiites, later reneging on power-sharing deals. Institute for Near East Policy, said that while he expected think he has an open mind about it, and is ‘I Assume He Got the Message’ him. He did not see this.” The Baghdad gov- On the day US troops completed their with- their gains to be short-lived, “they are unique in terms of weighing options. He understands it might Washington and Tehran are both pushing ernment’s other major international support- drawal in 2011, Maliki’s government issued an their abilities... to, through an insurgency, control territory, come to that,” the senior ally said. A second for a swift resolution. The United States insists er, Iran, has also been less than enthusiastic in arrest warrant for the Sunni vice president, critical infrastructure and natural resources. That really is a member of Maliki’s coalition confirmed there it will not choose the next leader of Iraq, but its support for Maliki, although it is not clear if tearing up the vestiges of what Sunnis saw as a significant departure.” was talk of replacing him from within. Secretary of State John Kerry, who met Maliki it would be willing to sacrifice him to pursue a constitutional arrangement designed to Their ability to raise funds directly, without being entirely Six weeks ago, Maliki seemed more secure in Baghdad on Monday, has said openly that coalition. ensure inclusive rule.— Reuters dependent on wealthy private Gulf donors - typically a dom- inant source of funding for jihadist groups - creates prob- lems for officials seeking to cut off ISIL’s funding streams. Though governments have some tools at their disposal to Ni hao, y’all: US hinterlands woo China firms restrict militants’ ability to raise and move finances garnered locally, they are better able to clamp down on cross-border By Paul Wiseman a street festival, experiencing Americana by 500 by the end of 2017. has raised the cost of Chinese goods sold transactions. snapping photos of vintage ‘60s muscle cars. abroad and, conversely, made US goods urdened with Alabama’s highest A Chinese company, in a deal negotiated Lopsided Relationship more affordable in China. Those rising costs ‘Long-term Viability’ unemployment rate, long abandoned before the symposium, announced it would The United States and China have long have cut China’s competitive edge. In 2004, The Treasury Department has long warned that while by textile mills and furniture plants, bring a 3D printing operation to Dothan. maintained a lopsided relationship: China manufacturing cost 14 percent less in China traditional streams of funds for militant groups are still key, B Wilcox County desperately needs jobs. Among other Chinese projects in the makes things. America buys them. The US than in the United States; that advantage many groups are increasingly raising, and keeping, funds They’re coming, and from a most unlikely United States that are creating jobs: In trade deficit in goods with China last year hit has narrowed to 5 percent. If the trend within the areas in which they operate. “Many of these place: Henan Province, China, 7,600 miles Moraine, Ohio, Chinese glassmaker Fuyao a record $318 billion. And for three decades, toward higher wages, energy costs and a groups generate capital locally, often in areas subject to lit- away. Henan’s Golden Dragon Precise Glass Industry Group Co. is taking over a numerous US manufacturers have moved higher currency continues, Boston tle if any governmental control,” Treasury undersecretary for Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last plant that General Motors abandoned in operations to China. The flow is at least start- Consulting predicts, US manufacturing will terrorism and financial intelligence David Cohen said in month. It will employ more than 300 in a 2008 and creating at least 800 jobs. The site ing to move the other way. One reason is be less expensive than China’s by 2018. April. “Without the need to move money, terrorists can avoid county known less for job opportunities puts Fuyao within four hours’ drive of auto that in the past decade, the cost of labor, Cost isn’t the only allure. As Chinese com- key international controls and, in so doing, limit govern- than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests plants in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. adjusted for productivity gains, has surged panies build more sophisticated products, ments’ ability to track and disrupt their funding flows.” rich with wild turkey and boar and muddy In Lancaster County, South Carolina, 187 percent at Chinese factories, compared they want to work more directly with US cus- Cohen said, however, that relying on racketeering and roads best negotiated in four-wheel-drive Chinese textile manufacturer Keer Group is with just 27 percent in the United States, tomers. “Being close to the marketplace is other criminal efforts often engendered anger within the trucks. “Jobs that pay $15 an hour are few investing $218 million in a plant to make according to Boston Consulting Group. In good for everybody,” says Loretta Lee, a local populations affected, potentially undermining militant and far between,” says Dottie Gaston, an offi- industrial yarn and will employ 500. South addition, Chinese electricity costs rose 66 Hong Kong entrepreneur who just opened a groups’ long-term success. With ISIL in particular, the group’s cial in nearby Thomasville. Carolina nudged the deal along with a $4 percent, more than twice the United States’ shoe factory in Tennessee. Sometimes, politi- wealth affords it the ability to not only weather efforts by What’s happening in Pine Hill is starting million grant. In Gregory, Texas, Tianjin Pipe increase. The start of large-scale US shale gas cal pressure nudges Chinese firms into governments to cut off its funding, but it can also acquire to happen across America. After decades of is investing over $1 billion in a factory that production has helped contain US electricity investing in America. Tianjin Pipe, for additional weapons, munitions and vehicles, thereby bolster- siphoning jobs from the United States, China makes pipes for oil and gas drillers. The com- costs. instance, began building its Texas plant after ing its fighting capabilities. In Mosul, the group could also is creating some. Chinese companies invest- pany expects to begin production late this And the value of China’s currency has the US imposed sanctions against Chinese- generate income via “legitimate” taxes, property sales and ed a record $14 billion in the United States year or early in 2015. It will have 50 to 70 risen more than 30 percent against the US made pipes in 2010, notes Thilo Hanemann, other means, potentially adding to its long-term viability. last year, according to the Rhodium Group employees by the end of this year and 400 to dollar over the past decade. The higher yuan Rhodium’s research director.—AP “ISIL was already a wealthy organisation before seizing research firm. Collectively, they employ Mosul,” said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings more than 70,000 Americans, up from virtu- Doha Center. “But with the significant material gains ISIL has ally none a decade ago. recently acquired, as well as at least temporary territorial con- Powerful forces - narrowing wage gaps, trol across vast swathes of the country, the group has essen- tumbling US energy prices, the vagaries of tially secured its own long-term financial viability.” — AFP currency markets - are pulling Chinese com- panies across the Pacific. Mayors and eco- nomic development officials have lined up All articles appearing on these to welcome Chinese investors. Southern states, touting low labor and land costs, pages are the personal opinion of have been especially aggressive. In the case the writers. Kuwait Times takes no of the Pine Hill plant, tax breaks, some responsibility for views expressed Southern hospitality and a tray of home- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- made banana pudding helped, too. “Get off the plane and the mayor is waiting for you,” ers to voice their opinions. Please says Hong Kong billionaire Ronnie Chan. send submissions via email to: opin- In March, Dothan, Alabama, held a two- [email protected] or via snail day US-China manufacturing symposium, drawing dozens of potential Chinese mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. investors. On sale were T-shirts reading: “Ni The editor reserves the right to edit hao, y’all” - combining the Chinese version of In this May 28, 2014 photo Gov Robert Bentley, flanked by Quingmin Li, Consul General China, Houston office (left) and Golden any submission as necessary. “hello” with a colloquial Southernism. Dragon Copper USA Chairman Changjie Li, pose for photos with company, state and local officials at a ribbon cutting ceremony Chinese executives wandered around during during the grand opening of the company’s copper tubing plant in Pine Hill, Alabama. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Egypt jails Al-Jazeera journalists Continued from Page 1 Egypt to review its laws. But Egypt insisted the “judiciary enjoys full independence” and said the convicts “still UN rights chief Navi Pillay said journalism “is not a have the right to appeal”. A presidency official said Sisi crime” and urged Egypt to “promptly release” those “legally can’t (pardon them)... a pardon can be given jailed for doing their job. Australian Foreign Minister only after the final court ruling”. Julie Bishop said: “We are deeply dismayed that a sen- The three men had looked upbeat as they entered tence has been imposed and appalled at the severity of the courtroom in handcuffs, waving at relatives who it.” “It is hard to credit that the court in this case could had earlier told journalists they expected them to be have reached this conclusion,” she said, adding freed for lack of evidence. Of the six defendants in cus- Canberra would look at possible intervention in the tody along with Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed, four case. were sentenced to seven years and two were acquitted. Al-Jazeera chief Mustafa Sawaq said in Doha: “We “They will pay for this, they will pay for this. I promise!” condemn... this kind of unjust verdict. ... We are Fahmy shouted from the dock upon hearing the verdict. shocked.” Greste’s brother Andrew said he was devastat- All of the defendants had been accused of aiding the ed. “It is definitely not what we were expecting. I was blacklisted Brotherhood and tarnishing Egypt’s reputa- hoping for acquittal...we will continue to fight for his tion after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed freedom,” he said. “There is only one sensible outcome Morsi by “spreading false news”. Since the army ousted now. For the verdict to be overturned, and justice to be Morsi in July 2013, the authorities have been incensed recognised by Egypt,” Al Jazeera English managing by the Qatari network’s coverage of their deadly crack- director Al Anstey said in a statement. The ruling came a down on his supporters. day after US Secretary of State John Kerry met Sisi in They consider Al-Jazeera to be the voice of Qatar and Cairo and raised the issue of the journalists. accuse Doha - which has denounced the repression of Several countries announced plans to summon the Islamist movement’s supporters which has killed Egyptian ambassadors to protest what many have more than 1,400 people - of backing the Brotherhood. called an unjust verdict. The Australian Associated Press “All journalists should fear for themselves now that news agency said officials would speak with the there is no justice. Politics is the master,” said defence Egyptian ambassador Hassan El-Laithy today. In The lawyer Shaaban Saeed. Al-Jazeera says nine of the 20 Hague, Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said he had defendants are on its staff, including the Britons. Sixteen summoned Egypt’s ambassador and would raise the Egyptians were convicted of belonging to the matter with his EU colleagues after Dutch journalist Brotherhood. Rena Netjes, tried in absentia, “did not get a fair trial”. The four foreigners - Greste, Netjes and Britons Sue London said it was “completely appalled” by the verdict Turton and Dominic Kane - were alleged to have collab- in absentia against the two Britons and was summoning orated with and assisted their Egyptian co-defendants. Cairo’s envoy. Human Rights Watch’s Joe Stork said the The defendants had dismissed the evidence as “fabricat- verdict showed “how Egypt’s judges have been caught ed”. Prosecutors showed video from a tourism report, up in the anti-Muslim Brotherhood hysteria fostered by not even produced by Al-Jazeera, and images and audio President Al-Sisi”. recordings in which the defendants were alleged to On Sunday an Egyptian court confirmed death sen- have falsely portrayed a “civil war”. Greste is a former tences for more than 180 Islamists including BBC reporter who won the 2011 Peabody Award for a Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie. Pillay slammed documentary on Somalia, while Fahmy previously such mass trials and sentences as “obscene”, and urged worked with CNN. — Agencies

An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes part in a training session in the grounds of his camp yesterday in Kerry backs Iraq against ISIL threat Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.— AFP Continued from Page 1 insurgents at the weekend swept into the towns of Rawa and Ana in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, after taking Indemnity for private sector citizens... Iraqi security forces are struggling to hold their the Al-Qaim border crossing with Syria. The government ground in the face of militants who have seized major said made a “tactical” withdrawal from the towns, control Continued from Page 1 to provide expatriates with access to the Kuwaiti consti- areas of five provinces. Maliki’s security spokesman, of which allows the militants to widen a strategic route to tution, especially the rights and duties in the constitu- Lieutenant General Qassem Atta, said “hundreds” of sol- Syria where they also hold stretches of territory. Head of the banking trade union Mansour Ashour tion which was issued in 1962. diers were killed since the offensive began two weeks As Kerry began his visit, 69 detainees were killed in meanwhile warned that the omission of Kuwaitis in the Meanwhile, prominent opposition leader Musallam ago - the most specific information by the government an attack by militants on a convoy carrying them in Babil private sector from the draft law will result in a catastro- Al-Barrak yesterday declined for a second time sum- so far on losses in security ranks. The militants are contin- province. One policeman and eight gunmen were also phe, and accused the Assembly panel of bowing to gov- mons by police to appear for interrogations over uing their charge, overrunning the Al-Waleed border killed in clashes that erupted during the attack in the ernment pressure to exclude the private sector. remarks he made at a public rally on June 10, particular- crossing with neighbouring Syria, officers said yesterday. Hashimiyah area, according to a police captain and a Mansour Ashour said Kuwaitis in the private sector do ly against top judges. Barrak, a former MP, was called to Capturing Al-Waleed means all official crossings with doctor. Elsewhere, a family of six was killed on Baghdad’s not benefit from the end of service indemnity because appear on Sunday for the first time but he declined, say- Syria to the west are outside government control, and northern outskirts, while five Kurdish security forces it is conditional to what employers have contributed to ing the public prosecution should have started its inves- increases the militants’ ability to bring men and materiel members died in a bombing in northern Iraq. the pension scheme. tigation with the state security and corruption accusa- across the border. Kerry warned all countries, particularly in the Gulf, that In another development, MP Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran tions against former senior officials before it began with Insurgents also overran the strategic Shiite-majority “there is no safety margin whatsoever in funding a group yesterday submitted a proposal calling on the govern- him. On Sunday, the Criminal Investigation Department northern town of Tal Afar and its airport, an official and like ISIL.” US leaders have stopped short of calling for ment to translate the Kuwaiti constitution into several against sent Barrak an official warrant to appear for witnesses said yesterday. Witnesses said security forces Maliki to step down, but there is little doubt that they feel languages spoken by a majority of expatriates living in interrogation in connection with two complaints, but left the town after days of heavy fighting. Atta said secu- he has squandered the opportunity to rebuild Iraq since the country. Jeeran said the idea behind the proposal is Barrak again declined the new summons. rity forces were still fighting in the Tal Afar area, but US troops withdrew in 2011. “They must effect a unity added: “Even if we withdrew from Tal Afar or any other that rises above the traditional divisions that have torn area, this does not mean that it is a defeat.” the government apart,” Kerry said in Baghdad. US The town, located along a strategic corridor to Syria, President Barack Obama has offered to send up to 300 had been the largest in the northern province of Nineveh military advisers to Iraq, but has so far not backed air not to fall to militants. The latest advances came after strikes as requested by Baghdad. — AFP

Kuwait denies recalling ambassador... Continued from Page 1 Friday that seemed aimed at discouraging jihad in Iraq. Bahrain, where most of the population is Shiite but the For many Sunnis in the Gulf, the collapse of Iraq’s ruling family and many influential clerics are Sunni, Shiite-led government forces heralds the decline of their ordered religious leaders to avoid mentioning politics in greatest enemy, Iran. They regard Iraq’s Prime Minister the mosque. Nouri Al-Maliki as an Iranian stooge. “From Day 1 the Iraqi The refusal of Sunni governments to openly support army wasn’t real, it was a bunch of Shiite militias joined the Iraqi militants has prompted criticism by some Sunni together. Sunnis are humiliated by Maliki and want to citizens, who argue that their coreligionists are hobbled live a life of dignity so they decided to go into revolution,” when compared to what they see as open Iranian back- said Firas, an office worker in Riyadh. Like other Saudis ing of Shiites. “Our war with the Shiites of Iraq has interviewed for this article, he withheld his family name exploded forth. Their leaders have called out and their for fear his comments would be seen by the authorities youth have answered. Their partisans arrive and their as supportive of ISIL, which Riyadh declared a terrorist money moves. But helping the Sunnis has been banned organisation in March. (in the Gulf). Helping them is terrorism,” was the Twitter Under the terms of a February royal decree, any comment of Saudi Sheikh Sowayan Shayah Hajri. expression of support for the group in the kingdom is punishable by a long jail term. Social media users are Iraq Cries ‘Genocide’ highly aware that their feeds are scanned by the Interior The two week-old Sunni advance in Iraq has certainly Ministry. Firas said support by Gulf Sunnis of the uprising fuelled passions across the sectarian divide in the Middle against Maliki’s government did not imply an endorse- East. The Iraqi government accuses Gulf states of stoking ment of ISIL and its brutal tactics, which include the mass support for the militants by arming and backing Sunni execution of prisoners. “The Muslim people will not fighters in neighbouring Syria. Last week, the Baghdad accept the ideology of ISIL because it’s against our beliefs government even accused Saudi Arabia of promoting as moderates, which is what most Iraqis are,” said Firas. “genocide” in Iraq. Riyadh says its support for Sunni mili- “ISIL never had sympathy, even now. But still you have tants in Syria does not extend to ISIL, which has fought some people who justify their actions just to get rid of against other Syrian rebel groups that Saudi Arabia arms this sectarian government.” and funds. According to a social media website that analysed Fine Lines Twitter geolocational data, Saudis narrowly made up Gulf governments have walked a delicate line over the biggest group of followers on one Arabic-language Iraq, attacking Maliki and Iran as responsible for the vio- account affiliated with ISIL’s propaganda wing, and were lence and voicing staunch support for Sunni rights, while the second-largest group on another. However it is diffi- denouncing ISIL and other militant groups that proclaim cult to draw conclusions from such data, given ISIL’s ille- jihad. Riyadh suppressed a bloody insurgency a decade gal status in Saudi Arabia and its need to create new ago waged by Al-Qaeda members who had previously accounts as existing ones are closed. Saudis make up fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it fears the success of the biggest group of Middle Eastern users of Twitter pro-jihad groups in Iraq and Syria will encourage extrem- generally. ism among its own citizens. Although ISIL has flown its black flag in the cities it Thousands of Saudis and citizens of other Gulf coun- seizes, its fighters are also supported by more moderate tries are thought to be among the large foreign contin- Iraqi Sunni tribes and politicians, who are angry at gent fighting with ISIL and other militant groups in Syria Baghdad’s rule. Many in the Gulf say it is wrong to and Iraq, spurring officials’ fears of a domestic backlash. describe the Sunni uprising as an ISIL project. In an opin- Last month the Saudi Interior Ministry said it had uncov- ion piece in the English-language Saudi daily Arab News ered a militant cell linked to both Al-Qaeda and ISIL that entitled “Demonising the Sunni uprising in Iraq”, was planning attacks inside the kingdom. Jordanian journalist Hani Hazaimeh wrote that the per- However, years of state media criticism of the Iranian ception ISIL was leading the revolt played into Maliki’s and Iraqi governments, coupled with the sometimes vir- hands. “What has been written so far in fact is doing Al- ulently sectarian comments by government-employed Maliki’s sectarian agenda a big favour,” he wrote, arguing clerics, may have helped foster Sunni anger at Shiites. that the rebellion was a popular uprising against the Iraqi The Gulf has long been a bastion of sectarian rivalry in prime minister’s “unjust and divisive policies”. the Middle East, with many Sunnis devoted to the Salafi To some Gulf Sunnis, the media focus on ISIL, and the and Wahhabi schools of Islam that regard Shiism as a alarm expressed by Western governments at events in deviant heresy. Many of the comments in recent days Iraq, are an indication of double standards. They compare have contained outright gloating over Sunni victories. it to what they see as more muted criticism for Syrian “Do smile if you wish, the apostates (Shiites) in Kerbala President Bashar Al-Assad, an Iranian ally. “It shows the are taking to the streets chanting ‘We want the Messiah Western foreign policy is completely biased. Assad does to appear’ in order to save them from the holy warriors,” whatever he wants to without any response to his war wrote Ibraheem Al-Faris, a professor of religion at Saudi crimes, but as soon as a city falls in Iraq they want to do Arabia’s state-run King Saud University, on Twitter. so much,” said Mutaib, general manager of a company in However, senior clergy in Saudi Arabia issued sermons on Riyadh. — Agencies p16 2_Layout 1 6/23/14 11:07 PM Page 1

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Phelps grabs third 200 IM Ghana denies match-rigging Flyhalf Flood begins training SANTA CLARA: Michael Phelps continued his return to competitive swim- LONDON: Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) denied British media TOULOUSE: England flyhalf Toby Flood was one of 21 Toulouse players who ming with third place in the 200 metres individual medley at the Arena reports yesterday that it had agreed to rig international matches and began pre-season training yesterday for the upcoming Top 14 campaign. Grand Prix at Santa Clara on Sunday. asked Ghanaian police to investigate two GFA officials the reports linked The 28-year-old, who joined the four-time European champions after six years Phelps, competing in the 200 medley for the first time since taking gold to the deal. The Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 television’s Dispatches with the Leicester Tigers, was put through his paces by veteran coach Guy Noves. at the 2012 London Olympics, showed early flashes of that form before run- programme in London said they uncovered the case during a six-month “I can’t wait, it’s going to be fun, it’s my first day and everything’s new but I’m ning out of steam. investigation into match-fixing. GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi said the expecting a good year,” said the enthusiastic Flood. “I don’t want to set goals, I The 22-time Olympic medalist led through the first three lengths but reports were “a representation of half-truths and half-lies”. just want to be part of a winning team, if that means winning a championship or tailed off and finished with a time of one minute, 59.76 “It’s not true that we have agreed with match fixers or people who European Cup, that would be super. Me, I just want to play.” seconds, behind Conor Dwyer (1:59.49) and Chase intend to organize matches of convenience between the Black Stars and When asked why he is one of the first players to report to camp Kalisz, who finished second in 1:59.53. Phelps, known any opponent in the future,” he said from Maceio in Brazil where Ghana at his new club, Flood said he just wanted to get going. “I wanted for his strong finishing kick, lacked one in his third are based for the World Cup finals. to get involved as soon as possible and to train in the best pos- meeting since he jolted the swimming world by A reporter for the newspaper and a former investigator for world soc- sible way. I want to be part of the club and meet the people as coming out of retirement. He also tired badly in cer’s governing body FIFA claimed to represent a company that would soon as possible. I don’t like to be on my own, so it was impor- the final length in the 200 freestyle on buy the rights to friendly matches. tant to come.” He also said coming to France for his first taste Saturday. The two officials said they could help recruit referees who would rig of Top 14 action was an easy decision. “I always thought His showing at the Santa Clara event, the matches and the Daily Telegraph said a contract they submitted to to myself that I would like to play in France so when however, can be considered progress as the GFA spelled out conditions of the deal, including who would appoint Toulouse made me an offer, I thought that it was an he increased his work load and swam the referees. The Telegraph carried a video on its website showing what opportunity that I couldn’t pass by, to have the more events than he had at his previous it said was a meeting between the two GFA officials and the former FIFA chance to play at one of the biggest French clubs, if two meetings.—Reuters investigator where the match-fixing was discussed.—Reuters not the biggest, and I couldn’t say no.—Reuters Adidas Q&A of Italian Red Sox edge Athletics midfielder De Rossi OAKLAND: David Ortiz hit a leadoff Zunino homered as the Seattle an RBI for the sixth game in a row. eight hits in six innings. ou’re probably one of the very few home run in the 10th inning as the Mariners defeated Kansas City for a Rookie Anthony DeSclafani (1-2), footballers who can look back on a Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland three-game sweep. making his fourth major-league PIRATES 2, CUBS 1 YWorld Cup that your team won and Athletics 7-6 on Sunday to avoid a After winning 10 straight to move start, gave up seven runs in 3 2-3 Brandon Cumpton pitched seven feel a tinge of regret... four-game sweep. into first place in the AL Central, the innings and departed with a 7.59 scoreless innings and Travis Snider It is true. I look back on 2006 and think Ortiz was the only Boston starter Royals have dropped four in a row, ERA. hit a solo homer as the Pittsburgh that it would have been nice if it had been without a hit until lining a 1-2 pitch three of them by 2-1 scores. Pirates beat the Cubs. different. The foul I did on Brian McBride from Fernando Abad (2-3) over the Elias (7-5), a 25-year-old left-han- NATIONALS 4, BRAVES 1 Cumpton (3-2) won his third was bad, and I apologised to him for it wall in left-center. der from Cuba, limited the Royals to Tanner Roark won his fourth straight decision. He allowed two immediately afterwards. I got banned for The Red Sox had to go extra one run and five singles over 6 2-3 straight start and Denard Span had hits and two walks while striking out four matches, so I missed four of the great innings after letting a 6-1 lead slip innings. Zunino hit his ninth home an RBI double as the Washington four. Pirates closer Mark Melancon games of our World Cup winning cam- away. The A’s scored three runs in run, tops among AL catchers. He Nationals beat Atlanta for a split of pitched the ninth for his 12th save in paign. I’ll always regret that and wish I the eighth, then Stephen Vogt and connected off Yordano Ventura (5-6) the four-game series between NL 15 chances. could wind back and not have that pinch-hitter John Jaso homered in Gregory Polanco had his hitting moment of madness. I’m sure Brian does the ninth against Koji Uehara (3-1). streak snapped at 11 games. The too. But he accepted my apologies, and I The closer had converted 31 consec- Pirates’ rookie leadoff hitter had a hit paid the price. utive save opportunities dating to in his first 11 major league games. 2013. The A’s had won five straight He was 0 for 3 with a walk. Jason You did, of course, still play a major part before Ortiz’s 17th homer bailed out Hammel (6-5) allowed two runs and in Italy winning the World Cup, however. Boston’s bullpen. Mike Napoli and six hits in seven innings. That must be unforgettable. David Ross also homered for Boston, Yes, at least I wasn’t banned for the final which had been limited to two runs BREWERS 6, ROCKIES 5 Daniele De Rossi - that would have been a heartbreaker. I or fewer in eight straight games. Aramis Ramirez homered and came on after 60 minutes and played to the mare. Spain deserved to win in, make no drove in two runs as the Milwaukee end of the game and then extra time. When mistake, but it shouldn’t have been 4-0. We ORIOLES 8, YANKEES 0 Brewers continued their road domi- it went to penalties, I knew I’d be taking a had to take some risks to chase the game Chris Tillman allowed four hits nance with a win over Colorado. kick. It’s hard to describe how much pres- though, so that’s how it ended up. over seven innings as the Baltimore Milwaukee swept the Rockies to sure that puts you under. Especially consid- Orioles handed Yankees ace finish 6-1 on a road trip that started ering what had gone before, I’d have been You must curse this Spain side... Masahiro Tanaka his second major in Arizona. The Brewers’ 27-15 record Italy’s villain if I’d missed my kick, too. But No, we don’t curse them. They are a league loss. Jonathan Schoop home- and .643 winning percentage away luckily it went in. great side, wonderful to watch, and the red off Tanaka (11-2) for the second from home is the best in the majors. players are nice guys - humble, profession- time and fellow rookie Caleb Joseph Kyle Lohse (9-2) allowed three You didn’t look too much under pressure al. There’s nothing to dislike. But we want to capped the scoring with his first runs on seven hits in five innings to when you dispatched that penalty show that we can be their match, and in career homer. J.J. Hardy hit a three- win consecutive starts for the first against France, though... recent fixtures, apart from that final, I think run double for the Orioles, who time in a month. Believe me there is nothing like it. You we have shown that we’re not far away spoiled Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Francisco Rodriguez settled need a good poker face for penalties, and I from them. I think Italy are one of the best Stadium and took two of three from down to get his 25th save in 27 managed to keep cool. The relief that flood- sides going into 2014. their AL East rivals. New York slugger chances. Wilin Rosario homered ed through me was indescribable. And the Mark Teixeira left in the eighth after among his four hits and had three euphoria when we won it, that is hard to The 2013 Confederation Cup final, getting hit on his left foot by an 85 RBIs for Colorado, which has lost six put into words. To know you are a World showed you can match them, mph slider from T.J. McFarland. straight and fell to 6-14 in June. Cup winner, it doesn’t seem real at first. It though, as you took them through Teixeira hobbled toward first, then Rockies rookie right-hander Tyler takes a few days to really sink in. extra time and it ended 0-0. slammed his helmet to the ground Matzek (1-2) was roughed up in the We took them to penalties, and I think in anger before heading into the second. That was a crazy final wasn’t it, looking we showed that we have players that can dugout. X-rays were negative, man- back - especially Zinedine Zidane’s head- match them. We showed our class that day, ager Joe Girardi said. DODGERS 2, PADRES 1 butt on Materazzi... and there’s no reason why we can’t do the Tillman (6-4) snapped a two-start Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched six solid I’m sure Zizou looks back on that and same in the World Cup. It’s what we’re all skid, though he pitched well in innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers still can’t work out what got into him. working towards. those outings, and improved to 6-0 beat the Padres soon after San Marco Materazzi got to him, but he should on the road - though he entered Diego’s general manager Josh have just been professional and brushed it How are you looking forward to facing with a 6.33 ERA away from home. Byrnes was fired. Ryu (9-3) won for off. But we have moments of madness in England and Uruguay in the so called OAKLAND: Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester throws to the Oakland the sixth time in seven starts since football. I know that from the McBride “group of death”? ANGELS 5, RANGERS 2 Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game. —AP missing more than three weeks with thing, but luckily it didn’t cost me as badly It should be good. In a way I’d rather we Rookie Matt Shoemaker won his shoulder inflammation. Byrnes had as it cost Zidane. If he’d stayed on the pitch, were in a hard group. Look how the ‘soft’ fifth straight decision, and C.J. Cron leading off the seventh to break a 1- East rivals. The Nationals improved been San Diego’s GM since October maybe France would have won their sec- group worked out for us in 2010 - we didn’t and Kole Calhoun homered in the all tie. Fernando Rodney, pitching for to 3-7 against Atlanta. They 2011. The Padres went 76-86 in his ond World Cup, because he was the best get out of it. With England and Uruguay we fourth inning against Yu Darvish as the fourth straight day, earned his increased their division lead over the first two seasons and are 32-44 and player in the world. know that we’re going to have to fight for the Angels completed a three-game 21st save in 23 chances. Braves to 1 1/2 games. Roark (7-4) 13 1/2 games back in the NL West every ball and be at our best. England are sweep of Texas. went 5 1-3 innings, allowing a run this season. How do you reflect on having a World tough, physical, fast, and have some great Cron went deep for the third TWINS 6, WHITE SOX 5 and four hits. Rafael Soriano pitched Adrian Gonzalez and Dee Gordon Cup winner’s medal in individuals. Uruguay have a tough defence, straight game, helping the Angels Joe Mauer had two hits and two the ninth for his 17th save. Atlanta’s drove in runs against Eric Stults (2- your collection, eight year on. and they have Suarez and Cavani up front. pull within five games of AL West- RBIs as the Minnesota Twins com- Evan Gattis went 0 for 3 to snap his 10). JP Howell pitched 1 1-3 perfect I don’t know how eight years have We need to snuff out that danger. But they leading Oakland. Shoemaker (5-1) plete their first four-game sweep 20-game hitting streak. Ervin innings and Brian Wilson got two passed so quickly. It obviously remains the will be worrying about us, too. allowed a run and eight hits in 7 2-3 against the White Sox in 20 years. Santana (5-5) went six innings, giv- outs before Kenley Jansen finished high point of my career. I’ve been lucky in innings with six strikeouts and two Anthony Swarzak and Casey Fien ing up three runs and six hits. off the four-hitter by pitching the my career and enjoyed it all, but winning So who will qualify? walks. Joe Smith allowed Brad combined for three shutout innings ninth for his 22nd save in 25 the World Cup tops everything. It is some- I think Italy can win this group. Uruguay Snyder’s two-out homer in the ninth of relief and Jared Burton earned his CARDINALS 5, PHILLIES 3 chances. thing to tell the grandchildren, something might edge ahead of England, but it’s hard before Chris Gimenez grounded out first save since May 30, 2013, with a Mark Ellis drove in two runs, that will last forever, it is in the history to predict. You have to talk about Costa to end the game. Snyder entered in perfect ninth. including the go-ahead score with a GIANTS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 1 books. It’s the best sporting event in the Rica, too. Look at World Cup 2010, Slovakia the fourth after first baseman Gordon Beckham and Jose Abreu bunt, as the St. Louis Cardinals got a Madison Bumgarner gave up just world. got out of our group, and New Zealand Donnie Murphy left because of sore- had two RBIs apiece for the White scoreless effort from their bullpen to two infield singles while pitching were only a goal away from sneaking ness in his left knee. Darvish (7-4) Sox, who have lost eight straight beat Philadelphia. Ellis broke a 3-all into the ninth inning as the San Does that drive you on as a player, want- through. Costa Rica can shock us all and if allowed five runs and five hits games against AL Central rivals. The tie with a safely squeeze bunt in the Francisco Giants beat Arizona. ing to taste that winning feeling again in we underestimate them, you can be sure through six innings, striking out nine Twins last swept Chicago in a four- fourth. He added an RBI single in the Through eight innings, 2014 in Brazil? they’ll take advantage. and issuing four walks - three of game series June 9-12, 1994. Phil sixth. He is hitting .193 with 12 RBIs Bumgarner (9-4) allowed only Cody Yes. You get a hunger for winning and them to No. 7 hitter Hank Conger. Hughes (8-3) lasted just five innings in 41 games. Ross’ dribbler to the left of the I’d love to win the trophy one more time. It Cesare Prandelli seems but got the win. In his last eight Carlos Martinez (1-3) allowed mound in the second inning. would stake Italy’s claim for being the best like a man with a plan. TIGERS 10, INDIANS 4 starts versus the Twins, John Danks three runs over five innings. Nick Bumgarner left after an error by team in the history of the tournament, He’s very shrewd, he is great with the Max Scherzer pitched six strong (6-6) is 0-6 with a 6.18 ERA. Greenwood, Sam Freeman, Pat shortstop Brandon Crawford and because we’ve won it four times, and Brazil young players, and he knows what to innings, and Miguel Cabrera home- Neshek and Trevor Rosenthal com- then Ender Inciarte’s single off the have five. Having two World Cup winner’s expect from his more experienced individ- red and drove in three runs as the REDS 4, BLUE JAYS 3 bined for four innings of two-hit glove of third baseman Pablo medals would also put me in an exclusive uals like myself. I think he has brought a Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland for a Johnny Cueto pitched eight scoreless relief. Rosenthal got his Sandoval in the ninth. Sergio Romo club. Not many players can win two. real steel to this side, and that’s why I’d be three-game sweep. The Tigers, effective innings s the Cincinnati 22nd save in 25 chances. Cody Asche gave up Martin Prado’s RBI single surprised if we didn’t get through the swept in a three-game series at Reds beat Toronto after Blue Jays drove in all three Philadelphia runs but got his second save in two Your defence of the World Cup at South group. He is calm, his tactics are excellent, Progressive Field last month, have stars Brett Lawrie and Jose Bautista with a bases-loaded double in the nights and his 22nd save in 26 Africa 2010 was not so enjoyable, and he thinks out every element of train- won four in a row overall. Scherzer exited early because of injuries. second. Jimmy Rollins had a 15- opportunities. Diamondbacks rookie though, with Italy crashing ing, style and so on very carefully. He’s a (9-3) bounced back from one of the Lawrie sustained a broken right game hitting streak snapped. Kyle Mike Bolsinger (1-3) allowed a run out in the group stages... great manager, and just like Marcelo Lippi worst outings of his career. The index finger when he was hit by a Kendrick (3-7) allowed five runs and and five hits in 7 2-3 innings. —AP To say the least. Finishing bottom of a did in 2006, I think he has a plan to win this reigning AL Cy Young winner pitch in the second. The team didn’t group that we were expected to win, with tournament. allowed 10 runs in four innings immediately announce how long MLB results/standings New Zealand, Paraguay and Slovakia, that against Kansas City on Tuesday. the infielder would be out. was a surprise and a very poor perform- Did your visit to Brazil for the Cabrera hit his 13th homer in the Bautista left because of tightness Detroit 10, Cleveland 4; Cincinnati 4, Toronto 3; NY Mets 11, Miami 5; Washington 4, ance from us. We expected to win that Confederations Cup make you excited first off Josh Tomlin (4-5), added an in his left leg. The All-Star outfielder Atlanta 1; Tampa Bay 5, Houston 2; Baltimore 8, NY Yankees 0; Seattle 2, Kansas City 1; group but we just didn’t perform. It’s a for the World Cup? RBI single in the third and drove in a had a single and a sacrifice bunt Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 5; St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 3; Pittsburgh 2, Chicago Cubs warning to any team though. There is no Definitely. It’s a beautiful place and you run with a grounder in the fifth before leaving. Cueto (7-5) gave up 1; Boston 7, Oakland 6 (10 Innings); LA Dodgers 2, San Diego 1; Milwaukee 6, Colorado room for error in the group stages because just know they’re going to put on a beauti- when Detroit scored seven times. three runs - one earned - and leads 5; San Francisco 4, Arizona 1; LA Angels 5, Texas 2. if you start badly, you will be home again ful, iconic tournament like they did in 1950. the NL with a 1.86 ERA. Aroldis American League National League before you’ve had the chance to breathe in. And that people will be talking about Brazil RAYS 5, ASTROS 2 Chapman struck out the side in the Eastern Division Eastern Division Trying to put that right motivated me just 2014 in a hundred years time. Hopefully Yunel Escobar drove in two runs ninth for his 13th save. Todd Frazier W L PCT GB Washington 39 35 .527 - as strongly as trying to recapture the feel- they’ll be talking about Italy winning it. during a three-run sixth inning as broke a 2-all tie in the fifth with a Toronto 42 35 .545 - Atlanta 38 37 .507 1.5 ing of winning it again. the Tampa Bay Rays beat Houston. two-run homer off RA Dickey (6-6). Baltimore 39 35 .527 1.5 Miami 37 38 .493 2.5 Will you keep in touch with Escobar hit a two-run single and NY Yankees 39 35 .527 1.5 NY Mets 35 41 .461 5 Boston 35 41 .461 6.5 You and your side made up for it at Euro the fans back home? Sean Rodriguez had an RBI grounder METS 11, MARLINS 5 Philadelphia 34 40 .459 5 2012, though, going on an impressive I’m not on twitter or anything like that, Tampa Bay 31 46 .403 11 Central Division off Dallas Keuchel (8-5) to give the Daniel Murphy hit a three-run Central Division but I’ll be calling home of course, and we Milwaukee 47 30 .610 - run to the final... Rays a 4-2 lead in the sixth. The Rays homer as the New York Mets Detroit 40 32 .556 - St. Louis 41 35 .539 5.5 Yes. That was a bit like the opposite to will know what the mood is like back in are 8-18 over their past 26 games, matched a season high with 17 hits Kansas City 39 36 .520 2.5 Cincinnati 37 37 .500 8.5 World Cup 2006 for me. In 2006 the final Italy. I’ve had one homecoming with the including five wins in seven games to beat the slumping Miami Marlins. Cleveland 37 39 .487 5 Pittsburgh 37 38 .493 9 was my only highlight - but in 2012 the World Cup before, which was totally crazy, against Houston. Juan Carlos Oviedo Jonathon Niese (4-4), who has Minnesota 36 38 .486 5 Chicago Cubs 31 42 .425 14 final was the worst bit. We played great so another one would be very pleasant. (3-2) got two outs in the sixth for the been plagued by poor run support Chicago White Sox 35 41 .461 7 football that year and once again showed Western Division Western Division win. Joel Peralta pitched the ninth this year, won for the first time since San Francisco 45 30 .600 - what Italy can do, and our run to the final You might even get to for his first save. May 22. He allowed less than four Oakland 47 29 .618 - was very impressive. Beating Germany meet the Pope again... LA Angels 41 33 .554 5 LA Dodgers 42 35 .545 4 earned runs for the 19th consecutive Colorado 34 41 .453 11 shows that Italy are right up there with the The pope is German now, so I’m not sure Seattle 40 36 .526 7 ROYALS 2, MARINERS 1 start, giving up three in six innings. San Diego 32 44 .42113.5 he’d be too happy if Italy won it again! Texas 35 40 .46711.5 best sides. But the final - that was a night- Rookie Roenis Elias pitched neat- Niese drove in a run with a suicide Houston 33 44 .42914.5 Arizona 32 47 .405 15 ly into the seventh inning and Mike squeeze bunt, and David Wright had p17 2_Layout 1 6/23/14 11:07 PM Page 1

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KSSC honor shooter Al-Daihani

By Abdellatif Sharaa Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Sabah, Deputy thanked them for their presence. He said Butaiban, and administrator Mohammad Honorary President of KSSC for his con- Director General for Public Affairs Dr. their interest contributed to the shoot- Al-Daihani for their efforts that facilitated tinued support of the club and shooters. KUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sports Club Jassem Al-Huwaidi, Member of ing achievements, and the honoring of the achievement. He said the shooting Al-Osaimi said we appreciate the sup- held an honoring ceremony for Kuwaiti Parliament, Majed Al-Mutairi, Secretary Olympian Fuhaid Al-Daihani is because community appreciates and thanks HH port of the Public Authority for Youth shooter Fuhaid Al-Daihani, who won the General of the Arab and Kuwait Shooting of his distinguished international the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- and Sports, and its Chairman Sheikh bronze medal during the World Cup of Federations Obaid Munahi Al-Osaimi, achievements in the most important Jaber Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Ahmad Mansour Al-Sabah and his clay targets in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and KSSC Treasurer Essa Butaiban, Assistant tournaments, and in less than one Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- deputies. Eng. Duaij Al-Otaibi handed the clay target World Cup in Munich, Treasurer Adnan Al-Ibrahim along with a month he won two medals in Almaty Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh shooter Fuhaid Al-Daihani his award Germany. Kuwait Shooting Sports Club large number of PAYS officials and shoot- and Munich. These medals helped place Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah for their gen- along with an appreciation certificate. Chairman Eng. Duaij Al-Otaibi, represen- ing sport enthusiasts attended. him among the top ranked world trap erous support to the shooters. He also presented Dr. Jassim Al-Huwaidi tative of chairman of the board and Al-Osaimi started the ceremony with shooters this year. Al-Osaimi congratulat- He also thanked Information Minister, with a memento. Al-Huwaidi gave Al- managing director of PAYS, Sheikh a speech welcoming the attendees, and ed the head of the delegation Essa State Minister for Youth Affairs, and Daihani a memento from PAYS.

Djokovic, Murray cruise at Wimbledon

LONDON: Top seed Novak Djokovic and defending performance,” said Djokovic. mare when she slumped to a 6-3, 6-4 defeat to champion Andy Murray stormed into the Murray and Djokovic were joined in the second Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer. Wimbledon second round yesterday with such round by Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych, the The former US Open champion has now failed speed that All England Club organisers had to pad 2010 runner-up, who came from a set down to to get beyond the third round in 12 Wimbledon out the Centre Court schedule. beat Romania’s Victor Hanescu, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-4, 6- appearances. Five-time champion Venus Williams, Murray took out baby-faced Belgian, David 3. Spanish seventh seed David Ferrer, twice a quar- the 30th seed, beat Spain’s world number 53 Maria- Goffin 6-1, 6-4, 7-5 in a shade over two hours while ter-finalist, also made it through by seeing off com- Teresa Torro-Flor 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Czech sixth seed Djokovic, the 2011 champion and runner-up to the patriot Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-0, 6-7 (3/7), 6-1, 6-1. Petra Kvitova, the 2011 champion, beat compatriot third-seeded Briton in 2013, needed just 88 min- Grigor Dimitrov, the Bulgarian 11th seed who won Andrea Hlavackova, 6-3, 6-0.—AFP utes to dispose of Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev, 6- the Queen’s title last week, beat Ryan Harrison of 0, 6-1, 6-4. the United States, 7-6 (7/1), 6-3, 6-2. In between, Li Na, the women’s second seed, But Spanish 18th seed Fernando Verdasco, who took only 77 minutes to get past Polish qualifier took Murray to five sets in the quarter-finals in Paula Kania. As a result, Centre Court fans in pos- 2013, was knocked out by Australia’s Marinko session of the hottest tickets in town were treated Matosevic 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. to 10th seeded Dominika Cibulkova facing Chinese women’s second seed Li Na, a three- Canadian qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak as a closing time quarter-finalist, got back on track after her gesture. French Open misery thanks to a 7-5, 6-2 win over Murray, bidding to become the first British man Kania.Li suffered her worst Grand Slam perform- to successfully defend a Wimbledon title since Fred ance since 2011 when she slumped to an opening Perry in 1936, hit eight aces and 28 winners past round exit against Kristina Mladenovic in Paris. world number 104 Goffin. But the 32-year-old from Wuhan was too strong “I thought it was a very high standard of match, for world number 183 Kania, hitting 24 winners to PINEHURST: Michelle Wie poses with the trophy after winning the US Women’s Open we played some great rallies, and I was glad to fin- set up a second round meeting with Austria’s golf tournament in Pinehurst. —AP ish it in three sets because he was playing very Yvonne Meusburger. well,” said Murray. “In the beginning I was a bit shaky because I “Sometimes you can win in three and not play hadn’t played her before and she was using my Wie wins US Women’s well but in terms of the way I struck the ball it was a power against me, so I was really happy to win in good start.” The British star was never broken as he the end,” said Li. brushed past the 23-year-old Goffin with new Former women’s world number one Victoria Open by two strokes coach Amelie Mauresmo and former NBA superstar Azarenka won her first match since January as the Shaquille O’Neal looking on from the Centre Court eighth seed triumphed 6-3, 7-5 against Croatia’s PINEHURST: Michelle Wie finally lived up to an 18-foot birdie that she described as ‘the stands. Murray, who has made at least the semi- Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, who was a semi-finalist back the burden of expectation when she won her best putt of my life’. After parring the last to finals on his last five appearances at the All in 1999. The former Australian Open champion has first major title with a clutch two-stroke victo- secure victory at two-under 278, she lifted her England Club, goes on to face Slovenia’s Blaz Rola. been plagued by a left foot injury which kept her ry at the US Women’s Open in Pinehurst, right hand to her mouth as if she could not Djokovic, playing for the first time since losing off tour from Indian Wells in March to Eastbourne North Carolina, on Sunday. More than a believe what she had achieved, before break- the French Open final to Rafael Nadal, won the first last week where she lost her opener to Camila decade after becoming famous when she ing out in a huge smile. 11 games of his Centre Court mis-match against Giorgi. US 18th seed Sloane Stephens, a quarter- almost made the cut against the men in a Wie, who previously had twice led into the world number 55 Golubev who has now lost all finalist in 2013, was defeated by Russian former top PGA Tour event, the 24-year-old from Hawaii final round at the Women’s Open, collected four of his main draw appearances at Wimbledon. 10 player Maria Kirilenko, 6-2, 7-6 (8/6). was emotionally moved after winning the $720,000, small change for a woman who has The Serb fired seven aces and 34 winners and Kirilenko, who had won just one match all year biggest prize in women’s golf. made millions in endorsements. next tackles Czech veteran Radek Stepanek for a after a lengthy battle with a knee injury, claimed “I’m just unbelievably happy,” she told It has been a long and winding journey for place in the last 32. “It was a great start, especially victory on a sixth match point. reporters after shooting even-par 70 to hold someone who was barely a teenager when in the first two sets. Credit to Andrey for coming Australian 17th seed Samantha Stosur fired 13 off fellow American Stacy Lewis (66) at she saddled herself with huge expectations back in the third, but I cannot be happier with the aces but still suffered another Wimbledon night- Novak Djokovic of Serbia Pinehurst No. 2. “I’m so honored to have my by saying she thought she belonged on the name on the trophy, just so grateful for every- PGA Tour (as well as the LPGA circuit) and thing.” Wie seemed poised to win in style until wanted to play the Masters. she double-bogeyed the 16th hole after She earned fame in 2004 when she came Prasad stuns England in second Test almost losing her ball in a thick clump of wire within one stroke of making the cut at the grass after a poor second shot. Sony Open in Hawaii on the PGA Tour, but LEEDS: Dhammika Prasad’s dramatic opener Sam Robson, who in the first Mathews’s hundred was the centre- Jayawardene 55 not out and Mathews It took almost two minutes to locate the flopped in subsequent appearances in men’s four-wicket burst following a hundred innings had made a maiden Test centu- piece of Sri Lanka’s second innings 457. 24 not out. After a stand of 92 between ball and she subsequently chose to take a tournaments and has since stuck with from skipper Angelo Mathews left Sri ry, drove loosely outside off stump and It was only his fourth century in 40 Mathews and Jayawardene, out for a penalty stroke, eventually sinking a five-foot women’s events. Lanka on the brink of victory in the sec- was caught by second slip Mahela Tests but third since he became captain typically elegant 79 in probably his last putt to avoid dropping three shots. Injuries and a stint at university temporari- ond Test against England at Headingley Jayawardene for 24. last year. And it meant the all-rounder, Test innings in England, Sri Lanka “I definitely gave myself a heart attack ly halted her march to LPGA dominance, but yesterday. England were 57 for five at Prasad then surpassed his previous whose knock surpassed his 157 not out briefly faltered at 277 for five when when I couldn’t find that ball,” she said. “I was she remained determined to fulfil her stumps on the fourth day, needing a Test-best of three for 82 against against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi last year, Plunkett took two wickets in two balls. stressing out for sure. I also left myself a hefty immense talent. further 293 runs to reach their impos- Pakistan in Colombo six years ago had set new personal Test-bests with An angry Mathews threw his bat down double bogey putt. All you can do at that “Obviously there are moments of doubt ing victory target of 350. when he squared up Bell with a fine both bat and ball in this match after in frustration but he responded by driv- point is laugh. I joked with my caddie we real- in there but I had so many people surround- The most England have previously delivery that clipped the top of off- the seamer took four for 44 in ing Plunkett for a ferocious six over ly like to make things difficult for ourselves.” ing me... That’s what pushed me forward,” made in the fourth innings to win a stump. England’s first innings. Mathews mid-wicket. Wie has a reputation for not being a she said after avoiding a single three-putt on Test is 332 for seven against Australia at England were now 52 for four, with received excellent support from Herath A single off Stuarrt Broad saw strong closer and, whether that is warranted some of the toughest greens in the game. Melbourne in 1928/29. Prasad having taken four for 10 in 24 (48) in an eighth-wicket stand of 149. Mathews to his hundred. England had or not, the pressure was immense when she Wie’s triumph capped off a fortnight of And only one team have made balls. And the 31-year-old would have The pair were only separated on the seemed more concerned trying to get stepped to the par-three 17th tee with a ten- championship golf at Pinehurst No. 2, where more in the fourth innings to win a Test had two more wickets had not both stroke of tea when Mathews, in search Herath on strike than dismissing uous one-shot lead. German Martin Kaymer won the men’s US at Headingley-Australia’s 404 for three nightwatchman Liam Plunkett and Joe of a single for his 150, sent back Herath Mathews, with Cook rarely putting But she responded magnificently, sinking Open seven days ago. —Reuters against England in 1948. Root successfully challenged caught back only for the non-striker to be run pressure on his Sri Lankan counterpart Sri Lanka have won just two Tests in behind decisions given by New out by Root’s direct hit from mid-on. with attacking fields. England and never claimed a series on Zealand umpire Billy Bowden. Mathews did give a chance on 87 Mathews’s impressive innings of English soil of more than one match. But to what became the last ball of when fast bowler Plunkett dropped a more than five hours, including 247 Streelman bags But, having held out for a draw in the the day, Plunkett fell for nought when hard-hit return catch. Sri Lanka balls with 25 fours and a six, ended first Test at Lord’s with just one wicket he chipped a gentle catch to cover off resumed Monday on 214 for four, a when he chipped a James Anderson standing, Mathews’s men were now on left-arm spinner Rangana Herath. lead of 106, with star batsman full-toss to mid-wicket. —AFP PGA Tour event course for a memorable victory. Earlier in the day, England bowled CROMWELL: Kevin Streelman set a PGA Tour tough up-and-downs on 10 and 11 (for par). too short and Prasad, recalled in place SCOREBOARD record when he birdied the final seven holes Those saved the round,” said Streelman, who of the dropped Nuwan Kulasekara, for an astonishing one-stroke victory at the arrived at the tournament previously known LEEDS: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the second Test between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley yesterday: Travelers Championship on Sunday. as the Greater Hartford Open in terrible form, showed them the value of pitching the ball up. England were making steady Sri Lanka 1st Innings 257 (K Sangakkara 79; L Plunkett 5-64, S (Chandimal), 7-277 (Prasad), 8-426 (Herath), 9-437 (Mathews), Streelman came from nowhere, one- having missed four straight cuts. Broad 3-46) 10-457 (Pradeep) Bowling: Anderson 25.5-5-91-3 (1w); Broad putting the final 10 holes and storming home But it all came together when he stepped progress at 39 without loss when England 1st Innings 365 (S Robson 127, G Ballance 74, I Bell 29-6-86-0 (1w); Jordan 28-8-79-0 (2nb); Plunkett 29-2-112-4 in 28 strokes on the back nine to clinch his to the 12th tee on Sunday.”I started flushing it Prasad, the fifth bowler used by 64; A Mathews 4-44, S Eranga 4-93) (3nb, 8w); Ali 21-0-74-2. second tour title with a six-under-par 64 at and made a bunch of putts. It was just a Mathews, struck twice in his first over. Sri Lanka 2nd Innings (overnight: 214-4) the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell. His sev- dream-come-true back nine.” With his third ball he induced D. Karunaratne c Prior b Plunkett 45 England 2nd Innings (target: 350) en birdies to finish and win is a tour record, Streelman, 35, who bounced around on England captain Alastair Cook to bot- K. Silva c Prior b Plunkett 13 S. Robson c Jayawardene b Prasad 24 supplanting Mike Souchak’s previous mark of mini-tours for half a dozen years before mak- tom edge a pull onto his stumps. That K. Sangakkara lbw b Ali 55 A. Cook b Prasad 16 six straight from the 1956 St. Paul Open. ing the tour, collected $1.116 million. His vic- meant the left-handed opener’s run M. Jayawardene c Prior b Anderson 79 G. Ballance lbw b Prasad 0 Mark Calcavecchia holds the record for tory was made even more unlikely by the way without a Test century since he scored L. Thirimanne lbw b Ali 0 I. Bell b Prasad 8 the last of his England record 25 hun- A. Mathews c Ali b Anderson 160 J. Root not out 6 most consecutive birdies on tour at nine, set he made his closing birdies. His 35-footer at D. Chandimal c Ballance b Plunkett 7 L. Plunkett c Pradeep b Herath 0 at the 2009 Canadian Open. “It’s nuts,” an the 16th looked to be missing to the left, but dreds against New Zealand at D. Prasad c Root b Plunkett 0 Extras (lb1, wl, nb1) 3 emotional Streelman told Golf Channel after it curled around almost behind the hole and Headingley last year now extended to R. Herath run out (Root) 48 Total (5 wkts, 26.2 overs, 114 mins) 57 finishing at 15-under 265, one stroke ahead somehow dropped in. 24 innings. S. Eranga not out 20 To bat: M Ali, M Prior, C Jordan, S Broad, J Anderson of Spaniard Sergio Garcia (67) and South Then, at the 17th, he almost missed a And next ball Prasad’s excellent full- N. Pradeep b Anderson 0 Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Cook), 2-39 (Ballance), 3-50 (Robson), 4-52 Korean K.J. Choi (67), while Australian Aaron three-footer, his putt barely sneaking in the length delivery had Gary Ballance Extras (b5, lb10, w10, nb5) 30 (Bell), 5-57 (Plunkett) Bowling: Pradeep 4-1-11-0 (1nb); Eranga 4- Baddeley (69) bogeyed the last to finish two side door. And his eight-foot birdie at the final plumb lbw for a duck. Ian Bell prevent- Total (all out, 132.5 overs, 585 mins) 457 1-10-0; Herath 9.2-3-13-1; Mathews 3-0-7-0; Prasad 6-1-15-4 (1w). strokes behind. hole was not exactly in the middle, breaking ed a hat-trick but Prasad was in the Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Silva), 2-93 (Karunaratne), 3-172 Match position: England need 293 more runs to win with five “I made a great putt on nine (and) had to the right before it dropped.—Reuters wickets again when Australia-born (Sangakkara, 4-176 (Thirimanne), 5-268 (Jayawardene), 6-277 second-innings wickets standing. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

FAN FERVOR Portugal grab last-gasp equaliser to stay alive

MANAUS: Portuguese substitute Silvestre Varela scored deep into stoppage-time to secure a dramatic 2-2 draw with the United States in World Cup Group G on Sunday and keep his team’s hopes alive. Just as it looked as though the Preview Americans had pulled off a come-from-behind victory to qualify for the second round and eliminate their opponents, Varela converted a Cristiano Ronaldo cross with a powerful flying header. Italy look to avoid The result of another wildly entertaining World Cup match means that after two games the US are in second place, level with Germany on more humiliation four points. Portugal are joint bottom with Ghana on one point and face a tough task to make the next round. NATAL: Four-time champions Italy admitted they are strug- “Conceding a late goal was a bummer that we have to swallow. We felt very gling with the weather conditions ahead of their clash with confident after we turned it around. It ended in a tie but overall I think it was an Uruguay in Natal today where they will try to avoid being amazing game,” US coach Juergen Klinsmann told a news conference. eliminated in the first round at successive World Cups. The Americans, who made the second round in 2010, face Germany in the final game and need a point to ensure qualification. A win for the South Americans would send Cesare The US scored late to beat Ghana 2-1 in the first game and Clint Dempsey Prandelli’s side crashing out at the first hurdle, four years after looked to have repeated the feat in the 81st minute, steering the ball home bowing out at the group stage as then world with his stomach to give his team the lead. champions in South Africa. Portugal lost their first game 4-0 to Germany and coach Paulo Bento said The Azzurri require just his team had to beat the Americans. Portugal opened the scoring in the fifth a draw to go through, but minute when U.S. defender Geoff Cameron swung a foot at a Miguel Veloso after a lifeless display in a cross and succeeded only in slicing the ball across his own area right to the feet of 1-0 defeat to Costa Rica, Nani, who scored easily. The Europeans then sat back in the heat and humidity, captain Gianluigi Buffon allowing their opponents to start dominating. hinted that the hot The temperature in the Amazonia arena was 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) at kick-

and humid conditions have off with a humidity reading of 65 percent. taken their toll. Portugal still looked dangerous and Nani “Once we’ve fin- hit the left-hand post in the 45th minute from ished training today we’ll see outside the area. The ball rebounded to Eder what kind of condition we are but his looping shot was brilliantly scooped in,” said Buffon. “I think a lot over the bar by U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard. of European teams are As the second half progressed the struggling compared to Portuguese wilted and it was little surprise when U.S. midfielder Jermaine Jones cut in from the left in the 64th minute, the Latin Americans. brushed past Nani and fired in a superb right-foot curling shot from 25 metres to “But that isn’t an excuse. The climate is the same for all of our oppo- equalise. nents.” “We conceded a second goal through our mistakes. I guess a draw was a fair If there is belief that Latin Americans sides are coping better than result in the end although it left us in a very difficult situation,” said Bento. teams from Europe in such a testing climate, Group D is arguably a good Portugal started with Ronaldo, who has been trying to shake off a knee injury. indicator. He was ineffective against the Germans and looked well below full fitness against Costa Rica host England on Tuesday looking for their third consecu- the Americans, contributing little until the very end. The United States were only a tive group win having fought back from a goal down to stun Uruguay 3- few minutes away from notching another surprise World Cup win over Portugal. In 2002, they beat the Europeans 3-2 in the group stage and went all the way to the 1, before outplaying a visibly jaded Italy in Recife on Friday. quarter-finals. Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio said after the defeat: “In the Portugal go into the final game with Ghana looking short of firepower. They lost second half we suffered, the heat made it difficult to remain lucid.” striker Hugo Almeida in the first game and his replacement Helder Postiga lasted Uruguay bounced back from that shock reverse with a far improved per- only 15 minutes on Sunday before he came off holding his thigh. formance to beat England 2-1 thanks to a Luis Suarez double. Varela’s goal was the second time he has struck late for Portugal at a major tour- “They’ve managed to relaunch their campaign by beating England nament. In Euro 2012, he scored an 87th-minute winner against Denmark in a first- and now the whole of Uruguay believes they can beat us and go round game.—Reuters through,” added Buffon, who said Italy will have to be wary of Liverpool striker Suarez. “We know plenty about (striker Edinson) Cavani thanks to his time at Napoli. But we know less about Suarez.” “Now, we have to send some Preview positive signals and the only way to do that is to raise our game against Uruguay. “We need to show some strength and pride and come up with a win. England seek to We need cool heads but also to be highly motivated. “If we end up going out in the first round, it will be a failure.” With restore pride Costa Rica already through and England eliminated by the Italians’ defeat in Recife, Italy and Uruguay-who both have three points-have RIO DE JANEIRO: England return to Belo Horizonte today, scene of the been left to battle for the second qualifying spot. country’s greatest sporting humiliation, where they will attempt to restore Due to an inferior goal difference, Uruguay need a win if they are to pride against Costa Rica after another chastening World Cup experience. have a chance of repeating their exploits of 2010 when current coach Belo Horizonte’s Estadio Independencia provided the setting for Oscar Tabarez steered the 1950 champions to their first semi-finals England’s sensational 1-0 loss to the part-timers of the United States at the appearance in 40 years. 1950 World Cup-a game latterly dubbed ‘The Miracle Match’. After their win against England, spirits are high in the ‘Celeste’ camp. “I Sixty-four years on, England are braced for another day to forget in the city, although with today’s game taking place at the Estadio Mineirao, they have a group who are used to resisting pressure and who react to it in a will at least be spared a reunion with the ghosts of 1950. Roy Hodgson’s good way,” said Tabarez. side had hoped to be heading into their final Group D fixture vying for a “The pressure was worse against England, or do you think that we’d last-16 place, but their tournament is already over after consecutive 2-1 gone shopping?” But Tabarez, who spent spells with AC Milan and defeats by Italy and Uruguay. Cagliari in the 1990s, acknowledges the challenge the Azzurri pose. Instead, it is Costa Rica who have secured a berth in the knockout “They’ve been world champions four times and we have a lot of phase, thanks to stunning wins over the two teams who accounted for respect for them. It will be a tough challenge for us but I believe we’ll England, and the Central Americans now require a point to claim top spot. have our chances,” said the 67-year-old. England striker Wayne Rooney has called on his side to “restore some pride” on Tuesday, but Hodgson says that his chief priority will be to give playing Italy have had barely three days to digest defeat to Costa Rica, recu- time to those players who have watched from the sidelines until now. perate spent forces and get in the right frame of mind. It is only a year “I’m going to be picking (the team) with a view that all the players who since last the two sides met in the Confederations Cup, drawing 2-2 in are with us get some minutes on the field,” Hodgson told a press confer- the match for third place before Italy won 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out. ence in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. “It’s going to be an especially challenging match. We played them last “I will be changing the team to give others a chance to show what they year in the Confederations Cup and after we played well for 35 minutes, can do. It’s not purely planning for the future and not purely sentiment. they took over,” said Prandelli. —AFP “It’s to give players a chance to go home from this World Cup-too early, bitterly disappointed-but to be able to say they weren’t here to make up the numbers, they actually took part.” Hodgson has revealed that Leighton Baines and Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain will both miss the match through injury, while Frank Lampard is expected to come into the team for captain Steven Gerrard. Matches on TV Both Gerrard and Lampard could be making their final international (Local Timings) appearances, but the former declared on Sunday that he will not be mak- ing any announcements about his England future for the time being. Baines’s hamstring injury means 18-year-old Southampton left-back Luke FIFA World Cup Shaw can expect to get his first taste of a World Cup. Everton’s Ross Barkley, meanwhile, will hope to be given another chance to impress after promis- Costa Rica v England 19:00 ing substitute cameos against Italy and Uruguay. beIN SPORTS 2 HD Although Costa Rica still require a point to claim first place in the group, beIN SPORTS 14 HD and with it a likely last-16 clash against Ivory Coast, coach Jorge Luis Pinto beIN SPORTS 2 HD FR is also planning to shuffle his pack. “It’s important to give some football to those who don’t normally get any and also to see how they fit into the system,” explained assistant coach Italy v Uruguay 19:00 Paolo Wanchope, the former national team striker. beIN SPORTS 1 HD Costa Rica have become one of the stories of the tournament after stun- beIN SPORTS 13 HD ning Uruguay 3-1 in their opening game and then edging Italy 1-0 in Recife beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR on Friday a result that confirmed England’s elimination. They are already assured of equalling their best World Cup finish, 24 years after reaching the last 16 in Italy in 1990, but centre-back Johnny Acosta says that they can- Japan v Colombia 23:00 not afford to ease off against England. beIN SPORTS 1 HD “England will come to show why they’re a powerhouse,” he said. “Here, beIN SPORTS 14 HD no player will want to lose three matches and go home empty- beIN SPORTS 2 HD FR handed.”Rubin Kazan striker Marco Urena is a candidate to start after mak- ing substitute appearances in Costa Rica’s first two games, but first-choice Greece v Ivory Coast 23:00 forwards Joel Campbell and Bryan Ruiz are both in excellent form. Arsenal beIN SPORTS 2 HD forward Campbell scored one goal and made another against Uruguay, while Fulham’s Ruiz headed in the 44th-minute winner against Italy. —AFP beIN SPORTS 13 HD beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

FAN FERVOR Dutch double sinks Chile

SAO PAULO: Dutch fans applaud their national team after their 2-0 victory over Chile in the Group B World Cup soccer match. —AP

SAO PAULO: A powerful and pacey Netherlands side beat Chile 2-0 yesterday in a match that burst into life late on, securing them top spot in World Cup Group B and meaning they look set Spain bow out to avoid hosts Brazil in the last 16. Substitute Leroy Fer scored with his first touch of the game, thumping home a close-range header from Daryl Janmaat’s cross in the 77th minute. with 3-0 win Another replacement, Memphis Depay, made it two in stop- page-time after a marauding Arjen Robben broke down the left, CURITIBA: Dethroned champions Spain bowed out of the World Cup with a 3-0 turning what had been a scrappy match short of goal-mouth win over Australia thanks to goals from David Villa, Fernando Torres and Juan action into a comfortable win for the Dutch. Mata in Curitiba yesterday. The Netherlands ended the group stage on a perfect Villa, who is set for a three-month spell in Australia with Melbourne City after, nine points with Chile behind them on six. Reigning became the fourth Spanish player to score in three World Cups when he back- champions Spain finished third on three points after heeled home Juanfran’s cross for his 59th interna- beating Australia 3-0 in the other Group B match. “It was a very good game to watch, there was a lot of passion tional goal in his 97th and final appearance for on the pitch, we defended really well, I am proud of the way La Roja nine minutes before half-time. the team defended,” Robben said in a television interview. Andres Iniesta then marked his 100th “I think we did a great job and this is not where we want cap for his country with a lovely through ball to stop. It is a fantastic result and a fantastic perform- for Torres to double Spain’s advantage on 69 ance and we don’t want it to end here, we need to minutes before Mata slotted home a third change our mindset as we want to move for- eight minutes from time. Victory means ward.” Spain finished third in Group B behind Chile, knowing only a win would secure top Chile and group winners the spot owing to an inferior goal difference, Netherlands, whilst pressed hardest in the first half and bossed pos- Australia slipped to a session but they failed to hit the target once. third consecutive defeat. The second half was not much better for the South Americans, who were clearly missing the “Obviously it is a very dis- influential Arturo Vidal in midfield and failed to appointing way for us to fin- match the heights of their shock 2-0 win over ish the tournament,” said Spain in the previous game. Australia boss Alexis Sanchez dropped deep and worked Ange Postecoglou. “Full hard to pull the strings in the middle, but the credit to Spain they are a men in orange were more than equal to the very good football side task and frustrated Chile. and after the first 10 or 15 The Netherlands won without in-form minutes, when I thought striker Robin Van Perseid, after he was we started well, they con- suspended for two yellow cards. trolled the game. But Robben was excellent again, launching a “We looked a little series of searing tired. We have faced runs that three world class threatened opponents and par- the Chile ticularly today we defence struggled.” The before his Aussies had perfect started cross sealed with the the three energy that had points. characterised their two Chile are now most encouraging performances likely to face Brazil in the last 16 on Saturday, while against Chile and the Netherlands, the Netherlands are expect- but without the suspended Tim Cahill ed to face either Croatia lacked a threat in the final third. Mathew Leckie pulled a shot well wide for the Socceroos on five minutes, but as the half developed Spain began to take con- trol with Villa particularly prominent. SAO PAULO: Chile’s The former Barcelona and Atletico Madrid striker first went close Alexis Sanchez (7) and when his volley from Iniesta’s pass at the far post skewed wide. Netherlands’ Nigel de Australia keeper Maty Ryan then had to beat away Jordi Alba’s driven Jong battle for the shot from a narrow angle before Villa very nearly set up the opener with a low ball during the Group cross that the late arriving Koke and Torres just couldn’t turn home. Villa did B World Cup soccer match. —AP finally get his goal on 36 minutes with a lovely backheeled finish from Juanfran’s low cross to extend his record as Spain’s leading scorer of all time. or Mexico the day after. Koke came close to making it 2-0 before half-time when his long-range shot Chile’s best result at a World Cup came was tipped behind by Ryan. Del Bosque surprisingly replaced Villa for Mata just on home soil in 1962, when they fin- before the hour-mark the striker inconsolable as he took his place on the bench- ished third. In 1998 and 2010 they as the game continued to labour at a slow pace. reached the last 16, only to exit at the Matt McKay sent a dipping volley over the bar as Australia looked in vain for hands of Brazil on both occasions. an equaliser that would deliver their first point of the tournament. “I think that this was a match that we expected, However, their hopes were killed off when Iniesta released Torres in behind with the Netherlands trying to use lots of people on the counter the Australia defence and he coolly slotted beyond Ryan into the far corner. attack,” said Chile coach Jorge Sampan. Mata rounded off the scoring eight minutes from time when he controlled “We looked for victory, we wanted to win and we couldn’t find a solution to a team that only defended and only aspired to Cesc Fabregas’ lofted pass and rolled the ball through the legs of the helpless long-range shots, not even counterattacks. Ryan. “This is a Chile that I am proud to be at the helm of, in spite of And the scoreline could even have been worse for Australia as David Silva the fact that we didn’t get a result. The courage of the group, fired just wide and Matthew Spiranovic blocked a goalbound effort from Mata in they have their heads held high and they are getting ready for the closing minutes.—AFP the round of 16.”—Reuters Djokovic, Murray Portugal grab cruise at last-gasp Wimbledon equaliser to stay alive

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BRASILIA: Brazil’s forward Neymar (center) strikes the ball to score a second goal during the Group A football match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium. — AFP Brazil ease through to last 16 Host to play rivals Chile

BRASILIA: Neymar shot to the top of the World Cup scoring Brazilian nerves until Croatia scored and Fernandinho, who was into the corner after a well-worked move six minutes from time Netherlands beat Chile 2-0 in their final Group B encounter. charts with a superb double in a 4-1 win for Brazil over Cameroon introduced at halftime, made it 4-1 in Brasilia. to complete an impressive win for the tournament favorites. “They don’t let us protest, yet we’re in a democratic country. yesterday that sent the hosts through as Group A winners to face Brazil were ahead after 17 minutes when Luiz Gustavo won Meanwhile, activists burned a mock World Cup trophy yester- There shouldn’t be a Cup in a country that doesn’t have health Chile in the last 16. the ball on the left and his low cross was perfectly weighted for day in protests called to demand more investment in health and and education. The money the Cup brings in won’t cover what After grabbing a brace in Brazil’s 3-1 win against Croatia in Neymar, in space in the centre of the penalty area, to deftly guide education as Brazil played a clutch match against Cameroon. we spent on it,” protester Leticia Pieres, an IT analyst, told AFP. their opening game at the finals, Neymar was again the star of the ball into the far corner ot the net. The protests in Brasilia, where the match was being played, “There aren’t many protesters because of the police repres- the show at an electric national stadium. Cameroon refused to capitulate and were level nine minutes and Sao Paulo, the cradle of Brazil’s recent protest movement, sion on the first day of the Cup,” said Rodrigo Antonio, 36, refer- The 22-year-old struck twice in the first half either side of Joel later when Allan Nyom squared for Joel Matip to sidefoot into an drew relatively small crowds and did not descend into the vio- ring to the tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets police used Matip’s goal for already eliminated Cameroon, Fred nodded empty net and momentarily silence the home fans. lence that has at times marred similar demonstrations in the past. to break up protesters on June 12, the day the tournament home at the start of the second and substitute Fernandinho Shouts of “Brazil! Brazil!” then rang out around the vast arena “I want to see a worker earn the same salary as Neymar,” was opened in Sao Paulo. scored a late fourth. The sparkling performance meant Brazil and the hosts were back in front in the 35th minute when one of the rallying cries for some 200 protesters in Brasilia who Eight activists played a bit of football in the middle of the went some way to dispelling doubts about their title credentials Neymar ran at the defence and clipped a low shot past a wrong- marched from a bus station to the stadium where the star striker avenue, but did not try to block traffic. following last week’s goalless draw with Mexico. footed Charles Itandje in the Cameroon goal. was leading the team into its final Group A match. One group of Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets last Mexico finished level on seven points with Brazil thanks to Brazil made a similarly brisk start to the second period and protesters burned a replica of the gold World Cup trophy Brazil year to demand more spending on infrastructure and social their 3-1 victory against Croatia and went through in second David Luiz popped up on the left wing in the 49th to chip the ball hope to win for a sixth time. programs in protests that erupted during the Confederations place due to an inferior goal difference. They will play Group A to the far post for Fred to head home. In Sao Paulo, about 100 protesters-watched over by around Cup, a World Cup dress rehearsal. But the protests have been far winners the Netherlands, who beat Chile 2-0 earlier on Monday. Neymar came off to a rapturous reception and was replaced 200 riot police-marched up the economic hub’s central Paulista smaller during the World Cup, drawing crowds in the hundreds Mexico took a 3-0 lead with late goals in Recife, rattling by Willian in the 71st minute before Fernandinho clipped the ball Avenue, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from where the at most. —AFP Mexico advance with Croatia win

RECIFE: Javier Hernandez came off the bench to help Mexico reach the last 16 of the World Cup as their watertight defence and swift counter attacks gave them a 3-1 win against Croatia yesterday to emerge from Group A as runners-up behind Brazil. Mexico, who will face Group B winners Netherlands in Fortaleza on Sunday, had looked happy to hold out for the draw that would have seen them into the knockout stages, before the Manchester United forward came on to turn the match on its head. Within 10 minutes of Hernandez entering, Rafael Marquez put Mexico ahead with a powerful header, before Andres Guardado rounded off a swift counter attack and Hernandez himself fin- ished with a close-range header. Mexico briefly flirted with top spot in the group, needing one more goal to depose Brazil before the tournament hosts got a fourth against Cameroon. Ivan Perisic then grabbed a late consolation for Croatia who had substitute Ante Rebic sent off in the dying stages for a studs up challenge. Mexico, securing a sixth successive appearance in the second round, finished second in the group with seven points, behind Brazil on goal difference RECIFE: Croatia’s forward Mario Mandzukic (left) and Mexico’s defender Hector Moreno in action during a after the hosts beat Cameroon 4-1. Group A football match. — AFP Having snuffed out both Brazil and Cameroon minutes but the second half was almost entirely crowd were rocking in the aisles as Guardado was in their previous two games, Mexico’s backline controlled by the men in green, however, and after allowed to arrive unmarked at the far post and fin- restricted Croatia to a handful of half-chances in they had a strong penalty appeal turned down, ish off a sweeping counter attack with a crisp fin- the opening 45 minutes, with Perisic slicing their they took the lead with 18 minutes to play. ish past Croatia keeper Stipe Pletikosa. best effort wide from the edge of the box. Captain Marquez rose powerfully in the area to Hernandez got his goal with eight minutes Mexico’s Hector Herrera rattled the crossbar RECIFE: Mexico's Javier Hernandez celebrates at the end of the Group A World Cup soc- head a cross from the left into the bottom corner. remaining, heading a Marquez flick-on from a cor- with a vicious left-foot drive from distance after 15 cer match against Croatia. — AP Three minutes later and the largely Mexican ner into an unguarded goal. — Reuters Turkish minister eyes rate cut on eve of central bank meeting

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ALGIERS: Algerian children fly kites on the Sablettes seafront promenade in the capital Algiers. — AFP Algerian capital aims to re-conquer seaside

ALGIERS: White-washed Algiers, with sweeping views over The redevelopment of the bay will give special impor- a glittering Mediterranean bay, has long neglected its great- tance to green initiatives, with a project to clean up the est natural asset but a major project is restoring the city’s Oued El Errach among the first, amid concern over its haz- seaside splendor. The urban development plan, requested ardous output. Expected to cost nearly 400 million euros Ooredoo Kuwait announces by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, aims to transform several ($540 million), the project aims to get rid of the 67-kilometre kilometers of coastline that years of industrial development (40-mile) watercourse that flows through the city, carrying appointment of new CEO have prevented residents from appreciating. “The transfor- industrial waste into the bay. mation of the bay, which is at the heart of the new image of A facility at the mouth of the river is planned for water DOHA: Ooredoo Kuwait (Wataniya exciting stage for the company, Algiers, will help to resolve the paradox of seeing the sea but sports, with other recreational activities along the corniche. National Mobile Telecommunications which is seeing a number of vital not accessing it directly or benefiting from it,” said architect “An open air theatre, six children’s playgrounds, grass lawns Company KSC NMTC) announced the new developments, not least the Akli Amrouche. Modern imperatives have wrought changes and gardens planted with trees of different sizes, bridges appointment of Sheikh Mohammed roll-out of the Ooredoo brand.” in recent decades-from railways and roads to a major port- and footpaths are all planned,” said Ahcene Ait Amara, at the bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al- Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah that pushed the bay’s charm progressively farther out of water ministry. Oued El Harrach should then become the Thani as Chief Executive Officer of bin Mohammed Al-Thani holds a reach for residents and visitors alike. bay’s new centre of gravity, with numerous projects dotted the company. He will succeed Master’s Degree in Finance and Only the tops of cranes can be seen above the ugly con- around it. Abdulaziz Ibrahim Fakhroo, who has Accounting from the University of crete walls surrounding the port, built to protect it from Among them will be the Grand Mosque, a vast com- tendered his resignation from the Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, and attacks by Islamist insurgents, who killed several foreign pound with a prayer hall to hold 126,000 people, a minaret position upon reaching the end of a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting sailors during the civil war. The conflict, which erupted in rising nearly 300 meters (984 feet), an esplanade, cultural his term. Fakhroo will move to a new from Qatar University. Sheikh the early 1990s, pitted jihadists against the army during a centre, library and Dar El-Qoraan (House of the Quran). position within the Group and will Mohammed previously worked in decade of appalling blood-letting that killed up to 200,000 There will also be an Africa museum, as well as shopping serve as a member of the Board of Ooredoo’s Finance Department as Algerians. and leisure centers. Earlier this year, the Sablettes prome- Directors of Ooredoo Kuwait. Director of Financial Operations, and If blight of the port were not enough, pollution from nade opened to the public, named after the nearby beach Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed was subsequently promoted to waste water, emptied into the bay from the Oued El Harrach where the famed 20th century French writer Albert Camus Bin Saud Al-Thani, Chairman, Senior Director, Budget and Decision river, prompted a ban on swimming at most of the beaches came to bathe as a teenager. Ooredoo said: “We thank Abdulaziz Support, and Deputy Chief Officer, once popular with bathers and sun-seekers. Capital resi- The Nobel laureate celebrates the “healthy amusements” Fakhroo on the valuable contribu- Finance. dents dream of Algiers becoming a Mediterranean city to of the bay in his essay “Summer in Algiers”, a lyrical descrip- tion he has made during his tenure Sheikh Mohammed has made rival Marseilles, Barcelona or Naples. tion of the city in which he grew up during French colonial as Chief Executive Officer of several contributions to the field of rule. Nearly 80 years on, hundreds of families can be found Ooredoo Kuwait, which was charac- finance and accounting, through his Sheikh Mohammed bin Turning the page strolling along the revamped stretch of seafront every terized by his perseverance, determi- work in Ooredoo’s Finance Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Thani Instead, it has been pushing in the opposite direction, Friday, when Algeria’s weekend falls. On the other side of the nation and hard work. We look for- Department, and also through his eating into the rich farmland of the Mitidja region, with the port, a breakwater is being built to block the waves and ward to benefiting from his experi- work as a member of the Board of roles has been developed through sea no longer visible from the sprawling suburbs. The rede- allow the residents of Bab-el-Oued, once an insurgent ence in his new role in the Group Directors of the Qatar Chapter of the his work with and support for velopment plan seeks to readjust this focus, building walk- stronghold, to rediscover the beach and simple seaside and on the Board of Directors of Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ooredoo’s Senior Executive ways along the seafront, completely reorganizing the city pleasures. Yazid, who lives there, hopes the bay’s restoration Ooredoo Kuwait. We also welcome where he has promoted the profes- Management, as well as externally, centre and restoring the old fishing port. Several neighbor- will help the people of Algiers turn the page, and put the Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah bin sion of accountancy in the State of through his work as a member of the hoods will be linked to the sea by projects harnessing green violence and trauma of the civil war behind them.”The reha- Mohammed Al-Thani to the role of Qatar and its important role in devel- Board of Directors for Ooredoo technology and modern design, says Amrouche. “The pur- bilitation of these beaches and the growing number of Chief Executive Officer and wish him oping the country’s economy. Kuwait where he has strongly sup- pose is to give recreational areas back to the people of leisure spots can contribute to stifling any revival of extrem- every success as he joins us at an Sheikh Mohammed’s leadership ported the company’s progress. Algiers and re-open their access to the sea.” ist ideas,” he says. — AFP

Arabtec pushes Dubai into bearish market territory Arabtec lays off staff

MIDEAST STOCKS DUBAI: Dubai contractor Arabtec Holding has perceived to be close to him. laid off a significant number of employees in the Arabtec shares closed down 10 percent yester- DUBAI: Uncertainty over the fate of Dubai’s some extent, in other Gulf markets. ect in Kazakhstan last year, was the main drag, wake of chief executive Hasan Ismaik’s departure day, the sixth trading session in the last 11 in most heavily traded stock, construction firm “I think that the main reason for this is the tumbling 7.0 percent. Saudi Arabia’s main index last week, sources with knowledge of the matter which it has fallen the maximum daily limit Arabtec , as well as the fighting in Iraq and the ambiguity around Arabtec, which is affecting slid 1.1 percent, dragged down by blue chips told Reuters yesterday. The departures represent allowed. The stock has lost nearly half its value approach of the Ramadan lull depressed most the sentiment on the market and causing some such as Al Rajhi Bank and property developer the latest upset for a company which had seemed since the beginning of June, as speculation share markets across the Gulf yesterday. Arabtec panic selling across the board,” said Marwan Jabal Omar, down 1.5 and 2.7 percent respec- to be benefiting from contract wins reflecting swirled over the commitment of its main share- has laid off a significant number of employees in Shurrab, fund manager and head of trading at tively. support for Egypt from the United Arab Emirates, holder - Abu Dhabi state-owned fund Aabar the wake of chief executive Hasan Ismaik’s Vision Investments. Arabtec’s decline may have “I think the (Saudi) market needs a breather but whose prospects have been dented by ques- Investments - and the position of Ismaik. departure last week, sources with knowledge of been amplified by margin calls forcing lever- and I think Dubai is driving everyone down,” said tions over those contracts and internal strife. Aabar cut its stake in Arabtec to 18.94 from the matter told Reuters yesterday. Arabtec aged investors to sell stocks at certain levels. Farooq Waheed, senior portfolio manager at Large numbers of staff, including at least two 21.6 percent earlier this month, according to declined to comment. Riyad Capital, adding that the fighting in Iraq senior executives, have departed the company bourse data, while Ismaik increased his holding to The stock plunged its daily limit of 10 per- Region-wide impact also remained a negative factor, although there since Ismaik resigned, the sources told Reuters, 28.85 percent from 8.03 percent. The drop in cent for a second session in a row, taking its loss Shares in heavyweight Emaar Properties fell is no sign so far of it destabilizing the wealthy speaking on condition of anonymity because of Arabtec shares marks a swift turn-around after the this month to 48 percent. Dubai’s index tum- 4.9 percent, bourse operator Dubai Financial Gulf economies. the sensitivity of the subject. Arabtec declined to stock more than doubled in the first five months bled 4.3 percent to a three-month closing low of Market dropped 9.1 percent and conglomerate Shares in Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co fell 1.7 comment. The sources couldn’t confirm details of the year, as investors bought into the compa- 4,296 points, leaving it down 21 percent from Dubai Investments was down 5.2 percent. One percent after the firm delayed the start of com- including which executives had departed or the ny’s ambitious plans which include a $40 billion May’s multi-year peak - meaning, by some defi- of just a handful of Dubai stocks that rose was mercial operations at its SAFCO-5 plant until the exact number of people who had left. News contract with the Egyptian government to build 1 nitions, that it has entered bear market territory. Kuwait-based Al Madina for Finance and first quarter of next year and announced a agency Bloomberg said the company’s head of million homes in the north African country. Arabtec shares are still up 69 percent year-to- Investment Co, which gained 4.0 percent after it reduced dividend for the first half of 2014. mergers and acquisitions, Shohidul Ahad- However, the jitters of recent weeks have date and the Dubai index remains up 27 per- announced a deal to settle a 10 million Kuwaiti Oman’s bourse was the only gainer in the Choudhury, and Chief Operating Officer Mark shown an uneasiness at the pace of development. cent. But the lack of clarity surrounding Arabtec dinar ($35.7 million) debt to Boubyan Bank with region yesterday, up 0.3 percent as power com- Andrews had exited as part of the staffing cuts. “Of all the big contracts they’ve won, none of the - major shareholder Aabar has declined to com- a transfer of equity. The firm’s Kuwait-listed panies Al Suwadi Power Co and Al Batinah “As far as I know and from what I’ve heard from revenues are kicking in for maybe two years and a ment on its intentions, although large layoffs shares rose 7.0 percent, far outperforming the Power Co surged 25 and 26 percent respective- inside the company, it has more to do with the lot of them were won because of Ismaik, so peo- could presumably hinder Arabtec’s ambitious Kuwaiti market, which slid 0.7 percent. ly on their debuts after heavily oversubscribed change of management rather than cost-cutting,” ple are starting to think what value do they (the expansion plans - is damaging. The sudden Abu Dhabi’s index fell 2.0 percent. Aldar initial public offers. Both stocks closed at 0.163 said Allen Sandeep, director of research at Naeem contracts) really have and where is the floor for downturn in the fortunes of a high-flying stock Properties , which has awarded some contracts rial, around the top of analysts’ fair value esti- Holding. One source said most of the people the share price?” said one person with knowledge has hurt confidence in the Dubai market and, to to Arabtec, such as a $1.1 billion deal for a proj- mates. — Reuters departing had either been hired by Ismaik or were of the company. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Lexus presents biggest offer during Ramadan

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ISTANBUL: The independence of “The moment of truth is approaching interference in monetary policy and Turkey’s central bank will be in the spot- for Turkey’s central bank: does it give in question whether it will get worse if, as light when it sets interest rates today, to mounting political pressure to cut expected, Erdogan wins the presidency after Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci rates aggressively or does it stand its in August. Their concerns have been called yesterday for a sharp cut ahead of ground and cut them cautiously,” said tempered somewhat by Deputy Prime an August election. Speaking the day Nicholas Spiro, head of Spiro Sovereign Minister Ali Babacan, seen by the mar- before a monetary policy committee Strategy in London. The bank raised rates kets as a steady hand on the economic meeting, Zeybekci said the bank should sharply at the end of January to combat tiller, and Finance Minister Mehmet bring interest rates back at least to where a fall in the lira to record lows. It lifted all Simsek, who has stressed the importance they were at before late January, when it of its key interest rates including its one- of central bank independence. raised them sharply to defend the lira week repo rate, which it raised to 10 per- But Babacan’s future is uncertain. A against a rapid depreciation. cent from 4.5 percent. With its one-week three-term limit on members of parlia- “We want interest rates in Turkey to repo rate at 9.5 percent currently, Turkey ment in the ruling AK Party means he will decline below the levels on Jan. 29 as has the second-highest interest rate be unable to continue his current role soon as possible,” he said at a meeting among the “fragile five” economies of beyond general elections next year, organized by the Turkish Exporters Brazil, India, South Africa, Turkey and though he could become a presidential Assembly, urging the bank to get ahead Indonesia seen as prone to heavy invest- adviser or be given a new portfolio as an of the market, with bond yields falling. ment inflows and outflows. unelected cabinet minister. The bank cut rates for the first time in a “Someone with the experience of Ali year last month, despite high inflation, Splits in cabinet Babacan must be protected ... This would after calls for such a move from Prime Erdogan, determined to maintain be the view of those from outside view- Minister Tayyip Erdogan, eager to main- growth ahead of the August vote and ing Turkey objectively,” Simsek was quot- tain growth ahead of an August presi- parliamentary polls next year, has been a ed by the Hurriyet newspaper as saying dential election in which he is expected frequent critic of central bank policy and in a television interview at the weekend. to run. has repeatedly made populist calls for “If the Turkish economy has overcome Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci lower interest rates. He has railed against problems without experiencing serious said last week that the bank could cut an “interest rate lobby” of speculators he harm, foremost it is because of our prime rates again today if it is convinced the accuses of conspiring to drive up rates at minister’s leadership, but Babacan’s con- Oracle buying Micros inflation outlook is improving significant- the expense of Turkey’s economic health tribution is unbelievably big,” he said. It ly. All 20 economists in a Reuters survey and said last month’s 50 basis point cut appears to be a sentiment echoed by forecast a cut in the main one-week repo had not been enough. markets. “If (Babacan) stays in the future Systems for $5.3bn rate, with 16 predicting a 50 basis point His rhetoric, as well as that of Zeybekci government, TRY (Turkish lira) risk may cut, three expecting a 75 basis point cut, and some other cabinet members, has get a healthy additional boost,” Citi said REDWOOD SHORES: Software maker Oracle is cloud portfolio. Oracle expects the deal to imme- and one a 25 basis point cut. unnerved investors who fear political in a note to clients yesterday. — Reuters buying Micros Systems Inc., which provides soft- diately add to its adjusted earnings. Its stock ware and hardware to the hospitality and retail climbed 18 cents to $41 before the market opened. industries, for about $5.3 billion. Oracle Corp said Micros’ board unanimously approved the transac- yesterday that it will pay $68 per Micros share, a 3 tion, which is expected to close in the second half Gold consolidates below 2-month high percent premium to the company’s $65.77 Friday of the year. Oracle is based in Redwood Shores, closing price. Shares of Micros gained $1.43, or 2.2 California. Micros Systems is headquartered in record high last week but we are see- year, when gold prices fell 28 percent, percent, to $67.20 in premarket trading yesterday. Columbia, Maryland. Last week Oracle reported LONDON: Gold steadied below a two- Oracle said the acquisition will extend its offerings fourth-quarter results that missed Wall Street’s month high yesterday as European ing a bit of a wobble today in Europe and earlier this year. by combining Micros’ industry-specific applications expectations, hurt in part by the devaluation of shares inched lower and the Iraq crisis and any further weakness could lend “There is underlying support from with its business applications, technologies and Venezuela’s currency. — AP intensified, supporting the metal’s further support but not enough to jus- the geopolitical tensions in the Middle appeal as a hedge against risk, with tify another rally.” Gold was supported East, but with Wall Street near record gains checked by a firm dollar and low from weaker European stocks after highs, risk appetite looks strong and physical demand. Iran’s supreme leader euro zone business activity data that is hurting gold,” said a precious Dollar/Saudi riyal forwards accused the United States on Sunday showed growth slowing. But the dollar metals trader in Hong Kong. “Without of trying to retake control of Iraq by was firm against a basket of currencies. strong demand either from the physi- jump on Iraq conflict exploiting sectarian rivalries, as Sunni Investors tend to seek refuge into cal markets or from exchange-traded insurgents drove towards Baghdad safe havens like gold from riskier assets funds, the gold rally is not going to DUBAI: The Saudi riyal fell sharply against the US dol- region. The forwards remain much lower than their from new strongholds along the Syrian in times of geopolitical or financial last.” lar in the forwards market yesterday because of the peak of 91.50 points in March 2011, when the Arab border. troubles, while a stronger dollar makes Silver fell 0.5 percent to $20.76 an conflict in Iraq, bankers and traders in Dubai said. Spring briefly appeared to threaten political stability Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at the dollar-denominated metal more ounce after jumping 6.3 percent last One-year dollar/Saudi riyal forwards jumped as high throughout the Gulf, and 255.0 points in November $1,312.00 an ounce by 1019 GMT. The expensive for foreign investors. Hedge week, its biggest gain since February. as 50.50 points, their highest level since the Arab 2008, during the global financial crisis. metal posted its biggest weekly gain in funds and money managers increased Platinum fell 0.6 percent to $1,446.75 Spring uprisings hit the region in March 2011, from At yesterday’s peak, the forwards implied only a three months last week to a two- their bullish bets in gold futures and an ounce, while palladium dropped 0.6 Friday’s close of 25.00 points. The forwards later fell 0.2 percent weakening of the riyal against its 3.75 peg month high of $1,321.90 in the previ- options in the week to June 17 as bul- percent to $812.20 an ounce, as back to 38.00 points at 0955 GMT. to the dollar over the next year - suggesting there is ous session. “After last week’s rally, we lion prices climbed, according to data investors monitored a five-month min- Sunni tribes took control of a border crossing no significant pressure on the peg and major fund just have to see whether there is any from the Commodity Futures Trading ing strike in major producer South between Iraq and Jordan late on Sunday after Iraq’s flows out of the riyal are not occurring. Currency for- additional buying left in the trunk, and Commission on Friday. Africa that looked set to drag on. South army pulled out of the area following a clash with wards for other major Gulf currencies, including the rebels, Iraqi and Jordanian intelligence sources said. A United Arab Emirates dirham and the Qatari riyal, did the level to keep an eye on is at $1,330- With the higher prices, physical African platinum union AMCU has banker at a major institution in Dubai said hedge not rise sharply yesterday. 1, but it is not unusual to have a little demand from top consumers China made “unaffordable” new demands funds and proprietary trading desks were buying the Financial markets generally believe the rich Gulf bit of consolidation,” Saxo Bank senior and India has been slow to pick up. beyond a deal struck with producers forwards in response to insurgent gains in Iraq, oil-exporting countries are insulated from the turmoil manager Ole Hansen said. Traders said physical demand across last week, mining firms said on though he added that the market was not panicking in Iraq, having demonstrated since the Arab Spring “The focus of the next couple of Asia has been subdued as many expect Thursday, dashing hopes of an end to and volumes remained moderate. that they are able to use their oil wealth to buy social weeks will continue to be Iraq,” he gold prices to fall further. Demand is the country’s longest and costliest min- The Saudi riyal is pegged to the dollar, so forward peace. Oil price rises due to Iraq could end up benefit- added. “In stock markets, we had a new also being hurt by large purchases last ing strike. — Reuters contracts are often used as a proxy for trading the ing the Gulf states economically. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Syrian Pound 2.900 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Nepalese Rupees 3.880 Singapore Dollar 0.221771 0.227771 Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 South African Rand 0.020285 0.028785 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001871 0.002451 Japanese Yen 2.761 Australian Dollar 267.50 264.50 Thai Bhat 9.680 Taiwan 0.009275 0.009455 Indian Rupees 4.764 Canadian Dollar 262.65 265.65 Turkish Lira 134.045 Thai Baht 0.008320 0.008870 Pakistani Rupees 2.868 Swiss Franc 320.80 318.80 Srilankan Rupees 2.167 Euro 388.78 389.78 Arab Nepali Rupees 3.009 US Dollar 282.10 285.10 Singapore Dollar 225.420 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.743942 0.751942 Sterling Pound 476.98 479.98 Egyptian Pound 0.036594 0.039694 Hongkong Dollar 36.489 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000080 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 Bangladesh Taka 3.631 3.901 CURRENCY BUY SELL Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Philippine Peso 6.466 Indian Rupee 4.787 5.087 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.394793 0.402293 Thai Baht 8.661 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.163 2.598 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Belgian Franc 0.007353 0.008353 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Nepali Rupee 2.996 3.531 British Pound 0.466036 0.475036 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Pakistani Rupee 2.863 2.790 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Czech Korune 0.006213 0.018213 Moroccan Dirhams 0.024413 0.048413 UAE Dirhams 76.87 77.34 Danish Krone 0.047541 0.052541 GCC COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 750.84 752.91 Nigerian Naira 0.001196 0.001831 Euro 0.379159 0.387159 Saudi Riyal 75.470 Egyptian Pound 39.44 40.04 Omani Riyal 0.728773 0.734453 Norwegian Krone 0.043192 0.048292 Qatari Riyal 77.763 Jordanian Dinar 401.50 407.15 Qatar Riyal 0.076996 0.078209 Romanian Leu 0.081630 0.81630 Omani Riyal 735.190 Omani Riyal 733.64 740.94 Saudi Riyal 0.074803 0.075503 Bahraini Dinar 751.690 Qatari Riyal 77.90 78.45 Slovakia 0.008101 0.018101 Syrian Pound 0.001754 0.001974 UAE Dirham 77.074 Saudi Riyal 75.36 75.76 Swedish Krona 0.038280 0.043280 Tunisian Dinar 0.169198 0.177198 Swiss Franc 0.308324 0.318524 Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 UAE Dirhams 0.076041 0.077190 Egyptian Pound - Cash 38.601 Yemeni Riyal 0.001276 0.001356 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.550 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.321 Australian Dollar 0.253599 0.265099 Tunisian Dinar 173.930 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.231556 0.241056 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 399.660 US Dollar 281.500 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.899 Canadian Dollar 259.510 Canadian Dollar 0.253852 0.262352 Syrian Lira 2.017 Sterling Pound 475.750 US Dollars 0.278800 0.283150 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 35.187 Euro 391.810 US Dollars Mint 0.279300 0.283150 US Dollar 282.400 Swiss Frank 320.975 Euro 386.000 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 749.235 Asia US Dollar Transfer 282.900 UAE Dirhams 76.620 Bangladesh Taka 0.003338 0.003938 Pound Sterlng 474.000 Euro 386.440 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Chinese Yuan 0.044090 0.047590 Canadian Dollar 260.450 Sterling Pound 474.280 Saudi Riyals 75.340 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034401 0.037151 Indian Rupee 4.765 Canadian dollar 259.540 Jordanian Dinar 396.715 Indian Rupee 0.004441 0.004842 Turkish lira 133.730 Egyptian Pound 39.475 Egyptian Pound 40.115 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Swiss Franc 316.270 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.164 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.154 Japanese Yen 0.002674 0.002854 Australian Dollar 263.100 Indian Rupees 4.679 Bangladesh Taka 3.637 US Dollar Buying 281.700 Kenyan Shilling 0.003298 0.003298 Pakistani Rupees 2.852 Korean Won 0.000266 0.000281 Philippines Peso 6.450 Bangladesh Taka 3.622 Malaysian Ringgit 0.083640 0.089640 Pakistan Rupee 2.867 GOLD Philippines Pesso 6.322 20 Gram 245.000 Nepalese Rupee 0.003009 0.003179 Bahraini Dinar 751.800 Cyprus pound 691.420 Pakistan Rupee 0.002663 0.002943 UAE Dirham 76.900 10 Gram 124.000 Japanese Yen 3.750 5 Gram 64.000 Philippine Peso 0.006347 0.006627 Saudi Riyal 75.400 TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 BUSINESS Iraqi oil exports from Gulf near record rates

LONDON: Iraq’s oil exports from its Brent crude was up at around $115 a had a similar estimate. “I do not think decades of wars and sanctions. The production. “The turmoil may slow southern terminals are near record barrel on yesterday, supported by wor- this turmoil will have any impact on country has been expanding oil pro- things down - not exports, but produc- rates in June despite attacks by Sunni ries about potential disruptions to sup- Basra,” a trader with a company that duction in the south since Western tion may not increase,” said the trader Islamist insurgents and their capture of ply from Iraq. Iraqi officials say the buys Iraqi crude said yesterday. “It is companies signed a series of service whose company buys Iraqi crude. swathes of territory in northwest and southern regions that produce some 90 too far south.” contracts with Baghdad in 2010. Although the pipeline from Kirkuk central Iraq, according to loading data percent of the country’s oil are com- The export rate so far in June is Total exports from Iraq’s northern has been shut since March, the and industry sources. The insurgency pletely safe from the Islamic State of close to May’s average of 2.58 million and southern ports hit a record high of autonomous Kurdistan region has been and evacuation of some staff by oil Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has bpd - the highest since 2003. However, 2.8 million bpd in February. But north- exporting some of its own oil output majors Exxon Mobil and BP despite seized much of the north in a week as it is not as high as the 2.70 million bpd ern shipments of Kirkuk crude have by truck and via a new pipeline to moves by the Baghdad government to Baghdad’s forces there collapsed. Iraqi officials have said is planned for been shut since March 2 due to attacks Turkey, in defiance of the central gov- tighten security have raised concern Exports from Basra and Iraq’s other June. “So far, exports are looking very on a pipeline to Turkey, keeping total ernment. Kurdistan’s Ministry of that Iraq’s crude exports could slow southern terminals have averaged 2.53 steady compared with last month. exports below their potential. Natural Resources said on Friday it down. million barrels per day (bpd), according There does not seem to have been any While there is no sign yet of a drop delivered a second oil shipment The worries have boosted oil prices, to shipping data for the first 21 days of spillover in the south,” said an industry in southern exports, traders were con- through the port of Ceyhan to the buy- sending Brent crude to a nine-month June tracked by Reuters. Two industry source who tracks tanker shipments. cerned that fallout from the insurgency ers, and two more tankers were load- high above $115 a barrel on Thursday. sources, who also monitor the exports, Iraq’s oil potential was held back by may impact further increases in Iraqi ing. — Reuters Obama encourages family friendly work policies

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is gressional action since they are covered encouraging more employers to adopt under a different section of law. The White family-friendly policies by hosting a day- House has supported the goal of legislation long summit Monday, even though the US introduced by lawmakers to change that, government doesn’t always set the best but it has yet to get through Congress. example. The United States is the only Despite the paid leave for White House industrialized nation that doesn’t mandate staff, the challenges of balancing parenting paid leave for mothers of newborns, and working are even evident there. The although Obama says he’d like to see that president’s top aides include several dads change. “Only three countries in the world of minor children but hardly any mothers report that they don’t offer paid maternity with school-age kids - National Security leave - three - and the United States is one Adviser Susan Rice being one prominent of them,” Obama said in his weekly address. exception. “It’s time to change that. A few states have “It is a very challenging and demanding acted on their own to give workers paid environment” for parents, Obama senior family leave, but this should be available to adviser Valerie Jarrett said at a media avail- everyone, because all Americans should be ability hosted by The Christian Science able to afford to care for a family member Monitor. “And I think part of what we have in need.” California, Rhode Island and New to achieve here is to make it easier - that Jersey have a system of paid leave, but it’s doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy - it’s just unclear how Obama would fund a national going to be easier. And I think that’s what system. Obama has not endorsed legisla- the private sector acknowledges.” The sum- tion that would create one funded by a mit being held at Washington’s Omni Hotel payroll tax, and he pledged in his 2008 will highlight businesses with family-friend- presidential campaign not to raise taxes on ly benefits to hold up as best practices - families making under $250,000 a year. Obama says child care and flexible work Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a schedules also are vital benefits. Executives conference call with reporters Sunday that representing Gap Inc, Price Waterhouse the president is trying to start a national Coopers, Johnson and Johnson, Goldman DONETSK: Ad billboards are displayed in front of a construction site in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” yesterday. —AFP conversation to explore the issue. “Cost is Sachs, Shake Shack, Cisco Systems and Intel an issue for any federal program and we Corp. are participating in panel discussions need to make sure we do this in a way at the summit. where we are not raising taxes on middle- It also comes in a midterm election year Poland an enticing class families,” she said. “But we also know focused on women voters, and the White what a good investment in our workforce it House was devoting all its star power to the would be if they had paid leave, and that event. Obama planned to speak midday and investment will pay great returns.” have a meeting with business leaders. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, planned model for Ukraine Balancing act to open the event, first lady Michelle Obama While some companies offer paid family will deliver a closing speech and several oth- leave to attract workers, the 1993 Family er administration officials are participating Medical Leave Act only requires that on panels. Obama planned to issue a presi- Poland an example of transition to market economy employers provide unpaid leave for med- dential memorandum Monday directing fed- WARSAW: World leaders marking 25 years since according to World Bank figures. Challenges ical and family reasons. When Obama eral agencies to expand flexible work Poland began its transformation into a free-mar- US President Barack Obama, in Warsaw for However, two figures show a striking diver- came to the White House, he instituted six arrangements when possible. Obama also ket democracy had a message this month for the anniversary celebrations, told an audience gence. One is a World Bank measure of energy weeks of paid leave for his workers when planned to urge Congress to pass legislation neighboring Ukraine: you too could follow the including Ukraine’s newly-elected President efficiency. On this, Ukraine produced $3 of GDP they have a child, get sick or injured or requiring employers to accommodate preg- same path to prosperity. Fundamentals of the Petro Poroshenko that the Ukrainians of today in 2011 for every unit of energy equivalent to need to care for an ailing family member, nant employees so they can continue to per- two economies suggest Ukraine can aspire to were “the heirs of Solidarity”, the Polish move- one kg of oil that it consumed, compared with using his authority to set his staff’s com- form their jobs. He also is ordering the Labor match the progress Poland has made since com- ment that challenged Communist rule in the $8.3 in Poland. International donors have pensation under the personnel code. He Department to create an interactive map munism fell. But first it must get to grips with its 1980s. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski pressed successive Ukrainian governments to does not have the power to award paid that shows the rights of pregnant workers in high energy consumption, and the corruption said his country’s success had been “a huge, leave to other federal workers without con- each state. — AP adopt legislation that would improve energy and poor governance that puts off many enormous example .... In my opinion (this) was a efficiency, but with little success. investors - precisely the main reasons why component part of the dreams of Ukrainians, of Heavy energy use is a particular handicap Ukraine remains so poor. going down the same road, in the direction of because Ukraine imports much of its natural gas Italy battles crescendo Back in 1990, shortly before Ukraine split the same values”. from Russia, for which it pays a higher price than from the crumbling Soviet Union, it had a gross many of Russia’s EU customers. With relations in of corruption scandals domestic product per head of population of Convergence crisis over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the $6,806 while the figure for Poland was only Trying to chart whether Ukraine can match rebellion in eastern Ukraine, high consumption ROME: From a bribery racket in Venice to Renzi-nicknamed the “Demolition Man” for $5,976. Since then Ukrainians’ living standards Poland’s economic performance is not an exact is also a political risk as it entrenches Kiev’s accusations of contract rigging in Milan and vowing to shake up the system and oust the have risen little whereas on some measures science. There are dozens of factors which could dependence on Moscow. mafia infiltration of the judiciary, Italy is old guard-announced last week he was Poles’ have more than tripled. “Ukraine has a skew forecasts, including Ukraine’s separatist Corruption is the other measure on which engulfed by a wave of corruption scandals boosting the powers wielded by his top anti- huge potential for development,” said Pawel rebellion, and the question of whether Kiev will there is a wide gulf. The Transparency which have raised the specter of depravities corruption czar, magistrate Raffaele Cantone. Borys, director for strategy and investment at ever join the European Union. Poland’s accession International corruption perception index, past. Reports of widespread graft in northern Cantone, famed for investigations against the PKO BP, Poland’s biggest bank. “Unfortunately in 2004 spurred its growth. which places the cleanest countries at the top of Italy in particular have drawn comparisons powerful organized crime group Camorra, (that) has been wasted over the last 25 years.” But using the Polish example helps at least to its ranking, put Poland in 38th place out of 177 establish a rough benchmark of where Ukraine with Italy’s “Clean Hands” investigations of the has called for a “real political and cultural PKO BP owns Kredobank, a mid-sized countries in 2013, and Ukraine in 144th place. Ukrainian lender, but Borys was cautious about could get to, and the main obstacles it would 1990s, which saw top politicians jailed and change”, describing corruption as “like the “We have had very bad experiences in recent whether his bank planned to invest more in the need to overcome. Several measures of Ukraine’s swept away the country’s post-war party sys- mafia. When no-one talks about it, it is pros- years, especially with actions of tax offices and country. “It all depends on whether we will see raw potential suggest it is not far behind Poland, tem. pering.” “To really achieve clean hands, we court decisions totally failing to meet interna- real changes in Ukraine which will create a and, in some respects, in an even better position. Two decades on, Italy still comes third-to- have to get hands out of pockets,” he said. tional standards,” Borys, from Polish bank PKO BP, friendly climate for foreign investors,” he told In Ukraine, around 80 percent of secondary last in Transparency International’s European said of its business in Ukraine. Reuters. Poland has become a stable democracy school students went on to university in 2012, rankings-ahead of just Bulgaria and Greece- ‘Bribesville is back’ Corruption translates into lower foreign and corruption costs the taxpayer some 60 The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption since the first partially-free elections a quarter compared with 73 percent in Poland, according investment. In the last 20 years Poland has billion euros ($80 billion) per year. The eco- group (GRECO) said on Friday that Italy was century ago - notwithstanding a succession of to data cited by the World Bank. These figures do attracted over $180 billion of foreign direct nomic crisis which sank Italy into its worst taking important steps, but described as short-lived governments in the 1990s and a cur- not take the quality of the education into investment, central bank data shows. Ukraine, post-war recession “makes these fresh scan- “quite disappointing and hard to understand” rent crisis involving the central bank governor account. Ukrainian labour force participation - which has a larger population, has attracted just dals even more intolerable in the eyes of the why such slow progress had been made in and interior minister which might force a snap the share of working-age people who are either over $52 billion in the same period, Ukrainian citizens,” Michelangelo Anderlini, casting the net wider to cover more corrup- election. employed or unemployed but looking for a job - Transparency’s deputy head in Italy, told AFP. tion offences. The mayor of Venice, Giorgio After short but sharp free-market shock ther- was 59 percent in 2012, according to the World statistics office data shows. One economist Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who came to Orsoni, was forced to resign last week amid a apy, it has also achieved uninterrupted econom- Bank, a little higher than Poland’s 57 percent. The familiar with both countries said Ukraine has power in February, has pledged to make sweeping probe into a multi-billion-euro ic growth for the past two decades, making it an country has vast reserves of iron ore and some of potential but because of corruption and gover- inroads into corruption, seen as a significant flood barrier project, after police said they attractive model for Ukraine. Poland’s GDP per the best farmland in the world. Agriculture occu- nance problems it may be more realistic for it to stumbling block in attracting foreign had traced some 20 million euros ($27 mil- capita in 2012 was $22,783 in purchasing power pies over 70 percent of Ukrainian territory com- take as its model not Poland but Romania and investors to the euro-zone’s third largest lion) in kickbacks. terms, compared with just $8,478 in Ukraine, pared with 49 percent in Poland. Bulgaria, the EU’s poorest members. — Reuters economy. The International Monetary Fund Prosecutors are also investigating allega- urged him to make good on his promises as tions of wide-scale contract rigging for the soon as possible, advising in particular the 2015 world fair Expo in Milan, and last month reversal of legal reforms brought in by former they arrested seven businessmen and politi- France hits euro-zone business activity premier Silvio Berlusconi which decriminal- cians suspected attempting to influence pub- ized false accounting. lic tenders.—AFP BRUSSELS: Euro-zone business activ- the euro-zone as a whole should reached the previous month.”Despite the PMI slip “vindicates the ECB’s ity slipped for the second month run- grow by at least 0.4 percent in the the further drop in the overall Euro- recent decision to implement further ning in June, a closely watched sur- second quarter, France appears to be zone composite PMI, the index monetary easing and will keep fears of vey showed yesterday, with France entering a renewed downturn after remains comfortably in growth territo- a Japanification of Europe firmly leading the fall and possibly heading GDP (gross domestic product) stag- ry,” said Martin van Vliet of ING. But alive,” he said.—AFP to recession. Suggesting a modest nated in the first quarter,” said Chris recovery could be stalling, Markit Williamson, Chief Economist at Economics said its Euro-zone Markit. Despite the problems in Composite Purchasing Managers France, euro-zone growth was the Index (PMI) for June, a leading indica- strongest since August 2007 with the tor of overall economic activity, average PMI reading for the second slipped to 52.8 points from 53.5 in quarter the highest since the same May. The data showed that growth period in 2011. remained robust in Germany, despite “The June PMI rounded off the weakening slightly, but that the strongest quarter for three years, but downturn deepened in France, the a concern is that a second consecu- country generating the most worry in tive monthly fall in the index signals the 18-member currency bloc. that the euro-zone recovery is losing “Once again, the bad news in momentum,” Williamson said. The June came largely from France,” said currency bloc excluding heavy- Holger Schmieding, chief economist weights France and Germany “is see- at Berenberg Bank. Business activity ing the strongest growth momen- in France slumped to 48.0 points tum at the moment, highlighting from 49.3 points, pushing even lower how the periphery is recovering,” he CAIRO: Egyptians shop for traditional lanterns used for the holy month of Ramadan below the 50-point line which marks added. starting next week, at a market in the neighborhood of Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo, Egypt. the difference between expansion Germany’s PMI stood well into PARIS: This picture shows a replica under construction of the Eiffel Tower, Many devout Muslims in the Middle East will start observing the dawn-to-dusk fast and shrinkage of the economy. expansion territory, but at 54.2 points, set near the real one, and designed by French designer of outdoor furni- during the holy month of Ramadan next week.— AP “Although the survey suggests slightly lower than 56.1 points ture Fermob to mark the Eiffel Tower’s 125th anniversary in Paris.— AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

SPECIAL REPORT French politics trump business over Alstom Alstom saga shows ‘economic patriotism’ rules PARIS: There was dual cause for back-slapping in revealed its interest in the 86-year-old group that sources who dealt directly with the minister, parliament on May 27. President Francois Hollande’s Elysee Palace late built France’s power grid and high-speed TGV “Hare-brained” was at the root of his preference for a tie-up “Jeff is our CEO and he is running things,” on Friday night. France had thrashed Switzerland trains, politics has never been far away. The battle When Montebourg learnt through media offer from Siemens - a group whose acquisi- said a GE spokesman. “He is in Paris anyway, in the soccer World Cup, so largely assuring its was fought as Hollande’s Socialists tried in vain to reports over two days from April 24 to 25 that GE tion advances Kron balked at a decade ago. so we decided he should attend. It’s normal place in the next round. And the government had halt the rise in last month’s European Parliament was planning some form of approach to Alstom, “For Montebourg this is personal. He’s out to that he should come and defend the proj- just imposed its will to end a two-month fight for elections of the far-right National Front, whose he could not contain his rage. Only two months get Kron,” said one of those sources. ect.” At a late-night session, Immelt prom- control over ailing French engineering group protectionist platform attracts voters bewildered earlier when he held the more junior industry It was Montebourg who on April 27 first ised lawmakers to increase jobs in France Alstom. “France has shown it can negotiate clev- by France’s economic decline. portfolio, he had dismissed as “hare-brained” sug- officially revealed a Siemens plan he hoped and revealed he was in “constructive” talks erly and openly with multinationals,” an official The pace-setter in the race for Alstom has not gestions that the government was worried about would create two “European champions” with the government to secure French close to Hollande said of the decision announced been GE or its German rival Siemens but 51-year- Alstom’s future after its shares plummeted on a with tie-ups in energy and transport to access to Alstom’s nuclear-related assets - a hours earlier defining the shape of a planned tie- old French economy minister Arnaud profit warning due to weak order books. counter the US offer. Over the next week, he local concern. up between Alstom and US conglomerate Montebourg, loose cannon who makes no secret Now, newly-promoted to the economics post acted fast. He set much of the agenda for The US group launched a print ad cam- General Electric. of his own presidential ambitions. The future of in a government reshuffle, he looked embarrass- Hollande, whose unflattering nickname paign based on hand-drawn pictures of “France’s international image was at stake ... Alstom is far from assured, and a definitive pact ingly out of the loop. “We won’t let Alstom sell this “Flanby” - a French brand of wobbly caramel wind turbines with the caption “Tomorrow We have shown we can stand up for our sover- with GE still depends on tricky negotiations with national champion behind the back of its share- custard - he owes to a Montebourg quip will be Made in France” - a play to win over eign interests, as other countries do,” said the offi- minority shareholder Bouygues to sell the French holders, its employees and the French govern- years earlier. public opinion while wooing Montebourg cial, speaking on condition of anonymity. It may state a 20 percent stake in the French group. But ment,” he fumed on his official Twitter account. He While Hollande played down the by picking up the same slogan he used for a be debatable what that image now is. But for the accounts of participants in the closed-door further accused Alstom’s CEO Patrick Kron of “a prospect of the French state purchasing a “Buy French” campaign. The end-game was prospective investors in France the Alstom saga talks interviewed by Reuters show how the GE- breach of national ethics” for not keeping him stake and urging an “industrial solution”, that nearing. On June 16, Siemens announced it has brought home one simple fact: in France, eco- Alstom tie-up now taking shape was partly dictat- informed of GE’s $13 billion approach for its tur- was an option Montebourg never ruled out. had teamed up with Japan’s Mitsubishi nomic patriotism rules. ed by Montebourg’s push for an alliance in which bines and grid equipment business. And when the president accepted an invita- Heavy Industries (MHI) to make an offer for From the moment in late April that GE French interests will be secured. That sense of betrayal, according to several tion by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Alstom’s turbines business involving $9.5 bil- join her one weekend in May in her con- lion in cash and joint ventures. stituency of Ruegen, a windswept island on Under the deal, Siemens would buy the Baltic coast, Montebourg had already Alstom’s gas turbines business, MHI would laid the groundwork. buy stakes in Alstom power assets including On the morning of May 9, Montebourg grid and hydroelectric power equipment, had met Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser in Paris and a venture would be formed to create a before dashing to Berlin to meet his German joint “European rail champion”. But the gov- counterpart Sigmar Gabriel, a fellow left- ernment urged both bidders to do better. winger who is also vice-chancellor in “The talks between the state and the differ- Merkel’s grand coalition. The timing was per- ent companies are going to continue this fect. A day later on Ruegen, where Hollande week,” a source in Hollande’s office said last was treated to a boat tour and a stroll along Tuesday. “The offers must be improved.” the pier under drizzly skies, Merkel con- firmed her government would back a US pressure? Siemens tie-up if it made industrial sense. It set the stage for the frenzied last few days of the contest. GE turned its bid on Nuclear weapon Thursday from a pure purchase into an At home, political pressure for the gov- alliance involving joint ventures, a few hours ernment to show it was standing up for the before Siemens-Mitsubishi upped their cash interests of the 18,000 Alstom workers in component to $11 billion. Speculation grew France was growing. The National Front’s of a split between Hollande, said to back GE, Marine Le Pen had already accused the gov- and Montebourg, still seen to favor Siemens. ernment of having “abandoned Alstom to A Thursday meeting of the two and other be dismantled for American or German prof- ministers produced no consensus. it”. Even the mainstream opposition noted One trade unionist said the minister had that conservative ex-president Nicolas confided earlier in the week that he sus- Sarkozy had agreed a state rescue for the pected Hollande backed the GE bid partly group a decade earlier to ward off Siemens. because he wanted to persuade US authori- It was then that Montebourg got out his ties to ease penalties on French bank BNP nuclear weapon. On the evening of May 14, Paribas for breaching US trade sanctions Reuters was tipped off that something of between 2002-2009 - a link no French offi- interest would appear shortly after midnight cial has made publicly. “Montebourg told us in France’s Official Journal, the state gazette on Tuesday, ‘I have no idea what is going on in which laws must be published to take inside the president’s head, or what he will effect. It turned out to be a decree stating decide. But I do know there is huge that any deal in the energy, water, transport, American pressure to choose GE’,” a dele- telecoms and health sectors would require gate for the CGT trade union said. the approval of the economy minister - a Montebourg was denying local media substantial strengthening of existing state reports of his resignation only a few hours powers on takeovers. before he announced on Friday afternoon “With this decree, we’re armed to contin- that the government had chosen GE - with ue discussions and negotiations with the caveats. If the deal goes ahead, the US firm two companies that have expressed an will walk away with Alstom’s gas turbines interest,” a source close to Montebourg said. arm and its lucrative servicing contracts, but The European Union’s internal market must negotiate joint ventures with Alstom authorities warned of the risk of protection- in other fields. ism and said they were looking at whether it Aside from the 20 percent stake the was compatible with EU treaties. French state will take in Alstom, it will hold a France’s main employer group Medef “golden share” giving it veto rights over said it was a “bad idea” in a country already strategy of the nuclear joint venture. GE more closed than its peers to international must create at least 1,000 new French jobs merger and acquisition activity. According or face fines. “This has shown that compa- to Thomson Reuters data, only 37 percent of nies don’t have a free hand and the wider acquisitions of French companies have interest can still prevail,” said Dominique involved foreign groups since 2000, com- Gillier, general secretary of union CFDT’s pared with 55 percent for Britain and 59 per- metallurgy arm. “Montebourg managed to cent Germany over the same period. But up the stakes and improve the bids. He can Montebourg was unrepentant, pointing out walk out of this with his head high.” that other countries also had laws governing But another source close to the talks control of strategic industries while noting: expressed distaste at the way the govern- “This is the end of laissez-faire.” ment handled the affair. “Alstom is a private- ly-held company. But the government is “Plan C” acting as if it were state-owned,” said the Alstom’s fate remained uncertain. source. “It’s unbelievable. What message Siemens had outlined a proposal to Alstom does this send the world?” Still others point worth $14.5 billion, offering to exchange out that this should come as little surprise part of its rail business plus cash in given the interventionist record of French exchange for Alstom’s power assets, but it leaders regardless of their political colour. had yet to make a formal offer. Behind the Montebourg failed last year to keep scenes, Montebourg had started to sound open blast furnaces in eastern France which out local industrialists about an all-French steel group ArcelorMittal wanted to shut solution. “We have launched a study of Plan down, threatening at one point to national- C,” he told Reuters on May 22. ize them. “Plan A is GE, Plan B is Siemens, Plan C is a A conservative government’s decision home-based solution,” he said of an option in 2005 to name French dairy group that would involve French capital, whether Danone a company of strategic impor- from privately-owned or state-owned com- tance - shielding it from a feared takeover panies. In the end, Plan C did not fly. GE, by US drink-maker PepsiCo - is now regard- meanwhile, sweetened its bid for Alstom to ed as a classic example of “economic patri- $16.9 billion, extended the offer deadline otism”. Russell Solomon, senior vice presi- from June 2 to June 23 and went on a local dent and lead GE analyst at Moody’s credit charm offensive. ratings agency, said the saga was “indica- Clara Gaymard, the head of GE France tive of the protectionist type of environ- and the wife of a former French finance ment you have to deal with when doing minister, was using her well-stuffed politi- business in France”. “With that said, GE has cal contacts book to lobby for the US been ... very familiar with the business group. CEO Jeff Immelt had already met practices and the regulatory environment Hollande in April to explain his plans and in Europe generally and France in particu- now, to the surprise of French lawmakers, lar. The implication is that they know what said he was ready to submit to a grilling in needs to be done.” — Reuters

BELFORT: The logos of the French power and transport engineering company Alstom are seen. — AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Tax cuts seek to get Japan swinging

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to deliver.” Among the steps outlined so far is a future around 0.5 now was “ambitious but not impossible”. the role of working women to address a shrinking unveil measures ranging from phased corporate tax cut in Japan’s effective corporate tax rate - among “Coming up with growth strategies is a key chal- workforce; raise the number of highly skilled foreign cuts and public pension reforms to proposed dance the highest in the world - to below 30 percent over lenge for Group of 20 members, so Japan must workers and expand a controversial foreign trainee hall deregulation, but the latest salvo from his three- the next several years, and a promise to reform the make further efforts on this,” Haruhiko Kuroda told a program; tackle agricultural reform; boost produc- pronged strategy for economic revival may disap- $1.26 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund meeting of business executives. tivity through a “robotic revolution”; and target the point some investors urging more radical steps. Abe, in ways likely to reallocate more money to the stock By dribbling out key elements of the package in healthcare sector for growth. who took office 18 months ago pledging to end per- market. recent weeks, the government hopes to avoid the Discussions on easing labor market rigidities to sistent deflation and generate sustainable growth In a nod to the need to strike a balance between disappointment that led to a sharp drop in Tokyo boost productivity looked set to yield a plan to end with a trifecta of monetary, fiscal and reform steps, stimulating growth and reining in Japan’s massive share prices when Abe announced the first tranche paid overtime for workers earning the equivalent of will on Tuesday deliver the latest installment of his so- public debt, the tax plan will seek to offset the cuts of his “Third Arrow” growth strategy last June. Some at least $100,000 per year - only about 4 percent of called “Third Arrow” of long-term economic policies. by broadening the tax base. Difficult but key details market players appear to be suffering from what the workforce. The touchy question of whether to The measures, many of which have already been of many steps, such as the tax cuts, are likely to be one expert called “Abenomics fatigue”. make it easier to fire workers, a step advocates say is leaked or announced by officials, are likely to receive left to be worked out later. Several bold but political- “I wonder how many third arrows they plant to vital, is likely to be left for later debate. muted applause from financial markets and experts, ly contentious proposals, such as for labor market shoot. Are they going to do this every year?”, said “Bigger steps are needed such as facilitating who say the package is a step in the right direction and agriculture reforms, were watered down or Ayako Sera, a senior market analyst at Sumitomo labor turnover and boosting the sheer number of towards vital structural reforms but want to see how omitted as a result of discussions among myriad and Mitsui Trust Bank. Crafted over a year through dis- (people in the) workforce to cope with the issue of the measures are fleshed out and implemented. “I’m conflicting interests. cussions in at least 20 advisory committees report- dwindling population,” said Naoki Iizuka, an econo- starting to be almost a bit of a ‘glass half-full’ guy. ing to four main government panels, the package mist at Citigroup Global Markets Japan. “Abe is so far Abe is continuing to talk the right talk,” said one for- Abenomics fatigue? appears to contain something for everyone, but not taking a step in the right direction but I don’t give it mer US official who has seen many past Japanese Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda called enough for anyone. Even a likely amendment to a a wholehearted thumbs-up,” Iizuka said. “Abe’s ‘Third reform packages that promised much but failed to for bolder efforts to raise the economy’s growth law regulating dancing in nightclubs has to be “stud- Arrow’ growth strategy seems to me like a dart not deliver. “It isn’t a ‘Big Bang’ but it is a lot better than potential, but said meeting the government pledge ied” first. an arrow. I hope he will come up with bolder plans some things I’ve seen in the past. But he still has to of boosting potential growth to 2 percent from Also included in the package are steps to boost ahead.” — Reuters China manufacturing grows for first time in 6 months Property sector cooldown, export weakness eyed

BEIJING: Activity in China’s factory sector expanded in June for the first time in six months as new orders surged, a preliminary HSBC survey showed yesterday, offering new signs the econo- my is stabilizing thanks to Beijing’s measures to shore up growth. Still, many analysts expect the government may need to roll out further steps in coming months to offset the risks from a cool- ing housing market and persistent export weak- ness, after China’s premier vowed last week that the economy would not suffer a hard landing. The HSBC/Markit Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose more than expected to 50.8 in June from May’s final read- SYDNEY: A member of Greenpeace holds up a banner denouncing the alleged trash- ing of 49.4, beating a Reuters poll forecast of ing of the Renewable Energy Targets by three major Australian energy companies 49.7 and creeping above the 50-point level that yesterday. — AFP separates growth in activity from contraction. It was the first time since December that the PMI was in growth territory, and the highest reading G20 lagging on growth since November, when it was also 50.8. The upbeat report reinforced market expec- targets, says Australia tations that the world’s second-largest economy is powering through its recent soft patch, even if SYDNEY: Reforms proposed to lift global Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Abbott the recovery may be patchy. “This month’s growth in line with a target set by the reintroduced legislation to the Australian improvement is consistent with data suggesting LIANYUNGANG: A worker walks at a coal terminal at Lianyungang port yesterday. — AFP world’s biggest economies earlier this year Parliament yesterday that would repeal a that the authorities’ mini-stimulus is filtering ating from previous months. The flash PMI data the drag on the economy. are so far falling short, Australian Treasurer carbon tax that the nation’s worst green- through to the real economy,” said Qu Hongbin, is the earliest indicator in a month to help gauge Moreover, the preliminary PMI survey’s sub- Joe Hockey said yesterday. In February, the house gas polluters have to pay. The oppo- chief economist for China at HSBC, referring to a the economic momentum and thus is closely index for employment pointed to jobs still being G20 economies vowed to boost global sition center-left Labor Party and minor series of measures announced by the govern- watched by investors. Asian stock markets and shed, though the pace of contraction eased from growth by more than US$2 trillion over five Greens party used their Senate majority in ment in recent months to spur activity. the Australian dollar firmed on the news. May. China has set an annual target for the econ- years, shifting their focus away from austeri- March to block the bills that would remove “We expect policymakers to continue their omy to grow about 7.5 percent in 2014 and a ty as a fragile recovery takes hold. But as the 24.15 Australian dollar ($22.79) tax per current path of accommodative policy stance Supportive measures recent Reuters poll found that economists Australia prepares to host the G20 summit metric ton of carbon dioxide that was intro- until the recovery is sustained,” he added. The Beijing has unveiled a series of modest policy expected growth of 7.3 percent for this year, in Brisbane in November, Hockey told The duced by a Labor government in July 2012. preliminary factory reading for June indicates measures in recent months to give a lift to eco- which could be the weakest showing in 24 years. Australian newspaper that more work need- The bills were defeated 33 votes to 29. sequential growth could pick up to 1.8 percent nomic growth, which dipped to an 18-month Chinese leaders have ruled out the possibility ed to be done. But with new senators to take their seats in the second quarter from 1.4 percent in the low in the first quarter. Such measures include of any massive stimulus to pump prim the econ- “The submissions are not meeting our on July 7 for the first time since Abbott’s first, Ting Lu, an economist at Bank of America- targeted reserve requirement cuts for some omy as they tolerate a slower growth rate while ambitious target at the moment and I conservative coalition government took Merrill Lynch, said in a note to clients. banks to encourage more lending, quicker fiscal pushing ahead with structural reforms. Premier expect that a number of jurisdictions will power in an election in September, the bills “We expect Beijing to continue rolling out spending and hastening construction of railways Li Keqiang said last week that China’s economy improve their effort,” Hockey told the broad- are expected to be passed by a narrow mar- more measures to stabilize growth,” Lu added. and public housing projects. would continue to grow at a medium to high sheet. “I’ll be speaking to individual finance gin. Coal mining magnate and carbon tax The sub-index for new orders, a proxy to meas- But the recovery has been patchy, and a pace in the long term without strong stimulus. ministers over the next few weeks, around critic Clive Palmer leads four new senators ure domestic and foreign demand, rose to 51.8, strong rebound is seen as unlikely. Exports With no big stimulus seen in the offing, econ- the world, to encourage them to be more who have promised their allegiance to his the fastest pace in 15 months. Much of the remain uneven as recoveries in the United States omists expected Beijing to launch incremental proactive.” G20 finance ministers and cen- influential Palmer United Party. While intro- increase appeared due to stronger domestic and the European Union do not appear to be fine-tuning steps, especially in the property sec- tral bank governors said in February they ducing the bills to the House of consumption, as growth in new export orders giving their usual robust boost to export-reliant tor, to encourage steadier economic growth. aimed to lift their collective gross domestic Representatives where the government slowed sharply. Asian economies. Investment growth also con- “Besides quicker roll-out of ‘already in the pipe product by more than two percentage holds a clear majority, Abbott said yester- Still, the survey showed an across-the-board tinues to falter, in particular in the real estate line measures’ and greater fiscal support, the points over the next five years. day that voters had rejected the tax by improvement in the vast factory sector, with sector. Average new home prices in China fell for government may have to offer more explicit In a communique following their meet- electing his government. most of the 11 sub-indices, ranging from output the first time in two years in May, while new con- housing demand support,” Tao Wang, an econo- ing in Sydney, the world’s top economies “The people have spoken and now it’s to new orders and stocks of purchases, acceler- struction slumped by nearly a fifth, adding to mist at UBS, said in a note to clients. — Reuters said the “realistic” target could be achieved up to this Parliament to show that it’s listen- by increasing investment, lifting employ- ing,” Abbott said. Abbott said scrapping the ment and enhancing trade. But a report in tax would reduce household electricity bills The Australian Financial Review said model- by AU$200 a year and natural gas bills by College recruiting: Next ing showed member countries had commit- AU$70 a year. Lower-income Australians ted to reforms that would not go even who have been paid a share of the carbon halfway towards the growth target. tax revenue as welfare to compensate for promise could be paycheck Hockey expressed confidence yesterday higher prices would get to keep their com- that the reforms could be achieved, particu- pensation even after the tax is scrapped, he larly given support for the agenda from the said. “This is a bill to reduce the bills of the OAKLAND: They come calling with promises of a es in television broadcasts and videogames. Pac-12 school like Oregon, he said, would do even economic powerhouses Germany, China, Australian people,” Abbott said. The bills are good education, a chance to play on television and If the plaintiffs win, lawyers have hinted in broad better, perhaps walking away with more than $1 mil- and the United States. “It comes down to expected to be passed by the House of some of the best facilities that money can buy. There terms how they see college sports changing. The lion by the time his career is over because there are may come a time, though, when recruiters chasing the NCAA would still run athletics, but Division I basket- fewer teammates with whom to split the money. the goodwill around the table,” he told The Representatives this week before going to best high school football and basketball players offer ball and Bowl Subdivision football players would be Australian. “There was, in the end, no dis- the Senate next month. But the Climate something else: a nice paycheck to take with them as allowed to band together to seek payment for the use Go where the money is agreement in February and in fact our Institute, an environmental think tank, a parting gift when their college days are over. of their names and images in television broadcasts If players are allowed to be paid - even if that mon- friends in Germany were, by the time of the released a poll on Tuesday that showed that Football players could get several hundred thousand and videogames. Those payments would go into a ey is put in a trust to be given out only when they Washington finance ministers meeting in the carbon tax was not as unpopular as it dollars. Basketball players would do even better, per- trust fund, with players getting equal shares when leave school - coaches and other recruiters would April, (German Finance Minister) Wolf was when it was introduced two years ago. haps becoming millionaires even if they never play a they leave school. surely begin emphasizing how much an athlete might Schauble was among the most emphatic The poll showed that opposition to the day in the NBA. Under some scenarios they could take University of San Francisco economics professor look forward to at the end of his college career. The supporters of the target.” tax had fallen 22 percentage points to 30 the payments in lieu of what they would have gotten Daniel Rascher testified that using something akin to money would be doled out to each player equally, but In April, G20 finance ministers and cen- percent this year. Support for the tax had for tuition and room and board. They would be col- the professional model - where players get something that doesn’t mean every school would offer the same tral bank chiefs pledged to follow up on risen six points since 2012 to 34 percent. lege employees of a sort, able to take classes if they close to the 55 percent of broadcast revenues NFL amount. Some smaller conferences may refuse to reforms but there was little firm action on Abbott plans to replace the tax with a tax- wish or simply play sports. players currently receive - a football player at offer anything at all, believing the concept of ama- how to stimulate world growth further. At payer-funded AU$2.55 billion fund to pay And the NCAA might still be able to take the high Vanderbilt might get $325,000 over a five-year period teurism is too important to lose. But at the top levels the time, Hockey said that when the G20 industry incentives to use cleaner energy. road and continue to run big-time college sports as because of the lucrative television contracts in the of college sports it’s hard to imagine schools not join- made the commitment to enhance growth Australia is one of the world’s worst green- “amateur” programs. “There’s nothing inherent in the Southeastern Conference. A basketball player at a ing in and risking the loss of the best recruits. —AP in February, “we really meant it. It wasn’t just house gas polluters on a per capita basis word amateurism that says increasing substantially a rhetorical figure put in the communique due to its heavy reliance on abundant coal the amount paid athletes would violate the principle for publicity purposes”. reserves to generate power. — Agencies of amateurism,” said Stanford economics professor Roger Noll, who testified on behalf of the plaintiffs. AA Group makes weak “There’s no reason to believe that.” It’s all theoretical, of course, based on models that may never come into stock market debut play. But just what the future of big-time college ath- letics may look like if the NCAA loses a landmark LONDON: Shares in AA Group fell yesterday after the were sold at in the IPO. Bankers pointed to other pri- antitrust suit is beginning to come into focus as attor- UK motoring organization joined the London stock vate equity-backed companies that have struggled neys representing former UCLA basketball star Ed market, just a month after its sister company Saga after their market debuts. Spanish travel agency O’Bannon and others press their case in a federal failed to impress investors in its own debut. The AA, eDreams Odigeo, part-owned by Permira and court trial. best known for its roadside recovery services, said it Ardian, has lost almost 40 percent since its April list- No one expects the current system run by the had priced its initial public offering (IPO) at 250 ing, while Charterhouse’s Card Factory has lost near- NCAA to be completely blown up. But at a time when pence a share to raise gross proceeds of 1.4 billion ly 8 percent. Conditional trading allows City firms to billions of dollars are flowing into college sports there pounds ($2.4 billion). Most of the money will go to buy and sell shares to stabilize the price before is little dispute that players will get a bigger chunk of its private equity owners. launching on public markets. the pie. That may come as soon as next year when the Shares opened at 244 pence each and were last AA’s share sale enabled its private equity owners five major conferences move to separate themselves down 2.6 percent in conditional trading. More UK Permira , Charterhouse and CVC to sell their entire from football programs that aren’t nearly as profitable companies are seeking to list on the London stock shareholding, after failing to sell anything with the and give athletes more money and greater benefits. market this year and investors have become increas- Saga listing. The private equity firms sold their stakes Among the proposals is more money to cover the full ingly choosy about which companies they back and to a management buy-in team, led by Bob cost of attending school and better medical and travel the prices they are willing to pay in recent weeks. Mackenzie, a former boss of car insurer Green Flag benefits. Proceeds from UK IPOs more than tripled in the year who is to become AA’s executive chairman, backed to date with $8.8 billion raised across 33 listings, by institutional investors. “London is still a fantastic Winning a ruling Thomson Reuters data showed last month. place to raise money,” Mackenzie said. “We saw 10 Whether the extra money will amount to covering AA’s share sale follows last month’s flotation of cornerstone investors and then we felt we had laundry expenses and date nights or comes to a much holidays-to-insurance company Saga, which its pri- enough to make a credible offer.” AA received com- larger payment may depend on how successful vate equity owners merged with the AA in 2007 mitments of over 930 million pounds from those YANGON: Construction workers work at a construction site in Yangon, Myanmar yes- O’Bannon’s attorneys are in winning a ruling that the under parent vehicle Acromas. Saga shares are trad- investors, which include Aviva, BlackRock Inc and terday. Property prices in Yangon have soared as demand vastly outstripped supply NCAA is acting illegally by not allowing players to ing at 170 pence, 8 percent below the price they Legal & General. —Reuters as the country opened to the world. — AFP profit off the use of their names, images and likeness- BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Revolution of the sports car - BMW i8 arrives in Kuwait World’s first sustainable and most progressive sports car of our time

KUWAIT: With its ultra-dynamic proportions, ele- gantly sporty lines, low-slung silhouette and futuris- tic design features, BMW’s i8 plug-in hybrid sports car is expected to cause a sensation on the roads when it goes on sale in Kuwait this month. Signaling the future of sustainable motoring, the BMW i8 combines the performance and appeal of a sports car with the fuel consumption of a small car. The BMW i8 was launched at an exclusive event by Ali Alghanim & Sons Automovie at the Prestige Ballroom, Prestige, The Avenues in Kuwait. Held on June 17, the vehicle was introduced by Talal Alajmi, Showroom Manager, Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive and Yousef Mustafa, Area Manager of BMW Group Middle East. The BMW i8 is the second model after the BMW i3 to be unveiled by BMW i, the company’s sub- brand focusing solely on developing sustainable products and services, that has helped affirm BMW Group’s leadership as the world’s most sustainable premium car company. Both the exterior and interior of the emotional- ly-led 2+2-seater embody a revolutionary, pioneer- ing take on the Sheer Driving Pleasure for which BMW is renowned. The BMW i8features a complete- ly new, exciting sports car design which includes without compromising on safety. the BMW i8 and its road-focused stance. In addition, sophisticated aerodynamics features and environ- Powered by a 1.5-litre, three-cylinder BMW full-LED headlights are standard and innovative mentally friendly materials. TwinPower Turbo petrol engine which, in typical laser headlights, available as an option later this It comprises BMW Life Drive architecture, the BMW sports car fashion, drives through the rear year, proving intense light that will illuminate the world’s first body architecture specifically designed wheels, the BMW i8’s intelligent hybrid system also roads for up to 600m - double the distance of con- and purpose-built for series production of electric capitalizes on a potent electric motor which sends ventional LED lights. and plug-in hybrid cars. The BMW i LifeDrive archi- drive to the front wheels resulting in a combined An all-embracing sustainability concept runs tecture is made up of two separate units: the upper power output of 362hp delivered to all four wheels. throughout the entire value chain of the BMW i8; Life module that consists mainly of a high-strength When united, the dual motors (electric motor at the carbon fiber production and vehicle assembly using and extremely lightweight passenger cell made front and petrol engine at the rear) work in harmo- 100 percent renewable electricity; high proportion from Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic. The lower ny enabling the BMW i8 to accelerate from 0 to of recycled materials; use of materials manufac- drive module consists of a 100 percent aluminum 100km/h in 4.4 seconds while using just 2.1 liters of ters - and the battery of the plug-in hybrid can be design of the BMW i8. The front view of the BMW i8 tured and treated in an environmentally friendly construction and integrates the battery, electric petrol per 100kms and emitting just 59g/km of continuously charged by the petrol engine while exudes sporting ability in its purest form. manner. The BMW i8 is the future of sports perform- motor and suspension system. The use of Carbon emissions. driving. Due to its lightweight of just 1,485 kg, it Large front apron air intakes arranged over sev- ance driving, offering unparalleled fuel efficiency in Fiber Reinforced Plastic is a first for a volume-pro- The BMW i8 has a top speed electronically limit- provides a total drive range of more than 500 kilo- eral levels generate a powerful feeling of depth. The a light and lithe coupÈ body that takes nothing duction model. It is the lightest available material ed to 250km/h, and can be operated solely in all meters. A sports car character and the typical BMW extremely broad BMW kidney grille stretches over away from the thrill of driving a thoroughbred per- that can be used in the construction of a car body electric drive (zero emissions) for around 37 kilome- driver orientation are both equally prominent in the to the slim headlights, accentuating the width of formance car. Commercial Real Estate Company undertakes new investments

KUWAIT: Abdul Fatah Marafie - Chairman & bution. All this came along with low risk strategic Managing Director in The Commercial Real Estate business planning that aims at balancing risks Company stated that the company has entered a and return through entering income generating new real estate investment in The Federal investments in stable and promising markets. This Republic of Germany in alliance with other is done in parallel with expanding in real estate investors. The property space is 158,000 sqm and various services, especially in property manage- consists of 104,830 sqm of warehouses in addi- ment and facilities management. The company tion to office space of 480 sqm. It is located in has established a business team consisting of Volkmarsen City; which is considered as one of executive management and technicians with the biggest industrial and logistic locations in regional and global experience to develop those Germany. It has also been rented by German services to match the best world practices and Volkswagen to be used as a storage and distribu- standards specialized in offering such services tion center for spare parts. The Commercial Real and to be in line with the company’s plans. Estate Company share is 60 percent of this invest- Marafie also noted that the balanced strategy DUBAI: (From left) Khuloud Al-Omain, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Middle East; Rob ment with an amount of 13.1 million euro. adopted by the company which is characterized Waller, US Consul General to Dubai; Pinak Maitra, KIPCO’s Group CFO; and Shehab Nevertheless, it is a monthly dividend investment by its ambitious and conservative approach at Gargash, CEO and MD of Daman Investments PSC. which affects positively the company’s liquidity the same time has led to support the solvency of and cash flows. the company over the past years and helped it Marafie had confirmed that these types of avoid any financial obstacles and shocks in light Abdul Fatah Marafie KIPCO wins Forbes investments came along with the goals and busi- with the market volatility and financial crises ners’ and funders’ confidence in the company’s ness plans of the company which has been that has hit many markets. He added that we are ability, efficiency and their continuous and adopted since 2011, and is aiming towards diver- committed towards our shareholders to pre- relentless efforts to create strategic relations ME 2014 award sifying the investment portfolio in terms of its serve holding good assets that balances quality with the company through financing its projects KUWAIT: KIPCO - the Kuwait Projects “We are pleased to have received this size, nature of investments and geographic distri- with value. This has been reflected on our part- and investments. Company - announced yesterday that it has important recognition. For over two decades, won the prestigious Forbes Middle East 2014 KIPCO has earned a reputation for quality and Award for top Arab company in the invest- excellence, which was built on a diverse port- EU draft urges more ment category. KIPCO’s nomination was folio of sustainable investments across the announced at the Forbes Middle East’s annual region in a number of important sectors. This awards ceremony, which was recently held in award reinforces our position as a leader in Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai. The event developing the region’s business landscape focus on growth, jobs recognizes the top 500 publically-listed com- and supporting the economies in which we panies in the Arab world. Companies were operate.” BRUSSELS/ROME: European leaders will consider Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker culations. It has also sought to win more time to ranked according to their total revenue, net This year’s event included a broad repre- calls to interpret EU budget rules with more as the next president of the European Commission bring its structural budget deficit, adjusted for the profit, total assets and market capitalization. sentation of industries such as financial serv- emphasis on economic growth, according to the on Friday. The economic proposals form part of a effects of the business cycle, into balance. The awards were presented by Rob Waller, ices, oil and gas, telecommunications, real draft conclusions of a direction-setting summit in wider deal under which centre-left leaders agreed Italian officials refer to a clause in existing EU US Consul General to Dubai. Pinak Maitra, estate and construction, retail, transport, Brussels this week. The document drafted by to support Juncker in exchange for policy agree- rules which already allows for the possibility of KIPCO’s Group Chief Financial Officer received healthcare, investment, energy, banking, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy ments on growth and jobs. temporary deviation from countries’ agreed budg- the award on behalf of the company. Faisal insurance, hotels and tourism, and petro- in consultation with Italy, the next country to hold Germany, long opposed to any relaxation of et goals, especially if there has been ‘implementa- Al-Ayyar, KIPCO’s Vice Chairman said: chemicals. the rotating EU presidency, marks an effort to the EU rules which limit budget deficits to 3 per- tion of major structural reforms which have direct reset the EU agenda away from the budget cuts cent of gross domestic product and bind member long-term positive budgetary effects, including by and tax squeezes that characterized the initial states to a steady reduction in the public debt, has raising potential sustainable growth, and there- VIVA launches new global reaction to the euro zone debt crisis. not openly opposed calls for more flexibility but fore a verifiable impact on the long-term sustain- With much of Europe still struggling to return says the rules must be respected. ‘The Stability ability of public finances.’ surf-on roaming packages to sustainable growth and with unemployment and Growth pact includes the possibility of a flexi- An EU official told Reuters that the key word in KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing packages of 150MB will be for KD 6 for rates at record levels in many areas, pressure for a ble application in individual cases,’ a German gov- this clause is ‘implementation,’ meaning that and most developed telecom operator, both postpaid and prepaid customers. change of course was underlined by a surge in ernment spokesman told reporters in Berlin. reforms must be carried out and applied, not yesterday introduced a new range of Customers interested in activating the support for anti-EU parties in last month’s merely announced. This suggests the political data roaming packages so customers new Surf-On packages should send ‘1’ to European Parliament election. The draft, which ‘Wide support’ negotiations for Renzi, who took office in can now enjoy VIVA’s roaming services 102. With increasing capabilities and could still change before the summit on Thursday Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, strength- February, may not be straightforward. He has an while travelling abroad in more than 27 services, VIVA’s postpaid and prepaid and Friday, calls for steps to create growth and ened by a triumphant result in last month’s ambitious agenda but little of it has been imple- countries without having to worry customers who use their smartphones jobs and to support deeper reform by individual European election, has been one of the main pro- mented so far. The discussion has played into about their bills. for business and social media usage member states. However it does not call for a moters of greater budget flexibility in the EU, to horse-trading over roles in the next European The new packages are a convenient need to stay connected at all times, change to the rules set in EU fiscal pacts and con- complement his pledges for structural reforms at Commission, with Britain accusing Juncker of and affordable way for postpaid and even when traveling. tains few specifics. home. Renzi’s Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan being too inclined to concentrate power in prepaid customers who are using their With the new Global and GCC ‘Given the persistently high levels of public and his Dutch counterpart Henk Kamp met in Brussels. smartphone devices to surf the internet Roaming Surf-On packages customers debt, growth-friendly and differentiated fiscal con- Rome yesterday and said in a statement they both British Prime Minister David Cameron told while they travel in more than 27 desti- can, in addition to standard services solidation must be continued,’ the document says. saw ‘the need to put growth and jobs at the top of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy nations across all GCC and globally, and such as making and receiving local and ‘Recovery remains fragile and uneven and efforts the agenda’. Renzi’s undersecretary in charge of in London that he would demand an unprece- will start from just KD 6 per week to international calls, sending and receiv- must continue and be enhanced in order to European affairs, Sandro Gozi, told reporters there dented vote among EU leaders to press his oppo- enjoy up to 150 GB of Internet data ing SMS text messages, call divert and strengthen Europe’s capacity to grow and create was ‘very wide support for our priorities and our sition to the appointment but he has few, if any, while travelling. The 26 destinations the Missed Calls Alert Plus service, also jobs,’ it says. methods,’ as Italy assumes the EU presidency. The allies. Renzi initially expressed some skepticism include all GCC countries, Europe, Asia, check e-mail, read news, view content, The conclusions are regular statements of the details of what calls for flexibility might mean in over Juncker but at a meeting at the weekend Africa, Australia and the United States of send and receive MMS and use all data outcome of EU summits. The leaders are also practice have remained sketchy but Italy has in the with other centre-left leaders he agreed to sup- America. The weekly “Roaming Surf-On” services. expected to adopt a separate Strategy Agenda for past sought to have spending on infrastructure port his candidacy in exchange for a new the EU for the next five years and nominate former investment and research excluded from deficit cal- approach to budget policy. —Reuters technology TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Xerox Emirates supports sustainable eco practices

DUBAI: Xerox Emirates, a member of the Mohamed ments in environmental technology to educate sustainable environment,” stated Andrew Horne, Emulsion Aggregation (EA) Toners, organizations Hareb Al-Otaiba group, announces 56 percent enterprises on sustainability as a way of doing busi- General Manager, Xerox Emirates. are able to save money and protect the environ- increase in their Toner and Cartridge Collection ness and not an extra cost. Currently Xerox Emirates EnviroServe has been working with United Arab ment through energy efficient products and prac- Program, an environmental project to recycle waste have over 40 customers actively participating in the Emirates Federal Environment Agency (FEA) to mon- tices. Software products such as DocuShare, toner cartridges. In 2013, over 2,500 kgs of waste Toner and Cartridge Collection Program in the UAE itor and identify issues affecting the environment. SMARTsend and FreeFlow Digital Workflow toner cartridges were collected from customers, and amounting to over 300 kgs of e-waste per month. Serving each customer in the most efficient way Collection help Xerox Emirates’ customers reduce in the first four months of 2014, over 1,300 kgs have The process is a simple one, interested organizations possible by ensuring quality in their services and paper consumption by simplifying electronic data been collected. The program ensures customers, are provided with branded recycled boxes, delivered value for money is what EnviroServe is committed management, scan to e-mail, print-on-demand and employees and the community as a whole function to them by Xerox Emirates. Once received, the boxes to. Stuart Fleming, CEO, EnviroServe stated that “The distribute-then print workflows. Enterprises are able in a sustainable manner in order to preserve the are filled with any waste toner and cartridge, by all ecosystem that we are currently living in is threat- to better prevent and manage their waste with local environment. The ‘Think Before You Throw Your manufacturers and from all kinds of photocopiers, ened by serious environmental issues due to the Solid Ink Colour printing technology which uses Ink’ program, is a toner and cartridge collection proj- printers or fax machines all of which are collected by developments in technology. By enabling the com- compact, “cartridge-free” ink sticks with no plastic ect sponsored by Xerox Emirates and organized by EnviroServe within the week and shipped to recy- munity to recognize and address these issues we casings, reducing print related waste by up to 90 EnviroServe, an organization in the UAE that offers cling partners in Europe who ensure that all waste aim to safeguard the environment. The toner and percent. environmental product, services and consultancy to supplies are disposed of responsibly and in full com- cartridge collection program sponsored by Xerox Xerox Emirates is committed to highlighting and support best practice and savings for all businesses pliance with the Basel Action Network Guidelines. Emirates will help keep the country clean and educating the community on the importance and throughout the Middle East. In order to encourage “Xerox embraces the responsibility of protecting encourage businesses to go green”. benefits of environmental protection and sustain- businesses to go green, the on-going campaign col- the environment and ensuring good health and In addition to the Toner and Cartridge Collection ability. All environmental technologies and pro- lects and disposes any Xerox and non-Xerox waste safety of its employees and customers. We strive to Program Xerox Emirates is highly invested in tech- grams are always conducted in a manner that safe- toner and printer cartridges from businesses across ensure that the use of our products and resources nologies and document-management solutions guards and protects the environment. Furthermore, the UAE. does not endanger the society. We will continue to that allow enterprises to reduce their carbon foot- all initiatives conserve valuable materials and Xerox Emirates is dedicated in leading the way in develop energy efficient documents systems for our print. With programs such as, Xerox’s Energy Star resources for Xerox Emirates’ customers in addition ecological protection by using the latest develop- customers thus supporting the development of a and innovative printing technologies such as to protecting the environment.

Review LG Lifeband Touch needs a purpose

By Youkyung Lee phone or tablet app shows the route along with the distance, calories consumed and SEOUL: Smart capabilities have become the speed. The Lifeband also counts the number latest marketing pitch to sell more wrist- of steps walked throughout the day. It can watches, TVs, eyeglasses, refrigerators, cars also measure heart rate with a $180 compan- and even toothbrushes. But have we figured ion earphone. out why they need to be smart? I asked myself that as I wore LG’s Lifeband Touch day FITNESS COACHING and night for a week. The new computerized The Lifeband vibrated as I got closer to wristband tracks workouts and calories the goal I set of one hour of walking each burned and syncs with the LG Fitness app on day. At a quarter of the way in, it vibrated and an iPhone, iPad or Android device. It can also displayed: “25 percent achieved.” It also control music on a phone and alerts incom- vibrates at random moments and tells you to ing calls and emails, at least for Android “Stretch stretch” or “Move move.” That was users. The Lifeband marks the entry of LG more distracting than motivating. It’s one Electronics Inc. into the fledgling market of thing to have a personal trainer at a gym tell wearable gadgets and follows smartwatches you what to do. It’s another to have a wrist- from Samsung Electronics Co, Sony Corp and band that doesn’t understand how my day others. LG started selling the Lifeband in the was going. It wanted me to stretch when I US last month for $150. It will be available in was busy typing on a keyboard. It wanted me parts of Asia and Europe in coming weeks. to move when I was having a coffee with a friend. Instead, I simply ignored the device. I THE SCREEN would have been more likely to exercise had As a fitness tracker, the Lifeband is meant the wristband been mindful of my daily rou- to be used a lot outdoors. But its finger- tines. My only option was to turn this feature length touch screen is hard to see in direct off. sunlight. I was unable to adjust the bright- ness, and I needed to find shade to make out NOTIFICATIONS the characters. The LG’s screen offers only The Lifeband alerts you to incoming calls, black and white. but it cannot receive or make calls. I got a vibration for a call I would have missed with ODD FIT my iPhone in silent mode. To answer it, how- The Lifeband doesn’t have a strap that ever, I still scratched my head wondering can be fastened and adjusted to the size of where I had left the phone. The Lifeband also TOKYO: A model demonstrates a virtual fitting room using a technology of augmented reality, produced by Japan’s apparel shop chain Urban Research the wearer’s wrist. Rather, it has a bendable gives notifications for incoming emails but at Tokyo’s fashion building Parco. The shop launched the machine to change user’s clothes virtually and they will launch another machine in Taiwan at plastic band, with a gap that widens to let not when it’s paired with an iPhone or an their showroom this summer. — AFP the wrist slip in. The band then locks itself in iPad. With Android, you get the sender’s place once on the wrist. Although not hav- name and subject line, but none of the mes- ing a strap to buckle on and off makes the sage itself. It’s a common problem with the Lifeband easy to wear and remove, it will small screens on wrist devices, and it left me Apple, Google, vie to bring dangle if the band is too big. The Lifeband wondering why I would need one. comes in three sizes, and if your wrist is nar- rower, you might have to pull the wristband THE BRIGHT SIDE toward your forearm. By contrast, you can Its battery lasted as long as promised - health apps to wearables adjust the Gear’s strap. I often had to take off five days on a full charge. But other fitness the gadget while writing or typing on a trackers offer similar functions, often at lower computer because it was too thick and prices. Glucometer to merge technology and medicine heavy. I described it to friends as a digital handcuff because it squeezed my arm and THE CASE FOR IT? SAN FRANCISCO: For decades, medical tech- rent technology, though, and some in the startup C8 Medisensors. “It has scooped up kept moving between my wrist and my fore- Not compelling. If it’s meant to be an out- nology firms have searched for ways to let dia- medical industry say the tech firms, new to the many of the most talented people with glu- arm. door fitness device, then it needs a display betics check blood sugar easily, with scant suc- medical world, don’t understand the core chal- cose-sensing expertise,” said George Palikaras, that works outdoors. If it’s meant to encour- cess. Now, the world’s largest mobile technolo- lenges. CEO of Mediwise, a startup that hopes to FITNESS TRACKING age you to work out, then it needs to avoid gy firms are getting in on the act. Apple Inc, “There is a cemetery full of efforts” to meas- measure blood sugar levels beneath the skin’s You click the device’s timer before begin- nagging and let you work exercise into your ure glucose in a non-invasive way, said surface by transmitting radio waves through a ning a workout, such as a run. Afterward, the schedule. — AP Samsung Electronics Co and Google Inc, searching for applications that could turn nas- DexCom chief executive Terrance Gregg, section of the human body. cent wearable technology like smartwatches whose firm is known for minimally invasive The tech companies are also drawing main- and bracelets from curiosities into must-have techniques. To succeed would require “several stream interest to the field, he said. “When items, have all set their sites on monitoring hundred million dollars or even a billion dol- Google announced its smart contact lens, that blood sugar, several people familiar with the lars,” he said. was one of the best days of my career. We plans say. started getting a ton of emails,” Palikaras said. These firms are variously hiring medical sci- Poaching Samsung was among the first tech companies entists and engineers, asking US regulators Silicon Valley is already opening its vast to produce a smartwatch, which failed to about oversight and developing glucose-mea- wallet. Medtronic Inc Senior Vice President of catch on widely. It since has introduced a plat- suring features in future wearable devices, the Medicine and Technology Stephen Oesterle form for mobile health, called Simband, which sources said. The first round of technology recently said he now considers Google to be could be used on smart wrist bands and other may be limited, but eventually the companies the medical device firm’s next great rival, mobile devices. could compete in a global blood-sugar track- thanks to its funding for research and develop- Samsung is looking for partners and will ing market worth over $12 billion by 2017, ment, or R&D. “We spend $1.5 billion a year on allow developers to try out different sensors according to research firm GlobalData. R&D at Medtronic - and it’s mostly D,” he told and software. One Samsung employee, who Diabetes afflicts 29 million Americans and the audience at a recent conference. “Google is declined to be named, said the company costs the economy some $245 billion in 2012, spending $8 billion a year on R&D and, as far expects to foster noninvasive glucose moni- a 41 percent rise in five years. Many diabetics as I can tell, it’s mostly R.” toring. Sources said Samsung is working with prick their fingers as much as 10 times daily in Google has been public about some of its startups to implement a “traffic light” system in order to check levels of a type of sugar called plans: it has developed a “smart” contact lens future Galaxy Gear smartwatches that flashes glucose. Non-invasive technology could take that measures glucose. In a blog post detailing blood-sugar warnings. TOKYO: This picture shows a prototype model of the newly developed free-form LCD many forms. Electricity or ultrasound could plans for its smart contact lens, Google Samsung Ventures has made a number of display in Tokyo. The free-form display can be shaped into various patterned models pull glucose through the skin for measure- described an LED system that could warn of investments in the field, including in Glooko, a such as elliptical shape using Sharp’s IGZO technology. — AFP ment, for instance, or a light could be shined high or low blood sugar by flashing tiny lights. startup that helps physicians access their through the skin so that a spectroscope could It has recently said it is looking for partners to patients’ glucose readings, and in an Israeli measure for indications of glucose. bring the lens to market. glucose monitoring startup through its $50 Soccer interactions dwarf “All the biggies want glucose on their The device, which uses tiny chips and sen- million Digital Health Fund. Ted Driscoll, a phone,” said John Smith, former chief scientific sors that resemble bits of glitter to measure health investor with Claremont Creek officer of Johnson & Johnson’s LifeScan, which glucose levels in tears, is expected to be years Ventures, told Reuters he’s heard pitches from other events on Facebook makes blood glucose monitoring supplies. away from commercial development, and potentially promising glucose monitoring “Get it right, and there’s an enormous payoff.” skeptics wonder if it will ever be ready. startups, over a dozen in recent memory. NEW YORK: Through one week of the World the World Cup has been extraordinary.” Apple, Google and Samsung declined to com- Previous attempts at accurate non-invasive Software developers say they hope to Cup, Facebook has already seen more people By contrast, the Super Bowl engaged some ment, but Courtney Lias, director at the US measurement have been foiled by body incorporate blood glucose data into health having more interactions about the tourna- 50 million people on Facebook, the Sochi Food and Drug Administration’s chemistry and movement, and fluctuations in hydration and apps, which is of particular interest to athletes ment on the social media site than it had for games 45 million people and the Oscars 11.3 toxicology devices division, told Reuters a temperature. Tears also have lower concentra- and health-conscious users. “We’re paying the Sochi Olympics, Super Bowl and Academy million people, the social media site said. marriage between mobile devices and glu- tions of glucose, which are harder to track. close attention to research around how sugar Awards combined. A total of 141 million people Facebook has targeted the World Cup as part of have commented about, “liked” or shared posts its effort to become a site with more real-time cose-sensing is “made in heaven.” But the Life Sciences team in charge of the impacts weight loss,” said Mike Lee, cofounder on Facebook about the World Cup, the compa- conversation and news distribution around big In a December meeting with Apple execu- lens and other related research is housed at of MyFitnessPal. ny said Friday. There have been 459 million dif- events, functions where many people think of tives, the FDA described how it may regulate a the Google X facility, where it works on major After decades of false starts, many med- ferent interactions on it. Twitter first. Facebook is promoting World Cup- glucometer that measures blood sugar, breakthroughs such as the self-driving car, a ical scientists are confident about a break- Much of the action is international: 85 per- related hashtags and has a special World Cup- according to an FDA summary of the discus- former employee who requested anonymity through on glucose monitoring. Processing cent of the people talking about the World Cup related section that collects celebrity-related sion. Such a device could avoid regulation if said. Apple’s efforts center on its iWatch, which power allows quick testing of complex ideas, on Facebook are from outside of the United posts. used for nutrition, but if marketed to diabetics, is on track to ship in October, three sources at and the miniaturization of sensors, the low States. There are 1.28 billion people on A photo posted by Pitbull, who per- it likely would be regulated as a medical leading supply chain firms told Reuters. It is cost of electronics, and the rapid prolifera- Facebook worldwide, 80 percent of them living formed at the opening ceremonies, has device, according to the summary, first report- not clear whether the initial release will incor- tion of mobile devices have given rise to outside the US. “We always see a large level of received more than 1.2 million interactions, ed by the Apple Toolbox blog. porate glucose-tracking sensors. new opportunities. One optimist is Jay conversation on Facebook around big sporting as has a photo posted by Brazilian soccer star The tech companies are likely to start off Still, Apple has poached executives and Subhash, a recently-departed senior product events,” said Justin Osofsky, the company’s vice Neymar, Facebook said. Facebook is also focusing on non-medical applications, such as bio-sensor engineers from such medical tech- manager for Samsung Electronics. “I president of global operations and media part- working with other media outlets to increase fitness and education. Even an educational nology firms as Masimo Corp, Vital Connect, wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it one of nerships. “But what we’re witnessing around its exposure. —AP device would need a breakthrough from cur- and the now-defunct glucose monitoring these days,” he said. — Reuters HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Study finds link between pesticides and autism

WASHINGTON: A California study out yesterday found 68 children in the United States. The latest research was when and how much. may be particularly vulnerable to pesticides. “This study that pregnant women who lived near farms where pesti- based on data about commercial pesticide applications “What we saw were several classes of pesticides more validates the results of earlier research that has reported cides are applied had a two-thirds higher risk of having in California, combined with residential addresses of commonly applied near residences of mothers whose associations between having a child with autism and children with autism. The findings in the journal about 1,000 participants in a study of families with an children developed autism or had delayed cognitive or prenatal exposure to agricultural chemicals in California,” Environmental Health Perspectives examine the associa- autistic child. other skills.” About one-third of study participants lived said lead study author Janie Shelton, a UC Davis gradu- tion between living near commercial pesticide applica- “We mapped where our study participants’ lived dur- within 1.25 to 1.75 kilometers (about a mile) from a site ate student. “While we still must investigate whether tions and having offspring with autism, but do not show ing pregnancy and around the time of birth,” said princi- where commercial pesticides were applied. Researchers certain sub-groups are more vulnerable to exposures to cause-and-effect. pal investigator Irva Hertz-Picciotto, vice chair of the found risks of autism were highest when the chemicals these compounds than others, the message is very clear: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that ranges Department of Public Health Sciences at University of were applied during the second and third trimesters of Women who are pregnant should take special care to in severity and has been on the rise in recent years. California, Davis. California law requires detailed records pregnancy. avoid contact with agricultural chemicals whenever pos- Health authorities say it now affects as many as one in on what kinds of pesticides are applied, where and The study authors said the developing fetal brain sible.”— AFP

CHINA: Liu Bo, a member of River Porpoise Protection Society, looking on with CHINA: This picture taken on May 9, 2014 shows Liu Bo, a member of River Porpoise Protection Society, walking on a boat by Dongting another porpoise patroller from a boat on Dongting Lake. Lake in Yueyang, east China’s Hunan province. — AFP photos Courts fight heroin China animal protectors scourge with drug injections NEW YORK: The twice-arrested heroin user approved by the US Food and Drug at cross-porpoises listened nervously as the judge reviewed her Administration in late 2010. record, then offered a deal he thinks could Vivitrol uses naltrexone, an opioid recep- save her life. “You’re not a criminal, you’re an tor antagonist, to block heroin’s effects on the DONGTING LAKE: China’s river porpoises are rarer Dongting Lake where he patrols daily for the ani- Eased restrictions addict,” Judge Robert Peeler told Cynthia brain. Unlike the widely used methadone than pandas, but fishermen fighting to save them mals. When a flash of grey appears between choppy Though any groups seen to challenge the ruling Fugate. “Something is driving you to use treatment, it doesn’t require clinic visits and have been snared by a net of blackmail allegations, waves, Liu’s face lights up with excitement. “There’s Communist party are strictly banned, non-govern- heroin that is beyond your control. Is that fair daily doses and is unlikely to lead to trading highlighting uncertainties faced by the country’s one!,” he says pointing out from the edge of his small mental or “civil-society,” organizations covering less to say?” “Yes, sir,” she replied quietly. Peeler, a one dependency for another, as can happen emerging environmentalists. Fewer than 1,000 finless red vessel. “When we see the porpoises, we feel like political areas have seen rapid growth in recent years. common pleas court judge in southwest with other treatments, advocates say. porpoises-grey dolphin-like animals with a hint of a we’ve achieved something,” he adds. Liu, 34, was one Both Xu and He’s groups benefited from an easing Ohio’s Warren County, is among a growing Effective for a month, it eases the daily temp- grin on their bulbous faces-are thought to remain in of a band of fishermen who got together in 2010 to last year of restrictions on registration for non-gov- number of judges and corrections officials tation of people struggling to stay off heroin. and around China’s vast Yangtze river which carves monitor the mammals and inform local authorities of ernmental groups which saw 19,000 organizations across the country trying to combat the fast- Because Vivitrol is long lasting, it has spe- through the centre of the country. The porpoises are others seen breaking fishing bans. register in 2013 alone, according to state-media. “You growing national heroin problem by fighting cial importance for former heroin users leav- social and “pick up on human emotions like children “Years ago, the porpoises would surround our can see that the local government supported the dol- heroin needles with treatment needles. ing incarceration, said Mady Chalk, a former would,” said Hao Yujiang, researcher at China’s boats and chase us like little children,” Liu said. “We phin protection groups by allowing them to register, Peeler told Fugate he could order monthly federal official on substance abuse who is Institute of Hydrobiology. want to make sure our grandchildren can see the showing their trust,” said Feng Yongfeng, a Beijing- injections of the opiate-blocking drug Vivitrol now with Philadelphia’s Treatment Research “They are the last mammals alive in the Yangtze, porpoises. When I’m old I can proudly say I helped based environmental commentator. if she were willing. “I’m 30 years old. I’ve over- Institute. and they are a warning about the dire state of the riv- protect them.” But sailing has not been smooth. Two “The problems stem from internal issues between dosed four times,” Fugate said, her voice qua- er.” “The numbers have decreased very quickly,” of Liu’s colleagues-He Daming and Li Jinsong-were the groups, and Xu Yaping’s connections have vering. “I want to be clean. I really do.” Shots were dangerous added Hao, who blames the decline on rampant detained in March on charges of blackmailing local allowed him to make things worse,” he added. Several The shots, the judge said, could keep “Patients return to their community hav- overfishing-sometimes with electric charges-pollu- fishermen. State-run media said that one had “con- Chinese charities have been hit by scandal in recent Fugate from “winding up in a body bag.” ing been detoxed, their systems have been tion from industry and sand-dredging ships trapping fessed” threatening to report a local to authorities years, stoking a lack of trust in the sector which ana- Peeler began researching the drug treatment emptied of the drugs; they return to environ- the animals in their propellers. The government has unless he was paid a 10,000 yuan fee. lysts blame for low donations. Just 10 percent of shots last year after a young woman died of a ments that trigger all the things that one pledged to protect those remaining, but environ- Li remains in detention, while He is on the run Chinese people donated money to charity last year, heroin overdose, at least the third heroin user would expect,” Chalk said. Many are unable to mentalists accuse local agencies of collusion with from authorities-leaving his wife Chen Yun dis- according to the US-based Charities Aid Foundation. who had stood before him in his courtroom resist the urge to reuse heroin and don’t real- local industry. “If the Yangtze porpoise is not deli- traught. “He looked after the porpoises every day “If you look at the way civil-society has grown in who later died. Nationally, overdose deaths ize they can’t tolerate as strong a dose as cious, why should we protect it?” state-broadcaster out of love, not for money,” she said, holding a pair of the last decade, the growth has just been phenome- have risen 45 percent from 2006 to 2010. In before. “The body simply can’t handle it, and CCTV quoted a local official as saying last year. Now his shoes, tattered from daily lake inspections. nal,” said Karla Simon, visiting professor at Harvard Ohio, 680 people died of heroin overdoses in they die,” Chalk said. Giving users an injection the detentions of citizens seeking to protect the Several local environmentalists told AFP that Li and University and author of a book on Chinese non- 2012, up 60 percent from the previous year. before they leave custody provides a month’s species are a demonstration of the difficulties facing He were framed by Xu Yaping-a well-connected jour- governmental organizations (NGOs). China lacks a Vivitrol has its skeptics, with some ques- buffer to begin post-release counseling and grassroots environmentalists in China, whose num- nalist from the local Communist party newspaper, national legal framework for charities, leaving them tioning whether it’s effective enough to war- to focus on rebuilding their lives. bers have swelled as citizens deal with an environ- who took over the patrol team in 2011. vulnerable to allegations of corruption, she added. rant the time and expense - shots can cost Dr Mark Willenbring, a former National mental hangover from decades of breakneck eco- Tensions had flared between Xu and He, and last The arrests have made porpoise patroller Liu Bo cau- about $1,000 each - and suggesting it’s a Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism nomic growth. year the latter established a breakaway porpoise pro- tious, and he refuses to call authorities using his own trendy, under-researched attempt at a quick official who founded Alltyr addiction treat- tection group. Xu’s assistant, surnamed Wang, hung name when he spots illegal fishing on the lake. “Our fix. Sheriff Richard Jones in neighboring ment center in St Paul, Minnesota, thinks A flash of grey up the phone when called by AFP. An associate who families tell us, don’t go out on the lake, because Butler County has called Vivitrol in jails “a there is too little evidence of success to con- With a bright orange life jacket and coat labeled asked not to be named denied the accusations, you’ll be arrested,” he said, adding: “If people like us waste of money,” citing an earlier pilot pro- sider Vivitrol a panacea. “It’s not a wonder “River Porpoise Protection Society” shielding him adding that Xu is “well known man of culture and a don’t step up to protect the porpoise, no one else gram in Warren County in which only three of drug,” Willenbring recently told the from driving rain, Liu Bo scans the vast waters of fine calligrapher with excellent connections.” will.”— AFP 12 subjects completed the program and Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly. stayed off drugs. Peeler doesn’t order shots for anyone who Peeler is among those who say the high doesn’t want them. In his courtroom the Macau female toll of heroin-related deaths, crime and prison same day as Fugate, a male drug defendant recidivism make it worth trying. “To sit back declined, saying he believed the shots were and keep doing what we’ve been doing just dangerous - there are potential risks includ- panda Xin Xin dies isn’t going to get it,” Peeler said. “I want to ing liver damage and suicidal depression - stop people from dying.” The Warren County and he didn’t want to go through the therapy of kidney failure program is getting some $800,000 in state and probation requirements of the sentenc- funding help for Vivitrol, and programs are ing deal that potentially allows drug defen- HONG KONG: The female half of a giant panda couple that also underway in dozens of other courts, jails dants to avoid a conviction on their record. the Asian gambling hub of Macau received as a gift from and prisons in at least 21 states, from Cape But Sherry Moore believes the shots saved Beijing has died from kidney failure, the southern Chinese Cod in Massachusetts to Lane County in her. Not long after completing a nine-month city’s government said yesterday. Oregon. The programs are usually funded sentence for heroin possession, she began Xin Xin did not show any clinical signs of illness during a with grants, getting some help from drug- using again. She told her probation officer routine physical exam in May but was uncooperative during maker donations and discounts, and insur- she didn’t know what to do, that she had training. After a week of treatment, she showed signs of ance usually will cover some shots. already been through treatments. “I’m like, improvement. But over the past two weeks her kidney func- Vivitrol, made by Alkermes PLC of Ireland, ‘I’m a mess,’” she recounted. “None of it tion deteriorated rapidly. had been used for alcoholism. But after a worked for me.” The officer asked if she want- Macau’s panda park said that Xin Xin, who was nearly six, Russian study showed it could be effective for ed to try Vivitrol. After a year of monthly was declared dead at 8:18 pm on Sunday. Xin Xin and her users of heroin, morphine and other opiate injections, she said she’s been drug-free since MASSACHUSETTS: This undated photo provided by the National Oceanic and mate Kai Kai arrived in Macau in late 2010, after China’s then- drugs with once-monthly injections, it was late 2012. —AP Atmospheric Administration shows a great white shark encountered off the coast of president Hu Jintao promised the city a pair when he visited Massachusetts. — AP the city a year earlier to mark the 10th anniversary of the for- mer Portuguese colony’s return to Chinese control. Xin Xin Royale Hayat Hospital was born July 26, 2008, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Great white shark numbers Panda Breeding in central China.—AP welcomes Dr Hussam Shanawani are surging, study says to the ENT department PORTLAND: A report that scientists are call- “This tells us the management tools appear to ing one of the most comprehensive studies of be working.” KUWAIT: Royale Hayat Hospital is pleased to great white sharks finds their numbers are Great whites owe much of their fearsome announce Dr Hussam Shanawani, Consultant surging in the ocean off the Eastern US and reputation to the movie “Jaws,” which was ENT, Ear, Nose and Throat Department. Dr Canada after decades of decline - bad news if released 39 years ago Friday. But confronta- Hussam Shanawani is a fellow of the Royal you’re a seal, but something experts say tions are rare, with only 106 unprovoked College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK and Royal shouldn’t instill fear in beachgoers this sum- white shark attacks - 13 of them fatal - in US Society of Medicine, London. He is specialized mer. The study by National Oceanic and waters since 1916, according to data provided in head and neck oncology, endoscopic sinus Atmospheric Administration scientists, pub- by the University of Florida. They are, though, and aesthetic facial surgery, and sleep related lished this month in the journal PLOS ONE, ecologically critical. They are apex predators - disorders. says the population of the notoriously elusive those at the top of the food chain - and help Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Royale fish has climbed since about 2000 in the west- control the populations of other species. That Hayat offers advanced treatments in upper ern North Atlantic. would include the gray seal, whose growing airway disorders, endoscopic sinus surgeries, The scientists behind the study attribute colonies off Massachusetts have provided ear diseases, voice disorders, functional and the resurgence to conservation efforts, such food. “You should be concerned for a good aesthetic procedures of the nose, diagnostic as a federal 1997 act that prevented hunting reason,” said James Sulikowski, a professor of and therapeutic flexible endoscopy, surgeries of great whites, and greater availability of marine science at the University of New for snoring and apnea, head, neck and glands prey. The species is listed as vulnerable by the England in Portland, who was not involved in tumor, general ear, nose and throat diseases International Union for Conservation of the study but noted it could help better target and surgeries, in addition to hearing and bal- Nature. “The species appears to be recovering,” future conservation efforts for great whites. ance assessment and treatment. MACAU: In this June 21, 2011 photo, Macau’s giant panda said Cami McCandless, one of the authors. “We need these sharks in our waters.”—AP Xin Xin eats bamboo leaves in Seac Pai Van Park. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Farewell to Indonesian ambassador

Ambassador of Myanmar to Kuwait Aye Khaing organized a farewell party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in honor of the Indonesian ambassador to Kuwait, whose mission in Kuwait concluded. Ambassadors of Asean countries, diplomats and other dignitaries attended the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Six hopeful racing pros travel to silverstone after ME Nissan playstation GT academy finals

issan and Sony PlayStation(r) have again held the GT Academy is a unique concept created by Darren Cox, GT Academy. Congratulations to the six winners and good Nissan PlayStation(r) GT Academy Middle East chal- Global Head Brand, Marketing and Sales NISMO, who set out luck at Silverstone.” Nlenge in Dubai, with six dynamic Gran Turismo gamers to prove a gamer with outstanding driving skills in the virtual Cherfan says entries for this year’s challenge had increased now getting the chance to become real professional car rac- world could perform equally well in a car on the tarmac. The five-fold on last year’s inaugural event. Robert Fisher, general ers. The high-octane, high-pressure event in which 28 finalists idea has succeeded brilliantly. manager of Sony Computer Entertainment in Middle East, from around the Middle East competed has just been staged Cox says: “It’s great the winners from the Middle East have Africa, Turkey, and India has hailed the second GT Academy over two days at the Dubai World Trade Centre. been selected. We now look forward to putting them through event in the UAE as a “resounding success”. The six victors will be taken to Britain’s famous Silverstone their paces at Silverstone. Salman Al-Khater made the transi- “The GT Academy continues to illustrate how the virtual circuit and undergo a race drivers’ boot camp to determine tion from virtual to real-world driving effortlessly and won his and real world can combine in such a seamless and produc- the overall Middle East GT Academy winner who then gets the very first race. I’m sure this year’s eventual winner from the tive manner.” opportunity to be a professional track racer. Middle East will be equally talented.” The top gun Gran Turismo gamers who will be heading to The race camp at Silverstone in August will settle which of Silverstone are: Hadi Abdel Hadi (Lebanon), Bahaa Abdel Hadi the six champs from the Dubai showdown has the skills to (Lebanon), Mohamad Jamal Ghandour (Lebanon), Walid Al take on top-level racers for real on the track. Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia), Yasser Al Mansoor (Saudi Arabia) and Samir Cherfan, managing director, Nissan Middle East, says Ahmed Khaled (Saudi Arabia). The Nissan PlayStation(r) GT the challenge at the Trade Centre had “exceeded all expecta- Academy was launched in Europe in 2008 and the concept tions.” has proved highly successful around the world. It was intro- “We have seen two days of excitement as gamers went duced to the Middle East last year. hard at it in a bid to move to the next phase and hopefully The Middle East’s 2014 winner will follow in the tyre tracks become a professional racing driver after the tutoring at of Qatari Salman Al-Khater, last year’s champion, who won his Silverstone. It’s been great fun for all concerned and the event first race at the 2013 Britcar 1000km after making the transi- will pave the way for one of the contestants getting a spot tion from gaming. Anyone owning a PlayStation(r) and a copy behind the wheel with Nissan and becoming a racer for real of Gran Turismo 6 has been able to enter the contest online or on the tarmac. “Motor sport is becoming more popular by the by attending a Nissan PlayStation GT Academy live event day in the Middle East and Nissan is delighted to be making a throughout the Middle East. contribution in this unique way via the Nissan PlayStation(r) WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Ayman Sharaa explaining about a product to a visitor. Dr Al-Farhoud launching the awareness day on diabetes. Dr Al-Farhoud listens to an explanation by Ayman Sharaa Awareness day on diabetes

awally Health Zone Director Dr Abdelaziz Al-Farhoud launched an Hawareness day on diabetes, at Sheikh Nasser Saud Al-Sabah specialized Health Center. The day included doctors advice on general care and how to co-live with this disease, and push the symptoms and effects of it further, to keep them from devastating the body at an early age, because if one dealt with diabetes the proper way, he can lead a normal life without any problem. Sebamed, as usual, was on hand offer- ing advice on proper skin care and hygiene, including the foot that needs Group photo of officials and participants. special attention. Ayman Sharaa with Dr Sadiqa Al-Awadi. FIMA delegation meet Farwaniya governor

delegation from the Federation of Indian Muslim nity and that he will work to resolve those issues. The Associations (FIMA) met the new Governor of safety, security and the welfare of the citizens and the res- AFarwaniya, Sheikh Faisal Homoud Malik Al Sabah, idents are his top priority, he added. at the governorate on Thursday, June 19. Lending some perspective to larger bilateral ties, The delegation, headed by FIMA President, Siddeeque Sheikh Faisal said he is happy to see the centuries-old Valiyakath, included Salim Desai, FIMA Treasurer and relationship between Kuwait and India growing. He Mohammed Manshauddin, FIMA Joint Treasurer. praised the Indian community for serving Kuwait and At the meeting, the governor expressed his highest making valuable contributions for the development of regards for the Indian community in Kuwait, saying they the state. The governor accepted the delegation’s invita- make the largest expatriate group in the country. Further, tion to FIMA Iftar and assured his support and coopera- he noted that he is aware of the problems of the commu- tion to FIMA. Sushi workshop

Mrs Eriko Tsujihara, the wife of Japan’s Ambassador to Kuwait, organized the 8th sushi workshop at the ambassador’s residence, attended by several spouses of ambassadors in Kuwait. The workshop was supervised by Chef Kunio Tose from the Japanese embassy. — Photos by Joseph Shagra TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

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

A need to be respected is strong at this time. Work, achievement and ambi- You naturally gravitate toward positions of power and authority. Others tion are very important to you. You could find yourself working overtime accept you as a leader or authority figure very easily just now. Your career and having a difficult time making everyone happy. Agree to set aside time tonight or may be very important to you, even at the expense of home life. Your ability to rally sup- tomorrow for someone who could be feeling left alone. Your own requirements may port also makes a public career of one kind or another quite probable. Success is indicated appear to limit and separate you from where the rest of the gang is headed. This is of short in religion, education, politics or the law. You know how to attack and solve problems- duration. Your career or life-path may depend on your talent for responding and making whether they are personal or public. Chances are-your social skills mean that you are pop- something out of ideas, insights and whatever is challenging. The business world may call ular with everyone. It is most important later this afternoon to make time for your loved for your ability to react and build on new opportunities. You have a strong drive to be ones. Family members may enjoy dinner away from home or an early movie or making known and to communicate well. Enjoy some quiet time this evening. time for a visit to a park to feed the ducks or the lazy fish in the pond.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You find it easy to work with people and tend to pour a lot of energy into You can be quite compelling this today. This talent is a natural for self- those around you. You are able to find assistance in whatever career changes you decide expression and lends itself to your particular ideas and thoughts. You are to make at this time, whether it be to a different area in the workplace or a total new able to express yourself so that others know just what you mean. Clear decisions affecting change. Success is indicated in areas of education, politics or the law. You know how to others could be made now. A meeting with someone older or in authority during the attack and solve problems, whether they are personal or public. Chances are that your lunch break may create some positive and lasting memories. Words that have been hard social skills make you popular with almost everyone. You have a natural grasp for the to say in the past just seems to flow easily now. You may be reminded of your various political and for handling the public. Because your passion can be so intense at times you responsibilities and feel the need to tend to personal business this afternoon. This is a may experience some power struggles. You may find yourself coaching young people this good time to get down to the basics and take care of some business you may have post- afternoon-an inspiration. The next few days are social. poned. Obligations may come to your attention. Much is accomplished today.

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

Today’s business may throw you into an environment of quick changes. Keep your priorities in order today as you may feel you are moving around Ignoring these changes will not make them go away-they will only intensify in circles. You could become carried away under some of the stresses so and cause problems. If you ignore anything that comes to your attention, it will just persist take little steps. Saying and writing things with style counts for a lot now and this tends to ACROSS DOWN anyway. Go with the flow and keep updating a list of the names of people that will help bring out the social butterfly in all of us. You are a great doer, an accomplisher. Your out- 1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts 1. A large mountain system in south-central you with the little details. If you have a choice to work late or to join those you love in going nature, coupled with extremely skillful ways of interacting with others, makes you a Europe. social activity this afternoon, you would be wise to choose the social event. Loved ones natural for working with the public. You value change and have an almost reckless faith in of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the life process. You love to be touched at the most personal and vulnerable levels. You the spinal cord. 2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) need your attention. Although you like to avoid personal issues, your interest in probing the secrets of others is very energetic. This afternoon is a good time to understand and have the gift of working with others, helping them to sense and feel the unity of life. 4. Direct or control. issues from volcanos. unite with those you love. Young and old alike need your insights and compassion today. Neighbors will likely bring good news your way this evening. 11. The elementary stages of any subject 3. Someone who works (or provides work- (usually plural). ers) during a strike. 15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain 4. A member of the Siouan people formerly lac insects. inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. Someone who picks up grain left in the Dakota. 5. Type genus of the Plataleidae. There are strong indications that today is not for work. Being most unlikely Career choices and direction seem to indicate a loss of freedom and original- field by the harvesters. to stay away from work you might go about completing unfinished business ity on your part. You may feel stifled and forced to go along if you want to 17. Made of fir or pine. 6. A graphical record of electrical activity of and tending to a few customers that are in need of some follow-up attention. You may succeed. This could result in quite a lot of frustrations; however, this is all a short-term sit- 18. A vinyl polymer used especially in the brain. find this all a blessing in some way. This afternoon, some new song or new rendition of an uation. Circumstances may urge you to great effort and you will find energies turning your 7. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield old melody keeps running around in your head. Pleasant thoughts and pleasant people way this afternoon. Things are working with you, rather than against you, so do not hold paints or adhesives. make your whole day better than you had expected. You look forward to an early evening back. However, do not overdo and try to go too far, too fast. Let things take their natural 19. Used to wrap around pipes or boilers or a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. with a very close friend. You love deeply and passionately and may need to think about course, which should be an easy one now. Ambition and achievement are qualities you laid in attics to prevent loss of heat. adding a volunteer job or a hobby to your life that will help to create an interest in educa- hold in special regard. This is a time for getting ahead, a time for combining business and 8. Black tropical American cuckoo. 20. An elaborate song for solo voice. tion, compassion, communication and laughter. Happy birthday! pleasure, a time to savor some rewards. 9. In or of a state of physical or nervous ten- 21. A midnight meeting of witches to prac- sion. tice witchcraft and sorcery. 10. (used as a sentenced connector) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 23. Wet through and through. Therefore or consequently. Leo (July 23-August 22) 25. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in An irresistible force meets the immovable object today. There is a lot of 11. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. You appear very relaxed today. Everything seems to be working well and favor of a person or cause). energy available for disciplined work, but push too hard and you may break 12. Soviet chief of secret police under you may find yourself quite expressive. You have an unusual ability to seek out facts and something. An admirer from work may make advances and you could be faced with some 27. A Mid-Atlantic state. information you can use constructively. Don’t hesitate to express your views. Ideals and a Joseph Stalin. choices. Later today, you have an opportunity to show off your professional talents. A bril- 28. A plant hormone promoting elongation sense of belonging to something bigger than the merely personal become a greater 13. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the liant idea may need more work, but will eventually bring you a great deal of success. Be focus. Close relationships take on more emotional importance. You have had unusual rela- of stems and roots. determined to create an attitude of peace. Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. first children of Adam and Eve born after tionships in the past, perhaps a number of them and not always of long duration; now is 29. Widely distributed genus of herbs or However, it must be extended outward for it to continue. Later this evening you may find the Fall of Man. the time to enjoy the company of a friend. You are creative when it comes to partnerships yourself planning a future weekend excursion or a get-together with friends. You appreci- shrubs with glandular compound leaves or lovers; you seem to establish unusual and different types of relationships. You will put 14. The scum formed by oxidation at the ate your particular situation and enjoy support from those around you. and spicate or racemose purple or white surface of molten metals. forth more effort in keeping people close to you now. flowers. 22. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped 35. Of or being the lowest female voice. ctenophores. 36. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short 24. A unit of weight used in some parts of Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) wedge-shaped white tail. Asia. 40. A short personal letter. 26. Emperor of Rome who introduced a Your life takes on a kind of mystical quality at the instinctive level. You may You are most happy when you can do something for someone. Be careful not to allow others, or yourself, to think that they owe you-problems could 41. 100 avos equal 1 pataca. degree of freedom after the repressive even consider the crowd and action around you as though you were in a jungle . . . You are quiet, observant and can gain a lot of information through your senses. You are organ- arise later. Given only a few facts, you are able to take in a situation and come up with a 42. Land that is worked by plowing and reign of Domitian. ized and will find that opportunities keep coming up to use your talents in this area. In real picture of what is true. You are able to solve problems and this could include comput- sowing and raising crops. 30. A favorite saying of a sect or political order to advance in your career, take good notes on the successes that you have created er or technology-related problems as well as psychological ones. You will be able to put 43. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- group. for your company so that you can have information upon which to base a raise request. your ideas into words and describe or analyze situations for yourself and others. You may 31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from This will make you feel secure and ready for any sort of discussion. If you are in business work in one of the many service occupations, taking care of and looking after people. Your cially in Turkey). mind and caring attitude are what others find so special about you. You are happy when flowers. for yourself, you will be able to justify raising prices. Partnership plans could lead to pros- 45. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neu- perous endeavors and lasting friendships. you are fully engaged in progressive work. tralizing. 32. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick 47. A particular geographical region of scaly rind and shiny black seeds. 33. (trademark) A German semiautomatic indefinite boundary (usually serving some Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution special purpose or distinguished by its peo- pistol. ple or culture or geography). 34. Appeal or request earnestly. 48. A percussion instrument consisting of a 37. Offspring of a male tiger and a female pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usu- lion. ally held between the thumb and fingers) 38. (informal usage) A general feeling of that are made to click together (as by boredom and dissatisfaction. Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance. 39. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw 51. 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Prince in talks for surprise Glastonbury set

rince is reportedly in talks to play a surprise set at said Prince would not be playing the festival this year but mostly from singer James Hetfield.” EE has installed a Glastonbury festival this week. The ‘Raspberry Beret’ they still hope to book him in the future. The 56-year-old bespoke 4G network and card readers for contactless pay- Phitmaker, who was rumored to be headlining the musician, who was bookies’ favorite the headline, has been ments at the event this year and the ‘Highspeed Herd’ will event at Worthy Farm, was ruled out after Metallica, touring the country for the past couple of months with his bring festival-goers superfast WiFi. The cows were painted Kasabian and Arcade Fire were announced but sources all-girl female rock band 3RDEYEGIRL. Meanwhile, by legendary bin painter, Hank, who has decorated thou- claim he still wants to surprise festival-goers at the event in Metallica were reportedly in talks to cover a track by the sands of colorful bins for the festival since the ‘80s. Somerset. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Prince wants ‘Purple Rain’ singer but frontman James Hetfield was to show up somewhere as a surprise. He has spent so against the idea. The source added: “There was the sug- much time in the UK lately, he’d love to do an impromptu gestion of them covering Prince, reminiscent of when Jay Z set.”Organizer Michael Eavis and daughter Emily previously came on to Wonderwall [by Oasis], but it got a firm, ‘No’,

Kasabian triumph at homecoming gig Adele finished

asabian proved why they are worthy emotional and told the audience: “We start- recording third of their Glastonbury headline slot by ed this band in 1997, me, Serge and Chris, Kperforming a triumphant career- and now we’re here and playing spanning set in Leicester at the weekend. Glastonbury next week. Thank you.” He album The band - made up of Tom Meighan, added: “Ten years ago we were playing hor- dele has finished work on her third album. The Serge Pizzorno, Chris Edwards and Ian ribly ... and here we are now with you lot.” ‘Skyfall’ singer has been busy in the studio, Matthews - took to the stage at Victoria An extended version of ‘Treat’ was a high- and fans won’t have to wait long for her Park on Saturday and played for 50,000 light from the new material and fans went A much-anticipated new record with reports it has fans, which Serge insists “made my year”. wild for ‘Fire’ before the band exited the been completed and is ready for release. A source The ‘Fire’ hitmakers, whose latest album stage and came back on for a four-song told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper: “The album is ‘48:13’ hit the top spot this month, cele- encore made up of ‘Switchblade Smiles’, written, recorded and finished. Theoretically it could brated 10 years since the release of their ‘Vlad The Impaler’, ‘Praise You’ by Fatboy be released tomorrow if she wanted.”It is said Adele debut album kicked off the gig with Slim and ‘L.S.F [Lost Souls Forever]’. Serge and her label are considering bringing out the album ‘Bumblebee’ a fan favorite from the new appeared to be in his element as they with little fanfare and no “publicity campaign”, in a record. Dressed in a ‘Les-tah’ t-shirt, paying closed the set and he pulled off his t-shirt similar way to how Beyonce released her self-titled tribute to their hometown, guitarist Serge and threw it into the crowd, along with the record earlier this year. The insider added: “The plan put in a passionate performance as Tom band’s set list. The band members put is to release internationally on iTunes as a complete bounded about the stage in a huge pair of their arms around each other and guitarist surprise without any previous promotion or build-up sunglasses and black blazer, black t-shirt Chris grabbed the mic for a rare moment to publicity campaign.”The shock tactics worked amaz- and jeans. Kasabian’s 20-song set, which tell the audience: “I never get a chance on ingly well for Beyonce and the feeling is Adele’s new was a taster of things to come at Worthy the mic. So thanks Leicester. You’ve made album is so widely anticipated it doesn’t need a long Farm, featured hits such as ‘Shoot The my year.” Kasabian will headline promotional build-up.” The project is still being kept Runner’, ‘Underdog’, ‘Fire’ and anthems from Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Sunday, a closely-guarded secret, with no release date set for their latest record, including ‘Eez-eh’ and June 29. the album - which will be the follow-up to ‘21’, which ‘L.S.F’. The band had the crowd in the palm sold almost 30 million copies worldwide. of their hands as they jumped up and down, chanted ‘Eez-eh’, threw beer and ripped off their shirts in the heat. Tom got Douglas’ second Oscar was important to him ichael Douglas felt like he was living in his father Kurt Douglas’ shadow before Mwinning his second Oscar. The 69-year- old actor - who won his first Academy Award as a producer of the Best Picture winner ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ in 1975 - admits it wasn’t until he was crowned Best Actor for 1987’s ‘Wall Street’ that he felt like he’d become his own star. He said: “My Best Actor Oscar was extremely important to me because it was the first time I felt that I had stepped out of my father’s shadow.” However, Michael insists there are some positives to have a famous parent as he believes his dad has helped him stay grounded. He explained: Affleck to get “The biggest benefit of being a second-genera- Radcliffe wants tion actor is being able to watch your father and standalone Batman his friends - i.e. Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster - as people and seeing their foibles and to play Robin insecurities. You realize they’re like anybody else. movie They’ve got their issues. So it keeps you kind of Pitt buys $37k bike en Affleck could star in his own standalone aniel Radcliffe wants to play Batman’s sidekick grounded.” The actor still has a close relationship ‘Batman’ movie. The ‘Argo’ actor has reported- Robin. The ‘Harry Potter’ star believes he would be with Kurt and tries to see his parents as much as ly landed his own solo outing set for 2019, the “perfect” choice to take on the role of the super- possible, but admits it can be difficult. He told B for stuntman D which Warner Bros is lining up to follow on from hero sidekick in the rumored upcoming ‘Batman’ reboot People magazine: “We live cross-country and it ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ in 2016 and starring Ben Affleck. When asked which movie franchise he can be hard to get out here, but I’m conscious of rad Pitt splashed out $37,000 on a motorbike for a ‘The Justice League’ in 2017. According to Latino would consider starring in, he told Buzzfeed: “Batman. If touching bases as much as I can. They’re not stuntman. The 50-year-old actor reportedly scoured Review, the film is speculatively called ‘The Batman’ they reboot that again, I’ll do that, too. “It’s happening isn’t demanding.” Bthe globe for a rare 1936 Harley-Davidson VLD and is being planned for four years’ time because of it? With Ben Affleck. I could be Robin. I’m perfect.” Affleck, motorcycle when he heard his friend’s bike was destroyed Affleck’s busy schedule. The rumors aren’t as far 41 - who is to make his debut as the Caped Crusader in during a house fire. A source told the National Enquirer fetched as they seem since the 41-year-old actor ‘Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice’ next year - will newspaper: “The guy had several bikes, but this was his has signed on for multiple movies as the Caped reprise the role in ‘The Justice League’ in 2017 and it’s now baby and because it wasn’t a street bike, he didn’t have it Crusader. This comes just after Warner Bros been reported that he’s landed his own solo outing, set for insured.”So Brad sprang into action, hiring a broker to announced their long-awaited latest DC Comics 2019. According to Latino Review, the film is speculatively search the world for a duplicate. When one was finally blockbuster would be called ‘Batman v Superman: called ‘The Batman’ and is being planned for four years’ located in Germany, Brad wrote a cheque and had the boss Dawn of Justice’. The follow-up to 2013’s ‘Man of time because of Affleck’s busy schedule. Meanwhile, machine delivered with a note that simply said he knew Steel’ will see Henry Cavill reprising his role as Clark Radcliffe, 24, is also said to be interested in joining the leg- how much his buddy loved that bike, and just wanted to Kent/Superman and Ben Affleck making his debut endary ‘James Bond’ franchise as an “evil mastermind”. A help out.” Meanwhile, it appears Brad’s kind personality as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Amy Adams, Laurence source said previously: “Daniel thinks he would be an hasn’t gone unnoticed by his fellow co-stars as Clint Fishburne and Diane Lane from ‘Man Of Steel’ have excellent villain in the Bond films. He loves the franchise Eastwood’s son Scott - who worked with the Hollywood all signed on to reprise their parts and Jesse but admires the villains as much as Bond. “He feels he hunk on the World War II drama film ‘Fury’ earlier this year - Eisenberg will star as Lex Luthor. Filming has also could appear as a modern bad guy, an evil mastermind admits he was moved by his kindness and humility. He started on the superhero team-up movie, which who wants to take down MI5.” said previously: “[Brad is] a kind and humble person, which was written by Chris Terrio and produced by Charles is everything in this world. He’s a great actor, but because Roven and Deborah Snyder. he’s proactive about developing material and getting stuff made.”

Tom Cruise to make Star Wars cameo?

om Cruise could make a cameo in ‘Star Wars: The 71-year-old actor is recuperating after breaking Episode VII’. The 51-year-old star is close friends his leg and won’t be available to film for several Twith the film’s director J.J. Abrams - who months. The source added: “Losing Harrison is going helmed ‘Mission: Impossible III’ - and the pair report- to set things back a little scheduling wise and there’s edly met over the weekend to discuss a role for the some time to play around with.” Cruise recently A-lister. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Tom has starred in a sci-fi summer blockbuster ‘Edge of been in London for over a week and met up with J.J. Tomorrow’, which earned critical acclaim, and is next and some other people from ‘Star Wars’ at the week- set to film the fifth installment of the ‘Mission: end. “On Saturday evening five of them met up for Impossible’ franchise. ‘Star Wars’ is currently filming at dinner and drinks at the Belgravia Hotel. J.J. loves Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. It’s working with Tom whenever he gets the chance.” The rumored ‘Looper’ director Rian Johnson could be in sci-fi production could use some star power after line to write and direct the follow-ups, ‘Episode VIII’ leading actor Harrison Ford, who reprises his role as and ‘Episode IX’. — Bang Showbiz Han Solo from the original trilogy, was rushed into surgery last week following a freak accident on set. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Features

Models present creations for Prada fashion house as part of the Menswear Spring-Summer 2015 collection during the Salvatore Ferragamo Men’s fashion week in Milan.— AP/ AFP Milan fashion designers say: ‘Go ahead and relax’ o ahead and relax: Next season’s menswear fashion will menswear collection for next summer seems almost to deny be easy to wear and at times even athletic without the traditional tailoring that created it. Massimiliano Giornetti Grequiring, or necessarily even inspiring, actual exertion defined the silhouette as “light” and “deconstructed,” and said on the part of the wearer. Sportswear has inspired many looks he used fine Italian fabrics as the starting point for his inspira- showing up on the Milan runway during Milan Fashion Week, tion. “Everything has been overprinted to create a kind of new on its second day Sunday. Jackets are a mainstay and run the silhouette that is extremely light, extremely modern and gamut from longer overcoats to short bombers. Trousers are fresh,” he said. A giraffe pattern provides a light-hearted just as easily pleated as cropped and close-fitting. Bermudas motive to jacket linings, cheekily visible on rolled-up sleeves. are the shorts of choice. As if to emphasize the fluidity of the looks, the color that Favorite shoes are sturdy sandals, snug, sure-footed slip- unites the collection is an aqueous blue-green, which match- ons and high-top sneakers. Still, this being luxury fashion, the es soothingly with earthier tones of rust, gray, brown and outfits are intended for urban exposure and not rugged beige. The collection centers on sportswear, with a variety of adventure.While Day 1 featured an explosion of color, design- jackets from longer overcoats, double-breasted jackets that ers on the second day of fashion previews seemed to favored are slightly cropped, short belted blazers and blousons that paler, washed-out shades. High-tech fabrics give a low-fuss function as a baseball jacket. They are worn with double pleat- look, where crinkles and wrinkles are part of the garment’s ed trousers or loose-fitting Bermudas. appeal. Milan Fashion Week continues through today, before the fashion crowd moves on to Paris. Reclaimed treasures Bottega Veneta’s lovingly distressed looks for next summer Prada classics are like old treasures rediscovered. The looks have a relaxed At Prada, nothing says summer like classic denim looks and feel, from the loose-fitting sweaters that drape the body casu- an azure blue swimming pool. Miuccia Prada said she decided ally, to crinkled linen suits with pants that gather at the knee that conservative looks “were the only new thing possible,” as if pushed up to wade into the surf. These looks are not only also given that the times - certainly in Italy, which is still look- are fit for a wind-swept beach, but they evoke a natural wear- ing to get out of the economic doldrums - require “serious- and-tear that goes with only the most durable and most-loved ness.” wardrobe pieces. The collection’s foundation was classic denim looks with Designer Tomas Maier employs various kinds of stitching top-stitching, the only embellishment, for a 1970s vibe. “Prada to build the appearance of natural wear-and-tear into the classics,” the designer dubbed it. Prada kept the elements sim- architecture of the pieces, including frayed elbows. Athletic ple, from the color palate of blue, brown, dark green and wear is soft, with comfortable leggings and wide-legged beige, to the clean lines of the jackets, trench coats and blaz- shorts. Maier said he wanted “to convey a certain freedom, ers. Most looks were finished with a simple, light blue shirt - athleticism and ease.”—AP reflecting the azure waters of a swimming pool with white columns created by Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm at the center of the showroom.

Italian tailoring deconstructed The relaxed silhouette of the Salvatore Ferragamo Bottega Veneta Taiwan art exhibit in Japan salvaged by name fix

n exhibition of Chinese art from Taiwan has opened as close ties with Taiwan, which has full diplomatic relations with planned after the Tokyo National Museum revised pro- only 23 countries, most of them in Latin America, Africa, and Amotional materials that had omitted the word “National” the south Pacific. “The upcoming exhibition in Japan of some from references to Taipei’s National Palace Museum. Taiwan is of Taiwan’s most treasured collections of antiques would have sensitive to how other governments portray it, and last week been a perfect example of cultural exchange if not for a row its first lady, Christine Chou, canceled a trip to Tokyo for the over the name of the Taipei-based museum that owns the exhibition. But yesterday, the Taiwanese museum’s director items,” the Taiwan newspaper The China Post said in an editori- accepted an apology from the Tokyo museum’s curator at an al. It noted that the word “national” in the Taipei museum’s opening ceremony for the exhibition, whose centerpiece is a name indicates it is a government-run museum. “We are disap- lustrous white and green cabbage carved of jadeite. “I believe pointed at the Tokyo museum,” it said. Staff at the Tokyo muse- this will suffice to restore the positive sentiment toward Japan um would not give a reason for the original incorrect refer- among the Taiwan people,” said the Taiwan museum’s director, ences in the posters for the exhibit. Feng Ming-chu. She said the past two or three days had been Masami Zeniya, executive director of the Tokyo museum, “regrettable,” but added that once the problem with the name acknowledged having “upset” the Taiwanese with the misnam- was fixed the exhibition could proceed. ing. “We take this matter very seriously and made the correc- “The most important thing is trust, sincerity and mutual tions immediately,” he said. “We would like to apologize for respect,” she said. The National Palace Museum houses many causing trouble.” The exhibition opens to the public today. The treasures taken to Taiwan when the Nationalists fled there from jadeite cabbage will return to Taiwan in two weeks, as planned, mainland China during a civil war in 1949. China still claims but 200 other items will be on display until the exhibition Taiwan as its own territory. moves in September to the Kyushu National Museum on the island of Kyushu. — AP Apologize for causing trouble A woman looks at the square sandalwood curio box with multiple treasures of Qing dynasty displayed in Tokyo during a Japan formally recognizes mainland China but also has press preview of the exhibition of ‘Treasured Masterpieces from the National Palace Museum Taipei’ yesterday.

The Jadeite Cabbage sculpture, measuring 18.7-centimeter (7.4-inch)-high and 9.1-cm (3.6 in)-wide, is displayed. —AP photos

A man looks at the imperial stone seals with animal design knobs of Qing Dynasty. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

Travel

A girl stands in front of Florian Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour. A dragon breathes fire from atop Gringnotts Bank. New Harry Potter park: 5 first impressions

niversal Orlando Resort opened its new, richly Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions also has on display detailed Harry Potter-themed area to media and a wedding dress and two costumes that aren’t for sale: an Uother travel industry insiders on Wednesday night. intimidating black-beaded cape ensemble worn in a pro- The new park zone, called The Wizarding World of Harry mo for the new attraction, and a costume worn by Kenneth Potter-Diagon Alley, will delight fans of the hit book and Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart in the “Harry Potter and the movie series with a marquee ride, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” movie. The wedding dress is white Escape from Gringotts. with white feathers at the hem and softly twinkling lights But Diagon Alley is also heavy on experiential retail, within the skirt. with stores so entertaining and visually stimulating that you almost forget you’re shopping. The attraction doubles Photo ops the size of the Harry Potter footprint on Universal’s proper- As you enter Diagon Alley, look toward Gringotts Bank - ty. Diagon Alley opens to the public July 8 at Universal which is the entrance to the centerpiece thrill ride, Harry Studios. A train called the Hogwarts Express connects the Potter and the Escape from Gringotts. A dragon is perched new area to the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter atop the bank, and it breathes fire - instant Facebook pho- attraction, called Hogsmeade, which opened in 2010 on to or Instagram. Once you enter the bank, while in queue the other side of the theme park at Universal’s Islands of for the ride, don’t miss the three enormous glass chande- Adventure. liers. Finally, find 12 Grimmauld Place where Kreacher the If fans want to see both Harry Potter areas, a two-park House Elf peers eerily from a window. — AP ticket is required. For adults, a two-park ticket for one day costs $136; for children, it’s $130. Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Lewis and Domhnall Gleeson were among the actors from Potter films walking a red carpet at Universal Wednesday night. Here are five first impressions of Universal’s new Diagon Alley, which was inspired by the fictional London location famous for wiz- arding supplies in the Harry Potter series:

Window shopping The level of detail in Diagon Alley is amazing, and nowhere are the features more fun and true to the novels A man stands outside the entrance to Borgin and Burkes Allie Dillard shows off a ferret puppet that can be pur- and movies than in shop windows. There are lots of things store in Knockturn Alley during a preview of Diagon Alley chased at the Magical Menagerie store. for sale, but others are simply great decorations. Books play at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal a central role in the decor; window-shoppers will see ani- Orlando. — AP photos matronic versions of “The Monster Book of Monsters,” a tome with teeth, along with self-knitting needles and Harry Potter’s snowy owl, Hedwig.

Unique gifts With seven shops in Diagon Alley, there’s plenty to buy. (There are five shops in Hogsmeade, Universal’s original Harry Potter attraction.) Among the offerings: Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes (chattering teeth, expandable ears), Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions ($250 for a wiz- ard’s robe), Quality Quidditch Supplies (everything for play- ing the real-life sport based on the game in the series) and Scribbulus (implements for paper, pen and ink lovers). Magical Menagerie sells cute stuffed animals (pygmy puffs are popular), while Borgin and Burkes - located off Diagon Alley in the book, on Knockturn Alley - is a “dark arts” shop that sells skulls, black T-shirts and Death Eater masks. Wiseacre’s Wizarding Equipment sells telescopes and binoculars.

Interactive wands For $35, guests can buy interactive wands at Ollivanders Wand Shop, located in both Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade. Signs to shops are seen. When wand-wielding guests see a medallion symbol in either area, they can wave the wand and cast spells. The wands make trolls dance, light lamps and chandeliers, and silence some shrunken heads, among other things. Maps of the medallion areas are available, but Universal says there are also some hidden spell areas for guests to discov- er.

Wizard wardrobes In addition to robes, fans can buy capes and preppy button-down cardigans inspired by the four houses where Harry and his fellow students lived at Hogwarts school. Matthew Lewis speaks to a reporter during the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley preview event.

James and Oliver Phelps talk to reporters during the Helena Bonham Carter speaks to the media. Warwick Davis speaks to the media. Daniel Cuevas displays a Fire Protection Potion. Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley preview event. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

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The Hogwarts Express arrives at Hogsmeade station. A cape is displayed along with other items available to guests.

A dragon breathes fire from atop Gringnotts Bank. A window display is seen at the Apothecary.

Makayla Phillips arranges Pygmy Puffs at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes Store. T-shirts and ceramic skulls are displayed at Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley. People walk along Diagon Alley.

Sweet and savory treats at new Harry Potter park

ood at the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter- shop also sells other unusual flavors, such as Earl Grey and Diagon Alley park at Universal Orlando Resort is lavender, or chocolate chili. Cost: $4.79. Fbased on traditional British cuisine, with some unusu- al twists inspired by the Harry Potter books and films. And Mini-pie combination it’s very different from the American fare on steroids a few If you’re unsure whether you’ll like a large portion of tra- steps away at The Simpsons’ Springfield area of the theme ditional British meat-and-potatoes pies, try the mini. It park, where the menu includes ginormous doughnuts, includes two smaller savory pies with a side salad. One pie burgers and non-alcoholic beer. is salmon, shrimp and cod, the other is beef and vegeta- The new Harry Potter area has one main eatery called bles, both baked under a mashed potato crust. Cost: the Leaky Cauldron. It’s a large restaurant with large group $12.99. (And if you’re still hungry, add on a toad in the hole tables just inside the entrance. There are also street kiosks - sausage baked in a flour-egg batter, $8.99.) with food and drink, plus Florean Fortescue’s Ice-Cream Parlour. Ploughman’s platter Here are some must-try culinary adventures from This is like an English charcuterie plate, with cheeses, Diagon Alley for us ordinary muggles. crusty bread, cornichon pickles, apple-beet salad, Branston pickle (pickled diced vegetables) and a Scotch egg (hard- Non-alcoholic Butterbeer ice cream boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and baked). Cost: When Universal’s original Harry Potter attraction - the $19.99 (serves two). Wizarding World of Harry Potter-Hogsmeade - opened in 2010, non-alcoholic butterbeer - a sweet, butterscotch, Sticky toffee pudding non-alcoholic beverage - was instantly popular. Diagon This moist, spongy cake is covered in gooey toffee and Alley offers non-alcoholic butterbeer soft-serve ice cream, topped with vanilla ice cream. Yum. Cost: $6.99 and it’s just the thing for a hot Orlando day. The ice cream Gillywater In the Harry Potter stories, Gillywater is made from Gillyweed, a magical plant. In real life, it looks like plain bottled water, but costumed Universal employees add magical and colorful elixirs for a slightly sweet taste. The names of the elixirs are fun: Draught of Peace, Babbling Beverage, Elixir to Induce Euphoria and Fire Protection Potion. Cost: $4.— AP

A display of the various items on the menu that are available are displayed at the Leaky Cauldron restaurant.

Fishy Green Ale and Gilley Water are some of the bever- Mini pies that are available at the Leaky Cauldron restaurant are displayed during a pre- The menu of items at the Leaky Cauldron restaurant is seen. ages available at the Leaky Cauldron. view of Diagon Alley. New Harry Potter park: 5 first impressions

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Angelina Jolie, right, and Elle Fanning pose for photographers during the Japan premiere of ‘Maleficent’ in Tokyo yesterday. — PA

Electric Daisy Carnival lights up Vegas

ore than 130,000 people poured through the it was “deeply saddened” by the death and hoped atten- party that starts at sundown and ends at sunrise. mated $278 million it pumps into the Las Vegas-area gates of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway each dees would do their part to keep the gathering safe. Dozens of couples married on the carnival grounds, economy each year. Mnight of the weekend-long Electric Daisy Throughout the weekend, seven stages featured some of promising “till death do us part” before a minister But arrests and medical problems abound. Between Carnival, a dazzling, multi-sensory ode to electronic the biggest names in the music genre, including Avicii, dressed as Elvis. Hundreds of others exchanged vows Friday evening and Sunday morning, Las Vegas police dance music. But tragedy also marked the festival. Diplo, Afrojack and Tiesto, while fireworks arced over the with significant others or groups of friends in non-bind- reported 560 mostly minor medical calls, with 17 result- Montgomery Tsang of San Leandro, California, who was racetrack, Ferris wheels shuttled riders high into the ing commitment ceremonies. Electric Daisy Carnival ing in trips to the hospital. They also reported 48 drug- attending the event, died Saturday morning after being warm desert sky and whimsical, lifelike animatronic moved to Las Vegas four years ago from the Los Angeles related felony arrests. — AP taken to the hospital. The cause of death for the 24-year- sculptures glowed. But organizers like to call attendees Memorial Coliseum after the 2010 death of a 15-year-old old was pending toxicology and other tests, the Clark the real “headliners” of the show. Flocking from every attendee who was treated for drug intoxication. County coroner’s office said. state and some 40 different countries, fans don bikinis, The festival has encountered less controversy since Event producer Insomniac issued a statement saying fuzzy boots, daisy crowns and body paint for a dance moving across state lines and is embraced for the esti-

In this June 22, 2013, file photo, fireworks explode over the Las Vegas Motor DJs/producers Sebastian Ingrosso and Axwell perform as Axwell /\ Ingrosso on Fans react as Above & Beyond performs during the 18th annual Electric Daisy Speedway during the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. — AP photos the kineticFIELD stage. Carnival.

Cast changes give ‘Transformers’ a fresh start he robots aren’t the only part of the latest Peltz as a sign of things to come and says he’s fiercely “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” earned $1.1 billion at “Transformers” film that changed. Led by star Mark protective of his own two daughters. “I’m not excited the global box office, with $165 million from China, its TWahlberg, a whole new cast was brought in to give about that part of it,” he admitted of their becoming second biggest market after North America. a fresh start to the blockbuster franchise. “Transformers: teenagers. The 19-year-old Peltz said she took Wahlberg’s But it hasn’t been smooth. A Beijing property devel- Age of Extinction” stars Wahlberg as a mechanic who advice to come to the film set extra prepared. “He told oper wants the film to be edited and for Chinese screen- strikes up a friendship with good-guy robot Optimus me, ‘Before you go to set, know your script, know your ings to be suspended because it says the film’s produc- Prime. Wahlberg said the idea of joining the franchise lines, know everything about the script.’ tion partners failed to fulfill sponsorship obligations. The came while he and Bay were working on last year’s film, Because you’ll go to set, sometimes Michael will pick a Beijing Pangu Investment Co Ltd owns the dragon- “Pain and Gains.” scene not supposed to be filmed in a month. He’ll be like, shaped Pangu Plaza featured in the film. Production in “I’ve never done a sequel to any of the movies that ‘Let’s just shoot it today’ So it’s really good to be extra pre- Hong Kong also was briefly disturbed by two extortion I’ve done and this is my first installment in the series. So, pared on a Michael Bay film.” Another new addition, attempts on the set last year. In one case, a man report- still not really a sequel for me. Just thought it was fun to Kelsey Grammer, said he didn’t mind playing a villain edly tried to throw an air conditioning over Bay’s head. do something different and I really wanted to work with since he got the chance to work with Bay. “It’s like throw- One assailant was later sentenced to 30 months in prison. Michael.” The first three films were anchored by Shia ing a lot of things up in the air @ one time, and somehow At a news conference Friday, Bay said he thought the LaBeouf, and Wahlberg has previously said he felt pres- he pulls them back down, and sticks them in his movie. sentence was harsh. “I personally wouldn’t want them to sure about stepping into the shoes of other actors. Still He’s got so many ideas all the time. His mind is so quick be punished. He was on drugs and he probably didn’t he jumped at the opportunity, and while he’s signed to and rich, and creative. It’s kind of like a wild ride just to know what he was doing.” He also said that after the inci- do future installments, “I’m not doing it if Michael doesn’t work with him.” dent, people came up to him and apologized to him on do it. So we’ll see what happens.” behalf of Hong Kong. Supporting actor Jack Reynor said At the film’s worldwide premiere in Hong Kong on Positive experience despite the incident, the cast and crew had a great time Thursday, Bay praised the 43-year-old Wahlberg as a lead- Hong Kong and China plays an important backdrop in on set. “Our experiences of Hong Kong were all very posi- Actor Mark Wahlberg holding an umbrella poses for a photograph on ing man with maturity and gravitas. As a father of four, the latest installment, another indication of China’s grow- tive ones.” — AP the red carpet as he arrives for the premiere of the movie Wahlberg saw his scenes with on-screen daughter Nicola ing importance to Hollywood. The franchise’s third film, ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ in Shanghai, China Saturday. — AP