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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 RAMADAN 8, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Mexico captures Kerry in Jordan Celebratory fire leader of brutal as Middle East turns Iraq win Emsak: 03:16 Zetas cartel crises mount into nightmare Fajer: 03:27 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:29 Maghreb: 18:48 7 15 20 Eshaa: 20:18 Lawyer asks court to Max 49º Min 35º High Tide suspend aid to Egypt 05:22 & 18:20 Court to rule on disqualified candidates July 21 Low Tide 12:22 40 PAGES NO: 15872 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: Kuwaiti lawyer Abdullah Al-Kundari has filed a lawsuit asking the court to order the Council of Ministers Getting to suspend the $4 billion aid package to Egypt decided last week. The lawyer insisted that the action represents a over-emotional major squandering of public funds, besides being a viola- tion of the constitution and the law. The government move, which came along similar deci- sions from Saudi Arabia and UAE, was strongly criticized by the opposition who late Monday staged a public rally to condemn the decision. Speakers at the rally said that By Badrya Darwish the Gulf money should have been sent to Syrian rebels to help them in their fight against Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad. In another development, the Administrative Court yes- terday set July 21 as a date to issue verdicts on petitions [email protected] received from five candidates who have been disqualified from running in the election for failing to meet conditions under the law. The five are among 10 candidates who had wanted to shun away from writing about the been informed by the Interior Ministry that they have soap operas this Ramadan to avoid the accu- CAIRO: Egypt’s Interim President Adly Mansour (center) poses with his new cabinet ministers at the presi- been disqualified from contesting the polls because of Isations of some people who do not know me dential palace in Cairo yesterday. — AP legal barriers. that I am hyper conservative. I am neither a con- The barred candidates include former MP Khalaf servative nor a narrow-minded person. But there Dumaitheer and member of the scrapped Assembly are limits. The soap operas broadcast in Ramadan Violence overshadows Khaled Al-Shilaimi. A number of disqualified candidates are supposed to be dedicated to the family as had been handed jail sentences in the past which is a they represent the family time when everyone in major legal barrier for not contesting the polls. The the house gathers around the TV set. new Egyptian cabinet remaining five candidates are expected to challenge the This has not been the case for two years, Interior Ministry’s decision to disqualify them. though. This year, the soap operas are much The court must issue its verdicts on the cases separate- worse than the previous year. Even Western Brotherhood dismisses cabinet as illegitimate; 7 Die ly before the election date on July 27. The court’s decision is not final as it can be challenged before the Court of movies are categorized for certain age groups of CAIRO: Egypt swore in its new inter- by Adli Mansour, a burly judge who mist tasked with implementing a Appeals. In the previous election, the National Election viewers. One movie is for +16 and another is for im cabinet yesterday, naming mainly was installed as interim president by “road map” to restore full civilian rule Commission disqualified around 40 candidates on various +12-year olds. A third group is considered for liberals and technocrats to lead a the military when it toppled Islamist and repair a crumbling economy. But reasons but almost all of them were reinstated by the family viewing. If this is the liberal west and they transition to civilian rule, but the Mohamed Morsi on July 3. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood move- Administrative Court. are doing such a categorization what about us in deaths of seven people in overnight The armed forces chief who ment, which has said it would have In a related development, the Constitutional Court yes- the Arab World? We are supposed to be more violence showed the country is still removed Morsi, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, nothing to do with politics until he terday set July 23 to start looking into a petition challeng- conservative. Our serials are supposed to show far from stability. In an ornate hall in was given the post of first deputy to was reinstated, dismissed the interim ing that the Amiri decree that invited Kuwaitis to elect the our local culture. What local culture are we por- the presidential palace, 33 cabinet interim prime minister Hazem El- government as illegitimate. next National Assembly is in breach of the constitution. traying in these series especially during the holy ministers took turns being sworn in Beblawi, a 76-year-old liberal econo- Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 month of Ramadan? Even the rest of the world knows about our holy month and its rules. Thank God, I discovered Ramadan Kareem I was not the only one who is not happy with this year’s soap operas. I have been receiving many comments from people about many series. As if the merits of Ramadan is the time to screen stories of love, illic- it affairs, extramarital relationships, divorces, supplication cheating, adultery and violence. On top of that, all viewers can enjoy the skimpy outfit of the upplication or invocation to Allah (Duaa) is part actresses and the vulgar slogans and comments and parcel of worshipping Allah. In whatever in the dialogues which are not suitable for all Sproblem you find yourself, just resort to Allah ages. What is worse - they do not fit the spirit of in supplication. Allah says in the Holy Quran: “And Ramadan. your Lord says: call on Me; I will answer your prayer. Bless our producers who become overemo- But those who are too arrogant to serve Me will tional and express their strong feelings and show surely find themselves in Hell - in humiliation.” us their sexuality in Ramadan. Do producers (40:60) gather to create stories like this all year long? If we only pray to the Lord of the present and the Trailers for the soap operas are advertised for future, and He will respond, forgive us, guide us, and make our lives smooth and easy. He will also guide months before the start of Ramadan. Trailers us to solutions for the problems we face. In order to show snippets of the religious serials we should have our supplications and invocations heard and expect to see. Why in the month of Ramadan? taken into consideration by Allah, we have to fulfill Why don’t you show these in the rest of the year? some conditions which act as prerequisites. For God’s sake, respect Ramadan which is only Following are some of them: one month a year. WEST BANK: Palestinian girls read the Quran in a mosque in the West Bank Balata refugee camp during the (A) Sincerity and devotion to Allah: When you Muslim holy month of Ramadan. — AP raise your hands in supplication to Allah Almighty your heart and emotions should be engulfed with the feeling that you really need Him yet He doesn’t 5,000 die every month in Syria need you. In spite of that, He is able to give you whatever you ask of Him. In your quest for Allah’s assistance and unstinted grants avoid associating UNITED NATIONS: Five thousand peo- executions of Hutus in 1994. He said partners with Him. ple a month are dying in the Syria war the gesture of Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan Saudi sets new rules He says in Al-Hadith Al-Qudsi: “I am the richest of which has now thrown up the worst and other countries to accept refugees the rich; whoever associates partners with Me in his for domestic workers refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan was “saving hundreds of thousands of seemingly acts of worship, I will definitely abandon genocide, UN officials said yesterday. A lives.” “This crisis has been going on for him to those he associates with Me.” What a loss! host of top officials called on the divid- much longer than anyone feared with Who can reward and care about you more than Allah ‘Respect Islam; Obey your employers’ ed UN Security Council to take stronger unbearable humanitarian conse- - your creator, cherisher and sustainer? Ramadan is action to deal with the fallout from the quences,” he added. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yes- also insisted that employees must the best training course in sincerity to God (Allah.) 26 month old civil war in which the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos (B) Avoid asking Allah things that He has prohibit- terday new rules to protect the rights of respect “Islam and its teachings... and United Nations says up to 100,000 peo- said the international community may foreign domestic workers, most of obey the orders of the employers and ed or asking Him to give you something that is total- whom are from South Asia, but stressed their family members concerning get- ple have died. have to consider cross border opera- ly under His jurisdiction; like asking Him to make you they must “respect” Islam and “obey” ting the agreed work done.” A domestic “The extremely high rate of killings tions to get aid into Syria. Amos said a prophet. He says in the Holy Quran: “Call on your their employers. Labor Minister Adel worker “does not have the right to reject nowadays-approximately 5,000 a $3.1 billion was still needed for opera- Lord with humility and in private: for Allah does not Faqih said the new rules require a work, or leave a job, without a valid month-demonstrates the drastic dete- tions in and around Syria for the rest of love those who trespass beyond bounds.” (7:55)So employers to pay workers “the agreed reason,” he added. rioration of the conflict,” UN assistant the year. She said four million people never ask Allah to assist you in your moves to rob a monthly salary without delay, and give Around eight million foreign workers secretary general for human rights Ivan inside Syria need assistance and “con- bank or kill someone or commit adultery - if you do them a day off each week,” in remarks are employed in the oil-rich kingdom, Simonovic told a council meeting on siderable restraints” have been that you get a sin because it is very annoying to carried by the official SPA news agency. with most of them coming from South Syria. Nearly 1.8 million people are now imposed on aid agencies by the gov- Allah Almighty. Employers are also required to provide Asia and earning low wages. The num- registered with the United Nations in ernment and opposition groups. (C) Be confident that Allah will give you whatever domestic workers with “suitable accom- ber of domestic workers is not available. countries around Syria and an average Amos highlighted the Old City in you ask of Him. It may take time but eventually you modations, as well as granting them In June the Philippines said it had of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, Homs where the government has will get it. And if you don’t get it as you wanted, He time to rest for at least nine hours each signed a landmark agreement with UN High Commissioner for Refugees stepped up a siege in the past month. will give it to you in another way that would be more day,” Faqih said. Saudi Arabia that would protect thou- Antonio Guterres added. The UN estimates that 2,500 civilians beneficial and meritorious. It was narrated by Abu Under the new guidelines, workers sands of Filipina maids from being “We have not seen a refugee out- are trapped. “Opposition group have so Huraira that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: are entitled to paid sick leave and a one- exploited in the kingdom. The agree- “Whenever one of you supplicates, let him avoid say- month paid vacation after putting in ment followed a row that erupted in flow escalate at such a frightening rate far not enabled them safe passage to ing, “Oh Allah give me such and such if you will. two years of work as well as end of serv- 2011 when the Philippines insisted on a since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 leave and the government of Syria has ice compensation equal to one month minimum wage of $400 a month for its years ago,” Guterres said. More than refused to allow agencies to deliver Rather, he should be firm and confident and that salary after four years, he said. But Faqih maids among other measures.— AFP two million Rwandans fled the mass Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 LOCAL Ashour suggests cap to multibillion foreign aid Al-Shamali’s statements ‘unfortunate’

KUWAIT: A former MP who is running for elec- lations are still required to organize this was paid during the parliament’s absence. “Al- tions criticized a state official who failed to justi- process.”The nature and volume of grants Shamali’s statements were unfortunate, and he fy a multibillion grant the government sent to Kuwait has been giving in the past few years are will be held accountable for them,” Ashour said Egypt without parliamentary approval, and undefined and lack clear reasons to justify their as he hinted of action to be taken by the parlia- announced plans if elected to propose a cap for volume, and therefore the issue requires to be ment if the minister was retained in the new such practices in the future. Deputy Prime controlled legislatively so that everything Cabinet formation. He also suggested that the Minister, Finance Minister and Acting Oil becomes clear.” Cabinet could be held accountable for the fact Minister Mustafa Al-Shamali earlier this week Ashour also questioned the technical and that the news about the grant were leaked by its defended a $4 billion payment that includes financial basis on which the volume of the grant advisors before an official statement was made. deposits and oil shipments which Kuwait paid as to Egypt was set at $4 billion, saying that organ- Several leading oppositionists and former part of a Gulf aid package to support Egypt’s izing this process helps the government avoid MPs including Ahmad Al-Saadoun, Musallam Al- troubled economy. falling into similar situations in the future. Barrak, Faisal Al-Mislem and Waleed Al-Tabtabaei “If I am elected, I plan to propose shortly fol- “Tomorrow there will be steps to rebuild Syria have criticized the government for approving lowing the parliament’s inauguration a draft law and Iraq, and so far we are unaware of the the grant without the parliament’s approval, and that requires the parliament’s approval for every amounts that [Kuwait] would be required to pay questioned its timing one week after a military grant or loan that Kuwait gives to another coun- at a time in which the country is in dire need for coup overthrew Egyptian President Mohamed try that exceeds KD 100 million,” first constituen- funds to create jobs and improve quality of serv- Morsi. Meanwhile, a Kuwaiti lawyer filed a case cy candidate Saleh Ashour was quoted by Al-Rai ices at home,” he said. with the administrative court demanding that newspaper yesterday. Shamali raised controversy with statements the Cabinet decision to grant $4 billion to Egypt And while he said that he understands published earlier this week in which he said that be put on hold. In the lawsuit, attorney Abdullah Kuwait’s foreign policy “and international com- “no voice tops the voice of the government” Al-Kandari claimed that the decision indicates a mitments to take part in efforts to help develop- when asked for comments on criticisms regard- “serious waste of public funds” and argued that ing countries”, the former MP insisted that regu- ing the timing of the grant and the fact that it it is unconstitutional. — Al-Rai MOH to broaden segregation at all hospitals KUWAIT: The Cabinet convened yesterday at Seif Palace, presided by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, to continue discus- KUWAIT: Well-informed health cials agree that the experiment peri- istry and chairperson of the 2013 undersecretary for technical affairs, sion of items on the agenda of the meeting. Following the meeting, Minister of State sources said that the health ministry od was completely successful. parliamentary elections health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi said that, in a bid for Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs gave the customary is about to broaden the policy of Notably, the decision to expand committee, Dr Khaled Al-Sahlawi to make things easier for voters in briefing. The state minister said the Cabinet reviewed a draft law detailing the final separating citizens and expatriate the experiment is expected to be stressed that the committee had case they may have any medical accounts and budgets of ministries and state bodies, as well as several draft laws on patients at various public hospitals. issued by Health Minister Dr already finished its preparations for problems, all polyclinics had been budgets and accounts of independent and subsidiary authorities. The Cabinet The sources explained that having Mohammed Al-Haifi, his undersec- the elections day by preparing 100 instructed to receive patients on the approved all draft laws, he said, and they are now to be forwarded to His Highness been satisfied with the experiment retary Dr Khaled Al-Sahlawi and the clinics and mobilizing 600 para- election day regardless of their the Amir. launched at Jahra hospital at the undersecretaries council to be medics and nurses, 36 doctors and addresses. He also noted that a spe- beginning of June and noticing that effective once the current six- 30 ambulances. He added that four cial committee had been formed to the number of patients examined in month experimental period is over ICU beds have been reserved in var- examine the meals to be provided Academics urge support both morning and afternoon shifts in December. Meanwhile, the ious hospitals for emergency needs by various catering companies on has dramatically dropped, MoH offi- undersecretary of the health min- of the day. On his part, the assistant the elections day. for women empowerment KUWAIT: Kuwaiti academics and journal- ly controlled by males, Dr Al-Sarraf said, News ists yesterday attributed the low number of noting that the support particularly from women candidates for the National female societies could play a decisive role in brief Assembly elections to the lack of support in the electoral race. and encouragement from the civil society He added that the female societies have institutions. The fact that only eight so far no influence in lobbying for female Invasion leftovers females stand for the July 27 parliamentary candidates and woman political empower- KUWAIT: The defence ministry stressed that it had elections showed the lack of experience ment. Besides, the social traditions discour- cleansed the Sabah Al-Salem (Shdadiya) University site of and lack of support from the NGOs particu- age females from contesting the elections the Iraqi invasion leftovers on two phases. It added that larly the women societies, the academics and exercising their political rights, he ever since then, only a single report about finding explo- and journalists argued. added. Meanwhile, Hussein Abdulrahman, sives was made on Feb 7, 2012 and that a land force engi- “Kuwaiti women regained their political a journalist, said the short span of electoral neering squad immediately responded to it. These state- rights just eight years ago; this time-span is campaigning is favorable only to the candi- ments were made by the ministry in response to earlier ones made by Kuwait University Constructional Program too short for them to compete with males dates who have large grassroots. manager, Dr Rana Al-Fares about finding large quantities of who have 50 years of experience,” Dr “The candidates with large number of RPGs and Kalashnikov bullets. Abdulhameed Al-Sarraf, professor of politi- supporters on the grassroots level need cal science at Kuwait University, opined. no time to prepare for the elections cam- Kiosk at Sharq Mall “Though some female politicians are paign. Females are usually lacking in this Chairman of the “sports for all” department in the Public better qualified to run elections and have point and don’t have enough time to work Authority for Youth and Sports Dawood Al-Dawood more winning chances than males, they out their platforms and sell them to vot- announced yesterday the launch of the Ramadan sports favored to quit the race due to lack of sup- ers,” he pointed out. Abdulrahman called season with the opening of the authority’s kiosk in Sharq port from the civil society,” he explained. on the civil society institutions to encour- Mall. Al-Dawood said the sports for all program for The females face difficulties in forming age women participation in the political Ramadan consists of various sports activities and awareness electoral alliances with political blocs main- arena. — KUNA programs, based on visitors’ favorite choices from the previ- ous years. The kiosk offers nutritionists and physiotherapy KUWAIT: Fawzy Al-Thunayan, General Manager of Board Affairs at Gulf Bank handing specialists’ services, he said, adding that the kiosk offers the cheque to Fahad Khaled Al-Oweihan, General Manager of Mabarrat Al-Rahma Al- quick health check-ups for the visitors and presents them Khayriyyah. 15 ‘professional’ beggars with brochures containing health information on many topics. Al-Dawood noted that the authority will hold the Ramadan Gulf Bank sponsors arrested in Fahaheel squash tournament next Saturday in cooperation with the Kuwait Squash Federation, adding that registration for the tournament has started for all age categories. The authority projects with Al-Khayriyyah KUWAIT: Ahmadi police arrested 15 “pro- Jail inspection will also organize the annual volley ball and football tourna- fessional” beggars while begging in Central prison police found mobile ments during Ramadan he said. Al-Dawood thanked the KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced its sponsor- tunity to experience the true meaning of Fahaheel and sent them to the Criminal phones, drugs of several types and hashish Director General of the authority for his continuous support ship of the ‘Eftar Saem, Ediya and Kiswat Ramadan. Fawzy Al-Thunayan, general Detectives Department. A security source during an inspection campaign inside for efforts aimed at promoting the “sports for all” concept. Yateem’ projects, organized by Mabarrat Al- manager of board affairs, said: “Ramadan is said that 12 female and three male Arab prison wards. Policemen surprised inmates Rahma Al-Khayriyyah. a time for sharing and giving to that in beggars were caught, and it was found out and confiscated 13 mobile phones, 20 illicit Recorded TV speeches These projects will provide iftar meals to need. It motivates us as a bank when we are that they had entered the country on visit tablets and three clumps of hashish found Well-informed sources at the Ministry of Information dis- various under-privileged families of all involved in projects like this, which touches visas. with some prisoners. The suspects were closed that, so far, 130 parliamentary election candidates nationalities throughout Kuwait as well as and changes the lives of many families. Our sent for questioning. have made use of the service provided by the ministry to all providing orphans with Ediya, Girgian bags sponsorship emerges from the Bank’s firm candidates and reordered televised speeches. The source and new clothes for Eid. belief in supporting the Kuwaiti society and Bank account Stolen car added that in their speeches, each of the candidates was This initiative serves to create an authen- we encourage all individuals to contribute Criminal detectives released a citizen given a chance to introduce his/her electoral agenda and tic Ramadan ambience for everyone across wherever they can, not only during the Holy A citizen who imported a car from a Gulf whose bank account aroused suspicions. A program and that the speech would be shown on KTV one Kuwait, reviving the spirit of the holy month Month of Ramadan, but throughout the country was surprised that it was wanted source said that the management of a bank day before the elections day. and giving those less privileged the oppor- entire year - making it a way of life.” sent the file of the citizen to the detectives by Interpol and reported stolen. The citizen after finding KD 300,000 in his account. The who went to the traffic department to reg- source said the citizen was summoned and ister the car was told by the employee that the car is being sought. The man was sent when asked about the source of the mon- 4,500 foreign scholarships in 13 countries to Farwaniya detectives for questioning. ey, he said it was the commission of a deal KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Higher studied through those scholarships had been cultural attaches in Washington and Los resulting in the sale of commercial com- Egyptian robbed Education, Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf stressed the determined in collaboration with the civil serv- Angles. plexes. He presented the relevant docu- Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh detectives are importance of guiding high school graduates ices commission in accordance with the needs On his part, general manager of Kuwait ments and was released. searching for two thieves who robbed an to plan well for their university studies in order of the local job market. He added that in previ- Fund for Arab Economic Development, Abdul Egyptian of KD 230 and his smart phone to achieve success and contribute in develop- ous scholarships, majors used to be deter- Wahab Al-Bader urged the students to give Girls harassed after beating him and leaving him bleeding ing their country after graduation. mined according to the government’s needs due care to their university studies while, at A security source said two sisters and Speaking on launching the Youth Guidance while both the governmental and private sec- the same time, having their eyes focused on a before escaping. A security source said that Forum, Al-Hajraf stressed that the forum was tors’ needs were taken into consideration this future career, just the way he did when he first their friends were inside a famous mall a passerby found the victim on the ground when a long-haired stranger followed them an initiative from the public sector and that it year. started his. He also stressed that all state bleeding from the head, so he took him to was meant to guide students and review some Further, the minister added that lack of establishments should support the youth. and started flirting with them. The source Farwaniya hospital where he was treated successful experiences as role models for them proper guidance was one of the biggest prob- Meanwhile, the forum’s coordinator, Duwai’ said when the girls left the mall, they saw a for a 6-cm cut. He then went to the police to help them make the right decision. lems new undergraduates faced and that hold- Al-Ajmi said that the forum aims at guiding the police car and complained about the station and told them that while he was The minister also noted that the ministry of ing such forums would surely help them. He youth towards a better professional future and, harasser, who was arrested and taken to going home, he was stopped by two men higher education has allocated 4,500 scholar- also noted that the higher education ministry at the same time, create a sort of balance Salmiya police station where he was and one of them hit him with stick before ships for Kuwaiti students in 13 countries would hold a forum starting July 31 for stu- between the outcome of the educational charged. taking the money and phone. worldwide. He added that the majors to be dents applying to study in the US with Kuwait’s process and the local job market needs.

KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Border Security Affairs Maj Gen Sheikh Mohammad Al-Yousif Al-Sabah lauded here yesterday het efforts of the Kuwaiti border guards in protecting the country from all external threat. During a visit to the southern border post late Monday, Sheikh Mohammad commended the border guards’ efforts, calling on them to continue with and take pride in their noble duty. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 LOCAL

KUWAIT: (Left) His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receiving yesterday at Al-Seif Palace, the President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Ammar Al-Hakim, and his accompanying delegation on occasion of his visit to the country. (Right) His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receiving yesterday at Seif Palace, the President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar Al-Hakim and his accompanying delegation. Fire extinguished at Mina Embassy assigns lawyer to Al-Ahmadi refinery - KNPC defend abused Filipinas KUWAIT: A fire described as “limited” that KNPC announced in May that it had broke out early yesterday at Mina Al- signed a contract with Korea’s Daelem Ahmadi refinery has been put out, said Industrial Company to construct new utili- Call for quick action Kuwait National Petroleum Company ties and upgrade the current ones to han- (KNPC). The fire, which began at 1230 local dle sulfur at Ahmadi port at a cost of KD By Ben Garcia Jenny and two of her colleagues (a female hair and dragged her down the stairs. The next time in the refinery’s phosphorus storage 147 million. Romanian and another Filipina) went there to fix thing she knew she was groggy and did not warehouse, was caused by a technical The contract includes designing, import KUWAIT: The Philippine Embassy has assigned their municipality health cards. After a small dis- know what was going on. During an earlier glitch in the conveyor belt. and fixing and testing the new utilities Atty Fahad Al-Sheetan to represent a Filipina fit- agreement with their mandoub (liaison officer), interview, Jenny said all she wanted was real jus- The refinery’s firefighting team was able which includes new storage tankers for liq- ness instructor who was brutally beaten up by a the mandoub disappeared but came back with a tice. “Thank God I am still alive, but I really want to contain the fire and extinguish it within uid sulfur and feeding pumps for sulfur and Kuwaiti police officer inside the Municipality policeman. to hit back - I don’t deserve this. I am an aerobics 20 minutes, after the activation of the other mechanical, electrical, civil work and Health Department after a verbal tussle on July The policeman was stationed inside the instructor and I used my body to work and pro- emergency response plan at the refinery, fine equipments in addition to a safety sys- 7. Jenny was rushed to Amiri Hospital with mul- Municipality Health Department. When the vide for my family. After this, I don’t know if I can Mansour Al-Ajmi, Head of Public Relations tem and fire fighting. tiple head, hand and knee injuries after the inci- police saw them, he specifically called Jenny and still do my usual job,” she cried. and Media at KNPC, said. Ajmi reported no Meanwhile, a limited fire started at the dent and underwent surgery at Farwaniya took her away. Jenny recalled, while narrating Jenny is married with three kids but they are casualties and no damage or halt to the nuclear medicine department in Mubarak orthopedic hospital last Monday. Philippine her side of the story, the police officer allegedly in the Philippines. She is in Kuwait with her refinery’s production. Al-Kabeer Hospital yesterday, but the inci- Charge d’Affairs Consul General Atty Raul Dado became furious and told her that Jenny was dis- mother who also works as a fitness instructor. Another huge fire broke out in Ahmadi dent caused little damage and no injuries. visited her at Farwaniya hospital yesterday. respecting him, and that she was told to go into Harsher measures are now being considered in refinery unit no. 44 at dawn Tuesday. The Health Undersecretary Dr Khalid Al- “The case is now being handled by our trust- a room nearby. the Philippine Congress, Department of Foreign fire caused a leakage of large quantities of Sahlawi said that an electrical malfunction ed lawyer Fahad Al-Sheetan and we are going to When she was about to enter the room, the Affairs and Department of Labor and sulfur. The fire department not make any led to the fire in the electrical equipment exhaust all possible means to help her,” Dado police grabbed her arm forcefully, pulled her Employment to protect Filipino workers here. announcement about the size of the fire or room adjacent to the nuclear medicine mentioned. number of casualties and whether the leak department. He noted that the hospital’s “Our lawyer has the medical result already. caused any danger to the public residing in administration had extinguished the fire My role is to assist him as I am also a lawyer and the area. immediately and fixed the malfunction. consul general of the Philippine Embassy. The The Ahmadi refinery is considered one Director of the hospital Dr Hassan Al- attacker was seen by many, the attack was car- of the largest refineries in the world spread Dosari also confirmed that there were no ried out in public, and many witnesses will come over 10 km with 1,766 employees. The total casualties in the fire or any serious damage, out in due time. Remember that Kuwaiti officials production capacity of the refinery is esti- adding that all departments continued are committed to human rights,” Dado noted. mated at 466,000 barrels of oil per day and their work day normally after the flames Dado urges local authorities here to act fast about 1.5 billion cu m of gas. were doused. and resolve Jenny’s case and other cases of police rape and brutality. Last month, a Filipina filed complaints of rape by two police officers Ministries to adopt during a house-to-house raid in Jleeb. The two police officers were reportedly detained at Jleeb police station. Two more cases solar panels project of rape were registered at the Philippine Embassy this month, allegedly carried out by KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water desalinated water. “The MEW is going for- perpetrators who introduced themselves as and Minister of Public Works Abdul-Aziz Al- ward with ventures to make use of renew- police officers. “Our lawyer has made a commit- Ibrahim announced that the two ministries able energy, which include launching the ment to litigate abuses against Filipino women are working together to install solar panels Abdaliya and Shaqaya renewable energy in particular to make known the embassy’s mis- at their buildings as part of efforts to save projects,” the minister indicated. sion that we are all committed to protecting the power produced by fuel-powered power In other news, a blackout hit several interests of our citizens wherever they are,” he plants. areas of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh on Sunday noted. “The MEW put together studies to night and lasted for three hours until elec- It can be recalled that Jenny was beaten up KUWAIT: Jenny was visited by her friends at Farwaniya hospital recently. install solar panels on top of the two min- tricity was restored at11:00 pm, a local daily inside the Municipality premises in Sharq when —Photo by Ben Garcia istries’ buildings and assess the results reported yesterday quoting a Ministry of based on which the project could be Electricity and Water insider. adopted at buildings of all other state Speaking to Al-Qabas on the condition departments,” Ibrahim said in a statement of anonymity, the source explained that a Islamist statements expose ICM rift? Monday. malfunction at one of the main power Kuwait spends KD 3 to 4 billion every transformers feeding the area caused the KUWAIT: An Islamist activist in est”. announced that the government is eral cases were referred to the pub- year to generate electricity and produce blackout. Kuwait was quoted yesterday in Political sources who spoke to going to handle costs of ifta meals lic prosecution”, said the sources statement that some observers Al-Qabas on the condition of and Ramadan-related expenses at who spoke on the condition of believe reflect a case of division anonymity saw that Roumi’s state- polling stations on election day. anonymity. Interior personnel within one of the main Islamist ments reflect divisions within the In other news, Al-Rai quoted Separately, second constituency political groups in Kuwait, when he ICM, the unannounced political security sources yesterday who candidate Ahmad Lari announced reiterated boycotting elections but arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in indicated that First Deputy Prime plans if elected to request discus- coordinate with other at the same time urged voters to Kuwait, and went on to speculate Minister and Interior Minister sion of regulations passed by the “elect wisely”. During a Ramadan that the group could quietly sup- Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah annulled parliament that were not authorities for polls reception held Monday, Chairman port certain candidates despite is committed to take strict meas- approved by the Cabinet during of the Social Reform Society boycott claims. ures to tackle vote buying. Several the first session of the upcoming KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior is coordi- he added. Hmoud Al-Roumi reiterated the The countdown for elections is candidate including a number of parliament. The laws include the nating with various other public depart- He affirmed keenness on enforcement position of the group’s political underway, which is a time in which former MPs have complained Kuwait Airways privatization law ments to ensure upcoming parliamentary of the laws equally on all citizens and fur- affiliate, the Islamic Constitutional candidate campaigns gradually about alleged widespread cases of and the law to establish a public elections would be in order and in the best nishing them with all possible facilities, in Movement, in boycotting parlia- pick up until election day. One fea- buying citizens’ votes around the authority for telecommunication. possible status. line with guidelines of the First Deputy mentary elections set for July 27. ture that is notably missing so far country, and warned that the mat- The former MP announced adopt- The MoI is holding continuous coordina- Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Sheikh Yet, he urged Kuwaitis who decid- are gatherings - something that ter could further increase as elec- ing amendments to the KAC priva- tion with the Ministry of Education, Kuwait Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. ed to vote to “elect wisely because could be associated with limited tion day approaches.”Minister Al- tization law that pertain with Municipality, the Ministry of Public Works Implementation of the minister orders is members of the upcoming parlia- attendance attributed to the fact Hmoud gave clear directions to indemnities and pensions he wants and Communication for setting up and being followed by the undersecretary and ment are Kuwait’s future when it that this year’s elections take place arrest suspects involved in vote paid to retired KAC employees, as equipping the electoral stations, ensure the general supervisor of the polling comes to legislation and monitor- during Ramadan. Meanwhile, head buying as soon as possible, in well as reducing the 5-year term of power and communications for these cen- process, General Ghazi Al-Omar. ing”. He further called parliament of the legal committee supervising efforts similar to those taken the contract with the strategic ters, said Major General Mohammad Al- He indicated at formation of a special hopefuls to “achieve national inter- the elections Ahmad Al-Ujail against primaries and in which sev- investor. Dosari, the assistant undersecretary for security team comprising personnel of all public security. operational departments and patrols to Maj. Gen. Al-Dosari, also the general enforce security in all the electoral districts, field commander of the higher electoral he said, also indicating at the coordination commission, indicated that the coordina- with the traffic department to try minimize tion with the Ministry of Health was partly congestions during the process. aimed at setting up makeshift medical cen- Public security apparatuses will take ters, in addition to the collaboration with penal action against any irregularity and the fire department. will DO their best to impose public order, The Ministry of Interior has taken all he said, indicating at orders to the person- necessary security precautions in prepara- nel to safeguard the ballot boxes and deal tion for the elections and for sake of ensur- firmly against any action intended to dis- ing maximum integrity and transparency, rupt the process.— KUNA Malta praises Kuwait’s charity projects

ROME: Imam of the Islamic Center in Kuwait’s embassy to support Muslims BEIRUT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society volunteers distributing relief aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Malta Mohammad Qassim Al-Saadi and Islamic organizations in Malta, praised Kuwait’s charity efforts in his including running many charity proj- KRCS sends dates to Syrian refugees in Jordan country, especially the “Iftar project”, ects. The Imam also thanked Kuwait organized by Kuwait’s Zakat House in for always serving and supporting KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) KRSC is following developments of the humanitari- coordination with the Kuwaiti Embassy in Beirut cooperation with Kuwait’s Embassy in Islam and Muslims all over the world. reported yesterday that it has sent a 20-ton ship- an situation in Syria and its repercussions on Syrian and the Lebanese Red Crescent. Malta. Kuwait’s Ambassador to Malta Faisal ment of dates to Syrian refugees in Jordan as part people. He added that each Syrian refugee family would According to a statement released Suleiman Al-Musaileem also congratu- of its relief program to help refugees and ease their He also affirmed the society’s continuous receive a voucher worth USD 100 to enable them by the Kuwaiti Embassy on Tuesday, lated His Highness the Amir Sheikh burden during the holy month. humanitarian efforts to provide relief and aid sup- to buy necessities and goods for the occasion of A Kuwaiti donor provided 20 tons of dates for plies to Syrian families and refugees in Jordan and Eid Al-Fitr. KRCS, he said, was keen on supporting Al-Saadi, on behalf of all Muslims in Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Syrian refugees, KRCS Chairman Barjas Al-Barjas Lebanon, which so far amounted to around 3,000 Syrian refugees during the holy month of Ramadan Malta, extended his congratulations to His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh indicated in a press statement. Al-Barjas pointed tons of items including food, blankets, break-fast and the subsequent occasion of Eid. A number of His Highness the Amir, His Highness Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, out charitable Kuwaitis never faltered or hesitated meals, and Eid clothes and parcels, in addition to Syrian refugees expressed their gratitude towards the Crown Prince, and all Kuwaiti peo- His Highness the Prime Minister to extend a helping hand to the Syrians, ever since providing treatment at hospitals. the sincere gesture by the KRCS, thanking Kuwait ple on the Holy month of Ramadan, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- the Syrian revolt broke out. Meanwhile, the KRCS distributed vouchers for on-going support. praying Allah The Almighty keep Sabah, all Kuwaiti people, the Arab Furthermore, Al-Barjas stressed the Syrian fami- worth $100,000 to 1,000 Syrian families in Lebanon The Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society recently Kuwait safe and prosperous. and Islamic nations, and all Muslims in lies residing in Jordan and Lebanon are in desper- as part of its Eid Al-Fitr project. launched the Iftar (breaking fast) project aimed at Al-Saadi also praised the efforts of Malta on Ramadan. — KUNA ate need for help and support, specifically during KRCS Representative Dr. Musaed Al-Enezi told providing meals for 15,000 Syrian refugees during the current holy month of Ramadan. He added KUNA that the distribution of the vouchers was in Ramadan.— KUNA LOCAL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Mutabbak Zubaidi

JW Marriott Hotel Kuwait hosts INGREDIENTS: 2 whole medium zubaidi fish (Silver Pomfret, degutted) Ramadan ghabqa for the media sea salt fresh ground black pepper KUWAIT: The JW Marriott Hotel press for their continuous support featuring oriental and interna- 1 3/4 teaspoons bahrat divided middle eastern mixed spice Kuwait City held an exclusive towards all activities undertaken tional favorites in addition to live (Baharat Aka Middle East Mixed Spices - the Real Mix) Ramadan ghabqa for members of by the JW Marriott Hotel Kuwait cooking stations serving shawar- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric the press at the hotel’s distinctive City. The guests were welcomed ma wraps, saj, stuffed kak under 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Ramadan Tent “Layaly JW Marriott by George Aoun, Cluster General sandwich press, a new JW salad 2 large garlic cloves, minced El Ramadaniya”. The elegant annu- Manager along with the entire bar, JW bakery bread display, tra- 3/4 cup white basmati rice al event, held at the hotel’s large team at Kuwait Marriott Hotels. ditional Arabic ice cream, a live water Al-Jahra Ballroom on the first floor The guests enjoyed shisha with kunafa station, a brand new live 1 cinnamon stick was sponsored by Etihad Airways, different flavors, traditional barista station and many more . 2 fresh cardamom pods, bruised Rasasi Perfumes, Yacoub Ramadan drinks served during “It gave us great pleasure in 1 clove (not garlic) Behbehani and Sons, Samsonite the holy month and much more. hosting our media partners as 2 dried limes, pierced a couple times with a skewer (loomi) travel accessories, Damas jew- In the background musicians they have served as pillars of sup- 3 tablespoons light olive oil (or bland oil) 3 small cooking onions ellery, Nail Works Spa and Salon played authentic Arabic numbers port over the year. lemon, and lime wedges (to serve) and Sebamed. An exciting raffle to the delight of the audience. We wish Ramadan Mubarak to Kuwaiti tomato sauce (Kuwaiti Tomato Sauce draw with expensive gifts like air- The ballroom was transformed all residents and expatriates in (Dukkous Al-Tamat), to serve line tickets, jewelry and spa treat- into an authentic, luxurious Kuwait. We look forward to serv- ments was conducted for the Arabic tent setting complete with ing our guests and diners with PREPARATION: lucky guests. The annual rich drapery, comfortable cush- delectable Ramadan Iftar and Wash fish, clean well leaving on heads, make sure scales are all removed and fish is degutted. Wash the white Basmati rice well and leave to soak for 15- Ramadan ghabqa was organized ions and seating. The members of Sohour delights at our properties 30 minutes depending on quality of rice. to thank the members of the the press enjoyed a lavish buffet in Kuwait,” said Aoun. Bring a large pan of water to a boil put in the fish, cinnamon stick, car- damom pods and clove and simmer until cooked. Remove the fish and reserve the cooking water. Cut some gashes across the fish and rub on some bahrat and the minced garlic then pour fresh lemon juice over top. Refrigerate for up to 1 1/2 hours. Cook Basmati rice with as much reserved cooking liquid as needed, sea salt and the loomis. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry the onions until soft and golden adding the turmeric, some sea salt and 1/4 tsp bahrat. Mix 2/3 of the onions into the cooked rice & sprinkle the remaining onion mixture over top. After the fish has marinated, pat dry with paper towel. Preheat oven to 275F (not very high). Heat 1/2 inch oil (vegetable or light olive) until hot in a pan and fry the fish one at a time until golden brown, then drain on paper towel. Place fish on top of rice, cover with aluminum foil and set in preheated oven for 1 hour. Serve with lemon and lime wedges, radishes if wished, and Kuwaiti Tomato Sauce for a wonderful authentic Kuwaiti meal. Don’t forget to eat this with your 3 first fingers of the right hand keeping food from going above the mid knuckles!

8) The following are the popular compilers of Haddith Book:

A) Muslem and abo Nasia B) Bukhari and Abn Maijah C) Bukahari and Muslim LOCAL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Movenpick Free Trade Zone hosts Ramadan ghabqa

he Movenpick Hotel, Kuwait (Free Zone) recently hosted a special ghabqa held Tto the honors of the local media. The guests were received by the hotel’s finan- cial manager, Khairi Saad AL-Din.—Photos by Joseph Shagra WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 LOCAL

In my view kuwait digest The Egyptian You reap what revolution you sow! By Dr Hassan Abdullah Jouhar By Dr Bader Al-Daihani re the regional situation equations turning up he success of any revolution may topple a regime but will against GCC states after the military and political not have ready solutions nor will it be able to immediately Adefeats of Islamist blocs, namely in Syria and Tstop the political conflict between various parties - con- Egypt? Such a serious question is strongly coming to the flicts that may go on for long after revolutions and can some- surface amidst the floundering of GCC diplomacy in times lead to armed struggle and we have many historical recent years, especially after the toppling of the Muslim examples of this. Therefore, the second wave of the Egyptian Brotherhood regime in Egypt, the repeated defeats of revolution is not expected to achieve immediate goals because the armed Syrian opposition, in addition to the fact that the struggle is still at its peak about the governing system to be the Turkish government is too occupied by the loud used in the future. Revolutionary powers there are fiercely protests that took Erdogan’s Islamist government by sur- fighting against the revival of Mubarak’s regime or those they prise. call ‘remnants’ who are regionally and internationally support- ed. They are also against the rule of the military. GCC contradictions lie in rushing to support Islamist Did I say ‘remnants’ and the military? Yes, indeed, I did. The groups in Western Arab countries, Syria and Iraq, while remnants never left after Jan 25, especially the owners of quickly turning up against the same people or their affil- humongous capitals. The extreme failure of the Muslim iates in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. The enormous sums Brotherhood facilitated promoting the remnants, especially (over $10 billion) granted by GCC states to Egypt to since they controlled, and still control an effective segment of enable the interim transitional regime there contain the the media and are regionally and internationally supported. Brotherhood equals what all GCC states spent on sup- Meanwhile, the military is an independent authority, as we said It is completely out of any The billions in aid and grants political or strategic logic that given by GCC regimes were not these GCC states cut such given for the sake of the revolu- sums from their fortunes to tion, democracy or freedoms. kuwait digest help Islamists (including mod- They were given for sheer local Right man in right place erate and extreme ones) and foreign political reasons come to power, then spend just the way Qatar did with By Abdullah Buwair double on toppling or con- Morsi’s regime and the way GCC he emergence of Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali Several newspapers including the Telegraph in the taining them unless, of states did with Libya, Syria, brought relief to citizens and residents of Kuwait United Kingdom reported news that Kuwait is targeting Twhen he announced enforcing the law equally expatriates by deporting traffic offenders. It is important course, our GCC governments Yemen and Sudan. It is up to the and activating plans to fight reckless driving. Ali acted here to reiterate Maj Gen Al-Ali’s clarifications when he people of each country to ques- quickly after being appointed assistant undersecretary insisted that those deported have committed serious are only following orders and for traffic affairs in the Interior Ministry, announcing traffic violations on multiple occasions, and added that acting as a fund to finance tion their respective govern- withdrawing licenses of expatriates obtained through hundreds of Kuwaitis were sent to court for the same ments pertaining foreign aid. forgery. reasons. Western policies of countries Ali was promoted to his Soon after being named that are already suffering current position after suc- There is no doubt that we need undersecretary assistant, Ali earlier. It has always been since the Orabi Revolution in the cessful tenures in different made an announcement nineteenth century. The problem is that what the Muslim domestic economic and politi- Brotherhood is currently doing might pave the way for the mili- Interior Ministry depart- more people like Ali in state urging all Kuwaitis and expa- tary to run the country and turn it into a military dictatorship. ments. The majority of his triates to pay their traffic tick- cal problems. In the same vein, the billions in aid and grants given by GCC time at the ministry was departments if we ever want to ets within two months in regimes were not given for the sake of the revolution, democra- spent in the Traffic General order to avoid travel bans. He porting armed opposition and insurgents in Syria, form- cy or freedoms. They were given for sheer local and foreign Department, where he was achieve reform, as his name has further warned that legal ing the Free Army and providing it with fighters from political reasons just the way Qatar did with Morsi’s regime and promoted gradually until action will be taken against became synonymous with law over 40 countries around the world. the way GCC states did with Libya, Syria, Yemen and Sudan. It is being appointed the head of anyone who attempts to up to the people of each country to question their respective It is completely out of any political or strategic logic the department. After that, enforcement. Many people mediate for the release of a that these GCC states cut such sums from their fortunes governments pertaining foreign aid. Revolutionists there are he spent time in the General traffic offender. Furthermore, facing critical and complicated challenges in the form of count- to help Islamists (including moderate and extreme ones) er-revolution powers. The bright thing, however, is that the Security Department as wonder how was he able to col- he proved his seriousness come to power, then spend double on toppling or con- Egyptian people are supporting the revolution. head of the Ahmadi depart- when he registered several taining them unless, of course, our GCC governments Since defending the presence of a democratic, secular and ment where he ordered lect KD 4.271 million out of KD traffic tickets against the per- are only following orders and acting as a fund to finance constitutional state that has room for everyone and is not dom- campaigns against reckless sonal driver of Minister of Western policies of countries that are already suffering inated by certain parties has been and will always be our drivers, and head of the 24 million owed to the ministry Cabinet Affairs and Minister domestic economic and political problems. unchangeable principle that applies to all peoples and all coun- Farwaniya department in traffic tickets in one month? of Municipality Affairs Sheikh Therefore, in view of the GCC’s political confusion, tries. We all have to respect the will of the Egyptian people of all where he pursued illegal res- Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- the GCC governments are living a dangerous nightmare sects that went out to the streets in tens of millions. We should idents and unlicensed ven- The answer is simple: Ali is the Sabah. And he later of the possible consequences of Islamist defeats in the not deform the image of the revolution that ousted a tyrant dors. explained that the main pur- region and the failure of their projects in Afghanistan, and rejuvenated on June 30 to topple the Brotherhood regime His tenure in the General right man in the right place with pose of the ongoing cam- Algeria, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Egypt, which suggests that that tried forcing it out of achieving its goals. The opposition of remnants of those trained fighters who are ideologically the second wave of the Jan 25 revolution by the deposed Security Department is also paigns is to ensure that remembered for his firm efforts praised by all. everyone respects the law, convinced with jihad and extremism will come back to Brotherhood and their supporters does not mean that it was the GCC and Arabia. This concern was strongly not a public uprising. — Al-Jarida stance in the face of unli- adding that Kuwaiti drivers censed demonstrations that with multiple deliberate expressed by top GCC diplomats in repeated meetings were motivated by ill intentions, and was able to prevent offenses will face legal action and have their cars in Turkey, UK and France this week. GCC states were the demonstrators from achieving their goals. Maj Gen Al-Ali impounded. last responding to Arab Spring incidents in terms of public demands of reform and freedom and the for- kuwait digest returned to the traffic department after that and started Kuwait needs more officials like Maj Gen Al-Ali who tunes they spent to avoid the Arab Spring seem to have The curse of plans to reduce traffic jams and pursue reckless drivers. enforce the law strictly, equally and without favoritism. been spent in vain. Will they ever learn the lesson before There is no doubt that we need more people like Ali His approach has returned respect back to the police it is too late, especially when they are reaping what they in state departments if we ever want to achieve reform, service and to the law itself when everyone became have already sown? — Al-Jarida vote-buying as his name has became synonymous with law enforce- alert when they saw the true face of the law. His efforts ment. Many people wonder how was he able to collect include forming eighteen teams to detect and inspect By Thaar Al-Rashidi KD 4.271 million out of KD 24 million owed to the min- vehicles lacking safety requirements. Since he was istry in traffic tickets in one month? The answer is simple: named undersecretary assistant for traffic affairs, kuwait digest have been covering parliament elections since 1992 and Ali is the right man in the right place with efforts praised Kuwait’s roads have seen discipline and fear is instilled in in every election, everyone talks about vote-buying and by all. the hearts of reckless drivers. The key to Ithe millions in boxes. Twenty-one years and vote-buying is the talk of the elite, the public, candidates and non-can- fighting didates. But despite the tens of millions said to have been spent kuwait digest to support some candidates and oust others, no one has corruption seen more than a thousand or two over 21 years. But the political millions have remained a talking point without A valuable lesson to all By Dr Wael Al-Hasawi proof. From where did the political millions come? Are they really there? And why no one has seen it with his eyes? uring a conversation with an Islamist candidate a Vote-buying is a fact and available in every election like By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa few days ago, he told me about the shocking expenses he discovered are required to finance his oxygen. We know it is there, but we do not see it with our t seems that our wise government did not understand ary. The question is since when Kuwait has started to be D campaign. He then told me about a phone call from a rela- eyes. The story simply is that the one who distributes the and absorb what is going on in the Arab world in the governed by sharia not the law? What I know through my tive who told him that he can find him someone who can political millions and the one who receives it in every elec- form of deep-rooted changes after the toppling of the study of Kuwait’s political history is that the ruling family I pay him up to KD 1 million to cover even advertising tion do not tell anyone outside his very closed circle. Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt and the shaky situation and the regime of Kuwait were not extreme in complying expenses and ‘buying’ some votes for him. But what is the I shall give an example close to reality. A candidate ran of political Islam in Tunisia and Libya. The youth revolution with sharia and its rules; rather the regime resorted to reli- reason behind this generosity? The candidate was asked for for elections and had three financial cases against him that was led by the Tamarod movement against the gious men to discuss sharia issues, but for civil and com- his ‘loyalty’ in return, or in other words, to become their Muslim Brotherhood monopoly over power is a valuable mercial cases, the matter was left for a committee of mer- tool in the parliament if elected. lesson to all Arab regimes that trade in religion or use chants to decide. The ruling family was always liberal and I have many reasons to believe the candidate’s story - Vote-buying is a fact and avail- political Islam groups for their moderate in its political and most notable of which are forgery and bribery stories that own interests. social approaches and still is. able in every election like oxy- have become a staple during election campaigns in the Gulf regimes and particu- But fear and hesitance Judicial sources found the jus- past few years. Not only that, but political money took the larly Saudi Arabia and UAE towards political Islam groups gen. We know it is there, but we spotlight during the tenure of the 2009 parliament when took clear and frank moves tifications for refusing to in the National Assembly or news emerged that at least one quarter of MPs received do not see it with our eyes. The against the Muslim outside has made the regime appoint the prosecutors suspicious multimillion-dinar deposits from unknown Brotherhood in a serious hesitate and afraid from the story simply is that the one who sources. attempt to limit their increas- screams of MPs, imams or because of sharia opinions This incident sparked demands to investigate financial ing influence in the region, those who trade in religion in distributes the political millions records of parliamentarians and senior state officials and but Kuwait’s government that oppose involving women hopes of gaining acceptance. hold accountable officials responsible. However, people and the one who receives it in does not know what is going They think that these were shocked to realize that the current anticorruption and on, and does not have a clear in the judiciary strange. The groups are in control of the every election do not tell anyone money laundering regulations are too incompetent to be vision on what it wants - does street - but the reality is other- Ministry of Justice opened the able to convict suspects in the multimillion deposits case it want a constitutional civil wise, because the govern- outside his very closed circle. or hold them accountable. state governed by the law door for appointing females ment supported, strength- This begs the question: Why have the parliament and and the constitution or does it ened and increased the influ- Cabinet been unable for half a century since the constitu- amounting to KD 160,000. The debts in the three cases want it to be a religious state and received their papers after ence of its political adver- tion was adopted to legislate audit regulations on lawmak- were settled in less than a week, and a few days before the governed by sharia? saries among the Muslim obtaining a fatwa from the ers, as well as laws to tackle vote buying and other prac- door for nomination opened, he started his election cam- We say this after Al- Brotherhood who attack the tices related to political money crimes? paign with KD 50,000, and this is an example of many Jareeda said on Saturday, July government and steal its Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic It is frustrating to see police officers very committed to examples. 13 that said the government money through the so-called tackle primaries (not that I approve them), yet at the same How this candidates got more than a quarter million deliberately stopped the Affairs that allows women to the centrist committee at the time fail to take similar strong measures against influential dinar in less than a week knowing that he did not win a lot- appointment of 62 prosecu- ministry of awqaf and Islamic work in the public prosecution people involved in vote buying in secret and in public. We tery and did not inherit any money and did not find a treas- tors because there are 22 affairs and illegal charity com- praise Western countries where top government officials ure? The answer very briefly - he received money or maybe women among them and jus- mittees. The government also and the judiciary. are held accountable for slight mistakes, yet commend he received money or most likely he received money. tified this with useless reasons backs Islamist groups by Interior Ministry officers here for deporting and jailing Political money is a fact in the Kuwaiti political scene, such as searching for a fatwa allowing them to collect expatriates because of visa-related violations or some sim- and we have more than one famous case which proves the that allows women to work in this field or wait for any donations for jihadists in Syria and the Muslim ple violations. What about people with influence who not availability of political money in every election, and its complaints from the departments. Brotherhood in Egypt while at the same time grants funds only challenge the law, but sometimes work under its pro- appearance as an octopus with eight arms. Political money Judicial sources found the justifications for refusing to to the Egyptian government to back it against the tection?! is there and who denies the availability of oxygen simply appoint the prosecutors because of sharia opinions that Brotherhood. Many lawmakers enter the parliament with a clean because he does not see it and breathes it and fills his oppose involving women in the judiciary strange. The We have said it many times that we are a civil state - hand, but are soon driven by the wave of corruption that lungs with it every second. Our political lungs breathe this Ministry of Justice opened the door for appointing why does the government wait for the sharia opinion in has swept through everything in Kuwait. Their corruption money in every election, but why it is not seen? Simply females and received their papers after obtaining a fatwa regards to women? If you are lost and do not know what reflects on the balance of justice, sending the country into because there is no law. Otherwise we would have seen from the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs that allows you want, do not make the country get lost with you. We deeper corruption which we begin feeling in all aspects of political money walking on two feet. — Al-Anbaa women to work in the public prosecution and the judici- can no longer stand policies of indecisiveness. — Al-Watan life. — Al-Rai WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Few dare to criticize S Africa’s Mandela Stranded fugitive Snowden applies for Russia asylum

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MEXICOP CITY: This combo shows Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales (center) Ernesto Reyes Garcia (left) and Abdon Federico Rodriguez Garcia after their arrests in Mexico. — AP Mexico captures leader of brutal Zetas cartel Arrest is latest blow to hit the Zetas

MEXICO CITY: The Mexican govern- of 49 decapitated bodies near to the political scientist and Zetas expert ment said on Monday it captured the same city last year. The government George W Grayson said. “He really gets brutal leader of the Zetas drug cartel said Trevino was wanted for a litany of off on inflicting diabolical pain on in an early-morning raid, marking the crimes including murder, torture, people.” In the months leading up to biggest victory for President Enrique money laundering and ordering the Lazcano’s death, rumors of a split in Pena Nieto in his fight against gang kidnapping and execution of 265 the cartel were rife following a mas- violence. Marines arrested Miguel migrants near the northern town of sacre of Zetas reportedly carried out Angel Trevino, aka Z-40, after inter- San Fernando. The bodies of dozens by other members of the gang in the cepting his pick-up truck with a heli- of murdered migrant workers were central city of San Luis Potosi. Not copter a few miles (km) from his home recovered there in both 2010 and long before Lazcano was killed in town of Nuevo Laredo on the US bor- 2011. By the time Pena Nieto took Coahuila state, banners accusing der, government spokesman Eduardo power, much of Mexico was worn out Trevino of being a “Judas” to the Zetas Sanchez said in Mexico City. by the bloodshed under his predeces- leader began to appear, fueling talk “Not a single shot was fired,” sor Felipe Calderon. the gang was splintering. Sanchez reporters. The Zetas have Calderon, a conservative, had Then, in the space of a few weeks, been blamed for many of the worst staked his reputation on bringing Zetas staged a mass jailbreak on the atrocities carried out by Mexican drug Mexico’s powerful drug gangs to heel, US-Mexican border, assassinated the gangs, acts that have sullied the coun- sending in the armed forces to regain son of a top politician, and Lazcano try’s name and put fear into tourists the upper hand. Though his forces was killed. Trevino was in control. and investors alike. Following a tide of captured or killed many of the top Believed to have been born on June gang-related beheadings, massacres capos, the bloodletting increased, led 28, 1973, Trevino spent many of his and gunfights that have claimed more by the Zetas excesses. Founded by formative years in Dallas, doing than 70,000 lives since the start of army deserters in the late 1990s, the menial work that led him to be 2007, Pena Nieto said his number one Zetas initially acted as enforcers for labeled “car washer” by some detrac- priority was to restore stability when the Gulf Cartel. But cracks began to tors. Turning to criminal enterprise, he took office in December. appear and the rupture was sealed in Trevino and his brothers set up a Murders have fallen slightly, early 2010, setting off the most vio- sophisticated money-laundering ring according to official statistics, but vio- lent phase in Mexico’s drug war. The in the United States using race horses lent crime is still rampant in parts of US State Department has offered a as a front. In June 2012, hundreds of Mexico and, until now, the new gov- reward of up to $5 million for informa- FBI agents across the United States ernment had few outstanding suc- tion leading to Trevino’s capture. raided their stables, arresting Trevino’s cesses to celebrate in its campaign to older brother Jose. According to the pacify the country. Trevino, 40, was ‘DIABOLICAL PAIN’ FBI, the stables received more than $1 caught with two associates following Security experts said Trevino, who million a month from Mexico and had a months-long operation to track him was born in Nuevo Laredo, took over more than 300 stallions. One of the down, Sanchez said. Authorities also the Zetas after the marines killed the horses was called Number One Cartel. seized more than $2 million dollars in cartel’s longstanding commander, Trevino, whose younger brother cash and a cache of arms in the opera- Heriberto Lazcano, in October. Unlike Omar was one of his top lieutenants, tion, he said. Trevino’s capture follows most top Zetas, Trevino had no mili- sought to expand the gang’s power a string of blows in 2012 against the tary background, building up a power by taking the Zetas’ fight with Zetas, whose previous leader was base within the gang as a financial fix- Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, killed by marines in a firefight in er and logistics expert, and helping Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, onto the northern Mexico last October. extend its operations running cocaine latter’s home turf in Sinaloa state. In Among the most shocking inci- and crystal meth into the United so doing, Trevino helped escalate the dents pinned on the Zetas have been States and Europe. levels of gang violence then convuls- massacres of migrant workers, an Trevino’s reputation for extreme ing Mexico, which rose notably after arson attack on a Monterrey casino in violence also helped cement his rise. the Zetas split with their former boss- 2011 that killed 52 and the dumping “He’s the most sadistic of them,” US es, the Gulf Cartel.—Reuters Bahrain arrests 3 for attack on MP’s home

DUBAI: Bahraini authorities have Minister Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al- the same month. The Shiite-led arrested three “terrorists” who Khalifa denounced the assault as an protest movement, demanding a allegedly hurled firebombs at the “attack against democracy”. “This ter- constitutional monarchy in Sunni- home of a Shiite lawmaker without rorist act is unacceptable,” he said in a ruled Bahrain, continues but is con- causing casualties even though he statement, adding that “sabotage was fined to Shiite villages surrounding was inside when the assault occurred, never a means for reform and using the capital. At least 80 people have police said yesterday. “Investigations terrorism to silence others has never been killed in Bahrain since the have led to the identification and been a way towards democracy”. protests first erupted, according to arrest of three terrorists who will be He was apparently referring to the International Federation for referred to public prosecution,” the opposition groups of young activists Human Rights. A national dialogue police said in a statement carried by who frequently clash with police conference, that brings together gov- the official BNA news agency. forces and who are branded as “ter- ernment and opposition representa- It said other suspects involved in rorists” by authorities. Bahrain’s 40- tives to end the kingdom’s political the attack remain at large. Shiite MP member parliament is dominated by impasse, has so far failed to achieve Abbas Al-Madi was at his home in the pro-regime lawmakers since the 18 any results since it opened in town of Deir, near the capital MPs of the Shiite opposition bloc Al- February this year. The talks were sus- Manama, during the early Monday Wefaq resigned in February 2011, in pended on June 27 for the summer attack that left parts of his house protest against the authorities’ crack- vacation and will resume on August damaged and burnt. Bahraini Prime down on demonstrations that began 28.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Norwegian neo-Nazi arrested in France Vikernes suspected of preparing ‘terrorist’ act

PARIS: A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian island in July 2011. He was imprisoned Zionist agent and “Christian loser”. “If mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was last year for a maximum term of 21 you, dear European nationalists, really arrested in southwestern France yester- years. want to save Europe (as a biological day after investigators decided he might Breivik sent a copy of his manifesto term) you have to realise that the only stage a large “terrorist act”, Interior setting out his ideology to Vikernes, an thing to do is to cast aside all Christian Minister Manuel Valls said. Kristian official at the Paris prosecutor’s office other international nonsense and Vikernes, who is also a convicted mur- said. Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto out- embrace only the European (i.e. Pagan) derer from Norway, had in the past lined his planned crusade against values and ideals and if you like the received a copy of a manifesto from Muslims, who he said were taking over European deities as well,” said the post- Breivik, the far-right militant who killed Europe and could only be defeated ing, dated December 13. 77 people in 2011. Vikernes, 40, a well- through a violent civil war. Cachet, 25, “If you work for Christianity in any known black metal musician in Norway, had a legal firearms permit when she way you work for the Jews. Plain and was arrested with his French wife Marie bought the four rifles, the official said. simple.” Vikernes, a black metal musician Chachet after she recently bought four “The investigation will notably establish and writer known as Varg, was convicted rifles, Valls said in a statement. the conditions in which these (rifles) in 1994 of stabbing a rival musician to “Having received the manifesto were acquired and their real objective,” death in Oslo and burning down several before (Breivik) committed his crimes Valls said. churches. He was released from jail in and having been sentenced in Norway 2009 and moved to France with his wife in the past for murder, this individual, SAVING EUROPE and three children. The mayor of Salon who was close to a neo-Nazi movement, On his website, Vikernes discusses La Tour, where Vikernes and his wife was likely to prepare a large terrorist Breivik’s manifesto, but in a post called lived, said he had been surprised by the act,” Valls said. Officers were searching “War in Europe: Part V - Breivik Unveiled” arrest. “I didn’t notice anything strange his home in Correze for weapons and he also criticizes the murderer for killing (about Vikernes) other than that he liked explosives, a police source said. Breivik more innocent Norwegians than to wear military costumes and liked LIMOGES: Photo shows the house of Norwegian neo-Nazi black metal rocker killed 77 people in a bombing in central Muslims. Vikernes describes himself as a Gothic music,” Jean-Claude Chauffour and convicted killer, Kristian Vikernes (inset) in the hamlet of Las Fleyras near Oslo and a shooting spree on a nearby “pagan” and accuses Breivik of being a told BFM TV. — Reuters the village of Salon La Tour outside the central French city of Limoges. — AFP Cyberwar - reality Socialists threaten Rajoy world must fight with no-confidence vote GENEVA: The international community by governments and criminal gangs alike must wake up to the reality of cyberwar have the potential to wreak havoc on and strive to find ways to stem it, the everything from the financial sector to head of the UN’s telecommunications key public services, Toure said. Scandal over payments deepens in Spain agency said yesterday. “There is a cyber- That raises the spectre of huge eco- MADRID: Spain’s opposition appear before this chamber,” war going on,” Hamadoun Toure, secre- nomic losses and social chaos, and Toure Socialists said yesterday they Socialist leader Alfredo Perez tary general of the International said governments and business world- would call a symbolic vote of no- Rubalcaba said in a televised Telecommunication Union, said during a wide must think collectively about how confidence against Prime speech to lawmakers from his cybersecurity debate at the Geneva Press to head that off. Minister Mariano Rajoy if he party. Club. “Just like a conventional war, there “No one single entity can do it alone. refused to appear before In a meeting of the standing are no winners, only destruction,” he We have to change the mindset. Are we Parliament to answer questions committee of Parliament yester- warned an audience of reporters, diplo- mentally prepared to work with one about a deepening scandal over day, the PP rejected new opposi- mats and technology experts. another?” he asked. “In this arena, there’s party financing. Rajoy’s ruling tion calls for Rajoy to appear for While Toure declined to pin the blame no such thing as a superpower anymore,” centre-right People’s Party has questioning in the Senate. The on individual countries, such attacks he said, given that is it cheap to create an absolute majority in committee is due to discuss on have become common currency. Russia viruses and launch attacks. Parliament and unless there July 24 Rajoy’s possible appear- was widely blamed for what has been “It’s the human brain that’s driving were significant defections from ance before the lower house. dubbed the world’s first cyberwar, in this. So we’re all equal in this, and we members of his party, he would Depending on the results of the 2007, when state and bank websites need to come together. That’s the new survive the vote. talks, the Socialists will then were blocked for days in Estonia, one of order. It’s not one country. It’s not like a But a motion of no-confi- move forward with their threat. the world’s most wired nations and a nuclear power, where the technology, dence, which has been used only The scandal hits as Rajoy member of NATO and the European the knowledge base and the infrastruc- twice since the death of dictator struggles combat a deep reces- Union. Since then, attention has focused ture and the funding are required for General Francisco Franco in sion, a huge budget hole and on China for alleged state-run cyber that. “We have to treat cyberspace like we 1975, would involve him or a high unemployment. Spain’s fis- attacks on targets in the United States treat the real world,” he added. “What’s representative appearing in cal problems last year threat- and elsewhere. true in the real world is true in cyber- Parliament to defend his actions. ened to push it into seeking a In recent weeks, pro-regime Syrian space. Some people say we’re in a new Until recently Rajoy had man- bailout and for months the hackers and North and South Korean environment where the rules are com- aged to limit the impact of the future of the common currency online warriors have also made head- pletely different. scandal, which involves alleged looked at risk as the euro zone’s lines. In an increasingly connected and We’re not. Because humans are at the illegal donations by construction fourth-biggest economy Internet-dependent world, cyber attacks centre of this.”— AFP magnates that were supposedly teetered. distributed as cash payments to Rajoy resisted pressure to party leaders in return for juicy solicit aid and is now hopeful of contracts. an economic turnaround, but his Immigrants under fire in On Monday, Rajoy rejected public image has been damaged calls to resign over the scandal by the scandal. At the heart of Italy despite Pope’s call and said he would not give in to the affair is former party treasur- “blackmail”. Facing growing pres- er Luis Barcenas, 55, who was ROME: The anti-immigration Northern ever since the wave of immigration from sure within the PP over his han- arrested in June and charged League party is again fanning the flames of Albania in 1992. Since the revolutions in dling of the case, he said he with bribery, money laundering, racism in Italy, just days after a plea from Tunisia and Libya there has also been an would apply his political pro- tax fraud and other crimes. He Pope Francis for greater tolerance in the increased influx of migrant workers from gram until 2015 and had no plan says he had made 90,000 euros predominantly Catholic country. The sub-Saharan Africa transiting through to call early elections. But pres- in cash payments to Rajoy and pope last Monday flew on his first trip these countries. In 10 years, between 2002 sure from other political groups party secretary-general Maria outside Rome to the tiny of island of and 2012, the share of immigrants in the is mounting. “I know I don’t have Dolores Cospedal in 2009 and Lampedusa to “cry for the dead” migrants population has tripled to reach 7.9 percent, enough seats (to win a no-confi- 2010 - an allegation Rajoy and refugees who perish trying to cross according to figures from the labor min- dence vote) but I want him to denies. — Reuters Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy the Mediterranean to Europe. istry. He urged people to heed “the cries of At a meeting in Rome on Monday, Letta others” on a trip that humanitarian organi- and his Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat zations and Italian parliament speaker called for greater assistance from the Laura Boldrini, a former United Nations European Union to manage undocument- Stranded fugitive Snowden refugee worker, hailed as “historic”. But ed migration. Muscat, who last week some politicians, who are little inclined to threatened to send migrants back to Libya, defend secularism in Italy on issues such as said the situation was “unsustainable” since applies for Russia asylum crucifixes in churches, abortion or gay mar- there were no EU rules on the “pushback riage, called for greater “autonomy” from and push forward of migrants” to other MOSCOW: Former US spy agency contractor the Church. parts of the EU. A former member of the different from that for political asylum, which Moscow in September and both countries have Edward Snowden applied for temporary asylum Fabrizio Cicchitto, a deputy from Silvio Christian Democratic party, Letta said it Kucherena said would require a decree from signaled they want to improve ties. Putin has said in Russia yesterday after three weeks holed up at President Vladimir Putin. Putin has rejected twice that Snowden must stop all activities Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party, said was “fundamental to apply the pope’s a Moscow airport trying to avoid prosecution in repeated US calls to send Snowden to the United “aimed at harming our American partners” if he there was a difference between “religious appeal launched in Lampedusa: ‘Never the United States on espionage charges. States, but has said he does not want the fugitive wants political asylum in Russia, but he has not preaching” and “a state handling a difficult, again’.” The United Nations says thousands Snowden is seeking refuge in Latin America to harm already strained relations with made clear whether the condition applies to complex and insidious phenomenon”. of people have drowned in recent years try- after leaking details of US government surveil- Washington. Snowden is useful as a propaganda temporary asylum as well. Temporary asylum is Lawmakers from the Northern League have ing to reach Italian shores and 40 have died lance programs, but has not risked taking any tool for Putin, who accuses the US government granted by the FMS, but Putin would be expect- gone further, calling on the pontiff to pro- so far this year. — AFP flight that might be intercepted by the United of preaching to the world about rights and free- ed to make the final decision himself, even vide “money and land to house immigrants” States since flying in from Hong Kong on June doms it does not uphold at home. But Putin has though he has tried to distance himself from who land in Europe. The debate has taken a 23. invited President Barack Obama for a summit in Snowden’s predicament. —Reuters sinister twist after the deputy speaker of “He reached the conclusion that he needs to the Italian Senate, Roberto Calderoli, a write an application for temporary asylum (in leading member of the Northern League, Russia), and this procedure has just been done,” compared Italy’s first black minister to an Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer who met Snowden France and Mexico mend orangutan. on Friday along with human rights activists said. The remarks against Integration Minister “For now he is not going to go anywhere. For ties after diplomatic spat Cecile Kyenge have been condemned by now he plans to stay in Russia,” he said, adding that if Snowden were granted temporary asy- most politicians, with Prime Minister Enrico MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Enrique Relations reached a low in February 2011, Letta speaking of a “shameful chapter” for lum, he should have the same rights as other cit- izens and be free to work and travel in Russia. Pena Nieto met France’s foreign minister when Mexican authorities pulled out of a the country and President Giorgio The asylum application could end his time in Monday, turning the page on a diplomatic “Year of Mexico” cultural event in France after Napolitano saying they were an example of limbo but risks deepening tension between the row over the arrest of a Frenchwoman who then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy tried “barbarism”. Calderoli said the jibe was United States and Russia, which has refused to was freed this year. Meeting in Mexico City’s to dedicate the festivities to Cassez, angering intended as a “joke” and added insult to expel him to his homeland for prosecution. The historic National Palace, Pena Nieto and the administration of his counterpart, Felipe injury saying he “liked animals a lot”. The head of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Calderon. Northern League on Monday even decided confirmed the agency had received Snowden’s the creation of a “Franco-Mexican Strategic After seven years behind bars, Cassez was to capitalize on the publicity it is receiving application. Anti-secrecy group Wikileaks, which Council” that includes ambassadors, business released and returned to France in January and announced it would hold a demonstra- has been helping Snowden, said on Twitter that leaders and Mexican movie star Salma Hayek. after the Supreme Court ruled that police had tion against illegal immigration in Turin on he had applied for “a temporary protection visa”. Pena Nieto said the council, led by former violated her rights by staging her arrest on September 7. Snowden, 30, is trapped in the transit zone of French ambassador Philippe Faure and former national television. Kyenge, a doctor and an Italian citizen of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, an area Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda, Speaking at the foreign ministry before his Congolese origin, says she has received dai- between the runway and passport control which was the product of a “political agreement” meeting with Pena Nieto, Fabius focused on ly threats since being nominated. Her reac- Russia regards as neutral territory. with French President Francois Hollande to the role Mexico and France can play together tion has been low-key but she has said the He said on Friday he would seek refuge in “relaunch relations between France and on the world stage. “We count on the interna- Russia only until he can travel to one of the slur shows “a lack of knowledge of others Mexico.” Hollande is expected to visit Latin tional stage because we are pivotal countries three Latin American countries ready to give and of the phenomenon of migration, as America’s second biggest economy next year that have always looked to unite the commu- well as an absence of culture of immigra- him political asylum - Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua. He said the United States and its to mark the 50th anniversary of a visit by nity of nations beyond the political, economic tion”. The centre-left Democratic Party has French president Charles de Gaulle in March and religious divisions,” Fabius said. The been equally critical and leading senator allies were preventing him from reaching those ROME: Integration Minister Cecile countries. Washington has revoked Snowden’s 1964, Pena Nieto said. Franco-Mexican rela- strategic council has 27 members, including Luigi Zanda said Kyenge’s proposal on a Kyenge reacts during a press conference passport and urged other nations not to help tions went through a tense period after the the heads of France’s aerospace giant EADS, law to allow children of immigrants to yesterday in Rome. Roberto Calderoli, a him reach an asylum destination. Kucherena 2005 arrest of Florence Cassez, a public transport operator RATP, power com- acquire Italian citizenship should now be deputy speaker of the Senate who com- said he expected a decision on Snowden’s asy- Frenchwoman who was sentenced to 60 years pany GDF Suez and food group Danone. The adopted as quickly as possible. pared Kyenge, the country’s first black lum request “soon”, though the Federal in prison over her alleged involvement with a Mexican sides includes the presidents of the Historically a land of emigration, Italy’s minister to an orangutan, said he did a Migration Service has up to three months to band of kidnappers that was led by her ex- Televisa broadcaster and the airlines foreign-born population has increased “silly thing” and offered to send her a decide on the application. boyfriend. Aeromexico and Interjet. —AFP exponentially over the last two decades bunch of roses. — AFP The process for seeking temporary asylum is INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Syrian rebels reinforce key suburb in Damascus battle UK to provide protection against chemical weapons BEIRUT: Syrian rebels poured reinforcements after Nusra fighters attacked a Kurdish patrol and the better-equipped Syrian government anyway. which killed several of Assad’s most senior security into a key Damascus suburb yesterday in an took a gunman hostage. The Kurds said they had Britain, meanwhile, said it would give Syrian officials and led some commentators to predict attempt to push back government troops who killed eight Nusra Front militants in what they rebels equipment to protect themselves against Assad would soon fall. Abu Nidal, a rebel have renewed their campaign to secure the capi- said was a territorial dispute. chemical and biological weapons as “a matter of spokesman in Damascus, said yesterday that his tal and build on battlefield gains elsewhere in special urgency”. Britain has said forces loyal to fighters were trying to prevent the army advanc- the country. Fighting centered on Qaboun, a PRESSING CAMPAIGN Assad have made limited use of chemical ing further into Qaboun, which it entered on rebel-held district where Syrian troops backed by Assad’s forces are pressing their campaign at a weapons, which the Syrian government denies. In Monday. tanks and artillery had made inroads on Monday time when the Free Syrian Army has yet to receive an attempt at unity, the Syrian opposition now “Rebel reinforcements are entering the area,” he as part of efforts to consolidate control over weapons promised by Washington but delayed by intends to create a 10-member executive council told Reuters by Skype. “We expect the army to Damascus, President Bashar Al-Assad’s power objections by US lawmakers. A US official said on that can to draw together disparate factions into a advance further into the area but they will be base. Monday that the Obama administration had made more structured army with better financing and stopped.” The intensity of the fighting could be After two years of rebel gains in a war that has progress in overcoming these concerns but some weapons, Michel Kilo, a senior opposition figure seen in footage posted on the internet by opposi- cost more than 90,000 lives, the tide has turned details remained unresolved. Both Republican and said in Paris. tion activists. The amateur video showed a large somewhat for Assad’s forces, allowing them to Democratic lawmakers fear the weapons could In Damascus, the latest fighting comes almost grey plume of smoke rising from a densely built seize the city of Qusair last month and press on end up in the hands of Islamist militants, and a year after one of the rebels’ most spectacular residential area of Damascus. Mount Qasioun, with a campaign to link Damascus to Assad’s would not be enough to tip the balance against attacks in the capital - a bomb attack last July 18 which overlooks the capital, can be seen in the coastal strongholds. In facing down the mainly background. Text accompanying the footage Sunni rebels seeking to oust him, the Syrian posted yesterday said the smoke came from a leader has received important backing from ground-to-ground missile fired into Qaboun. Shiite Iran and from Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon as the war takes on an ARMY CHECKPOINT increasingly sectarian aspect. Elsewhere in the city, nine people including a At the same time, the rebels are plagued by child were killed at an army checkpoint, the infighting between Islamist groups and members Observatory said in a statement. Quoting activists of the more liberal Free Syrian Army, which is in the area, the British-based group said they were backed by the West and some Arab nations. The all shot in the head. It added that mortar bombs increasingly fragmented and brutal nature of the were being fired by the army into the southern dis- war was illustrated by an incident in Homs trict of Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp on the province, where gunmen loyal to Assad shot edge of central Damascus that has fallen in and dead at least six mediators sent to try to reconcile out of government and rebel control during the warring sectarian groups in an area where oppos- past year. Activists and residents said also that at ing sides had until now been able to coexist. least five mortar shells hit the Damascus neighbor- Residents said the killings on Monday evening hood of Masaken Barze, injuring several people. in the village of Hajar Al-Abyad highlighted the Clashes and bombardment were reported by growing challenge of mediating between towns activists in nearly every province yesterday, from held by rebel groups and those controlled by central Homs city to the northwestern farming pro-Assad militias known as “shabbiha”. In a sepa- province of Idlib to the eastern desert city of Deir rate incident near the Turkish border in the Al-Zor. In the south of Syria near the Israeli border, north, Islamist rebel fighters from the Al-Qaeda- the Observatory reported clashes between rebels linked Nusra Front clashed with Kurdish armed and government forces in the village of Al- men, who generally support the creation of an Qahtaniya. “Initial reports indicate that several autonomous region within Syria. The Syrian GOLAN HEIGHTS: An old tank is surrounded by fire following explosions of mortar shells from Syria fighters in the regime forces were killed, and some Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition on the Israeli controlled Golan Heights yesterday. Three mortar shells exploded on the Israeli side of armored vehicles were destroyed,” the monitoring group, said the fighting broke out the border fence with Syria on the Golan Heights yesterday morning. — AP Observatory said. — Reuters

Egypt Copts hopeful over Injured gunmen crowd new govt despite attacks South Sudan hospital BOR: Long lines of wounded fighters crowd the wards of Bor teenage fighters nod in agreement. Puol fractured his leg while hospital, the latest casualties of brutal fighting in South Sudan’s tumbling into a hole as he fled the larger force of a Murle CAIRO: Egypt’s Coptic Christians are holding out hope some Islamist leaders and supporters of the former troubled Jonglei state. Lying on a basic mattress in a store counter-attack in the Pibor region of Jonglei, in the east of the removal of an Islamist president will help curtail sec- president”. room-the surgical ward is too full of those with gunshot South Sudan. “If they killed my parents, their parents also need tarian discrimination against them, despite being tar- But other members of the community agree the fall- wounds - 15-year old fighter Duol Puol says he went to fight in to be killed,” Puol added. More than 100 of the fighters flown in geted in deadly attacks since Mohamed Morsi’s ouster. out from supporting Morsi’s overthrow is justified. “This revenge after Murle fighters attacked his family. “I should feel for surgery by the United Nations to the state capital, Bor, have At least six Copts have been killed in a wave of nation- is the price we pay for our freedom,” said Beshoy Tamry, sad when we kill them,” said Puol, who joined hundreds of gunshot wounds. wide violence following the popularly backed military a founding member of Coptic rights group the Maspero young men from the Lou Nuer community in taking up arms Doctors Without Borders (MSF - Medecins Sans Frontieres) is against the rival Murle tribe. supporting the basic hospital, and South Sudanese army heli- coup on July 3, said the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Youth Union. Numerous incidents in the past two years “But because my parents have been killed, I feel happy that copters are also busy transporting the wounded. Ruot Mabor, Rights (EIPR). have heightened the sense of persecution, including at least we are paying them back,” he adds, as other fellow aged just 10, joined older boys in the fight. —AFP One of them was found decapitated in the Sinai charges brought against several Copts under a long- peninsula. Copts make up six to 10 percent of Egypt’s standing but previously little-used “religious defama- population, and they say they were the target of grow- tion” law during Morsi’s rule. In May, a primary school ing discrimination during Morsi’s time in office. A consti- teacher was due to stand trial for allegedly insulting the tution adopted by Morsi’s Islamist-dominated govern- Prophet Mohammed, human rights watchdog Amnesty ment in December 2012 particularly angered the com- International said. munity, and UN rights chief Navi Pillay criticized the After Morsi’s ouster, the military suspended the con- document for curtailing certain rights, including those stitution, a move that Coptic activists hope will lead to a of non-Muslims. Now the Copts face other battles. fairer text and an end to prosecutions for religious Many of them took to the streets on June 30 in the defamation. “The Copts are encouraged, they will sup- mass protests that led to Morsi’s ouster by the military, port the government and play a positive role in the and they have been accused by firebrand Islamist state,” said Nabil Samuel Abadir, the former head of a preachers of conspiring with the army. Cairo-based Coptic NGO. “The constitution has been Emad Gad, vice president of the Social Democratic suspended and is being reviewed now, so all the laws Party, said the demise of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood that came out of it have to be reviewed again under a gave them a better chance to secure their rights, even new constitution.” though extremist attacks might rise. “The Copts now are The church has given its backing to army chief ready to pay the price in order to build our democratic General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s roadmap for a new gov- country,” Gad said. “We are asking for citizenship, equali- ernment and fresh elections next year. But many Copts ty and human rights... we are ready to play a role in have bad memories of the last period of military rule, building our new regime. which ran from the time of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in “I expect now that we will see some sort of attacks February 2011 until Morsi’s election in July 2012. In the from jihadists, from Salafists and militants on Copts. We worst violence suffered by the community in years, expected that,” he added. thousands of demonstrators marched to the state tele- The EIPR said it was troubled by the “disregard” of vision building in Cairo’s Maspero neighborhood in state institutions towards the latest sectarian attacks, October 2011 to denounce the torching of a church in and has called for swift action by the authorities to the southern province of Aswan. prevent the targeting of citizens “on the basis of reli- The army and riot police charged at the protesters, gion”. The organisation’s Ishak Ibrahim condemned leaving 26 Coptic Christians, one Muslim man and one “the inflammatory rhetoric” against Copts “from policeman dead. Sameh Fawzy, a Coptic former member of parliament, said he was glad the military had intervened to remove Morsi, despite the vio- lence at Maspero. “We have to acknowledge that even if some things hap- pened with the army, it was a part of an uncon- trollable situation at that moment,” he said. “I think what the army did with Christians over the last three years makes it clear that it... does not discrimi- nate between Muslims and Christians.” Fawzy pointed to the fact military chiefs attend- ed Coptic Church services during Easter, while Morsi only sent a representative. Others are not convinced. The EIPR on Monday criti- cized the “failure of the security apparatus to act which at times looks like collusion-to protect citi- zens and their property who are being targeted on the basis of their reli- gion.” Mina Thabet, of the Maspero Youth Union which was founded after the 2011 violence, said the community’s previous experience of military rule was “very bad”. “But I think the way we get out of this is to build a civilian democrat- ic new country.”— AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 INTERNATIONAL World celebrates ailing Mandela’s 95th birthday

JOHANNESBURG: Global celebrations the rural Eastern Cape province. A sci- “He is proof that even the most and charity events will mark Nelson ence-specialization high school bearing intractable problems are surmountable, Mandela’s 95th birthday tomorrow, but his name is also due to be opened. that division can be overcome with dig- the critically ill anti-apartheid hero him- In the United States meanwhile, 17 nity and forgiveness can triumph over self may still be confined to his Pretoria cities have planned various activities fear,” said Clinton. But the ailing icon is hospital bed on life-support. Volunteers tomorrow. On Saturday, Australian city bound to spend his birthday in the hos- will spend 67 minutes on hundreds of Melbourne will hold a concert featuring pital where he has been for the past six community upliftment projects-a local and African artists, while a music weeks, breathing with the help of a minute for every year of his activism. festival later this year in Norway will pro- machine. Almost a month ago, the presi- But his hospitalization for a recurring mote equality in schools. Born July 18 in dency announced that his condition had lung infection and bitter infighting 1918, imprisoned 46 years later, Mandela worsened. But it has denied he is in a among his relatives have tempered the went on to lead black South Africans’ “vegetative state”, as his family claimed festive spirit. The United Nations in 2010 struggle for equal rights with whites. He in court documents dated June 26. His declared the Nobel peace laureate’s was convicted of treason in 1964 and health has recently improved, according birthday Mandela Day-to encourage spent the next 27 years in jail. After his to official statements and comments people around the world to do just over release Mandela skillfully negotiated from family and friends. an hour of good deeds. Global celebri- with the apartheid minority government His successor as president, Thabo ties have supported the campaign in to end whites-only rule. Mbeki, even suggested he might be dis- memory of Mandela’s 67 years of politi- He became South Africa’s first black charged from hospital in time to spend cal activism. “I will also be giving my 67 president after all-race elections in 1994 his birthday at home. As Nelson Mandela minutes to make the world a better and led reconciliation in the deeply fights for his life, members of his family place, one small step at a time,” British divided country. Mandela’s peace-mak- are fighting amongst themselves. It business magnate Richard Branson ing spirit has won him worldwide recently emerged that grandson Mandla PRETORIA: A portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela hangs pledged in a recorded message. respect. “Never before in history was one Mandela had moved three graves of outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, Tomorrow, children in schools around human being so universally acknowl- Mandela’s children, from the icon’s child- South Africa. —AP South Africa will start their classes edged in his lifetime as the embodiment hood village of Qunu to his own Mvezo singing “Happy Birthday” to the former of magnanimity and reconciliation as village, without consent of the rest of the family in Qunu. The relatives won a court in the most famous family of South statesman. Celebrities have committed Nelson Mandela,” archbishop emeritus family. Fifteen relatives, including Nelson battle against Mandla, and the graves Africa. Tutu finally had to appeal to the to painting schools, handing out clothes Desmond Tutu, himself a Nobel peace Mandela’s wife Graca and three daugh- were forcibly returned. family not to besmirch Mandela’s name. to impoverished kids and countless simi- laureate, said. Former US secretary of ters, accused Mandla of trying to force Mandla subsequently attacked his rel- But the messy public dispute showed lar projects. The inauguration of the state Hillary Clinton said her family had Mandela’s eventual burial to be in atives in a televised press conference, how difficult it is for even Mandela’s own Nelson Mandela Legacy Bridge is sched- been inspired by “a man who personifies Mvezo. Mandela has previously accusing his aunt, Mandela’s oldest family to live up to his principles of uled at the icon’s birth village, Mvezo, in the best of humanity. expressed the wish to be buried with his daughter Makawize, of sowing divisions humility and unity. — AFP Few dare to criticize S Africa’s Mandela Mandela accused of ‘selling out blacks’ struggle’

JOHANNESBURG: Criticism of Nelson Mandela “avoid a bloody civil war” he was not hands-on adding that “blacks still don’t have economic is rare in South Africa, much less so when he is in the day-to-day running of the nation. During freedom, whites are more advantaged. If you lying in a hospital bed. But a few critics are still his administration, biographer Anthony compare the life of people from Sandton with willing to break the taboo. The 94-year-old’s Sampson later noted, then deputy president those of Alex, it’s obvious.” opposition to apartheid and his role in negotiat- Thabo Mbeki “was more decisively running the Others also temper their criticism. “Even if he ing a peaceful democratic transition have won country as Mandela became increasingly aloof has done some things wrong, we don’t speak him worldwide, but not, it seems, universal ado- from day-to-day government.” He behaved about it because everybody idealized him,” ration. Twenty years after those talks, some still “more like a constitutional monarch than an according to Mark Dons, 46. “Mandela had his believe the deal he struck with South Africa’s executive president.” mistakes but, because of the man he was, white rulers ensured blacks would be disenfran- Still, in Johannesburg’s impoverished town- people overlook them.” The former president’s chised for decades to come. ship of Alexandra, few are willing to criticize a actions were necessary, said Joseph Mulaudzi LONDON: Artist Kaya Mar poses with paintings of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (right) Amukelani Ngobeni, a youth leader with the man who is now breathing with the help of life also 46-years-old. “He had to compromise on and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, outside the Lindo Wing of Saint Mary’s black consciousness party the Azanian People’s support machines. Only a highway separates the a lot of things during the reconciliation Hospital in London. — AFP Organization, is one such critic. With whites still area from upmarket suburb Sandton, home to process,” he said. In the early 1990s “there earning six times more than blacks on average, Africa’s largest stock exchange. “There are small were a lot of tensions ... if it was not for him, he recently demanded Mandela apologize groups saying he sold us out, but they are a very we would have had a civil war.” “That’s why we Betting hots up on before he dies for “selling out black people’s small minority,” said 22-year-old Khetha, a can enjoy freedom. There had to be compro- struggle”. “Mandela and his friends... could not trainee technician. “He did his work,” he said, mise,” he added.— AFP wait to occupy the global political space at the ‘Baby Cambridge’ expense of the struggle for complete political, social and economic emancipation,” he said. LONDON: The long wait for the birth of But while betting on the day constantly The similarly minded Pan Africanist Prince William and his wife Catherine’s royal changes, favorites for the royal baby’s name Congress’s youth spokesman Sello Tladi also baby is big business for Britain’s bookmak- have remained broadly similar for weeks. accused Mandela of being a “sell out.” But his ers. Punters around the world are betting Coral last week suspended betting on the party quickly distanced itself from the “reckless” on a girl called Alexandra to be born, well, name after a string of bets were placed on statement made by “cranks” in its youth brigade. any day now. And with footballer David the favorite, Alexandra, in the space of a Such back-peddling normally follows anti- Beckham joking that the child should be couple of hours-all in central London where Mandela comments as quickly as the public named after him, the temptation for people the royal family are based. It is now taking backlash. In 2010, Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie, who to wager on every detail grows with every bets again. he separated from two years after his release day the infant bides its time. Alexandra has topped the odds for from prison in 1990, let loose in an apparent Bookies say bets on the name, sex and weeks with most bookmakers offering unguarded moment. date of the first child of the Duke and around 6/4. The fact that it is the middle “Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad Duchess of Cambridge are drawing a record name of the royal baby’s paternal grand- deal for the blacks,” she was quoted as saying. number of bets for a non-sports market, mother-none other than Queen Elizabeth II “Economically, we are still on the outside,” she worth over £1 million (1.1 million euros, herself-has helped it top predictions. Other added, according to the article by Nadira £1.5 dollars) so far. “It is the biggest novelty favorites for girls include Charlotte, Victoria Naipaul, wife of Nobel literature laureate VS market we have ever seen,” Gary Burton, (after Britain’s longest-reigning monarch) Naipaul. In the face of public outcry Winnie from the British betting firm Coral said. “We Elizabeth (the queen’s name, as well as Mandela denied ever giving the Naipaul inter- did the pope, we did reality TV and this is by Kate’s middle name) and Diana (the name view, and local media speculated she may have far the biggest we have had. It’s getting of William’s late mother). For boys James- let slip in a private visit from the literary couple. busier and busier the more it goes on and the name of Kate’s brother-and George lead While Mandela was long criticized for his sup- the more coverage it gets.” the pack. A top outside tip is however said port for violent resistance to apartheid, he has Coral alone had taken more than to be Louis, which is not only William’s mid- also come in for criticism for his role as president £500,000 in bets on the royal baby, he dle name but also the first name of his from 1994 to 1999. added. Bookmaker William Hill said it had father Charles’s mentor Louis Mountbatten, Mandela-already a septuagenarian when he CAPE TOWN: People look at stones with messages to former South African President Nelson taken £100,000 from punters in 100 coun- the former Viceroy of India. He was killed in took office-had expressed doubts about running Mandela outside parliament in Cape Town, South Africa yesterday. Nelson Mandela may be tries. Bets include a huge £1,000 bet from a an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979. the country he fought to create. But while he discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, Thabo Mbeki, a former president of punter in Austria on a male baby in the last Despite Beckham’s tongue-in-cheek sug- managed to work with his former white jailers to South Africa said yesterday. — AP week. That is at odds with most people, gestion in an interview on Monday that the who believe it will be a girl following a slip baby should be called David the name of the tongue by Kate earlier this year when seems doomed to remain an also-ran, with she appeared to start the word “daughter” odds of between 33/1 and 100/1. The foot- 89-year-old Mugabe hits the campaign trail when talking about the baby before cutting ball icon was invited to William and Kate’s herself short. One punter placed £5,000 on wedding and worked with the prince on HARARE: After 33 years in power, tial politician. Analysts say he will a baby girl with Coral at the weekend. England’s failed 2018 World Cup bid. Royal Zimbabwean President Robert rely on the machinery of state as he Meanwhile the refusal of Buckingham baby fever is also driving bets on details Mugabe is back on the campaign tries to ward off a challenge from Congolese army pounds Palace to name the due date beyond saying such as the baby’s weight, with Coral halv- trail, where his advancing years are long-time rival and presidential aspi- that it would be in July-later reports sug- ing the odds on the baby tipping the scales subtly starting to show. On July 31 rant Prime Minister Morgan M23 rebels near Goma gested the middle of the month or specifi- between 7lbs and 7lbs 15 ounces (3.18 kilos Zimbabweans will go to the polls to Tsvangirai. MUTAHO: Congolese government troops are pushing the enemy cally the 13th-has led to a flurry of specula- to 3.6 kilos). There has even been a series of elect a president. One name, a per- “It’s going to be taxing for him tion. “Every day that passes we presume bets that the baby will be born in the forces supported by helicopters forces back.” manent feature on ballot papers considering his age, but what will attacked M23 rebel positions near Rebels and government troops tomorrow must be the day that it will evening. The speculation here is that if the since independence in 1980, will mitigate that is the state machinery arrive,” said Joe Crilly, a spokesman for baby is late then it will be induced, and that the eastern city of Goma yesterday traded mortar fire on Monday again appear. Robert Gabriel that he has at his disposal,” said in a third day of heavy fighting close to the northern and western William Hill. “That is also driving people to doctors will opt for the nightime amid an Mugabe-born as the Ottoman Dumisani Nkomo, a political analyst have another wager.” ongoing heatwave in Britain. —AFP that has forced hundreds of vil- outskirts of Goma. The United Empire drew its final breath and based in Bulawayo. That includes lagers to flee their homes and Nations said that a shell fell on when Calvin Coolidge was still in the “unlimited” access to the state media. raised tensions with Rwanda. The Tuesday 100 meters from Goma White House-has promised an elec- Official details of Mugabe’s health clashes have also focused atten- airport, with no victims reported. UK coalition splits over tion “fight for our lives”. are closely guarded. Frequent med- tion on the role of the United “This recurrence of fighting close On the stump his rallies still draw ical trips to Singapore are purported- Nations, which is deploying a new to inhabited areas poses a serious Trident nuclear system in crowds fired up by his trademark ly for eye treatment linked to force with a mandate to attack protection issue for thousands of hour-long speeches that spit fire at cataracts. But two years ago rebel groups in eastern people and could trigger some LONDON: A rift in Britain’s coalition govern- two. Alexander conducted the review to see his political opponents. In the first 10 WikiLeaks published a 2008 US diplo- Democratic Republic of Congo. drastic humanitarian conse- ment over the country’s nuclear weapons if a cheaper option could replace the system days of the campaign season, he has matic cable that pointed to more The 3,000-strong Intervention quences,” said Moustapha widened yesterday when the defense minis- at a time when Britain is mired in debts. The criss-crossed the country to address serious problems. Brigade, made up of South African, Soumare, UN humanitarian coordi- ter called another minister’s proposals to Conservatives want a like-for-like replace- four rallies. But the 89-year-old’s long Back then, central bank chief Tanzania and Malawian troops, has nator in Congo. Millions of people scale them back “either naive or reckless”. The ment. Yesterday, they said reducing the num- innings have prompted some subtle Gideon Gono told the US ambassador begun patrols but not yet have died from violence, disease ruling Conservative party and its junior coali- ber of submarines by one or two would end changes. His trademark walkabout that Mugabe had prostate cancer and engaged in combat. and hunger since the 1990s as for- tion partner, the Liberal Democrats, have Britain’s ability to have a continuous sea- has been dropped in favor of a wave had been told by doctors that he had The United Nations has warned eign-backed rebel groups have long disagreed over the issue, but a new gov- borne deterrent by having a submarine at to supporters from the back of van less than five years to live. Rumors it would block any attack on fought for control of eastern ernment review of Britain’s multi-billion sea 365 days a year. and as he harangues, berates and about his health remain a subject of Goma, a city of one million people Congo’s rich deposits of gold, dia- pound submarine-based Trident nuclear mis- “I think it’s frankly either naive or reckless,” blusters, his elbows now lean heavily constant discussion on the streets of bordering Rwanda, which was monds, copper, cobalt and urani- sile system has reopened the dispute. Defense Minister Philip Hammond, a on a podium for support. Harare. “Going by recent media briefly captured by rebels in um, destabilizing the Great Lakes With a parliamentary election looming in Conservative, said of the proposals. “We do The adjustments-a shift from the reports, there are concerns about his November. A Reuters reporter in region at the heart of Africa. 2015 and a decision due soon after that on not believe that, with nuclear threats if any- last election in 2008 — stand in con- health,” said Rushweat Mukundu of Mutaho, some 7 km northeast of Kinshasa repeated claims on how to replace the ageing deterrent, the two thing proliferating, with more countries seek- trast to a man who a few years ago the Zimbabwe Democratic Institute. Goma, saw three army attack heli- Monday that Rwanda was directly parties’ positions on such an important issue ing to get nuclear weapons, this is the time reportedly climbed several flights of “The party is slowly coming to terms copters bombard rebel positions backing the Tutsi-led M23 rebels. A could influence the make-up of any future to downgrade,” he told BBC radio. Trident steps with ease to get to his party with the fact that their leader is not in the town of Kibati, 4 km further UN report said the group recruits coalition government. missiles are built by Lockheed Martin Space office. Though Mugabe appears only frail but no longer in a position north of Goma. “The situation is in Rwanda with the aid of sympa- The results of the review will be released Systems and are also used by the US navy. vibrant and puffed up on his cam- to stand the rigors of the election under control,” army spokesman thetic military officers. Kigali, later, but the Liberal Democrat minister in The submarines are operated from Scotland, paign posters, his slow step and campaign.” With an almost three Colonel Olivier Hamuli told which has in the past backed charge of the exercise, Danny Alexander, is which is holding an independence referen- demeanor tell a different story, decades age difference, Mugabe’s Reuters in Mutaho. “We were insurgents in Congo, denies any expected to say that the number of sub- dum next year. Scots nationalists oppose adding to speculation about the main rival Tsvangirai has taken a dig attacked on Sunday and our support for M23. —Reuters marines operated could be cut from four to their deployment. — Reuters health of Zimbabwe’s most influen- at the veteran leader’s age. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Holder calls shooting of unarmed black teen ‘unnecessary’

WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Eric Holder on and Sybrina Fulton, said the family would weigh its define our son Trayvon’s legacy.’ It was real inspir- filed Martin, 17, as a possible criminal and pursued Monday called the shooting death of unarmed options regarding a wrongful death civil lawsuit. For ing.” him while armed with a loaded 9mm pistol. Then on black teenager Trayvon Martin “unnecessary,” raising now, they were still devastated by the verdict, he Sunday the Justice Department announced it would questions about whether he believed the shooter, said. “She cried, she prayed to God, and then she PROTESTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY reopen its investigation into the case. It said prosecu- George Zimmerman, acted in self-defense. A jury in cried some more,” Crump said of Fulton. “She said, ‘I The verdict triggered protests across the United tors would determine whether any of the “limited” Sanford, Florida, on Saturday found Zimmerman will not let this verdict define Trayvon. We will States from people who said Zimmerman racially pro- applicable civil rights laws had been violated, and not guilty of second-degree murder and whether the case met guidelines for bringing a feder- manslaughter after a three-week trial in which al case after a matter has been decided in state court. defense lawyers argued that Zimmerman, a neigh- By finding Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree borhood watch volunteer, shot Martin in self- murder, the Seminole County jury rejected the charge defense. that Zimmerman acted with ill will, spite or hatred. A Immediately following the verdict, civil rights juror told CNN on Monday that most if not all six activists began calling for federal charges against jurors believed it was Zimmerman and not Martin Zimmerman, saying the trial in Florida failed to who was calling for help in the background of a 911 serve justice. While Holder did not indicate whether emergency call. “I think it was George Zimmerman’s. he intended to bring a federal case, he referred to All but probably one (juror agreed),” said the juror, the incident as the “tragic, unnecessary shooting identified as B-37 and with her face darkened. The death of Trayvon Martin.” remarks by Holder, the chief US prosecutor and an Zimmerman, 29, has gone into hiding since the appointee of President Barack Obama, came as he verdict. Friends, family and defense lawyers have addressed a convention of Delta Sigma Theta, a black said he will need time to put his life back together sorority. and was considering entering law school to help “The Justice Department shares your concern. I people wrongly accused of crimes. Zimmerman’s share your concern,” Holder told some 14,000 sorority parents told ABC television on Monday they were members at a Washington convention center. The US unaware of his whereabouts and feared for his safe- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes ty after receiving death threats. Asked by interview- Prevention Act of 2009 would require the govern- er Barbara Walters if his son would remain in hiding, ment to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Robert Zimmerman said, “If I was him, I would.” Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, shot Martin His mother, Gladys Zimmerman, described the because of race. More than 800,000 people signed an moment she saw her son after the verdict. “I online petition of the National Association for the hugged him. I kissed him,” she said. “And he said, WASHINGTON: Rev Al Sharpton (center), president of the National Action Network, speaks during a Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) asking ‘Thank you, mom. I want to go home.’” Ben Crump, a news conference outside the US Justice Department while discussing planned ‘Justice for Trayvon’ Holder to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman, lawyer for Martin’s divorced parents, Tracy Martin vigils in 100 cities across the United States this weekend. — AFP the association said on Monday. — Reuters 255 nabbed in 9-nation Manning awaits judge’s sexual predator sweep word on ‘aiding enemy’ FORT MEADE: A military judge will rule tomorrow whether to have known” was not sufficient, Coombs said. “There should Operation identifies 61 child victims drop some of the charges against Bradley Manning, the have been something more than simply that,” he added, con- American soldier who admitted giving a massive cache of tending that the government had advanced the charge to “put secret documents to WikiLeaks. As the espionage trial enters its a hammer down on any whistleblower or anybody who wants WASHINGTON: Authorities have arrested 255 alleged child He said sextortion has been on the rise over the past final stage, Manning’s defense lawyer, David Coombs, renewed to put information out.” The judge has said the government predators in the United States and eight other countries in few years and can involve a large number of victims being his request Monday for the judge to throw out several counts- must prove Manning had “actual knowledge” that his leak an operation led by a US agency that illustrated a growing blackmailed or extorted by one individual. In addition to including the most serious charge that the US Army private would aid the enemy, either directly or indirectly. trend called “sextortion” in which children are blackmailed 244 arrests made in the United States, 11 other people “aided the enemy”-on grounds the prosecution has failed to At Monday’s proceedings, Coombs sought to counter the into providing pornographic images of themselves, offi- were arrested in Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, the provide incriminating evidence. government’s allegation that Manning committed computer cials said on Monday. The month-long Operation iGuardian Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. ICE Apart from the aiding the enemy count, the defense has fraud by downloading classified documents using a program in June, led by the US Immigration and Customs worked with local law enforcement authorities in those asked Judge Denise Lind to dismiss charges that Manning com- known as Wget. The defense says Manning already had access Enforcement agency, is part of a larger effort to identify countries to catch the suspects, officials said. mitted computer fraud by allegedly exceeding his authorized to the data he downloaded because of his job as an intelli- and rescue victims of online sexual exploitation and arrest Morton said 17 of those arrested held positions of trust, access and that he allegedly stole government property in his gence analyst and that he used the Wget program simply to their abusers as well as others who own, trade and produce including nine teachers and three clergy members. document dump. The former intelligence analyst in Iraq already speed up the download. Manning, 25, faces a possible life sen- images of child pornography, officials said. Investigators pointed to the case of a 25-year-old former has pleaded guilty to 10 lesser offenses, acknowledging that he tence on the aiding the enemy charge and a total of more than “In many instances, the abusers take advantage of a sex- high school cheerleading coach from Caguas, Puerto Rico. passed hundreds of thousands of military intelligence reports 140 years if found guilty on all counts. The prosecution rested ual image the child divulges in a chat room or over a text He was arrested on June 4 after police in Colorado discov- and State Department diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks in the its case after five weeks and the defense presented its case in to force the child to continue to produce darker and more ered he was allegedly blackmailing a 17-year-old girl he biggest leak of classified files in American history. But the trial is three days of testimony last week. The judge also is due to rule pornographic images on threat of broader disclosures of met online in an anonymous internet video chat website. focused on whether Manning broke rules governing the use of on the scope of the prosecution’s planned “rebuttal” to the evi- the images over the Internet,” ICE Director John Morton Investigators estimate that there are more than 80 other his computer, violated the Espionage Act by leaking sensitive dence put forward by the defense. Manning has become a folk told a news conference. From May 28 to June 30, the potential victims of the accused man who remain unidenti- information that could harm US national security and had the hero to his supporters who see him as a crusading whistle- agency also identified 61 victims of child sexual exploita- fied. “The Internet allows child pornographers to abuse on intention of assisting Al-Qaeda through his disclosures. blower trying to expose the excesses of US foreign policy. But tion in the United States, Canada, Indonesia and the a sophisticated and international scale,” Morton said. Coombs said the government has not offered “any evi- his critics say Manning betrayed his soldier’s oath and portray Netherlands, officials said. Among the 255 alleged child abusers arrested in dence” to show that Manning knew the leaked files could fall him as a reckless traitor who undermined US diplomacy and “The sexual abuse and exploitation of children over the Operation iGuardian, 20 were involved in online solicita- into the hands of Al-Qaeda militants. To say that “he should endangered lives with his disclosure to WikiLeaks. — AFP Internet is a pervasive and growing problem,” Morton said. tion including two large sextortion investigations, the “Far too many children are abused by sexual predators and agency said. Federal officials have launched a new educa- then repeatedly re-abused through the online exchange of tional program across the country aimed at showing chil- the underlying photographs and videos of their exploita- dren and parents the risks children face online and how to tion.” Morton pointed to the “disturbing trend” of sextor- report abuse. “The sad truth is, there are many more child tion, which occurs when child abusers coerce or trick chil- victims of sexual exploitation out there who have not yet dren - typically teenagers - into sending them pornograph- been rescued and are still suffering,” said John Ryan, chief ic images of themselves. Morton said the practice has been executive of the National Center for Missing & Exploited increasing in recent years. Children. — Reuters Devastated Texas town ponders schools’ future

DALLAS: After a massive fertilizer schools’ future, and the town’s. “You being able to resume classes in town plant explosion devastated this rural want to be home. You want that sense in the fall. Demolition has started on town in April, local teachers and of normalcy,” says Crystal Anthony, a the middle school grounds, and administrators did what they could to school board member and the mother dozens of trailers have been ordered help the community cope with a dis- of a rising ninth grader who has been for a makeshift campus for the middle aster that killed 15 people and living in nearby Waco since the blast and high school grades. The high wrecked hundreds of structures, destroyed her house. For some, she school football field, which became a including three of West’s four schools. said, moving somewhere else might triage center the night of the blast, They borrowed classrooms in a near- be easier, but Anthony said she with blood and needles left behind, is by town so that children could return intends to stay in West and rebuild. being re-sodded so the West Trojans to class, and salvaged the school year Until the night of April 17, West was a can play their season. so that the 113 high school seniors town of quiet streets best known for Officials acknowledge they have a could graduate on time. But now its kolaches and other Czech pastries, long way to go. “August 26 is still West’s schools are confronting anoth- reflecting the heritage of the immi- going to be a great day,” Crawford er challenge as they plan to begin the grant farmers who settled the area a said. How they will get permanent new term next month in clusters of century ago. schools again is another matter. They are tens of millions of dollars short. Town officials say a tax increase is almost out of the question with so many residents struggling with costs for their damaged houses. A bond issue may also be difficult given the uncertain tax base. A $15 million state emergency funding bill will include some money for West, though it’s unclear how much. State money may also be needed to help the city of West rebuild water and sewer lines that aren’t working after the blast. Crawford said he was still talking with federal officials and the district’s insurer, “but we sure would hate to promise something and not be able to deliver.” State schools TEXAS: West Intermediate School sits damaged behind a chain link fence in spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe said West, Texas. After a deadly plant explosion damaged many of their schools, there was nothing “in the normal the town is now tens of millions of dollars short of rebuilding them. — AP funding formula that would provide funding for West.” In many ways, the trailers that some are already calling Most residents went through the school system is going through the “Portable City.” West schools and work on the sur- same struggle to rebuild as many par- It’s not clear how temporary the rounding farms and ranches, or com- ents who want to be back in their prefab village will actually be. Federal mute to jobs in Waco, or even the houses. officials have rejected the town’s $40 Dallas-Fort Worth area an hour away. Nickole Hayes, the mother of million disaster aid request and insur- Many of those families are still dis- triplets who will be juniors this fall, ance companies have offered just $20 placed, living in surrounding towns said getting her daughters back to million of the estimated $59 million and grappling with insurance payouts school in town would be a step for- value of the schools’ insurance policy. that still leave them with heavy unmet ward even if it came with hardships. Leaders of the town of 2,800 worry costs. In addition to destroying 200 Hayes and her family are living in about the impact of the schools’ houses and buildings, the blast at the Hillsboro, 15 miles away, as they try to uncertainty on hundreds of residents West Fertilizer Co, which occurred figure out how to rebuild their who are deciding where to rebuild after a fire ignited explosive chemi- destroyed home, and when it would their lives- in West or possibly else- cals, blew out the windows and ceil- get electricity and drinkable water. where. “Delaying it another year is not ings in the intermediate school next She’s heard from others who also going to do any good as far as morale door, and caved in part of the high want to come back to West if at all goes, for the community and for our school and middle school a short walk possible. “It’s a choice to be made, and kids,” said Superintendent Marty away. this is the best one. If the kids want to Crawford. Since the end of the school year, be there, and they do, then this is it,” Parents are wondering about the school officials have concentrated on she said. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Russia, China block UN condemnation on Iran Committee splits on Iran arms embargo violations UNITED NATIONS: A UN Security Council com- Quinlan, chairman of the Iran sanctions commit- new sanctions against Iran.” US Ambassador mittee is split over whether Iran’s missile tests tee, told the council that “a number of commit- Rosemary DiCarlo told reporters, “We’re disap- last year violated UN sanctions imposed on tee members expressed the view ... that the pointed that the (Iran sanctions) committee was Tehran because of its nuclear and ballistic mis- launches constituted a clear violation of (UN unable in this case to state the obvious.” sile programs, Australia’s UN envoy said on sanctions) and that therefore all member states “There is nothing ambiguous about the ban Monday. That division effectively rules out any should redouble their efforts to implement bal- imposed by the Security Council on such ... mis- expansion of sanctions against Tehran over the listic missile-related sanctions on Iran.” sile launches,” she said. “Most of the Security tests for the time being, UN envoys said on con- “At this stage some committee members can- Council members agree with us on this issue.” dition of anonymity. not share this view,” he added in his latest three- Quinlan’s report also referred to alleged arms Diplomats said it was Russia, backed by month report to the council. The tests involved embargo violations. Western powers accuse Iran China, that refused to declare Tehran’s missile the launch of Iranian Shahab missiles in July of supplying arms to Syrian President Bashar Al- launches a violation of the UN restrictions, as a 2012 during the “Great Prophet 7” military exer- Assad and militant groups like Lebanon’s TEHRAN: Iranian president-elect Hassan Rowhani (center) listens to a Muslim wor- UN Panel of Experts on Iran said was the case. cises. “These included launches of the Shahab 1 Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside shipper as they attend prayers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in The rift on the Iran sanctions committee, which and 3, Zelzal, Fateh-110 and Tondar missiles, as Assad’s troops in Syria to defeat rebels in the civil Tehran. — AFP consists of all 15 Security Council members, well as an anti-ship ballistic missile, the Khalij war there. highlights the difficulties Western powers face in Fars,” the Iran Panel of Experts said in its May “Several committee members stated that the Israel calls Rowhani ‘a persuading Russia and China to join them in report to the Iran sanctions committee. evidence presented in the report was sufficient keeping up the pressure on Tehran to halt to assert that Iran was in violation of its obliga- wolf in sheep clothing’ banned nuclear and missile work. HASTY CONCLUSIONS tions, illustrating a pattern of sanctions evasion Iran rejects allegations by the United States, The panel said those exercises were conduct- through arms smuggling in the Middle East,” his European powers and their allies that it is devel- ed by the Aerospace Force of the Islamic report said. “Other committee members stated TEHRAN: Iran yesterday accused arch-rival and Israel hit a strident high during oping an atomic weapons capability. It says the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Russia, diplomats that the lack of stronger evidence as to the Israel of attempting to poison the mood Ahmadinejad’s eight-year presidency, UN sanctions against it are illegal and refuses to said, led the dissenters in rejecting the view that provenance of the arms, such as documenta- against its moderate president-elect Hassan marked by his repeated controversial comply with them. As long as the sanctions the tests were a clear violation of UN sanctions. tion, justified the lack of a definitive conclu- Rowhani, who has raised hope to end a dis- remarks regarding the Jewish state, includ- committee remains divided, it will be difficult for A Russian delegate explained Moscow’s position sion,” his report added. Russia and China were pute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Israeli ing the denial of the Holocaust-as Tehran the Security Council to add names of any Iranian to the Security Council, saying “hasty conclu- the “other committee members” who opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on dramatically expanded its nuclear program. individuals or entities linked to the missile tests, sions not based on facts must be avoided.” A finding Tehran in clear violation of the UN ban Sunday called Rowhani “a wolf in sheep’s Iran says it seeks peaceful nuclear applica- Security Council diplomats said on condition of Chinese delegate reiterated Beijing’s stance: “We on Iranian arms exports, council diplomats clothing” who would “smile and build a tions, rejecting Western suspicions that the anonymity. Australia’s UN Ambassador Gary are not in favor of increased new pressure or said.— Reuters bomb”. program is aimed at military objectives, and Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Abbas brushing aside military threats by the United Araqchi, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, States and Israel against its work. said Netanyahu was “angry” that Rowhani’s Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his threat June election had created “a positive atmos- to take unilateral military action, saying that Manila, Washington seek to phere in the international community”. Tehran’s nuclear conduct was unlikely to Netanyahu’s remarks, he said, “is a sign of his change under Rowhani. Iran in engaged in regime’s interference in Iran’s relations with long-running but so-far fruitless negotiations widen military cooperation other countries, and a proof of its destructive with world powers aimed at resolving the role and attempt in damaging those rela- nuclear standoff diplomatically. Rowhani, 64, MANILA: Washington and Manila have expand- port it. Especially if they spend money, there will tions”. Rowhani, an ex-nuclear negotiator has promised to offer more transparency to ed talks on military cooperation to include possi- have to be some agreement.” Cuisia said a new who has held top state positions since the resolve the nuclear issue, hoping to lift the ble US funding to build facilities and the storage pact might involve a US request for the storage 1979 inception of the Islamic republic, is to sanctions which have left Iran’s ailing econo- of US humanitarian relief supplies, the Philippine of equipment and supplies in the Philippines to take office from President Mahmoud my in tatters. Final decisions on Iran’s nuclear envoy to the United States said yesterday. The prepare for humanitarian aid and disaster relief Ahmadinejad on August 3. drive rest with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali wider scope of the talks for joint use of civilian efforts. Tensions between regional arch-foes Iran Khamenei. — AFP and military facilities signals rapidly warming That would reduce delays in bringing in security ties between the allies as the Philippines equipment from elsewhere, such as bases in looks to the US administration to help counter a Guam and Honolulu, he said. “Then whenever newly assertive China. it’s needed it’s so much easier to use that equip- The Philippines has ruled out granting per- ment because it’s already here.” But funding con- manent basing rights to Washington, struction activities could be a problem for the Ambassador Jose Cuisia said, but it would give United States following huge cuts in its defense US warplanes and warships wider access to spending, Cuisia said. Last month, the Philippine Philippine bases on a temporary and rotational military told Reuters about plans to revive air basis, helping the Asian nation improve its mini- and naval bases at Subic Bay, a former US Navy mum defense capability. The increasing rotation- facility that American forces could use to count- al presence of US forces in the country is covered er China’s creeping presence in the disputed by the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement, but a South China Sea. new arrangement would be needed if Military and diplomatic sources familiar with MANILA: US Pacific Command Commander Washington built facilities to support its tempo- security talks between the allies told Reuters Admiral Samuel J Locklear III gestures during rary deployment to the Philippines. “We need to Washington had identified fewer than a dozen a press briefing after the annual meeting of expand (the 1998 pact) further because we may civilian and military facilities to which it wanted the two countries’ mutual defense board in have to build some additional facilities,” Cuisia greater access, most of them facing the South Manila in this file photo.— AFP told reporters in the Philippine capital. China Sea. In some civilian locations, the military The two countries have been in talks since would need to build facilities for security and as some US forces return home, an air force 2011 for “joint use” of civilian and military facili- storage of supplies, spares and equipment. colonel familiar with the talks said. “The US mili- ties in the former US colony. The informal talks These facilities could later be offered for joint tary would like to keep tons of humanitarian had reached ministerial level, Cuisia said, with use with the United States. Last December, the equipment, like tents, generators and shelter both sides hoping for a deal before President two nations also started informal talks on the materials here,” he said, adding that the latest Benigno Aquino steps down from office in June pre-positioning of materials and gear, including two-way exercises on disaster response focused 2016. “There has to be some agreement to sup- that to be withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan on this type of operation. — Reuters ASHULIA: Bangladeshi people watch as rescue workers pull out a bus that plunged into the river Turag in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh yesterday. According to offi- cials, at least seven people died and twenty others were injured in the accident. — AP Activists demand action, Spain says ‘sorry’ over not words, from Myanmar Morales airspace block YANGON: Activists yesterday urged end of the year. “I guarantee to you Pro-democracy campaigners, ceasefire and the guns will go silent LA PAZ: Spain Monday voiced regret at its onage charges. Earlier this month, during a Myanmar President Thein Sein to that by the end of this year there however, have accused the former everywhere in Myanmar for the diplomatic row with Bolivia, sparked when flight home from Moscow, European “turn his words into action” after will be no prisoners of conscience junta premier of using a series of very first time in over 60 years,” he President Evo Morales’ plane was blocked authorities diverted Morales’s plane to the former general promised to in Myanmar,” Thein Sein said during headline-grabbing amnesties to said. “Difficult talks will follow and from Spanish airspace over suspicions US Austria and searched it after rumors he had free all political prisoners by the a visit to London. win foreign aid and investment. hard compromises will need to be fugitive Edward Snowden was on the jet. Snowden on board. “President Thein Sein is very good made. But it must be done.” “Spain deeply regrets this and is sorry that The controversy rippled across the at PR but he needs to turn his Skirmishes between govern- it happened. We offer our apology and con- region, with both left and right-leaning words into action,” said Bo Kyi of ment troops and rebels continue, sider the matter closed,” Spain’s governments expressing outrage over the the Thailand-based Assistance particularly in the northern state of Ambassador to La Paz Miguel Angel incident. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Association for Political Prisoners Kachin where the two sides have Vasquez said after delivering a written note Jaua called the incident “an attack against (Burma), who estimates there are agreed to try to calm military ten- to the Foreign Ministry. Bolivia has joined President Morales’s life,” echoing earlier still more than 150 political prison- sions but have yet to sign a proper Venezuela and Nicaragua in offering asy- claims by Bolivia itself. Brazilian President ers behind bars. ceasefire. Activists also say human lum to Edward Snowden, the former IT con- Dilma Rousseff expressed “indignation” He said it would be difficult for rights violations including forced tractor for the US National Security Agency over the treatment of Morales, calling it a the government to keep its prom- labor, arbitrary arrest, detention who publicized details of US surveillance “provocation” that concerned “all of Latin ise to release all political detainees and land confiscation continue in programs and is now on the run from espi- America.”— AFP as dozens more activists are facing areas such as eastern Karen State. trial, including people arrested for “We know from our experience that protesting without permission. “For we cannot trust the Burmese Army,” the time being rule of law is very said Htoo Ku Hsa Say of the Karen 11 hostages freed in weak. There are still arbitrary arrests Community Association UK, calling and there is no fair trial,” Bo Kyi on Thein Sein to withdraw all his Philippine clan feud added. The military junta which troops from the war-torn state bor- ruled for decades until 2011 had dering Thailand. long denied the existence of politi- British Prime Minister David ZAMBOANGA: Seven children and four between the clans over the years, a cal prisoners. Cameron urged Thein Sein to other hostages caught up in a decades- regional military spokesman said last defend human rights during talks old southern Philippines clan war have week. Hassan is a member of the Moro But hundreds of dissidents have been freed since Thein Sein took in London. Welcoming the been freed in a straight swap by the National Liberation Front, a former Myanmar leader on the red carpet feuding families, the military said yester- Muslim separatist rebel group, while power in March 2011. Last November he announced a review outside his 10 Downing Street day. The hostages, aged as young as two, Jiabrin is a member of the rival Moro office, Cameron said he was “very were snatched last week in tit-for-tat kid- Islamic Liberation Front, the military said. of all “politically concerned” cases. The ex-military man has been laud- pleased” to see Thein Sein on his nappings on the remote southern island Authorities will not seek to lay charges “historic visit”. But Cameron added: of Basilan, a hotbed of Muslim guerrillas against those involved in the kidnap- ed by foreign governments for reforms including welcoming “As well as the continuation of your and other militants that the government pings, according to Colonel Carlito reform process, we are also very does not fully control. The crisis ended Galvez, a local military commander who democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi and her political party into keen to see greater action in terms when a Muslim clan leader known as helped to negotiate the end of the dis- of promoting human rights and “Commander Hassan” agreed to release pute. “Pressing charges will further com- parliament. In response the European Union dealing with regional conflicts. his eight hostages on Monday, said plicate the situation,” Galvez said. “We are particularly concerned Lieutenant-Colonel Paolo Perez, com- Muslim clans in the southern has scrapped most sanctions, except for an arms embargo, and about what has happened in mander of an army battalion stationed Philippines are notorious for waging pro- Rakhine province and the Rohingya on Basilan. longed feuds, typically over land, political readmitted Myanmar to its trade preference scheme. Muslims.” Thein Sein promised to A rival Muslim clan leader known in power or influence. They often use armed take a “zero tolerance approach” to the area as “Jiabrin” had freed followers to attack each other. Such feuds The United States has also lifted most embargoes and foreign com- people who “fuel ethnic hatreds” Commander Hassan’s three daughters in the southern Philippines, which the following a recent wave of religious late on Sunday, according to Perez, who country’s Muslim minority regard as their panies are now eager to enter the bloodshed. Buddhist-Muslim clash- said the clan dispute had been going on homeland, claimed more than 5,500 lives resource-rich nation, with its per- es in the western state of Rakhine for the past 30 years. “The feud ranges and displaced thousands between the ceived frontier market of some 60 last year left about 200 people from previous disputes over property, 1930s and 2005, according to a study by million potential consumers. Thein dead, mostly Rohingya minority aggravated by killings on both sides,” said the Asia Foundation. The government Sein has also reached tentative Muslims who are denied citizenship Perez, who took part in the negotiations signed a peace treaty with the MNLF in peace deals with the major armed that led to the release of the hostages 1996, although most of its members nev- ethnic minority rebel groups, and by Myanmar. Sectarian strife has LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) greets Myanmar including the seven children aged er disarmed. The MILF is observing a he voiced optimism in London since spread to other parts of the President Thein Sein ahead of their meeting at 10 Downing Street in cen- between two and 14. About 20 people ceasefire while holding peace talks with about ending decades of conflict. country, including central Myanmar tral London, as the former junta general embarked on a trip to Britain are believed to have died in battles the Philippine government.— AFP “Very possibly over the coming where at least 44 people were and France to build on support for his much-lauded reforms. — AFP weeks we will have a nationwide killed in March.— AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Iranian guessing game: Ahmadinejad’s next move

TEHRAN: Mock condolences arriving by text message mer conservative backers drifted away when it influence over a host of news services, TV stations and Ahmadinejad plans to begin a two-day trip to neigh- in Iran announce the political “death” of President became a loyalty test or either Ahmadinejad or the newspapers. boring Iraq, where Shiite power Iran carries important Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Memorial services, the joke supreme leader. “Ahmadinejad is very interested remaining in the influence with the government of Prime Minister Nouri continues, are planned at the United Nations in tribute This leaves Ahmadinejad with a small cadre of allies media spotlight,” said Hamid Reza Shokouhi, editor of Al-Maliki. He also is scheduled to visit the Shiite reli- to his swaggering style each year in New York. The and pockets of supporters around the country - mainly the pro-reform Mardomsalari daily. “He will use it as a gious center of Najaf, an important power base and satire may bring smirks from the many foes poor and rural Iranians grateful for his government’s tool to return him or any close ally to power.” Some source of potential funds for Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has racked up over eight years in office, monthly handouts. How he may leverage this remain- pro-Ahmadinejad sources also have floated the idea Yet other challenges await Ahmadinejad once he stemming from several high-profile feuds with the rul- ing clout “is very difficult to predict,” said Ali Bigdeli, a he would establish an aid-giving foundation known as leaves office. In early June, a criminal court summoned ing clerics and one disputed re-election. professor in international relations in Tehran’s Beheshti “Bahar,” or “Spring,” as a way to maintain his populist Ahmadinejad over a lawsuit filed by the country’s par- But no one is truly counting Ahmadinejad out of University. One intriguing hint was given last week by image and keep alive options for a comeback bid in liament speaker and a parliamentary committee. There Iran’s political future, which could face some bumpy his closest aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, who said it 2017. Iran’s presidents must leave office after two con- have been no further details, but Ahmadinejad and times as he decides his next moves and his opponents was “likely” Ahmadinejad could launch a media outlet. secutive terms, but it’s possible to return after a politi- the speaker, Ali Larijani, have waged political feuds for plot possible payback. One way or another, the com- “We are not considering formation of a political cal hiatus - as Rafsanjani tried in 2005 in his surprise years. In February, Ahmadinejad released a barely bative and polarizing aura of the soon-to-be former party,” said Mashaei, who was barred by the ruling cler- loss to Ahmadinejad. audible video that purported to show discussion over president is not going to dissipate once his centrist ics from the ballot in June’s election as part of the Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, has not slowed down bribes that included Larijani’s brother. successor, Hasan Rouhani, is sworn in Aug 4. high-level fallout against Ahmadinejad. “But the even as Rouhani prepares to take over. He has kept up Behrouz Shojaei, a columnist in several pro-reform Ahmadinejad has remained evasive on his post- media can be effective. The society needs media.” He a steady pace of speeches, ribbon-cuttings and trips. It newspapers, believes more legal salvos over his presi- presidential plans. Speculation, however, is fanning gave no other clues, but any media venture would cer- suggests he wants to keep his statesman image sharp dency may come as “indirect punishment” for battling out in several directions, including media boss and tainly meet stiff resistance from the ruling theocracy for possible independent outreach and attempts at the supreme leader. “However much Ahmadinejad freelance statesman. A trip to Iraq this week one of his and the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which hold keeping a voice in Iranian affairs. On Thursday, may resist, though, there is the reality that he will no last major moments in the spotlight as president - will longer be president and the world’s attention will shift be watched closely for clues on his next moves. “The to his successor,” said the professor, Nafisi. “It began only thing that’s certain at this point is that happening the moment Rouhani was elected.” When Ahmadinejad and his team are just not going to pack Ahmadinejad returned earlier this month from a trip to up and go away,” said Rasool Nafisi, an Iranian affairs Moscow, only a small group of supporters came to analyst at Strayer University in Virginia. “Iran’s political Tehran’s airport to welcome him. In the past, hundreds system has to be prepared for that.” of people often crowded similar arrivals home. This is what makes Ahmadinejad’s departure such a Meanwhile, Rouhani has been embraced by Iran’s potential shock to Iran’s system. Since turbulent shake- fast-moving street culture in ways never open to outs immediately after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad. The phrase “Rouhani, mochakerim,” or Iran’s other former presidents have remained rooted in “Thank you, Rouhani,” has become a catchall term for the system. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who left the presi- hope, achievements and complaints about Iran’s sanc- dency in 1989, rose to become supreme leader. His tions-shattered economy. It’s also a backhanded way successor, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, took posts with- for Ahmadinejad’s opponents to bid him goodbye. The in the ruling clerics. Even reformist Mohammad quip first surfaced just days after the June 14 election Khatami was careful not to fight back too hard over when Iran’s soccer team qualified for the 2014 World sweeping crackdowns on the opposition and some of Cup after beating South Korea. It then went viral on the freedoms he helped engineer. Farsi websites. This month, a hip-hop audio clip carried But Ahmadinejad is the kind of high-profile figure the refrain “Rouhani, mochakerim.” The Tehran weekly, Iran has rarely seen before: He has essentially become Hamshahri Javan, printed many of the Internet mes- a political orphan. The ruling establishment holds a sages in graffiti style on its front page. One pointed powerful grudge over his maverick-style challenges to out the major economic challenges ahead: “Inflation Khamenei’s authority to set policies and pick key declined to zero, Rouhani, mochakerim.” On Sunday, Cabinet posts, which left Ahmadinejad severely weak- Iran’s Central Bank put the inflation rate at nearly 36 ened in recent years. Liberals long ago rejected TEHRAN: In this file photo, head of Iranian supreme leader’s office, Mohammad Mohammadi percent. Later, one blog post tried to put some per- Ahmadinejad’s firebrand ways, which included anti- Golpayegani (left) talks on his cell phone as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands with him in spective on the transition from Ahmadinejad to Israeli diatribes and questions over the Holocaust that front of a picture of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, before leaving Iran to Syria, Rouhani. “We ask Rouhani to explain to the people also hammered his image in the West. And many for- at the Tehranís Mehrabad airport. — AP that he is a president,” it said, “not Harry Potter.” — AP Afghan women, clerics eye an unlikely alliance

Lawmakers, activists promote women’s rights through Islam

KABUL: A group of Afghan female lawmakers and activists are eyeing an unlikely alliance with the country’s religious leaders, hoping to pro- mote and enhance women’s rights through Islam in a joint campaign. Though Afghan women have made hard-fought gains in educa- tion and work since the collapse of the austere Taleban regime in 2001, fears are growing these could suffer a reversal when most foreign forces leave by the end of next year. In the deeply con- servative, male-dominated country where reli- gion often holds more sway than legal authority, DHAKA: Bangladeshi activists shout slogans demanding death penalty for Jamaat-e- religious leaders have often been a major barrier Islami party’s former chief Ghulam Azam in Dhaka yesterday. — AP to women obtaining the rights granted to them under the constitution. Police fire on protesters “The role of the mullahs is crucial because we’re an Islamic nation and the mosques are in strike-hit Bangladesh being used against women. Why not use them for women?” said Member of Parliament Fawzia Koofi, an outspoken campaigner for women’s Two Islamist protesters shot dead rights. Koofi, from the largely rural Badakhshan province, is in talks with the country’s male, reli- DHAKA: Bangladesh police shot dead two country into its worst political violence since gious elite to promote pro-female sermons dur- Islamist demonstrators yesterday as machete- independence. At least 150 have been killed in ing important Friday prayers in mosques where wielding protesters went on the rampage in clashes with police and paramilitary forces since the government pays clerics’ salaries. KANDAHAR: An Afghan man reads the Quran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in protest at the jailing of a senior Islamist leader the first sentence was passed in January. The hope is that the sermons will help the city of Kandahar. Ramadan is the holiest month in Islam and Muslims worldwide observe it for war crimes. Several thousand supporters of Prosecutors had sought execution for Azam, address the problem of violence against women by fasting. — AP the country’s largest Islamic party Jamaat-e- describing him as a “lighthouse” who guided all in a country where many men are suspicious of Efforts to strengthen the elimination of vio- Research Institute. “This is the only solution,” she Islami took to the streets in the southwestern war criminals and the “architect” of the militias women’s rights and see them as imported from district of Satkhira, attacking police with sticks who committed many of the atrocities during lence against women law were spearheaded by said. and machetes and throwing homemade bombs, the war against Pakistan. the West. The campaign will start in Kabul and Koofi. With the deadline for the withdrawal of Also under consideration is a plan for text- officers said. Jamaat supporters set upon one When India intervened at the end of the then be implemented in the provinces but only foreign troops looming, some women feel they books for clerics that teach them women’s rights officer as police tried to clear a road blocked by nine-month war conflict and it became clear in 3,500 government-funded mosques. There are are left with no choice but to try to gain the sup- within the context of Islam. Abdul Haq Abid, fallen trees in the town of Kaliganj in the district. Pakistan was losing, the militias killed dozens of 160,000 mosques in the country of 30 million port of the men who have traditionally been deputy minister for hajj and religious affairs, has “They hacked him (the officer) with a professors, playwrights, filmmakers, doctors and people. Winning the support of religious leaders their fiercest opposition. been in talks with Koofi for nine months over the machete. We opened fire at them to rescue the journalists. for the campaign may seem like a long shot. In “They’ve defamed us. I can’t go into a campaign to use religion to enhance women’s officer. Two Jamaat activists were hit by bullets Businesses and shops were shut nationwide April, conservative lawmakers managed to province and try to fight for women rights if the rights. “Women have sacred rights granted to and they died,” district deputy police chief Tajul for the strike which started on Monday and indefinitely delay debate in turning a decree local mullah is against me,” said rights activist them in Islam, so Imams need to preach this to Islam said, adding that eight other police offi- roads and highways were largely empty, bring- banning violence against women into law, citing Wazhma Frogh, director and founder of people in underdeveloped provinces, so they cers were injured. Violence also flared elsewhere ing inter-district transport to a halt. Security was it as un-Islamic. Afghanistan’s Women Peace and Security become aware,” Abid said. — Reuters over Monday’s conviction of 90-year-old Ghulam tight in the capital Dhaka, with thousands of Azam by a war crimes court for masterminding police patrolling the streets. Yesterday’s shoot- atrocities during the 1971 war of independence. ing deaths bring the total number who have Jamaat activists torched buses and cars in the died in violence surrounding Azam’s conviction India police release sketches second largest city Chittagong during clashes to five. with police who retaliated by firing rubber bul- Protests erupted even before the verdict was lets, police officer Nazrul Islam said. announced on Monday, with at least three peo- of suspected temple bomber Jamaat and secular groups called rival strikes ple killed, including two protesters shot dead by after the tribunal sentenced Azam to 90 years in police in the northwestern town of Shibganj. prison on five charges of planning, conspiracy, The violence is unlikely to ease soon, with a ver- PATNA: Indian police investigating bomb blasts to have meditated. A sapling of the original tree been mobilized to guard the country’s famed incitement, complicity and murder. Jamaat, a dict expected to be passed today on Jamaat’s at one of Buddhism’s holiest sites released was undamaged in the attacks. The complex, Buddhist temple complex as a precaution after key member of the opposition, says the trials are second highest-ranking official, prosecutor sketches of a suspect yesterday and offered a 110 kilometers south of Patna, contains one of the India attacks. Police have doubled to 70 the politically motivated and aimed at eliminating Mukhlesur Rahman said. Ali Ahsan Mohammad reward for information about the attacks. Ten the earliest Buddhist temples still standing in number of security officers guarding the its leaders. But secular groups say Azam should Mujahid, a minister in the previous government, small devices exploded on July 7 in the Bodh India. Buddhists are rarely targeted in India but Lumbini temple complex, 250 kilometers south- have been hanged. Azam, the spiritual leader of faces the death penalty if convicted by the tribu- Gaya temple complex in the eastern state of there have been tensions in the wider region west of the capital Kathmandu, local police offi- Jamaat and its leader during the war, was the nal of seven war crimes charges, including mass Bihar, wounding two monks, while three others recently following clashes between Buddhists cial Surendra Bahadur Shah said. Thousands of fifth Islamist and the fourth Jamaat official con- killing, torture and abduction. were defused at the historic shrine. and Muslims in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and pilgrims visit Lumbini each year to pay homage victed by the controversial court set up by the The opposition has criticized the war crimes The National Investigation Agency released Bangladesh. to the Buddha, who is said to have been born in secular government. He was spared the death cases as a politically exercise aimed at settling two sketches of a man suspected of planting the In neighboring Nepal, dozens of police have the temple gardens in 623 BC. — AFP penalty because of his age and health. old scores rather than meting out justice. Unlike bombs at the complex, a UNESCO World Earlier verdicts against Jamaat activists, other such courts, the Bangladesh tribunal is not Heritage site, which was not badly damaged in including three death sentences, plunged the endorsed by the United Nations. —AFP the blasts. One sketch showed the suspect wear- India police arrest 8 for ing a mask, while the second showed a clean- shaven face. The suspect was “wearing the dress gang-rape of schoolgirls Qaeda kills Yemeni ‘gay’ of a Buddhist monk”, the agency said on its web- site. It also announced a reward of one million PATNA: Indian police arrested eight suspects yes- Delhi last December which sparked major protests. ADEN: Two militants from an Al-Qaeda linked of the country. Al-Qaeda loyalists seized large rupees ($16,900) for information leading to the terday over the gang-rape of four schoolgirls The school principal told police that the gang group shot dead a Yemeni man in the southern swathes of Yemen’s south and east in 2011, tak- arrest of the bombers. abducted from their convent boarding house in the locked him and other teachers inside a room at the Lahj province, accusing him of being a homo- ing advantage of a decline in central govern- Police studied CCTV footage of the complex country’s east, officials said. A group of men armed school run by a Christian missionary in the state’s sexual, a police source said yesterday. The ment control during an 11-month uprising that immediately after the early morning attacks and with knives barged into the hostel Sunday night Pakur district. The men then entered the dormitory attackers from the Ansar Al-Sharia group, which forced veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh arrested a man for questioning, but no charges and kidnapped the girls aged between 12 and 14, and took away four girls, all belonging to a local is on the US terror list, opened fire at 20-year-old from power. Yemeni government troops have were laid. No one has claimed responsibility for before assaulting them in a nearby forest in the trib- tribal community, police said. Ramesh said medical Hashem Al-Asmi late Monday in the provincial since recaptured much of the territory with sup- the attacks. But police say they had received al state of Jharkhand, a police officer said. “We have tests on the girls had confirmed that they were capital of Huj, the source said, adding that the port from US drone strikes, but the jihadists intelligence that Islamic militants could target made some arrests and we are interrogating eight raped. Mass protests erupted nationwide in gunmen fled on their motorbike after killing retain bases in the desert east and frequently the site as revenge for Buddhist violence against persons accused in the case,” police superintendent December and January following the fatal gang- Asmi. carry out hit-and-run attacks using unlicensed Muslims in neighboring Myanmar. Along with YS Ramesh said. rape, which brought simmering anger about the The attackers who “accused the man of motorbikes. During their control of these areas, temples, dozens of monasteries housing monks “These girls are shocked and frightened after treatment of women in India to the surface. being gay... belong to Ansar al-Shariah,” the the militants had tired to impose a strict version from around the world dot the Bodh Gaya com- the incident,” he said, adding that police would Parliament has passed laws aimed at better protect- source said on condition of anonymity. Ansar Al- of sharia (Islamic law) on residents, executing or plex, which is said to be the site where the press for a speedy trial if the men were charged ing women, including doubling the minimum Sharia is the local branch of Al-Qaeda in Yemen lashing citizens they accused of various crimes. over the crime. India faces intense scrutiny over its prison sentence for gang-rape to 20 years. Buddha reached enlightenment in 531 BC. where the network, although weakened, is still They had also severed the hands of many efforts to curb violence against women following Jharkhand is a densely forested state comprising active mainly in the southern and eastern parts accused of burglary. — AFP The centerpiece of the complex is the site of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New large numbers of indigenous people. — AFP the holy Bodhi tree, under which Buddha is said WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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By Frank Zeller

en weeks before German elections, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-left rivals have gone on the Tattack over reports of sweeping US online surveil- lance and German cooperation, sparked by fugitive intelli- gence analyst Edward Snowden. There is widespread dis- quiet over claims, reported by news weekly Der Spiegel, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has hoovered up German emails, online chats and phone calls and shared some of it with the country’s intelligence services. The question dividing analysts is whether the public’s anger could blow back on Merkel, crack the armour of the consistently popular chancellor and damage the still healthy poll lead of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). If more damaging information came to light before the September 22 vote, “this could come to the boil and become a central campaign topic,” said political scien- tist Hajo Funke of Berlin’s Free University. “The debate is How European courts are dismantling sanctions on Iran only just beginning.” Merkel’s struggling rival from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Peer Steinbrueck, has come By Justyna Pawlak REPEATED CORRESPONDENCE Action by Israel - widely believed to be the only nuclear out swinging, charging that Merkel broke her oath of The lawyers for Bank Mellat had asked EU governments power in the Middle East - could easily spill into a new office pledge to protect the German people from harm. He n the years-long campaign to tie a web of sanctions to show them information linking the lender to the regional war. In the minds of Western policymakers, Iran’s has called for a parliamentary inquiry. around Iran and stall its nuclear program, the European nuclear program and consider their complaint that sanc- banks are a vital target for sanctions, and the fact that the In a newspaper commentary he described the scale of IUnion may just have met its biggest obstacle: its own tions were not justified, in a series of letters in 2010 and banks appear to be winning in the courts is seen as partic- reported US snooping as “dizzying” and blamed Merkel- law courts. Fearing Tehran is seeking the means to make 2011. In one, dated Jan 5, 2011, the lawyers had accused ularly worrisome. The Luxembourg ruling on Bank Mellat either because she was aware of it and complicit, or bombs, Europe’s governments have been combing the European Union of having made a “cursory” review of was followed by a similar decision in February in favour of because she was ignorant and therefore negligent. through Iran’s political elites and businesses to find peo- their complaint. The review, they said, was “clearly ineffec- Bank Saderat, one of the largest lenders in Iran. More will Steinbrueck also poured scorn on what he called Merkel’s ple and companies linked to the financing and technical tive, insufficient and incompatible with the Bank’s right of be on the docket soon. vague comments on the scandal and her claim to have aspects of its nuclear work. defense”. “We got no response whatsoever,” said Zaiwalla. Officials in Luxembourg say that in early September the only learned from media reports of what he called the They have frozen their assets, refused visas and banned “We would ask every year for new material but they would court is due to rule on cases filed by Europaeisch-Iranische “million-fold breach of the basic rights” of German citizens. companies in the European Union from doing business ignore it.” Handelsbank AG (EIH), Post Bank and Persia International Germans are especially sensitive to violations of data with them. But dozens of those targeted have challenged The court concluded in January this year that the Bank. The Iranian central bank also has a case pending, as privacy, often recalling the role of secret police surveil- the restrictions in court and some are beginning to win, European Union had, in fact, breached the bank’s right of do numerous companies linked to Iran’s vital shipping and lance under the Nazis and in communist East embarrassing Europe’s policymakers and causing alarm in defense. It also said EU governments had not sufficiently oil industries. Technical aspects of the nuclear work have Germany.Merkel has approached the thorny surveillance the United States. None of the court judgments are yet checked the evidence they did offer, highlighting another also come into question. In May, the Luxembourg court issue with characteristic caution. During a June visit by US final. But with Israel brandishing threats against a nuclear dilemma facing Europe in how it targets the nuclear pro- ruled in favor of an Iranian maker of electrical transform- President Barack Obama, she spoke of the need to find the program that Iran insists has no military purpose, right balance between security and freedom. Merkel’s gram. Decisions on sanctions - taken unanimously by all ers, Iran Transfo. It was accused of equipping the Fordow ‘feigned concern’ on NSA snooping- Washington worries that any weakening of sanctions may European governments to ensure a level playing field for uranium enrichment facility, which Western states suspect She was more terse when reports broke that the United raise the risk of war. At the heart of the issue is the refusal all EU companies - usually follow a proposal by one or two could produce bomb-grade material. States had allegedly also bugged EU diplomatic missions. by EU governments to disclose evidence linking their tar- governments, often permanent UN Security Council mem- “The council (of EU governments) hasn’t produced any Spying on allies was “unacceptable”, she told Washington. gets to Iran’s nuclear work. Doing so in court, they say, bers France or Britain. Other capitals have to trust their element of proof that the company has participated in the “We are not in the Cold War anymore,” she added. may expose confidential intelligence, undermining efforts evidence. construction of Fordow,” an EU lawyer said. “The court said However, she has also stressed that Snowden’s claims had to combat the program. The courts have effectively reject- Last month, Bank Mellat won another case, at Britain’s ‘you haven’t produced anything, the file is empty, you not yet been confirmed, and that the NSA had helped foil ed that argument, saying that if a case is to be made, evi- Supreme Court. Its judges, too, ruled the British govern- have lost the case’.” Several solutions to the conundrum several terrorist plots in Germany the country where, as dence must be presented. Lawyers for the Iranians argue ment was wrong to have imposed sanctions on the lender are under discussion in Brussels and elsewhere in Europe. Washington has reminded Berlin, several of the there simply is no evidence that proves any link to the September 11 plotters lived. Interior Minister Hans-Peter nuclear program - a view supported by British judges who Friedrich, a strong voice on law-and-order issues, made did review some secret material this year. the same point after a visit to Washington last week, also “It is very clear there is no evidence,” said Sarosh complaining about “anti-Americanism” in Germany’s NSA Zaiwalla, senior partner at Zaiwalla & Co, a London law debate.Political commentator Michael Spreng, like other firm which has successfully represented Iran’s Bank Mellat critics, accused Merkel of “dutiful bluster” and “feigned in litigation against sanctions imposed by the EU. The concern”. bank, one of the biggest private lenders in Iran, won a He described Friedrich’s US trip as that of “a German case in January in the European Union’s Luxembourg- mouse tapped softly against the table-only because in based second-highest court. It had challenged an EU Germany it’s election time”. Merkel, in an interview move in 2010 to freeze its assets, saying the EU had failed Sunday, called for EU-wide and international data protec- to prove the bank provided banking services for the tion rules and called on Google and Facebook to “tell us to whom they are giving the data”. While the SPD and their nuclear program. The court agreed. preferred allies the Greens hope to gain traction with the “The chairman of the court asked the EU lawyers, ‘can issue, many political observers don’t see much chance it you show me the evidence?’. And they said ‘no, it’s Iran, will help them chip away at Merkel’s lead. “The opposition and you must presume there is evidence’,” Zaiwalla said. is trying to score points, but I would say the interest of citi- “The judge was very upset and said ‘this is a court of law zens in politics is diminishing right now,” said Volker and you cannot assume things’.” In its Jan 29 judgment, Kronenberg of Bonn University. using dense legal language, the General Court said the “They are heading into summer holidays and there are council of EU governments was “in breach of the obliga- other topics that interest Germans more: social justice, tax- tion to state reasons and the obligation to disclose to the es, the euro crisis.”A weekend poll by public broadcaster applicant ... the evidence adduced against it”. ZDF showed that 79 percent of Germans believe their gov- ernment knew about the sweeping US surveillance activi- SECRECY DILEMMA ties. But the same survey also affirmed a comfortable lead The lifting of sanctions against Bank Mellat is post- for Merkel’s ruling coalition over the combined forces of poned for now, pending an appeal by EU governments to the SPD and Greens-and found that Merkel would be the Europe’s highest court. But the case illustrates the dilem- preferred chancellor for 62 percent of respondents. The ma facing the European Union in its push to stop Iran poll gave the CDU 41 percent and its allies the Free from advancing the atom work. Government lawyers are Democrats five percent-putting the coalition ahead of telling the courts to trust them and the courts are refus- their rivals, with the SPD scoring 26 percent and the ing. To safeguard its sanctions policy and its economic Greens 13 percent. pressure on Iran, the EU may have to present evidence - The far-left Linke party, considered unlikely to join any governing coalition, scored seven percent, while other including sensitive intelligence - in court. parties were below the five-percent threshold, including But because of rules governing pan-European courts, ANKARA: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (left) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu the Internet-freedom Pirates and anti-euro AFD party. all evidence would then become public which may dam- shake hands before their talks in Ankara in this file photo. —AFP Pollster Manfred Guellner, head of the Forsa Institute, said age clandestine operations and unravel the process of the SPD and Greens were unlikely to profit from the sur- devising sanctions. “There is nothing in the current rules but they also took their argument a step further than the British officials, who have taken a lead in proposing tar- veillance scandal for another reason because some of the to enable us to consider sharing information without it EU court in Luxembourg. Having had access to evidence gets for sanctions, as well as EU lawyers, are in contact blame could fall into their laps. “If it was known, then becoming public,” said one European diplomat, speaking under British rules allowing for a secret court session, the with the Luxembourg courts to devise new rules for using everyone knew, not just the government,” Guellner said. on condition of anonymity. judges ruled that measures against the bank were “arbi- confidential evidence in judicial hearings. “The SPD was in government until 2009. The SPD-Greens “This is the crux of the issue. We cannot just be hand- trary” and “irrational” - exposing the possibility that even Giving some judges security clearance would go some government tightened the laws after 9/11.”—AFP ing information around.” In Washington, anxiety over court secret evidence governments may share with the courts way in addressing court concerns, lawyers say. But it may rulings is mounting. “It’s a real concern of ours that the EU might not be enough to justify sanctions. take time. Overhauling how sanctions are designed would is having difficulties sustaining some of its designations,” be another step. EU lawyers argue that targeting whole David Cohen, the US Treasury Department’s Under UNRAVELLING WEB sectors of the Iranian economy would sidestep the neces- All articles appearing on these Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said. While the net of sanctions may have only been cut in a sity of proving in court a particular target’s role in nuclear pages are the personal opinion of Lawyers for the Iranian plaintiffs paint the conflict as a few places at this stage, dozens of other cases are in the arms proliferation. The EU already has sweeping measures the writers. Kuwait Times takes no human rights issue, praising the Luxembourg court for pipeline. The concern among EU officials is that if a few in place against the Iranian energy and shipping sectors. responsibility for views expressed decisions they say amount to taking a stand against gov- more knots are untied, the entire sanctions netting could But moving further is likely to meet strong resistance in ernment abuse. start to unravel. That may have consequences for security many European capitals. therein. Kuwait Times invites read- “It may be politically embarrassing,” said Maya Lester, a in the Middle East, especially if it allows Iran to step up its Sanctions experts say, for example, that hundreds of ers to voice their opinions. Please London-based lawyer who represents companies and nuclear program. small German businesses engage in legitimate trade with send submissions via email to: opin- individuals in litigation concerning European sanctions, Tehran says the work is aimed only at peaceful purpos- Iran that earned Germany some $250 million a month in [email protected] or via snail including the Iranian central bank and the country’s main es, such energy supply and medical research. But the West exports last year. While the EU’s main military powers, tanker company, NITC. “But in terms of upholding the rule has argued for years that it has military goals, pursuing Britain and France, pursue sanctions, some partners prefer mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. of law, what the European court has done is impressive diplomacy and sanctions in hopes of persuading Tehran to maintain trade ties, under close supervision, creating The editor reserves the right to edit and quite brave. It shows it to be a court upholding to scale it back. tensions within the bloc. As one EU lawyer put it: “The any submission as necessary. human rights ... which is not easy given how political If such efforts fail, Israel has threatened to bomb underlying economic interests of EU member states are Iranian sanctions are.” nuclear sites, arguing that Tehran threatens its survival. different.”— Reuters NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

KUWAIT: Workers prepare traditional Arab pancakes, known as Qatayef, at a sweets shop in Kuwait City yesterday. Muslims fasting in the month of Ramadan must abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn to dusk. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat US’ Kerry in Jordan as regional crises mount

AMMAN: Top US diplomat John Kerry met his Jordanian coun- Judeh before a private dinner with Palestinian president violence flaring again on the streets of Cairo leaving seven dead resuming the talks, frozen since September 2010. And there terpart yesterday for talks focused on the turmoil in Egypt and Mahmud Abbas. and 261 injured, he was also expected to discuss the situation were no immediate plans for Kerry to meet Israeli Prime Syria as well as his bid to unlock the Middle East peace process. Today he will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II as well as Arab following the July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unlike previous trips where he Arriving on an overnight flight from Washington, the secretary of League officials to “provide an update on Middle East peace,” military. Egypt, a powerful member of the Arab League, was has shuttled between Amman and Jerusalem. state first held talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. With expected to send someone to the Amman talks, but it was not Last month the secretary of state spent four days locked in known exactly who would represent the interim government as intensive diplomacy seeking to coax the two sides to end a a new 35-member cabinet was sworn in yesterday. nearly three-year stalemate, and said “with a little more work, Caretaker Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawi was sworn in the start of final status negotiations could be within reach”. He 5,000 die every month in Syria alongside a former ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, left behind a team of senior US officials who have been working who becomes the interim foreign minister. As he met with his to remove the last hurdles to fresh talks meeting with officials Continued from Page 1 act on the refugee crisis. “Increasing cross border fire Jordanian counterpart, Kerry expressed an interest in visiting from both sides. and incursions from Syria in Lebanon are threatening one of the refugee camps in Jordan sheltering a flood of But the crises in Syria and Egypt once again appear to be assistance into the Old City,” she said. Amos the security and stability of my country,” he told the 15 refugees from the conflict in Syria, now in its third year. Jordan crowding out his agenda. “Because the Syrian Opposition appealed for the lifting of bureaucratic obstacles but ambassadors on the council. has taken in some 550,000 refugees fleeing the fighting as Coalition elections just took place and there’s new Syrian oppo- also the designation of “priority humanitarian routes” Salam said the UN has registered 607,908 refugees rebels seek to overthrow President Bashar Al-Assad. sition leadership, there is likely to be a discussion on Syria as and prior notification of military offensives. in Lebanon but the government estimates the true fig- But the influx of so many people is putting a huge strain on well, to take advantage of the fact that a variety of Arab foreign Amos said there should be “humanitarian pauses” to ure at 1.2 million. He estimated the number would the small Arab nation’s already struggling economy. Kerry told ministers will be with him in Amman,” a senior US official told allow aid access and “cross-border operations, as grow 20-fold during 2013. Lebanon has a population Judeh he was “happy to be back” on his sixth visit to the region. reporters. Plans to bring together the opposition and the Syrian appropriate.” The cross-border aid is controversial as it of about four million and he said the influx was the “I think we may wind up visiting one of the refugee camps as regime in a peace conference have stalled, and it is now unlikely is opposed by the Syrian government. Russia, equivalent of 75 million refugees flooding the United we talk about Syria. We were just chatting about the impor- the so-called Geneva II talks will happen before September. President Bashar Al-Assad’s key international backer, States. tance of that,” he added. The political convulsion in Egypt is fuelling concerns of has also resisted discussion of such operations at the Syria’s UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari disputed the “We have lots of bilateral issues to discuss and of course destabilization in one of the Arab world’s key members. United Nations. Turkey’s deputy UN ambassador UN death toll as “unprofessionally sourced” and criti- many challenges that we face in this region,” replied Judeh, say- Overnight clashes in the heart of Cairo and in adjacent Giza Levent Eler backed the call, however. “The council cized the use of an American company to collect data. ing they would discuss “the humanitarian spillover of the crisis were the first to rock the Egyptian capital since dozens of needs to consider alternative forms of aid delivery, But Simonovic said that “rigorous” methods had been and its effects on Jordan’s economy.” Kerry’s team has yet to Morsi supporters were shot dead outside an elite army bar- including cross-border operations,” he said. used to check a death toll of more than 92,900 given finalize plans for any refugee camp visit. Since he took office on racks early last week. They came just hours after Under Eler said the Syria crisis was turning into “the one month ago. He said each death was checked by February 1, Kerry has made a search for a long-elusive Middle Secretary of State Bill Burns-the most senior US official to visit biggest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century.” name and date and cross checked with at least three East peace deal one of the top priorities of his tenure. since the army toppled the elected Islamist president- Lebanon’s UN ambassador Nawaf Salam told the meet- sources. UN leader Ban Ki-moon has since said that “up But US officials have downplayed hopes that his return to appealed for an end to the violence rocking the Arab world’s ing that it was now “urgent” for the Security Council to to 100,000 people” have been killed in Syria.— AFP the region signaled there may be an announcement on a most populous nation. — AFP

Merits of supplication Violence overshadows new Egyptian... Continued from Page 1 and Muslim) Continued from Page 1 have promised a total of $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel. * Do not despair from the mercy of God. Prophet Investors are skeptical that major reforms can be enacted should lead him into asking for big things from Allah, Muhammad (PBUH) said: “There is no Muslim on the face “It’s an illegitimate government, an illegitimate prime before a permanent government is put in place. for there is nothing so big that Allah can’t give His ser- of the earth who asks Allah earnestly of anything except minister, an illegitimate cabinet. We don’t recognize any- The new planning minister, Ashraf Al-Arabi, said on vant.” Allah gives it to him or protects him from harm so long one in it. We don’t even recognize their authority as repre- Monday the Arab money would sustain Egypt through its Therefore, you are encouraged to ask of Allah any- as he doesn’t ask of Allah to give him prohibited things sentatives of the government,” spokesman Gehad El- transition and it did not need talks with the International thing that comes to your mind so long as it doesn’t go or help him in severing uterine relations.” Upon hearing Haddad said. The swearing-in ceremony was held after Monetary Fund on a stalled loan. Egypt had sought $4.8 beyond the parameters of the Islamic teachings. that, one of his companions commented: “Therefore, we battles between Morsi’s supporters and security forces billion in IMF aid last year, but months of talks ran aground (D) Avoid food, drinks and clothes from illicit busi- should supplicate as much as we can.” The Prophet that ran into the early hours of the morning, the worst vio- with the government unable to agree on cuts in unafford- ness: Allah says: “O ye who believe! Eat of the good answered: “The more you supplicate the more Allah lence in a week. able subsidies for food and fuel. Ahmed Elmoslmany, things that We have provided for you and be grateful to gives you or the more rewards you get.” Two people were killed at a bridge across the Nile in spokesman for the interim president, said the authorities Allah, if it is Him that you worship.” (2:172). central Cairo, and another five were killed in the district of expected the Brotherhood and other Islamists to agree to ETIQUETTE OF SUPPLICATION Question: What is the meaning of Duaa? Giza, said the head of emergency services, Mohamed participate in national reconciliation. * Avoid raising your voice whenever you supplicate to (A) Praying (B) Supplication or invocation (C) Sultan. More than 260 people were wounded and more “I am hoping and expecting, and I am in contact with Allah. While we believe that Allah is very close to us, His Defending yourself than 400 arrested. Not one of the new ministers is from members from the Muslim Brotherhood, and I can see nearness befits His majesty, grandeur and magnificence. either Morsi’s Brotherhood or Nour, the other main Islamist there is an acceptance to the idea,” he said. Senior Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “Indeed Allah - the Courtesy TIES Center, a leading non-political NGO group, which together have won all five elections held in Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagi said the move- One you pray and supplicate to is closer to every one of promoting relations between Westerners and the two and a half years since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was ment had not been offered cabinet posts, and would have you than the neck of his camel.” Although Allah is closer Muslims through dialogue, friendship and cultural toppled. rejected them if it had. “We will not see reconciliation to us than the necks of our camels or our jugular veins, exchange. For more information. www.tiescenter.net A spokesman for the interim president said the Islamists unless it’s on the basis of ending the military coup,” Beltagi He is over the heavens and there is nothing above Him. had been offered cabinet posts and would participate in said at a square near a Cairo mosque where thousands of * Don’t invoke a curse upon yourself or your wealth or the transition. The Brotherhood called the remarks lies, and Morsi supporters have maintained a vigil into its third your children in a fit of anger. It was narrated by Jaber said it would never yield its demand for Morsi’s return. week. bin Abdallah that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: Crisis in the Arab world’s most populous state, which strad- By sunrise calm had returned. The unrest has been less “Never pray against yourselves nor your wealth nor your dles the Suez Canal and has a strategic peace treaty with widespread than in the days after Morsi was toppled when children. It may so happen that you supplicate invoking Israel, raises alarm for its allies in the region and the West. 92 people died, but Egyptians still worry about continued Morsi’s removal has bitterly divided Egypt, with thou- violence. At Tahrir Square, rallying point for anti-Morsi pro- a curse on the aforementioned at a time when Allah JULY 17, 2013 sands of his supporters maintaining a vigil in a Cairo testers, a Reuters reporter saw teenagers in civilian T-shirts directly answers prayers.” (Reported by Muslim) square to demand his return, swelling to tens of thousands being handed rifles by troops in an armored vehicle. It was * Do not be impatient to get your supplication for mass demonstrations every few days. Morsi is being not clear if they were civilians or security personnel in plain answered by Allah. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: held incommunicado at an undisclosed location. He has clothes. “Your supplications will be answered so long as you are not been charged with any crime but the authorities say Washington, which supports Egypt with $1.5 billion a not in hurry and desperate, saying, ‘I have invoked my they are investigating him over complaints of inciting vio- year mainly for its military, has so far avoided saying Lord enough but nothing has materialized.’” (Bukhari lence, spying and wrecking the economy. whether it regards the military action as a “coup”, language A week of relative calm had suggested peace might be that would require it to halt aid. The United States was nev- returning, but that was shattered by the street battles into er comfortable with the rise of Morsi’s Brotherhood but the early hours of yesterday, the bloodiest since more than had defended his legitimacy as Egypt’s first elected leader. Lawyer asks court to suspend aid to Egypt 50 Morsi supporters were shot dead outside a barracks a Its position has attracted outrage from both sides, which week ago. “We were crouched on the ground, we were accuse it of meddling in Egypt’s affairs. Continued from Page 1 must be an elected MP. This position was filled by Minister praying. Suddenly there was shouting. We looked up and The fast-paced army-backed “road map” to full civilian of Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al-Rasheedi. But the the police were on the bridge firing tear gas down on us,” rule calls for a new constitution to be hammered out with- A number of legal experts have argued that the cur- experts insist that after the Constitutional Court dissolved said pro-Morsi protester Adel Asman, 42, who was cough- in weeks and put to a referendum, followed by parliamen- rent Cabinet does not fulfill the constitutional require- the Assembly on June 16, Rasheedi is no longer an MP ing, spitting and pouring Pepsi on his eyes to ease the tary elections in about six months and a presidential vote ments and accordingly, all decisions made by the govern- and thus the government lost one of its key constitutional effect of tear gas. soon after. A former ambassador to the United States has ment are illegal. requirements. The new cabinet faces a dire task rebuilding an econo- been named foreign minister and a US-educated econo- Under Kuwait law, the Cabinet must approve the Amiri But member of the scrapped assembly and election my wrecked by two and a half years of turmoil. Saudi mist is finance minister. A police general was put in charge decrees before they are officially issued. Experts argue candidate Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran said the Kuwaiti aid is a Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait - rich Gulf of the supply ministry, responsible for the huge distribu- that under the law, at least one member of the Cabinet political and diplomatic necessity decided by the country. Arab states happy at the downfall of the Brotherhood - tion system for state-subsidized food and fuel. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 SPORTS

Torino goalkeeper banned ‘Lack of quality a worry’ New Fulham boss urged ITALY: Torino’s Belgian goalkeeper Jean Francois Gillet was banned for three England’s lack of up-and-coming footballers is a serious concern for to tap Pakistan talent years and seven months as the Italian federation (FIGC) announced its latest LONDON: the national team, former striker Michael Owen said, blaming changes in batch of match-fixing related suspensions yesterday. Gillet, who has won nine social behavior. “Nobody comes home from school, knocks on 10 doors and KARACHI: Pakistan football chiefs yesterday urged new Fulham owner Shahid caps for Belgium, was one of 20 individuals suspended in relation to two match- asks if they fancy a kickabout. I used to run home from school to get my ball,” Khan to go back to his roots and tap up young talent in the South Asian coun- es involving Bari in Serie B in 2008 and 2009, where he was playing at the time. Owen said at a training day in Wales for young players. try. Billionaire Khan, born in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, took over the At 34, the decision could mean the end of his career. “If you look to where the best young players are coming from they tend to English Premier League club in a deal struck on Friday. The 62-year-old vowed Bari ensured a midtable finish when they lost 1-0 at home to Treviso in one be from countries where football is seen as a way out, an escape. to build on the foundations left by previous owner Mohamed Al Fayed, and of their final matches of the 2007/08 season and made sure of “England are not in a great position although we still have some good play- Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) marketing director Sardar Naveed Haider promotion when they were beaten 3-2 at Salernitana one ers,” Owen, who made his debut for Liverpool as a 17-year-old and was in the urged him to look to Pakistan. year later. Former Bari and Salernitana player Massimo England team at 18, was quoted as saying in yesterday’s newspapers. The 33- “We are trying to make a contact with him to request Gancio and former Salernitana director Cosimo year-old former Liverpool, Real Madrid and Newcastle United striker, who him to come to Pakistan and see the burgeoning tal- D’Angelo were given the longest bans, four years each. retired at the end of last season after a spell with Stoke City, was speaking ent in the country and get them an opportunity to Former Bari player Gianluca Galasso, currently out after the England Under-20 and Under-21 teams were eliminated in the group groom at the Fulham academy,” Haider told AFP. of contract, was banned for three years and seven stages of both the European and World championships without winning a Pakistan were among the top Asian foot- months while another 10 players, most of them now match. “I would have thought we will qualify for the World Cup,” he added. “If balling nations until the 1970s, but lack of gov- out of contract or retired, were suspended for we don’t get beaten in Ukraine we should be okay but nobody thinks we are ernment support and the overwhelming popu- three years and six months each. A further going to win the World Cup. “We will still produce players but whether we larity of cricket left the game in the doldrums. six players were given six-match bans have the pool of players we need is debatable.” Last month, a survey by the They now sit at a lowly 167th in FIFA rankings- while the tribunal agreed plea bar- International Centre for Sports Studies showed that five clubs - Manchester languishing below Bermuda, Palestine and the gains with another nine, resulting in City, Chelsea, Stoke City, Swansea City and Wigan Athletic - fielded no English Solomon Islands-but Haider claims signs of improve- bans ranging from just over three player under 21 years old last season.—Reuters ment are visible.—AFP months to 16 months. —Reuters Cespedes steals show from All-Stars, wins HR Derby

NEW YORK: Yoenis Cespedes cer- Cespedes said. “There might be two tainly made his mark at the All-Star people at our games. There’s only game - and he’s not even on the one photographer, and this is com- roster. Actually, it was a dent. pletely different and foreign to me. Oakland’s second-year slugger But I’m very happy to be here.” won baseball’s Home Run Derby His first-round outburst was with a dazzling display of power enough to send him straight into LAS VEGAS: The nine remaining players who will make up the Final Table in Monday night, becoming the first the finals, though he added six November for the World Series of Poker pose for a photo. —AP player left out of the Midsummer long balls in round two for good Classic to take home the crown. measure. Some of his drives were Cespedes beat Bryce Harper 9-8 especially impressive, too. Newbies rule in final table in the final round at reconfigured Cespedes hit about a half-dozen Citi Field, hitting the decisive drive balls into the upper deck in left, for WSOP main event with five swings to spare. The out- never reached by anyone in a fielder from Cuba flipped his bat game, and banged another couple LAS VEGAS: Youth and online skills dominat- narrowed to 11 and then to 10, some players aside and raised his left arm in tri- of shots off the restaurant windows ed as the final table of World Series of Poker hoping to avoid bad beats and roller-coaster umph when he sent his 32nd in the corner just below. was set, but it was an experienced grinder chip swings simply refused to gamble. homer of the night some 455 feet The 27-year-old Cespedes has who carried the day. The conservative play seemed to annoy to center field, where it caromed off struggled as a sophomore, batting As Monday night bled into Tuesday morn- tired fans who began urging players in heavi- the back wall of the black batter’s .225 with 15 home runs, but hardly ing, the most veteran player of the final 10 ly accented English to “double down” and bet eye. anyone in the game doubts his gamblers competing for a seat at the nine- all their chips or, once players went all in, He was swarmed by the ability. person final table worth $8.4 million for the yelling out the card that would ensure a loss. American League All-Stars near the “This trophy will motivate me so winner was defeated by the second-most The youngest of the six 20-somthings who third base line. “You come for a that things continue to go well for respected player. make up the final table is Ryan Riess, 23, of show in New York. He put on a me, and I just want to thank the Deep into the 14th hour of play on the Las Vegas, who was playing in his first world show,” said Detroit Tigers pitcher people that believed in me, that seventh day of the world’s biggest no-limit series. He reflected on his coming celebrity as Max Scherzer, set to start for the AL thought I could play at this level,” Texas Hold ‘em competition, well-known he took in the ESPN cameras swooping and late yesterday. The final addition to he said. Sacramento, California, grinder J.C. Tran went diving above the tables where the field of 27 the field, Cespedes was the fourth The 20-year-old Harper, wearing head to head with Carlos Mortensen, a was whittled to nine. player not selected for the All-Star shiny gold spikes as his father Spanish pro known as “El Matador,” who won “Not only is it a ton of money, which is game to compete in the event. pitched to him, hammered eight the main event in 2001 and was making a obviously life changing, but I feel like so many Right off the bat, he proved he homers in all three rounds. But the second run. Tran was holding a seven and an people know of me that did not know me.” he belonged. With family in the stands, Washington Nationals phenom eight, while Mortensen had an ace and a said, adding, “I’ll still be the same person.” Cespedes hit a whopping 17 home couldn’t keep up with Cespedes. nine. Also new to the ranks of the tournament runs in the first round - more than “He’s incredible,” Harper said. The flop, the first three common cards, champions was Sylvain Loosli, 26, who dubs any other player managed in their “He’s an absolute machine.” came down 10, six, three. Tran went all in on himself an “online poker cash game specialist” first two trips to the plate. Colorado outfielder Michael the turn, the fourth card, and Mortensen but had never made the money at the world “I felt that I was getting into a Cuddyer and Baltimore first base- very good rhythm, and that as long man Chris Davis, who leads the called, pushing all his chips in. series. NEW YORK: American League’s Yoenis Cespedes, of the Oakland as the ball was right over the plate, majors with 37 homers, were elimi- The turn was a nine, giving Tran a straight. “I’m quite impressed I didn’t feel any pres- Athletics, poses with a trophy and belt after winning the MLB All-Star I felt like I was in a good groove,” he nated in the second round. Davis Mortensen would have needed a club on the sure,” the Frenchman said, still wearing the baseball Home Run Derby. —AP river, or fifth card, to make a flush but got a gray hoodie he’d used to hide his eyes during said through a translator. “That was tied Reggie Jackson (1969) for the two of diamonds instead, costing him his play. Among the armatures coming back in the key.” AL record before the All-Star break. new fence in front of the old one, Oakland, I thought, why can’t I do it spot in the championship. November are tattoo artist Marc McLaughlin, Baseball’s big boppers took aim “I had a little blister come up dubbed the Great Wall of Flushing, here?” Cespedes said. As that card was dealt, whoops went up of Brossard, Quebec, and Columbia University at two trucks parked beside the second round. It’s just one of those before last season. That trimmed Wright and another hometown from the increasingly swaying and song- student David Benefield, of Fort Worth, Texas. home run apple behind the center- things,” Davis said. “I usually get one dimensions by up to 12 feet and darling, Pirates slugger Pedro prone crowds in the bleachers of the The rest of the finalists are pros, including field fence, a popular staple at Mets once a year and it just happened to lowered the height of the wall from Alvarez, were both eliminated in makeshift ESPN stage at the Rio casino off the Amir Lehavot, of Israel, Michiel Brummelhuis, games dating to their days in Shea be tonight. It actually popped dur- as high as 16 feet to 8 all around. the first round. Alvarez went to Strip. “The guy that I respected the most was of Amsterdam, and Marc Newhouse of Chapel Stadium. ing a swing. My main concern is Since then, the ballpark has high school in New York City and the one guy that I just busted,” said Tran, 36, Hill, North Carolina. With a shiny prize to shoot for, obviously not to hurt myself and to ranked closer to the middle of the grew up in the same Manhattan grinning and bleary-eyed moments after The $10,000 buy-in competition, which Cespedes dinged the hood on one hang onto the bat. pack in home runs, 18th out of 30. neighborhood as Manny Ramirez. Mortensen busted out. “It’s kind of sad to see began July 6 with 6,352 entrants, now takes a and elicited a rousing cheer. Cuban “It’s something that I’ve dealt But it’s still no hitter’s haven. In fact, Wright managed five home runs him go. But at the same time, I’m happy he’s break until Nov. 4, when the gamblers will reliever Aroldis Chapman of the with in my career since I can hometown favorite David Wright as the sellout crowd of 43,558 gone because he’s the one I respected most.” reconvene to determine a champion on live Cincinnati Reds brought Cespedes remember. You’ve just got to kind had joked he would take his Derby chanted “Let’s Go Mets!” “I ran out Tran, who holds first place in the chip count, television. Each player is already guaranteed water and a towel during the first of wear it for a couple of days and swings from second base. of gas,” he said. Also knocked out might have reason to think he can beat the at least a $700,000 payout. round, and 2010 champion David then it hardens up and you’re good Cespedes, however, and most of early were defending champion other finalists to take the diamond-encrusted For Tran, the final table could confirm his Ortiz strolled over to offer encour- to go.” the other sluggers had little trouble Prince Fielder, the only player bracelet. After all, many of them are newbies. hopes that tournament poker is not only a agement and advice. Citi Field opened in 2009 with a clearing the old wall. When they besides Ken Griffey Jr. to win multi- Jay Farber, 28, fourth in the chip count, has young man’s game. “The past couple years, The Rockettes danced atop the cavernous outfield and yielded the got good wood, it was long gone. ple times, and American League a lifetime poker winning of just over $2,000. I’ve been really distracted with a lot of things dugouts and did their famous kick- fewest home runs in the majors “This stadium may be very diffi- captain Robinson Cano of the New That’s the smallest lifetime earnings of any of going on - I became a family man, married, I line between first-round batters. over its first three seasons, accord- cult, but it’s not as difficult as York Yankees, who made Cespedes the “November nine” since 2008. have a son,” he said. “I came to the world “It’s far different from in Cuba,” ing to STATS. But the Mets erected a Oakland. And if I can do it in his final pick.—AP The Las Vegas club host acknowledged he series not really having that fire that I used to was flagging as the tournament entered its have. And when I looked back on the past 70th hour Monday, despite the steady cheer- couple years, I said, look, these results are not Bentley reveals Continental ing from a horde of his club friends in the so good.” Tran said he is expecting a daughter stands that chanted “Oh, Jay” to the tune of and hopes that his shot at the final table may an Italian soccer song as 3 a.m. Tuesday help him realize a long-held dream before neared. retiring. GT3 details at global debut “I’m not a tournament player. It’s frustrat- “I’m going to set one last goal, and that is Bentley debuts its new force with optimised drag. A top-mounted car- sport facility base at Bentley’s Crewe factory, an ing coming from being a cash-game player to to win this thing, and then I’m going to take a CREWE/GOODWOOD: Continental GT3 race car at the 2013 Goodwood bon fibre rear wing provides rear downforce and additional design office was created at M-Sport playing 12 to 14 hours a day,” he said. “But I nice little break, enjoy my wife and my kids Festival of Speed, unveiling a racing machine set stability, while a carbon fibre splitter balances for the detail design stages and build of the first really enjoyed the main event because it’s like and watch them grow up. Poker should be for to explore the extreme potential of Bentley’s the aerodynamic forces at the front of the car. car. playing a deep stack cash game.” As the field fun from here on out.”—AP iconic Grand Tourer, the Continental GT. Member Revisions have been made to the bonnet, The Continental GT3 now starts its pro- of the Board for Engineering, Rolf Frech, com- bumpers, fenders and sills in order to optimise gramme of developmental track work, focussing ments: “The Continental GT3 exploits the incred- the car’s drag coefficient and to assist with on optimising the car’s performance based on ible performance beneath the skin of every engine cooling. simulations and refining the car’s abilities. Once Continental GT. We’ve removed over 1000 kilo- With the removal of the leather and wood homologation with the FIA has been completed, grams of weight, reconfigured our 4.0-litre V8 to interior trim, the production electrical systems the GT3 will enter its first development races produce 600 bhp in race specification, and and advanced refinement materials that make before starting full competition in the FIA developed a comprehensive aerodynamic pack- the Continental GT such a capable Grand Tourer, Blancpain Series in 2014. age to ensure that we perform competitively. We the Continental GT3 weighs in under its target of The Continental GT3 made its official running are now looking forward to getting the car on 1300 kg. Despite the race-specification, the GT3 debut on the famous Goodwood Festival of the track and proving its potential.” remains a hand-crafted Bentley, with the steer- Speed Hillclimb from Friday 12th July until The Continental GT3 is powered by a race- ing wheel, door pulls and seat all hand-trimmed Sunday 14th, piloted twice a day by Bentley Boy prepared and dry-sump version of Bentley’s and stitched by Bentley craftspeople at Crewe. and 2003 Le Mans champion, Guy Smith. The car powerful but efficient 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, The design has been completed by a special- was on display in the F1 paddock, while the orig- with many components carried over from the ist team of engineers from Bentley Motors sup- inal Continental GT3 Concept Racer, unveiled at road-going engine. Developing up to 600 bhp in ported by the Continental GT3 Technical Partner, the Paris Auto Salon last September, was seen unrestricted race configuration via a motorsport M-Sport Ltd. Managed from a dedicated motor- inside the Bentley stand in the main paddock. engine management system, the V8 provides the GT3 with highly competitive power in a com- pact and lightweight package that’s perfect for racing. Power is transmitted to the rear wheels via a carbon fibre propshaft to an Xtrac six- speed sequential gearbox with a limited slip dif- ferential, mounted as a transaxle for optimised weight distribution. Gear actuations are com- pleted via a pneumatic shift system, controlled by paddles mounted to the steering wheel. A double wishbone suspension configuration front and rear, fitted with four-way adjustable racing dampers, replaces the standard road-car air springs. The steering system features hydraulic power-assistance, while braking is via ventilated iron discs combined with six-piston calipers on the front and four-piston calipers on UTRECHT: Spain’s Villalba Francisco competes during the gymnastic rings event of the rear. the European Youth Olympic Festival. About 3000 European young sports talents The exterior of the car features a comprehen- compete in nine Olympic sports from July 14 until July 19,2013.—AFP sive aerodynamic package, to maximise down- WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 SPORTS

Pinocho, Al-Muharraq advance in Kuwait Futsal

By Abdellatif Sharaa

KUWAIT: Kuwait Mini World Futsal Club Tournament saw Argentina’s Pinocho win 3-2 against France’s Erdre during the second round match of Group 2 after being down by two goals. Pinocho now has six points while Erdre remain pointless. In the other match, Bahrain’s Al-Muharraq was able to restore its glitter and give Arab teams hope after beating Romania’s City 4-1 and collect its first three points. Chances were many for the French against the Argentine team which attempted to counterattack to no avail. Erdre scored first through Angel Pico in the fourth minute, then Sendon scored the second goal in the 16th minute, ending the first half 2-0. Pinocho started the second half with determination and made several scoring attempts and forced Erdre to Mauro scored the equalizer in the 1 during the match that was con- threat up. Ali Saleh added the second Muharraq’s Ahmad Abdelrasoul defend and were careful in moving 35th minute before Calo Alan was trolled by Al-Muharraq from start to goal for Al-Muharraq in the 16th scored the third goal in the 34th forward. Things went bad for Erdre able to score the winning goal in the finish. City players showed overconfi- minute, making it harder for City. minute making it really hard for City. when its player Karim Brahim was very last minute to take his team into dence which adversely affected their City attempted to score in the sec- City’s Dumitru was thrown out of kicked out giving a golden opportuni- the quarter finals. performance and gave Al-Muharraq ond half while Al-Muharraq continued the game in the 36th minute allow- ty for Pinocho to score, which hap- The second match saw Al- the opportunity to have more control. its outstanding performance. City’s ing Muharraq to end the match with pened in the very minute Brahim was Muharraq playing with a different atti- It was only one minute into the match player Covaci scored a goal cutting the score of 4-1 with the final goal ejected through Lucas. tude and succeeded in correcting its when Al-Muharraq scored its first goal the lead in half, and while City were being scored by Mahmoud Pinocho kept the pressure up until situation by beating Romania’s City 4- through Jassim Saleh and kept the searching for the equalizer, Abdelrahman (Ringo). Brit bats for 26 hours in world record bid

LONDON: A British graduate col- the toilet. The idea was the brainchild lapsed in a heap yesterday after bat- of Alby’s father Christopher Shale, ting for 26 hours solid at The Oval Cameron’s close friend and his cricket ground in London in a bid to Conservative Party constituency chair- break the world record. man, who died of a heart attack at the Alby Shale, 22, from Oxfordshire in Glastonbury Festival in June 2011. southern England, began his “We were standing on the side of marathon stand in the indoor nets at the international-I say international 6:45 am (0545 GMT) on Monday and the main cricket pitch in Rwanda finally declared his innings at 8:45 am which still has bone residue from the yesterday. ‘94 genocide and we realised that this The attempt was in aid of the wasn’t good enough,” an exhausted Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation-a Shale told AFP. charity set up to create an internation- “We’ve seen first-hand what cricket al-standard cricket ground in the can bring to a country and we decid- African country, where the game is ed, he said to me there, ‘Listen, we emerging. The previous batting record need to build a new cricket pitch for of 25 hours was set in October by Rwanda’. Australian batsman Jade Child. “And then he died about six Shale, who has just graduated, is months later and this has become his now waiting for Guinness World legacy and this is my final farewell, if Records to go through the documen- you will. So as soon as this is built, I tation and confirm his new landmark. think he’ll rest in peace.” He faced around 200 bowlers in his The charity is hoping to raise spell at the crease. One of the bowlers £600,000 ($900,000, 700,000 euros) to was Prime Minister David Cameron, build a cricket ground with a pavilion who turned up to give him a few and some seating. Around £400,000 deliveries. has been raised so far. Dwight Howard With 10 minutes to go, Shale The world record attempt brought shrugged off the tiredness and started in a few thousand pounds through LONDON: Alby Shale poses next to an electronic timer after batting slogging at every delivery. “At the final online donations and bucket collec- for 26 hours at the Oval cricket club in London. —AFP Howard says Rockets’ ride ball he just sort of collapsed into a tions but the main aim was to raise cricketers over there,” he said. months it was not unusual for a field- heap and everyone piled in on top of awareness of the cause. Rwandans who fled the 1994 er, when chasing after a ball, to trip will feature smiles and wins him,” a spokesman for the attempt The charity is supported by genocide returned home having over a human bone. Rwanda joined told AFP. patrons including Cameron and West learnt the game in Kenya, Tanzania the International Cricket Council as an NEW YORK: The Houston Rockets intro- rebounds and 2.20 blocks per game over “Someone sprayed a bottle of Indies cricket legend Brian Lara. Shale and Uganda, with just a few old bats affiliate member in 2003 and has duced their “Superman” on Saturday with 697 career contests. In 61 postseason champagne all over the place.” He said there was “huge enthusiasm” for and balls between them. played regular matches since. the official announcement they had signed games, he has averaged 19.7 points, 14.1 then posed for pictures by the clock cricket in Rwanda but the country was The existing cricket field in the cap- Eventually, the plan is to build a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the rebounds and 2.72 blocks. showing 26 hours. The rules set down “sorely lacking in facilities”. “A new ital Kigali had been the site of a mas- muti-purpose sports centre around Year Dwight Howard to a four-year free Last season, coming back from back sur- by Guinness World Records allowed home of cricket in Rwanda-the first sacre and remains were found when the new ground, with any profits agent deal. gery and struggling to fit into the injury-hit only a five-minute break for every full dedicated international standard the tall grass was cut down to create being ploughed into Rwandan crick- Howard, 27, said playing for the Rockets Lakers’ scheme, he scored 17.1 points a hour completed-to refuel and go to pitch-would be a great boost to all the the pitch in 2002. For the next few et.—AFP would bring a smile back on his face and game and pulled down 12.4 rebounds on help make Houston big winners, and team average. owner Leslie Alexander said the seven-time “I made this decision for me,” he said Haddin: Australia ‘fine’ despite Arthur claims All-Star center could lift the team to great about leaving the tradition-rich Lakers, heights. “He’s going to be phenomenal,” who have long been dominated by scoring LONDON: Brad Haddin yesterday maintained need for discipline, while Watson did not, Australia to a stunning first Test win. Alexander said at a news conference/pep guard Kobe Bryant. “I want to be happy.” that the Australia squad in England were united Channel Seven said. “All the other stuff that we can talk about is rally, vowing that the center’s arrival made Howard will join last year’s big acquisition, after former coach Mickey Arthur reportedly Arthur also alleged Watson told him about white noise so it’s not something that has affect- the Rockets NBA title contenders. shooting guard James Harden, to form a claimed there was a huge rift between Test cap- Australia batsman David Warner’s punch at ed the side at all.”Channel Seven also reported Houston clinched the last playoff berth stellar one-two punch for Houston. tain Michael Clarke and all-rounder Shane England’s Joe Root in a Birmingham pub during that Arthur claimed in his submission that in the Western Conference last season with “If you can’t be happy when you’re play- Watson. Arthur was sensationally sacked just 16 the Champions Trophy last month, the broad- Cricket Australia did not support him over the a 45-37 record and lost in the first round to ing, it’s not fun. I want to get back to being days before the first Test against Ashes-holders caster added. decision to drop four players-including then Oklahoma City. that guy who was playing and having fun England at Trent Bridge, a match the tourists lost Watson previously stated he did not pass the vice-captain Watson-for the third Test in Mohali The powerfully built Howard, who wore but at the same time dominating,” he said. a Superman tee shirt and cape when he “If we dedicate ourselves and sacrifice by just 14 runs on Sunday to go 1-0 down in the information on to Arthur. The incident led to in March after the quartet failed to complete a won the NBA All-Star Game slam dunk con- everything we’ve got for a championship, five-match series, and was replaced by former Warner’s suspension before the Ashes, with the provide written feedback requested by team test in 2008, said he was eager for a fresh at the end of the season we should be Australia batsman Darren Lehmann. top-order batsman, not selected at Trent Bridge, management on how the side could improve. start in Houston, where big men have holding up a trophy.” Reports have since emerged that Arthur, the also missing out on the second Test at Lord’s The so-called “homework” incident was a low thrived at the center position. Howard was welcomed into the fold by first foreign-born coach of the Australia side is starting on Thursday to join the A side on tour in point during a series Australia lost 4-0 and was “This is very special,” said Howard, who a collection of former star centers for panning to sue Cricket Australia for up to AUS$4 Africa. cited by many observers as the beginning of the after forcing a trade from his original team, Houston, including Yao Ming, Elvin Hayes, million ($3.69 million, £2.44 million) in compen- Australia wicketkeeper Haddin, speaking to end of Arthur’s reign as coach. Channel Seven the Orlando Magic, spent an unhappy sea- Moses Malone and Ralph Sampson. sation. reporters at Lord’s yesterday, insisted: “The said Arthur alleged he was discriminated against son with the Los Angeles Lakers. “Words “Dwight is the biggest free agent acqui- Now, according to a report by Australian Australian dressing room is fine. I don’t know because he was South African. “We’re disap- really can’t explain how I feel about being sition in the history of the Rockets,” said broadcaster Channel Seven, Arthur, in legal doc- how many times we need to answer this. pointed it has come to this position but Cricket here. “It’s a fresh start, a clean slate.” owner Alexander. “His addition puts us in uments, has allegedly described the role of “We’re all pretty excited to be in an Ashes Australia is confident in its position on this mat- Howard, selected with the first overall contention. “Fans are going to have a great Watson and his faction within the team as a “can- campaign. Darren’s done a wonderful job, like all ter and I’m sure it will get resolved in an appro- pick of the 2004 NBA Draft by Orlando, time this year. This team will be tremen- cer”. Arthur, sacked two years before his contract our staff and players,” added vice-captain priate fashion,” Cricket Australia (CA) lawyer owns career averages of 18.3 points, 12.9 dous fun to watch.”—Reuters was due to expire, claimed Clarke embraced the Haddin, whose second innings 71 nearly led Dean Kino said yesterday. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 SPORTS

Marussia to use Ferrari Photo of the day engines in Formula One LONDON: Marussia have agreed a long- 2010 as Virgin Racing. term technical partnership with Ferrari to However, they are currently ahead of use their engines and full powertrain Malaysian-owned rivals Caterham after from 2014, the Anglo-Russian Formula nine races. The Formula One regulations One team said yesterday. are changing significantly next year with The move had been widely expected, a new turbo-charged 1.6 litre V6 engine with Marussia’s existing supplier and energy recovery systems being Cosworth set to leave the sport and the introduced to replace the current 2.4 litre team appointing Frenchman Jules V8. Bianchi - a Ferrari reserve - to their race Mercedes and Renault are expected to line-up at the start of this year. power four teams each with Ferrari, the Marussia said in a statement that the most successful and oldest team in the deal provided further confirmation of the championship, supplying the remaining team’s commitment to Formula One and three. “determination to maintain our progres- “We look forward to working with sion towards our long-term ambitions”. Scuderia Ferrari during this exciting The British-based team operate with the new era of Formula One competition,” smallest budget in the sport and have said Marussia chief executive Andy yet to score a point since their debut in Webb.—Reuters

Symonds joins Williams as ‘Crashgate’ scandal ban ends LONDON: Pat Symonds, the former Renault he added more success to his Renault F1 engineering head who was resume and can boast of playing a banned from Formula One in 2009 part in 32 race wins, four drivers titles after a Singapore Grand Prix crash and three constructors’ champi- scandal, has joined Williams as chief onships to date. technical officer. The 2008 Singapore Grand Prix was Williams, the former champions the win that stained his record, how- who have yet to score a point in nine ever, after the ‘Crashgate’ scandal Competitors perform at the Red Bull Flugtag in Belgrade, Serbia. —www.redbullcontentpool.com races this season, announced the broke a year later. move yesterday and said their current Symonds left Renault in 2009 along technical head Mike Coughlan had with flamboyant team boss Flavio left the team with immediate effect. Briatore after Brazilian driver Nelson Italian police probe into Coughlan had also joined Williams Piquet Jr told the governing FIA that after serving a ban, a two-year one he had been ordered to crash deliber- imposed in 2007 for his role in a spy- ately into a wall so that Alonso — who Powell, Simpson, physio ing controversy that led to McLaren was not implicated — could win. being handed a record 100 million “Symonds, in the presence of pound ($151.05 million) fine. The Briatore, asked me if I would be will- ROME: Italian police have highly-rated Symonds, who has been ing to sacrifice my race for the team opened an investigation for dop- working with back-markers Marussia by ‘causing a safety car’,” Piquet ing against Jamaican sprinters as a technical consultant under the declared after being promised immu- Asafa Powell and Sherone terms of the ban that expires this year, nity from prosecution if he told the Simpson, ANSA news agency will start work at the Williams factory truth. “Symonds took me aside to a reported yesterday, as the ath- on Aug. 19. “I’m delighted that Pat is quiet corner and, using a map, point- letes blamed their physiothera- joining the team,” founder Frank ed me to the exact corner of the track pist after they failed drugs tests. Williams said in a statement. where I should crash,” Piquet added in The pair, who tested positive “His technical capabilities and his statement. for a banned stimulant, were sporting successes speak for them- Renault did not dispute the allega- training in northeast Italy but selves and I’m sure that his knowledge tions and Symonds, who ran the race have now left the country after a and leadership will contribute consid- strategy and was Briatore’s deputy, police raid on their hotel, accord- erably to the success that all of us at was banned initially for five years ing to local media reports. Williams are working hard to achieve.” although that was later overturned. Canadian physiotherapist Chris Xuereb, who is similarly Symonds said he was honored “to Symonds, who had declared his under investigation, has also left be asked to play a role in returning “eternal regret and shame” at what Italy, ANSA said. The prosecutor’s the team to its rightful place at the happened in a letter to the FIA, office in Udine, the city closest to pinnacle of Formula One”. agreed not to work in Formula One where the Jamaican team was Williams have fallen on hard times other than as a consultant until 2013. staying, is leading the investiga- since their years of dominance. “Williams’ sporting and engineering tion for suspected violation of a Although they won in Spain with heritage dictates that we secure the law that punishes the supply and Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado in finest talent available,” said Williams ingestion of stimulants. 2012, that was their first race victory chief executive Mike O’Driscoll. Prosecutors have also confirmed in nearly eight years. “Pat brings unrivalled technical and the seizure of around 50 boxes Symonds has been in Formula One managerial skills in addition to a including creams, sprays and vials GATESHEAD: A picture taken on July 10, 2010 shows US Tyson Gay (left) running against Jamaica’s Asafa Powell (right) in the men’s 100m final at the Aviva British Grand Prix. —AFP for 30 years and has a formidable rep- proven ability to deliver on track that were seized in a search of the utation as an engineer and strategist, results. Our commitment to return rooms of Powell, Simpson and athletes, he was probably “Asafa’s had probably 150 to by injection, and all were legal, he working with the young Ayrton Senna Williams to winning ways is absolute Xuereb in the night between unaware of what exactly what the 200 clear tests in the past. He added. at Toleman in 1984 and then seven and this appointment is yet more evi- Sunday and Monday. supplements contained. Both starts working with a new physio Simpson checked whether any times champion Michael Schumacher dence of our collective desire to Police and prosecutors are cur- athletes tested positive for who gives him new supplements of the supplements contained at Benetton. return the team to the position it rently looking for a laboratory oxilofrine at the Jamaican cham- and all of a sudden he has a posi- proscribed substances, although With Spaniard Fernando Alonso at deserves.”—Reuters that can carry out tests, ANSA pionships last month. tive test in his first test. did not seek independent med- said. The development came after Italian police reportedly “It’s obvious there’s no other ical verification, Doyle said. He both athletes pointed to contami- brought Xuereb in for question- reason why he would have tested also accepted that Powell had not nated food supplements as the ing and raided his base on positive other than something informed his coach, Stephen reason why they failed the dope Monday, although ANSA said no being in the new supplements Francis, about the supplements. tests, which have cast a cloud arrest had been made. he’s been taking. Powell, a 4x100m relay gold over the build-up to the athletics “Asafa and Sherone have been “So we immediately asked medallist at the 2008 Olympics in world championships in Moscow working with WADA (the World WADA to get the police there to Beijing, is one of the four fastest next month and put sprinting in Anti-Doping Agency) to arrange go in and search everything in men over 100m in history. News the spotlight. this police raid, so to speak,” he the physio’s possession as well as of his positive test emerged on Britain’s Daily Telegraph quot- was quoted as saying. everything in Asafa and Sherone’s Sunday with a separate positive ed Paul Doyle as saying in an “Once we knew of the positive possession.” test for US sprinter Tyson Gay. interview that both Powell and test, we realised that Asafa and Xuereb began treating Powell Simpson won gold for Simpson had only recently begun Sherone were the only two ath- for a hamstring injury that flared Jamaica in the 4x100m relay at working with Xuereb. letes in the group who had been up in March this year, according the Athens Olympics in 2004 US-based Doyle said he had no given new supplements by this to Doyle. He added that Xuereb and silver in the event last year reason to suspect “mal-intent” on phsyio that they are working gave Powell 17 supplements, in London. She also won 100m Xuereb’s part and that, like the with. three of which were administered silver in Beijing.—AFP Rudisha out of worlds with injury

NAIROBI: Olympic champion record time, first felt pain in his David Rudisha has pulled out of knee at the Adidas Grand Prix in the 800 meters at next month’s New York in May. That led to him world championships with a withdrawing from a meet in George Smith charges forward in this file photo. knee injury, his coach said yester- Eugene, Oregon. day, robbing the year’s top track O’Connell said the injury may meet of another star attraction have occurred a few weeks Smith to line up after sprinter Tyson Gay with- before New York when Rudisha drew following a failed doping was running on rough ground in for Brumbies test. Kenya, where he trains in the Rudisha’s coach, Colm high-altitude regions of Eldoret CANBERRA: Australia flanker George stage of the competition is going to be O’Connell, told The Associated and Iten, but they couldn’t be Smith will return to the ACT Brumbies’ vital.” Smith, who retired from interna- Press that the world record-hold- sure. Rudisha sought treatment starting side for Sunday’s knock-out play- tional rugby in 2010, was a member of er had been sidelined from train- in Germany and was initially hop- off against the Cheetahs in Canberra, the Brumbies’ title-winning sides in 2001 ing for six weeks with a right ing to recover in time for the coach Jake White has said. and 2004 and has slotted back into his knee injury and had received Aug. 10-18 worlds. The 111-test veteran came off the old club this year with aplomb after treatment in Germany, but he “Doctors there (in Germany) bench for the side’s insipid away loss to returning from Japan to take a short- wouldn’t recover in time to said it may take three weeks for Western Force on Saturday after suffer- term deal. defend his world title in Moscow. him to recover and we thought ing a big hit in the Wallabies’ series- The Brumbies could also be boosted “Finally we have made the he would have seven weeks of deciding defeat against the British and by the return of scrumhalf Nic White, decision,” O’Connell said in a training,” O’Connell said. “But it Irish Lions on July 6. who fractured a shoulder blade last phone interview. “We held back has been longer. That’s why we White said the 32-year-old would not month, and has been knocking on the for long hoping for improvement have decided to make the be eased in again, however, with the door of the Wallabies since being named and he has improved quite a lot announcement.” Brumbies’ hopes of a third title on the in the squad for June internationals last but we didn’t want to do a crash Rudisha was one of the ath- line at Canberra Stadium. year. “All things being equal he should be course between now and the letes the IAAF would have des- “One hundred percent,” White told ready to go and if he’s 90 percent, look world championships, which may perately wanted to be at the local reporters yesterday. “For me now it’s this is a playoff game and we’ve got to aggravate the injury since he has worlds after Gay, a former world about picking a team that can win the pick the best team,” White said. been out of training.” O’Connell champion, said this weekend he competition. “George has all that experi- The winner of Sunday’s qualifying said the 24-year-old Kenyan, who would not compete in the ence, has played in playoffs and won the final will face either the Pretoria-based produced one of the Olympics’ Russian capital after he tested competition before. “Any bit of advan- Bulls or New Zealand’s defending cham- lasting performances in London positive for a banned sub- tage we can get going into this knockout pion Chiefs in the semi-finals.—Reuters last year to win gold in a world- stance.—AFP David Rudisha WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 SPORTS19 Zambia and Zimbabwe set to reach Cosafa Cup final

JOHANNESBURG: Cosafa Cup hosts time. Hosts Zimbabwe defeated Zambia home team in control by the half-hour “But I have confidence in them as they er. “There is pressure because every team Zambia and title-holders Zimbabwe are 3-1 in the 2009 final before a sponsorship mark. Teenage substitute striker Moses are talented footballers and this Cup wants to beat us,” conceded playmaker favored to win the semi-finals today in withdrawal forced the cancellation of the Phiri added a third goal 12 minutes from offers them a chance to stake claims for Ronald Chitiyo. “But I am confident we mining city Ndola. next three editions. time before a bicycle kick produced a inclusion in future squads.” can successfully defend the title.” Zimbabwe confront giantkillers France-born Zambia coach Herve flattering scoreline for Mozambique. Zimbabwe and Lesotho went through Zimbabwe have never won successive Lesotho in the first half of a southern Renard says it would be “unthinkable” for Fellow seeds South Africa started with nerve-tingling penalty shootouts to Cosafa Cup championships-a feat Africa championship double-header at the Chipolopolo (Copper Bullets) not to a satisfying 2-1 win over Namibia, a secure last-four places after 1-1 draws achieved by Zambia (1997-1998) and the 45,000-seat Levy Mwanawasa overcome Bafana Bafana (The Boys). country who have twice eliminated their with Malawi and Angola respectively. South Africa (2007-2008). Lesotho Stadium. This repeat of the 2000 final “This is a very important tournament much stronger neighbours from the Cup. Klaus-Dieter Pagels returns to Europe reached the quarter-finals by topping a won convincingly by Zimbabwe is fol- for Zambia and we need to win it as Particularly pleasing for coach Gordon soon as his contract with Zimbabwe has four-team mini-league on goal difference lowed by the main attraction between hosts,” he told reporters. “We have a Igesund was a shoot-on-sight policy that expired and the influence of the German ahead of more fancied Kenya and former African champions Zambia and team capable of going all the way, but delivered great goals from Jabulani was evident in the opening half against Botswana. South Africa. the most important thing now is to con- Shongwe and Hlompho Kekana. Malawi. The Warriors retained possession And they have a challenger for the Zimbabwe have won a regional com- centrate on reaching the final.” Igesund lost 10 of his original 20-man for long periods through short passing leading scorer prize in three-goal striker petition staged in various formats a Zambia were one of six seeded sides squad to clubs preparing for the new and good off-the-ball movement, and Thapelo Tale, who has struck one less record four times and South Africa and to receive byes into the knockout stage domestic season, including five stars should have led by more than one goal than Jerome Ramatlhakwane of Zambia three times each. and a great start against Mozambique from champions Kaizer Chiefs. at half-time. Botswana. However, Tale would be the Both Zambia and Zimbabwe admit set up a convincing 3-1 triumph. “Many of my players are new to the But they failed to maintain control first to admit that teamwork and they are feeling the pressure as they seek Striker Bornwell Mwape converted a national team system and we cannot get despite Malawi having a player sent off doggedness rather than individual bril- to set up consecutive Cosafa Cup finals penalty and defender Jimmy Chisenga everything right in just a few days,” and a howler from goalkeeper Maxwell liance has got the Crocodiles within sight between the same teams for the first saw his cross land in the net to put the admitted the coach. Nyamupangedengu gifted a late equalis- of the final.—AFP Cavani joins PSG in record transfer fee

PARIS: Edinson Cavani was yester- day officially unveiled as Paris Saint-Germain’s latest mega-sign- ing, the striker joining the French champions for a Ligue 1 record 64 million euros ($84 million) from Napoli. The 26-year-old Uruguay inter- national, Serie A’s top scorer last season with 29 goals, has joined Laurent Blanc’s Qatari-backed side on a five year contract. The previ- ous highest transfer was set earlier this year, when Colombia forward Radamel Falcao signed for Monaco from Atletico Madrid for a figure estimated at nearly 60 million euros. ITALY: German striker Mario Gomez and Fiorentina sporting director Daniele Meanwhile, Cesc Fabregas Prade’ (right) pose with Gomez’ new jersey during his official presentation at wants to remain at Barcelona, the Artemio Franchi stadium. —AP according to coach Tito Vilanova. On Monday, Manchester United offered 30 million euros ($39 mil- Gomez joins Fiorentina lion) to bring the 26-year-old for- mer Arsenal captain back to the FLORENCE: Mario Gomez has made it clear developed last season under first-year Premier League. why he chose to leave European champion manager Vincenzo Montella. Speaking at the Spanish cham- Bayern Munich for Fiorentina. The Germany Gomez scored 112 goals in 172 games pion’s first pre-season press confer- striker believes that by transferring to a for Bayern across the past four seasons. His ence on Tuesday, Vilanova said it smaller club he’ll get more playing time reported transfer fee was ‚Ǩ20 million ($26 was good that Barcelona received and have a better chance of staying in form million). “The arrival of a champion like offers for its players, but that he for next year’s World Cup. Gomez confirms how strong our ownership had spoken to Fabregas and set- “My transfer may seem strange to some is,” said Fiorentina sporting director tled the matter. “I had a talk with FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) new forward, Edinson Cavani of Uruguay, and PSG’s chairman people. I had everything in Munich. But Daniele Prade. “It’s an ownership that him and he said he wanted to stay Nasser Al-Khelaifi of Qatar (right) pose with Cavani’s jersey during a press conference. —AFP here I have the chance to play in view of allows us to battle against Goliath on equal here and did not want to go to the World Cup,” Gomez said at his presen- terms.” About 15,000 fans welcomed another big club,” Vilanova said. things this year had “crossed the gland. “But during my recovery, I with them understanding each tation Monday. Gomez at the Stadio Franchi. “All this Vilanova will likely need to rely line.” He said Barcelona’s directors spent two months there and did other, they play in complementary Gomez added that new Bayern coach enthusiasm is great, it gives me a lot of on Fabregas more this season had unfairly criticized him over not see him, and that wasn’t due to positions,” he said. “That one Pep Guardiola recommended Fiorentina to energy,” Gomez said. “I feel a lot of respon- since midfielder Thiago Alcantara how he reacted after Vilanova had me. He was my friend and I needed should be shadowed will give him for the Tuscan club’s attacking style sibility and I want to win.”—AP has opted to play at Bayern Munich to go in for medical treatment. him and he was not there for me. I greater freedom to the other.” under former club coach Pep “Pep got it wrong and it sur- would have acted differently,” Vilanova said the club was look- Guardiola. prised me,” Vilanova said, adding Vilanova said. “It was I who was ing for a center back, and Paris Vilanova said that he also need- that no one on Barcelona’s board alone, who went through a bad Saint-Germain defender Thiago Celtic struggling ed to respond to comments of directors had used his illness to time,” Vilanova said. “It was I who Silva would be a good choice. Guardiola had made in Italy. While attack Guardiola. needed help.” Vilanova said that he “I would like him to come,” said to find form on a pre-season training session He said that Guardiola had visit- still thought Lionel Messi was the Vilanova, adding that he wasn’t with Bayern near Lake Garda, ed him early on during his stay in best player, but he was happy with focused exclusively on the 28-year- BELFAST: Celtic manager Neil Lennon allow a 5,000 capacity crowd. Guardiola caused a media storm in New York where he had received the arrival of Neymar. old Brazil player. “I’ll acquire a cen- admits his side are nowhere near their best “What we can’t get involved in is the Spain by saying that quite a few treatment for cancer in a saliva “There won’t be any problems tral defender for sure.”—AP as they prepare to take on Cliftonville in a party or the carnival atmosphere,” Lennon vital Champions League qualifier in Belfast said. “We have to be professional and go yesterday. there to do a job.” Al Jazeera buys EPL TV Lennon’s team have endured a far from One player desperate to play and make ideal preparation for the crucial tie after an impact at the Parkhead club is rights in Middle East conceding 12 goals in four friendly defeats Australian international Tom Rogic The on a pre-season tour of Germany disrupted midfielder, who helped the Socceroos book LONDON: Al Jazeera Sport has bought exclusive media by injuries and star sales. their slot in Brazil next summer with a 1-0 rights to English Premier League soccer in the Middle East The Scottish champions could be with- win over Iraq, missed out on Celtic’s run to and North Africa for three years starting from next month, out a number of key players for the second the Champions League last 16 last season it said in a statement on Monday. Qatar-based Al Jazeera qualifying round first leg match against the after only joining the club from A-League reached agreement with TV sports rights firm MP & Silva Northern Irish minnows. side Central Coast Mariners in January. for access to all 380 Premier League matches across media Adam Matthews, Gary Hooper and Joe The Scottish champions’ task this sea- platforms and devices in 23 countries from Iran to Ledley are all expected to be sidelined, son is even tougher as they face three qual- Morocco, taking in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. while Kenya midfielder Victor Wanyama, a ifying rounds just to reach the money-spin- Former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy key figure last season, has been sold to ning group stages of the competition, but Gray will front the English language programmes with Southampton. Rogic can’t wait to get involved. Ayman Jada and Mohammed Saadon Al Kuwari presenting And Lennon says starting their “The Champions League will be a new Arabic coverage starting with the 2013-14 season which European campaign less than eight weeks experience for me,” he said. “It would be a kicks off on Aug. 17. since their Scottish Cup win over Hibernian great achievement if I could play a part in it In January, MP & Silva trumped its larger rivals Abu at the end of last season is far from ideal. and it would also be good for the club and Dhabi Media (ADM) and Al Jazeera to win the three-year “It’s so early, it’s a harsh reality of where our season if we could make it into the contract to distribute Premier League soccer in the region. we are,” Lennon said. “We won the cup group stage again. We just have to do our MP & Silva said the cost of their agreement with the final at the end of May and we are back in best to make sure we get there. Premier League was close to the $300 million ADM had on June 24. “It’s been staggered and a bit “I’m sure we’ll be ready for Cliftonville paid to acquire the rights in their previous three-year deal. disjointed because we have had a lot of today. The squad is more or less the same HOUSTON: Goalkeeper Jan Michael Williams No. 21 of Trinidad & Tobago Having bought the rights, MP & Silva sought to do its injuries as well. “I don’t even know what my and we all know our jobs. “We’re comfort- defends against Jerry Palacios No. 9 of Honduras during the CONCACAF Gold own deal with a broadcaster in the region to show live best team is at the moment or which play- able playing with each other. We’ve all had action although Al Jazeera did not disclose the amount it Cup game. —AFP ers I’ll have available to me. a short break but we’re all back fit and had paid. “They are the ups and downs you have fresh. “I don’t know too much about “We are extremely excited by the addition of the to cope with during pre-season, but I don’t Cliftonville. We would just rather concen- Trinidad beat Honduras Barclays Premier League for the next three year cycle, the think you’ll see us anywhere near our best trate on ourselves. value that this can add to our customer proposition and for another two weeks or so. “We know if we play to the best of our to advance in Gold Cup extending further our portfolio of top European football,” “We know how difficult it’s going to be ability then we’ll be fine.” Despite Al Jazeera Sport chairman Nasser Al Khelaifi said in a state- because these games are so early in the Cliftonville’s stadium being less than a mile HOUSTON: Trinidad and Tobago took full moved on thanks to earlier wins against ment. Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore season. “We’ll cover it as best we can but it from the worst of the recent rioting in advantage of a lacklustre Honduras per- Haiti and El Salvador. Trinidad and Tobago added: “We are extremely pleased to welcome Al Jazeera won’t be easy for us.” Despite the financial Northern Ireland, which has seen 39 police formance to advance to the CONCACAF finished in second place following the vic- Sport as a new partner in Middle East North Africa. gulf that separates the two sides, Lennon officers injured in loyalist clashes, the quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory in Houston tory. “We look forward to working with them and are confi- has warned his players against complacen- Police Service of Northern Ireland said on Monday. Haiti had a chance to advance earlier in dent they will broadcast the Barclays Premier League in a cy against the team of part-timers, whose there are no plans to postpone or switch In the first game of a Group B double- the evening but a late goal sent them tum- comprehensive and innovative manner to our fans in the tiny Solitude ground has been extended to the match to another venue.—AFP header played earlier at the BBVA Compass bling out of the tournament. Rodolfo region.” The Premier League is the richest in the world in Stadium, El Salvador edged out Haiti 1-0 to Zelaya initially missed a late penalty but terms of TV revenue and outperforms Spanish and German also advance at the expense of their oppo- poked home the rebound as El Salvador rivals when it comes to selling overseas. France reach q-finals nents. finished the group stage as one of the two Sales of rights around the globe have inflated total TV Honduras had already secured top spot best third-place finishers. revenues for the 20-team league to an estimated 5.5 billion LINKOPING: An early goal from Wendie on goal difference. France’s winner came in the group after victories in their opening El Salvador entered the match tied for pounds ($8.31 billion) over the next three years. Renard helped France book their place in the after five minutes when Renard got in front of two matches, allowing Trinidad and third in the group with just a single point, Al Jazeera Sport, which has 19 Live Sports and Sports last eight of the European women’s soccer Spain’s Irene Paredes and headed home. Tobago to capitalise on their complacency while Haiti, on three points, only needed a News channels in the region, will launch three new HD championship in Sweden as they secured a 1- England, who lost their opening game to with an inspired second half display. draw to advance. channels to show all the Premier League matches. 0 win over Spain that guaranteed them top Spain, dominated the opening exchanges, Stoke City striker Kenwyne Jones scored The game turned late in the second half The company has been building up its sports broadcast- spot in Group C on Monday. Toni Duggan but fell behind when Russia’s Nelli Korovkina a goal and added an assist to lead the way, when El Salvador were awarded a penalty ing business, launching channels in France and the United scored a last-gasp equaliser for England, who struck in the 38th minute. England piled on setting his side on course for the knockout after Haiti’s Jean Marc Alexandre was States, and buying the Premier League rights shows its maintained their hopes of reaching the quar- the pressure but were wasteful in front of phase when he converted a penalty in the penalised for a foul in his own area. ambition. Al Jazeera also announced it had secured exclu- ter-finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia. goal and looked to be heading for an early 48th minute after Orlin Peralta had fouled After vehement protests from Haiti, sive rights from MP & Silva and Pitch International for Serie France top the standings with six points exit until substitute Duggan swept a low shot Cornell Glen in the box. Zelaya’s 76th minute spot-kick was saved A and Major League Soccer (MLS) plus major cup competi- from their two matches and cannot be over- into the net in stoppage time. England must Jones then helped his side double their by goalkeeper Frandy Montrevil but the tions, including the FA Cup, along with Brazil and England taken, having beaten second-place Spain, beat France in their final group game tomor- advantage in the 67th minute when he set forward followed up to give El Salvador a international matches. In addition, it has acquired club who have three points with one game row to have any chance of progressing to the up Kevin Molino to score from inside the decisive lead. It was the third goal of the content for English teams Arsenal, Liverpool and remaining. England and Russia have a point last eight, with Russia under similar pressure penalty area. tournament for Zelaya, who also hit the Tottenham Hotspur plus Italian sides AC and Inter Milan apiece with the English occupying third spot against Spain. —Reuters The loss did not hurt Honduras as they post twice on Monday.—Reuters along with Juventus.—Reuters Cespedes steals Cavani joins show from PSG in record All-Stars, transfer fee wins16 HR Derby 19 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

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GAP: Britain’s Christopher Froome celebrates his overall leader’s yellow jersey on the podium at the end of the 168 km sixteenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race. — AFP Froome keeps yellow and sees red

GAP: Chris Froome preserved his Froome went off the left side of the going into a turn at full speed and flew Soccer healthy overall lead after a nervous fin- road and had to plant his left foot on across the road. Lance Armstrong, ish to yesterday’s 16th stage, and then the ground to stop from toppling off stripped of his seven Tour titles for serial blamed his main Tour de France rival completely. Contador also lost balance doping, was riding just behind him and UAE splash cash abroad but Alberto Contador for a downhill inci- and hit his knee on the ground before had to take sharp evasive action, swerv- dent that could have ended their races. quickly jumping back up on the bike. ing off the road and then running across Portuguese rider Rui Costa won the “It actually put me in danger a small field before re-mounting his domestic league struggles stage with a solo breakaway, while because I had to go off the road to avoid bike. behind him the subplot between him,” Froome said. “He couldn’t control “At the moment I’m trying to take as DUBAI: Abu Dhabi’s investment in Manchester City and other players’ enhanced technique and fitness - but the country’s Contador and Froome thickened with a his own speed and crashed.” Contador, least risks as I can,” Froome said. European clubs tops one billion pounds ($1.5 billion) but teams have made little progress in the Asian Football few days left until the finish line in Paris. the 2007 and ‘09 champion stripped of “Everyone knows it’s a dangerous most clubs in the United Arab Emirates’ domestic league play Confederation’s Champions League (ACL). Although Froome is still more than his ‘10 title for doping, defended him- descent and we’ve seen a lot of images in near-empty stadiums and often rely on government “It will take some time - Japan has had 20-30 years of four minutes clear of Contador, the self. “It was really difficult. In normal from the past ... But I didn’t think guys largesse to survive. growth in their league - we’ve come a long way in the first five British rider felt he could just as easily conditions I wouldn’t have slipped like were going to take unnecessary risks The local game has big ambitions yet little chance of real- years,” said Smith. have ended up in hospital. “One little that, but it was very difficult terrain and there.” ising them due to the country’s small population which is Al Ain won the first ACL in 2003 and were runners-up two accident and it could be the end of your the bike got away from me,” he said. Froome seemed to be more than a apathetic about domestic teams. years later, but no UAE team has won a knockout tie since Tour,” Froome said. “In my opinion it was “Sometimes you have to go for it, little exasperated, and his radar will be Emiratis are hugely proud of Manchester City’s Premier 2007 despite up to four clubs participating each season, and a bit dangerous from Alberto to ride like whether it’s at the start or the end of a on red alert in the days to come. “All League and FA Cup successes since Sheikh Mansour bin they struggle to compete against their continental counter- that, it’s not good.” On the final descent stage.” The incident was chillingly remi- teams are starting to get desperate now Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi bought the club in 2008. parts. down from the Col de Manse, Froome niscent of the 2003 Tour when Spaniard and they’re taking uncalculated risks,” Emirates Airlines’ sponsorship of Paris St-Germain, AC Milan “What we lack is revenue generation from ticket sales,” and Contador were undone by a sharp Joseba Beloki broke his right arm, elbow he said. “In my mind this Tour is not over and Arsenal’s 60,000-capacity Emirates Stadium is also a Abdullah al-Naboodah, chairman of Dubai’s Al Ahli, who were right turn as the Brit chased after the and wrist after crashing on the descent until I cross the final line on the source of prestige. domestic runners-up in 2013, told Reuters. Spaniard. from Manse. He lost control of his bike Champs-Elysees.” — AP However, these investments have not directly benefited “This is a problem in the UAE - because we are trying to the domestic game, said Yousuf al-Serkal, president of the promote more people coming to the stadium we are giving UAE FA. “We haven’t seen any co-operation between those them free tickets, but this kind of culture needs to change.” clubs and our clubs or the national team,” Serkal told Reuters. Local media report that some clubs even pay supporters Celebratory fire turns Iraq On a typical European Champions League night, Dubai’s bars to attend matches. This has boosted the stadium atmosphere and cafes are packed with supporters in Barcelona, but for clubs meant to run along commercial lines it appears football win into nightmare Manchester United and Real shirts, the glamour of Europe’s a dubious strategy. elite club competition alluring to expatriates and locals alike. “Improvement on the field will attract more people but Yet just a few thousand, less than half the ground’s capaci- making revenue out of them will probably take longer,” said BAGHDAD: Thirteen-year-old Moqtada went outside his house ebrate, but not with shooting.” As for an upcoming match, he ty, watched Al Ain’s 3-0 home win over Dubai in April that Naboodah. to set off fireworks after a victory by Iraq’s football team, but end- added: “I hope that Iraq will lose, it is better, I swear to God.” sealed a second straight title for the desert oasis town. The league’s TV deal expired at the end of last season and ed up a victim of celebratory gunfire, with a bullet lodged in his No victory would mean no celebratory shooting. Interior min- The low attendances undermine the UAE’s aims of produc- in June it agreed in principle to sell the rights to government- back. When Iraq beat South Korea in the U-20 World Cup quarter- istry spokesman Saad Maan told AFP that people who fire ing a competition that will ultimately rival the best in Asia. “I owned Abu Dhabi Sports for three seasons. “I think the rev- finals this month, Baghdad erupted with the sound of gunshots, weapons in the air can face arrest and the confiscation of their don’t think it’s impossible,” Colin Smith, chief executive of enue will grow a lot in terms of TV, it’s much better than this fired individually or in automatic bursts. firearms. competition organisers the Pro League Committee, told season,” said Naboodah. But while some were gleefully firing in the air, others were “If you want to celebrate, you can celebrate in a modern way,” Reuters. But for now, the 14-club top flight are thought to receive paying the price. Security and medical officials said at least four Maan said. “Anything else except using guns.” But celebratory “Elsewhere, the domestic population grows up supporting handouts from the governments of their respective emirates. people were killed and around 21 wounded by gunfire after the shooting, which also occurs at some weddings and funerals, is certain clubs and that’s the case here for the Emirati popula- Dubai Sports Council provided grants of 40 million match. still common in Iraq, and security forces are sometimes part of tion, but not necessarily for the expat transient population.” dirhams ($10.9 million) to four of its clubs - Al Ahli, Al Wasl, Al Celebratory shooting adds yet another danger to a country the problem. The UAE is a federation of seven emirates in which Abu Nasr and Al Shabab - for the 2012-13 season, while Dubai which has been hit by the worst violence since 2008. More than The night Moqtada was shot, one witness saw federal police- Dhabi home to about 5 percent of the world’s oil reserves- Club received 28 million dirhams. The league’s commercial 2,600 people have been killed in attacks so far this year. men in the Zayouna area of Baghdad firing a Kalashnikov assault and Dubai, the Gulf’s commercial hub, are dominant. Nearly sponsorship deals - with Nike, Audi, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank At a house in central Baghdad, Moqtada, a slightly-built boy rifle and a machinegun into the air, though an officer came and 90 per cent of the 8.2 million population are foreign. and telecom operator Etisalat - expired at the season’s end with black hair, rested on his stomach on a narrow bed, a large called them to account. — AFP “People, not only in the UAE but the whole Middle East, and negotiations for new sponsorship deals are ongoing. bandage covering his wounded lower back. “I went out ... to play love football, but they like to watch Barcelona, Real Madrid, “Hopefully, we will be looking at a first phase to be concluded with fireworks” and “was hit in my back,” Moqtada said in a quiet Man United, Spain and France, rather than their own teams over the summer so we can start next season already with voice. He intially thought he had been struck by a firework, but it and their own players,” former Real Madrid defender Michel some of that programme complete,” said Smith. “Then we will soon became clear it was something more serious. “I was sitting Salgado, who became director of football at Dubai Sports see others come on board throughout the first and second at home watching the match, which Iraq won. We were happy,” City’s Football Academy in April, told Reuters. seasons of that cycle.” “So the first and most difficult thing is to try and change UAE clubs have typically fielded a mixture of homegrown said Moqtada’s uncle Rahim. “Then they called saying your that culture.” Smith believes the league can still capture fans’ and other Arab players, plus foreign journeyman and ageing nephew was hit by a shot.” attention despite Europe’s top leagues enjoying extensive former greats eking out one last payday such as Luca Toni and Rahim said Moqtada was taken to a public hospital in coverage on UAE television. “If you love football, you’ll watch Fabio Cannavaro. League clubs can employ three foreign Baghdad, but they refused to operate, saying it was too risky. So football from throughout the world - but the focus has to be players, plus one Asian player, but the FA’s Serkal wants to cut the wounded boy had to be moved to a second public hospital. on the live match-day experience,” he says. this to three in total. There has been an influx of younger It seemed the operation would be performed there, but doc- Among the UAE clubs, only Abu Dhabi’s Al Jazira Stadium overseas talent, including Ghanian striker Asamoah Gyan, 27, tors eventually decided it should be done at a third, privately- has a capacity greater than 20,000 and although the league and Chile midfielder Luis Antonio JimÈnez, 29, since the 2011- owned hospital, where the bullet was finally removed. The boy’s does not publish attendance figures, crowds are often only in 12 season. “We don’t see so many fans as compared to father Ali later told AFP Moqtada was recovering well from the BAGHDAD: Thirteen-year-old Moqtada lies on his tum- the hundreds. Europe, but we have quality players in the league,” said Gyan, gunshot and walking again. my as he rests at his home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The UAE Pro League was formed when the top flight who has scored 56 goals in 46 appearances over two seasons. But the operation, unlike treatment at public facilities, came at Moqtada went outside for fireworks after a victory by turned professional in 2008. It changed its name to the “The French league started from somewhere and it’s a a steep cost — 2.5 million Iraqi dinars (about $2,080) — a huge Iraq’s football team against South Korea in the U-20 Arabian Gulf League in May although only UAE clubs com- now a big thing. You can see the (UAE) league is being expense that the family could ill-afford. They pooled money to World Cup quarter-finals this month, but instead end- pete in it. recognised now. It’s not as good as Europe, but it will pay the bill. ed up a victim of celebratory gunfire, with a bullet Professionalism has brought improvements - Smith cited improve.” — Reuters It was “all because of the match,” Rahim said. “Clap, dance, cel- lodged in his back. —AFP Battery in Honeywell locator eyed in 787 fire Page 22

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THESSALONIKI, Greece: Protesters hold banners and chant slogans as they take part in an anti-austerity rally during a 24-hour general strike in the northern port city yesterday. — AP Greeks strike against layoffs Flights, trains, garbage collection hit by 24-hour walkout

ATHENS: Tens of thousands of Greek workers walked off the should also feel the pain of layoffs that have ravaged the pri- Representing about 2.5 million workers, the two public and department or get fired. Some 25,000 workers will be placed job yesterday and rallied in front of parliament in a noisy vate sector. But virtually all agree that Greek society cannot private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE that called the strike in the scheme by the end of the year, sparking outrage at a protest against government plans to fire public sector handle any more spending cuts and tax hikes - a message the have brought workers to the streets repeatedly since Greece time when unemployment stands at an all-time high of 27 employees to satisfy foreign lenders. The 24-hour general government will relay to Germany’s finance minister, Europe’s slid into a debt crisis in late 2009, though several protests percent. strike against a new scheme to transfer or fire state workers leading proponent of economic austerity, when he visits have fizzled this year amid a growing sense of resignation. The plan has turned into the latest headache for Prime comes a day before parliament votes on a series of reforms Athens later this week. Protesters are likely to be out in force again tomorrow for the Minister Antonis Samaras’s fragile coalition government, that must be passed before the European Union and Outside parliament, protesters chanted “No more sacri- visit of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Many which nearly collapsed last month after it abruptly shut the International Monetary Fund can disburse more financial aid. fices” and waved banners that read “Fire the troika” in refer- Greeks blame Germany’s insistence on austerity for their eco- state broadcaster ERT and fired its 2,600 staff. The debacle Over 30,000 demonstrators - including municipal police and ence to the trio of European Commission, European Central nomic crisis and pictures lampooning Chancellor Angela prompted a small leftist party to leave the government, leav- teachers targeted in the layoff scheme - gathered in the cen- Bank and IMF propping up Greece with over Ä200 billion in Merkel as a latter-day Nazi, festooned with swastikas, are com- ing Samaras with a much smaller backing of 155 deputies in tral square before parliament beating drums and blowing aid. Domestic flights were disrupted after civil aviation unions monplace. the 300-seat parliament. whistles in one of the biggest anti-austerity protests in Greece staged a four-hour work stoppage and Athens’s main tourist Greece’s lenders, who have bailed it out twice with Ä240 Still, that is expected to be enough to secure passage of this year. attraction - the Acropolis - shut early. City transport was also billion worth of aid, are frustrated with the slow progress it the reforms bill today. Many saw the ERT closure as a move to “It feels like Greece is dead and now the vultures are fight- affected, with bus and trolley bus drives holding work stop- has made in streamlining a 600,000-strong public sector wide- pave the way for mass firings in the public sector. “The policy ing over its corpse,” said Eleni Fotopoulou, 58, a retired teacher pages in the morning and in the evening. Trains stopped run- ly seen as corrupt and inefficient. After repeatedly missing of mass layoffs, the dismantling of public institutions responsi- and mother of two. “I’m not angry anymore, I am disgusted. ning and tax offices and municipal services remained shut. deadlines, Athens in recent weeks has scrambled to put ble and the demolition of any notion of labour rights inaugu- We have to fight back.” Greeks are split over whether state Garbage collectors, bus drivers, bank employees and journal- together a list of 12,500 workers slated for a “mobility pool” in rate a new undemocratic governance of the country,” the workers - whose jobs are protected by the constitution - ists were among other groups joining the walkout. which they are given eight months to find work in another ADEDY public sector union said. — Reuters Indian rupee gains on rate rises EU car sales hit 17-year NEW DELHI: India’s rupee rebounded yesterday after the central rapidly moving to clear roadblocks to investment projects and bank raised some interest rates to defend the currency, while the ease its infamous red tape. But in an embarrassing development, government insisted the move would not derail stumbling eco- hours before he spoke, South Korean steel giant Posco scrapped a low but Dacia prospers nomic growth. The bank, in its most aggressive step to avoid a $5.3-billion deal to build a steel plant in the southern state of rupee rout, raised two short-term rates late Monday to ease pres- Karnataka due to land acquisition delays and local opposition. PARIS: The EU car market slumped to a 17-year low tion, exports and consumer confidence. French sure on the currency after it tumbled to a lifetime low early last Posco said it was still sticking with a separate project agreed point after shrinking for 18 months under the pres- manufacturers see their national market contract- week. The rupee has been hit by a flight of capital due to a weak nearly a decade ago to build a $12-billion steel plant project in sures of economic reforms on business and house- ing this year by 8.0 percent to the lowest level economy and fears that US policymakers will pare a stimulus pack- Orissa state. The project has still to get underway due to local hold budgets, trade data showed yesterday. Sales since 1997. The depressed figures reflect the age that has triggered vast investor flows to emerging markets. protests. “This is an example that doing business in India is tough,” fell by 5.6 percent in June and by 6.6 percent in the impact of low growth and budget reforms on busi- The bank’s actions are to “stabilise the rupee”, Finance Minister said Sonam Udasi, head of research at IDBI Capital. — AFP first half of the year. But French group Renault held ness and household spending in the European P Chidambaram told an audience of venture capitalists in New up in June with its low-cost Dacia brand, riding far Union where several countries are in recession or Delhi late yesterday. “These measures are short-term and should higher than its struggling rival Peugeot Citroen. bumping along with low growth. not be interpreted as a prelude to a tightening of (benchmark) pol- Only in Britain are sales recovering, gaining ground The car market in the European Union shrank icy rates - these are measures to quell speculative activity,” he strongly for several months. Manufacturers in further in June to the lowest level for 17 years. In added. They “do not affect our commitment to growth,” he said. Britain are hoping that sales this year will exceed the first six months of the year, sales fell by 6.6 per- “We want the rupee to stabilise so that we can get on with the the figure of 2.04 million in 2012. cent to a total of 6.205 million, although the British business of attracting investments to the country,” he said. Meanwhile the giant German group market, the only one to expand, grew by 10.0 per- The rupee’s woes are the latest blow for the scandal-tainted Volkswagen limited the damage to its sales. The cent. The EU car market has been shrinking for 18 Congress-led government, which is desperate for an economic German auto industry has shown resilience to the months, with one small upward blip in April when recovery as it seeks a third term with general elections due by May depressed trading conditions in Europe, notably there were two more working days than in the 2014. The currency bounced higher, gaining nearly one percent with a strong exports performance to emerging same month last year. In June, sales fell by 5.6 per- against the dollar to 59.32 rupees following the bank’s move. The markets. But German auto firms are also finding cent on a 12-month comparison across the closing level was nearly two rupees above the currency’s all-time market conditions make hard going. They expect European Union to a total of 11.3 million, the low- low reached on July 8 of 61.21 to the dollar. But shares fell nearly domestic sales, the biggest European market, to est volume since 1996. Sales in France fell by 8.4 one percent as the bank’s liquidity tightening dashed hopes of fall to 2.9-3.0 million from 3.083 million last year. percent, in Italy by 5.5 percent and in Germany by cheaper borrowing to spur the economy. The head of German top-of-the-range car maker 4.7 percent. Chidambaram reaffirmed he expects growth this year to be at BMW, Norbert Reithofer, told the financial daily In Spain the fall was contained to 0.7 percent by least six percent, after the economy expanded by a decade low of Boersen-Zeitung on Tuesday: “Overall, the market government help for the purchase of new cars, but five percent last year. But Sonal Varma, economist at Nomura in western Europe will contract by around 5.0 per- the overall Spanish new car market is at its lowest Securities, warned there was a “risk the (tightening) measures cent this year and remains a huge challenge for level for 20 years. The exception again was Britain could backfire”. “India’s growth is already very weak and tighter carmakers.” Furthermore, the situation could last where sales have risen in recent months and grew domestic liquidity will worsen the financial conditions for corpo- until the middle of next year, he warned. “Maybe again by 13.4 percent in June. The performance by rates and banks, hurting asset quality and the growth outlook,” she we’ll see a slight pick-up in the market during the brand varied, with the bleakest for PSA Peugeot said. second half of 2014,” said Reithofer. Citroen which suffered a 10.8-percent fall in June. The Asian Development Bank yesterday cut its India growth The latest data, from the European Automobile In the first half sales plunged by 13.3 percent. forecast this year to 5.8 percent, from 6.0 percent. Analysts said the Manufacturers’ Association, casts a shadow over Renault, by contrast, raised sales by 1.3 percent in central bank’s next step could be a rise in benchmark borrowing some signals that the EU economy may be recover- June largely because of a strong performance by rates - despite the struggling economy - if the rupee resumed its ing slowly, since in several EU countries the manu- its Romanian Dacia range and the Duster four- downward slide. As part of his pep-talk to business to woo vitally MUMBAI: In this photograph taken on June 20, 2013 a fruit seller facture of cars is an important indicator of produc- wheel-drive vehicle. —AFP needed funds to build infrastructure, Chidambaram said India was hands back change to a customer at a roadside stall. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 BUSINESS Planning labyrinth threatens Yorkshire resources boom

SNEATON, England: In North Dakota, demand for the crop fertilizer, also within ties are negotiating the planning system rate in the country, is down to the ease says applications for the giant potash the home of US shale gas, a would-be the national park’s boundaries. It has and raising capital as a small independ- and speed of drilling new wells and mine have stretched his office to the lim- driller can fill out a two-page form and found the going pretty tough, too. ent, he said. A planning application from developing infrastructure such as its. Sirius Minerals says the mine could get the go-ahead in two days. In North “There’s a huge amount of paper work to Moorland Energy for a gas processing pipelines and processing plants. create 1,000 jobs in the area and pay 300 Yorkshire, England, a completed applica- deal with. Everyone’s watching; there’s plant needed to feed local production Population density is a key part of this million pounds tax a year when in full tion can run to 50 pages, and the process pressure on both sides,” operations direc- into the main grid showed 45 different amenable planning process. Yorkshire, production. The National Parks’ decision takes months. The British Geological tor Graham Clarke told Reuters at the drill consultees, including Natural England, which by British standards is sparsely is due on July 29. Survey recently estimated shale rock site near the coastal town of Whitby, North Yorkshire County Council, and the populated, has seven and a half times France remains more concerned beneath northern England holds 1,300 where a large red rig pierces a clear sum- Highway Authority. more people than North Dakota, but in a about the toll these developments could trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas - enough to mer sky. The firm appealed after the council space 20 times smaller. The North take on the park itself. “Our worry is meet UK needs for 50-70 years, assuming Five minutes drive away, giant posters failed to give a verdict after 14 months, Yorkshire County Council said delays there’ll be a cumulative effect which will a 10-15 percent recovery rate. But early about the mine and artist impressions of well over the stipulated four month time- such as that experienced by Moorland gradually erode the whole point of a indications are that planning institutions what it might look like line the walls of frame. The appeal, decided by national Energy were not unusual in complex cas- National Park - wild open spaces which and processes are not ready for a flood of Sneaton village hall at a walk-in informa- rather than local government, was even- es, and “in no way reflects any suggestion are special and need to be preserved.” He applications. tion day, where Sirius Chief Executive tually successful. “They (the council) were of tardiness”. The council added it was expects shale gas applications will be The county of North Yorkshire has a Chris Fraser mans the barbecue in his slightly under-staffed, and being com- “well placed to deal with any potentially next. “We would treat fracking in the coal mining history and is already home shirtsleeves. Sirius boasts that of its mercially minded, time is money, so we large number of planning applications in same way as any mineral extraction; we to conventional gas projects led by pri- 18,000 shareholders, 4,500 are from had to hurry the process along,” Williams relation to exploiting shale gas in the start from the view of ‘No’,” he said. To vately owned Moorland Energy and Third Yorkshire. The promise of much-needed said. John Dewar, co-founder of the other area”. overturn this, the applicant needs to per- Energy in the Cleveland Basin. Part of jobs are a big selling point for both the gas company in the area, Third Energy, At Helmsley, on the southern edge of suade the National Park that the project that basin lies under the North York potash and the gas projects. The unem- agreed. “(One) challenge facing a small the North York Moors National Park, the could not be developed elsewhere and Moors National Park. It contains shale ployment rate in Yorkshire is 9.4 percent, land operator in the onshore business is park’s planning director Chris France’s its development is in the national inter- rock, the exploitation of which, through nearly two points above the national that the planning and consent process is desk is stacked with the Sirius case files est. Late on Monday the park’s consult- hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” and hor- average. For conventional gas explorers much more complex than for offshore that have occupied three members of his ants published a report saying Sirius izontal drilling, has transformed the US in the area the shale rock could be a wel- fields,” he told Reuters. staff for the past year. “We’re a National Minerals’ planning application “overstat- energy industry. come boost. “In a way this (shale) is a Much of the success of shale oil and Park under pressure,” said France, who ed” the need for the minehead to be built Sirius Minerals, meanwhile, is plan- godsend,” said Glynn Williams, partner at gas in North Dakota, which now accounts says the cost of the Sirius application to in the park’s borders, which knocked as ning one of the world’s largest potash private equity group Epi-V, an investor in for over 10 percent of US energy output the park is 370,000 pounds, compared much as 20 percent off the company’s mines in response to booming global gas driller Moorland Energy. The difficul- and now has the lowest unemployment with 62,000 pound cost for placing it. He shares yesterday. —Reuters

Battery in Honeywell Bank Dhofar aims for merger locator eyed in 787 fire with Bank Sohar DUBAI: Oman’s Bank Dhofar has approached smaller peer Bank Sohar with a view to merging to create Different type of battery than in earlier groundings Oman’s second-largest bank, Dhofar said yesterday, sending shares in both banks higher. Bank Sohar WASHINGTON: Investigators are looking enced a single reported issue on this prod- could not immediately be reached for comment. Bank into whether a fire on a Boeing Dreamliner in uct-line”. The company said it is participating Dhofar said in its bourse filing that the deal would be London last week was caused by the battery in the investigation and that it was too early dependent on Sohar being interested, as well as on of an emergency locator transmitter built by to draw conclusions about the cause of the both sets of shareholders and sector regulators agree- Honeywell International Inc, according to a fire, which left visible scorch marks on the outer ing. The new entity would have total assets worth 4.13 source familiar with the probe. Passengers skin of the plane. billion rials ($10.73 billion), according to first-quarter and investors appeared to take the news in The fire occurred in an area where galley financial statements, and a market capitalisation of their stride, as airlines continued to fly the equipment such as water boilers and heaters plane and shares in the US company are also located. “It’s far too premature to spec- around $1.76 billion. regained most of what they lost on Friday, ulate on the cause, or draw conclusions,” said Both figures would still put it significantly behind closing up 3.7 percent at $105.66 on Honeywell spokesman Nathan Drevna. Oman’s largest lender, Bank Muscat, which has total Monday. Honeywell said it had joined the Honeywell said it had sent technical experts to assets and market value of 8.23 billion rials and $3.34 investigation into Friday’s fire aboard the London to assist with the investigation and billion. Currently, Bank Dhofar and Bank Sohar are the parked 787 at Heathrow airport but declined would continue to work closely with Boeing fourth and fifth-largest banks by total assets and sec- to discuss details beyond saying it had no and the US National Transportation Safety ond and seventh-largest by market value respectively. previous experience of difficulties with this Board. Honeywell shares edged down slightly News of the merger sent shares in Bank Sohar as type of transmitter. Boeing declined to com- on Monday, closing off seven cents at $82.30. much as 3.4 percent higher in early trading on the ment on the transmitter. Analysts remained cautious. “Anything Oman bourse, before retreating to a gain of 2 percent In 2009, the Federal Aviation that’s electronic in nature is more concerning at 0725 GMT. Bank Dhofar shares were 1.6 percent up Administration (FAA) told airlines that a than ... some kind of human error,” said Jason in limited trading. Honeywell transmitter had failed in tests and Gursky, an analyst at Citigroup in San Joice Mathew, head of research at United advised them to replace it, and other global Francisco. “The most important thing to keep Securities, said the tie-up would be positive for both regulators published similar advisories. There in mind from an impact perspective is lenders. “One bank is taking the initiative on this but it was no indication of fire risk from the unit. whether this is a systemic issue, or bad would be good for shareholders in terms of scale of Honeywell said it was checking whether the assembly, or a bad part, or somebody left the business and reach for customers,” he said. In transmitter on the Ethiopian Airlines jet was FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom: A picture dated July 9, 2012 shows a Boeing 787 coffee pot on,” said Gursky. the same model as one cited by regulators in Dreamliner aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire. — AFP Britain’s AAIB on Saturday said it found no February, Bank Sohar denied it had received any 2009. The 787 transmitter is located in the aft evidence the fire was caused by the 787s lithi- merger proposals from other banks, including Bank more technology problems with the new, airliner and sends a signal that leads rescuers Dhofar, in response to local press reports. While bank- fuselage section and a fire from it was “theo- high-tech airliner would be troubling. to downed aircraft, said the source, who was um-ion batteries that were implicated in the ing consolidation in a number of Gulf countries has retically possible,” said John Hansman, an “Unless the company can say for sure that not authorized to speak on the record. grounding earlier this year. A 25-strong team aeronautics professor at MIT who has been the incident is isolated to this particular air- Another source identified Ultralife Corp as of experts, including inspectors from the long been called for, little has happened as major an adviser to the FAA. craft, it’s not welcome news,” said Richard the supplier of the battery that powers the AAIB and the NTSB are investigating the shareholders, often powerful local families, are reluc- But Hansman said it seemed unlikely that Aboulafia, an aviation consultant with the Honeywell ELT. Newark, New York-based damaged Dreamliner in a hangar at tant to cede control unless they are offered high valu- the unit had malfunctioned, and that it was Virginia-based Teal Group. “The one system- Ultralife was not immediately available for Heathrow airport, some 15 miles west of cen- ations. at least as likely that a passenger sneaked a atic problem to plague the Dreamliner is that comment. tral London. However, in recent months, there have been a cigarette in the lavatory and it smoldered for so many of its technologies are new that it is US aviation and safety officials said it was The FAA and Boeing also are helping in number of merger attempts, particularly in Bahrain hours while the plane was parked at a very difficult for the regulators to fully grasp the first time they could recall such a trans- the investigation. Airlines, including among smaller sharia-compliant banks, thanks to the remote stand at Heathrow airport before all the changes,” he said. mitter being investigated as the possible Ethiopian Airlines, Britain’s Thomson Airways, encouragement of regulators who want to strengthen bursting into flames. Britain’s Air Accident Boeing only resumed deliveries of the cause of an airplane fire. The emergency US carrier United Continental, and Poland’s lenders in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Investigations Branch (AAIB), which is lead- planes in May after one of the plane’s lithi- transmitter is powered by a non-recharge- LOT, said they would continue to fly their In Oman, the executive president of the Capital ing the probe into the fire, said on Saturday it um-ion batteries caught fire and another able lithium-manganese battery. The fact Dreamliners, while others, such as Virgin Market Authority, Abdullah Salem Al Salmi, told found no evidence the fire was caused by Atlantic said they would stick to their plans to overheated, requiring a redesign of the bat- that it is not powered by a lithium-ion bat- Reuters earlier this year that he would like to see more the lithium-ion batteries that were implicat- buy the aircraft. “Personally I’d fly on a tery system and the retrofitting of more than tery could allay concerns about a re-occur- consolidation among its 18 local and foreign-owned ed in the 787’s grounding earlier this year. 50 planes. rence of problems that caused the earlier Dreamliner tomorrow - I don’t think it’s a The overheating in January of two battery problem for the whole fleet like the battery banks to help Omani institutions grow regionally in The AAIB could take days if not weeks to grounding. Lithium-manganese batteries the long-term. Oman has seen one bank tie-up in packs that provide backup power to the determine the cause of the latest fire, can be found in some flashlights, digital issue clearly was,” said Howard Wheeldon, an recent times: HSBC Holdings merged its Omani assets plane caused regulators to ground the plane although a source familiar with the investiga- cameras and military applications. aerospace analyst at Wheeldon Strategic with Oman International Bank in June 2012 to create for three months and caused fleet-wide tion said an initial report could emerge this Honeywell on Monday said its ELTs have Advisory. “I’d expect the AAIB to know what retrofits and delivery delays. week. Investigators are studying an emer- been Federal Aviation Administration certi- caused the fire by the end of this week but HSBC Bank Oman, currently the sultanate’s third- Still, the focus on the emergency beacon gency locator transmitter, or ELT, which is fied since 2005, are in use in numerous types the question for Boeing and Ethiopian largest lender by market value. — Reuters raised alarms for some analysts, who said positioned in the upper rear part of the new of aircraft and “we’ve not seen nor experi- Airlines is ‘is the plane repairable’?” —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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UAE Exchange Centre WLL Japanese Yen 3.836 Sierra Leone 0.0000731 0.0000761 Thai Bhat 9.270 Singapore Dollar 0.2229971 0.2288971 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Syrian Pound 4.105 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021423 0.0021843 ASIAN COUNTRIES Thai Baht 0.0088113 0.0094113 Japanese Yen 2.870 Australian Dollar 263.69 274.000 Nepalese Rupees 3.040 Indian Rupees 4.826 Malaysian Ringgit 89.395 Canadian Dollar 279.41 282.000 Arab Pakistani Rupees 2.849 Swiss Franc 307.11 312.000 Bahraini Dinar 0.7523266 0.7608266 Srilankan Rupees 2.176 Euro 377.56 380.000 Nepali Rupees 3.018 Bahrain Exchange Company Egyptian Pound 0.0381900 0.0402200 Singapore Dollar 227.820 US Dollar 285.65 284.500 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0127921 0.0192921 Sterling Pound 435.86 448.500 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1454459 0.1472359 Hongkong Dollar 36.900 CURRENCY BUY SELL Bangladesh Taka 3.669 Japanese Yen 2.94 3.300 Europe Iranian Riyal 0.0000796 0.0000801 Philippine Peso 6.611 Bangladesh Taka 3.689 3.670 British Pound 0.4250372 0.4340372 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001827 0.0002427 Thai Baht 9.227 Indian Rupee 4.766 5.050 Czech Korune 0.0067191 0.0187191 Jordanian Dinar 0.3976897 0.4053897 Irani Riyal 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.183 2.550 Danish Krone 0.0460965 0.0510965 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal 0.273 Nepali Rupee 3.000 3.250 Euro 0.3687278 0.3762278 Lebanese Pound 0.0001755 0.0001955 GCC COUNTRIES Moroccan Dirhams 0.0220480 0.0460480 Pakistani Rupee 2.856 2.900 Norwegian Krone 0.0431205 0.0483205 Saudi Riyal 76.364 Scottish Pound 0.4233250 0.4308250 Nigerian Naira 0.0012178 0.0018528 Qatari Riyal 78.683 UAE Dirhams 77.84 78.000 Omani Riyal 0.7319774 0.7429774 Bahraini Dinar 760.28 753.000 Swedish Krona 0.0388754 0.0438754 Omani Riyal 743.800 Swiss Franc 0.2970095 0.30440095 Qatar Riyal 0.0779155 0.0786985 Bahraini Dinar 760.600 Egyptian Pound 40.14 38.800 Saudi Riyal 0.0757467 0.0763867 UAE Dirham 77.987 Jordanian Dinar 406.54 410.000 Australasia Sudanese Pounds 0.0465115 0.0470615 Omani Riyal 742.87 748.000 Australian Dollar 0.2524205 0.2644250 Syrian Pound 0.0019496 0.0021696 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyal 78.88 79.500 New Zealand Dollar 0.2162995 0.2262995 Tunisian Dinar 0.1711159 0.1771159 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.700 Saudi Riyal 76.30 76.000 Uganda Shilling 0.0001131 0.0001131 UAE Dirhams 0.0764536 0.0779036 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.208 Yemeni Riyal 0.0012906 0.0013906 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.336 America Tunisian Dinar 173.380 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Canadian Dollar 0.2671719 0.2761719 Jordanian Dinar 404.390 Al Mulla Exchange Colombian Peso 0.0001456 0.0001636 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.921 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate US Dollars 0.2839000 0.2860500 Syrian Lier 3.111 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.077 US Dollar 287.400 Canadian Dollar 274.760 Asia US Dollar 285.700 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Sterling Pound 428.985 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036280 0.0036830 Euro 376.000 US Dollar Transfer 286.250 Euro 370.385 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031738 0.0034038 Pound Sterling 433.850 Euro 377.850 Swiss Frank 298.000 Chinese Yuan 0.0455824 0.0505824 Canadian Dollar 276.000 Sterling Pound 434.810 Bahrain Dinar 760.910 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0165367 0.0196367 Indian Rupee 4.825 Guinea Franc 0.0000444 0.0000504 Canadian dollar 275.510 UAE Dirhams 78.225 Egyptian Pound 40.200 Turkish lira 148.320 Qatari Riyals 78.890 Hg Kong Dollar 0.0343214 0.0374214 Indian Rupee 0.0047554 0.0048204 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.175 Swiss Franc 303.390 Saudi Riyals 77.505 Bangladesh Taka 3.665 Jordanian Dinar 405.140 Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000235 0.0000287 Australian Dollar 263.920 Philippines Peso 6.590 US Dollar Buying 285.050 Egyptian Pound 40.249 Jamaican Dollars 0.0028594 0.0038594 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.198 Japanese Yen 0.0027870 0.0029670 Pakistan Rupee 2.848 GOLD Indian Rupees 4.713 Kenyan Shilling 0.0032158 0.0034458 Bahraini Dinar 760.600 20 Gram 240.000 Pakistani Rupees 2.870 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0852212 0.0922212 UAE Dirham 77.800 10 Gram 121.000 Bangladesh Taka 3.690 Nepalese Rupee 0.0028580 0.0030580 Saudi Riyal 76.250 5 Gram 63.000 Philippines Pesso 6.562 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028227 0.0028627 *Rates are subject to change WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 BUSINESS High-powered Egyptian team heartens investors Difficult decisions loom over currency, subsidies CAIRO: Egypt’s new military- because they feared being tainted investors back to Egypt. since last week as the new govern- backed administration has pleased by an unpopular ruling military Many economists think an IMF ment has been formed. investors by appointing experi- council or by the Islamist ideology loan is in any case unlikely before With Gulf aid flowing in, authori- enced economic policy makers to a of the Muslim Brotherhood. The the next parliamentary elections, ties may be tempted to spend cabinet whose cohesion will be new cabinet appears to have over- because it would come with politi- some of the money to halt further sorely tested in the coming come this, including ministers who cally explosive commitments to depreciation, to limit inflation and months. Over the past few days, can speak the language of economic reform that an interim try to restore investor confidence trained economists and tech- investors, foreign and local. Some government would struggle to pro- by creating a contrast with the nocrats have been given key minis- also have administrative experience vide. “It would have been extremely pound’s performance under the terial posts in the government that needed to push economic policies difficult anyway to achieve an IMF Morsi regime. But such a policy is replacing the administration of through a sluggish state bureaucra- agreement soon,” said William would risk draining Egypt’s foreign president Mohamed Morsi, cy. New Prime Minister Hazem El- Jackson, emerging markets econo- reserves, and could hurt the econo- deposed nearly two weeks ago in a Beblawi, who is to steer Egypt until mist at Capital Economics in my by keeping the pound overval- move that polarized Egyptian soci- parliamentary elections planned in London. Arabi’s comments were ued. Capital Economics estimated a ety. Taken together, they appear to about six months, ran Egypt’s form the country’s most high-pow- Export Development Bank for 12 ered economic team since its years and went on to work at February 2011 revolution ushered regional economic agencies in the in a series of unstable cabinets Middle East. Ahmed Galal, manag- SHANGHAI: Watermelons are displayed for sale yesterday. — AFP which were chosen as much for ing director of the Cairo-based ideology and political expediency Economic Research Forum since as for expertise. 2007 and for 18 years a researcher ADB trims Asia growth The new cabinet’s credentials at the World Bank, was appointed will not alone ensure that Egypt finance minister on Sunday. forecasts over China can overcome problems such as Ziad Bahaa El-Din, who is a crumbling state finances, a big member of the leftist Egyptian trade deficit and rising inflation - Social Democratic Party, will be MANILA: China’s slowing economic growth expanded 7.5 percent in the second quar- but the team’s very existence may deputy prime minister; he has a is weakening momentum throughout the ter, following 7.7 percent in the previous go some way to restoring business doctorate in banking law from the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank three months and 7.9 percent in October- confidence. “I think they are smart London School of Economics and said yesterday as it revised down its fore- December. This “points to slow but persist- enough to deal with the new out- ran Egypt’s investment authority casts for the region. A day after Beijing ent growth deceleration” amid moderating comes on the ground,” Mohamed between 2004 and 2007. Egypt’s released data showing its economic growth industrial production and weaker invest- Kotub, director of asset manage- interim authorities have not been slowed for a second successive month in ment growth, the ADB said. Turbulence in ment at Naeem Financial able to ignore ideology and horse- April-June, the ADB trimmed its outlook for China’s domestic interbank market in June Investments in Cairo, said of the trading in choosing their economic developing Asia this year to 6.3 percent also raised funding costs, it noted. “This new ministers. team. In an effort to reduce political growth, from 6.6 percent. In the update to could further weaken investment in the He predicted the cabinet would tensions, they have had to take care its annual Asian Development Outlook remainder of the year, undermining growth focus on restoring public security, to appear inclusive of a range of publication, first published in April, the at least in the short term.” boosting tourism and luring foreign opinion. bank also pared its 2014 forecast to 6.4 per- The bank now sees China’s economy investment back to Egypt - key Ashraf Al-Arabi, a US-educated cent, from 6.7 percent. growing 7.7 percent this year and 7.5 per- demands of the business commu- economist who served as planning “The drop in trade and scaling back of cent in 2014, helped by consumer confi- nity which many felt were ignored minister under Morsi, handling investment are part of a more balanced dence remaining high and retail sales pick- by Morsi’s government. The range unsuccessful negotiations on a $4.8 growth path for (China), and the knock-on ing up. But both figures are lower than its of views it contains is aimed at billion loan from the International effect of its slower pace is definitely a con- April forecasts of 8.2 percent and 8.0 per- allaying anger over the overthrow Monetary Fund, was given the cern for the region,” the bank’s chief econo- cent. The Asian economic giant grew 7.8 of the democratically elected Morsi, same post in the new government. mist, Changyong Rhee, said in a statement. percent last year. It said East Asia should but could store up trouble as it con- “As individuals I believe the interim “But we are also seeing more subdued grow 6.7 percent this year and next, with siders how to tackle crippling subsi- government can handle the priori- activity across much of developing Asia,” both Hong Kong and Taiwan hit hard by dies and currency woes. ties, but the biggest challenge is Rhee added. The update for this year is only the slower Chinese economy. The ADB now how they will deal with the chal- Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour a little better than what the bank described forecasts Southeast Asia’s economies to TECHNOCRATS lenges as a team,” said Kotub at in the report as the region’s “relatively slug- expand 5.2 percent this year, down from Morsi’s cabinet was short of rele- Naeem Financial. “just a realistic assessment”, he fair value for the pound, which gish” growth of 6.1 percent last year. 5.4 percent. It also trimmed its forecast for vant experience. Two of his finance added. would help Egyptian exports recov- Developing Asia groups 45 nations or South Asia to 5.6 percent this year as India, ministers, for example, had aca- IMF The new cabinet will grapple er, of about 7.50. territories from Central Asia through to the its largest economy, stuttered. “In India, demic backgrounds studying Within minutes of his appoint- with other tough policy decisions For now, however, many busi- Pacific islands, but excludes Japan. The slowing fixed capital formation, weak Islamic economics - of limited ment on Monday, Arabi appeared in the next few months. One is how nessmen seem willing to give the report cited a marginally better outlook for industrial activity, and plodding progress immediate use in an economy to raise the possibility of disagree- to begin reforming Egypt’s wasteful new cabinet the benefit of the the advanced economies, particularly on reform are weighing on the economy,” it where Islamic banking plays only a ment within the cabinet by telling system of fuel and food subsidies, doubt. “We’re bullish on the new Japan where it said monetary and fiscal said. The bank lowered its growth forecast for tiny role, and which is facing a bal- reporters that the time was not which is undermining state cabinet, especially because most of reforms by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe India this year to 5.8 percent, from 6.0 per- ance of payments crisis. Morsi’s last right to reopen talks with the IMF, finances; Egypt needs to find a way them come from a strong econom- appear to be bearing fruit. However, this cent. The country’s economy grew 5.0 per- finance minister, Fayyad Abdel because $12 billion in aid pledged to cut overall spending without ic background,” said Ashraf did not lead to stronger demand for Asian cent last year. On a positive note, the ADB Moneim, made his academic name by Egypt’s Gulf allies would carry it hurting the poorest people. Akhnoukh, a senior trader at CIBC exports, with even Southeast Asia, the said slower GDP growth helped the region researching subjects including through coming months. It was not Another dilemma is currency poli- brokerage in Cairo. “The main prob- bright spot in early 2013, no longer faring contain inflation, while expanded global nat- “economic functionaries in the clear whether Arabi was speaking cy, which the cabinet is expected to lem is building consensus about as well. “Southeast Asia’s strong start to the ural gas production put a lid on energy Islamic state at the time of the on behalf of the entire cabinet or discuss with the central bank. After policies and showing some sort of year is being tempered by slower growth in prices. The bank lowered its inflation forecasts Prophet and the Righteous Caliphs”. simply giving his own opinion; depreciating nearly 15 percent results to the public. They don’t (China) and continued weak demand from for developing Asia to 3.5 percent this year Also, post-revolution govern- Beblawi has not said publicly against the dollar to around 7.0 in have the luxury of taking their time advanced economies for its exports,” it said. and 3.7 percent in 2014, the latter on par ments in Egypt had trouble attract- whether he wants a quick IMF deal, the past 18 months, the Egyptian - Egypt needs short-term results China said Monday its economy with the 2012 rate. — AFP ing experienced technocrats which could help to attract foreign pound has strengthened slightly and long-term goals.” — Reuters

German investor sentiment takes hit Trial of ex-Goldman trader FRANKFURT: Investors in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, turned gloomy this month, as disappointing economic data appeared to cast a shadow over the about ‘Wall Street greed’ recovery outlook, a new survey found yesterday. German investors apparently took little cheer from a NEW YORK: The trial of former Goldman Abacus, she said, adding that ACA reject- recent pledge by the European Central Bank to keep Sachs bond trader Fabrice Tourre was ed dozens of securities that Paulson eurozone interest rates low for the foreseeable future. about “Wall Street greed,” a lawyer for wanted included and ran a sophisticated They fretted instead about the fallout for exports from the US Securities and Exchange computer analysis before signing off on the slowing Chinese economy. The widely watched Commission said as the trial began on them. investor confidence index calculated by the ZEW eco- Monday. The SEC accuses Tourre of mis- It was standard for a firm such as ACA nomic institute fell by 2.2 points to 36.3 points in July, leading investors in a mortgage invest- to take input from investors in selecting disappointing analysts’ forecasts for an increase to ment called Abacus 2007-AC1 by not securities for a CDO, Chepiga said. In the around 40 points this month. Nevertheless, the index remains in firmly positive ter- telling them that a hedge fund was case of a deal such as Abacus, known as ritory, ZEW president Clemens Fuest insisted. “Financial involved in selecting the underlying a synthetic collateralized debt obliga- market experts are sticking to their overall positive fore- assets and betting against it. Matthew tion, it would be usual to consult both cast,” he argued. “This illustrates their confidence in the Martens, a lawyer for the SEC, told the long and short investors, which by robustness of the German economy despite the rather jury the deal Tourre put together was design have both long and short weak figures concerning industrial production and for- “secretly designed to maximize the investors involved. “The decision here eign trade released recently,” Fuest said. potential it would fail” to the benefit of was made by ACA,” she said. For the survey, ZEW questions analysts and institu- the hedge fund, which made about $1 “The selection here was made by tional investors about their current assessment of the billion. “In the end, Wall Street greed ACA.” As for Tourre’s email to his girl- economic situation in Germany, as well as their expecta- drove Mr. Tourre to lie and deceive,” friend, Chepiga said it was irrelevant, tions for the coming months. The sub-index measuring Martens said. calling it “an old fashioned love letter” financial market players’ view of the current economic But Pamela Chepiga, a lawyer for and noting it was referencing a Financial situation in Germany rose by 2.0 points to 10.6 points in Tourre, countered that the SEC was try- Times article, which he attached. “I know July, the first increase in this particular component in ing to turn her client into a “scapegoat”. two to three weeks from now you will four months. A frequent criticism against the ZEW index “This is not a case about whether you find he did nothing wrong,” Chepiga is that it can be volatile and is therefore not particularly approve or disapprove of Wall Street,” said. Earlier on Monday, the court picked reliable. she said. The trial, scheduled to last five women and four men as jurors out Capital Economics economist James Howat attrib- three weeks, stems from a lawsuit the of a pool of 48 people. They include a uted the unexpected drop in the ZEW barometer this SEC filed against Goldman Sachs Group retired special education teacher, a for- months to “disappointing hard data and troubles in Inc and Tourre in 2010. Tourre, who is no mer retail broker now teaching art histo- Portugal (which) reminded investors that the eurozone longer with Goldman and is earning a ry, a recent medical school graduate and crisis is far from over.” Nevertheless, the reading was “still doctorate in economics at the University an Episcopal priest. consistent with annual economic growth in Germany of of Chicago, is on trial alone after US District Judge Katherine Forrest around 2.0 percent,” the expert said. ING DiBa economist Goldman agreed to pay a $550 million NEW YORK: Fabrice Tourre, a former Goldman Sachs mortgage trader, leaves the excused some potential jurors after they Carsten Brzeski said the ZEW data “fit into the current settlement in July 2010. Tourre, wearing Federal Court after the first day of a lawsuit being brought against him by the said they had views about Wall Street or picture that the German economy looks like a grab bag, a black suit and orange tie, sat with his Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. — AFP the role of banks in the financial crisis. which has something for everyone.” counsel as the lawyers made their open- that Paulson was an equity investor in standing all of the implications of those The first juror to be excused said he had While optimists could point to the strong labour mar- ing arguments. He did not speak during Abacus rather than taking a short posi- monstruosities!!!” the email said. “a fairly jaundiced view of Wall Street.” ket, solid private consumption, strong construction Monday’s proceedings, although he is tion, Martens said. The SEC contends Investors lost more than $1 billion after Forrest also quizzed jurors on whether growth and confidence indicators at high levels, the expected to testify later in the trial. ACA would not have participated had it almost all the securities tied to the trans- they had ever heard of Abacus, Tourre or pessimists could focus on falling new orders, disap- known Paulson was betting against the action were downgraded, the SEC says. his nickname, “Fabulous Fab”. pointing exports and the continuing euro crisis, Brzeski The SEC contends Tourre, at the time investment. A different firm decided not Paulson earned about the same amount At the start of the trial, Forrest said. He believed that the “stuttering and now slowing a vice president at Goldman, failed to disclose that Paulson & Co Inc, the to participate as ACA’s portfolio selec- thanks to his bet, the SEC says. Goldman warned the lawyers on both sides to Chinese economy is a clear cause of concern and could “have a heart” and be mindful many become a new risk factor for the German economic out- hedge fund run by billionaire John tion agent when Tourre told it Paulson made $15 million in fees on the deal, Paulson, was involved in picking mort- was going short, Martens said. “His solu- Martens said. jurors would not know the financial jar- look.” gon expected to be used at trial. Among Natixis economist Johannes Gareis said the ZEW data gage securities tied to the Abacus tion was trickery and half-truths,” he Chepiga, Tourre’s lawyer, countered in investment and that it was also shorting, said. “His solution was securities fraud.” her own opening arguments that her the words or phrases she singled out “are better than one might think at first glance and final- were “asset-backed”, “short”, “security”, ly point to a stabilisation of German growth during in or betting against, it. Martens said Martens also displayed a much-cited client had not misled investors or ACA. “flip book” and “swap”. She also cited the this year”. Christian Schulz at Berenberg Bank was also Tourre, the principal Goldman employee email sent on Jan 23, 2007, by Tourre to She said ACA knew at the time that term “trading desk”, saying “mere mor- wary of reading too much into the numbers. “Given the involved in the Abacus deal, had a duty his girlfriend at the time, saying of the Paulson was widely reported to be volatility of the ZEW index in the past five crisis years, to be truthful with investors. Instead, he financial markets that the “whole build- engaged in an aggressive bet against tals don’t know what a trading desk is”. the latest changes were all marginal and do not point to hid “critical information” in order to get ing is about to collapse anytime now”. the US housing market after setting up “Do not assume people know what an economic turning point” he said. As the ZEW expec- them to buy in. Tourre also misled ACA “Only potential survivor, the fabulous two funds to short subprime invest- investment bankers do,” Forrest added. tations index for Germany was still well above its long- Capital Holdings Inc, a third-party firm Fab ... standing in the middle of all these ments in 2006. “ACA knew Paulson took The case is SEC v Tourre, US District term average of 23.7, it was “consistent with German ostensibly brought in to select the secu- complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades the opposite view,” she said. ACA, not Court, Southern District of New York, growth rebounding to at least its trend rate later this rities included in the CDO, into believing he created without necessarily under- Paulson, picked the securities tied to No. 10-03229. — Reuters year,” the expert said. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 BUSINESS Egypt rises to 6-wk high as cabinet forms MIDEAST MARKETS REPORT DUBAI: Egypt’s shares rose to a six week high technocrats and liberals after the army toppled Naguib Sawiris, whose family owns the Orascom through the night. In the United Arab chemical shares extended losses on weak yesterday as the interim president moves for- President Mohamed Morsi on July 3. empire. He told Reuters he and his brothers will Emirates, Dubai’s benchmark slipped off a quarterly earnings. Saudi Basic Industries ward with forming a cabinet to restore full civil- “Now that the final structure of the interim be “investing in Egypt like never before” after 57-month high, snapping an eight-session Corp (SABIC), the world’s largest chemicals ian rule despite deadly street clashes. Cairo’s government is almost complete, we view the the ousting of a president. Egyptians were net rally and trimming 2013 gains to 50.7 per- producer, slipped 0.5 percent. Its sub- main benchmark climbed 0.9 percent to its economic team as significantly more coherent buyers, according to bourse data. cent. sidiary, Saudi Kayan, posted below-fore- highest since June 2. Former investment minis- and competent than all the teams appointed But positive investment sentiments were The index slipped 0.5 percent to 2,447 cast earnings, following the trend of two ter Osama Saleh said yesterday he would take post the January 2011 revolution (which ousted dampened by the death of seven people and points, as it hit chart resistance near 2,500 sister companies. Kayan, which reported a up the same post in the country’s transitional Hosni Mubarak),” Hany Genena, head of research the wounding of more than 260 when support- points; the June intraday peak. “Dubai is narrower loss but failed to match esti- government. Interim Prime Minister Hazem Al- at Pharos Research said in a note. The sentiment ers of Morsi clashed with the deposed Egyptian retesting the high we hit in June; we need mates, fell 2.6 percent. Saudi Arabia Beblawi is putting together a cabinet largely of was also buoyed by comments from tycoon president’s opponents and security forces to break the resistance on strong volumes,” Fertilizers Co, which missed estimates with said Amer Khan, fund manager, Shuaa an 11.6 percent profit decline on Sunday, Asset Management. “A breather here slumped 4.6 percent, its third straight loss. would be good but I expect it to move up The kingdom’s measure ticked up 0.05 per- for the rest of the year because it has a lot cent. of catalysts. In Oman, Bank Sohar and Bank Dhofar An MSCI upgrade for UAE to emerging rose 2 and 1.3 percent respectively on market status in June will continue to merger talks. Dhofar said yesterday it underpin a positive sentiment, with hopes would begin talks with fellow lender over a of Dubai winning the World Expo 2020 bid possible merger but any potential tie-up adding its weight. Bid results will be would be dependent on a similar desire announced in November. Abu Dhabi’s from Sohar. Muscat’s benchmark gained index climbed 0.5 percent, hitting a fresh 0.2 percent. Kuwait’s index gained 0.8 per- 57-month high. Elsewhere, Saudi petro- cent to 7,880 points. — Reuters Former M&S clothing boss quits ASOS after 7 months LONDON: Kate Bostock, one of the biggest for her, so rather than prolong it we just names in Britain’s retail industry, has quit decided to call it a day. You try these things, ASOS after just seven months, deciding the sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” fast-growing online fashion firm wasnít for he told Reuters, adding that Bostock was at her. Bostock, who started at ASOS as execu- his side. “We’re doing well and there’s lots tive director of product and trading in of good stuff happening here so it’s harder January after eight years at Britainís for someone to break into that,” he said. biggest clothing retailer Marks & Spencer, Bostock declined to comment on the has resigned and will leave the firm imme- phone but said in a statement: ‘ASOS is a diately, it said yesterday. Shares in ASOS, formidable business and I have great which have more than doubled in value respect for the team I have been working over the last year, were down 1.3 percent to with: they are right at the cutting edge of 4,420 pence at 1100 GMT, valuing the busi- young online fashion. ness at £3.6 billion ($5.5 billion). Sadly, I’ve concluded that ASOS isn’t the ASOS founder and Chief Executive Nick right place for me.” Robertson had courted Robertson said there had not been any row Bostock for a year while she was at M&S, and Bostock would not receive a payoff. seeking an executive to steer the firmís ‘For a number of reasons she feels it’s not next growth phase. —Reuters

ISLAMABAD: President and CEO of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Elizabeth Littlefield is flanked by Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as she speaks at a press conference yesterday. Elizabeth arrived in Islamabad to hold talks with Dar while Pakistan early this month asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5.3 billion, three-year loan to boost growth in a bid to rebuild foreign exchange reserves and combat both an energy crisis and a sliding currency. — AFP US inflation stabilizes, industrial output up WASHINGTON: US consumer prices accel- Economists said it suggested some pick- erated in June and underlying inflation up in economic activity at the end of the pressures showed signs of stabilizing, keep- second-quarter. “If manufacturing growth ing on track expectations the Federal is on the verge of accelerating into the sec- Reserve will start tapering its bond pur- ond half of the year, this, along with solid chases later this year. Other data yesterday gains in housing, should support growth in showed industrial production pushed high- the second half of 2013,” said John Ryding, er in June as manufacturing output found chief economist at RDQ Economics in New some momentum, raising hope a recent York. Tepid economic growth has been slowdown in factory activity was either keeping a lid on inflation pressures. While over or close to running its course. The some pockets of pricing power are starting Labor Department said its Consumer Price to gradually emerge, there is no consensus Index increased 0.5 percent, the largest rise on whether this trend will hold, given still- since February, after nudging up 0.1 per- high unemployment. cent in May. Gasoline prices accounted for Last month, gasoline prices soared 6.3 about two thirds of the increase in the CPI. percent after being flat in May. June’s Economists polled by Reuters had expect- increase in the cost of gasoline was the ed consumer inflation to increase 0.3 per- largest since February. When unadjusted cent last month. for seasonal fluctuations, gasoline prices In the 12 months through June, con- rose only 0.6 percent. Food prices increased sumer prices advanced 1.8 percent after ris- 0.2 percent after slipping 0.1 percent the ing 1.4 percent in May. It was also the prior month. Overall housing costs main- largest increase since February. Stripping tained their steady rise, with owners’ equiv- out volatile energy and food, consumer alent rent - which accounts for about a prices increased 0.2 percent for a second third of the core CPI - increasing 0.2 per- straight month. That took the increase over cent after a similar gain in May. the 12 months to June to 1.6 percent, the Medical care services rose 0.4 percent smallest increase since June 2011. The so- after being flat in May, while medical care called core CPI had increased 1.7 percent in commodities rebounded 0.5 percent as the May. While both inflation measures remain cost of prescription drugs increased. below the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent tar- Medical care commodities had dropped 0.5 get, details of the report suggested the percent the previous month. Weak medical recent disinflation trend was fading, with care costs have been the one of the key medical care costs rising. Prices for new contributors to the low inflation rate. motor vehicles, apparel and household fur- Economists cite a host of reasons for the nishings also increased. downward pressure on health costs, rang- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who last ing from the expiration of patents on a month said the central bank would start number of popular prescription drugs to cutting back the $85 billion in bonds it is government spending cuts that are reduc- purchasing each month to keep borrowing ing payments to doctors and hospitals for costs low, has viewed the low inflation as Medicare. “It’s unclear we have seen all the temporary and expects prices to push medical care softness or we might see soft- higher. Alan Ruskin, an analyst at Deutsche ness later this year from the effect of Bank in New York, said the report should sequester,” said Laura Rosner, an economist “counter arguments that there is a material at BNP Paribas in New York. Apparel prices deflation risk.” In a separate report, the Fed pushed up 0.9 percent, the largest increase said output at the nation’s factories, mines since August 2011, after edging up 0.2 per- and utilities rose 0.3 percent last month cent in May. New motor vehicle prices after a flat reading in May. The increase increased 0.3 percent. They had been flat in reflected a 0.3 percent rise in manufactur- May. Prices for used cars and trucks fell for a ing output. second straight month. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 For OPEC, first cut likely to be easiest

LONDON: Sooner or later OPEC members will have absorb them without too much impact on its budg- production problems that have led to output ly stand at high levels”. Saudi Arabia and its allies thus to reduce output to reflect their reduced share of the et. For this reason, it makes little difference whether declines from Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria and face a difficult decision. If they cut production and global oil market. The organisation’s members must the first round of cuts is implemented unilaterally, Venezuela at various times over the past decade. The prices remain high, the market will remain out of bal- come to terms with diminished demand for their through quiet adjustments to Saudi Arabia’s export past 10 years have been a golden age for those OPEC ance, and they could be forced to cut again repeat- crude as a result of booming shale oil production in volumes, or via an OPEC accord. The problem is that members that could increase output - basically Saudi edly, gradually eroding their market share, revenues North America and strong production growth in sev- the first set of cuts is unlikely to be the last. Future Arabia and its close allies plus latterly Iraq but not and political influence. eral other regions. The only real questions are how rounds will be much harder to agree upon as mem- Iran and most of the African and Latin American Saudi Arabia might try to spread the burden by much of the burden of cutting production will fall on bers differ over how to share them out. Competition members. That golden age is now drawing to an marshalling support from other OPEC members, Saudi Arabia and whether they will be implemented from shale oil threatens to revive all the old divisions end. OPEC’s stronger producers must now confront notably Iraq, for a policy of restricting production. through the framework of OPEC or unilaterally. over how to divide output among the organisation’s the reality of sustained declines in demand for their But OPEC has never found it easy to reach an output The first cut, whenever it comes, should be fairly members amid declining market share for OPEC as a output for the first time in a decade. agreement until prices start to fall sharply. If the easy. It will probably fall almost entirely on Saudi whole. Oil prices are well above the levels Saudi Arabia organisation is like a tea bag because it only works in Arabia and its close allies Kuwait and the United Arab The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting and its allies need to balance their national budgets, hot water, the water has to be heated first. Prices are Emirates. Contributions from other OPEC members Countries has never managed to function as a very so there is plenty of scope for them to accept some still nowhere near the level that might encourage are likely to be fairly token. The first cut would merely effective cartel in the formal sense of a group that combination of lower prices and/or lower output. cooperation among members or shut down surging go some way to reverse Saudi Arabia’s increase in shares out production capacity or production. Prices are also well above the marginal cost of devel- supplies from shale formations in North America. market share at the expense of other OPEC members Member countries have normally found it easier to oping alternative supplies. Competition for market It is often said that the only cure for high prices in recent years. Saudi Arabia’s share of OPEC exports agree on a target price than on how to divide pro- share can therefore only worsen while benchmark is high prices (meaning that high prices are neces- has risen sharply as the kingdom has replaced a drop duction up among themselves. The organisation did Brent and WTI prices remain above $100 per barrel. sary to stimulate more production). But it is equally in Iran’s oil shipments resulting from sanctions. not even set production allocations until 1982. In Elevated oil prices are continuing to send a strong sig- true that the only cure for oversupply is a period of Output has also fallen in Nigeria and Libya because recent years, OPEC has given up trying to set alloca- nal to consumers about the need to reduce demand, lower prices to stimulate demand and switch off of production problems, security concerns and tions altogether, instead announcing an overall pro- which is worsening the predicament for OPEC. the cash flow and incentives for developing alter- increasing competition from North American shale duction target but no distribution among members, If Brent remains above $100 per barrel, the mar- native supplies. Whether OPEC decides to cut out- producers. and even this has largely been ignored. ket will remain potentially oversupplied. OPEC’s sec- put this year or Saudi Arabia adjusts its exports Other OPEC members will expect Saudi Arabia OPEC has been rescued from the internal squab- retariat has already warned that its forecasts, based unilaterally, the first round of cutbacks is unlikely and its close allies to make all or most of the first bles about quotas and cheating by strong growth in on current supply, demand and prices, “imply a fur- to be the last. The policy of supporting prices will round of cutbacks. The kingdom should be able to demand for its oil, and a series of wars, sanctions and ther build in global crude inventories, which current- only get harder. — Reuters

UK inflation rises less than forecast in June

LONDON: British inflation hit its highest level in ‘forward guidance’, which some argue would more than a year in June but the rise was less than remove an uncertainty dragging on consumer expected, giving the Bank of England a touch more spending, could be announced in August. After the leeway to support the country’s fragile economic inflation numbers, the pound slipped against the recovery. Yesterday’s reading of 2.9 percent spares dollar and the euro and British government bond new BoE Governor Mark Carney from having to for- prices rose, suggesting markets viewed the data as mally explain why inflation is above target, and supportive of continued loose monetary policy. potentially strengthens his hand to reassure con- Carney, who took over the BoE this month, sumers, businesses and financial markets that would have been required to write a formal letter interest rates are unlikely to rise anytime soon. to finance minister George Osborne if inflation had “With no letter (to the finance minister about risen more than one percentage point above the inflation) required, it makes it marginally easier to Bank of England’s target. Persistently high inflation introduce more formal forward guidance at the has eaten into the purchasing power of British next policy meeting,” Rob Wood, economist at workers whose pay has mostly failed to keep pace Berenberg Bank, said. The rise in consumer prices and raising questions about how long recent signs compared with inflation of 2.7 percent in May and of economic recovery can last. One of the few was the highest since April 2012, the Office for major Western central banks facing the problem of National Statistics data showed. Analysts in a high inflation, the BoE has previously said it Reuters poll had expected inflation to touch 3.0 expected price growth to peak at more than 3 per- percent in June, due in part to a big fall in petrol cent due to the higher cost of imported goods and prices in June last year. raw materials caused by sterling’s fall against the Economists said inflation, which has held above dollar since the start of the year, and by higher util- the central bank’s target of 2 percent for most of ity bills. “We are looking at a fairly moderate infla- the past five years, had probably peaked for the tion profile for the second half of the year,” said foreseeable future. At its July 3-4 policy meeting, Peter Dixon, an economist at Commerzbank. the central bank voted against reviving its bond- The BoE has said inflation would exceed its 2 buying stimulus program, with some policymakers percent target until early 2016, pushed up by citing persistently high inflation as a reason. long-term rises in energy prices and university Minutes of that meeting are due to be published tuition fees. June’s increase in annual inflation was today and will show how Carney cast his first vote driven by clothing and footwear and fuel prices. NEW YORK: The headquarters of investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan is seen in this on the issue. “We’re likely to see the Bank of The pace of price rises was slowed by weaker June 22, 2012 file photo. — AFP England’s inflation projections coming down in gains in air transport and food. Separate figures next month’s inflation report and hence it takes published by the ONS showed pipeline inflation away another potential barrier for more QE (quan- pressures were benign. Factory gate inflation was titative easing bond-buying),” said Philip Shaw, an 2.0 percent in June compared with the same Banks gird for battle economist with Investec in London. month last year, a touch stronger than analysts’ Another way Carney and the BoE could help the forecasts. Excluding food, fuel and other volatile recovery would be to provide long-term guidance prices, the producer price index rose 1.0 percent about how long interest rates are likely to remain year-on-year, a touch weaker than a forecast of 1.1 against cyber attacks at their record low of 0.5 percent. Details of such percent. — Reuters 50 banks and organizations to participate in drill Europe youth hit amid WASHINGTON: It’s a war game, Wall Street them would put cyber on there,” said Karl whose systems might not be as secure. Says style. Banks large and small are girding for an Schimmeck, SIFMA’s vice president for financial Greg Garcia, a former DHS official who now record unemployment elaborate drill this week that will test how they services operations. Now, he said, the calcula- runs the consulting firm Garcia Cyber Partners: would fare if hackers unleashed a powerful tion has changed. “If someone asks, ‘When are you going to stop PARIS: Young people in many European countries than in those with higher skills and incomes. and coordinated attack against them. The cybercrime?’ Well, when are you going to stop will continue to struggle for jobs as unemploy- People on insecure, short-term contracts were exercise is being called “Quantum Dawn 2” and THE BARRAGE: Software giant Symantec crime?” ment in the eurozone is set to hit a record 12.3 often the first to be fired as the crisis hit and have if the name sounds like a video game, it’s also calculates that cyber attacks against US busi- percent in 2014, the OECD said yesterday. The poor since struggled to find a new job, the report said. meant to convey the seriousness of the threat. nesses jumped 42 percent last year. Banks, YOUR MONEY: The banks downplay the and low-skilled sections of the workforce are also “Concerns are growing in many countries about Cyber attacks on the banking industry are though, are reluctant to give more details risk of hackers tapping into any individual cus- in the front line of unemployment. In its annual the strains that persistently high levels of unem- growing more frequent and sophisticated and about how they’re affected, financially or oth- tomer’s account. For most, that will never hap- Employment Outlook, the Organisation for ployment are placing on the social fabric. the list of assailants is ever-changing: crime erwise, for fear of becoming a target, and pen, the banks say, and even if it did, the cus- Economic Cooperation and Development also “Governments are facing the challenge of ‘doing bosses who want money, “hacktivists” who attacks often go undetected and unreported. tomer wouldn’t be responsible. Customers expressed concern over the strains on social wel- more with less’,” it said, pointing to increasing want to make political statements, foreign would have to go through certain steps to get fare of “persistently high levels of unemployment.” social welfare needs just as fiscal resources governments that want to spy on US compa- HIGH ALERT: Whatever the number, their money back, like filing a claim, showing “While there have been some encouraging required to meet those demands are shrinking. nies. A successful, widespread attack on the banks and the government are on high alert. that they weren’t negligently tossing their signs of a recovery in employment growth in the The OECD stressed that income support meas- industry would shake confidence in the bank- President Barack Obama warned about inter- account information around and giving the United States, this has been offset by the return of ures - particularly for the most vulnerable such as ing system, and the possibility has banks and national hacking against the banking indus- bank time to investigate. But federal regula- recession in the euro zone,” the report said, adding the long-term unemployed - must not be aban- regulators on edge. try in February’s State of the Union address. tions protect retail customers from being held youth were the hardest hit. The organisation point- doned as they are “essential for cushioning the Jamie Dimon, CEO of the country’s biggest He later met with JPMorgan CEO Dimon, accountable when money is removed from ed to widening disparities between countries in damaging effects of the crisis.” “They also help to bank, JPMorgan Chase, acknowledged that Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and their accounts without permission. the zone, with jobless rates in Germany set to fall sustain demand for goods and services which, in attacks are becoming more complex and dan- other business leaders to discuss the threat. under 5.0 percent by end 2014 while they will turn, contributes to growth and future employ- gerous, no longer carried out by “fairly simplis- Big banks have started listing cyber attacks A DRILL BY ANY OTHER NAME: As for the climb to around 28.0 percent in Spain and Greece. ment gains.” The report outlined various measures tic” hackers commandeering people’s personal as a potential risk factor in filings for regula- title of Thursday’s drill, the one that sounds Further afield, unemployment was set to drop in needed to help and encourage the unemployed computers. “Now you’re talking about state- tors and investors. The Office of the more appropriate for an action movie than a Canada and the United States, it added. to find jobs, particularly young people, such as sanctioned folks, hundreds of programmers,” Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates bank security exercise, it came about during The OECD is a research and policy body for 34 making sure adequate resources are devoted to he said in a call with reporters this spring, “tak- national banks, recently held a call with com- the creation of the original drill in 2011, which advanced and emerging democracies. “Across the assisting with job hunting and training. “Youth ing over not just PCs but servers and main- munity bankers to warn them that they’re was organized by the Financial Services Sector OECD, more than 48 million persons are unem- need to be actively supported to avoid long-term frames.” JPMorgan and its peers like Bank of not free from danger either: Since Coordinating Council. National security staff at ployed, almost 16 million more than at the start of ‘scarring’ effects as a result of prolonged unem- America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo have September, attacks have been increasingly the White House wanted exercises to have the crisis,” it said in its report, referring to the onset ployment and low-income spells early on in their signed up for tomorrow’s drill, which is being aimed at businesses with fewer than 250 names, preferably with two words. According of the global financial crisis in 2007. Young people careers,” it said. organized by Wall Street’s biggest trade group, employees, the OCC says. to the FSSCC, a federal government official are and will continue to be particularly hard hit in By contrast, older workers have fared better the Securities Industry and Financial Markets who was involved in the planning suggested many European countries, the report said, with since the onset of the crisis, partly because they Association, or SIFMA. IMPOSSIBLE VICTORY? Banks realize the the title after noticing some media reports youth jobless rates currently exceeding 60 percent retire later for reasons such as better health, the About 50 banks and organizations will par- threat isn’t going away. If anything, the possi- about the dawn of quantum computing. in Greece, 55 percent in Spain and around 40 per- closure of access to early retirement schemes and ticipate, including government agencies like bility of an online attack will grow as cus- Schimmeck points out that a similar exercise in cent in Italy and Portugal. financial pressures, it added. But evidence sug- the Treasury, the Department of Homeland tomers do more transactions online and banks Britain had a title at least as curious: It was Job and earnings losses have also been concen- gests this had not been at the expense of the Security, the Securities and Exchange outsource operations to other companies called “Waking Shark”. — AP trated in low-skilled, low-income households more young, the report stressed. — AFP Commission and the FBI. During the drill, bank employees will be stationed at their normal offices, and will be blasted throughout the day with bits of information that could indicate an Dutch review tax treaties with developing countries encroaching hacker attack. They’ll monitor a simulated stock exchange for irregular trading AMSTERDAM: The Dutch government is reviewing double taxa- “brass-plaque” companies has led to annual capital flows of 8 field.” Weekers said the study would determine if rich countries and will be pressed to figure out what’s going tion treaties with developing countries to determine if they are trillion euros ($10.44 trillion), or more than 10 times annual have won better terms than developing ones. A June study by on and how to react while sharing information unfair and should be renegotiated, State Secretary of Finance Dutch GDP. the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations found with regulators and each other. Minister Frans Weekers said. The decision to examine the “These investments via the Netherlands are a problem that use of the Dutch tax system by multinational corporations As the name suggests, this isn’t the first treaties, some of which date back to the 1950s, came after sever- because they involve unintended use of Dutch tax treaties and causes €771 million in annual lost tax revenue in 28 developing Quantum Dawn. The original drill was in al studies found that emerging economies are losing revenue investment treaties,” said tax researcher Francis Weyzig of countries. November 2011, and it attracted scant atten- due to low tax rates set in the deals. It also comes amid a grow- Utrecht Univercity. The government commissioned the outside There are at least 12,000 “brass-plaque” firms known as spe- tion and only about half as many participants. ing international effort to halt tax dodging by multinationals. study into its dual taxation agreements (DTA) with Bangladesh, cial purpose institutions in the Netherlands. In 2010, 278 billion But that was before a wave of cyber attacks The Netherlands has more than 90 double taxation agree- Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and the Philippines, a spokesman for euros in dividends, royalties and interest were channelled last fall, when big banks were forced to tem- ments. Several thousand international corporations, including the Ministry for Development said. It was launched shortly after through them. The companies create roughly 13,000 jobs and porarily shut down their websites after attack- 80 of the world’s largest, use the Netherlands to re-route profits Mongolia cancelled its treaty with the Netherlands, accusing the generate 3-3.4 billion euros in annual income for the Dutch ers bombarded them with traffic - akin to over- from dividends, royalties and interest, often paying no withhold- Dutch of facilitating fiscal avoidance. economy through taxes, wages and services, less than half a whelming a phone line with too many calls. “If ing tax in the country of origin. From the Netherlands, capital “We are looking at whether these treaties are possibly dam- percent of annual GDP, a government-backed study by you went to banks three years ago, and said, can be transferred to tax havens, often reducing tax rates to aging for these countries,” Weekers told Reuters. “We are looking Amsterdam University’s Centre for Economic Research (SEO), ‘What are your top five risks?’, probably none of below 10 percent. The use of holding companies known as (to see) if they can be misused and if there is a level playing found. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Fitch reaffirms GIC’s BBB long term ratings

KUWAIT: Gulf Investment Corporation quality, robust internal control frame- levels and overall risk profile. and equally by the six GCC states of (GIC) announced yesterday that Fitch work, and favorable future prospects. Shareholders equity, as at 31st Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Ratings have upgraded by one notch Commenting on the recent action December 2012, stood at US$ 2.3 bil- Arabia and the UAE. its Viability Ratings to ‘bb’ from ‘bb-, by Fitch, Ibrahim Al-Qadhi, CEO, said lion. GIC strives to provide a compre- and reaffirmed its Long Term IDR rat- “The efforts to continuously improve From a financial strength perspec- hensive set of financial services that ings at BBB. The short term IDR and financial condition and performance tive, the Tier 1 capital adequacy ratio buttress the development of the pri- Stable outlook were also reaffirmed. have borne fruit. of 29.5%, computed as per Basel II vate enterprise and foster economic The positive action by Fitch reflects This action by Fitch is testimony to guidelines, comfortably exceeded growth in the Gulf region. GIC has material improvements in GIC’s over- the success we have achieved in international and regional require- emerged as a regional leader in its all financial strength. Viability Ratings improving key financial parameters, ments. During 2012, GIC has main- chosen fields, and has successfully (VR) represents the intrinsic credit overcoming challenging operating tained a healthy leverage level of 2.8 promoted and developed projects in worthiness and is an reflection of the environment.” As previously times, and its liquidity and liability the GCC, across a range of sectors, corporation’s stand alone credit quali- announced, GIC posted a profit of US$ profiles remain robust. including financial services, petro- ty. It indicates the corporation’s 130 million during 2012, alongside Established in 1983, GIC is a region- chemical, metal, power, utilities, and, strong funding profile, improved asset improvements in liquidity, leverage al financial institution owned entirely communications. Design and performance attracts luxury car buyers to Lexus brand

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KUWAIT: In one of the strongest Ramadan pm until 12:30 am. UAER: Drake & Scull International PJSC (DSI), a contribution to the successful delivery of this them on this important project, which reflect our campaigns yet, Alghanim Motors, the exclu- In celebration of the holy month of regional market leader in the integrated design, important project, on time and in line with the long-standing partnership with one of the region’s sive distributor of Honda vehicles in Kuwait, Ramadan, the showroom has been engineering and construction disciplines of highest quality standards.” construction leaders. Due to its unique waterfront has launched a unique promotion that enhanced with cultural decorative elements General Contracting, Mechanical, Electrical and Commenting on the award, Khaldoun Tabari, location and exceptional architectural design the offers special value and gifts on a range of including a traditional sadu seating area as Plumbing (MEP), Water and Power, Rail and Oil and CEO of DSI said, “We thank Arabtec for their contin- upcoming Fairmont Hotel and Serviced Honda models. The new promotion well as a dates and coffee station purely cre- Gas, was awarded by Arabtec Construction LLC ued trust in DSI. We are proud to be working with Apartments will be at the forefront of the touristic includes the Honda Pilot, Honda CRV, ated to enrich the customers experience at (Arabtec), a leading construction company in the developments in the region. DSI delivered some of Honda Odyssey and Honda Crosstour. Honda Alghanim showroom. Middle East and North Africa, a AED 233 million the major hospitality projects in the region and Offered at highly competitive market prices, Apart from the many features included contract to execute the complete MEP works for namely the Jumeirah Beach hotel in Dubai, the all the distinct models come with instant in the promotion, Honda’s customers will the Fairmont Abu Dhabi Hotel and Serviced Rotana Hotel and Centro Hotel in Yas Island, Abu Apartments. DSI will mobilize on site immediately Dhabi, in addition to The Royal Amwaj Resorts & valuable gifts upon their purchase. Upon also enjoy excellent customer service, quali- and is scheduled to complete all MEP works on the Spa in Dubai among others.” purchase of any of the above mentioned ty maintenance options and competitive project by June 2015. “We are confident that our extensive expertise vehicles, customers will get a FREE 46’’ full prices on spare parts, all of which are pro- The Fairmont Abu Dhabi Hotel and Apartments in this promising sector will enable us to deliver HD LED television, FREE Samsung Galaxy vided by a team of professional and skilled Towers are owned by the National Investment world-class engineering solutions and polished S4, as well as a comprehensive service con- technicians and team members. An element Corporation (NIC), who awarded Arabtec a contract integrated systems that optimize the facility’s MEP tract, 3rd party liability insurance program that further enhances customers’ peace of to carry out the main construction of the project in functions and complement its authentic Arabian and a free vehicle registration service. mind is Honda’s service center that is distin- Feb 2013. This iconic development, located near feel.” DSI continues to enhance and strengthen its In addition, Honda Alghanim offers guished by its continuous and successful Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi, occupies an overall area services offering with unmatched vertical integra- another variety of vehicles in a uniquely efforts in providing the highest quality of of 155,000 sq m. The project will have an extensive tion and global footprint. The collaborative capabil- designed showroom so as to provide cus- services. The service center is equipped water frontage and will be an integrated develop- ities of the Engineering services (MEP and Water tomers the opportunity to explore and with a large variety of the most advanced ment of 5-star hotels and serviced apartments. and Power), General Contracting, Oil and Gas, Rail experience Honda’s favorite models and equipment operated by a team of skilled Hasan Abdullah Ismaik, Managing Director & and Infrastructure development continue to deliv- their distinctive features. Visit Honda professionals and effective consultants who CEO of Arabtec Holding PJSC said: er strong performance quality work on project Alghanim’s showroom in Safat Alghanim ensure timely service. Visit the new Honda “The Fairmont Abu Dhabi Hotel project plays a sites. Armed with a multicultural workforce, inher- during Ramadan from 9 am until 12:30 pm Alghanim showroom at Safat Alghanim in strategic role in the UAE capital’s plans to develop ent financial strength and solid regional experi- in the afternoon and 8:30 pm until 12:30 am Al-Rai or the new service center in tourism as part of its Economic Vision 2030. We are ence, the company’s outlook remains positive in after midnight on Saturdays until Thursdays. Shuwaikh located across from the Classical pleased to award this contract to Drake & Scull terms of realising greater profitability and improv- The showroom is open on Fridays from 8:30 Car Museum. International, a publicly listed company on the ing productivity across MENA, South Asia and Dubai Financial Market and look forward to their Europe. technology WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

ProCons-4it achieves SAP accreditation for partner quality program DUBAI: ProCons-4it, yesterday announced it has manage risk in increasingly complex projects. As a clear view of SAP’s ability to influence the success of organization during the year. In addition, the quar- received accreditation for a global partner quality certified member of the partner quality program, its program,” Wassim Hassanieh, Managing Partner terly quality review enables joint risk monitoring via program by SAP AG.The certificate was awarded by ProCons-4it will be able to help SAP customers of ProCons-4it, “By using SAP quality principles, we open bilateral communication as well as identifying the SAP Partner Service Delivery organization for avoid escalations, maintain profits, reduce profit can help ensure that our customers achieve smooth and preventing issues. ProCons-4it demonstration of clear quality stan- dilution and improve successful delivery through implementations as we anticipate benefits as meas- At SAP, we are continually striving to help cus- dards and processes and in recognition of quality, the program lifecycle. In addition, the program ured against business requirements. This accredita- tomers manage the implementation of integrated risk and project management framework improve- offers a quality approach for sales processes and tion reaffirms the work we do to enable effective software solutions, and encourage our partners to ments in alignment with quality principles from delivery methodologies through access to implementation of business processes using SAP work to the principles of quality adhered to SAP. enhanced SAP channel quality templates and solutions and to fulfill requirements to the highest throughout SAP. ProCons-4it is closely aligned to the key princi- processes. With a distinct focus on quality deliver- standard.” “The global partner quality program allows us to ples of quality that SAP believes to be fundamental ables, the accreditation also helps partners improve The annual partner quality plan and quarterly work with partners such as ProCons-4it to help to the success of every implementation, designed the success of bids by providing a sales differentia- quality reviews form the basis for the global partner ensure customers receive the necessary information to deliver high-quality software and support while tor from other partners through quality wording quality program by providing a way to monitor joint to make informed decisions about their solution providing the right processes, tools and services to and information as well as risk mitigation activities. performance and measure success. Partners are and implementation options, as well as realize the drive successful projects and delivery. “This accreditation is a credit to our team and required to submit an annual quality plan to show- value of their investment early on and to its full Businesses today are continually challenged to our commitment to providing customers with a case how they will improve quality in their own potential.” EMC elevates data protection strategy Sweeping array of new products

DUBAI: EMC Corporation yesterday announced a up and archive data onto a single, easy-to-man- faster, more efficient backup and disaster recov- broad array of new hardware and software prod- age protection storage platform. These new ery.To support a broader range of archive storage ucts that enable customers to deploy new midrange systems are up to 4xfaster and 10x environments, Data Domain systems now offer Protection Storage Architecturesthat address more scalable than the existing Data Domain sys- seamless integration with archiving applications today’s and tomorrow’s data protection chal- tems they replace. In addition, the new systems from OpenText,IBM and Dell. With these new inte- lenges. The new products cut across the compa- support up to 540 data streams, a 3x increase that grations, Data Domain systems can be deployed ny’s market leading Data Domain, further enables complete consolidation of back- with over 20 productsfor file, email, SharePoint, Avamar,NetWorkerand Mozyproduct lines. up and/or archive data. Designed to lower total content management and database archiving. Backup administrators are facing increasing cost of ownership for backup and archive storage, * Data Protection Suite Enhancements: EMC pressure to meet the needs of a diverse set of the new systems provide up to a 38% lower cost- Avamar(r)7 now supports all major data center stakeholders that includes application owners, per gigabyte. workloads being directed to Data Domain sys- PARIS: An employee of the Google company sets up a camera to capture panoramic virtual machine administrators and storage and tems, with the addition of file system and images inside the Eiffel Tower for the Google street view software in Paris recently. — AFP server administrators. Many of these stakehold- NAS/NDMPbackups.With this addition, all major ers wish to increase the control and visibility into data center workloads can now be protected by the protection of the environments they manage the combined solution. Avamar extends its lead- and have implemented their own solutions. The ership for virtual environments with new VM Omnix launches result is an “accidental architecture” that consists Instant Access, which allows a VM to be booted of a fragmented set of data protection processes from a Data Domain system and up-and running and infrastructure silos, the ownership of which is in under 2 minutes. Also, a new ‘Autodesk 2014 Design often unclear. VMwarevSphereweb client allows VMware With yesterday’s announcement, EMC is deliv- administrators tomanage Avamar backup and eringa full range of capabilities that enable back- recovery directly from a familiar interface. and Creation Suites’ up teams to transformfrom the chaos of the acci- EMC NetWorker(r) 8.1introduces new integrat- KUWAIT: Omnix International, the Meanwhile, Autodesk 360 extends the dental architecture to a more effective Protection ed snapshot management, featuring a new wiz- authorized distributor for Autodesk prod- suites workflow advantage by connecting Storage Architecture that meets the demands of ard-based user interface, auto-discovery, and ucts in the Middle East, has announced the desktop to secure and virtually infi- the business. The key tenets of EMC’s Protection intelligent assignment of snapshot storage. the launch of the new ‘Autodesk 2014 nite computing power of the cloud. To Storage Architecture are: Integrations with Data Domain systems are tight- Design and Creation Suites’, at a ceremo- showcase the strategic integration of * Protection Storage: The anchor of the archi- ened, with Data Domain Boost support over Fibre ny held in Kuwait. both cloud and desktop, Autodesk tectures is cost- and capacity-optimized storage Channel. This enables 50% faster backups and With the availability of the new suites, Infrastructure Design Suite 2014 and with high data durability that can deliver disaster 2.5x faster restores compared to VTL-based con- designers and engineers from Kuwait will Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014 recovery, backup and archive. figurations.Finally, NetWorker is delivering a com- now have unprecedented access to the introduce Autodesk InfraWorks software * Data Source Integration: Leverages both the plete refresh of its VMware support, leveraging Autodesk 2014 software portfolio, which and Autodesk InfraWorks 360 cloud serv- optimized data flows and user interfaces of data Avamar technology services. spans both the desktop and cloud and ices-new tools that help accelerate the sources including hypervisor, application and Fady Richmany-EMC Senior Regional Director * New Cloud Backup Functionality: Mozy by allows building, product, plant, and facto- adoption of Building Information storage, to deliver the performance and visibility EMC makes it easier to scalecloud backup while ry design; engineering, construction and Modeling (BIM) and cloud-based work- internal customers want. * ExtendedBackup and Archive Application reducing cost and complexity. New Active infrastructure and entertainment creation flows for the planning, design, construc- * Data Management Services: A catalog of all Support: Empowering application owners is criti- Directory integration reduces the administrative professionals to innovate more. Also tion and management of civil infrastruc- data copies plus reporting and analytics for com- cal to delivering a Protection Storage burden of separately creating user accounts and being offered for the first time is the ture projects. Helping improve the civil pliance. Architecture.Data Domain systems now support enhances self-service, which greatly reduces the inclusion of new reality capture software infrastructure design process by engi- direct backup from SAP HANA Studio via NFS - TCO. Simplified storage management introduces and services that easily incorporates both neering in 3D from the start, the software Technology Highlights enabling SAP HANADBAs to leverage efficient new storage pools which means less time spent laser scans and digital photographs of the and services allow collaboration with a * New Midrange Data Domain Systems: The protection storage while maintaining control of monitoring storage quotas at the individual physical world into the 3D design and broad set of stakeholders on mobile and newData Domain DD2500, DD4200, DD4500 and backup processes. In addition, DD BoostTM for machine level. Finally, keyless activationaccelerates engineering process. desktop platforms, and enables commu- DD7200 systems deliver the performance and Oracle RMAN now supports Oracle Exadataand the process for provisioning new users, resulting in The flexible, economical software nication in new and visually compelling scalability to cost-effectively consolidate all back- SAP running on Oracle - enabling DBA control of greater scalability. access provided by Autodesk Suites trans- ways. With Autodesk InfraWorks, civil lates to designers and engineers having a engineers and planners can now design wider palette of tools to choose from, within the context of the real-world envi- which includes the best tool for any job at ronment, helping to deliver projects, both Court sides with Yahoo hand and faster response times in large and small, by more efficiently man- addressing changing business require- aging even large-scale infrastructure ments. ‘Autodesk 2014 Design and models. in data collection case Creation Suites’ includes; Autodesk “The new ‘Autodesk 2014 Design and AutoCAD Design Suite, Autodesk Building Creation Suites’ is now available in the LOS ANGELES: Yahoo has won a court fight that Design Suite, Autodesk Entertainment Middle East through our vast channel net- could help the public learn more about the US gov- Creation Suite, Autodesk Factory Design work in the region. The new suites are not ernment’s efforts to obtain data from Internet Suite, Autodesk Infrastructure Design only ‘must have’ tools for Kuwaiti design- users. Suite, Autodesk Plant Design Suite and ers and engineers, but also offers an eco- The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Autodesk Product Design Suite nomical way for customers to access their which reviews government requests to spy on indi- In addition, customers who are on an design software,” concluded Jayant viduals, ruled Monday that information should be Autodesk Subscription will also have Deshpande, Director-CAD Division, Omnix made public about a 2008 case that ordered Yahoo access to Autodesk 360 cloud services, International. Inc. to turn over customer data. which extends workflow of engineers and Autodesk 2014 Design and Creation The order requires the government to review designers to explore more design alterna- Suites-Specifications which portions of the opinion, briefs and argu- tives, collaborate more effectively and * Offered in Standard, Premium and experience greater mobility. Subscription Ultimate Editions. ments can be declassified and report back to the customers can also purchase additional * Standard editions of all suites con- court by July 29. cloud capacity as well. taining AutoCAD have added AutoCAD The government sought the information from “With our 2014 portfolio, engineers, Raster Design software. Yahoo under the National Security Agency’s PRISM designers and even large and small * Autodesk Building Design Suite sub- data-gathering program. Details of the secret pro- organizations across every industry can scribers gain access to Autodesk Green gram were disclosed by former NSA contractor simply innovate more,” said Andrew Building Studio and energy analysis cloud Edward Snowden, who has fled the US. Anagnost, Senior Vice President of services in the standard edition, as well as The program came to light in early June after Industry Strategy and Marketing, InfraWorks 2014 and the Optimization for The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers Autodesk. “Autodesk’s commitment to Inventor cloud service in the Ultimate edi- published documents provided by Snowden. It making our 3D design, engineering and tion. allows the NSA to reach into the data streams of US entertainment software portfolio accessi- * Autodesk Entertainment Creation companies such as Yahoo, Facebook Inc., Microsoft ble to customers through suites work- Suite customers will benefit from new Corp., Google Inc. and others, and grab emails, flows that connect to value added servic- workflows like the ability to easily gener- video chats, pictures and more. U.S. officials have NEW YORK: In this photo the web pages of Yahoo and Tumblr are displayed on a computer es in the cloud is unwavering.” ate moving or idle crowds with populate, said the program is narrowly focused on foreign screen in New York. Yahoo reported quarterly earnings yesterday. — AP One of the highlights of the 2014 improved viewport display and shading, targets, and technology companies say they turn portfolio of suites is the addition of and the ability to create production-quali- over information only if required by court order. before publication in order to redact classified priety of the surveillance, but they haven’t really Autodesk ReCap, a family of new reality ty meshes with the new retopologizing Yahoo requested in court papers filed June 14 to information, according to the court order. provided information to inform that debate. So capture software and cloud services that options. have the information about the 2008 case Mark Rumold, a staff attorney at the Electronic declassifying these opinions is a very important simplify the process of creating intelli- * Autodesk Factory Design Suite unsealed. A Yahoo spokeswoman hailed Monday’s Frontier Foundation specializing in electronic sur- place to start.” gent 3D data of physical objects and includes more than 300 new factory decision and said the company believes it will help veillance and national security issues, called the The unsealing of such secret rulings is not environments via the use of laser scans assets. inform public discussion about the U.S. govern- ruling incremental and said he was reserving judg- unprecedented, but it is rare. The last time that and photos. This unique feature gives * Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite ment’s surveillance programs. ment until the case details are actually released. happened, Rumold said, was in 2002, in a case customers the ability to bring the actual Premium now includes Autodesk The government hasn’t taken a position on “It remains to be seen how forthcoming (the regarding the Patriot Act, which was enacted after job site or physical objects into their InfraWorks 2014, Autodesk Roads and whether details of the case should be published as government) will be,” Rumold said. “The adminis- the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to give law enforcement design and engineering process. In fact, Highways Module for InfraWorks, long as it’s allowed to review the documents tration has said they want a debate about the pro- agencies more tools to fight terrorism. — AP designers and engineers need not start Autodesk AutoCAD Utility Design soft- their designs with a blank screen but can ware and for the first time, a single, com- add, modify, validate and document the prehensive version of Autodesk Revit South Korea blames North design process in context. An example of products that combines tools for architec- the advantages of using reality capture tural design, mechanical, electrical, and software is that civil engineers can now plumbing (MEP) engineering and struc- for recent cyber attack bypass an existing bridge or expand the tural engineering. road underneath digitally and test feasi- * Autodesk Plant Design Suite Ultimate SEOUL: South Korea yesterday blamed North major cyber-intrusions in 2009 and 2011 that tar- symbolic government organisations, such as the bility with accurate survey data. adds Autodesk Inventor with Routed Korea for a crippling cyber attack last month geted the South’s financial institutions and gov- presidential office,” the science ministry said in a The 2014 suites presents industry spe- Systems, and the Plant Design Suite against government and media websites, includ- ernment agencies. statement. cific workflows that address specific user Premium edition now includes Autodesk ing the president’s office. And Seoul accused Pyongyang’s military intel- It said the attackers might have stolen some needs while at the same time reinforces 3ds Max Design software. The accusation came a day before the two ligence agency of launching a major cyber attack personal information through the website of the compatibility between products. For * Autodesk Product Design Suite Koreas are to hold fresh talks on reopening their in March, which shut down the networks of three presidential office. example, suites containing Autodesk Premium now includes Autodesk joint industrial zone, amid fading hopes of an ear- TV broadcasters and crippled operations at three The June onslaught began on the anniversary Revit products and Autodesk AutoCAD Inventor Professional, and Autodesk ly agreement following months of friction. banks. The malware used in last month’s attack of the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, after software can now enjoy tighter interoper- Navisworks Manage has been added to The South’s science ministry said hackers in was found to be a variation of that used in the hacking group Anonymous claimed to have ability, so when it is time to import forms the Product Design Suite Ultimate edi- the attack waged from June 25 to July 1 used at March 20 cyber attack, Park said. attacked pro-North Korean websites. from AutoCAD into Revit products, the tion for clash detection. Both Product least one IP address that had been utilised in ear- Almost all websites and servers of 69 govern- It was well prepared and more carefully forms retain greater integrity or when it is Design Suite Ultimate and Premium cus- lier attacks blamed on the North. ment offices and private organisations targeted planned than previous attacks, the ministry said, time to output drawings in AutoCAD, tomers on Autodesk Subscription now “North Korea is believed to be behind the in the June attack were now operating normally, adding the North had then tried to throw the users can generate 2D documentation have access to the Optimization for attack,” senior ministry official Park Jae-Moon told he said. “The cyber attack seriously undermined South off the scent by assuming the identity of within Revit products. Inventor cloud service. reporters. The South also blamed the North for the country’s image by altering the websites of Anonymous. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Study: Later retirement may help prevent dementia Work keeps people physically active, socially connected BOSTON: New research boosts the “use it or lose the other way around, Dufouil said. France man- local university, they’re continuing to attend lec- it” theory about brainpower and staying mentally dates retirement in various jobs - civil servants tures and they’re continuing to stay cognitively sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk must retire by 65, she said. The new study sug- engaged and socially engaged in their lives.” of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other types gests “people should work as long as they want” of dementia, a study of nearly half a million peo- because it may have health benefits, she said. Tips to boost brain health ple in France found. It’s by far the largest study to June Springer, who just turned 90, thinks it You may be able to help keep your brain in It’s all about the roll when look at this, and researchers say the conclusion does. She was hired as a full-time receptionist at shape, not just the rest of your body. A large makes sense. Working tends to keep people Caffi Plumbing & Heating in Alexandria, Va, eight study in France suggests that delaying retire- choosing running shoes physically active, socially connected and mental- years ago. “I’d like to give credit to the company ment and working until later in life may help pre- ly challenged - all things known to help prevent for hiring me at that age,” she said. “It’s a joy to vent dementia. NEW YORK: Fitness experts have long store’s merchandise director. “This causes mental decline. work, being with people and keeping up with Some other things the Alzheimer’s advised clients choosing a running shoe to running injuries and shoes can address this. “For each additional year of work, the risk of current events. I love doing what I do. As long as Association suggests for healthy aging: forget fashion and consider the roll or This has been the model.” Bjorken said neu- getting dementia is reduced by 3.2%,” said Carole God grants me the brain to use I’ll take it every • Stay active. Many studies show exercise pronation - the way the foot leans inward tral shoes account for 60 to 63 percent of Dufouil, a scientist at INSERM, the French govern- day.” Heather Snyder, director of medical and sci- reduces dementia risk. upon impact. Analyzing the roll of the foot the running shoes sold in her store; 30 to ment’s health research agency. She led the study entific operations for the Alzheimer’s Association, • Stay connected - join a club, travel, volunteer. remains standard practice among fitness 35 percent are stability shoes. The mobility and gave results Monday at the Alzheimer’s said the study results don’t mean everyone Social ties boost brain health. and medical professionals in the belief it category is very small and usually follows Association International Conference in Boston. needs to delay retirement. • Eat right. High cholesterol may contribute to will lead to a better shoe fit and fewer on doctor’s advice. About 35 million people worldwide have “It’s more staying cognitively active, staying stroke and brain cell damage, while dark vegeta- injuries. “When it comes to shoe choice, the “Some rolling in is natural, normal and dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the most common socially active, continue to be engaged in what- bles and fruits may help protect brain cells. amount of pronation control is extremely beneficial,” she explained. “Compared to 20 type. In the U.S., about 5 million have Alzheimer’s ever it is that’s enjoyable to you” that’s important, • Do mentally challenging activities such as important,” said Dr Jane Andersen, a podia- years ago, running shoes are really much - 1 in 9 people aged 65 and over. What causes the she said. “My parents are retired but they’re word puzzles and other things that stimulate trist in private practice in Chapel Hill, North more flexible, lightweight and well mind-robbing disease isn’t known and there is no busier than ever. They’re taking classes at their thinking skills.—AP Carolina. designed to work with movements of run- cure or any treatments that slow its progression. “Some people need more than others. It ning.” American Council on Exercise can cause a lot of problems if you have the spokesperson, Dr Mark Kelly, a runner for Cancer, chemo linked to wrong one.” Anderson, a runner herself and 35 years, is a self-described underpronator veterans’ lower risk of Alzheimer’s past president of the American Association who believes in heeding an individual’s France has had some of the best Alzheimer’s for Women Podiatrists, said the No. 1 cause “biomechanical tendencies.” research in the world, partly because its former of the overuse injuries she sees, from stress “Get a certified trainer to look at the bio- president, Nicolas Sarkozy, made it a priority. The fractures to tendonitis to Plantar fasciitis mechanics of how you’re running,” Kelly country also has detailed health records on self- (heel pain), is shoes that are worn out or said. “How are you turning your foot? Are employed people who pay into a Medicare-like the wrong fit. you a forefoot striker, midfoot striker, heel health system. There are three basic levels of control for striker, or extreme heel striker?” Researchers used these records on more than standard running shoes: neutral, stability Connecticut-based exercise physiologist 429,000 workers, most of whom were shopkeep- and motion control. “Neutral is generally Tom Holland, author of “The Marathon ers or craftsmen such as bakers and woodwork- good for a high-arch foot; it doesn’t provide Method,” thinks many of the common run- ers. They were 74 on average and had been extra control for pronation,” she said. “The ning-related injuries, such as runner’s knee, retired for an average of 12 years. stability shoe works for people who need shin splints and hip issues are related to Nearly 3% had developed dementia but the more support; motion control is for the and exacerbated by improper footwear. risk of this was lower for each year of age at super flat-footed.” At Jack Rabbit Sports “Once you find a shoe that works for you, retirement. Someone who retired at 65 had store in New York City, clients’ arches are stick with it,” he said. Nevertheless, a recent about a 15% lower risk of developing dementia observed before they hit the treadmill for Danish study cast doubt on whether shoes compared to someone retiring at 60, after other runs that are videotaped for slow-motion that control pronation do actually cut factors that affect those odds were taken into analysis. down on injury. But the scientists said account, Dufouil said. “The basic premise is that most people more work is needed to determine if highly To rule out the possibility that mental decline land on their heel (and) overpronate or pronated feet face a higher risk of injury may have led people to retire earlier, researchers underpronate,” said Johanna Bjorken, the than neutral feet.—Reuters did analyses that eliminated people who devel- oped dementia within 5 years of retirement, and within 10 years of it. “The trend is exactly the same,” suggesting BOSTON: In this photo, June Springer poses for a photograph where she works at Caffi Long term aspirin use tied that work was having an effect on cognition, not Contracting Services, Va Springer, who just turned 90, as a receptionist.—AP to lower colon cancer risk Past colon cancer tied to future cancer risks NEWYORK: Low-dose aspirin, even if not tak- cancer emerged. For the new report, about en daily, may reduce a woman’s risk of colon 34,000 of the women from that original NEW YORK: People who have had The new study included about Reuters Health. “We saw the great- more cancers are caught among cancer over the long term, according to a group agreed to continue taking yearly sur- colon cancer are 15 percent more 170,000 people diagnosed with est increased risk among individu- people with a history of disease new study that did not find the same effect veys through March 2012. They no longer likely to be diagnosed with anoth- those cancers between 1992 and als whose first cancer was located simply because they undergo more for other types of cancer. The apparent bene- received aspirin or placebo pills, though er cancer than those with no histo- 2009. During that span, 15,000 of in sort of the central portions of tests than the average patient. fit came at a cost, as women taking aspirin some continued taking aspirin on their own. ry of the disease, a new study sug- them - or about nine percent - the colon.” Although it’s not clear Or, he told Reuters Health, also had higher rates of stomach bleeding Cook and her colleagues found that gests. Using data from cancer reg- were found to have a second can- why that was the case, she said the “Maybe we’ve been underestimat- and ulcers. women who took low-dose aspirin every oth- istries from nine states, researchers cer. Compared to the average finding could help researchers in ing the effects of common risk fac- But researchers found that women who er day during the original study period of found small intestine, lung, kidney, American, people in the study with the future target patients who are tors, like genetics... and also just took 100 milligrams (mg) of aspirin every oth- about 10 years had a colorectal cancer inci- stomach, bladder and endometrial a history of colon cancer were most likely to get a second cancer. diet and lifestyle.” Zell, who wasn’t er day for at least 10 years ended up with dence of 11 cases per 1,000 people over 16 cancers were all more common twice as likely to develop a second “The general message is very involved in the new research, said about a 20 percent lower risk of colon cancer years, compared to 14 cases per 1,000 people among people with a history of colon cancer. They also had four consistent now over several current studies are looking into after some 18 years of follow up, compared to who took a placebo. Women who continued colon cancer. times as many cancers of the small papers, that colorectal cancer whether second cancers can be women who took a placebo. “We were quite to take aspirin after the original trial had the “The most common cancer intestine as would be expected in a patients have good outcomes, prevented through exercise or surprised to see it actually,” said Nancy Cook, greatest reduced risk, according to the among these individuals is another typical population and were 42 however even when cured they healthier eating. the study’s lead author from Boston’s researchers. colorectal cancer, but there are percent more likely to be diag- have an excess risk” of future can- He said the findings shouldn’t Brigham and Women’s Hospital, because There was no effect, however, on risk for potentially other cancer sites that nosed with kidney cancer and 14 cers, said Dr. Jason Zell, who has change treatment of colon cancer some researchers had believed that 100 mg cancers of the breast or lung. “The new results we need to be aware of,” said percent more likely to get lung also studied the topic at the survivors, including how closely of aspirin every other day was too little and from the Women’s Health Study provide Amanda Phipps at the Fred cancer. Those risks varied by where University of California, Irvine. they are watched for other dis- too infrequent to matter. important evidence confirming that low- Hutchinson Cancer Research in the colon or rectum a person’s He said there are a few possible eases. That’s in part because there The new study, published in the Annals of dose aspirin use does indeed lower risk of col- Center in Seattle, who led the first tumor had been found, explanations for the findings. First, are no good screening tools for Internal Medicine, is a follow-up to an earlier orectal cancer, but that this benefit does not study. According to the American according to findings published in treatment of colon cancer - some of the cancers tied to col- report that found no difference in colon can- ‘kick in’ until about 10 years after the start of Cancer Society, about one in 20 the journal Cancer. whether with surgery, radiation or orectal cancer. “For right now, I cer risk among the women during the first 10 regular use,” Eric Jacobs, strategic director of people will be diagnosed with “We have this growing knowl- chemotherapy - could raise or low- don’t think it affects any screening years of taking aspirin. According to the pharmacoepidemiology at the ACS in colon or rectal cancer during their edge that colorectal cancer isn’t er the risk of cancer in nearby recommendations directly,” he American Cancer Society (ACS), colon and Atlanta, wrote in an email to Reuters Health. lifetime. just one disease,” Phipps told organs. Another possibility is that said.—Reuters rectal cancers are the third most common Jacobs, who has researched aspirin use types of cancer in the US. and the risk of cancer but wasn’t involved in Previous studies have found that higher the new study, cautioned that there are and more frequent doses of aspirin - often known side effects of taking aspirin. “It is taken by people with heart disease - are important to remember that aspirin is a real linked to a reduced risk of death from a num- drug with real side effects, including some- ber of cancers. Cook said other studies have times causing serious, even occasionally also found a delay of about five to 10 years in fatal, stomach bleeding, even at low doses,” observing the benefits of regular aspirin use he wrote. “Aspirin use is recommended for on cancer risk. most people who have had a heart attack, The new findings are based on a large and has some benefits for colorectal cancer study of women looking at the benefits and as well, but at this point the American risks of taking aspirin and vitamin E for pre- Cancer Society does not recommend that vention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. people use aspirin specifically to prevent In an earlier report on the long term study, cancer,” Jacobs noted. Cook and her col- about 40,000 women were randomly leagues found that women who took aspirin assigned to take low-dose aspirin or a place- were 14 percent more likely to have stom- bo every other day starting between 1993 ach bleeding and 17 percent more likely to and 1996. They were followed through 2004 have holes in the lining of their stomach to see if any differences in heart disease or known as peptic ulcers. —Reuters Scientists find how ‘obesity GROHE Power&Soul Natural Colours Collection gene’ makes people fat Natural colours, innovative engineering esigned to deliver a deeply Harmony of form, their attractive design and innovative tional mix sprays. While the powerful LONDON: Scientists have unraveled how a research has also shown that ghrelin can be satisfying and personalised function and colour technology. The “One-Click- Jet setting is ideal to relax tense mus- gene long associated with obesity makes reduced by eating a high-protein diet. shower experience, GROHE Apart from their natural colours, Showering” on the back of the hand cles, the GROHE Rain O2spray is full people fat by triggering increased hunger, Steve Bloom of Imperial College London, D Power&Soul showers are now also the showers in the GROHE showers makes the difference. 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GROHE “It’s a double hit,” said Rachel Batterham more than 40 million children under the age GROHE Power&Soul variants is DreamSpray ensures the accuracy from University College London, who led the of five were overweight in 2011, according to inspired by the soft tones of natural and richness of the spray patterns. study, which was published in the Journal of the World Health Organization. Developing materials frequently used in contem- This technology, which is the heart of Clinical Investigation on Monday. The discov- effective obesity drugs has been a challenge porary bathroom decors. From all GROHE showers, distributes water ery follows studies of blood samples from for drugmakers, although some new medi- Natural Sandstone, Cloudy evenly to all nozzles. In addition, the people after meals, combined with functional cines are now coming through. Limestone and Fired Clay to Sheer showers integrated EcoJoy technolo- magnetic resonance imaging of volunteers’ After a gap of more than a decade, two Marble, Misty Slate and Frosted gy which allows to reduce water con- brains and cell-based studies looking at ghre- new obesity drugs - Vivus Inc’s Qsymia and Granite, these colours perfectly sumption without compromising on lin production at a molecular level. Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc’s Belviq - were match many popular stone and comfort and the overall shower expe- Batterham said the work provided new approved by the US Food and Drug wood finishes seen in today’s rience. The GROHE Power&Soul insights and possible new leads for treat- Administration last year. Belviq’s launch was upscale bathrooms. As such, the Natural Colours Collection brings a ment, since some experimental drugs are delayed, however, pending a final classification showers can be used in a wide range supremely enjoyable showering known to suppress ghrelin and could be par- on its risk of abuse and Qsymia’s sales have of bathrooms from private resi- experience and a sophisticated look ticularly effective if targeted at patients with been disappointing, triggering fierce criticism dences to luxury hotels and stylish to today’s naturally inspired bath- the obesity-risk variant of the gene. Previous from Vivus’s largest shareholder.—Reuters wellness areas. rooms. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Lionfish beyond reach of divers worry researchers

FLORIDA: The invasive lionfish that crowds coral reefs and preys on ing pace. Green and other researchers who took the dives surfaced native fish in the Atlantic’s shallower waters is such a problem that believing they had seen the frontier in their fight against lionfish. The divers in Florida and the Caribbean are encouraged to capture and eat next problem will be routinely making similar dives to study and per- them whenever they can. Lionfish, which have venomous spines, are a haps capture lionfish. well-documented problem in Atlantic coral reefs, where the foot-long, They would seem to have a lot of water to cover - the deepest con- one-pound invaders from the tropical parts of the Pacific and Indian firmed sighting of a lionfish was at 1,000 feet in the Bahamas. “We are oceans live without predators and eat other fish voraciously. What’s capable of doing a good job of controlling lionfish at diveable depths, slowly coming into view is how deep into the ocean their invasion has in shallower areas. Divers and spearfishers can go in and remove the spread. fish. But the lionfish are abundant in large numbers at these deeper Researchers and wildlife officials worry that lionfish may undo con- habitats, and that’s really where the next frontier of this battle is going servation efforts aimed at rebuilding populations of native predators to be, in those deep water areas,” Green said. Lionfish in the Atlantic such as groupers and snappers. Lionfish gorge on the young of those Ocean have similarities to the Burmese python, the large, ravenous species, as well as their prey. “They can eat pretty much anything that snake that researchers say is decimating native mammal populations fits inside their mouths,” Oregon State University lionfish expert in Florida’s Everglades. Both are fast-breeding invasive species likely Stephanie Green said. Divers are encouraged to capture and eat any introduced through the pet trade, with no natural predators to keep lionfish they encounter to protect reefs and native marine life already their numbers in check. burdened by pollution, over-fishing and the effects of climate change. Desperate for some kind of control over their populations, Florida And last month, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation this year enlisted volunteers and amateurs to go after both. But when Commission waived the recreational license requirement for divers it comes to lionfish, Dan Ellinor of the Florida Fish and Wildlife harvesting lionfish and excluded them from bag limits, allowing peo- Conservation Commission noted that those efforts primarily target ple to catch as many as they can. areas already frequented by scuba divers. FLORIDA: Image taken from video, research scientist David But recreational divers max out around 130 feet deep, though. “We’re going to have to figure out how we’re going to get below Kerstetter, filets a lionfish at the Nova Southeastern University Researchers and wildlife officials rarely have the means to venture the diver depths,” said Ellinor, a biological administrator with the com- Oceanographic Center.—AP photos deeper than that, but they’ve realized the lionfish they can’t see may mission’s marine fisheries division. “The other problem is there’s not a be their biggest concern. As Green discovered on a recent expedition commercial market per se,” he added. “It’s very small, very minute, it’s have concluded that if you can’t beat lionfish, you can at least eat aboard a submersible, there’s little to disturb a lionfish living on a in the Keys, it’s beyond the reef in about 200 feet of water and it’s by them, even though commercial supplies and the market for the lion- wreck 250 feet deep into the Atlantic. There are no predators and no catch out of traps, lobster traps.” fish remain very small. For years in the Caribbean, dive shop operators, divers. “I did not expect it to be this loaded with lionfish,” Green said. In More and bigger lionfish now live throughout the Gulf of Mexico conservationists and some restaurant chefs have been trying to slow less than half an hour, she tallied nearly three dozen lionfish in view and in the Atlantic between the Carolinas and Colombia than in the their spread by turning them into menu items. Derby-style lionfish across the stern of a steel freighter sunk in the 1980s as an artificial species’ native range in the Indian and Pacific oceans, researchers say. tournaments are held from Bermuda as far south as Curacao, a Dutch reef a few miles off South Florida. She could have continued counting, Worse, it’s not known what controls lionfish in their home waters - Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. In the Turks and Caicos if the yellow submersible’s draining battery had not required a trip maybe a parasite, or something eating their eggs and larvae before Islands, the government once put up a cash prize for the first fisher- back to the ocean’s surface. they develop their poisonous spines. In Atlantic waters, lionfish man to catch 3,000. In Bonaire, where the economy is dependent on Last month, Seattle-based OceanGate Inc offered scientists and apparently have nothing to fear except cold water and scuba divers reef diving tourism, volunteers are being licensed as “lionfish hunters.” wildlife officials a close-up look at deep-water lionfish in dives aboard equipped with specific gear. “They pretty much have been unprece- Supermercado Nacional, the largest chain of supermarkets in the the yellow submersible named Antipodes. In strong currents that dented in any marine invasion. It’s the largest, the quickest, the most Dominican Republic, occasionally has lionfish for sale depending on might have tangled a tether connecting a remotely operated robot to extensive marine invasion we’ve ever seen,” said Nova Southeastern availability. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a vessel at the surface, the Antipodes sank and rose as smoothly as an University’s Matthew Johnston, whose work predicting the spread of launched a campaign in 2010 urging the US public to “eat sustainable, elevator. Maneuvered by a joystick, it crawled over the sand at a walk- other invasive species is based on the success of the lionfish. Officials eat lionfish!”—AP

FLORIDA: (Left) Photo shows Oregon State University lionfish expert Stephanie Green counts lionfish on the sunken freighter “Bill Boyd,” as she travels aboard the submersible “Antipodes”. (Center) Photo shows Stockton Rush, CEO and Co-Founder of OceanGate Inc, opens the hatch on the company’s submersible “Antipodes”. (Right) Image taken from video, two lionfish are shown in an aquarium at the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Tomorrow, last day to apply for internal scholarships at GUST

SEND US YOUR he Gulf University for Science and international companies locally and INSTAGRAM PICS Technology (GUST) noted that the abroad, enables its students to achieve a Tlast day to apply for a scholarship is certain level of practical experience within hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- July 18, 2013 and urges the students who their specialties before graduating and have applied and have yet to complete preparing them for the job market. And ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let their registration process to complete it by with that, 82% of GUST graduates are Wother people see the way you see Thursday. employed in the local private sector. Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will GUST also welcomes any student who GUST is now also providing it’s Kuwaiti feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram would like to apply for the Fall semester for undergraduate and graduate students the feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- its majors in the College of Arts & Sciences: opportunity to apply for a Master’s scholar- Computer Science, English Literature, ships in Teaching of English to Speakers of tos, email us at English Linguistics and Translation, English other Languages (TESOL) or a Masters/PhD [email protected] Secondary Education, Mass scholarships in a recommended business Communication (PR/Advertising, Radio/TV, administration field at one of the interna- Visual Communication), and the College of tional universities recommended by the Business Administration: Accounting, MIS GUST Scholarship Committee and accredit- and Business Administration with emphasis ed by the Ministry of Higher Education Announcements in Finance, Management and (MOHE) and the Association to Advance Organizational Behavior, International Collegiate Schools (AACSB). The purpose is Business or Marketing. to provide quality graduate education lead- Indian Embassy The university noted in its statement ing to a Masters/PhD degree for students sets up helpline that its English Foundation Unit Program with proven academic track records and he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set recently attained a 5-year international who have the desire to make a positive up helpline in order to assist Indian accreditation by the Commission on impact on GUST and the community as a Intensive English Program accreditation whole. The university’s state of the art cam- T expatriates in registering any com- (CEA) based in the US. The aim of CEA is to pus with its indoor atmosphere, restau- plaint regarding the government’s ongoing provide a means for improving the quality rants, gym, Olympic size pool, FIFA accred- campaign to stamp out illegal residents of English language teaching and adminis- ited football field and over 12 student-run from the country. The embassy said in tration through accepted standards. clubs, provides its students with not only a press release yesterday that it amended its It also must be noted, that with the uni- high quality education, but an overall high versity’s Center of Business Development & standard university life experience. previous statement and stated if there is Corporate Relations which provides its stu- GUST is constantly striving to be at the any complaint, the same could be con- dents with organized advanced practical forefront of excellence and academic quali- veyed at the following (as amended): training programs, including training with ty for its students. Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has been in regular contact with local authorities regarding the ongoing check- ing of expatriates. 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8th Expo Pakistan to commence in September he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held from September 26 to 29 in Karachi. T Held annually, Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair in the country showcas- ing the largest collection of Pakistan’s export merchandise and services. Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 was visited by delegates from 52 countries and generated a business of over $ 518 million. A 16 member delegation from Kuwait including reputable companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took part in the last exhibition. US Universities’ counselors to speak Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under the auspices of the Trade Development Authority Pakistan. Details about the event with Kuwait students on Sept 15 can be viewed www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further information and details of sponsor- n Sunday, September 15th, a group of large, public universities to small, private col- admissions counselors from a variety leges. The range of academic programs at ship can be obtained from the office of Oof accredited universities from across these schools is extensive, and while most Commercial Secretary, Pakistan Embassy, the United States will be speaking with stu- schools offer Business, Engineering, Jabriya (25356594) during office hours. dents at the Marina Hotel Kuwait. The event, Information Technology, Biology and Health- which is free and open to the public, is organ- related Science programs, students will also ized by Linden Educational Services, a find schools offering degrees in fine arts and Washington, DC area organization dedicated liberal arts. To learn more about participating to helping students from around the world universities and to register for the university connect with prestigious US universities. seminar, please visit us online at www.linden- Write to us For the past 20 years Linden has been vis- tours.com or iting Kuwait and helping students pursue www.facebook.com/LindenFairs. their goals in higher education. Linden works Registering online will provide students Send to What’s On closely with the US Embassy, Education USA quicker access to the event on Sept 15th from and AMIDEAST to ensure events of the high- 6pm to 9pm. The Marina Hotel Kuwait is upcoming events, birthdays or est caliber. Representatives from all of these located at Salmiya, Opp. Marina Mall, Arabian celebrations by email: organizations will be on hand at the seminar Gulf Road, 22000 Kuwait. to speak to students and provide assistance. For more information about this university [email protected] This September, university admissions offi- seminar, contact AMIDEAST-Kuwait at 965- Fax: 24835619 / 20 cers visiting Kuwait represent the gamut of 2247-0091 ext. 6819/6820 or what is available in the United States, from [email protected]. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- com for more information. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Kuwait Dr. Abdul-Aziz Al-Fayez hosted a Ghabqa recently on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan, attend- n n n n n n n ed by ambassadors and other dignitaries. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat EMBASSY OF CANADA he Embassy of Canada in Kuwait Saudi Arabia ambassador hosts Ghabqa does not have a visa or immi- Tgration department. All pro- cessing of visa and immigration matters including enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.goingtocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi- [email protected]. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al- Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Daaiyah. Please visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The recep- tion is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the following website www.mfa.gr/kuwait. n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF INDIA During the holy month of Ramadan, the office timings of the Indian Passport and Visa Service Centres of BLS International Visa Services Co., Kuwait, situated at (i) Emad Commercial Centre, Basement Floor, Ahmed Al Jaber Street, Sharq, Kuwait, and (ii) Mujamma Unood, 4th floor, Office No. 25-26 Makka Street, Fahaheel, Kuwait, will be from 8am to 3pm from Saturday to Thursday (i.e. six days a week). Tokens for submission of applications will be issued till 2pm only. Delivery of Passports and Visas will be from 11am onwards till 3pm. Embassy of India, Kuwait, will maintain its usual working hours.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA During the holy month of Ramadan, the South African Embassy will be open to the public, Sunday through Thursday from 09:00 am to 14:00 pm. Please note that the Consular Section operation hours will be from 09:30 am to 12:00 pm, Sunday through Thursday. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The chil- dren must be under 14 years of age, and addition- al requirements do apply, but the service means parents will no longer have to schedule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for them- selves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti passports. To take advantage, par- ents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous passport, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS-160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS-160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- dren of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few excep- tions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is available on the U.S. Embassy web- site: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF VENEZUELA Working hours of the Embassy of Venezuela during the holy month of Ramadan 09.00 till 13.30. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

11:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 18:00 E! News 12:00 The FBI Files 19:00 Fashion Police 13:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 20:00 THS 14:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 21:00 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 14:35 Border Security 14:30 Snapped: Women Who Kill 22:00 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 15:05 Auction Hunters 15:00 The Devil You Know 22:30 E! 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Entertainment One and 21:35 Tech Toys 360 07:00 A Fall From Grace-PG15 18:25 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery Prospero Pictures are co-financing the Los Angeles- 22:00 Moon Machines 09:00 Just Crazy Enough-PG15 18:55 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard set movie, which stars John Cusack, Julianne Moore, 22:50 How The Universe Works 11:00 Lorenzo’s Oil-PG15 19:20 New Scandinavian Cooking Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, Evan 23:40 Gadget Show - World Tour 13:15 Arrietty-FAM With Claus Meyer 15:00 Web Of Lies-PG15 Bird and Pattinson. 00:05 Tech Toys 360 19:45 Come Dine With Me A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our 17:00 Love Finds A Home-PG15 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home 00:30 Weird Connections celebrity-obsessed society, story follows the Weiss 01:00 Through The Wormhole 19:00 The Lucky One-PG15 Edition 01:50 Through The Wormhole 21:00 Contraband-18 21:20 Antiques Roadshow family, which is led by Stafford (Cusack), a psychother- 23:00 A Separation-PG15 22:15 Bargain Hunt apist and life coach who made his fortune with self- 01:15 Love Finds A Home-PG15 23:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent help books. His wife (Williams) is the overbearing 23:55 Cash In The Attic mother-manager of their 13-year-old son (Bird), a TV 00:40 Come Dine With Me star recently out of drug rehab. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

More important than an external discovery today is the inner discovery An important decision in the workplace requires some time for research or of a big improvement you have made recently. This could be your ability to rise above review—delay taking any sort of action for now. If your business does not have a good library, some circumstance in the workplace and create a better condition that will help you work you may be near enough to a city library or law library to spend a little time in this search for more efficiently. You have managed to successfully stop an old habit; others notice. Today answers. Fine-tuning your emotional attitude brings a great deal of positive growth. You are you can see real growth in many different areas of your life and you set an example for pleased as you look back on the recent changes. You like to visit or communicate with others others to follow. Be proud of your hard work and keep up the good efforts. Refinement and today you learn about a new writer that can continue to be helpful to your future growth. and relationships are the keys to emotional satisfaction and you enjoy every opportunity You and your many friends enjoy an evening together and you find that before the evening is to develop those relationships. You find time this evening to call around and get ideas for over you may gather over a calendar to make future plans—perhaps a regular get-together is the next great fun gathering. in order.

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

Expect a change for the better in the workplace. Some long-term goal that You may feel left out or passed over this morning. This is of short duration. It you have been working toward now seems to be falling into place and taking shape. You can may be more reasonable to move in the opposite direction than the direction almost see the bank where you will deposit your money. Making your mind quiet, you are able that everyone else is going just now. After you have had a little snack and a bit of caffeine, you to listen better than most. You could teach, perform meditations or express yourself in some will be ready to tackle whatever is set before you this day. This is a time during which you may creative way. You are in love with mystery, secrets and intrigue, anything but that which is open be able to break through and move ahead with your ambitions and general life’s purpose. You or superficial. You are never dull. Like a fish in water, when in the limelight or in a group, you could receive unexpected help from someone older or from authority figures. A man or teacher have an innate social charm. This evening could be a time in which you and a loved one are could appear. Your inner resources and emotions are accented and this evening there are able to make vacation plans, or get together with friends and enjoy their vacation stories. Learn opportunities to be with those you love. You are most original when concentrating on areas of from their mistakes. work and family.

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

You are focused now, as you take a serious attitude to just about all You are most happy with your profession, especially since you see that your aspects of this workday. This is an excellent time to get many things accom- work can benefit society as well as yourself. You do a lot to fulfill the popular plished. Of course, a small break from your work now and then would be beneficial. Your stereotype of a genius—obviously some of the things you think and say are brilliant. However, disposition is open and welcome to all you communicate with today. Physical activity, like instead of having others understand you today, there is a chance to understand those around ACROSS DOWN sports or games, among friends is recommended this evening. Healing and bonding you. This is a favorable time to weigh the pros and cons of any business venture or investment. 1. Pan with a convex bottom. 1. A large number or amount. where close personal ties to other people are concerned will be successful. Marriage and Resist the temptation to live beyond your means and you will be pleased with the balance in 2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to other partnerships could be key arenas for this. There could be social activities surround- your account at the end of each month. Your whole world may seem trancelike or dreamy as 4. Presence of abnormally large amounts of uric you work to create your own poetry and art. Movies or easy music may prove very enjoyable agree on a common policy for the sale of petro- ing a backyard pool or area park this evening. You may recognize someone from work that acid in the urine. this evening. 12. Black tropical American cuckoo. leum. is visiting the same area park. 15. Any of various primates with short tails or no 3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a tail at all. skewer usually with vegetables. 16. A famous waterfall in Venezuela. 4. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings. 5. A concluding summary (as in presenting a case Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A loud harsh or strident noise. CAPRICORN 18. A young woman making her debut into soci- before a law court). 6. Jordan's port. Everything totals to a value and brings out your remarkable and unusual quali- As you step back to take a look at where you are in your place of business ety. 7. Vietnamese New Year. ties. Your problem-solving techniques are unique and you do well when you use your and where you want to be in the future, new ideas may surface. Sometimes a 19. Related on the mother's side. change that is needed just stands out like a sore thumb. You have the eye for setting things in 8. An agency of the United Nations responsible own special techniques to find the root of whatever went wrong and make the right corrections. You their right place or creating a better situation than was previously available. This may mean a 20. Lower in esteem. for programs to aid education and the health of may find that someone close to you is supportive of your ideas. You have a history of finding and cor- 22. Any of a number of fishes of the family recting with no repeats. You are a born charmer with an innate love and appreciation for other people, better way to help customers or a clever way to check out product safety or any other number children and mothers in developing countries. of improvements. Your management and directional abilities are in high focus. You can find Carangidae. 9. A device that, on receiving radar signals, trans- especially children. You could be called upon to give decorating suggestions to your friends as your own person, workspace and home quarters are always appealing. You will display your sense of color, new ways to relate and may also be innovative in marriage and social conventions. You are the 24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. mits coded signals in response to help naviga- music and art—you are a connoisseur of things bright and kind. ideal candidate to take care of some political project right now. Pool your talents with others in 25. Lying in the same plane. tors determine their position. order to find some answers. 26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali 10. A state in midwestern United States. earth group. 11. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usu- 27. Of or related to or derived from oats. ally silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth. 29. Any monetary aid. 12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdomi- 13. The seventh month of the civil year. You may be very forceful in what you say and think. With all of this emo- The key to understanding the circumstances in which you find yourself nant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. 14. Unable to move or resist motion. tional energy, you could speak or communicate very well. You have determined mental these days can be found in the environment or support system that surrounds you. You are 32. A gray tetravalent metallic element that 21. Found along western Atlantic coast. drive. There is a lot of liveliness behind what you think. You can make quick decisions. Today, very much the creature of habit and habitat. The encircling network of friends, relationships resembles zirconium chemically and is found in 23. A light touch or stroke. you could speak before thinking. Communicate with your feelings and strength but do not and whatnot is crucial to your happiness and success, or lack thereof. You are nourished in zirconium minerals. 28. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was forget compassion. You are always up front and manage to spend a lot of time in the spot- great measure by the atmosphere and conditions that you are able to create. Remember that mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient light in social situations. Since you are a natural teacher, others find it easy to learn from 33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle you are in control of what surrounds you. You will enjoy being on the go today, perhaps, run- mythology. you. You are very animated and it is easy for you to convey your ideas or get them across to where driver sits. ning errands or making deliveries. This evening as you look around your home, think about people of all ages. This is a good time to consider some form of story writing with the pur- 34. A graphical record of electric currents associ- 31. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially how much power you have in creating your surroundings. Look for a compromise that will pose of becoming a published writer. ated with muscle contractions. a sealed sterile container for injection by needle). allow you more contribution and input. 36. English prelate noted for his pessimistic ser- 35. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan. mons and articles (1860-1954). 37. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns. 39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 38. English scholastic philosopher and assumed Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Chad. author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349). 43. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish 40. The rattling noise produced when snoring. You are concerned with connections and communication of all kinds This is a very nice day, perhaps filled with some appreciation for all that of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. 41. A seaport in northwestern Italy. today—letters, wires, telephones, voice, thoughts, writing and mental processes in general. is beautiful and fine. Perhaps you noticed the clouds or the sunrise coming into work this 45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single 42. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spo- Appointments with people that are members of places like the chamber of commerce in your morning. You appreciate life! You have a sense of value that may find you lavishing affec- ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy ken exclusively in Turkey. city may be important to your company as they go through some important changes. You tion on those near you—whether they are in the workplace or at home. You might feel wall or pericarp. 44. Ground snakes. have great understanding and sensitivity to the needs of others just now and are in a good love or value for an older person today. It may take a little research to find someone to share in this responsibility but be patient . . . Someone will be grateful you asked. It may be 48. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an 46. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 position to communicate concerning groups and society. You could be most persuasive with a phone call is all that is needed. This evening, you may enjoy getting away from routine animal's head. mg. others and eloquent in speech and communication. Refinement and relationships are the keys to emotional satisfaction now. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying. You may find a and doing something completely different. You have great personal magnetism. You are 49. A colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the 47. Formerly a large constellation in the southern romantic connection tonight. never dull. You enjoy money, influence and politics, too. synthesis of nylon. hemisphere between Canis Major and the 52. A sharp and bitter manner. Southern Cross. 55. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book. 50. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves 57. Myth about the ultimate destruction of the no purpose. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution gods in a battle with evil. 51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 58. An uproarious party. 53. Not out. 59. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 54. A member of an American Indian people of Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once massacred American rebels who were fighting to had a culture characterized by outstanding archi- make Texas independent of Mexico. tecture and pottery and astronomy. 61. Not only so, but. 56. Youngest daughter of the prophet 62. A short high tone produced as a signal or Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali. warning. 60. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects. 65. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and 63. Established by or founded upon law or offi- vulgar. cial or accepted rules. 67. Indicative of or announcing something to 64. Become ground down or deteriorate. come. 66. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen 74. Gone by. trees (see spruce). 75. An anticipated outcome that is intended or 68. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines that guides your planned actions. having large leathery leaves and small green- 77. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic white flowers in compact cymes. free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as ten- 69. Humble request for help. sion or sweating or trembling of light-headed- 70. A pilgrimage to Mecca. ness or irritability etc that has lasted for more 71. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous than six months. silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crys- 78. A headlong rush of people on a common tallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into impulse. very thin leaves. 80. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into 72. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flow- linear motion. ers. 81. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but 73. (classical architecture) A molding for a cor- heavier than beer. nice. 82. A great raja. 76. The month following March and preceding 83. A constellation in the southern hemisphere May. near Telescopium and Norma. 79. Informal terms for a mother. Yesterday’s Solution

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ennifer Lopez’s new documentary will shed light on her past relation- the documentary. Jennifer told website Access Hollywood: “The people ships. The ‘Dance Again’ singer says her tell-all program, ‘Jennifer who are involved with the actual special, who have known me my whole JLopez: Her Life Her Journey’, is going to look back at her three failed life basically ... my family and people I’ve worked with from the very begin- marriages and her famous boyfriends, which include Ben Affleck and P. ning, my producing partner, my manager - even when they watch the spe- Diddy. Jennifer said: “It talks about the relationships... because all of it’s cial they were like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that about you.’ “It’s gonna be, I intertwined, especially when you’re an artist. I think by the way, anybody think, full of a lot of little, interesting nuggets.” ‘Jennifer Lopez: Her Life Her in life, your personal life and your business life and the things that you do, Journey’ airs July 18 on NUVOtv in the US. it’s all kind of intertwined and one affects the other and the decisions that you make and you can’t tell the story - really tell the story - without going into those areas.” The Latina bombshell - who has five-year-old twins Max and Emme with her third ex-husband, Marc Anthony - says even her close friends and entourage were shocked by some of the secrets she spills in

tacy Keibler says her split from George Clooney wasn’t “dramatic”. The former WWE wrestler has opened up about the end of her two-year Srelationship with the A-list actor for the first time, insisting they part- ed ways amicably and remain close. Quizzed whether she and George are still friendly, Stacy said: “Of course. There’s nothing really dramatic that hap- pened, so it’s all good.” The 33-year-old beauty is wasting little wallowing over the end of her romance, explaining she is busier than ever with the launch of a new reality TV competition, ‘Supermarket Superstar’, which she arry Styles was reportedly snubbed from Cara Delevingne’s is hosting. She told website Access Hollywood: “I’m someone that’s always 21st birthday party. The One Direction hearthrob was left puz- lived the present moment. I always look at the positive on everything. I’m zled when he discovered he had been left off the guest list for H so excited for all these projects coming up, and I’m super busy.” It was the supermodel’s 21st celebrations in Ibiza next month. Harry, 19, is recently reported the leggy blonde and her 52-year-old boyfriend grew said to have then texted the blonde beauty - who he befriended last apart as he is filming a new movie in Europe, while she remained in year - to try and get an invite. An insider told Daily Star: “Harry kept California to film and promote her new TV show. A source said: “They hadn’t hearing about Cara’s party through their mutual pals. He started to had sex in months. He’s been in Europe, and she’s in Los Angeles, and they wonder what he’d done wrong. So he texted asking Cara why he was- haven’t seen each other in a long time. Some girls would be OK with that n’t invited because he thought they were still friends. He then cheeki- and just be happy dating George, but not her.” ly added: ‘Can I come?’ “Now he has secured his way in to the event, Harry - who is currently touring in the US - is planning to take a pri- vate jet to the Spanish party island. The insider continued: “Cara told him she’d only left him out because she thought he’d be too busy on his tour to come anyway. But Harry assured her he can get a private jet to the rave on the 24th, two days after her birthday.” The ‘Kiss You’ singer is also out to upstage the model’s growing tattoo collection, after she had ‘Made in England’ inked on her left foot. Harry - whose tattoos include a butterfly on his chest and a pair of birds on his shoulders - has hinted he will unveil his “biggest tattoo yet” at the par- ty. The insider added: “Harry jokingly told Cara he will unveil a new tattoo that puts her new Made In England stamp to shame. He hinted it may have something to do with James Bond and said it will be his biggest yet.”

om Cruise surprised a group of acting students by giving a speech at their graduation. Graduates from the Joanne TBaron/D.W. Brown Studio in Malibu, California, were left stunned when the ‘Mission: Impossible’ star turned up unannounced at the cer- emony and gave a rousing commencement speech filled with humor- he 23-year-old actor shot to fame aged 10 when he ous stories from his career. A source at the school told the New York played boy wizard Harry Potter and has been acting Post newspaper: “It was one of the most inspiring speeches we’ve had. Tever since, which leaves him very little time to kick It was so much more than a lecture about what to do in an audition.” back and relax. He told the Sun newspaper: “I am really The 51-year-old star - whose cousin, William Mapother, is a graduate bad at booking in nice breaks. I had four days off when I of the acting school - had students in fits of laughter as he recalled his went away with a couple of friends to Cornwall a few own rocky start in Hollywood. In one particular story, Tom explained months ago. “I was trying to work out with someone the how he was so “nervous” he’d be fired from 1981 film ‘Taps’ after shav- other day when the last time was that I stopped working ing his head without the director’s permission. As well as entertaining for more than two weeks. “It is beyond living memory. To the crowd with anecdotes, the movie icon offered more practical be honest, I like it this way. I have always had very struc- advice to the young upstarts, warning them not to become divas. A tured time since the age of ten.” Daniel has most recently source explained: “He said that when you do finally get the chance of been working on movie ‘Kill Your Darlings’ and appearing being in a movie, don’t spend your time in the trailer. He said you in stage play ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ and says he adores need to experience everything on the movie; talk to everyone on the acting so much he isn’t bothered about the millions he’s crew - the grips, everyone. Learn everything you can. You will never made from it, but is driven to continue by a thirst to better get that time back. “He talked about trying to be as prepared as possi- himself. He has previously said: “I love my job and I want to ble, and that you can only depend on yourself.” earn the right to do it every day. “I don’t know when the last time was I had a holiday. I am now actively trying to develop other interests.”

lly Murs feels broody after babysitting Robbie “I’ve never had so much love from another artist Williams’ daughter. The ‘Dear Darlin’ singer - before and it’s so nice. Robbie’s been a true gent on Owho is supporting the former Take That star this tour and I have nothing but utter respect for him. on his current stadium tour of Europe - is keen to It’s great to be able to spend time with someone like start a family of his own after seeing how happy the him because he’s such a laugh.” However, the boys first-time-father is with his 10-month-old daughter have yet to hit the town together since Robbie is too Theodora ‘Teddy’ Rose. He told Britain’s OK! maga- busy looking after Teddy and spending time with his zine: “Little Teddy is such a little bundle of joy. To see wife Ayda Field, who are also accompanying him on her little face around the place is brilliant and Robbie his Take The Crown tour. Olly added: “Unfortunately, is so happy. He has a big smile on his face every day. we haven’t really been able to go out together yet “I’m definitely broody but then I’m always broody. I’m because everything’s been so hectic. Robbie’s had his probably the most sensitive man. I want to have lots wife and his little daughter on tour, so us going out of children, eventually.” Olly, 29, has never had so would have been a bit tricky. “I think that might all much fun on tour and revealed Robbie is extremely change when we get to [notoriously hedonistic capi- supportive of him and great to hang out with back- tal of the Netherlands] Amsterdam, though! I think stage. The cheeky singer said: “It’s been a brilliant that night will be the one!” tour so far and Robbie and me have been having an amazing time. I’ve actually been a support act a few times now but I’ve never had an experience like this. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

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he Kardashian sisters get beauty tips from their mother. Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Twere inspired to set up their new cosmet- ics line, Kardashian Beauty, by their mum Kris Jenner, who encouraged them to experiment with bold make-up looks from a young age. Khloe explained to Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “We love experimenting with make-up. I think we’re known for always having a glamorous look - a smoky eye, a nude lip. That’s something we got from our mother Kris. We used to play in her beauty drawer as children.” The 57-year-old showbiz momager is fanatical about skincare and has advised her daughters to always wear sunscreen and wash their faces properly before bed. Khloe added: “Her secrets have changed over the years. She told me that she used to sun- bathe in baby oil back in the day and now she encourages us all to slather ourselves in sun- screen. “But one thing she religiously told us was that you have to really clean your skin at night before bed.” Kourtney chimed in: “With any beauty regime, the secret is consistency. Our mom used to be really strict about washing skin with a hot wash cloth to really steam the make- up out of the pores.” anye West’s A.P.C clothing collection with a guy who wants to redesign just about has sold out instantly. The 36-year-old anything so it could fit [into the] kingdom of Krapper kept his new collaboration dopeness, it takes some time to just sit and with designer Jean Touitou under wraps say, ‘Okay, agreed, but let’s get start on until it launched on Sunday and the nine- something limited, and we’ll see’.” Speaking piece capsule collection crashed the brand’s in a statement prior to the collection being website because demand was so high. unveiled, Jean said: “Over the months, we Kanye’s line for the hip-hop label consists of kept hanging out and finally came up with seven logo-less pieces, including two T- the idea of doing a small capsule collection shirts, two pairs of jeans and three jumpers. of clothes together. “Small’ meaning that It is now only available via pre-order after this capsule collection consists of a jean, a the clothes were snapped up within a mat- hoodie and a T-shirt. Those are precious to ter of hours. Designer Jean claimed the col- me and to Kanye too, because it took time laboration was two years in the making, and and thoughts to get there.” admits the musician wasn’t the easiest of people to work with because he kept redesigning the items to fit with his image. He explained to Style.com: “When you deal

ustin Timberlake snubbed a five-star hotel to stay in a Premier Inn. The 32-year-old singer refused to splash Jout on a hefty sum to stay in a top-of-the range suite, and instead chose to pay just £95 for the budget accom- modation in Stratford, east London, in order to get a few hours sleep following his joint headlining performance with Jay-Z at London’s Wireless Festival on Sunday. A he ‘RIP’ hitmaker has been forced to dump her source told The Sun newspaper: “It’s great, it’s right on site. former best friend in fear of tarnishing her “We’re having a chilled-out get-together with the guys Timage after Cara embarrassed her at DKNY’s after the gig- beer, cider, burgers and chips, no frills. Justin fashion party last month by snatching the micro- doesn’t like too much fuss and we’re leaving early to go phone from her hands and grinding her from back to the US anyway.” Justin recently faced backlash after behind. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: his new single ‘Take Back The Night’ offended an anti-rape “There’s a lot of hurt on both sides but Rita’s been group with the same name, who sent him an angry letter working towards her singing career and carefully claiming he “used their name without permission” in a “sex- crafting her image for four years and it was all in ual” song. However, the ‘Suit and Tie’ hitmaker previously danger of being a joke after that shabby perform- insisted he was unaware of the sexual violence charity ance. “Rita’s been advised to distance herself from when he named his release, but hopes the mix-up will raise the model.” The pair sparked rumors that their awareness for the foundation. He said previously: “Upon friendship had hit the rocks when Cara refused to the release of my new single ‘Take Back The Night’, I was support Rita at London’s Wireless Festival at the made aware of an organisation of the same name called weekend and chose to splash out on a £300,000 The Take Back The Night Foundation. I wanted to take this yacht with Rita’s rival Rihanna in the French Riviera opportunity to let all know that neither my song nor its instead. Rita - who is currently dating DJ Calvin lyrics have any association with the organization. “As I’ve Harris - even hinted that the supermodel wasn’t a learned more about The Take Back The Night Foundation, real friend. Speaking in this month’s GQ, she said: I’m moved by its efforts to stop violence against women, “To me, I have my friends who I’ve known my whole create safe communities and encourage respectful rela- life, and I can count them on one hand. They’re tionships for women - Something we all should rally people I went to school with. Everyone else I meet around. It is my hope that this coincidence will bring more from that point on, if they happen to become a awareness to this cause.” friend, that’s incredible - come and join the family - but if not...”

he socialite says her partner of 14 months, River ever met.’ “ Despite a 10-year age gap between them, Viiperi, is incredibly proud of her business acu- the 32-year-old beauty thinks her 21-year-old Spanish Tmen - which includes owning a perfume line beau is extremely “mature” for his age and more reli- and her own nightclub - and insists that unlike other able than her previous boyfriends. She told Britain’s men, he isn’t “insecure” about her riches. She said: HELLO! magazine: “It’s really important to me to be “He’s always saying how proud he is of me, so that able to count on someone, to know that they really makes me really happy. He travels with me all around love me. He’s so genuine, so romantic. He’s European, the world. I love having someone who’s always there so he’s just different. He’s very mature. He’s not like for me. “He’s so supportive. He looks up to me and any other guy I’ve met. He’s so pure and good and says how inspiring I am. It’s hard for some men to han- very special.” dle; they can get jealous or insecure. But he’s like, ‘Oh aya Rivera is “deeply saddened” by the death of her my God, you’re just the most incredible woman I’ve ‘Glee’ co-star Cory Monteith. The 26-year-old Nactress has spoken for the first time about the passing of the 31-year-old actor - who was found dead in his hotel room in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday and insists he was a “special part of this world” who will “for- ever be missed”. Naya - who plays Santana Lopez in the musical drama series - said in a statement: “The entire ‘Glee’ family and I are deeply saddened by this tragedy. “Cory was and always will be a part of my own family and a good friend. He was a special part of this world and will forever be missed.” Naya - who has starred opposite Cory (Finn Hudson) since the first series of ‘Glee’ - also paid tribute to her co-star and the late actor’s girlfriend Lea Michele (Rachel Berry). She added: “My heart goes out to Cory’s family and Lea and while we are grateful for everyone’s well wishes, privacy during this time of grief is greatly appreciat- ed.” Lea is yet to release a statement following the death of her boyfriend of more than a year, but her representa- tive admitted the brunette beauty is “devastated”. A spokesperson for the 26-year-old actress has issued a statement saying: “We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea’s privacy during this devastating time.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 Music & Movies

judge revoked Chris Brown’s probation on plea in the case. continued to demand identification, a confronta- Monday after reviewing the details of an The singer has been in and out of court since tion arose, she said in court documents. Aalleged hit-and-run accident involving the the Rihanna assault, making reports on fulfilling She said Brown’s companion, identified as singer and his behavior afterward. However, the the requirements of his probation. In February, the Karrueche Tientrese Tran, offered her driver’s singer was not ordered to jail. Brown, who came to Sheriff’s Department investigated a fight between license and said the car belonged to her. In her court with a group of family members, appeared Brown and singer Frank Ocean at a recording stu- written statement, the woman said when Brown downcast as he sat with his arms across his chest dio, but Ocean decided not to pursue a battery refused to provide his identification, she took a pic- and his head down on the counsel table while his case against Brown. The same month, Brown ture of the couple “and then they went ballistic.” lawyer and a prosecutor went to the judge’s cham- crashed his Porsche while being chased by She said Brown began shouting expletives and bers to discuss the case. When they emerged, paparazzi. Brown’s most recent problem stems grabbed for her camera. “I jumped back, the girl Superior Court Judge James Brandlin said he had from a May 12 traffic accident in which he is sus- screamed, ‘Don’t touch her. Don’t touch her,’” she read the file. “In this matter, probation is revoked,” pected of rear-ending a car stopped at a red light said. “I was so shocked that I was speechless,” she he said. Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, suggested in the San Fernando Valley and refusing to give the said in the statement. “Just a moment ago he was a that perhaps the matter will be resolved informally other driver his license or insurance information. nice guy. After screaming some insulting nonsense without a major probation hearing. He said the hit- A woman in the car with Brown provided her for a while longer, he slammed a door and drove and-run case would be back in court in Van Nuys driver’s license, according to a police report that away fast and noisy.” The woman didn’t know the on July 23. says Brown did not provide his until his lawyer had identity of the man who hit her car until a friend Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray did not an investigator deliver an expired insurance card to called and told her after seeing a report on the ask for Brown to be jailed, and the judge allowed the other driver several days later. The driver of a Internet. Brown won a Grammy in 2011 for Best him to remain free on his own recognizance. Mercedes Benz involved in the crash told police R&B Album with “F.A.M.E.”. — AP Another hearing is set for Aug 16. The singer has she was a recent emigre to this country and didn’t been on felony probation in the 2009 beating of know procedures. The woman, identified in court former girlfriend Rihanna. Prosecutors moved to documents only as Olga G, said she called her hus- revoke Brown’s probation after he was charged last band to find out what to do and was told to R&B singer Chris Brown, and his Attorney Mark Geragos appear during a court hear- month with misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving exchange driver’s licenses and insurance identifica- ing at Los Angeles Superior court in Los Angeles Monday, July 15, 2013. — AP without a valid license. Brown has not entered a tion. At first, she said Brown was polite. But as she

ountry music star Randy Travis was ichael Jackson could have earned jurors that Jackson might have earned $1.5 spent before retiring from show business at awake and interacting with his family $1.1 billion or more if he had per- billion for the shows if he had charged higher age 65, Erk said. He said he did not consider and friends Monday as he recovers formed a worldwide concert tour ticket prices during later shows on the “This Is the fact that Jackson was an estimated $400 C M from surgery following a stroke, his doctors and created a Las Vegas show before his It” tour. Erk said he was using conservative million in debt when he died as a factor in his said. In a news release and video from the death, an accounting expert familiar with the estimates to figure Jackson’s earning poten- future earning potential. Texas hospital where the 54-year-old singer singer’s earning potential told jurors Monday. tial if he had lived for several more years, Strong also questioned why Erk didn’t take is recovering, doctors said Travis remains in Arthur Erk, a certified public accountant who completed a worldwide tour and created a into account Jackson’s lavish spending, which critical condition and on a ventilator, but is conducts royalty audits for musicians, told Las Vegas show based on his music. The esti- the lawyer said another witness testified in off a heart pump and is breathing sponta- mates took into account endorsements and deposition consisted of $435,000 spent over neously. His breathing support is gradually royalties that Jackson could have earned and two months on hotel and airfare in the early being reduced and he has begun the early are heavily dependent on the idea that 2000s. Jackson had signed on for only 50 stages of physical therapy. Mary Davis, Jackson would have performed a 37-month, shows in London, although contracts for the Travis’ fiancee, thanked the singer’s friends 260-concert world tour. shows indicated a longer tour was a possibili- and fans for their prayers and support. AEG Live defense attorney Sabrina Strong ty. Jurors will have to determine the amount “I know that Randy feels each and every questioned Erk’s assumption during cross- of any damages in the case if they find AEG one of those,” Davis said in the video. “He examination because Jackson had never com- Live is liable for Jackson’s death. Erk said feels the hands of the doctors and the care pleted a tour that long and hadn’t performed Jackson contemplated doing a Las Vegas of the nurses and the love of his fans. His a tour in more than a decade. Strong also show based on his music and archival footage friends and family have all been touched by questioned Erk about three instances where that would have generated new royalties for that. He is responding well to voices and he Jackson got into legal disputes over canceled the singer. He estimated the show would last sees and he understands. He’s miles performances, but the accountant said those 10 years. beyond where any of us thought he would didn’t factor into his analysis. “He needed to Jackson also contemplated a film career, be a few days ago.” Travis will stay at The work,” Erk said. His testimony was meant to according to testimony from his nephew Taj In this June 7, 2013 file photo, Randy Heart Hospital Baylor Plano for two to three show jurors the superstar’s earning potential Jackson and the singer’s longtime creative Travis performs at the 2013 CMA Music more weeks before being transferred in the case brought by Jackson’s mother collaborator, Kenny Ortega. Erk will not offer Festival in Nashville Tenn. — AP somewhere else to undergo aggressive against concert promoter AEG Live LLC. any estimates on how much Jackson may physical therapy. Doctors say it will take ease at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, Katherine Jackson claims AEG Live is liable for have earned if he had a successful film career. months to recover from the stroke, but said Travis’ heart no longer needs a small her son’s death because it failed to properly Erk is testifying as an expert witness. The scans shows the swelling in his brain is sub- pump to help control blood flow. investigate the doctor convicted of giving the accountant also performed royalty audits on siding following surgery and he is making Mack said echocardiograms indicated singer an anesthetic overdose. companies that released Jackson’s music dur- good progress in his recovery. the heart problem was not caused by drug AEG denies it hired the doctor or bears any ing the height of his popularity in the 1980s, The Grammy Award-winning “Three and alcohol abuse. “Mr Travis does have a responsibility for Jackson’s June 2009 death at he said. — AP Wooden Crosses” singer checked into the family history of cardiomyopathy and it is age 50. Jurors heard directly from Katherine hospital on July 7 after a viral illness affect- more likely related to that,” Mack said. Travis Jackson on Monday when Strong played a ed his heart. Doctors said Travis has a seri- has had troubles with alcohol recently and portion of her deposition testimony to rebut ously weakened heart - a condition called pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated the idea her son would have embarked on a cardiomyopathy - that the viral infection in January following an accident last lengthy tour. On the video, she said she was apparently made worse. However, he does- August. He received two years of probation surprised when her son announced the “This n’t have an active heart infection, and doc- and a $2,000 fine. —AP Is It” shows in London. “He would always tors said long-term, he should be able to make a joke about he don’t want to be doing manage his weakened heart with medica- the Moonwalk on stage when ... he’s over 50,” In this Dec 8, 1996 file photo, Michael Jackson belts out tion. Dr Michael Mack, a cardiac surgeon she said. “He wanted to be doing something a song during the first concert of his 2-days concert and medical director of cardiovascular dis- else.” Erk’s figures also account for an estimat- tour in Manila, dubbed as HIStory World tour. — AP ed $134 million the singer would have likely

he death of “Glee” actor Cory Monteith over the weekend real life, but the creators have control over what happens to him comes just weeks before production begins of the fifth in the show. Fans would really like to see a happy ending, even Tseason of the Fox musical comedy, throwing it into disar- an off-screen wedding, for Cory and Lea,” Anitai said. While ray at a time when the creators needed to revive the waning “Glee” has not shied away from handling serious topics such as series. Canadian actor Monteith, 31, was not only a founding homosexuality, bullying and teenage pregnancy, the show nev- cast member, but also an integral player in promoting “Glee’s” er had to deal with the death of a major character. The only overarching message of tolerance. death in the show was the sister of Sue Sylvester, the high school Making matters more complicated for producers was his off- coach played by actress Jane Lynch. screen relationship with another of the show’s top actresses, Lea Previously when television shows have dealt with the death Michele, who plays his love interest on the show. It is unclear of a major star, the impact on the series has been mixed. Actor how their story would have proceeded in season five. And in the John Ritter died mid-way through production of the ABC sitcom wake of Monteith’s death in a Vancouver hotel on Saturday, rep- “8 Simple Rules” in 2003. The show went into a hiatus and then resentatives at Fox Broadcasting, a unit of Twenty-First Century incorporated the death of Ritter’s character on its return. Its rat- Fox, were not commenting on the future plans of the show ings declined and it was canceled in 2005.—Reuters This film publicity image released by DreamWorks Animation shows, from left, Smoove Move voiced by Snoop which was scheduled to return to production later this month. Dogg, Burn voiced by Maya Rudolph, Turbo voiced by Ryan Reynolds, Skidmark voiced by Ben Schwartz, and The show was renewed by Fox for two more seasons earlier this Whiplash voiced by Samuel L Jackson, in a scene from the animated movie ‘Turbo.’ — AP year, running through 2015. But producers for “Glee,” which has been one of Fox’s top shows, were facing some tough truths n delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of win- lorn business Dos Bros Tacos with a snail. Joining in is a rainbow even before Monteith’s death. ning the Indy 500, it’s as if the makers of “Turbo” had been coalition of smart-mouthed supporting snails and neighboring “Glee” garnered an average 10.1 million viewers according to Ipressed to come up with the most extreme underdog tale business owners voiced by the eminent likes of Samuel L. Nielsen during its peak in 2010, but its viewership has been they could think of. Or else animators really are running out of Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Ben dwindling. Season 4, which concluded in May, dropped to the ideas for original new characters. An attractively designed but Schwartz, Richard Jenkins and Ken Jeong. show’s lowest ratings average yet, with 8.7 million viewers. “The narratively challenged, one-note film, “Turbo” skews younger The ultimate destination Indianapolis is inevitable but it show’s been running out of storylines and sort of reaching its than the norm for big animated features these days and has lim- takes a long time to get there, given a script that is short on end thematically ... and Cory’s death is a huge loss for the show ited appeal for little girls. “The sooner you accept the dull, miser- invention and long on largely unfunny yacking. Once the gang as one of the founding characters,” said Ian Drew, entertainment able nature of your existence, the happier you’ll be,” worldly-wise arrives and begins overcoming the obstacles that might prevent director of Us Weekly. snail Chet (Paul Giamatti) advises his younger brother Turbo a snail from entering a car race (conveniently unmentioned is (Ryan Reynolds) after yet another day scouring a garden tomato the most obvious one, that Turbo lacks four wheels and an Fans want ‘happy ending’ patch. Turbo spends all his downtime watching VHS tapes of engine), the hitherto genial Guy Gagne suddenly becomes a vil- Monteith had talked openly about his struggles with sub- professional car races, especially the many won by his hero, Guy lain, feeling so threatened by the now-mighty mollusk that he stance abuse. In April, he completed voluntary treatment at a Gagne (Bill Hader, amusingly assuming a French-Canadian goes to all lengths to prevent an eternally humiliating defeat. rehab facility for an unspecified substance addiction. An autop- accent). In the run-up to the race and then during it, you mostly won- sy was conducted on Monday and results will not be available Of course, the message of the film, as with so many other kid- der about how a critter so small it can’t be seen on the track for several days. inspirational cartoons and other fantasies, is that no dream is too (although its blue/white-hot streak can be) will avoid being “Glee” premiered in 2009 and instantly became a hit for Fox, big, you can do anything if you set your mind to it, etc, etc. crunched by the giant tires of the humans’ racing machines; with its motivational storylines, upbeat musical numbers and a Unfortunately, the real embedded lesson of Turbo is that, if indeed, the film’s most irreverent merit is that it is periodically diverse young cast playing a mix of popular and oddball school you’re too small or weak or otherwise incapable of greatness, honest about the fate of snails by casually showing them getting students who come together in a musical choir group. you have a shot to win if you’re juiced. Which is what happens squashed by humans or gobbled up by animals, especially Monteith became a heart-throb in his role as the jock who late one night when Turbo, coming upon a “Fast & Furious”-style crows. In the event, Turbo just zips through traffic as if in an turned into “Glee” member Finn Hudson. “He was actually the drag race in the dry LA River bed, gets sucked into an engine. obstacle course, the obvious longshot pipsqueak favorite in a center of the show in terms of promoting tolerance,” said TV crit- Instead of being toasted, however, the little guy becomes field of giants. “Turbo,” a 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks ic David Bianculli. “When his character began, he was the jock infused with nitrous oxide, enabling him to zoom along the Animation release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association that just happened to sing. He ended up liking the misfits and ground seemingly as fast as Superman shoots through the skies. of America “for some mild action and thematic elements. loving them and sticking up for them and eventually teaching Ahhh, the wonders of chemicals and strength enhancers. Barry Running time: 95 minutes. — AP them.” MTV Buzzworthy editor Tamar Anitai, who monitors Bonds and Mark McGwire would approve. social media buzz on pop culture topics, said “Glee” fans known Of course, Turbo needs a sponsor, which he finds in the form as “Gleeks” were eager to see a tribute paid to Monteith in the This Aug 19, 2012 file photo shows Cory Monteith, left, of Van Nuys taco truck driver Tito (Michael Pena), a wild dreamer show and a happy ending for his and Michele’s characters. and Lea Michele at the 2012 Do Something awards in himself who argues endlessly with his more practical brother “Unfortunately you can’t control what happened to Cory in Santa Monica, Calif. — AP Angelo (Luis Guzman) about the merits of promoting their for- lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

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helsea Lanzoni was on her way from the lacrosse fields of Vanderbilt University to a summer internship at CNational Geographic in Washington, but her first stop was a dressing room at Nordstrom Rack in Annapolis, Md.”I had, literally, nothing to wear,” she said. “Nothing.” Thanks to a program at Vanderbilt that advises students on, among other things, how to dress appropriately in the workplace, she bought pants, skirts to the knee, dresses with sleeves and tai- lored blouses. And a pair of conservative flats that immediate- ly gave her heels blisters. “I had never dressed up for anything,” said the rising college senior from Annapolis. “But I’d read a few things on what to wear. I wanted to be conservative. I did- n’t want to do anything to step out of the box. “But I also didn’t want to be sweltering,” said the young woman, who will be walking a mile to and from work in the heat. Summer creates the perfect conditions for bad work- place fashion decisions: clueless young people entering the workplace for the first time during the hottest months of the year. The result is often flip-flops and too much skin for the women. And guys who look rumpled and poorly put together. “The sloppy-little-boy look may be a turn-on for the col- lege girls but not in the workplace,” said Callista Gould, who founded the Culture and Manners Institute in Des Moines, Iowa. Among other things, she helps universities create career services for their students that address workplace dress codes and other civilized topics. “Iron your shirt; shine your shoes. People notice the details,” she said. “And if you can wear it at the beach, you can’t wear it at work.”‘ Karen Ciurca-Weiner, buyer and manager of the Jones & Jones boutique in Baltimore, suggests that office attire be “conservative with a flair.” “Throw in a small trend here and there, but not knowing what the office atmosphere is, it’s bet- ter to err on the conservative side rather than being fashion- forward,” she said. “And make sure the clothes fit properly. Many people buy inexpensive clothes that don’t fit and then they’re constantly pulling at their skirt or fixing a bra strap. So While this skirt from H&M may be nice for going out after make sure they’re tailored properly.” Chelsea Lanzoni is used to dressing casual at college but Recent college graduates need to find the right way to work, it is too short for the office and flip flops are not Workplace dress codes have drifted toward casual, and needed to find professional clothes for a summer intern- stay stylish, yet professional, for the workplace. A Yoanna appropriate either. — MCT photos that can leave the uninitiated wondering where the bound- ship. Barchi peplum top and skirt by Equestrian are paired with aries are. “When I worked in New York,” said Gould, “a young a handbag by High Fashion and flats by Steve Madden. woman showed up for an interview for a public relations job in a halter top. I wanted to tell her that in order for her to be working with these college students,” said Everding. “They are ates. Better to go conservative until you know the culture: • Jewelry should be simple and traditional. the face of our company, she needed a back to her shirt.” so hungry for guidance, and the more you give them, the • No flip-flops. Ever. No Tevas. No strappy sandals and no • Save the golf shirts for the golf course, the tennis shoes for That’s the other difficulty: How do you tell interns or new hires more they appreciate it. But they won’t go looking for it for toe or ankle jewelry. For women: No open-toed shoes the tennis and basketball courts, and the Hawaiian shirts that they are bringing the wrong kind of attention to them- themselves, it seems.” unless you have a good pedicure. for the beach. selves without ending up in hot water yourself? Think of it as a financial decision, said Gould. “If someone • The less skin the better. Skirts to the knee. Nothing sleeve- • Shorts, even paired with a suit jacket, come up short in “It is up to the company to set the guidelines and the rules, told you that you could command a higher salary or get pro- less without a cardigan or a jacket. No cleavage. “Modest is the workplace. and it is up to the company to explain them,” said Maria moted by dressing a certain way, would you do it?” Lanzoni hottest,” said Callista Gould of the Culture and Manners • Fine-gauge T-shirts under a suit jacket can be acceptable Everding of the Etiquette Institute in St Louis. “I advise them to emailed a supervisor at National Geographic and asked what Institute. “Dress so people respect you, not inspect you.” for men, but no V-necks. Chest hair on men can be a turn- cut out pictures: ‘This is what we accept and this is what we was appropriate workplace attire, but she was still nervous her • No sundresses, tube tops or bare midriffs. Nothing too off in the workplace. And nothing with slogans or ads. don’t accept.’ “People see their clothing as an expression of first week. “I was actually the most conservative of anyone,” tight or form-fitting. • And everybody: Save the neon colors for the disco. themselves, said Gould, and criticism can hurt. “And it can be a she said. So she loosened up a bit, wearing the occasional • Not everyone has to wear a charcoal suit. Lighter versions — MCT legal issue, too,” said Gould. “It can be construed as sexual long skirts and neck scarves. But never, ever flip-flops at the of gray, blue and taupe are fine. “Let your personality do harassment.”Deliver the assessment this way, she said: “You office. “I leave my flats at my desk and I walk home in my flip- the shining,” Gould said. “Don’t let your clothes shout you are a valued member of our team, but I need to tell you that flops,” she said. “I don’t think my feet would make it any other down.” your outfits are not in line with our company policy. I am way.” • If you must have brighter colors, make sure the clothes are telling you this because you have such great potential, and I very traditional cuts. And pair strong color blocks with a want you to succeed.” Young people are often taking their Sartorial smarts: neutral color. Don’t wear them together. fashion cues from their peers and not looking to the people The Baltimore Sun tapped experts and our own observa- • Piercings anywhere but the ears of women should be who could be mentoring them. “And I honestly believe in tions for workplace fashion tips for interns and college gradu- removed and tattoos hidden.

f you’ve ever dreamed of taking your Halloween costume to OK, so maybe just go with a garish polish color instead. pale face she used her lightest foundation color and mixed it with the next level, we have two words for you: wigs and makeup. Haven’t seen “Hunger Games”? Fear not; zombies have returned white face paint, but depending on skin tone, the foundation IThere’s only so much a mask or witch’s hat will do. The real with a vengeance, and the makeup tricks to get the undead glow could have been enough. “Dramatically paler is the key,” Jessica transformation comes from being transformed. And if you’ve seen can be achieved by the lay person with some practice. It might explained. The deep purple on the lips and pink on the eyes celebrities-without-makeup photos, you know what some well- help to buddy up. Jessica Dana said the best thing to remember is helped to make her look more washed out by lending the con- applied concealer and eyeliner will do. “It’s really all about the focal you can’t be too pale. She usually takes the lightest shade of trast of color. Costume rented. point,” explained our makeup expert Jessica Dana of makeup she can find and mixes it with white face makeup. jessicadana.com. “People focus on the face. It can be as important Because she’s a professional, she creates depth so none of the Zombie bride as the whole outfit.” looks fall flat. The zombie still has some redness around the eyes, Black lips are key, but Dana started with hints of pink color Dana, a body paint artist, said she buys her supplies from a and the dark beard of sinister “Hunger Games” character Crane is around the eyes. She worked styling a wig so that the hair stood clown named Bebe, and he preaches the same notion of creating flecked with gold. Wigs don’t have to be expensive to be effective, straight up with backcombing and hairspray. The bonus of a wig Roger’s Gardens in Newport Beach, California, uses a complete character. Hair and makeup are as crucial as floppy but make sure it’s stretched to fit so that you can tolerate it for the with such a labor-intensive style is that you can work on it in shifts succulents to make a lady’s purse. — MCT shoes and a light-hearted attitude. If you’re going to sell a cos- night. Google Images is a great resource for detecting trends and and when the evening’s over, you can take it off to revert easily to tume, you can’t go cheap on character. And that doesn’t mean the hunting for closeups of makeup application and styling options. yourself. For zombie bride characters, many people buy inexpen- costume has to be expensive. sive dresses at Goodwill and trash them, but Dana started with a Start with inspiration and then spend a little time thinking of Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker short strapless bridal look ($50 at Goodwill) and added fishnet, reasonable ways to achieve your look. “The Hunger Games” eccen- in “The Hunger Games” hair net and gray tulle tucked into the sides to give it a weathered, tric glam upper-crust set will be ripe for costume inspiration. Jessica Dana slicked back a dark brown wig and started by out- ragged look. She used the same tulle and cut it ragged for the Now’s your chance to bathe your lips in orange or purple lipstick lining the beard. It helped that he had a little natural beard to headpiece. We added a spider necklace we bought at Target last and highlight your eyes with bright pinks and greens. Even rocker draw around. She filled it in with short black strokes to mimic hair. year, but thrift stores will have other options. Lenny Kravitz, who played Cinna, a Capitol city stylist and adviser She layered in gold to add depth. Instead of re-creating the mini- art of the appeal of succulents is how many with an affinity for gold eyeliner, noted that his look helped with mal futuristic garb of Crane, we put our model in a blood-red shirt 1980s guy things you can do with them. The design character. similar to the character’s and added a black blazer. Shirt ($45) and The FauxRealshirt.com T-shirt ($32) creates an elaborate neon Poptions never stop. Their compact nature and The trick to this look is to be meticulous. If you can’t finagle blazer ($200) from Kohl’s. ‘80s party guy facade with a single T-shirt. We styled Tom’s hair (he tolerance of a wide range of growing conditions some time with a pro, invest some time in perfecting your look. has it shaved into a mohawk for an acting role). She kept the rest makes them perfect for building wreaths, popping in This is not a five-minute makeup job. You want to look as though Effie Trinket, the escort of District 12 minimal. Just covered some blemishes and added a little powder. the smallest spots imaginable, bringing them inside you’ve come from an era in which you’ve got nothing but time to tributes in “The Hunger Games” — MCT for short spells and pairing with plants that are not waste. How you look is part of your status. If you can manage the Dana styled a blond wig into the glam period style and embel- their kind. Effie press-on nails, go for it. But be warned: Actress Elizabeth lished it with big purple roses and two big feathers because exag- I remember my revelation 20 years ago when I saw Banks offered some TMI to People magazine when she said that gerated flowers were a signature of Effie. Instead of false eyelash- a garden full of succulents paired with coleus in once her nails which were ridiculously adorned were in place, she es, Dana painted swirls on the outside of our model’s eye to re- Newport Beach, Calif. Until then, I hadn’t thought of couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone. create the spirit of Effie’s bizarre eyelash styles. To create a really succulents as anything but a dry conditions plant. It turns out that succulents, unlike their cactus cousins, would really rather have water and a bit of shade dur- ing the hottest part of the day. However, the fact that they store water in their plump leaves allows them to go longer without it than most other plants. Remember that plants in small spots have less soil around their roots to keep them hydrated. You’ll need to watch for water stress. Don’t overwater succulents, but do keep them evenly moist during warm weather. And while you water succulents in small spaces more, remember that you’re washing nutrients away more quickly than with a plant in the ground. A regu- lar weak feed of something organic can keep these plants happy in challenging situations. Speaking of challenging, you might try this fast and easy succulent project: succulent cork magnets for your refrigerator. It’s not challenging to make, but it is the smallest pos- sible living condition I can imagine for a succulent to live in. Drill out the center of a variety of wine corks. Use a glue gun to attach a short flat magnet on one side. Once dry, fill the drilled out area of the cork with moist peat moss, make a center hole with a barbeque skew- er and plant a long-stemmed tiny succulent in the mix up to its neck. You can finish the cork magnet with a tiny bit of green moss to preserve moisture in the peat moss. Give as hostess gifts, makes a fun favor for wedding parties, or you can use them in your home office to keep notes handy. — MCT

To achieve this Halloween Zombie Bride Shirt from fauxrealshirt.com is all you Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games. Seneca Crane from the Hunger Games. costume, adorn a Goodwill dress with need to create a neon 80’s guy. Oh, and a It’s really all about the beard and the gray tulle and fishnet. Rip some tulle for Mohawk won’t hurt. hair. — MCT photos the head dress and the makeup sells the transformation. Chris Brown probation revoked; he remains38 free WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Computer graphic images are projected on the wall of a former dockyard in Yokoyama, suburban Tokyo on July 15, 2013 for a press preview of a projection maping of Yokohama history, “Yokohama Odyssey.” The spectacular projection will start from today to September 1 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the redevelopment of the former dockyard area. — AFP

nternational auctioneer Christie’s said yesterday it will hold its first ever sale in India as it seeks to capitalize on ribal rights organization Survival has Ithe country’s expanding art scene. The London-based returned a ceremonial mask to Arizona’s house, which has had an office in financial hub Mumbai THopi tribe after it was sold at auction in for two decades, will stage its inaugural sale in December. Paris, the group said on Monday. The artefact “The decision to hold auctions at this time is a reflection of was one of around 70 of the brightly colored the strong momentum in the domestic art marketplace,” “Kachina” visages and headdresses auctioned Christie’s said in a statement. The sale also reflects “the for more than 900,000 euros ($1.2 million) in increased international appeal of Indian art and the grow- April after a legal challenge failed. ing participation of Indian collectors across international Opponents of the sale included US actor sale categories”, it added. Robert Redford. Surival said the mask was The sale will mark the first by an international auction handed over to Hopi leaders by representa- house in India, it said. Christie’s chief executive Steven tives of the group and lawyer Pierre Servan- Murphy said the auction would be of domestic artwork Schreiber without giving further details. The and that other sales would follow. The auctions “will allow auction outraged members of the 18,000- Indian collectors domestic access to works of art sourced strong Hopi tribe, who say the artefacts are by Christie’s (and) international collectors access to the blessed with divine spirits. Two Arizona muse- very best of Indian art”, he said. The plan follows a recent ums had also called for the sale to be can- announcement by the auctioneer that it would hold its celled. first sale in Shanghai in September. A second mask, currently owned by the While India’s art market is still in its infancy, far behind family of the late French singer Joe Dassin, China’s, a developing interest in Western art was fuelled by would also be returned to the Hopi later in the strong economic growth over the past decade. Last year, year, Survival added in a statement. The sale of New Delhi saw the first sale of international masterpieces sacred Native American artefacts has been to target India, with works by Van Gogh and Picasso outlawed in the United States since 1990 — among 73 lots by top Impressionist and modern artists legislation which has allowed the Hopi tribe to going under the hammer. The results of the sale, however, recover items held by American museums in trailed estimates with fewer than half the works finding the past-but the law does not extend to sales buyers, in contrast to international demand for Indian art- Teachers show a giant Quran displayed at Al-Ashriyyah Nurul Iman boarding school in Parung, West Java, Indonesia yester- overseas. — AFP works in recent years.—AFP day. Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, where they refrain from drinking, eating, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. — AP

collection of late actress Elizabeth Taylor’s 1960’s “Butterfield 8” and 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of personal items, including jewelry,cocktail Virginia Woolf?” Also for sale is the falcon headdress Adresses and film costumes, will go under the Taylor wore in the 1963 film “Cleopatra,” where she hammer in Beverly Hills, California, Julien’s Auctions began her love affair with Burton. The headdress, said yesterday. The collection, which comes from an which helped score the film an Oscar award for cos- unidentified former employee of Taylor, will first go tume design, is expected to sell for $2,000 to on display in Ireland today and will hit the auction $3,000. block on Oct 12. The top item, an 18-karat gold, A decolletage-baring spaghetti-strap gown multi-gem earring and necklace set, is expected to and bolero jacket designed by South African cou- fetch between $10,000 and $15,000. The necklace turier Chris Levin that Taylor wore to Burton’s 50th and earrings set include multiple topaz, diamond, birthday party at London’s Dorchester Hotel in peridot and citrine gemstones. 1975 is expected to fetch between $2,000 and Taylor, who died in 2011 at the age of 79, epito- $3,000. An antique inlaid wood stagecoach box mized Hollywood glamour from its golden age with used by Taylor’s mother, stage actress Sara her love of diamonds, her violet eyes and a tumul- Sothern, which includes glass-cut toiletry jars and tuous love life that included eight marriages, two of mother of pearl handles is estimated to sell for them to Welsh actor Richard Burton. $6,000 to $8,000. — Reuters In a career spanning seven decades, British- American Taylor first gained fame in 1944’s “National Velvet” at age 12 and was nominated for five Oscars. She won the best actress award for