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Imsak Fajr Shorook Duhr Asr Maghrib Isha 13 39 20 03:06 03:16 04:49 11:45 15:20 18:42 20:13 Smoking and tobacco Min 32º Max 47º High Tide kill 7 million per year 04:40 & 15:45 Low Tide WHO warns of dire environmental impact 09:52 & 22:44 40 PAGES NO: 17244 150 FILS

GENEVA: Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said yesterday, also warning of the dire environmental impact of tobacco production, distribu- tion and waste. The UN agency said tougher measures were needed to rein in tobacco use, urging countries to ban smoking in the workplace and indoor public spaces, outlaw marketing of tobacco products and hike cigarette prices. “Tobacco threatens us all,” WHO chief Greatest teacher Margaret Chan said in a statement. “Tobacco exacer- bates poverty, reduces economic productivity, con- By Teresa Lesher tributes to poor household food choices, and pollutes indoor air,” she said. f Ramadan was a person, she would be the In a report released ahead of World No Tobacco Day toughest teacher you ever had - the one who today, WHO warned that the annual death toll of seven Ihad strict rules, gave lots of homework, and million people had jumped from four million at the turn drilled you until she was sure you understood the of the century, making tobacco the world’s single lessons she was trying to teach. Or Ramadan would biggest cause of preventable death. And the death toll be your coach who made you train hard, demand- is expected to keep rising, with WHO bracing for more ing more of you than you thought you could han- than one billion deaths this century. “By 2030, more than 80 percent of the deaths will occur in developing dle, challenging you every day until you mastered countries, which have been increasingly targeted by the moves or continually beat your previous times. tobacco companies seeking new markets to circumvent These are the people who not only believed in tightening regulation in developed nations.” the value of what they taught, but even more so, Tobacco use also brings an economic cost: WHO esti- they believed in your capacity for achievement and mates that it drains more than $1.4 trillion (1.3 trillion growth. They worked you hard because they want- euros) from households and governments each year in ed you to succeed. They didn’t just want you to healthcare expenditures and lost productivity, or nearly pass their test or win the race, they wanted to two percent of the global gross domestic product. In change you forever - to transform you into a confi- addition to the health and economic costs linked to dent, disciplined and ambitious person. smoking, the WHO report for the first time delved into They wanted you to win. These are the people the environmental impact of everything from tobacco we feared, obeyed, respected, and eventually loved. SHANGHAI: A man grinds out his cigarette in an ashtray at a railway station in Shanghai. Smoking-related dis- production to the cigarette butts and other waste pro- These are the people who impacted our lives in eases claim 7 millions of lives each year in the world, the World Health Organization reported yesterday, calling duced by smokers. untold ways, making us our best selves. We vaguely to increase taxes on tobacco. — AFP Continued on Page 13 remember the grueling work and pain of their ways, but we will never forget what we learned about ourselves and how they made us feel. Similar in every way, Ramadan has been my MP questions Finance Minister over Areva greatest teacher and coach. Ramadan has returned By B Izzak has dwindled to just over 10 percent of the original did not take any move to sell its stake in Areva to safe- every year to remind me what I need to do to suc- investment. MP Kundari said the value of KIA stake in guard public funds. According to latest reports, KIA has ceed, and to prove to me that I can do it. In the ear- KUWAIT: Deputy Speaker MP Issa Al-Kundari yesterday Areva plunged gradually in the subsequent years after been bidding to exit from Areva by selling its stake. ly years, it was about submitting my will to my questioned the Finance Minister about why Kuwait the purchase. As a result, the Audit Bureau repeatedly Meanwhile, the legal and legislative committee has Creator’s will. I fasted because the Quran said, Investment Authority (KIA) did not pull out of French called on KIA to withdraw from the company to stop approved a proposal calling to grant Kuwaiti female “Those of you who see the month shall fast.” company Areva despite massive losses of its stake. the massive losses. employees the social and children allowances like their (2:185). It was hard, very hard. But I did it. Year after Kundari said that KIA purchased a stake in Areva in 2010 He said that KIA did not take any measure and its stake male counterparts provided that their husbands do not year, I fulfilled the requirements. But Ramadan was- and this stake has already plunged by over 87.5 percent plunged further. The Audit Bureau said that KIA inaction receive the allowances. The committee also rejected a pro- n’t satisfied with mere compliance. There was much according to reports by the Audit Bureau. did not only represent a financial violation but also a posal by MP Abdullah Fahhad calling to declare the last 10 more to learn. KIA had bought a stake of just under five percent of political violation which comes under the responsibility days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan a public Continued on Page 13 Areva for around $680 million. The value of this stake of the National Assembly. The lawmaker asked why KIA Continued on Page 13 Generation homeless Trying to help Egypt’s street kids CAIRO: Barefoot and wearing shabby the same time try to gather any paperwork clothes, the two-year-old wanders so they can move them later to a shelter. News through the dirty streets of Cairo along- But on this occasion, the team returned in brief side her mother, who has also spent all empty-handed, with no other option but her life without a home of her own. For to leave the children to continue fending Egypt’s government and civil society for themselves in the street. “The law does- ‘Jihadist drug’ seized groups, tackling the growing problem of n’t allow shelters to receive children unless PARIS: French customs officials said yesterday that they street children-some from second- and they have a birth certificate,” said team had intercepted 135 kilograms of Captagon, dubbed the even third-generation homeless families- leader Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed. MARAWI: Philippine marines patrol a deserted street in Marawi on the southern “jihadists’ drug”, at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport this is proving difficult. In the low-income “Most of them are second- and third- island of Mindanao yesterday. — AFP year, a first for France. Captagon, a type of ampheta- district of Sayeda Zeinab, workers from generation street children and don’t mine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among the ministry of social solidarity set out to have any official papers, and usually their fighters in the Syrian war. “It is the first time that this help street children, this time to give fathers refuse to acknowledge paternity,” Surrender or die drug has been seized in France,” the customs agency them first-aid training. he said. According to the most recent said in a statement. Customs officials at Charles de Members of the ministry’s “Children ministry figures from a 2014 survey, Gaulle discovered 350,000 Captagon pills weighing 70 Without Shelter” program wear matching Egypt has about 16,000 street children, Philippines warns militants kilograms on January 4 hidden among industrial moulds green shirts bearing the slogan “We are said Hazem el-Mallah, spokesman for the exported from Lebanon and apparently heading for the with you... a safe decent life for every child.” “Children Without Shelter” program. MARAWI: Philippine authorities yesterday said the surrender call was aimed at limiting Czech Republic. An investigation was launched by They train the youngsters in first aid, and at Continued on Page 13 warned Islamist militants occupying parts of a the loss of more lives and property. Up to German and Czech authorities “and it revealed that the southern city to surrender or die, as attack heli- 2,000 residents were trapped in areas held by real intended destination was Saudi Arabia, by passing copters pounded the gunmen’s strongholds the militants, according to the local govern- through Turkey”, the agency said. Another 67 kilo- where up to 2,000 residents were feared ment, and the International Committee of the grammes of the drug were found at the airport in trapped. More than 100 people have been Red Cross voiced alarm they would be caught February, hidden in steel moulds. confirmed killed in the conflict, which began in the bombing raids or crossfire. last week when gunmen waving black flags of “The risks and the vulnerabilities of the Noriega dies at 83 the Islamic State (IS) group rampaged through people inside Marawi are rising every day,” PANAMA CITY: Former Panamanian dictator Manuel the mostly Muslim-populated city of Marawi. ICRC spokeswoman Lany Dela Cruz said. The Noriega, a onetime US ally who was ousted by an President Rodrigo Duterte declared mar- militants also took a priest and up to 14 other American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age tial law across the entire southern region of people hostage at the start of the crisis. A Mindanao, home to roughly 20 million peo- video of the priest appeared on social media 83. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela wrote ple, in response to the crisis as he warned yesterday in which he repeated the militants’ in his Twitter account that “the death of Manuel A that local militant groups were uniting demands to withdraw, although it was Noriega closes a chapter in our history.” Varela behind IS and becoming a major security unclear when the footage was filmed and its added, “His daughters and his relatives deserve to threat. But the militants, initially estimated by veracity could not be immediately verified. mourn in peace.” Noriega ruled with an iron fist, the nation’s defense chief to number just 100, Clashes yesterday appeared to be as ordering the deaths of those who opposed him and withstood eight days of intense air assaults intense as previous days, according to an maintaining a murky, close and conflictive relation- and street-to-street combat, prompting the AFP reporter who followed security forces ship with the United States. After his downfall, government’s threats yesterday. who had to run from militants’ sniper fire Noriega served a 17-year drug sentence in the United “We call on the remaining terrorists to sur- coming from nearby buildings. Military heli- States, then was sent to face charges in France. He render while there is an opportunity,” military copters fired rockets repeatedly on that part spent all but the last few months of his final years in a spokesman Brigadier-General Restituto of the city yesterday morning, and black Panamanian prison for murder of political opponents Padilla said. “For the terrorists, not surrender- smoke rose from the buildings that were during his 1983-89 regime. (See Page 12) CAIRO: Egyptian children play at the Banati Foundation shelter, a civil society ing will mean their sure death.” Padilla also apparently hit. — AFP organization that works with street children, in the capital Cairo. — AFP LOCAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

In Brief Amir offers condolences Qatar’s Amir Premier thanks to Russian President visits Kuwait well-wishers KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Tamim bin KUWAIT: Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condo- KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has expressed deep gratitude Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is set today to lences yesterday to Russian President Vladimir Putin, to citizens and residents of the country who congratulated visit Kuwait where he will meet with His expressing his sympathies over a storm that left him on the holy month of Ramadan. His Highness the Prime Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad scores of people in the Russian capital dead or Minister prayed to His Almighty to grace Kuwait and its peo- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Qatari leader is injured. In his cable, His Highness the Amir wished ple with compassion, security and safety, under the saga- expected to congratulate His Highness the those injured a speedy recovery and hoped that cious leadership of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Amir on the advent of the holy month of Russian authorities can overcome the natural Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Ramadan. —KUNA calamity. —KUNA Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. —KUNA

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KUWAIT: The famous canon shot at the Nayef Palace in Kuwait City, signaling the end of the fasting day in Ramadan. —KUNA photo Kuwait expresses gratitude to US troops for liberation in Memorial Day

WASHINGTON: The State of Kuwait expressed its gratitude for the US’ efforts in liberating the country from Iraq occu- pation in 1991, with its annual float in the US National Memorial Day parade. Memorial Day is a national holiday in the US that remembers those who have died while serving for the county’s armed forces. This year, the parade is the nation’s largest Memorial Day event and featured veterans of every conflict, from World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan. “Memorial Day is one of the annual important events that Kuwait embassy is keen on participating in. This year there was a joint effort with Ministry of Information,” Counselor Nawaf Al-Enezi said. “It is an opportunity to remember all the fallen soldiers and express apprecia- tion and gratitude to American people and government for its unforgettable effort for liberating Kuwait in 1991. This year marks the 26 year anniversary of WASHINGTON: Kuwait participates in a Memorial Day event. —KUNA Kuwait’s liberation and we are here to join our American friends to express our thanks,” he said. Meanwhile, Kuwaiti Major General Marzouq Al-Bader expressed Kuwait’s “gratitude for participation of men and women of the US who lead a coalition of more than 30 nations to liberate Kuwait from aggression of Iraq.” He added that the embassy of Kuwait is “one of the spon- sors for this occasion and we are very honored to be here joining men and women of United States who risked their lives and as well as the current active men and women in the military so far. We are honored to be here. God bless America.” Kuwait’s float was followed by a group (From left) The Counselor Nawaf Al- from the National Desert Storm War Enezi and Kuwaiti Major General Memorial association which featured Marzouq Al-Bader. many of the honorable servicemen who served in the Gulf War. Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US Sheikh Salem Al- Sabah noted in a video statement at the parade, “In 1990 and 1991 we Kuwaitis watched in admiration as the US armed forces put themselves in harm’s way to lib- erate my country. That is why we are pres- ent at the memorial day with our float and we always be there to say thank you.” Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 Ooredoo celebrated Graish with employees and occupied the country for seven months, before a US-led coalition ejected KUWAIT: Ooredoo, Kuwait’s fastest departments gathered and each cious occasion of Ramadan. The event the Iraqi forces in February 1991. During network, organized a Graish feast for department prepared a special feast comes in tandem with the company’s the occupation, Iraqi forces looted public its employees last week, prior to the with a traditional theme, welcoming strategy to enrich the experience of all and private properties, and set alight over start of the holy month of Ramadan. guests from other departments and employees, fostering the team spirit 700 oil wells before escaping towards Employees from Ooredoo’s different exchanging greetings on the auspi- and celebrating with employees. Iraq. —KUNA LOCAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 Kuwait Airways, ministry sign scholarship protocol

By Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh disclosed plans to sign a protocol of cooperation between Kuwait Airways and the Ministry of Higher Education soon with the aim of dispatching students who want to study commercial aviation sciences and aviation engineering on scholarships abroad. Sabeeh said this would be done for the first time in Kuwait with the aim of sup- porting Kuwaiti youth and providing them with proper job opportunities. “This will be done thanks to the efforts exerted by Education Minister Dr Mohammed Al-Fares, the higher education undersec- retary Dr Hamed Al-Azmi and Kuwait Airways’ board chairman,” she underlined, noting that the protocol would be signed to reduce students’ financial burdens, as studying aviation for two Hind Al-Sabeeh years costs around KD 60,000. Sabeeh added the protocol would last for three years and provide 180 scholarships - 60 students annually - to be selected under Kuwait Airways’ supervision. “Kuwait Airways is currently understaffed by 120 pilots and co- pilots,” she underlined.

Food regulations Head of the Municipal Council’s technical affairs com- mittee Ali Al-Mousa said the committee will discuss a letter from the food and nutrition authority concerning food- related regulations as well as food truck regulations, which State expenditure are highly significant to a large segment of the youth. News in brief nearing KD 20 billion No drop in SWF Almost KD 6.7 billion on payrolls alone asset value: KIA By A Saleh mittee investigating the reasons behind the resignation of the total number of employees working for it dropped dur- KUWAIT: Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) yesterday the former Kuwait Airways chairperson Rasha Al-Roumi, ing the current fiscal year by 99 employees to 1,812, denied the veracity of press reports over a decline in the KUWAIT: The finance ministry announced that revenues in said Roumi she abruptly received a letter of gratitude for including both citizens and expats. The authority stressed asset value of its Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). “There the 2017-2018 budget will be KD 13,324,255,000, and that her services signed by the minister, asking her to submit that it has no plans to substitute expat employees with has been no change in the investment policies of our KD 1,332,435,000 will be allocated for the future genera- her resignation in writing as a new board had been Kuwaitis during the current fiscal year. sovereign funds,” KIA said. Moreover, KIA noted that tions fund. A memo submitted by the finance ministry to appointed by the government. Merdas added that Roumi data provided by a local newspaper showing a decline the parliamentary budgets committee assessed state said the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor forced her to KOC new recruits in SWF’s asset value are “baseless and inaccurate.” It expenditure at KD 19.9 billion including KD 6,692,000,000 submit her resignation and that Kuwait Airways board Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) CEO Jamal Jaafar said the pointed out that the actual figures will be shared during for payrolls alone. members will be summoned for further investigations. total number of citizens who joined the company till the a parliamentary session to assess the financial situation end of March was 800, and stressed that special training in the country. —KUNA Kuwait Airways probe PAHW staff programs have been prepared for 57 of them at various MP Nayef Merdas, member of the parliamentary com- The Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) said international companies and universities.

FM arrives for UN session Kuwait endorses KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign UNESCO Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrived in New York yesterday to take part in the underwater UN’s General Assembly session. Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled was received by Kuwaiti Ambassador to the heritage convention US Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Kuwait’s permanent delegate to the UN headquar- PARIS: Kuwait has joined the UNESCO Convention on the ters in New York Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi. Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted The session will involve the elections of the Security in 2001, the country’s Permanent Representative to Council’s non-permanent members for 2018-2019, UNESCO Dr Mishal set to take place on June second. —KUNA Hayat announced yesterday. In a speech dur- Dollar exchange ing the sixth ses- rate stable sion of the meeting of state parties to KUWAIT: The US Dollar’s exchange rate was stable at the 2001 conven- KD 0.303, while the euro went down to KD 0.337, said tion, Hayat said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) yesterday. The CBK that Kuwait was said that the Sterling Pound was stable at KD 0.389 eager to cooperate while the Swiss Franc went down to KD 0.309. The with state parties to Japanese Yen stood at KD 0.002. —KUNA protect all traces of human existence that have been Kuwait oil price up 16 submerged. cents to $48.57 pb Dr Mishal Hayat The Kuwaiti KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went up 16 cents envoy noted in a to $48.57 per barrel (pb) on Monday, after being at statement that underwater archaeology is an integral $48.41 pb last Friday, said Kuwait Petroleum part of human history and that UNESCO strives to pre- Corporation (KPC) yesterday. Prices in international serve these remains, given their significance. He also markets also had a slight increase yesterday, with pointed out that Kuwait’s endorsement of the conven- PARIS: A scene from the sixth session of UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater tion was a testament to the country’s belief in the value shy trades due to national holidays in China, the Cultural Heritage. —KUNA United States and Britain, along with a state of cau- of heritage sites that could face extinction. —KUNA tion overshadowing markets on the backdrop of ris- ing drilling operations in the United States. Meanwhile, the price of Brent Blend spiked 14 cents to $52.29 pb. —KUNA Five hurt in Sixth Ring Road accident

By Hanan Al-Saadoun No injuries in fires second to rescue any trapped tenants and the third to fight the Kuwaiti youth boost their A fire broke out in a garage in Jahra industrial area, engulf- flames and put the fire out. No casualties were reported. charity work in Ramadan KUWAIT: Five people sustained various injuries yesterday ing several under-repair vehicles and a dormitory on the sec- in a collision reported on Sixth Ring Road, said security ond floor, said security sources, noting that the fire was con- Domestic labor working hours KUWAIT: Kuwaitis are always known for their devotion to sources, noting that two of the injured were elderly trolled without any casualties. A fire also broke out in a house in The domestic labor division of the residency affairs depart- charity work especially during the month of Ramadan. In old women who were hospitalized in critical conditions after Adan, the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said, explain- ment announced that its working hours during Ramadan are Kuwait, families used to set up iftar (breakfasting) tables at they were trapped in the wreckage. Police opened an ing that firefighters from Qurain rushed to the scene where 10:00 am till 2:30 pm for the morning shift and 2:30 to 5:30 their homes or mosques for poor people and this tradition investigation to probe the causes of the accident. they divided into three teams - one to evacuate the house, the pm for the afternoon shift. continues until this day. In a statement to KUNA’s seasonal magazine Al-dereesha (the window), a number of charity campaigns organizers said that the majority of charity volun- teers are youth. Organizer of charity campaign “draw a smile” Bibi Al-Ayoub said that since launching her project six years ago, she noticed that youth under 18 years of age volun- teered the most. Youth’s work in distributing food to the poor of different nationalities made them come closer to this category of peo- ple and further feel their suffering, she noted. On her part, member of charity group “charity projects” Madhawi Al- Obaidan said her group distributes 40 kinds of food items to about 400 families in Ramadan. She added that they also delivered about 9,000 Iftar meals to different areas in Kuwait during the holy month. Meanwhile, member of Kuwaiti voluntary group ‘B9ma Q8ya’ (Kuwaiti fingerprint) Zaina Al-Ahmadi said youth between the ages of 17 to 25 are mainly attracted to charity work. During summer time, the group provides cold water KUWAIT: The scene following an accident report- Firefighters tackle a blaze in a garage in Jahra. The scene after a fire was extinguished in a house and full breakfast meals to street cleaners, she said. —KUNA ed on Sixth Ring Road yesterday. in Adan. 4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

Kuwait Heritage

This photo taken circa 1942 shows Bedouin men at ease in Al-Safat Square; a huge open space within Kuwait’s Wall where tribesmen could meet in peace and safety to exchange talks and trade. (Source: ‘Kuwait in the Eyes of Early Photographers’ by William Facey, Gillian Gran. Prepared by Mahmoud Zakaria Aby Alella, Researcher in Heritage, Ministry of Information)

Deema Soufi ‘Help people without expecting KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) is participating in a campaign launched to support families with limited income living in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, by providing them with what they need to enhance their living conditions during the holy month of Ramadan. anything in return’ By Athoob Al-Shuaibi

ach of us can contribute to making Kuwait a better place for all of us to live. In our daily deeds and actions, Ewe can find - if we choose to look - opportunities for improving Kuwait’s environment. From not littering on the streets, to choosing to be kind and helpful to others, each individual here can have a positive impact on the society as a whole. Kuwait Times wants to know what can you do?

***** People are rushing to do good deeds during the holy month of Ramadan, for the association of doing good with a holy reward. Spiritually, people have become eager to compete to provide alms and feed the poor. The rope of goodness does not tear throughout the year for many peo- ple, because giving is a humanitarian responsibility to each individual. Whether it is material or moral, everyone can contribute positively to create a safer society and a sense of community. Deema Soufi is an architect who holds a passion for pho- tography. Organizing photo walks is an idea she has been working on for a couple of months. Her initiative was an architectural photo walk. Nevertheless, our question made her think of what might be a great idea for her upcoming project. “I would like to do a photo walk with a group and just talk to people, learn their stories. This would be fun and eye opening. Once a person discovers that every single person they meet is a person with a story, with struggle just like them, even if it is not the same type of struggle, this would raise the sympathy level and the value of those who are com- ing from different backgrounds” she said. Soufi would also love to see filmmakers produce docu- mentaries about the different communities of Kuwait, a pro- duction that could dig deep into the lives of families in the country. “I guess one of the main things that society is lacking in our time is sympathy. I would love to help people without expecting anything in return because that is not considered something normal nowadays, and that is just wrong. You meet someone, and they are really nice, they help you out for no reason. Rather of being appreciative, you start suspecting the reason behind it, and doubting that person. It is not sup- posed to be that way. Hence, for people to learn to just help other people for no reason, I think trust is an issue, and sym- pathy is an issue. They do not sympathize because they do not get to see how other people live. It is always the perfect picture that others portray,” she concluded. 5 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

—photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Jumeirah Beach Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa inaugurates Ramadan with ghabqa for media

KUWAIT: Welcoming the beginning of the Hotel’s management team and treated to experience. adorned outdoor tent of Garden Cafe Dental Center and Saray Perfumes. holy month of Ramadan, Jumeirah Messilah renowned Jumeirah hospitality during the The honored guests and their families rel- Restaurant where a menu of traditional drinks Iftar buffet is priced at KD 19 per person Beach Hotel and Spa, Kuwait’s idyllic resort, grand opening of the most-talked about and ished a lavishly prepared buffet of Ramadan and shisha were served on the rhythms of and ghabga is priced at KD 14 per person. revived the old Kuwaiti tradition by hosting much-awaited Ramadan tent in town, held at treats, delectable desserts, and seasonal drinks beautiful live oud music. Prices include Ramadan drinks and a selection the distinguished members of the media, TV the iconic Badriah Ballroom. while interacting with the hotel team in a joy- Ramadan at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel of teas. Children aged six to 12 years enjoy a personalities and representatives of this year’s During the get-together, Carol Roncoletta, ous atmosphere. As the guests indulged in and Spa is the perfect venue for families and 50 percent discount and kids below six years Diamond Sponsors for a special Ramadan Director of Public Relations and their time, a traditional Kuwaiti folk dance friends to come together thanks to this year’s old dine on complimentary basis. Live oud ghabqa in the luxuriously decorated Badriah Communications addressed the attendees and entertained everyone and added to the excit- Diamond Sponsors. A special thank you for entertainment is also available for iftar and Ballroom. thanked them for their continued support, ing mood of the evening. Afterwards, guests Ooredoo Telecommunications, Cadillac ghabqa. The invited guests were greeted by the before welcoming them to enjoy their ghabqa were invited to continue the evening in the Alghanim, Turkish Airways, Tijan International WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Anbaa Report Employees in Ramadan Good grade gets arson Actresses don’t student out of trouble wash their faces KUWAIT: Following up the case of the a school student who was sentenced to one year in a juvenile home for set- By Thaar Al-Rasheedi ting the school principal’s office on fire, the boy managed to pass his final tests with an average score of 71.5 percent, ost politicians are like actresses in prompting the court of appeal to cancel his remaining Kuwaiti drama series who have under- term. It settled for having the boy sign an affidavit to show Mgone scores of plastic surgeries and yet good conduct and transferred him to another school. strongly deny it when talking to the media though everybody, including the simple chick- pea vendor in our cooperatives, knows this fact. Leaking “I have never undergone a single plastic sur- A lawyer, a bailiff and a court archive clerk were arrest- ed for leaking some case files so that the lawyer could study them to prepare his arguments. A case was filed.

Fraud They would keep An Asian man filed a fraud case saying he received a call from a local mobile number telling him that he had won KD 15,000 and that his bank account details were needed to deposit it. The man said he later found that KD 600 had shifting from one side been withdrawn from his account. A case was filed.

Assault A female citizen reported that her ex-husband to another without barged into her house and assaulted her, said security sources, noting that the woman provided a medical Al-Anbaa report of her injuries. A case was filed. justifying such shifts. Robbery A roaming taxi driver reported that unidentified robbers broke his cab’s windows and stole all its contents including Al-Anbaa KD 90 in cash. Separately, a bedoon wanted for several gery,” an actress would keep telling lies about fraud and theft cases was arrested at the sheep market. what everybody already knows because Google still shows her photos four years earlier when A bloody will her nose seemed three and a half times larger Mugging than it is now. Most of these actresses would never appear A Lebanese man reported that two people dressed By Saleh Al-Sahyeji in dishdashas attacked him as he stepped out of his on screen while washing their faces. The same applies for politicians who keep denying previ- vehicle after withdrawing KD 4,000 from his bank as the criminal who shot dead 24 Christian explosion takes place in a Church or a Christian congre- ous attitudes in TV interviews, forgetting all account to purchase a new vehicle and stole the money. Egyptians in the Egyptian city of Minya last Friday, gation, which is not done if the terrorist attack takes about YouTube that has archives of previous one day before Ramadan, really mean to kill place in a public place that does not represent a certain H interviews. Nonetheless, they would keep on Christians? Of course he did not. It identity. Fight such lies in attempts to trick us. Some of them was not his nor whoever pulled his Saying this, I would not want our A GCC national was stabbed in the back and shoulder dur- used to be fierce opposition members and now leg into such an endless circle of Christian friends and brothers to get ing a fight with five others in Khaitan. A case was filed and became more pro-government than the govern- death’s intention to kill Christians. carried away into illusions that they the assailants are being summoned for further investigations. The victims in any ment advisors are themselves. They would keep They only meant to kill Egyptians are targeted because of their differ- shifting from one side to another without justi- inside Egypt. That is simply the point ent beliefs compared to the majority fying such shifts. Accident and this is proven by the fact that of Egyptians. However, I will not terrorist attack are They would even deny their previous history An Egyptian trailer truck driver stopped to help a more Muslims have been killed than warn them of falling into a sectarian and, as a follower, you have nothing to do but compatriot along Abdaly highway whose truck had bro- Christians. According to Egyptian tumult because I am very sure they to knock your head against the wall. The same ken down, but while he was in the process of towing reports, the majority of army or not selected according will not fall for such tricks because politicians have been making the same mis- the truck, he accidentally ran over the other driver, police personnel killed in terrorist they are well aware of facts and takes and yet they would deny committing any. causing him serious injuries. attacks are Muslims. know for sure that the main target In addition, the victims in any ter- to their religion of such attacks is Egypt as a whole They would even justify such mistakes. For rorist attack are not selected accord- including all Muslim and Christian example, a politician might be accused in a Dispute ing to their religion. The main aim of Egyptians. That is why they fear financial issue and would ask everybody not to Arguing over a traffic dispute, a citizen stepped out of the attack’s planner or executor is more for their country’s safety. They talk about it whereas he would turn the whole his vehicle, pulled a Lebanese man out of his car and making it happen in Egypt against Egyptians regardless know that the killers haunting them have also killed world upside down if an opponent is accused of assaulted him. In an attempt to silence the man’s wife who of victims’ religious affiliations. I am not saying this to Muslims. Thus, it will be silly to repeat stereotype clichÈs stealing a cigarette. was screaming for help, the Kuwaiti also assaulted her reassure Christians nor to generalize the crime and not that those terrorists are committing such crimes to go to Those are the exact double measures most before he smashed their vehicle and drove off. A case was politicians use. Some of them even have 34 limiting it to the identity of the executor. These are facts Heaven. They rather do it because of their thirst for —Translated by Kuwait Time filed and the assailant is being summoned. —Translated by Kuwait Times measures per issue. — Translated from the Arabic press as victims’ identities are usually highlighted when an blood and bloody actions. Burgan Bank Introduces ‘Workplace Posture Week’

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank, a lead contributor to progress in society, celebrated ‘Workplace Posture Week’ to raise aware- ness about the importance of maintaining a proper posture in the interest of optimal health. The week-long awareness initiative, under the umbrella of ‘Employee Health and Fitness Month, took place between May 7 and May 11, 2017. Demonstrating its firm commitment to employee well- being, Burgan Bank joined forces with the internationally- acclaimed chiropractor, Dr Timothy Simansky, a New York- based expert in injury prevention and sports rehabilitation to provide hands-on posture advice and mitigate risks associated with sedentary lifestyles and long working hours in an office. A practicing chiropractic for nearly a decade and a frequent lecturer to national and internation- al audiences, Dr Simansky delivered highly interactive ses- sions for Burgan Bank employees entitled ‘Workplace Survival and Proper Workplace Posture’ and demonstrated posture-friendly workstation methods and office seating arrangements within departments. During his visit, employees had the opportunity to inquire about existing injuries and address other health-related concerns. Proper posture, often a neglected issue, has immense KUWAIT: Halah El Sherbini, Group Chief Human health benefits that may include higher levels of energy, Resources and Development Officer at Burgan Bank better bone health, higher self-esteem and can prevent Group honors Dr Timothy Simansky. serious neck, back, muscle, leg and other injury. ‘Workplace Posture Week’ is driven by the commit- which ultimately creates a more innovative and agile ment of creating a healthy and dynamic work environ- workforce. With the latest series of novel initiatives for ment, whereby employees can utilize their full potential the betterment and empowerment of its employees, the to shine and grow. Burgan believes it is essential to most progressive bank in Kuwait seeks to instill lasting invest in the long-term benefits of its employees as it solutions to local challenges and deliver real change, directly contributes to their happiness and wellbeing, starting from within.

KUWAIT: The Ahmadi Governorate’s voluntary team distributed nearly 500 iftar meals to workers since the begin- ning of Ramadan. It also distributed nearly 250 food packages to families in need around the governorate, the governorate’s public relations department said in a statement. Former Panama WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83 Five dead as cyclone batters Bangladesh Page 10 Page 12

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman at the Kremlin yesterday. — AP Putin talks Syria, oil with Saudi prince Moscow, Riyadh eye long-term oil policy coordination

DUBAI/MOSCOW: Russia and Saudi Arabia signs the world’s two biggest oil exporters cuts more likely, especially with Russia facing ing a solid foundation to stabilize oil markets “We are grateful to you for your ideas and praised their growing partnership in oil mar- could clinch a deal to prop up oil prices. a presidential election next year and Saudi and energy prices,” Prince Mohammed said. the joint work between OPEC and the coun- kets and dialogue on Syria yesterday, in a for- Non-OPEC Russia has long opposed any Arabia requiring higher prices for economic Last December, Russia and 10 other non- tries, which are not part of the cartel,” Putin midable departure from past hostilities cooperation in reducing oil output in tan- reforms and the listing of its energy giant OPEC nations agreed to join OPEC’s output told Prince Mohammed. “We support politi- between top global producers and major dem with OPEC, where Saudi Arabia is a de- Aramco. cuts for the first time in 15 years. Last week cal contacts, contacts between defense min- players in the Middle East. Russian President facto leader. “The relations between Saudi Arabia and Moscow agreed to extend its cooperation by istries, we work together on sorting difficult Vladimir Putin poured praise on Deputy Russia’s military campaign in Syria to sup- Russia are going through one of their best another nine months until March 2018. Both situation, including in Syria,” Putin said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who port President Bashar Al-Assad in the past moments ever,” Prince Mohammed told Moscow and Riyadh said that cooperation Prince Mohammed’s meeting with Putin looks after the kingdom’s defense and ener- two years has effectively pitted the Kremlin Putin. “We have a lot of common grounds. As would last beyond the current agreement as comes shortly after US President Donald gy, as he welcomed him at the Kremlin. in a direct military confrontation with Saudi far as our disagreements are concerned, we both countries are still trying to find ways Trump visited Riyadh as part of his first over- It was the second meeting between the Arabia as the Sunni kingdom has long fought have a clear mechanism of how to overcome how to co-exist with US shale oil producers, seas trip. Putin again reiterated an invitation two men over the past year following a for Assad’s removal. But the oil prices plunge them. We are moving forward quickly and in which have been responsible for creating the for Saudi monarch King Salman to visit breakthrough meeting in China, where Putin in the last two years has overstretched the a positive way,” he added. “The most impor- current oil glut and which are not part of the Russia and insisted it would be a “good sign and Prince Mohammed showed the first budgets of both producers, making joint tant thing is that we are succeeding in build- global output reduction deals. and a good signal”.— Agencies White House comms director resigns

WASHINGTON: A top White House communica- mined. A Republican consultant, Dubke joined whether previous Trump loyalists are headed to the tions staffer has resigned as US President Donald the White House team in February after campaign White House. Trump has entertained formally Trump considers a major staff overhaul. The aide Jason Miller - Trump’s original choice for bringing back his former campaign manager, Corey departure of Michael Dubke, Trump’s communi- communications director - withdrew from the Lewandowski, and former deputy campaign man- cations director, comes as aides say Trump has White House team. Dubke founded Crossroads ager, David Bossie. Bossie told Fox News’ “Fox & grown increasingly frustrated by allegations of Media, a GOP firm that specializes in political Friends” that the Trump administration has reached Russian meddling in the 2016 election and revela- advertising. out to him but hasn’t offered him a job yet. “They tions of possible ties between his campaign and Dubke is the latest White House staffer to leave have talked to many people, including me,” Bossie Moscow. Trump tweeted Tuesday: “Russian offi- this administration as scrutiny intensifies over con- said. He later added: “It’s an ongoing conversation cials must be laughing at the U.S. & how a lame tacts Trump staffers may have had with Russian and that’s a fair way to put it.” excuse for why the Dems lost the election has tak- government officials during the campaign and In an interview on Fox News on Tuesday, en over the Fake News.” transition period. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Dubke “made very clear that he Dubke wrote in a statement that it had been Conway told AP on Tuesday that Dubke resigned would see through the president’s international an honor to serve Trump and “my distinct pleas- before Trump left for his international trip earlier trip, and come to work every day and work hard ure to work side-by-side, day-by-day with the this month, suggesting that his departure is not even through that trip because there was much staff of the communications and press depart- linked to any pending shake-ups. to do here back at the White House.” Dubke’s hir- ments”. Dubke’s last day has not yet been deter- But his departure raises questions about ing was intended to lighten the load on Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, who had also been handling the duties of communications director during Trump’s first month in office. Trump has privately pinned some of the blame for his administration’s rough start on the White House’s communications strategy. While overseas, Trump’s longtime lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, joined a still-forming legal team to help the president shoulder the intensifying investiga- tions into Russian interference in the election and his associates’ potential involvement. More attor- neys with deep experience in Washington investi- gations are expected to be added, along with cri- sis communication experts, to help the White House in the weeks ahead. The latest revelations to emerge last week involved Trump’s son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner. Shortly after the election, Kushner allegedly discussed setting up a secret communi- cations channel with the Russian government to facilitate sensitive discussions about the conflict in Syria. The intent was to connect Trump’s chief national security adviser at the time, Michael Flynn, with Russian military leaders, a person familiar with WASHINGTON: In this photo taken on Monday, the main residence of the White House and the the discussions told the AP. The person wasn’t West Wing (right) as seen from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House authorized to publicly discuss private policy delib- complex. — AP erations and insisted on anonymity.—AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 Specter of terror raids overshadows C Africa town

BANGASSOU, Central African had to fall back,” a source close to the Sangaris followed by the deployment of Republic: They were attacked by UN mission confirmed. UN troops reduced the number of atroc- “drugged, drunk and uncontrollable” ities, but armed bands still run wild in armed men, and now the residents of a After UN troops left parts of the deeply poor country. “This Central African town live in terror after “As soon as the UN troops left, a wave hunting down of Muslims, the looting of one of the most murderous raids in of anti-balaka rushed up to the mosque, their shops, their houses... It is revenge months was carried out right under the yelling and brandishing machetes and against the Seleka,” the bishop said. “In nose of UN troops. At least 108 people home-made guns,” said the bishop of people’s minds, the Muslims of were slaughtered and 76 injured during Bangassou, Juan-Jose Aguirre. “I tried to Bangassou are allies of the ex-Seleka.” the attack by several hundred fighters on talk with them, but they finished by shoot- Late in April, some 481,000 people Bangassou on May 13, according to the ing a friend who wanted to protect me. were refugees in neighboring countries, Central African Red Cross and the UN They saw the imam come out. They shot while half a million were internally dis- Office for the Coordination of him. He fell to his knees, mortally wound- placed in the CAR, according to the UN Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). ed.” the bishop said. “When I came back, I High Commissioner for Refugees. The The attackers “threw severed hands found him like that and I carried him off to identity of the anti-balaka fighters and feet at us”, said Djamil, a Bangassou lay him down with dignity. The anti-balaka remains unclear. “The people who have resident who has now sought refuge in shouted at me not to touch him.” massacred us are unknown,” said Ali, a a camp near the cathedral of the south- “They were drugged, drunk and displaced trader. In the mineral-rich eastern town on the border with uncontrollable,” a humanitarian worker region fights to control resources such as Democratic Republic of Congo. MINUS- recalled. Terrified by the flare-up of vio- diamonds, gold and timber frequently CA, the UN mission in the CAR, said the lence, residents of Bangassou are dig- take place between rival gangs, but civil- raiders were members of the anti-bala- ging in or fleeing. Only a few shops ians are still in the frontline. ka militias. These largely Christian remain open on the central market and “These young people are idle,” the forces emerged to take on former streets are deserted. On Sunday, “armed bishop said. “I’ve been meeting them rebels of the mainly Muslim Seleka elements taken for anti-balaka banned BANGASSOU, Central African Republic: Central African internally-displaced since the month of February, because alliance, with the two sides engaged in humanitarian workers from undertaking people gather around a truck where volunteers distribute firewood on May this is my diocese, to ask them to leave horrific revenge attacks. a mission in the area,” MINUSCA said on 26, 2017. — AFP schools alone, particularly.” At the heart During the attack on Bangassou, Monday. “Moreover, the armed elements balaka fighters “abducted two women town”, an aid worker told AFP, asking not of his bishopric lies another displaced several hundred people holed up in a kidnapped a woman and five children being treated in hospital. One of the to be named. Clashes between the persons camp, this one for Christians. For mosque. “MINUSCA told us to take before killing them in the bush,” the women was killed on the spot while the Seleka, officially disbanded in Sept 2013, the UN troops in the region, they are shelter in the mosque and that’s what statement said. other was buried alive,” according to and the anti-balaka degenerated that “exhausted”, according to a MINUSCA we did,” Djamil says. “Then the UN MINUSCA. Confronted with the escala- year into ethnic and religious massacres source, who recalled that six UN soldiers troops abandoned us.” “Given the num- ‘Woman buried alive’ tion of violence, humanitarian teams that targeted mainly civilians. Military perished in the Bangassou region at the ber of the attackers, the UN soldiers Last Wednesday, the supposed anti- now fear “new large-scale attacks on the intervention by France in Operation beginning of May. —AFP Nighttime, early morning blasts in Baghdad kill 31 Iraq forces battle IS militants in Mosul BAGHDAD: Suicide bombings claimed by the media showed the devastating impact of the first at least 14 people and wounding at least 40, Islamic State group killed at least 31 people in blast, which ripped through the crowded area officials said. Baghdad, officials said yesterday, as Iraqi forces around Al-Faqma ice cream shop in the Karrada fight to retake the last militant-held areas in district of central Baghdad, scattering rubble Battle for Mosul Mosul. In the deadliest of the two attacks, a sui- across the street. One photo showed cups of ice The attacks in Baghdad come as Iraqi forces cide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged cream scattered on the blood-stained ground. fight to retake the last IS-held areas of Mosul, a vehicle at a popular ice cream shop at around Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the interna- city that was the jihadist group’s most emblem- midnight (2100 GMT Monday), killing at least 17 tional coalition fighting IS, condemned the atic stronghold. Iraqi forces are more than seven people and wounding 75. The bomber struck attack and expressed solidarity with Iraq. IS months into a massive operation to retake the just days after the start of the holy Muslim fast- “terrorists tonight in Baghdad target children & city from IS, and have already recaptured its whole east side and much of the west. Three neighborhoods north of Mosul’s Old City - Al- Shifaa, Al-Saha and Al-Zinjili - are now the target A security guard poses for a photo in an empty alleyway in Ogbaru Market yester- of a broad assault by Iraqi soldiers, police and day during a shutdown in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Nigerian special forces that was launched last week. Civil War. —AFP Yesterday, an Iraqi army officer said that secu- rity forces were proceeding slowly in Al-Shifaa in Shutdown for 50th ‘versary of a bid to protect infrastructure. “The problem is that it is a neighborhood with four or five hospi- Biafra republic declaration tals,” Brigadier General Shakir Kadhim Mohsen told AFP in Mosul, adding that forces have per- ONITSHA, Nigeria: Shops, schools and ensure public order without resorting to mission to “take more time to spare the infra- businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria force,” he added. Amnesty said security structure and keep the civilians safe”. Mohsen yesterday, 50 years to the day since the forces had arrested more than 100 mem- said IS was mainly relying on “snipers and suicide declaration of an independent republic of bers of pro-Biafran separatist groups in the bombers” to target Iraqi forces, as it is running Biafra sparked a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, run-up to Tuesday’s anniversary. low on mortar rounds and explosives after los- the economic hub of Anambra state on the Nigerian Army spokesman Colonel Sagir ing sites it previously used to produce them. banks of the River Niger, most markets Musa said in a statement that security had “There are 50 to 100 fighters moving from one were closed and the streets were largely been increased across the southeast in building to another” in Al-Shifaa, he said. empty of people and traffic. Separatist sen- places seen as “real or potential flash- The United Nations has warned that up to timent persists in the region, which is dom- points”. “The aim is to proactively check- 200,000 civilians who are believed to remain in IS- inated by the Igbo people, and the main mate possible security breaches in view of held areas of the city are in grave danger and that pro-Biafran independence group has called sordid/divisive utterances and in some cas- large numbers could flee. “We are deeply con- on supporters to stay at home. es blatant actions by secessionist agitators,” cerned that right now, in the last final stages of the “No work today, we are Biafran, we are he added. campaign to retake Mosul, that the civilians... in not Nigerians,” said Ebere Ichukwu Eli, one (IS) areas are probably at graver risk now than at of the few people to venture outside, Secessionist revival any other stage of the campaign,” Lise Grande, the where there was a visible security presence. Calls for independence never disap- UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, told AFP. “No violence, it is a peaceful sit at home. We peared even after the 30-month civil war, BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces and civilians inspect the site of a deadly bomb attack yester- are protesting peacefully,” the 47-year-old which left more than one million dead, day. — AP She said the UN estimates there are between 180,000 and 200,000 civilians in jihadist-held told AFP. A woman who gave her name most of them Igbos, mainly from starvation ing month of Ramadan, during which Iraqis families enjoying time together at an ice cream areas of Mosul, the majority of them in the Old only as Justine said: “The market is closed and disease. Many people accuse the gov- often stay out late shopping or socializing after shop. We stand w/Iraq against this evil,” City. The area - a warren of closely spaced build- today. I’m just going home to stay with my ernment of failing to invest in the south- breaking their daily fast. McGurk said on Twitter. In the second attack, a ings and narrow streets - has posed a significant children. “We want our one Biafra. It’s our east since the end of the war in 1970, IS issued statements claiming the ice cream suicide bomber blew up a bomb-rigged vehi- challenge to Iraqi forces. Families who managed land. That’s why we all sit at home today.” blighting development. Some see it as a shop blast and a later bombing, saying both cle near the country’s main pension office, to flee IS-held areas have told the UN that food, In Aba, 150 km south by road from punishment for the conflict. “Most people were suicide car bombings targeting members of which is close to one of the principal bridges water and medicines are in short supply and Onitsha, churches on Sunday urged follow- here will follow the instructions. We want Iraq’s Shiite majority, whom the group considers over the River Tigris, the Baghdad Operations that snipers fire on civilians who try to leave, ers to stay at home as a peaceful protest. to show government that we are angry. heretics. Images and footage posted on social Command said in a statement. The attack killed Grande said. — AFP The leader of the Indigenous People of There’s no hope here for our children,” said Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, told Chuks, a 43-year-old taxi driver in Aba. “I’m AFP his aim was for “civil disobedience” to double graduated and I couldn’t find a force a referendum on self-determination. decent job. I have to work as a driver to feed my family.” S Sudan troops tried for rape, Over 100 arrested Support for secession has increased Local people said the closures were since the arrest in late 2015 of IPOB leader either to commemorate the anniversary in Kanu, who is currently on trial in Abuja murder in Juba hotel attack support or because of widespread fears of charged with treasonable felony. A court violence. Nigerian police last week ordered his release on bail in April. Kanu, JUBA: A South Sudan military court yesterday Sudanese journalist, the shooting of a US aid tiple appeals for help, which went unanswered. denounced “planned protests and order of who is in his 40s, told AFP in an interview began the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping worker and “the beating and torture of almost “Many residents were not rescued for several market closures” and warned it would “deal that his time in prison gave him the chance foreign aid workers and murdering a local jour- every person in the entire building”, including hours, despite repeated calls to various organi- decisively” with any breach of the peace or to reflect and plot out the quickest possible nalist during fighting in Juba last July. The chill- mock executions, among the crimes allegedly zations and security forces. During and after the unlawful protest. Last year, demonstrations path to independence. “The mission and ing attack cast a spotlight on atrocities by gov- committed at his hotel. Woodward’s testimony is rescues, the soldiers continued to ransack and marking the declaration of Biafran inde- the values of IPOB are very simple: to ernment troops but also led to a damning probe supported by reports compiled by the UN and loot the compound leaving nothing intact,” HRW pendence turned bloody. Amnesty restore Biafra, to make sure Biafra comes by into the failure of United Nations peacekeepers HRW. Witnesses and survivors told HRW how the said. The body of murdered local journalist John International said the military gunned whatever means possible,” he said. “We to protect civilians, which led to the sacking of soldiers “killed a prominent journalist, raped or Gatluak was not retrieved for several days. down more than 60 people. have chosen the track of peaceful agitation, the force’s Kenyan commander. The suspects gang raped several international and national A subsequent report from a special UN inves- Since Aug 2015, more than 150 people non-violence, persuasion, logic, reason, appeared in court in a variety of uniforms indi- staff of organizations, and destroyed, and exten- tigation showed that the agency’s UNMISS have been killed in pro-Biafra protests, said argument. We are going to deploy all of cating attachment to different units, including sively looted property.” Female aid workers were peacekeepers stationed just 1.2 km away failed Amnesty’s Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. that to make sure we get Biafra.” He added: four in the colors of the “Tiger Division” which threatened at gun point, with one beaten with a to respond to the rescue calls. There were multi- Nigeria’s government denies the claim. “We “Our ultimate goal is freedom, referendum guards the president. There are no senior com- rifle butt while another soldier fired a bullet ple requests made to the peacekeepers from urge the Nigerian security agencies to con- is the path we have chosen to take to get manders among the accused. close to her head, HRW reported. China, Ethiopia, India and Nepal to dispatch duct themselves in a manner that will Biafra... There is no alternative.” — AFP The trial was adjourned after military prose- forces “but each UNMISS contingent turned cutor Abubakr Mohamed Ramadan failed to pro- Unanswered pleas for help down the request, indicating their troops were duce a charge sheet detailing which crimes each During the attack the aid workers made mul- fully committed.” — AFP Senegal’s ex-president of the suspects was accused of. Civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013 when President in new power bid at 91 Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. An August 2015 peace deal DAKAR: Senegal’s former president victory for the opposition to President collapsed last July when fierce fighting erupted Abdoulaye Wade, aged 91, will head a list Macky Sall would give Wade the means in Juba between forces loyal to Kiir and Machar. of opposition candidates for parliament to obtain an amnesty for his son, Karim, in an election to take place on July 30, who enjoyed considerable ministerial ‘50 to 100’ attackers according to aides. The announcement powers under his father, but was sen- A Human Rights Watch report documented was made on Monday night after a broad tenced to six years in prison in 2015. targeted ethnic killings, rapes and gang rapes, opposition coalition of more than 40 par- Karim Wade was also ordered to pay beatings and looting during the clashes. The ties broke up, said supporters of Wade, a fine of more than 210 million euros report describes how on July 11, government who ruled the west African country from for “illicit enrichment”. He received a forces attacked the Terrain hotel compound 2000 to 2012. Some movements and presidential pardon in June 2016 after a housing some 50 employees of foreign organiza- associations in the coalition backed the total of more than three years and now tions. Giving evidence on Tuesday, the hotel’s mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was lives abroad. An amnesty would lift any British owner, Mike Woodward, said that “50 to jailed in March on suspicion of embezzle- doubts over his eligibility in politics, 100 armed soldiers” broke into the compound. ment but will still top a separate list of observers said. The opposition coalition “One group proceeded straight to the bar and candidates, according to his supporters. first came together in a bid to end the restaurant while another group continued to the The deadline for submitting candi- control of parliament by a coalition loy- residential area,” he said. dates in the poll expires overnight al to the head of state and force Sall to Tuesday. There is no age limit on people Woodward listed “the gang rape of at least share power with newly elected politi- standing for parliament. A parliamentary cal rivals. — AFP five international women”, the murder of a South JUBA: South Sudanese soldiers (left) attend their trial in the capital yesterday. — AP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Thousands remember Kennedy on his 100th birthday

BOSTON: Americans turned out by the His great-uncle, he said, was a man who tion. “There’s no one issue or one event thousands Monday to celebrate the life had honest and infectious pride. He not that we could do to highlight the dif- and legacy of President John F Kennedy only implored a generation to serve, but ferent facets of (Kennedy),”said Steven on the day he would have turned 100. he promised them a country worthy of Rothstein, the library foundation’s The US Postal Service commemorated their service, the congressman said. A executive director. “Many of his key Kennedy’s centennial with a dedication wreath-laying ceremony also was held to ideas are timeless. We fundamentally of a JFK postage stamp in Brookline, a honor the 35th US president at his believe that JFK is a visionary who nev- Boston suburb where he was born on gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery er goes out of style.” May 29, 1917. The image on the stamp is in Virginia. Kennedy served as president The late president’s commitment to a 1960 photograph by Ted Spiegel of from January 1961 until he was assassi- service also was celebrated at a Saturday Kennedy when he was campaigning for nated Nov 22, 1963. He was 46. ceremony co-hosted by the National president in Seattle. Boston Postmaster In Boston, the John F. Kennedy Peace Corps Association. Association Nick Francescucci said the stamp was Presidential Library and Museum held president Glenn Blumhorst said those selected because of the way Kennedy a birthday celebration that included a who have served in the Peace Corps see was looking up. “His eyes were high, they cake made by the family of the baker themselves as “the living legacy of JFK”. were looking to the sky (and) it looked who made the engagement cake for Kennedy issued an executive order like there was a big bright future ahead then-Sen Kennedy and Jacqueline establishing the Peace Corps in 1961. of us,” Francescucci said. Bouvier, museum officials said. The cel- “His call to service in asking what we can Democratic US Rep Joe Kennedy III ebration capped a long Memorial Day ARLINGTON, Virginia: The Army Old Guard color guard stands watch during a do for our country is the way that we gave the keynote speech at the John holiday weekend of events to honor wreath laying ceremony at the grave of former US President John F Kennedy, to responded,” Blumhorst said. “We feel that Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site Kennedy’s legacy and drew thousands mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, at Arlington National Cemetery on that is one way of completing our - JFK’s birthplace and childhood home. of visitors on his centennial celebra- Monday. — AP national service.” — AFP Trump slams Germany over trade and NATO US president promises ‘change’ WASHINGTON: Relations between the United States and Germany veered further toward crisis yesterday as President Donald Trump complained about the US trade deficit with Germany and said it must pay more for the NATO military alliance. His censure follows a volley of criticism from Germany after the president concluded his first official tour abroad on Sunday, returning from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brussels and then Italy for a G7 summit. “We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they Narendra Modi in front of the Brandenburg Gate yesterday. — AFP should on NATO & military,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Very bad for US This will change.” Merkel: Europe must step German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made waves in Berlin on Sunday, warning that the United States and Britain may no longer be com- up as diplomatic player pletely reliable partners. “Transatlantic ties are of paramount importance to us... but the current BERLIN: Europe must step up as a player in G7 allies to sign up to upholding the 2015 situation gives more reasons for... us to take our world affairs, German Chancellor Angela Paris climate accord. The US leader also destiny in our own hands,” she said, stressing Merkel said yesterday, signalling that the berated 23 of NATO’s 28 members - includ- that “Europe must become a player active in EU needs to take control of its destiny in ing Germany - for “still not paying what international affairs.” the era of US President Donald Trump. they should be paying” towards the fund- German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel was “Transatlantic ties are of paramount impor- ing of the alliance. blunter on Monday, slamming the US president’s tance to us... but the current situation gives Despite her dismay at the direction “short-sighted” policies that have “weakened the ARLINGTON, Virginia: US President Donald Trump speaks at Arlington National Cemetery to more reasons for... us to take our destiny in Trump is taking, Merkel was also at pains to West” and hurt European interests. During his mark Memorial Day on Monday. — AFP our own hands,” said Merkel, stressing that underline the importance of US relations. trip, Trump rejected pressure from G7 allies to “Europe must become a player active in She dismissed any talk that Germany was putting peace in Europe at risk.” “The short- meeting with senior European officials in commit to abiding by the 2015 Paris climate international affairs”. Merkel had made shifting away from its old ally and pivoting sighted policies of the American government Brussels, the German weekly Der Spiegel report- accord and berated 23 of NATO’s 28 members - waves on Sunday when she told a rally in East, after she hosted Indian Prime Minister stand against the interests of the European ed. He had begun attacking Germany and including Germany - for “still not paying what southern Germany that the United States Narendra Modi for talks and with meetings Union,” he added, judging that “the West has Merkel during his election campaign last year. In they should be paying” toward the funding of and Britain may no longer be completely planned later this week with Chinese become smaller, at least it has become weaker.” keeping with his nationalist economic agenda, the alliance. reliable partners. Premier Li Keqiang. “We began our German- Germany’s harsh words for Washington, tradi- he hit out in particular at Germany’s substantial A day later, Foreign Minister Sigmar Indian government consultations a few tionally a close ally, were highly unusual and trade surplus with the US, threatening to intro- Weakening the West Gabriel also lashed out at Washington, say- years ago, as we have for German-China came as relations have grown increasingly tenu- duce customs duties in retaliation. Days earlier, in Saudi Arabia, Trump had ing the Trump administration’s “short-sight- consultations,” she said. “We live in a global- ous. Merkel on Tuesday repeated her call for After a frosty meeting with Merkel in presided over the single largest US arms deal in ed policies... stand against the interest of ized world and India ... is a partner,” she said, Europe to take control of its own destiny, but Washington in March - which he initially American history, worth $110 billion over the the European Union”. Germany’s startling adding that “in no way do other relations also dismissed any talk that Germany is shifting described as “GREAT” - he launched a diatribe next decade and including ships, tanks and anti- assessment came after Trump’s first tour stand against transatlantic ties, which are of away from its old ally and pivoting East. the following day, accusing Germany of owing missile systems. Gabriel said Monday that “any- abroad, when he snubbed pressure from paramount importance”. — AFP “vast sums of money” to NATO and the United one who accelerates climate change by weaken- Threatening retaliation States. For her part, Merkel had called on Trump ing environmental protection, who sells more Trump launched a salvo against German car after his election to uphold the values of weapons in conflict zones and who does not exports to the United States last week, saying Western democracy following a divisive presi- Police reveal Manchester want to politically resolve religious conflicts is that “the Germans are bad, very bad” during a dential campaign. — AFP attacker’s criminal past MANCHESTER: British police revealed the while 29-year-old Andrew Shivas said: Manchester suicide bomber’s petty criminal “Can’t let them win.” The station is connect- past yesterday as the train station next to ed to the Manchester Arena, one of the scene of last week’s attack reopened for Europe’s biggest indoor venues, by a cov- the first time since the carnage at a pop con- ered space that was the scene of Monday’s cert that left 22 people dead. Police said 22- blast, in which 116 people were also year-old bomber Salman Abedi had injured. Most of the victims were young appeared in police records over theft, receiv- people attending a concert by US pop idol ing stolen goods and assault in 2012 but Ariana Grande which had just finished, and was never flagged up for any radical views. parents waiting to meet their children. “He was known to the police for some relatively minor matters,” Manchester police DNA on suitcase? chief Ian Hopkins told BBC radio, as ques- The Islamic State group claimed responsi- tions grew over whether intelligence serv- bility for the attack. Abedi, a Manchester-born ices missed any vital clues. “I am not privy university dropout of Libyan origin, reportedly to what the security service did or didn’t fought in the Libyan conflict to topple former know about the individual at this time,” dictator Muammar Gaddafi. His brother Hopkins said, following a report in the Mail Hashem and father Ramadan have been on Sunday that US authorities had previ- arrested in Libya, where authorities say the ously warned Britain’s MI5 intelligence serv- two brothers were both IS jihadists. Fourteen ice about Abedi. more people are being held in Britain and police have released a security camera image ‘Goosebumps’ of Abedi carrying a large blue suitcase, As the investigation continued, appealing for any information about where Manchester-born Oasis frontman Liam Abedi might have been with it. Gallagher was to make his solo debut later Police were seen searching through a yesterday with a charity concert, the latest rubbish dump near Manchester on in a flood of tributes in Britain’s third- Monday. “We are just trying to make sure largest city for the victims of last Monday’s we capture everything that he has discard- attack. “We Will Remember You”, read signs ed so we can then see what the signifi- accompanied by heart images and sur- cance is. Has it (the suitcase) got DNA on it rounded by floral tributes at Manchester of people that may have helped him? Has it Victoria station as service resumed. “I think material he may have used?” Hopkins said. it will take a long time to get back to nor- Hopkins said the “big piece of work” for the mal. There’s still a weird feeling, you know, future would be “working with our young CARACAS: Opposition activists clash with police as they block the Francisco Fajardo highway during a demonstration against President Nicolas armed police, a lot of unease,” said 59-year- people and trying to get to the heart of Maduro’s government on Monday. — AFP old David Keys as he got off a train. why people are feeling isolated and why Sharon Glyn, 48, said she felt “goose- they are subject to being influenced in this bumps” as her train pulled into the station, way and radicalized”. — AFP Venezuela opposition figures wounded CARACAS: Two leading Venezuelan opposition were blocking the road, responded by firing protests erupted on April 1. Maduro’s political figures were wounded in anti-government tear gas, water cannon and buckshot. opponents vowed earlier to step up protests protests Monday, as demonstrators vowed to According to the opposition 257 people were over his plan to rewrite the constitution, which intensify pressure on President Nicolas Maduro wounded in Monday’s protests, the first since they see as a bid to cling to power. Maduro plans and against his plans to hold a constitutional a weekend announcement of stepped-up to set up a constitutional assembly, which the assembly. Henrique Capriles, a former opposi- pressure on Maduro. opposition says will be stacked with govern- tion presidential candidate, said he and his team The MUD opposition alliance has not given ment supporters. were beaten by National Guard troops as they details of what such increased pressure will “If we allow the fraud that they want to call a left a rally that had been broken up by tear gas. involve. But Capriles has said they are consider- constitutional assembly, Venezuela will be lost,” “They cornered us, they beat us... They robbed ing strikes or long-term street sitdowns. Capriles said Freddy Guevara, a leading opposition figure us all. They took my team’s watches, radios, gas said demonstrators on Tuesday would march to at the National Assembly legislature. Guevara masks. When I asked them ‘What’s wrong with the Ministry of Interior, in the heart of Caracas, to called on supporters to “get ready for an escala- you?’ their reaction was to give me a blow to the reject government “repression”. Supporters of tion” of protests but urged demonstrators to face. Did they want to kill us?” he told reporters. Maduro marched in another part of the capital. refrain from violence. The opposition claims the Separately, lawmaker Carlos Paparoni was leftist president has become a dictator and wounded when he was struck on the head by Deadly protests blames him for shortages of food and medicines. a tear gas canister. Protesters wearing masks Anti-government violence has spread Maduro in turn accuses the opposition of and helmets hurled stones and fuel bombs at beyond Caracas. In San Cristobal in the western attempting a coup with US backing. riot police as they tried to march downtown state of Tachira, two taxis and a bus were set on Each side accuses the other of sending MANCHESTER: Commuters make their way through Victoria railway station, which along a major highway in Caracas toward the fire and used to block a highway. Prosecutors say armed groups to foment violence during the reopened yesterday, one week after being the scene of a terror attack. — AFP government ombudsman’s office. Police, who 60 people have been killed in clashes since the demonstrations. — AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 INTERNATIONAL In Swedish limbo, young Afghans turn to heroin

UPPSALA, Sweden: Beer cans, newspapers Anders Nilsson is a 38-year-old anti-nar- drug, related to opium which Afghanistan affect an individual’s asylum request. too far are committed to care homes drenched in vomit and aluminium foil lit- cotics police chief who’s trying to do some- produces and distributes around the world, However, criminal acts would. across Sweden. But Nilsson fears those ters the ground inside a parking garage thing about it. Wearing faded jeans and a to ease their fear of being deported. “(If) homes are already overcrowded. “It’s very where young Afghan asylum seekers baseball cap, Nilsson leads a team of under- they don’t have permanent residency... ‘Sentenced to care’ difficult to find space... you need a specific smoke heroin as they shelter from the cold cover cops scouting for young heroin they’re forced to go back to Afghanistan,” In order to fund their expensive habit, type of care.” in central Sweden. “When we smoke... we’re addicts in the streets of Uppsala. Strolling Mahdi tells AFP. And going home means these young men often turn to a life of calm and don’t worry about anything,” says on a busy shopping street, he approaches they’re at risk of being killed by either the crime. Police say they enter luxury cloth- ‘Very happy here’ Mahdi, a 16-year-old Afghan refugee, who groups of boys to see if anyone could be Taleban or the Islamic State group. ing boutiques in central Uppsala and For Salim, a 17-year-old Kurdish unac- started using heroin after he arrived and under the influence of heroin, eyeing their Afghans constitute the highest number snatch whatever they see. Passersby have companied asylum seeker, Sweden is a safe quickly got hooked. Uppsala, a university pupils and checking their pockets. of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum also been robbed, according to local destination, where he can receive free edu- town an hour’s drive north of Stockholm, Authorities want to take action to ensure in Sweden. Nearly 80 percent of them have media reports. They then take the train or cation and healthcare. Although he’s still has taken in nearly 1,000 unaccompanied the young men don’t become a threat to their applications approved. Of the 1,321 bus to northern Stockholm to buy the waiting for his asylum application to be asylum seekers under the age of 18. themselves or to society. “It’s tough to find requests processed so far this year, 200 drugs, returning to Uppsala after making granted and misses his family, Salim says Around 100 of them, most of them yourself in an asylum application process have been rejected, according to the their purchase. If the asylum seekers are he’s “very happy to be” in Sweden, which in Afghan, have been caught using heroin as and having to wait for a decision,” Hilde Swedish Migration Agency. But in a revised caught using heroin by the undercover 2015 took in the largest number of they wait for their applications to be Wiberg, head of social services in Uppsala, security assessment published in cops, they’re taken to the police station for refugees per capita in Europe. “I don’t have processed, which can take more than a year says, adding many asylum seekers feel December, the agency deemed some a urine test and kept under the supervi- any problems here... I go to school here,” he on average. Swedish authorities acknowl- mentally unstable because of past traumas. regions in Afghanistan such as Panjshir, sion of social services. But they won’t face tells AFP, while killing time with his friends edge that drug abuse is prevalent among Bamiyan and Daikundi “less dangerous” jail time. in central Uppsala. He says unaccompanied young asylum seekers. In the capital To ease the fear despite “increasing violence” in the war- Anders Nilsson says there’s no other minors wouldn’t take drugs if they didn’t Stockholm, at least 1,000 young asylum Mahdi is one of the lucky ones: he over- torn country, making it easier to deport alternative for heroin abusers than to have problems. “There’s not a single person seekers received treatment for drug abuse came his heroin addiction and received rejected asylum seekers to those areas. receive care. “Instead of sentencing them here without problems,” Salim says, looking in 2016. Most of them were minors and permanent residency in Sweden. Covering Daniel Larsson, an Uppsala police superin- to prison... we have the possibility to sen- down shyly at his shoes. Asked what he’d boys, health authorities said, without speci- his head with a blue hoodie, he said he and tendent, said a case of occasional posses- tence them to (health) care,” Nilsson says. like to do in the future if he stays, he chuck- fying their country of origin. his friends smoked the highly-addictive sion or use of heroin would not negatively Asylum seekers whose addiction has gone les. “I want to be a police officer.” —AFP Five dead as cyclone batters Bangladesh Worst damage at camps housing Rohingyas

DHAKA: Cyclone Mora battered the refugees, said the bulk of the residents injured. “In some places, under landslides, and brought the Bangladesh yesterday, killing five peo- homes at one camp had their roofs almost every shanty home-made of worst flooding the island has seen in ple and seriously damaging a camp blown off. “We’re already in the field. tin, bamboo and plastics has been 14 years. South Asia is frequently hit housing thousands of Rohingya At Kutupalong camp, which I am visit- flattened,” he added. by flooding in the summer with the refugees who had fled violence in ing now, some 60-70 percent of the Cox’s Bazar has for years been arrival of the annual monsoon rains. Myanmar. Authorities said they evacu- plastic roofs have been blown away. home to hundreds of thousands of On Tuesday they hit the southern ated nearly 600,000 people from vul- Some mud walls have collapsed,” Rohingya, a stateless minority living Indian state of Kerala, from where the nerable areas before the storm hit the Sanjukta Sahany told AFP by phone. mostly in Myanmar. Their numbers will sweep across the country over the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar early “Rohingya people have already start- have swelled since a brutal crackdown coming months. Tuesday, bringing winds of up to 135 ed repairing their houses.” last October by the Myanmar military Mohammad Anam, a Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh last year after an outbreak of violence in Myanmar, Flooding is seen in Sri Lanka’s Matara district on Monday. —AFP said there had been no attempt to evacuate the minority community, Sri Lanka appeals for help many of whom are undocumented. “Nobody came to alert or evacuate us. When the storm came we rushed as floods foul water supply to local schools to take shelter,” he told AFP. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka appealed yesterday weeks. We are very conscious of that. However Abul Hashim, a for volunteers to help with a massive Additional medical teams will be checking spokesman for the disaster manage- clean-up after landslides and floods left at on mosquito breeding grounds as well.” ment department, told AFP the least 193 dead and tens of thousands with- The military has deployed more service authorities only evacuated the most out safe drinking water. The government personnel in addition to the thousands vulnerable from low-lying coastal sought help to purify wells contaminated already involved in distributing food and areas. “Rohingya live in hilly areas. by the floods, the worst in 14 years after other essentials to flood victims in the dis- There is no chance for these areas to record rainfall in the island’s southwest. tricts of Kalutara, Ratnapura, Galle and be inundated by storm surge,” he said. The Disaster Management Centre said Matara. Sri Lanka has experienced scat- The weather office had warned the nearly 600,000 people had been forced tered showers in many parts in the past 24 cyclone could unleash a five-foot-high from their homes. Just over 1,300 houses hours but flood waters are rapidly reced- (1.7 m) storm surge around Cox’s were completely destroyed in landslides, ing, officials said. In addition to the official Bazar, although a major surge did not while nearly 7,000 suffered structural dam- death toll of 193, another 94 people were materialize. age, according to official figures. listed as missing as of yesterday afternoon. Authorities called in all fishing ves- Water supply minister Rauf Hakeem In May 2003 250 people were killed and sels and suspended flights to and said 40 percent of those affected had no 10,000 homes destroyed after a similarly from airports in Chittagong and Cox’s access to piped drinking water, and there powerful monsoon. Bazar. Bangladesh is routinely hit was an urgent need to purify contaminat- between April and December by ed wells in flood-hit areas. He said 400 Aid on its way severe storms that cause deaths and people had volunteered so far for a major The government announced yesterday widespread damage. In May last year clean-up of wells and appealed for dona- it would cut back spending on new vehi- Cyclone Roanu hit the southern coast tions of water pumps. “Our workers have cles to save money as Colombo sought of Bangladesh, leaving 20 people volunteered to join a major (well) clean- international assistance for the clean-up. up,” the minister told reporters in Colombo. “The cabinet decided today that we will not COX’S BAZAR: A Bangladeshi villager evacuates to a cyclone shelter on the coast yesterday. —AFP dead and forcing half a million to flee their homes. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr He said flooded pumping stations had purchase any cars for ministers or the gov- km per hour. Disaster management Kutupalong houses nearly 14,000 sent 70,000 fleeing across the border killed nearly 4,000 people and caused been restored but an area just outside ernment this year in view of the natural dis- authorities told AFP five people had registered refugees, although many into Bangladesh. Away from the damage worth billions of dollars. Colombo was still without piped water. aster,” Senaratne said. A third aid ship was been killed, four of them crushed by more recent arrivals who lack official camps, authorities had evacuated In neighboring India, the National Government spokesman Rajitha expected to arrive from India later Tuesday, falling trees in the area. It was not refugee status are also said to be liv- nearly 600,000 people to cyclone shel- Disaster Management Authority Senaratne said many victims had started Senaratne said, adding that three ships immediately clear how the fifth per- ing there. Community leaders said ters, schools and offices after raising advised fishermen in the eastern moving back into their homes as floodwa- from China and another from Pakistan were son died. there had been no attempt to evacu- the highest number 10 weather dan- coastal state of West Bengal bordering ters receded but authorities remained con- also expected in Colombo this week. Some of the worst damage was at ate undocumented Rohingya, ger alert. Bangladesh to stay in port. Weather cerned about the spread of disease. “We Australia, Japan and Singapore were camps housing the 300,000 Rohingya although those with official refugee authorities warned of strong winds have started sending additional doctors, among the other nations rushing to donate refugees living in Cox’s Bazar, many of status were alerted about the dan- ‘Nobody came’ and heavy rain across much of north- nurses and medical supplies to prevent any inflatable boats and other aid. The UN was them in flimsy huts. The local head of gers. Abdul Salam, a Rohingya com- Cyclone Mora comes days after east India, although the cyclone was outbreak of diseases such as rat fever (lep- donating water containers, water purifica- the International Organisation for munity leader, said around 20,000 heavy rains in Sri Lanka killed at least expected to weaken as it crossed the tospirosis) and diarrhoea,” said Senaratne, tion tablets and tarpaulins while the World Migration, which coordinates relief for homes had been damaged and some 193 people, many of them buried country. —AFP who is also health minister. “We could also Health Organization will support medical have a dengue outbreak in about two teams in affected areas. —AFP After Everest bodies return, Myanmar soldiers accused climbers ask if risk acceptable in deaths of minority men YANGON: Police in northern Myanmar decades accused Myanmar’s armed said yesterday that they are investigat- forces of abusing and killing civilians KATHMANDU: The Indian man wept as a heli- the risk,” said Ang Tshering of the Nepal most difficult bodies to retrieve are near the copter landed in Kathmandu carrying the Mountaineering Association. “To get one 8,850-m peak in a low-oxygen area known by ing the deaths of three ethnic Kachin during the military’s long-running con- body of his brother, one of hundreds of body off of the mountain, they are risking the mountaineers as the death zone. men whose bodies were found in a shal- flicts with ethnic armed groups. Such climbers who have died while attempting to lives of 10 more people.” This is where the body of Gautam Ghosh low grave after locals said they were abuses were often cited as part of the climb Mount Everest. The body had been left About 300 climbers have died since Everest was found last week along with the body of detained by government soldiers. The justification for international sanctions on the mountain for a year until last week, was first conquered in 1953, and at least 100 - another Indian climber, Ravi Kumar, who died three were among a group of five people on the country’s former ruling junta. when a team of Sherpa climbers managed to maybe 200 - corpses remain on the mountain. earlier in May after falling from the route on detained by the army in Kachin state on The accusations have continued even recover it along with two others. But the high- Most are hidden in deep crevasses or covered his way down from the summit. A third Indian May 25 as they were on their way back as most sanctions have been lifted and risk expedition, financed with about $92,000 by snow and ice, but some are visible and man who died last year was recovered from to their refugee camp after collecting Myanmar has transitioned to a more from the Indian state of West Bengal, has have become macabre landmarks, earning the nearby South Col, the last camp at 8,000 firewood near Hka Pra Yang village, open and more democratic system with sparked heated debate in the mountaineering nicknames for their plastic climbing boots, m before climbers make their final push for camp manager Naw Mai said. Two of the a partly civilian government led by Aung community about the morality of risking colorful parkas or final resting poses. The the summit. —AP men were released and returned to the San Suu Kyi, who has no control over the more lives to retrieve bodies from one of the camp, while the others never returned, army. In a separate incident, a 17-minute most unforgiving places on Earth. Naw Mai said. video that appeared online Saturday “It was a very dangerous operation,” West A group from the camp, which is showed Myanmar army and militia sol- Bengal state official Sayeed Ahmed Baba home to hundreds of the more than diers kicking, punching and threatening acknowledged. “It was difficult to find 100,000 who have fled fighting between to kill six unidentified ethnic Shan vil- Sherpas who were willing to go. But we had government troops and rebels in the lagers in northern Shan state. to do it for the families.” On the helipad region, went Sunday to the place where The incidents came as Suu Kyi and Sunday, Debashish Ghosh felt relief as he the men were last seen and found their the military were wrapping up peace watched the Indian team unload the three bodies in a freshly dug grave, Naw Mai talks with more than a dozen ethnic bodies from the back of the chopper. “We are said. Their bodies had gunshot wounds, armed groups in a bid to end the con- finally able to bring him home,” he said of his knife marks and severe bruising, he said. flicts. The talks, which are complicated brother, Gautam. “After we cremate the body “We believe that these men were severe- by ongoing military offensives in Kachin there will be peace for his soul and relief to ly tortured,” Naw Mai said. “Now this inci- and Shan states, ended Monday without our family.” dent is scaring every displaced person an agreement. Last year, the military Many in the mountaineering community from moving around the area.” made a rare admission that its soldiers said that peace of mind came with unaccept- Calls to military spokesmen went had killed five ethnic Shan villagers and able risk. Climbers who attempt to scale the unanswered Tuesday. Myo Thura Naung, seven solider were eventually sentenced world’s tallest mountain know they could die a Kachin State police officer, confirmed to five years in prison. Locals were out- from any number of challenges, including low that the bodies had been found but said raged by what they said was the lenien- oxygen, frigid temperatures, strong winds it was too early to determine how the cy of the prison term. The military has and steep falls. Asking others to carry down men died and who was responsible. also been accused of abuses against the the bodies - often much heavier because they “This is just the beginning of our investi- country’s Muslim Rohingya minority in are frozen and covered in ice - puts more peo- gation and it’s too early to say anything western Rakhine state, which has drawn In this March 11, 2017 photo, trekkers hike towards Everest Base camp near clearly,” he said. Rights groups have for worldwide condemnation. —AP ple in danger, they said. “It is just not worth Lobuche, Nepal. —AP ACCESS over 10,000 top jobs daily NETWORK with professional peers SHARE leading career content

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www.bayt.com Register Upload your CV Apply WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 INTERNATIONAL ‘Dinosaur’ Philippine jeepneys face uncertain future MANILA: Peter Dallos shouts above the will be hard to implement, affecting a commuters deserve a better alternative. rumble of his smoke-belching engine micro-industry of poor drivers and own- They are designing units with engines urging passengers to clamber quickly ers. Dallos has been working 14 hours a compliant with European emission stan- on to his dilapidated red jeepney. Such day for 20 years to provide for his jobless dards or solar and electric vehicles with scenes may soon disappear from wife, seven kids and three grandchildren GPS and possibly a ride-hailing app. Manila’s gridlocked streets as authori- who live in an upland farming province But at eight pesos (16 cents) per ties move to phase out the Philippines’ where he has no land to till. He earns journey, jeepneys are the sole afford- iconic World War II-era minibuses, cit- around 500 pesos ($10) a day. able option for many. “It’s the only ing pollution and safety concerns. and the most convenient way. I can’t Dubbed ‘jeepneys’ and once hailed as Dirty, inefficient, loved ride a taxi because that’s super expen- the ‘King of the Road’ they are a cultural Taking inspiration from the American sive,” medical student Maria Alcid said symbol in the Philippines to rival New jeeps left behind after the war, the jeep- en route to school. For low fares, pas- York’s yellow taxis - and for decades ney is a Filipino invention, where a roof sengers pay the price of bumping they provided cheap and regular trans- has been added and inside there are their heads on the ceiling, inching port for millions. two parallel benches. They can carry their buttocks into seats, and clinging But under a government moderniza- more than 20 people at a time, but run to the roof while standing on the tiny tion program, vehicles of this type that on cheap diesel and are heavy polluters, step at the back. are aged 15 years or older will be taken while the drivers are notorious for vio- And yet for those who grew up riding off the streets by 2020 and replaced with lating traffic rules. “Our inefficient jeepneys, there is a lot of affection for a more environment-friendly version. dinosaur, the (jeepney), must now be the vehicles. They are famed for their Dallos, 55, slaps the steering wheel as his relegated to the museum. It is dirty, psychedelic designs featuring every- slipper-clad foot stomps on the gas inefficient, unhealthy,” said Finance thing from Mickey Mouse to the Virgin while he hands over change that is Secretary Carlos Dominguez. Mary and in provinces even carry people, passed down a row of squished passen- The government vows to help owners animals and crops on roofs. “Look at my gers fanning themselves in the summer MANILA: Jeepneys are seen as an enforcer manages traffic on a busy street yes- sell old jeepneys and access loans to buy jeepney, its frame is about to fall off but heat. “This is like my wife. My jeepney are terday. — AFP new models while requiring drivers to people are still riding it,” says Dallos, I together every day. I know what ails it, angry because I will lose my job. I will be become a bystander and starve,” he undergo safety training, though critics caressing his rusting dashboard. He what I need to do,” Dallos told AFP. “I’m forced to go home to my province, added. The government admits the plan question the cost of this. Authorities say adds: “Is there any other choice?” — AFP Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dies aged 83 Ex-strongman suffered years of ill-health

PANAMA CITY: Former Panamanian dictator ing the Panama Canal to undergo surgery. over to Panama in Dec 1999. “I knew Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega, who was on the CIA Following years of ill-health that included respi- when I was a lieutenant and he was a second payroll, ousted from power by US soldiers in ratory problems, prostate cancer and depres- lieutenant,” said a former National Guard gen- 1989, and spent years in prison for drug traffick- sion, Noriega’s family pleaded with the authori- eral Ruben Dario Paredes, a Noriega critic. He ing and money laundering, has died. He was 83. ties to him to serve the rest of his sentence was “very attentive and normal, correct, disci- Noriega died in Panama City’s public Santo under house arrest. But the government reject- plined, and decent - but when that man Tomas hospital where he had been recovering ed their appeals, and said Noriega would return reached the rank of general he was definitely someone else. Power disfigured him, corrupted him,” Paredes told AFP. Noriega was reportedly recruited onto the CIA payroll in 1967, the year before he took part in a 1968 coup against then-president Arnulfo Arias. Noriega supported one of the coup lead- ers, General Omar Torrijos, who promoted him to This undated photo released yesterday shows a test-fire of a ballistic missile at an head the feared G-2 military intelligence unit. In undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP 1983, two years after Torrijos’ death in a mysteri- ous plane crash, Noriega - nicknamed “pineapple face” for his pock-marked visage - took charge of N Korea says ballistic the now-defunct National Guard and became Panama’s de facto ruler. missile test successful During his ascent and time in power Noriega juggled work for the CIA along with relation- SEOUL: North Korea yesterday boasted its agency added. Following North Korea’s ships with Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, test of a precision-guided missile was “suc- test-firing earlier this month of what ana- Cuba’s Fidel Castro and other foreign intelli- cessful”, saying it had zeroed in within a few lysts said was its longest-range rocket yet, gence services. But his increasingly brutal rule meters of a target provocatively close to the UN Security Council vowed to push all and his close ties with the drug trade led the Japan the day before. The North’s leader countries to tighten sanctions against United States to seek his ouster. In his final years Kim Jong-Un supervised the launch of the Pyongyang. But China has made it clear in office Noriega held rousing anti-American ral- guided ballistic rocket - the third missile that the push for talks - and not more sanc- lies, often wielding a machete, as he simultane- test by the nuclear-armed regime in less tions - is its priority. On Monday it pleaded ously cracked down on opposition to his rule. than three weeks and carried out in defi- again for dialogue. Noriega was toppled in a Dec 1989 US military ance of US threats of military action and UN “We hope that related parties can invasion, the largest US military operation since sanctions. “The ballistic rocket flew toward remain calm and restrained, ease the ten- the Vietnam war. He and surrendered to US the east sky where the day broke and cor- sion on the peninsula, and bring the penin- troops in Jan 1990. rectly hit a planned target point with devia- sula issue onto the right track of peaceful The former strongman was flown to the tion of seven meters after flying over the dialogue again,” the Chinese foreign min- United States where a US court convicted him middle shooting range,” the state-run news istry said. The US has said it is willing to PANAMA CITY: In this May 2, 1989 file photo, Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega walks with support- agency KCNA said. enter into talks only if the North halts its ers in the Chorrilo neighborhood, where he dedicated a new housing project. — AP on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, and sentenced him to prison. In 2010 South Korea’s military earlier said the missile and nuclear tests. Several rounds of from surgery in early March to remove a brain to prison once he recovered from the brain Noriega was sent to France, where he was con- Scud-type missile travelled eastward for UN sanctions have done little to stop the tumor, and a subsequent operation to clean up tumor surgery. victed on money laundering charges, then extra- 450 km. Japan said it believed it had fallen isolated regime from pushing ahead with cerebral bleeding. President Juan Carlos Varela dited to Panama the following year, where he into its exclusive economic zone, extending its ambition to develop an intercontinental wrote on Twitter that Noriega’s death “closed a From CIA agent to US pariah had been sentenced in absentia to prison for 200 nautical miles from the coast. The mis- ballistic missile (ICBM) that can deliver a chapter in our history”. He said the ex-strong- Born in 1934 to a poor family, Noriega political murders and his role in killing soldiers sile test triggered swift condemnation from nuclear warhead to the continental US. man’s family “deserved to bury him in peace.” entered Panama’s military at a young age and attempting a coup against him. Noriega US President Donald Trump who said it The impoverished nation has staged Government communications secretary rose through the ranks to become de facto ruler returned home as a wheelchair-bound broken showed “disrespect” to neighboring China, two atomic tests and test-fired dozens of Manuel Dominguez told AFP that Noriega died of a country that hosts the strategic Panama man suffering from a series of ailments. In 2015 the North’s sole major ally, which has rockets since the beginning of last year, late Monday. Noriega had been serving lengthy Canal. The 40-mile US-built canal, inaugurated in Noriega issued a blanket apology “to anybody sought to dampen tensions over including 12 launched this year. A simulta- prison sentences in Panama for murder and forced 1914, cuts through Panama. However a 10-mile who felt offended, affected, prejudiced or Pyongyang’s weapons program. neous launch of four missiles held on disappearances during his 1983-1989 dictatorship. wide area surrounding the canal, known as the humiliated by my actions”, He likely went to the The launch was aimed at testing a March 6 saw three falling provocatively The ex-general had been granted temporary Panama Canal Zone, was considered unincorpo- grave without divulging many secrets built up weapon “capable of making ultra-precision close to Japan, sparking alarm in the neigh- release on February 28 from his prison overlook- rated US territory until the canal was handed over a lifetime of shady dealings. — AFP strike on the enemies’ objects at any area”, boring country. Monday’s test was the third KCNA said. “Whenever news of our valuable since new South Korean president Moon victory is broadcast... the Yankees would be Jae-In took office, posing a major challenge UK journalist faces very much worried about it and the gang- to Moon who advocated dialogue and rec- sters of the South Korean puppet army onciliation with Pyongyang in a break from Thai jail for carrying would be dispirited more and more,” Kim his conservative predecessors. was quoted as saying. Many analysts doubt if the North has protective gear to Iraq developed an ICBM or a nuclear warhead BANGKOK: A British journalist faces up to five years in a Longest-range rocket yet small enough to fit atop a missile. But most Thai jail after he was arrested for carrying a gas mask and The projectile was showcased for the agree that the country has made a signifi- plates for a bullet-proof vest through Bangkok’s main air- first time last month as part of cant progress under the young leader, who port on his way to cover fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Pyongyang’s annual military parade to took power after the death of his father police confirmed yesterday. Tony Cheng, who works for mark the 105th birth anniversary of the and longtime ruler, Kim Jong-Il, in Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, was detained at Bangkok’s regime’s founder Kim Il-Sung, the news December 2011. — AFP Suvarnabhumi airport late Monday night under a law that has been heavily criticized by media groups. Gas masks and ballistic vests are frequently used by Cambodia wielding ‘courts reporters around the world but are classified as “war weapons” in Thailand and require a license, something jour- of injustice’ ahead of polls nalists have been unable to obtain. Violating the 1987 law is punishable by up to five years in jail. “A British national was PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s government imprisonment”, the report said. Champa arrested and charged with illegal possession of war has ramped up use of the courts to harass Patel, Amnesty’s director in the region, weapons last night at the airport,” Suvarnabhumi airport political activists and rights defenders said Hun Sen’s government has paid policeman Somchart Maneerat told AFP yesterday. ahead of elections, Amnesty International “much lip-service” to the judiciary’s inde- Cheng, who is married to a Thai national, and German said yesterday, warning the climate of fear pendence. “But the evidence reveals a colleague Florian Witulski were on their way to report from was likely to get worse. Millions of cynical manipulation of the criminal jus- war-torn Mosul where troops are battling the Islamic State Cambodians will head to the ballot box tice system to serve political goals and group. The pair previously reported from Mosul in March. on Sunday for local polls across more than silence people whose views the govern- Witulski was briefly detained alongside Cheng but was later 1,600 communes - an early litmus test for ment refuses to tolerate,” she said. released and has not been charged. POSO, Indonesia: A man surveys the damage caused by an earthquake in Central next year’s crunch general elections. The Sok Eysan, a spokesman for ruling Suvarnabhumi police said Cheng was released Tuesday Sulawesi yesterday. — AP impoverished Southeast Asian kingdom Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), denied afternoon after his wife paid a 100,000 baht ($3,000) bail and has been run for more than 32 years by the report’s allegations and said it was he agreed to forfeit his passport. In a Facebook post from an Strong Indonesia earthquake strongman prime minister Hun Sen, one peddling a “Cold War ideology”. Amnesty airport detention cell Cheng said the plates and gas mask were of the world’s longest serving leaders. has always viewed the government as the “for use in Mosul where ISIS are well documented to be using damages buildings, hurts some But in 2013 his ruling party suffered a “enemy”, he said. “They have been attack- gas”. Media groups have repeatedly criticized the Thai law and surprise setback when the opposition ing us and painting colors on the ruling say journalists should not be punished for carrying body armor JAKARTA: A strong, shallow earthquake a collapsed building and another showed a Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) party since the beginning.” Sunday’s elec- and protective gear in and out of dangerous zones. rocked Indonesia’s central Sulawesi convenience store with goods strewn on its made huge gains and nearly won. Since tion is a bellwether for opposition efforts province yesteraf evening, injuring at least floor but otherwise intact. then the authorities have embarked on to unseat Hun Sen after three decades. ‘Invidious choice’ three people and damaging some build- Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology what Amnesty described as “a systematic Sebastian Strangio, an expert on In a statement on Cheng’s arrest, the Foreign ings and houses. The US Geological Survey and Geophysics Agency recorded 14 after- campaign, using the criminal justice system Cambodian politics, told AFP Hun Sen’s par- Correspondents’ Club of Thailand said reporters based in said the magnitude-6.8 quake was cen- shocks of up to magnitude-5.2, also at a to harass and intimidate” opponents. In a ty “risks losing control of a lower level of the country who travel to dangerous assignments are “pre- tered in a thinly populated area 79 km shallow depth. Shallow earthquakes tend report titled “Courts of Injustice”, the group government that they have controlled since sented with an invidious choice: break Thai law or increase southeast of the provincial capital, Palu, at to cause more damage on the Earth’s sur- said at least 27 Cambodian human rights the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979”. Hun the risk to life and limb”. Attempts over the years to amend a depth of 9.1 km. face. It said the land-based quake didn’t defenders and political activists are current- Sen has historically eschewed campaigning the legislation have fallen on deaf ears, despite Thailand’s The National Disaster Management have any potential to cause a tsunami. ly behind bars on trumped-up charges. himself. But last week he said he would own history of deadly street protests and a festering Agency said buildings were damaged in Indonesia is prone to earthquakes and vol- Hundreds of others are subject to attend a rally and parade on Friday - some- Muslim insurgency in the far south. The protection equip- Poso, a city to the southeast of the epicen- canic eruptions due to its location along criminal proceedings “as part of a concert- thing analysts said indicated his nervous- ment law was rarely enforced until the military seized pow- ter, and a number of houses and churches the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. ed attempt” to crush any public criticism. ness. Hun Sen and his defenders say the 64- er three years ago. “The issue has occurred quite a few were damaged in nearby villages. At least A powerful Indian Ocean quake and As a result a large proportion of the politi- year-old has brought much needed stability times already, I am certain there will be review on this mat- three villagers were hospitalized for head tsunami in 2004 killed a total of 230,000 cal opposition and human rights commu- and growth to Cambodia after decades of ter,” junta spokesman Major General Werachon wounds, it said. The agency posted photos people in a dozen countries, most of them nity “live under the threat of immediate crippling civil war and genocide. — AFP Sukhonhapatipak told AFP. — AFP of damage in Poso on Twitter. One showed in Indonesia. — AP NEWS WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

MP questions Finance Minister over Areva India court suspends cow slaughter ban Continued from Page 1 In the meantime, MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri asked the NEW DELHI: An Indian court yester- Minister of Social Affairs and Labor about the number of day temporarily suspended a ban work permits issued between January 3, 2016 and May 23, imposed by Prime Minister Narendra holiday to allow time for worship. The proposal also 2017. He also asked the minister if the ministry has any Modi’s government on the sale of cat- called for cancelling out all existing public holidays except well defined rules to estimate the needs of private sector tle for slaughter, dealing the first legal blow to the controversial measure. those of the national and liberation day and the two Eids. of laborers. The government last week prohibited the sale and purchase of cows-an ani- Greatest teacher mal considered sacred for Hindus-for slaughter across India. Continued from Page 1 decades under her direction. Just when I get comfortable The sudden ruling sparked protests in my routine, Ramadan comes and destroys it, just to against what many saw as an over- I could have cheated. Nobody could have known for sure prove to me that in flexibility there is strength. reach by the Hindu-right Bharatiya if I was really fasting. But I didn’t, and that’s when fasting Occasionally she challenges my complaints that I’m sick Janata Party (BJP). Some states where honed my sincerity and integrity. If I were fasting for the and proves to me that fasting does more good than harm, cow slaughter is legal vowed to fight people, to fit in or meet social or cultural expectations, I and that my health improves when I fast. She laughs when the decree. The Madras High Court in would have cheated all those times when I missed suhoor I say I’m getting old because she knows that fasting gets the southern state of Tamil Nadu ALLAHABAD: Cows which are considered holy by Hindus stray around as and started my fast on an empty stomach. It was those days easier with age. stayed the federal ban yesterday, a Hindu devotee, center, offers prayers to the Sun after bathing at when my sincerity was tested. The Quran says, “Fasting has Always there to challenge my attitudes, Ramadan keeps becoming the first jurisdiction to Sangam in Allahabad, India. — AP been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those me both grounded in reality and open to the possibility of mount a successful challenge. “The objected to the ban, saying it calf, triggering outrage and counter before you so that you may be God-conscious” (2:183). transformation. For great teachers like Ramadan, I am court ruled that the order be put in infringed on their right to eat what rallies by BJP supporters where cows My awareness of God and sincerity to Him increased immensely grateful. Grateful that I signed up, and that her abeyance for four weeks and asked they choose. Beef and buffalo meat is were adorned with flowers. The because of that great teacher, Ramadan. The lessons spilled tough ways and annual recurrence didn’t allow me to for- the central and state governments to a common delicacy in some south slaughter of cows, as well as the pos- over into other areas of my life too. As I raised the children, get a single lesson. Grateful that my understanding of reply to the petition filed by my and northeastern Indian states but session or consumption of beef, is pursued my PhD, and learned how to recite the Quran, I God, self and others has expanded over time. Grateful that client,” Ajmal Khan, a lawyer for the taboo in most of India. Some states banned in most but not all Indian relied on the self-discipline, focus and motivation that I could do it. However, entwined with my gratitude is a petitioners said. organized “beef fests” to protest the states. Some impose up to life impris- Ramadan instilled in me. I knew that if I could fast for an sense of humility. The petitioners from Tamil Nadu ban. Organizers in Kerala state killed a onment for infringements. — AFP entire month in summer while those around me snacked God Almighty extended the opportunity to me - I’ll call on ice-cream and quenched their summer thirst, I could do it a scholarship - to learn under the great teacher Ramadan. anything - with God’s help. It is His immense kindness and generosity that singled me Generation homeless “It’s not all about you!” said Ramadan. She taught me to out from the masses of humanity to answer His call. It is a think of others, those who thirst for clean water and humbling feeling to be chosen for such an advanced edu- Continued from Page 1 Civil society organizations such as the Banati hunger for regular meals - those who fast not by choice, cational course, and even more humbling to know that Foundation that work with street children face the same but because there just isn’t enough. Ramadan taught me each one of us has been invited. For all the opportunities However, the United Nations Children’s Fund, difficulties as the government in helping them. In to recognize hunger and thirst in others, which is easier that Ramadan promises, it would be silly to refuse. UNICEF, estimates there are tens of thousands of street Banati’s large shelter, toddlers play in a nursery with when you yourself have experienced it. She taught me to children in the country, its Egypt representative Bruno toys, paper and paints. They are second- or third-gener- respond to those in need with the compassion of one who Courtesy of the TIES Center, whose mission is to empower Maes says. “The main factors pushing the children out ation street children for whom Banati was able to pro- has suffered from privation and longing, even if only for a Kuwait’s expats through social and educational services that of their homes are domestic violence... incest and duce identity papers, thus saving them from the fate few hours at a time. Ramadan taught me that we are promote a positive and productive role in society, and to facil- poverty,” said Maes. “In general, it affects households that befell their constantly homeless parents. responsible for one another, and that one person can make itate opportunities for intra- and interfaith interactions that experiencing unemployment, drug use, low or no edu- “The real problem is that there are entire generations a difference in the life of another. promote social solidarity. For more information, please call cation”, he said. living on the streets,” said Aboulghar. Among them are My teacher is persistent, preparing lessons for me after 25231015/6 or e-mail: [email protected]. Hannah Aboulghar, a pediatrician at the Banati three children of 22-year-old Amira, who has herself Foundation which has worked with street children been homeless since the age of five. “I’ve got used to Smoking and tobacco kill 7 million... since 2009, says no figures are credible but the prob- this life, and what I’ve liked most about it is the freedom lem is getting worse. About 24 million people-nearly a of no one telling me to do anything, or force me to do Continued from Page 1 as around three million transatlantic flights. And waste from third of the country’s 90-million population-live below anything, and everything is allowed,” Amira said. Yet she the process contains over 7,000 toxic chemicals that poison the poverty line, according to official figures. “The wishes she had gone to school. “If I’d been educated I “From start to finish, the tobacco life cycle is an over- the environment, including human carcinogens, WHO said. problem is definitely deteriorating, and the figures are would have become a very good person,” she said. whelmingly polluting and damaging process,” WHO Once in the hands of the consumer, tobacco smoke emis- rising while the ages of the street children are declin- Amira got married informally, which deprived her Assistant Director-General Oleg Chestnov said in the sions spewed thousands of tons of human carcinogens, tox- ing,” said Aboulghar. children of official birth certificates. But Banati was report. The report detailed how growing tobacco often ic substances and greenhouse gases into the environment. She said street children come mainly from the mush- able to help document her marriage to the children’s requires large quantities of fertilizers and pesticides, Cigarette butts and other tobacco waste make up the rooming “poverty belt” of slums outside cities such as father, who is now serving a prison term for theft. The and it warned that tobacco farming had become the largest number of individual pieces of litter in the world, the capital and Alexandria. Government estimates show documentation made it easer to acquire identification main cause of deforestation in several countries. This is the agency said. Two thirds of the 15 billion cigarettes sold about eight million Egyptians live in such areas. “During papers for her children, who were then transferred to largely due to the amount of wood needed for curing each day are thrown on to the street or elsewhere in the the beginning of the previous decade, most street chil- the shelter where they now live. Banati also offers tobacco, with WHO estimating that one tree is needed environment, it said, adding that butts account for up to 40 dren came from poor villages in the south, but in the support to vulnerable young women who can poten- for every 300 cigarettes produced. percent of all items collected in coastal and urban clean- last 10 years the slums have expanded exponentially,” tially turn to the streets, such as 15-year-old Nesrine. WHO also highlighted the pollution generated during ups. WHO urged governments to take strong measures to said Aboulghar. The slums “have been throwing chil- She has been wanting to get married since she was 12 the production, transport and distribution of tobacco prod- rein in tobacco use. “One of the least used, but most effec- dren into the streets where they practice prostitution, so she can “get out of the house and live away from ucts. The report estimates that the industry emits nearly four tive tobacco control measures... is through increasing theft and begging,” she added. problems”. — AFP million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually-the same tobacco tax and prices,” Chestnov said. — AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 ANALYSIS

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By Emily Wagster Pettus

t was after midnight when a gunman burst into the living room of a southern Mississippi home Iwhere young people were playing video games. Caleb Edwards, 15, said the man - whom he knows as Corey Godbolt - demanded to know where his cousin’s parents where. Jordan Blackwell, 18, said they were gone to another town. At that, Godbolt “just started shooting,” Caleb said. As people scram- bled to hide inside the Brookhaven home, Blackwell used his own body to shield his cousin Caleb from the gunfire. With his mother standing by his side Monday, Caleb spoke calmly as he recounted to The Associated Press how he felt the force of the impact as Blackwell was shot Sunday. “He loved me enough to take some bullets for me,” Caleb said. Caleb’s 11- year-old brother, Austin Edwards, was also shot to How drug bust in Bali become Australian obsession death in that living room early Sunday. They were among the eight people killed in three houses in a By Kristen Gelineau looked down on her as a bogan, as a sort of blight on apology by Australia’s prime minister to Indonesia’s rampage that started late Saturday after law enforce- the kind of Australians that we’re ashamed of. And government. Even actor Russell Crowe weighed in. ment officers were called about a domestic dispute. he has riveted Australia for more than a decade, the therefore, there’s a schadenfreude element of wanting “When there is such doubt, how can we, as a country, A deputy sheriff was among those killed. The other everyday Aussie beach girl who somehow sparked to see her get justice.” stand by and let a young lady - as an Australian - rot seven were all relatives or acquaintances of the Sdiplomatic rows, furious protests and a media “Whether you’re supportive of Schapelle or dismissive away in a foreign prison?” Crowe said in a radio inter- accused shooter. bonanza on par with America’s OJ Simpson trial. She is so of her, you’ve got a story that - excuse the cliche - capti- view before Corby’s conviction. “That is ridiculous. We Investigators said Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, will be notorious Down Under that she needs no last name: She’s vates the nation.” Then there was the irresistible drama of just gave Indonesia how many hundreds of millions of charged with one count of capital murder and seven just Schapelle. Next week, after an exhaustively chroni- her legal battle. The stakes were grave - she was facing a dollars in tsunami relief?” counts of first degree murder. Mississippi Bureau of cled stint in a Balinese prison for smuggling marijuana to possible sentence of death by firing squad. Australians, There was a perception that an innocent woman was Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said the the Indonesian island, Schapelle Corby is expected to whose own country generally prohibits cameras in the trapped in a system that was not only unjust, but uncivi- charges could change as the investigation continues. return to Australia. Her homecoming marks the climax of courtroom, were transfixed by the trial footage beamed lized. Corby’s jail was described in the Australian media as Godbolt was hospitalized for a gunshot wound and a tale that divided and in many ways defined Australia, in from Bali: Schapelle collapsing in court. barbaric, the judges depicted as uninterested and unin- was in good condition Monday; it wasn’t clear who where the obsession with the woman the nation once telligent. “The judges don’t even speak English, mate,” shot him. He could make an initial court appearance protectively dubbed “Our Schapelle” has not faded, even ‘Verdict is UNJUST’ radio shock jock Malcolm T Elliott said during a 2005 Tuesday. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation if belief in her innocence has. Schapelle’s mother screaming, “You judges will never broadcast. “They’re straight out of the trees.” Australians’ identified some of those killed as: Barbara Mitchell, Not since the notorious case of Lindy Chamberlain - sleep!” Schapelle’s sister yelling at reporters outside the ignorance about Indonesia and its judicial system played whose baby daughter was killed by a dingo during an courthouse, shrieking with rage: “This verdict is UNJUST!” into such views, says Tapsell. Surveys show that nearly a 55; Brenda May, 53; Tocarra May, 35; Ferral Burage, 45; Outback camping trip - has a legal saga so mesmerized It felt like something out of a movie. And in a way, it was. third of Australians don’t realize Bali is part of Indonesia. and Shelia Burage, 46; and deputy William Durr, 36. the country. But exactly why Corby’s plight achieved such In 1989, Nicole Kidman starred in a popular Australian Corby’s case also happened during a period of uncertain- The parents of Austin Edwards and Jordan prominence can be, at first glance, a bit puzzling. She miniseries called “Bangkok Hilton,” playing a woman who ty about Australia’s place in the world and relationship to Blackwell identified their sons as the other victims. wasn’t famous before her arrest and she was hardly the is tricked into carrying drugs from Thailand to Australia. Asia, coming just two years after the Bali bombings car- Brookhaven is a south Mississippi city surrounded by first Aussie to be busted for drugs while traveling abroad. The movie wormed its way into the Australian psyche ried out by Muslim militants. pine trees and rolling green pastures. The outbreak As The Australian newspaper once put it: “Corby is an and bolstered the sentiment that Corby was innocent, of violence has shaken the county of 34,500 resi- ordinary suburban Australian woman who worked in a Rosewarne says. Behind enemy lines dents. More than a dozen people stood in the drive- takeaway shop, saved up for a holiday in Bali, and some- Corby sometimes seemed to embrace the circus. In a The attacks were Australia’s equivalent of Sept 11, way of Edwards’ and Blackwell’s grandparents how galvanized an entire nation.” moment captured on video for a documentary, one of marking a loss of innocence and ushering in an era of fear Monday afternoon and joined hands for prayer. “We Fueling the fixation was everything from the unprece- her lawyers, Robin Tampoe, tells her Australian networks about the country’s proximity to conflict in Asia. Corby need you, oh God, to be with this family in their grief,” dented media coverage of her trial, to the made-for-TV will cut into their daytime programming to air the verdict was seen, at least in the beginning, as being “behind ene- said Richard Thomas, pastor of New Home Church of courtroom theatrics, to the empathy ordinary Australians live - something not done, he notes, since Princess my lines,” Lambert says. Over the years, unflattering Christ Holiness. felt for a woman they viewed as one of their own. Her Diana’s funeral. “Everybody’s watching,” Tampoe assures reports about Corby’s family emerged, sullying her image Jordan Blackwell played linebacker for the case also coincided with an era of cultural upheaval, tap- her, adding that broadcasters would likely air the lengthy in many Australians’ eyes. Among the most damaging Brookhaven High football team. As he prepared for ping into a surge of nationalism and fear heightened by court buildup to the verdict itself. “Wow!” Corby responds were stories about her father being busted for marijuana his senior year, two universities and a nearby commu- bombings in Bali that killed 88 Australians just two years in almost giddy wonder. “Like Melbourne Cup day!” And, possession in the 1970s (and insisting the drugs weren’t nity college had already expressed interest in him, before Corby’s arrest. Anthony Lambert, who spent years like Melbourne Cup day - Australia’s most prestigious his,) and her half-brother’s arrest in 2006 for stealing mar- said his mother, Tiffany Blackwell. She and her hus- studying Australia’s response to the case, once described horse race - everyone did seem to be watching. Two ijuana during a violent home invasion. band, Shon, described their son as cheerful and Corby as “the daughter who is Australia.” Australian networks alone drew 1.7 million viewers for Today, few Australians still believe Corby’s story. But unselfish. She said Jordan dreamed of getting a the verdict, says Ross Tapsell, an expert in Indonesian curiosity about her remains. Her release from prison in Camaro for high school graduation. Tears rolled White Australian-ness media and culture at the Australian National University. 2014 was predictably chaotic, with Corby enveloped in a down one cheek Monday as Tiffany Blackwell And in some ways, she still is. “She functioned as a Given Australia’s population at the time was just 20 mil- crush of cameras, one Australian journalist shouting: “This described coming home and finding her slain son. representation of what being Australian meant,” says lion, it was an impressive audience. truly is an amazing moment in history!” Since then, “When I walked in the house and saw my child Lambert, a senior lecturer in cultural studies at Indonesians, who called Corby “Ganja Queen,” were paparazzi have documented her life in Bali, snapping lying there, I just thought he was sleeping,” she said. “I Macquarie University. “In the beginning, (there was) that mystified by Australia’s response. To them, the case was photos of her running errands and lounging on the told him to wake up. I told him to get up, but he initial surge of emotion and kind of racist vitriol that clear-cut, and the Australian outrage both ridiculous and beach. She has tried to keep a low profile, but the media wouldn’t move.” Caleb described his younger brother, was about the nation much more than it was about the overly nationalistic. The fallout from Corby’s conviction have eagerly chronicled her relationship with her Austin, as “a happy kid” who liked to play and cook. actual case. ... She still represents a relatively young, was intense. A protest was held outside the Indonesian Indonesian boyfriend, her visits to her parole officer, her Caleb said after his brother was shot, “I thought I was feminine version of being Australian and white Embassy in the Australian capital. There were calls to boy- changing body weight. going to die.” Godbolt showed up at Vincent Mitchell’s Australian-ness, caught up in trouble.” cott travel to Bali. Luggage wrapping services at airports Her homecoming is expected to spark another frenzy. Bogue Chitto home before midnight Saturday to The saga began in 2004, when a 27-year-old Corby set enjoyed a boom in business, as wary travelers had their “There is an element of fatigue and also endless curiosity demand that his estranged wife give up their two chil- out from her home on Australia’s picturesque Gold Coast suitcases shrink-wrapped to prevent drugs from being about how this story ends,” Rosewarne says. “Because dren. She and the children had been staying with for a vacation in Bali. When she arrived, Indonesian cus- slipped inside. we’ve invested so much, emotionally.” And so, Australia them for about three weeks, Mitchell said. toms agents found more than 4 kilograms (9 pounds) of braces for the inevitable: the live coverage of Corby’s “He’d come to get his kids. The deputy was called,” marijuana inside her boogie board bag. Corby insisted Suspicious substance arrival, the speculation about her romantic life and career and asked him to leave, and it seemed like Godbolt the drugs had been planted by corrupt baggage han- Days after the verdict, a letter containing a suspi- prospects, maybe even (as one talent agent suggested) a would comply at first, Mitchell said. “He acted like, dlers; Balinese officials insisted she was lying. She was cious substance was sent to Indonesia’s ambassador stint on “Dancing With the Stars.” And Australia, motioned like, he was fixing to go. Then he reached convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to 20 years in Australia in what was widely seen as a protest inevitably, will be watching. “She’s not just coming home in his back pocket and grabbed a gun,” Mitchell said. in prison. Her sentence was eventually reduced and in against Corby’s sentence. The substance was later to the Gold Coast,” Lambert says. “She’s coming home to “He just started shooting everything.” Mitchell said he 2014, after 9 years behind bars, she was released on found to be nontoxic, but the scare prompted a swift the nation.”—AP escaped along with Godbolt’s wife, but Mitchell’s parole. She was not permitted to leave Bali until her sen- wife, her sister and one of the wife’s daughters were tence expires on May 27. killed. Authorities said Godbolt fled and killed four In the beginning, polls showed the vast majority of more people at two other homes. Australians believed Corby had been set up. Proving her At least seven hours elapsed between the first innocence became a national cause, sparking “Free shootings and Godbolt’s arrest near the final crime Schapelle” T-shirts and “Boycott Bali” banners. Her face scene, in a subdivision of ranch houses. The deputy, took the place of celebrities on magazine covers. She William Durr, had worked in Christian ministry before even became an Australian slang phrase: to be going into law enforcement, and liked doing puppet “Schapelled” means to get a raw deal. Many Australians shows to deliver uplifting messages to children. Durr saw themselves in Corby, Lambert says. With her Gold was married and had an 11-year-old son. His mother Coast upbringing, she was the quintessential surfer girl - easily identifiable in a beach-loving country where more spoke briefly with the AP on Monday, saying that the than 80 percent of the population lives within 50 kilome- family is still in distress. “He was a good Christian ters (30 miles) of the coast. She also embodied the classic man,” Debbie Durr said at her rural home near image of an Aussie “battler,” a humble, working class hero. Brookhaven. “He was a youth minister and a pastor Her father was a retired coal miner, her mother owned before going into law enforcement.”— AP a fish-and-chips shop. She was a high school dropout who later dropped out of beauty therapy school when her father got cancer, and worked in her family’s shop. All articles appearing on these pages are Even her choice of vacation destination was relatable. Given Australia’s isolation, overseas travel can be prohibi- the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait tively expensive. Bali, just a 2 and 1/2-hour flight from the Times takes no responsibility for views northern Australian city of Darwin, is the exception. For decades, it has been a favorite vacation spot for expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites Australians, many of whom view it as an extension of readers to voice their opinions. Please send their own country. Corby was hardly beloved by all. Some dubbed her a submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- bogan, the Australian equivalent of, well, white trash. times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Still, whether you viewed her with pride or pity, you were invested in her plight, says Lauren Rosewarne, a Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right social scientist at the University of Melbourne. “There’s to edit any submission as necessary. some people who looked at Schapelle and thought, BALI: Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby covered her head with a scarf gets on a car as she leaves the parole ‘That could be me,’” Rosewarne says. “Versus others who office in Bali, Indonesia. — AP p15_Layout 1 5/30/17 6:19 PM Page 1

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 SPORTS

Bale fit and raring to Manager Lambert parts Griezmann Europe’s go for Cardiff final company with Wolves busiest player: Study

MADRID: Gareth Bale is “desperate” to return from injury in time for a LONDON: Wolves manager Paul Lambert left the troubled LAUSANNE: Atletico Madrid’s France striker Antoine Griezmann Champions League final homecoming against Juventus in Cardiff on Championship club yesterday after just seven months in charge. played 63 games this season racking up 5,454 minutes on the pitch, Saturday, his Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane said yesterday. Bale hasn’t Lambert is believed to have parted company with the second tier side making him the most used player in Europe, the International Centre played since suffering the latest in a series of calf injuries that have plagued following a dispute with Wolves’ Chinese owners over who would have for Sports Studies (CIES) said yesterday. Griezmann, thought to be his time in Madrid, against Barcelona on April 23. But with the Welshman back in training the pressure is on Zidane to choose between Madrid’s the final say on new signings. The 47-year-old Scot is the third manager, close to a transfer to Manchester United, played all but two record signing or stick with Isco. The Spaniard has been in sensa- following Kenny Jackett and Walter Zenga, to have left Molineux since league games and racked up 12 Champions League tional form as Real won their last six games to beat Barca to the Fosun bought the club last July. “Wolves and Paul Lambert have agreed matches combined with domestic cup and international La Liga title last weekend. “Gareth doesn’t need to tell me any- to part company following a football review which took place at the end appearances to top the heap of most minutes played. thing. He is ready, he is back with us and he is absolutely des- of the season,” a statement on Wolves’ website read. “The club would like Leicester City’s Nigerian defender Wilfred Ndidi, with 61 perate to play because it is his home,” Zidane said yesterday. to place on record its thanks to Paul for his dedication and professional- games and 5,290 minutes was second, whilst another “We are happy that Gareth is with us. I’m glad he has recovered ism during his time at the club, which included some memorable victo- Atletico stalwart, Koke, came third with 62 games and we will prepare for the game together as always.” ries, and wish him all the best in his future career.” Lambert took charge (5,274 minutes). The study counted all games from play- However, after being bombarded with questions over in November but was unable to mount a promotion challenge as ers in the top five leagues in Europe: England, France, whether he will go for Isco or Bale, Zidane also raised Wolves finished 15th in the Championship, one place lower than the Germany, Portugal and Spain. The CIES is located the possibility of the two playing together at some previous season. A shock FA Cup win at Liverpool was the highlight of in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and was created as a stage of the game against the Italian champions. “The Lambert’s brief reign as issues with the club’s recruitment policy proved joint venture between the FIFA and the local two of them are very good players,” he added. —AFP insurmountable. —AFP university.— AFP

TABLE TENNIS China ‘ping-pong prince’ suspended over casino suit

BEIJING: One of China’s best known table favourite destination for Chinese visitors to tennis champions has been suspended as Singapore. The hotel is reportedly seeking head coach of the national women’s team, the balance of the loan plus interest. officials said yesterday, following reports he It declined to comment on the legal was at the centre of a gambling debt law- action. In a post on his Weibo social media suit. Kong Linghui allegedly borrowed S$1 account, 41-year-old Kong said he was million ($720,000) from Singapore’s luxury “deeply disturbed by the negative impact” Marina Bay Sands resort during a visit with of the incident but denied he had been family and friends in 2015, the South China gambling. “My friends and family members Morning Post reported, citing the hotel’s fil- went downstairs to the hotel’s casino to ing to a Hong Kong court. entertain themselves. I stood by to watch But the Olympic gold medallist-nick- them. During the time they were playing I named “ping-pong prince”-failed to repay went to get chips for them and left my per- the money in full and has been sent home sonal information,” Kong said. from the World Table Tennis He added that the “debt dispute” Championships in Germany to assist an involved some of his friends and relatives. investigation into the scandal, China’s state But China’s top sport governing body said Xinhua news agency said. it had a “zero tolerance” for “any kind of vio- “His acts have been a serious violation lation of professional ethics and illegal of the disciplinary provisions of national acts”. “Well-known athletes and coaches public officials,” the China Table Tennis should pay more attention to their public Association said in a statement announcing image and the social impact (of their its decision to suspend Kong and order him behaviour) and take the lead in complying to come home. Table tennis has a huge fol- with disciplines and laws,” the General lowing in China, which has long dominated Administration of Sport said on its website. the event on the global stage, and the alle- Kong, known for using a “shakehand” gations against Kong are dominating grip favoured by European competitors, domestic headlines. ended his playing career in 2006 and Of the S$1 million Kong is said to have become the national women’s coach in NEW YORK: This file photo taken on March 20, 2017 shows 14-time major champ golfer Tiger Woods holdig a copy of his new book “The 1997 borrowed from the hotel’s casino, 2013. This is not the first time he has found Masters: My Story” before his book signing at Barnes & Noble’s Union Square in New York. Golf superstar Tiger Woods was arrested on Monday in S$100,000 was used to “establish him as a himself in legal hot water. Florida on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to records from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. —AFP premium player”, the South China Morning In 2006, a few months before he retired, Post reported. he crashed his Porsche into a Beijing taxi Kong has repaid S$545,625 but still while driving drunk, state media reported Tiger Woods blames medications owes the hotel S$454,375, it said. The at the time. He was fined and had his Marina Bay Sands casino complex is a licence suspended. — AFP for his arrest on DUI charge

FLORIDA: Tiger Woods attributed an “unexpect- PROFESSIONAL dinner for past champions. Woods, who had ed reaction” to prescription medicine for his Rightler, the police spokeswoman, said she been No. 1 longer than any other golfer, has not arrest on a DUI charge that landed him in a did not have additional details about the circum- been a factor since his last victory in August Florida jail Monday for nearly four hours. stances leading to Woods’ arrest, nor did she 2013 as he battled through back surgeries from Woods, the 14-time major champion who have any information about whether the arrest a week before the 2014 Masters until his most had back surgery five weeks ago, was arrested involved drugs or alcohol. recent fusion surgery on his lower back a month on suspicion of DUI at about 3 am Monday and His agent at Excel Sports, Mark Steinberg, did ago. taken to Palm Beach County jail. He was released not respond to a voicemail from The Associated on his own recognizance. Press seeking comment. PGA Tour spokesman Ty INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION An arrest report might be available yesterday, Votaw said the tour would have no comment. It was the first time Woods has run into trou- Jupiter Police spokeswoman Kristin Rightler said. Woods said in his statement that he fully cooper- ble off the golf course since he plowed his SUV “I understand the severity of what I did and I ated with law enforcement and thanked Jupiter into a tree and a fire hydrant outside his take full responsibility for my actions,” Woods Police and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Windermere, Florida, home in the early morning said in a statement Monday evening. “I want the Office for being professional. after Thanksgiving in 2009, which led to revela- public to know that alcohol was not involved. Notah Begay, a roommate of Woods when tions that he had multiple extramarital affairs. What happened was an unexpected reaction to they played at Stanford, was empathetic. Begay A police report then showed that a Florida prescribed medications. I didn’t realize the mix was arrested for aggravated drunken driving in trooper who suspected Woods was driving of medications had affected me so strongly.” 2000 when he ran into a car outside a bar in New under the influence sought a subpoena for the Woods apologized to his family, friends and Mexico. He was sentenced to 364 days in jail, golfer’s blood test results from the hospital, but fans and said, “I expect more from myself, too.” “I with all but seven days suspended. prosecutors rejected the petition for insufficient will do everything in my power to ensure this “It’s embarrassing for Tiger, something that information. never happens again,” he said. Woods, whose 79 you can’t go back and change,” Begay said on A witness, who wasn’t identified in the report, victories rank No. 2 on the PGA Tour’s career list, Golf Channel from the NCAA men’s golf champi- told the trooper he had been drinking alcohol has not competed for nearly four months. He is onship in Sugar Grove, Illinois, where he was earlier. The same witness also said Woods had out for the rest of the season while he recovers working for the network. “I’ve been there myself. been prescribed two drugs, the sleep aid from fusion surgery on April 20 in Texas. ... But it was a turning point in my life. Hopefully, Ambien and the painkiller Vicodin. The report In an update posted Wednesday on his web- it’s something he’ll learn from, grow from, take did not say who the witness was but said it was site, he said the surgery provided instant relief responsibility for and use it to make some the same person who pulled Woods from the from pain and he hasn’t “felt this good in years.” changes.” vehicle after the accident. Woods’ wife has told Police said Woods was arrested on Military Woods has not been seen at a golf tourna- police that she used a golf club to smash the Train, south of Indian Creek Parkway. Woods ment since he opened with a 77 at the Omega back windows of the Cadillac Escalade to help BEIJING: One of China’s best known table tennis champions has been suspended as did not say in his statement where he had Dubai Desert Classic in February, withdrawing her husband out. head coach of the national women’s team, officials said yesterday, following reports been or what he was doing at that hour. Jail the next day because of back spasms. He was in He eventually was cited for careless driving he was at the centre of a gambling debt lawsuit. Kong Linghui allegedly borrowed records show that the 41-year-old was booked Los Angeles for the Genesis Open, run by his and fined $164. Woods and wife Elin Nordegren S$1 million ($720,000) from Singapore’s luxury Marina Bay Sands resort during a vis- into jail at 7:18 a.m. and released at 10:50 a.m. Tiger Woods Foundation, but he did not come to divorced in 2010. He later had a relationship it with family and friends in 2015, the South China Morning Post reported, citing the The jail released a booking photo of Woods in the course at Riviera because of his back. with Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn that hotel’s filing to a Hong Kong court. — AFP a white T-shirt. He was at the Masters, but only to attend the lasted two years. — AP KJA-Ramadan soccer tournament

KUWAIT: With Annahar Ramadan Soccer Tourney for beating Kuwait Times and Al-Sabah-2 by 5-1 and 3-2. Notably, the tourney held in collaboration with KJA Mohammed Al-Abdullah and will last till next newspapers and magazines, Annahar and Al-Rai The matches were played at the high institute for nav- and under auspices of Minister of State for Cabinet Saturday. teams qualified for the quarter finals after respectively igation and communication in Shuwaikh. Affairs and Acting Minister of Information, Sheikh WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 SPORTS

Kiwis win thriller on incorrect Swede penalty in Cup trials

HAMILTON: Three days into qualifying and “completely rubbish” on the Swedish Kiwis enough room. was pretty tight, but we were happy behind two-time defending champion races and there’s already a controversy catamaran, which is crewed mostly by “We were a bit shocked when the with the outcome,” Burling added. “Like Oracle Team USA. in the America’s Cup. A thrilling show- Australians. Turns out their protestations blue light came on,” he said. There were any sport, you’ve got to play to the whis- Struggling Land Rover BAR has three down between two of the top chal- were spot on. In a statement, Richard stunned looks on the crewmembers’ tle.” It was one of the most exciting points, followed by Artemis, SoftBank lengers turned on a penalty Monday, Slater, the chief umpire for the inde- faces after the finish. America’s Cup races in years. Artemis Team Japan and Groupama Team France leaving one crew fighting to keep its 50- pendent America’s Cup Race Slater said that as the boats were also was penalized for being over the with two points apiece. foot foiling catamaran from tipping over, Management, said officials “have had a approaching the gate mark, “our job is to start line early. Still, there were nine lead One challenger will be eliminated and the other crew dumbfounded. discussion, we have looked at other evi- be certain that Artemis Racing were changes on the seven-leg course. after the second round robin, which A few hours later, the chief umpire dence, information and data, and I think keeping clear, and we weren’t at that Artemis and New Zealand don’t have wraps up Saturday. Ainslie would be in released a statement saying the officials if we were to go back in time and make time certain they were keeping clear.” to wait for a rematch. They face off again real trouble if not for bringing in two blew the call. Emirates Team New that call, we would green that call and Emirates Team New Zealand skipper in the opening race of the second round bonus points earned during preliminary Zealand beat Artemis Racing after the not penalize Artemis.” Peter Burling said the Kiwis were looking robin today. regattas. This is the first time the defend- Swedish team was penalized turning Once a call is made, it can’t be to set up a port-starboard at the mark, Earlier Monday, British sailing star er has sailed against challengers in the onto the last leg Monday on Bermuda’s changed. “It was obviously a pretty good but didn’t expect it to be so close. Ben Ainslie, who leads Land Rover BAR, preliminaries. If Oracle wins the quali- Great Sound. Artemis was flagged for a race, such an epic battle, really, the Coming in at high speed, Burling lost his fourth straight race. Land Rover fiers, it will carry a one-point bonus into port-starboard violation and had to slow whole way around,” said Artemis skipper dropped the catamaran off its foils and BAR had a bad mark rounding halfway the first-of-seven America’s Cup match just as it approached the finish line after Nathan Outteridge, an Aussie. “I’m sure buried the starboard bow in the water to through the race and Groupama Team beginning June 17. After the round a short reach across the wind, allowing Pete and the boys enjoyed it as much as slow down. “We were pretty lucky we France went flying past and won by 53 robins, Oracle will practice on its own the Kiwis to win. we did, probably a bit more at the end didn’t end up on our side,” he said. “At 40 seconds. New Zealand finished the first while the challengers sail their semifi- There were protestations of “no way” there.” Outteridge felt Artemis gave the knots, you need room.” “We thought it round robin with four points, one nals and finals.—AP

BASKETBALL Like Shaun Livingston, JaVale McGee perfect fit on Warriors OAKLAND: JaVale McGee practices 3-point- as a passer in that situation literally feel the ers from all around the arch, just in case. He most confidence that if I just get it anywhere sits with assistant coach Jarron Collins and a up there, he’ll go get it, and usually he does.” laptop to study film, long after practice and With great efficiency, too. his shooting workouts are complete. The 7-footer’s rugged professional path EFFICIENT has landed him at seemingly the perfect stop: In Game 3 against the Spurs, McGee in the Bay Area with the NBA’s best. scored a postseason-best 16 points, all in the Just don’t call him a journeyman. first half to get Golden State going as Zaza “I’ve never considered myself a journey- Pachulia sat out with a bruised heel. He man in the first place,” McGee said after a made all seven of his shots in Game 2 of a practice this weekend. “Whatever y’all want to first-round win against Portland, shooting 18 call me y’all can call me. The number of teams for 23 in all in the four-game sweep of the I’ve been on was in like one year. I’ve been Trail Blazers. with three teams in two years.” “That’s my whole thing, I just try to be effi- Yet McGee must not look far to find some- cient out there,” McGee said. “I don’t try to do one else who has learned to thrive as a well- too much. I just try to do what’s necessary for traveled NBA role player. Just a quick glance a me in the minutes that I’m out there.” couple of lockers down to where Shaun Livingston has unselfishly dealt with a dimin- Livingston dresses at Oracle Arena, defying ished role, a rotation change late in the sea- the odds yet again this season as a regular son that altered when he’s used, and then a reserve contributing to another Warriors hand injury in the first round of the playoffs. championship chase, is all it takes. In February 2007 with the Clippers, Livingston McGee has never made it this far, an NBA tore three major ligaments in his knee - the Finals first-timer when Golden State hosts anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate and medi- defending champion Cleveland in Game 1 on al collateral as well as his lateral meniscus, PITTSBURGH: Conor Sheary #43 of the Pittsburgh Penguins is defended by Mattias Ekholm #14 of the Nashville Predators in Game One of the Thursday night. Livingston never should have then required extensive surgery. Though the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Final at PPG Paints Arena on Monday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. — AFP made it this far, and here he is back to the injury could have ended his career at age 21, final round seeking his second title in three he still believed he would play again. First he seasons - and 10 years after a devastating had to walk again. NHL injury that could have sidelined him for good. “Shaun, that story isn’t really the same Doctors thought they might have to ampu- now. He’s become a staple of this franchise, tate his left leg. he’s helped us win a title, he’s done some Guentzel’s goal lifts Penguins Fourteen teams between them, over 21 great things here,” Draymond Green said. “For combined seasons. Each has found a great JaVale, it’s still fresh, to where I think it’s a groove in Golden State’s rotation, called upon great situation for him. He’s finally been put in to take pressure off the big stars while main- a position where he can do what he do. He’s by Predators 5-3 in Game 1 taining the highest level. finally come to an organization, a first-class “We just kind of follow suit, but it’s up to organization, that has embraced him for him PITTSBURGH: This is what the Pittsburgh Nashville was better from the opening faceoff like a repeat of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference everybody to come in and lock in on the and not tried to make him something that Penguins do. They find a way. but Pittsburgh managed to build a quick 3-0 lead finals against Ottawa, when the Penguins poured details. It’s the playoffs,” Livingston said. he’s not. I think that has been pretty special, Even on nights when they blow a three-goal anyway thanks to a fortunate bounce and some in four goals in the first period of a 7-0 rout. “Obviously the stars help, they get all the just seeing his growth over the course of the lead, they go an entire period (and then some) quick thinking by Penguins video coordinator Nashville, unlike the Senators, didn’t bail. They headlines deservedly so, but the small things, year, how he’s been able to thrive. ... It’s spe- without registering a single shot and the opponent Andy Saucier. Part of his job title is to alert coach haven’t at any point during their remarkable run. the details, that’s what we lock in at and cial to see when you take the path that is fresher, quicker and, for long stretches, demon- Mike Sullivan when to challenge a call. The Why start now? that’s how we win ballgames.” McGee has dis- they’ve taken to get to this moment.” strably better. Maybe it’s mystique. Maybe it’s luck. moment came 12:47 into the first when P.K. Ellis scored the first goal by a Predator in a covered the ideal place to shine as an alley- McGee will have to help keep Cleveland’s Maybe it’s a bit of both. What makes the defending Subban sent a slap shot by Murray that appeared Stanley Cup Final 8:21 into the second and oop specialist in a pass-happy offense, and Tristan Thompson off the boards. His team- Stanley Cup champions different from the 29 to give the Predators the lead. Nashville kept Rinne downright bored at the other even Stephen Curry admits it’s so easy to tar- mates know he’s up to the task. “It just speaks other clubs chasing them isn’t the way they domi- Sullivan used his coach’s challenge, arguing end. Pittsburgh didn’t manage a shot on net in the get the sure-handed big man perhaps the to his kind of character and perseverance and nate when they play well. It’s their ability to sur- Nashville forward Filip Forsberg was offside. A second period, the first time it’s happened in a Warriors do so too often at times. “We almost work ethic and his belief in himself that when vive when they don’t. On nights like Monday in lengthy review indicated Forsberg’s right skate was playoff game in franchise history - and the first get in trouble because we try to do it too he’s out there on the floor he deserves to be Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, when a brief early in the air as he brought the puck into a zone, a no- such period by any team in a Final game since the much even if it’s not there, because he has out there on the floor, he belongs and can flurry led to a baffling lull only to end how so many no. “The impact of that moment and then the chain NHL began tracking shots on goal in 1958. the ability to catch it really anywhere around make an impact,” Curry said. “When he games have ended for the Penguins over the last of events that happened after that with the penalty Nashville kept coming. Sissons beat Murray the rim, around the backboard,” Curry showed up here, he understood the opportu- two springs: with the bigger number on the score- kills I think changed the course of the game,” 10:06 into the third and Gaudreau tied it just after a acknowledged. “You kind of see it develop- nity and he’s taken full advantage of it. It’s board next to their name and the guys on the oth- Laviolette said. fruitless Pittsburgh power play. No matter. The ing when he gets a free lane to the rim, and great to see.” —AP er bench wondering how Pittsburgh got away. The decision gave the Penguins all the wiggle Penguins have become chameleons under Again. Rookie Jake Guentzel fired a shot by room they needed to take charge. Malkin scored Sullivan. They can win with both firepower and Nashville’s Pekka Rinne with 3:17 left in regulation on a 5-on-3 15:32 into the first, Sheary’s first of the precision. Guentzel slipped one by Rinne with 3:17 to put the Penguins head to stay in a flat-out weird playoffs made it 2-0 just 65 seconds later and when to go in regulation and Bonino added an empty 5-3 victory. “None of us in our dressing room is Bonino’s innocent centering pass smacked off netter to give Pittsburgh early control of the series. fooled by the score tonight,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Nashville defenseman Mattias Ekholm’s left knee “We didn’t do a great job of (shooting), but we Sullivan said. and by Rinne just 17 seconds before the end of the made them count,” Crosby said. “But it was a good Game 2 is tonight in Pittsburgh. The Penguins period, Pittsburgh was in full command. It looked finish there to get that one from Jake.” — AP were outshot 26-12 and went 37 minutes without managing to get one puck on Rinne, the best goalie in the playoffs and the main reason the Predators are on their sport’s biggest stage for the NHL’s international plan first time. And yet it didn’t matter. When Guentzel ended an eight-game goalless includes China but not Olympics drought and Nick Bonino picked up his second goal on an empty-netter , the Penguins were in PITTSBURGH: The NHL is heading to Asia “We have an expectation that none of our control as they try to become the first team since next season. Just not the Olympics. players are going,” he said. “But I don’t want to Detroit in 1998 to win back-to-back Cups. “It’s not Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically get into the gymnastics involved in what that textbook,” said Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby, reasserted the league will not take a break means. There’s no reason to pick that fight who picked up two assists. “We’ve got some things next February to participate in the 2018 right now.” PHILADELPHIA: In this Feb 27, 2017, file photo, Golden State Warriors’ JaVale McGee we need to improve on.” Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league is hardly abandoning efforts to plays during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers The Penguins will have the luxury of doing it The league previously announced it would expand its global footprint. The league will in Philadelphia.—AP with the lead. Conor Sheary scored his first of the skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, host events on three continents during the playoffs and Evgeni Malkin collected his eighth . a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday 2017-18 season. The Vancouver Canucks and The Penguins won despite putting just 12 shots on just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met Los Angeles Kings will play a pair of exhibition goal. Matt Murray finished with 23 saves for the in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. games in China in September. Ottawa and Betts a winner as Penguins, who used the first coach’s challenge in “(We’ve seen) a number of comments from Colorado will meet in a regular season game Final history to wipe out an early Nashville goal the (International Ice Hockey Federation) and in Stockholm in November and Tampa will and held on despite their astonishing shot player reps suggesting it was still an open host to the All-Star game for the second time Vikings edge Rhinos drought. “I think at the end of the day we’re up 1-0,” issue, it is not and has not been,” Bettman said. next January. Bonino said. “We had a good first, we had a terrible IIHF President Rene Fasel said the governing The Canucks and Kings will play in second and we were terrible in the third. I don’t body was touching base with the NHL Players’ Shanghai on Sept. 21 and in Beijing on Sept. LEEDS: Denis Betts’ nerves may have been coach for seven years. “I had the ‘here we go think it’s Xs and Os. We’ve got to work harder, com- Association two or three times per week, hop- 23. Beijing will welcome the world for the cut to ribbons as the pendulum swung this again’ feeling. We just needed to win this tight pete a little harder, but we got some timely goals.” ing to work out a solution. Lee Hee-beom, 2022 Winter Olympics, yet Bettman said the way and that during Widnes Vikings’ clash one. Leeds are a pretty good side. “They had Ryan Ellis, Colton Sissons and Frederick head of the Pyeongchang Organizing commit- topic of NHL players tagging along never with Leeds Rhinos on Monday. no Danny Maguire but not many more (play- Gaudreau scored for the Predators. Rinne stopped tee, said in London earlier this month he was came up. However, the Widnes coach was in the end ers missing), so this is a fantastic win for us. just seven shots. “It was a different game,” Rinne “ready to cooperate” with the NHL to make “I think the focus is more about long-term able to celebrate his team pulling off an “Ryan Ince is a great finisher-he just loves said. “I can’t remember facing that kind of game sure the best players in the world could partic- developing the sport, not what happens for almighty upset with a fine 28-20 victory. scoring tries. “He just puts the blinkers on and before.” ipate in the games as they’ve done in every two weeks in 2022,” Bettman said. Other take- Bottom-of-the-table Vikings earned only goes for it. “He’s a product of the system the The Penguins had all of three days to get ready Winter Olympics since 1998. aways from Bettman’s annual state-of-the- their second Super League victory of the sea- RFL told us to forget five years ago. We kept for the final following a draining slog through the Nope. league address: son-their first since they edged out St Helens on with it and we’re doing bringing local Eastern Conference that included a pair of Game 7 While saying the NHL is not “anti-Olympics,” 16-14 on April 21 — with a dramatic triumph players through.” victories, the second a double-overtime thriller Bettman said league owners are no longer VEGAS BABY over third-placed Leeds. The lead changed His Leeds counterpart Brian McDermott against Ottawa last Thursday. interested in having their arenas go dark in The expansion Las Vegas Knights will have hands three times in the final 10 minutes as said he could have no complaints about the Maybe, but the Penguins looked a step behind the middle of winter while some of their best 72 hours - and not the initially announced 48 - both teams went hammer and tongs but outcome. “I have to give Widnes massive at the outset. The Predators, who crashed the NHL’s employees traveled to the other side of the to review each team’s protected list. Deputy Betts’ players outgunned their high-flying credit. Denis Betts has asked for a reaction biggest stage for the first time behind Rinne and a world, particularly if the International Olympic Commissioner Bill Daly said the league is “very opponents six scores to four, with Ryan Ince from his players and he got one,” said group of talented defenseman, were hardly intimi- Committee wants no part of picking up the pleased” with the city’s response to the arrival and Corey Thompson both bagging braces. McDermott. At the other end of the table, dated by the stakes, the crowd or the defending insurance cost. of its first major professional sports franchise. The former Wigan and Great Britain star sec- Castleford Tigers ensured they stayed two champions, trying to become the first repeat win- Bettman said the league “never negotiated” ond row forward admitted Monday’s clash points clear at the top of the tree with a dom- ner since Detroit in 1998. All the guys from with the IOC, saying the league didn’t have UNDER REVIEW wasn’t good for the heart but the final result inant 38-0 victory at Leigh Centurions. “Smashville” have to show for it is their first deficit “the appetite to continue participation.” There are no plans to expand what is cov- made it all worth it. Former Brisbane Broncos man Greg Eden of the playoffs on a night a fan threw a catfish onto Some players, like Washington star ered by the newly introduced coach’s chal- “It was one of those bizarre situations stole the show as he ran in a scorching four- the ice to try and give the Predators a taste of Alexander Ovechkin, have indicated they will lenge but Bettman said the league is thinking where I was feeling a bit aggrieved in some of try haul, which included a five-minute hat- home. “I thought our guys played a great game,” play for their home countries regardless of about using a clock to limit the window on the things we’d done or not done to close the trick, but Castleford head coach Daryl Powell Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. “We hate the whether the league takes a break or not. when coaches can alert officials they want a game out-and then we score two tries,” said was most enthused with his side’s defensive score. We hate the result but we’ll move forward.” Bettman doesn’t see that happening. play reviewed.—AP the 47-year-old, who has been Vikings head prowess. —AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 SPORTS

TENNIS Nadal knows he can’t lose, says Nick Kyrgios

PARIS: Nick Kyrgios believes the French has come, pointing to the contrasting for- Open is Rafael Nadal’s to lose and that his tunes of 23-year-old Dominic Thiem in generation will have to wait a little longer Rome. before releasing the old guard’s grip on The Austrian stunned Nadal in the quar- men’s tennis. ter-finals but managed to take just one The fiery Australian, who famously game off Djokovic in the semis. “I can’t real- defeated Nadal at Wimbledon in 2014 ly see the changing of the guard happen- when he was just 19 and ranked 144 in the ing any time soon because of one tourna- world, has still to get beyond the quarter- ment,” said Kyrgios, who is playing in Paris finals of a major. Indeed, the big four of having suffered hip and elbow injuries Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and which ruled him out of the Rome and Andy Murray have captured 25 of the last Monte Carlo events this spring. 29 Grand Slams. “I think the young ones have a ways to Of the other four, Stan Wawrinka has go. Thiem played an unbelievable match in three with just Marin Cilic at the 2014 US Rome to just beat him. “Then look what Open managing to play the role of shock happened the next round, he’s completely gatecrasher. For Kyrgios, Nadal remains the gone.” overwhelming favourite to win a 10th Kyrgios managed to keep his com- French Open and take his personal majors bustible temper in check despite a long haul to 15. running conversation with umpire Jake “Nadal, I don’t think he’s worried at all Garner over why some balls leave marks on about anyone in this tournament, to be clay and not others. fair,” said the 18th seeded Australian, who He is still trying to learn to love clay, but downed German veteran Philipp he admits it’s not easy. “What don’t I like Kohlschreiber 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 to reach about clay?. I don’t like how my shoes get the second round at Roland Garros. dirty. When I’m back home I don’t really “Best of five, it suits him. He knows he’s train that much on clay because it makes not gonna lose. Let’s be realistic.” It was 20- my cars dirty, too.” year-old Alexander Zverev’s triumph over Kyrgios fired an impressive 20 aces and Djokovic in the Rome Masters final which 40 winners past Kohlschreiber tosday and prompted whispers of an imminent shift in goes on to face either Kevin Anderson of power at the top of the game. South Africa or Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri for a But Kyrgios is not convinced that day place in the last 32. — AFP

England’s Morgan confident morale intact after Proteas’ pummelling SAN DIEGO: Ian Happ #8 of the Chicago Cubs strikes out during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park on Monday in San Diego, California. MLB players across the league are wearing special uniforms to commemorate Memorial Day. — AFP LONDON: England captain Eoin Morgan opening match of the Champions Trophy remained in upbeat mood heading into the across London at The Oval tomorrow. Champions Trophy despite a seven-wicket The venue is the Surrey home ground of BASEBALL defeat by South Africa at Lord’s on Monday. England opener Jason Roy, currently strug- The hosts collapsed to 20 for six-the first gling for runs. But Morgan indicated Roy time any side had lost six wickets in the first would remain at the top of the order for five overs of a one-day international-after the clash with the Tigers, despite Bairstow’s being sent into bat in overcast conditions fine form. Nationals win heated and on a green-tinged pitch at ‘the home of “He (Bairstow) never lets us down-every cricket’. time he comes in, he scores runs, and he South Africa’s pacemen duly cashed in, continues to bang on the door,” said with Kagiso Rabada (four for 39 in nine Morgan. “It’s the hardest thing telling overs) and Wayne Parnell (three for 43 in Jonny he’s not playing and he’s done noth- match against Giants eight) running through the top order. ing wrong.” Jonny Bairstow’s battling 51 helped Morgan, however, added: “As regards England recover to 153 all out, a target that selection, Jason is our number one pick at SAN FRANCISCO: An enraged Bryce Harper pitched six shutout innings before allowing of wildness in his last start to pitch five innings, provided few problems for South Africa, the moment. “He and (Alex) Hales have charged the mound, fired his helmet and trad- back-to-back homers to Yonder Alonso and giving up one run and two hits. In his previous who made 156 for three. England still won been very important to the way we’ve ed punches to the head with San Francisco Ryon Healy in the seventh. The right-hander, outing, also against the Cardinals, he permitted the three-match series 2-1. Morgan, asked played as a team for quite a long time.” reliever Hunter Strickland after getting hit by a who hasn’t lost since April 28, allowed four hits five runs on four hits and seven walks in four if this result on his Middlesex home ground Morgan said he did not expect to fastball, setting off a wild brawl Monday during and struck out seven. Andrew Miller struck out innings. Mike Leake (5-3) entered the game had dented Champions Trophy hosts encounter a similarly bowler-friendly pitch the Washington Nationals’ 3-0 win over the the side in the eighth. Cody Allen gave up Khris leading the majors with a 1.91 ERA, but allowed England’s confidence ahead of their latest at any of the three Champions Trophy ven- Giants. Drilled in the right hip by a 98 mph Davis’ solo homer and two singles in the ninth, a season-high four runs in 6 2/3 innings. bid to win a maiden major global 50-over ues-The Oval, Edgbaston and Cardiff. heater on Strickland’s first pitch in the eighth but struck out Trevor Plouffe and recorded his title, said: “I’d like to think it doesn’t. “I’d be disappointed if we did, because inning with two outs, none on and Washington 14th save. Daniel Mengden (0-1), recalled from PADRES 5, CUBS 2 “Obviously what cost us was that first hour- any team (would have) the potential to win ahead 2-0, Harper didn’t hesitate. The slugger Triple-A Nashville to make his first start of the Rookie Hunter Renfroe hit a grand slam off a lot of live, green grass on the wicket, but or lose a game on a toss in a major tourna- pointed his bat at Strickland, yelled at him and season, allowed five runs in 3 1/3 innings. Kyle Hendricks as San Diego handed Chicago ultimately I thought South Africa bowled ment-which is hard to take.” England rested took off. No one got in Harper’s way as he its fourth straight loss. The defending World beautifully.” The former Ireland batsman a trio of first-choice all-rounders from rushed the mound. His eyes were wide as he WHITE SOX 5, RED SOX 4 added: “We didn’t play too aggressively-a Monday’s game in Ben Stokes, Chris Series champion Cubs have lost six straight lot of our shots were defensive-so a lot of Woakes and Moeen Ali, with Morgan flung his helmet - it sailed wide of Strickland, it Boston lefty David Price had an uneven sea- road games. They were coming off a three- credit goes to South Africa.” Test wicket- expecting all three to feature against might’ve slipped - and they started swinging son debut while Melky Cabrera homered and game sweep at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The keeper Bairstow is still struggling to nail Bangladesh. “We’re very confident,” he said. away. The 6-foot-4 Strickland hit Harper in the drove in four runs, helping Chicago rally. Price, Cubs had only three hits. They drew 10 walks down a permanent place in England’s ODI For South Africa, top of the International face, then they broke apart for a moment who missed the first part of the year with a left and two batters were hit by pitches. side, despite some impressive recent bat- Cricket Council ODI rankings, this was a before squaring off again. Harper punched elbow strain, threw 88 pitches in five innings. Hendricks (4-3) retired his first 10 batters ting displays in white-ball cricket. timely victory. “We’re pretty happy with the Strickland in the head as the benches and The former AL Cy Young Award winner gave up before allowing seven of his final 11 to reach. way things have panned out for us,” said bullpen emptied. Harper and Strickland were two hits, including Cabrera’s three-run homer, Jose Torres (3-2) pitched two scoreless, hitless ‘INTERESTING’ SELECTION coach Russell Domingo. “We knew condi- both ejected. They have some history between walked two and hit two batters. He also struck innings for the win. He walked two and struck England coach Trevor Bayliss accepted tions were in favour of the bowlers ... and them - in the 2014 NL Division Series, Harper hit out four. Price was in line for the win before out one. Brandon Maurer pitched the ninth the Yorkshireman could force his way in you’ve got a chance against England, two home runs off Strickland, and the All-Star Kevan Smith hit an RBI double off Matt Barnes for his seventh save. come the Champions Trophy, telling Sky because they play that expansive brand of outfielder glared at the reliever as he rounded (3-2) in the seventh, tying it at 4. Cabrera had Sports: “He’s doing everything he possibly cricket.” Rabada, meanwhile, was optimistic the bases. Tanner Roark (5-2) struck out six and an RBI single with two outs. Red Sox second MARINERS 6, ROCKIES 5 can do. He’s putting a lot of pressure on, about the Proteas’ Champions Trophy allowed six hits in seven innings. The NL East baseman Dustin Pedroia injured his wrist in the Sam Gaviglio pitched into the sixth inning and that’s what we want.” The Australian chances. “Why not? We’ve got really good leaders opened a nine-game West Coast trip first inning and exited in the second. He was to get his first career victory, and Seattle used added: “It’ll be an interesting selection players, amazing talent and some experi- with their sixth win in eight games. Koda Glover hurt trying to beat out a hit when first baseman six relievers to beat Colorado. Danny Valencia meeting.” England face Bangladesh in the ence as well,” he said. — AFP pitched a scoreless ninth to notch his sixth save Jose Abreu slid into the bag and Pedroia fell had three hits and Kyle Seager had a key dou- in seven tries. Ryan Zimmerman hit his 14th over him. Juan Minaya (1-0) pitched a scoreless ble to help Gaviglio (1-1) get the milestone in homer, off Matt Moore (2-6) in the second. inning and David Robertson closed for his his fourth appearance and third start. The eighth save in nine chances. Mariners had given Gaviglio a 6-2 lead with ASTROS 16, TWINS 8 three runs in the third on just one hit, and Carlos Beltran homered and singled during ORIOLES 3, YANKEES 2 three more in the fifth on three walks, three an 11-run burst in the eighth inning against Dylan Bundy allowed two runs over seven singles and a two-run double by Seager off Minnesota’s beleaguered bullpen as Houston innings in another strong start at Camden Yards starter Tyler Chatwood (4-7). Edwin Diaz overwhelmed the Twins in a matchup of AL as Baltimore beat New York to snap a seven- worked the ninth for his ninth save. division leaders. The Astros combined for eight game losing streak. Jonathan Schoop had two hits, two walks, a hitter batter and a balk in the RBIs to help the Orioles end their longest skid METS 4, BREWERS 2 eighth to rally from an 8-2 deficit. The Twins since a nine-game drought in 2011. Aaron Judge Hours after the Mets ticketed him for the tried three pitchers in the inning, a day after hit his major league-leading 17th home run for bullpen, rookie Robert Gsellman pitched sev- they used eight relievers in a 15-inning loss to the first-place Yankees in this AL East matchup. en innings of three-hit ball and had two RBIs Tampa Bay. Beltran finished with four hits and Bundy (6-3) gave up seven hits, struck out three to lead New York past Milwaukee. Rene Rivera Carlos Correa had three, including a home run. and walked one. Brad Brach got three straight and Michael Conforto each hit an RBI double Alex Bregman also homered for Houston, which outs for his 10th save in 13 tries. Yankees rookie during a three-run fifth against starter Matt had a season-high 18 hits, 13 of them in the last Jordan Montgomery (2-4) allowed three runs, Garza (2-2). Sandwiched in between, two innings. Jordan Jankowski (1-0) got his first one earned, in 4 1/3 innings. Gsellman drove in the go-ahead run with a major league win with 2 1/3 innings in relief of sacrifice fly. Before the game, general manag- starter Brad Peacock. He allowed four earned DODGERS 5, CARDINALS 1 er Sandy Alderson said Gsellman (3-3) proba- runs and gave up home runs to Miguel Sano Chase Utley, Cody Bellinger and Logan bly is headed back into a struggling bullpen and Robbie Grossman but he benefited from Forsythe hit solo home runs, leading Rich Hill when injured starters Steven Matz and Seth ANTIGUA: In this Friday, March 3, 2017 file photo, England’s captain Eoin Morgan the Houston hit parade. Craig Breslow (1-1) and Los Angeles over St. Louis for its fifth Lugo come off the disabled list. Addison Reed plays a shot against West Indies during a one day international cricket match at the took the loss. straight victory. Hill (2-2) recovered from a bout got three outs for his seventh save. — AP Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. — AP PIRATES 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3 Andrew McCutchen hit a leadoff homer in MLB results/standings the ninth inning, lifting Pittsburgh over England, S Africa bid Arizona in a wild ending. McCutchen sent a 1- Atlanta 6, LA Angels 3; Tampa Bay 10, Texas 8; Detroit 10, Kansas City 7; Miami 4, Philadelphia 1; Toronto 17, 1 pitch from Archie Bradley (1-1) over the right Cincinnati 2; San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 2; NY Mets 4, Milwaukee 2; Cleveland 5, Oakland 3; Pittsburgh 4, Arizona 3; field wall to cap off a back and-forth ninth. It Washington 3, San Francisco 0; Seattle 6, Colorado 5; LA Dodgers 5, St. Louis 1; Chicago White Sox 5, Boston 4; Houston 16, Minnesota 8; Baltimore 3, NY Yankees 2. to end title droughts was the eighth homer this season for McCutchen, recently dropped to sixth in the American League National League batting order for the first time in his career. Eastern Division Eastern Division LONDON: South Africa and England are Cricket World Cups. Diamondbacks pinch hitter Chris Iannetta tied W L PCT GB Washington 31 19 .620 - the perennial underachievers in one-day The English, playing at home and with a NY Yankees 29 19 .604 - Atlanta 22 27 .449 8.5 the game moments earlier with a two-run international cricket, mixing high hopes new-found enthusiasm for the one-day for- Boston 27 23 .540 3 NY Mets 22 27 .449 8.5 homer to left field off closer Tony Watson. with high-profile failures in the big tourna- mat under coach Trevor Bayliss, are many Baltimore 26 23 .531 3.5 Miami 19 30 .388 11.5 ments. They’ll have to cope with the people’s tips. Yet they have never won an Watson (4-1) was credited with the win after Tampa Bay 28 26 .519 4 Philadelphia 17 32 .347 13.5 blowing his third save in 13 opportunities. It Toronto 24 27 .471 6.5 Central Division favorites’ tag at the eight-team Champions ICC trophy, having been a runner-up three Central Division was a costly victory for the Pirates, as starting Milwaukee 27 24 .529 - Trophy starting on Thursday. times at the World Cup and lost finals on Minnesota 26 21 .553 - right fielder Gregory Polanco left the game Chicago Cubs 25 25 .500 1.5 The South Africans are the top-ranked home soil in the Champions Trophy in 2004 Cleveland 26 23 .531 1 ODI team, with the top-ranked batsman and 2013. Still, it would be a surprise if the with an injury. Polanco got his right ankle Chicago White Sox 24 26 .480 3.5 St. Louis 24 24 .500 1.5 (AB de Villiers) and the top-ranked bowler two teams didn’t qualify for the semifinals caught awkwardly in the railing separating the Detroit 24 27 .471 4 Cincinnati 24 26 .480 2.5 (Imran Tahir). That should install the Proteas in what should be a competitive tourna- stands from the playing field while chasing Kansas City 21 29 .420 6.5 Pittsburgh 24 28 .462 3.5 as the outright favorites but it’s been a long ment played under heightened security down a foul ball in the sixth inning. Western Division Western Division and painful trophy drought since winning after last week’s bomb attack in Houston 36 16 .692 - Colorado 33 20 .623 - LA Dodgers 32 20 .615 0.5 their only piece of ICC silverware at the Manchester, and being held across three INDIANS 5, ATHLETICS 3 LA Angels 26 28 .481 11 Carlos Carrasco won his third straight deci- Texas 25 27 .481 11 Arizona 31 22 .585 2 inaugural Champions Trophy in 1998: Four locations from June 1-18: The Oval in Seattle 23 29 .442 13 sion and Edwin Encarnacion hit one of San Francisco 22 31 .415 11 semifinal defeats in the Champions Trophy London; Edgbaston in Birmingham; and Oakland 22 28 .440 13 San Diego 20 33 .377 13 to go alongside four semifinal losses in the Sophia Gardens in Cardiff, Wales.—AP Cleveland’s three solo home runs. Carrasco (5-2) WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 SPORTS England can help heal terror wounds: Southgate

BURTON-ON-TRENT: The England foot- several sporting events in the United Manchester and their families,” al football team, we have to keep work- way that you normally work. “It’s not ball team have a “responsibility” to help Kingdom last weekend, including Southgate told a press conference at ing and keep showing that things like easy for anybody, but we feel a responsi- people move on with their lives follow- Sunday’s FA Cup final between Arsenal England’s national training base in this won’t affect us as a country. bility to do that and we feel it’s our duty ing last week’s deadly terror attack in and Chelsea. Southgate believes it is Burton-on-Trent, central England. “We’re respectful of those who’ve lost as a national team to do that.” Manchester, manager Gareth Southgate important for teams like England to send “We’re conscious there’s that balance their lives and their families, but we also England play Scotland in a World Cup said yesterday. out a message that the country will not of sport and life at this moment in time. recognise that the right message qualifying match in Glasgow on June 10 Tributes were paid to the 22 victims of be cowed by terrorism. “Our thoughts “From our point of view, one of the mes- towards terrorism is to keep doing what before facing France in a friendly in Paris the suicide attack at Manchester Arena at are definitely with the victims of sages we have to give is that as a nation- you’re doing and to keep working in the three days later. —AFP

Real Madrid’s campaign in the Champions League

MADRID: A look at Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo to keep Bayern from Champions League campaign ahead of reaching the semifinals for the sixth Saturday’s final against Juventus in Cardiff: straight season. Ronaldo scored both goals in the 2-1 GROUP STAGE first-leg win in Germany and added a hat Real Madrid easily advanced from a trick in the 4-2 second-leg victory at home. group containing Sporting Lisbon, Legia Arturo Vidal opened the scoring in the Warsaw and Borussia Dortmund, even first leg but the Bayern midfielder missed a though it finished second behind penalty just before halftime and Madrid Dortmund. eventually rallied for the victory. Bayern The defending champions drew both had Javi Martinez sent off in the second matches against the German club, relin- half of what was Bayern’s first Champions quishing a two-goal lead at the Santiago League setback at home after 16 consecu- Bernabeu Stadium. tive wins. Madrid’s other setback in the group In the return game, Bayern was able to stage was a 3-3 draw at Legia Warsaw. It match the first-leg result over 90 minutes. had routed the Polish club 5-1 at the But Vidal was sent off in the 84th and Bernabeu. Ronaldo scored twice early in extra time to Madrid struggled in its opening match, put Madrid in the semifinals for the sev- needing two very late goals to earn a 2-1 enth straight season. The goals also win over Sporting Lisbon at the Bernabeu. enabled Ronaldo to become the first play- Madrid later defeated Sporting by the er reach 100 Champions League goals. same score in Portugal. SEMIFINALS ROUND OF 16 Madrid met Atletico for the fourth con- Madrid faced a Napoli team that was secutive time in the Champions League, one game short of equaling its unbeaten and again it got the better of its record of 19 matches in all competitions. crosstown rival. The Italian team took early leads in both Madrid had already beaten Atletico in legs to give Madrid a scare, but the the final in 2014 (in extra time) and in European champions rallied both times to 2016 (in a penalty shootout). The team earn consecutive 3-1 victories and reach also eliminated Atletico in the quarterfi- the quarterfinals. nals in 2015. LONDON: Huddersfield Town’s Welsh goalkeeper Danny Ward (centre left) and Huddersfield Town’s German head coach David Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos and Cristiano Ronaldo gave Madrid a 3-0 Wagner (centre right) hold up the Championship Playoff trophy as Huddersfield’s players celebrate winning the penalty Casemiro scored in the first leg in Madrid first-leg win with a hat trick at the shoot-out on the pitch after the English Championship play-off final football match between Huddersfield Town and Reading after Lorenzo Insigne’s extraordinary long- Bernabeu, but there was drama in the at Wembley Stadium in London on Monday. Huddersfield won the penalty shoot-out 4-3 after the game finished 0-0 after range goal for Napoli less than 10 minutes return match at the Vicente Calderon into the game. Stadium as Atletico scored two early goals extra time. —AFP Dries Mertens gave Napoli hope in the to move one short of a historic comeback. second leg with a goal in the 24th minute, It looked like things could go Atletico’s SOCCER but Madrid hit back with an equalizer way until Karim Benzema found a way to from Sergio Ramos, an own-goal by get past three Atletico defenders and set Mertens and a stoppage-time strike by up a crucial away goal for Francisco “Isco” David Wagner taunts critics as Alvaro Morata. Alarcon just before halftime. Madrid held on to secure a return to the final and keep QUARTERFINALS alive its hopes of becoming the first team Huddersfield hit promotion jackpot In a quarterfinal matchup between two to retain the Champions League title since powerhouses, Madrid needed extra time the competition’s new format was created LONDON: David Wagner’s arrival at Huddersfield “By the way Ian Holloway, all the best for next ative goal difference, Huddersfield needed penalty and two decisive performances from in 1992. —AP Town was greeted with scorn, but just 18 months season,” Wagner said. “I know a lot of the pundits heroics to go up. later the German has silenced the critics by master- wrote us off. I’m so happy to prove experience is They saw off Reading thanks to on-loan minding his club’s fairytale promotion to the not essential, especially here in England which is Liverpool goalkeeper Danny Ward’s save from Premier League. so traditional. Jordan Obita and a cool winning kick from When Wagner was plucked from his role as “I’ve been in confrontation with experience ever Christopher Schindler. Borussia Dortmund’s reserve team coach by since I’ve been here. People said I’m not used to “Before the shoot-out I said to the players ‘we Huddersfield owner Dean Hoyle in November 2015, English football, I’m not used to not having a winter worked 10 months and you have the chance to many pundits claimed his lack of experience in the break, and I’d never been in the play-offs before. come to the Premier League. All you need to do is cut-throat world of the second-tier Championship “Well, experience is important, but if you have put the ball in the net from 12 yards,’” Wagner said. meant the appointment was doomed to failure. passion and ideas you can match it.” Wagner’s tri- When the fixture list comes out, Wagner will look Ian Holloway, then a television pundit and now umph is even more impressive when you consider for Huddersfield’s dates with Liverpool, whose man- Queens Park Rangers manager, labelled Huddersfield’s budget ranked among the lowest in ager Jurgen Klopp has been a close friend since they Huddersfield as candidates for relegation at the start the second tier. worked together at Dortmund. of this season. Turning an unglamourous former mill town into Klopp, who is godfather to one of Wagner’s But Holloway and the rest of the doubters under- a host venue for the star-studded line-ups of daughters, was the boss back in Germany, but they estimated the urbane Wagner’s pioneer spirit, inspi- Chelsea, Manchester United and company is the will meet in England on equal terms. rational personality and tactical prowess. stuff of dreams. “I will speak to Jurgen for sure, about everything Having revitalised his team with a host of young- “The people that remember Huddersfield being that happened,” Wagner said. sters signed on loan from the Premier League, in the top flight are very old,” said Wagner, himself 45 “It will be funny to meet him in the Premier Wagner rewarded Hoyle’s faith in spectacular fash- years old. “It’s special. I’m so proud for the players League. He’s a pal but it doesn’t meant it won’t be ion at Wembley on Monday as Huddersfield beat and so happy for the whole town. crazy on the touchline.” Reading 4-3 on penalties after a 0-0 draw to return “We set no limits, now we know where our limits While Huddersfield look forward to the big time, to the top flight for the first time in 45 years. are-in the Premier League. “I told the players they are Reading manager Jaap Stam faces the difficult task Winning promotion, which is worth £170 million heroes. They had the opportunity to become leg- of lifting his players’ shattered morale. ($218 million, 195 million euros) to the Terriers, was a ends and they have done it.” “What we achieved this season is great, but in a CARDIFF: Real Madrid’s head coach Zinedine Zidane, right, speaks with his sweet moment for Wagner and, drenched in cham- final it doesn’t matter how you play, the result is the players during a training session at a media open day in Madrid, yesterday. pagne from his players’ celebrations, he arrived at a HEROICS most important thing,” said the Dutchman. Real Madrid will play Juventus Saturday in the Champions League final in post-match press conference keen to remind his Fittingly for a team who became the first in “Everybody is very disappointed. It’s hard but Cardiff. —AP critics how far he had come in such a short time. Football League history to be promoted with a neg- that’s how it goes.” —AFP Wolfsburg clinches Bundesliga Juventus’ campaign in survival with playoff win the Champions League CARDIFF: A look at Juventus’ Champions QUARTERFINALS BRAUNSCHWEIG: Wolfsburg clinched League campaign ahead of Saturday’s final Juventus excelled with defensive soccer at Bundesliga survival by beating Eintracht against Real Madrid in Cardiff: Camp Nou, holding Barcelona to a 0-0 draw in Braunschweig 1-0, giving the side a 2-0 victory the return leg after a victory in Turin. on aggregate in their relegation-promotion GROUP STAGE Paulo Dybala, who has been compared to playoff on Monday. Juventus didn’t lose a match in a group Lionel Messi, scored two first-half goals and Vieirinha’s powerful strike after the break with Sevilla, Lyon and Dinamo Zagreb. defender Giorgio Chiellini added the third, 10 gave the visiting side a comfortable cushion, The Bianconeri had a disappointing start, minutes after the break, in the first leg. after Mario Gomez gave Wolfsburg a 1-0 win drawing 0-0 at home against Sevilla, but they Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon pulled off a fan- at home in the first leg. advanced to the knockout stage with a 3-1 win tastic stop to deny Andres Iniesta moments “We achieved the absolute minimum. I can in Spain, courtesy of two late goals. before Dybala’s second. He was instrumental understand the players’ relief, but it’s not a That ninth-minute strike by Sevilla defender again in Barcelona as Juventus displayed poise success,” said Andries Jonker, Wolfsburg’s third Nicolas Pareja was the last goal Juventus would and experience to ensure there would be no coach of the season. concede until the second leg of the semifinals comeback. The BBC of Leonardo Bonucci, The Volkswagen-backed club was forced against Monaco - a run of 690 minutes. Andrea Barzagli and Chiellini proved more than into the playoff after finishing third from bot- The only other occasion Juventus dropped up to the task of dealing with Barcelona’s MSN of tom in the Bundesliga. It was the side’s lowest points was in another home draw, when it was Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar. Juventus position since gaining promotion to the top held 1-1 by Lyon. defended as a team, with the forwards tracking flight in 1997. back, too - something which has been its Braunschweig, which was third in ROUND OF 16 strength under Allegri. Germany’s second division, was bidding to Juventus was rarely troubled by FC Porto, return to the Bundesliga after its relegation which had a player sent off in each leg. SEMIFINALS in 2014. However, the Bianconeri struggled to break Gonzalo Higuain hadn’t scored in a “The Lions” lived up to coach Torsten Porto down in the first match even after Alex Champions League knockout match since 2013, Lieberknecht’s words after defeat in the first Telles was sent off in the 27th following two but the Argentina forward ended that negative leg, “Lions bookings in quick succession. Massimiliano streak against Monaco. Higuain netted twice in bite. We’ll really bite back.” But the closest Allegri resorted to two second-half substitutes the 2-0 first leg victory in the principality, dou- the side came to scoring was when Christoffer who quickly scored. Marko Pjaca netted five bling his tally from 24 previous matches in the Nyman shot straight at Wolfsburg goalkeeper minutes after coming on, while Dani Alves took knockout stages. Juventus withstood pressure Koen Casteels early on. from Monaco and then punished it on the count- BRAUNSCHWEIG: Wolfsburg’s midfielder Yunus Malli (L) vie for the ball with two minutes to find the back of the net. Their hopes were all but ended when Any hope Porto had of bouncing back er attack, with both of Higuain’s goals coming Vieirinha hammered Wolfsburg ahead after Braunschweig’s midfielder Mirko Boland (C) and defender Maximilian Sauer (R) during evaporated shortly before halftime in the after good spells from the home side. the break from a rebound. Braunschweig sud- German Bundesliga relegation second leg football match between Eintracht return match in Turin, when Gonzalo Higuain’s Buffon pulled off several fine saves in his denly needed three goals due to Wolfsburg’s Braunschweig and VfL Wolfsburg on Monday in Braunschweig, central Germany. —AFP effort was stopped by the outstretched hand 100th appearance in Europe’s top club competi- away score. of Maxi Pereira, leading to an inevitable red tion, but he was finally beaten in the second leg The home side never looked like getting supporters, leading to an uneasy faceoff as director Olaf Rebbe said.A warden had card for the defender. by 18-year-old Kylian Mbappe, who wasn’t even them. Braunschweig fans stormed the pitch flares were lit and hurled toward the officials. already been struck by a flare when Paulo Dybala converted the resulting born when the 39-year-old goalkeeper made his after the game forcing players to take cover. “We had to go the changing rooms. We Braunschweig fans lit pyrotechnics before penalty. Serie A debut in 1995. —AP Riot police formed a line to protect visiting couldn’t celebrate,” Wolfsburg sporting the second half. —AP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 SPORTS Paulinho the hero as Evergrande into last eight

KASHIMA: Ex-Tottenham Hotspur mid- injury time for an aggregate score of 2-2. Xiaoting’s last-ditch block, and Yuma range half-volley over the bar. The hosts In Kawasaki, a three-goal burst in 10 fielder Paulinho grabbed a crucial goal as But it was a major step forward for Suzuki fired just wide. Pedro Junior looked comfortable but Evergrande first-half minutes guaranteed a quarter- two-time winners Guangzhou Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Chinese league-lead- showed skill and tenacity to open the seized back the initiative on 55 min- final spot for the hosts as they thrashed Evergrande squeaked past Kashima ers, who lifted the Asian title in 2013 and scoring on 28 minutes, when he brushed utes when Wang Shangyuan’s long Muangthong once again after last Antlers on away goals yesterday to reach 2015 but exited last year’s competition off two challenges and launched a bril- throw-in was flicked on by Gao Lin. week’s 3-1 win. the AFC Champions League quarter- at the group stage. liant shot into the top corner. Evergrande Alan’s wriggling turn-and-shot came Yu Kobayashi’s individual goal set the finals. Paulinho, the scorer in last week’s Yesterday’s other last-16 tie in Japan, nearly hit back when Liu Jian’s full- off the near post and bounced across hosts on their way on 31 minutes, before 1-0 win in Guangzhou, scored a tap-in on Kawasaki Frontale beat Thailand’s stretch volley rebounded off the post, the face of the goal, leaving Paulinho his cut-back found Tatsuya Hasegawa for 55 minutes and it was enough to put the Muangthong United 4-1 to complete a 7- but the most enterprising attacking play with a simple finish to make it 2-1 on Kawasaki’s second just a minute later. Chinese team through despite their 2-1 2 aggregate win and reach the quarter- remained at the other end. aggregate. Eduardo Neto’s header on 40 minutes defeat on the night. The result was cruel finals at a canter. Pedro Junior skilfully lifted a ball to Kanazaki, who came on for Leandro made it 3-0 and Brazilian midfielder for Kashima, who went ahead through Kashima’s game was much closer and his fellow Brazilian Leandro, whose vol- on the hour-mark, crashed a shot in off Rhayner got the fourth on 79 minutes, Pedro Junior’s superb strike in the first they had the best early chances when ley went straight at the goalkeeper, the bar in stoppage time but Kashima before Teerasil Dangda grabbed a late half and scored again via Mu Kanazaki in Pedro Junior was denied by Feng before Shoma Doi bundled a close- had run out of time to make a comeback. consolation for Muangthong. —AFP Man City chief slams talk of Aguero sale

LONDON: Manchester City chairman Zabaleta, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Khaldoon Al Mubarak insists reports that winger Jesus Navas and goalkeeper Willy Sergio Aguero could be sold are ridiculous Caballero. City have been linked with because the Argentine striker remains a Tottenham’s Kyle Walker and Monaco’s key player for the Premier League club. Benjamin Mendy to fill their full-back posi- Aguero lost his place in Pep Guardiola’s tions. starting line-up following the arrival of “The manager is thinking about the Brazilian starlet Gabriel Jesus in January. squad every day and that thinking evolves The 28-year-old, who has scored 122 throughout the year to get to a final point league goals in 181 appearances since at the end of the season when decisions joining from Atletico Madrid in 2011, are made,” Khaldoon said. returned to the team following an injury to “There are particular positions that are Jesus and finished the season as City’s clear. With the players exiting, full-backs - leading scorer. That has not stopped both right and left - require investment rumours about his future, with Chelsea, from our side. “Pep relies heavily on that Manchester United and Real Madrid all position and a particular requirement in linked with the star, but Khaldoon is terms of the type of players he wants for adamant Aguero is too important to lose. the role. “I’ve read a lot about the speculation on “That clearly requires some work. Pep this and it is ridiculous,” Khaldoon told knows exactly what he wants and who he City’s website yesterday. wants.” “Sergio Aguero is one of the best play- Meanwhile, Benfica goalkeeper Ederson ers in the world and we are a team that is reportedly due to arrive in Manchester aspires to win in every competition we as he closes in on a move to City. compete in. “Having Sergio Aguero as part City are still negotiating a settlement of the squad is an absolute must and has on the 23-year-old’s third-party owner- never been a doubt.” ship issues, but the club hope he will Khaldoon is hopeful Ivory Coast mid- undergo a medical. With Joe Hart, who fielder Yaya Toure will be given a new con- spent the season on loan at Torino, set to tract as his present deal expires next be sold by City, and Claudio Bravo strug- month. gling in his first season at Eastlands, “Pep has a lot of trust in him and I hope Ederson would arrive as Guardiola’s first Yaya will be with us and continue this jour- choice goalkeeper. DORTMUND: This file photo taken on May 28, 2017 shows Dortmund’s head coach Thomas Tuchel kissing the trophy at Borsigplatz ney with us,” he said. He would become Guardiola’s sec- during celebrations after winning the German Cup final (DFB Pokalfinale) in Dortmund, western Germany.—AFP Guardiola is planning a major overhaul ond close-season signing after Monaco of his squad and has already announced playmaker Bernardo Silva joined on the departures of full-backs Pablo Friday. —AFP SOCCER Borussia Dortmund fires Thomas Tuchel as coach

DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund fired Thomas and possible differences between them.” squad break-up was “risky.” Watzke said it was Tuchel as coach yesterday, three days after he led Tuchel, a former Mainz coach who followed in “ambitious.” the club to its first title in five years. The club Juergen Klopp’s footsteps by taking over in Last January, Tuchel said he wasn’t informed of issued a statement to say the 43-year-old Tuchel Dortmund in 2015, led the side to second place in Swedish forward Alexander Isak’s signing, and he was leaving with immediate effect, one year the Bundesliga in his first season, when questioned his side’s mentality and whether its before his contract was due to expire in 2018. Dortmund was the best runner-up in the league’s targets for the season were overambitious the fol- “This is the result of a discussion between history, and the German Cup final, where again it lowing month after a league loss to last-place Hans-Joachim Watzke (chief executive), Michael lost out to league winner Bayern Munich. Darmstadt. Zorc (sports director), Thomas Tuchel and his Tuchel initially earned praise for getting The differences really spilled into the open adviser Olaf Meinking, which took place on Dortmund out of the slump of Klopp’s final sea- after the bomb attack on the team bus in April, Tuesday,” Dortmund said. son and for re-introducing an attractive style of when Tuchel and Watzke clashed over the Dortmund thanked Tuchel and his coaching attacking play. rescheduling of the affected Champions League staff for their sporting success. Tuchel’s last game This season, after a host of off-season changes, game. in charge was the 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt Tuchel led Dortmund to third place in the Tuchel left fully fit midfielder Nuri Sahin out of in the German Cup final on Saturday. Bundesliga behind promoted Leipzig, while final- the squad for the German Cup final on Saturday, MONACO: In this file photo dated Wednesday March 15, 2017, Manchester Tuchel fell out with club officials over the ly winning the German Cup. despite Julian Weigl’s absence through injury. City’s manager Pep Guardiola shouts instructions during a Champions League course of an inconsistent season. Tuchel’s and Dortmund’s difficulties began Sahin’s omission upset some of his teammates, leg soccer match against Monaco at the Louis II stadium in Monaco. —AP “Dortmund as an employer will not comment long before, however, starting in January 2016 with captain Marcel Schmelzer saying he was in detail on the reasons for the separation, the when he had a spat with chief scout Sven “shocked.” result of a long process and supported by all the Mislintat, a friend of Zorc’s, over the signing of After claiming his first title on Saturday, Tuchel club boards,” the statement said. “Dortmund Spanish midfielder Oliver Torres from Atletico said he wished to fulfill his contract despite the attaches great importance to the fact that the Madrid. difficulties. “It seems to me as though the out- Roma part ways cause of the separation is by no means (just) a After the 2016 German Cup final loss to Bayern come to the talks is open,” he said. disagreement between two people. The wellbe- on penalties, he criticized the Bayern-bound Mats Dortmund evidently felt a different way. ing of the club Borussia Dortmund, which consti- Hummels, and was unhappy with Watzke when Former Borussia Moenchengladbach and with Spalletti tutes much more than just the sporting success, other key players like Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Hertha Berlin coach Lucien Favre was favored to will always be more important than individuals Ilkay Gundogan also departed. Tuchel said the take over. —AP

ROME: AS Roma said yesterday that it had work and the significant contribution he parted ways with Luciano Spalletti, just two has made to the club since his return. days after the coach had guided the team “Under his stewardship this season, the Zinedine Zidane looking like to Champions League football next season. team has won more Serie A points and Spalletti joined Roma for a second time scored more goals than any side in Roma’s as coach in January 2016 after a first stint history. We wish Luciano all the best for the between 2005-2009 during which time the future. a veteran at Madrid’s helm club won two Coppa Italia and one “This club is on a constant path of Supercoppa. This season, Roma bagged a growth and that will continue with the MADRID: Only 17 months into his first head- times. He even convinced Cristiano Ronaldo to club record of 87 points in finishing second appointment of a new coach who shares coaching job, Zinedine Zidane is one game away skip games and get some rest, something in Serie A, behind Juventus. But they our values and philosophy and who will from winning his second Champions League title unthinkable in previous seasons. crashed out of the Italian Cup semi-finals at continue to help us take AS Roma forward.” with Real Madrid. “It’s my philosophy, and I chose it because I the hands of cross-city rivals Lazio and lost Italian media reports that Spalletti could It would be an amazing feat for the former have such a good squad,” Zidane said. “It might the Europa League round of 16, 5-4 on be named coach of Inter Milan, while France great, who also helped Madrid win its first have been different if I had other players. I did aggregate, to Lyon. Eusebio Di Francesco, former Roma player Spanish league title in five years, as well as the what I thought it was right with these players.” Roma president Jim Pallotta said: “We and current Sassuolo coach, is the name European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. One of Madrid’s greatest players, Zidane also would like to place on record our sincere doing the rounds as the likely incomer in All that in only his second season as a coach. has a close connection with Juventus, his team’s thanks to Luciano Spalletti for all of his hard the Italian capital. —AFP “You were the best player in the world, and opponent in Saturday’s final in Cardiff. now you are simply the best coach in the world,” He played two consecutive Champions Madrid president Florentino Perez told Zidane in League finals with the Italian club, losing both a ceremony celebrating the team’s first Spanish times, including to Madrid in 1998. league title since 2012. “Thank you, Zizou, for Zidane spent five seasons in total with everything that you have given us and for every- Juventus, winning two Serie A titles before mov- thing that you are still giving us.” Zinedine Zidane ing to Madrid. The talented midfielder played The 44-year-old Zidane also helped Madrid more than 150 games with each of the clubs. win the Champions League as a player in 2002, that spectacular winner against Leverkusen in Zidane was an assistant to Carlo Ancelotti scoring an amazing volley in the final against the 2002 final. when the Spanish club won the 2014 title against Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow, Scotland. Zidane replaced coach Rafa Benitez with the Atletico Madrid. He then took over Madrid’s “B” “What I’ve been going through with this club team in crisis early in 2016, and he got the squad team before earning the chance with the main has been spectacular,” Zidane said. “I have the back on track and has kept it competitive ever squad. Real Madrid DNA, this is my house. No matter since. Always serene and speaking with in low On Saturday, Zidane will be trying to become what happens, I’ll always be a Real Madrid fan, it’s tones, he gained the confidence of the players the first coach to win consecutive Champions the club of my life.” with his moves both on and off the field. League titles. Madrid will look to become the first Zidane has only one year left on his contract “Zidane was my idol since I was very young, I team to win back-to-back titles since the compe- but no one expects him to be leaving anytime had a poster of him in my bedroom,” Madrid mid- tition’s new format was created in 1992-93. soon. fielder Marco Asensio said. “I’m proud to have “It’s the last game of the season, the most “I want to stay and I think that the club is also him as a coach now, and it’s amazing to be able important one,” Zidane said. “But we are going to happy with what we’ve been doing so far,” Zidane to learn from him and to follow his advice.” prepare for it just like we prepared for the other said. “That’s what really matters. Right now, I’m Zidane used several different formations and matches that we played until now. We are not TRIGORIA: Outgoing Roma coach Luciano Spalletti, right, is hugged by Roma only thinking about Saturday. We’ll see what hap- successfully resorted to rotations to keep his top going to change anything.” Sporting Director Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo during his last press conference at pens after that.” players fresh at the important moments of the He will be hoping the result from last year’s the Fulvio Bernardini Sports Center in Trigoria, Rome, yesterday.—AP The Frenchman has been displaying the same season. He gave a lot of playing minutes to the final doesn’t change either, so he can add yet calm as a coach as he showed when he netted entire squad and kept them committed at all another title to his young coaching career. —AP Tiger Woods blames Guentzel’s goal medications for his lifts Penguins by arrest on DUI charge Predators 5-3

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PARIS: France’s Alize Cornet returns the ball to Hungary’s Timea Babos during their tennis match at the Roland Garros 2017 French Open yesterday in Paris. — AFP Zverev, Konta flop at French Open

PARIS: Alexander Zverev, the man seen as a potential French Guido Pella 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. “I love to be playing this tournament Open champion, crashed out in the first round yesterday while again after five years,” said 2009 US Open champion Del Potro, Johanna Konta became the second top 10 women’s player to who reached the quarter-finals in his last appearance in Paris exit. Zverev, just 20 and fresh from his sensational Rome Masters before blowing a two-set lead against Roger Federer. demolition of Novak Djokovic, slumped to a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei, the world number 109, stunned sev- defeat to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco, 13 years his senior. enth seed Konta 1-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4. “I played absolute shit, that’s why I lost,” said Zverev. Konta is the second top 10 woman to lose in the first three “But life goes on, it’s not a tragedy. In Rome I played fantastic, I days after world number one Angelique Kerber was also dumped won the tournament. Here I played bad, I lost first round. That’s out in the first round. the way it goes.” In a match controversially suspended on “I tried very hard and gave myself a big chance. Every time I Monday at one set each, Zverev was defeated in a fog of mistakes tried to run as fast as I can and get the ball back,” said Hsieh, who and despondency. won for the just the second time in seven trips to Roland Garros. The beanpole German committed 50 unforced errors and Konta has yet to win one match in the main draw in three drew jeers from the Philippe Chatrier court crowd when he took attempts. There were no such problems for fifth-seeded Rome out his frustration by hammering his racquet into the clay. champion Elina Svitolina as the 2015 quarter-finalist defeated Left-handed Verdasco, playing his 14th Roland Garros and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-3. Andy Murray targets 56th consecutive major, had lost to Zverev in the first round on a French Open tonic later Tuesday as the 2016 runner-up seeks clay in Madrid earlier this year. But he is an experienced Grand to get his season back on track. Slam competitor, making the last 16 in Paris on four occasions. World number one Murray, who was the first British man to “I practised really hard before this match against a great play- reach the Paris final since 1937 when he lost to Novak Djokovic er like Alexander and I am super happy to be here on this court,” 12 months ago, faces Andrey Kuznetsov. The 30-year-old has said Verdasco who next plays France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert. endured a trying 2017 with bouts of illness as well as an elbow “Maybe it was my experience. You have to be ready emotion- ally and physically because it can be a long match.” Third seed injury conspiring against him and his form. and 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka was an easy winner, defeat- He suffered a shock fourth round defeat to Mischa Zverev at ing Slovakian qualifier Jozef Kovalik 6-2, 7-6 (8/6), 6-3. the Australian Open. Wawrinka saved two set points in the second set tiebreaker On clay, he lost in the third round in Monte Carlo, made the before going on to down the 152nd-ranked qualifier. semis in Barcelona, was a third-round loser in Madrid before an opening defeat in Rome to Fabio Fognini. DEL POTRO RETURNS In the women’s event, 2014 runner-up Simona Halep, seeded Juan Martin del Potro marked his return to the French Open three, faces Jana Cepelova of Slovakia whose only two wins at after an absence of five years by defeating Argentine compatriot the tournament came four years ago. — AFP PARIS: Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro returns the ball to compatriot Guido Pella during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, yesterday. — AP Arsene Wenger to extend Arsenal reign: Reports

LONDON: Arsene Wenger has told Arsenal owner Wenger, who has won three Premier League Fifth-placed Arsenal finished 18 points behind Stan Kroenke he will accept the Premier League titles and a record seven FA Cups with the Gunners, Chelsea, with embarrassing defeats at Crystal club’s offer of a new two-year contract, according will attend an Arsenal board meeting yesterday Palace and West Bromwich Albion ruining their to reports yesterday. when the contract should be rubber-stamped. chances of staying in the top four. Wenger met Gunners majority shareholder Wenger will outline his plans for close-season Those losses, combined with a Champions Kroenke and chief executive Ivan Gazidis on signings and while there may still be some tinker- League last 16 thrashing by Bayern Munich, Monday to discuss his future before his contract ing with his backroom staff it will not be without prompted the most sustained fan protests against expires next month. The 67-year-old has been his approval. Gazidis would still like to bring in a Wenger in his two-decade reign. heavily criticised this season, with Arsenal fans sporting director to coordinate issues ranging Fans staged protest marches, flew planes over calling for his resignation after their team failed to from scouting and medicine to youth develop- Arsenal matches trailing banners calling for qualify for the Champions League for the first ment and analytics. But Wenger has been told he Wenger to go and even stayed away in droves time in 20 years. will retain control of the key areas of team selec- when the Gunners faces Sunderland in their penul- Suggestions that Arsenal may insist on hiring a tion and transfers. timate home match. Wenger, who has won the FA director of football to work with Wenger had With his reign set to reach 23 years if he sees Cup three times in the last four years, showed how sparked claims the Frenchman was considering out the new deal, Wenger has a chance to sal- much the abuse had affected him last week when ending his 21-year reign. vage what was in danger of becoming a tar- he spoke to the BBC before the Wembley show- But after leading Arsenal to an impressive 2-1 nished reputation. First on his to-do list will be down with Chelsea. FA Cup final victory over Premier League champi- making improved contract offers to Alexis “I believe there’s a difference between being ons Chelsea with Kroenke watching from the Sanchez and Mesut Ozil. criticised and being treated in a way that human stands on Saturday, Wenger had hinted he was The unsettled Arsenal stars are holding out for beings don’t deserve,” he said. “The lack of respect willing to stay. And the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror weekly wages of around £300,000 ($385,000) per from some has been a disgrace and I will never reported Wenger has informed American tycoon week with their present deals due to expire at the accept that. I will never forget it. Kroenke, who remains a firm supporter of his man- end of next season. “The behaviour of some people during the sea- ager, that he wants to remain in charge of the With no Champions League football to offer son, that is what hurts me most. “It’s not my person LONDON: File photo shows Arsenal team manager Arsene Wenger, center, talks to Arsenal’s north London club. to potential new recruits, Wenger stills face a that is hurt but the impeccable image of the club team captain Per Mertesacker during the English FA Cup final soccer match between Arsenal A formal announcement of Wenger’s new con- tough task to win the Premier League for the first around the world. “That kind of behaviour does and Chelsea at Wembley stadium in London. — AP tract is expected to come today. time since 2004. not reflect what Arsenal is.” — AFP Greece denies report it may opt out of bailout money

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GRAND-QUEVILLY: A man walks beside trucks during a blockade at the “Rubis” petroleum terminal in Grand-Quevilly, near Rouen northwestern France, on Monday called by trade unions as part of protest demanding better work- ing conditions. — AFP Macron faces uphill task; French jobs unfilled Job vacancies surging 14% y-o-y, but companies can’t find the right people

SARCELLES, France: France, troubled for years ed training unnecessarily keep the unemploy- year and close to levels not seen since of these growing sectors themselves,” Labaye Extra money for training, as well as by high unemployment, is now grappling with ment rate close to 10 percent. November 2011. Demand for workers on told Reuters. One example is booming extending unemployment benefits to cover a lack of qualified workers. While it still has 3.5 Macron hopes to fix the mismatch of sup- longer-term contracts - which French firms demand for data specialists. France employs people who want to leave jobs for a new pro- million registered jobseekers, a growing num- ply and demand for workers by pouring bil- often avoid, fearing they will be unable to get fewer of them as a proportion of its workforce fession, could help make Macron’s reforms ber of positions lie unfilled because companies lions of euros into training while simplifying rid of staff in the future - is growing faster than than any other OECD country except Turkey, more palatable to critics. Eager to push ahead can’t find the right people. the labor code. The object is to make it easier for short-term hires. More than half of the despite a world-class reputation for higher on labor reform quickly, Macron launched Many company bosses are pinning their for employers to hire but also to shed staff, offers received were for contracts of over six mathematics, according to figures from the talks with unions last week knowing he will hopes on newly-elected President Emmanuel should their business turn down in the future. months. Recruitment group Manpower found 35-nation organization. have to overcome resistance to his plans to Macron, and specifically his labor reform plans, To sweeten the pill, he also wants to expand in a recent survey that nearly one in four ease regulation. to help find willing and able workers. One such unemployment benefits for people seeking a French employers was struggling to find work- Big money Though it would help if he wins a parlia- employer is Philippe Girard, who heads the career change. ers. “We clearly have a skills gap between what Macron has said he wants to invest 15 bil- mentary majority, labor reform is always a French subsidiary of British construction equip- Similar but less ambitious measures to free our customers are looking for and people’s real lion euros ($16.8 billion) in building up skills for deeply sensitive issue in France, where high ment maker JCB. Despite offering above mar- up the labor market have in the past run into skills,” Manpower France head Alain Roumilhac a million youths and another million low-quali- job security is cherished. His Socialist predeces- ket pay rates for entry level jobs, his firm has resistance in parliament, and provoked some- told Reuters. With even relatively lowly-paid fied, long-term unemployed people. France sor, Francois Hollande, tried to introduce more been unable to fill 50 posts for maintenance times violent protests on the streets. industrial workers usually needing to use digi- already spends nearly 32 billion euros a year on working time flexibility and rein in labor tribu- technicians in its dealership network for more Undaunted, Macron has made the reforms tal technology, Manpower is investing millions professional training, equivalent to 1.5 percent nal challenges and payouts last year, leading to than a year. his top priority, starting talks with trade and receives public subsidies to train workers of economic output, but only 15 percent goes violent student protests in French cities. “It’s becoming a brake on our development unions last week. He is also seeking a majority up to meet employers’ expectations. to training job seekers, according to data from Eventually Hollande’s government - in because clients increasingly want maintenance for his party in legislative elections next Eric Labaye, a senior partner at the the Labour Ministry. which Macron served as economy minister - service on construction sites and without tech- month to strengthen his hand in pushing McKinsey consultancy, said that while 90 per- “France puts a lot of money into the training invoked special powers to impose the reforms nicians we can’t meet their needs,” he told them through parliament. cent of jobs require at least basic proficiency system but it is very, very complex,” said OECD by decree due to a lack of support in parlia- Reuters. Girard has also been looking in vain with digital technologies, 40 percent of the economist Nicola Brandt, who is preparing a ment. “Only one mistake could break every- for six months for three sales executives at the Skills gap workforce did not have such elementary skills. report on France for the organization. “More thing. Macron is trying to be as clever as possi- JCB France headquarters in Sarcelles, a satellite Companies’ demand for workers is surging “Adapting the labor market and skills is clearly money is always better, but we have an issue of ble, especially with the unions because even if town of Paris where unemployment is in dou- as the economy slowly picks up. Government a priority. The primary focus should be on get- money not being used in the right way, basi- he has a majority in parliament he has a very ble digits. Critics of the current regulatory employment agencies had received 274,000 ting more people with the right skillset into cally not going to the people who need it narrow path to deploy the program,” regime say rigid labor rules and poorly adapt- unfilled job offers as of April, up 14 percent in a growing sectors. Second is the development most,” she said. Manpower’s Roumilhac. — Reuters Shares in British Airways’ Brexit fuel on Paris property price fire PARIS: Prices for real estate in Paris are set to rose by 5.5 percent to 8,450 euros ($9,410) per reach new records this summer, as buyers- square metre, a survey by the Chamber of many of them Britons-scramble to get their Notaries of Paris and Ile-de-France region esti- parent company tumble hands on flats in the French capital’s most mated. And they could rise even further to well-heeled districts, a survey of notaries 8,800 euros per square metre in July, the sur- LONDON: Shares in British Airways’ parent end that saw hundreds of flights cancelled after were not forgiving. Kathleen Brooks, the showed yesterday. vey suggested, based on preliminary contracts company tumbled yesterday after a catastroph- a power surge led to an IT meltdown. Although research director at City Index, said investors “The number of buyers is rising unstoppably,” prepared for signing. ic IT failure stranded thousands of passengers the airline was running a full schedule of flights were concerned the troubles suggested that said Paris notary Thierry Delesalle. Demand was The previous record of 8,460 euros per during a long holiday weekend. Shares in the yesterday, it acknowledged passengers were cost-cutting at IAG had gone too far. “Although outstripping supply, particularly for the most square metre was reached in the summer of International Airlines Group dropped about 3 still facing baggage delays. cost cutting has been good for the share price select properties, “and perhaps because of 2012. Real estate prices in Paris had seen “a slow percent in the first day of trading after a week- The company apologized, but shareholders in the last year, it will come back to bite IAG if it Brexit,” Delesalle said. While Italians were the erosion in the past three or four years,” slipping stops them from doing what they are sup- biggest group of foreign homebuyers in Paris, to 7,880 euros per square metre. But apartment posed to do: Fly passengers to their destina- snapping up 17 percent of properties sold to prices in the capital have been rising again tions,” Brooks said. non-French buyers, Britons came second, since the summer of 2015. In the city’s most IAG has been battling tough competition in accounting for 10 percent of such transactions. well-heeled districts or “arrondissements”, prices the airline sector, even as it has faced pressure Already in the first three months of this have risen to more than 11,000 euros per with a weaker pound following Britain’s deci- year, prices for existing apartments in Paris square metre, the notaries estimated. — AFP sion to leave the European Union. The compa- ny also issued a profit warning following the Brexit vote nearly a year ago. Rival Ryanair, for Key US inflation measure example, said it had seen “strong bookings” over the weekend amid BA’s woes. The low- cost carrier posted a 6 percent increase in edges higher in April annual profits Tuesday to 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion) despite “difficult trading conditions,” WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve’s pre- 14. The Personal Consumption Expenditures caused by terror attacks in European cities and ferred measure of inflation remained soft in price index, which tracks the cost of goods and a sharp decline in the British pound. April, despite a modest increase, as a key com- services purchased by individuals, rose 0.2 per- Weighing further on the sector is the uncer- ponent saw its slowest rise in 16 months, the cent last month compared to March, when it tainty surrounding Britain’s departure from the Commerce Department reported yesterday. fell 0.2 percent, the first drop in 16 years. EU. Kenny Jacobs, Ryanair’s chief marketing The fresh sign of tepid price increases could Excluding the more volatile food and fuel cate- officer, told the BBC that airlines need clarity in lessen pressures on the central bank to raise gories, the “core” PCE price index also rose 0.2 terms of agreements underpinning interna- interest rates when policymakers meet next percent. But the closely watched annual meas- LONDON: Passengers stand at a British Airways check-in desk after the airport suffered an tional air travel. “I think it’s clear we’re heading month. The Fed has signaled it likely will raise ure retreated from the Fed’s two percent target. IT systems failure, at London”s Gatwick Airport. Shares in British Airways’ parent company to what looks to be a very ugly divorce at the rates again “soon,” believing recent slow growth The 12-month PCE slowed to 1.7 percent, down tumbled yesterday after a catastrophic IT failure stranded thousands of passengers during moment,” he said. “Our call on the government was only temporary, and most analysts expect two-tenths from March, marking the second a long holiday weekend. — AP here is to please give us and other airlines clari- a rate hike at the next policy meeting June 13- consecutive decrease. — AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 BUSINESS Zimbabwe tobacco is booming, but farmers growing it are not HARARE: Farmer Simon Kahari recently hazardous living conditions at auction sold tobacco worth more than $6,000 at floors. “Relax. It has been three weeks for an auction in Zimbabwe, a small fortune me and I am still here,” Luckson Mutaya reflecting the golden leaf’s resurgence in told fellow farmer Kahari, who appeared this southern African country. Yet fidgety after waiting only several hours. because of Zimbabwe’s dire economic He advised Kahari on a few basics, problems he ended up sleeping in an especially the need to hold a place in auction house toilet that night, hungry one of the toilets to avoid enduring the and wondering if and when he would be cold night in the open. “Oh, and you able to access his earnings. have to write down all the essential “I don’t have any money for food or phone numbers. Very soon you won’t be anything,” Kahari said. “I came here having that phone,” Mutaya added, puff- expecting to be paid, so now I will have ing a large cigarette of tobacco leaves to borrow.” Many of Zimbabwe’s tobac- rolled in an old newspaper. He cannot co farmers share the same plight dur- afford processed cigarettes selling for 10 ing the ongoing selling season of the cents each. crop, Zimbabwe’s second biggest earn- er after gold. While exported tobacco Food on credit rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars, Mobile phones and national identity small-time farmers feel left out of the cards are the new currency as farmers lucrative cycle. taking food on credit surrender their A cash shortage that underlines the phones and identity cards as security to country’s deepening economic woes has vendors. left farmers who travel long distances to One food seller, Maria Mandebvu, auctions unpaid, stranded and desperate. complained that farmers leave without Farmers like Kahari are not paid in paying their bills and recalled happy cash because of the currency shortage. years when farmers were paid cash on But they need the money because much the spot. Then, the auction floors trans- of Zimbabwe, especially rural areas formed into one huge bazaar, with where there is little infrastructure, is a traders hustling anything from cars to cash-based society. Instead, their earn- solar panels, beds, alcohol and sex. ings are deposited into accounts that Dozens of traders are still camped they must open at bank branches at the there this year. Music blares from auction houses. makeshift wooden and plastic stalls. But Then the farmers must stick around no one is dancing. On the auction floor, for weeks, hoping for the daily withdraw- business is hectic as buyers swiftly go al limit of $100 but often getting no more through rows of tobacco bales, negotiat- THESSALONIKI: A woman pass a shop with household goods yesterday in Thessaloniki. Greece’s finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on May 29 than $50. ing prices. said he was “confident” that an upcoming eurozone meeting would reach a “good solution” on debt relief, whilst calling on creditors to end Meanwhile, tobacco sales have By 10 pm the male and female toilets their “procrastination”. —AFP jumped 30 percent from last year, earn- are fully occupied by farmers deep in ing $300 million so far, according to the sleep. Nearby, breastfeeding mothers country’s Tobacco Industry Marketing and children squeeze next to male Greece denies report ‘it may Board. President Robert Mugabe and strangers in the open on parched grass many in his government point to and tarmac. Some sleep on top of steel rebounding tobacco production as justi- storage shipping containers, others on fication for often violent land seizures stairs and conveyor belts. opt out of bailout money’ years ago. Many tobacco farmers were “The country is making money from resettled on farms forcibly taken from our tobacco, we deserve some dignity,” whites, 20 years after Zimbabwe said Lloyd Muponda, who travelled 300 Creditors must deliver on promise to lighten debt: FM became independent from white minor- kilometers (186 miles) to sell his crop two ity rule in 1980. weeks ago. ATHENS: A Greek government spokesman Luxembourg. The main issue has been a dis- The IMF argues that the eurozone forecasts Mugabe’s deputy, Emmerson Joseph Made, the agriculture minister, denied a German newspaper report yesterday agreement between the eurozone and the underpinning the Greek bailout are too opti- Mnangagwa, said this month that tobac- said his office is negotiating with the which said it was considering opting out of IMF, which is not financially involved in mistic and that the country needs debt co sales mean “the cake is now spread to finance ministry to ease the farmers’ receiving more bailout money if lenders could Greece’s current three-year bailout program, restructuring so it can start growing on a sus- ordinary families in the countryside,” but plight. It may be too late for 78-year-old not agree on debt relief. “It is not true,” govern- regarding Greece’s debt. tainable basis. Greece has wallowed through many distressed people at a tobacco Agnes Hanja, who badly needs cash to ment spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told “There is very little point in entering a an economic depression that’s seen its econo- sales floor wore torn clothes. On May 4, pay off debts and laborers back home. “I Reuters. “There will be a solution on June 15.” (bailout) program if the goal is not to leave the my shrink by a quarter and unemployment police fired tear gas to disperse tobacco will not grow tobacco again,” Hanja said. Greece’s finance minister insisted that the program. And leaving the program should be and poverty spiral. farmers protesting non-payment and “This is dehumanizing.”—AP country had met all its reform commitments, the responsibility not just of the debtor coun- The eurozone has ruled out any debt write- and said it was now up to international credi- try but the creditor country as well,” Tsakalotos off for Greece, but has indicated that extend- tors to agree on how to make Greece’s debt told journalists in Athens. “We’ve done our ing Greece’s repayment periods or reducing sustainable and help the nation emerge from share of the deal, it’s up to our creditors and the interest rates on its loans are possible at its financial crisis. the IMF to do theirs.” the conclusion of the bailout next year. Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said Greece had Germany and the Netherlands have indi- Athens argues that the delays are now pushed through all the required austerity cated they will refuse to lend more money to due entirely to disagreements between the measures, including pension and public Greece without the IMF’s participation, while IMF and the European creditors. The finance administration reforms, and that it was up to the IMF says Greece’s debt must be sustain- minister said there were “no excuses for not the creditors - other eurozone countries and able in order for it to participate. Athens says getting this overall deal that the Greek econ- the International Monetary Fund - to deliver resolving the debt issue is crucial to its ability omy so desperately needs in its efforts to on promises to lighten the country’s debt to attract investors and emerge from the access the markets and therefore to be able load. Greece is hoping for a deal during a June financial crisis it has been struggling through to leave the program as planned in the sum- 15 eurozone finance ministers’ meeting in since late 2009. mer of 2018.” —Agencies

Lower exports weaken Egypt announces $2.49 billion Sweden growth in Q1 package to cope with inflation CAIRO: Egypt on Monday announced the reforms, though biting, were the STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s economic growth slowed to 0.4 a $2.49 billion package of income tax only way to revive the economy, bat- percent in the first quarter due to lower exports, the discounts, bonuses for state employ- tered by years of turmoil and high-pro- nation’s statistics service said yesterday. Driven by strong ees, increased pension payments and file terror attacks blamed on Islamic consumption and investment, growth was 2.2 percent year cash subsidies for lower and middle militants waging an insurgency in the on year, the National Statistical Institute (SCB) said in a income Egyptians to cope with soaring north of the Sinai Peninsula. statement. inflation. The package will go into With presidential elections due a The quarter on quarter growth figure surprised econo- effect July 1, the start of the fiscal year, year from now, Al-Sisi risked his once mists, who were expecting a much stronger 1.0 percent. according to a Cabinet statement. sweeping popularity when he intro- “Not our best forecasting day,” said Andreas Wallstrom, The measures are partially designed duced the reforms. chief analyst at Nordea markets, on his Twitter account, to defuse discontent over steep price He has not said whether he would adding it was due to “lower net exports and public con- hikes resulting from reforms intro- run for a second, four-year term, but he sumption than expected.” Sweden’s household consump- duced in November, including floata- most likely would. Monday’s package is tion rose by 0.5 percent and property prices jumped by tion of the Egyptian pound, the intro- welcome news to millions of Egyptians 7.7 percent. duction of value added tax and partial because it comes soon after the start of Consumption of transport, furniture, hotel and restau- lifting of subsidies on fuel. the holy month of Ramadan, when rant services have been on the rise, the SCB said. Sweden The reforms, part of a deal to secure observing Muslims refrain from food is a major exporter of transport equipment, machinery and a $12-billion loan from the and drink from dawn to dusk. iron. Overall export figures were down by 0.2 percent but International Monetary Fund, sent During the month, Egyptians spend HARARE: Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers sleep in an auction house at the Tobacco Sales goods exports were up by 1.7 percent. Service exports fell inflation soaring to more than 30 per- much more than they unusually do on Floor in Harare in this Wednesday, May, 17, 2017 photo. Many Zimbabwean tobacco by 4.3 percent, according to the statistical institute, which cent. More of the subsidies on fuel and food, feasting on large sunset meals farmers are making big sales this season, but they don’t feel they’re benefiting from cited the decline in the activity of rental companies. After electricity are expected to be lifted this along with traditional sweets. Food the crop, the nation’s second biggest earner after gold. A cash shortage that under- an exceptional year in 2015 with a 4.1 percent expansion, summer. prices usually inch higher in response lines this southern African country’s deepening economic woes has left farmers who Swedish growth slowed down to 3.2 percent in 2016. The President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi says to Ramadan’s increased demand.—AP central bank expects 2.8 percent growth this year. —AFP travel long distances to auctions unpaid, stranded and desperate. —AP EXCHANGE RATES

Chinese Yuan Renminbi 44.765 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 313.980 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Australian Dollar 227.690 Thai Bhat 9.920 Japanese Yen 0.002660 0.002840 US Dollar Buying 303.200 Turkish Lira 85.320 ASIAN COUNTRIES Kenyan Shilling 0.002939 0.002939 Japanese Yen 2.735 GOLD Korean Won 0.000260 0.000275 Indian Rupees 4.713 20 Gram 257.510 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL Malaysian Ringgit 0.067159 0.073159 Pkistani Rupees 2.904 10 Gram 131.680 Nepalese Rupee 0.002994 0.003164 Srilankan Rupees 1.987 5 Gram 66.680 CURRENCY BUY SELL Pakistan Rupee 0.002702 0.002992 Nepali Rupees 2.958 Philippine Peso 0.005999 0.006299 Singapore Dollar 220.740 Europe Hongkong Dollar 39.053 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd British Pound 0.383991 0.393991 Sierra Leone 0.000037 0.000043 Bangladesh Taka 3.766 Czech Korune 0.004757 0.016757 Singapore Dollar 0.213904 0.223904 Philippine Peso 6.112 Danish Krone 0.041484 0.046484 South African Rand 0.017349 0.025849 Rate for Transfr Selling Rate Thai Baht 8.947 Euro 0. 333398 0.342398 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001632 0.002212 US Dollar 304.050 Norwegian Krone 0.032032 0.037232 Taiwan 0.009949 0.010129 Canadian Dolla 226.790 GCC COUNTRIES Romanian Leu 0.074136 0.074136 Thai Baht 0.008571 0.009121 Saudi Riyal 81.227 Sterling Pound 390.765 Slovakia 0.009106 0.019106 Qatari Riyal 83.661 Euro 341.475 Swedish Krona 0.030744 0.035744 Arab Omani Riyal 791.060 Swiss Frank 297.590 Bahraini Dinar 808.820 Swiss Franc 0.304352 0.315352 Bahraini Dinar 0.801254 0.809754 Bahrain Dinar 806.440 UAE Dirham 82.931 Turkish Lira 0.079792 0.090092 Egyptian Pound 0.014013 0.019921 UAE Dirhams 83.175 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000086 Qatari Riyals 84.395 ARAB COUNTRIES Australasia Iraqi Dinar 0.000190 0.000250 Egyptian Pound - Cash 19.300 Saudi Riyals 81.975 Australian Dollar 0.217912 0.229912 Jordanian Dinar 0.424188 0.433188 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 16.754 Jordanian Dinar 428.755 New Zealand Dollar 0.208457 0.217957 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.223 Egyptian Pound 16.931 Tunisian Dinar 127.360 Lebanese Pound 0.000151 0.00251 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.989 America Jordanian Dinar 429.340 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020324 0.044324 Indian Rupees 4.718 Canadian Dollar 0.220567 0.229567 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.029 Nigerian Naira 0.000365 0.001000 Pakistani Rupees 2.899 Georgina Lari 0.137551 0.137551 Syrian Lira 2.170 Omani Riyal 0.784618 0.790298 Bangladesh Taka 3.774 US Dollars 0.300450 0.304850 Morocco Dirham 31.708 Qatar Riyal 0.082841 0.084291 Philippines Pesso 6.099 US Dollars Mint 0.300950 0.304850 Saudi Riyal 0.080127 0.081427 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 167.795 Syrian Pound 0.001291 0.001511 US Dollar Transfer 304.400 Japanese Yen 3.730 Asia Euro 341.840 Tunisian Dinar 0.122400 0.130400 Syrian Pound 2.420 Bangladesh Taka 0.003389 0.003973 Turkish Lira 0.079792 0.090092 Sterling Pound 392.070 Chinese Yuan 0.042923 0.046423 Canadian dollar 227.160 Nepalese Rupees 3.945 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036990 0.039740 UAE Dirhams 0.081493 0.083193 Turkish lira 85.510 Malaysian Ringgit 72.115 Indian Rupee 0.004128 0.004816 Yemeni Riyal 0.000990 0.001070 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 BUSINESS

White & Case advises UASC on merger with Hapag-Lloyd

KUWAIT: Global law firm White & Case shared fleet capacity of approximately involving a number of M&A and finance was an essential element in bringing the Justin Benson, Adrian Beasley (both LLP has advised United Arab Shipping 1.6 million TEU. It remains a listed com- market ‘firsts’.” process to a successful conclusion.” London), Ji Hong (Seoul), Simon Collins Company Limited (UASC) and its major pany in Germany. As a result of the trans- New York-based partner Chris Dubai-based partner MichielVisser (Tokyo) and Farhad Jalinous (Washington, shareholders Qatar Investment Authority action, QIA and PIF have become sub- Frampton said: “UASC’s existing debt said: “This is one of the largest ever DC), counsel Nneka Wood (Abu Dhabi), (QIA) and the Public Investment Fund of stantial investors in Hapag-Lloyd AG, financings presented a complex capital inbound M&A deals involving the Gulf local partners Claire Matheson Kirton Saudi Arabia (PIF) on UASC’s merger with holding approximately 14.4 percent and structure that required amendments and region. The successful closing of the (Dubai) and Florian Ziegler (Frankfurt), Hapag-Lloyd AG, a listed company head- 10.1 percent shareholdings respectively. restatements of approximately 35 sepa- transaction required innovative deal and associates Jan Ole Eichst‰dt, quartered in Hamburg, Germany. “We advised UASC and its major rate facilities and a significant new refi- structures in the DIFC.” Simon Rommelfanger (both Frankfurt), The merger creates the world’s fifth shareholders QIA and PIF on this strate- nancing facility. The negotiation process The White & Case M&A team was co- Sonia Abdul-Rahman, Faris Al Amoudi biggest liner shipping company. The gically important and highly challenging for the merger, including agreeing terms led by partners Roger Kiem (Frankfurt) (both Dubai), Andrew Harper,David transaction was completed on May 24, transaction,” said Frankfurt-based White that fit comfortably within Hapag-Lloyd and MichielVisser (Doha/Dubai), and the Wright, James M. Turner, Sam Harding, 2017 after intensive negotiations with & Case partner Roger Kiem. “White & AG’s overall debt financing practices, White & Case finance team was co-led by Zahra Knapper (all London), Daniel financing and refinancing lenders and Case’s deep knowledge and expertise was both challenging and complicated, partners Christopher Frampton (New Moon, Elijah Gjeltema, Joseph Kalis (all after obtaining antitrust and foreign across German, DIFC, New York and and the seamless cooperation between York) and Alison Weal (London). They New York), Jeffrey Dressler (Tokyo) and investment approvals. English law enabled us to operate seam- our New York, London, Tokyo, Seoul and were supported by an international team Keith Schomig (Washington, DC), and The combined company, Hapag- lessly and to navigate our clients Dubai offices, including with the finance of White & Case lawyers including part- further lawyers from White & Case offices Lloyd AG, has a fleet of 230 vessels and a through the complexity of the deal team and counsel at Hapag-Lloyd AG, ners Markus Stephanblome (Frankfurt), around the world. Global fashion giants fret over India cow crackdown NEW DELHI: Indian exporters were scram- told AFP. “The industry is in panic mode at bling yesterday to assure global clients like the moment. We have been handed a Zara and Giorgio Armani their shipments death certificate by the ruling Modi gov- would arrive despite a government crack- ernment.” Cows are considered sacred by down on cattle slaughter which threatens some Hindus and the new ban was justified the lucrative leather industry. on the grounds of avoiding animal cruelty. The government last week declared a But critics have accused the ruling Hindu nationwide ban on the sale of cattle for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of pursuing a slaughter, startling major fashion labels hardline religious agenda. The BJP has who buy billions of dollars’ worth of leather pushed for stronger protections for cows from India every year to make high-end during the leadership of Prime Minister shoes, handbags and jackets. “They’re call- Narendra Modi. There has been a surge in ing and writing emails and asking what the vigilante attacks on cattle handlers and consequences of this will be, and I don’t curbs on the meat industry since he took know what to tell them,” said Mohammad office in 2014. Zia Nafees, whose Kolkata-based business Industry figures said the latest decree sells finished leather to Zara and Marks & ran counter to Modi’s goal of creating jobs Spencer for shoes. and luring foreign investment, and said The controversial ruling effectively retailers could look next door if the disrup- chokes off India’s supply of beef and tion continued. Neighboring Bangladesh leather, and industry groups and some and Pakistan-both major garment produc- states where cow slaughter has previously ers-are mainly Muslim and cow slaughter is been permitted have vowed to fight the not an issue. The industry hopes the ruling- decree. India is the world’s second-largest which affects not just cows but the trade in producer of footwear and leather garments bulls, bullocks, buffaloes, calves and and sold $13 billion worth of goods last camels-will be rescinded or amended to year-nearly half to clients abroad who are exclude buffalo, an animal not considered growing skittish, industry groups say. sacred but valued for its leather. “My family has been working with The slaughter of cows, as well as the Radley and Armani for the last few decades possession or consumption of beef, is and now they’re asking us if we can fulfil banned in most but not all Indian states. our commitments to them,” Imran Ahmed Some impose up to life imprisonment for PHOENIX: In this May 15, 2017 photo, shoppers pay for their purchases at a Marshalls & Home Goods retail store, part of the TJX Companies Khan from the Council for Leather Exports infringements. — AFP brand, in Phoenix. — AP US consumer spending, incomes grew solidly Home prices rising two times faster than wages WASHINGTON: Americans increased their percent in January. The rise in spending was led over the past 12 months ended in March, the spending in April at the fastest pace in four by a 0.9 percent rise in purchases of long-lasting most since July 2014. Home values are increas- months, bolstered by a solid gain in incomes. durable goods, reflecting a rebound in demand ing at more than double the pace of average The strong results underscored expectations for autos after a weak first quarter. Spending on hourly earnings, making it more difficult for that the economy is poised to rebound after a non-durable goods such as clothing was up a many people to afford to buy a home. lackluster start to the year. solid 0.6 percent, and spending on services such “Over the last year, analysts suggested that Consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in April as utilities grew a moderate 0.3 percent. one factor pushing prices higher was the unusu- after a 0.3 percent rise in March, the Commerce The 1.2 percent GDP growth rate in the first ally low inventory of homes for sale,” said David Department said Monday. It was the best show- quarter was far below the targets set by Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the ing since December. Incomes also rose 0.4 per- President Donald Trump. During the campaign, index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices. cent, double the 0.2 percent March increase. Trump blasted the Obama administration’s eco- “People are staying in their homes longer rather Consumer spending, which accounts for 70 per- nomic policies, saying they had contributed to than selling and trading up. cent of economic activity, grew at the slowest the weakest recovery in the post-World War II A steady job market has bulked up demand pace in seven years in the first quarter. That was period. He promised to double growth from an among many would-be buyers, but there are a key reason the economy, as measured by the anemic 2 percent annual rate to above 4 per- fewer properties on the market. Sales listings gross domestic product, expanded by just 1.2 cent with his economic program featuring tax have plummeted 9 percent over the past year to percent at the start of the year. Economists are cuts, deregulation and tougher enforcement of 1.93 million, according to the National hopeful GDP growth will rebound to around 3 trade rules. Association of Realtors. The shortage of homes percent in the current April-June quarter. However, so far, Trump’s economic program to buy has caused prices to rise sharply in many A key inflation gauge preferred by the Federal has made little headway in Congress. He put for- metro areas. The largest annual gain was in Reserve edged up a slight 0.2 percent in April, ward last week a $4.1 trillion budget for 2018, Seattle, where prices have surged 12.3 percent. leaving prices rising just 1.7 percent over the but it has attracted criticism from both Portland, Oregon recorded a 9.2 percent past year - the slowest 12-month gain this year Democrats and Republicans for its sharp cuts in increase, while Dallas prices rose 8.6 percent. and below the Fed’s 2 percent target. Even with the government’s anti-poverty programs. Of the 20 cities in the index, the weakest gain inflation remaining contained, economists was in New York City — an area where home believe the Fed will raise rates for a second time Home prices prices are already high relative to median THESSALONIKI: A man passes the Bank of Greece yesterday in Thessaloniki. Greece’s this year when official meet on June 13-14, espe- US home prices climbed in March at the incomes. Home prices in New York City have debt mountain stands at a towering 179 percent of annual output, the legacy of a crisis cially if the employment report due on Friday strongest rate in nearly three year as a dwindling risen 4.1 percent in the past year, still much that brought panic to the markets and nearly forced the country out of the euro. —AFP shows job growth remaining strong. With spend- supply of houses for sale is causing prices to sig- higher than US average hourly earnings that ing and incomes both up 0.4 percent in April, nificantly outpace income growth. The Standard have increased 2.5 percent over the past 12 the saving rate was unchanged for a third month & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home months, according to the Bureau of Labor at 5.3 percent of after-tax income. It had been 5 price index released yesterday rose 5.9 percent Statistics. —AP French consumer confidence reaches nearly 10-year high PARIS: French consumer confidence last long-term average, said Insee. The survey Ryanair logs rising annual profits month hit its highest level since August also found a boost of optimism about the 2007, statistics showed yesterday, as more outlook for the economy as a whole, with a LONDON: Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair charted a lion as the company slashed fares. “We are growth with lower fares.” The pound’s Brexit-dri- people had a positive outlook about their jump of five points to a level unseen since course to higher profits last year, despite tough pleased to report a six-percent increase in (net ven slump is reducing the amount Ryanair earns future earnings as the country elected a August 2007. Insee noted a boost of opti- trading on the back of Britain’s shock Brexit vote, profit) despite difficult trading conditions,” said from its key British market once the currency is youthful president with a reformist agenda. mism in this indicator has been observed it said yesterday. Net profits banked six percent chief executive Michael O’Leary. He added that converted into euros-the unit of Ireland and Coming in at 102 points, the consumer during previous presidential elections. higher to 1.32 billion euros ($1.48 billion) in the those conditions were “caused by a series of which the Dublin-based airline uses to price its confidence index broke its long-term aver- Emmanuel Macron swept a runoff elec- group’s financial year to March 31, compared security events at European cities, a switch of earnings. Ryanair meanwhile warned over major age of 100 points for the first time since the tion in May to become France’s youngest with 1.24 billion euros last time around, Ryanair charter capacity from North Africa, Turkey and disruption if Britain did not remain in the “Open global economic crisis struck in the second president at the age of 39, leading a new said in a statement. That was in line with the Egypt to mainland Europe, and a sharp decline Skies” agreement following its departure from half of 2007, the French national statistics centrist political party that aims to over- company’s forecast range of between 1.30 bil- in sterling following the June 2016 Brexit vote”. the European Union. agency Insee said yesterday. The Insee sur- come the left-right political divide seen as lion and 1.35 billion euros. The number of pas- “We reacted to these challenges by improv- “Lack of clarity on whether the UK will opt to vey questions consumers about their per- having hobbled the country’s efforts to sengers soared 13 percent to a record 120 mil- ing our customer experience, and stimulating remain in Europe’s open skies agreement could ceptions of their personal finances and the reform and modernize. Concerns about cause significant disruption of flights between general economy. unemployment, which rose to record levels the two regions for months after Brexit takes French consumers’ confidence about under Macron’s predecessor Francois effect in March 2019,” the company said. “In the their personal outlook jumped by four Hollande, were at their lowest level since absence of such certainty, or direction, we will points to reach its long-term average for June 2008. continue to pivot our growth away from the UK the first time since September 2007. While The consumer confidence index is an in 2017 and 2018 to capitalize on the many the figure for those who judge it a good important indicator of future spending by growth opportunities elsewhere in Europe,” time to make big purchases dropped by consumers, one of the most important driv- Ryanair said. — AFP seven points, it still remained above its ers of economic growth. — AFP Japan household spending drops again in April: Data TOKYO: Japanese household spending dropped again in April, official fig- ures showed yesterday, as consumers kept a tight hold on their purse strings despite years of government efforts to boost spending. The fresh data attests to what analysts believe is a broader picture of the world’s third largest economy-it is picking up steam overall but tepid consumption con- tinues to act as a drag. Spending by households of two or more people shrank 1.4 percent THE VATICAN: An airplane of the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is seen in the sky above statues year-on-year, extending its declining streak of more than a year, according of the Vatican. Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair charted a course to higher profits last year, despite to data from the internal affairs ministry. — AFP tough trading on the back of Britain’s shock Brexit vote, it said yesterday.—AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 BUSINESS Global shares weaker as investors await data

LONDON: Global stock markets were generally official factory and service industry purchasing investor confidence in the US economy,” said law and close advisor Jared Kushner had media reporting on ‘Russiagate’ will also weaker yesterday as investors stayed on the side- managers’ indexes will be released. The ISM Margaret Yang, a market analyst at CMC Markets met the Russian ambassador prior to the pick up.” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis lines before the release of a raft of economic data index for US manufacturing due tomorrow and in Singapore. inauguration and proposed a secret com- chief James Bullard said Trump would have later this week. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent US private and official payroll numbers due Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 finished nearly flat at munications link to the Kremlin. The talks, to start delivering on his promised agenda, in early trading to 7,523.33 and France’s CAC 40 Friday will give investors the latest clues on the 19,677.85 and South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.4 if confirmed, would raise new questions which helped fan a surge in global markets was down 0.5 percent at 5,304.86. Germany’s health of the world’s largest economy. Analysts percent to 2,343.68. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 about the White House’s relationship with in the months after the election. DAX was almost unchanged at 12,624.74. Futures said upcoming economic data will also deter- added 0.2 percent to 5,717.90. Markets in Moscow, which US intelligence agencies “Washington does have to deliver at augured a tepid start on Wall Street after a long mine the direction of the US dollar, which has Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and New say could have helped the tycoon win some point,” he told Bloomberg TV. “I think weekend. Dow futures dipped less than 0.1 per- strengthened against the euro as it lost ground Zealand were lower. November’s election. that is a concern going forward, whether cent while S&P futures fell 0.1 percent. recently due to security concerns. Markets in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei There are fears the budding crisis, along the honeymoon period would end at some A raft of data being released this week will “The sustainability of the dollar’s rally will be were closed for a holiday. Most Asian markets with several other scandals enveloping the point and maybe the reality of American give investors fresh clues about the status of the tested this Friday night, with the non-farm pay- fell in holiday-thinned trade yesterday, with administration, could prevent Trump from politics would settle in.” There were few cat- global economy. Investors were awaiting the roll number in focus. A strong jobs report will dealers keeping tabs on a developing scandal pushing through his market-friendly eco- alysts to drive business, with Wall Street eurozone business and consumer confidence likely firm up the Fed’s decision to trigger a sec- around Donald Trump’s administration. The nomic policies. Okasan Online Securities and London closed Monday for public holi- readings later in the day. Today, China’s latest ond rate hike this year, and also reinforce Washington Post said Friday that Trump’s son-in- said in a commentary: “With President days, while Hong Kong and Shanghai were Trump returning home from a trip abroad, closed yesterday. — Agencies

TOKYO: A man walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm yesterday in Tokyo. —AP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 BUSINESS EU, China seek tighter trade bond to face Trump

BRUSSELS: The EU and China will leader after President Xi Jinping, will expected to deliver a strong statement welcome commitments from China authoritarianism under Xi have also attempt to deepen ties at a summit also visit Germany where he will meet in support of the Paris agreement. But about liberalization have not been rung alarm bells for Europeans. tomorrow amid rising worry about the Merkel and sign a cooperation deal on besides climate, big obstacles to a deep- matched by concrete action,” she added. “EU leaders need to make good on direction taken by US President Donald electric cars. “There’s a lot we can offer er diplomatic breakthrough remain. Many had hoped that President Xi their pledges and make human rights Trump on trade and climate change. each other,” said vice foreign minister Jinping’s fervent defense of globaliza- and the freeing of peaceful activists a Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will meet EU Wang Chao in the run-up to the ‘Walk the talk’ tion at the World Economic Forum in top strategic priority in the EU’s relation- president Donald Tusk and European European tour by Li. Also on the agenda is an EU-China January would signal a new open trade ship with China,” said Human Rights Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker The Brussels talks follow a tense investment accord that has been under era for China. “We have heard a lot of Watch’s EU director Lotte Leicht. In a let- with hopes of forging an answer to international tour by Trump in which the negotiation since 2013 and that is large- positive signals coming out of China ter to Juncker and Tusk, several groups Trump’s “America First” challenge. But unpredictable tycoon refused pleas by ly seen as a dry run for a full trade deal. when it comes to market opening and of rights activists, including Human years of skirmishes over trade and his European counterparts to adhere to But those talks are at a standstill over freer trade, but we hope this week we Rights Watch, urged the EU to take up human rights will make a deeper the 2015 Paris climate accord. longstanding disagreements on the lack will lead to some concrete result,” the these concerns with China’s leadership. alliance difficult. The incentive to The EU, US and China each roughly of access given to European companies European Chamber of Commerce’s Mats “While EU officials are willing to strengthen links with Beijing is strong represent the same weight in the world in China and a fight over cheap Chinese Harborn told Bloomberg TV. engage in very public, critical battles after German Chancellor Angela Merkel, economy and an exit by Washington exports that Europeans say are unfairly But Li Chenggang, assistant minister with China over steel tariffs, solar pan- the EU’s most powerful leader, on from the climate deal would leave its flooding their market. of commerce, told a news briefing in els, or the South China Sea, most EU Sunday warned that the EU can no only chance of survival in the hands of China, the EU’s second-largest trade Beijing that “the two sides don’t see eye officials are not willing to engage pub- longer depend on longtime ally US as a Brussels and Beijing. Given the context, partner, “needs to walk the talk,” said EU to eye on all issues”. licly in such debates over China’s use of reliable partner. China’s premier and the heads of the Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem China’s militarization of islands in the torture and arbitrary detention,” the let- Li, China’s second most powerful European Union’s main institutions are at a business conference last week. “The South China Sea and the increase in ter said. —AFP

Spanish taxis go on strike against Uber, Cabify

MADRID: Thousands of Spanish taxis went 16-hour days on strike in Madrid and Barcelona yester- Uber does not employ drivers or own day to protest against ride-hailing compa- vehicles, but instead relies on private con- nies such as Uber and Cabify. In the sea- tractors with their own cars, allowing them side city of Barcelona, a draw for tourists, to run their own businesses. It claims it is a taxi drivers stopped work for a full 24 service provider, connecting passengers hours while those in the Spanish capital with these freelance drivers directly and went on strike for 12 hours and protested cheaply. in the streets. But critics and competitors around the At Madrid’s main Atocha train station, world say this allows it to dodge costly reg- they let off firecrackers and shouted “taxis ulations such as stringent licensing united, never defeated” while hapless trav- requirements for taxi drivers, who undergo ellers stood by. Jara and her mother Isabel hundreds of hours of training. had just come back from a trip and were “We’re getting less business, and we going to take public transport instead of a have to work way more hours,” said David planned cab. Parrilla, a protesting taxi driver who said he “It’s going to take one hour for a trip had paid 150,000 euros ($170,000) for a that would take 10 minutes in a taxi,” said license in Madrid, where there are some Jara, adding she had used Uber before and 15,700 taxis. He added that he and his wife criticizing taxis, which she said were “really now take turns driving the cab 16 hours a expensive”. day to make enough money. Uber has had Taxi drivers complain that Uber-type a tough ride in Spain, where it was forced services are endangering their jobs and out of the country in 2014 by legal pres- that ride-hailing companies are not imple- sure and taxi protests. menting existing rules. Spanish regulations A Spanish judge ruled in December stipulate there should be a quota of one 2014 that Uber risked breaking the law licensed vehicle from companies like US- with its UberPop service that enabled based Uber or Spain’s Cabify for every 30 unregulated drivers to drive for money taxis. using their own cars. But taxis counter the quota is currently The US company is now operating a one for seven taxis, prompting Spain’s limited a version of its UberX service that transport ministry to pledge to work uses licensed, professional drivers instead towards implementing the rule. of amateurs. —AFP MADRID: A protestor holds up a smoke canister as taxi drivers march during a strike action held between Atocha Train station to Neptuno Square in Madrid yesterday against competition from rival transport companies Uber and Cabify (Tourism Vehicle with Driver). —AFP Novartis has assets to sell, investors wary of big deal Company mulls asset disposals of some $50 billion ZURICH: As Novartis considers asset transaction. He suggested last year range of cancers, Novartis has only asset swap, Novartis faces a March sales that could raise $50 billion, the Roche stake - amassed during investigational molecules in this hot 2018 deadline to exercise its put investors are worried any cash raised former chairman and CEO Daniel new therapy area. option for its 36.5 percent stake. may give the Swiss drugmaker fire- Vasella’s unrequited merger aspira- Vas Narasimhan, Novartis’s drug People familiar with GSK’s thinking power for another unsuccessful tions two decades ago - could be development chief, could be tempt- confirmed the British group would megadeal. sold once another, potentially more ed to look outside the company, be a willing buyer of the stake, Novartis’s $52 billion takeover of significant transaction is lined up to some analysts said, especially as which added $234 million to US-based eye care giant Alcon, com- absorb the proceeds. competitors including AstraZeneca Novartis’s profit last year. Alcon, pleted in 2011, saddled it with a “We’re always monitoring what’s near approval for their own I-O mol- whose eye drugs portfolio was business whose sales and profit going on but have not changed our ecules. “We believe that Novartis moved into Novartis’s main pharma- TAIPEI: A visitor plays go with a robot designed by Taiwan’s Industrial have faltered two years running. position regarding our M&A strategy may be pushed to liquidate assets in ceuticals unit last year, has been Technology Research Institute (ITRI) during the Computex Show in Taipei Now, Chief Executive Joe Jimenez is trimmed to include surgical equip- yesterday —AFP reviewing Alcon’s surgical devices ment for conditions like cataracts as and contact lens businesses, sug- well as contact lenses and solutions. Chess-playing robot star gesting they could be valued at $25- When Jimenez began his strate- $35 billion if he unloads them. The gic review this year, he said “all American CEO is also considering options were on the table”. Sales of Taiwan tech fair disposal of a roughly $14 billion have fallen nine quarters, necessitat- stake in cross-town rival Roche, as ing a costly program to arrest the TAIPEI: A chess-playing robot stole the show as sized the importance of artificial intelligence as it well as his over-the-counter (OTC) fall. Even Vasella, who bought Alcon Asia’s largest tech fair kicked off in Taiwan yes- exhibited its Model S and X vehicles at the fair drugs venture with GlaxoSmithKline, as he sought to build up a European terday with artificial intelligence center-stage. for the first time. The US automaker entered the worth some $10 billion. healthcare giant akin to Johnson & The annual Computex trade show in Taipei Taiwan market last September. “We are on our Given Alcon missteps, however, Johnson, now acknowledges the comes as Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen seeks way to become fully driverless,” said Hans Li, investors are wary about arming transaction was a mistake. to boost the island’s economy with her “Asian marketing and communications manager for Novartis with a pile of cash, for fear Alcon’s problems have coincided Silicon Valley” project, nurturing startups and Tesla in Taiwan. Checking out the car models managers eager to refocus on can- not only with the patent expiration attracting investments from major internation- was Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen, who cer drugs as they address a sales hit of its blockbuster cancer drug al companies. The full-size robot impressed vis- said the government had set up an AI lab with from patent expiries might blunder Gleevec but also with the lackluster itors by taking a pawn piece in a mocked-up the private sector last month and described the into a big takeover. “We would launch of Novartis’s new heart fail- chess game. Inventors say they envisage the field as a “key focus for our nation’s develop- applaud selling those stakes, gener- ure medicine Entresto, which in machine having a range of uses, from working ment”. After a hyped year over virtual reality in ally,” said Stephen Anness of Invesco 2016 missed sales expectations. Like on assembly lines to care-giving. “It can recog- 2016, it was still pervasive with companies Perpetual, Novartis’s 23rd largest Alcon, Entresto has forced the com- nize the shape of a small chess pawn, notify its developing new ways to use the technology shareholder, according to Thomson pany to step up marketing invest- brain, execute AI movements and interact with aside from entertainment and gaming. Reuters data. Novartis headquarters in Basel ments. its opponent,” said division director Lewis Liu of Hong Kong firm Zotac displayed its VR back- “But what do you do with that A fund manager among the Industrial Technology Research Institute of pack that lets the user move around without money?” Anness said. “I would be or potential disposals,” Novartis order to finance acquisitions in Novartis’s top-60 investors said the Taiwan, which built the robot. fear of tripping over connecting wires while very cautious about selling spokesman Michael Willi told pharma,” said Michael Leuchten, a Alcon and Entresto stumbles raise Enabled by an intelligent vision system, the playing a video game. stakes...in things to raise a war-chest Reuters. UBS analyst. red flags about managers’ ability to robot can also detect how much is left in your But Jacky Huang, Zotac’s product director, to go and do a massive deal, only for Speculation that Novartis might tackle business challenges like a big coffee cup to determine if it needs to be said many clients used it for non-entertainment that deal to go and be another poor Portfolio buy AstraZeneca sparked a brief takeover. refilled. Taiwan has already introduced a troop purposes, including combat training and post- deal.” Novartis, which is holding a two- jump in the British company’s stock “A big deal might solve some of of mini-robots going by the name of “Pepper” trauma treatment for soldiers. Taiwan’s personal To be sure, Jimenez has said day investor event in Boston cur- last year. There has also been talk of their issues, but personally I would into workplaces. They were launched at two computer maker Acer showed off its VR headset Novartis’s M&A focus remains on rently has portfolio holes a major its interest in Bristol-Myers. prefer to see them doing smaller banks and an insurance company in Taipei last StarVR-developed jointly with Swedish firm smaller transactions, including low- deal could help fill. Where rivals acquisitions,” the investor said. “A year, dancing to music, playing with children in Starbreeze-which is being rolled out in IMAX er-risk drug licensing deals, ranging including Roche, Merck and Bristol- Put option cash mountain of $50 billion lobbies and leading staff aerobics sessions. theatres. Acer CEO Jason Chen said the firm up to $5 billion. Still, Jimenez has Myers Squibb have immuno-oncol- For its OTC joint venture with would definitely make me nerv- US electric car company Tesla also empha- hoped to jump from VR to AI in future. —AFP not dismissed the notion of a larger ogy drugs (I-O) on the market for a GSK that emerged out of their 2014 ous.” —Reuters China to launch cybersecurity law despite foreign concerns

BEIJING: China will implement a controversial cyberse- cybersecurity bureau, gathered some 200 representa- ‘Headaches for companies’ an expert on Sino-US relations at Yale Law School. curity law tomorrow despite concerns from foreign firms tives from foreign and domestic companies and indus- But concerns remain. “The regulator is unprepared to Beijing, he said, is “wrestling with legitimate challenges worried about its impact on their ability to do business in try associations at the new headquarters of the enforce the law” and it is “very unlikely” anything will hap- that every country faces, and ... much of the caution and the world’s second largest economy. Passed last Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) in Beijing. pen on June 1, said one participant, who asked for ambiguity comes from a desire to get things right.” But the November, the law is largely aimed at protecting China’s The May 19 discussion centred on a draft of the rules anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue. That impression process is causing “headaches for companies, Chinese and networks and private user information at a time when for transferring personal data overseas, participants was only strengthened a few days after the meeting, when foreign alike”. the recent WannaCry ransomware attack showed any told AFP. authorities issued 21 new draft documents describing country can be vulnerable to cyber threats. Attendees received an updated version of the docu- national standards on topics from cloud computing to Protecting ‘national honor’ But companies have pleaded with the government to ment, as well as Zhao’s assurance that regulators would financial data, noting they would be available for public China already has some of the world’s tightest controls delay the legislation’s implementation amid concerns remove some of the language that had received strong comment until July 7. over web content, protected by what is called “The Great about unclear provisions and how the law would affect objections, they said. More new drafts, including detailed guidelines on cross- Firewall”, but even some of its universities and petrol sta- personal information and cloud computing. The govern- The new document, obtained by AFP, removed a con- border data transfers, were published Saturday. It is “crystal tions were hit by the global ransomware attack in May. The ment appears to still be scrambling to finalize the rules. tentious requirement for companies to store customers’ clear that the regulatory regime is evolving and does not draft cybersecurity rules provided at the CAC meeting Just two weeks ago, Zhao Zeliang, director of the personal data in China. simply switch on like a light June 1”, said Graham Webster, address only one part of the sweeping law. —AFP WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 BUSINESS KFH launches new banking cards summer campaign KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) confidence. The campaign also aims at branches, including KFH-Turkey, in order launched a new summer campaign enhancing the bank’s presence especial- to offer services for the bank’s clients in themed “Get Back Double the Value of ly that it dominates the largest market Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, your Purchases” in an attempt to encour- share in the field of banking cards. Germany, Jordan and Dubai. age clients to use KFH credit, prepaid KFH strives to continuously offer its KFH’s mission is to achieve highest and debit cards while making purchases clients new promotions and discounts levels of excellence and innovation in in Kuwait and overseas. in order to distinguish them among the field of client service, while develop- The campaign that lasts for 120 peers, not to mention to further bol- ing common interest for all those con- days starting May 16, 2017, gives KFH ster bank’s leading position in the field cerned with the financial institution. customers chances to enter draw to of banking cards. KFH’s vision is to spearhead the global win double cashback up to KD 2000 KFH marketing campaigns play a sig- development in Islamic financial servic- daily. KFH Credit and Prepaid cards nificant role in underlining KFH’s princi- es, and to upgrade the bank into the lev- used for domestic and international ples that include boosting sales, and el of becoming the most sustainable purchases and KFH Debit cards used benefitting clients and merchants. It is profitable Islamic bank in the world. for international purchases are eligible worth noting that KFH has won several KFH’s values include cementing lead- for the draw. For every KD 1 spent awards in the field of banking cards ership through all its businesses, includ- locally earns 1 chance and every KD 1 which reiterates its success and efficien- ing leadership in the Islamic banking spent internationally earn 3 chances to cy in banking cards market. KFH enjoys services worldwide, through innovation enter the daily draw. high confidence and leadership in the KFH was established in Kuwait in Islamic products and services, not to and in client service and the develop- This campaign is part of KFH efforts market in addition to high quality prod- 1977 and is enlisted in the Kuwait Stock mention a high standard of innovation ment of its employees. In addition, KFH to reward its clients and grant them ucts which have enabled it to achieve Exchange. KFH Group is a global pio- and client service. is committed to all its procedures, and to additional value; thus achieving cus- growth in cards market and increase the neer in the field of Islamic banking KFH manages its operations in the setting up long-life partnerships with tomer satisfaction and boosting their number of customers. services, where it offers a wide array of GCC, Asia, and Europe through over 480 the concerned authorities. Nissan Navara outreach campaign scoops Festival of Media Award

Pioneering ‘Abu Azziez’ campaign plays to strength of Nissan brand equity

DUBAI: An innovative advertising campaign promoting the Nissan Navara pick-up in Saudi Arabia has been recognized with an award at the Festival of Media MENA held recently in Dubai. The campaign, delivered by the UAE office of the OMD network, had the tricky task of reach- ing key influencers within the Saudi desert- dwelling population and overcoming some ingrained views about the suitability of modern vehicles for harsh desert conditions. In these rural areas, small businesses and farmers have a long tradition of using Nissan pick-ups to con- duct their daily affairs, a tradition that dates all the way back to the period when such vehicles bore the Datsun brand. However, the elder generation has devel- oped a belief that the older, less sophisticated (Second from left) Jassim Al Sane - Director, Investment Banking - Dubai, Abdullah vehicles of the 1960s and ‘70s were tougher Razooqi - Analyst, Investment Banking - Dubai and Zaid Al Kailani - Associate, and better suited to the dunes than their mod- Corporate Banking - Kuwait. ern counterparts. In fact, such was the high regard in which the old Datsun pick-up was Euromoney names Citi ‘Best held that previous generations even had a name for the vehicle, Umm Azziez, meaning Investment Bank in Kuwait’ ‘mother of all that is dear’. Within these societies, blood ties are strong and families have huge respect for clan leaders past, the campaign used the title Abu Azziez or Euromoney Magazine recently needs in Kuwait and the region. We are Day-to-day rigors KUWAIT: and are strongly influenced by them. “father of all that is dear”. It didn’t take long for the desert-dwelling named Citi as the Best Investment Bank in honored for this recognition especially Consequently, it is considered essential to con- “We really felt that it was essential to accentu- population to be hugely impressed by both the Kuwait for the period covering the past from a highly accredited publication like nect with these elders in order to leverage their ate the connection with previous generations of desert performance and the all-round cargo- twelve months. The prestigious accolade Euromoney”. powers of persuasion within their extended fam- Datsun and Nissan pick-ups which helped many and passenger-carrying capabilities of this was part of the Euromoney Awards for Citi has been present in the Middle East ily group. of today’s tribal leaders establish their business- rugged workhorse. Consequently, word quickly Excellence 2017, considered to be among and North Africa since 1955, and offers full Due to the nature of the campaign and its es and consequently their position in society,” spread around the various tribal groups about the most respected global awards for bank- scale corporate and investment banking target audience, different approaches were said Fadi Ghosn, Chief Marketing Officer at the suitability of the Navara for day-to-day rigors ing excellence. services in Algeria, Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, therefore required to be applied by Nissan to Nissan Middle East. of rural life in the Kingdom. “We achieved high The global bank came ahead of compe- Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, reach this particular market segment, rather “The old Datsun pick-up was a capable and reach within our target audience through test tition across all main categories, leading Morocco and Pakistan. Citi’s institutional than the traditional approaches. reliable partner for many of these individuals as drives in rural areas which in turn led to a market some of the largest and most complex cap- capabilities in the region include Treasury & The winning campaign addressed the chal- they made their way in the world as young men. share increase. It was a truly stunning result for ital markets and M&A advisory transactions Trade Solutions, Corporate & Investment lenge of reaching the defined target audience Today, as elders, they immediately understood the Abu Azziez campaign,” said Fadi Ghosn, Chief in Kuwait. “This award is a testament to Citi Banking, Capital Markets Origination, with a bold and innovative solution where the the Abu Azziez reference and of course were Marketing Officer at Nissan Middle East. Kuwait’s commitment to being the best Global Markets and Islamic Banking. elders were provided with Nissan Navaras to use intrigued to see how the all-new Navara would The judges at the Festival of Media MENA cer- bank to serve our clients. We are very grate- Citi, the leading global bank, has as they wished while conducting their daily busi- perform when compared with their memories of tainly agreed with that verdict, giving the cam- ful for the trust and confidence our clients approximately 200 million customer ness. To make the connection with the fondly the Umm Azziez vehicles, which they still hold in paign a silver award in the ‘Insight’ category for place in our capabilities every day and accounts and does business in more than remembered Nissan and Datsun pick-ups of the such high regard.” ‘Best Local Execution of a Brand.’ would like to thank Euromoney for this 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi pro- recognition”, said Usman Ahmed, Citi’s vides consumers, corporations, govern- Head for Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. ments and institutions with a broad range Fatah Adour, General Manager of of financial products and services, includ- Skyline team arrives in Kuwait Citibank Kuwait commented: “Citi estab- ing consumer banking and credit, corpo- lished its presence in Kuwait in 2006 and rate and investment banking, securities since then has offered all products and brokerage, transaction services, and wealth KUWAIT: A Skyline Team has arrived in Kuwait services that best serve the clients’ banking management. on Monday (May 29) a part of its Middle East tour. The team will be in Kuwait until June 16, 2017 and can be reached at the Kuwait Continental Hotel at Farwaniya. With 19 ongo- ing projects in nine major cities across Kerala, Skyline will be offering expert assistance to those looking to buy a home in Kerala. Established in 1989, Skyline Builders is the largest home builder in Kerala, with over 122 completed projects across Kerala. Initiated with the aim of transforming the landscape of Kerala, the builder is renowned for its innova- tive construction and commitment, which has made it Kerala’s most trusted builder. Skyline is known to set the path for others to follow, creating dream homes for its cus- tomers. The first choice of home for NRIs, with 6650 satisfied customers from 53 countries, the builder flawlessly combines beauty, functional- ity and innovation. Thus, each Skyline home is Etihad expands Boeing crafted with care, making sure that client expectations are surpassed, every time. International designs, world class luxury 787 network in Europe amenities, prime locations and on time deliv- ery are but a few things that make a Skyline ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways yesterday destinations joining our 787 network later home stand out from the rest. The customer announced plans to boost its European this year, we are giving more guests the always tops Skyline’s list of priorities. Little Dreamliner network with the deployment opportunity to fly on our next generation wonder that the builder offers a spectrum of of Boeing 787-9 aircraft to Amsterdam and aircraft. professional post sales services that simplify Madrid. The 299-seat Dreamliners will be “Flights to and from Amsterdam and the lives of over 6650 Skyliners. introduced on year-round scheduled serv- Madrid cater to business and leisure trav- Starting from the Homecare Division that ices to Amsterdam from 1 September, and ellers, and with growing demand, there takes care of utilities, support services, rental to Madrid, effective 1 October, joining was a strong case to introduce bigger air- and resale, to the After Sales Division that Dusseldorf and Zurich as the airline’s other craft to these destinations. The 787 is fast repairs and maintains your home keeping it in European Dreamliner services. The 787-9 becoming our flagship long-haul aircraft prime condition, to the Interiors division that will also operate seasonally to Athens dur- and as more are delivered, we will continue ing the summer months. to look at upgrading existing routes with helps you design a home that suits your With a phased delivery of nine Boeing these excellent planes. lifestyle with the best architects and designers, 787-9s this year, the aircraft are gradually “Since introducing our first 787 into there is no end to the luxuries that a Skyliner being introduced on a number of interna- commercial service more than two years has access to. tional routes from the airline’s Abu Dhabi ago, we have enjoyed excellent feedback Skylineage is yet another unique feature hub. Etihad Airways currently operates a from guests on our ground-breaking cabin that Skyline offers, which lets Skyline cus- fleet of 13 Boeing 787-9s to 11 destinations interiors that have set a benchmark for tomers and family stay free of cost at any of - namely Washington, Dusseldorf, Zurich, high service levels in the region and across their 6 furnished, air-conditioned Guest Houses Johannesburg, Amman, Riyadh, Singapore, the world.” across Kerala and one Guest House in Ooty. Shanghai, Tokyo, Perth and Brisbane from Etihad Airways’ two-class Boeing 787-9s This facility can be availed year after year. Abu Dhabi. Beirut, Beijing, Seoul and include award-winning interiors that fea- Skyline Builders is thus a role model for Melbourne are due to join the 787 network ture 28 Business Studios and 271 Economy many. Being the first and only builder in Kerala over the next few months. The Amsterdam Smart Seats, offering superior levels of to be accredited with CRISIL DA2+ and one of route will have a taste of the 787 between comfort, entertainment and in-flight con- the first builders in India to be ISO 9001:2015 2 and 30 June to help meet demand during nectivity. On-board decor and lighting certified, Skyline has always kept its promises, the early summer peak period. The current have been inspired by contemporary striving to outdo its past achievements to four weekly Madrid services will also be Arabian design, complementing the signa- remain the first choice for those looking for a boosted with additional flights, moving to ture ‘Facets of Abu Dhabi’ identity intro- home in Kerala. a daily operation from 1 June. duced by the airline during its livery For more information, contact the Skyline Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways relaunch in 2014. Etihad Airways has pend- Team: CA Babu (Branch Manager - Chief Executive Officer, said: “With two of ing deliveries of a further 58 Dreamliners Kottayam), Girishkumar Gopinathan Etihad Airways’ most popular European over the next few years. (Manager Sales - Corporate), Dan Abraham (Sr Sales Officer - Kottayam). HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 Overlooked and insidious: Back-bay flooding plagues millions

OCEAN CITY: Marty Mozzo gets a gorgeous cussion about building codes. show each night when the sun sets over Sandy created a vast swath of destruc- wetlands near his property on the bay side tion along the coasts of New Jersey and of a barrier island. When he and his wife New York in 2012. But it also wreaked havoc bought the house in 2008, she looked at the along the back bays, where miles of lagoons marsh, where the only sign of water was a exposed thousands of waterfront homes to tiny trickle nearly a half mile away. “Do you flooding damage. Property owners in Toms think this will flood?” she asked. “How could River, New Jersey, received more than $568 it?” he replied. “Look how far away the water million in payments from the Federal is.” Within weeks of moving in, a storm Emergency Management Agency after stranded them for two days with water on Sandy. Neighboring Brick Township all sides. received more than $267 million. Both Theirs is one of several neighborhoods in towns have limited oceanfront exposure Ocean City, New Jersey, where residents but extensive back bay exposure, and they have adopted unofficial flood etiquette: represented the largest damage totals in Don’t drive too fast through flooded streets Ocean County, the region of New Jersey or you’ll create wakes that slam into houses, that took the hardest hit from Sandy. scatter garbage cans, and damage lawns President Donald Trump’s budget pro- and gardens. They are among millions of posal, released last week, would cut a com- people worldwide whose lives and land are bined $452 million from the National being dampened by back-bay flooding - Oceanographic and Atmospheric inundation of waterfront areas behind barri- Administration and the Homeland Security er islands where wind and tides can create department for research grants, flood map- flooding during storms or even on sunny ping and analysis. If enacted by Congress, days. It’s a type of flooding that tends to be many environmental groups worry, less overshadowed by oceanfront storm dam- money will be available to study back-bay age that grabs headlines - and government flooding. Jeff Gebert, chief of coastal plan- spending - with dramatic video of crashing ning for US Army Corps of Engineers waves and splintered houses. Philadelphia division, acknowledged that “This insidious flooding is increasing, and before Sandy, back bay flooding was not as it is an important social issue, but it is not high on the agency’s radar, due in part to getting enough attention paid to it,” said S the lack of easy engineering solutions. Jeffress Williams, a coastal scientist with the US Geological Survey. “Flooding is happen- Coastal zone ing with increasing frequency in back bay As of January, the Army Corps map of recent storm protection and navigation areas. It happens very rapidly; it’s just not as NEW JERSEY: Photo shows Jim and Maryann O’Neill’s home in a back bay neighborhood of Manahawkin NJ, surrounded by water after a dramatic.” Williams, who lives on Cape Cod projects in New Jersey showed 10 either moderate storm. —AP in Massachusetts, said back-bay flooding is completed or underway, with six more happening just as frequently, if not more so, planned. But none were done in back bays. pound the beaches, back bays flood gradu- Corps of Engineers on flood prevention decades. In New Jersey, seas have risen by than oceanfront flooding. The picture is largely the same nationwide, ally and comparatively quietly as water lev- projects. “That is the case all the way up and 1.3 feet (0.4 meters) over the past 100 years, he said, “because the solution to back bay els rise. The effect is worsened during down the East Coast to Miami Beach.” said Benjamin Horton, a Rutgers University Superstorm Sandy flooding is much more complicated” than storms that continue through numerous New Jersey has funded some smaller professor and leading expert on climate “Over the last 15 or 20 years I have seen, simply pumping sand onto oceanfront tide cycles in which water piles up in the resiliency projects in areas including back change and sea level rise. That is a faster especially when you get a full moon and a beaches. A 2010 study by the National back bays without being able to drain out bays, but none was designed specifically pace than for the past 2,000 years com- high tide, roads, backyards and parks all get Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to sea. for flood control. It hopes the study under- bined, he said. Horton and other Rutgers flooded, much more so than we ever had found that more than 123 million people - Tides and wind can inundate some of way will identify a range of possible solu- researchers project that by 2050, seas off before,” he said. Nearly five years after or about 39 percent of the US population - these areas even when the sun shines. “The tions. Sandy, Gebert said, “woke people New Jersey will rise by an additional 1.4 feet Superstorm Sandy delivered a wake-up call, lived in coastal zone counties, a number water sneaks up the backside of barrier up. It galvanized attention on the vulnera- (0.4 meters). the problem of back-bay flooding is coming projected to grow by 8 percent by 2020. islands and the flooding you get is some- bility of back bay areas.” The Army Corps into sharper focus. Studies are underway, The greater proportion of those people times actually greater than on the ocean and state officials began a three-year ‘Like quicksand’ money is starting to flow toward the prob- live on or near the bay sides of barrier sides due to the topography of the islands,” study of back bay flooding in December in Jim and Maryann O’Neill moved from lem, and the realization that destruction of islands, scientists say, than on the ocean- said Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer New Jersey that seeks cost-effective solu- Philadelphia to a section of Stafford wetlands for development along such front. Unlike oceanfront flooding, where specializing in climate change adaptation tions that can be replicated elsewhere. Township, New Jersey, in 1994 for a quiet shores is partly to blame is leading to dis- crashing waves from storm-driven seas whose firm has worked with the US Army Similar studies are underway or were existence near the water. But they’re now recently completed in New York, Virginia, much nearer to it than they bargained for. In Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, January 2016, a coastal storm inundated the Maryland and Washington, DC. O’Neills’ neighborhood; a March 2017 storm Many traditional engineering solutions submerged the roads and deposited fish on that are used along the oceanfront are of the pavement in front of their house. And limited benefit against back-bay flooding. that was two years after the town raised the Houses are being elevated and roadways road by their house by 8 inches. repaved to make them higher. But the bulk- They’ve had to build a boardwalk from heads, sea walls and sand dunes used along their back stairs to the edge of their proper- the ocean can’t be replicated in many back- ty because the yard has been underwater or bay areas because of limited space and muddy - “like quicksand,” said Jim O’Neill - resistance from homeowners who prize virtually every day for the past five years. waterfront views. Maryann, 75, recently learned how to use an “There’s just not as much you can do,” app that notifies her when the tides are ris- said the Geological Survey’s Williams. “We ing. The O’Neills routinely have to move used to have broad wetlands that could their car to the highest spot around - the absorb this water, but we’ve built right up to bridge leading to their neighborhood. They the edge of the water in many places. Now have already rusted through three pickup you’re faced with armoring the waterfront trucks and three cars in the past 13 years. or relocating, and relocating is popular with In Ocean City, officials will spend $40.3 no one.” Any new homes need to be built in million over the next five years on drainage these areas with sea level rise in mind, said improvements and road work that includes Princeton geosciences professor Michael elevating roadways, new pipes and pump- Oppenheimer. ing stations. Such work in his neighborhood “They need to design buildings that are has cut down on flooding, Mozzo acknowl- essentially floodable, where it’s OK that the edged. “We put $20 million into back bay first floor gets flooded every now and dredging for five years,” Mayor Jay Gillian again,” he said. “These places do get wet on said. “When you talk about $20 million in NEW JERSEY: Jim O’Neill walks across a makeshift boardwalk he built in his back yard in Manahawkin NJ, because the property is a regular basis.” Globally, sea levels have one seaside resort for just one thing, that almost always under water, even on sunny days. He lives in a low-lying area near the Jersey shore, and is often affected by back bay been rising over the past century, NOAA speaks volumes about how much these flooding. says, and the rate has increased in recent coastal places need.”—AP technology WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 GE delivers more

GE’s innovative technologies make power more affordable, reliable, accessible and sustainable

By Chidi Emmanuel help 9E turbine users to cut annual fuel costs by as much as $5 million, while creating the poten- KUWAIT: As demand for power continues to tial for up to $6 million in additional revenue. It grow significantly in the Middle East and North also extends the maintenance intervals by deliv- Africa (MENA) region, GE (General Electric) is ering up to 32,000 hours or 900 starts mainte- pushing the frontiers of efficiency in power gen- nance intervals - equivalent to about four years eration with its heavy-duty H-Class turbine and of typical plant operations, Colwell explained. 9EMax upgrade. The energy powerhouse is The validation test monitored and mapped transforming the industry with advanced soft- the unit’s behavior at typical operating parame- ware-defined machines and solutions that are ters. During these tests, over 1,000 pieces of connected, responsive and predictive in order to instrumentations were used to collect data and meet the requirements of a growing population improve the performance of the machine. These and infrastructure development. sensors collected over 14 terabytes of data to The World Energy Council estimates that the highlight some of the 9EMax’s capabilities: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will require 10 validation test found that the 9EMax upgrade gigawatts (GW) of additional power over the can increase turbine output up to 143 next ten years, marking an investment of over megawatts (MW) in simple-cycle operation and $50 billion in new power generating capacity. up to 210 MW in a combined-cycle configura- “Across the region, demand for power is increas- tion; it can also achieve up to 37 percent effi- ing at an average annual rate of 8 percent. ciency in simple cycle and up to 53.5 percent Governments and power producers need more efficiency in combined-cycle configuration. efficient, flexible and reliable technologies which GE has supported the development of not only boost generation capacity but also MENAT for over 80 years. It is committed to the focus on the sustainable use of resources. This is region’s progress and prosperity through its where GE comes in,” Abdurrahman Khalidi Aba, waves of change and growth, strengthening the the Chief Technology Officer of GE Power for the digital industrial ecosystem in the country. The Middle East & Africa said. company has a presence in 24 countries across “GE is organized around a global exchange MENAT, with more than 9,000 employees, serv- of knowledge, through which each establish- ing over 3,000 customers. For more than 40 ment shares and accesses the same technology, years, GE has been supporting Kuwait’s infra- markets, structure and intellect. Each invention structural development needs through public further fuels innovation and application across and private partnerships. our industrial sectors. With people, services and technology, GE delivers better results for cus- Revolutionary H-Class tomers. GE, which has been present in MENA Weighing nearly 400 tons, the 9HA is the for over 80 years, is transforming the power sec- result of a $2 billion investment by GE Power. It tor by ushering in the next era in power genera- 9EMax gas turbine upgrade for GE 9E units, Anis, President & CEO of GE’s Power Services than 700 units and with insights from more offers more than 62 percent combined cycle tion technology and supporting nearly two- which delivers more output and efficiency while business in the Middle East & Africa said. than 30 million hours of operating data from efficiency, leading to the remarkably cost-effec- thirds of the power generation in the region,” helping to reduce operating costs. The 9EMax is “9EMax can operate at partial loads, making it its installed base. tive conversion of fuel to electricity to help meet Aba explained. of special significance to GE’s 9E customers in the ideal for power producers looking to add renew- The combination of this data and expertise increasingly dynamic power demands. This Middle East and Africa, where extreme heat con- ables to their energy mix. It also includes an array along with GE’s FastWorks solution develop- record-setting efficiency is delivered with the Digital technologies ditions can create operational challenges. Over of digital solutions to boost operational reliabili- ment methodology helped ensure 9EMax was help of GE’s Digital Power Plant capabilities, Led by its focus on digital industrial technolo- 300 of GE’s 9E turbines are in operation in the ty, improve combustion operations and manage designed with customer needs in mind. It resets which help to unlock power that had previously gies that bring unprecedented levels of efficien- region, delivering more than 37 GW of power. emissions. In addition, the software solutions the operating clock to zero on critical 9E assets been inaccessible. Capabilities, including the cy and productivity, GE is supporting its cus- Irrespective of their age, the 9EMax upgrade help offset degradation between maintenance that are facing the end of their design life. For digital control system, use real-time data to tomers in reimagining the future of the power ensures that the gas turbines remain efficient, intervals and operating challenges on hot days,” younger units, it represents a new alternative to deliver better plant outcomes with stable and sector. In this, the energy giant also draws on the flexible and reliable. Robert Colwell Senior Product Manager, Gas flange-to-flange (F2F) replacements, boosting efficient operations, while providing valuable enormous potential offered by the ‘GE Store’ - a “General Electric is driving the digital industri- Turbine Technology Power Services explained. efficiency by about 4 percentage points and predictive insights for higher reliability and opti- bustling marketplace of ideas, applications and al transformation of the power sector in the output up to 143 MW with respect to the previ- mization. The 9HA is a great example of the GE solutions, shared across industries to improve region through advanced technologies that A game-changer ous 9E.03 turbine module. With extended main- Store at work, as it is comprised of advanced customer outcomes. This is underscored by the enable our partners to achieve unprecedented The 9EMax upgrade has completed initial tenance intervals and higher reliability, 9EMax is technologies developed across the GE portfolio. launch of GE’s H-Class 9HA gas turbine, the levels of efficiency and productivity. The H-class validation testing at a utility plant in Asia and a cost-effective solution for game changing Including a simplified air-cooled architecture, world’s largest and most efficient heavy duty gas gas turbine and the new 9EMax upgrade are is commercially available for 9E gas turbine operational efficiency. advanced materials, and proven operability and turbine. especially suited for the MENAT (Middle East and customers around the world. 9EMax, part of “9EMax Gas Turbine Solution delivers a reliability, GE’s 9HA units deliver exceptionally North Africa and Turkey) region, where plant GE’s Fleet360 platform of total plant solutions, game-changing performance leap through a low life cycle costs per megawatt. 9EMax upgrade operators are increasingly focused on efficiency, was developed utilizing GE’s deep domain new 4-stage turbine module design that can be The economies of scale created by this high- GE has also launched its game changing flexibility and asset use optimization,” Joseph experience from its global 9E fleet of more installed within the 9E’s existing footprint. It can power density gas turbine are unprecedented.

Abdurrahman Khalidi (Aba) Chief Manuel Valverde Robert Colwell Paul A McElhinney Steven Hartman Technology Officer of GE Power Global Projects Leader Senior Product Manager, Gas Turbine President & CEO Chief Technology Officer for the Middle East & Africa Gas Power Systems Technology Power Services Power Services Power Services technology WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 output, efficiency

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Moreover, the turbine offers industry-leading flexi- Record-breaking expansion will continue to support the government’s bility. It allows customers to maintain stable power GE’s Technology Center in Kuwait houses a efforts to meet the country’s growing energy production and to reliably accommodate grid vari- large generator - lighting up homes and fueling needs. Lighting up Kuwait efficiently ations through quick start up, rapid load changes minds. In one part of this multifaceted, multi- In order to drive the overall efficiency of and other features. It can reach full load in less specialty technology center, GE Power & Water the Sabiya CCGT Power Station, powered by 6 than 30 minutes. This enables the HA to deliver uses the power plant equipment to provide 9FA gas turbines, Sabiya recently completed reliable and flexible operations not just for large advanced, hands-on training and maintenance the purchase of 220 LED lamps to provide an power plants and utilities but also for captive pow- practice to power plant engineers from Kuwait energy-efficient solution for the compartment er plants or small grids. It also enables the greater and the wider region. lighting project. This solution contributes to use of renewable energy by enabling quick In another section of this unique, state-of-the- the reduction of carbon emissions and main- responses to fluctuations in grid demand and art facility, GE experts deliver a wide range of tech- tenance costs as well as improves visibility and weather changes. nical training programs, using computer simulators safety for station employees working in low GE’s 9HA also accommodates both gas and and testing labs to improve understanding of pow- light conditions. As a pioneer in LED technolo- liquid fuels with wide gas variability including er generation operations and troubleshooting gy, GE Lighting is bringing the latest in light- high ethane and liquefied nitrogen gas. Its fuel methodologies, reflecting the company’s strategic ing solutions to Kuwait that will enhance oper- flexibility is an ideal fit for the region. With two commitment to developing the skills and capabili- ational and energy efficiency and reduce 50Hz models available (the 9HA.01 unit at 429 ties of Kuwaiti students and professionals. GE is emissions, thus meeting the sustainability MW and the 9HA.02 unit at 519 MW), power providing key technology to a record-breaking vision of Kuwait. plant operators can choose the gas turbine that expansion of the Sulaibiya Wastewater Treatment best fits their needs. Manufactured at GE’s Belfort and Reclamation Plant - which is the largest-of-its- Healthcare technologies Power Generation Center of Excellence, the tech- kind membrane technology facility in the world. Some of GE’s latest technologies will equip nology recently helped set a record for powering specialized Kuwaiti facilities such as the new the world’s most efficient combined-cycle power Powering over 35% imaging department of the 150-bed Sabah Al- plant based on an achieved efficiency rate of up Through its collaboration with the Ministry Ahmad Cardiac Center which will open in 2017. It to 62.22 percent at EDF’s Bouchain plant in of Electricity and Water, GE powers 37% of will include GE’s Revolution GSI, one of the latest France. The Bouchain plant, which officially Kuwait’s electricity by supplying its advanced CT technologies designed especially for high began operations on June 17, 2016, is also the gas turbines to six different power plants across quality imaging of the heart, helping to cater for world’s first combined-cycle plant equipped with the country. With an expected increase of 10 the increased prevalence of cardiac disease in GE’s HA turbine. gigawatts of electricity demand by 2022, GE Kuwait. Revolution GSI images allow healthcare The Belfort center is the only producer of medi- professionals to make more confident decisions um- and high-power gas turbines in France, and is and may help to prevent more expensive inva- a global center of excellence for 50 hertz gas tur- sive procedures, particularly for cardiac patients bines. An investment of over $200 million by GE, it with high or irregular heart rates. has more than 4,000 employees, including 1,800 GE Healthcare will also provide integrated experts capable of developing advanced simple or oncology solutions for a new wing of the Kuwait combined cycle power plants for customers all Cancer Control Hospital (KCCC), the third biggest over the world. In 1959, Belfort manufactured the oncology center in the world, with 650 beds, due first GE-licensed gas turbine. More than 1,800 gas to open in 2017. This will include the Discovery turbine units have been manufactured at the facil- PET/CT 710, a hybrid imaging system which com- ity to date. In May 2015, GE’s record breaking 9HA bines PET, used to record molecular activity gas turbine was officially launched at Belfort, which is indicative of rapid tumor growth, with 9EMAX where the first unit was built for the EDF Bouchain CT which focuses on anatomic location or the power plant. physical size of a tumor. Today, over 800 GE In addition to having commenced operations Healthcare products and technologies are in Bouchain, GE’s HA turbine is being actively deployed in hospitals and clinics across Kuwait. sought out by power plant operators in the MENA and Pakistan region. For example, Connecting Kuwait to the world Aluminum Bahrain (Alba) has placed an order for Today, GE and partnership engines move three GE HA gas turbines to power the world’s more than 1.8 million passengers through Kuwait largest single-site smelter. In further localization each year. With more than 210 engines powering capabilities, the GE Manufacturing & Technology more than half of the country’s total fleet, every Center in Dammam now has expanded compe- 30 minutes sees a GE-powered airplane takeoff tencies to locally manufacture the H-class heavy into the skies of Kuwait. duty turbines. About GE Power GE in Kuwait GE Power is a world leader in power genera- Since the early 1970’s, GE has been a strong tion with deep domain expertise to help cus- partner to Kuwait’s public and private sectors - tomers deliver electricity from a wide spectrum supporting Kuwait infrastructural needs in the avi- of fuel sources. The energy powerhouse trans- ation, power, water, oil and gas industries. As a forms the electricity industry with digital power committed partner, GE supports the government plant, the world’s largest and most efficient gas in achieving Kuwait’s Vision 2035 by offering inno- turbine, full balance of plant, upgrade and serv- vative technological solutions that meet the coun- ice solutions as well as our data-leveraging soft- try’s vision and strategy to drive growth. With ware. Its innovative technologies and digital more than 200 employees based in country, GE is offerings help make power more affordable, reli- a dedicated partner, in Kuwait, for Kuwait. able, accessible and sustainable.

Group photo at Belfort GE 9HA WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

Al-Mazaya Holding: We continue to build positive employer-employee relationships during Ramadan

uring the Holy Month of Ramadan, management delivered the inaugural for all the resounding milestones we have colossal contributions to our on-going suc- launching such constructive channels of Al-Mazaya Holding has hosted Al- remarks. They welcomed the audience and achieved. We are meeting today during the cesses.” communication and will leave no stone DGraish Banquet to promote team asked the Almighty Allah to accept their Holy Month of Ramadan to reiterate our “We are one, unified team from the top unturned to enhance the competitiveness spirit and preserve the time-honored cus- prayers, help them keep to their fast and appreciation of all the efforts made by those echelon of management to the foundation of our employees and invest in their profes- toms and traditions of Kuwait. The company perform good deeds to reach their goals in who have contributed to the stature of the of the organizational structure. We take sional development.” The company’s man- organizes this banquet every year during life and in the hereafter. company and maintained its prestigious great pleasure in this opportunity to be agement concluded by extending thanks to the month of Sha’ban ahead of Ramadan to “Al-Mazaya Holding’s Board Members position in the property sector. While it is under the same roof exchanging experi- the Board Members for attending the func- boost interrelations between the company’s represent the company’s wise leadership difficult to quantify the real value of each ences with each of you and we think that tion and welcomed the company’s new- employees behind office walls and the com- that develop the roadmap for future suc- member of our team, this gathering intends such occasions play an important role in comers, wishing them all success. pany’s upper management and staff. cess, while our workforce is the spirit and to reflect our feelings of gratitude to all of building cohesion with our entire team. The To mark the occasion, the company’s essence of the company and the foundation our employees and acknowledge their company will spare no expense to continue MAGGI Diaries continues its journey to inspire Arab women in its fourth season

AGGI Diaries returns in its fourth presenter and actress, Louloua El Eazza, the season with new ambassadors to brainchild behind Loulou’s Kitchen and Mcontinue spreading hope and Zahra Abdullah of ‘Cooking with Zahra’ are inspiration to women across the Middle working towards a common goal: To ampli- East region after having received an over- fy the impact the “Women of Change” whelming response in the last three years already have in their communities, share with its journeys across KSA, UAE, Jordan, their stories and pave new waves of suc- Italy, Turkey, Oman, Morocco and India. cess for them in their journeys. Commenting on the launch of MAGGI This year, the journey started in Egypt, a Diaries, Jessy Abdul Nour, Marketing country rich in culture and heritage, where Manager at MAGGI said, “MAGGI is a part of the ambassadors met five women of every home and it has come a long way change during their journey: Noha Nabeel from a simple cooking ingredient to a Al-Baz who has dedicated her life to work woman’s trusted partner in the kitchen. It is towards reviving organic farms and saving our mission to inspire women to make a them from closing down; Amal Fahmy, who difference through every day cooking, and promotes gender equality and fights sexual it is with this premise that we launched harassment by educating the younger gen- MAGGI Diaries 3 years ago to celebrate the erations; Maha Helaly, a mother of an autis- cultural and culinary journeys of real tic child who opened a center to help autis- TSC hosted live women across the region.” tic children integrate back to society; Sarah MAGGI Diaries started as a digital plat- Moussa who visits poorly funded orphan- cooking sessions form that enables culinary engagement, ages to help provide them with their needs rights, child illiteracy, domestic abuse and The brand announced recently its com- andunveils stories of exceptional women of and Ola Ismail, founder of Ibrahim Badran refugees. The show gives a voice to the mitment to simplify 100 percent of its for Japanese food change, overcoming various challenges to foundation, who has dedicated her life to ‘Women of Change’ who are an inspiration ingredients to include only what people make a difference in their communities, all providing medical services to the less fortu- to other people around them, which will in have in their kitchen cupboards - ingredi- while exploring new and healthy dishes for nate communities of Egypt. turn incite women in the region to make a ents they know and love. The 12-minute savvy customers them and their families. “With MAGGI Diaries, we are tackling difference in their lives and the lives of their episodes is aired every Tuesday at 12:30 PM The new ambassadors, Marwa Salem a important topics such as obesity, human loved ones,” concluded Abdul Nour. on MBC1. he Sultan Center - Al-Shaab branch, recently hosted a Japanese cooking event led by Chef Jay of Wasabi TRestaurants. The cooking sessions offered customers a chance to participate through hands on experience and learn how to make delicious Japanese Teppanayaki and Sushi rolls under the guidance of an experienced chef. During the 2 days cooking session, customers were able to learn how to prepare authentic Japanese dishes avail- able at Wasabi Restaurant including both hot and cold dishes. The first day showcased the variety of Japanese Teppanyaki such as beef chicken, shrimp mixed vegeta- bles, smoked salmon wrap shrimp and asparagus. On the second day, the session focused on cold dishes and appe- tizers including: Edamame, California Maki, Panko Roll, Spinach Maki, Shrimp Cabbage Parcela and Asparamki. The interactive cooking sessions provided participants with an insight on the authentic way to prepare Japanese dishes with a discussion on types of ingredients to be used and health benefits of Japanese cuisine along with the type of kitchen equipment to use. The products used to cook these recipes were all available within TSC stores, whereby customers could select the ingredients and start preparing the dishes at home Participants enjoyed taking part in the session; and learned that Japanese cuisine can provide them with menu options for a healthy and well balanced diet. TSC cus- tomers can look forward to more live cooking demonstra- Egyptian researcher Marwa Ammar discussed her Master’s thesis at Kuwait University titled ‘Cynical Media and its Impact on the Egyptian Political Culture Post the January tions on a variety of international cuisines. 25 Revolution.’ The debate panel included KU professors Dr Ghanem Al-Najjar, Dr Shafiq Al-Ghabra and Dr Hamad Al-Bloushi. ‘Mom is Wow’ at KIPS Mangaf

ids International Pre-school cel- ed Principal Nilofar Qazi and Vice rable and filled the tiny tots heart with ebrated Mother’s Day recently Principal Gayathri Bhaskaran under a lot of warmth and love. Kto acknowledge the magnitude whose guidance the day was memo- of a mother’s role in our lives. The lob- by was beautifully decorated with “I love Mom” sign as a symbol of respect and to express gratitude towards mothers. Following the same line the tiny tots also made a beautiful cut out for the angels that God put on earth for them “their mothers.” A special assembly filled with warmth and ten- derness was organized in which the teachers gave a short program recog- nizing the unmatched unconditional ‘Mother’s Love - a brilliant love, support and the feeling of secu- rity blanket which we receive from our mothers. gem to be treasured’ at IISM As a special invitee the ‘multitalent- ed mom’ Indulekha Suresh- Vice ndia International School Mangaf (IISM), KG section rec- were made to convey an important message of being Principal (India International School ognized the essence of a mother’s prominence. humble, respectful and obedient to our parents. The mes- Mangaf) graced the occasion on this IMother’s Day was celebrated in high spirit and merri- merizing dance performance by the students evoked the heartwarming day. Her moving words ment. The teachers came up with new and innovative idea attachment with their mothers. touched the hearts of everyone pres- for their tiny tot’s activity related to Mother’s Day. To The School Director Malayil Moosa Koya, Principal F M ent. Children were encouraged to express love and respect for their mother a special assem- Basheer Ahmed, Senior vice principal Narinder Kaur and respect and appreciate their parents bly was conducted. The heart -warming feeling filled the teachers inspired the children to inculcate virtuous deeds who have sacrificed so much through- air with intimacy, gratitude appreciation and acknowl- and resort to ethical ways that make the parent happy and out their lives and will continue to do edgement. The little ones proudly echoed and enchanted contented. All in all it was an enjoyable and memorable so even in the future. the quote “Mother will be our door to paradise so let’s love day for each and every child. It left an indubitable mark in Director of IISM Malayil Moosa respect and care for our mother every day.” The classrooms their innocent hearts. Koya who also graced the celebration, were decorated with beautiful activities and cards which blessed the children and congratulat- WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

Hardee’s concludes ‘Go Large’ promotional campaign

oncluding its ‘Go Large’ promotional campaign under supervision of the Ministry of Commerce’s con- ater, in addition to 100 KD 75 vouchers. The ceremony Ayman Atta, in addition to Lilly Whites marketing man- that took place from April 19 to May 19, 2017, sumer protection office. The prizes included a 2017 was attended by Hardee’s regional manager for Kuwait ager Mazen Sabouni. CHardee’s recently held a raffle draw to select the Chevrolet Camaro, a Vespa, a package including a play and Iraq Rafiq Al-Ayyatt, as well as operational man- winners out of 40,603 participants. The event took place station, a virtual glass, a 52 inches screen and home the- agers Abdul Azeem Mustafa, Hani Abd Rabbo, and WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 TV PROGRAMS

17:00 Young, Hot & Crooked 17:40 Jake And The Never Land Senior Year 17:50 I Almost Got Away With It Pirates 18:30 James And The Giant Peach 18:40 Blood Relatives 18:05 PJ Masks 20:00 Hocus Pocus 19:30 Obsession: Dark Desires 18:35 Mickey And The Roadster 00:30 Last Knights 21:45 Tarzan 20:20 Love The Way You Lie Racers 02:30 Barely Lethal 23:15 James And The Giant Peach 00:45 Bondi Vet 21:10 Obsession: Dark Desires 19:05 PJ Masks 04:30 Reign Over Me 01:40 Pit Bulls & Parolees 22:00 Betrayed 19:35 PJ Masks 07:00 Steve Jobs 02:35 Tanked 20:05 Goldie & Bear 09:15 Paddington 03:25 Wildest Islands 20:35 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 11:15 War Of The Worlds 04:15 Cats 101 21:00 Gummi Bears 13:30 Man Of The House 05:02 River Monsters (Best Of Series 21:25 Sofia The First 15:15 Invictus 1-5) 21:50 Minnieʼs Bow-Toons 17:30 Air Force One 00:30 How Do They Do It? 05:49 Pit Bulls & Parolees 22:00 Sofia The First 19:45 Real Steel 00:55 Food Factory 06:36 Going Ape 22:30 Sofia The First 22:00 Jurassic World 01:20 Strangest Weather On Earth 07:25 Cats 101 22:55 PJ Masks 02:10 The Big Brain Theory 08:15 Pit Bulls & Parolees 00:00 Binny And The Ghost 23:20 Henry Hugglemonster 03:00 What Could Possibly Go 09:10 Wildest Islands 00:25 Hank Zipzer 23:35 The Hive Wrong? 10:05 Tanked 00:45 The Hive 03:48 Mythbusters 11:00 Cats 101 00:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 04:36 How Do They Do It? 11:55 Bondi Vet Teenage Witch 01:15 Bill 05:00 Food Factory 12:50 Pit Bulls & Parolees 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 03:00 Junior 05:24 Strangest Weather On Earth 13:45 River Monsters (Best Of Series Teenage Witch 05:00 Love, Rosie 06:12 The Big Brain Theory 1-5) 01:40 Hank Zipzer 06:45 Parenthood 07:00 How Do They Do It? 14:40 Wildest Islands 02:05 Binny And The Ghost 09:00 The Grand Seduction 07:26 What Could Possibly Go 15:35 Tanked 00:20 Street Outlaws 02:55 Hank Zipzer 11:00 Junior Wrong? 16:30 Monster Hammerhead 01:10 Todd Sampsonʼs Body Hack 03:15 The Hive 13:00 Love, Rosie 08:14 Mythbusters 17:25 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 02:00 Marooned With Ed Stafford 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 14:45 Parenthood 09:02 The Big Brain Theory 18:20 From WAGs To Riches 02:50 Still Alive Teenage Witch 17:00 Sister Act 2: Back In The 09:50 How Do They Do It? 19:15 Tanked 03:40 Misfit Garage 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A Habit 10:14 Food Factory 20:10 Cats 101 04:30 Garage Gold Teenage Witch 18:45 Perfect Match 10:38 Strangest Weather On Earth 21:05 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 05:00 How Do They Do It? 04:10 Hank Zipzer 20:15 Fierce Creatures 11:26 What Could Possibly Go 22:00 From WAGs To Riches 05:30 How Do They Do It? 04:35 Binny And The Ghost 22:00 Dirty Work Wrong? 22:55 Wildest Islands 06:00 Gold Divers 05:25 Hank Zipzer 23:30 Edtv 12:14 Mythbusters 05:45 The Hive 06:50 Street Outlaws 13:02 How Do They Do It? 05:50 The 7D 07:40 Misfit Garage 13:26 Food Factory 06:00 Jessie 08:30 What On Earth? 13:50 The Big Brain Theory 06:25 Jessie 09:20 Garage Gold 14:38 What Could Possibly Go 06:50 Tsum Tsum Shorts 09:45 How Do They Do It? Wrong? 00:00 It Takes A Killer 06:55 The Zhuzhus 10:10 How Do They Do It? 15:26 Strangest Weather On Earth 10:35 Todd Sampsonʼs Body Hack 01:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder 07:20 Elena Of Avalor 00:00 Manglehorn 16:14 Mythbusters 11:25 Marooned With Ed Stafford Casebook 07:45 Bunkʼd 01:45 Seabiscuit 17:02 The Big Brain Theory 12:15 Guy Martin: Fastest Man On 02:00 Crime Stories 08:10 Stuck In The Middle 04:15 Batkid Begins 17:50 What Could Possibly Go Two Wheels 03:00 Evil Up Close 08:35 Bizaardvark 06:00 Hoosiers Wrong? 04:00 It Takes A Killer 13:05 How Do They Do It? 08:00 The Wave 09:00 Austin & Ally 13:30 Garage Gold 18:40 Mythbusters 05:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder 09:50 Good Luck Charlie 09:45 Ordinary People 19:30 How Things Work Casebook 13:55 Garage Gold 11:45 Seabiscuit 10:40 Dog With A Blog 14:20 Gold Rush 20:20 How Do They Do It? 06:00 My Crazy Ex 11:30 Gravity Falls 14:00 Ronaldo 20:45 Food Factory 07:00 My Crazy Ex 15:10 What On Earth? 15:45 The Express 11:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 16:00 Gold Divers 21:10 The Big Brain Theory 08:00 Evil Up Close 12:00 Welcome To The Ronks 18:00 The Theory Of Everything 22:00 How Things Work 09:00 Nightmare In Suburbia 16:50 Misfit Garage 20:00 Brooklyn 12:15 The Zhuzhus 17:40 Street Outlaws 22:50 What Could Possibly Go 10:00 Homicide Hunter 12:40 Hank Zipzer 22:00 Selma Wrong? 11:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 18:30 How Do They Do It? 13:05 Star Darlings 19:20 What On Earth? 12:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 13:10 Good Luck Charlie 13:00 My Crazy Ex 20:10 Garage Gold 13:35 Austin & Ally 20:35 Garage Gold 14:00 Evil Up Close 14:00 Jessie 21:00 Abandoned Engineering 15:00 Homicide Hunter 14:25 Hank Zipzer 21:50 Man vs Weird 00:03 Max & Ruby 16:00 Crime Stories 14:50 Sunny Bunnies 01:15 The Heart Of The Oak 22:40 Incredible Engineering 00:26 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 17:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 14:55 The Zhuzhus 02:45 Outback Blunders: Fixed 00:37 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 18:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 15:45 Elena Of Avalor 04:30 Garfield 23:30 Misfit Garage 00:47 The Day Henry Met 19:00 Evil Up Close 16:10 Liv And Maddie 06:00 Doctor Proctorʼs Fart Powder 00:52 The Day Henry Met 20:00 Nightmare In Suburbia 16:35 Descendants Wicked World 07:45 Bamse And The City Of 00:58 Blaze And The Monster 21:00 Homicide Hunter 16:40 Girl Meets World Thieves Machines 22:00 My Crazy Ex 17:05 Stuck In The Middle 09:15 Mamma Moo And Crow 01:21 Blaze And The Monster 23:00 Paranormal State 17:30 Bunkʼd 10:45 The Nutcracker Sweet Machines 17:55 Bizaardvark 06:00 Gravity Falls 12:15 The Heart Of The Oak 01:43 Zack & Quack 18:20 Disney Mickey Mouse 06:25 Disney11 13:45 Memory Loss TOMORROW NEVER DIES ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 02:05 Team Umizoomi 18:25 Alex & Co. 06:50 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 15:15 Mamma Moo And Crow 02:27 Olive The Ostrich 18:50 Best Friends Whenever 07:15 Milo Murphyʼs Law 16:45 Pet Pals In Windland 15:15 E! News: Daily Pop 02:32 Olive The Ostrich 19:15 Star Darlings 07:25 Danger Mouse 13:15 Coronation Street 16:00 Road Wars 18:30 The Adventures Of Don 16:10 Keeping Up With The 02:37 Paw Patrol 19:20 Liv And Maddie 07:40 Supa Strikas 13:45 Coronation Street 17:45 Taken 3 Quixote 00:30 Nextworld Kardashians 03:00 Little Charmers 19:45 Austin & Ally 08:05 Two More Eggs 14:15 Alphabetical 19:45 Tracers 20:00 Memory Loss 01:20 Guinness World Records 19:00 E! News 03:12 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 20:10 Jessie 08:10 K.C. Undercover 15:10 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 21:30 Insurgent 21:45 Bamse And The City Of Smashed New Zealand 20:00 Botched 03:23 Dora The Explorer 20:35 Cracke 08:35 Counterfeit Cat 16:00 A Merry Murdoch Christmas 23:30 REC 4: Apocalypse Thieves 01:45 Guinness World Records 23:00 E! News 03:46 Max & Ruby 20:40 Disney The Lodge 09:00 Lab Rats 17:50 Coach Trip 23:15 Pet Pals In Windland Smashed New Zealand 23:15 Hollywood Medium With 04:09 Bubble Guppies 21:05 Bizaardvark 09:25 Lab Rats 18:20 Coach Trip 02:10 Guinness World Records Tyler Henry 04:32 Shimmer And Shine 21:30 Thatʼs So Raven 09:50 Future-Worm! 18:45 Emmerdale Smashed UK 04:55 Dora And Friends: Into The 21:55 Tsum Tsum Shorts 10:20 Pair Of Kings 19:15 Coronation Street 03:00 Kids Do The Craziest Things City! 22:00 Shake It Up 10:45 Pair Of Kings 19:45 Coronation Street 03:25 Kids Do The Craziest Things 05:17 Zack & Quack 22:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A 11:10 Danger Mouse 20:10 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 03:50 Ultimate Survival 05:28 The Day Henry Met Teenage Witch 11:35 Supa Strikas 21:00 A Merry Murdoch Christmas 04:40 How Itʼs Made 01:00 The World Made Straight 05:33 The Day Henry Met 22:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 12:00 Supa Strikas 22:50 Emmerdale 00:00 The Night Shift 05:05 How Itʼs Made 03:00 Jappeloup 05:38 Blaze And The Monster Teenage Witch 12:30 Gravity Falls 00:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 23:15 Coronation Street 01:00 Training Day 05:30 Storm Chasers 05:15 The Better Angels Machines 23:10 Hank Zipzer 12:55 Annedroids 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 23:40 Coronation Street 02:00 Royal Pains 06:20 Mythbusters 07:00 Penthouse North 06:00 Rusty Rivets 23:35 Binny And The Ghost 13:20 Atomic Puppet 01:00 Man Finds Food 03:00 Better Call Saul 09:00 The Love Guide 06:12 Paw Patrol 10:30 Jappeloup 04:00 Chicago Med 05:00 Good Morning America 06:37 Dora The Explorer 13:00 The Better Angels 07:00 Zack & Quack 15:00 Fast Girls 07:00 The View 08:00 The Chew 07:21 Dora And Friends 17:00 The Love Guide 07:44 Blaze And The Monster 00:20 Forged In Fire 19:00 Fury 09:00 Lie To Me 10:00 Chicago Med Machines 01:10 Alone 21:30 Big Eyes 08:07 Paw Patrol 02:00 Swamp People 23:30 Only God Forgives 11:00 APB 12:00 The Chew 08:30 Shimmer And Shine 02:50 Storage Wars 08:53 Dora The Explorer 03:15 American Pickers 13:00 The View 14:00 Live Good Morning America 09:15 The Day Henry Met 04:05 Pawn Stars 09:22 Paw Patrol 05:00 Mountain Men 16:00 Lie To Me 17:00 Chicago Med 09:45 Rusty Rivets 06:00 Lost In Transmission 09:57 Bubble Guppies 06:50 Duck Dynasty 18:00 Criminal Minds: Beyond 01:15 Mousehunt Borders 10:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 07:40 Counting Cars 10:40 Zack & Quack 08:30 Pawn Stars 03:00 Eight Below 19:00 Prison Break - Event Series 05:00 The Princess Diaries 2: 20:00 Law & Order: Special Victims 10:52 Team Umizoomi 09:20 Storage Wars 11:15 Shimmer And Shine 10:10 American Pickers Royal Engagement Unit 07:00 The Santa Clause 3 21:00 Falling Water 11:38 Louie 11:00 Search For The Lost Giants 11:45 Louie 11:50 Duck Dynasty 08:45 Mousehunt 22:00 House Of Cards 10:45 Ice Age 23:00 House Of Cards 11:53 Olive The Ostrich 12:40 Swamp People 11:58 Olive The Ostrich 13:30 Ax Men 12:15 The Princess Diaries 2: OSN Movies Family HD Royal Engagement 01:00 The Incredibles 12:03 Max & Ruby 14:20 Mountain Men 12:26 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 15:10 Lost In Transmission 14:15 The Hunchback Of Notre 03:00 Little Women Dame II 05:00 Frankenweenie 12:36 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 16:00 Storage Wars 12:47 The Day Henry Met 16:50 Pawn Stars 15:30 Storm Rider 06:30 The Incredibles 17:15 Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The 08:30 The Shaggy Dog 12:52 The Day Henry Met 17:15 Pawn Stars 12:57 Blaze And The Monster 17:40 Alone Dinosaurs 10:15 Inspector Gadget 19:00 The Parent Trap 11:45 Frankenweenie Machines 18:30 Swamp People 13:19 Blaze And The Monster 19:20 Mountain Men 21:15 Storm Rider 13:30 The Rescuers 23:00 Monsterville: The Cabinet Of 15:00 Tarzan Machines 20:10 American Pickers 13:41 Zack & Quack 21:00 Big Easy Motors Souls 16:30 High School Musical 3: 21:25 Big Easy Motors 21:50 Forged In Fire 22:40 Forged In Fire 23:30 American Pickers

BARELY LETHAL ON OSN MOVIES HD 00:15 George Clarkeʼs Amazing 07:00 Kenny The Shark 13:45 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 01:30 Man Finds Food Spaces 07:25 Awesome Adventures 14:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 01:10 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 07:50 K9 Cops 14:15 Mighty Med 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 01:40 Croatiaʼs Finest 08:40 How Itʼs Made 14:40 Kirby Buckets 03:00 Man Fire Food 02:05 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 09:30 Nextworld 15:05 Lab Rats 03:30 Man Fire Food 02:35 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 10:20 Mythbusters 15:30 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty 04:00 Chopped 00:00 Henry Hugglemonster 03:00 Mega Food 11:10 K9 Cops Much Everything 05:00 Guyʼs Grocery Games 00:15 Calimero 03:55 The Shelbourne 12:00 Ultimate Survival 15:55 Right Now Kapow 06:00 Barefoot Contessa: Back To 00:30 Art Attack 04:25 Rustic Adventures Italy 12:50 How Itʼs Made 16:25 K.C. Undercover Basics 00:55 Zou 04:50 Miguelʼs Feasts 13:40 Storm Chasers 16:50 Disney11 07:00 The Kitchen 01:05 Loopdidoo 05:20 Miguelʼs Feasts 14:30 Kenny The Shark 17:15 Mech-X4 08:00 The Pioneer Woman 01:20 Henry Hugglemonster 05:45 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 14:55 Awesome Adventures 17:40 Milo Murphyʼs Law 08:30 The Pioneer Woman 01:35 Calimero 06:40 Whatʼs For Sale? 15:20 K9 Cops 18:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 09:00 Sibaʼs Table 01:50 Zou 07:10 Croatiaʼs Finest 16:10 Nextworld 18:10 Gravity Falls 09:30 Sibaʼs Table 02:05 Art Attack 07:35 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 17:00 Dogs: The Untold Story 18:35 Mighty Med 10:00 Bake With Anna Olson 02:30 The Hive 08:30 Mega Food 17:50 Everest: Beyond The Limit 19:00 Atomic Puppet 10:30 Bake With Anna Olson 02:40 Loopdidoo 09:25 The Shelbourne 18:40 Kids Do The Craziest Things 19:25 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty 11:00 The Kitchen 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster 09:55 Rustic Adventures Italy 19:30 How Itʼs Made Much Everything 12:00 The Pioneer Woman 03:10 Art Attack 10:20 Miguelʼs Feasts 20:20 Mythbusters 19:55 K.C. Undercover 13:00 Sibaʼs Table 03:35 Loopdidoo 10:50 Miguelʼs Feasts 21:10 Dogs: The Untold Story 20:20 Mech-X4 13:30 Sibaʼs Table 03:50 Calimero 11:15 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 22:00 Everest: Beyond The Limit 20:45 Disney11 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 04:05 Art Attack 11:45 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 22:50 Kids Do The Craziest Things 21:10 Walk The Prank 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 04:30 Henry Hugglemonster 12:10 Whatʼs For Sale? 23:15 Kids Do The Craziest Things 21:35 Disney Mickey Mouse 15:00 Chopped 04:45 Zou 12:40 A Is For Apple 23:40 Ultimate Survival 21:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 16:00 The Kitchen 05:00 Art Attack 13:05 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 21:45 Guardians Of The Galaxy 17:00 Bake With Anna Olson 05:30 Henry Hugglemonster 13:35 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 22:10 Ultimate Spider-Man 17:30 Bake With Anna Olson 05:45 Loopdidoo 14:00 Mega Food 22:35 Boyster 18:00 Chopped 06:00 Zou 14:55 The Shelbourne 23:00 Programmes Start At 6:00am 19:00 Iron Chef America 06:15 Calimero 15:25 Rustic Adventures Italy KSA 20:00 Chopped 06:30 Loopdidoo 15:50 Miguelʼs Feasts 21:00 Kids BBQ Championship 00:30 Nightmare Next Door 06:45 Henry Hugglemonster 16:20 Miguelʼs Feasts 22:00 The Big Eat - Middle East 01:20 Killing Richard Glossip 07:00 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 16:45 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 02:10 The Accused, Jeffrey 07:25 Sofia The First 17:15 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 23:00 Guyʼs Grocery Games Macdonald: People Magazine... 07:50 The Lion Guard 17:40 Whatʼs For Sale? 03:00 Who Killed Jane Doe? 08:15 PJ Masks 18:10 Gokʼs Chinese Takeaway 03:48 I Almost Got Away With It 08:35 Jake And The Never Land 00:05 Hollywood Medium With 19:05 The Shelbourne 04:36 Blood Relatives Pirates Tyler Henry 19:30 Rustic Adventures Italy 05:24 Obsession: Dark Desires 09:05 Goldie & Bear 00:55 Hollywood Medium With 20:00 Miguelʼs Feasts 06:12 Love The Way You Lie 09:35 The Lion Guard Tyler Henry 21:00 Andy And Ben Eat Australia 07:00 Secret Lives Of Stepford 10:05 Sofia The First 01:50 Celebrity Style Story 00:10 Alphabetical 22:00 Gokʼs Chinese Takeaway Wives 10:35 Mickey And The Roadster 02:20 Celebrity Style Story 01:00 Emmerdale 22:55 Whatʼs For Sale? 07:25 Secret Lives Of Stepford Racers 03:20 Celebrity Style Story 01:30 Coronation Street 23:20 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita Wives 11:05 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 03:50 Hollywood & Football 02:00 Coronation Street 23:50 David Roccoʼs Dolce Vita 07:50 I Almost Got Away With It 11:35 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 04:40 Hollywood & Football 02:30 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 08:40 Blood Relatives 12:05 Gummi Bears 05:30 Celebrity Style Story 03:25 Tutankhamun 09:30 Obsession: Dark Desires 12:35 Miles From Tomorrow 06:00 Botched 04:20 Tina & Bobby 10:20 Iʼd Kill For You 13:05 Mickey And The Roadster 06:55 E! 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News 12:45 Emmerdale 14:15 Dracula Untold EIGHT BELOW ON OSN MOVIES FAMILY HD Classifieds

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CROSSWORD 1624 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) You are in a great mood today and can appreciate your own better quali- Now is a good time to read books on organizing and to decide just how ties. You may see value in or feel love for an older person or someone in authority. You extensive you want to get with the project. You work today on becoming more organ- may find yourself teaching, taking a class or attending a lecture. You have a lot of energy ized and a little accent here and there will also create pleasant surroundings in your and may come across to others as assertive and dominant. Laugh a little from time to workplace. Thinking about yesterday and planning for tomorrow seem to have you spin- time and you will find that the work this day will move along quite nicely. This evening ning your wheels when it comes to trying to get things accomplished. Lectures, group you will do well in activities that include children, young people, your home and sur- discussions or work sessions with one or more people will prove successful now. Mental roundings. You could feel real harmony with those around you. Your neighborhood will stimulation is good and you should make every effort to cooperate and compromise offer you more opportunities for fun and profit from a new hobby you have recently with others. Take your loved ones to a movie or treat them to a dinner out this evening. decided to begin. Perhaps you are into making jewelry. Your support system is strengthening-negative thoughts dissolve quickly this day.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) A bit of stress may push you in different directions, as though you are not You are positive and you are able to get right to the point of problems sure about which direction to take first. Circumstances may seem out of the usual. This is today. You have plenty of enthusiasm and warm up to things and people quickly. There all of short duration and the best action is no action for the next few minutes. You must is an inner self-confidence that burns with its own light. Ideas and interaction with practice patience during this time. If you take a particular situation too seriously, you authority figures may be in the forecast this afternoon. Working with, rather than against, could miss a lighter and more imaginative approach to a solution. Open up your mind to the flow should be easy to do-all day. You may have trouble understanding those who new ideas and fill your life with the possibilities of new opportunities. This afternoon you seem emotional or sentimental, however, and may not be able to show much patience. have an opportunity to attend an unusual presentation that could be quite educational. Balance your lack of intuitiveness with logic and common sense and you will have quite a You might want to plan on joining a group to learn computer programming or successful day. There may be some changes that will have you examining your responsi- unmanned plane piloting or some other special interest that captivates you. bilities but you can easily dispense with the superficial.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Your knack for making friends is increased and people love to be around Your fuel tank of energy may be full and you should be judicious in its use. you. You may have a few really close friends that will be happy to be with Try to engage in projects that need to be finished before starting another you and they enjoy sharing fun times with you. There are many people that enjoy your one-this will surely lead to success. This is a time where your work may come under ACROSS 2. Largest known toad species. leadership qualities and tenacity with whatever problem solving or adventure in which scrutiny from people in authority. This is an excellent time to solicit the help of others if 1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 3. Made from residue of grapes or apples you are currently involved. This may mean that you teach and guide whether you or a you need it. Your spiritual life follows you wherever you go and today, in the workplace, 4. Consider as ideal. after pressing. teacher, psychiatrist or leader in some political action. What you say makes a difference you may be asked about your spiritual beliefs. Do not try to match someone else’s faith, 12. How long something has existed. 4. Someone who cuts and delivers ice. and today, you have a lot to say. You can make a difference in your city or country very simply express your own background and then walk away. It is always a good idea 15. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- because people respect you. Now would be a good time to review what you have not to discuss religion or politics in the workplace-even if you work for a politician or reli- 5. Any orchid of the genus Disa. gious group. Learning and communicating satisfies an intuitive itch. cially in Turkey). 6. Half the width of an em. accomplished in the past and create some goals for the future. 16. Aromatic bark used as a spice. 7. (Babylonian) The sky god. 17. An informal term for a father. 8. A narrow way or road. 18. Port city in western Albania on the 9. A United Nations agency to promote Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Adriatic. trade by increasing the exchange stabili- 20. Below the required standards for a ty of the major currencies. Despite whatever problems you may be having in the work arena just now, Habits are in a cycle of change; variety satisfies a deep inner need. Being on purpose. 10. Polished and well-groomed. there are areas of life where you have clear insight and real talent. When it the go and keeping a finger to the winds of change make you feel in touch. 21. A flat wing-shaped process or wing- 11. (prefix) Within. comes to these matters, your judgment is sharp-you always manage to take charge. Learning new tricks of the trade and new discoveries may be where your energies are There is a new confidence in you that helps you see into your own inner workings. Take focused. You have an interest in hypothetical ideas and you have the ability to communi- like part of an organism. 12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 22. Tropical American insectivorous bird time with your work this afternoon, proof your work and take nothing for granted. Be cate your ideas to others. There is an urgent need to be in the know-so to speak. There is 13. Offering fun and gaiety. wise in any activity that could cause you to overindulge; there are temptations. You are a feeling that you are successful in your plans. There are many personal pleasures await- having a long sharp bill and iridescent 14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in encouraged to change or improve a relationship situation. Perhaps a shared activity will ing you today. You are more careful now than in the past regarding the ways in which green or bronze plumage. balls. help the two of you improve communications. A double measure of love, happiness and you spend your money. There is good news tonight of new ways to add to your financial 24. Expletives used informally as intensi- 19. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for wealth coming up soon will see you through any frustrating days you may have. stability. Perhaps some help through a friend or relative-opportunities are available. fiers. and intense devotion to a cause or idea. 26. A soft silvery metallic element of the 23. A domain in which something is dom- alkali earth group. inant. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 27. A radioactive transuranic element 25. An Indian tree of the family You are charming, kind and popular but you will enjoy any quiet time you produced by bombarding plutonium Combretaceae that is a source of timber Sometimes your desire for knowledge moves in so many different direc- with neutrons. tions that you lose focus and become scattered. Think about creating a new habit to can get today. Money matters could be a hot discussion in the workplace-how to make and gum. it, how to keep it, etc. Accountability from others cannot be obtained through a third 30. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory 28. Caught in European waters. help you insert a balance and focus into your life. You like to work with words and ideas and have a natural appreciation for anything that is literary or artistic. You are hungry for degree. Clear decisions affecting others will need to be made. Your directional abilities drug (trade name Clinoril). 29. A radioactive element of the actinide are in high focus today and may be what will see you through any difficulties. If you give 33. An order of Eutheria. work today. Although work flows along quite well, you tend to create more or take on series. more than your share of work. This could turn you into a workaholic if you are not care- your best effort now, considerable success is sure to follow and you may unconsciously 38. Toward the mouth or oral region. help a close friend through your efforts. You may find yourself enjoying the afternoon 31. A family of Ural-Altaic languages. ful. Focus on the creative things that will serve your purpose the most. Your sense of dis- while visiting with relatives. You appreciate the beauty in your life-a sunset, an unusual 39. The syllable naming the sixth (subme- 32. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night cernment, when it comes to matters of literary and intellectual taste, is very refined. You bird, etc. A new science discovery has your attention this evening. diant) note of a major or minor scale in to drink the blood of the living. may decide to create some poetry or prose; practice a little. solmization. 34. Hormone released by the hypothala- 41. United States basketball forward mus that controls the release of thyroid- (born in 1950). stimulating hormone from the anterior Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 42. A member of a Mayan people of pituitary. southwestern Guatemala. 35. Having unsuitable feminine qualities. You and a co-worker may have an ongoing competition this month about Perhaps you will be coordinating some event or organizing and adminis- 46. Overly eager speed (and possible 36. To come or go into. using a new word each day. You enjoy nothing more than a good conversation and may tering people today. Your mind is quick and you are able to easily guide others. You carelessness). 37. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade be very proficient at speaking and communicating. Business contacts, contracts, propos- know that your best work is accomplished when the people you depend on are of a posi- 47. Surveying instrument consisting of name Agene) formerly used for bleach- als or sales can be very profitable at this time. A born coach or teacher, you may find tive attitude. Today is a team effort day and the end of any project begun now can be most positive. You enjoy keeping up on the news and events around you-you feel in the upper movable part of a theodolite ing and aging flour. yourself doing just that with a group of young people this afternoon. Your own growth including the telescope and its attach- and success may be linked to questions of security-home and family. You put a very high touch. Your inner resources and emotions are accented. You may enjoy a group gather- 40. A collection of objects laid on top of value on the written word and may have many beloved books you reread from time to ing with friends that work in a volunteer atmosphere. A gathering of young people this ments. each other. 49. (football) Of advancing the ball by time. Reading could be one of the ways you escape the noises of a busy world. This afternoon may give you opportunities for long discussions and fun times. This could 43. A Nilotic language. evening may be a good time to firm up your relationships. mean a church group or team in some type of sports. Relax to music tonight. throwing it. 44. Chief port of Yemen. 51. A fractional monetary unit of Japan 45. An association of nations dedicated and Indonesia and Cambodia. to economic and political cooperation in 52. act between parties with a view to Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution southeastern Asia. reconciling differences. 48. A full skirt with a gathered waistband. 53. An organization of countries formed 50. Someone who works (or provides in 1961 to agree on a common policy for workers) during a strike. the sale of petroleum. 54. A toothed wheel that engages anoth- 55. Being nine more than ninety. er toothed mechanism in order to 56. Type genus of the Ranidae. change the speed or direction of trans- 58. A river in north central Switzerland mitted motion. that runs northeast into the Rhine. 60. 16 ounces. 57. A white linen liturgical vestment with 62. A soft gray ductile metallic element sleeves. used in alloys. 59. American professional baseball player 63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth solely the razorbill. (born in 1934). 67. Showing or causing joy and pleasure. 61. Make less visible or unclear. 72. One of two flaps attached to a cap to 64. Australian moundbird. keep the ears warm. 65. Free from dirt or impurities. 74. Containing or composed of fat. 66. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame. 77. Any of several imperial dynasties of 68. Rock that in its molten form (as mag- China ruling from 220 to 265 and from ma) issues from volcanos. 386 to 556. 69. South American armadillo with three 78. 100 avos equal 1 pataca. bands of bony plates. 79. Impressive in appearance. 70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De 81. A river in north central Switzerland Danann. that runs northeast into the Rhine. 71. Type genus of the Hylidae. 82. (British) Your grandmother. 73. A loose sleeveless outer garment 83. A river in central Brazil that flows gen- made from aba cloth. erally northward (with many falls) to join 75. Brief episode in which the brain gets the Tocantins River. insufficient blood supply. 84. The compass point that is midway 76. Of or relating to or characteristic of between north and northeast. Thailand of its people. 80. An intensely radioactive metallic ele- ment that occurs in minute amounts in DOWN 1. A pilgrimage to Mecca. uranium ores.

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The band - made up of their many personalities. Thankfully for brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac - released us, they all love the song.” The video their latest single ‘I Was Born’ to cele- also shows the children playing pre- brate their 25th anniversary in the tend at other career paths including an industry and recruited their children to artist, photographer, dancer, doctor, play mini versions of themselves in the scientist and soldier. It comes after the accompanying video. Zac said: “From band announced a 25th anniversary the earliest conversations about this world tour, which kicked off at Hop song, we imagined kids featured in the Jam Beer and Music Festival in Tulsa, video to elevate the song’s message of Oklahoma earlier this month. Taylor unbridled optimism for the future. said at the time: “Making music togeth- “Featuring our own kids made sense er for 25 years is a milestone that we because we knew they would share an had to acknowledge, and what a better honest performance. We loved the fact way to do it than with an anniversary that it added another dimension to the tour. “This year is not only about the story of pursuing our dreams for the last two decades of music, it’s about cele- 25 years.” Whilst Isaac added to People brating the incredible community of magazine: “There was a lot of excite- fans who have been with us, singing ment across the board from the kids so along year after year.” Noel and Liam Gallagher to reunite for benefit concert?

here is a “definite chance” Noel and Liam terrorist attack, which takes place yesterday Gallagher could reunite for a benefit concert evening. Teasing the tour dates on Twitter at the Tto support the victims of the Manchester time, he wrote: “The wait is nearly over Brothers n Arena terror attack. The siblings have been Sisters massive announcement first thing tomorrow embroiled in a bitter feud for a number of years but morning sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite fans are hopeful the pair could reunite Oasis for one LG x (sic)” Before adding the next morning: “Tickets night only to perform at an event to remember the on sale fill your boots http://liamgallagher.com/ LG 22 who died in the terrible events of last week. An x (sic)” Speaking about the horrific atrocity, which insider told the Daily Star newspaper: “There is a saw 59 people left badly injured, the 44-year-old definite chance of this. There would be no better rocker fumed: ‘It’s outrageous. Just so sad. What can display of unity than them performing together.” It you do? It’s just f***ing out of order. There are kids comes after Liam took to social media to wish his and people dying all over the world. And for what? older brother a happy birthday. He simply posted: “I’d gone to bed early - about 10pm - then got up in “Happy 50th rkid stay young LG x (sic)” Liam has the morning to a text from my other brother saying ua Lipa says it was “surreal” working with Chris Martin. already announced a benefit show at Manchester’s what had gone on and I put the TV on. It’s just The 21-year-old singer teamed up with the Coldplay front- O2 Ritz with all profits going to the victims of the unbelievable.” Dman on a new track ‘Homesick’ and was in awe of the singer’s skills. She said: “It was surreal to sit at the piano with him. He’s so distinctive in the way he works - the second he sits down and is playing piano, you’re like, ‘S*** that’s Coldplay!’” And the ‘Be The One’ hitmaker is looking forward to releasing her self-titled Boyzone’s 25th anniversary tour debut album. She added to the Daily Star newspaper: “The songs I’ve chosen for this album are a lot about love, and loss and heart- break. “As a debut album, it’s really who I am as an artist and a person. I felt it was right to name it after myself, without it being weird.” Meanwhile, Dua previously revealed she begged Chris to sing on her track. She said: “At first, it was just meant to be me singing but I begged him to sing too. I was like ‘you have to be on this song!’ and he agreed. It’s the most beautiful song on the album. I think it really brings everyone in for a little cry. “He’s lis- tening attentively and wants to know the meaning behind the songs. Then he’s like ‘OK why don’t we try something for your album?’ He sets up the mics and we’re just humming ideas, mak- Noel Gallagher ing up melodies and recording it all. It was already quite so he gave me what we’d recorded and said ‘have a listen back. If you reveals release date think there’s something good there, we’ll come back to it’.” for new album

oel Gallagher’s third record with High Flying Birds will be released on November 9. NThe former Oasis star revealed he has already completed the album, which follows 2015’s ‘Chasing Yesterday’, and he’s been told that it will go on sale later this year. Noel shared: “I’ve finished my record now. It’s done, it’s mastered, it’s all done ... It’s coming out on November 9, I’ve been told.” Noel, 50, made a number of last-minute changes to the album and revealed he relished the process of putting the record together. Speaking on Radio X, Noel explained: “I’m not sure I’ll make another record any other way now from now on because oyzone are planning a tour and new music to cel- going on tour, it has been claimed that the band have it’s so exciting because even at the mastering stage ebrate their 25th anniversary. The quartet - Ronan also discussed writing a tell-all book and even creating last Friday it was changing. “It was like, you know, BKeating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham and Shane their own West End show. Meanwhile, Ronan previously things were being ... things that I thought weren’t Lynch - will mark their milestone year in 2018 by hitting admitted he didn’t enjoy his time in Boyzone as much going to go on the album are now on the album. the road to celebrate with their fans. They wrote on as he ought to have done because he was so focused And right at the last day of mixing I was thinking Instagram: “2018 will see Boyzone celebrate their 25th on the job. He shared: “Our first six years we were so ‘What has this song even become?’, do you know anniversary! That’s something that Ronan, Keith, Mikey young, we were driven into this situation ... a manufac- what I mean? And the record’s all the better for it.” & Shane are incredibly proud of. Plans are being tured pop group and we just travelled nonstop. “I took Meanwhile, Noel also recalled his “lowest point” hatched for new music and lots of touring throughout on an awful lot of responsibility - it wasn’t asked of me - during his time in Oasis, which occurred during a the year. But next year still seems a long way off so in I just did it and because of the stress and pressures gig at Wembley Stadium in 2000. He said: “[That case you can’t wait, the Boyz are hitting the road for before I knew it the six years were gone. “I had an old was] the low point in Oasis. It was a horrible two- some exclusive UK shows later this summer. Dates and head on young shoulders. Kids should be kids.” Asked and-a-half hours on stage. Liam can hang his head ticketing details will be announced here soon... #boy- what advice he would offer to pop stars of today, Ronan in shame. It was dreadful.” zone2017 (sic).” In addition to releasing new music and said: “Have fun, enjoy it.”

Christine and the Queens

wants to use different K Rowling has finished writing the ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ sequel. The languages in her songs J‘Harry Potter’ author teased last month that she was working on on the script for a follow-up film to hristine and the Queens would “love to use more” foreign lan- the 2016 movie and has now confirmed the draft for guages in her songs. The ‘Saint Claude’ hitmaker is keen to put the movie is complete, but refused to share any plot Cmore Italian and Spanish in her music after Justin Bieber’s suc- Gina Philips teases details. An impatient fan, @SCORBUSMWLFOY, tweet- cessful release of ‘Despacito’. She said: “I hope Justin Bieber is going to ed her to ask: “@jk_rowling have you already write do a French song, so we can have a 100% French single in the UK. Let’s the script of Fantastic Beasts 2? TELL ME EVERYTHING go crazy ... “I’ve been fiddling about with Italian and Spanish a bit Jeepers Creepers 4 WOMAN” and Rowling replied: “Yes, I have, but I myself. I’m just mastering two languages for now. But I’d love to use CAN’T TELL YOU ANYTHING YET, WOMAN.” The writer more. With every language comes a music, a way to sing, a way to ina Philips has hinted there will be a ‘Jeepers previously took to Twitter to share a photo of a docu- describe the world. An English man thinks slightly differently than a Creepers 4’. The 47-year-old first played Trish ment which contained the typed words “written by JK French man.” And the 28-year-old singer likes how pop music can help GJenner in the first movie of the franchise - which Rowling” along snippets of the text “confidential” and people “discover things”. She added: “I like to think of my stage character is written and directed by Victor Salva - back in 2001 “Warner Bros. Pictures” - the studio which is responsi- as a Trojan horse. Pop is something that can make you think and discov- and will reprise the role in the upcoming third install- ble for bringing the magical movie to the big screen er things.” And Heloise Letissier made her return to the stage over the ment of the saga, which she revealed is intended to set and the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise. Rowling further Not much is known about the second instalment oth- weekend - the first time in a number of months - and admits she the scene for yet another film in the future. Speaking to whipped fans into a frenzy of excitement by caption- er than that Eddie will reprise his wizard role, along- thought her fans would have “forgotten” about her. She told BBC Diabolique magazine, she said: “I’m in ‘Jeepers Creepers ing the image: “Having a Beastly day.” One fan wrote, side Katherine, and they will be joined by Johnny Newsbeat: “I was afraid [my fans] were going to forget me, but no they 3’ in order to launch what happens next. “Victor has “Oh my lawdy (sic)”, while others asked what the Depp as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, Dan Fogler didn’t. “I missed it so much - the stage and the sweat and the muscles written what happens from the second after the con- sequel will be called - with one suggesting it could be as Jacob Kowalski, Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone, and the emotion. Even when I’m doing a studio album, I’m fantasizing clusion of ‘Jeepers Creepers 3’. “I think that’s all I’m ‘Beastly Day’ and another couldn’t contain their Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein, Zoe Kravitz as about the next tour.” Meanwhile, the ‘Tilted’ hitmaker previously allowed to say about it but he wrote in such detail and excitement by posting, “OMG THE SCRIPT FOR THE Leta Lestrange and Callum Turner as Theseus revealed her new music will be “sweaty and tougher”. Asked if her new he had a lot of flashbacks to what happened over the NEXT FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE (sic)”. The debut Scamander. Shooting on the project is due to begin album would be the same kind of music as her 2014 offering ‘Chaleur years that made it very easy for me. “I got to see what ‘Fantastic Beasts’ film starred Oscar-winning actor in August and will take place in London and Paris. It is humaine’, she said: “I can’t really tell much because then that would spoil will eventually happen to the character and he put Eddie Redmayne as the “Magizoologist” Newt the first of four planned sequels by Warner Bros and the fun - but it will definitely be more sweaty and tougher. “Maybe more enough flashbacks in there that I got to see what hap- Scamander, Inherent Vice’s Katherine Waterson as a 51-year-old Rowling, and it is scheduled to open in high-tempo, but still really sad because I’m just me and I’m just sad pened to her over the last 15 years. Let’s just say, there’s witch named Tina and Colin Farrell as wizard Graves. cinemas in November 2018. deep down, but I’ll properly be able to dance on it all the time.” more to come.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 GOSSIP Gal Gadot nearly gave up acting

al Gadot wanted to give up acting before she landed the role of ‘Wonder Woman’. The 32-year- Gold former soldier and Miss Israel - who is cur- rently starring as the superhero in the new DC Comics movie - admits there was a point where she considered giving up acting all together. She said: “Being an actress is tough. The amount of rejection you get can be exhausting. It was literally right before I auditioned for ‘Wonder Woman.’” Gadot also admitted she didn’t know exactly what film she was auditioning for when she tried out for the ‘Wonder Woman’ role but believes it is the perfect one for her. She added: “It was all very secre- tive. But without ever knowing it, I think ‘Wonder Woman’ was my dream role. “I grew up watching women playing princesses or damsels in distress. You had Meryl Streep and Charlize Theron but it wasn’t com- mon to see great roles for women.” The comic book character is known for her sexy outfits, which are adored by fans all over the world and Gadot, too, loved the skimpy costume. Speaking to Time Out magazine, she said: “I love it. I think there is a misconception about what feminism is. “For me feminism is about freedom. And Wonder Woman has no issue with her body. There is no reason for her to be covered at all times, especially coming from Themyscira, a warm, hot island. Also it’s practical to fight in.”

Stuart Vevers, said: “James is the quintessential-cool Coach guy. He’s handsome, there’s a bit of danger and he’s thoughtful and challenging, energetic and prolific. He rep- resents so many of the references I’ve used at Coach - refer- ences of American style that resonate around the world.” And the ‘127 Hours’ star has revealed he accepted the offer to partner with the label because he believes the company has an “added spin” on their creations, which he can relate to his acting career. James said: “Creativity is the way I Ashley Graham engage with life. It’s the way I engage with other people and communicate, and it’s really the way I find meaning in life. I enjoyed collaborating with Stuart. There are a lot of references to Coach tradition in his designs, but with an doesn’t eat dairy added spin, and that idea is something I have done in my creative work.” Meanwhile, James believes his other ven- shley Graham doesn’t eat dairy products. The 29- tures aside from his roles in front of the camera have made year-old model has admitted she tries to be “consis- ames Franco is the face of Coach’s new fragrance. The him a better actor. Speaking previously, the filmmaker Atent” with her fitness and eating regime throughout 39-year-old actor has been announced as the new rep- said: “Doing these other things was a release, and I think it Olivia Culpo the year, but when she has a “heavy week” of work coming Jresentative for the American fashion house’s latest made me a better actor. “Because when I was only acting, I up she will get meals delivered to her home to help her scent Coach for Men, which is set to hit stores in was trying to do all of these things as an actor. I was on my make “healthy choices”. The brunette beauty - who is mar- September this year. And the film director has been own mission. I was acting for myself - to do a great per- reveals her new ried to Justin Ervin - told PEOPLE: “I try to stay consistent praised as the “quintessential-cool Coach guy”, because he formance for me, not for the movie. But that’s not my job throughout the year, and when I have a heavy week I have is “handsome”, dangerous, as well as “energetic and prolif- as an actor. “As soon as I got to direct my own films or meals delivered to my house so that I’m making healthy ic”. Speaking about the dark-haired hunk and his new ven- escape the film world and into these other realms, when I healthy lifestyle choices. But I try not to eat dairy.” And the star has revealed ture with the popular brand, Coach’s Creative Director, came back to the film world, I could be pure about it.” in the summer months she will snack on avocados, with a livia Culpo has started “juicing” in a bid to be sprinkle of sea salt on. When asked about her favorite food healthier. The 25-year-old model and actress has she will tuck into, she said: “Avocado, sea salt, olive oil.” And Kim Kardashian West altered her eating plan because she wants to live a the fashion muse has revealed she hasn’t been working out eats O healthier lifestyle, which has seen her make and drink for a little while, but her lack of exercise has not impacted nutritious juices “every morning”. The brunette beauty on how she feels. She said: “And I haven’t worked out in a salads ‘every single day’ shared a photograph of her holding a bowl filled with fruit, couple weeks but I still feel great.” Although Ashley feels whilst clutching at a green-coloured drink on her “great” with her appearance, she has admitted when she im Kardashian West eats salads “every single day”. The Instagram account. She captioned the post: “Trying to be first steps foot on the beach and is sporting a bikini she 36-year-old television personality - who has three-year- healthy today and lately I’ve been really into juicing!! I try feels slightly self-conscious for a brief moment before she Kold daughter North and 17-month-old son Saint with to have a juice every morning and the one I made today is feels “comfortable” flaunting her curves in a skimpy swim- her husband Kanye West - has revealed she has ordered the one of my favorites... ——> 1 bunch kale, 1/2 lemon, 1 inch suit. She explained: “I mean, of course like any girl when same Chinese chicken salad from Health Nut in Calabasas, ginger, 1 cucumber, 1 red apple, 4 carrots (sic).” The ‘The you get to the beach or the pool and you go, ‘Oh, I have to California, every day for many years. When asked about her Other Woman’ star is constantly jetting off across the globe take my cover-up off, crap.’ And you feel like everybody’s eating habits and how often she tucks into a leafy meal on for various projects, and she has revealed she has five watching, and then you just go, ‘Oh fine, I’ll just take it off,’ “ ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’, the raven-haired essential items, which include a deodorant, journal, Graham says. “And then all of a sudden you get comfort- beauty said: “Every single day from the same place pretty coconut oil, sunglasses and a face mask, she will always able and go, ‘Okay. Another pi?a colada.’” much. From Health Nut.” The ‘Keeping Up with the take with her when she is travelling. Alongside a previous Kardashians’ star has revealed she has never been a big alco- post of her sitting on the floor beside suitcase, she wrote: holic drinker, as her late father, Robert Kardashian, always “Getting ready to ?? here are a few of my essentials 1. taught her to be the “responsible” child and to go out partying @DegreeWomen UltraClear Black+White deo 2. Journal 3. with her older sister Kourtney Kardashian, 38, and look after Coconut oil 4. Sunnies 5. Face mask See you guys on the her on a boozy night out during her younger years. The east coast! #saveyourstyle #degreepartner (sic).” ‘Selfish’ author explained: “I think that my dad always just put Meanwhile, the fashion muse has set herself five life goals such a responsibility on me in college. Kourtney was such a for her “quarter-century year of life” and she is determined big drinker, and my dad was really well aware, so when I was be a “better friend”, to live “more in the moment”, be more 14 every weekend I had to drive him around and he would this sense of responsibility and I owned it.” Kim has admitted decisive, be a “better listener” and to give “more gifts” over teach me how to drive his car and would say ‘I know you’re she would also be Paris Hilton’s fashion guru and stylist when the next 12 months. Speaking previously, she said: “Thank only 14, we don’t have cell phones so when you get to the she was younger as she would clear out her wardrobe, sell the you all for the birfday wishes yesterday. I love you all so house you have to party with your sister’. He made me go with items that were not on trend, and advise the former ‘Simple much!!! Some of my goals for my quarter- century year of my sister every weekend to watch her, and would say ‘Call me Life’ star on what garments to buy. Kim explained: “I would life is to be a better friend, live more in the moment, stop from the house phone, I don’t care what time it is. When you’re work with Paris and I would love to organize and clean out asking for so many opinions and make more decisions for leaving drive everyone home, and call me at your last destina- their closets and clean out all their stuff and sell it on ebay and myself, give more gifts, and be a better listener. I’ll let you tion’. “I would be the designated driver. And they would literal- shop for her. That was like my job. People always say assistant know how it goes!!! 364 more days to go! Love you all (sic).” James Cameron ly only let me hang out just to drive everyone home. I just felt but they have it wrong.” defends 11 year sequel gap Jessica Chastain blasts Geoffrey Rush: Originality has been ames Cameron has defended the 11 year gap key to Pirates of the Caribbean between the first ‘Avatar’ movie and the upcoming representation of women in film eoffrey Rush thinks the ‘Pirates of Jsequels. The 62-year-old filmmaker recently essica Chastain has blasted the “disturbing” represen- the Caribbean’ franchise was wise to announced that the “concurrent production on four tation of women in film. The 40-year-old actress was a sequels” had begun and the first movie will be released member of the jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Gavoid stereotypes. The 65-year-old J actor - who stars as Hector Barbossa in the in 2020, followed by the other three in 2021, 2024 and and admitted she was shocked at how few “authentic” 2025 and has now defended the decade long differ- women were portrayed in the movies she watched. In an money-spinning movie series - has claimed ence. Speaking to CNN, he said: “It was a seven year emotional speech, she said: “I do believe that if you have the success of the ‘Pirates’ films can be gap between ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Terminator 2: female storytelling you also have more authentic female linked to their unconventional characters, Judgment Day’, seven year gap between ‘Alien’ and characters. This is the first time I watched 20 films in 10 like Captain Jack Sparrow. He explained: ‘Aliens’. “It’s going to be obviously more like a ten year days, and I love movies. The one thing I really took away “Right from the beginning, we always gap between ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avatar 2’. “But ‘Avatar 2’ you from this experience is how the world views women, from talked about how pirate films were a bit are going to with not the promise but the certainty of the female characters that were represented. It was quite dead in the water, maybe since the ‘50s three more films beyond that, and that’s a very differ- disturbing to me, to be honest. “There were some excep- with Errol Flynn and Burt Lancaster, certain- ent concept with the audience. And a lot of the delay tions, I will say, [but] for the most part, I was surprised by ly as a populist film. There’s been ‘The has been around creating that overall vision.” Cliff the representation of female characters on screen in these Princess Bride’, and films like that. “We were Curtis will play Tonowari, the leader of the Metkayina, films.” And Jessica revealed her hopes that female directors very low down on the summer release the reef people clan, in the Cameron-directed movies - can change this and show real women in their movies, if schedule. We were lost in the small print in all of which are poised to take place under water. Cliff, they are given a chance. She said: “I do hope that when we the trades, under ‘This is what’s coming out, 48, will be work alongside a host of returning cast include more female storytellers, we will have more women in the summer of 2003’. “Jerry Bruckheimer members, such as Zoe Saldana, 38, Sam Worthington, that I recognize in my own day-to-day life. Ones that are timed it right. This was pre-Twitter and pre- 40, and Sigourney Weaver, 67, and his schedule is proactive, have their own agency, don’t just react to the social media. It really thrilling caught peo- being tailored to fit around filming of ‘Fear of the men around them. They have their own point of view.” A ple’s imaginations, and I think part of that Walking Dead’, according to Deadline. The first ‘Avatar’ number of female stars took to Twitter to praise Jessica for was the originality of how Johnny [Depp] about rock stars of the ‘60s and the flam- film, released in 2009, still remains the highest gross- her words. America Ferrera tweeted: “It takes courage to led the company and created a pirate that boyant clothing. And he came up with this ing movie at the worldwide box office, raking in as speak truth to power. Thank you @jes_chastain for speak- had none of the traditional tropes.” Geoffrey idea, which I thought was really, really much as $2.79 billion. And Weaver recently revealed ing truth and representing the voices of millions!” Debra thinks his on-screen co-star and his original clever, where he said, ‘In the script, some- the cast have already started work on the long-await- Messing wrote: “YES @jes_chastain YESSSSSS. Thank you for way of thinking has been central to the suc- times I’m on boats and sometimes I’m on ed follow-up film. She said: “We’re starting! We’re start- using you voice so powerfully and effectively,” while Alicia cess of the franchise. The actor told Collider: land, and I just want to play around with ing training, and we’re starting - hmm, I probably can’t Malone added: “I love @jes_chastain!!” Jessica has been an “[Depp] does have a tangential, warped, never getting my sea legs and land legs in say anything. We will be actually shooting it by the fall.” outspoken advocate for women in Hollywood and recently absurd, creative mind, and he looked at the order,’ and that gave him so much scope. The actress also reassured fans that the sequel won’t revealed she no longer accepts roles until she knows what idea that they all drank rum and they were “And with Barbossa not having a parrot, but be a disappointment to them, insisting the new sci-fi her male co-stars are making. She said: “I’m not taking jobs always in the sun. “He said, ‘Geoffrey, man, having a monkey, we tried to find arche- movie will be worth the lengthy wait. anymore where I’m getting paid a quarter of what the male their brains are fried!’ And then, he talked types and not stereotypes.” co-star is being paid. I’m not allowing that in my life.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 FEATURES A beautiful woman is a confident woman

‘Kuwaiti woman are pioneers on many levels, and their beauty, fashion and style are not any different’

By Sahar Moussa procedures do they demand the most? Dr Ramy Khoury Dr Khoury: We are almost close to a 7 to 3 uwait Times had the privilege to inter- female to male ratio at our clinic. Rhinoplasty, view one of the best aesthetic/cosmetic liposcuplting, eyelid surgery and hair trans- treatment, therefore we advise women to start KT: From a man’s point of view, how do you surgeon in Lebanon, Dr Ramy Khoury. plant are amongst the most-demanded proce- taking care of themselves as young adults. define beauty? K Dr Khoury: A beautiful woman is a confident Dr Khoury is the founder and owner of “The dures by men. Clinic” for plastic surgery group practice in KT: What are the latest developments in woman who cares for herself and her body. Lebanon. He studied medicine at the American KT: Do you think all women are starting to plastic surgery and what do you expect in University of Beirut (AUB). He went on from look alike due to plastic surgeries? the near future? KT: What advice do you give to women in there to do a fellowship in plastic and aesthetic Dr Khoury: The idea that all women are start- Dr Khoury: Plastic surgery has evolved a lot in order to preserve their beauty? Dr Khoury: Prevention is the best treatment. surgery from the Universities of Paris and spe- ing to look alike because of plastic surgery is the past decade and many subcategories and cialized in head, neck and facial plastic surgery an inaccurate generalization. However, it’s the specialties have developed. There is no place KT: What do you have to say about medical at SGHUMC. He currently works at Bellevue plastic surgeon’s job to guide his patients into anymore for a one-man show type work, tourism in Lebanon? medical center as a full time aesthetic surgeon. understanding their individual beauty. A good which led to a group practice approach. New procedures, products and technologies are Dr Khoury: Lebanon remains one of the best Dr Ramy also has an American Board Diploma plastic surgeon determines each woman’s pro- destinations for aesthetic tourism (medical in liposuction and fat grafting. He is a member portions. Every woman represents her own always emerging in this ever-growing research-based industry. tourism in general). Lebanese surgeons have of EAFPS (European academy of facial plastic identity and plastic surgery should help in gathered the best experience, knowledge, surgery ). Some excerpts from the interview. enhancing her looks and not changing them. technique and skills from around the world. We do see a lot of cases where women want to KT: Plastic and cosmetic surgeries can be addictive. How do you deal with women They are up-to-date with all the latest. A wave Kuwait Times: How do you explain the mirror a certain look and that is a choice they of Lebanese plastic surgeons has invaded the approach of women to plastic surgery KT: Do you get a lot of Kuwaiti female make. Plastic surgery is a tool and not a cause. who are addicted to it? Dr Khoury: It’s always important to create world in the last two decades while maintain- nowadays to enhance their beauty? patients? ing a great reputation. Lebanon has a lot to Dr Ramy Khoury: Plastic surgery has become Dr Khoury: Yes, we have a lot of female KT: What are the most common procedures trust between us and our patients - it’s the key to the success of everything we do. We always offer in fashion, food, lifestyle, culture, history, part of a woman’s care routine - it’s a lifestyle. It Kuwaiti patients. demanded? hospitality and skilled professionals, which has become a tool used to preserve beauty and Dr Khoury: Liposcuplting has prevailed in the make sure to give professional, objective and most importantly ethical opinions and advice makes it a great regional affordable destina- allow the modern woman to age gracefully. KT: How do you define Kuwaiti women past 10 years to become among the most tion for Class A medical tourism. when it comes to fashion, beauty and style? demanded surgical procedures, followed by to our patients. Our philosophy is reversing age and not changing features. KT: What do you think about Arab women Dr Khoury: Kuwaiti women are pioneers on breast augmentation. Botox and fillers remain KT: What do you tell Kuwaiti women and and their obsession with cosmetic and plas- many levels and their beauty, fashion and amongst the most-demanded noninvasive KT: From a plastic surgeon’s point of view, men who want to undergo any kind of cos- tic surgeries? style are not any different. They are always procedures. metic or plastic surgeries? how do you define beauty? Dr Khoury: Arab women do take a lot of spe- looking for perfection. Many Kuwaiti Dr Khoury: I tell them to always aim for the Dr Khoury: Regardless of trends, beauty will cial care of their appearance, but I would defi- socialites and bloggers have become trend- KT: At what age women need to start taking best and never compromise when it comes always be about preserving youth as much as nitely not call it an obsession. Arab women are setters in the region. care of themselves? to your face and bodies. Lebanon has a lot to possible and correcting any disproportions playing an emerging and ever-growing role in Dr Khoury: When it comes to beauty and aes- offer, but they should do their research and society. This might have led to a higher impor- KT: What is the percentage of men com- thetics, age is not measured by a number. while dealing with each individual and never find the right and trustworthy doctors to tance placed on their looks. pared to women at your clinic? And which Prevention will always remain better than any generalizing a beauty definition on all. deal with. Forget DIY for your wedding

any brides and grooms who want to Everything” (HarperCollins), calls it DIT: do it us,” says Whitney Weaver, whose relationship craft meaningful and memorable wed- together. “Yes, the DIY is fun and makes it per- with her future husband grew out of a shared Mding decorations choose to make one sonal, but DIT makes it more meaningful,” says love of music. She and her mom spent untold important item - the bouquet, table center- Miller. “Part of the wedding is delegating and nights folding and gluing individual paper piece or party giveaway gifts. Others go all-out, collaborating, not only as a means to get it petals from thin, sheet-music-themed paper crafting nearly every detail, either to save mon- done but as a means for making it more fun.” to make the bouquets and boutonnieres. “I ey or to make the day more personal. Marissa Some of DeMercurio’s decorations, such as don’t know if I’ll ever be able to repay her,” DeMercurio, of Arvada, Colorado, made every- a chalkboard showing the couple’s relation- Weaver says. Miller, of Martha Stewart thing she could by hand for her 2014 wedding. ship highlights, hang in the house she shares Weddings, warns against hitting Pinterest The key, she says, was planning the projects with her husband, Pete Kardasis. That was boards unprepared; they can be overwhelm- well in advance and inviting family and friends another priority: The coupled wanted to live ing. When she works with couples, she asks to help. She asked some friends who are artists with their wedding memories, not file them about their personal style and inspirations to to make, paint and handprint items, from hand- away. “We wanted to have things that would tease out a wedding theme. Her book does made signs to the lawn games played at her remind us of that day continuously,” outdoor ceremony and reception. She found DeMercurio says. Whitney and Jordan Weaver her inspirations at online sites such as Pinterest of Seneca, Kansas, made most of the decora- and Etsy, and in craft stores, and chose tions for their 2014 wedding: paper flower Colorado nature as the theme. bouquets, a ring bearer “pillow” (it was a framed quote tied with ribbon), the guest book, table decorations (incorporating 500 Mason jars), church pew decorations, and a card box made from a snare drum. Family and friends helped, one making the cake topper. “For me it was about doing our wedding around what we like and making it special for A cake topper made of clay of the couple’s two dogs, Beasley and Tortilla, sitting in front of a canvas banner displaying the wedding date in Boulder, Colo. — AP photos

This May 17, 2014 photo provided by Marissa DeMercurio shows custom This undated photo provided by Harper A hand drawn and painted chalkboard printed mason Collins shows the cover of the book “Celebrate telling a visual story of the timeline of the jars with hand- Everything” by Darcy Miller. couple’s relationship from meeting until written wooded- Recruit friends, she says, “and you can save marriage at a wedding in Boulder, Colo. carved and deco- tons of money and it’ll look better because it’s Photo provided by Whitney Weaver shows a rated nametags in exactly what you wanted,” DeMercurio says. snare drum painted with an orange star the same with a personalization “cheat sheet.” Boulder, Colo. Darcy Miller, editor at large for Martha Stewart that was used as a card box at Weaver’s “You need to think about what matters to you,” Weddings and author of the new “Celebrate Sabetha, Kan, wedding. Miller says. “Those are the things that are going to make your wedding reflect you, make it feel like you.”

More DIY tips: * Buy and collect items in bulk. DeMercurio tied large swaths of burlap around trees and smaller pieces around Mason jars. She collect- ed glass jars, some of which she filled with flowers and hung from trees branches. * If you choose a lovely setting - DeMercurio chose a park with mountains as her backdrop; Weaver’s reception was in a big, beautiful barn - you’ll need fewer decorations. * Put Epsom salts in the bottom of Mason jars before adding tea lights, says Weaver. “It looks like crystals, and it’s a really cheap alter- native for holding tea lights steady.” * Hand-stamp compostable utensils with phrases such as “all you need is love” to add a personal touch, says DeMercurio. With all the crafting possibilities, Miller warns against doing too much too close to the wedding date. “As a bride, you should be doing nothing This July 3, 2014 photo provided by Whitney Weaver shows the orange-painted picture A rectangular painting made of particle board and cardboard letters covered in burlap except being a bride the day of your wedding,” frame of a quote and the wedding date that was substituted for a ring pillow at her wed- with the couple’s initials, on which the guests signed well-wishes in metallic markers in says the expert. — AP ding in Sabetha, Kan. place of a traditional guests book at a wedding in Boulder, Colo. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 FEATURES

Syrian actors are seen on the filming set of television series ‘Tawq al-Banat’ in the village of Yaafur, some 20kilometres (12 miles) west of Damascus.— AFP photos

Syrian artist Rashid Assaf is seen on the filming set of television series ‘Tawq Al-Banat’.

Places that we used to be able to film in are no longer available

Syrian actors are seen on the filming set of television series ‘Tawq Al-Banat’ in the village of Yaafur. Syrian director Rasha Sharbatji talks about her television drama series “Shoq”, at an editing studio in Damascus. he sound of the blast in Syria’s capital became unusable because of fighting. This sea- Damascus brought worried residents run- son is set in the 1940s and 1950s and takes Tning, but rather than carnage they found a advantage of the village’s small alleyways, which crew filming one of the country’s famed televi- resemble those of Damascus in decades past. sion drama series. Moments before, director “Here there are no sounds of shelling and no Rasha Sharbatgi had been wielding her loud- danger of explosions,” said lead actor Rachid hailer, calling for silence before counting down Assaf, dressed in traditional Syrian clothes. to the controlled explosion. Onlookers arriving Assaf was happy to be part of a series that at the set near Arnus Square in central gives people a chance to forget the conflict. Damascus found a burning car and people lying “People are fed up with stories about war,” he on the ground. said. “They want to enjoy themselves during One swore in anger when he discovered the Ramadan, not be reminded of tragedies and blast that had startled him was a scene being relive their pain.” — AFP shot for Sharbatgi’s latest series “Shoq”, named for its main character. She is one of many Syrian artists who have decided to draw inspiration from their country’s bloody six-year conflict. Her series is among the offerings on television dur- ing this year’s fasting season of Ramadan, a peak viewing period for many in the region who settle down to watch after eating their sunset meal. Syria, along with Egypt, is known as a hub for tel- evision and film production in the Middle East, and the country’s war is having a major impact on its output. “Lately the content of series has varied between love stories, comedy and histori- cal dramas,” Sharbatgi told AFP. “There has been little in the way of real-life drama because everyone is trying to escape from depicting the current reality and fresh wounds.” “I Syrian director Samir Hussein talks to Syrian personally fled into work on love and relation- actress Nadine Tahseen Beck during the film- ships over the past three years, but I couldn’t ing of the serial drama ‘Fouda’ or ‘Chaos’ in escape all the time,” she added. “I promised that the Al-Qasaa area near Damascus’s Jobar dis- this year I would do something that focuses on trict, which remains divided between rebel the crisis in a direct manner.” and government control and is a key front Syrian artist Rashid Assaf (left) is seen on the filming set of television series ‘Tawq Al-Banat’ in the village of Yaafur. line in the capital. ‘Difficult to make’ because of the conflict”, Hussein said. A house in our scenes.” Others are less enthusiastic about “Shoq” focuses on the issue of the kidnapped Al-Qasaa has become the headquarters for drawing inspiration from the country’s war, how- and missing, a painful and sometimes over- Hussein’s crew, with one room turned into a ever. The fourth season of the “Tawq al-Banat” or looked part of the Syrian conflict, which has changing room for actors and another used to “Girls’ Necklaces” series was filmed in the village killed more than 320,000 people since it began film scenes. The windows are kept open to pre- of Yaafur some 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of with anti-government protests in March 2011. It vent the glass shattering if a shell falls nearby. Damascus. Yaafur has become a popular place to does not shy away from depicting the conflict, “Things were different before the war,” Hussein shoot historical dramas, particularly after anoth- featuring scenes of fighting, death and destruc- said, standing by a window looking out over er set location on the road to Damascus airport tion. “It was very difficult to make,” Sharbatgi con- Jobar. “Places that we used to be able to film in ceded. “But not more difficult than living the real- are no longer available.” ity.” In addition to providing subject matter, Syria’s conflict has constrained directors. ‘A real-life set’ Once-popular filming locations are now too Some directors have opted to incorporate dangerous to use, and some actors are abroad landscapes scarred by war directly into their and unable to return “for economic, security or work, including Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, who political reasons”, Sharbatgi said. The decline in filmed his latest movie “Ma Ward” or “Rosewater” the value of the Syrian pound and general eco- in Daraya. The town was badly damaged over nomic malaise has also affected production val- years of conflict before being captured by the ues. Director Samir Hussein decided to film his army in August 2016, and fighting was ongoing series “Fouda” or “Chaos” in the Al-Qasaa area when Ahmed was filming in the summer of 2016. near Damascus’s Jobar district, which remains “International companies spend thousands of divided between rebel and government control dollars to create scenes of destruction or depict a and is a key front line in the capital. The series landscape in war, but here we don’t spend any- looks at the chaos that has afflicted Syrian socie- thing-our country has become a real-life set,” Syrian actress Nadine Tahseen Beck is seen ty during the war, and the “love and other Ahmed said. “In the movie, we used sounds from during the filming of the serial drama ‘Fouda’ Syrian artist Rashid Assaf (center left) is seen on the filming set of television series ‘Tawq human stories that have faced challenges the artillery and gunfire and included them in or ‘Chaos’. Al-Banat’ in the village of Yaafur. Syria war takes role in Ramadan television dramas

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An Indian Muslim boy arranges rows of food for Iftar, the time for breaking the fast during the first day of the month of Ramadan at Wallajah Mosque in Chennai. Like millions of Muslim around the world, Indian Muslims celebrated the month of Ramadan by abstaining from eating, drinking, and smoking as well as sexual activities from dawn to dusk. —AFP Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie

ebanon’s ministry of economy is seeking to and has expressed support for Israel’s military poli- ty because of the ongoing controversy. The two ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie cies against the Gaza Strip, a coastal Palestinian movies were approved in Egypt. There is no clear Lbecause its lead actress - Gal Gadot - is an territory run by the militant Hamas group. mechanism for appeal of a ban on art work and Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not In a widely shared posting on her Facebook public campaigns often are the only means to yet been received, a Lebanese security official page, Gadot had praised Israel’s military during protest a ban. Religious institutions also have a said yesterday. A ban would require a recommen- the Gaza-Israel 2014 war, sending prayers to say in art work with religious references. dation from a six-ministry-member committee, a Israeli soldiers “who are risking their lives protect- Despite the controversy in Lebanon, Wonder process that also has not yet began, the official ing my country against the horrific acts conduct- Woman is set to open as scheduled during the said, speaking on condition of anonymity ed by Hamas.” Officials at the Lebanese economy Muslim holy month of Ramadan across theaters because he was not authorized to talk to ministry were not immediately available for com- in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait reporters. An advance premier of the movie was ment. The security official said banning a movie tomorrow. It is scheduled for release June 22 in scheduled for today in at least one cinema in would be something that would ultimately come Oman and June 29 in Bahrain. Beirut, which offers its members attending the from the country’s interior minister, following a The movie is based on the DC Comics charac- show free popcorn. Posters of the movie and digi- recommendation from the six-member commit- ter, Wonder Woman. It has earned Gadot acclaim, tal billboards have sprouted up around the tee. Even though Lebanon enjoys a greater mar- as a rare leading female role. The Israeli actress Lebanese capital. gin of freedom of expression than other countries appeared in reprisals of the Fast and Furious, Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and has in the region, prior censorship remains in place, none of them were banned in Lebanon. Crowned a decades-old law that boycotts Israeli products particularly with content relating to Israel, reli- Miss Israel, she then went on to serve the manda- and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling or hav- gion and homosexuality. tory two-year military service in Israel, before ing contacts with Israelis. A boycott group, called Reflecting tightening of censorship, an starting her acting career and was cast in a series Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel- Egyptian movie about a celebrity Muslim cleric, of Hollywood movies and shows, before landing Lebanon, has campaigned against showing the Mawlana, and a Lebanese movie, Beach House, the role of Wonder Woman in last year’s Batman movie in Lebanon. about friends discussing their identities were Vs Superman. That is when the campaign against The campaign on its Facebook page praised banned in Lebanon earlier this year. Mawlana was her movies in Lebanon began, as the same cam- the ministry’s call, saying it is advocating a ban later shown after cuts were made, said one cine- A man walks past a poster promoting the movie, Wonder Woman, at a cinema in downtown paigners sought to bar Batman Vs Superman, because Gadot was a soldier in the Israeli army, ma manager, speaking on condition of anonymi- Beirut, Lebanon. which was shown in Lebanese theaters. — AP

This image released by Warner Bros Review ‘Wonder Woman’ film Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman,” in theaters and star live up to the name on June 2. — AP photos Diana, living on the achingly idyllic island of accent that immediately evokes the “tapestries” Themyscira, dreams of being a warrior. Her bit from “The Last Crusade”). He’s on his own mis- mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) disap- sion, to stop the comically evil Germans General proves, although she inexplicably withholds the Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and Doctor Poison real reason. (Elena Anaya) from prolonging the war, but it’s It’s no wonder Diana aspires to fight. She’s never a question that this is Diana’s show. been told that their sole purpose is to keep the Jenkins keeps the look and feel of the film peace and destroy Ares, the god of war. Also, classical, as it breezes through a strong second and not insignificantly, the warriors led by act. But, being a DC film, “Wonder Woman” can’t General Antiope (Robin Wright), are some of the help but devolve into a blurry, concrete-busting fiercest babes ever to grace the screen. They fly third act that feels dispiritingly like all the rest, around with swords and shields, bedecked in not to mention a baffling reveal that negates armored mini dresses and wedged gladiator most of Diana’s growth. It’s not enough to onder Woman has been the subject of “Captain America: The First Avenger,” while still sandals that allow them to leap 50 feet in the negate the good, though, and much of that is so much superfluous fuss, it’d be easy being its own thing. Just look to the image of Gal air. Young Diana trains in secret, and then with Gadot’s doing. She is the perfect Wonder Woman to forget that behind all of the hand- Gadot confidently striding out alone onto an reluctant permission, until an American spy, - a true blue hero who’s as believable in her baf- W This image released by Warner Bros wringing and both symbolic and real pressure to unwinnable battlefield with only a shield, a Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), crash lands on the flement of women’s fashions and social mores as succeed there’s actually a movie meant to enter- sword and a mission - and prevailing. It’s enough island and tells the Amazons about the “war to Pictures shows Chris Pine, left, and Gal she is dead-lifting a tank and swatting away tain. Yet, like the heroine at its center, “Wonder to give you goosebumps. end all wars.” Diana concludes World War I must Gadot in a scene from, “Wonder Woman.” machine gun fire with only her arm cuff. I never Woman” the movie rises with powerful grace “Wonder Woman” is structured as a coming- be Ares’ doing and decides, impetuously and plistic, but Gadot’s serious and unapologetic cared about Wonder Woman before. Now I do. above the noise. It’s not perfect, but it’s often of-age story about how Diana, the Amazonian like so many arrogant superheroes before her, curiosity sells the dubious premise that a woman “Wonder Woman,” a Warner Bros release, is rated good, sometimes great and exceptionally re- princess, becomes Wonder Woman. It’s framed, that she’s ready for battle. so versed in so many things from Socrates to the PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of watchable. Director Patty Jenkins’ film is so clumsily, as an over two hour flashback provoked “pleasures of the flesh” could be this unaware of America for “sequences of violence and action, threaded with sincerity and goodness it’s a won- by a note from Bruce Wayne. Of all the stupid Serious and unapologetic human flaws. Perhaps they only teach the good and some suggestive content.” Running time: der how it got past the pugnacious minds interconnected universe things! Thankfully, In London and at the battlefront, Diana gets a stuff in Themyscira. But that’s what Trevor is there 141 minutes. Three stars out of four. MPAA responsible for what’s come before. “Wonder Jenkins transitions quickly into the actual story crash course in humanity, from the ills (sexism, for - to help this otherworldly crusader acclimate. Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Woman” evokes not only the spirit of Richard about a naive idealist who comes to accept the alcoholism, colonialism, racism, apathy) to the Pine plays Trevor as a spiritual cousin to Indiana Some material may be inappropriate for children Donner’s “Superman,” but also Joe Johnston’s complexities of mankind. From a tender age, good (babies, snow, ice cream). It’s all very sim- Jones (he even gets to goof around with an under 13. — AP